A farmer traces the address of a Fly Tipper, and returns the goods to his property.....

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US scientist recommends adding salt to make perfect cup of tea

My best friend just sent me this. It’s lovely when someone knows exactly how to appeal to your very niche interests…..

Astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar used to travel 80 kilometers every week from the Yerkes Observatory to the University of Chicago, where he taught a course attended by only two students. When asked why he spent his time this way, the professor replied…

Superb letter in today’s ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩

I just kicked a ball back to some kids in the park. Mercifully it went well but the adrenaline rush will keep me awake tonight.

Trevor Tombe: The Trans Mountain pipeline was worth every penny of its $34 billion price tag thehub.ca/2024-04-30/tre…

chilling

'Die Wannsee Conference' (1984) - Important German WW2 Conspiracy Film youtu.be/i9Ug_MXToEE?si… via YouTube

I can heartily recommend a visit to Copenhagen btw

Watching how a big city deals with congestion by filling it with masses of bike lanes should be a lesson that we'll eventually get, but I don't hold out much hope

cat got your tongue, Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy
Peter Bethlenfalvy?

Ottawa reviewing big banks’ decisions to stop selling third-party investment funds /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Andrew Bell Thank you, Google:

Although Dachshund is a German word, in modern Germany, the dogs are more commonly known by the short name Dackel. Working dogs are less commonly known as Teckel. Because of their long, narrow build, they are often nicknamed wiener or sausage dog.

I couldn’t remember official name for sausage dog so I asked wife, suggesting it’s was “wiener-schnitzer” or something like that. Now she can’t remember either. Somewhere, though, rusty old electrochemical storage systems are trundling and we’ll get it soon.

I only had 2 drinks tonight. But this headline makes me feel like I had 10.

Surprise, surprise; the board of Anglo American, the London-listed mining company, has rejected a £31bn takeover approach from its Australian rival BHP calling it “highly unattractive' & “opportunistic”.

Here follows my latest summary & observations on the Anglo - BHP mining…

Someone was taken for an hour's walk off-lead this afternoon. The same someone who added a totally illegal 90 minutes of pheasant-chasing, and returned looking like this.

4 types of clutter—and how to get rid of them fastcompany.com/90733774/4-typ…