My mum was English, though, from a place NEAR Manchester which is now IN Manchester.>

That happened to my Mother's Mother!

She said she was born in the country and would die in the city, without having to move.

However, Eisenhower's Interstate Highway system intervened, demanding "Right of Way" through her kitchen.

And eminent domain is specified in our Constitution, so Grandmother and Grandfather had to move.

Simply provide a sensible, SERIOUS English sentence to accompany that picture of Leave Alonian and a human in a type of room.>

Theresa May says:

<Winner is User: Sunrise with his rather witty

<The winner A of this first phase (determined by points or Sonnerborn - Berger or direct results; in this order, like a normal round robin) plays a mini-match (say 6 classical games for example) with the 2nd ranked player B from the first phase; 2b) A should also have the right to choose if he wants to start playing White or Black in the first game of the second phase; then of course they will alternate colours. 3) in case A and B are still tied at the end of the second phase, the player A will get the title!>.

Congrats to him...must dash!>

I would say that that set was based on the lovely Berliner chess set.

If you scroll down that page you will see other unusual chess sets. They may move so here are some links: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001A79... £166.

<Most harm is done by people who are awake.>

This reminds me of Pascal's quote,

<All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone>.

These both reinforce my belief that politics is a complete and utter waste of time, and why I never involve myself in politics unless it is absolutely necessary. We all know that

<If voting changed anything it would be outlawed>

and there is an old Brazilian complaint:

<Brazil grows at night, when the politicians are asleep.>

In the UK we have what is called the Silly Season:

<The part of the year when Parliament and the Law Courts are not sitting (about August and September).> That is when things get done!

At the moment the US Government is shut down. The country has not stopped!

Northern Ireland has its own parliament, called the Stormont:

<Stormont is currently in a period of suspension, after it collapsed in January 2017...>

Two whole years without a government and yet the province has not sunk into the sea. How can that happen?

True!

A few days ago Zanzibar made a funny comment about Rogoff that included a link to a man destroying a wasps nest using a flamethrower.

I watched a few other similar videos about wasps and bees.

Predictably, my YouTube recommendations began to include bee hive videos. I was watching one for a product called "Flow Hive" and the guy said,
"The bees take pollen back to the hive to feed their young..."

At THAT moment my notifications changed to a red 1.

Someone had replied to one of my little comments. I clicked on it. it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xof...

I have recommended it to a number of my friends, including a film critiquer, who is in the process of watching this film, and is also following my strict instructions to watch it in 30 minute increments at a max. This will allow her to finish the movie in 3 sittings, which sounds about right, depending on food and beverage

If that film is watched by someone who does not know Kafka... That would be interesting. Probably a 1/5 film.

If the film;s budget had been bigger perhaps a few more flashbacks would have been good: especially for Amalia's tale.

The chef would never say no. He and a few assistants invent three or four new recipes that include milk. It ain't easy, but they do it.

The Milk people are delighted: <"Could you make us a cookbook with say 100 milk recipes?">

Reluctantly, but with $ signs in eyes, the chef agrees.

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He does this very good programme called <Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives> which I suppose everyone in the USA has seen.

(It is harder to see in Europe; it is satellite-only, and on an out-of-the-way channel.)

He is a clever, funny geezer.

Here is an enlightening part of his wikipedia entry:

<"Fieri began his association with food in grade school...by selling pretzels...and washing dishes to finance his trip to France to study.">

I tip my hat off to him just for being able to find these places!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenko...

It is a series about British, Australian and Dutch women who were kept in a Japanese POW camp in WWII.

Set in the tropics, it is the day-to-day adventures of sweaty young women in the last vestiges of their western underwear.

God knows why I watch it.

I am thinking of having a go.

I am drinking some NOW, though, but it is Spanish.

He was playing <Grim Fandango> LIVE.

I started watching it but he was near the end!

The bloody credits came up.

Do you know, or would you like to guess, how long the credits are for Grim Fandango???

About 20 minutes. I shouldn't've watched...

But I was not deterred. I am now watching an 8 hr video of the entire
<Vampire The Masquerade: Redemption>.

One reviewer says, "the film is a bit of a dead loss"! In fact it is okay.

The title must be the source of Lew Grade's famous comment about the soaring budget for that clinker of a film <Raise The Titanic>:

<"It would have been cheaper to have lowered the Atlantic!">

I've been watching excerpts on YouTube. The game does not look 20 years old. More like 19.

I did not play it at the time because my computer hardware was not fast enough.

Do you remember having to <update DirectX driver>?

And then, every now and then, one had to physically slot in more RAM, and finding out which make and type of RAM one needed was a hellish and time-consuming task.

It ends, "<Sinquefield pays top dollars for hosting a tournament for the top, not mostly 2nd and 3rd tiered, female players in the world. It’s not unlike selling someone who doesn’t know anything about flights a First Class ticket at very high price and try to con them into Premium Economy. Just keep reiterating that it's a strong tournament again and again and nothing else, counting on the fact that the Sinquefields know very little about the elite women chess players in the world...>"

The game pun could be: