Half as many enemy casualties as yesterday. Has the much vaunted surge of reservists into Pokrovsk sputtered out?

It’s a trap.

Anyway, Ukraine joining NATO would benefit NATO at least as much as it would Ukraine. Ukraine would effectively become the armoury of NATO, at the cutting edge of weapons and tactics development. (Similarly, if Russia were to win, it would find captured Ukrainian technologies very useful in Moldova/the Baltic States/Finland, and NATO would find having allowed this to happen to be a very false economy.) Ukraine is anything but dead weight, and we need to recognise this.

There was/is a cluster of roadside services in a place named Tebay in the north of England that was consistently highly rated for artisanal food, to the point that people would go there as a destination rather than just stopping if it’s on the way. Not sure if this is still the case.

They invented the balti curry

Watch long enough and they will start dreaming and twitching in their dreams.

Balls that have their own gravitational field

Well, they’re not exactly Britney Spears, are they?

The hero we need in our times

They have chromed-up ones styled to look like a Harley-Davidson or similar, presumably for cashed-up boomers who will gladly pay to feel cool

It’s great to see the Corn Man Extended Universe.

It means smoking drugs rectally, I think

The Robotron KC85 had it all the way back in the 80s.

In France, children get watered-down wine with their dinner. In Germany, instead, this happens.

If introversion is not socially acceptable (as “creepy” implies), it follows that public healthcare systems should provide free cocaine to those afflicted.

As a handful of German teenagers call for peaceful surrender to Russia, Russians display bumper stickers reading “To Berlin for German women”.

Bernd Das Blobfish

As somebody else said, the US (and other societies with similar levels of customer entitlement) would be improved by universal national service in retail/hospitality

There are a lot of smart Russians. Most of them are in the west, applying their skills to civilian applications and getting paid well for it. Over a drink, they will talk about how Russia has gone to shit and there was nothing for them. The ones who stayed behind would have been the ones who either couldn’t leave or didn’t want to.

Looks like someone won a stupid prize

Don’t they spell the specific Jamaican language “Patwa”, to differentiate it from the idea of a patois in general?