The Random thought thread

[spacesailor]

Same with '' frog legs ' & horse meat ! .

A big uni expo ( UK ) , taste tested people with lots of ' third world' countries food .

It's amazing , what tastes good , when you don't know what the  ingredients are .

Chicken curry - cat .

Lamb stew - dog

And lots of crispy bits -bugs . 

Yum-yum .

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[facthunter]

Don't like Croc. Shark is top of the food chain and full of Mercury. Only small shark is permitted to be sold. (Flake),   Nev

[ClintonB]

lots of bugs are full of acids and other nasties that eat teeth away and can be harmful to us. Young ones trying spiders and scorpions etc have no fear. I once splatted a daddy long legs the night before going overseas for the first time. Juice got in my eye and my face swelled up like a balloon for 24hrs. imagine what it would do inside you.

flake/school shark is yummy. I like the croc I have eaten as steaks at the Safari Club in tamworth, Elliot the owner/chef cooks game extremely well.  in a pie from a servo, not so much, it was ground up in a stewy white sauce and could have been anything.

[red750]

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago how the fish and chip shop misspelled my name. Tonight I ordered our usual fortnightly meal, and clearly gave my first name. When I went to collect it, there it was in the warmer, the exact order, with the number they had given me over the phone. The name on it? BAKER.

 

Today was our annual parish fete. I used to work at the fete for years, a few years ago, in the counting room where I recorded the takings from the various stalls, and giving the counters a total to balance against. My kids went to the parish primary school, and I used to recognise about 2 out of every five people at the fete. I was there over an hour today and only saw one person I knew. Admittedly I haven't been to mass for many years. My wife was the Catholic in the family.

[nomadpete]

This is RANDOM.....

 

Oscar Wild's conundrum....

 

[nomadpete]

No, I'm not on a theme....

 

 

Random!

[red750]

[red750]

Meghan Markle’s mother has stunned Britain with a fiery demand for inheritance — and HERE is King Charles’ explosive response

 

In a seismic clash that has sent shockwaves from Windsor to Montecito, Doria Ragland, 69, the fiercely protective grandmother of Prince Archie, Princess Lilibet, and the newly announced third Sussex child, unleashed a 1,200-word open letter in The California Sun this morning, demanding unbreakable succession rights, lifelong HRH styles, and sovereign-grant security for her grandchildren “in perpetuity.”

 

“My daughter gave the Royal Family three children,” Ragland wrote in scorching

prose that now dominates every headline. “You may strip the mother of her title, but you will NEVER take away the rights of future princes and princesses. Their blood is Windsor. Their birthright is non-negotiable.”

 

The letter, addressed directly to King Charles III and copied to Parliament, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Racism, accuses the Crown of “institutional erasure” and cites the 1701 Act of Settlement, the 1917 Letters Patent, and the 2013 Succession to the Crown Act to argue that “no monarch, no courtier, no colonial relic can sever children born in lawful wedlock from the sacred line.”

 

The most incendiary passage reads:

“You stripped my daughter of protection when she begged for it. You allowed the press to hunt her like prey. Now you dare murmur that her children—YOUR blood—might be ‘demoted’ to commoners? Touch one curl on their heads, and you will answer to history, to God, and to every Black grandmother who ever fought for her babies’ names to be spoken with dignity.”

 

Within minutes, #DoriaSpeaks exploded globally. In Montecito, Meghan was photographed clutching the letter outside a prenatal clinic, eyes red. In London, constitutional lawyers were summoned to emergency briefings.

 

Then, at 11:07 a.m. GMT, Buckingham Palace shattered centuries of protocol.

A single sheet of heavy cream stationery—bearing the King’s cypher—was delivered by liveried footman to every major newsroom. The response, handwritten in Charles’s unmistakable fountain-pen script, was read live on air by a visibly shaken Nicholas Witchell. It was not a concession. It was a rejection.

 

“Dear Mrs. Ragland,

Your letter has reached me not as a plea, but as a demand upon the Crown I am sworn to protect. Let me be unequivocal: the laws of this realm are not subject to negotiation by open letter, nor to the court of public opinion.

 

Archie, Lilibet, and the child yet to be born occupy positions seventh, eighth, and ninth in the line of succession by statute alone. That statute is clear: succession follows blood, not residence, not sentiment, not the volume of one’s voice. Their place is secure until Parliament decrees otherwise—and Parliament has spoken on the matter of titles.

 

The 1917 Letters Patent, issued by my great-grandfather King George V, grants the sovereign sole discretion over the style of HRH for grandchildren beyond the heir’s line. That discretion has been exercised consistently for over a century. It will be exercised again in the 2026 Royal Styles and Titles Review.

 

The children’s courtesy titles of Prince and Princess were granted as a personal gesture by Her late Majesty in 2021. That gesture expires upon the formal withdrawal of their mother’s dukedom, as announced. No trust, no fund, no sovereign-grant lifeline will be extended to children who reside permanently abroad and whose parents have explicitly rejected the duties that accompany privilege.

 

Security is a matter for the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police, not the Crown. The Sovereign Grant is not a private ATM for estranged branches. Your grandchildren will receive the same protection afforded any British citizen abroad—nothing more.

Mrs. Ragland, you speak of grandmothers. I speak as a King who buried his own mother under the weight of duty. Duty is not optional. Legacy is not inherited—it is earned.

 

The door to reconciliation remains open, but it swings both ways. Return, serve, and the children’s future will be discussed. Remain in exile, and the 1917 Patent stands.

 

Charles R.

[facthunter]

Be Better if the source was Evident. Nev