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Talking balls. The UK’s new generational divide – politicalbetting.com
Talking balls. The UK’s new generational divide – politicalbetting.com
What colour is a tennis ball?All Britons:Green: 32%Yellow: 64%Aged 18-24:Green: 66%Yellow: 30%Aged 65+:Green: 5%Yellow: 89%https://t.co/OUOysNm5TD pic.twitter.com/JFUpH4c4vf
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Ed Balls.
These are estimates, so I'd take them with a pinch of salt (albeit the Migration Observatory has a pretty good record):
They are also for net migration. So, you can still have large numbers of immigrants arriving, even if the overall numbers are negative.
Well, quite.
I'm not sure I got many things right when I was 18-24 - it's the 5% of over 65s who think a tennis ball is green which is of much greater concern. Repeat the survey in 20 years and see how the demographic has changed.
Being wrong about most things is the prerogative of the young - and most majorities as well.
Amazon, Etsy etc are successful because they are a superior technology over High Streets. I can think of anything I want, absolutely anything, go on my phone or computer, and have it in my possession tomorrow.
Rather than having to drive to the High Street, find parking, go to a shop and hope they have that in stock which they may not.
Or let me guess, you wouldn't want me driving to the High Street anyway?
I couldn't really say one way or the other these days - depending on lighting conditions and background, you can see it either way.
Everyone knows that tennis balls are white (well, sort of off-white).
Indeed, you can see why we got it so wrong. We looked at the chart, and thought, hey, we're not such a big draw, why should things change?
East Ham is atypical in that it serves a community which usually walks or buses to its shops. For that reason it has proven more resilient than other areas - yes. we have plenty of Romanian food shops and bookies but other shops survive - the 89p shop didn't, neither did M&S or Starbucks but we have a very impressive branch of the State Bank of India.
It serves a community which shops little and often - daily for many.
YouGov added it to their questions so they'd get a Tweet out of it.
“Britons face “major security issues” from Chinese cars, warned Professor Jim Saker, president of the Institute of the Motor Industry.
“In a report due to be shared with car makers and regulators, Prof Saker said there was “no way” of stopping Chinese cars coming under remote control.
“He said: “The car manufacturer may be in Shanghai and could stop 100,000 to 300,000 cars across Europe thus paralysing a country.”
“While regulators can test samples of cars for spyware or other security vulnerabilities, testing thousands of vehicles is not feasible, he said.
“A similar frailty of testing samples allowed Volkswagen to cheat emissions tests ahead of the Dieselgate scandal.
“Up to 30 new electric vehicle brands are eyeing up the UK car market, most of them Chinese.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/07/30/chinese-electric-car-invasion-paralyse-britain-jim-saker/
https://twitter.com/postpolitics/status/1685442342000410624
Wasn't he impeached for pretty well that ?
The single best thing in London for response times is fully segregated two-way cycle lanes - you can chuck an Ambulance down one, skipping the traffic and the cyclists just lift the bikes onto the pavement.
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There was a surge in people migrating to the EU firstly after the last expansion round, then while free movement was still an option, "get in before it ends". So its only natural that it would fall afterwards. The negative is so small that -100k doesn't even appear on the chart and revisions could probably see that eliminated (especially since original data has rather consistently underestimated immigrants, which is why the 3 million EU citizens became about 6 million from memory).
Over time the net migration figure should revert to a positive figure, a smaller positive due to frictions, but still positive.
ULEZ is green
SKS is yellow.
On the other hand, I definitely see green which makes me young so 🤷♂️
And now for my billionaire wine and cheese. Later
The problem with making up reasons why LTNs are bad is that there is always an academic from the Netherlands who debunked it about 30 years ago. Here is a paper on London: https://findingspress.org/article/23568-the-impact-of-2020-low-traffic-neighbourhoods-on-fire-service-emergency-response-times-in-london-uk
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I live 20 miles from the world’s largest solar energy park. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_bin_Rashid_Al_Maktoum_Solar_Park
The person buying a good through an app doesn't give a shit how it gets to them. They click "buy now" on their app or website and it appears the next day, as if by magic. The shopper doesn't care about the Amazon driver's route they have to take. Make them take a detour, and they'll have to take the detour, but they'll still get the delivery next day either way and there's no price variance making you pay more for delivery if the driver's route to you was longer either.
If you implement restrictions due to courier vehicles, then that is cutting off your nose to spite your face as those courier vehicles will still be there as the person shopping through Amazon will continue to do so. All you're doing is maybe inconveniencing the courier driver and making them increase their mileage to get around the restrictions.
All LTNs do is retrofit culs de sac to road networks that were put in place before the idea was invented. There are a couple of car filters near me (yes, even in Romford). Main road traffic stays on the main road (which happens to be called... Main Road), but it's not possible to jump any queues that build up by cutting through residential roads.
I think the odds of 11/2 on Coventry are very good. They narrowly missed out on the playoff final, while we have lost our most creative players and not yet replaced them.
I have a purple drinking voucher on the Sky Blues.
By doing away with the need for physical shops, Amazon have done away with the need to pay NNDR. Perfectly legal tax avoidance.
Want to tackle the problem? Tackle it at source, the fact our taxes are too high.
In my field many 'professionals' and trade organisations have given up on any attempt at impartiality or objectivity, and have got in to the habit of deriding opposition to LTN's as 'conspiracy theorists' and 'misinformation', egging each other on and basically creating their own echo chamber in a sort of pseudo FBPE model.
It has been interesting to watch the horror unfold in some circles that the government might actually be listening to the people.
By doing away with the need for physical shops, Amazon have done away with the need to pay NNDR. Perfectly legal tax avoidance.
Want to tackle the problem? Tackle it at source, the fact our taxes are too high.
Retrofitting through roads but not bothering to build a new alternative route is not.
The problem is the lazy attitude of trying to do the latter and telling commuters not to drive.
(Without getting into LTNs and consequent traffic transfer vs traffic evaporation vs modal shift).
I take the approach that for pedestrians and motor vehicles to mix in the same environment, the principle is to restrict motors to an extent where everyone else is comfortable with them.
Which is from the other end to 'put in railings to keep the pedestrians out of the way of the motor vehicles'.
The only place I can find which justifies such railings are where pedestrian entrances emerge into a footway - eg by a narrow gate in a wall out of a school, and the children may rush out without seeing due to the poor sightlines.
But that is lipstick on a pig of a design - the better way is for the exit to be designed to have clear sightlines so that kids can see vehicles and vice versa, so risk is designed out.
Further, back in 2008 TFL did some research into pedestrian railings at pedestrian crossings on road junctions (90 crossings, 70 junctions), and found that simply removing them all resulted in a major reduction in casualties from collisions. Really interesting work:
The results showed that following the removal of railings at the 70 sites there was a statistically
significant fall of 56% (43 to 19) in the number of collisions involving pedestrians who were killed
or seriously injured. There was also a fall of 48% (109 to 57) in the number of KSI collisions for all
users. Further analysis was undertaken in order to put these figures into a wider context. In the 6
to 3 year period before removal at these sites (when railings were retained), KSI collisions fell by
7% and 3% respectively. On the whole TLRN during the 3 year period after the removal of the
railings, KSI collisions fell by 14% and 19% respectively.
https://content.tfl.gov.uk/pedestrian-railings-removal-report.pdf
Indeed it would be interesting to know when green and yellow were introduced
The problem is that, sometimes, a queue forms. And previously, a number of sharp eyed, sharp elbowed drivers turned off the main road, drove through a parallel estate, along narrower roads with no verges and houses much closer to the roads. Yes, they're labelled roads on the map, but they are much less suitable for through traffic. And people cutting in and out of the main road interrupts the flow for drivers who stay on the main road. Tragedy of the commons- it's in the interest of individuals to take cutthroughs, but it makes things worse for everyone else.
All LTNs do is keep main road traffic on the main roads, rather than have it spill out onto roads that are a lot less suitable. And given that the whole area is built up, there's nowhere to put a bypass even if you wanted to.
Things I am happy to pay by card for....online purchases from reputable companies
Things I prefer to pay cash for all my local expenditure whether food shopping, buying a round in a bar, buying a vehicle, paying the guy that cuts my grass, bus and train tickets.
I don't have any loyalty cards, I don't carry a mobile it stays on my desk when I go out. The only social media I participate in is PB. I regularly try and dox myself to ensure I haven't left a significant digital footprint and where I can I use tor.
It is not paranoia I just dont believe in letting anymore info escape than I absolutely have to because I know how much info is out there. Remember the case of tesco's outting someone as pregnant before even she knew due to the collected data.
Simply put...once your data is out there its too late to take it back
https://www.espnfrontrow.com/2016/07/30-years-ago-this-summer-wimbledon-turned-yellow/
"Vice President, Production, Jamie Reynolds, first worked at Wimbledon in 1980 and remembers the TV-unfriendly nature of the white balls.
“They always turned green from grass stains,” he recalls. “They blended so much with the grass the visuals were compromised. Remember, there was no HD then!”
Summing it up, the dean of the ESPN tennis team, Hall of Famer and ESPN tennis commentator Cliff Drysdale, simply said, “I can’t imagine playing without yellow balls.”"
I'm not sure but I think we may have a glut of courgettes.
David Attenborough's fault, as he was the one who lobbied for Wimbledon to be on colour TV.
The official colour is (I assume Pantone) #ccff00 and marked as “Fluorescent yellow or Electric lime.”
the shade is listed as #ccff00 and marked as “Fluorescent yellow or Electric lime.”
https://longreads.politicshome.com/road-warriors
You're a very eccentric person - don't ever change, eccentricity is good.
Why not just turn it off when out, so it is in your pocket if needed, yet not traceable?
I have a 30 year old son and he said I was paranoid about giving info too, then I took his wow name and managed to dox him showing him every step of the way how to get his home address, phone number etc because he didn't think he was giving up info.
I'd like to see the evidence for that claim.
Ironically with more older Brits returning from the EU this will put more stress on the NHS . Freedom of movement allowed generally younger and healthier people into the UK .
With the loss of FOM the UK will also now have less older people moving to EU countries .
The new immigration from outside the EU will put more strain on services , that generally brings in more older people .
The treasury figures clearly show that non EU migration is more costly to the country . Unfortunately facts died under the weight of the frenzy of EU bashing during the ref campaign .
It really needed the Remain version of Farage to be blunt and politically incorrect with the public .
You have a choice either mainly white Christian Europeans will need to fill the shortfall or mainly non-white non -Christians would.
States have been increasingly trying to increase their surveillance powers of everyone. This is why e2e encryption is under attack, Kosa law in the states, online safety bill in the uk. Spain pushing for it in the eu who have at least backtracked.
When states are pushing for more and more data to be available from us all for them to ferret through I think I have a point
Pedant note: And, BTW, the YouGov question is void for uncertainty. Last time I played tennis they were off white. I have no doubt that at least one blue or red tennis ball has been produced, and so on.
There is a skill in producing questions that are short, precise and unambiguous.
Ideally, Apple and Samsung would like to prevent you from ever turning your device off. Like the telescreen you should only be able to turn the volume down.
You are right about state capability. When they spy through microphones in switched off phones, do they steal energy from the battery or do they use kinetic energy as in an automatic watch or supply it some other how, or what? Presumably it isn't passive-only.
Only an idiot voluntarily carries a smartphone about with them all the time.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12352115/The-Mail-Sundays-Woke-List-2023-reveals-male-police-chief-wore-menopause-vest-BBC-presenter-said-Lionesses-white.html?ico=amp-comments-viewall&_gl=1*1hh1y4k*_ga*ZGdEaGdFc3NINHRtV19wdzFsQzlQbmNEUi1ZQUQzQ2ZJZm5KNmtRZTQxdUhmZGQ0Qmlpa0FqUXNzOWw2ME54Qg..#article-12352115
Golf balls are white. Or yellow - often easier to find except when the dandelions are out. Especially useful for easily distinguishing your ball when playing a fourball except when someone else is also playing a yellow ball. Or nowadays just about any colour under the sun especially if they have Volvik on them. Even a light bright green which is supposed to be distinguishable from green grass but really isn't. A dullish scarlet is worst of all for losing balls, especially when you are red-green colourblind. Or just a bad golfer.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Wimbledon+tennis+ball&tbm=isch
Now, if I was a budding terrorist, well, maybe. Even if I were an ordinary criminal then yes maybe the state would be interested.
But I'm not. No one is going to be the slightest bit interested in me.
So I will keep carrying my smartphone round with me. I'm even going to keep it on. And I may use it from time to time to, make calls, look things up, pay for shopping, find my way around, listen to books, pay for car-parking... Amazing things smartphones.
What colour are cricket balls nowadays?
Regarding your last paragraph, have you ever read a book about persuasion and salesmanship? Once a prospect has committed themselves, even if some of the promised benefits vanish they are liable to make up reasons to continue with the purchase. If you take a leaf through the Ed Snowden material you will see that this is, shall we say, on the curriculum at GCHQ. Could you not find your way around OK before you got a smartphone?
Fair point about China, although I doubt their surveillance is all it's cracked up to be. But in any case, Britain is not China.
The answer it to keep our society a relatively free democratic one governed by the rule of law; not to avoid smartphones.
The official colour picker for a tennis ball I see is 223, 255, 79, RGB, which makes it green, but on the border of yellow.
https://www.crispedge.com/color/dfff4f/