Mamma mia here i go again. 

Yes: indoors in winter. 

It would only be a help if you were into the other gender's shoe styles. 

My laptop is old and tends to freeze. After a few years, you are as well trading up. 

The state has full control of any electronic system and can easily manipulate it to give any desired result, perhaps even using AI to keep it plausible. 

My actuarial numeracy has not deserted me. For a UK male of my age, life expectancy is almost exactly 10 yrs. For Scots it's nearer 9.5 yrs. I have diabetes but consider myself fit for my age (eg I stil cycle on a push bike most days). 

I'll need to look up the mortality table. Might only be 50-50

Too dumbed down nowadays. 

I usually toast the bread, spread the butter as best I can, let it melt while the tea's brewing, then apply marmalade. 

He'll be as doddery as Biden is now. Can you not get some younger folk to head up the country?

On a bike, it makes sense

No.  it's not about the money. 

Between this president and the last, the USA has had its fill of gerentocracy. 

I regularly go on the bike if that counts. The exercise bike has languished in the garage since I moved here.

One pinkie is 1/4 in longer than the other, probably from stretching exercises for the piano. 

I'd only normally miss it if I were in a hurry to be at an appointment on time. 
There is also the problem of keeping blood sugar level under control. A hypo is usually worse than a hyper. Where the former is not a risk, a reduction in breakfast carb...  moreI'd only normally miss it if I were in a hurry to be at an appointment on time. 
There is also the problem of keeping blood sugar level under control. A hypo is usually worse than a hyper. Where the former is not a risk, a reduction in breakfast carbohydrate intake would be an option. 
   

U stands for unidentified so we're supposed to think that they don't know. 

Greased lightning is the cliché.

It suits the CIA for us to believe that the balloons are Chinese spying, but this cannot be independently verified. Some doubts have been expressed as to whether they would be so brazen.

Piece of nonsense. 'The' woke trying to control your language yet again. 

WLTM 70 yr old lass who's into cycling, dancing and music and tolerates cat.  

Hogmanay bash at Bowling Club

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I don't cause accidents and I don't drive too cautiously. There are plenty of younger folk who don't keep up to the speed limits in good conditions. 

Nae bother; I even bend over in my kilt to tie my laces between dances if they have come undone. I can also stand on one leg and put the other shoe on that knee to tie it. 

Coco

Hatchet

Madam, I'm Adam.

When in Belgium, I bought some chocolate to bring home (as you do). 
It was labelled in French, German and Flemish but none of them were spelt the same way as in English. So I offered my friends Chocolat/Schokolade/Chocolade. 
 

In UK, not a ban as such, rather a nominal charge for each plastic bag used with an exception for food retailers such as butchers. At one stage, the charge applied to paper bags as well. 
There is some pressure to reduce the plastic items in your lis...  moreIn UK, not a ban as such, rather a nominal charge for each plastic bag used with an exception for food retailers such as butchers. At one stage, the charge applied to paper bags as well. 
There is some pressure to reduce the plastic items in your list, but it does not appear to be very effective.   

I called my first piano teacher "Gladys"; probably overheard Mum call her that. I was soon put right.

Christians are meant to be fishers of men (and presumably women), not that it is very evident in most Western churches nowadays. 

I'll take my secrets to the grave, thank you very much. 

Cat but she sometimes takes the initiative. 

No, plan to stuff the cat and self with turkey meat. 

Not. Just cat and self tucking into turkey breast, stuffing, sausages, tatties, other veg and Christmas pud washed down with wine and whisky.  

Neither do I. I see the spelling as a distinction between Irish and Scotch.One of the emigrant branches of the family even changed surname to Mac... from Mc... because the latter was more commonly Irish, the former more Scottish. 
 

No; only take water in my whisky, if anything. 

Like most, in Scouts as a youngster. 
For a couple of years, wife and self used tents on occasion before we migrated to caravanning. Disposed of them after she passed away. 
Last outing was for Boys' Brigade officer training in freezing Grantown...  moreLike most, in Scouts as a youngster. 
For a couple of years, wife and self used tents on occasion before we migrated to caravanning. Disposed of them after she passed away. 
Last outing was for Boys' Brigade officer training in freezing Grantown on Spey.   

No; it sometimes happens to Santa Clauses too. The answer in that case is of course December 25th. 

By yon bonnie banks, as sung at the close of a Scots evening. 

Lochgelly Tawse.

Of course English is the mother tongue. I like to think I make sense of the various tweets in other languages but I really should do more dictionary bashing to check it out. 

I don't really speak them, but I have French, German, Latin, Russian and Albanian on my Twitter feed. 

While we're on the subject "och aye the noo" is a time-honoured line used by Scots comics to establich a ridiculous persona. 

However, rather he translated it from current Scots into English with or without a Scottish accent. 

My razor has done me 60 years. I recently bought a pack of 500 blades which will probably outlast me. 

Rabbie Burns's literary works in Scots had an extensive vocabulary independent of English. Modern Scots, as you have no doubt noticed, is much closer to English but nevertheless still retains some words of its own apart from English with an accent. 

OK, it should read "in the kilt, on ma bike with a blue wig on ma heid".