I too remember the Coronation of 1953. I was 9 years old. Yes - a host of relatives crowded into an Uncle's house to watch his tiny telly. Curtains drawn all day - couldn't see the telly if the room wasn't dark. My bottom ached from sitting on an upright chair for hours and hours. And if I asked a simple question like "Who is that person?" - the relatives would reply in unison "shush your noise" - we are watching the Coronation".
Someone had told me beforehand that the Queen would have her breast anointed with oil at some stage in the proceedings. I got ready to go to the toilet when that happened to avoid my juvenile embarrassment. I think the anointing was done behind a screen - for which I was grateful.
Oh how I looked forward to being back at school the following day.
Nice Jubilee mountain illumination from Switzerland..
But which National Anthem should they play?
The tune the Swiss played from 1894 to 1961 as a substitute for a National Anthem. The tune we officially know as "God Save the Queen", the Americans know as "My Country tis of Thee", the German Empire knew as "Heil dir in Siegerkranz", the Liechtensteiners still know as THEIR National Anthem, the Russians briefly used as an anthem and every whingeing, self-loathing Brit knows as the most dismal anthem in the world.
Because no tune anywhere, ever, has been freely adopted by so many different countries to stand as their aural logo. Which is why your average British tosser loathes it so much:.
"Only the Duke of York proved more unpopular than the Sussexes in both polls, with a five per cent approval rating, according to JL Partners. Asked what word first sprang to mind about the beleaguered Duke, most people said “paedophile”. Other words included “disgrace”, “pervert” and “liar”. The YouGov survey gave him an approval rating of -80."
YouGov
It's a long road back for Andrew, isn't it. It's high risk but if I were him I might try a "bare all" on something like Lorraine or Loose Women.
He will be shut out completely after the bridge event
Looks like we're at that point now really. Amazing to think he was once the most popular royal, flying helicopters and bestriding the high-end nightclubs of London like a colossus.
Then he went and partied with Jeffrey and the dozens of as yet unnamed nonces
Was Prince Andrew ever that popular? iirc he used to be derided as Air Miles Andy, and his marriage to Fergie was always a bit messy (although I gather they are on good terms now).
I think Epstein had an open door policy for the numerous nonces amongst the rich and famous. They all spent time with him
Prince Andrew can argue that he was unlucky. How the feck Clinton, Gates, and many others have escaped disgrace is a mystery. Clinton in particular. I remember gossip about him and underage girls and Epstein from 10-15 years ago. I dismissed it as QAnon stufff. Clearly in retrospect it was REDACTED FOR OGH
"Only the Duke of York proved more unpopular than the Sussexes in both polls, with a five per cent approval rating, according to JL Partners. Asked what word first sprang to mind about the beleaguered Duke, most people said “paedophile”. Other words included “disgrace”, “pervert” and “liar”. The YouGov survey gave him an approval rating of -80."
YouGov
It's a long road back for Andrew, isn't it. It's high risk but if I were him I might try a "bare all" on something like Lorraine or Loose Women.
He will be shut out completely after the bridge event
Looks like we're at that point now really. Amazing to think he was once the most popular royal, flying helicopters and bestriding the high-end nightclubs of London like a colossus.
Then he went and partied with Jeffrey and the dozens of as yet unnamed nonces
Was Prince Andrew ever that popular? iirc he used to be derided as Air Miles Andy, and his marriage to Fergie was always a bit messy (although I gather they are on good terms now).
I think Epstein had an open door policy for the numerous nonces amongst the rich and famous. They all spent time with him
Prince Andrew can argue that he was unlucky. How the feck Clinton, Gates, and many others have escaped disgrace is a mystery. Clinton in particular. I remember gossip about him and underage girls and Epstein from 10-15 years ago. I dismissed it as QAnon stufff. Clearly in retrospect it was REDACTED FOR OGH
They weren't thick enough to pose for a photo, wtf was he thinking? That one photo sunk him.
"Only the Duke of York proved more unpopular than the Sussexes in both polls, with a five per cent approval rating, according to JL Partners. Asked what word first sprang to mind about the beleaguered Duke, most people said “paedophile”. Other words included “disgrace”, “pervert” and “liar”. The YouGov survey gave him an approval rating of -80."
YouGov
It's a long road back for Andrew, isn't it. It's high risk but if I were him I might try a "bare all" on something like Lorraine or Loose Women.
He will be shut out completely after the bridge event
Looks like we're at that point now really. Amazing to think he was once the most popular royal, flying helicopters and bestriding the high-end nightclubs of London like a colossus.
Then he went and partied with Jeffrey and the dozens of as yet unnamed nonces
Was Prince Andrew ever that popular? iirc he used to be derided as Air Miles Andy, and his marriage to Fergie was always a bit messy (although I gather they are on good terms now).
I think Epstein had an open door policy for the numerous nonces amongst the rich and famous. They all spent time with him
Prince Andrew can argue that he was unlucky. How the feck Clinton, Gates, and many others have escaped disgrace is a mystery. Clinton in particular. I remember gossip about him and underage girls and Epstein from 10-15 years ago. I dismissed it as QAnon stufff. Clearly in retrospect it was REDACTED FOR OGH
They protect their own aside from the occasional sacrifice to the mob like Spacey or Weinstein. Hence the mysterious suicide of Epstein with the cameras tragically malfunctioning.
* It's much tauter and fast-moving than the first series, and the politicians are more aggressive to each other. Not sure this reflects Danish politics as much - more for the international audience? - but it's pretty exciting. * Several strong characters in minor parts - the Alastair Campbell figure who the PM tries to install as her adviser is especially good * Absolutely up to date - the main plot is about an oil company findin ga huge deposit which turns out to be partly owned by a friend of Putin, and the Ministers refer to the Ukraine invasion as a reason not to accept that -* The subtitles generally good but persist (as with previous Danish series) in throwing in random "fucks" to juice it up. Someone says "I really don't think it was OK how you were treated", and the subtitle is "It was fucking unfair how you were treated."
Damn. I meant to bet on that but dozed off. My only rule of cricket betting is that if one side collapses, so will the other because it's the conditions rather than the bowlers wot dunnit.
"Only the Duke of York proved more unpopular than the Sussexes in both polls, with a five per cent approval rating, according to JL Partners. Asked what word first sprang to mind about the beleaguered Duke, most people said “paedophile”. Other words included “disgrace”, “pervert” and “liar”. The YouGov survey gave him an approval rating of -80."
YouGov
It's a long road back for Andrew, isn't it. It's high risk but if I were him I might try a "bare all" on something like Lorraine or Loose Women.
He will be shut out completely after the bridge event
Looks like we're at that point now really. Amazing to think he was once the most popular royal, flying helicopters and bestriding the high-end nightclubs of London like a colossus.
Then he went and partied with Jeffrey and the dozens of as yet unnamed nonces
Was Prince Andrew ever that popular? iirc he used to be derided as Air Miles Andy, and his marriage to Fergie was always a bit messy (although I gather they are on good terms now).
I think Epstein had an open door policy for the numerous nonces amongst the rich and famous. They all spent time with him
Prince Andrew can argue that he was unlucky. How the feck Clinton, Gates, and many others have escaped disgrace is a mystery. Clinton in particular. I remember gossip about him and underage girls and Epstein from 10-15 years ago. I dismissed it as QAnon stufff. Clearly in retrospect it was REDACTED FOR OGH
They weren't thick enough to pose for a photo, wtf was he thinking? That one photo sunk him.
Yes the photo. Hard to believe there aren’t any photos of Clinton with at least one?
Perhaps Epstein owned a couple. Sadly he committed suicide by successfully choking himself to death with a small tissue during the one and only 24 hour period when all his 19 guards were in a weird simultaneous coma and the CCTV cameras exploded due to an attack by a divorced seagull, so we will never know
* It's much tauter and fast-moving than the first series, and the politicians are more aggressive to each other. Not sure this reflects Danish politics as much - more for the international audience? - but it's pretty exciting. * Several strong characters in minor parts - the Alastair Campbell figure who the PM tries to install as her adviser is especially good * Absolutely up to date - the main plot is about an oil company findin ga huge deposit which turns out to be partly owned by a friend of Putin, and the Ministers refer to the Ukraine invasion as a reason not to accept that -* The subtitles generally good but persist (as with previous Danish series) in throwing in random "fucks" to juice it up. Someone says "I really don't think it was OK how you were treated", and the subtitle is "It was fucking unfair how you were treated."
What was the Danish phrasing for "I really don't think it was OK how you were treated"? A "sgu" can hide quite well in rapid speech and makes the meaning a lot more brusque.
On the good old Johnny Depp trial, the conclusion drawn from the article is essentially juries, especially US juries, are think enough to fall for lawyers’ tactics while U.K. judges are wise enough to recognise legal tricks:
There is, of course, another argument that says that decisions by a one person judge risk being overly influenced by the personal views of the judge.
i’m sure if the judgements were reversed (Depp won in the U.K., lost in the US), the BBC would be implying a jury decisions is the best possible course….
The trial result proves that jury trials are absolutely essential for a functioning country. Allowing old white male judges to rule on these cases is simply wrong. All she had to do was flutter her eyelashes at the judge and "she couldn't possibly be what they're suggesting".
The Depp legal team have earned their fee, though. The way they destroyed Heard on the stand was quite excruciating to watch, she admitted multiple times to lying in the British court case. One hopes the CPS make an example out of her and pursue perjury charges, she's openly admitted that she didn't pay the charity money but testified under oath that she did in the UK.
In a way, I feel sorry for Heard but she has brought the misery on her own head. The CPS won’t do anything of the sort, not least because it would show how the Judge was completely hoodwinked by her “I’m a poor defenceless woman” as you said. The fact the BBC article didn’t even mention the fact she committed perjury in the U.K. trial shows how they want to present this ie it’s another example of how juries don’t “get” domestic violence. Expect the womens’ pressure groups to start arguing that the Depp verdict shows domestic violence trials shouldn’t be decided by juries but by judges.
Read the Guardian's vomit-inducing take on this story. Spends about 3 nanoseconds admitting that Heard is "not entirely perfect, but who is" then spends 607 paragraphs saying Men are Evil and this is the end of Feminism and MeToo is being destroyed, and all this in the paper which hounds out any female journalists - Suzanne Moore, Hadley Freeman -who dare to question the Trans Orthodoxy
What's been particularly telling is the lack of sympathy from the sisterhood. My wife and all of her friends were happy to see Depp win. Tim, of PB fame, once said that women are very good at spotting a phony which is why Dave struggled to win them over. That still rings true today. Even going by the Instagram Index™ it's the women I'm friends with who are liking posts about Depp winning, it cuts across politics too, not just the ones I know to be secretly right wing.
My wife's perspective is that Heard lying about being abused is going to set real victims of abuse back a lot because they will find it more difficult to be believed now. She's pretty angry about it all.
But Ms Heard did not actually defame Mr Depp.
The jury has said otherwise.
Yes, but they appear to be wrong on a factual basis, whatever one thinks about Ms Heard’s unreliability.
A judge has also said otherwise, they case didn't get thrown out, after all. She implicated him as physically abusive towards her. Whether she said directly "Johnny Depp beat me" or not is irrelevant, the implication was defamation. You're getting caught up in a technicality that doesn't exist. She lied in the editorial, she lied under oath in the UK court case and now she's been caught out in that lie and is $8m in a hole.
$13M
I thought it was $15m in damages (which, by the way, does not sound unreasonable given he basically hasn't worked since the article), plus she will have had to pay her lawyers millions.
He had to pay her $2M for defaming her, so net $13M
Georgian people are really…. Unusual looking. I can’t work out why
Probably the amount of Georgian red wine you've drunk
I’m on just my 2nd gin and tonic of the day
They are the most unexpectedly weird looking people I’ve seen, since the Argentinians
Hoping my 5-week gig in AZ will bring me some more work in the Transcaucus, including in Georgia. Your posts and photos have made me even more determined to get there by whatever hook or crook necessary.
On the good old Johnny Depp trial, the conclusion drawn from the article is essentially juries, especially US juries, are think enough to fall for lawyers’ tactics while U.K. judges are wise enough to recognise legal tricks:
There is, of course, another argument that says that decisions by a one person judge risk being overly influenced by the personal views of the judge.
i’m sure if the judgements were reversed (Depp won in the U.K., lost in the US), the BBC would be implying a jury decisions is the best possible course….
The trial result proves that jury trials are absolutely essential for a functioning country. Allowing old white male judges to rule on these cases is simply wrong. All she had to do was flutter her eyelashes at the judge and "she couldn't possibly be what they're suggesting".
The Depp legal team have earned their fee, though. The way they destroyed Heard on the stand was quite excruciating to watch, she admitted multiple times to lying in the British court case. One hopes the CPS make an example out of her and pursue perjury charges, she's openly admitted that she didn't pay the charity money but testified under oath that she did in the UK.
In a way, I feel sorry for Heard but she has brought the misery on her own head. The CPS won’t do anything of the sort, not least because it would show how the Judge was completely hoodwinked by her “I’m a poor defenceless woman” as you said. The fact the BBC article didn’t even mention the fact she committed perjury in the U.K. trial shows how they want to present this ie it’s another example of how juries don’t “get” domestic violence. Expect the womens’ pressure groups to start arguing that the Depp verdict shows domestic violence trials shouldn’t be decided by juries but by judges.
Read the Guardian's vomit-inducing take on this story. Spends about 3 nanoseconds admitting that Heard is "not entirely perfect, but who is" then spends 607 paragraphs saying Men are Evil and this is the end of Feminism and MeToo is being destroyed, and all this in the paper which hounds out any female journalists - Suzanne Moore, Hadley Freeman -who dare to question the Trans Orthodoxy
What's been particularly telling is the lack of sympathy from the sisterhood. My wife and all of her friends were happy to see Depp win. Tim, of PB fame, once said that women are very good at spotting a phony which is why Dave struggled to win them over. That still rings true today. Even going by the Instagram Index™ it's the women I'm friends with who are liking posts about Depp winning, it cuts across politics too, not just the ones I know to be secretly right wing.
My wife's perspective is that Heard lying about being abused is going to set real victims of abuse back a lot because they will find it more difficult to be believed now. She's pretty angry about it all.
But Ms Heard did not actually defame Mr Depp.
The jury has said otherwise.
Yes, but they appear to be wrong on a factual basis, whatever one thinks about Ms Heard’s unreliability.
A judge has also said otherwise, they case didn't get thrown out, after all. She implicated him as physically abusive towards her. Whether she said directly "Johnny Depp beat me" or not is irrelevant, the implication was defamation. You're getting caught up in a technicality that doesn't exist. She lied in the editorial, she lied under oath in the UK court case and now she's been caught out in that lie and is $8m in a hole.
$13M
Naah the 5m punitive was knocked down to 350k which is the legal max
Why the invalid award has to be made then reduced rather than not made in the first place is anyone's guess
Shambles someone had not told them they had to put a number in if they found it proven in first case. Then as you say they could have told them the limit on punitive etc.
Georgian people are really…. Unusual looking. I can’t work out why
Probably the amount of Georgian red wine you've drunk
I’m on just my 2nd gin and tonic of the day
They are the most unexpectedly weird looking people I’ve seen, since the Argentinians
Hoping my 5-week gig in AZ will bring me some more work in the Transcaucus, including in Georgia. Your posts and photos have made me even more determined to get there by whatever hook or crook necessary.
It’s a fabulous part of the world and Georgia is outstanding even within that context. Just prepare for… weird-looking people
Quite friendly tho. And magnificent food and wine of course
"Only the Duke of York proved more unpopular than the Sussexes in both polls, with a five per cent approval rating, according to JL Partners. Asked what word first sprang to mind about the beleaguered Duke, most people said “paedophile”. Other words included “disgrace”, “pervert” and “liar”. The YouGov survey gave him an approval rating of -80."
YouGov
It's a long road back for Andrew, isn't it. It's high risk but if I were him I might try a "bare all" on something like Lorraine or Loose Women.
Not a pleasant thought at all , I would prefer he was kept in hiding and fully clothed
Georgian people are really…. Unusual looking. I can’t work out why
Probably the amount of Georgian red wine you've drunk
I’m on just my 2nd gin and tonic of the day
They are the most unexpectedly weird looking people I’ve seen, since the Argentinians
Hoping my 5-week gig in AZ will bring me some more work in the Transcaucus, including in Georgia. Your posts and photos have made me even more determined to get there by whatever hook or crook necessary.
It’s a fabulous part of the world and Georgia is outstanding even within that context. Just prepare for… weird-looking people
Quite friendly tho. And magnificent food and wine of course
One of the people I worked with in AZ flew to Tbilisi as soon as it became clear that lockdown was headed to the USofA. Rented an apartment and rode out lockdown there.
Sometimes it pays to be single with no farm animals or pets.
If there's no political story PB reverts to cricinfo.com
If Labour promise to put test cricket back on free to air tv and scrap the hundred, I’d vote for them.
Putting aside the hundred scrapping, the funny thing is that a pledge to reinstate test cricket on free-to-air is actually the sort of culture war thing that would smooth Keir to power.
Catnip for Torygraphers, who may not be decisive electorally, but help influence the narrative.
“Oh well, if he wants test cricket back, then he can probably be trusted with the Treasury”.
Add: this is an extension of the point made in the FT article today that Waitrose Woman actually wants conservatives to, y’know, *conserve* things like the BBC and National Trust instead of trying to destroy them.
Georgian people are really…. Unusual looking. I can’t work out why
Probably the amount of Georgian red wine you've drunk
I’m on just my 2nd gin and tonic of the day
They are the most unexpectedly weird looking people I’ve seen, since the Argentinians
Hoping my 5-week gig in AZ will bring me some more work in the Transcaucus, including in Georgia. Your posts and photos have made me even more determined to get there by whatever hook or crook necessary.
It’s a fabulous part of the world and Georgia is outstanding even within that context. Just prepare for… weird-looking people
Quite friendly tho. And magnificent food and wine of course
One of the people I worked with in AZ flew to Tbilisi as soon as it became clear that lockdown was headed to the USofA. Rented an apartment and rode out lockdown there.
Sometimes it pays to be single with no farm animals or pets.
Tho I think covid was pretty bad here in Georgia? And they had a tough lockdown
Anyway it’s over now, huzzah.
if I was 22 and looking for a real travel adventure i would totally come to the Caucasus. It reminds me oddly of SEAsia about 30 years ago. Great food, amazing cultures, a hint of danger to keep things salty, entire regions virtually unexplored, and a certain drink-all-night lawlessness
Tbilisi feels quite anarchic at night. And hedonistic - like Bangkok in the 1990s
* It's much tauter and fast-moving than the first series, and the politicians are more aggressive to each other. Not sure this reflects Danish politics as much - more for the international audience? - but it's pretty exciting. * Several strong characters in minor parts - the Alastair Campbell figure who the PM tries to install as her adviser is especially good * Absolutely up to date - the main plot is about an oil company findin ga huge deposit which turns out to be partly owned by a friend of Putin, and the Ministers refer to the Ukraine invasion as a reason not to accept that -* The subtitles generally good but persist (as with previous Danish series) in throwing in random "fucks" to juice it up. Someone says "I really don't think it was OK how you were treated", and the subtitle is "It was fucking unfair how you were treated."
What was the Danish phrasing for "I really don't think it was OK how you were treated"? A "sgu" can hide quite well in rapid speech and makes the meaning a lot more brusque.
Agreed, but as I recall it was simply "Jeg synes ikke det var OK, hvordan man har behandlet dig". I ran it back to check, and the fuck was definitely the subtitler's embellishment. I remember the subtitling company being challenged on it before during The Killing, and they said that British audiences are so used to seeing characters swear that they had to juice it up to be credible.
Georgian people are really…. Unusual looking. I can’t work out why
Probably the amount of Georgian red wine you've drunk
I’m on just my 2nd gin and tonic of the day
They are the most unexpectedly weird looking people I’ve seen, since the Argentinians
Hoping my 5-week gig in AZ will bring me some more work in the Transcaucus, including in Georgia. Your posts and photos have made me even more determined to get there by whatever hook or crook necessary.
It’s a fabulous part of the world and Georgia is outstanding even within that context. Just prepare for… weird-looking people
Quite friendly tho. And magnificent food and wine of course
One of the people I worked with in AZ flew to Tbilisi as soon as it became clear that lockdown was headed to the USofA. Rented an apartment and rode out lockdown there.
Sometimes it pays to be single with no farm animals or pets.
Tho I think covid was pretty bad here in Georgia? And they had a tough lockdown
Anyway it’s over now, huzzah.
if I was 22 and looking for a real travel adventure i would totally come to the Caucasus. It reminds me oddly of SEAsia about 30 years ago. Great food, amazing cultures, a hint of danger to keep things salty, entire regions virtually unexplored, and a certain drink-all-night lawlessness
Tbilisi feels quite anarchic at night. And hedonistic - like Bangkok in the 1990s
I was amazed at the alcohol culture in AZ.
One night, in the deep provinces, a physician was looking forward to dining with me. Or, rather, he was hoping I'd get completely blotto with him drinking his home made 'fruit vodka'. He openly admitted that he was an alcoholic and was not intending to eat. I clearly disappointed him.
I hear the singing in Georgia is extraordinary. Have you experienced that yet?
On the good old Johnny Depp trial, the conclusion drawn from the article is essentially juries, especially US juries, are think enough to fall for lawyers’ tactics while U.K. judges are wise enough to recognise legal tricks:
There is, of course, another argument that says that decisions by a one person judge risk being overly influenced by the personal views of the judge.
i’m sure if the judgements were reversed (Depp won in the U.K., lost in the US), the BBC would be implying a jury decisions is the best possible course….
The trial result proves that jury trials are absolutely essential for a functioning country. Allowing old white male judges to rule on these cases is simply wrong. All she had to do was flutter her eyelashes at the judge and "she couldn't possibly be what they're suggesting".
The Depp legal team have earned their fee, though. The way they destroyed Heard on the stand was quite excruciating to watch, she admitted multiple times to lying in the British court case. One hopes the CPS make an example out of her and pursue perjury charges, she's openly admitted that she didn't pay the charity money but testified under oath that she did in the UK.
In a way, I feel sorry for Heard but she has brought the misery on her own head. The CPS won’t do anything of the sort, not least because it would show how the Judge was completely hoodwinked by her “I’m a poor defenceless woman” as you said. The fact the BBC article didn’t even mention the fact she committed perjury in the U.K. trial shows how they want to present this ie it’s another example of how juries don’t “get” domestic violence. Expect the womens’ pressure groups to start arguing that the Depp verdict shows domestic violence trials shouldn’t be decided by juries but by judges.
Read the Guardian's vomit-inducing take on this story. Spends about 3 nanoseconds admitting that Heard is "not entirely perfect, but who is" then spends 607 paragraphs saying Men are Evil and this is the end of Feminism and MeToo is being destroyed, and all this in the paper which hounds out any female journalists - Suzanne Moore, Hadley Freeman -who dare to question the Trans Orthodoxy
What's been particularly telling is the lack of sympathy from the sisterhood. My wife and all of her friends were happy to see Depp win. Tim, of PB fame, once said that women are very good at spotting a phony which is why Dave struggled to win them over. That still rings true today. Even going by the Instagram Index™ it's the women I'm friends with who are liking posts about Depp winning, it cuts across politics too, not just the ones I know to be secretly right wing.
My wife's perspective is that Heard lying about being abused is going to set real victims of abuse back a lot because they will find it more difficult to be believed now. She's pretty angry about it all.
But Ms Heard did not actually defame Mr Depp.
The jury has said otherwise.
Yes, but they appear to be wrong on a factual basis, whatever one thinks about Ms Heard’s unreliability.
A judge has also said otherwise, they case didn't get thrown out, after all. She implicated him as physically abusive towards her. Whether she said directly "Johnny Depp beat me" or not is irrelevant, the implication was defamation. You're getting caught up in a technicality that doesn't exist. She lied in the editorial, she lied under oath in the UK court case and now she's been caught out in that lie and is $8m in a hole.
$13M
I thought it was $15m in damages (which, by the way, does not sound unreasonable given he basically hasn't worked since the article), plus she will have had to pay her lawyers millions.
He had to pay her $2M for defaming her, so net $13M
(I hate that I know this, having been avoiding this whole horribleness as much as possible.)
net $8.35million, as punitive damages are capped at $350k apparently. So it’s $10million + $350k - $2million.
Georgian people are really…. Unusual looking. I can’t work out why
Probably the amount of Georgian red wine you've drunk
I’m on just my 2nd gin and tonic of the day
They are the most unexpectedly weird looking people I’ve seen, since the Argentinians
Aren’t the Argies a pleasing blend of German and Italian?
To go by the description of a former Brazilian Ambassador to the UN, the Argies are Italian immigrants, who think they speak Spanish, think they live in Paris, would like to be English, but dress like Arabs.
"Only the Duke of York proved more unpopular than the Sussexes in both polls, with a five per cent approval rating, according to JL Partners. Asked what word first sprang to mind about the beleaguered Duke, most people said “paedophile”. Other words included “disgrace”, “pervert” and “liar”. The YouGov survey gave him an approval rating of -80."
YouGov
It's a long road back for Andrew, isn't it. It's high risk but if I were him I might try a "bare all" on something like Lorraine or Loose Women.
He will be shut out completely after the bridge event
Looks like we're at that point now really. Amazing to think he was once the most popular royal, flying helicopters and bestriding the high-end nightclubs of London like a colossus.
Then he went and partied with Jeffrey and the dozens of as yet unnamed nonces
Was Prince Andrew ever that popular? iirc he used to be derided as Air Miles Andy, and his marriage to Fergie was always a bit messy (although I gather they are on good terms now).
I think Epstein had an open door policy for the numerous nonces amongst the rich and famous. They all spent time with him
Prince Andrew can argue that he was unlucky. How the feck Clinton, Gates, and many others have escaped disgrace is a mystery. Clinton in particular. I remember gossip about him and underage girls and Epstein from 10-15 years ago. I dismissed it as QAnon stufff. Clearly in retrospect it was REDACTED FOR OGH
They weren't thick enough to pose for a photo, wtf was he thinking? That one photo sunk him.
Yes the photo. Hard to believe there aren’t any photos of Clinton with at least one?
Perhaps Epstein owned a couple. Sadly he committed suicide by successfully choking himself to death with a small tissue during the one and only 24 hour period when all his 19 guards were in a weird simultaneous coma and the CCTV cameras exploded due to an attack by a divorced seagull, so we will never know
Might have been hidden cameras, but Clinton as existing or ex pres would have said NO PHOTOS EVER or the Secret Service will torture you to death and chop your body so small no part of it will ever be found. And it would have been true, and credible.
If there's no political story PB reverts to cricinfo.com
If Labour promise to put test cricket back on free to air tv and scrap the hundred, I’d vote for them.
Putting aside the hundred scrapping, the funny thing is that a pledge to reinstate test cricket on free-to-air is actually the sort of culture war thing that would smooth Keir to power.
Catnip for Torygraphers, who may not be decisive electorally, but help influence the narrative.
“Oh well, if he wants test cricket back, then he can probably be trusted with the Treasury”.
Add: this is an extension of the point made in the FT article today that Waitrose Woman actually wants conservatives to, y’know, *conserve* things like the BBC and National Trust instead of trying to destroy them.
Georgian people are really…. Unusual looking. I can’t work out why
Probably the amount of Georgian red wine you've drunk
I’m on just my 2nd gin and tonic of the day
They are the most unexpectedly weird looking people I’ve seen, since the Argentinians
Hoping my 5-week gig in AZ will bring me some more work in the Transcaucus, including in Georgia. Your posts and photos have made me even more determined to get there by whatever hook or crook necessary.
It’s a fabulous part of the world and Georgia is outstanding even within that context. Just prepare for… weird-looking people
Quite friendly tho. And magnificent food and wine of course
One of the people I worked with in AZ flew to Tbilisi as soon as it became clear that lockdown was headed to the USofA. Rented an apartment and rode out lockdown there.
Sometimes it pays to be single with no farm animals or pets.
Tho I think covid was pretty bad here in Georgia? And they had a tough lockdown
Anyway it’s over now, huzzah.
if I was 22 and looking for a real travel adventure i would totally come to the Caucasus. It reminds me oddly of SEAsia about 30 years ago. Great food, amazing cultures, a hint of danger to keep things salty, entire regions virtually unexplored, and a certain drink-all-night lawlessness
Tbilisi feels quite anarchic at night. And hedonistic - like Bangkok in the 1990s
I was amazed at the alcohol culture in AZ.
One night, in the deep provinces, a physician was looking forward to dining with me. Or, rather, he was hoping I'd get completely blotto with him drinking his home made 'fruit vodka'. He openly admitted that he was an alcoholic and was not intending to eat. I clearly disappointed him.
I hear the singing in Georgia is extraordinary. Have you experienced that yet?
It’s definitely a musical place. I am living in this jammed but charming old wooden tenement in the old town and every day the housewife next door sings some Georgian songs as she works. It’s engaging
And in taxis you hear really dreamy, moody folk music
And yes wow the drinking. Obviously a Russian influence there. Chacha is the Georgian poteen. Can be lethal - literally
Jimmy will be thrilled he bothered coming back to see his career out with these spineless cocks
No one wants a spiney cock tbf.
Remember the discussion of cats' mating habits on PB that arose from a (nominatively determined) Leon encounter with two pussies under his bar table in, I think, the Pelopponese.
If there's no political story PB reverts to cricinfo.com
If Labour promise to put test cricket back on free to air tv and scrap the hundred, I’d vote for them.
Putting aside the hundred scrapping, the funny thing is that a pledge to reinstate test cricket on free-to-air is actually the sort of culture war thing that would smooth Keir to power.
Catnip for Torygraphers, who may not be decisive electorally, but help influence the narrative.
“Oh well, if he wants test cricket back, then he can probably be trusted with the Treasury”.
Add: this is an extension of the point made in the FT article today that Waitrose Woman actually wants conservatives to, y’know, *conserve* things like the BBC and National Trust instead of trying to destroy them.
And RNLI, for that matter.
Yes! I mean, it’s really not hard. Fuck knows what drugs the current government are on that they can’t see this.
I think Nadine’s face-filler may be causing brain damage, as well as slowly morphing her into Heather Mills McCartney after a heavy night.
Georgian people are really…. Unusual looking. I can’t work out why
Probably the amount of Georgian red wine you've drunk
I’m on just my 2nd gin and tonic of the day
They are the most unexpectedly weird looking people I’ve seen, since the Argentinians
Aren’t the Argies a pleasing blend of German and Italian?
To go by the description of a former Brazilian Ambassador to the UN, the Argies are Italian immigrants, who think they speak Spanish, think they live in Paris, would like to be English, but dress like Arabs.
Georgian people are really…. Unusual looking. I can’t work out why
Probably the amount of Georgian red wine you've drunk
I’m on just my 2nd gin and tonic of the day
They are the most unexpectedly weird looking people I’ve seen, since the Argentinians
Aren’t the Argies a pleasing blend of German and Italian?
To go by the description of a former Brazilian Ambassador to the UN, the Argies are Italian immigrants, who think they speak Spanish, think they live in Paris, would like to be English, but dress like Arabs.
Jimmy will be thrilled he bothered coming back to see his career out with these spineless cocks
No one wants a spiney cock tbf.
Remember the discussion of cats' mating habits on PB that arose from a (nominatively determined) Leon encounter with two pussies under his bar table in, I think, the Pelopponese.
I wonder if the female cat remembers spines are involved or if it comes a shock every time?
Jimmy will be thrilled he bothered coming back to see his career out with these spineless cocks
No one wants a spiney cock tbf.
Remember the discussion of cats' mating habits on PB that arose from a (nominatively determined) Leon encounter with two pussies under his bar table in, I think, the Pelopponese.
I see a farce of a test when 17 wickets down on the first day - Is there any point to test cricket anymore when nobody can bat for longer than an episode of Eastenders?
* It's much tauter and fast-moving than the first series, and the politicians are more aggressive to each other. Not sure this reflects Danish politics as much - more for the international audience? - but it's pretty exciting. * Several strong characters in minor parts - the Alastair Campbell figure who the PM tries to install as her adviser is especially good * Absolutely up to date - the main plot is about an oil company findin ga huge deposit which turns out to be partly owned by a friend of Putin, and the Ministers refer to the Ukraine invasion as a reason not to accept that -* The subtitles generally good but persist (as with previous Danish series) in throwing in random "fucks" to juice it up. Someone says "I really don't think it was OK how you were treated", and the subtitle is "It was fucking unfair how you were treated."
What was the Danish phrasing for "I really don't think it was OK how you were treated"? A "sgu" can hide quite well in rapid speech and makes the meaning a lot more brusque.
Agreed, but as I recall it was simply "Jeg synes ikke det var OK, hvordan man har behandlet dig". I ran it back to check, and the fuck was definitely the subtitler's embellishment. I remember the subtitling company being challenged on it before during The Killing, and they said that British audiences are so used to seeing characters swear that they had to juice it up to be credible.
The BBC defended that by saying that the translators' task is "not just a straight translation - it's a rewrite. Often a direct translation would be awkward and stilted and would not read well on screen."
If there's no political story PB reverts to cricinfo.com
If Labour promise to put test cricket back on free to air tv and scrap the hundred, I’d vote for them.
Putting aside the hundred scrapping, the funny thing is that a pledge to reinstate test cricket on free-to-air is actually the sort of culture war thing that would smooth Keir to power.
Catnip for Torygraphers, who may not be decisive electorally, but help influence the narrative.
“Oh well, if he wants test cricket back, then he can probably be trusted with the Treasury”.
Add: this is an extension of the point made in the FT article today that Waitrose Woman actually wants conservatives to, y’know, *conserve* things like the BBC and National Trust instead of trying to destroy them.
And RNLI, for that matter.
Yes! I mean, it’s really not hard. Fuck knows what drugs the current government are on that they can’t see this.
I think Nadine’s face-filler may be causing brain damage, as well as slowly morphing her into Heather Mills McCartney after a heavy night.
Jimmy will be thrilled he bothered coming back to see his career out with these spineless cocks
No one wants a spiney cock tbf.
Remember the discussion of cats' mating habits on PB that arose from a (nominatively determined) Leon encounter with two pussies under his bar table in, I think, the Pelopponese.
I wonder if the female cat remembers spines are involved or if it comes a shock every time?
It'd be a tricky matter of experimental design, not least getting it past the ethics committee.
*realises it's almost 7 and there is some NZ white in the fridge and goes off to investigate*
Controversial opinion of the day: what country has the most beautiful women?
I’m going out on an unexpected limb and I’m going to say…
…. Drum roll……
…. Nepal
YES. NEPAL
Cape Verde has a large proportion of strikingly beautiful people of both sexes (is there still two?) .I think nearly everyone is mixed race which contributes to beauty in general
Jimmy will be thrilled he bothered coming back to see his career out with these spineless cocks
No one wants a spiney cock tbf.
Remember the discussion of cats' mating habits on PB that arose from a (nominatively determined) Leon encounter with two pussies under his bar table in, I think, the Pelopponese.
I wonder if the female cat remembers spines are involved or if it comes a shock every time?
It'd be a tricky matter of experimental design, not least getting it past the ethics committee.
*realises it's almost 7 and there is some NZ white in the fridge and goes off to investigate*
Some bloody delicious riesling on the go here. seems the wrong thing to toast her Maj but I have nothing English, and the few bottles I have from her fav wine merchants are not very summery.
Controversial opinion of the day: what country has the most beautiful women?
I’m going out on an unexpected limb and I’m going to say…
…. Drum roll……
…. Nepal
YES. NEPAL
What about the most beautiful men? (It's Sweden)
What about the country with the biggest discrepancy between male and female attractiveness?
India imho
It's clearly Russia. The women are stunning, lean beauties, while the men tend to be scrawny teenagers that graduate to be flabby, dumpy types that age very quickly.
Controversial opinion of the day: what country has the most beautiful women?
I’m going out on an unexpected limb and I’m going to say…
…. Drum roll……
…. Nepal
YES. NEPAL
What about the most beautiful men? (It's Sweden)
What about the country with the biggest discrepancy between male and female attractiveness?
India imho
I’d say one of the East Asian countries. China or Vietnam, or so I am told by female acquaintances. I would never stoop to such vulgar quasi-racist generalisations
Controversial opinion of the day: what country has the most beautiful women?
I’m going out on an unexpected limb and I’m going to say…
…. Drum roll……
…. Nepal
YES. NEPAL
Cape Verde has a large proportion of strikingly beautiful people of both sexes (is there still two?) .I think nearly everyone is mixed race which contributes to beauty in general
Frankly if the Tories don't sort the economy out they will lose and lose badly.
We must not underestimate a 1997 repeat
1997 happened after they did sort out the economy.
Nor will they lose badly unless labour puts forward some credible way of sorting the economy which it won't. Nor will the tories or the lib dems or the greens
* It's much tauter and fast-moving than the first series, and the politicians are more aggressive to each other. Not sure this reflects Danish politics as much - more for the international audience? - but it's pretty exciting. * Several strong characters in minor parts - the Alastair Campbell figure who the PM tries to install as her adviser is especially good * Absolutely up to date - the main plot is about an oil company findin ga huge deposit which turns out to be partly owned by a friend of Putin, and the Ministers refer to the Ukraine invasion as a reason not to accept that -* The subtitles generally good but persist (as with previous Danish series) in throwing in random "fucks" to juice it up. Someone says "I really don't think it was OK how you were treated", and the subtitle is "It was fucking unfair how you were treated."
What was the Danish phrasing for "I really don't think it was OK how you were treated"? A "sgu" can hide quite well in rapid speech and makes the meaning a lot more brusque.
Agreed, but as I recall it was simply "Jeg synes ikke det var OK, hvordan man har behandlet dig". I ran it back to check, and the fuck was definitely the subtitler's embellishment. I remember the subtitling company being challenged on it before during The Killing, and they said that British audiences are so used to seeing characters swear that they had to juice it up to be credible.
The BBC defended that by saying that the translators' task is "not just a straight translation - it's a rewrite. Often a direct translation would be awkward and stilted and would not read well on screen."
That's an interesting link, thanks. I'm a professional translator and my cousin is too, specialising in subtitles, so I've got some insight into it. The BBC explanation is somewhat evasive (or, as the subtitler would put it, fucking bullshit), as the specific cases that I've noticed generally have a straightforward translation that reads quite naturally, as above. The real issue is that we swear much more in English, and we use sexual terms to swear, which the Danes generally don't (that's an interesting issue in itself), to the point that they borrow English swearwords if they really want to.
So the BBC has the dilemma of whether to show a film reflecting the culture of the original country of one that will seem natural to the viewer. Personally I prefer the former (otherwise the whole world gets "translated" into British culture, which loses some of the interest), but I do see the commercial reason to adapt.
Controversial opinion of the day: what country has the most beautiful women?
I’m going out on an unexpected limb and I’m going to say…
…. Drum roll……
…. Nepal
YES. NEPAL
What about the most beautiful men? (It's Sweden)
What about the country with the biggest discrepancy between male and female attractiveness?
India imho
It's clearly Russia. The women are stunning, lean beauties, while the men tend to be scrawny teenagers that graduate to be flabby, dumpy types that age very quickly.
Belarus is incredible for this. The woman are possibly even more beautiful than Russians (what is it with Eastern European genes and cheekbones?) and yet the men are apathetic drunks who die at 56
Honestly. Check out the life expectancy stats for Belarus. The men die about 15 years younger or something mad
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Yes - a host of relatives crowded into an Uncle's house to watch his tiny telly.
Curtains drawn all day - couldn't see the telly if the room wasn't dark.
My bottom ached from sitting on an upright chair for hours and hours. And if I asked a simple question like "Who is that person?" - the relatives would reply in unison "shush your noise" - we are watching the Coronation".
Someone had told me beforehand that the Queen would have her breast anointed with oil at some stage in the proceedings. I got ready to go to the toilet when that happened to avoid my juvenile embarrassment. I think the anointing was done behind a screen - for which I was grateful.
Oh how I looked forward to being back at school the following day.
Because no tune anywhere, ever, has been freely adopted by so many different countries to stand as their aural logo. Which is why your average British tosser loathes it so much:.
Nailed on New Zealand first innings lead.
Not surprisingly, I got Worldle in one guess today:
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
* It's much tauter and fast-moving than the first series, and the politicians are more aggressive to each other. Not sure this reflects Danish politics as much - more for the international audience? - but it's pretty exciting.
* Several strong characters in minor parts - the Alastair Campbell figure who the PM tries to install as her adviser is especially good
* Absolutely up to date - the main plot is about an oil company findin ga huge deposit which turns out to be partly owned by a friend of Putin, and the Ministers refer to the Ukraine invasion as a reason not to accept that
-* The subtitles generally good but persist (as with previous Danish series) in throwing in random "fucks" to juice it up. Someone says "I really don't think it was OK how you were treated", and the subtitle is "It was fucking unfair how you were treated."
Perhaps Epstein owned a couple. Sadly he committed suicide by successfully choking himself to death with a small tissue during the one and only 24 hour period when all his 19 guards were in a weird simultaneous coma and the CCTV cameras exploded due to an attack by a divorced seagull, so we will never know
They are the most unexpectedly weird looking people I’ve seen, since the Argentinians
We can bowl, but can't bat.
On fast true tracks or dusty sub continent turners, forget it.
Quite friendly tho. And magnificent food and wine of course
Sometimes it pays to be single with no farm animals or pets.
Catnip for Torygraphers, who may not be decisive electorally, but help influence the narrative.
“Oh well, if he wants test cricket back, then he can probably be trusted with the Treasury”.
Add: this is an extension of the point made in the FT article today that Waitrose Woman actually wants conservatives to, y’know, *conserve* things like the BBC and National Trust instead of trying to destroy them.
Anyway it’s over now, huzzah.
if I was 22 and looking for a real travel adventure i would totally come to the Caucasus. It reminds me oddly of SEAsia about 30 years ago. Great food, amazing cultures, a hint of danger to keep things salty, entire regions virtually unexplored, and a certain drink-all-night lawlessness
Tbilisi feels quite anarchic at night. And hedonistic - like Bangkok in the 1990s
But I have to admit he had a bit of a silver fox thing going.
One night, in the deep provinces, a physician was looking forward to dining with me. Or, rather, he was hoping I'd get completely blotto with him drinking his home made 'fruit vodka'. He openly admitted that he was an alcoholic and was not intending to eat. I clearly disappointed him.
I hear the singing in Georgia is extraordinary. Have you experienced that yet?
They cannot without Brexit, bring the two coalitions together. It is impossible
net $8.35million, as punitive damages are capped at $350k apparently. So it’s $10million + $350k - $2million.
Pending any appeals...
To go by the description of a former Brazilian Ambassador to the UN, the Argies are Italian immigrants, who think they speak Spanish, think they live in Paris, would like to be English, but dress like Arabs.
And with that im off oot for a while
And in taxis you hear really dreamy, moody folk music
And yes wow the drinking. Obviously a Russian influence there. Chacha is the Georgian poteen. Can be lethal - literally
I mean, it’s really not hard.
Fuck knows what drugs the current
government are on that they can’t see this.
I think Nadine’s face-filler may be causing brain damage, as well as slowly morphing her into Heather Mills McCartney after a heavy night.
Chatwin.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15781133
I’m going out on an unexpected limb and I’m going to say…
…. Drum roll……
…. Nepal
YES. NEPAL
(It's Sweden)
*realises it's almost 7 and there is some NZ white in the fridge and goes off to investigate*
Runner up countries
Ukraine
Iceland
Japan
Northern Italy
The Basters of Namibia
I’ve heard Mongolian women are GORGE… but I’ve not been there
So the BBC has the dilemma of whether to show a film reflecting the culture of the original country of one that will seem natural to the viewer. Personally I prefer the former (otherwise the whole world gets "translated" into British culture, which loses some of the interest), but I do see the commercial reason to adapt.
Honestly. Check out the life expectancy stats for Belarus. The men die about 15 years younger or something mad