I'm an English speaker of English and some of us have a similar style of speech. Without the American accent obviously. It's generally called RP (Received Pronunciation) or "strangulated vowels". I don't speak it myself but it involves tightening the muscles in the throat during speech. It doesn't come from any part of the country - the entire point is to avoid any regional accent and instead prove one's membership of an elite tribe.
Our royal family evolved a particular style of speech for unknown reasons (many of them were not native English speakers) and people copied them in order to appear socially superior. It's still fashionable today amongst a few social-climbing wannabees but slowly dying out. Up until the 1980s or so the ability to speak that way was absolutely essential to get a job in radio/TV presentation, just like the narrator in the fitness video. Thankfully not so much these days.
You think that's bad? At least you guys have kept weight measurement fairly simple as in you would say "I weigh nnn pounds".
Here in UK we still use the pre-medieval measure of "stones" - there are 14 pounds in a stone. So it is very common to hear someone say "I weigh 14st 7lb" (st=stone, lb=libra=pound)
I've been studying Mr. Crowley's works for many years and I never heard that supposed quote before. I don't believe it is real and he never said that. If there is a sauce then let's hear it, otherwise this is fake news.
"All foreigners arriving in Russia will have to submit biometrics at the airport"
Just like the USA then. I'm surprised Russia did not have this already.
I'm glad you posted this because I came here to do same and you did it better than I could have.
Here in UK the Russian RT News is supposed to be banned but I,er, asked my friend and there is nothing about this which would be a huge headline if it were real.
Interesting thanks. I always think it's a mistake to try and use astrology (or anything) to predict huge geopolitical events. There are too many moving parts also as you say there is such a temptation to swing it towards the result that you personally would like.
Also for some reason astrologers do tend to associate themselves with leftist identity politics. One of the world's most influential astrology sites astro.com eventually had to shut down its internal forum after the left v. right flame wars; if you went on there and for example said something mildly positive about Trump you were immediately pounced on and likely banned.
Sauce? I guess trying to predict the winner between Politicians A and B would be limited to creating natal charts for both of them then looking at transits. I don't recall seeing any attempts prior to the election though.
I do use Telegram so I was able to read the post. I honestly doubt this is authentically Julian Assange though because it is a long stream of screwy stuff about the "Earth Alliance" and Jesus's bloodline. The Trudeau post itself is a series of assertions with no evidence at all. Oh yeah and Starlink will send an important message to every phone on the planet on November 29 and 30.
Assange is a serious journalist and this junk is not his style at all.
When MRNA was in the news a lot I recall the drug pushers in Pharma being super excited about how MRNA being a game changer because it was an "operating system" which they could program with "software".
Seriously misused when forced on people as part of the fake pandemic but I have a suspicion we have not heard the last of MRNA. Maybe it can be used for good somehow instead of evil.
Why DO people make silly spelling mistakes like this? Especially when if unsure they could easily copy the correct spelling right there in the X post. Detracts massively from their credibility.
The other one which makes me go uuugh is when they try to say "voila!" as in here look at this, but instead they end up with "viola" which is part of a string quartet 😂
How does dad know for whom his kids voted? Where I live voting intention is secret, assisted by a curtain you can pull in the voting booth.
I do support work for a bank so not national security but still very sensitive data. They hated the idea of anyone working outside of physically secured premises. In the end they had to moderate that attitude because of cost (getting support people to the office in the middle of the night is not cheap) then of course the fake pandemic sealed the working from home deal.
We're fully remote now and I like working from home. Do I goof off? Well yes if things are quiet but I would have done that in the office anyway.
My UK office was completely refurbished a couple of years ago and now has what they like to call "all-gender" toilets (AKA "bathrooms" although you can't bathe in there...)
Seems to work fine, although to be fair the building's population is low because of people working from home so the toilet traffic is correspondingly sparse.
In EU it's very common to have shared-gender toilets in restaurants and bars.
I personally don't care who else is in the toilet I didn't go there to make new friends.
Not disagreeing those are great ideas but remember that cancer is not a modern thing and it was around long before we started polluting our planet and our bodies. First human cancer diagnosis was in ancient Egypt 3000 years ago and even earlier evidence from dinosaur fossils.
A few years back when America made (another) attempt to buy Greenland from Denmark.
There was a joke at the time that someone should buy America from Israel.
These are some of the politcally most powerful in the UK. Starmer and Lammy particularly so as Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary. Both of these two had dinner with Trump a few weeks ago and supposedly had "good relations" but I find it hard to believe considering Trump's long memory for insults and keen ability to hold a grudge.
Our entire government are a depressing bunch. Angela Rayner is pretty much a copy of Kamala Harris, without the cackle. The rest are a horrible woke crew obsessed with LGBT Pride and "renewable energy" and so on.
Burning an effigy is a pretty ancient English tradition. Nothing unusual in that.
He says it wasn't Trump. The only photo I can see is already burnt. It does look Trump-like though.
I doubt that someone as brash and shouty as Clarkson would do something and then back-pedal about it. If he was prepared to burn a Trump then to my mind he would have followed through and owned it. I guess we'll never know.
Samhain (pronounced something like sou-ain) was the English-Scottish pagan festival of the dead. It's basically a funeral for summer because now it's winter. Mirrored in many other cultures of course like the Mexican Day of the Dead.
Christians didn't like the paganist festival so they tried to stamp it out but the clone disguised as Guy Fawkes night was allowed to continue because it depicted a major Protestant victory over the Catholic Fawkes.
And as we say
"Guy Fawkes - the only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions"
I am extremely picky about my diet and general health and over the years have pretty much profiled foods that do and don't work for me without needing to read the small print on the label every time. I live in UK.
When I visited the US last year (Tempe AZ) I was disgusted at the quality of supermarket food and I was right back to square one reading the label on everything. How can US food be so bad compared to European food which even itself is not great and you have to be careful? How the hell can a bag of salad be marked as containing GMO?
I went out to restaurants a few times and although things sounded great on the menu, in the end I found I was picking at the meal but leaving most of it on the plate. And don't get me started on your insane tipping gouge system.
By the end of the week I was just not bothering to eat and when I got home I had lost bodyfat.
Not hating on the US which is a great place, just the dreadful food.
I'm in UK and have family members in US on green cards. Hard to know which currency horse to back. My opinion is that both GBP and USD will be in a big decline (because BRICS) but USD will not be hit so hard because of the sheer size of the US means it can be self-sufficient if it really has to. UK not so much.
tl;dr You are better off keeping your money in dollars than pounds but anyone naturalised should watch out for the future for global assets they forgot about. Even UK state pension would mean gimmetax.
BRICS now represents about 45% of the world which is more than the G7.
George Galloway is at the annual BRICs conference now on in Kazan. He's a Scottish journalist and political figure so I guess not that well-known in the US but watch him absolutely crush this Sky News TV crew. About 7 minutes long and if it's too much then skip to the final minute when the interview is supposed to be over
Thing is though once you're naturalised it destroys your tax position and you pay $$$ forever on your worldwide income.
I'm baffled at how long it takes to hold USA elections. We had one recently and it was all done,counted, finished and settled in 24 hours. All-paper ballots.
OK so the US population is 345 million in comparison to UK population 70 million. And of course your land area is huge in comparison. But really your elections take weeks?
I'm on vacation with some woke friends who are giving me 24x7 TDS and Putin Man Bad. I'm finding it difficult to keep smiling and ignoring them. One of friends has sniffly cold and blocked sinuses - the rest of them are pestering her to have a covid test and wear a mask. Driving me absolutely nuts.
Guinness is not the same everywhere. The best one (not joking) is sold in NIgeria. Higher strength alcohol and different taste. You can sometimes get it imported and it's recognisable by the misty damaged surface of the glass bottles because they wash and recycle them so many times.
The stuff generally on offer in UK is not all that great. A while back Tesco were selling special cans with an accompanying USB-powered device which was supposed to do something to improve the taste.