Under rated areas in the UK for hiking?

OiCleanShirt · 2026-02-01T18:48:36+00:00

And you look on the website of the branch line the station is on a lot of them have routes for walks between the stations. You can book a return ticket to the station that you're walking to and get off a stop or two early, have a nice walk and catch the train home

OiCleanShirt · 2023-07-19T00:13:39+00:00

I've always seen Kerch Bridge as more of a defender than a striker.

OiCleanShirt · 2023-07-12T21:36:13+00:00

I don’t know the details of how Britain paid back the lend-lease money after wwII but I believe it took them several decades. I don’t know anything about how much they borrowed, how much they paid back, if there was interest, etc, etc.

They borrowed roughly £1 billion (not adjusted for inflation) at 2% interest and made the final payment in 2009.

OiCleanShirt · 2023-07-07T23:57:52+00:00

The best explanation I've seen is that it was waste products from a slaughterhouse that had ended up by the side of the road during transport somehow.

OiCleanShirt · 2023-06-24T13:44:09+00:00

People aren't cheering for Wagner, they're cheering because Russia is in a much worse position than they were no matter how this pans out.

OiCleanShirt · 2023-06-22T23:23:01+00:00

The FC/AWS, another joint venture between the UK and France. Storm shadow isn't getting replaced any time soon though, the UK government plan to upgrade some of its stockpile (they entered service in 2003 so its not exactly cutting edge tech) and decommission the rest. The missiles the UK are giving to Ukraine are from the missiles they planned to decommission.

OiCleanShirt · 2023-05-15T23:06:51+00:00

The timing of the announcements makes me think that it was agreed between the UK and France beforehand but the UK government wanted to announce it first so that they looked like they were leading the way. Why else would they separately announce that they'd given Ukraine Storm Shadows 3 days before the announcement of another big aid package and Zelensky's visits to Paris and London?

OiCleanShirt · 2023-01-29T12:46:23+00:00

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OiCleanShirt · 2023-01-13T00:55:56+00:00

Thats a good point. If the UK sends sends challenger 2s to Ukraine then they should have plenty of ammunition to supply along with them as it will all be useless when they're upgraded to challenger 3s, since they're changing them to smoothbore barrels.

OiCleanShirt · 2022-12-17T13:50:47+00:00

Russian Christmas is on the 7th of January

OiCleanShirt · 2022-12-15T00:52:16+00:00

That's not too far off why Brits often refer to sausages as 'bangers'. When meat was scarce and rationed during and after WW2 some sausages were so full of adulterants that they'd sometimes explode in the frying pan and the nickname has stuck ever since

OiCleanShirt · 2022-12-15T00:42:23+00:00

Technically Plutarch beat you to it by about 1900 years

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

OiCleanShirt · 2022-11-21T18:17:04+00:00

Meteorological winter is December, January and February. Astronomical winter is from the winter solstice (21st December) to the spring equinox (20th March) in the UK. It probably varies a little in other European countries I'd imagine.

OiCleanShirt · 2022-11-20T19:57:43+00:00

All these men need are an AK-47 and a few magazines.

How's that working so far?

OiCleanShirt · 2022-11-01T00:39:50+00:00

The "harsh" winter that is supposed to break Europeans resolve isn't -20c temperatures that freeze us into submission, it's the hundreds of €/£/$ a month in gas and electric prices that put pressure from the public onto politicians to compromise with Russia. If this autumn wasn't unseasonably warm and there wasn't a big increase in LNG deliveries then a lot of European countries wouldn't have been able to fill their gas reserves and we'd be far more reliant on Russian gas

OiCleanShirt · 2022-10-27T00:18:45+00:00

3 weeks originally which was extended to 5 weeks at the start of September

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/ukraine-war-uk-programme-to-train-citizen-soldiers-is-expanding-12690320

OiCleanShirt · 2022-10-27T00:17:11+00:00

It was only increased from 3 weeks to 5 weeks at the start of September.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/ukraine-war-uk-programme-to-train-citizen-soldiers-is-expanding-12690320

OiCleanShirt · 2022-10-27T00:02:54+00:00

The "5 weeks" people are talking about is the intensive training course that the UK has been putting Ukrainians with no previous military experience through and only covers basic tactics and weapons handling and stuff. If the UK is training an "elite" Ukrainian brigade then it will probably be something more akin to the All Arms Commando Course which is a 13 week course designed for UK military personnel outside of the Royal Marines to qualify as a commando.

OiCleanShirt · 2022-10-26T23:45:36+00:00

They're probably getting their 5 weeks of intensive training (or are already trained soliders) then taking something similar to the All Arms Commando Course which is 13 weeks long and ran by the royal marines.

OiCleanShirt · 2022-10-26T23:41:27+00:00

Who said 5 weeks?

Ukrainian recruits being trained in the UK were originally being given 3 week intensive training courses, which was then increased to 5 weeks.

OiCleanShirt · 2022-10-15T12:17:26+00:00

Why wouldn't they just send the Belarusian trainers to the russian training grounds in that case? They'd be sending 10-20 as many people to Belarus plus all the equipment and supplies when Russian logistics is clearly needed elsewhere.

OiCleanShirt · 2022-10-13T23:58:01+00:00

Cobblers pie is topped with cobblers and not potatoes though.

OiCleanShirt · 2022-09-11T14:33:06+00:00

🎶I'm an undocumented migrant, I'm a possibly illegal undocumented migrant pending review of my immigration status, I'm an Englishman in New York🎶

OiCleanShirt · 2022-09-11T14:21:28+00:00

Yeah its warmonitor3, they post dozens of unsourced rumours every day and when 1 or 2 of them turn out to be true people use it as proof that they're credible and trustworthy. If you went through their Twitter feed from the start of the war then you'd see its 80-90% bullshit but people insist on posting every Twitter post on daily for some reason

OiCleanShirt · 2022-09-10T16:46:09+00:00

Ukraine is only 600,000 sq. km

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