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[WirralBoy]

My humble apologies.

 

I was reading the page numbers.

 

(not often I'm right; and I'm bloody wrong again)

[peds]

Don't give up that easily, argue your case!

[Doug Tait]

Diesel the donkey not only identifies as an elk, he's successfully transitioned.

 

Clearly the pet life wasn't for him and he answered the call of the wild, good luck to him.

 

Pet donkey found 'living best life' with elk, five years after escape

WWW.BBC.COM

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A man hiking in the California wilderness has stumbled upon a pet donkey that has been missing for five years.

 

[dan blocker]

1 hour ago, Doug Tait said:

Diesel the donkey not only identifies as an elk, he's successfully transitioned.

 

Clearly the pet life wasn't for him and he answered the call of the wild, good luck to him.

 

Pet donkey found 'living best life' with elk, five years after escape

WWW.BBC.COM

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A man hiking in the California wilderness has stumbled upon a pet donkey that has been missing for five years.

 

There you go again? Jumping to conclusions, thinking the minority want to be different? Why do you not think that it might be possible that all the elk now identify as a donkey? And they’re just hoping and waiting to be excepted as donkeys so they can get on with the rest of their life’s🤔

[Mesterh]

Space news,

NASA again delays Starliner undocking, return to Earth – Spaceflight Now

SPACEFLIGHTNOW.COM

Hopefully they can sort it quick smartish 

 

[sime42]

This is a tragic, ridiculous situation

 

At least 1,301 people died during Hajj - Saudi Arabia

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Most were unregistered pilgrims who walked long distances in intense heat, officials said.

 

[Stere]

There is some disaster every few yrs

 

Incidents during the Hajj - Wikipedia

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

 

Edited June 23 by Stere

[peds]

Just feels like a big difference between a few thousand deaths as a result of poor crowd management or fire safety, which are entirely avoidable given proper planning or whatever, and a few thousand people just cooking to death under the sun. Which, thinking about it, would also be avoidable if they just chose somewhere better for a holiday. 

 

Saudi Arabia has never been near the top of my travel wishlist, but Saudi at 50⁰c is definitely somewhere near the bottom. 

[sime42]

If just feels like a big failure of organised religion to me.

[peds]

There's a cynical and cold-hearted voice somewhere at the back of my head muttering about how at least they had the opportunity to go to their God whilst on pilgrimage. Could be worse for them, I suppose. 

 

 

I just saw some numbers crunched elsewhere on the Internet, nearly 2 billion Muslims global, assume 80 year life expectancy, Mecca should receive about 24 million per year to get them all in (at least one hajj requested per devotee over their lifetime). I understand they've only got around 1.8 million this year, so they really do need to pull their collective finger out and crack on. 

 

Of course, a significant quantity of that nearly 2 billion are only as Muslim as the UK is still a "Christian" nation, so maybe 1.8 million per year will be enough to get the truly devout all fully pilgrimaged. 

Edited June 23 by peds