The Official Nonsense Thread

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The storms were peculiar. You know all those weather forecasts of 80 mph winds for up to twelve hours? It lasted all of 3 minutes (yes, THREE) where I was. All the same, pretty hairy - like a tidal wave was hitting the house, so strong was the rain. I pity those who were further north & on the coast, a miracle no one was killed.

The Paris shootings were bizarre. I know that traditionally the French & Syrians have issues dating back to WW2 time (to be brief, Syria was declared independent by the Free French in 1941 when they overthrew the Vichy authority in charge there; but after VE Day they bombed Damascus & tried to overthrow the democratically voted government in charge. Britain forced the French to keep their promise, but the Syrians never forgave them for it). But what did they think it would achieve, other than giving the French every excuse to overkill another former colony?

You need to have a serious screw loose to want to antagonise two nuclear powers (Russia and France) who have a history of alliances against mutual foes when all you have is AK47s and semtex. It was kept rather quiet back in February that the Charles DeGaulle aircraft carrier (reckoned to be the best in the world) was sending its 21 aircraft to bomb ISIS flat after the Charlie Hebdo murders - 25 full scale raids a day. If that's how the French responded over a crap adult comic most French people disliked anyway (pre-ISIS massacre it was regarded as puerile & a bit full of itself), its a pretty good guess they'll show no quarter after over 100 of their citizens were butchered.

Sorry for the vanishing act btw. Problems at work. Things aren't looking good. Our owners are morons who admit they've blown all the profit money over the last 8 years on themselves & now have no money to restructure or take action now profits have crashed due to competitors. Which could mean the other sort of restructuring happening. Oh well.