Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Karmacat wrote: »

Oh bleep. Just followed that linkie, pineapple, thanks.

That made me wonder about other Russian invasions - Czechoslovakia in 1968, for example - wiki says 108 Czechs were killed. Ukraine has already suffered almost that at the hands of its own snipers ... This is not good.

The commanding officers of those elite troops have them out there masked among civilians. Why do they need to hide their faces? Is is because their officers are reserving the right to have them do vile and illegal things, like opening fire on civilians, and don't want them to be identifiable? None of the ones I've seen have any kind of visible ID on them and people who think they can't be held to individual account are always dangerous.

BTW, John Kerry's hair lifts off in one pre-formed plastic piece as it is held on lego-man style by the pimple on the top of his cranium. If you don't like this current style, he comes with many alternate 'dos and will no doubt demonstrate them in the coming days.

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The news is currently saying that William Haigue has ruled out any military intervention in the Ukraine from our military forces in the UK. The russian stock exchange took an almighty tumble today too with the rouble falling heavily in value against the Euro but the news also says the Russian troops in Crimea will storm Ukranian Army Bases there early tomorrow if the ukranian troops do not surrender, I'm totally confused now as to what will happen as the news is also saying that lots of people in all parts of Ukraine consider themselves to be russian and will welcome russian troops as saviours??? I guess all we can do is watch this space and see what happens!!!

jk0

Hmm. I don't know about SHTF, but it feels like it today.

This morning my next door neighbour finally started work on his enormous extension with a jack hammer to break up his drive. My next door but one neighbour & I have been fighting this extension for two years now, but the council gave him permission in the end.

My neighbour is planning to DIY this work, so it looks set to last about a year.

I took refuge at the flat I am renovating for most of the day, but it's not nice having that racket going on ten feet away. Perhaps I should be grateful that I have somewhere else to go.

Karmacat

Sorry to hear that, jko

About the Russians, its just occurred to me - the very fact that the corrupt lot at the top have stashed their money in the stock market *might* be the saving grace here - if they act like old time USSR while having a new style Russian stock market, their stocks will take a beating, and they don't like that. That might stop them, eventually.

greenbee

pineapple wrote: »

But the funniest thing on TV over the weekend has to have been John Kerry (with strangely 'fixed' hair) talking - with a straight face - about the unacceptability of invading a sovereign country on phony pretexts in order to assert one’s own interests in the 21st century.
I mean - you couldn't make it up. Pineapple nearly fell off her sofa

Maybe when they replaced his hair they removed his memory? Or replaced his brain?

rochja wrote: »

I have a theory that it should be possible to isolate your electrics at the mains switch, plug a generator into a ring circuit and thereby maintain electrics for heating and such like so long as the capacities of the generator and the wiring are not overloaded. Can anyone confirm whether I am right please? The only possible snag I can see is that if the generator does not produce a clean sine wave the RCDs might trip?

Like lots of my neighbours I'm having a generator switch put in as we are getting an increasing number of power cuts. Not that I can afford the generator, but the switch can go in as part of the ongoing electrical work.

Karmacat wrote: »

I've had loads and loads of old seeds hanging about, from Approved Foods and other food shops, always meant to grind them to create wonderful, yummy mummy type foodstuffs and, erm, I realised I can soak them and sprout them. Cue a handful rinsed and soaked last Friday, in a jam jar, water is changed twice a day, and since I have approximately a million pairs of black tights, I cut the toe section out, tied it round the top with a piece of string. And they're sprouting :j Now I know it works, and without buying an expensive sprouter, I'll be doing enough for a helping a day.

I do this, and then forget to eat them. :cool:

Butterfly_Brain

I am another who cannot stand the sound of Vague's voice pretentious little pr1ck.
How are we supposed to send troops when thousands have been made redundant and others are tied up in Afghanistan and Iraq, we don't even have an aircraft carrier and our harrier jump jets have been mothballed.

short_bird

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/03/uk-seeks-russia-harm-city-london-document

Butterfly_Brain

short_bird wrote: »

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/03/uk-seeks-russia-harm-city-london-document

The Tories will always protect the City, but will hammer the most vulnerable

Butterfly_Brain

This is what has angered me the most today
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/03/nhs-england-patient-data-google-servers

DawnW

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

This is what has angered me the most today
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/03/nhs-england-patient-data-google-servers

I thought that till I just saw the programme on people having to use food banks because their benefits have been sanctioned :mad:And we are supposed to be a civilised, First World country :mad::mad:

And if I hear about 'hard working taxpayers' once more I shall scream - though thinking about it, I guess I fall into that category- I am currently a higher rate tax payer (just) and also declare a little self employed income, pay 2 lots of NI etc, but if what I pay goes to keep people who are down on their luck, disabled or mentally ill housed, warm and fed, I am happy with that. If on the other hand it goes to bailing out banks, wars, MPs' expenses, ATOS, G4S and their ilk, that is quite another thing :mad: