Illuminati-R-Us

Or make your rudder stronger

So there are reports that the criminal case against Prigozhin has not been dropped, as it allegedly should have been under this deal. His video rants come across as unbelievably moronic - certainly a naive idiot to think he could trust Putin to honour such a deal. Speaks to the type of mercenary Mr...

g-one wrote:...carbon fibre/titanium combination, ...problematic because they don't expand and contract the same.

Thermal expansion - quite a basic engineering consideration. I guess whoever designed it was out of their depth.

Arneb wrote:
I still have a 10 DM note

Doesn’t look much like easy folding money (although I can easily see how you would have to fold it 3 or 4 times to get one into your wallet).

g-one wrote:Depends.
"a person who has had sex with a minor aged 13 to 15 will be punished only if the person is five or more years older than the minor"

So Bill Wyman (47) and Mandy Smith (13) would've been f**ked.

Yes I saw this just now. Charlie must be relieved that the crack down is cracking along.

Touché!

Lianachan wrote:I can probably count on the fingers of one closed hand the number of films I like as much as that one.

Getting warm. What would be inside the closed hand?

Proud Mary keep on burnin’

"When a man's got money in his pocket, he begins to appreciate peace."

And speaking of politics, literally on this day and date, Wednesday May 24th - in 1854 - first sitting of the NZ House of Representatives Parliament.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/hist ... tting-1854

Мастер wrote:And this one is from a television show.

The alternator’s shot. Literally.

Better Call Saul?

Heid the Ba wrote:twenty years or so.

Ten, tops.

Edmund Fitzgerald one of my favourite songs

Мастер wrote:

tubeswell wrote:So the Great Tory Backlash of 1979 has finally arrived in Finland

Well that may be, but my map shows NATO membership status.

Okay then. I'll take that as two bluebirds with one stone.

So the Great Tory Backlash of 1979 has finally arrived in Finland

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Richard A wrote:If Ron De Santis does run, he’s likely to do well.

In a head to head poll of republicans, Trump is leading De Santis by 30 points.

I predict he will be the first US President with a Presidential Suite in prison.

Мастер wrote: I expect the prison will work out some sort of day release arrangement.

Maybe they'll give him a Presidential Suite inside the jailhouse. Another First.

Rookie pilot probably still struggling with new tech. Seems improbable that a $412b aeroplane would be faulty

What's a Pi cost in Germany these days?

Huzzah! Mullet Mania lives again!

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Arneb wrote:In Putinist Russia, the food eats you.

Yea, but can you do the Yakov Smirnov laugh?

Like a seal backing into a fan

Infinity Stones if I ever saw some

Seems a several of our countries here are in cahoots or something. At least according to this guy who was pretty bent out of shape over covid mandates. Apparently I need to pull my head out of the sand and acknowledge living under and authoritarian regime, along with several other forum members. ;)...