David Llewellyn

@history99917180 Even the female carabinieri wear the same uniform. And it’s not just the guys on bikes. The high speed patrol cars, Alfa Romeo Giulietta’s, drivers have the same uniform.

Friend of mine reckons the best looking bike cops are Italian. I’d have to disagree. And, that was after I’d spent 8 hours in the saddle escorting the Olympic torch. Don’t know what she sees in the Italian lads.

@20th_Centurygal Smoke on the water. Deep Purple

Name one song you consider a masterpiece. I know it’s not easy to choose just one, but that’s what makes it a challenge.

@Just_pinkfloyd I was there.

@MAGANEWS_X And the British developed the Harrier back in the 80’s that was a true VTOL and Landing plane. They sold the designs to the US who built them for the marines.

🚀🇺🇸 Incredible but true: the F-35B lands like a helicopter… yet it’s a $100 million stealth fighter jet 🤯 Thanks to its VTOL capability, it can take off and land vertically, redefining modern air combat. ✈️🔥

@it_unprofession Like U I went tech in my house about 10 years ago. Since then my WD streaming devices and NAS have had support withdrawn. I’ve had to change 3 PC’s as they are no longer supported. And yesterday my kindle became unsupported. All devices worked fine. Please let legacy devices work

Why do I need a firmware update to use my own living room? Three years ago, I decided my house needed to be a "smart home." I spent $800 on WiFi-enabled lightbulbs. This was a catastrophic mistake. Yesterday, the internet went out for ten minutes. My wife tried to turn on the kitchen lights using the physical wall switch like a Luddite. The bulbs factory reset themselves. Now they cycle through rave colors while emitting a high-pitched pairing frequency. I spent my entire Saturday trying to connect my kitchen ceiling to our router using a 2.4GHz band. I am a 52-year-old man standing on a stepping stool screaming at a lightbulb because my phone can't find its Bluetooth signal. Tomorrow I'm going to Home Depot to buy $2 incandescent bulbs. I want my house to be stupid again.

@higgyboson I would imagine that most of the people in a&e couldn’t get a GP appointment or thought they wouldn’t get one. Also 111 send most people to A&E rather than their GP

Yesterday I was advised by my optician to go to A&E about an eye condition that I'd developed. This morning I drove to Torbay Hospital, parked up, walked into the A&E department past about 6 ambulances waiting to offload patients, saw a sea of people in the waiting room with absolutely no idea when their ailment might be looked at and immediately decided to turn around, walk out the door and go home. The UK is becoming more of a third World country than some of the third World crap holes we send money to. Meanwhile I'm having to work longer hours just to stand still. You have to wonder EXACTLY how this will all end. If basic services are ALL declining while the amount of money we pay in taxes is forever increasing it surely won't be long before the whole system completely collapses. I give it 5 years.

@danielmgmoylan Put it to a vote then. I think you’ll find that most who voted are pensioners who are probably now dead and the younger have felt the problems that it brought and would vote to go back. It’s only the uber rich who don’t want it back.

No they don’t.

@iambatman1033 @gotrice2024 They are numbered. The original Plan has numbers on them and the order check list is done in the order the plan is in It just takes a planning. And start with mounting the rails onto the wall at the correct height . Then hang cabinets. Easy as.

@gotrice2024 Atleast the boxes should have been nimbered like every number 1 is a part of 1 set! Something like a legos! Also should be numbered in the way it needs to be made!

This family just got an IKEA kitchen delivered to their new home. It’s 210 packages, and many people say the instructions are almost nonexistent, it’s just diagrams. He’s going to have to unbox every part and arrange it in a way that can be identified so that will help with the frustration, many people who bought this quit out of frustration and tried to return it. Whenever people order kitchen sets like this, should it at least come with better instructions or at least a video, have you ever tried to put something together and the instructions weren’t clear and you ended up messing it up?

@gotrice2024 I’ve built over 100 kitchens for customer and the Ikea one is by far the easiest of the build it your self kitchens. Just get the plan of the kitchen out and build one unit at a time. The drawings mean that they don’t have to do written instructions in 40 Languages.

@RealJamesWoods Great Britain has never had the right to bear arms. We have strict gun laws which after Dunblane meant hand guns were banned. With the proper licenses any one in the UK can get a rifle or shotgun. Most country folk though.

Our friends, the Brits, went from relinquishing their right to bear arms in 1997 to standing on the edge of the Islamist abyss today. Our Second Amendment is not about the right to go duck hunting, folks. It’s about keeping power in the hands of The People.

@rj_abel And do you think that if there was another vote and it demanded our return the European the Brexit voters would accept it? I think not. But I would welcome the vote.

Whatever your view on rejoining the EU, that decision belongs to the British people—not Keir Starmers attempt by stealth. Elected leaders are there to serve the public, not override a national referendum or act without clear democratic consent. His actions are traitorous.

@realMAG1775 @bielins45 You really have no idea what your talking about do you?

LMFAO! He's actually saying this with a straight face 😂 Meanwhile Europe is getting conquered by Islam. no go zones, Sharia patrols, Islamist protests with “Death to the West” chants, Marxist red flags flying side by side with Hamas and Hezbollah flags, native Europeans told to shut up or be called “racist” while their daughters get raped and their cities burn. But sure, keep crying about “Israel”

Close every damn U.S. base in Europe. If we keep one, make a bilateral deal with Germany and charge them full freight. NATO is a welfare scam. They ghosted us on the Strait of Hormuz while we carry their lazy asses. Spain banned our bombers. Italy locked bases. Britain waffled. We station 100,000 troops so they can under-spend on defense and lecture us on climate. Enough. Bring our boys home. End the freeloader alliance.

@Microinteracti1 Well said.

Let me explain something to the MAGA crowd, because clearly someone needs to. They seem to think NATO is cosmic room service. You pick up the phone, say “hello, we’re having a bit of a war here,” and thirty-one countries march to your rescue. A continental Uber for military adventures. That is not how it works. Article 5 is a mutual defense clause. The clue is in the word mutual. And it has been triggered exactly once in NATO’s entire history. After September 11. When America was attacked. Not Europe. America. Every NATO member showed up. They went to Afghanistan. They fought. They bled. They died. In America’s war. On America’s behalf. Now imagine they hadn’t. Over 1,100 allied soldiers died in Afghanistan. British, Canadian, German, Danish, Polish. And yes, even Ukrainian soldiers, who had no NATO obligation whatsoever. Gone. Without them, those are American names on those graves. Sons from Ohio. Fathers from Georgia. Kids from Nebraska who never came home. Then there is the money. NATO allies spent over 100 billion dollars on a war that started on American soil. Without that, Washington pays every cent. On top of the 2 to 3 trillion the war already cost. And without allied bases across Europe and Central Asia, American supply lines collapse entirely. Without British forces in Helmand and Canadians in Kandahar, the Taliban reconstitutes in three years instead of ten. The gaps get filled one way. More American deployments. More American coffins arriving at Dover. Afghanistan was bloody. But NATO took the hit. Without them, every single one of those casualties would have had an American name. Trump called allies like these losers. Suckers. If you are a certain kind of broken person, that probably makes sense to you. But for the rest of us, what those soldiers did has a different name. Honor. The bond between men who have been in the same dirt, under the same fire. Between Brits and Americans, Frenchmen and Norwegians, Canadians and Danes. Not a diplomatic relationship. A blood bond. Brotherhood forged in places most people will never see and cannot imagine. In that culture, you do not mock a fallen ally. You do not sneer at the dead. It is the lowest thing a human being can do. Trump did it to a standing ovation. If you are a MAGA supporter travelling to NATO countries, understand this. There are no friendly pats on the back waiting for you. No one will buy you a beer. The governments who share your worldview sit in Minsk, Moscow and Pyongyang. Brutal dictatorships where journalists disappear, elections are theatre and dissent is a medical condition treated in basements. Not London. Not Paris. Not Rome, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin or Ottawa. You have abandoned the open societies, the free press, the rule of law, the places where people actually want to live. You traded the best of civilization for a very small, very dark room. Frankly, it serves you right.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Sadie_NC 1st. The US signed a treaty to protect Ukraine in exchange for giving up their nuclear weapons when the Soviet Union collapsed. As did the EU and the UK. 2nd Ukraine is not a nato member so this war is not a nato war. The world is supplying them weapons they do the fighting

DONALD TRUMP: "Germany said, 'This is not our war.' Well, Ukraine wasn’t our war either, but we stepped up and helped you anyway!" NATO is quick to reach out with its hands open for American money and protection, but the moment we need them? They vanish. And they’ve just proven it again. After we poured hundreds of billions of dollars into Ukraine to shield Europe’s own backyard, they won’t even let our aircraft fly over their airspace or use their airfields. These Iranian missiles aren’t a threat to the American homeland, but they are absolutely within range of Europe. Right now, the United States is the one out there taking them out and protecting Europe, and Europe’s response is still, “This is not our war!” It is not acceptable.

@mitchellvii Oh fuck off you right wing idiot. If the us leaves nato your defence industry will loose 38% of its business and we Europeans will spend that money with the European arms industry. Are you aware that most of the components for the F35 come from the uk?

How the hell is NATO going to pay for all those socialist programs when they have to pony up for all their own defense without the United States backing them up? I'm buying my popcorn to watch this one!

@PawlowskiMario Do you know how much the arms trade from the US to Europe is worth? Leave NATO and that goes too. We Europeans are already looking to get arms from within Europe. Good for jobs and the economy.

@EricLDaugh And without NATO there’s no US arms industry. Most arms sales from the US go to Europe and Europe will find European suppliers. And they’re currently looking.

🚨 HOLY SMOKES! Sec. Marco Rubio just MIC DROPPED spoiled NATO "allies" Q: Some Europeans say the US isn’t willing to team up with NATO. RUBIO: "Without the United States, there is no NATO! I mean, everyone recognizes that, including NATO!" 🔥 "The United States has tens of THOUSANDS of troops stationed throughout that region. Billions of dollars of weaponry staged throughout Europe. All of it there to defend Europe, not to defend America, to defend Europe from attack!" "If we decided tomorrow that we were going to remove our troops from Europe, that would be the end of NATO. So they know that!"

@OnDisasters My father flew gliders in India with her 1956-57. Apparently she was a very interesting lady.

Piloting a suicide bomb to find out why it crashed. Yes, this is from the movie "Operation Crossbow" but it happened in real life. Famed test pilot Hanna Reitsch did test fly a modified V-1 to iron out some problems: she did it (and survived)

@defense_civil25 If you look very carefully at the name and translate the initials you will see why. N north A Atlantic T Treaty O Organisation. The North Atlantic is a long long way from the Persian gulf and a member nation is not being invaded either.

Every member of NATO refused the call to help the United States to restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. All of Them!!

@OdohertyI64991 I grew up with these comics back in the 60’s

Commando comics were great. A generation grew up thinking the German language consisted entirely of 'schnell!', 'nein' and "gott un himmel!'"