Enoch Von Clausewitz wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:08 pm Capstan not good enough in 5,30

7,00 BERNADINE WINS another good ride 4m Danny other pick Top Of The Class 4th

Keep up the good work Enoch. Your a credit to this forum making the effort on the horse racing thread. I hope you get a good accumalator sometime for your efforts.

It's so sad what is going on in Turkey. They are still getting people out even now, which is miraculous. But the death toll is nearly 10,000 and I have seen suggestions it could rise more than 100,000+ with the numbers missing. How could some of these buildings withstand and some beside them that l...

Haven't try using a TV in a long time as a monitor but found it strained my eyes after a few minutes, maybe they are more like computer lcd screens now ? One thing I have is a good sound card for the computer. I got one of the chromecast things and use tge telly now if I'm watching or listening to m...

Post to end the night for me. Well worth a listen, Colonel MacGregor's latest interview on Ukraine. A previous poster tried to put a slur on this man that he is somehow a Russian propagandist, this is nonsense and nothing could be further from the truth, a real American and respected military figure...

I can't enumerate them off hand but over the past year I have seen various reports of attempted negotiations including from Russia. I remember the pre war requests for NATO not to expand so close to Russia. (This would be similar to America not wanting a Russian presence in say Mexico.) Even a few ...

Russia can't win. They won't be able to take the entire country. If they do hold onto a piece, there will be guerilla attacks for years. Economic sanctions will remain and the economy will suffer massively. The Russian Oligarchy want to spend their millions in Paris, New York, Dubai, etc like they ...

But there are two of you in this discussion! One believes every bit of NATO propaganda and the other every bit of pro-Russian propaganda. :mrgreen: As for me, I really don't know but I err on the side of caution in writing off the Russians and I do believe the West rather than Putin created the rig...

And for such a raggle taggle bunch of incompetents the Russian army are, in your view, where are the thousands of Tanks, hundreds of AD systems, Artillery systems, aircraft that the Ukrainian army once had ? They are gone. The west cannot even supply enough replacement military equipment currently t...

And yet in not such a desperate state as the Russians. The credibility of that article is undermined by this one paragraph: The Russians have had the T-90 on the battlefield since Feb 24, 2022, and the Ukrainians have been destroying them with Javelins, NLAWs and other such weapons since they were ...

Truth or Doomsday merchants? It's sobering reading as the NYT doesn't go for sensation. " Outnumbered and Worn Out, Ukrainians in East Brace for Russian Assault https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/world/europe/ukraine-russia-offensive.html Reality unfortunately. The Ukrainian army are currently...

Turns out it was just someone ordering Chinese

The chickweed is coming along nicely.

There a bit on the rough side but you get the idea.

Del.Monte wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 10:36 amPIc?

Will try and get one later.. may need to clean the kitchen window

I'm now feeding a large flock of yellowhammers outside the back if my kitchen. 17 I counted yesterday. The really do follow where cereals crops are planted. Keeping them going with pin head porridge.

Looks like drones are invading Dublin Airport's airfields again. Two days in a row. Wonder what eejits are behind this.

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2023/020 ... e-airport/

Gabriel Fauré - Piano Quartet No.2 in G minor, Op.45 - 3. Adagio non troppo

One of these compositions that tells me its time to hit the hay and get some shut eye.

Agree with a lot of what's said above but the last part about strong men - no! The last thing the world needs is more strong men aka dictators. The problem is that many of these countries from Russia, China, North Korea, through to Turkey, Iran etc. is that they have no experience of proper democra...

A conflict with China needs to be headed off now not when it happens and reunification with Taiwan will only happen through diplomacy and time being the healer. Any conflict involving the USA and China over events that took place the best part of 100 years ago is absolute lunacy. There are real pro...

While I respectfully have to disagree with some aspects of the last two posters outlook on this, I will say in my view that America will eventually have to disengage from supporting this conflict. The Pentagon is already saying that they could be in a war with China as early as 2025. China will be a...

RIP Chinese Balloon man. You weren't in the 80 days around the world territory unfortunately.

I initially thought this was a feckin valentines day thread as I mistook the read balloons for

The crazy Chinese and their indestructable helium balloon death ships. Reminds me abit of reading of the panic associated with the War of the Worlds radio broadcast in the 30s where people fled areas that were mentioned in the broadcast fearing being zapped by the alien invaders. If the Pentagon rel...

“ The press versus the president”. https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-president-part-1.php A scathing critique of how the media handled the Trump/Russia hoax from Columbia journalism review. Might be of interest to you man. https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/07/a-look-back-a...

I think we should take all the Ukrainians we can. I think we should not take Albanians or Georgians popping over from London, or people from anywhere else where they are not directly in present danger. For those people, bored in the village or sick of where they live because it's not groovy, there ...