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Scuse btw, yet another rant in circles, don't mind me this shyts just doin my head in.

Even so , he won't even touch Putin, it's been pathetic to watch. And so the bully still rings true as he instead tries again and again to blame and push Z and Ukr around yet welcomes Putin like a giggling school girl.

There is a slight difference. Putin controls the world's biggest nuclear force and Iran probably doesn't have one to their name. Nobody really knows how many of Putin's crackers will actually work when the time comes, but I don't think anyone wants to find out.

It used to be that the POTUS had to seek the approval of Congress before declaring war. But that was back in the day when the USA was a democracy.

In a later update, the Ayatollah's son was not killed, but his son-in-law and daughter-in-law were killed.

l feel like an absolute idiot l keep coming back to the same thing l know it butttt, how in hell can l make up my mind 1st of all, in whether or not to just keep my 1/2hec place and just live here. Financially it's perfect, l'd be set rest of my life, living free, saving a truckload anddd, it's a lovely little property. Yet other than renting elsewhere which l don't even know if l'd like tbh, l might even regret it especially if l sold this place but getting into something else now in even buying, is going to ruin finances, probably for yrs. Prices out there are just insane. Most of you guys sound long time very well established so you probably can't appreciate just how mad the market is. But then ofc above all, surely happiness is at the top too. That's the tricky part though and holding up the whole show. Sometimes it's a pleasure just being here, coming home to it, even waking up here, it can all be very very nice and without really knowing anyone so just from observation so far but people seem v chill too. At others though, it can l find get very very lonely here and my place is quite private to so if you don't go out thee gate you have zero contact with anyone. You can see through trees to streets just 50mtrs over and the pubs only 50mtrs out and around the corner but on the property itself, you could run around naked, wouldn't matter. One way or another though, can not for the life of me make a decision. Can't buy or try something else without selling this place well, apart from renting somewhere. Don't wanna waste even more time just doing that though unless it was a fully done decision or l'd just go to all that trouble and expense, effort, move, for nothing. l'm usually pretty snappy in deciding things but this one, has me stumped .

Dunno much about anything in the middle east admittedly, it's all that damn entwined and goes back 1000s of yrs. Long as l can remember they've always been fighting, all hate ea other. l dunno about Trump though, never have. He disgusts me in many ways but in this stuff, 1st thing comes to mind whatever else is goin on there is that it's just yet another tiny country where he knows they couldn't possibly lose yettttt, look at the way he treats Putin. But yet again bullies the little guy and Ukraine ! He should've taken Putin out just like these other two yrs ago. Putin's been harassing Europe, attacking countries killed millions of people, not to mention windows and aeroplanes and threatening the whole damn world decades , yet Trump too gutless to touch him it's sickening, while Putins still at it as we speak.

Listen to what our mate Stephen Fry says about A.I.

I dunno.. the regime change in 2021 in the US was a big improvement, I thought.

A bit of an update. The mechanic who I had look at the bike when I purchased it seems to have cut few corners, although the amount of rain we have had and the distances I cover may have something to do with it. The grips were wired direct to the battery, presumably as they detech the voltage that indicates the battery is not charging and then decide to cut out automagically - allegedly. As the bloke who jump started me said, the shoudl be wired into the fuse box. I decided, on a recommendation, to give another local mechanic a look. He said the same thing and that the heated grips were notorious for the controllers losing the ability to self-switch off. Then he pointed out wither the gripes weren't glued to the bars, not enough was used, or some inferior gluwe was used as he was able to move the grips around the bar. Then he pointed out a few things, including completely worn front sprockets, all of which I asked the last mechanic to look out for. And, to boot, the rear disc needs replacement.. which is better than the wheel bearing, which is what I thought could be the problem. He pointed out everythign I asked the last mechanic to look out for. FFS. As I have 10 thumbs when it comes to engineering, I basically have to pay up. Which I was expecting most anyway. So, it goes into the shop tomorrow for its fix. But, I had ridden it to London and back, and am riding with the lad, still. And, it is great fun, even in the wet, with freezing hands, and a little less fuel economy than I was aiming for.

No regime change has resulted in improvement.

Getting rid of Trump would be a massive improvement

No regime change has resulted in improvement.

My son's 125cc bike gets 140mpg; I may have to start using it.

The problem now is that Iran is not a united country, never has been, and there are plenty of different groups within Iran ready to take over from the Ayatollahs - and fight each other for that dominant position. Look for a replication of Libya. The worst part is, the Iranians will be planning a revenge attack from out of left field, and that will likely be either an economic attack or a military attack. They will mine or block the Straits of Hormuz and make the whole world pay in terms of a vastly increased oil price. We can look forward to rising oil prices this week, simply due to the attack by the U.S. Then there's the fact that the Iranians are the worlds best missile experts, and we know little of what they have hidden. They could quite easily launch a large warhead missile at an American city, and even if it's not a nuke, they could cause a lot of grief. They're like an injured snake, it might look like it's fatally injured, but it can still possess a vicious bite and lash out, too.

More ammo to justify the war, I guess. Containerised freight futures are down; may be a good time to go long on longer dted contracts.

Petrol prices have already gone up, and are likely to climb further with hostilities affecting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Don't call me Shirley. In the movie Airplane! (Renamed Flying High in Australia), when someone said "Surely ..... " to Leslie Neilson's character, he would reply "Don't call me Shirley." The girl in the quiz is Shirley Temple.

I won't be right. Nev

They are Not a real Triumph. A couple of their Models are OK. The real Bonneville looks far better . and performs and handles well except it vibrates and has no electric starter. ,Nev

I see that the home of former Iranian President I'madinnerjacket was blown up.

My son calls them bomb-villes. I told him what an old bomb is in Aussie auto vernacular.. He wasn't too happy.. he is a Triumph-o-phile They do look nice, though..

Oh, I give up 😉

Stop calling ME please. Nev