Mundane News

[biggs682]

Well that's a bit of a one

 

[tyred]

I think rain is imminent.

 

[Threevok]

ibuprofen, ice pack & fluids may help

I think fluids may have been the problem

 

[Jenkins]

Lovely bright & sunny start to the day for the commute in to work, but flaming heck it was cold!

I was right about today's online meeting - nobody seemed to care and it was a complete waste of half an hour for about 20 people. I may have been distracted by the hawk being paraded round to building in an attempt to scare off the gulls.

 

[Reynard]

Grey, still but definitely not as warm as it has been, here chez Casa Reynard.

Slept like a log. Yay! But I was a bit norty this morning and watched the opening session of O'Sullivan v Maguire. I did strip and change the beds though. Will launder that lot tomorrow.

When mum does them, she always forgets to do up the duvet covers, so everything invariably ends up inside one cover.

It is almost time for luncheon.

 

[Oldhippy]

I'm having a coffee-free day, today... 😬

Are you insane man! 🙂

 

[Reynard]

It looks like my wife's old Tissot.

I think there's a certain classical elegance to watches of that era. Just before things start getting really funky... The modern stuff is decidedly eyewatering. Not so much the money (although I almost fell off my chair when I saw how much a news Seiko automatic would set me back*) but just the looks. Too chunky and too blingy.

Kelek were the company that made all the movements and complications for Breitling as well as making their own watches. They have a long history, but the name Kelek was only extant from 1960 to 1997 - when Breitling finally bought them out. They were a relatively small volume producer compared to a lot of others, preferring quality over quantity, so decidedly less common than average.

* 360 squid for a brand new Seiko Automatic.

 

[Reynard]

I think not, just a megalomaniac Pan-Slavist dictator and his cronies at the head of a poorly trained and undisciplined army. The Russian people just count among more of his victims.

Couldn't agree with you more. Other than Comrade Putin and his bunch of kleptocrat "yes men" there are only victims in this. And in a way even Putin and his cronies are victims as well - of their own delusions of godhood...

Russia is Russia though. The more everything changes, the more it stays the same.

 

[rockyroller]

The poor b*gg*rs in the tank probably don't entirely espouse the leaders political stance though.

Each one is a brother, son or father and didn't make the decision to be there.

I've read & seen horrible atrocities committed by individuals with individual brains capable of making individual decisions. if you are are a mass murderer you are a mass murderer. any excuses are absurd

 

[rockyroller]

I think not, just a megalomaniac Pan-Slavist dictator and his cronies at the head of a poorly trained and undisciplined army. The Russian people just count among more of his victims.

you have a weapon in your hand, you use it, you are a criminal & should be hunted down like the murdering dog that you are

 

[PeteXXX]

Are you insane man! 🙂

Indeed!! Normal service will resume tomorrow.. 👍

 

[biggs682]

Bricklayers listening to the radio outside with ear protection on

 

[oldwheels]

I always wanted a darkroom, never had the room.

Now I have the room....

In my early days I used the bathroom as a darkroom and washed the prints in the bath. On Mull I found an extensive range of wildlife in the bath when I had finished. The filtration system for the main water supply clearly did not work too well.

 

[Reynard]

Lovely luncheon of a cheese, ham & mustard sandwich, an orange, a pear and two

 

[Reynard]

I've read & seen horrible atrocities committed by individuals with individual brains capable of making individual decisions. if you are are a mass murderer you are a mass murderer. any excuses are absurd

You're forgetting that Putin is a former KGB officer, and thinks every kind of sideways like the weasely bar steward he is. So what you have to be aware of, is that there are probably SBU / Political Officers embedded in with the troops. The threat of being shot by your own side for not following orders can be suitably... motivating...

Although there may well me a certain amount of vindictiveness involved as well, given that the Russian military were told that they would be welcomed with bread and salt.

Having said that, there was that mechanized unit that killed their colonel by running over him with his own APC after suffering horrendous losses during an ill-advised sortie.