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"I just want to give PONIES a try and go to bed. I suppose I'd best do this instead though." https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/ponies/s01/e01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLlYUlS_Awo (Second Hand News, Fleetwood Mac, 2004, Official Audio). Then there are those Wren™ Kitchen/Bathroom commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hGhl7ki3HM (Don't Stop, Fleetwood Mac, 2004, Official Audio). Where they seem to have a contract with allows them to run two every break. Not one after the other. With a spacer, obviously. As if you're going to lay it yourself(!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egPAiAuC57k (Shh, Theo Evan, Cyprus, First Semi-Final, Video, Eurovision Song Contest). It goes to the fashion of parents using exotic foreign words as names for their children. Often to the amusement of speakers of that language. Noah Cyrus, and her family, has provided the Eurovision community with many endless hours of entertainment. The exotic feminine Hebrew name they were aiming for was; "Noa." However they missed and landed her with the masculine; "Noah." Perhaps an even more hilarious example is Danny Masterson and Bijou Phillips. Who named their daughter; "Fianna." Convinced by all those baby name books that it's a beautiful Irish-Gaelic name meaning; "Deer." It really doesn't. It means; "Army," or a plurality of soldiers. The main Irish centre-left party is; "Fianna Fail," or; "Soldiers of Ireland." Naming your daughter; "Army" is just setting her up for a l...

As I really hope everyone in the Developed World has noticed. Typically you flush a toilet by depressing a handle on the front of what's known as a cistern. If you lift up the lid of the cistern and look you'll seen that handle is attached to a spindle. That spindle is attached to plastic lever arm which, in turn, is attached to a hook. When you press the handle down that hook lifts a plunger which opens a valve. Causing the cistern to, well, "flush" into the toilet bowl emptying it. Unless that little bit of plastic snaps, due to being millions of years old. Which is exactly what happened to me yesterday afternoon. Of course you can still flush the toilet by pulling on the hook to lift the plunger and open the valve. Although that is quite annoying. So I immediately went on a hardware store's website to source a new one. Unfortunately; "Lever Arm" isn't a particularly specific part name. So I had to go on a bit of a cyber wander through the Plumbing...

https://news.sky.com/story/aryna-sabalenka-tennis-world-number-one-stops-play-as-she-complains-about-strong-smell-of-cannabis-at-us-open-13581409

https://news.sky.com/story/countries-vote-at-un-to-back-new-world-map-that-shows-africas-true-size-13581494 Given that the Gall projection was in accepted use some 90 years before the creation on the UN.

https://news.sky.com/story/two-people-arrested-by-german-police-over-alleged-arson-attack-on-defence-firm-13581055