The New Coffee Room

Humans drink their own pee believing this beneficial.

Humans make whisky out of their own pee.

Gawd, as much as I admire much America, I hope those aren't imported, we shall not be buying.

Meanwhile in the gym

Infinite 3D expanding Space
Dark matter
Wife
Rain formation

My turbulance is usually due to stout and cider

@Doctor-Phibes

Yes he did go through a phase of trying to be one of the boys.
Failed to mention that his Dad actually owned the tool making factory

I dislike Farage more than any other UK politician, he is the worst, and shall never vote for anything associatedwith him.

However, Starmer is difficult to like:

Interesting idea but like Mik we buy unripe as prefer them firm, and they contain less sugar.
If over ripened to any extent MrsA makes a mean banana cake

Purple.
Neighbours had the first bbq of the year this sunny weekend.

My heart bleeds for his troubles.

I'm a total landlubber but found that article truly irritating for the way it occasionally used 'boat' (and even 'yacht') to describe such a large multi-masted ocean going ship.

It's a ship.

And not to be too much of a complaining pedant, yes it is also a yacht, but isn't a far better description something like 'three-masted schooner?
It's more like a tea clipper than your average yacht!

Fabulous ship, one of the good things of having ridiculously wealthy individuals is that things like this are built.

Meanwhile in the UK

He's Lord High Admiral, but all his titles are honorary and our government would have to 'grant permission', not that it would ever have been refused.
It was a perfect gift.

It is a very very nice looking boat bell, they are obviously rare and pricey when from a serving vessel.
I'd love to hear it's ring.
Wonder how Charles acquired it? RN submarine museum perhaps?

We have a submarine base bell, 9", from the 1950's, that has a lovely chime; I rigged it up as our doorbell in our previous house.
But damn, I'd love to be gifted a proper ships bell!

Life for everybody

jon you tease. Is that ten strings 🤪 my fingers and brain have enough to cope with four

Promised myself to learn when retired so no excuse, and even prepared by aquiring a few nice instruments. Here's the nicest being played by an American professional on his cd,
unBEATabLE Songs. Oh to play and compose arrangements like David:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k0XaZ9IgWI4nWW7dXZaCkTpssWb-vNnRw

You folk have encouraged me to pick up my guitar again, but my fingers bend like a piano player if you know what I mean. But I'm determined to learn. Maybe a bit of this

Quite obviously we haven't won this little war yet, so in addition to targetting any weapons & soldiers we need to bomb their ports, ships, bridges, railways, factories, governent buildings and all means of energy production, countrywide.
Show these Iranian men of iron-will what we can do.

Then warn the remaining leaders if they attack any ship we will carpet-bomb the nearest two port areas, and show them the true meaning of the phrase obliteration bombing.

Say we expect nothing less than 'unconditional surrender'

Whatever worked for Venezuela.
Certainly stay at a reasonably safe distance but where you can respond to intelligence quickly. The seas to the south of the Strait.

Winner?