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Try Disclaimer (Kate Blanchett & Kevin Kline). Slightly complex, but well acted and good analysis/representation of revenge. Also, Sweetpea - very enjoyable female version of Dexter. (Is it "correct" to violently murder someone who is obviously a total a$$hole?)

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/coronavirus-vaccine-your-questions-answered/myocarditis-and-covid-19-vaccines-should-you-be-worried

As a Canadian who just refused the latest booster shot, and certainly not a conspiracy theorist, I beg to differ. Apparently in my province there is a 1 in 10,000 chance of a heart problem of some sort after receiving a Covid booster shot. In my city of 400,000 people, that makes 40 people who might experience a problem. I don't fancy being one of those 40 people.

Rivals Stopped watching this Jilly Cooper-based sex romp after Episode 2. (Our Jilly is also a producer of the series.) It's set in the 1980's, when sex was just being discovered (at least in Jilly's world). Lots of knickers being torn off while shagging in an airline toilet (Concorde natch). Even some desperate but amusing trouser-groping for our gay brethren (which for once does not seem gratuitous, added on for the sake of that demographic. That's because sex is everywhere.) Class system satirised during multiple orgasmic weekends in the Big Country House... Even so, the whole thing is acted out with a nod and a wink, as if the actors know it's a lot of cobblers, but we're going to have some fun anyway. Most human ailments can be cured, Jilly implies, by a jolly good rogering.

I loved Rod Liddle's characterization of the whole charade in this week's Spectator: I wonder if we should join with the radical campaigning organisation Buy Larger Mansions (BLM) in order to protest about both the verdict in the Chris Kaba case and indeed the racism inherent in the Metropolitan Police? Perhaps we can get Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer to wear some BLM badges on Match of the Day and recreate the heady, exciting atmosphere of 2020 when white liberals in the US and here decided that George Floyd was a kind of combination of Toussaint Louverture and Rosa Parks, rather than a former criminal jailed eight times, including for robbery with a deadly weapon. Instead of that cringeworthy "taking the knee" nonsense, racism could have been much more easily combated by both sides linking arms between black and white players. Indeed, there are so many blacks in EPL teams now, one hardly even "notices" them....

Who's the chick with Sir Kneel?

the underlying principles are exactly the same....naïve people believing that there is such a thing as a free lunch...

This story is as old as humanity itself. (And so, not typically Thai!) From Adam and Eve to the medieval alchemists who promised to turn lead into gold to the gigantic Ponzi scheme of Bernie Madoff, the promise of a free lunch is forever beguiling..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal

Mridul Wadhwa: What sort of name is this? Would the answer to this question also explain why the Rape Centre (admittedly in Scotland, the home of stupendously mad gender and "hate" speech laws) is in such a mess?

And a few regulars like myself get ready to puke when we read these effusions of the minor private school mind.....

Bangers? Is your name Biggles by any chance?

Labour showing, once more, its true anti-semitic colours. What utter tosh to pretend that they have concern for the safety of Jewish students....

My wife drew my attention to the Thai version of this "story." In that story she was shown reading from her iPad while the President of Iran was sitting to her left and waiting patiently for.... whatever. I confess I know next to nothing about Thailand's relations with Iran, but I'd certainly like to know what she actually said to the man ultimately responsible for the terrorism committed all over the Middle East. Have a nice day, sir? We love your oil?

Worrying about politicians telling lies is a waste of energy on everyone's part (including on this thread). What is important (especially in debates) is which candidate gives the appearance of great intelligence and who could be trusted to perform bravely and intelligently in a crisis. Only Vance in my opinion shows the strength and honesty of character to stand for the highest office. The rest are dross....

I thought it was Monica who did Bill?

didn't say I know, only that I assume. Sorry if it's confusing....

I am proud to say that I have never actually heard this woman sing, but I can only assume, from the outfits she wears and the romantic company she keeps, that her songs are at an appropriate level of competence and taste.....

I am sure that citizens of many countries, reading this, can only lament that they do not have a leader of the same intellect, determination and sheer common sense as Giorgia.

Same applies to BLUESPUNK... Not been seen/heard since March 2023.. He was even more prolific than Chomper.

Yes, you're right. She's not a threat because of any particular policy (she has none), but because she is a really nasty human being. I recall her vicious attack on Judge Kavanaugh when she was in the Senate - that was the crucial moment when one could see how empty, but how dangerous, this mendacious woman was. Most politicians are mendacious, but even the most menial (someone like Nadler or Schiff etc) have SOME redeeming quality, somewhere. Not so Mrs Harris.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnnn. Politics these days tends to come down to these kindergarden quarrels. Much ado about nothing.

ha ha....the Grauniad....Britain's nearest equivalent to Pravda!

Correct spelling is Houellebecq (just in case someone wants to buy or borrow Submission -- novel in which France has a Muslim government).

Try this Seattle station: https://classicalking.org/ Good selection of classical music.

Yup, this thread is monumentally (staggeringly even ) boring. So, I will bow out ungraciously.....