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I hope RT plays these videos!

Nick Drake - memorable songs, catchy sadness.

I never realised that Neil Diamond wrote a few Monkee songs.

Joe makes the point that the conscription of many farmers could have a significant effect on Russian production of wheat, barley and sunflowers.

The lunatic is in the Kremlin but Roger doesn't agree.

Tippers has done a runner, perhaps from his Thai better half. .

Extracting the urine is a national trait for us Brits. Once extracted, a further source is sought. A true Essex man, it is clear Owl, will never move beyond stage one in this project Regarding football, hope and despair go hand in hand if you are a true supporter of your local team(s). Born in Southampton, I cheer on the Saints' attempts to remain in the Premier League, whilst spending my teenage years in Hull, I always look out for The Tigers in The Championship. Luckily, my loyalty and love for these overpaid performers only stretches as far as a cursory glance at the Saturday results. Entertaining, attacking football, yes! Otherwise - boring Last night I dreamt Queen Elizabeth and the Duke came to my old school. Being the resident farang, I was told to go out and greet them. My hair was disheveled, I looked rough, but Liz was kind and invited me to sit on the back seat of their Morris Minor. ' So where should we go then?' she asked. 'I gather you've been here for some time.' 'Ban Dung, ma'am,' I replied. 'Full speed ahead, Giles!' she answered laughing to the Duke behind the wheel

A fellow teacher at my school in Bangkok was a football fanatic, a Liverpool fan. He suffered severe withdrawal symptoms from May to August and would watch anything remotely resembling sport, darts, for example. Anyway, he ran an online football gambling page. He would offer predictions on all Premier League games. If he was correct he kept 20% of your winnings, if wrong he returned a percentage of your money. He became head of the English Programme on 100,000 baht a month but said he made more from the gambling consultancy. COVID killed the teaching job though. The school closed down

Didn't Putin forbid them to leave their posts?

I love the rainy season, verdant green run rampant everywhere upcountry, but out here in the fields there is one fly/ mosquito/ hornet in the ointment. Strimmers/ bushwhackers run rampant. From every direction the revved up, grating sound of strimmers echoes across the landscape, disturbing the tranquility of birds calling each other and dogs barking in the distance. Still, there is one consolation, come November, the strimmers will fall silent.

If you can't retreat, surrender Ruskies. Live to fight another day and overthrow Putin.

The Ukranians aren't going to stop fighting in the provinces illegally annexed by Putin, so having threatened to use nuclear weapons, if Putin doesn't use them, he'll lose face/ credibility big time, especially if the Russians lose Lyman. His reference to Hiroshima and Nagasaki makes me wonder if he's thinking a couple of nuclear bombs will bring Ukraine to its knees like Japan in 1945. But what would NATO do in that scenario?

https://youtu.be/uwiTs60VoTM

Seriously, did anyone expect the ruling to be different?

And everyone has phones nowadays. If these mobilised troops end up getting slaughtered, there's going to be many angry families in Russia. The ones who don't want to fight should surrender immediately and offer to help rebuild Ukraine rather than languish in a P.O.W camp.

China will hold all the cards if Russia can only sell gas to the East. Bargain basement prices for sure. https://www.csis.org/analysis/can-russia-execute-gas-pivot-asia

Perhaps the Russians did it to show the West that their new Norway- Poland gas pipeline, nearby, is not immune to attack.

Perhaps the Russians did it to show the West that their new Norway- Poland gas pipeline, nearby, is not immune to attack.

Liz Truss, you are clearly not up to the job. Please, for your own well being, call it a day and call a general election.

Fiona Hill reckons Putin is sending a signal to the West. ' Hey you know that new gas pipeline of yours running from Norway to Poland? It runs quite close to those pipelines that had four nasty accidents. It would be a shame if the same thing happened to it'.

A genius