Current Events Not Worthy of Their Own Threads

[Taffin]

3 minutes ago, Geddyalexneil said:

Seems a woman from Utah has ran away from the USA with her 4 children due to believing the end is coming! Why she would think it would be safer to be in Europe I have no idea. The fathers (one of them is father to 3 of the children) are obviously mad with worry. 

Hopefully the children will be found safe and well very quickly.

Utah mom allegedly abducted kids, leaving sinister 'to-do' list

 

Reckon the Dad is absolutely in on it. His priority seems to be getting himself to Europe too with others funds. Albeit could just be the shoddy article 

[Geddyalexneil]

2 minutes ago, Taffin said:

 

Reckon the Dad is absolutely in on it. His priority seems to be getting himself to Europe too with others funds. Albeit could just be the shoddy article 

Fair point. The crowd funding thing is so normal in the US it is hard to tell if it is a scam. It does seem a hell of a long way round to move or even go on a holiday to a new country!

[Australis]

Lots of Iranians taken to the streets last few days.

 

Will they end up shot dead in the streets, or hanging from cranes in the city centre.

 

They seem to be fed up.

 

[JFK-1]

 

[hughesie27]

2 hours ago, JFK-1 said:

 

AI Slop video.

[JudyJudyJudy]

I do wonder what attracted this  27 years old lad to 63 years old  plain looking , millionaire  writer Russell T Davies ?
 

The “ progressives “ lauded the news as “ wonderful “ and “ couldn’t be happier “ for him ( Russell ).

 

 me ? The issue I have with “ age gap “ relationships ( straight or gay ) is the inherent power imbalance  in them , social status , maturity , emotional maturity , and Ofcourse financial . This can lead to various problems . 
 

Its been proven in various studies that longer term relationships work when couples have interests in common , their ages are similar and various other factors . 

Maybe the younger lad is in it for the long game or sadly he maybe just be a trophy husband . 

 

There have been some long term age gap relationships which have worked out where the younger one has bid their time ( ooops ) sorry stayed the course ( Catherine Zeta Jones / Michael Douglas ) 

 

ps the online comments have been quite savage 😎

https://metro.co.uk/2025/12/30/doctor-writer-russell-t-davies-62-strikes-romance-model-oliver-cole-27-25924004/?utm_source=flow-automated&utm_social_handle_id=255068021573715&utm_social_post_id=637866648&utm_source=flow-automated&fbclid=IwZnRzaAPExbtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeBYmFzbq1qTqxWHrwmShf2e5vhB5OjEt_GPoKXUCMWQgvmWUY6QuI_xT5feo_aem_EzEwhCbFQ2OdTNmTYJG6UA

Edited January 3 by JudyJudyJudy

[Mac_fae_Gillie]

MTV shutting down their music channels, still got a crazy channel for pregnant teens, dwarfs, families with 20+ kids etc but the music channels are gone.

[Don Dannie]

Meanwhile in Uganda 

 

 

[highlandjambo3]

Right now, Why is he sitting in the breakfast room wearing a hoodie with the hood up 😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡😡

[Jacques de Gauthier]

2 minutes ago, highlandjambo3 said:

Right now, Why is he sitting in the breakfast room wearing a hoodie with the hood up 😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡😡

This in your BnB?

 

Wearing hoods up indoors means your guest is either a) ugly; b) having hair issues; c) a wannabe black gangster from the ‘hood. 

[highlandjambo3]

1 minute ago, Jacques de Gauthier said:

This in your BnB?

 

Wearing hoods up indoors means your guest is either a) ugly; b) having hair issues; c) a wannabe black gangster from the ‘hood. 

Or planning to rob the place

[highlandjambo3]

2 minutes ago, Jacques de Gauthier said:

This in your BnB?

 

Wearing hoods up indoors means your guest is either a) ugly; b) having hair issues; c) a wannabe black gangster from the ‘hood. 

NOW HE HAS HIS PHONE IN ONE HAND 😡😡😡

[Tommy Brown]

35 minutes ago, Jacques de Gauthier said:

This in your BnB?

 

Wearing hoods up indoors means your guest is either a) ugly; b) having hair issues; c) a wannabe black gangster from the ‘hood. 

Or Highland being his miserable git and has no heating on 

[JudyJudyJudy]

51 minutes ago, highlandjambo3 said:

NOW HE HAS HIS PHONE IN ONE HAND 😡😡😡

Sounds by his body language he doesn’t want to engage with you 🤣 whats wrong with a phone in one hand.? 
 

[highlandjambo3]

20 minutes ago, Tommy Brown said:

Or Highland being his miserable git and has no heating on 

Decembers gas bill was £840….yes just the one month.  It’s toasty in here.

[Tommy Brown]

9 minutes ago, highlandjambo3 said:

Decembers gas bill was £840….yes just the one month.  It’s toasty in here.

How bad is the snow in Sneaky today?

[Wee Mikey]

As usual, not worth clicking on. No detail. All I wanted to know was how on earth a car can end up on its side neatly wedged between a metal fence and a stone wall.

 

Impressive parking skills?

 

 

[Ray Gin]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mickey-rourke-approves-gofundme-prevent-171654107.html

 

Mickey Rourke has launched a Go Fund Me page for fans to pay his rent so he can stay in his fancy $7k a month 3 bedroom home. 

 

**** off. The audacity of asking people to pay your rent when you've blown millions over your career on drugs, booze, hookers and facelifts.

[highlandjambo3]

1 hour ago, Tommy Brown said:

How bad is the snow in Sneaky today?

 

[joondalupjambo]

The number of folk outside hand washing their cars in this weather.  What's that all about? Leaving ice all over the road and pavement.  

[Wee Mikey]

6 hours ago, joondalupjambo said:

The number of folk outside hand washing their cars in this weather.  What's that all about? Leaving ice all over the road and pavement.  

 

Hats off to them!

 

Me? I'll just groove along ...

 

 

[JudyJudyJudy]

6 hours ago, joondalupjambo said:

The number of folk outside hand washing their cars in this weather.  What's that all about? Leaving ice all over the road and pavement.  

Or wearing shorts ! Saw a few guys cutting about in them . Ok nice pairs of pins but aren’t they frozen ? 

[Tazio]

56 minutes ago, JudyJudyJudy said:

Or wearing shorts ! Saw a few guys cutting about in them . Ok nice pairs of pins but aren’t they frozen ? 

Nah, as long as you don’t have to do something like standing at a bus stop it’s alright. I’ll be back in long trousers tomorrow as I start back at work but most of the last couple of weeks off it’s been shorts all the way apart from social occasions. 

[Jacques de Gauthier]

1 hour ago, JudyJudyJudy said:

Or wearing shorts ! Saw a few guys cutting about in them . Ok nice pairs of pins but aren’t they frozen ? 

Any grown man wearing shorts then isn’t engaged in sporting activity should be placed on some kind of register. Being on said register means no access to big boy places like pubs, libraries and gentleman’s

clubs. 

[Jacques de Gauthier]

5 minutes ago, Tazio said:

Nah, as long as you don’t have to do something like standing at a bus stop it’s alright. I’ll be back in long trousers tomorrow as I start back at work but most of the last couple of weeks off it’s been shorts all the way apart from social occasions. 

I used to respect you. 

[Tazio]

6 minutes ago, Jacques de Gauthier said:

I used to respect you. 

More fool you. I always wear shorts lounging about the house which is a damned sight better than those half pyjama/half jogging bottom “leisure pants” some people wear, especially tartan ones. If I need to head out to the shops or whatever I’m not going to go to the bother of changing my clothes when I’m already wearing something that’s ok. Though having said that it in no way excuses people wearing their jammies to the shop. 

[JudyJudyJudy]

19 minutes ago, Tazio said:

Nah, as long as you don’t have to do something like standing at a bus stop it’s alright. I’ll be back in long trousers tomorrow as I start back at work but most of the last couple of weeks off it’s been shorts all the way apart from social occasions. 

The last few days I’ve  been dressed like im heading to the Antarctic 🇦🇶 

Edited January 5 by JudyJudyJudy

[Ray Gin]

44 minutes ago, Tazio said:

Nah, as long as you don’t have to do something like standing at a bus stop it’s alright. I’ll be back in long trousers tomorrow as I start back at work but most of the last couple of weeks off it’s been shorts all the way apart from social occasions. 

 

It was a 'feels like' temperature of -7 at the weekend, shorts is crazy talk! 

[Ked]

30 minutes ago, Tazio said:

More fool you. I always wear shorts lounging about the house which is a damned sight better than those half pyjama/half jogging bottom “leisure pants” some people wear, especially tartan ones. If I need to head out to the shops or whatever I’m not going to go to the bother of changing my clothes when I’m already wearing something that’s ok. Though having said that it in no way excuses people wearing their jammies to the shop. 

Looks down at legs .

Eff you I like them

😀

[Jacques de Gauthier]

38 minutes ago, Tazio said:

More fool you. I always wear shorts lounging about the house which is a damned sight better than those half pyjama/half jogging bottom “leisure pants” some people wear, especially tartan ones. If I need to head out to the shops or whatever I’m not going to go to the bother of changing my clothes when I’m already wearing something that’s ok. Though having said that it in no way excuses people wearing their jammies to the shop. 

Pyjama trousers outside the house = end of western civilisation 

[Tazio]

17 minutes ago, Jacques de Gauthier said:

Pyjama trousers outside the house = end of western civilisation 

Especially if paired with Ugg boots or Crocs. 

[JudyJudyJudy]

35 minutes ago, Jacques de Gauthier said:

Pyjama trousers outside the house = end of western civilisation 

Once I get in the house I slip into my cottons and slippers and I’m happy as Larry 

[Tommy Brown]

22 hours ago, Ray Gin said:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mickey-rourke-approves-gofundme-prevent-171654107.html

 

Mickey Rourke has launched a Go Fund Me page for fans to pay his rent so he can stay in his fancy $7k a month 3 bedroom home. 

 

**** off. The audacity of asking people to pay your rent when you've blown millions over your career on drugs, booze, hookers and facelifts.

Respect. 

[Tommy Brown]

Must be the most bizarre story just now.

Seems too ridiculous to be true.

 

Funeral for alive teen was arranged for this week.

It happened 3 weeks ago.

Surely families would have had to identify dead one and sit with the one in hospital.

 

I cannot my head around it.

Big news this morning and making the police very incompetent.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgm4yv4rlnpo

Edited January 7 by Tommy Brown

[Konrad von Carstein]

On 05/01/2026 at 22:58, Tazio said:

Especially if paired with Ugg boots or Crocs. 

Oh! Once @Dawnrazor see this you're get a smacked bum. 

[highlandjambo3]

You need to try this………it’s biscuit dunking on the next level.  Get a cup of hot whatever you like, place biscuit over the top….turn after a minute or two then get it tanned…..the soft caramel in the middle goes all warm and gooey, it’s the mutts nuts.

 

 

[Tazio]

4 minutes ago, highlandjambo3 said:

You need to try this………it’s biscuit dunking on the next level.  Get a cup of hot whatever you like, place biscuit over the top….turn after a minute or two then get it tanned…..the soft caramel in the middle goes all warm and gooey, it’s the mutts nuts.

 

 

I approve of this post.

[highlandjambo3]

5 minutes ago, Tazio said:

I approve of this post.

The only downside is the waffle biscuits only come in packs of 8………20 is a much nicer and rounded number, particularly if you need to share 😁

[Konrad von Carstein]

12 minutes ago, highlandjambo3 said:

The only downside is the waffle biscuits only come in packs of 8………20 is a much nicer and rounded number, particularly if you need to share 😁

What is this "share" you speak of? 

[highlandjambo3]

Just now, Konrad von Carstein said:

What is this "share" you speak of? 

It’s a new concept for me, I’ve read about is somewhere but yet to experience it.

[milky_26]

1 hour ago, highlandjambo3 said:

You need to try this………it’s biscuit dunking on the next level.  Get a cup of hot whatever you like, place biscuit over the top….turn after a minute or two then get it tanned…..the soft caramel in the middle goes all warm and gooey, it’s the mutts nuts.

 

 

where did you get that mug? 

 

 

 

the 1970s?

[highlandjambo3]

73 to be exact……it’s one of a pair, a reasonable bid for the other one and it’s yours.

[Konrad von Carstein]

34 minutes ago, highlandjambo3 said:

73 to be exact……it’s one of a pair, a reasonable bid for the other one and it’s yours.

I bid, 20 (twenty) of your British pence. 

[highlandjambo3]

Just now, Konrad von Carstein said:

I bid, 20 (twenty) of your British pence. 

Ok…..p & p is £45….good luck with the bid

[Konrad von Carstein]

Just now, highlandjambo3 said:

Ok…..p & p is £45….good luck with the bid

I can collect...

[XB52]

3 hours ago, highlandjambo3 said:

You need to try this………it’s biscuit dunking on the next level.  Get a cup of hot whatever you like, place biscuit over the top….turn after a minute or two then get it tanned…..the soft caramel in the middle goes all warm and gooey, it’s the mutts nuts.

 

 

My Dutch pals used to bring me a packet of them when we met up in Marmaris; absolutely delicious

[highlandjambo3]

4 minutes ago, XB52 said:

My Dutch pals used to bring me a packet of them when we met up in Marmaris; absolutely delicious

And now available in Tesco

[Cade]

The work at the Whitchurch canal breach continues at pace.

The narrowboat which was teetering on the edge was first winched back from the edge then after a complex operation involving multiple temporary cofferdams, was winched clear of the breach, behind a dam, re-floated then towed out of the area for integrity inspections.
On the other side of the breach, a specialised Menzi Muck digger with independently moving wheeled legs is digging a shallow ramp down to the other two stuck boats, so they can also be winched out and re-floated. With the ground being sandy and saturated with water there was no way of getting a heavy lift crane down there to lift the boats out.

I assume that once all three boats are out, the work will come to a halt for many months. The previous big canal breach at Bridgewater is still pretty much as it was when it burst. Been over a year now and nothing has been done over there.

 

[JudyJudyJudy]

Some “ welfare check “ !! 😎
 

I’ve had to get the police a few times to check on an old mate ( he’s in his mid 80s) and they were very good .
 

Old mate was found almost in a coma in the living room by them , (UTI) and police basically saved his life .

 

Few weeks later he was complaining to me that the police smashes his front door in and he had to pay for it !!  I told him they / me probably saved his life . 😡
 

I’m hoping / assuming there’s more to that news story than in the article 

 

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-man-restrained-eight-police-33223125?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZnRzaAPWA7pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeaKYiXrtoQKdNU2-5tPxzIRK27Evqsyjwmzs68-kJmnn1_W7klJIfq-kI8BM_aem_drt2IrRC2_eUcu6IX7FB7g#Echobox=1768386410
 

 

[CavySlaveJambo]

On 10/11/2025 at 11:27, CavySlaveJambo said:

What is more horrifying is that the who scenario happened after the plane was beyond the go/no-go decision speed (V1) when it is safer to take off and then land immediately rather than stop. 

 

Also unfortunately despite the pilots best efforts they had 2 engines out and you cannot fly an MD11 on one engine (you can on two). 

 

 

The NTSB have confirmed the Number 2 (tail mounted) engine failed.   Likely from Foreign Object Damage.