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Absolute bollox. They had an opportunity and took it. Ditto Southern Lebanon. Iran was little more than an opportunity courtesy of Donny.

Damsel

I'm not sure what you'd have to be to be unwilling to see that Israel added all sorts of vat to the truth about 7/10, used it as a reason to decimate Gaza, and have acted disgracefully there and in Lebanon since.

Is it anti semitic to speculate about 7/10? The notion that Israel staged it is nonsense (there were Israeli hostages being held by Hamas, for example) but there's a case to answer re them having been able to stop it, and adding VAT to what Hamas did. I say give any Israeli state support a rest. They've been an utter disgrace, and still are on a daily basis in Gaza and Lebanon.

Is it anti semitic to speculate about 7/10? The notion that Israel staged it is nonsense (there were Israeli hostages being held by Hamas, for example) but there's a case to answer re them having been able to stop it, and adding VAT to what Hamas did. I say give any Israeli state support a rest. They've been an utter disgrace, and still are on a daily basis in Gaza and Lebanon.

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Banksy's statue - wow. Blinded by nationalism.

Please don't go all American and confuse liberals (centre left) with left wingers with odd views. But yep, Polanski has done himself no favours.

Simon Squibb is irritating. "Have you got a dream" or whatever to some (apparently) random person, followed by some patronising nonsense. Not for me.

Intentions

I'd not heard of that place, but just seen their website. Their products look amazing, especially the pastries. I'll give it a go - thanks.

When I ran lots, knee pain was nearly always the IT bands pulling - easy fix - or tight quads. The pain area - symptom - is often not the problem. When my neck went, symptoms were the tricep and forearm! The body is weird AF.

It could be anything, but too much too soon sounds plausible. I'd stretch it through (both sides of the calf), and smash it with a massage gun. If you've git access to a power plate machine, set it the absolute max, for several minutes, and lay flat leaving the machine to pummel from the ankle and up the calf. You'll never get a better lower leg massage. If you've never done muscle activation, take a look. It could that you're using your calves but unactivated, hence early strain. I've been doing it as part of my recovery from surgery and it's a game changer. As odd as it sounds, there's an area just below the rib cage on each side which fires the calves. I've never got on with brooks and found them quite a hard run. They're probably great if you're built like a distance runner and don't need the protection against impact, but I'm not built that way and they're not for me. I'd get to a proper running shoes shop and get assessed for what you need - if the shoes aren't the main problem, something suited to your frame and gait will help anyway.

It's Matsuki injured? We'll miss not having him to come off the bench.

Insane, and bloody impressive. Like Turkish, I've done 20kph bursts, or built up to 20kph, but you've got to be superhuman to manage it for a sustained period.

Yeah, they'rw usually pretty good, but dry and not my thing. A Jason roll is really nice, ditto the C&M stuff. If I'm having bread calories, I have to have something decent.

That's the sugar tax for you.

Absolutely. Most mass market bread is ultra processed and packed with crap. The Jason bread products are good with minimal ingredients, ditto the crosta and mollica flatbreads. We don't eat much bread but if we use supermarket stuff, it's those.

Nice! That's great too.

Agreed, other than garlic naan, which is an essential with a ruby. I'm convinced that people that feel they should like Sourdough, it's just horrible. Yep, Brioche is a cake, and why people stuck a burger between it I'll never know. You wouldn't do it with a doughnut so why with Brioche. Give me a crusty loaf or roll and that'll do for me.

It's almost as if there's been no genuine attempts to kill the bloke.

Yep. It'll drop more as people get fatter, and eat more ultra processed food. If luck's against you, it's against you, but people have got to help themselves.

That's pretty much it. He also said that "an entire nation is being humiliated" by the Iranians. Pretty blunt stuff from him. Video in the link. https://aje.news/ogpzb9?update=4526487

Yep. I haven't had a phone contract in years, although I replace more frequently than you, but with something by Xiaomi/Poco/OnePlus on a SIM only deal. The old one always goes to someone who needs one. Clothes, I'm mostly needs led, although the occasional want gets the better of me. Definitely re food. We eat well, always cook, don't waste much. Tonight we'll use leftover roast chicken from yesterday. We'll done extra, so lunch tomorrow will be covered as well. I find that the people who spend a fortune on food are usually extravagent and/or eat shite.