Yeah, it was semi-detached, not semi-attached.

Thanks, I'll be back with more probably.

It's also a bit weird how I get slightly annoyed by "collect" instead of "pick up" and "ring" instead of "call" and "ring of" instead of "hang up" especially since that is the English I was tought in school.

I'm reading the latest Ruth Galloway book, and since I couldn't wait for the swedish version I ordered the english one, but there are some words that I never heard before, so you english out there, what the f is a semi-attached house and what is it attached to and why.

And what is a "neat bob" ( as in " women over 50 doesn't, need to have a neat bob after all" said about a woman who had her hair down.)

I saw a cool cloud formation today.
It looked cooler from the car than in the photo though.

Didn't know hurricanes could do that, that's a hell of a lot of dirt to move. And also, you have a morbid mind.

You guys, everything is gloom and doom and conspiracys with you, you thrive on being contrarian don't you.

Here's a translation to English of a piece I read the other day on a site I follow, and I think he might be right.

"Maybe I just haven't kept my eyes open, but I don't have the feeling that anyone really paid attention to the big upheaval that is reasonably on the way in climate policy.

First consider our - and in this case our means not only Sweden's but the entire Western world's - situation. Climate policy as man's tentative defense against a newly discovered – some would say newly invented – deadly threat to humanity arose at the UN's environmental conference in Stockholm in 1972. "Tentative" is exactly the right word because no one really knew how the world would cope with the prospect of greenhouse gases taking a toll on humanity. But now, when half a century has passed, we see how the world is preparing for attack. The enemy, that is the fossil fuels and to some extent the cows, is identified. Drastic laws have been written and are ready to be implemented if it has not already happened. Authorities around the world have prepared their orders of war within the framework of the overarching strategic plan drawn up under the Paris Agreement. Military judges who are to evaluate the various countries' local fight against carbon dioxide are recruited, trained and posted. Sappers and free front soldiers such as Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg have begun their propaganda attacks against the project's skeptics. The press has been won over to the cause of bold climate policy.

Sometime this year, the war against carbon dioxide and the cows finally got under way after these long preparations. The main weapon is the financial incentive. The idea is, for example, that gasoline will become so expensive through new taxes and fees that people cannot afford to use fossil fuels, which must therefore remain in the ground instead of being pumped up. The project was launched this spring. Petrol suddenly went up to twenty kronor a litre.

Then something remarkable happened that the highest war planning center at the UN Environmental Headquarters had not really thought about. Instead of being grateful for the little financial nudge in the bum that would get people to ditch the gas and save the world instead, people got worried and pissed off. For decades they should have seen it coming, but they hadn't. They probably never thought the climate talk was serious, but it was.

In many places in the world, climate policy caused violent protests. Dutch farmers started riots against a climate policy that made the inputs so expensive that the farmers could barely survive. In Sri Lanka, a country that subscribed to the strictest climate thinking, the people made a revolution and chased their climate alarmist president out of the country.

This international unrest, which began a few months ago, ushered in a brief formative phase. How would the politicians, who in practically all countries have embraced the climate alarmist agenda and aligned themselves with the intentions of the Paris Agreement, now stand? Would they persevere with price increases and fossil fuel bans and hope that the popular protests would die down as quickly as they flared up? Or would they strike down the flag and reorder completely in fear of the wrath of the people?

It seems that the politicians nimbly, easily and without shame succumbed to the signals of farmers and motorists. The gasoline price increases that one moment was boasted about because the higher prices would save the world were described the next moment as hostile contrivances by Putin for which the politicians would do everything to compensate the affected fossil fuel consumers.

What does this mean if not capitulation and closure of climate policy? It has not even survived the first small setback of the war.

The political upheaval didn't just happen in Sweden. President Biden had gone to the election on a strict climate policy and began his term of office by sticking sticks in the wheel of the American fossil producers. The other week, he took that back and opened more federal land for gas and oil extraction than ever before in US history. German politicians are starting to burn coal, the Black Satan of climate alarmism, and are likely preparing to restart nuclear power plants.

Nothing says that the conditions that caused the reversal will disappear. Oil will not suddenly become cheaper. Concerns about power shortages will not end. New measures to democratically squeeze people who are already suffering are not likely. How are the Germans now going to get the Chinese to stop building coal-fired power plants?

I would bet a penny that we will now see the end of climate policy. Like the Titanic, it has run aground on its maiden voyage.

However, the Swedish state media companies will continue to report as if nothing had happened and thus remind of the Japanese sergeant Shoichi Yokoi who 28 years after the end of the Second World War was found on the island of Guam where he had continued to fight against the Americans."

https://detgodasamhallet.com/2022/08/26/patrik-engellau-vandpunkt-i-klimatkampen/

Not one single thing in that mess of a text is true, you are not very good at spreading propaganda.

The war is all about winning, go home to Russia, troll.

2008? wasn't that the invasion of Georgia?
Ukraine was invaded 2014 if I recall correctly.

Edit: yepp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War

Whopper extra everything hold the onion is actually one of my favorite burgers, I love the taste of that mayo as it runs down the bun and on to the table. I still buy it now and then, it's the taste of my youth.

Many has? Show me one in this thread, just one and I will be satisfied.

Not falling for propaganda is one thing, denying facts is just stupid.
Ukraine deserves all the money in the world, regardless of how many islands you can build with them.
And Russia deserves to be forced to their knees, unfortunately I don't think that will happen, but one can allways hope. For lasting peace in Europe Russia needs to be chrushed and divided between the european western countries, and their language and culture wiped from the face of the earth.

I just want to point out to all the mentally challenged in here that Ukraine is winning the war, and has been doing so since the russians bogged down in the super long convoy that they thought was going to take Kiev.

That convoy is now history and thay are slowly advancing in the east and south.
Only yesterday 400 russian soldiers were killed and ten tanks, sixteen IFVs, seven artillerysystems and MLRSs, five AA systems and sixtynine (69) transportvehicles were taken out.

About 50 Ukrainian soldiers were killed.

Oh, they are so winning.

This will probably end in something like the Korean situation where the Russians are being kicked out of Ukraine and there is a unruly border situation, while Russia more and more becomes like north Korea and Ukraine becomes like south Korea, rich, democratic and part of the western world with superior armed forces.
Remember, lend lease one hasn't even arrived yet and they are allready kicking the shit out of the russians, just wait until the F15 and F16 planes and Abrams tanks and all the other stuff that they now are being trained on arrives.

I'm guessing they will take some 30 km or so of russian territory as a buffer zone and then start taking out all the long range missiles and airplanes that is pestering Ukraine with constant terror bombings of civilians from russian territory. The western planes can take the Meteor, the worlds longes range air to air missile, the russian airplanes can't hide in safety in russian or belarussian territory anymore when they arrive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_(missile)

Not a problem if you drive a 1992 Volvo 940.

Here's an actual paper, instead of  fake pro Putin opinions. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4167193

"Abstract
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters into its fifth month, a common narrative has emerged that the unity of the world in standing up to Russia has somehow devolved into a “war of economic attrition which is taking its toll on the west”, given the supposed “resilience” and even “prosperity” of the Russian economy. This is simply untrue – and a reflection of widely held but factually incorrect misunderstandings over how the Russian economy is actually holding up amidst the exodus of over 1,000 global companies and international sanctions.

That these misunderstandings persist is not surprising. Since the invasion, the Kremlin’s economic releases have become increasingly cherry-picked, selectively tossing out unfavorable metrics while releasing only those that are more favorable. These Putin-selected statistics are then carelessly trumpeted across media and used by reams of well-meaning but careless experts in building out forecasts which are excessively, unrealistically favorable to the Kremlin.

Our team of experts, using private Russian language and unconventional data sources including high frequency consumer data, cross-channel checks, releases from Russia’s international trade partners, and data mining of complex shipping data, have released one of the first comprehensive economic analyses measuring Russian current economic activity five months into the invasion, and assessing Russia’s economic outlook.

From our analysis, it becomes clear: business retreats and sanctions are catastrophically crippling the Russian economy. We tackle a wide range of common misperceptions – and shed light on what is actually going on inside Russia, including:

- Russia’s strategic positioning as a commodities exporter has irrevocably deteriorated, as it now deals from a position of weakness with the loss of its erstwhile main markets, and faces steep challenges executing a “pivot to Asia” with non-fungible exports such as piped gas

- Despite some lingering leakiness, Russian imports have largely collapsed, and the country faces stark challenges securing crucial inputs, parts, and technology from hesitant trade partners, leading to widespread supply shortages within its domestic economy

- Despite Putin’s delusions of self-sufficiency and import substitution, Russian domestic production has come to a complete standstill with no capacity to replace lost businesses, products and talent; the hollowing out of Russia’s domestic innovation and production base has led to soaring prices and consumer angst

- As a result of the business retreat, Russia has lost companies representing ~40% of its GDP, reversing nearly all of three decades’ worth of foreign investment and buttressing unprecedented simultaneous capital and population flight in a mass exodus of Russia’s economic base

- Putin is resorting to patently unsustainable, dramatic fiscal and monetary intervention to smooth over these structural economic weaknesses, which has already sent his government budget into deficit for the first time in years and drained his foreign reserves even with high energy prices – and Kremlin finances are in much, much more dire straits than conventionally understood

- Russian domestic financial markets, as an indicator of both present conditions and future outlook, are the worst performing markets in the entire world this year despite strict capital controls, and have priced in sustained, persistent weakness within the economy with liquidity and credit contracting – in addition to Russia being substantively cut off from international financial markets, limiting its ability to tap into pools of capital needed for the revitalization of its crippled economy

Looking ahead, there is no path out of economic oblivion for Russia as long as the allied countries remain unified in maintaining and increasing sanctions pressure against Russia, and The Kyiv School of Economics and McFaul-Yermak Working Group have led the way in proposing additional sanctions measures.

Defeatist headlines arguing that Russia’s economy has bounced back are simply not factual - the facts are that, by any metric and on any level, the Russian economy is reeling, and now is not the time to step on the brakes.

Download the visual slide deck accompanying this research monograph here: https://yale.box.com/s/7f6agg5ezscj234kahx35lil04udqgeo

Click here to read a brief summary of our research in Foreign Policy:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/22/russia-economy-sanctions-myths-ruble-business"

The Phantom Carriage or Körkarlen 1921, Swedish Silent Horror Film, by and Starring Victor Sjöström.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew6XUvvoK_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ1RTpikz8I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxPl4HPHOSU



I know it's available with English text, but I couldn't find it on youtube.
It's a classic, the ax scene from the shining, among other scenes, comes from this movie.

It's Saturday

The Phantom Carriage or Körkarlen 1921, Swedish Silent Horror Film, by and Starring Victor Sjöström.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew6XUvvoK_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ1RTpikz8I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxPl4HPHOSU



I know it's available with English text, but I couldn't find it on youtube.
It's a classic, the ax scene from the shining, among other scenes, comes from this movie.

This is what it looks like when a HIMARS hits a russian ammo train.

https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1554915661062733824?s=20&t=fTCBAWTnNQazEApVX3UcxQ

The only peaceful solution to the Ukrainian war is for Russia to stop invading and go home.
And polarisation is not a bad thing, especially not if it's good against bad.
Without polarisation we would end up like Japan, a country where everybody is afraid of conflict and constantly seeks "harmony", well harmony doesn't promote progress and innovation, just stagnation, that's why Japan was still using muskets, when the polarised west had machine guns.