Heard Sarah Montague on #BBCwato today practically have conniptions when Zack Polanski called Farage a fascist.
A one-man mission to rescue the name 'Nigel' (which I've always disliked) from the gutter. Bereft at the state of the world we're handing on to our kids. Sorry kids. Retired. Former IT geek; still dabble. West Country. Not Canadian - just love 'em to bits!
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Heard Sarah Montague on #BBCwato today practically have conniptions when Zack Polanski called Farage a fascist.
I thought of this one too, because I'm irredeemably lowbrow.
From our own experience, going from one to two kids was not double the trouble. But going from two to three, though? OMFG... Get a car that can take 2x car seats plus eldest squeezed in middle. Only four-occupancy max rooms, so pay for two rooms... We were just not prepared for all the differences.
"Keep an eye on the flag, fellahs!"
I'd enjoy seeing someone trying to paint this on a mini-roundabout. Especially if I was driving.
What - never taken a few tinnies down the park of a lazy afternoon?!
And you can guarantee that, in a week's time, the toes and uppers will look as though the owner has been dragged, unwillingly, across a gravel drive by two burly ICE agents from the PE department. There's no point getting anything decent before 'prom'.
I thought No. 9 was in Dubai, saving on VAT to not see her kids.
Excuse me? Mind you, this is consequential and we are at a pivot point. (Will that do?)
I've walked past that church often over the last five decades and have always been too busy to pop in. What a fool.
You can't tell Shep to get down today. Because of Noakes. Actually, still too soon? Sorry John.
Isn't there an actor with an unusual name that Sir Terry (blessings be upon his memory) dubbed Honeydew Melon? I could Google it (or duckduckgo it) but I don't want to waste 547,000 litres of water in my local data centre, or delete every email bar one.
Underrated. Deserves more.
That's open to discussion (Contd page 94)
...and, in at least one case, being dead.
They were only alerted when they noted a lack of racist and trolling activity on that person's socials.
That's the spirit. Ukraine is crucial to us, not only physically but morally. I found the riflemen part fascinating. Looking at my railway maps now!
Being born in Africa and living in the U.S. this transitory economic migrant (I imagine that is what he is, unless he's claimed asylum here or there) has less entitlement to continued UK citizenship than British born Shamima Begun, hasn't he? Perhaps he should be turned back. Or locked in a hotel.
Do they emerge from cocoons in trees and atop lampposts? Suddenly it makes sense - the Patriot Moth which is attracted to heat but soon dies back in persistent rain and the start of the soccer season.
Agree - a fascinating episode about a less known facet of that period. Am dusting down my #interrail app and maps to work out the best way to get there, while we can.
'Vacuous' is appropriate, but to the author rather than the subject.
And make a musical instrument out of your comb. A cross between a harmonica and a kazoo.
I've started taking magnesium bisglycinate for overnight cramps: wake up with knotted calf and thigh muscles. Need to 'leap' out of bed to press down with the foot to effectively reset the muscles. Bloody painful and never get a night's sleep. Early days, but I'll clutch at any straw.
I'm sure I remember a line from early 80s Corrie when one of the indomitable old ladies said "Got to go; got a spam fritter on a low light." Same vibe, I feel
It wasn't one of those 'Microsoft Support' calls was it? The one where they say they've monitored an urgent problem, and all he needs to do is allow remote access? Oh, he did? Oh...
Good luck with that. Your search might fall into the same exercise in futility as finding a decent 'non' flat screen TV, should you want a chubby one instead.
More a Father Ted Talk, really. Although that would be an ecumenical matter.
We haven't made an outgoing call from our landline in two years - our bundle is changed to the cheaper 'pay for your calls' option, and we just don't. Keep the number for elder relatives and for those nice young men from Microsoft support who want so much to help us. Love chatting to them...
457 killed 616 seriously wounded 7807 field hospital admissions 7477 air medevacs £23bn expended (£32.8bn in 24/25 money) Still Dubai Dick & Nigel Fagash want to pay Taliban and send back those, & their families, who helped our forces, to a regime that denies basic rights to their women & girls
Thank you for your service
Buildings insurance Underwrites British Columbia Factories
I'm surprised MG4 isn't in there - they're like fleas on a dog's back round here.
The State Prosciutto found the whole thing was a false salami.
And we know which bell end these guys are from.
At times like this I like to think 'What would Bobby 'whitewash' Jenerick say?' And then do the opposite. Bravo to Malaysian hospital. Hope you're friend's kid gets well soon.
Deserves the ba-dum-TISH!! meme but I'm a bit pushed for time. Nice though
Well this is no good. How many bunnies = 1 dog, then? I think this needs to be properly calibrated and incorporated into @theregister.com units of measurement (size of Wales, double-decker buses, Bulgarian airbags, etc).
Don't know what happened to him. Last I heard he went for a partial reboot and got a gig as a host on a quasi-reality show about useless people who thought they were proto business moguls. Max (they changed his name to something that alluded to a fart) would decide whether they stayed or were fired.
Maybe their 'furriners out' stance applies to all those Normans, comin' over here, taking our land, imposing their laws, fancy names for meat, er... Hard core.
It was just a false salami after all. 📞 Hello? Yes. Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel? The Marx Brothers want their joke back? Well, there's a pickle...
"That's quite the charge!"
I'm reserving judgement on what I think until I hear Reform's take on it in tomorrow's news bulletins.
I'm surprised the Taliban want to be associated with these guys. They want to check their PR strategy.
Quite the achievement considering traffic is routinely queueing to the bottom of the Batheaston bypass; far more often than it used to. Gratifying to note the increase in EVs in the queue, though. (The latter being the requested Good News.)
Not a mental image I'll be able to scrub for a while. Just a single glove? Don't look Ethel... too late...
You mean, like this? (I still haven't got over it. I love the BBC, but ...) bsky.app/profile/nige...
He was being optimistic. I, however, think the shutter is half closed. These photos are best viewed with a background of 60s jangly spy music, or that one from Portishead they always use.
Evidence would suggest that even being born on here but being, well, you know, a bit brown, isn't sufficient to stop you being uncitizened.
What? They wang on all the time that there are no 'Right Wing Comedians' (I except Jeff Northcott from this on a couple of grounds) and then they want to zotz the stone cold brilliant Baroness Warsi? Are they mad*? *Rhetorical question. I, and you, know the answer.
My nails are feckin' shocking, so they are.
Oh for an Edit button...
Neither. That was a different sub-category with labels including :hilarious and :karma. But although we scoff (rightly), the danger is we don't take this what this symptomises seriously.
I often wondered about the back story that culminated in A Handmaid's Tale, but to actually LARP it out is a bit over the top, isn't it, chaps?
Sloppy work. Where are the dinghies on the beach?
Ben Chu early this a.m. described the subject of the show - final bids for offshore energy generation setting income for next 20 years; electricity set against gas prices, future of renewables etc. Good, I thought, wonder who they'll get from the Greens. Drumroll... Dubai Dick. Unfuckingbelievable.
Lubov Chernukhin - she paid £160k to play tennis with Johnson. (You know, the one who dumped his security detail shortly after a security meeting about the Salisbury poisoning so he could go to a Tuscany all nighter hosted by a former KGB officer.)
Disgraceful that this beautiful example of ancient Greek culture should be in a museum in Boston. It should be repatriated back where it belongs, in the British Museum.
Or giving the Bobster so much benefit of the doubt "Honest Bob just wouldn't do that... Would you, Bobby?" that she can be shocked, shocked to find that manoeuvres and plotting have been going on and that little Bobbins did know all about it, after all. Nah... tw;cl Too weak; can't lead.
Well she'll no doubt be greeted with open arms over there. Oh hang on, what's this on the visa application about Do you have a criminal record? Phew - Yes!
@iandunt.bsky.social , @dorianlynskey.bsky.social , @originstorypodcast.bsky.social - 'Remigration' - Remind us, which discredited politician lost his reputation and job for using that term?
One tiny misteak...
BBC From Our Own Correspondent leans forward...
Driving through a quiet Wiltshire market town yesterday I noticed many mini-roundabouts had had a red cross ❌ painted on them. I hadn't realised St Patrick was so popular round these yer parts.
Oh. I thought she was complaining about her new (no VAT for absentee parents) neighbourhood. Silly me.
"But enough about my problems. At least I don't have to pay VAT to not see my kids."
You can get that down the Cornershop
Sod the AI, just make it easier to find a local tip open when you might be able to visit, doesn't scrutinise you as if you're a criminal until proven otherwise, or have you driving round and round or exiting to go back in (but beware ANPR?!), and clambering ladders of giant skips. And zero help.
I think so - you're stretching my fading memory here. I remember it being a clever shorthand for the power pinnacle, but only fragments of the internecine Spad wars (Dolly Draper, Charlie Whelan, are names that come to mind) come back to me. Sorry!
Hello, Country Bumpkin correspondent here. I remember it, as a non-partisan Nolan-loving civil servant, and all the emphatic assurances that it was all a lovely, Summer of Love vibe behind the scenes... 🕶️ sound!
Well, I was going to pop in to "Mr B's Book Emporium" in Bath, but each to their own. 😉📚
Chrus Gulp took a bit of beating from Emma Barnett on #r4today just now. None of it stuck to him though - the perfect conscience-less pol.
Yup, that's what they tortoise.
"Siri, describe what a museum does; give a good example"
I heard that after the end of COVID lockdown and the relaxation of the 2 metre distance rule, Finland breathed a sigh of relief so they could move back to 4 metres apart.
This sounds suspiciously like you've taken the hit to be the 'Will these slides be available online afterwards?' guy. Always an easy win for Meeting Bingo, that one. I've been known to cheat and ask it myself if bored enough
I think you're just jealous, Mike, that he has obviously done so well in the Sunday Soccer League over the years. His local Timpson's must have done a brisk trade selling and engraving all those: WORLDS BEST PRESEDENT
Kirk Flitting - do my eyes deceive me or are those the blue, be-kilted legs of the Nac Mac Feegle twinkling beneath that wee hoose?
Send me your T shirt and a stamped, addressed envelope and I'll sign it for fifty quid. Or I might just keep it. Like my namesake, my principles are flexible.
This one, because the other one just doesn't deserve any extra airplay (see display name)
Whereas Nolan always had his principles of honesty, integrity, selflessness ... [Contd p94 of gov .uk]
I seem to remember dimly that there was some controversy about the filming of the charge and use of trip wires, or was that the Waterloo film from a similar time? A great film that I haven't seen for ages - I'll have to look it out. Thank you!
"Featherstonehaugh" - should that not have been pronounced 'Fanshawe' (for some obscure catching out the oiks reason, no doubt), or was it said in the context of another dispute between them?
'Given a ride' - in the Irish sense?
Are they both of the '21' cohort ejected from the party by He Who Lied to The Queen?
And a song in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers!
They've even given up on spelling. This from a recent front page: bsky.app/profile/nige...
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"
You don't usually use fruit in stocks; it's more often meat, bones, some vegetables and, if you're not above cheating a bit, a couple of spoons of bouillon. But an interesting idea, nonetheless.
Well if he drives on the wrong side over there as well, I'm not surprised.
Although, 'Thank You For Your Service, @profaliceroberts.bsky.social ' for live-testing the continuing or increasing awfulness of That Site so we don't have to.
Logically, creating a UK enclave from some bolted together portable-cabins to process asylum seekers, who would then be granted passage, would then allow a nil-by-boat policy to be legally enforced without being labelled as cruel or unfair. But would the media not then whip up a SM hate fest?
I'm weeping...
To be honest, I think it was a false salami. (Credit: Marx Brothers)
Glad you enjoyed it. We did our first Interrail this year (5 day pass) aged 66 and 63 and are furious we haven't done it before. Tentative dip in the water: down to L. Garda, out via Paris & Basel, back via Lugano & Strasbourg. Planning next excursion...
Including taking the shirt off his back which, judging by that photo, appears to 'have shrunk' since he bought it.
What? Sorry, I must have drifted off. Bobbing away on a small boat...
I was going to say 'well it'll be hard to top Widdicombe' then realised I might be misconstrued as responding to a competitive tender.
Me: Oh heck Inner me: ...
I would love to have been in the budget meeting where the aircon capex line item got moved from TfL to HO hotel subsistence cost centre. I miss budget meetings, (like a hole in the head).
Smashing photos! We have a yellow Lab that is always head deep in blackberry bushes out on walks, and I take occasional snaps, but I wouldn't dream of showing them up against these lovely ones!