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Not least as I don't think he is on the Roll any longer anyway. Odd legal "career" all round - seemingly fast tracked to Tory central office via v junior grind for 15 mins at a couple of White Shoe firms before a nice corp directorship by 30. But not worth striking off.
Brilliant defence that, isn't it? "This can't be a crime as we sort of expected it of you"
It's partly because it was financial crime and impropriety. People couldn't see the bags of loot, and so the perpetrators (quite rightly) assumed that Hoi polloi would tire of it and move on. Ten years after Panama, I see Companies House is now slightly changing ID regulation.
Do I get points for nearly pointing out an issue but then holding myself back from it as it would be tedious? (Then do I lose points for this?)
Bollocks, Schbollocks
For me, I try and avoid the snobbery. But then it gets replaced simply by jealousy. Off now to pout outside the local butchers to see if he'll sub me some free bacon.
Horace... HORACE! [Clicks fingers] Back in the room now. You were out for a moment there. Your eyes had rolled back and you were on a Sorkin rush again. Here, have a Pontefract cake and get back to complaining about yank food attitudes.
I'm more astounded that (1) some people somewhere must be paying these people to "influence", and (2) some (presumably a lot) are duly influenced to make this worthwhile. I'd save ire for the above rather than the pouty worker.
Is that Michael or Olympia Dukakis? (These details matter to me)
Ah, like ships that passed in the night (In completely different shipping forecast areas to each other)
Weren't they on stratton st then? I was at the law firm next door in the 90s for a bit.
I fear the artist who did the gate guardians was working off someone else's, very loose, description of a sphinx, whilst having quite something else on his* mind. "Did you do the enigmatic sphinx?" "Yes boss, really enigmatic and sexy just like you asked..." "Wha...!?" (*Oh, a bloke did this)
My partner's nephew starts big school tomorrow - and he recently beat me fair and square at chess for the first time. I have been practicing and working on my game - and I have no doubt that I am on a losing wicket here, and future beatings from him will come more and more frequently. It's ace.
Just seen a since deleted post complaining about rail price rises. But the fault lies with whatever numerically illiterate fool agreed an "RPI +x%" multiplier for anything.
I love the fact that Lincoln Cathedral held the record of tallest building in the World for over 200 years.
Round these parts we only eat furmity. Love a bit of furmity.
You could only do this in an American house as they don't believe in masonry in the midwest (other than for tornado shelters), and houses are essentially flat pack joinery just like set building. They do have a lot of space though (and then waste it on parking and grass)
Is that a solution to preserve the notion of "free choice"? Say "Do you want this vaccine for your child? You are free to say no but if the child then dies or contracts the disease you could have prevented then you accept you will bear liability?"
I do wonder what she feels about vaccines now. Is she still a true believer, thinks herself "unlucky"? Would she advocate for vaccines for her other children or herself now?
Someone in the office does have hidden income streams I'm sure of it. I think the person baking cakes for charity sale is in the pay of Big Brownie.
I mean, I work with a tech startup company which benefits from research funding, and I can confirm that the last [checks notes] £35,000 we received for a year long project was indeed used (after the lab cost) to pay the 49 staff. I don't think these scientists are the Bilderberg you are looking for
I'm excited to be going to New York in a few weeks. (No political comments on my socials from me, oh no) So, in prep for my visit, what films should I watch as a nice introduction to this town? Not just set there, I want your "This film is New York!"
I only got the Moor St route once, in about 1997, as it was so much cheaper for a student. The journey down to see my gf at uni was a delightful potter through the shires. I got dumped on arrival. Can't remember journey back; am sure it was grey and bleak.
This year at a festival my daughter (surprisingly not that tall, given I am) couldn't see Franz Ferdinand and so went on my shoulders for "Take Me Out" She got the whole song, mainly because my knees locked and I wasn't actually sure putting her down wouldn't injure one or both of us.
I had this at the cinema the other night - a "behind the scenes" of The Roses followed a bit later by the cinema trailer for The Roses. Sorry I didn't see if they left out crediting anyone they shouldn't have, as was too busy thinking a film that needed two big plugs was probably shite.
I'm only doing the ripping out. Someone else can do the new one!
My friend said he could die happy and fulfilled there and then.
My geeky friend managed to work in the music biz. Once (as a complete fanboy) he ended up in a business meeting with REM. Mr Stipe apparently arrived late and went first to help himself to a breakfast buffet - in the corner. When someone asked "Where's Micheal?" you just know what he piped up.
Nice one. I emptied a kitchen today in advance of dismantling the old units tomorrow. Good luck with your endeavours.
Wine is also fantastic.
(can a pond have a current? You know what I mean)
There's been loads of haphazard wonky red crosses quickly spray painted at night around Malton and Norton too. Really nasty undercurrent of pond life out there.
The Knights Who Say Ni****
A vegan option in 1989?
I'm sorry Rich. Was a low blow. (Couldn't resist)
[Turns on BlueSky of a weekend and frets I have accidentally stumbled on a LinkedIn post]
OK, was merely talking from my daughter's own experience with her instructor this week, but you're fine to believe otherwise.
As someone whose offspring is currently learning how to drive - nowadays learning how to use driving aids, and how to cope without them, is part of the syllabus. Tl;dr: standard boomer opinion that everything should be the same as back in their day.
Whilst appreciating the geeky loco content, nice to see the quality looking stations as well. Suitably jealous, and happy to see you having a lovely time.
So odd that the debate is framed "we need to sort this one problem so the only solution is to throw out all these babies with the bathwater" Anyone suggesting to exit echr should say first how they'll deal with all the other issues (in detail, not just "oh we'll sort a British Bill")
Hierarchy: Bsky is slower than X to gossip, but will give similar details Reddit is usually first, with details, but too niche. FB will be posting conspiracy a week later. Meanwhile my teen son, told me this "fact" yesterday morning before anyone above, which means all "adult" Socials are doomed.
Naval Gunnery's prompt answer to Taylor Swift being born earlier that month.
My other half is back tonight. She can fight it for me. But thanks for wishes.
Definitely going back for the Police Museum. (My great grandfather was (mounted) Bradford Police!)
I just had an altercation with an old chap holding up all the traffic in the high street, waiting for someone to pull out of a space for him (person was of course blocked waiting for old guy to move). Well up for mandatory retesting at a certain age.
Autumn? This post was just 4 days ago. At this rate you'll be into Spring by next weekend. bsky.app/profile/fabu...
Ah. Season of mists, and mellow fruitful.... Hold up, it's peeing it down.
Oh forgot to mention. I went to Bradford yesterday. First time since 1984. I quite liked it.
Get yourself a dinghy, go down to Folkestone and just paddle round the corner to Dover to get picked up. Tell them you want to be on the one-in-one-out policy and you get a free ticket!
Seeing this and today that claptrap from the racist MP it does make me wonder if we would be better off just deporting everyone from Essex. [Checks passport. Balls. I'll see myself out. One for the team and all that.]
Reader, there is no end to this story. I did not find the beast. It remains to this day, sequestered under my bed somewhere, with its tap dancing shoes on.
It was *noisy* I honestly woke because I thought there was a mouse. Turns out it was a spider running laps of a bedside lampshade. Turned on light and there it was, gloriously silhouetted and projected. Fleetingly before it shot off towards darkness (to where I was under covers).
Sympathies. Been there, done that, got caught. Empty motorway, late at night, so put on cruise control to make sure I stayed safe. It auto limited itself in the 50 zone, then sped itself up again when I changed motorways as it assumed for me that limit had increased. It hadn't.
Just got woken by a chunky house spider running noisily across the bed. It got away from me. So that's me wide awake for a while then!
Was that when you found that at 1 to 2 years old it is even more cutely called "a hogget"?
Even I baulked at making that tenuous link. (And I came from a town 50 miles north east of Indianapolis before I had that job)
A lamb stays a lamb until it is pretty big at one year old. Don't fret though, the one you are eating had the body of a fully grown adult, but the mind (hopes and dreams) of a lamb. And now you feel even more like a monster than when you thought you were eating the cute small one.
What? Like that chap from Oceans Eleven before him?
This is a great observation. The other way around is to ask: Q: "1. Why are populists so alluring?" A: Because they offer quick fixes Q: "2. If fix is quick, why haven't we done it already?" A: Because it doesn't work. So go back to step 1 and choose someone "not alluring" who disagrees with you.
A good yardstick for whether you respect somebody is whether you care enough to argue with them when they're wrong. By which yardstick, it's about a decade and a half since any UK politician demonstrated respect to the electorate.
You will visit the zoo, and all the animals you wanted to see will be asleep in their burrows.
Defence accepted. It isn't you who is the culprit in mind.
Whenever I get into these things more deeply though (mainly authenticator apps) I then get into a spiral of what the app is authenticating, and do we really exist outside our own minds in any case? When I use the app, am I proving myself to them, or me to myself?
Don't know how they got them both in one photo. Their airmiles tally is immense. Rory:"This week I'm staying in a hut with an indigenous tribe from West Papua" Alistair:"And I'm in a Swedish ex-PM's summerhouse"
Schadenfreude here as I gave up on it a while back, largely because of you types posting "I did it in 17 seconds!" No more fun! This place is for anguish and grandstanding only.
Beginningpoint if you're a prospective camp operative.
Way more than 45 mins as I've listened twice already and will do again
I think we may be on slightly different tangents. In the ambit of your AI concerns, yes I agree that those who are disadvantaged in some ways may need protection even if they don't realise it. I was perhaps more concerned with the perennially thick in the political sphere, where they come to me.
I think I'm going to get over the judging thing. The stupid people have no qualms about foisting their decisions on me, and I suspect that they're pretty thick skinned, what with being inherently stupid and all.
I think much of the policy making we have seen today was in fact relying on this level of stupidity for traction.
I honestly think reform types are well up for it insofar as it relates to people who arrive on boats. I don't think they've processed yet that it will be others too - though I suspect that this is deep down what many want.
Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu Christmas Special on History Channel.
Come on then you miseries. Just because this looks like as much fun as seasonal norovirus, what would you rather see on a cold Christmas night?
Is it just me, or is sticking two fingers in your mouth to whistle, not quite such a common activity as I imagined it might be when I was seven?
"Vorkshire" though....
Ha. My lad (15) went off down to the lively crowd in front of the stage at a festival on his own. Came back elated having met a load of other teenagers "Even had some girl I don't know sitting on my shoulders - but what's the point as no-one who knows me saw!"
Nice of them to pop up near the end of the thread to illustrate the point though isn't it?
I'm on here. And recently found out I am on a couple of blocklists entitled "This person follows Helen Lewis", which faintly amuses me as wrong-headed as it is.
TBF "disused" cooling towers also don't cool industrial loads.
Thanks for that last observation. It is a bit laughing in the dark, but true. I'd also note that from his Facebook posts Fat Dan is so illiterate I'm not sure he could spell "X" when it comes to the ballots anyway.
The alternative though is that Harold, Sweyn, Godwin, and Tostig all come from Peckham, rather than having any Danish ancestry.
Knackers to this. I'm off to write the screenplay to my own miniseries. Opening scene: the White Ship Disaster off the coast of Normandy in 1120 and one survivor washes ashore. The death of William Adelin sets off The Anarchy. But to explain this we cut to... Æthelstan over 120 years before.
I think that the moustache one is a Capulet. Or maybe they're from Essos or summat.
I even know the history rudimentarily. But this is so bloody confusing as they're rushing it.
It's started 40 odd years too late. And a cockney Godwin is perhaps more than I can take.
We snuck in a quick BBQ this evening. Raging against the dying of the light.
Is he a misery because he lives remotely or vice versa? Or indeed neither. I used to live up a 2 mile dead end in the moors, and was pretty cheery there!
Tldr; gobshites desperate for a scrap to provide some tawdry excitement in their dull, dull, failures of mundane existences.
Of course they're hoping that if they get frenetic enough one of their less measured cohort will start the violence for them. It's why they're anonymously posting on FB in my local town to start protests outside buildings merely suspected of housing immigrants.
Had this argument with someone recently who was otherwise educated and rational. Ended up with me asking him if he wanted RN personnel to shoot at unarmed people in boats. Or if they wouldn't do it, whether he would do the shooting himself. Tldr; gobshites.
You know that "good cinema" you like, and which we can both picture in our minds? Almost impossible due to the godawful film distribution agreements by the oligopoly of distributors. My local picture house needs the Marvels, etc, to pay bills, but is then barred from anything "special".
We are talking trunk, right? This isn't going all Last Tango (which was non-spreadable Lurpak anyway)
How about £2bn and every home gets a musical instrument and six weeks of lessons, or maybe a tennis racquet? I should work in policy. I'd be great at it.
Seen a trailer and it looks like "everyman John Wick, with added twist it's that nice guy from off of breaking bad no the other one"
[proceeds to squander the voucher on loot boxes for mobile games]
Can I swap it for an online product that might actually not give me nosebleeds? Instead of OpenAI or Adobe, could we just have Sibelius for music transcription, or maybe a game engine, to support industry in which we actually lead already. Sod it, I'd take an Office sub over this.
They inevitably double back along the route once they finish their own run to cheer you on energetically for your last km. You wish nothing but death upon them.
Y a du monde ici. #leedsfestival
No matter what your pace it seems like law that every parkrun also has a 60 year old (made entirely out of sinew) who runs a 20:00, having also run there from home.
