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A mate and I were planning a trip to Chernobyl/Pripyat (as well as a decent military aircraft museum and ICBM silo) when we both retired in 2019. We were going to go in 2020. Then Covid and Putin f**ked that plan completely. I seriously doubt it'll happen now. Me too. I did see a shark on a...

I'm in Cyprus too ATM (Paphos). saw a couple of USMC Ospreys fly over this afternoon. Follwed them a bit on flightradar and then noticed a refuelling tanker loitering around to the south. It's track showed it had flown from Akrotiri, out over Syria/Iraq as far as the Iran border then back again...

I used to play a couple of online role-playing,multi-user adventure games; Shades which was on BT's Prestel system and The Void which was a 4 line system hosted in someone's bedroom. Anyways, I had to come up with a name for my persona and I became Chumly the Happy Pig. I dropped the Chumly bit...

With an elderly relative a few years ago, we found Do Not Resuscitate akin to Do Not Bother to treat.

Nothing from either. When I get back home I will be chasing the CEOs

Failure to comply would see him brought back before a "breach" court where the reasons for non-compliance would have to be given. The court then decides whether to allow the sentence to continue (with added sessions making it more onerous to reflect the breach), to revoke and resentence or to...

The worst of it is that if you're on benefits then the housing benefit is paying the landlord's mortgage.

The biggest problem for a lot of younger people is pulling the deposit together; I know several people in the 30-40 age group that are paying more in rent than a mortgage would be. The government needs to be pushing the banks to provide mortgages with much lower deposit requirements.

Drug dealer.

If you're over Eastbourne way Adrian iPhone repairs in town did me a battery for about £25 I think (https://www.facebook.com/AdrianiPhoneRepairs/)

There's something about milk that gives me what I can only describe as "funny guts" (thats a medical term, a real one) but only sometimes. If I have a bowl of Rice Krispies or Cornflakes for breakfast, every couple of times I will get a bit of a shifting in the basement and need to "go". 50% of...

Yeah, they went there. The doppler shift on lunar orbit couldn't be faked. Radio hams set up a 9 metre dish to listen in "Ham's setting up a 9 meter dish to receive signals from the Moon, and a doppler shift measurement (offset) of the received signal at around 2287.5 MHz as the spacecraft...

From a seller's POV (I've sold several properties in the last 40 years), I wouldn't entertain an offer from someone who hadn't either got cash in the bank or had already got a confirmed buyer.

Let all of them go bust so the shares are worthless then take back under public ownership. If they're not going to go bust, impose rigid (onerous even) requirements on them to sort out thier infrastructure. It's time the large institutional shareholders found out that share prices can go down...

I wish the PL/FA had had the balls in May to throw them into non-league and let them appeal it.

They won't accept it as there seems to be the attitude from top to bottom that not only should can they get away with it but that they are entitled to get away with it.

Foreign criminals are deported after release if they've served 12 months or, if it's deemed a serious offence, any custodial sentence...

Huge howler last night; in 1963 the boy and his sister were taken from Stepney to Brighton and they were seen boarding a steam hauled train. BUT, the London to Brighton line was electrified in the 1930's so they would have been getting on one of these : (credit: By Ian Mockford, CC BY-SA 2.0...

Consider installing linux on his PC (Mint is very windows-like). You can still remote in but if he's a bit vulnerable and gets taken in by a scammer their modus operandi is 99% targetted at windows users and malware is much less likely.