Mile-high tidal wave racing across Atlantic towards the US

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2021-09-17 Volcano Erupts On Spain's Canary Islands Following Earthquake Swarm

Isn't that next to the mountainside that is a whisker away from sliding into the Atlantic? ...

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Yep, and among other things it has a realistic portrait of William the Conqueror, based on a contemporary wall painting of him and his family in an Abbey he founded at Caen.

Unfortunately that part of the abbey, including the wall, was demolished in around 1700. So the engraving in that...

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2021-09-17 Why the French are revolting - Our neighbours have always been the best fighters in Europe...

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I think the Yanks are far too sentimental. They should have cleared the whole area and rebuilt the Twin Towers, exactly how they were before except with thicker (Titanium? ) beams and maybe reinforced lift shafts.

I suppose the snag is it might have been hard to find tenants to rent space...

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Spot on! When the Brexit vote result was first announced, there a famous interview with a lady from Islington or some remain stronghold, lamenting the fact she would no longer be able to find a cheap au pair! ...

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Partly that, but I also think it's a useful service to keep peoples' immune systems on the go...

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Chortle!

So that's why AtW has left, taking a year out to write a steamy sequel!...

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I don't care a hoot if I spread flu/cold/whatever, only what is spreaded to me!...

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Yes but feeding what? It makes all the difference. Sheba (the sloppy stuff) or chicken crunchies? Get it wrong and I'm punished



Mine bites if I try and push her off my sofa, well her sofa, but otherwise she's more of a claw digger!...

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Why in God's name is that "ignobel", which in this context I take to mean comically trivial and/or absurd?

Millions of people have pet cats, and I'd have thought it would be very practical and useful to know more specifically what the critters are trying to tell us!
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Great news - A whole new generation who are even bigger spendthrifts than me. Can only help improve my mediocre credit rating! ...

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Apparently the earliest beer had the consistency of porridge, and the brewing process was started by spitting in the initial mixture ...

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What is to prevent someone creating a trust to own a property and then becoming the principal trustee and beneficiary?

Then ownership would be in mortmain, and one might even be able to dodge inheritance tax by adding beneficiaries such as one's kids as trustees!

The only tax...

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Any one been to the Burning Man Festival? Would anyone want to be invited?

2021-09-05 Burning Man's UNOFFICIAL festival kicks off this weekend

It seems vaguely New Agey, or started out that way, but is there an underlying theme these days?

What's it all abaaaht...

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So you can really toe it when driving in the desert of course!

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Can't you just use a word starting with "f" that rhymes with "reckless" with the "less" removed? ...

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I think passive IR night vision gear needs regular liquid nitrogen refills, presumably in special modules.

And they'd have to be bonkers to risk using illuminated IR, as anyone else using night vision would be able to pinpoint them as surely as if they were waving a torch around shouting...

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Not so. On Exmoor for example, my neck of the woods, there are dozens of people who make a living providing catering and transport for all the local shoots, and there are the gun companies making money maintaining the shot guns and supplying the ammo, and the breeders supplying and training the gun...

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And samples of the few not made in China will soon be in Chinese labs, being analyzed for weak points or good ideas to pinch! ...