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Can you not see the irony in what you just posted?

,A few months ago they gave me - free - a rather sturdy canvas bag.

Come now @transam, why are you being so unreasonable about this? This is the fast moving world, the cutting edge, of the MAGA political revolution. There is simply no time, or place, for your outdated pedantry. After all, it is hardly likely that the sainted Donald or his cute little press secretary would lie to us is it? Vicious evil Canada is an existential threat to the American economy and way of life, and believe me, they don't come much more vicious, evil and devious than their cows! What socialist malevolence, why, I doubt it even intends to buy a Tesla!

I doubt whether friendship comes into it. Musk paid a very, very large amount of money, and he pulls the strings.

And didn't so many of us chuckle when "Shiner's" little scam came unstuck!

Yes and yes.

Treatment for diabetes is not expensive here. But - you do have to 1) present yourself for treatment. 2) be prepared to manage your diet and restrict your booze intake.

Possibly because posts expressing exactly what they think of Messrs Trump and Musk are taken down!

Says the man who raised the spectre of the NAZI " just following orders defence" PIRA had just driven a digger, carrying a massive bomb (which exploded) in its front bucket into the police station, followed by machine gunning the wreckage with a 12.7mm heavy machine gun. They were ambushed and killed in the response, whilst dismantling the HMG in order to escape. Those are the facts. Not a war crime, not a crime at all. Certainly not murder.

Hang the water splashing, I want to know where is the best place to go to for "spaghetti strap tops"! Mind you, spaghetti strap tops and water splashing, now there is a thought!

We are told, often with breathless admiration, that Mr Trump is a brilliant businessman. Let us consider many of the Trump "businesses", casinos, airlines, steaks, vodka, university and so on. All bankrupt. His real estate assets are all mortgaged to the hilt, to the extent that last year he thrashed around for some time to find the bond money to appeal his court cases. Now he is turning his attentions to the US economy - hmm, what was it the OP said about spectacular failure?

Utterly pathetic.

Ah, "big lie", shout it from the rooftops!

It sounds to me that it is turning into a right buggers muddle!

He should have got himself a big black fat Sharpie! Not only could he have scrawled his signature on a document impressively, and then held it up for the cameras, he could also have used it to divert hurricanes!

How long will it take to implement? Is it "inclusive" of 20? Daughter turns 20 in July! Mind you, she would only spend it on cats! Back in the floods she would only leave her flooded apartment block when the Army agreed she could take her cats on leashes!

Thinking back to my years in West Germany, the only things I ever had dry cleaned was my No2 dress ( brown drinking suit with the brass buttons) and my mess kit - so 6 visits a year? Combat Kit was laundered by the system, and normal working dress was done in a washing machine. Anyway truth be told the garrisons had very little to do with the local economy, The British and Dutch did the bulk of their shopping in their respective NAAFIs, the Americans in their PX. The Dutch, Belgians and French had very little money to spend as they were conscripts. The Americans were payed in Dollars, and their sprawling bases were renowned for having every US "shopping facility" one could need "on base". The US bases in Europe have not existed to defend Europe for decades; rather they, and the couple of airbases in the UK, exist as logistical establishments, forward bases and medical facilities to support their (the US's) various foreign interventions in the Near and Middle East. Back in the "Cold War" when fighting troops were maintained in West Germany a significant part of the costs were met by the. West German government. Complaints about our presence were usually settled by the argument " uns oder die Russkis"!

Nor did Big Nok, or Susan Lee. Funny that...

Exactly as the businesses in all the other one time garrison towns throughout what was once West Germany felt. They will shrug and get on with things. The "girlie bars" and dodgy second hand car lots will take a hit, but everyone else will cope.

Does rather sound like the way a significant part of the poorer population of the USA are headed...

Presumably that is what the tugboat is for, not very "stealthy" though if it needs a tugboat chugging around behind it!

Serco has upped their game from contract catering in British Army messes and cookhouses. Mind you they were spectacularly crap at that, so the boat will probably, 1) be never ready on time, 2) fail to deliver in terms of quality and quantity, 3) be heartily detested by anyone who has anything to do with it!

I feel sure that there is BBC or Channel 4 documentary in this story of the travails of this innocent young man. Public funding should be made available.

Hitler was not a Marxist in the 1920s . He wrote "Mein Kampf" in the 1920s (published in 1925). It is a turgid, chaotic rambling, narcissistic ( ring any bells?) account of his political beliefs but certainly does not espouse Marxism. That he used and redefined the term "socialist" does not make him one. Still, never mind, you and the usual suspects repeat the big lie loud and often enough, eventually the weaker minded will believe it. I can't remember, just now, who first developed that concept but I am sure, in time, it will come to me!

Absolutely - just imagine, speaking their own language in their own country! Why can't they "bastardise" somebody else's, like any decent country?