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Nemuri Kyoshiro

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  1. The Hawaiian island of Maui has gone up in flames. I spent my honeymoon there and it really is a beautiful place. Reports in the Guardian are saying that explosions were heard but that could mean anything as sugar is produced there and that's pretty flammable stuff. They are blaming this on high winds far out in the Pacific fanning the flames, which may be true but there are just too many of these fires now around the world. Something is amiss,

     

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/10/lahaina-maui-wildfire-damage

  2. One story that really bothered me this week is the news that the Beckhams and the Sussexes have fallen out. It seems their friendship is beyond repair. How sumply dreadful it must be to have a life-long friend turn his back when need is greatest. I can only hope that David, Harry, Meghan and Posh shake hands, make up, and start going to each others' parties again.

     

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/23247559/david-victoria-beckham-harry-meghan-friendship-over/

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  3. 44 minutes ago, Anti Facts Sir said:

    Wonder if there's any significance to those numbers.

    He has a criminal record now with all the baggage that entails. He didn't physically assault Hancock but made him feel uncomfortable by accusing him of the crimes he is responsible for. But, these days, hurting someone's feelings and making them feel uncomfortable carries a prison sentence. How absurd.

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  4. On 7/31/2023 at 7:39 PM, northern star said:

    I wonder why Marianna Spring, head of the new Disinformation Stasi BBC mind-Kontrol centre "Verify", hadnt a single inkling or clue about what was going on with her colleague Huw Edwards.

     

    The BBC's most respectable and respected main man. All those years, abusing people. How did she not know? Right under her nose, and she didnt know. Yet she's in charge and paid thousands for looking for misinformation and lies regarding other people for alleged abuse, and prosecuting them. I dont think it bodes well, or says much for her investigative skills, if she couldnt even root out ol' Huw in the same office.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The BBC was always preachy and loved to wag a finger at the moral shortcomings of the British public. It wasn't known as 'Aunty' for nothing.

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  5. One thing to be deduced from all this, aliens are crappy pilots. I mean, they can fly a technologically superior ship from who knows where, through wormholes, portals, at speeds faster than light, then they hit earth's atmosphere and their skills amount to those of the average pisshead driving his BMW with a skinful of ale on a Saturday night at closing time.

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  6. 14 hours ago, Observations said:

    ( A fairly rational response to this 'campaign' ? )

     

    https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/sadiq-khan-tfl-say-maate-sexism-b1096355.html#comments-area

     

    " Sadiq Khan’s ‘Say Maate’ campaign is part of an ugly war on human exchange.

     

    It’s a catchy slogan, from that advertising firm, Ogilvy and Mather, which includes a behavioural science practice “whose goal is develop marketing techniques inspired by the fields of psychology and economics, rather than shape customer desires through conventional advertising”.

    The ad is illiterate. Mate is spelled with one a. What am I missing here?

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  7. For board and lodging...

     

    This poor sod was banged up in 2003 for a rape he did not commit. DNA evidence has exonerated him. If he sues and wins compensation, it is common for the state to claw money back to pay the cost of putting the man up for all those years. It beggars belief.

     

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/andrew-malkinson-17-years-jail-27404232

     

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  8. On 7/24/2023 at 3:58 AM, Mr Crabtree said:

    True enough alexa, someone had a go at me for feeding the squirrels---------------------------------------------to my dog, go figure? 🤔 

    Where I live, a couple of hawks took up residence and the squirrel and pigeon population is noticeably smaller. The other day I was picking some basil in the garden when a squirrel landed on the ground with a thump, closely followed by a hawk. The squirrel just managed to get away but the same bird snatched one off a tree trunk a few minutes later.

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  9. 33 minutes ago, Macnamara said:

    I heard somewhere that by bringing production to a halt the actors are screwing all the other people involved in the industry from set designers to costumes to make-up etc who are now missing out on work

    Well that would logically follow. However, the set designers and associated trades are all pretty much unionized so you'd think there would be some solidarity there.

  10. 21 hours ago, k_j_evans said:

    Persackly. In primary school, we were instructed to buy a penknife from the school shop to take to Brownies. The ones in secondary school (for Guides) were even better. I've still got mine, it has a knife blade and a marlin spike.

    Ah, right. We used to call those 'jack knives' because they were used by sailors. Mine has a sheepsfoot blade with a can opener. Pretty basic but that's all we needed. Made in Sheffield and not a bit of rust on it. I did buy a Swiss Army knife many years later but the old penknife is still going strong.

  11. 1 hour ago, peter said:

    I don't know what the law is where you are ,here if you get caught with a knife your in the shit ,so why carry a knife when you have car keys in you pocket

    It's absurd. I grew up in the UK but I honestly can't remember knives being a thing. Every lad had a penknife or a sheath knife (if you were a scout) and I don't know anyone who was stabbed or slashed.

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  12. 59 minutes ago, peter said:

    The point I was making is that anything can be used as a weapon ,if the PTB had their way we would all be wearing bubble wrap and drinking liquid food  through a bio degradable straw

    There's a lot of truth in that statement. A rolled-up newspaper, a matchbox, a bunch of keys, a bootlace, all can be turned into a lethal weapon in the right hands.

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