StreetCowboy

Cyclists look good. Whatever we wear. Smell good, not so much.

That’s because you’re not pulling your weight on the Weights forum. You’re always going to run into the obstreperous, argumentative and ignorantly opinionated in the Pub. You would not be here if you did not want to strike up a conversation with us!

The driving in my suburb is pretty good, though there is a tendency to leave vehicles which are not parked in the street. If there was one issue that I was worried about, I would cycle home after drinking less.

People that ask for links to videos of flapping jubblies need to learn how to use Google.

Unfortunately, while talented individuals can allow discerning consumers to access their music, at the same time we have seen an overwhelming commercialisation of what I will flatteringly call mediocrity. Let us all sit back and think how this plays a role in Putin’s War On Truth, and our part in it.

No it’s not. Things that we would unsee are better not seen.

Their frocks would not allow them to wear brassieres but I am sure they were adequately supported.

If people's tastes evolved with the times, we'd still be cursed with the dinosaurs. Let old folks take their opinions to the grave, rather than asking them to follow current trends.

Back in the day I used to watch Top Of The Pops with my dear old grandmother, and she was a bit negative: "That's not music, that's just shouting. And that's not much of a frock she's wearing either."

Russia will benefit from the increase in commodity prices due to the loss of supply from Ukraine and boycotting of Russia by others. The volume of Russian sales will reduce, and Russians will suffer, through job losses and salary cuts, but the Oligarchs will prosper from higher margins on reduced sales, and a reduction in costs from the decline of the rouble.

I thought his point was relevant. How can ordinary Russians support the war when their 2nd cousin is a refugee at the Polish border? The same way Germans supported Hitler; they thought their neighbourhood grocer was going to a Jewish enclave, not to a death camp, and they had no contact any more with the victims they had previously considered friends or acquaintances.

I would guess it is a building formerly used as an anti ship missile factory, and the new factory will not have “Neptune Anti-Ship Missiles Inc.” on the gates.

The threat was not to Russia, but to Putin. He could scarcely maintain his totalitarian authority over the Russian people if their Ukrainian neighbours, cousins and grandparents prospered in a free and liberal democracy. His only choice to maintain his oppression of the Russian people was to destroy the prosperity of Ukraine.

The rules are for other people to abide by. In the War On Truth, the rules only apply to those on the side of truth.

For many years Putin has been waging a concerted war on truth, to destroy everyone's faith in facts. equivocating Western liberals who compare Guantanemo Bay to the atrocities committed by Russians in Syria, Chechnya and Ukraine are playing into his hands, and may be funded by him. The fundamental principle of the war on truth is not that Putin is right, and others are wrong, but that you cannot believe anything, so invent your own reality based on soundbites from state media. Ukraine is a casualty of that war on truth- not the first, but if NATO is true to its word, maybe the Baltic states will not be the next. We are reliant on the Russian people to survive and win the war on truth, to take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them. We could end this now. But that would be very bad, for all of us. Only Russians can save their brothers in Ukraine, and prevent the next step towards armageddon.

You’re dead right there. Politics, religion, global warming, standards of education, who cares? Let’s focus on the here and now! Have you eaten? Do you like this beer? Leave abstraction for Galileo.

I was working in Warrington, having lunch with the lads, and I said I’d taken a job in Hong Kong. A compatriot, who had been transferred down South when the Fast Reactor project closed, said “Sure, and if I was choosing somewhere to live, I don’t think I’d choose Hong Kong” ”If I was going to take a job based on where I wanted to live, I’d not be talking to you here, now”

I am struggling to recall the last time that I benefitted from anonymous advice from strangers. But back in the day, I worked in Middlesbrough. Mickey D says to me "Cowboy, you've been to America; where would you recommend?" "Aye, well, Mickey, the best night out I had was in Albuquerque, but..." "That's all I need to know" I went back to Middlesbrough some years later, and we met up again. "Yefookinbastart" and if I had not been so nimble at backing off we'd have come to blows. "Ah went t'Albaqurque, and Ah've neva' bin so bored so quickly" And I could see how that could happen, and how it might have been avoided if he'dpaused to listen to the whole story. You are not strangers, and their experience may not be relevant to you. Times may differ, and what has happened in the past may not be the same as your experience in the future. If you are looking for information, ask specific questions, not recommendations. If you are looking for advice, then you deserve all you get.

Maybe his ex-wife is an immigration officer.

Your past misdemeanours will come back to haunt you.... My buddy used to cheat at dominoes, and eventually came to a sad end from it. When he came to the pearly gates, he found them unattended, and wandered straight in. St Peter was not impressed - "Don't you ever knock?"

Do you have any evidence of that?

I think choosing war instead of invasion and subjugation is not unreasonable. When your neighbour makes that choice, I think we all have an obligation to abstain from invasion.

Are you accusing me of not disagreeing with you? By the way, I have suggested by way of report that the Mods cull this thread of non-war-related posts, and furthermore close the thread as a shill forest. I expect them to ignore the suggestion, and ban me for commenting on moderation, so I suggest you listen to Summer Holiday until this blows over

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

Presumably that is why the question never arose. Russia knew full well that if they got involved, it would not end well for them, whereas in Ukraine, they can claim it is a feud with their neighbours, and threaten escalation if others get involved. If I was the USA, I would veto Mongolia’s membership of NATO, but maybe Mongolia will rely on China for protection. The Taliban must be feeling like Kings Of The World.