En Passant

One doesn't half get about marketing them there eazi glide castors...huge demand across the Eurozone and a bellweather for all sorts of goods apparently.

Oh go on, give us a company name, then you could be stalked by anyone who's ever done that thread hereabouts. I'd give myself a laugh as it's not that far from me, but I have less than zero interest in 'furniture componentry'. I suppose there might be two concurrent exhibitions, but this is Telford not the NEC....

Quoted for those that have you blocked, as, I had to sit down for this, that's actually helpful

Dortmund apparently, which causes me to raise my eyebrows a little, but no more.

What really gets me about these particular photo ops is none of these privileged bastards would be anywhere near a tank, if you know, other armies were shooting at them.

Oh for months.

I do it to my clothes if I consider somebody might lookey and give a tossey.

I could be persuaded to whisper the time to him on a regular basis for a remarkable amount less than that.

Ono.

Please go back to that, you were far more fun.

It's pretty much the same in the UK.

The man is a narcissistic, over privileged, porn-star banging adulterer, very probable rapist, state secret ignoring, prick of the highest order. The only thing that slows down my disbelief that anyone at all could vote for him originally let alone a second time ... is ... well ... Boris. No he's obviously not as bad, but we're in a small garden greenhouse with a pile of stones here even if it's not quite the original crystal palace. Also, US gun laws, or lack thereof, make any such actions far more dangerous there than here or many other places. The world has gone quite quite mad.

Oh please.This would be an insult to Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Larry Niven, Philip K Dick and countless others. Possibly if you filed it next to L Ron Hubbard though... hmm.

Yeah, this shit again. I'm far too uneducated regarding the finer details to form a proper, reasoned opinion about the rights and wrongs of the middle eastern conflict beyond the fact its basically a fight between two irreconcilable religions over essentially the same piece(s) of land for generations and that it's killed untold, mostly innocent, people on both sides in the process and shows little sign of ever being resolved. I do question why the hell we should get involved with it on one side or the other from half a world away. Yet it does appear that for politicians with waning power war is a great booster - getting all that national pride to overcome your local squabbles about the price of energy or trains or a can of beans. Any war seems to do, not just WW1/WW2 but Falklands, Iran, Iraq etc...

To be fair, my understanding is missiles moving at supersonic speeds over the short distance to Gaza are nigh on impossible to stop. The drones and cruises sent from Iran were subsonic and going far further? I also wondered what Iraq and Jordans take on this would be since these things would fly across them. My knowledge is limited though, it's quite hard to find actual facts amongst all the emotive reporting. Edit: That's not to detract from your political point of course.