Steven P

Woohoo!!! 25 years!! and then what? We'll be dead, won't care, and in my dying breath I'll whisper to The Boys "Your fecked"

At a risk of distraction from the headline thread there is a correction. It is the Europeans we don't like, mostly the Belgians, Europe is OK as a land mass - the whole premise of Brexit was we don't want the Europeans working in the UK (though hypocritically we are OK with British workers working in the EU), we don't want them popping over here freely for holidays (though hypocritically we are OK to pop over there freely for holidays), and we don't want them stealing 'our' fish (though hypocritically the fish we want, cod, tend to hang out in EU waters more than ours). Brexit made it clear however that we don't like the Europeans but much prefer those from further afield to fill the gaps they emptied. Though yes, got to go with the thought of "that man is bad so this man is OK despite also being bad" with respect to Biden being a smokescreen for Trumps discretions.

and to add your pictures above the first one 'Democrate and Chronicle" article puts his approval at 47%.. 53% of US Americans do not approve. An 'All time high' for him The Economic time headline this week (2nd part of your image) "Donald Trump hits a hostoric low....approval rating worse than any modern president in decades" Your last image, fro 9 days ago, New York Post is the New York equivalent of The daily Mail mashed up with the Star, and is well known for its journalistic standards... low standards and deviation from the truth which doesn't bother its readers.

Cannot hack that your hero, The Rapist and appolgist for child rapists is gettng a bad time here? Here is an actual link and not a picture you can make on photoshop.. Approval rating lower than any of his predecessors at this time but correct at -2 approval (more people dissaprove) it is higher than it was this at 2 months in, first time around: The 2nd link summarises a few polls... all saying that his aproval rating is negative.. more Americans (US Amerians) dissaprove of him. So far from the commenters on this thread going against the thoughts in the US, they align with them! Why is it that only you cannot see the man, sorry rapist and child abuser appologist, he is not a man, do any wrong? Donald Trump hits historic low as new poll shows his net approval rating worse than any modern president in decades ECONOMICTIMES.INDIATIMES.COM Donald Trumps net approval rating has hit a historic low in 2025, worse than any modern U.S. president over the last 70... Trump approval ratings: What polls show after first 2 months of term EU.USATODAY.COM Donald Trump has bulldozed through the first two months of his second presidency. Here's what Americans think of his job so...

I might be typing out of turn here but that portrait does him good, 'soft focus' is his friend, far better than 'Orange Skin HD' in all it's pockmarked glory and colouring

Gut feeling is hot air rises and depending on the set up it could be possible to 'stall' the chimney - where the external air acts like the chimney, reversing the expected air flow and making the fire very tricky to get going. Particularly overnight at winter when the fire is out, chimney pots are at say -5 deg C, loft at 5 deg C could see this happening. Smoke, fumes and any heat is pumped into the loft, best worse case is the smoke alarm goes off at silly o'clock in the morning with a false alarm, worst worse case is it isn't a false alarm. Related to this is having a down draught of cold air next to the chimney cooling the exhaust fumes more than usual you might find the draw is reduced from this. Not an expert in this though, just gut feeling.

Reading the last page about how most oils are from the same base with scientifically experimented and calculated additives in to make it do the right stuff and then "Yeah, but, I just bung diesel in it to make it work right"

but your not all over the forum banging on about how ludicrous the idea is and in the next breath bragging of your hypocrisy and earnings from it

Net Zero is only a rebrand of being green - or did you miss that bit? The conversion from an oil based electricity system to green energy, net zero energy has accelerated with technology advances, but has always been a goal - pretty much since north sea oil took off and they realised that there was only limited supplies, certainly all my working life. So then got to ask is it the branding you oppose then if the end result is the same? Still happy to be taking that shiny shilling whatever they call it, it is the same thing. Still the same hypocrisy to apparently get angry about it and accept it as a wage earner

Nothing to do with me. You. You are on here constantly ripping into 'Net Zero', Windfarms, solar farms, electric vehicles et al and in the next breath are out there taking that bucket of shiny windfarm shillings straight into your bank acount. Pure hypocrisy. "Bad things but I'll take the cash anyway"

and their profits are pouring onto the pockets of the likes of you for their maintenance. Don't forget that most of your £10k monthly salary is coming from windfarms this month. Or is that hypocrisy too much for you?

Couple of bumblebees out and about this weekend

Now as for the chicken nuggets. The Albanian in question - the case hasn't be finalised and is under reviews at the moment with doubts to the claim. More than likely that he will be deported (the man spent 2 1/2 years in jail, stripped of UK nationality) once the review process is complete. Weirdly the online news sources for this are: The Daily Mail, The Express, The Telegraph, LBC interview with (that moderate) Farage, The Mirror... so a balanced press out there! As above, clever (or not) arguments to prolong the process but the ultimate will be him deported and I would be willing to bet that little will be said in the papers above when he is!

and if there is a UK that contradicts the ECHR then the UK law takes precedence (or whichever European country you are currently in, their laws.) Personal opinion that the ECHR is an easy scapegoat. 'Daily Mail' readers are baited with it to increase anger than anything with the word European in is a bad thing. While there are some obscure and rare rulings (which make the press, and guess which paper...) the majority of its work is good. Often these headline making cases are not ruled on by the ECHR but are an interpretation of the rules and a careful argument by a lawyer (perhaps can be equated to the odd case in the UK where drivers are not banned despite racking up 30+ points in 3 years... a clever lawyer... but we are not advocating that driving laws should be scrapped, clever arguments and persuasions)

Might be that in the thread "war in Ukraine" that war is discussed there. Might be that in the thread "Covid" all things Covd was discussed there Might be that in the thread "Potus" the all things (currently Trump) are discussed here. and in other POTUS news, I see Lewis Hamilton was disqualified from the Chinese F1 grand prix