I remember this poor fella. Manchester United fan arguing with Liverpool supporters on holiday. They threw him in the pool and he broke his leg. But they weren’t done with him yet.
They found him on Facebook and added him under a fake profile. As a woman called Emma. They spent months blagging him. Had a woman ringing him to make it sound more authentic.
After months of dirty talk. He drove up to Aberdeen to meet her. They had him sitting outside some barn on a farm for hours waiting. They had him sending photos of himself sucking the vibrator he had brought with him.
Then finally they rang him laughing their heads off. You could hear the devastation in his voice when he heard them Scouse accents. He knew exactly who they were.
He went viral. His wife found out and he lost his family.
Probably one of the cruelest jokes I’ve ever seen played on anyone. But I would be lying if I said I didn’t find it hilarious.
Geologist Ian Plimer: "We have been cooling down for the last 4,000 years... It's all about when you start the measurements."
"If you start taking measurements from 1850... we have been warming."
"If you take measurements from the [Medieval Warming Period]... we've cooled about five degrees since then."
"If you take measurements from the [Roman Warming Period], we've cooled about five degrees."
"So as soon as someone tells you it's warming, the reply you give is, since when?"
🚨DEVELOPING: Macron, Starmer, and Merz caught on video on their return from Kiev. A bag of white powder on the table. Macron quickly pockets it, Merz hides the spoon. No explanation given. Zelensky, known cocaine enthusiast, had just hosted them. Connect the dots.
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to @USTreasury for the great work.
https://t.co/6dsKaArfM8
US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled:
- $10M for "Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision"
- $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop "a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills"
- $2.3M for "strengthening independent voices in Cambodia"
- $32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre
- $40M for "gender equality and women empowerment hub"
- $14M for "improving public procurement" in Serbia
- $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for "inclusive and participatory political process" in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India
- $29M to "strenghening political landscape in Bangladesh"
- $20M for "fiscal federalism" in Nepal
- $19M for "biodiversity conversation" in Nepal
- $1.5M for "voter confidence" in Liberia
- $14M for "social cohesion" in Mali
- $2.5M for "inclusive democracies in Southern Africa"
- $47M for "improving learning outcomes in Asia"
- $2M to develop "sustainable recycling models" to "increase socio-economic cohesion among marginalized communities of Kosovo Roma, Ashkali, and Egypt"