@SquirrelGirl Oh my :)

@cherokeepatti Would you prefer the term “pinching a log”?

@justanothername never heard that one but it don’t sound polite

@cherokeepatti it’s common local term where I live along with
Laying cable and a visit to the dunny.

@Mamapolo2016 Excellent.

@stratosranger lolol,

@Sujbftihe well that’s a type of learning - learning from others mistakes .

@MrBrownstone FUNNEE ;)

@hippyjoe1955 I actually have rather a strange relationship with Afghanistan, following the double deployment of close family members. I read every single book I could get my hands on, I couldn’t learn enough about the country - including stories written by tribesmen who were relatives fighting one another on opposing sides, ie the Mujahideen & Afghan women who, far from being forced/threatened to wear the ‘veil’, were entirely proud of it. How they held secret women’s meetings at ‘safe houses’ risking their very lives, to get together for weekly book reading & sewing clubs. Also how the Taliban banned tv, hence families would actually bury the televisions in their back yard & wait for cover of darkness to pull it out & watch for a while. These people are so humble, so poor, refugees forced from their homes to exist in so-called ‘Blue Camps’, where they queued for hours just for water, survived on Red Cross deliveries of plain dry rice & newborn babes died through the freezing cold tents with no sanitation & no medical care. Its inconceivable for any of us to even begin to try to understand their life ethos & we cannot judge - because we are not them. What I can say is, a great deal of these people were SO thankful of the British military presence & the local elders would personally invite the soldiers to say thank you & they gave them gifts. So I could talk about this all night, but basically I have a deep reverence for the ordinary people of Afghanistan, whilst at the same time I will never forget the cold dread which stayed in my heart until I knew that my family was safely back on U.K. soil 🙏☘️💜

@BalmyNites I think it is common among all peoples that those who help are both loved and despised by the ones who are being helped. One of those weird things about humanity. I can't remember which language but someone wrote saying that in that language the words for thank you and I hate you were the same. Linguistic honesty? Strange coincidence? I honestly don't know. I do know that there are depredate people out there who need physical and spiritual healing. Sadly the neolibs/cons running the latest escapade in Afghanistan offered them nothing beyond the neolib/con pablum that is destroying the west right now.

@hippyjoe1955

Dementia, installed, and buffoon are words that belong closer together to get an accurate picture - like Biden's a "dementia installed buffoon." I'll bet when he donates his body to science, his brain will be donated to Science Fiction, hahaha!

@stratosranger😆😆😆😆

@justanothername so actors DO need to speak with American accents ?
Most movies are made for Chinese audiences these days btw

@AthrillatheHunt it depends who is making the movie and where it is set and who the actors are portraying.

@AthrillatheHunt From 1776 to 1890 to overtake the British and become the world's largest economy.I just looked it up.

@tallpowerhouseblonde you learn something new everyday
Thanks for the education

@AthrillatheHunt I like to learn something new each day.

@hippyjoe1955 Awww, our differences bring unity in a way.

@AthrillatheHunt A burning stick? a cigarettes'? a gay person when used in nasty terms?

@hippyjoe1955 all true. Lol

@ArtieKat My grandmother never put a kettle on the stove. She always put it on the hob.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales Oh, you mean baseball (Rounders) and American Football (Rugby) ? ;)

@Nimbus strike 3

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout That ol' chestnut :)

@Nimbus get a tan?

@Nimbus Some notable (at least 2 ), members of the Royal family have caused more than a few ripples in and across the Pond in history .My post concerns a bit of humor and some fact.

@soar2newhighs Oh yea!
Silly Harry! :)

@Nimbus But I like the series, “The Sandbaggers” about British intelligence services, circa 1980s.
I think we in America in our Entertainment area could take some tips from our British cousins.

@SW-User Cruel but accurate ;)

@swirlie alrighty.. don’t sweat the small stuff swirl… bye.. gotta run. 🙂

@swirlie hahahahaha

@smiler2012 Sounds like a comedy duo like Cannon & Ball :)

@Nimbus now nimby did i mention the glaziers there😆

@Londonn 👍

@Soossie I won't :)

@Nimbus

That's because you truly are kind... thank you..

@Soossie

@NoGamesTolerated
It is confusing :)

@Nimbus Nah.. vacation is time off work, Whether you take a trip or work at home doing things to your house. Holiday is like Christmas, New Year’s Day, Easter, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Etc… whether you work or not! Holidays are listed on the calendar and not when you Brits take a trip. LOL got it now?

@NoGamesTolerated lol, I think so 😛

@BalmyNites lol, from.

@Nimbus Don’t play with guns 😊

@BalmyNites I wish :)

@AthrillatheHunt lolol,
99.8% water? ;)

@Nimbus all US beer is like lite beer lol

@smiler2012 Money talks.

@AbbeyRhode lol, edited! ;)

@Iwillwait 👍

@BigImo we haven’t taught students algebra in decades so there ! Lol

@MissTaken Looks like we have a BC already ;)

@TexChik No thanks! ;)

@TexChik And that’s a liberal paper saying it

@MrBrownstone oh I think that was a parody

@justanothername I remember Ken Taylor the Canadian ambassador to Iran who sheltered American diplomats in the Canadian embassy until they could all leave together. I forget how many hundreds of days it took but it was a while.

@AthrillatheHunt 👍

@Kingfish1 Some good, some bad and some indifferent.

@SW-User Topical!

@swirlie lol, under consideration from this minute on.

@Lilnonames lolol,