GroveHillWanderer

At the risk of repeating myself: Did you bother doing that? If you did, you'll have seen the multiple other images of similar occurrences in the UK and if you didn't, then it seems you're just trying to bury your head in the sand and pretend that if you can't see it, it didn't happen. Which is weird, because you've already seen and commented on the images posted by @Fruit Traderthat provide further evidence that you were wrong and the UK does indeed allow EV charging cables to be lying on the ground.

Last time I checked, foreign vehicles are allowed into the UK, so the provenance of a number plate is not definitive. In any event, the vehicle with what looks like an EU number plate is parked on a road that has UK style houses, bollards, road surface etc. Anyway, if you don't like those photos, just do a Google search for, "kerbside charging UK" and click on Images - you'll see any number of additional photos of cars parked on UK streets with charging cables trailing on the floor.

You might want to look again. At least two of those pictures (the last two) are almost certainly from the UK. The last one because it's from a UK article, quoting UK sources: Kerbside charging biggest barrier to EV adoption, says AFP And the third one because of the characteristic lamp posts, houses and hedgerows (nowhere else that I've ever been, or seen pictures of, in the world has that combination of features). The middle one could very possibly be from the UK, given that the article quoted above mentions that some councils are trialling cable gullies. Only the first photo is overwhelmingly likely to be from a non-UK location, based on the car number plate. Here's a couple more from UK sources showing EV cables lying on the street.

Kerbside charging has been available in the UK for over 5 years. I've searched and can't find any evidence of such issues occurring. Although, if you have any links or sources, please provide them.

Unless it's changed recently, my understanding was that the Border Force did not routinely check passports for people leaving the country, but did random checks only (usually for "high risk" destinations). Whenever we go to the UK, my wife gets an entry stamp, but there's no exit stamp. I seem to recall them saying something last year about starting to collect data from airlines but I don't know if that was implemented yet.

Where is your account? I have accounts at both TTB and Kasikorn banks and they will issue bank statements with those details in English if I ask them to. They'll even do it for a Thai person, on request (my wife gets statements in English when she is applying for a UK visa, for instance).

Yes I saw the reports about the Luton airport fire, many of which pointed out that it was caused by a diesel-engined vehicle. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/11/london-luton-airport-fire-car-parking-garage-live-updates/

The convincing information that he was meeting with Russian intelligence services is in the indictment, which has already been linked to. The proof that the Republicans knew the information was suspect comes from Republican lawmaker Ken Buck, who stated this live on air in an interview. Republican: Colleagues were warned informant’s Biden claims were not verified

Then perhaps you need to do a little more reading. This was actually one of the stranger aspects of the whole Steele dossier affair, that the funding that led to it came initially from Republicans, then later from Democrats. Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier

You think this war could have been avoided? Pray do tell.

Did you even bother reading the article - or for that matter, the quotes from it that I included? Both the article, and the quotes I gave, make it perfectly clear that kratom did not cause 4,100 deaths in two years in the states. It was listed as either the cause, or a contributory factor. And again, without wanting to sound like a broken record here, both my post and the article are clear about the fact that, "The vast majority of those cases involved other drugs ..." Also, these figures are quite clearly not lies - they are taken directly from coroners' reports which are a matter of public record and freely available to anyone who cares to look them up. As Sheryl pointed out, no-one here (nor the article) is calling for a ban, it's simply a question of pointing out some of the potential dangers for people to be aware of - especially if mixing kratom with other drugs.

Just a heads-up, in case anyone's interested. According to the article below: They take kratom to ease pain or anxiety. Sometimes, death follows However, the piece does go on to say that: To provide a counterpoint, it also has the following:

I was talking about the bottle I bought - it was Leopard brand brown mixture and it had exactly the same ingredients as in the photo posted by @Puccini - which does not include any type of opioid.

It's perhaps worth bearing in mind that there are thousands of species of mosquitoes and only a tiny percentage of those carry disease. Mosquitopia: The Place of Pests in a Healthy World With the kind of genetic knowledge that scientists now have, it should be possible to find methodologies that target only specific varieties of mosquito and leave the others alone. Indeed such techniques are already being developed and tested, with some notable success. Weapon targeting dangerous mosquitoes is on the horizon

That's the same as the bottle I bought at a local pharmacy last week. No opioid in the ingredients any more.

Both those headlines mischaracterise the CDC report that they are based on. What the report said (and you can see this by following the links) was that: So it's absolutely crystal clear that the CDC data said the vaccine would reduce, not stop infections. You need to read past the headlines. These are usually written by sub-editors who aren't the people who wrote the articles and who often don't actually completely understand the full import of the article. Their job is just to write headlines that will catch people's attention.

This story has been debunked multiple times. Firstly, when it was originally published over a year ago, and more recently when GBNews and The Express tried to revive it. Sadiq Khan subjected to racist abuse over false claims he vetoed Queen statue https://x.com/jdpoc/status/1759248084708491355?s=20

I eat Thai food every day (usually twice a day) when we're in Thailand. Almost always at home though occasionally at my sister-in-law's or niece's house. We almost never go out to restaurants for Thai food (except occasionally, when it's someone's birthday). When we're in England that drops to about 3-4 times a week.

Being allowed out of hospital doesn't automatically indicate that he's not sick. Whatever his medical needs may or may not be, someone with his resources can surely arrange to receive medical attention at home that would probably be as good as what he was receiving in hospital.

I can't find that article. Do you have a link to it? It does seem a little unlikely though, given that (as mentioned above) the school had stated quite clearly that no children were identifying as any kind of animal.

No, it's not true. As mentioned in the article in the subsequent post you made about this, the school involved made it clear that: It's not totally evident, but based on the TikTok clip, it sounds as though the idea of a pupil identifying as a cat was brought up as more of a hypothetical by the pupils (and is actually a straw man argument, since no pupil was doing so).

Oh, come on. What Trump was doing here goes way beyond "a difference between what you think and the bank does." Just for an example, on one declaration he claimed that his apartment in Trump Tower was 33,000 square feet when it's actually only a third of that size. That's not a difference of opinion, it's just downright lying (and therefore, fraud). His attempted and totally ridiculous explanation for this? That his valuer "didn't take out elevator shafts and other non-usable square footage." I'd like to see an apartment where lift shafts and the like constitute two thirds of the total area! Trump fraud trial testimony: what we learned so far And that was only one of the excuses he tried. Another one - that square footage is subjective. Trump lawyers ‘absurdly’ argued that figuring out square footage is ‘subjective’

Based on the record of similar crimes being prosecuted in the past, I wouldn't say Trump had been singled out for special attention at all. As the article below mentions, there have been dozens of similar cases in recent years. Survey of Past New York Felony Prosecutions for Falsifying Business Records

That may not be true. Asians in general have more Neanderthal DNA than Europeans - especially East Asians. Scientists finally solve mystery of why Europeans have less Neanderthal DNA than East Asians And while East Asians also have a relatively high level of Denisovan DNA, mainland Asians (including those in SE Asia) have relatively little. The complete genome sequence of a Neandertal from the Altai Mountains

Trump may have thought he had the authority to declassify documents "just by thinking about it" (though I have my doubts about whether even he truly believed that) but his lawyers knew that he hadn't, and so were careful never to claim he had declassified the documents he held on to. Attorneys for former president Donald Trump never claimed he declassified any documents that were retrieved from his Florida home And in fact on one notorious occasion, even Trump himself made a point of specifically mentioning that the documents he was showing to people, were still classified.