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Footage shows the moment Xi Jinping told Vladimir Putin that "change is coming" as he departed Moscow.https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/russia-putin-war-china-xi-jinping-b2305676.html
The Chinese president was the first world leader to shake hands with Putin since he was charged with war crimes by the ICC over the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
"Change is coming that hasn't happened in 100 years and we are driving this change together," he told the Russian president.
It was Xi's first trip to the country in four years.
I'm hoping this is related to ice skating, gymnastics... something nice.0 -
He's probably worked out that he can extract something useful from Russia.focuszing723 said:Footage shows the moment Xi Jinping told Vladimir Putin that "change is coming" as he departed Moscow.https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/russia-putin-war-china-xi-jinping-b2305676.html
The Chinese president was the first world leader to shake hands with Putin since he was charged with war crimes by the ICC over the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
"Change is coming that hasn't happened in 100 years and we are driving this change together," he told the Russian president.
It was Xi's first trip to the country in four years.
I'm hoping this is related to ice skating, gymnastics... something nice.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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I wish we were sitting on abundant resources as a Country.rjsterry said:
He's probably worked out that he can extract something useful from Russia.focuszing723 said:Footage shows the moment Xi Jinping told Vladimir Putin that "change is coming" as he departed Moscow.https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/russia-putin-war-china-xi-jinping-b2305676.html
The Chinese president was the first world leader to shake hands with Putin since he was charged with war crimes by the ICC over the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
"Change is coming that hasn't happened in 100 years and we are driving this change together," he told the Russian president.
It was Xi's first trip to the country in four years.
I'm hoping this is related to ice skating, gymnastics... something nice.0 -
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/resource-curse.asp#:~:text=It mainly occurs when a,it avoid a resource curse.focuszing723 said:
I wish we were sitting on abundant resources as a Country.rjsterry said:
He's probably worked out that he can extract something useful from Russia.focuszing723 said:Footage shows the moment Xi Jinping told Vladimir Putin that "change is coming" as he departed Moscow.https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/russia-putin-war-china-xi-jinping-b2305676.html
The Chinese president was the first world leader to shake hands with Putin since he was charged with war crimes by the ICC over the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
"Change is coming that hasn't happened in 100 years and we are driving this change together," he told the Russian president.
It was Xi's first trip to the country in four years.
I'm hoping this is related to ice skating, gymnastics... something nice.0 -
I had that one last week and showed the mrs.Wheelspinner said:The world has some weird people, I know. But FaceBook has thrown up this as a suggested Group I might like to join. I’ll never understand their algorithms… but what intrigues me is this group has 88 thousand members!
I assume it’s an algorithm seeing it get good uptake so sharing it more widely.
It’s the problem with ball these algorithms funnelling us in collective directions.0 -
Will put it on my bucket list.TheBigBean said:
The museum in Quitto has a fine collection of similar pottery.rjsterry said:Peruvian Moche skeleton pots.
Google it.
Does not disappoint.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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E.g.rjsterry said:
Will put it on my bucket list.TheBigBean said:
The museum in Quitto has a fine collection of similar pottery.rjsterry said:Peruvian Moche skeleton pots.
Google it.
Does not disappoint.
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How 'only' 38 people (counted so far) perished in this nighttime tornado strike:
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What the hell possessed me to enter a 16 mile fell race with over 4,500 feet of climbing? I know steep climbs don’t agree with me and I know I don’t run well off-road. I’ll probably make the same mistake again next year too!1
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This is awesome. So not only will you spend the whole race saying to yourself “what on earth was I thinking?”, you aren’t even enjoying the pre race delusion of it being awesome.Pross said:What the hell possessed me to enter a 16 mile fell race with over 4,500 feet of climbing? I know steep climbs don’t agree with me and I know I don’t run well off-road. I’ll probably make the same mistake again next year too!
I wish you well next year as your participation seems guaranteed.0 -
12 miles in and with my legs already gone, no energy and looking up the final climb which includes a mile where you climb over 1,200 feet with the gradient in the final section close to 50% and knowing you just have to get up it somehow is horrible. I was trying to think if there was another way I could reasonably get up a different way. Worst bit was reaching the top with a slight drag to the trig point and finding myself in the teeth of a gale for the rest of the race.morstar said:
This is awesome. So not only will you spend the whole race saying to yourself “what on earth was I thinking?”, you aren’t even enjoying the pre race delusion of it being awesome.Pross said:What the hell possessed me to enter a 16 mile fell race with over 4,500 feet of climbing? I know steep climbs don’t agree with me and I know I don’t run well off-road. I’ll probably make the same mistake again next year too!
I wish you well next year as your participation seems guaranteed.0 -
Just looked on Strava and the final climb is 1 mile long, climbs 1450 feet with an average gradient of 28%. The last 0.15 mile climbs 450 feet at an average of over 50% and it took me 15 minutes to drag myself up it!0
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Sounds fun.😀1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Pross said:
Just looked on Strava and the final climb is 1 mile long, climbs 1450 feet with an average gradient of 28%. The last 0.15 mile climbs 450 feet at an average of over 50% and it took me 15 minutes to drag myself up it!
To adapt the quote about golf, fell running sounds like a good way to spoil a nice walk.0 -
So cheap though, the rules don’t allow the organiser to make a profit. You usually get a nice bowl of soup at the finish. One race I did was £5 to enter and all finishers got a bottle of beer named after the hill it went up. Proper grassroots sport. A commercial trail race would have charged at least double for yesterday’s race and would have given you a crappy finishers medal and yet another item of souvenir clothing to take up drawer space.briantrumpet said:Pross said:Just looked on Strava and the final climb is 1 mile long, climbs 1450 feet with an average gradient of 28%. The last 0.15 mile climbs 450 feet at an average of over 50% and it took me 15 minutes to drag myself up it!
To adapt the quote about golf, fell running sounds like a good way to spoil a nice walk.0 -
If I'd paid to enter, I'd probably pay a little extra not to run and still get the bowl of soup, though I apprecite that's probably not in the spirit of the race. I probably should admit though that I've always hated running, in any format: I just find the phyisical experience unpleasant, unlike cycling or swimming (and I'm not even any good at swimming).Pross said:
So cheap though, the rules don’t allow the organiser to make a profit. You usually get a nice bowl of soup at the finish. One race I did was £5 to enter and all finishers got a bottle of beer named after the hill it went up. Proper grassroots sport. A commercial trail race would have charged at least double for yesterday’s race and would have given you a crappy finishers medal and yet another item of souvenir clothing to take up drawer space.briantrumpet said:Pross said:Just looked on Strava and the final climb is 1 mile long, climbs 1450 feet with an average gradient of 28%. The last 0.15 mile climbs 450 feet at an average of over 50% and it took me 15 minutes to drag myself up it!
To adapt the quote about golf, fell running sounds like a good way to spoil a nice walk.0 -
I’d have strolled to a cafe.
Different strokes for different folks.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
This ^.briantrumpet said:
If I'd paid to enter, I'd probably pay a little extra not to run and still get the bowl of soup, though I apprecite that's probably not in the spirit of the race. I probably should admit though that I've always hated running, in any format: I just find the physical experience unpleasant, unlike cycling or swimming (and I'm not even any good at swimming).Pross said:
So cheap though, the rules don’t allow the organiser to make a profit. You usually get a nice bowl of soup at the finish. One race I did was £5 to enter and all finishers got a bottle of beer named after the hill it went up. Proper grassroots sport. A commercial trail race would have charged at least double for yesterday’s race and would have given you a crappy finishers medal and yet another item of souvenir clothing to take up drawer space.briantrumpet said:Pross said:Just looked on Strava and the final climb is 1 mile long, climbs 1450 feet with an average gradient of 28%. The last 0.15 mile climbs 450 feet at an average of over 50% and it took me 15 minutes to drag myself up it!
To adapt the quote about golf, fell running sounds like a good way to spoil a nice walk.
Running is just plain silly.
I can sit down and pedal.
...and I corrected your spelling mistake. Don't do it again. It will be lines for you next, then detention...seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
pinno said:
This ^.briantrumpet said:
If I'd paid to enter, I'd probably pay a little extra not to run and still get the bowl of soup, though I apprecite that's probably not in the spirit of the race. I probably should admit though that I've always hated running, in any format: I just find the physical experience unpleasant, unlike cycling or swimming (and I'm not even any good at swimming).Pross said:
So cheap though, the rules don’t allow the organiser to make a profit. You usually get a nice bowl of soup at the finish. One race I did was £5 to enter and all finishers got a bottle of beer named after the hill it went up. Proper grassroots sport. A commercial trail race would have charged at least double for yesterday’s race and would have given you a crappy finishers medal and yet another item of souvenir clothing to take up drawer space.briantrumpet said:Pross said:Just looked on Strava and the final climb is 1 mile long, climbs 1450 feet with an average gradient of 28%. The last 0.15 mile climbs 450 feet at an average of over 50% and it took me 15 minutes to drag myself up it!
To adapt the quote about golf, fell running sounds like a good way to spoil a nice walk.
Running is just plain silly.
I can sit down and pedal.
...and I corrected your spelling mistake. Don't do it again. It will be lines for you next, then detention...
It's my accent.
And be careful with the punishment you mete out - you might have a lot of apostrophes to deal with, if things turn ugly.0 -
He'll apprecite that.pinno said:
This ^.briantrumpet said:
If I'd paid to enter, I'd probably pay a little extra not to run and still get the bowl of soup, though I apprecite that's probably not in the spirit of the race. I probably should admit though that I've always hated running, in any format: I just find the physical experience unpleasant, unlike cycling or swimming (and I'm not even any good at swimming).Pross said:
So cheap though, the rules don’t allow the organiser to make a profit. You usually get a nice bowl of soup at the finish. One race I did was £5 to enter and all finishers got a bottle of beer named after the hill it went up. Proper grassroots sport. A commercial trail race would have charged at least double for yesterday’s race and would have given you a crappy finishers medal and yet another item of souvenir clothing to take up drawer space.briantrumpet said:Pross said:Just looked on Strava and the final climb is 1 mile long, climbs 1450 feet with an average gradient of 28%. The last 0.15 mile climbs 450 feet at an average of over 50% and it took me 15 minutes to drag myself up it!
To adapt the quote about golf, fell running sounds like a good way to spoil a nice walk.
Running is just plain silly.
I can sit down and pedal.
...and I corrected your spelling mistake. Don't do it again. It will be lines for you next, then detention...
Sorry, I can't talk (or spell).0 -
Given the history of Israel, and the effect that one dictator had on its people, it's somewhat surprising the trajectory it's currently taking...
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am mate of mine lived in Germany for several years it made him realise just how obsesed we are by Hitler and the Nazis. Your comparison is straight out of the Corbynite playbook.briantrumpet said:Given the history of Israel, and the effect that one dictator had on its people, it's somewhat surprising the trajectory it's currently taking...
As for the Tweet - it is very niche. Whilst most of us know who Netanyahu is, who on earth knows who Natanyahu is and exactly what he must be stopped from doing0 -
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enlighten merick_chasey said:Anyone who reads the news?
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Pretty obvious that's just a typo like yours above. It's on all the major news channels this morning. He's proposing changes to allow a simple majority in the Knesset to overrule judicial decisions and allow the Knesset to influence selection of judges.surrey_commuter said:
am mate of mine lived in Germany for several years it made him realise just how obsesed we are by Hitler and the Nazis. Your comparison is straight out of the Corbynite playbook.briantrumpet said:Given the history of Israel, and the effect that one dictator had on its people, it's somewhat surprising the trajectory it's currently taking...
As for the Tweet - it is very niche. Whilst most of us know who Netanyahu is, who on earth knows who Natanyahu is and exactly what he must be stopped from doing
I'm sure it's all fine though.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Soas a non-Twitter person all I know about the person is that he can not be bothered to check his 140 character output, that does not encourage me to see him as a thought leader.rjsterry said:
Pretty obvious that's just a typo like yours above. It's on all the major news channels this morning. He's proposing changes to allow a simple majority in the Knesset to overrule judicial decisions and allow the Knesset to influence selection of judges.surrey_commuter said:
am mate of mine lived in Germany for several years it made him realise just how obsesed we are by Hitler and the Nazis. Your comparison is straight out of the Corbynite playbook.briantrumpet said:Given the history of Israel, and the effect that one dictator had on its people, it's somewhat surprising the trajectory it's currently taking...
As for the Tweet - it is very niche. Whilst most of us know who Netanyahu is, who on earth knows who Natanyahu is and exactly what he must be stopped from doing
I'm sure it's all fine though.
Do you think we will ever stop obsessing about Hitler?
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Here you go. Leader in the economist this week:surrey_commuter said:
enlighten merick_chasey said:Anyone who reads the news?
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/03/16/will-bibi-break-israel0 -
surrey_commuter said:
Soas a non-Twitter person all I know about the person is that he can not be bothered to check his 140 character output, that does not encourage me to see him as a thought leader.rjsterry said:
Pretty obvious that's just a typo like yours above. It's on all the major news channels this morning. He's proposing changes to allow a simple majority in the Knesset to overrule judicial decisions and allow the Knesset to influence selection of judges.surrey_commuter said:
am mate of mine lived in Germany for several years it made him realise just how obsesed we are by Hitler and the Nazis. Your comparison is straight out of the Corbynite playbook.briantrumpet said:Given the history of Israel, and the effect that one dictator had on its people, it's somewhat surprising the trajectory it's currently taking...
As for the Tweet - it is very niche. Whilst most of us know who Netanyahu is, who on earth knows who Natanyahu is and exactly what he must be stopped from doing
I'm sure it's all fine though.
Do you think we will ever stop obsessing about Hitler?
Even clever people do typos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Tribe
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Slavery, colonialism etc. come up reasonably frequently as well. Much of East Asia dislikes Japan for its second world war activities.surrey_commuter said:
Soas a non-Twitter person all I know about the person is that he can not be bothered to check his 140 character output, that does not encourage me to see him as a thought leader.rjsterry said:
Pretty obvious that's just a typo like yours above. It's on all the major news channels this morning. He's proposing changes to allow a simple majority in the Knesset to overrule judicial decisions and allow the Knesset to influence selection of judges.surrey_commuter said:
am mate of mine lived in Germany for several years it made him realise just how obsesed we are by Hitler and the Nazis. Your comparison is straight out of the Corbynite playbook.briantrumpet said:Given the history of Israel, and the effect that one dictator had on its people, it's somewhat surprising the trajectory it's currently taking...
As for the Tweet - it is very niche. Whilst most of us know who Netanyahu is, who on earth knows who Natanyahu is and exactly what he must be stopped from doing
I'm sure it's all fine though.
Do you think we will ever stop obsessing about Hitler?
I think big events are always going to be remembered.
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Pot; kettle, etc.surrey_commuter said:
Soas a non-Twitter person all I know about the person is that he can not be bothered to check his 140 character output, that does not encourage me to see him as a thought leader.rjsterry said:
Pretty obvious that's just a typo like yours above. It's on all the major news channels this morning. He's proposing changes to allow a simple majority in the Knesset to overrule judicial decisions and allow the Knesset to influence selection of judges.surrey_commuter said:
am mate of mine lived in Germany for several years it made him realise just how obsesed we are by Hitler and the Nazis. Your comparison is straight out of the Corbynite playbook.briantrumpet said:Given the history of Israel, and the effect that one dictator had on its people, it's somewhat surprising the trajectory it's currently taking...
As for the Tweet - it is very niche. Whilst most of us know who Netanyahu is, who on earth knows who Natanyahu is and exactly what he must be stopped from doing
I'm sure it's all fine though.
Do you think we will ever stop obsessing about Hitler?
Where have you picked up the Hitler reference this time?1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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