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  • dixiedean said:

    Mail on Sunday saying it has been told that 31st Oct 2024 has been pencilled in as GE day.

    Cue Halloween tabloid front pages about 'nightmare on Downing Street if Red Keir wins today' and 'Blair Witch Project' etc etc.

    Nightmare on Downing Street.
    Very much so at this rate.
    Clever for the half term holidays too.
    Two more serious observations;

    How does that interact with party conference season 2024?

    It's basically the last possible date that won't just annoy everyone?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778

    Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”

    I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…

    Ash Regan seemed quite likeable. I don’t think the Nats can afford to lose many more before they utterly implode
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,228

    Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”

    I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…

    He is a total and utter lightweight clown, Sturgeon's last stab in the back for the SNP, job well done Agent Sturgeon.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 49,611

    biggles said:

    Leon said:

    TwiX is telling me 300,000-500,000 marched in London today for Palestine

    That’s huge if so. Is it true? Hard to gauge the accuracy

    In my expertise, every march in London ever claims at least half a million. I’ve given up trying to guess is it’s true.

    However, a friend told me it was quite intimidating. I think it was the swastikas they found most intimidating mind.
    Interestingly, these days, with drones (or an helicopter) and the right software, you could count the crowd quite accurately. Sort of thing the BBC could and should do.
    I was on one of the earlier anti-Iraq War marches, before the big one, but I was late and we joined the march part way through, and ended up leaving it before the end. Bit of a fiasco really, so the sense in which there is one true number of people on a march is quite fluid, quite apart from all the bystanders.

    I don't think software would really get you that much better a count then simply measuring the length of the march and estimating its density.
    From above, you could get a view straight down. Not especially cunning software could recognise the pattern of a human from above.

    You’d probably get a count accurate to a percent or 2…
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 62,454
    But the woke have never worried much about the difficulty of aligning themselves with Islamists. After all, words and silence can both be violence in their world, but terrorism is just 'what oppressed fighting the oppressor looks like' — and the constraints of logic must be just another manifestation of white supremacy.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12681617/What-irony-deranged-defence-Hamas-campuses-West-fuelling-counter-revolution-finally-loosen-stranglehold-wokeism.html
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778
    malcolmg said:

    Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”

    I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…

    He is a total and utter lightweight clown, Sturgeon's last stab in the back for the SNP, job well done Agent Sturgeon.
    He’s also a racist

    The notorious “white” speech was outright racism. Pure and undiluted. What he said is what he is. He abhors white people, what other explanation is there for n son-of-immigrahts who immediately tries to break up the country his parents moved to? Where the heck does such a motive come from?

    Careerism and racism. He hates white British people, he despises Britishness per se, he hates Britain, i reckon if you dug deep enough you’d find he hates Scottishness as well, in all its freckled pale tartan WHITEness

    An absolutely catastrophic choice for First Minister. And they had Forbes ready and waiting!
  • CatManCatMan Posts: 3,048
    https://x.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1718331668535095495?s=20

    "BREAKING; Mike Pence drops out of presidential race at RJC summit this afternoon."
  • MattWMattW Posts: 22,722
    edited October 2023
    Trials start this week in Colorado and Minnesota as to whether the US Constitutional bar on insurrectionists being US Officers applies to Mr Chump standing for the Presidency.

    Timing driven by a desire to have hearings and Appeals done before the formal process starts.

    Unlikely to succeed, but interesting if we get dozens of them.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/27/trump-14th-amendment-colorado-minnesota/
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 62,454

    dixiedean said:

    Mail on Sunday saying it has been told that 31st Oct 2024 has been pencilled in as GE day.

    Cue Halloween tabloid front pages about 'nightmare on Downing Street if Red Keir wins today' and 'Blair Witch Project' etc etc.

    Nightmare on Downing Street.
    Very much so at this rate.
    Clever for the half term holidays too.
    Two more serious observations;

    How does that interact with party conference season 2024?

    It's basically the last possible date that won't just annoy everyone?
    It is right in middle of the US POTUS election final stretch.

    PB servers are gonna be in meltdown mode.

    Plus Mike probably has a holiday booked.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 77,980
    CatMan said:

    https://x.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1718331668535095495?s=20

    "BREAKING; Mike Pence drops out of presidential race at RJC summit this afternoon."

    @HYUFD Great white hope
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 49,611
    CatMan said:

    https://x.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1718331668535095495?s=20

    "BREAKING; Mike Pence drops out of presidential race at RJC summit this afternoon."

    Pence was picked by Trump because he was a nobody he could push around.

    It took Dan Fucking Quayle to save the Republic
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,173

    But the woke have never worried much about the difficulty of aligning themselves with Islamists. After all, words and silence can both be violence in their world, but terrorism is just 'what oppressed fighting the oppressor looks like' — and the constraints of logic must be just another manifestation of white supremacy.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12681617/What-irony-deranged-defence-Hamas-campuses-West-fuelling-counter-revolution-finally-loosen-stranglehold-wokeism.html

    Thankfully, Buckingham is largely free of these charlatans.

  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,028
    If (and when) there's a march for Israel in London, I'll be on it.

    Tired of this shit.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,173

    If (and when) there's a march for Israel in London, I'll be on it.

    Tired of this shit.

    There was a big rally for Israel in Hertsmere, a few days ago, with the backing of all three parties, and four local MP’s.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,028
    Sean_F said:

    But the woke have never worried much about the difficulty of aligning themselves with Islamists. After all, words and silence can both be violence in their world, but terrorism is just 'what oppressed fighting the oppressor looks like' — and the constraints of logic must be just another manifestation of white supremacy.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12681617/What-irony-deranged-defence-Hamas-campuses-West-fuelling-counter-revolution-finally-loosen-stranglehold-wokeism.html

    Thankfully, Buckingham is largely free of these charlatans.

    It's entirely performative and self-absorbed.

    These people wouldn't last 5 minutes in Palestine, and nor do they particularly care about it except to signal things about themselves.
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 6,805
    CatMan said:

    https://x.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1718331668535095495?s=20

    "BREAKING; Mike Pence drops out of presidential race at RJC summit this afternoon."

    Pence was a no-hoper. It is now pretty clear IF Trump were in some huge moment to drop the baton, then the ones who would be challenging for it would be DeSantis, Haley and Ramaswamy (and I suspect Haley would get it). Pence didn’t even have the ‘possible backup’ vote engaged.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,028
    I figured it made sense; building me a fence.

    Thinking I'd be strong there.

    But I was a fool - playing by the rules.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 38,552

    New Zealand are going to muller SA, and are the value bet, surely?

    Near enough evens atm.

    Nah, the South Africans are much too resilient to be done over like that. They will grind out a close result in either direction. If there is a rout then I think SA are more likely to inflict it than be on the wrong side of one. Though the chance is slim.
  • dixiedean said:

    Mail on Sunday saying it has been told that 31st Oct 2024 has been pencilled in as GE day.

    Cue Halloween tabloid front pages about 'nightmare on Downing Street if Red Keir wins today' and 'Blair Witch Project' etc etc.

    Nightmare on Downing Street.
    Very much so at this rate.
    Clever for the half term holidays too.
    The Nightmare before Christmas.
  • Mail on Sunday saying it has been told that 31st Oct 2024 has been pencilled in as GE day.

    Cue Halloween tabloid front pages about 'nightmare on Downing Street if Red Keir wins today' and 'Blair Witch Project' etc etc.

    I am ready, man! Ready to get it on!
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,368

    I figured it made sense; building me a fence.

    Thinking I'd be strong there.

    But I was a fool - playing by the rules.

    Netanyahu?
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,489
    dixiedean said:

    Mail on Sunday saying it has been told that 31st Oct 2024 has been pencilled in as GE day.

    Cue Halloween tabloid front pages about 'nightmare on Downing Street if Red Keir wins today' and 'Blair Witch Project' etc etc.

    Nightmare on Downing Street.
    Very much so at this rate.
    Clever for the half term holidays too.
    So , when the results come in it will be The Day of The Dead.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 41,947
    Doesn't mean they'll win but NZ are the Brazil of RU, aren't they?
  • Mail on Sunday saying it has been told that 31st Oct 2024 has been pencilled in as GE day.

    Cue Halloween tabloid front pages about 'nightmare on Downing Street if Red Keir wins today' and 'Blair Witch Project' etc etc.

    I am ready, man! Ready to get it on!
    Keir Fear is nearly as frightening, as "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken"!!
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 49,611
    edited October 2023

    Sean_F said:

    But the woke have never worried much about the difficulty of aligning themselves with Islamists. After all, words and silence can both be violence in their world, but terrorism is just 'what oppressed fighting the oppressor looks like' — and the constraints of logic must be just another manifestation of white supremacy.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12681617/What-irony-deranged-defence-Hamas-campuses-West-fuelling-counter-revolution-finally-loosen-stranglehold-wokeism.html

    Thankfully, Buckingham is largely free of these charlatans.

    It's entirely performative and self-absorbed.

    These people wouldn't last 5 minutes in Palestine, and nor do they particularly care about it except to signal things about themselves.
    They lined up with Saddam, Mugabe, Assad and tried to line up with Putin.
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 12,362

    Mail on Sunday saying it has been told that 31st Oct 2024 has been pencilled in as GE day.

    Cue Halloween tabloid front pages about 'nightmare on Downing Street if Red Keir wins today' and 'Blair Witch Project' etc etc.

    An extra hour in the election campaign due to the clock change.
    That's no use, the extra hour is in the middle of the night, starting at 2 am so you can't knock on the poor voters doors.

    Whereas if the extra hour started at 10 pm on election Thursday, Sunderland could try to declare at 9.58 pm.

  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications
  • boulayboulay Posts: 5,419
    Foxy said:

    dixiedean said:

    Mail on Sunday saying it has been told that 31st Oct 2024 has been pencilled in as GE day.

    Cue Halloween tabloid front pages about 'nightmare on Downing Street if Red Keir wins today' and 'Blair Witch Project' etc etc.

    Nightmare on Downing Street.
    Very much so at this rate.
    Clever for the half term holidays too.
    So , when the results come in it will be The Day of The Dead.
    When Labour win will BJO be calling the Starmer government “Blair’s bitch project”?
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 49,611
    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 28,240

    I figured it made sense; building me a fence.

    Thinking I'd be strong there.

    But I was a fool - playing by the rules.

    Someone's on the cooking sherry.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 49,611
    edited October 2023
    boulay said:

    Foxy said:

    dixiedean said:

    Mail on Sunday saying it has been told that 31st Oct 2024 has been pencilled in as GE day.

    Cue Halloween tabloid front pages about 'nightmare on Downing Street if Red Keir wins today' and 'Blair Witch Project' etc etc.

    Nightmare on Downing Street.
    Very much so at this rate.
    Clever for the half term holidays too.
    So , when the results come in it will be The Day of The Dead.
    When Labour win will BJO be calling the Starmer government “Blair’s bitch project”?
    Fourth Reich, Shirley?

    Edit: at one point someone in New Labour started calling it The Third Way. I dropped my monocle in the gin, when I heard that.
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 12,362

    Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”

    I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…

    Yes. "Not a great loss" = saying that your party chooses losers to foist on the electorate. Not a great piece of diplomacy. Courtesy is free and looks good to voters.
  • TimSTimS Posts: 12,759

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 49,611

    Mail on Sunday saying it has been told that 31st Oct 2024 has been pencilled in as GE day.

    Cue Halloween tabloid front pages about 'nightmare on Downing Street if Red Keir wins today' and 'Blair Witch Project' etc etc.

    I am ready, man! Ready to get it on!
    Sharp sticks and nukes?
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 12,362

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    "Is"
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778
    oooh

    Good Haka
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778
    edited October 2023
    All Blacks 28 - Boks 24
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 49,611
    algarkirk said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    "Is"
    The Grammar Nazis will be after them….
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,368

    dixiedean said:

    Mail on Sunday saying it has been told that 31st Oct 2024 has been pencilled in as GE day.

    Cue Halloween tabloid front pages about 'nightmare on Downing Street if Red Keir wins today' and 'Blair Witch Project' etc etc.

    Nightmare on Downing Street.
    Very much so at this rate.
    Clever for the half term holidays too.
    The Nightmare before Christmas.
    ...when Starmer doesn't get a majority!
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 49,611
    TimS said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
    As semi-agnostic-lapsed-Pastifarian Fundementalist, this gross insult to my faith cannot pass unanswered…..
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778
    TimS said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
    You feeling better? Back home?
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,368
    algarkirk said:

    Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”

    I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…

    Yes. "Not a great loss" = saying that your party chooses losers to foist on the electorate. Not a great piece of diplomacy. Courtesy is free and looks good to voters.
    Yousaf, the Black Knight of Scottish politics.

    "Merely a flesh wound."
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 12,362

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    I feel like Father Ted. This, for example, is what you get when you google 'lingure':

    https://www.depop.com/products/emilychivers-brand-new-pretty-little-thing/
  • TimSTimS Posts: 12,759
    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
    You feeling better? Back home?
    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
    You feeling better? Back home?
    Back home (nearly) and feeling a bit better.

    Our taxi driver asked us how the holiday was and my wife replied “hectic, a bit like a geography field trip”. Make of that what you will.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 49,611
    algarkirk said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    I feel like Father Ted. This, for example, is what you get when you google 'lingure':

    https://www.depop.com/products/emilychivers-brand-new-pretty-little-thing/
    Father Jack For Pope!
  • Dirty dirty All Blacks.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778
    TimS said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
    You feeling better? Back home?
    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
    You feeling better? Back home?
    Back home (nearly) and feeling a bit better.

    Our taxi driver asked us how the holiday was and my wife replied “hectic, a bit like a geography field trip”. Make of that what you will.
    Those are my favourite trips - hectic and packed with adventure - but they are certainly not for everyone
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,028

    I figured it made sense; building me a fence.

    Thinking I'd be strong there.

    But I was a fool - playing by the rules.

    Someone's on the cooking sherry.
    You see right through me.

    Aubergine curry. And a chicken curry too.

    Yum.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,595
    MattW said:

    Trials start this week in Colorado and Minnesota as to whether the US Constitutional bar on insurrectionists being US Officers applies to Mr Chump standing for the Presidency.

    Timing driven by a desire to have hearings and Appeals done before the formal process starts.

    Unlikely to succeed, but interesting if we get dozens of them.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/27/trump-14th-amendment-colorado-minnesota/

    Surely he needs to be a convicted insurrectionist for any bar to apply?
  • This week’s Opinium / @ObserverUKpoll has Labour’s lead at 15 points:

    · Labour 42% (-2)
    · Conservatives 27% (-1)
    · Lib Dems 10% (nc)
    · SNP 3% (n/c)
    · Greens 7% (+1)
    · Reform 8% (+2)

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1718341872064598424
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778
    Boks looking ominously good
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778
    If that yellow goes to red the Boks have won this
  • TimSTimS Posts: 12,759

    This week’s Opinium / @ObserverUKpoll has Labour’s lead at 15 points:

    · Labour 42% (-2)
    · Conservatives 27% (-1)
    · Lib Dems 10% (nc)
    · SNP 3% (n/c)
    · Greens 7% (+1)
    · Reform 8% (+2)

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1718341872064598424

    A 3% swing to the minor parties I think reflects the end of conference season and a bit of general voter malaise. I don’t for a moment believe Green and Ref are really on 7 and 8% though.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 49,611
    TimS said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
    You feeling better? Back home?
    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
    You feeling better? Back home?
    Back home (nearly) and feeling a bit better.

    Our taxi driver asked us how the holiday was and my wife replied “hectic, a bit like a geography field trip”. Make of that what you will.
    Did a Morocco trip to a wedding that was like that.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,266
    6-0 to SA.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 77,980
    NZ lucky that wasn't a red tbh
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 77,980
    Wayne Barnes such a good ref
  • BurgessianBurgessian Posts: 2,734

    Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”

    I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…

    She only got 11% of the vote because she was squeezed by the far more credible Kate Forbes. The 11% almost certainly under-represents the proportion of the SNP membership that sympathises with her position.

    The point about Yousaf's comment is that it underlines how tone deaf he is.

    Wonder who'll be next to jump.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,266
    "A police officer has been left with serious injuries after he was attacked by a dog, believed to be an XL bully.

    Leicestershire Police said the officer was bitten on his upper leg when he and a colleague attended an address in Ibstock at 16:40 BST on Thursday. The officer was taken to hospital where he is undergoing treatment. Police said the dog was seized from the address and was placed in secure kennels. The other officer also suffered a small cut to his finger. The incident happened at an address in Lewis Close, in Ibstock, near Coalville, when the officers went in search of a man wanted by police."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-67248779
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778
    Boks just a better team so far. Harder and faster
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,595

    TimS said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
    As semi-agnostic-lapsed-Pastifarian Fundementalist, this gross insult to my faith cannot pass unanswered…..
    Sounds like total bolognese to me.
  • This week’s Opinium / @ObserverUKpoll has Labour’s lead at 15 points:

    · Labour 42% (-2)
    · Conservatives 27% (-1)
    · Lib Dems 10% (nc)
    · SNP 3% (n/c)
    · Greens 7% (+1)
    · Reform 8% (+2)

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1718341872064598424

    Broken, sleazy Labour and Tories on the slide!
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,595
    What’s happened to our regular Saturday bots? Have they all been sent to the Ukraine front?
  • TimSTimS Posts: 12,759

    TimS said:

    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
    You feeling better? Back home?
    Leon said:

    TimS said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
    You feeling better? Back home?
    Back home (nearly) and feeling a bit better.

    Our taxi driver asked us how the holiday was and my wife replied “hectic, a bit like a geography field trip”. Make of that what you will.
    Did a Morocco trip to a wedding that was like that.
    I’ve a feeling the next holiday will be demanded to be more sedate.
  • Dirty dirty All Blacks.

    Racism!
  • algarkirk said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    I feel like Father Ted. This, for example, is what you get when you google 'lingure':

    https://www.depop.com/products/emilychivers-brand-new-pretty-little-thing/
    What's that, then, Ted?
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 3,707

    Yousaf has said Ash Regan’s defection is “not a particularly great loss.”

    I don’t know, but even if she only got 11% of the vote in the leadership contest, that’s still 11% of your membership you’re backhandedly insulting isn’t it? It feels like the SNP leadership have forgotten how to do politics recently…

    Aside from that though, he's doing well. Apart from the other things. Ignore those. It's all fine. Look over there - a unionist!
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 3,707

    What’s happened to our regular Saturday bots? Have they all been sent to the Ukraine front?

    Ran out of free OpenAI credits.
  • Mail on Sunday saying it has been told that 31st Oct 2024 has been pencilled in as GE day.

    Cue Halloween tabloid front pages about 'nightmare on Downing Street if Red Keir wins today' and 'Blair Witch Project' etc etc.

    I am ready, man! Ready to get it on!
    Sharp sticks and nukes?
    Leaflets and dodgy bar charts!
  • CatManCatMan Posts: 3,048
    Think that will be upgraded to Red

    (Note: I know very very little about Rugby)
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,582
    edited October 2023

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    "party who has been created"
  • TimSTimS Posts: 12,759
    ohnotnow said:

    What’s happened to our regular Saturday bots? Have they all been sent to the Ukraine front?

    Ran out of free OpenAI credits.
    I was wondering if they were one of Prigozhin’s farms. They did seem to stop around the time he met his unfortunate fate.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,489

    TimS said:

    isam said:

    Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so



    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/party-registration-applications/view-current-applications

    “Lingure”
    Type of pasta
    As semi-agnostic-lapsed-Pastifarian Fundementalist, this gross insult to my faith cannot pass unanswered…..
    Sounds like total bolognese to me.
    The penne is mightier than the sword.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 70,556
    Yesterday they were saying that they saw all dual national hostages as Israelis, and wouldn’t listen to please to release them.

    (Guardian)
    … “From the Russian side, via the foreign ministry, we received a list of citizens that have dual citizenship,” senior Hamas representative Moussa Abu Marzook said, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.

    “We are looking for those people... It is hard but we are looking. And when we find them, we will let them go… We are very attentive to this list and will process it carefully because we consider Russia to be a close friend,” he said...
  • AP (via Seattle Times) - Former Vice President Mike Pence ends campaign for the White House after struggling to gain traction

    SSI - an unquiet hush tonight at The Vicarage as darkness descends and The Dream dies.

    Now it is Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Southern Baptist) who is the Great Holy-Roller Hope. At least in America.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,028
    Not sure backing NZ was such a good idea..

    And I don't mean Net Zero.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778
    Game over

    What a damp squib for rugby

    The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 3,707
    TimS said:

    ohnotnow said:

    What’s happened to our regular Saturday bots? Have they all been sent to the Ukraine front?

    Ran out of free OpenAI credits.
    I was wondering if they were one of Prigozhin’s farms. They did seem to stop around the time he met his unfortunate fate.
    That's a good point. I should scrape the data to check.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 70,556
    rcs1000 said:

    I had dinner last night with Jewish friends of ours, and they were incredibly down, and the reason was not that they have faced any antisemitism (on the contrary, being in LA, they feel pretty personally insulated), but they are very worried about how Israel - and Jews - are being percieved in the US.

    They spread the blame pretty widely: partly on US universities, and the Left's obsession with power dynamics, but they were also incandescently angry at Netanyahu.

    To their mind, he dropped the ball completely as far as keeping the US and the West on side. They brought up the snub to Hillary Clinton on her trip to Israel back in 2009 when she was SoS, and that they chose her visit to push into the West Bank with a big new settlement, while she was there.

    And they blamed Netanyahu for effectively supporting Hamas for domestic political reasons.

    Their hope is that they can free the hostages quickly in Gaza, and decapitate as much of Hamas as possible. But they also didn't think it would be either wise or ethical to ethnically clear Gaza and the West Bank.

    But above all, they're worried that it will descend into a war, and that will threaten the safety of Jews all over the world.

    All of which is completely rational.
    Netenyahu’s various government have been deeply damaging to Israel.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 77,980

    Not sure backing NZ was such a good idea..

    And I don't mean Net Zero.

    Harsh red tbh
  • TimSTimS Posts: 12,759
    Andy_JS said:

    "A police officer has been left with serious injuries after he was attacked by a dog, believed to be an XL bully.

    Leicestershire Police said the officer was bitten on his upper leg when he and a colleague attended an address in Ibstock at 16:40 BST on Thursday. The officer was taken to hospital where he is undergoing treatment. Police said the dog was seized from the address and was placed in secure kennels. The other officer also suffered a small cut to his finger. The incident happened at an address in Lewis Close, in Ibstock, near Coalville, when the officers went in search of a man wanted by police."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-67248779

    On the subject of killer dogs I had a strange encounter with what I think was probably a rabies-infected stray in Georgia, at a stop on the road up into the mountains.

    There are strays everywhere in the Caucasus. Literally a couple on every street. But this one had a creamy foaming mouth. And was not aggressive but was acting rather weirdly and looking somewhat unsteady on its feet.

    I only noticed it when my son alerted me to the fact it was nosing my trousers, and left a couple of flecks of foam on them. Which I then wiped off with a tissue and then spent several days scaring myself about contracting rabies before reading enough online to realise the risk in that case would be infinitesimal.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 17,195
    Leon said:

    Game over

    What a damp squib for rugby

    The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis

    Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
  • Nigelb said:

    Yesterday they were saying that they saw all dual national hostages as Israelis, and wouldn’t listen to please to release them.

    (Guardian)
    … “From the Russian side, via the foreign ministry, we received a list of citizens that have dual citizenship,” senior Hamas representative Moussa Abu Marzook said, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.

    “We are looking for those people... It is hard but we are looking. And when we find them, we will let them go… We are very attentive to this list and will process it carefully because we consider Russia to be a close friend,” he said...

    I suppose when Russia and Iran are your only friends . . .

    Judge people by the friends they carry too.

    Its remarkable to think that 18 years ago when Sharon pulled Israel out of Gaza, hoping for peace with the Palestinians prior to Hamas taking over that one of the parties to the Road Map to peace was Russia, led by a certain Vladimir Putin who seemed keen on the idea of peace and engagement with the world.

    Whatever happened to that fellow?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778

    Leon said:

    Game over

    What a damp squib for rugby

    The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis

    Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
    NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland

    Rugby really needs more depth
  • CatManCatMan Posts: 3,048
    CatMan said:

    Think that will be upgraded to Red

    (Note: I know very very little about Rugby)

    Maybe I know more than I think!
  • CatManCatMan Posts: 3,048

    Not sure backing NZ was such a good idea..

    And I don't mean Net Zero.

    How dare you not call it "Aotearoa". I'm going to cancel you.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778
    The atmos is funereal

    Imagine if France or Ireland were here. Or both. Or indeed England
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,368
    Trump: “This is a fight between good and evil”

    https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1718350363927937084
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 77,980
    The red card threshold seems madly low in Union now. Like a sport terrified of injury lawyers
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 42,249

    What’s happened to our regular Saturday bots? Have they all been sent to the Ukraine front?

    The processor has been taken out of their Gateway 2000 for use in a T-14 Armata.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 17,195
    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Game over

    What a damp squib for rugby

    The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis

    Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
    NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland

    Rugby really needs more depth
    So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.

    It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,028
    We only missed this by one point.

    We could have beaten this NZ.
  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559
    edited October 2023
    Best story in today's NYT is about a rogue turkey in New Jersey.

    NOT PB favorite Chris Christie. Instead, an actual wild turkey alternating terrorizing and amusing residents of West Orange NJ (occasionally same people) along a local thoroughfare.

    Dubbed "Turkules" by some, "Cluck Norris" by others, and "Tom" by at least one class of kindergarteners, the bird so far has defied attempts to trap or subdue it; in fact it sports a tranquilizer dart sticking out of it's chest, which you must admit is WAY more macho than, say, Chuck Norris.

    ADDENDUM - Or even Chris Christie when giving one of his typical bravura orations.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 17,195
    Pulpstar said:

    The red card threshold seems madly low in Union now. Like a sport terrified of injury lawyers

    It’s a project aiming to lower players tackling, but players seem resistant to change, brought up as they are on the culture of the dominant tackle.

    To be honest slo mo replays don’t help. Makes many split second things look worse than the full speed version.
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 42,249

    biggles said:

    Leon said:

    TwiX is telling me 300,000-500,000 marched in London today for Palestine

    That’s huge if so. Is it true? Hard to gauge the accuracy

    In my expertise, every march in London ever claims at least half a million. I’ve given up trying to guess is it’s true.

    However, a friend told me it was quite intimidating. I think it was the swastikas they found most intimidating mind.
    Interestingly, these days, with drones (or an helicopter) and the right software, you could count the crowd quite accurately. Sort of thing the BBC could and should do.
    I was on one of the earlier anti-Iraq War marches, before the big one, but I was late and we joined the march part way through, and ended up leaving it before the end. Bit of a fiasco really, so the sense in which there is one true number of people on a march is quite fluid, quite apart from all the bystanders.

    I don't think software would really get you that much better a count then simply measuring the length of the march and estimating its density.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_counting
    https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a7121/the-curious-science-of-counting-a-crowd/
  • LeonLeon Posts: 54,778

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Game over

    What a damp squib for rugby

    The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis

    Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
    NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland

    Rugby really needs more depth
    So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.

    It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
    Ireland and France are both better than NZ

    Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final

    Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby

    It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
  • TimS said:

    Andy_JS said:

    "A police officer has been left with serious injuries after he was attacked by a dog, believed to be an XL bully.

    Leicestershire Police said the officer was bitten on his upper leg when he and a colleague attended an address in Ibstock at 16:40 BST on Thursday. The officer was taken to hospital where he is undergoing treatment. Police said the dog was seized from the address and was placed in secure kennels. The other officer also suffered a small cut to his finger. The incident happened at an address in Lewis Close, in Ibstock, near Coalville, when the officers went in search of a man wanted by police."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-67248779

    On the subject of killer dogs I had a strange encounter with what I think was probably a rabies-infected stray in Georgia, at a stop on the road up into the mountains.

    There are strays everywhere in the Caucasus. Literally a couple on every street. But this one had a creamy foaming mouth. And was not aggressive but was acting rather weirdly and looking somewhat unsteady on its feet.

    I only noticed it when my son alerted me to the fact it was nosing my trousers, and left a couple of flecks of foam on them. Which I then wiped off with a tissue and then spent several days scaring myself about contracting rabies before reading enough online to realise the risk in that case would be infinitesimal.
    Was bitten by a dog in India in 1982, when I was only 6 years old. Only a small wound just above my knee. But as a precaution, underwent a course of SEVEN rabies jabs in my stomach muscle in as many days :grimace:
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