Perhaps he thought the potential level of sycophancy might've made him uncomfortable and decided to swerve it?

Next pitch = our nightly fireworks are more spectacular than Disneyland's.

Just as well they're not needed as we aren't sending one to the Med for their benefit anyway.

Don't get me wrong, the sentient wotsit is full of crap. PoW isn't going to join the war anyway, if it deploys it'll be to deal with the mess its creates from the Med. Also they didn't exactly rush into either World War. They did however help a chunk with the Falklands, albeit slightly indirectly.

They did a noticeable bit to be fair, albeit not direct military assistance. The Harriers on Invincible/Hermes turned up with fast-tracked better versions of Sidewinder out of US inventory for one thing.

Also, probably not the best country to be lecturing people about turning up late for wars (not that the HMS Prince of Wales deployment is actually 'joining the war' anyway as it'll be going to the Med and not the Persian Gulf).

Would.

You can hardly blame anyone for not wanting to keep him.

I always had the plan to find some high ground near a primary target and to turn up with beer, some decent tunes, a packet of fags and obviously sunglasses.

That poor mutt has seen things

Very handy for plugging the toaster in.

Yeah it has its place, but it definitely also has its flaws.

Exactly how I see it. It reminds me of a junior I was mentoring years back who'd sometimes decide the best course of action was a massive refactor for a fixable bug. Just because you could eventually do something a certain way, don't automatically assume you should.

It does greatly amuse me though that it'll suggest some complete crap with absolute confidence and then heartily agree 'yes, of course that won't work' the moment you point out its complete crap.

I use it as a muse or to answer very specific coding issues. It is however like a particularly eager green-behind-the-ears intern who will go down some rabbit hole with great enthusiasm if you let it. I (quite) literally have to tell it sometimes 'this seems a crap way' and start over.

A bit like President Xi having about 3 clubs then.

Even on the rare occasion we won under Amorim it was seldom aesthetically pleasing enough to warrant a repeat watch. I'd just take the sense of relief and another weekend not ruined and move forward with life.

I avoided MotD for that long I didn't even know what time it started these days.

Never realised he was a Red.

Condolences

When I was doing uni viewings circa 91-92 there was definitely one somewhere at Sheffield Uni

Yeah, we occasionally get packs from the local farm butchers that are decent quality so will be doing that more often from now on I think. As ever its finding the time to get down there.

Although annoyingly supermarket chicken seems to now contain more water than your average pool.

Congratulations on owning a pet that is somehow a bigger dickhead than my cat.

That ruddy lefty woke gravity stuff.

You'd think someone with Lumber as a name would've been good with tall things?

Whatever you've done/not done sounds kind of serious.

By the look of it they'd try and organise one in a former brewery though.

It'll keep you out of trouble for a bit at least!

Yeah, 2038. Although that it comes with a stand helps as I can tower it over smaller stuff!

Next biggest I have is the Saturn V, which they amusingly made out of 1969 bricks. I have to keep that horizontal as the shelf doesn't have the necessary 1.1m clearance to the ceiling!