It’s the same thing that’s happened to Israel - fundamentalist religion gradually gaining more power under the Western liberal tradition of tolerance and democracy is threatened.

It’s great they have holes in to let the explosion and shrapnel through!

No - my first MBP lasted 9 years before I retired it (too slow) and my M1 Max has been faultless so far. I’m on my umpteenth iPhone and I’ve never had any quality or manufacturing issues.

Cot them back - looks neater and you won’t poke your eye out when you bend down!

Pressure washing my garden, then my elderly neighbour’s garden and then the path to the car park because she finds it slippery.

Might be something like a horse fly - don’t let it settle on you as its bite HURTS.

Heroes - what a disappointment. Didn’t take long to realise that they were making it as they went along…

He knows that the war he waged against Ukraine is going to be the defining event of his ‘reign’. He’s desperate for a victory and will do anything to achieve it.

I’m in the UK - over the past 50 years I think there have been at least 20 people who have been convicted of murder who were later found to be completely innocent. Some were because of DNA evidence and a lot because of police incompetence or corruption. I know people say, when they see a case like the one in this news report ‘well he was definitely guilty’ - and it seems a slam dunk, no doubt at all. But in all the trials which convicted innocent people, everyone said exactly the same thing.

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Bertie is thinking about something nice!

So many of the accidents people post seem completely avoidable!

Lavender is a good start. Cheap and will get better every year for about 5/6 years when I normally replace it.

A good catalog is essential for any serious philately. The amount of information they manage to squeeze into a fairly small book is amazing.