Echoes of the Finn's "I've got a pair of shoes older than you"
06.03.2026 11:20
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Echoes of the Finn's "I've got a pair of shoes older than you"
I have a Hotmail address I keep as a memento that predates the MS acquisition and still had the 9 char limit
I'm incredibly... not jealous, but envious perhaps that you knew him personally. And glad you can share your experiences
One of my favorite Bowie factoids is that when Chris Hadfield did his ISS Space Odyssey, he personally intervened against his label to keep the vid up.
Genuine good guy
This makes me happy.
Anyway, epstein-barr sucks and god help us with the current antivax climate. Things we cant vaccinate against are bad enough, why welcome back the old standards? (Also had pertussis as an adult 0/10 recommend)
The lethargy is hard to convey. Just moving hand to remote was a massive effort of will.
And now I have a twitch anger response to "the song that never ends"
2 lambchops. 2 barneys. Hell on wheels.
I have to ask. Was he as impeccably elegant in person as he seemed on camera?
Made me appreciate how shit real shingles (with the zosters) must be. Also cemented my hate for epstein-barr, which was started with having to watch multiple Lamb Chops singalongs because mono made me too lethargic to use the remote
You lucky git!
Having had pseudoshingles from epstein-barr, this hits home. Still get hypersensitive flareups on my shoulder blades, 30+ years later
And NI, though that's its own kettle of fish. My maternal gmas side were sent to Ireland from Scotland by Cromwell, then to Cumbria when the mines ran out there...
Sadly they lost the Erse around my gmas birth. Last of 17 kids, most died down the pits.
Donald Trump made trade threats against Spain during an Oval Office meeting with reporters and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
Trump: "Spain said we can't use their bases. We could use their bases if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody is gonna tell us not to use it"
Not receiving consent and moving forward anyway is a consistent theme in his life — as E. Jean Carroll can attest
Can't argue about that. The Scots, too.
Grandad (the maternal one i actually knew) said they used to shelter at the base of the gun turret of the ship they were building. After he left, a bomb made it into the shaft and essentially turned his shift to catfood.
Can't imagine what it was like. My grandma went blonde from packing TNT.
Likely, but also undeniably an act of war. Sinking a national ship has always been casus belli, and this particular instance can't be handwaved over the region or any spurious nuke prevention claim.
I'm still aghast there's more of them
One was a machinist and essential worker, so home guard. The other apparently was Lord Lovatt's batman for a while.
The machinist one (maternal) was moved from Barrow Shipyards on essential war work 2 weeks before his entire shift was wiped out in a raid... fickle chance
The Caribou Memorial and Vimy are on the agenda for my next military history road trip.
Tho the real champion of "fucked by the Empire" IMO is Newfoundland.
Asked for 500 men, they sent 1000 to Europe in WW1. 90ish% casualties at Beaumont Hamel. Permanently impacted the (then) dominion after wiping out most of its young male population
Neglected English colonies of the world unite!
Göbbels without the PR finesse
His important position and title changes nothing.
Once a FOX News host, ALWAYS a FOX News host.
He's right
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
What? That's fucking weird and off.
What an asshole
It's their war now!
There's MORE of them?
Fer fucks sake...
I'm fairly sure this was the sort of behavior by the British navy that prompted the war of 1812...