Skeptics Forum.

Not heard of the Croydon Cat before - is it a particularly nasty breed?

Oh dear, oh dear: https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/liam-fox-spitfire-trade-plan-fly-steve-anglesey-brexit-factor-1-5703506 When Liam Fox announced this week that he was backing a post-Brexit around-the-world flight by a restored Spitfire, thoughts inevitably turned to the last politician...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45546785 : The International Monetary Fund has warned that a "no-deal" Brexit on World Trade Organization terms would entail "substantial costs" for the UK economy. Leaders of the car industry, probably among the most vulnerable major organisations to Brexit, hav...

Good luck to them with that:

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

- Ogden Nash

Brilliant!

I sometimes wonder if the weather forecasters compete for bragging rights, as in:

"I've done my report in a 50mph wind!"

"That's nothing, I once stayed upright in a 65mph gale!!"

Very depressing. The only bit that doesn't personally bother me is the chlorinated chicken and hormonal beef, since I don't eat either.

But a no-deal Brexit is something every reasonable politician would want to avoid at any cost.

Yes. But that gives me no encouragement at all. Since when have our Brexiter politicians showed any signs of being "reasonable" over this issue?

Appears to be zero for me...

I've been saving them to binge-watch later - I hate waiting a week between episodes.

"Now he's working out how to get himself out of the mess."

How about working out how to get the country out of the mess he helped to create?

I have, somewhat despairingly, come to the conclusion that our senior politicians on all sides can no longer conceal the fact that their collective management competence is nowhere near enough to manage a small whelk stall. At a time when they should be working together as much as possible to deal w...

Croydon13013 wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:52 pm

Disappointment at lack of clowns?

I think it was probably explained to me that all the clowns were in this big building by the river...

My favourites were the flying trapeze artists, although the double-decker buses must have been a real hazard for them.

Times Square in New York. Not a square at all in the London sense: just an elongated road junction with lots of advertising displays. If you found that disappointing, you must have really felt let down by Piccadilly Circus. It's such a long time since I first went there, I don't recall my initial r...

I've been trying to think of sights I've seen which were disappointing. One of them is on the list: Times Square in New York. Not a square at all in the London sense: just an elongated road junction with lots of advertising displays. Another is also in New York: Wall Street. This is a short, narrow ...

I bet she didn't see that coming...