En Passant

And even if it doesn't my historical ability to finish 3rd in any 2 horse race certainly does. I also hold the arguably higher moral ground with three actual thesps. Another poor omen. The ignominy of my valiant luvvies being beaten by: A basketball player A right wing shock jock and Has to be pretty close to a nailed on certainty. Let's not forget the possibility of a late showing from the remainder of the field, which when I looked, was not multiple teams of healthy 20 year olds.

@Toast? and @Windsor? Maybe... Doubtless they'll confirm or deny.

If s/he keeps it up.

Tom Petty - passim. Ann Wilson. Nancy Wilson. Actually, nobody famous or otherwise who lived to a decent age and didn't die in some awfully painful and/or drawn out manner. Perhaps mawkishly, anyone who seemed to draw a really short straw somewhere along the line, never did like unfair. So Kate Granger for example.

I sense a theme here. Thus, I don't even need to comment since you know it'll fall into a similar category.

Never heard of him, admins should dump this thread, 84 year old nobodies shouldn't have threads *. *1 oops, its an admin started it. *2 oops, forgot to switch to my SC alt to complain. *3 oops, this should also be in the what socks do you have thread, maybe I'll crosspost and post whore a bit.

Follow you follow me. and indeed . There, I feel better now.

Photo's of earlier, somewhat less effective, Pro-Trump demonstration leaked.

DerrickRose1 now appears indisposed. Awaiting the response from DerrickRose2 with bated breath. Mind you, I may not be the only one able to spot a minor problem with any planned 'increment by 1' subterfuge. We shall see.

Trump is a cunt. A mob inciting cunt in this instance. His 'supporters' are fools, such is life when some people appear to be born idiots, led by an idiot and happy to be idiots. I just wish I could explain it, but I can't, I can say they are idiots, but it seems I'm not articulate enough to convince others this is so nor divert them from their path. I console myself that I'm not alone. For now, I can do no more.

You were right the first time. Absolutely nobody, ever, who bought a Juke (or that other one, a cashcow, sorry kashkai, no, wait quashquai? oh fs however you spell it) has a vague notion of how to drive. Worse, these are the perennial middle lane sitters that turn a three lane road into an effective two lane one. Or even (I swear this is true) sit in lane 3 on an empty 4 lane motorway..... As ever we agree more than disagree Mrs Weaver. There is, sort of, a reason though.

so 5.5 or 1.5. Or indeed 3.7. The prosecution rests. (the prosecution has been there and done that and got the certificate). I've not said anywhere it was wrong. Just know why you are doing it. Put it another way, how many more seconds do you have to slog away at a job that if you don't actively hate it, you probably don't much like it, to save a few sec in a car (only it isn't really, because no matter how fast you get to 60, you still got to slow down for the micra)? That was ultimately the sums for me, but as admitted, I'm no longer 25, nor do I disparage you for being so and wanting and doing exactly the same as I did.

And therein lies the (your, used to be mine) problem. You are paying whatever (depreciation, or 4/500 quid a month lease, whatever), for a quick blast a few times a month. Do the sums, that's some fackin expensive 5.5 sec (or w/e) giggles right there. I'm not knocking it, I still look at 0-60 every single time I buy a car, but I've been there, I can't use it, or if I did the way I wanted I'd be locked up, probably with good reason. If, and only if, it makes you smile anyway? Sure. But know why you're doing it. This too, but when you start driving 'to' places, just to use the car.....not using it as transport from A to B with intrinsic fun? Well, see above. I was 25 once. Really not having a go. But it's costly.

HTH. Any sympathy I may have had. Lost. Nice car, excelllent acceleration, fun to drive, had some Audi's and BM's myself. Trouble is, if it's not speed camera's or cops, then it's some old fart in a Nissan Micra, you get past that and 100 yards farther on, there's another one, ad-infinitum. It takes the fun away. Drive maybe somewhere in Scotland (there's one or two of them around here) and maybe, but Essex? Or most of England? You simply cannot use it.

Most of getting older sucks the big one. Car insurance however.... I feel your pain, my renewal the bastards put it up by 25 quid and couldn't be talked down to match the confused or meerkat or w/e it was sites. £185 comprehensive, protected no claims, some legal cover thrown in and a windscreen doodad. Thinking of getting a Ferrari, how much more could it be? In seriousness, never, ever renew anything these days, loyalty went out the window, yes its a pain to change energy supplier, house insurance, car insurance etc etc every feckin year, but you snooze, you lose and they know it. In no seriousness whatsoever, dump the posh leased Audi was it? And get out of Essex. You're being undercharged for that place .

Oh the website is as bad, but you can at least skip most of it much more rapidly and focus on the occasional informative one, some of the 'long read' items are well done (when they don't fanny about with the HTML trying to make it look like a fancy slide show). The Guardian is a bit better overall but as ever has its own unavoidable agenda, I have nothing against minority groups of any creed, sex or colour but boy does the graun bang on about them as if there were no others on this isle. Everything else is behind a paywall or junk or both. Meh. Ultimately, sure, 'influencers' are mostly a bunch of fame seeking self-opinionated ass-hats, but at least anyone can be one rather than just those from the bbc/journalistic backgrounds of old. Says more about the followers really and I don't think that's changed much to be honest.

How very, er, reticent for you LFN . And there's enough of that already with this annoying thread. (Waves @Gooseberry Crumble)

Like, say, Judith Chalmers? Same as it ever was in some ways. Being of a similar vintage I do actually agree with you though. But, since I refuse to watch any TV news at all finding the whole thing too dumbed down, laborious, populist and indeed vox-pop'd I'm less exposed to that variation than many.

Rules ah.... Space Directive 12643 section 14. No poster shall adopt the name of a spaceship from The Expanse just because the 5th series has recently aired.

If you say so. That would however mean that a heart attack, cancer, stroke etc. are somehow not natural deaths given that they are internal to the body. I'm a bit lost as to the point of any of this and was throwing a few lines out for general amusement. Incidentally, is 'external from the body' some sort of Americanism I'm unaware of? On this side of the pond we'd say 'external to the body'. Is it similar to your use of 'bring this to there', which I've never understood because we'd say 'bring it here' but 'take it there'? Spent ages in Skyrim not having a clue what they meant by bring this to so and so, "bring"? I'm already here. It's already here. No, I don't have anything better to do right now, I've been locked within the same four walls for the better part of a year.

How does a milfhunter do the actual milfhunting then? Flowers and chocolates to a likely candidate? Nothing distasteful aside from the sobriquet then? Asking for a friend.

10-4 Rubber Duck.

If you die of exposure or falling on K2 in the depths of winter that's expected. If you die of a plane crashing on your head on K2 in the depths of winter that's unexpected. If you die being eaten by a lion on K2 in the depths of winter that's unexpected and unnatural. If you die being murdered by the Spanish Inquisition on K2 in the depths of winter, well, nobody expects that.

I disappoint myself. Still look on the bright side eh? Whilst I still have the ability to act like I'm seven years old, I've not sunk to the depths of crying publicly every time somebody I half heard of dies, or posting about all the things I've not taken part in. So there's hope, there's always hope.

Must resist, must resist, too obvious. No, its no good, can't. It's behind you!