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In similar news, because I was born with brown eyes I've never had a period.

From the Guardian...

I think this article says more about Sam Neill than most I've seen. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/14/sam-neill-new-zealand-remembers-local-star

Great actor. He was great in Jurassic Park, and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Apparently a Sir too, and his real first name is Nigel.

We have a fat white goldfish with a red cap which we've named Trump. Bit insulting to the fish, but they share the same hairstyle, IQ, and belly to height ratio. Also, they both open their mouth constantly but nothing intelligible comes out.

Bonnie Tyler has died aged 75. Had some hits in the 70s and 80s, most notably "Total eclipse of the heart".

Welcome back Jerry!

Well, it's positive for them, but negative for you.

Sacre bleu! You are navigues sur mon fleuve sans me payer? C'est intolerable! It is time I close ze Strait of Marty. Pierre! Preparez l'avion automatique!

I thought Peugeot were owned by the same company that produces MG and a raft of other Chinese cars.

I agree Peter - part of a previous job was system testing changes to a large organisation's primary database before they were deployed. For five weeks at a time we'd try to break it by doing the stupidest things humans could do to it. After deployment, when the programmers had applied fixes to any weaknesses we'd found, inevitably some moron still managed to break it.

That's exactly the point. Fossil fuel supporters always bring up the cost of transitioning to renewable as a reason not to do it. Strangely, they never mention the cost of not doing it

Happy birthday USA. The founding fathers would be spinning in their graves to see the greedy, petulant, vindictive, mean and petty man-child the people have elected.

That sounds... spectacle-r.

Is that your Scottish heritage coming out?

Along with the time taken by the apprentice to go buy them from a shop an hour away then individually rewrap them.

I just don't get the whole concept, obviously. To create a bike out of bits, as an engineering challenge - yes, I can see that. But to take a bike in good condition, like I assume that FB one was (and I could be wrong) and make it less comfortable and kind of ugly... I don't get that. Mind you I don't get modern art or discordant music either, so I'm happy to concede it's just that I have something missing, aesthetically.

Someone took a perfectly good Goldwing and did that to it? They should be flogged with their leather braces.

Ural sounds like a drug to fix a kidney infection.

English is not actually a static language either. If you don't believe me, try listening to a group of 13yo's talking and see how much you understand...

Looks like the power companies are changing their billing - increasing the fixed daily charges while dropping (in some cases) the kWh rate. Wonder if this is driven by the uptake of home batteries - they're losing money from the supply of power so they're charging more to stay connected to the grid? Australia politics live: energy minister asks regulator to investigate big jump in power companies’ supply fees https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jun/24/australia-politics-live-war-memorial-tax-reform-greens-labor-deal-ndis-review-coalition-question-time-anthony-albanese-angus-taylor-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-24/why-power-bill-may-rise-despite-lower-default-market-offer/106830428

I want to be sedated... Ramones

Not a huge surprise. As soon as Burnham won his electorate it was a foregone conclusion.

I saw a woman protesting something Dubya had done, holding a sign saying "Bush is another word for 'c**t' ". Wonder what that makes the meaning of "Trump"?

Good. The sooner he blows a fuse the better. A visibly insane Trump is probably the only thing that would get the politically lethargic US voters to kick him and the Republicans out. I don't think even the useless lackeys he's surrounded himself with would follow his orders if he told them to nuke Germany or something.