Trials and Tribulations:

First off, thank you everyone  for your concern. I’m ok, just a little
shaken up, but l’ll be ok.
For those of you who don’t know what happened, I was robbed this afternoon at the petrol station. I gathered myself together, my hands were still shaking, I was dizzy and I honestly
think I was in shock. My money was gone. I called the police, they were fantastic and called for medical assistance as my blood pressure was through the roof. The police asked me if I knew who did it, and I told them “Yes, it was pump number 2.”

Could not resist posting this: for all those who are shocked at the price of fuel.

Cannot attribute it because there was no indication on the forum I saw it on.

Maybe a somewhat controversial thought on this last day of 2021.

From the Encyclopædia Britannica:-

Dictatorship.

A form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations. The term dictatorship comes from the Latin title dictator, which in the Roman Republic designated a temporary magistrate who was granted extraordinary powers in order to deal with state crises
Modern dictators, however, resemble ancient tyrants rather than ancient dictators. Ancient philosophers’ descriptions of the tyrannies of Greece and Sicily go far toward characterizing modern dictatorships. Dictators usually resort to force or fraud to gain despotic political power, which they maintain through the use of intimidation, terror, and the suppression of basic civil liberties. They may also employ techniques of mass propaganda in order to sustain their public support.

Let us hope 2022 can revert back to what passed for normal two years ago.