Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[fsn]

So ... if everyone has left ... and it's just me ...

I'm King of the Forum!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Someone fetch the frog pills and straight jacket, Nobby's delousional again.

[fsn]

What's that, Peasant? Are you speaking against the Emperor of the Forum?

Off with the heads of his next order! Allow him Chieftains, but bend the barrels! Make his bases not quite square so they don't really fit together!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Beware - I have seniority of 1000 posts 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Don't make me waste my four posts until my next promotion coming down on high on you mortals!!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Try it and see 

[fsn]

Infamy! Infamy!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Actually, it will be 502 I think...
I can waste a few

[Last Hussar]

Gentlemen,  have you seen the news from Rostov-on-Don

If not, I would suggest you go to the BBC website immediately.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Just looked, end of begining or begining of the end ?

[Ithoriel]

... or maskirovka?

[Last Hussar]

"We are little-by-little running out of popcorn," jokes Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine's defence minister.

Speaking to BBC World Service Newshour, Saks says just before Russia began its 2022 attack on Ukraine the world thought Russia had "the second most powerful army in the world".

"Yesterday everybody knew that Russia was the second most powerful army in Ukraine and today we're seeing how... the Russian army is becoming the second most powerful army in Russia."

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Lots of popxorn

[steve_holmes_11]

Gentlemen,  have you seen the news from Rostov-on-Don

If not, I would suggest you go to the BBC website immediately.

Takes you back to the days of Carthage, or late Byzantium.

[Last Hussar]

But those rebellions weren't led by people who thought the state should have used tactical nuclear weapons...