No one dares to ask? Or just no one needs to ask since the answer is obviously “we’re fucked”.

I saw that headline and just wondered if she landed on the head of an eagle 🙂

No, quite the opposite.

🙄

Hear that noise? That’s the sound of organized criminal smuggling gangs celebrating being given their new market.

Would that be the antiquated new digital system to stop trains? Or the antiquated leaves on the line? Or the antiquated steep incline at the location of the crash? Maybe we’ll wait for the RAIB investigation report rather than your wild guess.

Buy 4 of the one on the left, you’ll be quids in 🙂

Simple, servants 🙂

I think it’s the block of flats that’s Art Deco rather than the interior of that particular one, which is as you say more Louis Quatorze. If he’d been from Essex.

They complained that the original set of photos were all in portrait mode. This was the corrected set 🙂

Many people in that part of the world retain the ability, largely lost in the “west”, to squat with their feet flat on the floor. That reduces the strain on the knees/leg muscles while “straining “ 🙂

There’s a thing called leasehold whereby you own the building and lease the land usually for 99 years after which it returns to the freeholder. It’s one of the reasons that the US embassy in London moved from Mayfair to Nine Elms. It was the only US embassy in the world that the US government didn’t own, the freehold belongs to the Grosvenor family (i.e. Lord Grosvenor). When the US tried to buy the freehold the Grosvenor family refused but agreed to a 999 year lease in exchange for the return of 12000 acres of Florida that was confiscated from them after the Revolutionary War - yes, they’ve been landowners for a very long time! I think the US made sure to buy the freehold of the new site at Nine Elms (they sold the remainder of the 999 year lease in Mayfair for an undisclosed sum) 😀

The “little buckets of milk” are known in the trade as jiggers. My brother was in the hotel trade and I got a wholesale box which I used when running mobile training courses at work, very handy for carrying from site to site in the back of a van with teabags, coffee etc for the trainees. The UHT (Utterly Horrible Taste) milk does have a long life but as I discovered not an infinite one resulting in having to send a runner to the local shop one morning 😀

Bedrooms were usually a lot colder during the heyday of the Teasmade ☺️

It’s there a simple way of doing that?

It’s been up and down like a new bride’s nightie. I’ve opened a lemmy.world account in preparation for a possible feddit.uk collapse.

Excuse me but the correct SI units for length and area are double-decker buses and Waleses respectively ☺️

It’s fine, Xmas is still over a month away. Better get the sprouts on now though.

I assumed that it did, TBH.