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You sound just like the type of person that attacks another poster because they are posting facts you don't like, while not having any facts of your own. Now that IS dishonesty. Try flaming someone else.

I don't have any problem with the ICE deporting criminals. No country would. As usual, a Trump supporter is having a knee-jerk reaction to what I posted, then selectively posting a snippet of it, which suits their response. I don't need therapy or counseling. OTOH, people like you need education in basic economics, so you can understand the unintended consequences of what you voted for.

I was on a tricyclic anti-depressant for many years. While it worked, i did not like the fuzzy don't give a damn feeling I got from it. Reduced my effectiveness at work. I eventually weaned myself off it. I have since learned the years of use may have contributed to my benign prostate hyperplasia. I would rather do my own thinking, than having a drug do it for me.

Farmers in California are worried their oranges will be left to rot on the trees, because they don't have enough labor to pick them. The illegal immigrants who would be picking that fruit are staying where they live. They know the ICE's chances of picking them up for deportation are much better when they are at their workplace. Dumb as a rock MAGA's don't understand basic supply and demand. They applaud the deportation of illegals, when their own living costs are going to be rising even further as supermarket shelves become bare. Oranges are just the tip of the iceberg. If there is a Trump Effect, it's going to create more problems than it solves.

I don't know about you, but a 30,000 pound debt is not something I would just write off.

Branston small chunk pickle, ham, and Mainland vintage cheese. Otherwise known as gobstoppagus. Lighter alternative - basil pesto. Vegemite and salted butter. AI claims unsalted butter melts faster than salted butter. Not in my experience of the same brand.

All the Italian models had a reputation for flair and style. Unfortunately, most also had a terrible reputation for rust.

The other rear-engined vehicle to have handling issues was the Hillman Imp, the great white hope of the Rootes group to challenge the Mini's dominance. The tyre pressures were so crucial handling could be converted from understeer to oversteer with even mild variations of the front and rear tyre pressures. I did test drive one, but declined to buy it after experiencing a gearshift which felt like I was stirring porridge.

Festung Amerika is coming, the light on the hill has gone out. No, I am not joking.

I have always enjoyed my work, and have been productive for several companies. I was interrupted at the peak of my productivity. My encounter with the management consulting firm of McKinsey was without doubt a low point in my life. McKinsey is a global giant, with about 27,000 employees. Like law firms, the holy grail is to become a partner. Many ex-employees wear their association as a badge of honour. In my view, it should be a badge of shame. McKinsey operates on a simple and fraudulent principle. It makes a presentation to the board or senior management of a target company, promising with its cost-cutting programs to improve the bottom line. From memory, the target was $180 million, with a fee of $18 million to McKinsey for their expertise. Most boards are hypnotised by the prospect of substantial cost savings. Such is McKinsey’s reputation, it would take a brave senior manager to reject their overtures. McKinsey does not target small businesses, because those simply could not afford them, or be worthwhile. My company was a large and juicy target. It sounds wonderful, except it is smoke and mirrors. Two to three years after McKinsey has swept through an organisation, no-one ever goes back to the cost savings they have claimed to measure whether they were achieved in reality. A number of individuals were selected as team leaders. Declining was not an option. I was isolated in a demountable hut outside the Engineering Department for six months, with a 386 laptop issued by McKinsey for company. I was supposed to sit there and think of nothing but cost saving ideas. My only human contact during that time was a few minutes every day with a McKinsey facilitator. The rest of the time I spent staring at a computer screen, wishing I could be back at work doing what I did best – finding new insights, developing new methods , and solving plant and customer problems. I regard that six months in the demountable hut as the most barren and wasted of my entire life. Not surprisingly in hindsight, I developed depression. My wife was completely unsympathetic, telling me to get on with it. To her, I was just a provider. I went to see the Works Doctor, in despair. I suspect I was not the only person he was seeing affected by the madness of McKinsey. He forthwith prescribed doxepin, a classic tricyclic antidepressant. I was to be on that medication for the next 20 years, and it may have contributed to the benign prostatic hyperplasia I have now. I was quite stressed, even with the anti-depressant in my system, because one of the cost savings forced on me by the program was a reduction of two people in my department. These were human beings reduced to a bottom line. At the end of the six months, all team leaders were to make a presentation to the CEO, who had the reputation of a hatchet man. The HR manager made his presentation before me. He achieved the required savings while adding four people to his staff, and was fulsomely praised When my turn came, I was excoriated by the CEO for not doing enough, despite reducing the staff level by two people. When I pointed out the discrepancy between my presentation and the HR manager, he got quite angry and told me to stop being evasive. I was outraged by the unfairness of it all. It was only my sense of self-preservation that prevented me from telling him to shove his program up his @rse. Financial independence would have been a wonderful thing at the time. If I owned a business, and a manager came to me wanting to bring in McKinsey or any other consultant, I would fire that manager on the spot. My logic would be any manager who needs someone else to tell him how to run a business is no manager. When an organisation kills or injures a person physically, there is usually hell to pay. Organisations such as BHP, Exxon and BP have shelled out billions for the environmental damage they have caused. I am wondering how much mental damage McKinsey has initiated, and whether there will ever be a reckoning through a class action by an enterprising legal firm. I suppose there were a couple of positive results from my six month sojourn in Siberia. I had a truckload of work waiting for me, with various clamourings for priority. I had come through fairly severe depression intact, with my medication reduced to the minimum level. Perhaps most importantly, I had realised my marriage was no longer sustainable, and it was only a matter of time before we split up. I am in remission from three types of cancer. Being diagnosed with them was not the lowest points of my life.

IMO bottled water is essential in countries with poor infrastructure.

The MAGA crowd lack the economic literacy to understand tax cuts, tariffs and deporting low paid workers are inflationary. The new administration reminds me of monkeys trying to type Encyclopedia Britannica.

Precious metals and cash. What the hell does a meme coin do, apart from sucking in idiots?

For quite some time, gasoline was cheaper than bottled water.

Link to support your claim of 600K violent criminal illegals, please. Illegals, yes. Criminals, maybe. Violent criminals, even less. As of 2023, the prison population in America was 1.9 million people. 10% of that is 190,000. Methinks you are posting BS. You guys object when Trump is described as a felon, sexual predator, and fraudster. At least there's a basis to the description.

IIRC the story went one had to buy two Jaguars, because one could be guaranteed to need fixing.

Death traps on wheels.

Only in America and oil-producing countries. It has always been expensive in Europe.

Ford had the Taurus under that name in Australia. The Taunus was marketed under the names Cortina and Meteor. Performance was far from meteoric. See the difference?

Both have been by PM.

Canada, Greenland, and now Cuba. Are you a closet neo-imperialist? The USA is completely polarised - 50% for Trump, 50% against. Why do you want to put more monkey blood in the duck soup?

I have had two death threats. The posters responsible were banned. I am somewhat bewildered by people who can get so worked up about a topic they would actually threaten to kill someone. They have to have some serious mental issues.

I never owned one of these, out of my league financially. The dealerships probably advertised it on the basis of how many chicks it could pull in a month. IMO still the most beautiful car ever made - the E-Type Jaguar.

Easy enough to wreck an FX, the brakes, steering and suspension conspired to stomp on anyone who pushed it too hard.

At 6 feet tall, I would have found activity in a Mini impossible. IIRC, enthusiasts used to claim it was impossible to induce a Mini to spin. For its time, the Cooper Mini was quite a good race car.