If it makes good commercial sense to stock Easter Eggs in January then fair play to the supermarkets. That’s the market speaking. I can scoff a little at it (as I do with the Christmas stuff appearing so early) but it’s not ruining my life.
I’m not sure I’ve met anyone who has confessed to buying an Easter egg in January, but those people must exist, surely, to make it worthwhile.
… in fact, I would go further and say Easter eggs were never a particularly significant tradition when I was growing up. I did get gifted one every year, I think, but I admit that the concept of having lots of them to get through never really existed. Maybe I’m atypical.
I did think that… if I saw someone I knew buying Easter Eggs on Jan 2nd I would think they’re acting a bit odd. Mind you my other half has been buying next years Christmas decorations in the sales
Oh good grief, Philippa Langley has a new book out, claiming inter alia that Lambert Simnel was Edward V.
Well, I have to admit it's original. Nonsense on stilts, but original.
Even allowing for the multiplicity of Edwards about at the time, it's surprising she muddled up Edward V with Edward Earl Of Warwick (whom Lambert Simnel also wasn't, for the record).
Have you read Matt Lewis, The Survival of the Princes in The Tower?
I have watched Blackadder, featuring Brian Blessed as Richard IV.
If it makes good commercial sense to stock Easter Eggs in January then fair play to the supermarkets. That’s the market speaking. I can scoff a little at it (as I do with the Christmas stuff appearing so early) but it’s not ruining my life.
I’m not sure I’ve met anyone who has confessed to buying an Easter egg in January, but those people must exist, surely, to make it worthwhile.
… in fact, I would go further and say Easter eggs were never a particularly significant tradition when I was growing up. I did get gifted one every year, I think, but I admit that the concept of having lots of them to get through never really existed. Maybe I’m atypical.
For a few years, Kew Gardens Easter Egg hunt was sponsored by Lindt. Who made sure the children were tripping over chocolate eggs… my two were very happy.
If it makes good commercial sense to stock Easter Eggs in January then fair play to the supermarkets. That’s the market speaking. I can scoff a little at it (as I do with the Christmas stuff appearing so early) but it’s not ruining my life.
I’m not sure I’ve met anyone who has confessed to buying an Easter egg in January, but those people must exist, surely, to make it worthwhile.
… in fact, I would go further and say Easter eggs were never a particularly significant tradition when I was growing up. I did get gifted one every year, I think, but I admit that the concept of having lots of them to get through never really existed. Maybe I’m atypical.
I did think that… if I saw someone I knew buying Easter Eggs on Jan 2nd I would think they’re acting a bit odd. Mind you my other half has been buying next years Christmas decorations in the sales
If you start eating Easter eggs in January you can give them up for Lent.
It's annoying that I can't watch the darts semi-final. It's not on free TV as far as I know.
I've just looked up Luke Littler.
Nice guy and all the best to him and I really struggle to belief he's 16; he looks more like a slightly overweight 36 year old, who's been knocking back the pints at his local for years, with not particularly good teeth.
What's his diet like?
Oysters and caviar. Washed down with ten pints of bitter.
Probably.
You would certainly not take him for a 16 year old.
Quite unusual for a 16 yr old boy to have a 21 yr old girlfriend, or least it was in my day.
I had a 23 year old girlfriend when I was 17, does that count?
It's annoying that I can't watch the darts semi-final. It's not on free TV as far as I know.
I've just looked up Luke Littler.
Nice guy and all the best to him and I really struggle to belief he's 16; he looks more like a slightly overweight 36 year old, who's been knocking back the pints at his local for years, with not particularly good teeth.
What's his diet like?
Oysters and caviar. Washed down with ten pints of bitter.
Probably.
You would certainly not take him for a 16 year old.
Quite unusual for a 16 yr old boy to have a 21 yr old girlfriend, or least it was in my day.
I had a 23 year old girlfriend when I was 17, does that count?
Stop showing off.
Let’s be honest it’s not quite up there with Nick Palmer.
So? I know some moron Tory MP is tweeting about it, but this isn't news. Easter confectionery lines go into wholesalers in December, Christmas ones in August. Its an expandable consumption category, so if you get products in early you sell more. Some stuff (Creme Eggs, The Big Purple One) would sell all year round.
I have no idea about a Tory mp tweets and to be fair nearly 60 years ago my family and I owned a newsagents and grocers and we did display Easter eggs in the new year
I expect it may not surprise many
I have no problem with you responding to Jake Berry. I have a problem with Jake Berry trying to create another culture wars woke issue with something that happens *every single year*.
Have you got your culture war/woke issue mixed up? I don’t think people have ever said it was woke to have Easter Eggs in the shops too early, the complaint from that angle is that they’re not called Easter Eggs isn’t it?
Looking at that Jake Berry video, he’s just saying he surprised Easter Eggs are in shops when Christmas was only last week, hardly attacking anyone for being woke.
Moaning about Christmas stuff being on sale earlier and earlier is traditional.
There probably graffiti about that at Pompeii.
Yes, the political correctness gone mad/woke angle is lack of religious narrative on the eggs, not when they go on sale
We’ve crossed the line now where people defending ‘woke’ are caricatures of the Daily Express readers they think they’re mocking
Remember how builders talking about their feelings made them ”woke builders”? That wasn’t people defending woke, it was the surely-never-a-self-caricature Daily Mail.
That wasn’t, but the matter we are talking about now seems to be - why would Easter Eggs going on sale in January be woke? Surely the complaint , if there is one, is that it’s crass commercialisation
It's the Cultural Marxists undermining the traditions of Judeo-Christian Europe - if Easter can occur at any time, then it's not occurring at all.
Moveable feasts are inherently revolutionary.
Worst thing about early Easter, is having Mardi Gras in February, like it is this year - burrrrrrrr.
When I was living AND working in south Louisiana, during leadup to Lent, king cakes were THE thing. Typical for an office or group of friends to gather to split one once a week, or even once a day. With whoever ended up with "the baby" in their piece being obliged (by strictest of social sanctions) to purchase the NEXT king cake. At least until Ash Wednesday.
It's annoying that I can't watch the darts semi-final. It's not on free TV as far as I know.
I've just looked up Luke Littler.
Nice guy and all the best to him and I really struggle to belief he's 16; he looks more like a slightly overweight 36 year old, who's been knocking back the pints at his local for years, with not particularly good teeth.
What's his diet like?
Oysters and caviar. Washed down with ten pints of bitter.
Probably.
You would certainly not take him for a 16 year old.
Quite unusual for a 16 yr old boy to have a 21 yr old girlfriend, or least it was in my day.
I had a 23 year old girlfriend when I was 17, does that count?
Stop showing off.
Let’s be honest it’s not quite up there with Nick Palmer.
It's annoying that I can't watch the darts semi-final. It's not on free TV as far as I know.
I've just looked up Luke Littler.
Nice guy and all the best to him and I really struggle to belief he's 16; he looks more like a slightly overweight 36 year old, who's been knocking back the pints at his local for years, with not particularly good teeth.
What's his diet like?
Oysters and caviar. Washed down with ten pints of bitter.
Probably.
You would certainly not take him for a 16 year old.
Quite unusual for a 16 yr old boy to have a 21 yr old girlfriend, or least it was in my day.
I had a 23 year old girlfriend when I was 17, does that count?
Quite unusual I think, not that unusual means it’s wrong
I know a 17-year-old boy with a girlfriend aged 23, at least according to her d.o.b. on Facebook. But I suspect she put a false date in when too young for a Facebook account.
Does anyone other than me think that Cadbury's Cream Eggs are utterly revolting?
An unusually wrong opinion, even for PB.
I’ve added this to the list of things I agree with Lucky Guy on. Crème eggs are awful. They’re as close an approximation you can get to some vestige of that point 2 milliseconds before the big sugar bang when all the sugar mass in the universe was concentrated into a volume of a couple of cubic inches.
Even if they are (perhaps) quoting statement made in open court?
I've always disliked that journo habit of taking a statement made in court, putting inverted commas round it and using it as the headline, but it's not like the BBC is doing anything unusual here. I'd have thought the rules around a tweet headline with text attached are the same as the headline in a paper or website with text below. But I am not a lawyer!
If it makes good commercial sense to stock Easter Eggs in January then fair play to the supermarkets. That’s the market speaking. I can scoff a little at it (as I do with the Christmas stuff appearing so early) but it’s not ruining my life.
I’m not sure I’ve met anyone who has confessed to buying an Easter egg in January, but those people must exist, surely, to make it worthwhile.
… in fact, I would go further and say Easter eggs were never a particularly significant tradition when I was growing up. I did get gifted one every year, I think, but I admit that the concept of having lots of them to get through never really existed. Maybe I’m atypical.
For a few years, Kew Gardens Easter Egg hunt was sponsored by Lindt. Who made sure the children were tripping over chocolate eggs… my two were very happy.
No doubt you were forced to do extensive taste testing, in defense of your family's health & safety.
It's annoying that I can't watch the darts semi-final. It's not on free TV as far as I know.
I've just looked up Luke Littler.
Nice guy and all the best to him and I really struggle to belief he's 16; he looks more like a slightly overweight 36 year old, who's been knocking back the pints at his local for years, with not particularly good teeth.
What's his diet like?
Oysters and caviar. Washed down with ten pints of bitter.
Probably.
You would certainly not take him for a 16 year old.
Quite unusual for a 16 yr old boy to have a 21 yr old girlfriend, or least it was in my day.
I had a 23 year old girlfriend when I was 17, does that count?
Quite unusual I think, not that unusual means it’s wrong
I know a 17-year-old boy with a girlfriend aged 23, at least according to her d.o.b. on Facebook. But I suspect she put a false date in when too young for a Facebook account.
There’s a whole bunch of people at Apple who work on requests to “correct” the ages on iCloud accounts.
Does anyone other than me think that Cadbury's Cream Eggs are utterly revolting?
Incredibly sickly. I don’t know how anyone gets through a full one. The stuff inside sets my teeth on edge.
Same here. They are absolutely disgusting.
They were better before Cadbury sold out to the Americans and did something dreadful to their chocolate. But the filling is still very moreish. If you buy a box of six it’s hard to eat just one.
With new boundaries, it becomes more of a guessing game. I suspect Badenoch and Braverman are pretty safe barring an extinction level event for the Conservatives.
I'd also expect Gillian Keegan to survive in Chichester and be a possible candidate.
Penny Mordaunt's future is less certain so who else would run and under what rules? Once the 1922 is reconstituted from the survivors, they'll set the rules for the leadership contest in terms of number of MPs required for a candidate to be nominated.
Will the 100-150 or so survivors want to quickly choose a new leader or would they allow Sunak a period as a caretaker? An October election gives less time to choose though in truth it won't matter much (except for the betting community).
If it makes good commercial sense to stock Easter Eggs in January then fair play to the supermarkets. That’s the market speaking. I can scoff a little at it (as I do with the Christmas stuff appearing so early) but it’s not ruining my life.
I’m not sure I’ve met anyone who has confessed to buying an Easter egg in January, but those people must exist, surely, to make it worthwhile.
… in fact, I would go further and say Easter eggs were never a particularly significant tradition when I was growing up. I did get gifted one every year, I think, but I admit that the concept of having lots of them to get through never really existed. Maybe I’m atypical.
For a few years, Kew Gardens Easter Egg hunt was sponsored by Lindt. Who made sure the children were tripping over chocolate eggs… my two were very happy.
No doubt you were forced to do extensive taste testing, in defense of your family's health & safety.
More that after they had found 3 large eggs each we started telling them to “leave some for other children”
Does anyone other than me think that Cadbury's Cream Eggs are utterly revolting?
An unusually wrong opinion, even for PB.
I’ve added this to the list of things I agree with Lucky Guy on. Crème eggs are awful. They’re as close an approximation you can get to some vestige of that point 2 milliseconds before the big sugar bang when all the sugar mass in the universe was concentrated into a volume of a couple of cubic inches.
It's a very synthetic sweet taste. Like a sugary detergent.
Oh good grief, Philippa Langley has a new book out, claiming inter alia that Lambert Simnel was Edward V.
Well, I have to admit it's original. Nonsense on stilts, but original.
Even allowing for the multiplicity of Edwards about at the time, it's surprising she muddled up Edward V with Edward Earl Of Warwick (whom Lambert Simnel also wasn't, for the record).
Am now working on new book, proving that the Black Prince was actually Black person of mixed Norman-African heritage.
Hoping for blockbuster best seller! Thus am angling for a forward by Meghan, Dutchess of Sussex.
Well, why else was he called da Black Prince?
Yo! I'm a Prince and I'm Black, can you relate? How dope is that, for a Plantagenet!
Oh good grief, Philippa Langley has a new book out, claiming inter alia that Lambert Simnel was Edward V.
Well, I have to admit it's original. Nonsense on stilts, but original.
Even allowing for the multiplicity of Edwards about at the time, it's surprising she muddled up Edward V with Edward Earl Of Warwick (whom Lambert Simnel also wasn't, for the record).
Am now working on new book, proving that the Black Prince was actually Black person of mixed Norman-African heritage.
Hoping for blockbuster best seller! Thus am angling for a forward by Meghan, Dutchess of Sussex.
Well, why else was he called da Black Prince?
Yo! I'm a Prince and I'm Black, can you relate? How dope is that, for a Plantagenet!
Oh good grief, Philippa Langley has a new book out, claiming inter alia that Lambert Simnel was Edward V.
Well, I have to admit it's original. Nonsense on stilts, but original.
Even allowing for the multiplicity of Edwards about at the time, it's surprising she muddled up Edward V with Edward Earl Of Warwick (whom Lambert Simnel also wasn't, for the record).
Am now working on new book, proving that the Black Prince was actually Black person of mixed Norman-African heritage.
Hoping for blockbuster best seller! Thus am angling for a forward by Meghan, Dutchess of Sussex.
Well, why else was he called da Black Prince?
Yo! I'm a Prince and I'm Black, can you relate? How dope is that, for a Plantagenet!
It was the armour .... innit.
I'm sure I've seen his suit of armour somewhere.
Doesn't he have a window in Gloucester Cathedral?
Was the armor black when the Black Prince wore it? OR blackened to tell a tall tale?
Apparently nobody in HIS day called him "Black Prince" (or even Blackie for short).
It's annoying that I can't watch the darts semi-final. It's not on free TV as far as I know.
I've just looked up Luke Littler.
Nice guy and all the best to him and I really struggle to belief he's 16; he looks more like a slightly overweight 36 year old, who's been knocking back the pints at his local for years, with not particularly good teeth.
What's his diet like?
Oysters and caviar. Washed down with ten pints of bitter.
Probably.
You would certainly not take him for a 16 year old.
Quite unusual for a 16 yr old boy to have a 21 yr old girlfriend, or least it was in my day.
I had a 23 year old girlfriend when I was 17, does that count?
Stop showing off.
Let’s be honest it’s not quite up there with Nick Palmer.
"up there with Nick Palmer" sounds like a different variety of 3 in a bed.
So? I know some moron Tory MP is tweeting about it, but this isn't news. Easter confectionery lines go into wholesalers in December, Christmas ones in August. Its an expandable consumption category, so if you get products in early you sell more. Some stuff (Creme Eggs, The Big Purple One) would sell all year round.
I have no idea about a Tory mp tweets and to be fair nearly 60 years ago my family and I owned a newsagents and grocers and we did display Easter eggs in the new year
I expect it may not surprise many
I have no problem with you responding to Jake Berry. I have a problem with Jake Berry trying to create another culture wars woke issue with something that happens *every single year*.
Have you got your culture war/woke issue mixed up? I don’t think people have ever said it was woke to have Easter Eggs in the shops too early, the complaint from that angle is that they’re not called Easter Eggs isn’t it?
Looking at that Jake Berry video, he’s just saying he surprised Easter Eggs are in shops when Christmas was only last week, hardly attacking anyone for being woke.
Moaning about Christmas stuff being on sale earlier and earlier is traditional.
There probably graffiti about that at Pompeii.
Yes, the political correctness gone mad/woke angle is lack of religious narrative on the eggs, not when they go on sale
We’ve crossed the line now where people defending ‘woke’ are caricatures of the Daily Express readers they think they’re mocking
Remember how builders talking about their feelings made them ”woke builders”? That wasn’t people defending woke, it was the surely-never-a-self-caricature Daily Mail.
That wasn’t, but the matter we are talking about now seems to be - why would Easter Eggs going on sale in January be woke? Surely the complaint , if there is one, is that it’s crass commercialisation
Agree, not a woke issue. But what I find strange is that a 'senior' MP thinks it's worth doing a video about Easter eggs at Tesco in January and tweeting it out. Mind you, what do I know, given that it's had 2.7M views.
The “this isn’t about woke” posts by various people are very naive. This is a culture war post by Berry aimed at winding up people who get wound up by modern life.
Easter Eggs on New Years Day / It’s not Traditional/ Not like the good old days / I blame the permissive society
Oh good grief, Philippa Langley has a new book out, claiming inter alia that Lambert Simnel was Edward V.
Well, I have to admit it's original. Nonsense on stilts, but original.
Even allowing for the multiplicity of Edwards about at the time, it's surprising she muddled up Edward V with Edward Earl Of Warwick (whom Lambert Simnel also wasn't, for the record).
Am now working on new book, proving that the Black Prince was actually Black person of mixed Norman-African heritage.
Hoping for blockbuster best seller! Thus am angling for a forward by Meghan, Dutchess of Sussex.
Well, why else was he called da Black Prince?
Yo! I'm a Prince and I'm Black, can you relate? How dope is that, for a Plantagenet!
It was the armour .... innit.
I'm sure I've seen his suit of armour somewhere.
Doesn't he have a window in Gloucester Cathedral?
That's Edward II whose tomb is there.
Back in the day, blueing the armour (aka black armour) massively reduced maintenance. White (polished) armour would rust if you looked at it. The only way to keep it bright was to get the pages to polish it all the time. So having white armour made you really unpopular with the support crew.
Even if they are (perhaps) quoting statement made in open court?
I've always disliked that journo habit of taking a statement made in court, putting inverted commas round it and using it as the headline, but it's not like the BBC is doing anything unusual here. I'd have thought the rules around a tweet headline with text attached are the same as the headline in a paper or website with text below. But I am not a lawyer!
Genuinely fair reporting would give as much emphasis and weight to the defence case as the prosecution. Opening speeches for the prosecution are often reported, defence openings (and closings) much more rarely. This is of course too much to ask for.
Also too much to ask is the abolition of strangulated English such as the use of the word 'allegedly' as if the use of a qualifying adverb in something like "He violently allegedly killed the lady" is meaningful, when the qualification is that he may not have done it all, as in "He violently killed the lady or didn't kill the lady".
English is: "The prosecutor alleged that he violently killed the lady"
Even if they are (perhaps) quoting statement made in open court?
I've always disliked that journo habit of taking a statement made in court, putting inverted commas round it and using it as the headline, but it's not like the BBC is doing anything unusual here. I'd have thought the rules around a tweet headline with text attached are the same as the headline in a paper or website with text below. But I am not a lawyer!
Genuinely fair reporting would give as much emphasis and weight to the defence case as the prosecution. Opening speeches for the prosecution are often reported, defence openings (and closings) much more rarely. This is of course too much to ask for.
Also too much to ask is the abolition of strangulated English such as the use of the word 'allegedly' as if the use of a qualifying adverb in something like "He violently allegedly killed the lady" is meaningful, when the qualification is that he may not have done it all, as in "He violently killed the lady or didn't kill the lady".
English is: "The prosecutor alleged that he violently killed the lady"
Pretty unusual thing for a prosecutor to do in my experience.
Oh good grief, Philippa Langley has a new book out, claiming inter alia that Lambert Simnel was Edward V.
Well, I have to admit it's original. Nonsense on stilts, but original.
Even allowing for the multiplicity of Edwards about at the time, it's surprising she muddled up Edward V with Edward Earl Of Warwick (whom Lambert Simnel also wasn't, for the record).
Am now working on new book, proving that the Black Prince was actually Black person of mixed Norman-African heritage.
Hoping for blockbuster best seller! Thus am angling for a forward by Meghan, Dutchess of Sussex.
Well, why else was he called da Black Prince?
Yo! I'm a Prince and I'm Black, can you relate? How dope is that, for a Plantagenet!
It was the armour .... innit.
I'm sure I've seen his suit of armour somewhere.
Doesn't he have a window in Gloucester Cathedral?
That's Edward II whose tomb is there.
Back in the day, blueing the armour (aka black armour) massively reduced maintenance. White (polished) armour would rust if you looked at it. The only way to keep it bright was to get the pages to polish it all the time. So having white armour made you really unpopular with the support crew.
So having "black" armor was hardly notable? No wonder nobody called him "the Black Prince" to his face. OR for centuries afterward.
Oh good grief, Philippa Langley has a new book out, claiming inter alia that Lambert Simnel was Edward V.
Well, I have to admit it's original. Nonsense on stilts, but original.
Even allowing for the multiplicity of Edwards about at the time, it's surprising she muddled up Edward V with Edward Earl Of Warwick (whom Lambert Simnel also wasn't, for the record).
Am now working on new book, proving that the Black Prince was actually Black person of mixed Norman-African heritage.
Hoping for blockbuster best seller! Thus am angling for a forward by Meghan, Dutchess of Sussex.
Well, why else was he called da Black Prince?
Yo! I'm a Prince and I'm Black, can you relate? How dope is that, for a Plantagenet!
It was the armour .... innit.
I'm sure I've seen his suit of armour somewhere.
Doesn't he have a window in Gloucester Cathedral?
That's Edward II whose tomb is there.
The Black Prince, Edward Woodstock, is buried in Canterbury Cathedral, with a decent epitaph:
Such as thou art, sometime was I. Such as I am, such shalt thou be. I thought little on th'our of Death So long as I enjoyed breath. On earth I had great riches Land, houses, great treasure, horses, money and gold. But now a wretched captive am I, Deep in the ground, lo here I lie. My beauty great, is all quite gone, My flesh is wasted to the bone.
It's annoying that I can't watch the darts semi-final. It's not on free TV as far as I know.
I've just looked up Luke Littler.
Nice guy and all the best to him and I really struggle to belief he's 16; he looks more like a slightly overweight 36 year old, who's been knocking back the pints at his local for years, with not particularly good teeth.
What's his diet like?
Oysters and caviar. Washed down with ten pints of bitter.
Probably.
You would certainly not take him for a 16 year old.
Quite unusual for a 16 yr old boy to have a 21 yr old girlfriend, or least it was in my day.
I had a 23 year old girlfriend when I was 17, does that count?
Quite unusual I think, not that unusual means it’s wrong
Unless she was a teacher.
She was, but it was legal then…
Monsieur Macron, it’s an honour to have you on PB.com.
It's annoying that I can't watch the darts semi-final. It's not on free TV as far as I know.
I've just looked up Luke Littler.
Nice guy and all the best to him and I really struggle to belief he's 16; he looks more like a slightly overweight 36 year old, who's been knocking back the pints at his local for years, with not particularly good teeth.
What's his diet like?
Oysters and caviar. Washed down with ten pints of bitter.
Probably.
You would certainly not take him for a 16 year old.
Quite unusual for a 16 yr old boy to have a 21 yr old girlfriend, or least it was in my day.
Tell me, what did you see in soon-to-be millionaire darts player Luke Littler?
Luke reminds of one of those pesky asylum seekers sneaking over in small boats, and claiming they're only 16
So? I know some moron Tory MP is tweeting about it, but this isn't news. Easter confectionery lines go into wholesalers in December, Christmas ones in August. Its an expandable consumption category, so if you get products in early you sell more. Some stuff (Creme Eggs, The Big Purple One) would sell all year round.
I have no idea about a Tory mp tweets and to be fair nearly 60 years ago my family and I owned a newsagents and grocers and we did display Easter eggs in the new year
I expect it may not surprise many
I have no problem with you responding to Jake Berry. I have a problem with Jake Berry trying to create another culture wars woke issue with something that happens *every single year*.
Have you got your culture war/woke issue mixed up? I don’t think people have ever said it was woke to have Easter Eggs in the shops too early, the complaint from that angle is that they’re not called Easter Eggs isn’t it?
Looking at that Jake Berry video, he’s just saying he surprised Easter Eggs are in shops when Christmas was only last week, hardly attacking anyone for being woke.
Moaning about Christmas stuff being on sale earlier and earlier is traditional.
There probably graffiti about that at Pompeii.
Yes, the political correctness gone mad/woke angle is lack of religious narrative on the eggs, not when they go on sale
We’ve crossed the line now where people defending ‘woke’ are caricatures of the Daily Express readers they think they’re mocking
Remember how builders talking about their feelings made them ”woke builders”? That wasn’t people defending woke, it was the surely-never-a-self-caricature Daily Mail.
That wasn’t, but the matter we are talking about now seems to be - why would Easter Eggs going on sale in January be woke? Surely the complaint , if there is one, is that it’s crass commercialisation
Agree, not a woke issue. But what I find strange is that a 'senior' MP thinks it's worth doing a video about Easter eggs at Tesco in January and tweeting it out. Mind you, what do I know, given that it's had 2.7M views.
The “this isn’t about woke” posts by various people are very naive. This is a culture war post by Berry aimed at winding up people who get wound up by modern life.
Easter Eggs on New Years Day / It’s not Traditional/ Not like the good old days / I blame the permissive society
I can still remember getting a Scalextric (well, knock-off version) set in late January as a 'Christmas Present' . The explanation from my parents was that 'Santa had been held up'.
Not long after the 1975 'EC' referendum. Coincidence? I think not!
Oh good grief, Philippa Langley has a new book out, claiming inter alia that Lambert Simnel was Edward V.
Well, I have to admit it's original. Nonsense on stilts, but original.
Even allowing for the multiplicity of Edwards about at the time, it's surprising she muddled up Edward V with Edward Earl Of Warwick (whom Lambert Simnel also wasn't, for the record).
Am now working on new book, proving that the Black Prince was actually Black person of mixed Norman-African heritage.
Hoping for blockbuster best seller! Thus am angling for a forward by Meghan, Dutchess of Sussex.
Well, why else was he called da Black Prince?
Yo! I'm a Prince and I'm Black, can you relate? How dope is that, for a Plantagenet!
It was the armour .... innit.
I'm sure I've seen his suit of armour somewhere.
Doesn't he have a window in Gloucester Cathedral?
That's Edward II whose tomb is there.
Back in the day, blueing the armour (aka black armour) massively reduced maintenance. White (polished) armour would rust if you looked at it. The only way to keep it bright was to get the pages to polish it all the time. So having white armour made you really unpopular with the support crew.
So having "black" armor was hardly notable? No wonder nobody called him "the Black Prince" to his face. OR for centuries afterward.
At school he'd have been called "Inky" - the fate of Hurree Jamset Ram Singh, who was, indeed, a Black Prince.
Looks like the rain has finally stopped, which is good because about 75% of the roads round here are flooded to some extent.
The River Trent south of Derby looks as though it'll smash the previous flood record (at least, properly measured one) in a couple of days.
Most of the Trent is south of Derby, except that last bit running north through Lincolnshire. Do you have a particular confluence in mind? I would have thought Burton might be feeling a bit nervous.
Looks like the rain has finally stopped, which is good because about 75% of the roads round here are flooded to some extent.
The River Trent south of Derby looks as though it'll smash the previous flood record (at least, properly measured one) in a couple of days.
Got a text message from my neighbour earlier telling me which roads were shut for flooding in that area. hopefully by the time I need to use them it'll have gone down a bit.
Does anyone other than me think that Cadbury's Cream Eggs are utterly revolting?
Yep. Foul.
There is something especially 'cheap yet cloyingly luxurious' about them that I sometimes think would have made a very good start to an Orwell article.
Looks like the rain has finally stopped, which is good because about 75% of the roads round here are flooded to some extent.
This is the new normal.
Warm and very wet winters.
I think I'd ban the phrase 'the new normal'. It seems to function as an excuse for spineless politicians and greasy corporates to enforce unpleasant situations on the public with no prospect of abatement.
We've had a good fiddle with climate this year, banning those maritime fuels, the effect of which was to make temperatures (sea temperatures at any rate) rise significantly. So far I don't think that situation has been reversed or any attempt made to mitigate it, despite various private jet-fuelled junkets. 'Decarbonise' is the only show in town, despite it seeming to have all the impact on climate that housewives donating their pots and pans had on Spitfire production.
We need creative solutions to optimise the climate, that work quickly, and to be prepared to bug out quickly it they're found not to work. Net Zero is tangential at best in this regard.
Techcrunch.com - Public domain Mickey Mouse is the first meme of 2024
The new year marks the nerdiest holiday you maybe didn’t know about: Public Domain Day. But this year’s celebration is extra special. After years of legal battles, “Steamboat Willie,” a 1928 Walt Disney short featuring Mickey Mouse, is now public domain.
No, that doesn’t mean that you can take the character of Mickey Mouse as we know him today and do whatever you want. But, Mickey Mouse as he appears in the “Steamboat Willie” animation? That’s public domain, baby.
Every January 1, a bunch of old works of literature, music and art enter the public domain, meaning that no one holds exclusive rights to the work anymore. Some works are created to be public domain from the get-go, but previously copyrighted works become public domain because the copyright can expire over time. Copyright law differs from country to country, but to put it simply, the concept of the public domain is why there’s a Winnie the Pooh slasher film (which has a 3% rating on Rotten Tomatoes…), or a queer “Great Gatsby” retelling. . . .
Mickey Mouse has already been remixed in certain media, like the TV show South Park, which created an egomaniacal Mr. Mouse character who is obsessed with owning everything. Mr. Mouse is an obvious rip off of Mickey, but depictions like this can be protected under a different subset of copyright law. Under fair use doctrine, some behaviors that might seem like copyright violations are legally permissible if they are transformative or satirical in nature (but of course, these are subjective parameters, which is a whole other can of legal worms).
Any notable work that enters the public domain will garner attention. But part of why there is such an excess of surprise “Steamboat Willie” adaptations is because Disney worked so hard to prevent this day from ever arriving.
“Steamboat Willie” was slated to enter the public domain in 1984, but Disney managed to extend that copyright for 40 more years through extensive government lobbying for two different copyright extension acts. First, Disney pushed for Congress to pass the Copyright Act of 1976, which delayed “Steamboat Willie” and Mickey Mouse’s public domain debut until 2004. By the 1990s, Disney continued to lobby for further extensions, which gave us the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, making “Steamboat Willie” safe until just a few days ago. . . .
Some of Disney’s most iconic works were adapted from public domain stories, like “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Andersen, or the Brothers Grimm’s stories about Cinderella and Rapunzel. So, critics of Disney found its extensive lobbying for copyright extension to be hypocritical, with some even referring to the 1998 law as the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act.” . . .
Even if they are (perhaps) quoting statement made in open court?
I've always disliked that journo habit of taking a statement made in court, putting inverted commas round it and using it as the headline, but it's not like the BBC is doing anything unusual here. I'd have thought the rules around a tweet headline with text attached are the same as the headline in a paper or website with text below. But I am not a lawyer!
Genuinely fair reporting would give as much emphasis and weight to the defence case as the prosecution. Opening speeches for the prosecution are often reported, defence openings (and closings) much more rarely. This is of course too much to ask for.
Also too much to ask is the abolition of strangulated English such as the use of the word 'allegedly' as if the use of a qualifying adverb in something like "He violently allegedly killed the lady" is meaningful, when the qualification is that he may not have done it all, as in "He violently killed the lady or didn't kill the lady".
English is: "The prosecutor alleged that he violently killed the lady"
Point of order Lord Copper "The prosecutor alleged that he killed the lady violently" please.
Looks like the rain has finally stopped, which is good because about 75% of the roads round here are flooded to some extent.
This is the new normal.
Warm and very wet winters.
I think I'd ban the phrase 'the new normal'. It seems to function as an excuse for spineless politicians and greasy corporates to enforce unpleasant situations on the public with no prospect of abatement.
We've had a good fiddle with climate this year, banning those maritime fuels, the effect of which was to make temperatures (sea temperatures at any rate) rise significantly. So far I don't think that situation has been reversed or any attempt made to mitigate it, despite various private jet-fuelled junkets. 'Decarbonise' is the only show in town, despite it seeming to have all the impact on climate that housewives donating their pots and pans had on Spitfire production.
We need creative solutions to optimise the climate, that work quickly, and to be prepared to bug out quickly it they're found not to work. Net Zero is tangential at best in this regard.
We need geo-engineering solutions to suck carbon back out the atmosphere en-masse, is what we need - and pronto.
Looks like the rain has finally stopped, which is good because about 75% of the roads round here are flooded to some extent.
The River Trent south of Derby looks as though it'll smash the previous flood record (at least, properly measured one) in a couple of days.
Got a text message from my neighbour earlier telling me which roads were shut for flooding in that area. hopefully by the time I need to use them it'll have gone down a bit.
I used to love it when the flooding reached the Willington Road at Twyford. Used to go down that road to school as a kid, and my mum was always annoyed when she found it flooded and had to take the long route around.
So? I know some moron Tory MP is tweeting about it, but this isn't news. Easter confectionery lines go into wholesalers in December, Christmas ones in August. Its an expandable consumption category, so if you get products in early you sell more. Some stuff (Creme Eggs, The Big Purple One) would sell all year round.
I have no idea about a Tory mp tweets and to be fair nearly 60 years ago my family and I owned a newsagents and grocers and we did display Easter eggs in the new year
I expect it may not surprise many
I have no problem with you responding to Jake Berry. I have a problem with Jake Berry trying to create another culture wars woke issue with something that happens *every single year*.
Have you got your culture war/woke issue mixed up? I don’t think people have ever said it was woke to have Easter Eggs in the shops too early, the complaint from that angle is that they’re not called Easter Eggs isn’t it?
Looking at that Jake Berry video, he’s just saying he surprised Easter Eggs are in shops when Christmas was only last week, hardly attacking anyone for being woke.
Moaning about Christmas stuff being on sale earlier and earlier is traditional.
There probably graffiti about that at Pompeii.
Yes, the political correctness gone mad/woke angle is lack of religious narrative on the eggs, not when they go on sale
We’ve crossed the line now where people defending ‘woke’ are caricatures of the Daily Express readers they think they’re mocking
Remember how builders talking about their feelings made them ”woke builders”? That wasn’t people defending woke, it was the surely-never-a-self-caricature Daily Mail.
That wasn’t, but the matter we are talking about now seems to be - why would Easter Eggs going on sale in January be woke? Surely the complaint , if there is one, is that it’s crass commercialisation
Agree, not a woke issue. But what I find strange is that a 'senior' MP thinks it's worth doing a video about Easter eggs at Tesco in January and tweeting it out. Mind you, what do I know, given that it's had 2.7M views.
The “this isn’t about woke” posts by various people are very naive. This is a culture war post by Berry aimed at winding up people who get wound up by modern life.
Easter Eggs on New Years Day / It’s not Traditional/ Not like the good old days / I blame the permissive society
Blimey, you had a long time to try and wriggle out of that, or fess up that you’d mixed up the ‘Not Easter’ Eggs ‘woke’ issue with this one.
Why would people who are regarded as ‘woke’ be championing the right of Supermarkets to sell Easter Eggs in early January? It doesn’t seem that it should matter either way. You just seem to be writing your own pet hates into it having got the wrong end of the stick, like someone else did with the EU lightbulbs the other day
The Mirror ran an article moaning about it in mid December & The BBC here quote the Royal Society for Public Health complaining about the practice of early egg sales… so it’s hardly a right wing, culture war, anti woke thing at all
Oh, and the Good Lady Wife wrote a title song for Bond that Barbara Broccoli loved (had it on her personal jukebox) but you cannot believe the record company shenanigans that go on over getting a Bond title....
Looks like the rain has finally stopped, which is good because about 75% of the roads round here are flooded to some extent.
This is the new normal.
Warm and very wet winters.
I think I'd ban the phrase 'the new normal'. It seems to function as an excuse for spineless politicians and greasy corporates to enforce unpleasant situations on the public with no prospect of abatement.
We've had a good fiddle with climate this year, banning those maritime fuels, the effect of which was to make temperatures (sea temperatures at any rate) rise significantly. So far I don't think that situation has been reversed or any attempt made to mitigate it, despite various private jet-fuelled junkets. 'Decarbonise' is the only show in town, despite it seeming to have all the impact on climate that housewives donating their pots and pans had on Spitfire production.
We need creative solutions to optimise the climate, that work quickly, and to be prepared to bug out quickly it they're found not to work. Net Zero is tangential at best in this regard.
We need geo-engineering solutions to suck carbon back out the atmosphere en-masse, is what we need - and pronto.
Perhaps, as long as we can blow it back out again if we find it makes things worse.
Ships squirting water into the air to brighten the clouds is a great alternative to reverse the damaging impact of the recent air cleaning measures, this is something that at least the UK could enforce on the Merchant and Royal Navies. But that would be taking positive steps to fix a problem outside of berating people for showering too long and leaving lights on.
Looks like the rain has finally stopped, which is good because about 75% of the roads round here are flooded to some extent.
This is the new normal.
Warm and very wet winters.
I think I'd ban the phrase 'the new normal'. It seems to function as an excuse for spineless politicians and greasy corporates to enforce unpleasant situations on the public with no prospect of abatement.
We've had a good fiddle with climate this year, banning those maritime fuels, the effect of which was to make temperatures (sea temperatures at any rate) rise significantly. So far I don't think that situation has been reversed or any attempt made to mitigate it, despite various private jet-fuelled junkets. 'Decarbonise' is the only show in town, despite it seeming to have all the impact on climate that housewives donating their pots and pans had on Spitfire production.
We need creative solutions to optimise the climate, that work quickly, and to be prepared to bug out quickly it they're found not to work. Net Zero is tangential at best in this regard.
We need geo-engineering solutions to suck carbon back out the atmosphere en-masse, is what we need - and pronto.
Yes… and that’s why lots of people are working on making these solutions a reality. What I don’t understand is why Luckyguy1983 keeps posting as if no-one is looking into this.
The Republicans are having a lot of success in their 'war on woke' in the Biden presidency , you wonder if a Trump presidency would actually set their cause back.
Looks like the rain has finally stopped, which is good because about 75% of the roads round here are flooded to some extent.
This is the new normal.
Warm and very wet winters.
Warm, wet winters with westerly winds is the very definition of a Mediterranean climate.
(Now, if we could just sort the summers out.)
It is minus 17 here in Finland, you can't do anything it is just too cold. The 'warm and wet' winter back in the UK is actually quite pleasant in contrast.
Oh good grief, Philippa Langley has a new book out, claiming inter alia that Lambert Simnel was Edward V.
Well, I have to admit it's original. Nonsense on stilts, but original.
Even allowing for the multiplicity of Edwards about at the time, it's surprising she muddled up Edward V with Edward Earl Of Warwick (whom Lambert Simnel also wasn't, for the record).
Am now working on new book, proving that the Black Prince was actually Black person of mixed Norman-African heritage.
Hoping for blockbuster best seller! Thus am angling for a forward by Meghan, Dutchess of Sussex.
Well, why else was he called da Black Prince?
Yo! I'm a Prince and I'm Black, can you relate? How dope is that, for a Plantagenet!
It was the armour .... innit.
I'm sure I've seen his suit of armour somewhere.
Doesn't he have a window in Gloucester Cathedral?
That's Edward II whose tomb is there.
Back in the day, blueing the armour (aka black armour) massively reduced maintenance. White (polished) armour would rust if you looked at it. The only way to keep it bright was to get the pages to polish it all the time. So having white armour made you really unpopular with the support crew.
So having "black" armor was hardly notable? No wonder nobody called him "the Black Prince" to his face. OR for centuries afterward.
At school he'd have been called "Inky" - the fate of Hurree Jamset Ram Singh, who was, indeed, a Black Prince.
Some Bunter's were still in print when I was growing up, and I read a few. My dad was of the generation that grew up with them, and the Magnet, as they came out. While from my grown up perspective awful - William and Jennings are as if by Emily Bronte in comparison - the memory of them is still there; and their incorrectness from every conceivable point of view now, so that they are entirely irredeemable, just adds to their charm. But the badness of the writing is beyond description. I loved Bunter and the Phantom of the Towers especially. And as for the one set among cannibals......
Oh good grief, Philippa Langley has a new book out, claiming inter alia that Lambert Simnel was Edward V.
Well, I have to admit it's original. Nonsense on stilts, but original.
Even allowing for the multiplicity of Edwards about at the time, it's surprising she muddled up Edward V with Edward Earl Of Warwick (whom Lambert Simnel also wasn't, for the record).
Am now working on new book, proving that the Black Prince was actually Black person of mixed Norman-African heritage.
Hoping for blockbuster best seller! Thus am angling for a forward by Meghan, Dutchess of Sussex.
Well, why else was he called da Black Prince?
Yo! I'm a Prince and I'm Black, can you relate? How dope is that, for a Plantagenet!
It was the armour .... innit.
I'm sure I've seen his suit of armour somewhere.
Doesn't he have a window in Gloucester Cathedral?
That's Edward II whose tomb is there.
Back in the day, blueing the armour (aka black armour) massively reduced maintenance. White (polished) armour would rust if you looked at it. The only way to keep it bright was to get the pages to polish it all the time. So having white armour made you really unpopular with the support crew.
So having "black" armor was hardly notable? No wonder nobody called him "the Black Prince" to his face. OR for centuries afterward.
At school he'd have been called "Inky" - the fate of Hurree Jamset Ram Singh, who was, indeed, a Black Prince.
One of the first relevant references is to "Edwardi Principis cog: Nigri". So draw yer own conclusion.
Anyway, any evidence that the Black Prince was literate, let alone that he was "at school"?
He was a Prince of the Blood, NOT a scribbling cleric.
So? I know some moron Tory MP is tweeting about it, but this isn't news. Easter confectionery lines go into wholesalers in December, Christmas ones in August. Its an expandable consumption category, so if you get products in early you sell more. Some stuff (Creme Eggs, The Big Purple One) would sell all year round.
I have no idea about a Tory mp tweets and to be fair nearly 60 years ago my family and I owned a newsagents and grocers and we did display Easter eggs in the new year
I expect it may not surprise many
I have no problem with you responding to Jake Berry. I have a problem with Jake Berry trying to create another culture wars woke issue with something that happens *every single year*.
Have you got your culture war/woke issue mixed up? I don’t think people have ever said it was woke to have Easter Eggs in the shops too early, the complaint from that angle is that they’re not called Easter Eggs isn’t it?
Looking at that Jake Berry video, he’s just saying he surprised Easter Eggs are in shops when Christmas was only last week, hardly attacking anyone for being woke.
Moaning about Christmas stuff being on sale earlier and earlier is traditional.
There probably graffiti about that at Pompeii.
Yes, the political correctness gone mad/woke angle is lack of religious narrative on the eggs, not when they go on sale
We’ve crossed the line now where people defending ‘woke’ are caricatures of the Daily Express readers they think they’re mocking
Remember how builders talking about their feelings made them ”woke builders”? That wasn’t people defending woke, it was the surely-never-a-self-caricature Daily Mail.
That wasn’t, but the matter we are talking about now seems to be - why would Easter Eggs going on sale in January be woke? Surely the complaint , if there is one, is that it’s crass commercialisation
Agree, not a woke issue. But what I find strange is that a 'senior' MP thinks it's worth doing a video about Easter eggs at Tesco in January and tweeting it out. Mind you, what do I know, given that it's had 2.7M views.
The “this isn’t about woke” posts by various people are very naive. This is a culture war post by Berry aimed at winding up people who get wound up by modern life.
Easter Eggs on New Years Day / It’s not Traditional/ Not like the good old days / I blame the permissive society
Blimey, you had a long time to try and wriggle out of that, or fess up that you’d mixed up the ‘Not Easter’ Eggs ‘woke’ issue with this one.
Why would people who are regarded as ‘woke’ be championing the right of Supermarkets to sell Easter Eggs in early January? It doesn’t seem that it should matter either way. You just seem to be writing your own pet hates into it having got the wrong end of the stick, like someone else did with the EU lightbulbs the other day
The Mirror ran an article moaning about it in mid December & The BBC here quote the Royal Society for Public Health complaining about the practice of early egg sales… so it’s hardly a right wing, culture war, anti woke thing at all
It does get difficult when noone has the slightest idea what 'woke' means. Even people who go on about it all the time have completely different examples to offer. Electric cars are 'woke' to many folk but the Blessed Elon wouldn't agree. Frankly if someone on the right fringe of politics decides they don't like Easter eggs in January then that phenomenon automatically becomes woke. To them at least.
Meanwhile the rest of us, in the real world, haven't got a clue what they are blathering on about.
I’m confused why this is news - all supermarkets have a seasonal aisle that will go Christmas, Easter, summer, back to school, Halloween, Christmas
And the corner shop has had crème eggs from the day the cash and carry got them in (so early December)
Tbf I don’t see a reason why creme eggs couldn’t be available year round.
Because it's sacrilegious! Creme eggs should be eaten at Easter, as it says in the Bible! From Matthew 26:
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. And he took a small chocolate egg, and prayed over it, and gave it to them, saying, Taste ye, for it has some sort of sweet, gooey stuff inside. And, lo, it did have some sort of sweet, gooey stuff inside, which made it look a bit like a real egg.
And Thomas did say "yea, but you try getting a Kinder Egg thru US customs and they'll crucify you. It's Woke gone mad!". And Jesu did spake "I doubt it Thomas" whilst Judas muttered "Crucify you say? Hmmm"
Looks like the rain has finally stopped, which is good because about 75% of the roads round here are flooded to some extent.
This is the new normal.
Warm and very wet winters.
I think I'd ban the phrase 'the new normal'. It seems to function as an excuse for spineless politicians and greasy corporates to enforce unpleasant situations on the public with no prospect of abatement.
We've had a good fiddle with climate this year, banning those maritime fuels, the effect of which was to make temperatures (sea temperatures at any rate) rise significantly. So far I don't think that situation has been reversed or any attempt made to mitigate it, despite various private jet-fuelled junkets. 'Decarbonise' is the only show in town, despite it seeming to have all the impact on climate that housewives donating their pots and pans had on Spitfire production.
We need creative solutions to optimise the climate, that work quickly, and to be prepared to bug out quickly it they're found not to work. Net Zero is tangential at best in this regard.
We need geo-engineering solutions to suck carbon back out the atmosphere en-masse, is what we need - and pronto.
Yes… and that’s why lots of people are working on making these solutions a reality. What I don’t understand is why Luckyguy1983 keeps posting as if no-one is looking into this.
I am not saying that nobody is 'looking into this'. I have posted on the issue of sea heating caused by maritime fuel regulations (and the resultant lack of cloudiness) specifically, as that was a very bad misstep that required a quick reversal/solution, which I don't think has happened. Finding such solutions is surely exactly the type of thing that things like COP28 style conferences would be useful for, but the participants instead tend to bravely commit their populations to bearing the cost of decarbonisation.
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"Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard University president"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67868280
Worst thing about early Easter, is having Mardi Gras in February, like it is this year - burrrrrrrr.
BTW, get your king cake orders in early!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cake
https://gambinos.com/shop/king-cakes
When I was living AND working in south Louisiana, during leadup to Lent, king cakes were THE thing. Typical for an office or group of friends to gather to split one once a week, or even once a day. With whoever ended up with "the baby" in their piece being obliged (by strictest of social sanctions) to purchase the NEXT king cake. At least until Ash Wednesday.
But I suspect she put a false date in when too young for a Facebook account.
We need to provide refuges for all those homeless dropped aitches.
With new boundaries, it becomes more of a guessing game. I suspect Badenoch and Braverman are pretty safe barring an extinction level event for the Conservatives.
I'd also expect Gillian Keegan to survive in Chichester and be a possible candidate.
Penny Mordaunt's future is less certain so who else would run and under what rules? Once the 1922 is reconstituted from the survivors, they'll set the rules for the leadership contest in terms of number of MPs required for a candidate to be nominated.
Will the 100-150 or so survivors want to quickly choose a new leader or would they allow Sunak a period as a caretaker? An October election gives less time to choose though in truth it won't matter much (except for the betting community).
I'm sure I've seen his suit of armour somewhere.
Doesn't he have a window in Gloucester Cathedral?
Teacher: If I gave you 2 rabbits , and another 2 rabbits and another 2, how many will you have?
Johnny: Seven Sir
Teacher: No, listen carefully. If I gave you 2 rabbits , and another 2 rabbits and another 2, how many will you have?
Johnny: Seven
Teacher: Let me put it to you differently. If I gave you 2 apples, and another 2 apples and another 2, how many will you have?
Johnny: Six.
Teacher: Good. Now if I gave you 2 rabbits , and another 2 rabbits and another 2, how many will you have?
Johnny: Seven!!!
Teacher: Where the fuck do you get seven from?!?!?
Johnny: Because I fucking have 1 at home!!!
(The teacher would be sacked for professional misconduct and wind up with OFSTED.)
Apparently nobody in HIS day called him "Black Prince" (or even Blackie for short).
It's all making sense..
Easter Eggs on New Years Day / It’s not Traditional/ Not like the good old days / I blame the permissive society
Also too much to ask is the abolition of strangulated English such as the use of the word 'allegedly' as if the use of a qualifying adverb in something like "He violently allegedly killed the lady" is meaningful, when the qualification is that he may not have done it all, as in "He violently killed the lady or didn't kill the lady".
English is: "The prosecutor alleged that he violently killed the lady"
Fat chance.
Warm and very wet winters.
Plenty of people can't help themselves.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CLiDemXYSLc
Absolutely hilarious. Comedy "robots" (in stag-do fancy dress) happy slapping each other in time to the snare drum.
Who influenced who? True Faith the Pet Shop Boys, or the Pet Shop Boys on True Faith?
Such as thou art, sometime was I.
Such as I am, such shalt thou be.
I thought little on th'our of Death
So long as I enjoyed breath.
On earth I had great riches
Land, houses, great treasure, horses, money and gold.
But now a wretched captive am I,
Deep in the ground, lo here I lie.
My beauty great, is all quite gone,
My flesh is wasted to the bone.
It was conceived by a French dance company, and was intended not to feature the band at all.
The record company hated it, and spliced in some shots of a live gig. The bass player's leg, and only his leg, appears briefly.
xkcd is like the American version of Matt. The only decent cartoonist either side of the pond.
Not long after the 1975 'EC' referendum. Coincidence? I think not!
(Sorry!)
We've had a good fiddle with climate this year, banning those maritime fuels, the effect of which was to make temperatures (sea temperatures at any rate) rise significantly. So far I don't think that situation has been reversed or any attempt made to mitigate it, despite various private jet-fuelled junkets. 'Decarbonise' is the only show in town, despite it seeming to have all the impact on climate that housewives donating their pots and pans had on Spitfire production.
We need creative solutions to optimise the climate, that work quickly, and to be prepared to bug out quickly it they're found not to work. Net Zero is tangential at best in this regard.
Techcrunch.com - Public domain Mickey Mouse is the first meme of 2024
The new year marks the nerdiest holiday you maybe didn’t know about: Public Domain Day. But this year’s celebration is extra special. After years of legal battles, “Steamboat Willie,” a 1928 Walt Disney short featuring Mickey Mouse, is now public domain.
No, that doesn’t mean that you can take the character of Mickey Mouse as we know him today and do whatever you want. But, Mickey Mouse as he appears in the “Steamboat Willie” animation? That’s public domain, baby.
Every January 1, a bunch of old works of literature, music and art enter the public domain, meaning that no one holds exclusive rights to the work anymore. Some works are created to be public domain from the get-go, but previously copyrighted works become public domain because the copyright can expire over time. Copyright law differs from country to country, but to put it simply, the concept of the public domain is why there’s a Winnie the Pooh slasher film (which has a 3% rating on Rotten Tomatoes…), or a queer “Great Gatsby” retelling. . . .
Mickey Mouse has already been remixed in certain media, like the TV show South Park, which created an egomaniacal Mr. Mouse character who is obsessed with owning everything. Mr. Mouse is an obvious rip off of Mickey, but depictions like this can be protected under a different subset of copyright law. Under fair use doctrine, some behaviors that might seem like copyright violations are legally permissible if they are transformative or satirical in nature (but of course, these are subjective parameters, which is a whole other can of legal worms).
Any notable work that enters the public domain will garner attention. But part of why there is such an excess of surprise “Steamboat Willie” adaptations is because Disney worked so hard to prevent this day from ever arriving.
“Steamboat Willie” was slated to enter the public domain in 1984, but Disney managed to extend that copyright for 40 more years through extensive government lobbying for two different copyright extension acts. First, Disney pushed for Congress to pass the Copyright Act of 1976, which delayed “Steamboat Willie” and Mickey Mouse’s public domain debut until 2004. By the 1990s, Disney continued to lobby for further extensions, which gave us the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, making “Steamboat Willie” safe until just a few days ago. . . .
Some of Disney’s most iconic works were adapted from public domain stories, like “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Andersen, or the Brothers Grimm’s stories about Cinderella and Rapunzel. So, critics of Disney found its extensive lobbying for copyright extension to be hypocritical, with some even referring to the 1998 law as the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act.” . . .
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/02/steamboat-willie-mickey-mouse-public-domain/
Why would people who are regarded as ‘woke’ be championing the right of Supermarkets to sell Easter Eggs in early January? It doesn’t seem that it should matter either way. You just seem to be writing your own pet hates into it having got the wrong end of the stick, like someone else did with the EU lightbulbs the other day
The Mirror ran an article moaning about it in mid December & The BBC here quote the Royal Society for Public Health complaining about the practice of early egg sales… so it’s hardly a right wing, culture war, anti woke thing at all
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/shoppers-horror-bm-already-selling-31664712
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47735108
He's disappointed with it though, the pepper is always underground or overground.
Ships squirting water into the air to brighten the clouds is a great alternative to reverse the damaging impact of the recent air cleaning measures, this is something that at least the UK could enforce on the Merchant and Royal Navies. But that would be taking positive steps to fix a problem outside of berating people for showering too long and leaving lights on.
(Now, if we could just sort the summers out.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67868843
Anyway, any evidence that the Black Prince was literate, let alone that he was "at school"?
He was a Prince of the Blood, NOT a scribbling cleric.
Meanwhile the rest of us, in the real world, haven't got a clue what they are blathering on about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXzs47qy2Pk