Cut the bills down.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 2,353
Actually do a fair bit of chumping.
We have a log burner and most of the kindling is collected after a particularly breezy night - which we get a lot of.
They're charging seven quid for a tiny bag down the garage!
Your heart has to go out to those poor Postmasters & Postmistresses shat on by the Royal Mail.
Lives absolutely ruined.
Let's hope the enquiry names a few names.
See how they like it.
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 14th February 2022, 12:28 PMCut the bills down.
I did try that but the wood got stuck in my storage heaters.
Was it ash?
There are not that many Scouse Liverpool fans as most of them are out of towners. But credit where credits due as a few of the local ones have been buzzing off Evertons new ground which is taking shape on the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey. They are calling it the Boo Camp which really made me laugh.
My brother studied at Liverpool, he left having gained a sense of humour and a love of Everton.
He's obviously the smart one in the family.
Not sure, but I think the Ruskies might have played quite a smart game here.
Be in no doubt Putin has been playing chess with people who would struggle to play draughts. While he is genuinely popular at home he is in no position to have the Nord pipelines project profits put under threat.
His oligarchs have too much dough outside the country to suffer the sanctions on their money and their lifestyles plus if the ATMs in downtown Moscow turn off its hard to sustain his level of popularity.
But he knew that despite this danger that he could get concessions. H e held court and had people pander to him by simply relying on his troops being under surveillance.
He did it well, he didn't cut corners. He moved in all the relevant logistics including bridging equipment and field hospitals etc .not just a few tanks and a tanker.
He also was able to rely on the fact that he had already weakened his opponents thanks to his backing of Trump and his definite hand in Brexit. So he was able to time this perfectly amid the very disarray he has caused.
This era will be on school curriculums in 20 years as the 'Epoch of the Idiots' A time were every expert was ignored and disinformation was accepted by the disenfranchised who coalesced around anything that might change their world for the better and have them recognised instead of being ignored by those that purported to represent them.
Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ 15th February 2022, 7:23 PMHe moved in all the relevant logistics including bridging equipment and field hospitals etc .not just a few tanks and a tanker.
All of that came with an enormous price tag, and it's very unlikely - although not impossible - that he'll withdraw without at least a token amount of shooting and border-crossing. I won't believe that the crisis is over until those hundreds of thousands of troops, tanks, planes, and guns are removed from the border region.
Anyone with a modicum of logistics would have been able to tell their leaders that if he had bombed Kiev it would be another Stalingrad. The barricades would make themselves and his tanks and armour would be unable to move around a city of 2.8 million people who have no desire to be mastered.
If he never bombarded he would still be faced with battles that would make Chechnya look sensible. He had to obliterate that in the end and thats not an option as it risks new Europeans on his borders getting dragged in causing a 3rd world war.
He might be stark raving mad or bluffing but his generals aren't .
Does it matter one jot if it makes him unpopular at home ?
Russia's elections are rigged
And any opposition figures end up dead with radiation poisoning or in jail on trumped up bullshit charges
He is still genuinely popular. He took a bankrupt state run by gangsters and ignored by the G7 that could pay neither pensions nor wages with oligarchs dining on caviar surrounded by minders with military grade weapons.
Yes he used bombs on his own people I have no doubt and he poisons and kills at whim. But the babushka in the street see him as the man who restored national pride and put bread salt and vodka on the table.
It makes you wonder what his royal lowness really got up to. Were there other cases where the girl was really under age (under 16) and was paid off privately?
There should be no situation where you can 'pay' to stop a court case involving pedophilia. That's not justice.