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Good one. I'll file that along with "the world is flat" and "the moon really is made of green cheese" stories. It really is a good one, but I'm pretty sure a massive military build up at Vladivostok would not have gone un noticed.

If you are going to attack me best get your facts correct. I didn't say anything about "regional accents"-that was a different poster. So, you saw black people in Dublin- so what? It doesn't mean I'm lying. I didn't, and I traveled around all of Ireland, not just Dublin and Co Kerry.

I live in an area where many foreigners come to work., and I've asked some where they come from. I didn't get accused of racism for doing so. In Thailand when on a baht bus I've asked tourists where they were from and non gave me evasive replies, and none took offense. Certainly, I don't take offense when asked where I'm from, but I don't have an agenda, and nor have I accused Charles of being mean to Harry's wife. Bottom line, it's all great publicity for a certain charity.

She's old and old people make mistakes. I'm old but nowhere near her age and I say things that may not be appropriate, so I'm not going to condemn her for saying something that isn't really a big deal. IMO this is someone with an agenda seeking to cause problems for the Royals, and the woke jumping on a bandwagon. As I've said before, if she were actually racist it would have been picked up long ago.

IMO there is nothing important in any of this much ado about nothing, except for those that seek to attack the Royals by any means possible. Important is the NHS in strife; an old woman saying something someone didn't like is not important.

Good advice.

LOL. Last thing I put together actually had more fasteners supplied than needed. Luckily the instructions specified the number needed, so I knew I had surplus. What is really annoying is to take something apart to fix it and THEN find some left over screws when assembled again.

I'm not bad at DIY and been doing it all my life, but sometimes I get something with instructions that don't make sense, so have to do it by trial and error. BTW, in a previous life when I had a house in NZ I had a professionally made kitchen installed. The kitchen itself had some defects that I didn't pick up till too late ( so check everything before installed ) and the builders that the kitchen maker sent were cowboys. I had to redo everything they had done ( which was when I started doing things myself ). They couldn't even put up a wall that was vertical. I also had to sack the electrician they brought and get my own instead. The <deleted> had the cheek to comeback later and ask if they could take photos. Luckily I wasn't there at the time, but my partner had to tell them that nothing they had done was still there. Another time I had some alterations done, and the builder sent a "plasterer" to finish the wall board gaps, but he only did half the job ( very badly ) and never came back, so I learned to plaster myself.

No safety cut off there. Only a cut off if the temperature goes over 55 C. That's not what kills you.

Get your own electrician. The landlord may use their friendly and cheap one that doesn't know much more than you.

Agree, but unless the OP knows what to look for there is little point in doing so. Main thing when looking in electrical devices is to make sure the power is actually off to the device. I love my test screwdriver.

Heaters with included safety cut off have a test button. If no test button it probably doesn't have a safety cut off. You can have an earth added just for that, as long as your landlord doesn't mind you drilling a hole in the wall for the wire ( unless you want to crawl around in the roof space ). Just make sure the earth rod is correct length.

Actually no need to disconnect any wires. Cut flex covering to length required, cut lengthways along flex covering on one side only, put over wiring. If wanting to be extra secure, wrap with insulating tape. I'd turn power off at main breaker while doing it just in case.

and the positive is ............................................................? How is a life where we have no interaction with other people better?

If it's not something you can hold it's just data. It's only easy till it's not. Welcome to the hacker's world- crime pays better than honest work.

Yes. Stop making it easy for big business to rule us. I hope all you that want the end of cash realise you want mass unemployment. No cash don't need cash registers- don't need people making/ fixing them don't need accountants- AI can do all that don't need bank employees- AI can do all their jobs don't need anyone working in a mint don't need security services transporting money don't need piggy banks- no need for employees to make them don't need wallets or purses etc etc. So all you that want cashless want to ruin people's lives.

Oh taking other people's money is just so inconvenient, so let's get rid of money, let the buyer take the risk of it going wrong, and make lots more profit.

I have no desire to know the details of other people's sex lives.

Nothing is "gone". She's an old lady and probably stayed on because she likes the life style, rather than to "do a job". Most people likely gave up "work" as soon as they qualified for a pension. She might not be whatever such ladies actually do anymore, but I doubt any personal relationships have "gone".

I assume that's the writer's opinion. It could also be that she chose to resign to avoid further embarrassment to the palace, and also that she is old and might like to have a cuppa and a long lie down instead of going to affairs where she meets a lot of people she has nothing in common with. Does the Spectator support or oppose the Royals?

We don't often agree but that is a very excellent post IMO.

From a thread on Pattaya News Pattaya — Pattaya Traffic Police collaborated with the Chonburi Department of Land Transport to arrest and fine dozens of Bolt drivers who did not have public transport driving licenses to pick up customers.

I used to do that all the time to avoid having to climb stairs ( escalators are great ), plus AC most of the way.

Unless they added an overhead walkway since I was last there you can't get from Siam to MBK without going down to street level. That's why a 5 minute walk takes 9 minutes, plus the climb on the stairs to make one sweaty. Easier to just wait for next train to MBK.

Garbage is a Thailand thing. Last time I went to Samet it was a garbage tip end to end, despite being a national park. I visited a waterfall beauty site ( right next to a national park ) south of Lamphun, and it was a garbage tip. Seems locals just don't care.