Posted 14 Dec 2022 1 hour ago, john g. said: Little anecdote here! Remember the King's Cross fire on the London Underground? Sometime early 80s. Memory jog for me there @john g. 18 November 1987: Beers after work in London. We're drinking in Soho. I'm contemplating another pint but think my girlfriend will get a bit mardy, so I decline and aim for the 19:30 GNER (first stop Peterborough) before it heads further North. I catch the Piccadilly Line to KGX and actually travel up that wooden escalator. I catch my train and 15mins later the escalator bursts into flames. I arrive in Peterborough, catch a taxi home, open the door (totally unaware)... and my girlfriend hurls herself at me crying. Eventually she drags me into the lounge and the KGX fire is all live on TV. No smartphones or Internet in those days. An extra pint probably would have had me heading for the 20:00 GNER and travelling up that escalator when it exploded. I'm an atheist, but its one of two times in my life when I went to sleep that night thinking: There but for the grace of God go I. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 14 Dec 2022 1 hour ago, Chelski said: Memory jog for me there @john g. 18 November 1987: Beers after work in London. We're drinking in Soho. I'm contemplating another pint but think my girlfriend will get a bit mardy, so I decline and aim for the 19:30 GNER (first stop Peterborough) before it heads further North. I catch the Piccadilly Line to KGX and actually travel up that wooden escalator. I catch my train and 15mins later the escalator bursts into flames. I arrive in Peterborough, catch a taxi home, open the door (totally unaware)... and my girlfriend hurls herself at me crying. Eventually she drags me into the lounge and the KGX fire is all live on TV. No smartphones or Internet in those days. An extra pint probably would have had me heading for the 20:00 GNER and travelling up that escalator when it exploded. I'm an atheist, but its one of two times in my life when I went to sleep that night thinking: There but for the grace of God go I. Wow, babe👍 You just never know. Yep, there but for the grace of God. Yep, no SmartPhones etc. I was on another Tube line that evening and got home and put the telly on. By the way, don't underestimate ypur guardisn angels. Mine phone me and WhatsApp me and warn me! " You bloody idiot". Mostly before I post on Toytown!😂 And there are those who think memory jogs should be verboten. Stop talking about back then. People don't like it. I am not sure I like being older. either!😩😂 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 14 Dec 2022 2 hours ago, john g. said: And there are those who think memory jogs should be verboten. Stop talking about back then. People don't like it. I am not sure I like being older. either!😩😂 And here is another one! Talking about smoking in the underground, when I was a very small child 5 years or so old, my mother took me with her up to London to do some Christmas shopping. I stalled at the top of the escalators and a uniformed employee of the tube offered my mother help by taking me down and stood behind me and held me by the shoulders, he was smoking and about half way down the lit end of his cig. dropped out and went straight down the back of my shirt, he obviously did not notice as he assumed my screams were due to fright. Still screaming on the platform my mother finally got my coat off and extinguished my smouldering shirt and got some first aid somewhere to treat the burn! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 15 Dec 2022 My first ever foray into the nightclub scene was marked by someone flicking their fag ash onto my shoulder and it burning through my new dress And yes, it burnt my tender, youthful skin to boot. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 16 Dec 2022 So much for making it a bastion of free speech! Quote Twitter bans some journalists who cover Elon Musk https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63996061 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 17 Dec 2022 "January 6 committee expected to announce referral of multiple criminal charges against Trump to DOJ" Quote — The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, is expected to announce it will refer at least three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department, including insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the federal government, according to a source familiar with the matter. The committee’s final recommendations could include additional charges proposed for Trump, according to the source. The referral recommendations will be presented at a committee meeting on Monday and the final report will provide justification from the panel’s investigation for recommending the charges. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/16/politics/january-6-committee-trump-criminal-charges-doj/index.html 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 20 January Quote A federal judge on Thursday ordered former U.S. President Donald Trump and his attorneys to pay more than $937,000 in sanctions for suing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over claims the 2016 presidential election was rigged. U.S. District Judge John Middlebrooks, who threw out Trump's lawsuit in September, said the sanctions were warranted because the former president had exhibited a pattern of misusing the courts to further his political agenda. "This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim," Middlebrooks wrote in the 45-page written ruling. here 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 20 January But he thinks someone else should pay...his attorney. /Quote Trump and Habba – as well as her law firm Habba, Madaio and Associates – are jointly liable for the $1m penalty, though the former president indicated to associates that he essentially believed it should be paid by his attorney instead of him, according to sources familiar with the matter. /Unquote here 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 20 January Of course. He should never pay anything. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 21 January At lease he or his lawyers learned something from it about frivolous lawsuits- Quote Less than a day after receiving a warning from a federal judge, former President Donald Trump has withdrawn his lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 21 January On 1/20/2023, 1:20:53, HH_Sailor said: But he thinks someone else should pay...his attorney. Maybe his attorney will pay the fine and then sue tRump for his half plus their fees. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 21 January You think he pays his attorneys? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 21 January Trump will be dead before this gets paid by what's left of his estate. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 15 February https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-64647907 Wow! This comes out of the blue! Nicola Surgeon to resign as First Minister of Scotland. A result of the uproar re the male rapist who was sent to a women's prison? Dunno.. but maybe. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 16 February Could be the end for Erdogan Quote Resurfaced videos from 2019 show Turkey's president boasting about granting amnesty for buildings that didn't meet earthquake construction codes, according to local media. The videos of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are circulating widely in Turkey as the death toll from this month's devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake surpassed 33,000 people. Erdoğan is seen in the videos speaking on the campaign trail in 2019, boasting of having removed building standards-related headaches for hundreds of thousands of citizens with his amnesty policy. One stop was in Kahramanmaraş, the recent earthquake's epicenter. There, in 2019, he said: "We have solved the problems of 144,556 Kahramanmaraş citizens with the amnesty," according to local outlet Duvar English. Erdoğan made similar boasts in campaign stops in the cities of Hatay and Malatya, both also now ravaged by the earthquake, Duvar reported. In Hatay, he said: "We have solved the problems of 205,000 citizens of Hatay with zoning peace," per a translation by NPR. the rest 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
