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One of the very few instances in modern warfare where we have the luxury of an obvious good guys and bad guys, for want of a more nuanced phrase, and you still find yourself on the fence. Quite predictable, I have to say. It goes without saying: Team Ukraine, 2014 borders, **************** Russia. In case anyone needs things spelled out.

I would say "Oi! Putin! Nooooo!"

To be honest bud, it sounds as if you've got a leaky connection somewhere or your gas pressure is off, if you are getting sooty deposits on the underside of your pans. Otherwise, what exactly are you doing to the poor things?

So here's the thing, panini are also better when made in a frying pan, using two heavy cast iron pans ideally, but any will do. Heat both pans, put the panini in one pan, and put the other pan on top, bottom to bread. Perfect hot and crispy bread crust.

You want big wood going along the bottom of the frame, and screw the battens into that. Not as tidy as burying the sheet on the first install, but a lot easier. What a lot of people do these days is batten the main sheet to a wooden rail at navel-to-nipple height, leaving the lower 2-3 feet as a different sheet... which can be replaced a lot easier if damaged, as happens, or it can be made removable for ventilation, either with or without mesh fabric underneath.

Flipping heck. Time for a change of uniform from the lost and found box...

Oh, I see. So I guess what you are trying to say is that whatever you were doing 34 years ago and 900km away has absolutely f*ck all to do with the not-entirely-normal wildfires tickling Athens at the moment, and you just wanted to hear the sound of your own voice again by shoehorning your limited experience into the conversation. Which is fine, everyone has the right to share their opinion. 🙂

I know, right!! How could you let them get out of control like that?

But, credit where credit is due, this was an incredible part of his speech. Most sense he's made for a long time. More of this, please!

Well anyway, dude, I hate to pick holes in another man's work, but you must have done a shite job... because those Cypriot fires are nearly at Athens now! Bloody immigrants, coming over here, burning our jobs, incinerating our benefits! Greece orders evacuations near Athens as wildfires rage – Europe live | Greece | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Unprecedented summer temperatures after the warmest winter ever have turned terrain...

Don't tell him Pike! It'll only start another argument!

True, but those pesky protesters keep putting it in the wrong place 👀

Oh, thank god for that. Nothing to worry about then. Back in the pool, everyone!

This 4 year old cartoon becomes oddly relevant again, given Donald's recent choice of theme tune and his continuing obsession with Biden...

Could be anti-tourism protesters like we've seen in Spain recently... I mean it could be anything, really... Maybe we'll never know!

So anyway, Greece is on fire again.

Oh, that wasn't a compliment.

In all fairness, yeah, manco dropped the ball on that one. Dave definitely isn't a cyclist. Anyway, back to the news... I see Greece is on fire again.

But it's still eternal. So everyone is right!

Ah, if it does waffles too, that's a different matter. What's the third thing? But honestly, frying pan or, ideally, a flat-top or plancha, or griddle. But those aren't really that common in home kitchens, so... frying pan.

In a frying pan. Throw the toastie machine away.

It's a right old cnut, that's for sure. Pull it up, keep pulling it up, and carry on doing that for a few years. Dig out the roots if it's in loose soil, make sure you don't chop off any bits and forget about them though! Permanent sheet mulching doesn't really work, it'll just tunnel tunnel tunnel, but what works great is removable sheets to allow the roots to go where they want, then peel back the mypex or plastic or whatever and rip it all out, until it's exhausted. Takes a long time. Easiest way to control it is convert the area into a lawn and mow mow mow for a couple of years, bindweed doesn't really enjoy a lawnmower, and you can just pull it up and de-root the edges, if needed. Spraying does not work, I guess it could after several applications over several years, but it isn't a hard-and-fast solution, and never will be. Organic techniques are more effective and better for your soul. Is this in your own garden, or for a customer? Customers need to be made aware that it is a long, hard slog that needs repeat visits several times a year, regardless of the techniques used.

I kind of wonder, too, if... when I get to Heaven... will my Grandma be in her 80s, the half-crippled old gal in a semi-assisted retirement village, where they picked a different inmate each week to sacrifice and she decided to just stop going to the funerals because, really, why would you f*cking bother? ... who absolutely adored me and the soft boiled egg and toast soldiers I learned to make her... and I loved her with every fibre of my 7 year old soul... Or would she be a gorgeous slip of a girl in her 20s, married to a dashing young airman in the RAF... who I never knew? Because if it's the former, it doesn't sound much like Heaven for her... and if it's the latter, well... sure, I guess I'd love to get to know her again, but... I don't know. It just doesn't seem like a particularly well-thought-out system. And no dogs?! F*ck right off! Leave me in the ground for eternity, I don't want any part of your idiotic afterlife club. Oh baby, do you know what that's worth? Oh, heaven is a place on Earth!

Don't know about anyone else, but any version of The Eternal attributed to any religion I've heard of sounds reaally flipping dull.