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Drug and alcohol abuse sadly. I don't doubt their school years contributed to that. Edit: They died well before 50, I'm 50 now just to given some context to when I was at school. Double edit: I look back now on my school years and I was neither a bully or bullied nor did I go to a particularly...

There were certainly a few bullies at the school I went to (many years ago). They went on to utterly fail at life. A couple of kids who were bullied horrendously are now dead (I'm 50). Some of the unremarkable weirdo's went on to have remarkable careers.

Yeah that was the one, I suspect to a degree I got lucky, but nonetheless things seem to be moving in the right direction.

Well, it looks like things are getting better - I managed to secure a mortgage at 4.1%, 85% LTV with Santander. To be honest I was surprised and expecting much worse. It's not great by historical standards, but I suspect its the new normal for the next few years.

Given Russia's form for this, it's entirely possible this was orchestrated by Putin. I don't suppose we'll ever really know but Putin has used false flag terrorist operations to justify his actions in the past.

Where? Is it in the Pub or Restaurant that offends you? Office, Bus, Gym? Oh wait.... Yup. Nowt more puritanical....

Nothing more puritanical than an ex-smoker.

Ex-smoker alert.

@Roar87 Is all this because you watched the 2016 John Pilger documentary, 'The coming war on China' - your views here seem to mimic its talking points. Because I have to say, I'm no US apologist but I watched it and I have never seen a bigger load of anti-american hogwash (outside of USSR...

Nope, NATO's mission is to ensure peace and prosperity of it's members.

At the borders of NATO, that's what it's for. Just to clarify - that's the point at which NATO troops, air forces etc should directly engage Russian forces.

Sort of like 'we had to destroy the village to save it...' - from a previous war.

That's just not true - in order to be able to fly any aircraft professionally you have to have a very good working knowledge of how all the aircraft systems work. In addition, after initial training on an aircraft type, for the remainder of a pilots career, a process of ongoing learning about...

It managed to catch me walking home in the early hours with a traffic cone on my head as a student in London 25 odd years ago.

Demon souls, I know I’m a bit late to the party with that one but have been struggling to get into gaming recently. Don’t know why but it’s just really clicked with me. I’d tried Elden Ring (and was blown away by the world) but it overloaded me with just how hard it was, maybe I’ll go back to...

In all honesty I don’t know. Possibly because it would require another party to be complicit in something that would clearly cause problems for Europe.

It was Ukrainian special forces with the US Navy providing technical support (i.e. putting them on station).

He wasn’t talking to me or people like me. I know everything I need to know about him. He was talking to you and people like you.

It's not what he's said that's important, in this case. It's who he is. At his heart, Putin is a former KGB officer. At large part of his training and subsequent work would have been devoted to coming up with ideas to destabilise the USSR's enemies through propaganda and the dissemination of...