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Playing for change.
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I know yet another music thread. I just need music so much in my life have done since I can remember. The universal salve... Anyway...
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I think I am addicted to Temu.
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Honestly, their stuff is so cheap. I make cards, and the crafting materials, cards, papers, beaded appliques, etc, etc, are dirt cheap and incredibly beautiful. I know they can get bad reviews, but so far for me....fabulous.
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Assisted Dying Bill
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Will they pass it in Parliament? I doubt it.
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Christmas Cards
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I've noticed many people stopped sending cards now. One reason I think is youngsters don't bother anymore, my girls never did them. Stamps are so expensive now, I'm only sending a couple to close friends, the rest I give out. Do you still send Christmas cards?
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SCAMMERS.
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How low can people get? Tarnishing the memory of a brave old man who did his best to raise funds for charity. Captain Tom villagers ‘embarrassed’ over tarnished legacy of national hero
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UK Gov. petitions
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Nearly 2 million have signed for another election. I doubt that will happen but it might get rid of Starmer. The news and some papers are not reporting this. I've signed. Just go to UK Gov. Petitions and sign If you care about what Starmer is doing to this country. -- Edited by Magica on Monday 25th o...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SYL
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My dear friend, have a wonderful birthday 🎂 Enjoy your day xx🍻🍰🍷
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I'll be damned.
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It's not official yet, but it looks like the fat lady is about to sing. At midnight in Texas, Trump basically needs one more swing state amd he's leading in all of them. I didn't see this coming.
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friends burned to death trapped inside crashed Tesla
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Why on earth do they make cars that can go this seriously wrong? Four friends died in a burning Tesla after a crash broke the car's electronic door handles, it is claimed. A woman in her 20s was the only survivor of the fiery October 24 crash after Rick Harper, a heroic Canada Post employee, smas...
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Christmas shopping.
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Anyone already started? I have. I was always the one who left everything to the last minute....and that's when I had a lot more to do. The last couple of years I have started early, made Christmas cards, bought close family pressies (except for OH, he is horrendous to buy for, ideas would be wel...
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Chest infection doing the rounds.
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We've all come down with it in this family and the schools have been hit really hard. The doc has just returned to work after two weeks off with it... caught he assures us from his three kids who went down with it. Seems to be UK wide as Queen Camilla has just recovered from it.
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The Scottish Newspaper: The National (Scotland) - The Newspaper that Supports an Independent Scotland
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I have seen the front page of this newspaper yesterday and today and from it it seems to be at least as antisemitic or more so than the BBC. I wonder if anyone here is familiar with this newspaper and is able to give me there thoughts on this paper (who the paper supports, who they are against). I know th...
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The fight for rights for women
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1. Throughout much of the nineteenth century, a husband, father, or other male authority figure could—and did—have a woman declared insane as easily as getting two doctors to sign the certificate, and they didn’t even have to see the patient. A man’s testimony was enough to get a female relative loc...
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Nicola Sturgeon quit
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Old Krankie has finally come the decent thing and quit. The English, woman hater has done Scotland a big favour. Horrible woman.
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NAA said
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...and others they like the way I wrote my script as if it was poetry. Still no one seems to get it. 20 years ago everywhere was like this place is now. Write a whole sentence on one line and you have to scroll backwards and forwards to read it. Still people do it on sites like this. When are you going to get it?...
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Bonfire night.
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Might be me getting old but I didn't seem to notice it creeping up on me in the usual manner of lots of whizz pops and bangs around. Lots of special night goings on advertising... I noticed nothing and suspected even less! I'm a couple of days away from it and I swear it's just kind of appeared like popping i...
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COMMUNICATION?
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We live in the age of communication. Instantly call your friends and family anywhere. We have video connections we have video information galore search a word a phrase a song line and instantly we're connected to a world of information. There's never been anything like this before and my grandchild...
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Where's the protests?
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A baby was fed to its own unwitting mother by Isis, who also raped a ten-year-old girl to death in front of her own family, an Iraqi MP has claimed.Vian Dakhil is a prominent Yazidi politician and has served as an important mouthpiece for the horrors perpetrated by Isis against her people. The extremi...
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Interstellar travel?
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The more we learn the more it's looking like we'll never ever achieve it. The vastness of the universe is incredibly difficult for our little earth based minds to conceive. The closest star after our own is 4 and a half light years away and traveling at the speed of light is becoming more and more impossi...
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Nanny State
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This is so sad. The man had this squirrel for 7 years, it never went outside, so there was no way it had rabies. The whole family are heart broken. I get that rodents are perhaps more likely to carry diseases but only if they have access to the wild. You can see how healthy this one is and how loved. ...
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Swapped at birth.
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A very unusual case, the first one ever recorded by the NHS. "Two families in the West Midlands are waiting for compensation in the first documented case of babies being switched at birth in NHS history.It was only taken out of idle curiosity one rainy winter’s day – but the shocking result of a DNA tes...
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The amazing UK!
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Where to start? The land is so full of history and historical places. How about starting in a place that when you've experienced it you discover it's a world within worlds. The canals... two thousand miles open and working at present many dating from the mid 1700's. They were dug across the land throug...
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Trick or Treats.
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Do you open the door...or just ignore? Some years we get loads, others none. I got sick of being left with teeth breaking lollies so now I buy chocolates so I can eat them all myself if no one comes. We have had countless kids calling tonight, all dressed up brilliantly as tiny demons or witches....and t...
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$20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
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A Russian court has fined Google more money than exists https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/30/russian-court-fines-google-20-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-21890949/
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Substantial minimum wage rise to be announced.
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Good thing or bad? In today's budget, as from next April, for people aged 21 and over, the minimum wage will rise to £12.21ph. For 18 to 20 year olds, a 16% increase, will bring their minimum wage up to £10ph. Some owners of small businesses are not happy and are saying they will have to lay people off. ...
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The real danger of on line trolling and catfishing
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A family has expressed their rage after a father and daughter were driven to suicide by a prolific 'catfish' abuser.Cimarron Thomas, 12, who was named for the first time after a court order protecting her identity was lifted, used her father's handgun to take her own life after being blackmailed onl...
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Lets hear it for Russia!
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Vladimir Putin was unable to open the car door. Broken door handle
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Prince Williams Beard
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Do you like him with or without? Personally I don't like it at all. Makes him look dirty, but then I don't like beards or this unshaven look. What do th think?
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Liam Payne is dead.
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Ex One Direction star Liam Payne, has been pronounced dead after falling from a third floor window in Argentina. He was only 31, ex husband of Cheryl Cole and father to her son.
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Two Tier Kier aka The Human Hand Grenade aka The Sausage Assassin aka....
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$100K raised for legal fees of dad who allegedly killed man he found with his missing daughter
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LONOKE COUNTY, Ark. (Gray News) – More than $100,000 has been raised for the legal fees of an Arkansas father accused of killing a 67-year-old man who he found in a car with his missing 14-year-old daughter, his family said.According to the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office, officers were called in ref...
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“Let’s show those Yanks how to win elections!”
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Activists from Sir Keir Starmer’s party will spend the next two-and-a-half weeks canvassing for Kamala Harris in four key battlegrounds ahead of the US election on Nov 5. They will target Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, which are all seen as crucial to Ms Harris’ path to the Whi...
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Free weight loss jabs for the obese unemployed.
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"Labour wants to give millions of obese, unemployed Britons free fat-busting jabs used by celebrities in a desperate bid to get them off the couch and 'back to work'. Health Secretary Wes Streeting is planning to offer jobless Brits free jabs of the controversial 'miracle' weight loss drug, Oze...
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Suspected acid attack on a 14 year old girl and two others in London.
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"A 14-year-old girl has been left with potentially life-changing injuries after a suspected acid attack outside a school in west London. A boy aged 16 and a 27-year-old woman were also injured after the substance, believed to be acidic, was thrown at pupils and a staff member outside Westminster A...
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Aurora Borealis
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13 year old granddaughter is staying at the moment and has been in and out pointing her phone at a blank black sky north and north east and catching some great pictures of the northern lights that we can't see with the naked eye. If you're still up go give it a go now!
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