In fact, there has been escalating use of lying in state in America — with eight people doing so in Washington since 2018 — whilst this is only the second such British ceremony since Winston Churchill in 1965. It is today *mostly an American occurrence.*
I'd also add that the Americans are obsessed by queuing. They will do it for hours for anything from getting into a good barbeque place to casting a vote.
Americans are NOT in the same league as Brits when it comes to standing in line (the words "queue" and "queuing being virtually unknown to Americans who are NOT either English majors OR super-fans of PBS).
For example, in USA people will wait in a sort of line to board a bus, but it will be NOTHING as organized (or as respected) as in UK.
The bus queue is the one most frequently cited. But in my experience, bus queues more often than not tend to operate more like barber queues. A lot of people wait around - it is your duty when you turn up to note the order of everyone's arrival and board the bus in that order. But there is rarely a 'line' as such.
The true British genius for queuing can be observed where there are two separate queues for equally acceptable results - like people to serve you in a sandwich shop. Left unmarshalled, the British will naturally form one queue, the front person of which goes to whoever is next available. In my limited experience, that doesn't tend to happen abroad.
That's an interesting contrast to "merge in turn" on the roads, which other countries call "zip queueing".
On our roads this is terrible, with it being routine to see selfish drivers blocking a second lane to prevent all the road space being used, or closing the gap to 3cm to prevent someone from another lane merging in.
Queues on roads are very different. Picture this: a motorway, lanes 2 and 3 are closed up ahead. Every time some arrogant fucker in the outside lane whizzes past the queue in lane 1 for half a mile, the kind soul who lets him cut in at the last minute is putting back not just himself but the long queue of drivers behind him who are doing the right thing. The people closing the gap to 3cm are rewarding the virtuous and punishing the wicked.
These things would work a lot better with a bit more thought put into how the queuing will work.
That is sooooo wrong it's embarrassing. The most efficient use of the road area available is to have two lanes, merging at the last possible moment. I am the arrogant fucker because I understand traffic theory.
Best LOL of all time: the other day I did about 2 miles of arrogant prickery to find when I got to the top that the 2 to 1 reduction had been sorted out and no longer existed; they just hadn't got as far as removing the signs. Think about the implications of that.
I know a fair bit about this, and I know how to use road space efficiently. But highways management is about more than just efficient use of highway - otherwise we'd have no signals at all - it's about ensuring all parties are abke to make some progress, rather than some arrogant fuckers making all the progress and the majority crawling along at almost no speed.
- female - Mother long-lived & kept her marbles; father died young but all the females in his family were exceptionally long-lived & became wildly eccentric in later years - don't smoke - married with 3 children & on good terms with pretty much everyone - Catholic - Still working & interested in lots of stuff - Reasonably active with gardening but could do more on that front
Need to lose weight & have shit lungs and peculiar blood. But have managed to dodge Covid so maybe have something going for me. I've had something like 11 ops in my life and survived some really very serious illness which nearly killed me in my 20's so I have sort of lived life backwards, in terms of health. So am vaguely hoping that my latter years will be healthier than my younger years. Probably foolish.
Toms asked: 'What is "healthy life" and what is moderate exercise.'
Some years ago, Gretchen Reynolds (then at the New York Times, now at the Washington Post) provided a partial, but very useful, answer: Walk regularly, briskly -- and for most briskly means at least 60 steps a minute. (I've found that doing that controls my depression nicely, as well as giving me the well-known physical health benefits.)
Recently she has been discussing the pluses of brief, more intense workouts. I try to get a little bit of that by running (all right, jogging) up stairs whenever I can.
(There are, of course, even greater benefits from swimming and cross-country skiing. And both can be done, moderately.)
- female - Mother long-lived & kept her marbles; father died young but all the females in his family were exceptionally long-lived & became wildly eccentric in later years - don't smoke - married with 3 children & on good terms with pretty much everyone - Catholic - Still working & interested in lots of stuff - Reasonably active with gardening but could do more on that front
Need to lose weight & have shit lungs and peculiar blood. But have managed to dodge Covid so maybe have something going for me. I've had something like 11 ops in my life and survived some really very serious illness which nearly killed me in my 20's so I have sort of lived life backwards, in terms of health. So am vaguely hoping that my latter years will be healthier than my younger years. Probably foolish.
I would only add one thing to this list.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
I agree.
My mother had terrible lung problems from multi-drug resistant TB in the late 60s and came close to death at times despite the best treatment available at the Brompton. She was in her thirties at the time and had half a lung removed to control the disease and spent years in hospital.
She is a sprightly 84 years old now, and only gave up tennis recently because her knee isn't up to it any more. So there is precedent to get over some things remarkably well.
“Both my wife and I have had longstanding medical appointments scheduled for tomorrow put back even more because of the decision to make it a public holiday. I am furious”
In fairness, as a counterbalance to both my post above, and your tweet - as a result of my mums emergency consultation on Friday, she’s been booked in for an emergency test tomorrow, at midday.
At least some people/parts of the NHS are functioning normally.
I am working normal hours tommorow. In my dept we were asked whether we wanted to, and a substantial majority voted to do so. We didn't think it appropriate to cancel long awaited appointments to mark the funeral. Quite a few patients have rebooked, but that is their choice. I expect it will be a fairly quiet and I will be able to slip into the waiting room for some of the highlights.
- female - Mother long-lived & kept her marbles; father died young but all the females in his family were exceptionally long-lived & became wildly eccentric in later years - don't smoke - married with 3 children & on good terms with pretty much everyone - Catholic - Still working & interested in lots of stuff - Reasonably active with gardening but could do more on that front
Need to lose weight & have shit lungs and peculiar blood. But have managed to dodge Covid so maybe have something going for me. I've had something like 11 ops in my life and survived some really very serious illness which nearly killed me in my 20's so I have sort of lived life backwards, in terms of health. So am vaguely hoping that my latter years will be healthier than my younger years. Probably foolish.
I would only add one thing to this list.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
An hour without an awesome pun is an hour of all hour time wasted.
Oh well done! A big smile on my face right now.
I shall get you to smuggle City based puns into my drama.
The Square Vile?
(Bit harsh, but best I could come up with on short notice!)
I have a title already and it is an awesome pun. But not revealing it here. There will of course be bonus episodes.
Anyway, in our village the decision of the hour is whether to go to the pub formerly run by Daughter for a buffet in HMQ's honour. The new tenant is an unlikeable fellow (a bullshit merchant IMO) whose food is pretty crap. And I've done my socialising for the day.
And I have invoices and VAT returns to do and other boring work-related stuff which I can get on with in peace and quiet. So I will send Husband instead to represent me.
“Both my wife and I have had longstanding medical appointments scheduled for tomorrow put back even more because of the decision to make it a public holiday. I am furious”
In fairness, as a counterbalance to both my post above, and your tweet - as a result of my mums emergency consultation on Friday, she’s been booked in for an emergency test tomorrow, at midday.
At least some people/parts of the NHS are functioning normally.
I am working normal hours tommorow. In my dept we were asked whether we wanted to, and a substantial majority voted to do so. We didn't think it appropriate to cancel long awaited appointments to mark the funeral. Quite a few patients have rebooked, but that is their choice. I expect it will be a fairly quiet and I will be able to slip into the waiting room for some of the highlights.
Toms asked: 'What is "healthy life" and what is moderate exercise.'
Some years ago, Gretchen Reynolds (then at the New York Times, now at the Washington Post) provided a partial, but very useful, answer: Walk regularly, briskly -- and for most briskly means at least 60 steps a minute. (I've found that doing that controls my depression nicely, as well as giving me the well-known physical health benefits.)
Recently she has been discussing the pluses of brief, more intense workouts. I try to get a little bit of that by running (all right, jogging) up stairs whenever I can.
(There are, of course, even greater benefits from swimming and cross-country skiing. And both can be done, moderately.)
Yours truly is a regular walker (zero car for one thing).
However, last time I tried walking as briskly as you suggest, I ended up tripping on uneven sidewalk and going ass over teakettle.
Which messed me up, man . . . and slowed my pace to a crawl for some time . . .
Toms asked: 'What is "healthy life" and what is moderate exercise.'
Some years ago, Gretchen Reynolds (then at the New York Times, now at the Washington Post) provided a partial, but very useful, answer: Walk regularly, briskly -- and for most briskly means at least 60 steps a minute. (I've found that doing that controls my depression nicely, as well as giving me the well-known physical health benefits.)
Recently she has been discussing the pluses of brief, more intense workouts. I try to get a little bit of that by running (all right, jogging) up stairs whenever I can.
(There are, of course, even greater benefits from swimming and cross-country skiing. And both can be done, moderately.)
I'm not a good enough swimmer to swim moderately. I have the choice of either reaching the other end totally knackered or sinking.
In fact, there has been escalating use of lying in state in America — with eight people doing so in Washington since 2018 — whilst this is only the second such British ceremony since Winston Churchill in 1965. It is today *mostly an American occurrence.*
I'd also add that the Americans are obsessed by queuing. They will do it for hours for anything from getting into a good barbeque place to casting a vote.
Americans are NOT in the same league as Brits when it comes to standing in line (the words "queue" and "queuing being virtually unknown to Americans who are NOT either English majors OR super-fans of PBS).
For example, in USA people will wait in a sort of line to board a bus, but it will be NOTHING as organized (or as respected) as in UK.
The bus queue is the one most frequently cited. But in my experience, bus queues more often than not tend to operate more like barber queues. A lot of people wait around - it is your duty when you turn up to note the order of everyone's arrival and board the bus in that order. But there is rarely a 'line' as such.
The true British genius for queuing can be observed where there are two separate queues for equally acceptable results - like people to serve you in a sandwich shop. Left unmarshalled, the British will naturally form one queue, the front person of which goes to whoever is next available. In my limited experience, that doesn't tend to happen abroad.
That's an interesting contrast to "merge in turn" on the roads, which other countries call "zip queueing".
On our roads this is terrible, with it being routine to see selfish drivers blocking a second lane to prevent all the road space being used, or closing the gap to 3cm to prevent someone from another lane merging in.
Queues on roads are very different. Picture this: a motorway, lanes 2 and 3 are closed up ahead. Every time some arrogant fucker in the outside lane whizzes past the queue in lane 1 for half a mile, the kind soul who lets him cut in at the last minute is putting back not just himself but the long queue of drivers behind him who are doing the right thing. The people closing the gap to 3cm are rewarding the virtuous and punishing the wicked.
These things would work a lot better with a bit more thought put into how the queuing will work.
That is sooooo wrong it's embarrassing. The most efficient use of the road area available is to have two lanes, merging at the last possible moment. I am the arrogant fucker because I understand traffic theory.
Best LOL of all time: the other day I did about 2 miles of arrogant prickery to find when I got to the top that the 2 to 1 reduction had been sorted out and no longer existed; they just hadn't got as far as removing the signs. Think about the implications of that.
If two well used lanes go into one the British psyche can cope with merging in turn. However the last time I encountered something like this was in light traffic on a dual carriageway. Most cars were in the inside lane but had ground to a halt about a mile away from the single lane start point. So hundreds of cars arriving at this queue opted to overtake, quite legitimately. However it impinges on the British sense of FairPlay that so many cars essentially queue jumped.
But what they are doing is as follows: there's a bank with two counters open. Fifty customers have arbitrarily decided to queue for counter 1 leaving counter 2 unused. Then they get arsey when someone less stupid than they are walks up to counter 2.
They weren’t stupid, rather they were caught out. The cars overtaking were doing so at speed, so stopping those on the inside getting out, even if they wanted to. You are right, simply tutting and remaining in the queue is your own fault, but the circs caused the issue.
An interesting thread, thanks. We have a number of posters with different areas of expertise here and it would be nice to read the occasional one about some random thing that people know a lot about, even if it's not directly and obviously related to political betting.
Chilling out is another good tip. I've seen a study that says being under repeated and regular heavy stress shorterns your life by up to three years. Of course that's partly covered by no.3 - but arguably the antithesis of #2.
I think not drinking to excess is certainly another tip. According to a random website: "One study found that people drinking more than 25 drinks a week have a shorter life expectancy by four to five years. Another study in Scandinavia concluded that people hospitalized for an alcohol use disorder had a lifespan that was 24 to 28 years fewer [sic] than the general population."
I was wondering about religion too - whether its effect is explained through correlation with other variables. Religious people are I think significantly less likely to smoke and drink and more likely to get and stay married. So it isn't so much the belief in itself, rather that it is covered amongst the other pieces of advice you give.
Alcohol is another tricky one, sometimes depicted as a U shaped curve with peak health amongst light drinkers, and worse in both teetotalers and heavy drinkers, but we do need to bear in mind that sometimes people become teetotal due to ill health.
Good point. I think the left hand side of the U - lower consumption - is rather controversial, isn't it, but there's no doubt that knocking back a bottle of whisky and some beers every couple of days does many people a power of no good, is there?
Two brothers moved out West and set up a cattle ranch, which became a success. A few year later, their father came out to visit them, and to admire the ranch.
When he learned that they had not yet named their ranch, he thought for a few minutes, and suggested they name it "Focus".
- female - Mother long-lived & kept her marbles; father died young but all the females in his family were exceptionally long-lived & became wildly eccentric in later years - don't smoke - married with 3 children & on good terms with pretty much everyone - Catholic - Still working & interested in lots of stuff - Reasonably active with gardening but could do more on that front
Need to lose weight & have shit lungs and peculiar blood. But have managed to dodge Covid so maybe have something going for me. I've had something like 11 ops in my life and survived some really very serious illness which nearly killed me in my 20's so I have sort of lived life backwards, in terms of health. So am vaguely hoping that my latter years will be healthier than my younger years. Probably foolish.
I would only add one thing to this list.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
An hour without an awesome pun is an hour of all hour time wasted.
Oh well done! A big smile on my face right now.
I shall get you to smuggle City based puns into my drama.
The Square Vile?
(Bit harsh, but best I could come up with on short notice!)
I have a title already and it is an awesome pun. But not revealing it here. There will of course be bonus episodes.
Anyway, in our village the decision of the hour is whether to go to the pub formerly run by Daughter for a buffet in HMQ's honour. The new tenant is an unlikeable fellow (a bullshit merchant IMO) whose food is pretty crap. And I've done my socialising for the day.
And I have invoices and VAT returns to do and other boring work-related stuff which I can get on with in peace and quiet. So I will send Husband instead to represent me.
In fact, there has been escalating use of lying in state in America — with eight people doing so in Washington since 2018 — whilst this is only the second such British ceremony since Winston Churchill in 1965. It is today *mostly an American occurrence.*
I'd also add that the Americans are obsessed by queuing. They will do it for hours for anything from getting into a good barbeque place to casting a vote.
Americans are NOT in the same league as Brits when it comes to standing in line (the words "queue" and "queuing being virtually unknown to Americans who are NOT either English majors OR super-fans of PBS).
For example, in USA people will wait in a sort of line to board a bus, but it will be NOTHING as organized (or as respected) as in UK.
The bus queue is the one most frequently cited. But in my experience, bus queues more often than not tend to operate more like barber queues. A lot of people wait around - it is your duty when you turn up to note the order of everyone's arrival and board the bus in that order. But there is rarely a 'line' as such.
The true British genius for queuing can be observed where there are two separate queues for equally acceptable results - like people to serve you in a sandwich shop. Left unmarshalled, the British will naturally form one queue, the front person of which goes to whoever is next available. In my limited experience, that doesn't tend to happen abroad.
That's an interesting contrast to "merge in turn" on the roads, which other countries call "zip queueing".
On our roads this is terrible, with it being routine to see selfish drivers blocking a second lane to prevent all the road space being used, or closing the gap to 3cm to prevent someone from another lane merging in.
Queues on roads are very different. Picture this: a motorway, lanes 2 and 3 are closed up ahead. Every time some arrogant fucker in the outside lane whizzes past the queue in lane 1 for half a mile, the kind soul who lets him cut in at the last minute is putting back not just himself but the long queue of drivers behind him who are doing the right thing. The people closing the gap to 3cm are rewarding the virtuous and punishing the wicked.
These things would work a lot better with a bit more thought put into how the queuing will work.
That is sooooo wrong it's embarrassing. The most efficient use of the road area available is to have two lanes, merging at the last possible moment. I am the arrogant fucker because I understand traffic theory.
Best LOL of all time: the other day I did about 2 miles of arrogant prickery to find when I got to the top that the 2 to 1 reduction had been sorted out and no longer existed; they just hadn't got as far as removing the signs. Think about the implications of that.
I know a fair bit about this, and I know how to use road space efficiently. But highways management is about more than just efficient use of highway - otherwise we'd have no signals at all - it's about ensuring all parties are abke to make some progress, rather than some arrogant fuckers making all the progress and the majority crawling along at almost no speed.
- female - Mother long-lived & kept her marbles; father died young but all the females in his family were exceptionally long-lived & became wildly eccentric in later years - don't smoke - married with 3 children & on good terms with pretty much everyone - Catholic - Still working & interested in lots of stuff - Reasonably active with gardening but could do more on that front
Need to lose weight & have shit lungs and peculiar blood. But have managed to dodge Covid so maybe have something going for me. I've had something like 11 ops in my life and survived some really very serious illness which nearly killed me in my 20's so I have sort of lived life backwards, in terms of health. So am vaguely hoping that my latter years will be healthier than my younger years. Probably foolish.
I would only add one thing to this list.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
An hour without an awesome pun is an hour of all hour time wasted.
I do wonder about those cut off right at the end. If it lay with me I'd give as many them of possible seats in the Abbey, but then I'd have limited the alleged great and good from the rest of the world to make space for UK people, by ballot perhaps. There are clearly large numbers who want to be part of this extraordinary occasion; I would hope that as many as possible can in some way be enabled to feel part of it.
Oh, and I could not have stood in line for days (or faced a trip into London), nor am I disabled in a way to justify a queue jump. I do not exactly mourn, but I do emphatically respect the memory of the Queen, whose reign I have happened to see both the start and end.
Toms asked: 'What is "healthy life" and what is moderate exercise.'
Some years ago, Gretchen Reynolds (then at the New York Times, now at the Washington Post) provided a partial, but very useful, answer: Walk regularly, briskly -- and for most briskly means at least 60 steps a minute. (I've found that doing that controls my depression nicely, as well as giving me the well-known physical health benefits.)
Recently she has been discussing the pluses of brief, more intense workouts. I try to get a little bit of that by running (all right, jogging) up stairs whenever I can.
(There are, of course, even greater benefits from swimming and cross-country skiing. And both can be done, moderately.)
Moderately difficult to do the latter in New York.
“Both my wife and I have had longstanding medical appointments scheduled for tomorrow put back even more because of the decision to make it a public holiday. I am furious”
In fairness, as a counterbalance to both my post above, and your tweet - as a result of my mums emergency consultation on Friday, she’s been booked in for an emergency test tomorrow, at midday.
At least some people/parts of the NHS are functioning normally.
I am working normal hours tommorow. In my dept we were asked whether we wanted to, and a substantial majority voted to do so. We didn't think it appropriate to cancel long awaited appointments to mark the funeral. Quite a few patients have rebooked, but that is their choice. I expect it will be a fairly quiet and I will be able to slip into the waiting room for some of the highlights.
Very decent of you and your colleagues.
We do get a day in lieu, so not complete martyrs!
Even so, pretty shit for the patients elsewhere to lose their appointments. The Scottish Gmt made it clear they should be respected, for the sort of long term treatment you handle. I'm surprised anyone thought otherwise. Duty and all that.
For the first time ever the most advanced Russian main battle tank T-90M was captured by the Ukrainian army - presumably in #Kharkiv Oblast. This tank is also covered with Nakidka radar-absorbent and heat-insulating material. https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1571531776178245635
“Both my wife and I have had longstanding medical appointments scheduled for tomorrow put back even more because of the decision to make it a public holiday. I am furious”
In fairness, as a counterbalance to both my post above, and your tweet - as a result of my mums emergency consultation on Friday, she’s been booked in for an emergency test tomorrow, at midday.
At least some people/parts of the NHS are functioning normally.
I am working normal hours tommorow. In my dept we were asked whether we wanted to, and a substantial majority voted to do so. We didn't think it appropriate to cancel long awaited appointments to mark the funeral. Quite a few patients have rebooked, but that is their choice. I expect it will be a fairly quiet and I will be able to slip into the waiting room for some of the highlights.
Very decent of you and your colleagues.
We do get a day in lieu, so not complete martyrs!
Even so, pretty shit for the patients elsewhere to lose their appointments. The Scottish Gmt made it clear they should be respected.
making it clear they should be respected and ensuring they are respected are two different things. The first is virtue signalling the second is doing something helpful. And for avoidance of doubt would say the samething about the uk governement doing the same
- female - Mother long-lived & kept her marbles; father died young but all the females in his family were exceptionally long-lived & became wildly eccentric in later years - don't smoke - married with 3 children & on good terms with pretty much everyone - Catholic - Still working & interested in lots of stuff - Reasonably active with gardening but could do more on that front
Need to lose weight & have shit lungs and peculiar blood. But have managed to dodge Covid so maybe have something going for me. I've had something like 11 ops in my life and survived some really very serious illness which nearly killed me in my 20's so I have sort of lived life backwards, in terms of health. So am vaguely hoping that my latter years will be healthier than my younger years. Probably foolish.
I would only add one thing to this list.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
An hour without an awesome pun is an hour of all hour time wasted.
You’d better get working on one, then.
Only to be expected of a pundit such as @ydoethur .
“Both my wife and I have had longstanding medical appointments scheduled for tomorrow put back even more because of the decision to make it a public holiday. I am furious”
In fairness, as a counterbalance to both my post above, and your tweet - as a result of my mums emergency consultation on Friday, she’s been booked in for an emergency test tomorrow, at midday.
At least some people/parts of the NHS are functioning normally.
I am working normal hours tommorow. In my dept we were asked whether we wanted to, and a substantial majority voted to do so. We didn't think it appropriate to cancel long awaited appointments to mark the funeral. Quite a few patients have rebooked, but that is their choice. I expect it will be a fairly quiet and I will be able to slip into the waiting room for some of the highlights.
Very decent of you and your colleagues.
We do get a day in lieu, so not complete martyrs!
Even so, pretty shit for the patients elsewhere to lose their appointments. The Scottish Gmt made it clear they should be respected.
making it clear they should be respected and ensuring they are respected are two different things. The first is virtue signalling the second is doing something helpful. And for avoidance of doubt would say the samething about the uk governement doing the same
Given it's a legal bank holiday, and NHS staff can't be treated worse than say the bin collectors who are leaving my bins for another 5 days, they can't do much more, but see this:
“Both my wife and I have had longstanding medical appointments scheduled for tomorrow put back even more because of the decision to make it a public holiday. I am furious”
In fairness, as a counterbalance to both my post above, and your tweet - as a result of my mums emergency consultation on Friday, she’s been booked in for an emergency test tomorrow, at midday.
At least some people/parts of the NHS are functioning normally.
I am working normal hours tommorow. In my dept we were asked whether we wanted to, and a substantial majority voted to do so. We didn't think it appropriate to cancel long awaited appointments to mark the funeral. Quite a few patients have rebooked, but that is their choice. I expect it will be a fairly quiet and I will be able to slip into the waiting room for some of the highlights.
Very decent of you and your colleagues.
We do get a day in lieu, so not complete martyrs!
Even so, pretty shit for the patients elsewhere to lose their appointments. The Scottish Gmt made it clear they should be respected.
making it clear they should be respected and ensuring they are respected are two different things. The first is virtue signalling the second is doing something helpful. And for avoidance of doubt would say the samething about the uk governement doing the same
Given it's a legal bank holiday, and NHS staff can't be treated worse than say the bin collectors who are leaving my bins for another 5 days, they can't do much more, but see this:
ok read it....not sure I see the point though.....it doesnt change mine in the least. If scottish NHS staff choose to watch the funeral rather than provide service then the scottish governement is virtue signalling by saying "it shouldnt be allowed to disrupt service" same as it would be if truss announced it.
shouldn't is different to mustn't and we will take steps to ensure it won't
I was trying to think of a Royal highlight that is peculiarly British like The Queue and ive settled on the standing ovation for Alec Stewart scoring a century in his 100th test on the Queen Mums hundredth birthday. That was peak Royalty.
- female - Mother long-lived & kept her marbles; father died young but all the females in his family were exceptionally long-lived & became wildly eccentric in later years - don't smoke - married with 3 children & on good terms with pretty much everyone - Catholic - Still working & interested in lots of stuff - Reasonably active with gardening but could do more on that front
Need to lose weight & have shit lungs and peculiar blood. But have managed to dodge Covid so maybe have something going for me. I've had something like 11 ops in my life and survived some really very serious illness which nearly killed me in my 20's so I have sort of lived life backwards, in terms of health. So am vaguely hoping that my latter years will be healthier than my younger years. Probably foolish.
I would only add one thing to this list.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
An hour without an awesome pun is an hour of all hour time wasted.
You’d better get working on one, then.
I was working on ten, in the hope one would present itself as perfect for the moment.
In fact, there has been escalating use of lying in state in America — with eight people doing so in Washington since 2018 — whilst this is only the second such British ceremony since Winston Churchill in 1965. It is today *mostly an American occurrence.*
I'd also add that the Americans are obsessed by queuing. They will do it for hours for anything from getting into a good barbeque place to casting a vote.
Americans are NOT in the same league as Brits when it comes to standing in line (the words "queue" and "queuing being virtually unknown to Americans who are NOT either English majors OR super-fans of PBS).
For example, in USA people will wait in a sort of line to board a bus, but it will be NOTHING as organized (or as respected) as in UK.
The bus queue is the one most frequently cited. But in my experience, bus queues more often than not tend to operate more like barber queues. A lot of people wait around - it is your duty when you turn up to note the order of everyone's arrival and board the bus in that order. But there is rarely a 'line' as such.
The true British genius for queuing can be observed where there are two separate queues for equally acceptable results - like people to serve you in a sandwich shop. Left unmarshalled, the British will naturally form one queue, the front person of which goes to whoever is next available. In my limited experience, that doesn't tend to happen abroad.
That's an interesting contrast to "merge in turn" on the roads, which other countries call "zip queueing".
On our roads this is terrible, with it being routine to see selfish drivers blocking a second lane to prevent all the road space being used, or closing the gap to 3cm to prevent someone from another lane merging in.
Queues on roads are very different. Picture this: a motorway, lanes 2 and 3 are closed up ahead. Every time some arrogant fucker in the outside lane whizzes past the queue in lane 1 for half a mile, the kind soul who lets him cut in at the last minute is putting back not just himself but the long queue of drivers behind him who are doing the right thing. The people closing the gap to 3cm are rewarding the virtuous and punishing the wicked.
These things would work a lot better with a bit more thought put into how the queuing will work.
That is sooooo wrong it's embarrassing. The most efficient use of the road area available is to have two lanes, merging at the last possible moment. I am the arrogant fucker because I understand traffic theory.
Best LOL of all time: the other day I did about 2 miles of arrogant prickery to find when I got to the top that the 2 to 1 reduction had been sorted out and no longer existed; they just hadn't got as far as removing the signs. Think about the implications of that.
I know a fair bit about this, and I know how to use road space efficiently. But highways management is about more than just efficient use of highway - otherwise we'd have no signals at all - it's about ensuring all parties are abke to make some progress, rather than some arrogant fuckers making all the progress and the majority crawling along at almost no speed.
You are supposed to use both lanes (slowly) as far as possible then merge in turn at the end. The problem is that this is a recent introduction that is misunderstood by both motorists and even sometimes the police (based on dashcam clips) who will block one lane to stop what they see (under the old system) people flying down the outside to jump the queue.
As with (see rant on last thread) the Highway Code changes to give priorities to pedestrians crossing at (some) junctions, the DoT has not publicised them enough so no-one has a clue what will happen (as opposed to should happen).
For the first time ever the most advanced Russian main battle tank T-90M was captured by the Ukrainian army - presumably in #Kharkiv Oblast. This tank is also covered with Nakidka radar-absorbent and heat-insulating material. https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1571531776178245635
It is. After all this im going to start up Park Queues. A new obsession
I would definitely join it if I was anywhere near London. I'm going there on Tuesday ironically but can't move it forward.
Yes if I was in London id have done the Queue. Even now. End is at Tower Bridge so getting shorter but could be closed any time I'd guess.
After Mrs Stodge and I enjoyed an excellent Brunch (by the time we had it, really "Blunch" or just "Lunch"), we saw the queue as we walked back over Blackfriars Bridge. Moving well but slowing down in the distance by Gabriel's Wharf on the way towards the National Theatre and Waterloo Bridge.
I've never had the slightest interest in joining the queue. I respect those who have but it's not for me.
It might be my fault. Leon posted a cartoon and an AI image he said was better. The post was removed by "the mods". I disagreed with him, which led him to post a modified version of the same thing in an attempt to prove he was right.
In fact, there has been escalating use of lying in state in America — with eight people doing so in Washington since 2018 — whilst this is only the second such British ceremony since Winston Churchill in 1965. It is today *mostly an American occurrence.*
I'd also add that the Americans are obsessed by queuing. They will do it for hours for anything from getting into a good barbeque place to casting a vote.
Americans are NOT in the same league as Brits when it comes to standing in line (the words "queue" and "queuing being virtually unknown to Americans who are NOT either English majors OR super-fans of PBS).
For example, in USA people will wait in a sort of line to board a bus, but it will be NOTHING as organized (or as respected) as in UK.
The bus queue is the one most frequently cited. But in my experience, bus queues more often than not tend to operate more like barber queues. A lot of people wait around - it is your duty when you turn up to note the order of everyone's arrival and board the bus in that order. But there is rarely a 'line' as such.
The true British genius for queuing can be observed where there are two separate queues for equally acceptable results - like people to serve you in a sandwich shop. Left unmarshalled, the British will naturally form one queue, the front person of which goes to whoever is next available. In my limited experience, that doesn't tend to happen abroad.
That's an interesting contrast to "merge in turn" on the roads, which other countries call "zip queueing".
On our roads this is terrible, with it being routine to see selfish drivers blocking a second lane to prevent all the road space being used, or closing the gap to 3cm to prevent someone from another lane merging in.
Queues on roads are very different. Picture this: a motorway, lanes 2 and 3 are closed up ahead. Every time some arrogant fucker in the outside lane whizzes past the queue in lane 1 for half a mile, the kind soul who lets him cut in at the last minute is putting back not just himself but the long queue of drivers behind him who are doing the right thing. The people closing the gap to 3cm are rewarding the virtuous and punishing the wicked.
These things would work a lot better with a bit more thought put into how the queuing will work.
That is sooooo wrong it's embarrassing. The most efficient use of the road area available is to have two lanes, merging at the last possible moment. I am the arrogant fucker because I understand traffic theory.
Best LOL of all time: the other day I did about 2 miles of arrogant prickery to find when I got to the top that the 2 to 1 reduction had been sorted out and no longer existed; they just hadn't got as far as removing the signs. Think about the implications of that.
I know a fair bit about this, and I know how to use road space efficiently. But highways management is about more than just efficient use of highway - otherwise we'd have no signals at all - it's about ensuring all parties are abke to make some progress, rather than some arrogant fuckers making all the progress and the majority crawling along at almost no speed.
You are supposed to use both lanes (slowly) as far as possible then merge in turn at the end. The problem is that this is a recent introduction that is misunderstood by both motorists and even sometimes the police (based on dashcam clips) who will block one lane to stop what they see (under the old system) people flying down the outside to jump the queue.
As with (see rant on last thread) the Highway Code changes to give priorities to pedestrians crossing at (some) junctions, the DoT has not publicised them enough so no-one has a clue what will happen (as opposed to should happen).
No the merge in turn rules ONLY apply at low speed. The guidance specifically says not to do this at high speed. Highway Code rule 134. If you're going to inveigh against people not understanding the rules, helps if you know them yourself
A new account will be arriving shortly, Sean, sorry Leon's replacement.
Is doxxing an acceptable behaviour in your neck of the woods?
The guiltiest poster when it comes to doxxing Leon, is Leon.
I remember when one of [REDACTED] identities was banned, I joked that this would lead any new poster for the next three weeks to be suspected of being the next [REDACTED] sockpuppet. This led to a rather irritable reply from Mike, 'You can spot them a mile off.'
I suspect that Leon's successor, if he does not in fact decide to apologise for whatever caused the problem and continue his merrily entertaining discussions of custom made flint sex toys, will be similarly easy to notice...
For the first time ever the most advanced Russian main battle tank T-90M was captured by the Ukrainian army - presumably in #Kharkiv Oblast. This tank is also covered with Nakidka radar-absorbent and heat-insulating material. https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1571531776178245635
To be back in America before President Biden.
LOL.
Looks incredibly unsophisticated inside to be honest.
It is. After all this im going to start up Park Queues. A new obsession
I would definitely join it if I was anywhere near London. I'm going there on Tuesday ironically but can't move it forward.
Yes if I was in London id have done the Queue. Even now. End is at Tower Bridge so getting shorter but could be closed any time I'd guess.
There was talk of ending the lying-in-state at 6am, and the queue takes around 12 hours from Tower Bridge, so it is now probably too late unless you have a shelf full of NTA trophies.
Believe Truss is doing a reading at Westminster Abbey funeral service tomorrow
psalms 137 - 8- p9 maybe
or
jeremiah 13:15 to 26
or
Isiah 13:9 to 16
or
judges 18: 1 to 27
or.......
Johnson asked for Proverbs 24:22.
For Truss, surely Deuteronomy 32:28-35.
euw no to boils she might show them us
Eh?
deutoronmy 32:28 - 35 is The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
Believe Truss is doing a reading at Westminster Abbey funeral service tomorrow
psalms 137 - 8- p9 maybe
or
jeremiah 13:15 to 26
or
Isiah 13:9 to 16
or
judges 18: 1 to 27
or.......
Johnson asked for Proverbs 24:22.
For Truss, surely Deuteronomy 32:28-35.
euw no to boils she might show them us
Eh?
deutoronmy 32:28 - 35 is The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
No it isn't.
'28Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them. 29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate. 30How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up? 31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.h 32But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter. 33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. 34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults? 35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay.i In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
Toms asked: 'What is "healthy life" and what is moderate exercise.'
Some years ago, Gretchen Reynolds (then at the New York Times, now at the Washington Post) provided a partial, but very useful, answer: Walk regularly, briskly -- and for most briskly means at least 60 steps a minute. (I've found that doing that controls my depression nicely, as well as giving me the well-known physical health benefits.)
Recently she has been discussing the pluses of brief, more intense workouts. I try to get a little bit of that by running (all right, jogging) up stairs whenever I can.
(There are, of course, even greater benefits from swimming and cross-country skiing. And both can be done, moderately.)
I'm not sure cross country skiing can be done moderately: that's some of the most cardiovascular intensive exercise in the world. The resting heart rates of those guys are insane - often dipping into the 20s.
In fact, there has been escalating use of lying in state in America — with eight people doing so in Washington since 2018 — whilst this is only the second such British ceremony since Winston Churchill in 1965. It is today *mostly an American occurrence.*
I'd also add that the Americans are obsessed by queuing. They will do it for hours for anything from getting into a good barbeque place to casting a vote.
Americans are NOT in the same league as Brits when it comes to standing in line (the words "queue" and "queuing being virtually unknown to Americans who are NOT either English majors OR super-fans of PBS).
For example, in USA people will wait in a sort of line to board a bus, but it will be NOTHING as organized (or as respected) as in UK.
The bus queue is the one most frequently cited. But in my experience, bus queues more often than not tend to operate more like barber queues. A lot of people wait around - it is your duty when you turn up to note the order of everyone's arrival and board the bus in that order. But there is rarely a 'line' as such.
The true British genius for queuing can be observed where there are two separate queues for equally acceptable results - like people to serve you in a sandwich shop. Left unmarshalled, the British will naturally form one queue, the front person of which goes to whoever is next available. In my limited experience, that doesn't tend to happen abroad.
That's an interesting contrast to "merge in turn" on the roads, which other countries call "zip queueing".
On our roads this is terrible, with it being routine to see selfish drivers blocking a second lane to prevent all the road space being used, or closing the gap to 3cm to prevent someone from another lane merging in.
Queues on roads are very different. Picture this: a motorway, lanes 2 and 3 are closed up ahead. Every time some arrogant fucker in the outside lane whizzes past the queue in lane 1 for half a mile, the kind soul who lets him cut in at the last minute is putting back not just himself but the long queue of drivers behind him who are doing the right thing. The people closing the gap to 3cm are rewarding the virtuous and punishing the wicked.
These things would work a lot better with a bit more thought put into how the queuing will work.
That is sooooo wrong it's embarrassing. The most efficient use of the road area available is to have two lanes, merging at the last possible moment. I am the arrogant fucker because I understand traffic theory.
Best LOL of all time: the other day I did about 2 miles of arrogant prickery to find when I got to the top that the 2 to 1 reduction had been sorted out and no longer existed; they just hadn't got as far as removing the signs. Think about the implications of that.
I know a fair bit about this, and I know how to use road space efficiently. But highways management is about more than just efficient use of highway - otherwise we'd have no signals at all - it's about ensuring all parties are abke to make some progress, rather than some arrogant fuckers making all the progress and the majority crawling along at almost no speed.
You are supposed to use both lanes (slowly) as far as possible then merge in turn at the end. The problem is that this is a recent introduction that is misunderstood by both motorists and even sometimes the police (based on dashcam clips) who will block one lane to stop what they see (under the old system) people flying down the outside to jump the queue.
As with (see rant on last thread) the Highway Code changes to give priorities to pedestrians crossing at (some) junctions, the DoT has not publicised them enough so no-one has a clue what will happen (as opposed to should happen).
No the merge in turn rules ONLY apply at low speed. The guidance specifically says not to do this at high speed. Highway Code rule 134. If you're going to inveigh against people not understanding the rules, helps if you know them yourself
Yeah, when I said "slowly" I meant at low speed. But even if you missed that word, you missed the point because if both lanes are in use before a pinch point, speed will be low in both lanes rather than, under the old system, where one lane is barely crawling and the other lane empty except for the odd queue-jumper.
For the first time ever the most advanced Russian main battle tank T-90M was captured by the Ukrainian army - presumably in #Kharkiv Oblast. This tank is also covered with Nakidka radar-absorbent and heat-insulating material. https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1571531776178245635
To be back in America before President Biden.
LOL.
Looks incredibly unsophisticated inside to be honest.
It does indeed. The Pentagon will be all over the materials and software. In ww2, there were an awful lot of analytical chemists working on steel, fuel and oil from downed Luftwaffe fighters.
“Both my wife and I have had longstanding medical appointments scheduled for tomorrow put back even more because of the decision to make it a public holiday. I am furious”
In fairness, as a counterbalance to both my post above, and your tweet - as a result of my mums emergency consultation on Friday, she’s been booked in for an emergency test tomorrow, at midday.
At least some people/parts of the NHS are functioning normally.
I am working normal hours tommorow. In my dept we were asked whether we wanted to, and a substantial majority voted to do so. We didn't think it appropriate to cancel long awaited appointments to mark the funeral. Quite a few patients have rebooked, but that is their choice. I expect it will be a fairly quiet and I will be able to slip into the waiting room for some of the highlights.
Very decent of you and your colleagues.
We do get a day in lieu, so not complete martyrs!
Even so, pretty shit for the patients elsewhere to lose their appointments. The Scottish Gmt made it clear they should be respected.
making it clear they should be respected and ensuring they are respected are two different things. The first is virtue signalling the second is doing something helpful. And for avoidance of doubt would say the samething about the uk governement doing the same
Given it's a legal bank holiday, and NHS staff can't be treated worse than say the bin collectors who are leaving my bins for another 5 days, they can't do much more, but see this:
There are practical problems with child care and transport, with schools and nurseries closed and public transport services reduced. Some staff simply couldn't work if they wanted to do so.
Toms asked: 'What is "healthy life" and what is moderate exercise.'
Some years ago, Gretchen Reynolds (then at the New York Times, now at the Washington Post) provided a partial, but very useful, answer: Walk regularly, briskly -- and for most briskly means at least 60 steps a minute. (I've found that doing that controls my depression nicely, as well as giving me the well-known physical health benefits.)
Recently she has been discussing the pluses of brief, more intense workouts. I try to get a little bit of that by running (all right, jogging) up stairs whenever I can.
(There are, of course, even greater benefits from swimming and cross-country skiing. And both can be done, moderately.)
I'm not sure cross country skiing can be done moderately: that's some of the most cardiovascular intensive exercise in the world. The resting heart rates of those guys are insane - often dipping into the 20s.
Yes having watched people do it while doing downhill skiing my first thought is, why? Downhill is knackering enough when gravity helps. And where is the fun and fear.
Toms asked: 'What is "healthy life" and what is moderate exercise.'
Some years ago, Gretchen Reynolds (then at the New York Times, now at the Washington Post) provided a partial, but very useful, answer: Walk regularly, briskly -- and for most briskly means at least 60 steps a minute. (I've found that doing that controls my depression nicely, as well as giving me the well-known physical health benefits.)
Recently she has been discussing the pluses of brief, more intense workouts. I try to get a little bit of that by running (all right, jogging) up stairs whenever I can.
(There are, of course, even greater benefits from swimming and cross-country skiing. And both can be done, moderately.)
Moderately difficult to do the latter in New York.
Only IF you do not have skiis, not just in New York State (much of which is perfect for X-country) but even in New York City:
'We've basically got to replicate the Biden strategy,' a senior Labour strategist told me. 'We need to convince people that we can get the country back to normal. That we can give everyone a break from the craziness.'
In fact, there has been escalating use of lying in state in America — with eight people doing so in Washington since 2018 — whilst this is only the second such British ceremony since Winston Churchill in 1965. It is today *mostly an American occurrence.*
I'd also add that the Americans are obsessed by queuing. They will do it for hours for anything from getting into a good barbeque place to casting a vote.
Americans are NOT in the same league as Brits when it comes to standing in line (the words "queue" and "queuing being virtually unknown to Americans who are NOT either English majors OR super-fans of PBS).
For example, in USA people will wait in a sort of line to board a bus, but it will be NOTHING as organized (or as respected) as in UK.
The bus queue is the one most frequently cited. But in my experience, bus queues more often than not tend to operate more like barber queues. A lot of people wait around - it is your duty when you turn up to note the order of everyone's arrival and board the bus in that order. But there is rarely a 'line' as such.
The true British genius for queuing can be observed where there are two separate queues for equally acceptable results - like people to serve you in a sandwich shop. Left unmarshalled, the British will naturally form one queue, the front person of which goes to whoever is next available. In my limited experience, that doesn't tend to happen abroad.
That's an interesting contrast to "merge in turn" on the roads, which other countries call "zip queueing".
On our roads this is terrible, with it being routine to see selfish drivers blocking a second lane to prevent all the road space being used, or closing the gap to 3cm to prevent someone from another lane merging in.
Queues on roads are very different. Picture this: a motorway, lanes 2 and 3 are closed up ahead. Every time some arrogant fucker in the outside lane whizzes past the queue in lane 1 for half a mile, the kind soul who lets him cut in at the last minute is putting back not just himself but the long queue of drivers behind him who are doing the right thing. The people closing the gap to 3cm are rewarding the virtuous and punishing the wicked.
These things would work a lot better with a bit more thought put into how the queuing will work.
That is sooooo wrong it's embarrassing. The most efficient use of the road area available is to have two lanes, merging at the last possible moment. I am the arrogant fucker because I understand traffic theory.
Best LOL of all time: the other day I did about 2 miles of arrogant prickery to find when I got to the top that the 2 to 1 reduction had been sorted out and no longer existed; they just hadn't got as far as removing the signs. Think about the implications of that.
I know a fair bit about this, and I know how to use road space efficiently. But highways management is about more than just efficient use of highway - otherwise we'd have no signals at all - it's about ensuring all parties are abke to make some progress, rather than some arrogant fuckers making all the progress and the majority crawling along at almost no speed.
You are supposed to use both lanes (slowly) as far as possible then merge in turn at the end. The problem is that this is a recent introduction that is misunderstood by both motorists and even sometimes the police (based on dashcam clips) who will block one lane to stop what they see (under the old system) people flying down the outside to jump the queue.
As with (see rant on last thread) the Highway Code changes to give priorities to pedestrians crossing at (some) junctions, the DoT has not publicised them enough so no-one has a clue what will happen (as opposed to should happen).
No the merge in turn rules ONLY apply at low speed. The guidance specifically says not to do this at high speed. Highway Code rule 134. If you're going to inveigh against people not understanding the rules, helps if you know them yourself
Yeah, when I said "slowly" I meant at low speed. But even if you missed that word, you missed the point because if both lanes are in use before a pinch point, speed will be low in both lanes rather than, under the old system, where one lane is barely crawling and the other lane empty except for the odd queue-jumper.
Thanks for the responses.
I'd say the HC is clear that both lanes should be used for efficiency.
For some years I always thought the "turn" in "merge in turn" referred to a bend in the road, ie 'as you go round the turn'. But I have almost always done the 1:1 zipping anyway.
Sky just had Lord Boateng on. He was pretty damn good and talking some proper sense. I concluded earlier its going to be a while before i can be arsed to give a shit about politics, ive got a sinking feeling its all just struggle, hardship and petty squabbling for the foreseeable. A shit winter to follow three shit winters. Grumpy old bugger tonight.
Believe Truss is doing a reading at Westminster Abbey funeral service tomorrow
psalms 137 - 8- p9 maybe
or
jeremiah 13:15 to 26
or
Isiah 13:9 to 16
or
judges 18: 1 to 27
or.......
Johnson asked for Proverbs 24:22.
For Truss, surely Deuteronomy 32:28-35.
euw no to boils she might show them us
Eh?
deutoronmy 32:28 - 35 is The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
No it isn't.
'28Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them. 29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate. 30How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up? 31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.h 32But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter. 33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. 34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults? 35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay.i In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
28The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind, 29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit. 31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
32Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand. 33A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed. 34You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
35The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
Looks like the queue is shrinking. If those joining has fallen to a trickle there might be quite a few hours left before it is officially closed.
,"The Queue" even has its own Wikipedia page now.
Queue time is now 8 hours says live Telegraph blog
Official site saying 7 hours now. End at London bridge. If true they should be through by 3.30ish so still a couple of hours leeway. If you're in London and want to, take your chance.
Believe Truss is doing a reading at Westminster Abbey funeral service tomorrow
psalms 137 - 8- p9 maybe
or
jeremiah 13:15 to 26
or
Isiah 13:9 to 16
or
judges 18: 1 to 27
or.......
Johnson asked for Proverbs 24:22.
For Truss, surely Deuteronomy 32:28-35.
euw no to boils she might show them us
Eh?
deutoronmy 32:28 - 35 is The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
No it isn't.
'28Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them. 29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate. 30How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up? 31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.h 32But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter. 33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. 34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults? 35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay.i In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
28The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind, 29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit. 31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
32Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand. 33A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed. 34You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
35The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
Believe Truss is doing a reading at Westminster Abbey funeral service tomorrow
psalms 137 - 8- p9 maybe
or
jeremiah 13:15 to 26
or
Isiah 13:9 to 16
or
judges 18: 1 to 27
or.......
Johnson asked for Proverbs 24:22.
For Truss, surely Deuteronomy 32:28-35.
euw no to boils she might show them us
Eh?
deutoronmy 32:28 - 35 is The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
No it isn't.
'28Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them. 29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate. 30How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up? 31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.h 32But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter. 33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. 34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults? 35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay.i In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.
27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
28The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind, 29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit. 31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
32Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand. 33A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed. 34You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
35The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
according to my copy of the book
and looked up the king james version
28 The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart;
29 and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways. “And thou shalt be only oppressed and despoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. Thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein. Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof. Thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee. Thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.
33 The fruit of thy land and all thy labors shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always,
34 so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
35 The Lord shall smite thee in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
Looks like the queue is shrinking. If those joining has fallen to a trickle there might be quite a few hours left before it is officially closed.
,"The Queue" even has its own Wikipedia page now.
Queue time is now 8 hours says live Telegraph blog
Official site saying 7 hours now. End at London bridge. If true they should be through by 3.30ish so still a couple of hours leeway. If you're in London and want to, take your chance.
Sky just had Lord Boateng on. He was pretty damn good and talking some proper sense. I concluded earlier its going to be a while before i can be arsed to give a shit about politics, ive got a sinking feeling its all just struggle, hardship and petty squabbling for the foreseeable. A shit winter to follow three shit winters. Grumpy old bugger tonight.
Cheer up Woolie, we’ve got England being agonisingly knocked out of the World Cup and a Christmas John Lewis advert to look forward to (I hear they are going with a Nouvelle Vague version of Electricity by OMD this year). Not to mention the hilarity of the Boris honours list and a hopefully a new series of “Ghosts”. Mustn’t grumble.
In fact, there has been escalating use of lying in state in America — with eight people doing so in Washington since 2018 — whilst this is only the second such British ceremony since Winston Churchill in 1965. It is today *mostly an American occurrence.*
Sky just had Lord Boateng on. He was pretty damn good and talking some proper sense. I concluded earlier its going to be a while before i can be arsed to give a shit about politics, ive got a sinking feeling its all just struggle, hardship and petty squabbling for the foreseeable. A shit winter to follow three shit winters. Grumpy old bugger tonight.
Cheer up Woolie, we’ve got England being agonisingly knocked out of the World Cup and a Christmas John Lewis advert to look forward to (I hear they are going with a Nouvelle Vague version of Electricity by OMD this year). Not to mention the hilarity of the Boris honours list and a hopefully a new series of “Ghosts”. Mustn’t grumble.
“Both my wife and I have had longstanding medical appointments scheduled for tomorrow put back even more because of the decision to make it a public holiday. I am furious”
In fairness, as a counterbalance to both my post above, and your tweet - as a result of my mums emergency consultation on Friday, she’s been booked in for an emergency test tomorrow, at midday.
At least some people/parts of the NHS are functioning normally.
I am working normal hours tommorow. In my dept we were asked whether we wanted to, and a substantial majority voted to do so. We didn't think it appropriate to cancel long awaited appointments to mark the funeral. Quite a few patients have rebooked, but that is their choice. I expect it will be a fairly quiet and I will be able to slip into the waiting room for some of the highlights.
Very decent of you and your colleagues.
We do get a day in lieu, so not complete martyrs!
Even so, pretty shit for the patients elsewhere to lose their appointments. The Scottish Gmt made it clear they should be respected.
making it clear they should be respected and ensuring they are respected are two different things. The first is virtue signalling the second is doing something helpful. And for avoidance of doubt would say the samething about the uk governement doing the same
Given it's a legal bank holiday, and NHS staff can't be treated worse than say the bin collectors who are leaving my bins for another 5 days, they can't do much more, but see this:
ok read it....not sure I see the point though.....it doesnt change mine in the least. If scottish NHS staff choose to watch the funeral rather than provide service then the scottish governement is virtue signalling by saying "it shouldnt be allowed to disrupt service" same as it would be if truss announced it.
shouldn't is different to mustn't and we will take steps to ensure it won't
Foxy has explained the situation better than I could (not in the least astoundingly).
Just enjoyed a 40 minute checkout queue. Worse than Christmas eve...
We’ve realised late in the day that it’s basically like Christmas or Easter and should be planned as such. No presents, but a lie in then watch the funeral followed by a big roast (we got a duck) and some nice wine, an afternoon walk then cheese and biscuits for supper.
That plus a couple of teams calls and in my case an early call from the beeb to talk about tax on the Today programme.
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Some years ago, Gretchen Reynolds (then at the New York Times, now at the Washington Post) provided a partial, but very useful, answer: Walk regularly, briskly -- and for most briskly means at least 60 steps a minute. (I've found that doing that controls my depression nicely, as well as giving me the well-known physical health benefits.)
Recently she has been discussing the pluses of brief, more intense workouts. I try to get a little bit of that by running (all right, jogging) up stairs whenever I can.
(There are, of course, even greater benefits from swimming and cross-country skiing. And both can be done, moderately.)
My mother had terrible lung problems from multi-drug resistant TB in the late 60s and came close to death at times despite the best treatment available at the Brompton. She was in her thirties at the time and had half a lung removed to control the disease and spent years in hospital.
She is a sprightly 84 years old now, and only gave up tennis recently because her knee isn't up to it any more. So there is precedent to get over some things remarkably well.
Anyway, in our village the decision of the hour is whether to go to the pub formerly run by Daughter for a buffet in HMQ's honour. The new tenant is an unlikeable fellow (a bullshit merchant IMO) whose food is pretty crap. And I've done my socialising for the day.
And I have invoices and VAT returns to do and other boring work-related stuff which I can get on with in peace and quiet. So I will send Husband instead to represent me.
However, last time I tried walking as briskly as you suggest, I ended up tripping on uneven sidewalk and going ass over teakettle.
Which messed me up, man . . . and slowed my pace to a crawl for some time . . .
Even though I have seen most of Gary Larson's before.
Two brothers moved out West and set up a cattle ranch, which became a success. A few year later, their father came out to visit them, and to admire the ranch.
When he learned that they had not yet named their ranch, he thought for a few minutes, and suggested they name it "Focus".
Why? Because that's where the sons raise meat.
"USE ALL LANES"
then shortly before a lane is closed
"MERGE IN TURN".
Oh, and I could not have stood in line for days (or faced a trip into London), nor am I disabled in a way to justify a queue jump. I do not exactly mourn, but I do emphatically respect the memory of the Queen, whose reign I have happened to see both the start and end.
This tank is also covered with Nakidka radar-absorbent and heat-insulating material.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1571531776178245635
Let us hope so anyway
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/18/liz-truss-micheal-martin-uk-ireland-brexit-talks-eu?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/nhs-scotland-services-to-continue-during-queens-funeral-but-government-warns-of-some-disruption
(Before anyone bites, I am joking.)
shouldn't is different to mustn't and we will take steps to ensure it won't
That was peak Royalty.
My favourite
But sadly no pun in ten did.
or
jeremiah 13:15 to 26
or
Isiah 13:9 to 16
or
judges 18: 1 to 27
or.......
As with (see rant on last thread) the Highway Code changes to give priorities to pedestrians crossing at (some) junctions, the DoT has not publicised them enough so no-one has a clue what will happen (as opposed to should happen).
The actual item is a pedal bin, coloured matt.
Is this stuff actually written by AI?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11224591/Matt-Hancock-spotted-shopping-DIY-store-Homebase-lover-former-aide-Gina-Coladangelo.html
For Truss, surely Deuteronomy 32:28-35.
I wonder if they've "soft closed" it and its now difficult to get a new wrist band.
I've never had the slightest interest in joining the queue. I respect those who have but it's not for me.
If you're going to inveigh against people not understanding the rules, helps if you know them yourself
Looks incredibly unsophisticated inside to be honest.
ETA I'm wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJxDwDzAwEs
The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
'28Israel is a nation devoid of counsel,
with no understanding among them.
29If only they were wise, they would understand it;
they would comprehend their fate.
30How could one man pursue a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the LORD had given them up?
31For their rock is not like our Rock,
even our enemies concede.h
32But their vine is from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poisonous;
their clusters are bitter.
33Their wine is the venom of serpents,
the deadly poison of cobras.
34“Have I not stored up these things,
sealed up within My vaults?
35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay.i
In due time their foot will slip;
for their day of disaster is near,
and their doom is coming quickly.”
https://www.centralpark.com/things-to-do/sports/cross-country-skiing/#:~:text=With 6" of snow, you,of the world's biggest cities.
Plus other opportunities in NYC parks in other 4 boroughs.
Did I make a faux pas?
Well done chaps.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11222807/After-Vladimir-Putins-war-Covid-election-won-offering-normality.html
I'd say the HC is clear that both lanes should be used for efficiency.
For some years I always thought the "turn" in "merge in turn" referred to a bend in the road, ie 'as you go round the turn'. But I have almost always done the 1:1 zipping anyway.
Ashley Neal (yes, that one) has a good vid or two about this (several):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6ODnfLCY_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O7jBSNfZgk
I was still waiting by the end of the silence.
I concluded earlier its going to be a while before i can be arsed to give a shit about politics, ive got a sinking feeling its all just struggle, hardship and petty squabbling for the foreseeable.
A shit winter to follow three shit winters. Grumpy old bugger tonight.
27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
28The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind, 29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit. 31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
32Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand. 33A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed. 34You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
35The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
according to my copy of the book
28 The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart;
29 and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways. “And thou shalt be only oppressed and despoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. Thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein. Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof. Thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee. Thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.
33 The fruit of thy land and all thy labors shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always,
34 so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
35 The Lord shall smite thee in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.