Vaping ‘to be banned outside schools and hospitals’ in England
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    Good luck with that. After all it worked so well with cigarettes.

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  • North Carolina Family Informed Their Insurance Policy Voided Once House Gets Wet
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    Ah right, not like household insurance then, at least here in UK. I've seen a few instances of people with no insurance having lost everything.

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    Face = palm

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  • North Carolina Family Informed Their Insurance Policy Voided Once House Gets Wet
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    And I bet there are more than a few that don't have it, but expect the gubmint to pay.

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  • Mozilla Thunderbird for Android Is Finally Here
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    'You can download Thunderbird Beta on the Google Play Store, or get the latest pre-release version from the Github Releases page.'

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  • Diego Garcia: What is on the secretive UK-US island in the Indian Ocean?
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    Military with sigint and some long range radars. Quite a bit if info available online.

    I'm probably on some sort of list now :-)

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  • Damian Lewis herds sheep over a London bridge as part of a quirky tradition
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    There are no plans to bring back other ancient freemen’s privileges such as the right to carry an unsheathed sword in public and to be escorted home if found drunk.

    That's a shame.

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  • It's Saturday, what have you watched this week?
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    Working my way through For All Mankind again. What a superb piece of TV that is. Magnificent. Also Slow Horses and lay night we started Bad Monkey. That's pretty good as well.

    Got to give Apple credit, they do make some good stuff. The quality and attention to detail is superb, even if the show is naff. I was very excited to hear they were making Foundation, and the quality was outstanding. Never finished the first series, it was like watching paint dry. Likewise Silo. Dark Matter? I didn't even make it to the end of the first episode.

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  • Owner's delight as cat brings home winning scratchcard
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    She should buy something nice for Monkey.

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  • Smart TVs Are Watching You | Feisty Duck
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    A doubleplusgood book.

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  • Here’s how much Disney Plus will charge to share your password
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    Disney Plus says adding an “extra member” to an ad-supported plan will cost $6.99 monthly, with that price going up to $9.99 for its ad-free plan.

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    Ron DeSantis bans Florida's sex ed classes from mentioning anatomy & contraceptives, requires abstinence education.
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    Didn't say it would be easy. So we'll just give up then. Stick our heads in the sand.

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    Ron DeSantis bans Florida's sex ed classes from mentioning anatomy & contraceptives, requires abstinence education.
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    That's the problem. Education is the way out otherwise it's a race to the bottom as people like him will be voting for all this stupid crap.

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    That's it, just ignore it, it'll go away.

    The more people that vote for idiots like this, the more I'm convinced that some sort of test should be done before you vote.

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  • TV tonight: Bake Off is back but is it on borrowed time?
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    It all feels so contrived now. Still a fun watch though, especially as that idiot Lucas has gone.

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  • Rewatching The Expanse for the nth time. It always cracks me up to see Bobby Draper stuffing those cucumber sandwiches into her face. Do you want some?

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    Probably not what you're expecting - but the fact that the once iconic 'British' car is now made in China. I spent many hours under the hood of my MGB GT :-(

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    Am trying to make a dark rye loaf like you'd find on a stall or in a shop. Not the really dense 'pumpernickel' style but round or oblong tin shaped. Have tried various percentages of strong dark rye, muscovado sugar and black treacle but the loaf is still not *that* dark. I did try some cocoa in one loaf but that just gave an odd colour. Am using a Panasonic bread machine and in over 5 years it's only ever produced a couple of duff loaves - which were down to me (forgetting yeast, mixer blade or water) and often use it for the dough function and then finish in oven. Am not averse to resorting to full manual though if needed. Any ideas? TIA

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    My daughter is studying Creative Writing and English Literature at Birmingham (UK) University. She's put together some pieces on Substack. Most of them are over my head, but this one hits right in the feels. Apart from a couple of technical inaccuracies, it's spot on. Hope you like it ;-)

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    Won't be doing any laundry just yet then. Edit - pic didn't load

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    This was my wife’s new throw/ blanket thing. Daisy never used to get on the sofa. But now if the throw isn’t there, she’ll sit and look until one of us cracks.

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    Quite superb.

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    She loves these throws. And as long as I keep my ankles crossed and legs still, she'll stay. Must admit I choked up a bit as our last two would never do this.

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    This will be the straw that breaks the camel's back for me.

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    The best of both worlds. Lunch will be one of these filled with homemade hummus and salad.

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    Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)