Russian invasion of Ukraine

[RabidCity]

What did YOU do on the war, daddy?

I changed my Facebook profile to have a Ukrainian border.

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

“the coal fire” - exactly mate, one fire for the whole house and we’ve all used the paper torch trick when no matches along with using paper over the front of the fire to create a draft. What could possibly go wrong?

Metalblue
In one house we had two fires- posh huh.Second fire was for visitors.
The Olympic torch routine here was to use the crappy fire tongs to carry a burning coal from back to front of house to start the second fire.
The carpets were slowly replaced by rugs where the fire starter had cocked up and dropped a lighted coal.
The paper over the front of the fire was a real belter wasn’t it … a room full of acrid smoke for 10 minutes or so on occasions.
Also which FOC’s remember the fights at school using the coke pellets as missiles. Difficult to pretend you weren’t involved when the teachers or the janitor told you to show your hands.

 

[west didsblue]

This is another really good thread about what’s going on in Russia.



This guy has done 20 odd threads that are quite long but all very interesting and shared widely by reputable commentators.

Scary stuff.
People in the west need to prepare themselves for difficulties caused by ramping up sanctions to unimaginable levels. No more oil or gas from Russia is urgently needed. The alternative is too horrendous to contemplate, not just for Ukraine but for the whole world.

On a lighter note, I wonder if Everton will change their walk on music.

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

I changed my Facebook profile to have a Ukrainian border.

Which one?

 

[hello]

This is another really good thread about what’s going on in Russia.



This guy has done 20 odd threads that are quite long but all very interesting and shared widely by reputable commentators.

Self serving pricks in the 3rd pic hoping for a drastic upturn in business.

 

[Bazzmand Show]

Looks like the Chinese are going to help break some sanctions by launching union pay to replace visa/Mastercard in Russia. I hope the rest of the world remembers this

I got hounded down for suggesting China are with Russia.

 

[Gremlin]

Tbf, the energy companies operate on modest margins. That's why several went bust when wholesale prices rose sharply. Size of profits in the big companies down to volume.

Depends which energy company you are talking about. Electricity and gas suppliers to the consumers are actually hurting as they have a cap on the price they can sell it to us but the price they buy it from the producers is going up and up. The producers, however, are raking it in as their costs haven't changed much but the price they can sell it at has gone through the roof (although the situation is more complicated than that as a lot of electricity and gas is traded at fixed prices sometimes years ahead of time and it is only as those contracts elapse that the full price hike will start to be felt).

 

[blueish swede]

Oh dear.. this looks like the explanation of why we are dragging our feet. Looks like Brexit Britain without Londongrad is skint..

If that's true it must represent a huge part of the Russian economy.
If the UK won't act now the RoW must act against the UK to freeze those assets where they are.

 

[mexico1970]

If that's true it must represent a huge part of the Russian economy.
If the UK won't act now the RoW must act against the UK to freeze those assets where they are.

It's got to be true, some bloke on twitter said it.

 

[blueinsa]

It's got to be true, some bloke on twitter said it.

It was Nick to be fair and he has an EU flag emoji so it’s got to be true.