In todays news...

[MrLongbeard]

10 /10, rocket surgery it wasn't.

[Dodgy69]

9/10 on the biscuit challenge. My favourite dipper is a bourbon BTW.

2nd attempt and 10/10. I can sleep tonight.

[Bike Breaker]

10 /10, rocket surgery it wasn't.

It was on a CBBC website so I wouldn't have expected it to be very difficult.

[MrLongbeard]

10 /10, rocket surgery it wasn't.

It was on a CBBC website so I wouldn't have expected it to be very difficult.

Was it, I wasn't paying that much attention.
But now you mention it, CBBC apparently spans from 6 - 15 years olds, so do you want to try some GCSE questions on physics, chemistry, biology or maths?

[Taipan]

I guess if you're going to arm little Johnny with a 9mm Sig Sauer SP 2022 pistol, then you go down with him! But reading the last sentence is no real surprise is it...


April 9 (Reuters) - The parents of a Michigan boy who shot and killed four classmates are set to be sentenced on Tuesday after juries convicted them of manslaughter, a rare case of parents being held responsible in a school shooting.
Jennifer and James Crumbley, who were tried separately this year, both face up to 15 years in prison in connection with the 2021 shooting their son, Ethan, carried out.
Ethan Crumbley was 15 at the time of the shooting at Oxford High School. He pleaded guilty in 2022 to four counts of first-degree murder and other charges, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole in December.
Prosecutors in the trials of both Jennifer Crumbley, 46, and James Crumbley, 47, said the parents were criminally negligent for providing a gun for their child as a Christmas present and for ignoring signs his mental health had deteriorated and that he was potentially violent.
The parents' defense teams argued, among other points, that it was impossible for the mother and the father to envision their son would carry out a mass shooting.
The United States, a country with persistent gun violence, has experienced a series of school shootings over the years, often carried out by current or former students. The Crumbleys were the first parents to be charged with manslaughter in a child's school shooting.
The U.S. had seen little precedent for the criminal charges the Crumbleys faced.
Experts and gun safety advocates have said their trials were an important step in holding gun-owning parents more accountable for school violence carried out by their children. Studies by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have shown that around 75% of all school shooters obtained their weapons at home.

[Rockburner]

Some good news for @cheb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w5e2vg8wzo

[irie]

Some good news for @cheb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w5e2vg8wzo

The ship will now require more than a year of fitting out work at the quayside before it is ready for delivery.

So that'll probably be a other 2-3 years ...

[cheb]

Some good news for @cheb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w5e2vg8wzo

That was supposed to do the run out here but it was reallocated to serve Arran because of the delays. It'll interesting to see what happens with the lpg side of things, there's a lot of infrastructure to be built for ease of refuelling, probably better logistics further south. The planned tank on Skye was to have been supplied by road tanker.

[Bike Breaker]

10 /10, rocket surgery it wasn't.

It was on a CBBC website so I wouldn't have expected it to be very difficult.

Was it, I wasn't paying that much attention.
But now you mention it, CBBC apparently spans from 6 - 15 years olds, so do you want to try some GCSE questions on physics, chemistry, biology or maths?

Heck no! I studied those subjects doing A-levels 50 years ago. Doing it now would be more of a "what have you forgotten" quiz.

[MrLongbeard]

It was on a CBBC website so I wouldn't have expected it to be very difficult.

Was it, I wasn't paying that much attention.
But now you mention it, CBBC apparently spans from 6 - 15 years olds, so do you want to try some GCSE questions on physics, chemistry, biology or maths?

Heck no! I studied those subjects doing A-levels 50 years ago. Doing it now would be more of a "what have you forgotten" quiz.

I did mine 35 years ago, and helped daughter study for hers 5 - 6 years ago, it was more a case of 'what's changed since' never mind how they teach maths now.

[Yorick]

Harry Kane to sign for U.D. Lanzarote

https://gazettelife.com/news/harry-kane ... a-rojillo/

[Yorick]

Blimey. I can't comprehend 1 billion, never mind 44.

When does greed stop? At 1 billion She may have got away with it.

She won't get to spend any now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68778636
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[mangocrazy]

Blimey. I can't comprehend 1 billion, never mind 44.

When does greed stop? At 1 billion She may have got away with it.

She won't get to spend any now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68778636
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It has to be an addiction; it's one of the few ways to explain it. Or perhaps she just got off on the thrill of embezzling USD44 million. It's seriously psychotic behaviour, anyway.

[Taipan]

I'd imagine once some embezzlement schemes are set up they have to keep running or the reversal would reveal the fraud.

[cheb]

Some of the banks used to have a policy that you had to take a holiday spanning a month end and the like to try and limit long term fraud.

[Lutin]

We all know that Liz Truss is an idiot, but seriously? Liz Truss: The world was safer under Trump

[gremlin]

A case of 'I may not agree with what you say, I defend to the death the right of a mayor to spoil your party....'

National Conservatism Conference: Police told to shut down right-wing Brussels event

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68826577

Although stopping Nige from yapping on is probably not a bad thing.

[gremlin]

Some of the banks used to have a policy that you had to take a holiday spanning a month end and the like to try and limit long term fraud.

I have to take 10 consecutive days holidays in one calendar year, in order to rumble any sophisticated embezzlement I might be up to.

[Mr Moofo]

A case of 'I may not agree with what you say, I defend to the death the right of a mayor to spoil your party....'

National Conservatism Conference: Police told to shut down right-wing Brussels event

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68826577

Although stopping Nige from yapping on is probably not a bad thing.

Yeah, Farage is a knob
But closing down the meeting as "ultra right wing" is the begins of "Bonfires of the Vanities" / Nazi book burning/ CCCP banning of non approved text.
Let people spout - and then you can challenge them. Ban them and it all happens behind closed doors. It doesn't actuall stop people

And free speech is a good thing

[gremlin]

A case of 'I may not agree with what you say, I defend to the death the right of a mayor to spoil your party....'

National Conservatism Conference: Police told to shut down right-wing Brussels event

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68826577

Although stopping Nige from yapping on is probably not a bad thing.

Yeah, Farage is a knob
But closing down the meeting as "ultra right wing" is the begins of "Bonfires of the Vanities" / Nazi book burning/ CCCP banning of non approved text.
Let people spout - and then you can challenge them. Ban them and it all happens behind closed doors. It doesn't actuall stop people

And free speech is a good thing

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt," as somebody may have said, at some point.

Or as the Clash might have said, 'Give 'em enough rope...'