The New Coffee Room

Morals, who needs 'em.

Great video

Trump's soapbox

Pedant It ought to be couldn't but informally now both are used.
I should amend my would to wouldn't but shan't.

You would if you had to stand on a lectern to conduct with the score on the podium.
Lectern from the Latin, lectrum, to read.

Podium (low raised speakers platform) and rostrum (higher stage for performers) also get mixed up.

I think the main thing to remember is that Trump(CF) promised, indeed campaigned on the promise, that when president he would release all of the Epstein investigation files.
Did he break his word?
Did he, once in power, actively prevent the release?
Can we be certain given his power, all the documentation has been released?

Amazing colours

While butter, milk, eggs and decent bread are pricey, chocolate has soared in price, or been downsized.
Toblerone was as low as £8/kg last Christmas, and averagedmaybe £12/kg.
I just saw a toblerone at £20/kg.
A cost at which I'd be expecting fancy handmade Irish or Belgian delights!

@bachophile said in Change at the beeb:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cd9kqz1yyxkt

BBC director general and CEO of news resign.

Trump(CF) is actually a fortnight too late to sue the BBC. The programme was shown only in the UK and over a year ago.
Resignations done, they ought to apologise for the embarrassingly sloppy slander and move on.

You lucky folk, the cost of living increase in the UK is very noticeable.

Basic things, electricity, gas, water and food shopping, all just keep going up in price.

Officially inflation is 4%; but food costs have rocketed and utilities must be up 10% or more.

Nice video.
I have to admit though, I can think of only one GL song:
If you could read my mind.

Btw, quote was John Paul 2nd.

Politicians are human, we saw it in the expenses scandal when fewer than 5 weren't screwing the system for anything from a packet of hobnobs to a Duck House for a lake.
So with bribery, blackmail and back stabbing we had Mr Bumblinghair don't really care, followed by Mrs Ego hasnoclue gotta go, and Mr Smugbold its all about my gold.

You at least get vice-potus, but then imagine the crapshoot until the next election.

The Panorama editors ought not have run the two phrases together as one, no doubt.
Trumps reaction, a threatened one billion lawsuit. He has the morals of an alley cat; convicted of sexual assault (and accused by some 30 other people of much worse), convicted of tax fraud, of falsifying business accounts.

Yes the UK needs to further change our monarchy, House of Lords and honours systems. It is a centuries old institution that was imposed by force.

You are truly privileged in the USA to have a fair electoral system that includes the collective choice of a person worthy to lead.
We don't, so the UK recently had Brown, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, none of whom won a general election yet were PM's.

In an obscure poetry book called Tide Lines (1988) acquired recently, the introduction has a quote by probably the most famous person & leader then living; the eloquent words go to the heart of things:

"I feel inspired to say this to you... surely the time has come for our society to realise that the future of humanity depends as never before, on our collective moral choice... humanity must make a moral about-face... Ladies and gentlemen, it is for you now to take up this noble challenge"

Forty years on, how are we doing with that collective moral choice?

Well I can't be positive about his friendship with Epstein as it's quite possible he was just using people to his own ends, as he does.
But as for the rest

Trump(CF) avoided taxes for a decade, and I recall paid something like $700 one year when he paid a porn star more to keep stum. A convicted felon, proven liar, friend of Epstein, encourager of the riots; he really doesn't care, he pays his lawyers.
42 million of your citizens going hungry, the administration in chaos, Obamacare going, going

Well on the way to being the worst ever elected President I'd say something about folk getting what they deserve, but living in this glass house I ought not throw stones.

Re security and controllers...
Does it make travelling potentially less safe?
Do you feel less safe?

Glad it turned out well in the end. I've replaced a few tiles but never done a wall or floor.

Spacer size is important; over 20 years ago in previous home, we had the whole ground floor done in non slip fake marble, and the cowboys used small spacers. Looked great but who knew a few years later I'd be replacing grout here and there and there and there.

Agree that split sinks aren't as easy to use as a single large. Maybe we don't have the discipline necessary to use it as it ought to be, but the divider gets in the way and I much prefer our singles.
Also I cracked our glass kettle on the divider of our double belfast. Stainless steel kettles rule.

Might tempt Andrew Windsor to apply for citizenship

The Internet is mostly rumour and crappage.

One Brit with his kitchen knife.
Reason to be determined.

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