Ilanin

This image seems somewhat improbable as it implies Mike would use a somewhat stealthy method of assassination.

British councils have sensible names for wards challenge

Right, I'm sure no significant world events have happened since August 2024 which would cause Britons to change their opinions on this topic.

You've clearly been mullin' it over.

tbf when I played the United States in HOI4 I got to the point of actually going to war, realised I could do literally anything, and was so paralysed with options I quit the game and never came back to it.

maybe Games Workshop got wind of where the most common places to schedule IT awaydays are, sounds like that'd be a good bit of data-driven management

Yourkansas

Is this branding in the "red hot iron applied to the skin" sense?

Sisko is actually quite a good coach but he does NOT know how to operate Workday and you get endless emails about things that haven't been completed because he hasn't checked any of the right boxes, and one month you don't get paid because you took a day of sick and he's not marked you as back.

I feel like a lot probably depends on context. Janeway will probably spend like 75% of her time on her high-achievers which may or may not be a good thing for you. Picard will give everyone his best effort though he'll also have an optimistic opinion of what the team can actually do.

An unexpected return for "what airdefence doing" I guess.

Well this was wild. "Traps that almost but not quite worked", I guess.

It also means people don't remember them (the only post-1945 British operation I can ever remember is Corporate, for the Falklands War) which probably has various advantages if you're the MoD.

drawing your attention to the missing "found". What you do with this knowledge is up to you.

The morning war is one of the most interesting moral quandaries in RPGs in the sense that you're supposed to sympathise with almost all the Quarian characters you meet while acknowledging that the Geth are in the right despite mostly shooting at them...

At no point in "Nine Princes in Amber" are there ever nine princes in Amber.

I feel like the official timeline involves a lot of the RN lying to itself/the MoD about this. The first VTOL landings on carriers happened in the mid 1960s, the "through-deck" appeared in the mid 1960s, and, officially, there was no plan to operate Harriers until 1975?

The existence of turf wars and brush wars implies the probability of a range of warfare fought over varying length scales of vegetation.

So naturally the MoD's civilian staff - and probably the Fleet Air Arm's military one too though I've got less experience with those guys - would have been thinking "how can we do ASW with carriers?" not "what's the best way to blockade the G-I-UK gap?"

People familiar with how the British Civil Service operates would not be surprised by this. In general when a new mission turns up the first question is "how can we fit what we're already doing into this?". And by the late 1970s the RN's mission was denying the Atlantic to Soviet subs.

I feel like Charles I's theory works much worse for Andrew because there has definitely never been a historical tradition of embarrassing relatives of the King being exempt from the justice of the Commons that's totally a thing the Crown has a history of permitting.

My car actually managed to pass its MoT without requiring any surgery for the first time in several years. Traditionally one should say please clap at this point but I'm not entirely convinced it rates it. Clap if you want to.

My Shrove Tuesday tradition is to make a toad in the hole and assert that it is a pancake.

The description of the Fear spell in Baldur's Gate 3. The part I'm complaining about is "Hostile argets drop everything and become Fearful...."

Ah, yes, Larian, you definitely spellchecked the tooltips.

Chess players be like: duh, there's a reason we talk about the French Defence but the English Opening.

Be careful of a passing Prince of Denmark making off with the head while soliloquising.

Hoarding is a form of art, right?

So in other words I feel confident in saying that if the heir to the throne of Scotland had shown up in Verona, Romeo would probably have offed him too.

And the cousin of the prince of Verona! Romeo's really quite efficient, he removed people who for all we know may well have been the heirs to three of Verona's leading families inside about 24 hours.

it's all fun and games until one of them becomes the King of Scotland