Or maybe not

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/amp/rare-bird-hatches-in-kent-for-first-time-in-200-years-310787/

Wonderful that they are breeding not so good the first chick has gone missing

https://bit.ly/3RPQzE8

All the children and the teacher have been discharged from hospital.

The Olympic gymnasts taking part are extraordinary.

Why do they do it!

Hi. I have been asked if it’s ok to use expletives in post’s in Anything ! The answer is NO, I am not going to explain why because it’s obvious, Anyone who cannot converse without the use of expletives will have to self-redact their comments ( using * is ok ) I can only delete whole comments if people ignore my instructions, so that’s what will happen and the member may well earn a lengthy suspension for being so naughty.
Please feel free to discuss this amongst yourselves, perhaps take a poll to see what the co-census of opinion is.

The Philippines first ever gold medalist has also won a lifetime supply of ramen noodles.
https://fortune.com/europe/2024/08/06/carlos-yulo-philippines-first-male-olympic-gold-medalist-furnished-condo/

https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/cq5dd2lz8y8o.amp

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/04/southport-latest-news-rioting-disorder-arrests-liverpool/

Was browsing and came across this statement The last thing I would have mentioned is Ireland.

.Utopia means “non-place” therefore by definition a strict utopia can only be fictional. However, the country which is closest to having established a perfect society is Switzerland; far beyond Denmark which comes second; followed by Ireland.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7924v502wo

Campaign by ITV - Britain get Talking
Are we too old to take part? Is it more relevant for younger folk?
What do members think
Will you take part? Or you happy to just talk to others online? No eye contact !

https://www.itv.com/britaingettalking/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd168081wxvo

for allegedly making a far-right hand gesture. It's just the OK sign, but a meme spread online has fooled people that it means you support the far right.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/olympics-official-sent-home-after-making-controversial-hand-gesture/ss-BB1r6yzV

There was a post about hotel attacked by anti-immigration people, I commented but it suddenly disappeared and my comment made no sense on a thread about an iceberg.
Surely I didn't imagine it.

Anyone know this man please contact the police

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9r3lzr45ypo.amp

https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/police-issue-warning-razor-blade-9458253?int_source=nba

God forbid we get more guns

https://news.sky.com/story/southport-stabbing-latest-number-of-casualties-after-reports-of-stabbing-13186819

It wouldn't exactly encourage people to change

https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/reeves-urged-consider-pay-per-152354333.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevwe9j50l5o.amp

Currently watching the women's 800m heats. Only the winner of each heat automatically qualifies for the semi-final round. That is brutal.
I think there will be a few "fastest losers" to qualify.

https://news.sky.com/story/italys-guantanamo-inside-the-centres-for-migrants-rescued-from-boats-set-to-open-in-albania-13189430

Thoughts of a recently released Russian.

Mr Kara-Murza said he wanted "to remind people in democratic countries that Russia and Putin are not the same thing".

"I will absolutely carry on," he told the BBC following the news conference.

"I care about my country - and I think Russia deserves better than a corrupt KGB dictator. I want to make sure that Russia becomes... a normal, modern, democratic country."

And Grandads standing against the nazis on our streets

As more trouble is started by the thugs and morons again tonight in Liverpool and Sunderland

That poor child what she must have gone through, Do you ever recover from something like that?

https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/eight-men-charged-sexual-offending-against-child

I was in Orpington Sainsburys this morning and the supervisor woman was making a big effort to get people with baskets to use the self scan checkouts. She said in about 3 weeks time all the staff operated checkouts will be gone. It will be all self scan checkouts for shoppers with baskets. Shoppers buying a trolley load will be encouraged to use the handheld scan and go scanners.
Talking to a couple of the staff, I think they are being conned into thinking there will be no job losses.

Source: New York Post

"Trump wore a “loose, large white bandage that covered his right ear” during the interview that was conducted on Trump’s private plane as he flew to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, according to the report.

No pictures were allowed to be taken of the former president wearing the bandage, per Goodwin.

Elsewhere in the interview, Trump said he’s “supposed to be dead.”

“A lot of people say it’s the most iconic photo they’ve ever seen,” he added of an image of him pumping his fist before being escorted away by agents.

“They’re right and I didn’t die. Usually you have to die to have an iconic picture,” he added."

Your thoughts?

There have been a number of incidents of spectators booing athletes when they have been winning against a French athlete.

Was this on tv news?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/southend-fight-eight-arrested-weapons-33367310

Super yacht sinks as water gets in.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/greece-super-yacht-sinks-kefalonia-mediterranean-sea

The ventral tegmental area floods the brain with dopamine. The brain's reward system kicks into overdrive, processing these rewarding sensations and linking the rush of passion with other complex emotions like attachment and empathy. It's why you might feel addicted to that special person you can't stop thinking about.

If you in that state caution goes out of the window and demand for money is easily obtained.

Some useful info here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/10GRvfdYcfzZWVV9g6x1qk/couple-s-life-savings-stolen-in-trojan-horse-mobile-app-scam (NB the headline is completely wrong)

In 2023, we have calculated that a single person needs to earn £29,500 to have an acceptable standard of living, up from £25,000 in 2022.

Team GB have 6 boxers competing. The first 5 all lost their first round bout on split decisions even though they should have won. Thankfully today our boxer won on a split decision.
But there will be no medal for the Moscow born boy named Delicious.

https://youtu.be/SGmH_5IpjEM?feature=shared
Can my man really beat that nasty, horrible, lying, Kamlia Harris? You had better believe it, of course he can. My man Donald Trump is the real deal. But for those very foolish, foolish, very foolish, you're so foolish, doubters out there who are still not convinced please watch this video in full. Make America great again, Vote Trump.👍

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Stop oil protestors arrested at airport

https://news.sky.com/story/just-stop-oil-activists-block-departure-gates-at-gatwick-airport-13186651

asu martzu (Sardinian: [ˈkazu ˈmaɾtsu]; lit. 'rotten/putrid cheese'), sometimes spelled casu marzu, and also called casu modde, casu cundídu and casu fràzigu in Sardinian, is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains ----live insect larvae --------(maggots).

Bringing the country to its knees

They say they will go on a go slow!

So what’s new?

Apparently he mentioned women doing their make up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cprq880yz0xo

Kamala vs Donald.

No doubt about the winner, or is there?

Now not eveyone of pension age will get it, you have to be on qualifying benefits to receive it.

Adam Peaty has tested positive.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/crgl6n0x39eo

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13678889/amp/Anti-racist-counter-demonstrators-tommy-robinson-rally-London.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13686719/amp/Urgent-hunt-underway-girl-six-missing-southeast-London-Extremely-concerned-police-issue-overnight-appeal-help-youngster-vanished-10-40pm.html

Do you check the ‘stars’ a restaurant has or when it got them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1rr1qqqny0o.amp

https://youtu.be/ssVe0FaBhUU?si=frkWrhzZz6819eeR

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/huw-edwards-bbc-presenter-scandal-court-b2587747.html

I have to say I didn't take much notice, the event had got so boring by then, it passed me by. I did notice Dionysus.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-the-last-supper-drag