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The fucking irony.

Loads of places sell kippers down there, don't know what he moaning about.

Local media were very quiet about this...

The hamas-controlled health ministry, which release these figures, have never differentiated between civi's and fighters. A ceasefire is not peace and as Benny Gantz postulated, there's no point in only extinguishing 3/4 of a fire.

I think he/she's asking a question.

Seems like Doug's in the clear in Spain...

Bollocks?

21st July 1974.

It's a totally minor point but it's 'Michael', not 'Michaels'. Right, thanks. Back in my box.

The ring-master of this circus of hate.

Do you expect aid convoys to travel through a war-zone, in the midst of battle? Do you acknowledge that hamas, Palestinian islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, et al, intentionally hindered the evacuation of civilians? Do you acknowledge that when humanitarian aid and medical supplies do get through, the distribution is violently controlled by the aforementioned groups who resupply their own needs before the people they allegedly protect? The PA also provide 'Pay for Slay' funds to the families of those jihadi 'martyrs' when they are killed after committing war crimes as per the October massacre. Rewarded for the obscene barbarism which we only know the half of. These payments come out of the [by now] billions of dollars in aid donated over the decades, funds which have also facilitated the building of tunnels, stockpiling of weapons, ordnance and much else, before the civilians receive one stinking cent of what has been provided and should be for them.

What's all this then? https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/02/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news Largest ever humanitarian aid convoy to date. That it was potentially going to end in a shit-show, as it did, was almost a certainty.

I was reading about the assault on Basra, Iraq, in 2003. The citizens were given fair warning to leave before the mortar barrage began. The various terrorist groups holding the ground stopped thousands of innocent men, women and children from leaving, preferring instead to use them as human-shields. Anyone trying to escape was summarily executed, whether man, woman or child. It estimated that thousands of innocents met their deaths this way. A British Army squaddie remarked that as they cleared the city they came upon countless numbers of dead and mortally-wounded civilians, those who could, all told the same story. Happening in Gaza?

Wasn't there applications for substantial housing on what was part of the Ballamilligan land? Going back a few years now.

Arguably, there have been more doctor/medical serial killers than any other profession. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119267/

That helpful comparative list you posted. Let's say the items on that list were actually in your basket. Comparing the two lists appears to indicate that the local purchase-prices of those items amount to less than two quid more than the UK. Personally I don’t find that unreasonable considering our situational circumstances; transportation, storage, etc. As you say, more discerning shoppers might want to shop around but will the average family-shopper do that when everything is conveniently under one roof? Who are the competitors anyway, the Co-op? M&S? Err..?

It's an oft-used and lazy error to imply that intoxication by alcohol or cannabis is equitable. There's a whole world of difference between the two, considering that different areas of the brain are affected by each.

The Helmut called it deliberate, not NB.

So you're an air-hostess?

Speaking of "lies", you do understand that every bit of news eminating from gaza is released via the hamas-controlled health ministry, don't you? Imagine believing anything they say...

Josef had a beard too...

https://www.three.fm/news/isle-of-man-news/put-a-jumper-on-minister-tells-civil-servants/ A bit off-topic but more of this, Crookall at his finest, though it probably won't go down well with some cosseted souls.

Thanks Albert, it would seem normal service has resumed. I did discover that Sony Android versions 12 and 13 (I'm on 13) don't have the facility to flush DNS cache but that the device does it automatically.

I worked the spotlights in the Villa for years. Always looked forward to Ken Dodd, even though his second show would sometimes run from 9pm till past midnight. This would be 1974/75.At the end of the season, stage and lighting staff were told to line up on the stage after his last show because Doddy liked to give everyone a tip. One particular night there we were all stood in line and Doddy would say thanks, shake everyone's hand and slip you an small envelope with cash in it. He got to me and slipped me an envelope saying, "there you go lad, put that in your pocket and have drink on me, thanks for all the work." The envelope felt satisfyingly thick, a wad, surely? Well, talk about having a drink on Doddy, on the way home I opened the envelope, to find... A Tetley T-bag!! When I arrived home, my old man, who was in charge of stage-lighting and PA, was in fits of laughter at Doddy's prank but then produced another envelope with 2 of the big green pound notes in it, which Doddy had given him, he being in on the prank. A nice touch.

Wouldn't that be a costly exercise? Mind you, I see another ten million has been thrown at climate change mitigation. Priorities, I guess... (@Andy Onchan See what I mean, access one minute blocked the next).