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A fella on my arb school intake volunteered with them for a bit, he never told me what colour Power Ranger he was though... 🤔

That's not ideal. Return journey in the future, or is it now "habitat creation"?

Dublin area rapid transit?

Absolutely, anything to take the strain off the front line inside Ukraine is a great idea. Fingers crossed they can dig in a bit and really drain the resources intended for elsewhere, if it's worth the investment in manpower.

Are you (and all the flipping headcases you listen to) f○cking high?! It's a different planet you are on! "Hiding from the media" after a rally in a different state every day, sometimes two, while your God Emperor hasn't been seen in a week? Wandering up to an EMPTY plane and asking if he can have a look around, before being told to piss off? In what world is this "gutsy"? Dave: you are not well. You need help. "J.D. Vance briskly marched up to Air Force 2, Kamala Harris’ plane, planning to give political reporters a show as he confronted the vice president uninvited on Wednesday. His power play dreams, like most of his chaotic veep run, were immediately thwarted once he realized Harris was not present. “I just wanted to check out my future plane,” Vance told campaign reporters gathered on the tarmac in Wisconsin. He didn’t get the chance to face Harris but said that he “wanted to go say hello to the vice president and ask her why does she refuse to answer questions.” It’s unclear what questions Vance was referring to, as Harris has repeatedly pressed for Donald Trump to attend a September 10 debate that he already agreed to appear at when he was running against President Joe Biden. Vance told a Philadelphia rally on Tuesday that he would “absolutely” want to debate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, if given the chance. Roughly 40 minutes after the Ohio senator stormed over to confront his invisible opponent, the Harris campaign released a video set to a popular TikTok audio seemingly intended to make fun of him."

Jesus, while we've been distracted by Trump's failing mental health and ham shouting at brown people, Ukraine has made a land grab into Russia... 350km² taken into Kursk, with no signs of anything slowing down yet... It's probably not going to hold out long-term, but it has great potential for negotiations and propaganda. Lot of Russian soldiers surrendering... this is great news.

Ah look, we were all 14 once upon a time.

Can't stick a laughing emoji on that whole post obviously, but that's some funny stuff right there. Condolences for the loss of your surrogate dog, it's always a kick in the teeth. The brother of my pair, a well-meaning ginger idiot, has been licking himself shorn on his belly and between his hind legs, probably through stress. He looks like someone has given him a going over with my beard trimmer. And he came home a few days ago with a horrible gash on his face, leaking all sorts. It looked all right once Doctor Oscar had cleaned him up, but I'm worried he's being bullied by one of the bigger boys living nearby because, frankly, he's absolutely useless.

There was a funny rumour going around that JD and his friends in college, I think, either as a group or individually in private, but together... if you see what I mean? ... put a latex glove between two couch cushions and, err, simulated coitus with it to completion. And there doesn't seem to be much truth behind it, but then an article appeared in maybe the New York Times, somewhere towards the back, unseen, explaining why it was nonsense... and JD's team then demanded a retraction and apology for that article, making it look like they were taking issue with the idea that it never happened... suggesting to the whole wide world, therefore, that it did. So it was a non-story about some daft thing that may or may not have happened in the murky past of someone's younger years, and really, who gives a ****************... but it was then dealt with in the wrong way, and it grew legs, and is now working hard to sink Trump’s presidential campaign. A bit of a Streisand Effect sort of thing. Some of the details above may be misremembered, and I'd recommend you seek clarification from a stronger source if the story interests you, but like I said... who really gives a ****************?

Yeah, thanks for your opinion, and being a smelly hippy into peace and love and minimising the suffering of all living creatures, naturally I agree, in general. But being taken apart by a swarm of angry chickens is a damn sight quicker than any death that same rat could ever hope to find elsewhere in it's environment... play-torture at the sadistic claws of a cat, shitting it's guts out for three days from poison, chewing off a leg from a poor strike on a rat trap, dessicating on a sticky board... or, best case scenario, the rat reaching a ripe old age and simply starving to death when unable to forage their own food... I'll take the easy way out of being winged by a pellet and torn apart by birds, thanks. Anyway, that's a nice shotgun you've got there! I doubt that would leave much for a meal for the hens of poor wee Ratty. Chips and dips, maybe.

Absolutely clueless.

Interesting point about the kind of picture on display above... your type of people need to rely on AI generated images for your lolz, whereas us lot have a whole library of actual photographs from real-world events to draw on, created spontaneously by your clown show idols.

No, it's because you're a stark raving racist. Keep up!

Boooooooorrriiinnnngggggg Edit: Back to VP news... Man, he's going to make a great VP.

That looks like a great toy! Could be just the ticket, for reasons I'll explain in reply to Stubby below... So we've actually got a few things working in our favour here... first, they are brazen little fellas, and range isn't an issue, you could stand indoors at the kitchen window and they'll just stroll across the patio not 4 metres in front of you. Sit on the patio instead and they'll probably run across your shoes. It's why I'm considering an airgun at all, honestly, they are a slow moving target at close range, definitely an easy task. If you miss you could probably just swing the gun around and beat it to death with the butt stock. It really wouldn't be used at any range greater than that, except for plinking by visiting grandkids. It'd be used indoors too, the shed, the garage, the summer house. Secondly, getting a pellet right in the dome to ensure a quick kill might not be strictly necessary... as on one side of this patio is the hen run, where they get most of their diet! The hens, scary little dinosaurs that they are, like to hunt and eat the rats, they are hugely motivated for the extra protein. The chase can be a real skin-of-the-teeth affair at times, especially if the poor rat gets held up in the chicken wire fence... at the first sound of commotion, all the girls come running over to see what the story is. So a wounded rat from a poor shot is just as dead, after being ripped apart by half a dozen 12in tall velociraptors. I'll get some pictures when I'm back in the UK to illustrate the scene, I've brought my folks over to Ireland for a couple of weeks for a visit, so the rats are probably having a whale of a time at the moment.

I echo the above, and look forward to the days of slightly-less horrific photo updates. Hope all is well.

Most likely, love thy neighbour and all that, except for all the infidels. Edit: or is it heretics? Edit2: or is if pagans? I forget the correct terminology...

That's his second name!

He's the third leg in the cuckholdry arrangement that Dave likes to imagine me in. (Not entirely sure why he likes to think of me this way, but heck, I'm not the one who's life coach is a book written by a bronze age goatherder )

Leviticus is right about one thing... loads more people should be stoned. It'd make the whole place so much more peaceful, man.

My wife and Mbepe have given us two beautiful kids, so I definitely can't be gay... 🤔

When the time comes, comrade, there won't be enough lampposts for the bastards. We'll have to make 'em share!

Righto, no he's in the middle of England, no spoilsport Irish regulations to deal with! I guess that would make it a bit more of a hassle for me to take ownership of it when the inevitable arrives though, which I hadn't really considered... so thanks for that.