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I couldn't, it's a strength to bodyweight thing. Rockjocks are very lean, and strong. There's a 19C photo of some pioneers in Scotland who used a snooker table to train... hands on the table, feet up the wall, hand walk around the table!

TBH if it's hand to forearm strength you want, all you need is a stick; swing it up vertically as a sword, stopping the downward swing at waist level by tightening your two hands with a slight inward motion. Develops wrist and forearm strength.
People (kendoka / aikidoka) who have practiced suburi for years have an intense grip when they want to apply it.

The BBC certainly attempts to be factual, with information checked, and it states the source of the news.

It asks hard questions of all sides better than all others except France 24 which has similar ideals and I also trust for truth.

Does balance get in the way of truth?

What's that, about 30p a day?
I suppose the BBC World Service on radio is still free for you?

I pay £174.50 for a TV licence which is about 48p a day.
I have for some years contemplated the value of their services, as neither of my children watch live TV so don't pay the BBC licence.
I just stopped our £50 monthly subscription to Sky tv and have not missed it!

@taiwan_girl
I like the last one, Georgia on my mind. Shame it was cut, he was just getting into it.

Here's Yuja playing La Camp. Wonderful touch.
Interesting interaction with the dots, maybe she hadn't performed it for a while.

Iranian government have arrested 700 people to suppress dissent.

They'll turn inwards on their own population to prevent any progressive reform in Iran

Trump(CF) rightly wanted Europe to pay the agreed fair share costs towards NATO and defence. And by suggesting the US might quit NATO he's making them/us do it.

I don't see the US leaving NATO, we share some excellent bases all around the world.

After the action by the US, less than thirty missiles fired at Israel. Similar to the previous few days.

Sixteen trucks were photographed at Fordow yesterday. Did they get the chance to move fissile materials?

Excellent, and on a public piano...
Heard no mistakes, liked the way he obviously could have played it faster yet was in control. He seems to have long fingers.
Wish I could play it

@LuFins-Dad said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:

Wow… Left leaning board members are all like “HUZZAH!” And right leaning members are apprehensive at best and outright against at worst…

Who knows the true motives of Potus, but I support this action. Notably for the first time he had his top team standing with him when giving the brief statement on the mission.

Iran will retaliate, as always. What ordnance does it still control? How effective have the Israelis been? Or the B2 and tomahawk bombs?

I can't imagine Iran moving anything from their safest facility, so their nuclear weapons program is hopefully crippled or dead.

Little sympathy here for folk who are/have been making weapons to kill me; but yes, let's hope death was immediate and painless for everyone working there.

Congratulations USA. Someone needed to do this.

"It'll buff right out"

I checked my Chick Corea transcription book and the prelude is not there.
So... just screenshot each youtube page of notes to print.
Am I the only 🤪

Looking forward to it.
I found storing them tricky until someone bought me a ladies scarf hanger with multiple holes. Using that they all hang out together within a suit bag.

It's really nice to occasionally dress up, go the whole 9 yards with cufflinks etc.

A lifetime of ties, nearly all silk, because it knots neatly. Some jokes from my kids, my favourite gold with red teardrops Hugo Boss@Harrods, soon to be worn at a daughters wedding

Very rarely wear a tie these days, only for wedding/funeral/graduation events; but (@Tom-K) I'd buy that last orange tie with the ovals just because.

Thanks Ax

@Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:

To use a nuke to prevent nukes would be the height of hypocrisy.

That's an interesting statement. It must surely depend on intent?
Batant aggression, self defence etc.

When a person intends to kill you, has said so, written their intention for all to see, and is fastening a blade to a broom handle in order to kill you, is it wrong for you to use your spear to defend yourself preemptively?

And in our case we would only be destroying their spear making capabilities. In the hope that they could eventually change. Maybe spend the billions on agriculture instead of spears.

Targeting? Are the Iranian missiles accurate to a building or room or city block? Or not?