Third invasion's the charm.

Erm... just exactly which side is the BBC biased against?

The right will tell you the BBC has a leftist bias whist the left will tell you the BBC is biased towards the right.

They can't both be correct.

Disney doesn't want affluent consumers, people who have money typically have it because they aren't spendthrifts and understand the value of their dollar/euro/pound.

What Disney want are the kind of people who "don't even look at the price tag" and just put everything on credit. The kind of people who's pay barely even touches their bank account on it's way to service their ever increasing pile of debt so they'll need more debt to get through the month. That's the kind of mindless consumer Disney wants, perfect for consuming their mindless garbage.

This kind of consumer will never have a whole $40 in their pocket.

This.

I'm no linguist but I speak enough Spanish to know how limited machine translators still are. They're fine if you don't speak any of the language and need to find the bookshop or can help to order a meal, a succulent Chinese meal but they lack any understanding of idioms, slang, nuance, tone or context. This is before you get to local dialects, abbreviations or typos.

Yep, my point of reference is the Daily Mail Compoface scale.

When we see an increasing number of sad looking faces on the front of Tabloid papers with the headlines "Ryanair cancelled our flight to Magala and ruined my hen party" then we'll know we're in trouble.

Erm, Europe doesn't get much oil from Iran. Most of it is imported from Norway or the US amongst others. The only route it might (and I mean might as this could easily be going overland) is Iraq or Saudi Arabia (10% in total).

The problem is that this is fucking with the global market as the countries that do import a lot of Middle Eastern fuel, notably in Asia such as the Philippines, are scrabbling to get alternate fuel sources. So Europe will have no trouble sourcing jet fuel, the question is how expensive will it get.

Europe and the UK are handling this quite well, current fuel prices in the EU are between EUR 1.50 and 2.50 depending on nation as they all have different taxation structures, supply agreements, et al. Prior to Operation Epic Stupidity (end of FEB 2026), fuel in the UK was £1.50, at the peak it's £1.80, so 30 pence per litre (about US$0.40), Germany was EUR 1.80 and peaked at 2.25, in the US prices almost doubled in the same time.

11 would be an improvement, on the dumbfuck scale where calling your crazy ex at 1am whilst drunk is a 5, voting Trump is a 11... what Trump is doing is 238, but that's only so low because that's the limit of our standard stupidometers. We got the high resolution kit out of storage but that burned out almost as soon as we turned it on.

Most Brits work in grams and kilograms these days, stone is only used by ancient laggards who refuse to adopt (and probably voted Brexit).

The lower number of UFO sightings in Italy and Spain might have something to do with the fact that in Italian and Spanish "UFO" is "OVNI" (Objecto Volantador No Identificado in Spanish). No idea what it is in Gaelic but I'm sure it's hard to pronounce.

Ireland like most countries has it's share of nutters, however unlike the US they don't give them a megaphone and a load of Adderall.

Fun Fact: Flying Saucer in Italian is Disco Volante and was also the name of an Alfa Romeo.

Erm, no we don't. Our societies can function just fine without guns of any kind.

If anything, the US is a lesson on why that is. Despite all those guns, you've still got an unaccountable dictator in charge.

So... America... With access to all those guns when are you going to stand up to the orange dictator who's taken over the "land of the free"?

Theatres tell Sony to lower their licensing fees so they can afford to run their operations without having to have 30 minutes of ads.

You're making that sound like it's a problem. It is quite literally a feature, the glasses will require frequent replacement meaning they'll have to buy new frames from Apple on a regular basis... Planned obsolescence without having to build a new product, it's the holy grail of braindead consumerism.

Of course they care about the security of their patients information... but not as much as they care about saving pennies on security.

Sadly, the answer to that question is never.

In reality we know they're upset that being white and male doesn't get you preferential treatment any more. It's not that non whites and non males were getting preferential treatment, it's that they were getting the same treatment as a white male meaning that their pale pee-pee wasn't a magic job ticket any more and they actually had to compete on their merits... of which they had few.