Thunderbird2 comments

@ClippetyClop

Even if you don't agree with climate change, the solutions are something that we should be doing anyway regardless.

The solutions below are from Greenpeace, considered by some to be 'radical lefties', and yet they are pretty common sense. They will lead to a cleaner, more sustainable planet for what will soon be 10 billion people. I'd challenge anyone to diagree with them.

Keep fossil fuels in the ground - No problems with that, as long as there are viable alternatives

Invest in renewable energy - As long as it's viable

Switch to sustainable transport - That is being done - everything is going electric

Help us keep our homes cosy - This needs support from governments, as the changes needed are very expensive and a lot of people can't afford it

Improve farming and encourage vegan diets - This one I have difficulties with - humans are omnivores, not plant eaters - you would need to supplement a vegan diet with the calcium and vitamins the body needs. Also everyone being vegan is the same as having farm animals farting all over the place

Restore nature to absorb more carbon - Re-forestation should be the biggest priority

Protect forests like the Amazon - That will be difficult in what is becoming a war zone

Protect the oceans - Agree 100%... but how?

Reduce how much people consume - Not everyone is up for a HUGE lifestyle upheaval

Reduce plastic - Replace it with what? Card and paper? That means cutting forests

All very laudable ideas, but you will need to take the entire population with you... and that's neve going to happen. Not everyone is an angry millennial or teenager.

@Eastmann

its capitalism and greed,hunt for profit at any cost.not "humans".

So you're saying that it would never have happened under a communist dictator?

What amazes me is that there were live rounds anywhere near the set - I mean why were they there? It's a film set, not a shooting range.

This is scare mongering. Yes June was hot (we didn't reel from it, we loved it) but July has been very wet... checks and balances

I've been to the museum several times and it's a wonderful place to spend a couple of hours... such a shame they've had to resort to crowdfunding. I'm surprised that they haven't applied to the lotteries to help... I'm even more surprised that the JGov has let it adrift... surely national treasures are the responsibility of the culture secretary (assuming they have one)?

I suspect that a brown envelope was passed across the table...

Spock must have worked his magic on V'Ger to get it going again lol

Haven't the Japanese been doing this for years? Dojinshi, fanzines... this is just original content, but sounds like the same thing

You wouldn't want to be an unwitting mule there, would you? I wonder how many innocent people are hanged

A vile trade that needs to be consigned to history.

All the times I've been to Japan it's always been Narita I've landed at...

Only people who've asked me why I came to Japan have been in uniform and asking for my passport lol

"Whatever one says, geography is stubborn: the Indo-Pacific isn't the North Atlantic,"

To be fair neither is the Med or the Baltic.

On the flip side, NATO membership could end up like the Eurovision Song Contest - Australia and Israel (and for a while Russia) aren't exactly in Europe lol.

@Kuku

The Russians will never leave the conquered territories. Because these are Russian territories

What utter bollox. They invaded, took strategic territory illegally and stayed. How would YOU like it if your neighbour broke into your garden and said it was their garden?

If the water is treated... is it still radioactive?

Just another damp day here in Scotland on the third... wasn't even that warm. We had some nice hot weather in June... that was welcome after a damp spring...

The current crisis was all basically Cameron's fault - he backed down and gave the xenophobes the vote for Brexit to happen... and a slim majority won that vote. Foreign workers booted out, families torn apart, alliances shredded, public services gutted... and the NHS left searching for more staff to bring the queues down. Brexit was the worst thing to happen to this country, but the xenophobes and racists don't care... they want us back in the 1950s.

I don't doubt the figures, but when I do the weekly shopping the supermarket is busy and people in the queues still have trolleys full of brand name items, fresh fruit n veg, drinkies and other items. I don't see many people picking up the cheap own brand items. That's an ASDA store in Glasgow, not some posh Waitrose store in Surrey.

I think in deprived areas or areas where unemployment is high, yes I can see those figures, maybe even higher.

@Tim Sullivan

It's not easy to find healthy food in the UK.

Yes it is... my local ASDA is full of good healthy food - fresh fruit and veg, all of the free-from items, vegan for those that want it, non dairy... masses of it.

Does anyone really need to have chocolate with their Weetabix? The people who dream up these products are evil.

Yeah... that's just weird, but I suspect you get versions of that all over the world.

If I saw a bloke carrying badly concealed knives I'd be scared too... better safe than sorry

These things are never as exciting as my imagination - I mean they will end up as big drones with a one or two person cabins perched on top. Just like that 'flying' bike from a few years ago.

Does summer bring the gropers out? Why wasn't suspended after the first incident?

Aren't Harley riders just older blokes with tattoos and memories of Vietnam?

Seriously, all the HD's I've seen are huge, two wheeled armchairs with more rumble than a stag night after all you can eat curries. I find Triumphs and Royal Enfields to be more elegant, less ostentatious

Loved him in "Deep Rising" and "The Phantom"... what a shame. An unusual actor, but a really good one. RIP Mr Williams

@tora

Her hands are too small.

I just noticed that... AI seems to have a problem with hands - some even have six fingers or two thumbs... weird. Very attractive character design though

Kyoto really doesn't like tourists, it appears... they preserve the place like some kind of living museum, but they want to discourage the great unwashed from actually visiting and enjoying their time there.

Anti immigration people will be having a field day (reads comments above - they are)...

According to a BBC newsflash on my phone one of the children is British... I wonder if the others were tourists as well?

How is this creep not locked up yet? He makes Nixon seem like a good guy

Well that's one film I can quite happily ignore - honestly, why repel your viewers? What next, eating faeces?

I just made myself feel rather queasy...

Let's rrewrite history for those who can't be arsed to learn about it... so many films and TV series do this. Is it any wonder that the millennials regurgitate the 'history' they see on the screen?

Not really a fan of Mr Law - although I did like "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"... but then I'm a pulp fan - but having some weird concoction made up to repel fellow cast members is maybe taking method acting a bit far?

As it’s, the Chinese have already picked what they deem good from the “ democracies”, and we can’t deny it’s served them well...and surprise! No regime change is likely for a long time ! The Tibet issue - out ! The Uighurs - out!

Let’s learn to stay out of other peoples business.

Remember that when Taiwanese streets are bombed out and the people living in shelters. China cannot be allowed to seize Taiwan in the same way Russia is trying with Ukraine.