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The Daily Beast - sounds like a most reputable source to me. I’ll get my mourning suit cleaned and pressed 🙄

I'll translate... Single storey house with a dodgy half-height upwards extension slap bang in the middle of a school catchment area with a local shop that sells pies and sausage rolls to rowdy kids at lunchtime. There is a living room and a dining room where you can get pissed alone or with your mates. There is an attached greenhouse that is unusable at all times of the year, it has a kitchen and toilet just off it in case you need a shit while cooking tea. Upstairs there are two very poky bedrooms with sloping rooms where you're guaranteed to hit your head while scrabbling around in the so called built in wardrobes trying to reach your shoes at the back. With something only slightly less powerful than the Hubble telescope on a clear day you might be able to see the sea. There is a shower to hose down the kids. It has a black sink. The garage is full of crap left over by the previous occupants, so you have to park your cars outside. On two or maybe as many as three days a year the weather will be good enough to eat your take away pizza outside.

How much is a packet of fags these days? £15? That’s 4 prescriptions or thereabouts.

Two obvious things spring to mind. Firstly, stopping will help symptoms. Secondly, stopping will free up funds to pay for the meds. Not judgemental at all, just rational.

Is she still smoking?

No. I assumed Babydoc had misread and thought it was all March dates, which would have been okish.

I was aware that there used to be a hospital cormorant, but it had to be sold off after some junior doctors were caught rubbing linseed oil into it. (In my defence of this attempt at humour, having a hospital aviary is quite Pythonesque)

For me as a kid it was the transparent pieces. Would never stick together. Love the technical stuff though.

Not really. Over a month between typing and sending out is a bit disappointing.

Because he was unhappy about something and like many people seem to assume that it’s because we’ve done something wrong, or have missed something vital. People tend to expect perfection these days, and if they don’t get it look for someone to blame - nothing to do with the fact that they got completely drunk, fell over and smashed their knee that it’s now a bit stiff and hurty - must be our fault for nor fixing it properly.

One of my colleagues was called exactly that by a patient in clinic on Friday because he didn’t order a repeat XR (one had already been done and another wasn’t required) Teresa is right - it’s unacceptable.

Now Man City’s to throw away.

If I had to guess I'd say the last option. I'm no expert in this by any stretch, but it seems to me that Israel's general response is to go many orders of magnitude in excess of what wronged them. An eye for an eye? More like a thousand eyes, ears, noses, and why not just obliterate a thousand heads and have done with it, for an eye. That line, which I just made up, is possibly also somewhere in Leviticus.

Plenty of facebook groups don’t allow you to post new stuff until you’re established in some way. If we simply had that first time thread starts had to be moderated it wouldn’t be much more work for the moderators than having to delete the spam once it’s reported.

I’m quite impressed with it. Sure, if you just put ‘write me a song about Douglas’ it’ll be generic shite, but with a bit more detail, I think this could be a reasonable tool to generate ideas that can be developed into something half-decent. A bit like how some synths have a random function - most of the time you get an unusable noise, but occasionally it’ll generate something never heard before that experts such as Jean Michel Jarre or Vangelis (both back in the day) can tweak and turn into something genuinely original and creative.

I’m not sure a seven-figure lump sum is possible, haven’t done the sums, but if it is I’d probably have to wait until I’m 75 to retire, and I’m certainly not going to do that. Anyway, here’s a metal anthem to Noble’s hospital wot I wrote 🤣 https://suno.com/song/e4df9955-6d07-469c-9de3-7dec00fdee4f

The TT song sounds like a Eurovision entry, and the Douglas Council one I could imagine as a crappy radio jingle. I’m going to have to investigate this AI composing a bit - musically I’m technically skilled, but lack imagination/originality. With AI as my Mercury/May writing combo, this time next year I’ll be a millionaire 🤣

Next Generation did something similar. Troy, I think, fell in love with some guy that was actually some kind of bug in a male body. When the host body died it moved into a female body, which was confusing. (My recollection of the details here may not be 100% accurate - I’ve watched far too much of this shite over the years)

I quite like Angela Rayner, for what it’s worth. I think she’s a principled politician, and gets an undeserved hard time from the press.

Are you confusing her with Rachel Reeves, who is Labour’s shadow chancellor? Angela Rayner is deputy leader I believe.

I don't mind prawns, as long as someone else has shelled them. Crab always seems to have bits of shell in it, and lobster is massively overrated. I certainly can't be bothered fishing bits of meat out of the claws etc.

Pretty much, and I certainly wouldn’t eat them raw. Can’t be bothered with mussels, and my experience of snails is that they’re like garlic chewing gum. Not tried the rest, and I’ve never heard of flitters.

If I was in charge I’d make prescriptions free, but have a limited formulary of things that are prescribable - nothing you can buy over the counter, mainly generic rather than branded drugs, and nothing that doesn’t work.

Incredible how they’ve been marketed as a sophisticate’s appetiser. They’re basically salty slime that have literally filtered shit out of seawater to feed it to the next person. Can you tell I’m not a fan?

Amazing that the world seems to be waking up because a handful of western aid workers have been accidentally bombed. Not too bothered by the 10000 Gazan kids though 🙄