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• Commented on Announcement time!
  I seem to recall that, in the UK, a study found that solar panel farms improved biodiversity too....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I'm trying to imagine the Supreme Leader, sitting on a pile of nukes, having enough self control to not proclaim that the Islamic Revolution is now a nuclear power. I'm failing. Given its location, I never quite understand why wind...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Yes. You are right. I thought one of the local elections had taken place in Gaza. My mistake - I blame COVID. Hamas are even bigger thugs than I thought....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Yep. Hamas were getting pissed off with lobbing unguided missiles into Israel everyday (8-9 a day on average last year) and no one paying attention, because it was old news and Ukraine was more dynamic and interesting. So, send a...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I can't imagine what the rationale would be in spending a huge effort to create a viable nuke and then not performing an underground detonation to 1, test it works 2, advertise to the world that you just joined the...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I thought Angleton fairly easy to cast. Look for someone vaguely similar to Peter Cushing and Leonard Cheshire. Mo is far harder. And who gets to play Cassie? Young, pixie manic and deadly. Yes! Yes!...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I vaguely recall, about 20 years ago, Phil Rickman saying that while a film deal will buy you a very nice new house, a TV 3 episode series might buy you a new car. Eventually, he got the latter and...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Good luck. If successful you won't have to travel far to pick it up......
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Didn't you have Bob do something very similar in one of the Laundry series? :)...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Example: I live about 8 miles south west of a southern City. About 7 miles on the other side of it is my place of work. If I go by car I will be there in about 25-30minutes. If I...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  As I recall, a bunch of Victorians decided to try to create a rain forest type environment on the mountain which at that point had a few natural plant species. They ransacked Kew Gardens and planted stuff up there and...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Yeah, does sound weird. But no weirder than a cruise ship stopping there. Theres one car hire company with about 10 cars. 1 hotel, 1 publically accessible pub, not a lot to see other than cinder cones and the occasional...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  Firstly: Yay! Not a question. Secondly: Will we see any other known characters turn up in the book?...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  31: For the last 25 years anyone suggesting the army/navy/airforce was too small and Putin an evil little shit was deemed a dumb Cold War Warrior. And austerity was down to the country being run by two ignorant public school...
• Commented on The coming storm
  Fair enough. I think we came down to arguing which regional name was required....
• Commented on The coming storm
  418: I think it comes down to a regional identity rather than a country specific identity. Yes, France isn't England and Germany isn't France, but they share a region and (broadly) similar attitudes, ethics and morals. Would anyone say they...
• Commented on The coming storm
  Earlier reply lost: I just did my annual diversity and inclusion training at work and saying something like that of a colleague would be considered a dismissal offence. Birbalsingh is an idiot. Its the sort of thing the Mail and...
• Commented on The coming storm
  Fully understand what you say. And, if a religion was not involved, I would believe you entirely right. My understanding is that according to some Islamic Scholars, arabic was the language chosen by God as the only language on Earth...
• Commented on The coming storm
  You may well be right, but I think the situation is complicated by religion inspired fanaticism. Its the Islamic Republic. The Revolutionary Guard were formed to protect the Revolution and ensure the country adhered to God's laws. Secular society was...
• Commented on The coming storm
  Has anyone told the Revolutionary Guard and Mullahs?...
• Commented on The coming storm
  My Fabia estate is 21 years old this year, has 202,000miles on the clock and has broken down just once in the last 7 years. Its noisy, has an thriving moss collection along the back windows and a tad sluggish...
• Commented on The coming storm
  I meant PV installation and turbine manufacture, but forgot to say. Sorry....
• Commented on The coming storm
  I must admit I'm looking forward to seeing the Russian, Saudi and other oil based economies tank - though they may become a bit more unstable and dangerous in the short term. I assume they already have lobbiests out all...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  Surely it should be melted dark/plain chocolate? Either way, sounds good to me....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  837: yeah, but given the age I was then I would probably have been behind the settee hiding. Actually, I rewatched some of the first series over Christmas. I still don't like the first Dr. The second was a great...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  My memory is that they cancelled Top Cat/Boss Cat!...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  I don't think Putin and Russia's paranoia needs any encouragement to keep going. They are in victim mode. Their empire collapsed, their industry was inefficient, their space program is gutted, the Chinese usurped their place on the world stage and...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  I sort of assumed the purpose of the invasion was to try to destroy the physical and political infrastructure of the Taliban who had supported Bin Laden's aspirations to spread Jihad to the west. That succeeded. However, to destroy the...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  "Maybe spend a couple billion a year parachuting internet enabled devices into the region, combined with unlimited free internet via satellite?" Yeah, but we're talking about the Taliban here. Anyone found with one would be executed and the kit would...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  No. Had never worried about it. Just assumed it was some hippy, acid head, new age yogic bollocks. My main memory of the gig is of being hit in the back of the head by a thrown can which I...