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Village People?

 

I think he's a model mate. He probably makes a **** load of cash each year.

 

Sorry no 'skin' snaps so .......



....hope this will suffice!

 

Me on a good day.

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A ****er wearing a balaclava and hoody and wielding a machete, strode into a Gold Coast club demanding money. From the far side of the room, a patron spotted the robbery and decided to take action. He took off his coat and he calmly walked around behind the pokies and went after the bandit. Using chairs and a pot plant he chased off the thief who fled through the door. Our hero followed and crash tackled the turd and retrieved the stolen loot. Good man, I hope the club gave him a free drink.

https://www.news.com.au/national/qu...r/news-story/045e5ae8f1a51888573512731b330cd7

 

With the news that will Hill are to close 700 shops due to the thankful reduction on the fobts revenue I wonder if there are figures available showing the number of shops prior to these dreadful machines? Sorry to anyone losing their jobs as a result of the closures

 

From what I can find on line independent bookies down from a high in the 90s of around 1350 to 200 now. As far as the big guns are concerned though they're blaming it all on the new legislation re fobts the growth of their on line facilities must also have had an impact. No different too lots of other retail outlets in the high street really. The bookies have had a longer stay of execution because they've been able to supply the betting equivalent of crack cocaine to the vulnerable addict.

 

Many crossroads in certain parts of Edinburgh had three bookies and three pubs pimping for business up to about the early 2000's. There had to be a reduction due to the lessening of and competition for the leisure Pound.

 

According to a report in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, the US Federal Trade Commission has approved a $5 billion penalty to be levied on Facebook for it's privacy and data protection lapses. The penalty still needs to be approved by the Justice Department.

I should imagine Facebook will go all out to have the fine slashed.

 

Only in America? A Facebook post titled "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us." has, as of yesterday, obtained 500,000 supporters. The charge through the fences is supposed to take place at 3:00 am on September 20.

Also stated. “We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry. If we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Lets see them aliens.” (To naroto run is to run with torso and head leaning forward with arms arms flailing behind.)

Attendees are already looking for info on flights and accommodation. If you see somebody wearing a broad brimmed hat with dangling corks, belting across the open spaces, it'll be me.

 

Allegedly, this fella swooped down and made away with somebody’s rat on a lead. More of a meal than a few chips and a bit of fish...

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If any of his relatives want to feast on some around here, I am sure no-one will object too much. We already see them killing pigeons on our office flat roof. The pigeons are clearly on the way out so the gulls help them along.

 

I stay fairly close to Leith waterfront and you want to see the size of some of the seagulls who pop up for a perch on the lamp posts outside my third floor tenement flat. They sometimes have a peer into 'Casa Cambie' .... no doubt having a gander (pun intended) for any small residents; human, canine or feline!

 

Walking into work this morning, I was stood at the lights waiting to cross the A63 (four lanes, central reservation) and there was a black youth stood the other side of the road with the obligatory backwards baseball cap and mobile phone in front of face. Must be a visitor as I have never seen him before...

When the lights changed, our paths crossed on the central island and in fact the youth was white but covered from head to foot with tattoos. Clearly he had spent most of his adolescence travelling across islands in the South Pacific, picking up a souvenir at each port of call but only able to show them all off here in a T-shirt and shorts.

Or was it indeed the much more frequently spotted species that is commonly known as the Snowflake Chav?

 

'City-killer' asteroid just missed earth. NASA didn't see it coming. Asteroid 2019 OK sped by Earth on Wednesday, flying some 45,000 miles away, inside the orbit of the moon. If it had made impact, would have hit the planet with 30 times the power of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/454915-city-killer-asteroid-just-misses-earth-shocks-scientists

 

One of these days Ron ... one of these days.

 

I wonder what would happen if they did see it coming. It's not as though we can get out of the way.