I've just been open-water swimming for an hour. I think that'll be the last I do this year. It wasn't too bad once acclimatised, but the moment I stopped swimming it got very cold, ver… (View Post)

All good stuff, but I think you miss one other significant factor that made the Kursk offensive successful, whilst the 2023 offensive was unsuccessful: Not telling the US government what they were do… (View Post)

There's a funny story about that from ye olden days of Acorn. Allegedly one of the directors had a very expensive sports car. He drove it to a company warehouse (*) and left it inside whilst he … (View Post)

I heard a story recently about a bike thief trying to steal a very expensive triathlon bike from outside a cafe. He didn't get far, as he found it nearly impossible to ride and ended up abandoni… (View Post)

That isn't absurd: in the 1930s the Nazis complained the Communists were doing the violence. TBF, there was some Communist violence in 1930s Germany, but it was dwarfed by the violence committed… (View Post)