"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said."
When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine."
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Farage accused of U turn as he says UK should stay out of Iran war
Farage, leading, as usual, by watching which way the crowd is moving and running to the front.
Beer stein in the shape of a penny farthing bicycle, with the front wheel, which is where the beer goes, shaped like a ball. The rider is a lid for the stein, which is openable with a thumb-activated hinge.
Beer Stein from Germany
ca. 1890
Pewter rider/lid and rear wheel
Stoneware container
"I went east, it was indeed cold"
Sculpture featuring a white bicycle that appears to be melting against a wall onto the floor.
Bicycle
🎨Erwin Wurm
Illustration of a man with exaggerated arms and torso riding a bicycle.
🎨Lola Dupré
Get that man a bike fit, his Q factor looks off.
"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"
A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%
As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.
“This is just evangelical christian nationalist American fanatics vs. evangelical fanatical Shia Iran. A bunch of ultra religious apocalyptic loving assholes who have no business running a food truck let alone countries and wars.”
Smiling death. ‘The Dawnce of Makabre’ from Carthusian miscellany, Yorkshire or Lincolnshire ca. 1460-1500. BL, Add 37049, fol. 32r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Smiling death. ‘The Dawnce of Makabre’ from Carthusian miscellany, Yorkshire or Lincolnshire ca. 1460-1500. BL, Add 37049, fol. 32r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.
We have met a lot of Welsh people.
"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".
No.
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Can't be true, the tide is never in at Weston.
4 weeks? That seems unwise?
Farage is a wanker.
Pass it on.
Dictator Tot or Hippopotus.
Space X isn't a nation, it isn't even getting that thing into orbit let alone all the more advanced requirements to deliver a lander and get it to the surface (and having a top heavy, vertical lander for an uneven and uncertain surface? maybe not eh?)
"Starship can easily get into LEO" but it hasn't. And as for all the plans for delivering a lander and getting it to the surface of the moon? No where near.
Relativity speaking, yes
A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party
I worked in a shop in Sheffield, edge of the city centre, we’d sometimes go to a pub for after work & that was a neutral venue for the women working nearby. They’d meet before going out or come in for a break & it was understood & respected that they were having a breather. Very good at pool.
My uncle ran a pub in Llanelli, The Half Moon, tidy pub no real trouble but he would sometimes chase someone out and then quietly explain t hey we’re there on business he didn’t want. Happens everywhere…
Long time ago, must have been the 80s - he'd caught the train back from Uni in Bristol and was waiting for his mum to collect him.
The king of the cats. Antonius von Pforr, Buch der Beispiele, Swabia ca. 1475-1482. Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 84, fol. 227v. #medieval #MedievalArt
The king of the cats. Antonius von Pforr, Buch der Beispiele, Swabia ca. 1475-1482. Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 84, fol. 227v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
I know someone who was approached outside Swansea station.
