badgerx16

It isn't just the TT, motorbike road racing in general is high risk; street 'furniture', kerbs, and stone walls passing by at over 190mph, complete absence of run-off areas or 'kitty litter', let alone trees causing rapid changes in lighting conditions and holding damp patches after rain. Watching Michael Dunlop pushing the envelope this week is frightening, and he above all others understands the danger, having lost his uncle, father, and brother in crashes. Then again, nobody makes them do it. What is more inexplicable in relation to the TT course is that the Mountain Road, ( and several other stretches of Manx road ), is unrestricted for all traffic, all year round. Anybody can take a motorcycle over there and go as fast as he can for over 11 miles, after Ramsey. ( However, temporary blanket speed limits were introduced during the pandemic ).

Solace

Hants CC following Saints' style - either a losing streak or a winning streak.

Petrol station in Chelsea selling petrol at 238.9 and diesel at 249.9 per litre.

As well as gun control issues and weak environmental protection, there is also a legal system that permits this to happen; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61763333 "A woman may be in for a $5.2m (£4.2m) payout after she allegedly contracted a sexually transmitted infection while having sex in a car."

It's only money : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61749657 "..…...The report by the Public Accounts Committee - which scrutinises government spending - said that between 2020-21, the Department of Health spent £12bn on PPE, but £8.7bn had to be written off. ......."

Seagull

He's not wrong.

Good performance by the bowlers this evening.

People on Universal Credit to be allowed to use their benefits money to fund mortgages to buy their social housing. What help is available to aspirational potential first time buyers earning just over the UC threshold ?

Passed 2 filling stations today, less than a mile apart. The difference in price between the 2 was 9p per litre.

Yet the wholesale cost of petrol is now falling.

The UK is forecast to have zero growth next year, which will make it the lowest performing economy in the G7.

I heard him interviewed on BBC radio last week, seems very astute. He grew up in London, the child of immigrant Irish Catholics, and became a builder, which led to him being illegally blacklisted for joining a trade union - something he only discovered about 20 years later. He says that politically he is most definitely not the radical left winger certain sectors of the media paint him as.

Boris sets the tone for the entire Government benches. If lying to Parliament and breaking the Law aren't resigning offences, why should voting in a secret ballot be ?

1 cubit = 6 palms, 1 palm = 4 fingers. ( Even today horses are measured in Hands ).

It all depends on how big you want your pyramid to be.

The cubit is a non-standard measurement; as it depends on the length of the lower arm and middle finger, your cubit is almost certainly different to mine.

An arm.

Jodrell

I only managed 20 minutes before giving up. On a brighter note, The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi are reasonable additions to the Star Wars canon.

And hairdressres don't get issued firearms.

How many times have you asked that question, so as to be able to develop that observation ?

Dear Prime Minister, "Drawing a line" under your problems does not make them go away.