Cafe Einstein - LPTPW 17 - animal, vegetable, and/or a minerally type chemically thing, and maybe some other things as well, yes :)

I've kept you all waiting long enough I think :) Yes. Other half got a bit too poorly to ignore unfortunately - so I've shoved him into a bed at the hospital for a bit. I'm hoping they won't mind...

*Note pile of sleeping einsteinians*

Did I miss international horizontal day or something? *glare into monitor at WHOLE world* I hate it when that happens... it's like when you find out years after a "year of the something or other" ...*disgruntle frown manually*... that there even WAS a year of that something or other...

I think it a most excellent idea, Mikey - the problem however is that our erstwhile leaders are playing the long game. And the long game entails ensuring that there are enough little ones so utterly traumatised by the experience of being alive now, that they will grow up angry enough to ensure the extreme profitability of our weapons trade generation after generation to come. The policy is one of the more *bung corks up nostrilliums* whiffier ones that even pegs can't protect against. No.

Is that all, Chris? :)

I think our flag will be flapping in everyone's face for at least a generation... it'll take that long to remove from the psyche of mankind - certain mind pictures involving a cooked infant member of a group of even-toed ungulates; a prime minister; and the strange island inhabitants who put him in charge of their country.

Who won what, when, and at what speed, just won't make the same... sticky mark.

But that's not why I'm here :) Clue time is why I'm here.

These *point up and down, simultaneously, with just one finger*

...are quite a lot YAY

and this ^^^ is not a little NOT

I hope that helped? :)

so is this but I can't remember why... :) it'll come to me, don't worry...

That is a nice picture, Mikey :)

Fire takes hold so fast though. It's only good sense to send units from the nearest station wherever possible. If one area is more prone to fires than another, it should not be used to justify cutting the service in the area with less. A fire is a fire. The local fire station to where my daughter was living had to fight really hard to stay open. Things get very complicated when you add in navigating through busy city streets. Their unit lost several men in a fire in a warehouse just down the road from where I first lived in the east end. The warehouse was in the same street as a fire station that had been closed down a few years beforehand - for the very flawed reasons Mikey mentioned in his post. The extra time taken to get to it, is what cost those men their lives :(