Buddster

trump has just announced there's no such thing as tone wood.

Very much agree peteb. trump isn't the spearhead of all this. He's a blunt tool, the Bez to get the MAGA clan going. It's a long read, and although from 2017, this article is very interesting. Follow the money... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency

As above. If it doesn't have to be nitro, find the Pantone colour number you are looking for (doing a search will find your match) and go to a supplier of spray cans. I have used Paints4U and they are very helpful.

"Tickets to the show are not included, as they are sold through the individual venues." So you have to sit in the back of the van with a coke and packet of crisps

Or maybe the ultimate aim is to cause chaos in the infrastructure of the political system across US and EU, which is the ideology behind trumps liberation backers and money suppliers to brexit.

Very true. By then, trump would have served his purpose as a puppet. Wokeness/Democrats is/are the enemy of the people and by implication European liberals. Project 2025 will be well underway and MAGA won't be needed.

Or exchange for rare earth minerals

So another agreement Putin has broken, and one trump doesn't know /choosing to ignore.

Just to go back to this weeks press conferences (not trying to sideline the current conversation), and something I'd not noticed. With Macron, trump said the US had given $300 billion to Ukraine. The actual figure is $119b. Macron pulled him up on that lie, and that Europe had given more than the US, and weren't expected to see it back. 2 days later, with Stamer, trump said exactly the same lie. $300b. Stamer didn't correct him, but said Europe had gifted the money. Also, this is not actual money they have given Ukraine, it's military arms, bought from US arms manufacturers, or older stock that would have been destroyed. As you were...

Yes, the mask slipped yesterday. If you've read any books about him, you know this is how the man is and acts. But for once, it was shown in public.

News Night is worth a watch if you have iplayer. Vance said to Zelensky that he was being disrespectful in his actions in front of the press. And rather than stopping there, suggesting they leave this to a private meeting, went on to directly bully and finger pointing Zelensky, goading him in to arguing.

And yes, you're right on this. It's exactly what he is, and this episode just shows it. Kiss his ring, or else.

Maybe, but being told you are a dictator (after your country has been invaded by a dictator) , being told to sell your resources to cover weapons given by someone else, derogatory comments about what you are wearing, and seeing what was an ally side with your enemy, I think he did very well not to stick one on him.

Not sure if this before or after, but either way it's not how you'd expect a leader to act amo1OxX_460svvp9.webm

Wow, did Zelensky just do political suicide, or did he get trump to reveal his true colours of how he negotiates? Vance was terrible too.

Is anyone able to say how good the midi out is while playing? Can you for instance, use it to trigger a sound module to play a piano sound?

Oh, now this will get interesting if trump accepts this Putin offers to sell rare earth minerals to the US, including from Russian-occupied Ukraine Including Aluminum which have just had more sanctions added.

The body language between Macron and trump in yesterday's meeting is hilarious to watch. Fair play to Macron.

One thing I find puzzling, is that the USA has always been anti 'commie', Reds under the bed, McCathy outting alleged commie sympathisers, etc etc. Yet here we have a man siding with Putin/Russia, and from what I can read on X and American media, no reaction whatsoever. In fact, Ukraine is all Natos/Biden's fault in the first place. Why no comment (from the right anyway) about Trump sucking up to Russia, Americas historical enemies.

Well, rather than just building up forces on the boarder, Russia went and invaded a sovereign country, killing thousands of civilians and occupying captured land, as much to do with Putins rhetoric that Ukraine should be part of Russia as it was about NATO.

I'd rather the money wasn't spent on weapons, but after the Geopolitical events of this week, we may not have any choice

I couldn't stand on a stage for 2 hours and mime. Re Top of the Pops. I belive it was the Musician Union who required that who ever appeared on TotP had to be playing on the actual audio.. I did a few 3 hour 'dummy' seasons in the 80s where the band set up as if re-recording the track incase the MU turned up (doing in 3 hours what could take a week, yeah right) and then switching tapes ie a copy of the master, that got sent to the BBC.

"in some ways the EU is a bit like the adolescent child who starts telling their parents what to do and the realisation comes that it's time to suggest that perhaps they're ready go and find their own way." But normally the parents don't go behind the childs back to their abuser, say 'here, you carry on, we'll give you the keys to the house, help yourself to cheese and biscuits, and if you want to do it to another kid, we won't stop you".