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What do members think 🤔
https://www.eurosport.com/athletics/tokyo-2020/2021/tokyo-2020-belarusian-olympic-athlete-tsimanouskaya-taken-to-the-airport-in-tokyo-to-fly-home-agains_sto8464543/story.shtmlThis discussion is now closed.
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The strong young man at the construction site was bragging that he could out do anyone in a feat of strength. He made a special case of making fun of one of the older workmen. After several minutes, the older worker had had enough. “Why don’t you put your money where your mouth is,” he said.
“I will bet a week’s wages that I can haul something in a wheelbarrow over to that outbuilding that you won’t be able to wheel back.”
“You’re on, old man,” the braggart replied. “Let’s see what you got.”
The old man reached out and grabbed the wheelbarrow by the handles.
Then, nodding to the young man, he said, “All right, Get in.”
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58040793
What an awfully pompous man, criticising the way Alex speaks. In my opinion her presenting skills have been impeccable.This discussion is now closed.
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Max Whitlock
https://news.sky.com/story/tokyo-olympics-gymnast-max-whitlock-wins-gold-in-mens-pommel-horse-for-team-gb-12369752This discussion is now closed.
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Update good news (Edited)
Thank you for signing the petition to support President Biden’s proposal to stop global tax dodging.
Together we have made history. At the G7 in June finance ministers agreed to a groundbreaking deal to tackle global corporate tax dodging. Over 130 countries are now on board with this approach.
But the current deal does not go far enough. The minimum corporate tax rate agreed is only 15%. We need to see 25%. And the deal doesn’t do much for lower income countries. Most of the extra money will go to the richest countries. We now need to campaign for a better deal.
Sign the petition:
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Yet another baby for Boris
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/31/boris-and-carrie-johnson-expecting-their-second-childThis discussion is now closed.
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A gentleman died and arrived in hell. He was met by the Devil and was told that in the new kinder gentler hell, each person is offered three choices of torture. The Devil explained that these tortures run in 1,000-year cycles and you could pick which cycle to begin with.
The Devil took the man to the first room where a man was hung up by his feet and was being whipped with chains. The man said he did not think that was where he wanted to start.
They proceeded to the next room where a man was hung up by his arms and was being whipped by a Cat-O-Nine Tails. The man also declined this form of torture.
The third room had a man strapped to the wall naked and a very beautiful young blonde woman was using her mouth to perform a sex act upon him. The man told the Devil this is more like it, and this was the one he wanted.
The Devil said "Are you sure? It lasts for a thousand years!" The man assured him that this was the punishment he wanted.
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I'm trying to remove all the walked-in emulsion that has been on the wood flooring under carpets. One room and hall already been done by a plumber who has gone on to pastures new and I've been trying without success. So far I've used steel wool with white spirit, sandpaper and white spirit, sander, very hot flannel and scraper and achieved nothing. I've tried oiling to see if it will darken but not happening. Sanding has driven the emulsion into the cracks, I think. Every room covered by carpet is the same, how anyone can be so idle as to walk paint through the whole ground floor is beyond me. Believe the woodblock is original l960s. Not looking for perfection but would rather not put another carpet over it.
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“ Draining the Oceans” New York City ... wreck found near Ground Zero (Edited)
Now on ch 5. looks interesting.
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https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/07/eu-decision-to-ban-lavender-sparks-frexit-call-in-france-hands-off-our-lavender-world.html
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More than half of Covid hospitalisations are patients who only tested positive after admission, leaked data reveal....
The newspapers are full of headlines to distrust data...over a year late.
What do you think, and who do you believe? Journalists or politicians?This discussion is now closed.
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Little Boy - Hiroshima 6 August 1945 (Edited)
This was the name given to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
It was originally intended for Berlin, but the European war ended in May 1945 and the bomb was not ready at that time.
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A burglar broke in and stole my coffee, my lamp and my parrot 🦜
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Hi
I grow various herbs from seed in flowerpots on my kitchen window ledge.
I grew some basil a while ago using a variety called Picolino.
Only two plants grew in the pot even though I sowed a lot more seeds.
The picture on the seed packet showed normal sized basil leaves but the two plants were like bonsai basil, with a very large number of very tiny leaves, which looked very attractive as a pot plant.
I eventually harvested these and sowed another pot.
The pot is the same size and type, with the same type of compost, in the same location and I sowed seeds from the same packet as before. They're watered the same amount as before with the same frequency.
BUT
This time the plants are normal sized.
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Pot boiler stones are still found in Norfolk. Are there any reports of finding some in your area?
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In all the masses of information I have seen since WW2, I have never heard or seen this fact in my entire life and only discovered it on the web today.
Hitler was a very accomplished painter and the proof that this story is factual to me, is that two of Hitler's signed paintings were found in the Mother's attic after her death.
You can Google for Hitler's son on the web and you will find many amazing links. I give these two just as an example -
https://tinyurl.com/422pksp5
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The plague village (Edited)
Interesting report how to do it. How times have changed the outlook and actions of people.
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A man goes to confession. "Forgive me father for I have sinned." He begins.
"Go on my son." says the priest.
"I swore the other day, in the most profane way." says the man.
"Continue." says the priest.
"I was on the golf course and I hit my drive, it was looking perfect, heading dead straight. About 200 yards down my ball hit a power line crossing the fairway." "And this is when you swore?" asked the priest.
"No father, my ball then ricocheted of the power lines and flew off into the deep rough." said the man. "Ah, so this must have been when you swore." Said the priest.
"No father, not yet. As I was walking over to the rough to hit my second shot a hawk flew down from the trees, picked my ball up in his beak and proceeded to fly off with it." continued the man. "Ahhh I see." says the priest "This MUST have been the point where you swore."
"You'd thinks so but no, because as the bird flew over the green the ball fell from its mouth and landed just two feet from the hole."
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Continuing
Another Gold in the 4 x 200m freestyle swimming.
A Silver in the rowing
And two Bronzes . One for the women’s gymnastics team and the other in the Dressage.This discussion is now closed.
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These men saved the lives of thousands of British Soldiers...
... Surely there should be no problem letting them live in the UK safely!
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An Airbus 380 is on it's way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h at 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with Tempo Mach 2 appears.
The pilot of the fighter jet slows down, flies alongside the Airbus and greets the pilot of the passenger plane by radio: "Airbus, boring flight isn’t it?"
"Now have a look here !"
He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, then swoops down almost to sea level in a breathtaking dive. He loops back next to the Airbus and asks, "Well, how was that?"
The Airbus pilot answers: "Very impressive, but now you look !"
The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly stubbornly straight, with the same speed. After 15 minutes, the Airbus pilot radios, "Well, how was that?"
Confused, the jet pilot asks, "What did you do?" The AirBus pilot laughs and says, "I got up, stretched my legs, walked to the back of the aircraft to use the bathroom, then got a cup of coffee and a chocolate fudge pastry.
The moral of the story is:
When you are young, speed and adrenaline seems to be great.
But as you get older and wiser you learn that comfort and peace are more important.
This is called S.O.S.: Slower, Older, but Smarter.
Dedicated to 'All My Friends' who are like me, now realising that it is time to slow down and enjoy the rest of the trip.
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Red Indian emigrated to Ireland.
An Indian named Brown Elk walked into the Irish Bar.
He was a giant of a man with a six-shooter tucked into his belt, so no one dared ask why he was carrying a pail of manure in one hand and a small cat in the other:
"I'll have a whiskey." He told the bartender and after downing the shot, Brown Elk, ordered another.
Then another.
Finally, after his fourth drink, the Indian pulled out his revolver, fired several shots into the bucket, released the cat, then ran after it. When he caught it, he returned to the bar.
"E-excuse me." Said the alarmed bartender, serving him a drink on the house. "But would you mind telling me what that was all about?"
"My father told me to try and be more like white man." He answered.
"So, I came here to have a few drinks, shoot the shit and chase a little pussy." 🤣😂🤣😂 -
Lambeth council abuse cover up
This really made me sad. Those poor children treated like they were worthless.
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I hope this is accurate
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/uk-coronavirus-pandemic-over-september-vaccines-neil-ferguson-b947801.html -
Two married buddies are out drinking one night when one turns to the other and says, "You know, I don't know what else to do. Whenever I go home after we've been out drinking, I turn the headlights off before I get to the driveway. I shut off the engine and coast into the garage. I take my shoes off before I go into the house, I sneak up the stairs, get undressed in the bathroom. I ease into bed and my wife STILL wakes up and yells at me for staying out so late!"
His buddy looks at him and says, "Well, you're obviously taking the wrong approach. I screech into the driveway, slam the door, storm up the steps, throw my shoes into the closet, jump into bed, gently caress my wife as she lays there and whisper, 'Fancy a cuddle luv?'
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Asda are out of stock of half cucumbers but have whole ones - never heard of knives ?
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This foursome has teed off every Saturday morning for the past three years. One of the guys was a most remarkable player. He would play left-handed for a couple of weeks, and the next week he would play right-handed with equal skill.
His one annoying fault was that every couple of months or so he would be twenty minutes late to tee off.
One morning, after this guy had landed his second shot just two feet from the pin, one of the others said. "I can't stand it any longer! Jesse, what's with switching sides, right to left? Why do you do that?"
"Well, I tell ya. Every Saturday morning when I wake up, I turn over and look at my wife in the bed next to me. If she's sleeping on her right side, then I tee off right-handed. If she's on her left side, then I play left-handed."
"A Ha! But what if she's on her back?"
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I was in my garden when I got the news that my father had fallen from a 20 feet ladder and was in the hospital. I rushed to the hospital expecting that my father had some major fractures, but he was alright except for some minor cuts. When I told him that it was a miracle, he disagreed and told me, "Son, I had just fallen from the first step of the ladder." 😁
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The lengths they go to - but why? (Edited)
The Anti Vax brigade are still at it!
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London flooding -- is everybody o.k.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/flash-floods-leave-cars-underwater-24613513
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Covid pass (Edited)
Has anyone signed up for theirs. I have! It wasn’t the easiest thing to do
After putting in all my details in it then asked me to make a video saying some numbers they sent me by text. (Identification verification) . Not everyone will have to do this.
I have my ‘bar code’ ( QR code) pass until the end of August. Don’t know what happens after that - maybe it automatically renews if I continue doing regular lateral flow tests! Or maybe just relies on my two vaccines.
Edit: update
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Just Horsing Around (Edited)
A young lady decides to try horseback riding even though she has had no lessons or prior experience.
She mounts the horse unassisted and the horse immediately springs into motion. It gallops along at a steady and rhythmic pace, but the girl begins to slip from the saddle, in terror, she grabs for the horse's mane, but cannot seem to get a firm grip, she tries to throw her arms around the horse's neck, but she slides down the side of the horse anyway.
The horse gallops along, seemingly impervious to its slipping rider. Finally, giving up her frail grip, she leaps away from the horse to try and throw herself to safety. Unfortunately, her foot has become entangled in the stirrup, she is now at the mercy of the horses' pounding hooves as her head is struck against the ground over and over again. As her head is battered against the ground, she is mere moments away from unconsciousness when to her great fortune...the Shopping Mall manager sees her and switches the horse off.