https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqjpzg0qwno.amp

www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/big-cats-in-the-british-countryside?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb

These are actively deployed on 4 nuclear submarines and totally under UK control.
America does not have any say in their being fired.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2028958/UK-nuclear-weapons-US-Russia

She's taken tanning treatments to the extreme.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14510663/White-glamour-model-Martina-Big-36-identifies-black-having-tanning-injections-announces-plan-Africa.html

Trump is going to let loose restrictions on coal fired power plants. He has already withdrawn America from any UN environmental control organisations.
America is the second worlds highest CO2 polluter at 12% of global emissions next to China at 34%.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-moves-to-open-hundreds-of-coal-fired-power-plants/ar-AA1B8mQO?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Did you realise this was happening ?

https://youtu.be/LSsvi-nTseg?si=mMaCU0CQ7im7683N

My Mother used to manage a PDSA Charity Shop and one of the gifts was a full box of Silver King Golf Balls. At the time I was switching from cricket to golf so she gave them to me. I opened one of the inner sleeves and tried to uplay with-it but the moment that I hit it , it disintegrated into dust.
That was fifty years ago. A few days ago I came across the box with three sleeves and two loose balls, all in the original box, so out of curiosity I checked on E Bay and to my amazement found that it is worth between £150 and £200 as a collectors item.
I will not be parting with it however as it is the only thing that I have left in memory of my Mother.

Please add any favourites you cherish!

I found one so good I couldn`t resist posting it. If you have a good one post it...I need a bit of light relief from Trump and Gaza and Sudan and Syria and right/left politics ect ect!!

“Unlike the stomach, the brain doesn’t alert you when it’s empty.”

Turning trash into treasure

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Have a great day

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg1z42pkj8o

Last one of "the few"...


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-67371959

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/uk-s-biggest-supermarkets-suffer-4bn-hit-over-asda-price-war-threat/ar-AA1B5061?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=3c50fec30eb5455699e6ae999b63ea01&ei=78

https://www.postalley.org/2025/03/17/be-outraged-with-me-the-trump-list-so-far/

France are so pissed off with the American Trumpires rampage that they want their Statue of Liberty back.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/from-france-comes-a-call-for-trump-s-america-to-return-lady-liberty-here-s-why-it-won-t-happen/ar-AA1B6adD?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=dd0acada84514b49bb038a0dbadb496c&ei=72

Even the Russians call Starmer a scumbag.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/kremlin-ramps-up-ww3-fears-34873318

I have just received my renewal demands for my house and car insurance, my house is up by 23.9% and the car by 30.1% amounting to an additional £410 pa.
On querying these increases I am told that all insurance premiums are going up necessitated by the increase in NI costs in the budget.
I think that it is safe to assume that the insurance companies, having been given an excuse by the Chancellor to raise prices, will add on an extra bit for themselves, they would be mad to miss such a chance.
So much for Party that said they wouldn't increase taxes and Rachel from accounts who clearly wants to increase inflation, odd thing for a Chancellor to want to do.
Any Lefties want to defend such stupidity?

Breaking News From Daily Telegraph Business Section -

"WE ARE READY TO BAIL OUT THAMES WATER" says RACHEL REED

I'm happy to lend her a bucket...

America chaos song

https://youtu.be/7TVljlaJjZg?si=MBmFJxMJqDk0Dz3-

https://theweek.com/vladimir-putin/956928/what-is-vladimir-putins-net-worth

Putin can laugh at Trump's threat to ruin Russia, because he's unaffected.

Has left the country

https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20250314-australians-welcome-departure-of-baby-wombat-grabber?dicbo=v2-GrsqPjm

When my great nephew was visiting yesterday, he's aged 5, he was showing me videos on his ipad of The Trench Family. Their tagline is "they are the littest family on youtube".
Littest is a superlative adjective meaning most stylish or having most awesomeness.
They spend their days videoing their everyday lives but then sensationalising them.
For example in one video, one of their kids runs up to mum and dad and says his sister is missing. So they start "fake panicking" and talking about calling 911. Turned out the gir was hiding under her duvet. But they made sure her bedroom was the last place they searched.
Anyway I googled them and they have a net worth of over $50m.

Wonder if she's ( I refuse to say They) related to Amy?

https://nypost.com/2025/03/13/us-news/oregon-mental-health-board-consumer-jd-holt-uses-turtle-pronouns/

https://youtube.com/shorts/6EyRoJ945DU?si=-h5bUFdfZjE6pSCF

It’s not unusual

https://youtu.be/SE3BpEzTA08?si=d4eqWHzD0thbp01O

Dear Dawn,
I am delighted that today, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has voted to drop its longstanding opposition to assisted dying. This is a pivotal moment as UK medical bodies prepare for a change in the law.

Thanks to your unwavering support over the years, we’ve reached this incredible milestone: no medical royal college in the UK opposes assisted dying. Progress like this has brought us to the brink of law change.

www.prweb.com/releases/14th-now-thousands-expected-at-march-to-demand-trumps-removal-from-office-302401190.html

Let's see if Donald thinks this is a big enough crowd for his ego...

"Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

[ this article was written in 2016 by Nate White ] ]

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh.

And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever.
And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them.
His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath.
All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog.

He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug.

A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

Worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
Except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all.
He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt.
He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

The fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, you don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem very hard to miss.

There have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too.
Has stupidity ever been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid?"

20% off 😂

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The word gay is being deleted

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Pay As You Retire.

Your thoughts...

From the Guardian: “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,” wrote Darren Beattie, who now has a senior job in the state department, on X in October. “Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.” Obviously Beattie thinks he's competent - others of us might think he's lacking some brain cells.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-tax-canada-government-shutdown-senate-live-news-b2714336.html#

https://whowhatwhy.org/justice/rights-liberties/of-all-the-bad-things-trump-is-doing-this-may-be-the-most-alarming/

'So deeply stupid': Historian fact checks Trump justification for trade war

https://www.rawstory.com/trade-war-trump-europe/

An American history scholar has this opinion.

Is it fair?

What do you think?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93nke05gwjo

They call us "The Elderly"
We were born in the 40-50-60’s.
We grew up in the 50-60-70's.
We studied in the 60-70-80's.
We were dating in the 70-80-90's.
We got married and discovered the world in the 70-80-90's.
We venture into the 80-90’s.
We stabilize in the 2000’s.
We got wiser in the 2010’s.
And we are going firmly through and beyond 2020.
Turns out we've lived through EIGHT different decades...
TWO different centuries...
TWO different millennia...
We have gone from the telephone with an operator for long–distance calls to video calls to anywhere in the world.
We have gone from slides to YouTube, from vinyl records to online music, from handwritten letters to email and Whats App.
From live matches on the radio, to black and white TV, colour TV and then to 3D HD TV.
We went to the Video store and now we watch Netflix.
We got to know the first computers, punch cards, floppy disks and now we have gigabytes and megabytes on our smartphones.
We wore shorts throughout our childhood and then long trousers, Oxfords, flares, shell suits & blue jeans.
We dodged infantile paralysis, meningitis, polio, tuberculosis, swine flu and now COVID-19.
We rode skates, tricycles, bicycles, mopeds, petrol or diesel cars and now we drive hybrids or electric.
Yes, we've been through a lot but what a great life we've had!
They could describe us as "exennials," people who were born in that world of the fifties, who had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood.
We've kind of "Seen-It-All"!
Our generation has literally lived through and witnessed more than any other in every dimension of life.
It is our generation that has literally adapted to "CHANGE."
A big round of applause to all the members of a very special generation, which will be UNIQUE!
Class dismissed

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/aichi-child-abuse-rape-video-arrest-b2713450.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=embed1

Are any of you on tiktok? There's a trend going around with people posting videos of the tea time alarm in the UK, some pretending they've been fined for missing it etc.(The team time alarm is explained as a siren that goes off signalling everyone in uk must have a cuppa!) The funniest thing is that so many people abroad are taking it seriously 🤣 😂
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdenkovS/

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/trading-standards-postcode-lottery-revealed-aP3TX4u6v2rs

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vwzx9eexro.amp

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14477243/Mother-eyes-gouged-evil-ex-partner-domestic-abuse.html