Just met an old friend in primrose hill. On conditions of extreme secrecy… HE TOLD ME THE FINLAND RUMOUR
😶😶😶😶
So: it exists. This doesn’t mean it is true, of course
No he didn't because if he did you could tell us the Finnish search terms to use, without betraying your friend's confidence.
I have heard it (I said before that I’d heard it but that was me being a troll (and also slightly jealous of those who HAD heard it))(Jesus what am I, a 16 year old girl??)
Anyway you can believe me or not. THE FINLAND RUMOUR EXISTS
I’ll say it again, this does not mean it is true, nor, even if it is true, if it would overturn Bulgarian and global politics, indeed the speeding space race, as alleged
Not to mention ‘ …the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared ‘.
It's amusing that a forum where, a few hours ago, posters were up in arms about women's rights, now features posts concerning rumours and sexual tittle-tattle about a female candidate, where the make candidate goes unremarked. Often from the same posters.
It must be the *correct* form of sexism...
Well I have tittle tattle about Sunak's sexuality if that's what's bothering you. Though personally I have no idea whether it's true and it doesn't reflect badly on him in any event. IMO
You appear to have tittle-tattle on lots of people in Westminster. Perhaps you ought to consider that the 'tittle-tattle' might be the same as Lord McAlpine's, which he suffered for many years before it was proved wrong.
I'd have thought a top lawyer such as yourself would have realised that.
Don't be so pompous. Which bit of "I have no idea whether it's true and it doesn't reflect badly on him in any event. IMO." did you not understand?
It's not been me sharing rumours about Ms Truss either. And what I have heard about her is not at all what has been shared on here.
I am well aware of how harmful unsubstantiated allegations can be. I have pointed this out both in relation to Prince Andrew BTL and in thread headers in relation to the very great harm done by the police over malicious allegations of child abuse.
It's not being pompous. You say you're aware of how harmful unsubstantiated rumours can be then say on several occasions that you know things - but you can't possible say them on here about individuals you name.
If you can't say them, don't mention them.
Back in 1997, a friend took me around parliament. He was doing a summer placement with a new MP after Blair's victory. During that visit, he told me about some tittle-tattle he had heard about McAlpine. He thought that would be of interest to me due to the connection with the civ eng giant.
McAlpine had to live with those 'rumours' being spread behind his back for at least fifteen years. Nudge-nudge, wink-wink.
It's not just the police: it's everyone on-line.
Try reading what I wrote rather than what you think I wrote.
I did, thanks. Now, how about a proper response?
I can only repeat what I said before. I have heard some tittle tattle about both candidates. One is amusing but not surprising and has been, if true, in the public domain since at least 2018 - and not put there by me but by the Tory whips. The other is not even harmful to my mind. I have not shared any of it on here.
Address your remarks to those who have clogged up this thread and others with endless, tedious and somewhat adolescent speculation about and adolescent jokes on one candidate's alleged sexual preferences.
Ahem. Your comment in response to mine was: "Well I have tittle tattle about Sunak's sexuality if that's what's bothering you."
I'd argue such tittle-tattle is little better than 'adolescent speculation', as all tittle-tattle / gossip is.
Would you like to quote the next sentence I wrote? No?
I'll remind you - "Though personally I have no idea whether it's true and it doesn't reflect badly on him in any event. IMO."
And I have explained why neither element of that is relevant any more than allegedly or innocent face would be.
No. You haven't. But this is boring now.
Yes I have.
If you got a letter from Sunak's lawyers tomorrow and were not terrified, that would be because you have no grasp at all of English libel law.
And leaving the legalities aside are you morally happy with making this kind of suggestion about a young, married father of young children?
It is impossible she doesn’t know by now. So we can only conclude she knows and she’s cool with it and she doesn’t care. She’s at ease. Good for her
She can't really not wear it now. I suspect it will be retired quietly after the campaign.
In a way, being kinky is somewhat in the tradition of senior Tories. I am faintly bemused as to why one would express it in jewellery whilst running for high office though.
I have no idea if this applies to Truss, but some subs get a kick out of discreetly exhibiting their ‘owned’ status to the vanilla world, which largely remains clueless. Yet other kinksters will recognize it
This is a plot device in Story of O, if I recall correctly - a foundational text of BDSM
Everything she does is just a bit dopey and unsubtle isn't it? I suppose we should be grateful she didn't rock up in head to toe PVC.
However, if she turns out to be a good PM, I'm fine with it.
She may of course be doing it for a bet, or for a laugh, who knows
I'm just explaining the sub psychology as I have encountered it
I don't find either of those options particularly comforting. It'd be nicer if she picked it up in a junk shop in Polperro and thought 'Oh, what a pretty circle of life pendant'.
So these Commonwealth Games, they're just like the proper Olympics, but without the top nations such as the US, China, Russia, etc.?
In some sports this is as good as it gets. In others it’s a chance for someone else to win gold. And it’s all about friendship. It’s magnificent.
I believe there are some sports in the Commonwealth Games which don't feature in the Olympics. Isn't there a bowls tournament for example and what about freestyle tea-making?
Except for Blair’s (inexplicable to me) ability to charm the birds from the trees.
He has some touches of Blair's mannerisms and ways of speaking but not in the same class frankly.
But part of the Blair phenomenon was that he arrived, fresh-faced, at the end of years and years of Tory rule and a nation's broken and lonely eyes turned to him.
So these Commonwealth Games, they're just like the proper Olympics, but without the top nations such as the US, China, Russia, etc.?
In some sports this is as good as it gets. In others it’s a chance for someone else to win gold. And it’s all about friendship. It’s magnificent.
I believe there are some sports in the Commonwealth Games which don't feature in the Olympics. Isn't there a bowls tournament for example and what about freestyle tea-making?
In more important news, remember the WhatsApp group Wayne Couzens belonged to? 3 more Met officers from the same group are currently on trial in relation to some really disturbing messages they posted.
What is also interesting is that, like Couzens, they too came from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and had not been in the Met a long time. This does suggest something a bit iffy about the CNC as well as the Met.
I'm not sure how comfortable I feel about having such people guarding our nuclear facilities frankly.
In more important news, remember the WhatsApp group Wayne Couzens belonged to? 3 more Met officers from the same group are currently on trial in relation to some really disturbing messages they posted.
What is also interesting is that, like Couzens, they too came from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and had not been in the Met a long time. This does suggest something a bit iffy about the CNC as well as the Met.
I'm not sure how comfortable I feel about having such people guarding our nuclear facilities frankly.
Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey is proposing to solve the state's water shortages with desalination: "The plan includes helping fund the building of a desalination plant in the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. The state would not own the plant but would buy water from it. Buschatzke estimates the cost to build the plant would be in the neighborhood of $2.5-3 billion." source: https://ktar.com/story/5042317/gov-doug-duceys-plan-to-use-desalinated-water-in-arizona-will-be-pricey-expert-says/
As I recall, Mexico would get part of the water from the plant, and that part of Mexico needs water, too.
(I don't know enough about the economics of such plants to judge how much sense this proposal makes. Or whether we can look forward to further decreases in the costs of desalination. But it is interesting.)
So these Commonwealth Games, they're just like the proper Olympics, but without the top nations such as the US, China, Russia, etc.?
In some sports this is as good as it gets. In others it’s a chance for someone else to win gold. And it’s all about friendship. It’s magnificent.
I believe there are some sports in the Commonwealth Games which don't feature in the Olympics. Isn't there a bowls tournament for example and what about freestyle tea-making?
In Brum, surely it is Balti making?
Balti Towers, starring embittered hotel landlord Fazil Balti.
In more important news, remember the WhatsApp group Wayne Couzens belonged to? 3 more Met officers from the same group are currently on trial in relation to some really disturbing messages they posted.
What is also interesting is that, like Couzens, they too came from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and had not been in the Met a long time. This does suggest something a bit iffy about the CNC as well as the Met.
I'm not sure how comfortable I feel about having such people guarding our nuclear facilities frankly.
That must be the most boring police job in the UK. Maybe why? (Edit: explanation, not excuse)
I know an armed cop in Edinburgh and he goes slightly mad every time the Queen comes up.
Washington State "Top Two" Primary is August 2. That is, deadline for returned OR post-marked ballots is 8pm Aug 2; valid ballots can & will arrive later, and be counted up to certification which is (I think) ten days later.
For the two Republican incumbents mentioned below, Jaime Herrera Beutler (CD03) and Dan Newhouse (CD04) their immediate priority is ensuring they are one of the Top Two votegetters in the August Primary.
Seattle Times ($) - Blitz of PAC money aims to defeat Trump-backed challengers to Herrera Beutler, Newhouse
A deluge of outside PAC money is saturating two of Washington’s top congressional primaries, aimed at helping Republican Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse survive their votes to impeach then-President Donald Trump last year.
More than $3.4 million — fueled in part by hidden donors — has been spent in the past few weeks backing the incumbents and targeting their Trump-endorsed challengers, Joe Kent and Loren Culp, according to Federal Election Commission filings. . . .
Both Kent, who is challenging Herrera Beutler, and Culp, who is challenging Newhouse, have echoed Trump’s false claims about his 2020 election loss and reject the ongoing congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack as illegitimate.
In Southwest Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, where Herrera Beutler faces Kent and other challengers, $1.9 million in outside spending has boosted her chances in recent weeks — including a pop-up super PAC that timed its spending to avoid disclosing its donors until weeks after the Aug. 2 primary.
The super PAC, Conservatives for a Stronger America, was created just a few weeks ago. As of Wednesday, it had unloaded $1.4 million on TV, radio and mailers, attacking Kent and ostensibly supporting Heidi St. John, a Republican who has polled fourth in the race.
The messaging in the group’s ads appear designed to siphon support from Kent and ensure Herrera Beutler makes it through the top-two primary. Its ads have echoed St. John’s efforts to sour conservatives on Kent by branding him a leftist, “Portland Joe the Bernie bro.” (Kent has acknowledged voting for Bernie Sanders in Oregon’s 2016 presidential primary, as part of what he said was a Rush Limbaugh-inspired plan to wreak havoc on Democrats.)
A similar dynamic is at play in the 4th District, which covers Central Washington, where Newhouse faces several Republican challengers and a single Democrat in the primary. . . .
As of Wednesday, spending groups had dropped about $1.5 million into the primary, attacking Culp and supporting Newhouse — a particularly hefty sum in the largely rural congressional district.
In more important news, remember the WhatsApp group Wayne Couzens belonged to? 3 more Met officers from the same group are currently on trial in relation to some really disturbing messages they posted.
What is also interesting is that, like Couzens, they too came from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and had not been in the Met a long time. This does suggest something a bit iffy about the CNC as well as the Met.
I'm not sure how comfortable I feel about having such people guarding our nuclear facilities frankly.
That must be the most boring police job in the UK. Maybe why? (Edit: explanation, not excuse)
I know an armed cop in Edinburgh and he goes slightly mad every time the Queen comes up.
Being a bit bored seems a poor explanation for the sorts of things being aired during this trial.
What sort of due diligence was being done on these men? What sort of monitoring of what they were up to? None it would seem. Which is more than a touch alarming.
The problem is not just what they were saying and doing but that it risked making them a blackmail risk. And that is definitely a risk you do not want to run in a nuclear facility. People who work in such places have to be positively vetted. Or so I understand.
Just met an old friend in primrose hill. On conditions of extreme secrecy… HE TOLD ME THE FINLAND RUMOUR
😶😶😶😶
So: it exists. This doesn’t mean it is true, of course
No he didn't because if he did you could tell us the Finnish search terms to use, without betraying your friend's confidence.
I have heard it (I said before that I’d heard it but that was me being a troll (and also slightly jealous of those who HAD heard it))(Jesus what am I, a 16 year old girl??)
Anyway you can believe me or not. THE FINLAND RUMOUR EXISTS
I’ll say it again, this does not mean it is true, nor, even if it is true, if it would overturn Bulgarian and global politics, indeed the speeding space race, as alleged
Not to mention ‘ …the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared ‘.
I honestly feeling like i am tripping on acid watching this Commonwealth games opening ceremony
And the UK is Balkanised into England, Scotland, Wales and NI!
Don't forget Jersey, Guernsey and The Isle of Man
Strictly speaking, they are not officially administered as part of the UK!
I know it's a very basic way of looking at it, but how come they are not members of FIFA for example?
They is "Crown Dependencies". Lizzie is Head of State, but they are NOT part of the UK. Hence no MPs at Westminster.
For a Lord of Man, she is quite lady like!
BONUS - Speaking of Jersey AND lady like, check out wiki bio of Royal Governor of New Jersey and New York, Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury; subsequently 3rd Earl of Clarendon:
Surfing twitter I just saw a shot of some unspeakable videos of Russian special forces torturing Ukrainian POWs
Up there with the worst of the Mexican cartel videos
Mind-bleach please. Jeez. I'm going to cook some Brazilian fish stew and try and forget
Everything does, indeed, sound like innuendo after a while.
In this case, not. The video is of a Wagner Group Russian castrating a Uke POW with a Stanley knife, then they finally decapitate him.
I just saw a screenshot - entirely by accident - and it was enough to ice the blood. Horrific. The war will only get worse for both sides
Why I don't do Twitter. I don't need nor want to see owt like that.
On the other hand, I've just spent a pleasant hour on twitter reading about new science on milk-drinking, chatting to art critics, getting the latest news on cycling infrastructure in my area, and joking around with a couple of sled dog mushers and looking at sled dog pics. It is what you make it.
In more important news, remember the WhatsApp group Wayne Couzens belonged to? 3 more Met officers from the same group are currently on trial in relation to some really disturbing messages they posted.
What is also interesting is that, like Couzens, they too came from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and had not been in the Met a long time. This does suggest something a bit iffy about the CNC as well as the Met.
I'm not sure how comfortable I feel about having such people guarding our nuclear facilities frankly.
That must be the most boring police job in the UK. Maybe why? (Edit: explanation, not excuse)
I know an armed cop in Edinburgh and he goes slightly mad every time the Queen comes up.
Being a bit bored seems a poor explanation for the sorts of things being aired during this trial.
What sort of due diligence was being done on these men? What sort of monitoring of what they were up to? None it would seem. Which is more than a touch alarming.
The problem is not just what they were saying and doing but that it risked making them a blackmail risk. And that is definitely a risk you do not want to run in a nuclear facility. People who work in such places have to be positively vetted. Or so I understand.
Your last para is a very good point.
My thinking was a very small, immobile team, geographically and structurally isolated from normal policing, with nothing to do, might have a larger risk of a toxic culture festering and infecting the whole lot.
This is based on the idea that the Police aren't, in general, that bad. But...
In more important news, remember the WhatsApp group Wayne Couzens belonged to? 3 more Met officers from the same group are currently on trial in relation to some really disturbing messages they posted.
What is also interesting is that, like Couzens, they too came from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and had not been in the Met a long time. This does suggest something a bit iffy about the CNC as well as the Met.
I'm not sure how comfortable I feel about having such people guarding our nuclear facilities frankly.
That must be the most boring police job in the UK. Maybe why? (Edit: explanation, not excuse)
I know an armed cop in Edinburgh and he goes slightly mad every time the Queen comes up.
Being a bit bored seems a poor explanation for the sorts of things being aired during this trial.
What sort of due diligence was being done on these men? What sort of monitoring of what they were up to? None it would seem. Which is more than a touch alarming.
The problem is not just what they were saying and doing but that it risked making them a blackmail risk. And that is definitely a risk you do not want to run in a nuclear facility. People who work in such places have to be positively vetted. Or so I understand.
Your last para is a very good point.
My thinking was a very small, immobile team, geographically and structurally isolated from normal policing, with nothing to do, might have a larger risk of a toxic culture festering and infecting the whole lot.
This is based on the idea that the Police aren't, in general, that bad. But...
Bizarrely, this happened to Marine Scotland in Thurso. They tied some poor woman to an office chair.
Surfing twitter I just saw a shot of some unspeakable videos of Russian special forces torturing Ukrainian POWs
Up there with the worst of the Mexican cartel videos
Mind-bleach please. Jeez. I'm going to cook some Brazilian fish stew and try and forget
Everything does, indeed, sound like innuendo after a while.
In this case, not. The video is of a Wagner Group Russian castrating a Uke POW with a Stanley knife, then they finally decapitate him.
I just saw a screenshot - entirely by accident - and it was enough to ice the blood. Horrific. The war will only get worse for both sides
Why I don't do Twitter. I don't need nor want to see owt like that.
On the other hand, I've just spent a pleasant hour on twitter reading about new science on milk-drinking, chatting to art critics, getting the latest news on cycling infrastructure in my area, and joking around with a couple of sled dog mushers and looking at sled dog pics. It is what you make it.
I have a well-curated Twitter feed which brings me a varied diet of news, jokes, science, art, graphics, gifs, memes, whatever, from all quarters. I generally have to go looking for gory or porno stuff (and I generally don't go looking)
But that screenshot was from a New Statesman journalist. Dropped in my feed. Thanks but no thanks
I hope you won't take it amiss if I say I'm getting a bit worried, for your sake, at how much you're drinking. From bitter personal experience alcoholism is not a good thing, but if you keep imbibing like this that's where you're headed.
Surfing twitter I just saw a shot of some unspeakable videos of Russian special forces torturing Ukrainian POWs
Up there with the worst of the Mexican cartel videos
Mind-bleach please. Jeez. I'm going to cook some Brazilian fish stew and try and forget
Everything does, indeed, sound like innuendo after a while.
In this case, not. The video is of a Wagner Group Russian castrating a Uke POW with a Stanley knife, then they finally decapitate him.
I just saw a screenshot - entirely by accident - and it was enough to ice the blood. Horrific. The war will only get worse for both sides
Why I don't do Twitter. I don't need nor want to see owt like that.
A few decades ago, the Sunday Times magazine had a picture of a head sitting on the ground. It had belonged to a suicide bomber in Israel, and the head had been launched up into the air and landed on its neck. The eyes were closed, peaceful.
I have seen worse online since, and seen one or two horrific things irl, but that image has stuck with me for some reason.
Another one that has stuck with me is a sailor after a U-boat attack in WW2. The photo was taken from the U-Boat, and shows the sole survivor of the ship standing on a crate. They left him there, presumably to die from starvation or drowning. My granddad served on ships in DEMS during the war, so that piccie really got to me. The poor man.
Honestly mate, go easy. Personally I have a glass or two of wine from time to time, but I never get tight. Seen too much of it. And aren't you working?
Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey is proposing to solve the state's water shortages with desalination: "The plan includes helping fund the building of a desalination plant in the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. The state would not own the plant but would buy water from it. Buschatzke estimates the cost to build the plant would be in the neighborhood of $2.5-3 billion." source: https://ktar.com/story/5042317/gov-doug-duceys-plan-to-use-desalinated-water-in-arizona-will-be-pricey-expert-says/
As I recall, Mexico would get part of the water from the plant, and that part of Mexico needs water, too.
(I don't know enough about the economics of such plants to judge how much sense this proposal makes. Or whether we can look forward to further decreases in the costs of desalination. But it is interesting.)
Politically it is the only solution. Getting people to give up their sacred right to water that doesn’t exist, isn’t going to happen.
Benefits are for lazy people says an audience member after saying benefits saved her mum.
Jeez.
This brings me to my favourite conundrum - what do we do with the Universal Credit taper?
The marginal rate of tax is exceptionally high for someone on benefits. Often, the lower rate of income tax, national insurance, the UC taper and, especially in Scotland, a whole host of benefits that piggy back on UC eligibility (Scottish child payment etc).
For someone at the margin, the tax rate can be well over 100%.
We should fix it, especially in such a tight labour market. But if we decrease the taper, we bring thousands of people back into Universal Credit, at massive cost.
I think the answer is much higher tax allowances for having children (offsetting the large UC awards for kids), and perhaps for disability too.
I mean, whisper it, but Truss is increasingly good at this. I think she’s demonstrated in this campaign that if she wins she won’t be any sort of pushover for Labour.
Developers may be prevented from starting projects in west London until 2035 because the electricity grid has run out of capacity to power new homes.
The Greater London Authority (GLA) told developers this week that it may take more than a decade for grid capacity to be increased to sustain new developments in Hillingdon, Ealing and Hounslow.
The boroughs accounted for about 11 per cent of London’s housing supply in 2019-20.
You won't get global agreement to abortion on demand etc especially from Africa, Latin America and much of Asia and Eastern Europe and as we have recently seen, the US
So?
Are you still in favour of denying abortion to victims of rape, as my memory seems to recall?
Surfing twitter I just saw a shot of some unspeakable videos of Russian special forces torturing Ukrainian POWs
Up there with the worst of the Mexican cartel videos
Mind-bleach please. Jeez. I'm going to cook some Brazilian fish stew and try and forget
Everything does, indeed, sound like innuendo after a while.
In this case, not. The video is of a Wagner Group Russian castrating a Uke POW with a Stanley knife, then they finally decapitate him.
I just saw a screenshot - entirely by accident - and it was enough to ice the blood. Horrific. The war will only get worse for both sides
Why I don't do Twitter. I don't need nor want to see owt like that.
A few decades ago, the Sunday Times magazine had a picture of a head sitting on the ground. It had belonged to a suicide bomber in Israel, and the head had been launched up into the air and landed on its neck. The eyes were closed, peaceful.
I have seen worse online since, and seen one or two horrific things irl, but that image has stuck with me for some reason.
Another one that has stuck with me is a sailor after a U-boat attack in WW2. The photo was taken from the U-Boat, and shows the sole survivor of the ship standing on a crate. They left him there, presumably to die from starvation or drowning. My granddad served on ships in DEMS during the war, so that piccie really got to me. The poor man.
The video of HMS Barham exploding got me more than I expected.
Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey is proposing to solve the state's water shortages with desalination: "The plan includes helping fund the building of a desalination plant in the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. The state would not own the plant but would buy water from it. Buschatzke estimates the cost to build the plant would be in the neighborhood of $2.5-3 billion." source: https://ktar.com/story/5042317/gov-doug-duceys-plan-to-use-desalinated-water-in-arizona-will-be-pricey-expert-says/
As I recall, Mexico would get part of the water from the plant, and that part of Mexico needs water, too.
(I don't know enough about the economics of such plants to judge how much sense this proposal makes. Or whether we can look forward to further decreases in the costs of desalination. But it is interesting.)
My business is in Arizona, and I have nothing but good things to say about Governor Ducey.
Whoever wins in November, the State is likely to become a less business friendly place.
Got my Dalle invite. What nonsense shit do people want to see images of?
Leon being abducted by an alien.
Not going to lie, first thought was Leon based.
I'm never going to reveal the prompt though
And then I did the prompt where Leon thought Dalle-2 had displayed incredible word play and I suggested it had just fluked the ordering of some letters
"serious tyrannosaurus rex announcing the dinosaur extinction on cable news, tv broadcast"
In more important news, remember the WhatsApp group Wayne Couzens belonged to? 3 more Met officers from the same group are currently on trial in relation to some really disturbing messages they posted.
What is also interesting is that, like Couzens, they too came from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and had not been in the Met a long time. This does suggest something a bit iffy about the CNC as well as the Met.
I'm not sure how comfortable I feel about having such people guarding our nuclear facilities frankly.
That must be the most boring police job in the UK. Maybe why? (Edit: explanation, not excuse)
I know an armed cop in Edinburgh and he goes slightly mad every time the Queen comes up.
Being a bit bored seems a poor explanation for the sorts of things being aired during this trial.
What sort of due diligence was being done on these men? What sort of monitoring of what they were up to? None it would seem. Which is more than a touch alarming.
The problem is not just what they were saying and doing but that it risked making them a blackmail risk. And that is definitely a risk you do not want to run in a nuclear facility. People who work in such places have to be positively vetted. Or so I understand.
Your last para is a very good point.
My thinking was a very small, immobile team, geographically and structurally isolated from normal policing, with nothing to do, might have a larger risk of a toxic culture festering and infecting the whole lot.
This is based on the idea that the Police aren't, in general, that bad. But...
Indeed. You have only to think about how just about every Special Forces unit in every military ends up is some ghastly scandal.
Her experience with the NHS gender service is extremely worrying and disheartening. It's almost as if they are putting these ideas in the heads of patients and egging them on to take the next step, then the next one until something irreversible is suggested and the patient either has no way back or no way out.
This is just one woman speaking out, how many cases already went too far and are sadly no longer here because it was all too much to handle after making some irreversible step towards something that wasn't necessarily the correct one with no way back.
Got my Dalle invite. What nonsense shit do people want to see images of?
Leon being abducted by an alien.
Not going to lie, first thought was Leon based.
I'm never going to reveal the prompt though
And then I did the prompt where Leon thought Dalle-2 had displayed incredible word play and I suggested it had just fluked the ordering of some letters
"serious tyrannosaurus rex announcing the dinosaur extinction on cable news, tv broadcast"
Crap. As any 7 year old fule kno, Tyrannosaurus only has two digits on each manus.
Predict win for Rooney. There is a narrow gap between the rocks for her case to prevail, but I think it will. It will turn, indirectly, on what the judge makes of the absent bits of evidence.
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Ask her if she is happy that the main processing centre looks like being Linton on Ouse which is just up the road from Leeds iirc.
If you got a letter from Sunak's lawyers tomorrow and were not terrified, that would be because you have no grasp at all of English libel law.
And leaving the legalities aside are you morally happy with making this kind of suggestion about a young, married father of young children?
A friend of mine is convinced that this will be a victory for Vardy, if not financially, given the the original ruling.
https://www.matrixlaw.co.uk/judgments/high-court-rules-in-favour-of-rebekah-vardy-in-libel-preliminary-issue-trial/
But part of the Blair phenomenon was that he arrived, fresh-faced, at the end of years and years of Tory rule and a nation's broken and lonely eyes turned to him.
Up there with the worst of the Mexican cartel videos
Mind-bleach please. Jeez. I'm going to cook some Brazilian fish stew and try and forget
What is also interesting is that, like Couzens, they too came from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and had not been in the Met a long time. This does suggest something a bit iffy about the CNC as well as the Met.
I'm not sure how comfortable I feel about having such people guarding our nuclear facilities frankly.
"The plan includes helping fund the building of a desalination plant in the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. The state would not own the plant but would buy water from it. Buschatzke estimates the cost to build the plant would be in the neighborhood of $2.5-3 billion."
source: https://ktar.com/story/5042317/gov-doug-duceys-plan-to-use-desalinated-water-in-arizona-will-be-pricey-expert-says/
As I recall, Mexico would get part of the water from the plant, and that part of Mexico needs water, too.
Ducey has been trying to learn from the experts: https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/energy-and-infrastructure/article-708201
(I don't know enough about the economics of such plants to judge how much sense this proposal makes. Or whether we can look forward to further decreases in the costs of desalination. But it is interesting.)
It will not actually happen because if he wins - big if there - he has to win an election and a return to secondary moderns aint a winner.
I know an armed cop in Edinburgh and he goes slightly mad every time the Queen comes up.
God I'm tired, I originally typed phallus victory.
Washington State "Top Two" Primary is August 2. That is, deadline for returned OR post-marked ballots is 8pm Aug 2; valid ballots can & will arrive later, and be counted up to certification which is (I think) ten days later.
For the two Republican incumbents mentioned below, Jaime Herrera Beutler (CD03) and Dan Newhouse (CD04) their immediate priority is ensuring they are one of the Top Two votegetters in the August Primary.
Seattle Times ($) - Blitz of PAC money aims to defeat Trump-backed challengers to Herrera Beutler, Newhouse
A deluge of outside PAC money is saturating two of Washington’s top congressional primaries, aimed at helping Republican Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse survive their votes to impeach then-President Donald Trump last year.
More than $3.4 million — fueled in part by hidden donors — has been spent in the past few weeks backing the incumbents and targeting their Trump-endorsed challengers, Joe Kent and Loren Culp, according to Federal Election Commission filings. . . .
Both Kent, who is challenging Herrera Beutler, and Culp, who is challenging Newhouse, have echoed Trump’s false claims about his 2020 election loss and reject the ongoing congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack as illegitimate.
In Southwest Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, where Herrera Beutler faces Kent and other challengers, $1.9 million in outside spending has boosted her chances in recent weeks — including a pop-up super PAC that timed its spending to avoid disclosing its donors until weeks after the Aug. 2 primary.
The super PAC, Conservatives for a Stronger America, was created just a few weeks ago. As of Wednesday, it had unloaded $1.4 million on TV, radio and mailers, attacking Kent and ostensibly supporting Heidi St. John, a Republican who has polled fourth in the race.
The messaging in the group’s ads appear designed to siphon support from Kent and ensure Herrera Beutler makes it through the top-two primary. Its ads have echoed St. John’s efforts to sour conservatives on Kent by branding him a leftist, “Portland Joe the Bernie bro.” (Kent has acknowledged voting for Bernie Sanders in Oregon’s 2016 presidential primary, as part of what he said was a Rush Limbaugh-inspired plan to wreak havoc on Democrats.)
A similar dynamic is at play in the 4th District, which covers Central Washington, where Newhouse faces several Republican challengers and a single Democrat in the primary. . . .
As of Wednesday, spending groups had dropped about $1.5 million into the primary, attacking Culp and supporting Newhouse — a particularly hefty sum in the largely rural congressional district.
Jeez.
I just saw a screenshot - entirely by accident - and it was enough to ice the blood. Horrific. The war will only get worse for both sides
Oh here we go, it’s Last of the Summer Wine again.
I don't need nor want to see owt like that.
Didn’t lose his rag when he was accused of stabbing Boris in the back.
Some people seem incapable of understanding true working class Tory attitudes.
What sort of due diligence was being done on these men? What sort of monitoring of what they were up to? None it would seem. Which is more than a touch alarming.
The problem is not just what they were saying and doing but that it risked making them a blackmail risk. And that is definitely a risk you do not want to run in a nuclear facility. People who work in such places have to be positively vetted. Or so I understand.
I grew up among similar circs and attitudes.
I guess she knows the audience, but it’s sickening.
Same old, same old...
I bet many Tory MPs are utterly astonished at what is going on here.
BONUS - Speaking of Jersey AND lady like, check out wiki bio of Royal Governor of New Jersey and New York, Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury; subsequently 3rd Earl of Clarendon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hyde,_3rd_Earl_of_Clarendon
My thinking was a very small, immobile team, geographically and structurally isolated from normal policing, with nothing to do, might have a larger risk of a toxic culture festering and infecting the whole lot.
This is based on the idea that the Police aren't, in general, that bad. But...
But that screenshot was from a New Statesman journalist. Dropped in my feed. Thanks but no thanks
Sunak should cut a deal.
Yes, that's not just working class or Tory.
I hope you won't take it amiss if I say I'm getting a bit worried, for your sake, at how much you're drinking. From bitter personal experience alcoholism is not a good thing, but if you keep imbibing like this that's where you're headed.
Maybe see if you can moderate it a bit?
Get a grip
The chip shop was a couple of fryers in his converted front room.
This is over imho.
It is time to get Johnson out and Truss into the No 10 wallpaper display zone.
I have seen worse online since, and seen one or two horrific things irl, but that image has stuck with me for some reason.
Another one that has stuck with me is a sailor after a U-boat attack in WW2. The photo was taken from the U-Boat, and shows the sole survivor of the ship standing on a crate. They left him there, presumably to die from starvation or drowning. My granddad served on ships in DEMS during the war, so that piccie really got to me. The poor man.
Making more fresh water is the only real answer.
The marginal rate of tax is exceptionally high for someone on benefits. Often, the lower rate of income tax, national insurance, the UC taper and, especially in Scotland, a whole host of benefits that piggy back on UC eligibility (Scottish child payment etc).
For someone at the margin, the tax rate can be well over 100%.
We should fix it, especially in such a tight labour market. But if we decrease the taper, we bring thousands of people back into Universal Credit, at massive cost.
I think the answer is much higher tax allowances for having children (offsetting the large UC awards for kids), and perhaps for disability too.
https://twitter.com/RobBurl/status/1552743980697370624
Oh dear oh dear oh dear...
But perhaps, I'm a bit odd that way.
Fair enough if no one else is bothered.
Unless someone comes up with some massive scandal Truss has won.
Between gritted teeth i admit she is better at the Q &A than Sunak.
“I know it well,” she says of Seacroft, in Leeds.
Rishi probably spent last night cribbing the fact that Leeds is in Yorkshire.
The Greater London Authority (GLA) told developers this week that it may take more than a decade for grid capacity to be increased to sustain new developments in Hillingdon, Ealing and Hounslow.
The boroughs accounted for about 11 per cent of London’s housing supply in 2019-20.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/grid-has-no-power-for-new-homes-in-west-london-until-2035-qnrn065cb
Are you still in favour of denying abortion to victims of rape, as my memory seems to recall?
There are similar, and worse from them in Syria. Evil, degraded people.
Torture has been routine in occupied Donbas since 2014.
Whoever wins in November, the State is likely to become a less business friendly place.
I'm never going to reveal the prompt though
And then I did the prompt where Leon thought Dalle-2 had displayed incredible word play and I suggested it had just fluked the ordering of some letters
"serious tyrannosaurus rex announcing the dinosaur extinction on cable news, tv broadcast"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/28/had-gone-gender-transition-would-have-committed-suicide/
Her experience with the NHS gender service is extremely worrying and disheartening. It's almost as if they are putting these ideas in the heads of patients and egging them on to take the next step, then the next one until something irreversible is suggested and the patient either has no way back or no way out.
This is just one woman speaking out, how many cases already went too far and are sadly no longer here because it was all too much to handle after making some irreversible step towards something that wasn't necessarily the correct one with no way back.
The town which produces the finest ale in england.
Yay!
A couple of weeks back, and only Barty had a good word to say for her. Power is indeed an aphrodisiac.