Unlikely that we’ll be hearing from our beijing correspondent any time soon. He’s usually 6 plant pots down and balls deep into a brass this time on a saturday.

“wade-giles time” as he calls it.

Smallman1 If we only we had some sort of ‘expert’ on the region who could help fill in the blanks.

Paging @LT42 for the inside scoop from the CIA.

      Apparently this story first came from a Russian bot on Twitter…ie almost certainly bollocks

      I need somewhere to spend my misplaced excitement, so I’m going to watch some Francis Bourgeois.

        NasserAlazzawi love that. some kind of purity and innocence about the endervour of cashing around a diesel engine.

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          @bosstrabs - you heard of the band Salem? I thought this music vid was done pretty well: