What is happening in Europe and Africa, and the people and culture thereof?

I know there's some English words there, Howie, but I can't for the life of me figure out what you mean... I think I get "groan of a state," but "head banged"? What is that? Dizzy, woozy or unsteady -- as if one had been hit on the head?

Oh dear poor limited man! It means when one says head-banged when people are brained rather simply and seem incapable of doing anything about it. That especially is a States thing as you have to be rich to be noted! 

"Brained"!? Another colloquialism peculiar to the Scots dialect, I presume?
I have a time or two been cold-cocked, punched from behind and left reeling. And I've been bamboozled a few times, led astray and put-on and put upon... But I still don't quite get your meaning.
I've learned over the years to accept and accommodate my limits, boy-o! But you seem utterly unaware of yours.

Shall we return to the topic?

(Though I confess, I have more fun with this particular sort of digression! To the rest of you here: My thanks for your indulgence. And to the inimitable Howie himself, my congratulations and condolences: Lord knows, the boy can't he'p hisself! )

Oh dear I have always been inherently a brain user you unlucky man over in nutjobland! 

Perhaps. But if only it connected to your mouth, your eyes and fingers, and to your curiosity!

Gentlemen offending each other. How amusing!

How quaint.

I do note what is a scant knowledge from you Barulheira but live on hope dear person!

Gentlemen offending each other. How amusing!

Pay the Howie no mind, Barulheira! Your understanding is more than adequate! You've described it perfectly....

@jax: Quite! Don't let anyone tell you different: It can be fun to get old.

We all got more experience with that. It's now 19 years since the Opera web forum opened. That's a significant chunk of a lifetime.

(In Norwegian penal code 21 years is a lifetime; we're getting there soon.)

We all got more experience with that. It's now 19 years since the Opera web forum opened.

Nobody has changed. We're the same ones.

OI don't mind OakdaleFTL's comment re me as I make allowances for where he lives!

Deadly flooding spreads across Africa's Sahel region

Record floods have inflicted severe damage across the Sahel region in recent weeks, leaving dozens dead and tens of thousands homeless from Sudan to Senegal.

OI don't mind OakdaleFTL's comment re me as I make allowances for where he lives!

And knowing that vice is worse, sir, I don't reprove you. The others should know by now (as I do!) that as a babe in arms can be quite fetching -when it's sleeping, you can be quite reasonable -when you've been drinking!

(Too bad California can't trade some of its excess fire for some of their water, jax...)

Just passing this on,

Yes, that's more or less correct.
I know because I'm an even less poor Moor speaking proper Portuguese with V sound.