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Biden moves to betting favourite to win WH2024 – politicalbetting.com
Biden moves to betting favourite to win WH2024 – politicalbetting.com
Possibly the single best moment of any State of the Union ever. Absolutely masterful. pic.twitter.com/AFoeY73NzS
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There were 23 planets in the Solar System in 1851.
That's when they decided to call the numerous newly discovered ones between Mars and Jupiter "asteroids" instead.
As @Driver astutely worked out.
Do we still have him down as a doddering old fool?
Not the Nine O'clock News is still bloody funny now, despite being made in 1980-81, as is Blackadder, and the basis for Yes Minister works just as much today.
I expect the reason Fawlty Towers - which is still popular- works is because class and petty pomposity is very much still a thing, even if the casual homophobia/anti-Irishness/racism is not.
The 'he lost his papers, the silly old fool' moves the market much more than it should and people are betting to UK rules not US ones.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23302114.sturgeon-cant-recall-knew-husband-loaned-snp-107-000/
My double-incontinent dementia-addled mother had better recall.
For what it's worth, I think his dodderiness is exaggerated. His folly, well, so far he hasn't committed quite so many gaffes as was expected.
Blackadder and Fawlty Towers are very rare exceptions.
Still reeling from Volodomir's performance. Yay for the Ukies
then Life of Brian.
Both brilliant - and still top drawer humour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe#:~:text=John Heinrich Detlef Rabe (23,during the massacre that ensued.
To me Nazism is a fundamentally evil philosophy, based as it is on a belief that some people are sub-humans who can be exploited or exterminated to further the interests of the 'master race'.
Communism at its heart has a belief in equality, community and sharing. Of course, it has never been implemented successfully and in my opinion is never likely to be, mainly because greed is too basic a human vice.
Communism: good intent subverted by evil; Nazism: evil intent made worse by evil.
Biden's still a class act - yes, he's no spring chicken but he's miles ahead of the heckling, whiny, abrasive Republicans like Marjorie Taylor-Greene who presumably loses the GOP votes every time she opens her mouth.
Were Biden to hand out a second and bigger beating to Trump in 2024 (perhaps with the added bonus of the Democrats recapturing the House and holding the Senate), it'll be the turn of the Republicans to do some serious thinking.
I've just seen the latest idea to finally do away with catering on trains. It's a long way from London to Penzance without coffee (or tea or water). Perhaps the idea is, as in India, to have vendors on the platforms at Exeter and Plymouth woh can provide a quick snack and drink in the 3-5 minute window the train is at the station (perhaps a pot noodle).
SWR ended catering during the pandemic and it now seems the other long-distance operators want to do the same.
Here's a revolutionary thought - don't run train services to make a profit, run train services to provide an enjoyable travelling experience. Everyone should pay 5p more in income tax so I can have a coffee on the way from London to Guildford - seems inherently reasonable.
Zelenskyy cuts an impressive figure - he was of course a proper entertainer before he became a politician. He must know he can ask for hardware and he can get his pilots and soldiers trained outside the Ukraine but he must also know no NATO soldier can or must set foot on Ukrainian soil (officially). He's no idiot - there are lines he knows the West won't cross.
I'd also like to think we will be in the forefront of the economic reconstruction of the Ukraine once the fighting has ended.
How many Nazis actually wanted to exterminate people, rather than just right the wrongs of Versailles?
The humour in both series is never cruel.
Mostly the Nazis were using modern industrial techniques to do what other countries had been doing for over a century. It is part of the reason that so many in our establishment were quite OK with the Nazis, at least until it all became a bit too much.
That's without even considering the fact that overanalysing stuff ignores that this sort of stuff is found everywhere. Any cash in your pocket? Test it and you'll find you have somebodies faecal matter there too, or cocaine, or more likely both.
It doesn't help anyone to become a hypochondriac afraid of all germs. I'd rather have the lid up and be able to see if there's any mess that hasn't flushed so I can clean it and leave it clean for the next person than hyperventilate about microscopic droplets.
Woody Guthrie wanted Americans to be paid decent wages, at liberty to join a Union, and be free to wander about empty landscapes.
The Communist Party was one of the few outlets to share these not outrageous goals. Again. He didn't become a fanatical adherent obsessed by the precise mechanics.
Neither wanted to enslave, persecute or murder anyone.
Mocking Baldric, and Edmund and everyone else dying a brutal death every six episodes has more than a hint of cruelty* to it - but we're all in on the cruelty and its not cruel against anyone or any class of people being "othered".
* Apart from Goes Forth obviously which is a completely poignant tragedy rather than cruelty.
Transplant Fletcher from Slade Prison in Going Straight and it sank like the Titanic, for example.
I think comedy that ages well tends to be less contemporary and has a few series to develop the characters and the relationships.
You Rang My Lord and Ever Decreasing Circles are two of my absolute favourite comedies. They work so well and the characters and their relationships are so well developed. Both had perfect endings too.
The Tory government's welcoming one to the UK for talks next week.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/08/cross-party-mps-shocked-by-foreign-office-talks-with-xinjiang-governor
quote "But the great founding fathers of British socialism, reports Jonathan Freedland, had dreams almost as vile as those of the Nazis"
While I remind you that the Nazis not only promoted the murder of all of those groups but carried it out.
Take Friends, from the 90s it in many ways still feels modern and its still funny today but it would never be made the same way today as it was then. It was quite modern at the time with discussing homosexuality etc but can be rather homophobic by today's standards, especially the way Chandler's dad is mocked/the butt of jokes for being a transvestite. And the cast being all-white also dates it as being from the 20th century too, you wouldn't get that in a prime time comedy series nowadays.
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Simples
I am not saying nazi's good, they were total shits, so were the left wing countries that went socialist or communist is the point. However while I am not defending the nazi's you are defending the socialist and communist and even in moderate left wing scandanavia forced sterilisations of the "wrong types" only ceased in the 70's
Communists are every bit as unmitigatedly evil as Nazis, there is no middle ground or shades of grey here. The only difference is, we didn't fight against one in WWII, but when it comes to pure evil - they're both evil.
we met & had to pass a long line of imbeciles. the first was a very tall young man, just queer enough to look at twice, but no more; the second shuffled, & looked aside; and then one realised that everyone in that long line was a miserable ineffective shuffling idiotic creature, with no forehead, or no chin, & an imbecile grin, or a wild suspicious stare. It was perfectly horrible. They should certainly be killed.
Panel,shows still survive but the sketch show is a dying art too.
Friends has been called out for all of the above and one of the writers got into a bit of a pickle over it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/friends-apology-marta-kauffman-lack-diversity-b2112597.html
If someone does nothing but good but believes in an ideology of hatred are they good or bad?
Conversely if people do evil shit but believe in an ideology that is universally proclaimed good are they good or bad?
Seems to me that if you do nothing but good but are a nazi you will get shat on for your beliefs, do nothing but good but believe in communism you get a pass even though to my mind I see no difference of the poison endemic in the beliefs
I gave you a fundamental example. You've ignored that.
Do I defend Stalin or Mao or the USSR or the PRC? No, not at all. They are evidence that Communism is unimplementable in my opinion; it has been corrupted every time it was tried.