Submitted by Captain Qahn on
"You’ve got to be a bit careful here. Your carpets, your sofa and your walls are all grey. You’ve got these big windows and outside the clouds are grey. Your hair is grey and so are your clothes. Your disposition’s a bit grey sometimes, too. You’re blending in. I can barely see you. You might have to put on some hi-vis.”
"After MDMA hit the UK in the late 1980s, the press dubbed it the “second summer of love”. Underground raves, acid house music and smiley-face graphics fueled a new youth movement. “MDMA didn’t reform the UK, but it did change some social norms: men were hugging for the first time, or people from different socioeconomic stratospheres were partying together, instead of looking down on each other,” Nuwer said."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/28/everything-in-our-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ExqHqfp0YY
https://www.talktofrank.com/drug/ecstasy
""It could tell us if Einstein's theory of gravity is wrong; it may tell us about what dark matter and dark energy, the mysterious stuff that makes up the bulk of the Universe, really is; and it could give us a new window into new theories of physics.""
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA_j1WNDd_Q
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66039810
Wotdyamean, no further Exploration.
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Who Shot JR?
Submitted by Captain Qahn on
"By the time the paperback was coming out, though, John was teetotal. What follows is the conversation they had about how their paths crossed and, later, branched apart."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/12/moderation-or-total-abst...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98M3Az_ku4A
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/12/gove-department-hands-ba...
"The verb collaborate means to cooperate or work jointly with others.
The verb corroborate means to strengthen, support, or confirm with evidence."
Know your Gnomes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKSUdQXjUMI
“Every child plants a potato and every child digs it up,"
No Smoke, without Fire.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/17/doppelganger-a-trip-into-t...
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxiwlSshZPM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67770731
Moors Messenger
Submitted by Captain Qahn on
"Whilst it’s useful to understand what factors might be driving emissions (or habitat loss) in the National Park, pointing fingers leaves audiences that are vital to the achievement of goals feeling marginalised and threatened. Instead, as we continue down the path towards net zero and ‘30 by 30’ we should ask ‘what more can I do’ or ‘how can I work harder’ for nature and our climate?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGc0ruN1eYQ
https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/about-us/our-service-to-you/moors-mess...
"On Monday, the space agency said its huge dish in Australia's capital, Canberra, was trying to detect any stray signals from Voyager 2. This was when the first faint "heatbeat" signal was heard."
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-times/2642775/historic-ufo-sighting...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ0Q-4VVuAk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66408851
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9p6FU9rJ7Q
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66317706
"“What a fascinating life I have led thus far,” I say, looking over at the middle one, who is opening envelopes from a separate pile."
'Marble Bars'
Submitted by Captain Qahn on
"Carl Les has been recognised for his services to local government. “I was really surprised in a way,” he told The Press. “You don’t go through life expecting to get an honour. “I was really pleased.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/29/mps-on-the-hidden-toll-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddocfBVLM6U
"Cllr Les led North Yorkshire County Council from 2015 and continues to lead the unitary North Yorkshire Council which came to power in April. He has represented the Catterick area for over 20 years. Cllr Les has been a member of the North Yorkshire Police Authority for 15 years and now chairs the Police and Crime Panel. Apart from being a councillor he brings his professional business experience from working in the tourism sector."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTpCheX46wI
https://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/24017550.north-yorkshire-council-bo...
"Ms Mellor was awarded a BEM (British Empire Medal) for her services to public libraries, also including Flamborough in East Yorkshire. Meanwhile, Professor Julian Daryl Richards, a professor of archaeology at the University of York, was made an OBE for services to heritage and digital archiving."
Enjoy :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1h_FcW2pIM
GSTQ
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'Alternative Guide'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"“Really successful people – mainly women, and some are Bafta winners – get in touch, saying, ‘Do you know what? I can’t afford my nursery fees this month.’ There are people who come from working-class and marginalised backgrounds who have achieved all the success that you would want to have and still struggle to sustain a standard of living.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/article/2024/jun/06/an-alternative-gu...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdYcOT81dYc
"While more working-class faces are on TV, behind the scenes it’s the same old story. “The controllers aren’t from what I would consider a ‘normal background’,” says Beaumont. “The commissioners, the execs, the writers, the directors, the casting agents … the norm is seen as middle-class London. It’s diabolical. They don’t go north of Watford! They don’t know anyone who works in a factory, they’ve never stood in a dole queue.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jun/06/im-sick-of-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHnSz_L5_10
https://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/24364406.york-skeleton-bishopthorpe...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RunljdHow
"For many people England's largest county conjures up images of a trip to Scarborough for fish and chips, the verdant vistas of the Dales or the historic splendour of York with its Minster."
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jul/08/the-cult-of...
Why not just change one set of thugs for another?
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/replica-spanish-galleon...
I do hope they carried out the proper Risk Assessments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNdR0HK4uso
Kelly's Hero's, Eh?
"Perhaps they are synchronising their workouts? I bid them a cheery good morning, but they scuttle inside like startled mice."
'The High Seas'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"Decades of overfishing, pollution from shipping and warming oceans from climate change have damaged life below the surface."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5j87114deo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA-xjRsY71w&list=RDXA-xjRsY71w&start_rad...
"It is a chance for everyone to be nosy and step inside buildings they might pass every day but never enter, and to appreciate the wonderful architecture that York has to offer."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-14d00552-9211-4dab-89d1-60e34e2...
All Quiet on the Eastern Front...
"Disney, which owns the US broadcast network that airs Jimmy Kimmel Live, said on Monday that it suspended the show because it "felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive"."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/22/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-t...
Still no news on the Sands 'Development' then ...
Kepwick House... who ever built Olivers Heights needs a broom ;-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tJ3RobO5Ps&ab_channel=LittleAllstarsCas...
Tolerance.
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/your-council/councillors-committees-and-me...
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkeSJLgzG8k
Bless his little Cotton Socks.
https://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/25564119.princess-anne-visits-save-...
I'll just grab me Coat.. :-0
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx42rv2wgqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWYodAUdksA
Splendid.