To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. #notinmyname
Indeed, imagine there’s no countries, apart from the ones who just sailed past wearing their national Colours and waving their flags who will be trying to get their countries up the medal table, but apart from that we hate countries in the Olympics.
Often wondered what would happen if it wasn't by country? Course you'd need some kind of division for team sports? How about star sign? Come on you Saggitarians!
I have often thought that team sports should be banned from the Olympics, it should all be about individual endeavour. I am not aware that Athens and Sparta entered teams in the original Olympics.
They don't do it in the nuddy now either tbf.
Get a bigger audience.
In fairness the beach volleyball teams come close.
The female competitors revolted and they’ve gotten the rules changed, so they’re no longer required to show quite so much.
OK pb brains trust: I'm going to Holland next week. I know about the cities - but is there anywhere in small town/countryside Zuid Holland I should be visiting?
Leiden. Main historical university town with loads to do. Mauritshaus in the Hague for a manageable but super-concentration of the highest quality art, including famously the The Girl with the Pearl Earring
Thanks. I like a gallery but with three kids in tow quality over quantity is key!
Main danger for kids in Leiden is making sure one or more don't fall into one of the MANY canals.
On more positive note, beyond the town proper there's an extensive park on the side heading toward the sea . . . and the seaside resort of Schvenigen (sp) which is not far.
Should add that the town of Leiden is sort a smaller, less hectic and uber-urban, more small town and accessible. The central area is very impressive and nice, and stuff around for kids, on or off-bike.
Leiden it is then - thanks. Will report back.
If you have kids in tow go to Efteling as well. You will not regret it!
It is worth remembering that no Republican ticket had won until 2016 without Bush or a Nixon on the ticket since 1928.
That's surreally long sounding, but it's worth remembering that includes four elections as Vice President and a long period of Democrat dominance from 1932 to 1948.
OK pb brains trust: I'm going to Holland next week. I know about the cities - but is there anywhere in small town/countryside Zuid Holland I should be visiting?
Leiden. Main historical university town with loads to do. Mauritshaus in the Hague for a manageable but super-concentration of the highest quality art, including famously the The Girl with the Pearl Earring
Thanks. I like a gallery but with three kids in tow quality over quantity is key!
Main danger for kids in Leiden is making sure one or more don't fall into one of the MANY canals.
On more positive note, beyond the town proper there's an extensive park on the side heading toward the sea . . . and the seaside resort of Schvenigen (sp) which is not far.
Should add that the town of Leiden is sort a smaller, less hectic and uber-urban, more small town and accessible. The central area is very impressive and nice, and stuff around for kids, on or off-bike.
Leiden it is then - thanks. Will report back.
Lots of museums and good stuff for the kids. Recommended.
The visuals are terrible - a motley crew of people loitering around in plastic rain ponchos with no crowd atmosphere. No link to the stadium which is the crucible of the Olympics. How do they tie in the lighting of the flame if it’s not all taking place there. Very weird.
To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. #notinmyname
Some truth to that, no Asterisk, Joan of Ark, Versailles, Monet, Truffaut, Edith Piaf, Voltaire, little French culture or Food or wine.
Apart from Moulin Rouge dancers and a bit about the revolution, Notre Dame and the Louvre not much distinctively French in it albeit some good closing images of the Eiffel Tower as President Macron declares the Olympics open
To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. #notinmyname
Some truth to that, no Asterisk, Joan of Ark, Versailles, Monet, Truffaut, Edith Piaf, Voltaire, little French culture or Food or wine.
Apart from Moulin Rouge dancers and a bit about the revolution, Notre Dame and the Louvre not much distinctively French in it albeit some good closing images of the Eiffel Tower as President Macron declares the Olympics open
It’s all so flat though. Think about the energy in London or the power in Beijing.
To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. #notinmyname
The drag queen parody of the Last Supper (I don’t think it actually was referencing the Last Supper) was the second best bit!
OK pb brains trust: I'm going to Holland next week. I know about the cities - but is there anywhere in small town/countryside Zuid Holland I should be visiting?
Leiden. Main historical university town with loads to do. Mauritshaus in the Hague for a manageable but super-concentration of the highest quality art, including famously the The Girl with the Pearl Earring
Thanks. I like a gallery but with three kids in tow quality over quantity is key!
Main danger for kids in Leiden is making sure one or more don't fall into one of the MANY canals.
On more positive note, beyond the town proper there's an extensive park on the side heading toward the sea . . . and the seaside resort of Schvenigen (sp) which is not far.
Should add that the town of Leiden is sort a smaller, less hectic and uber-urban, more small town and accessible. The central area is very impressive and nice, and stuff around for kids, on or off-bike.
Leiden it is then - thanks. Will report back.
If you have kids in tow go to Efteling as well. You will not regret it!
Why have so many of you been watching something that you all think was shite?
You can live a life of hedonism if you want, Sandy, but some of us have principles. And those principles mean we will watch nearly the entirety of a poor Olympics opening ceremony/am dram re-enactment of the evacuation of Dunkirk.
Why have so many of you been watching something that you all think was shite?
Hope.
You know this is an event, and France would have put all their effort into showing us something spectacular. So the worse it gets, the more you hope: surely this dross has just been to reveal *the* moment that will never be beaten?
Why have so many of you been watching something that you all think was shite?
Hope.
You know this is an event, and France would have put all their effort into showing us something spectacular. So the worse it gets, the more you hope: surely this dross has just been to reveal *the* moment that will never be beaten?
But they're leaving it late.
They're just milking it now. I'm not even sure Serena Williams is French.
Why have so many of you been watching something that you all think was shite?
Hope.
You know this is an event, and France would have put all their effort into showing us something spectacular. So the worse it gets, the more you hope: surely this dross has just been to reveal *the* moment that will never be beaten?
But they're leaving it late.
They're just milking it now. I'm not even sure Serena Williams is French.
Two of my daughters will happily do 10 miles or more on a bike without complaint ‐ my youngest will probably start to wilt after 5. Which is still probably better than I would have done at her age!
Tom Tugendhat was labelled as the 'centrist' or 'liberal' or my favourite 'one nation' Tory but here he is standing up for the Jews at a general election hustings in a way one would normally only associate with hard right culture warriors.
I feel very sorry for Paris for the weather. They’ve been extremely unlucky.
There is diplomatic gold to be had from British politicians and pundits praising the opening ceremony to the skies, whatever they might privately think. I hope they do.
OK pb brains trust: I'm going to Holland next week. I know about the cities - but is there anywhere in small town/countryside Zuid Holland I should be visiting?
Leiden. Main historical university town with loads to do. Mauritshaus in the Hague for a manageable but super-concentration of the highest quality art, including famously the The Girl with the Pearl Earring
Thanks. I like a gallery but with three kids in tow quality over quantity is key!
Main danger for kids in Leiden is making sure one or more don't fall into one of the MANY canals.
On more positive note, beyond the town proper there's an extensive park on the side heading toward the sea . . . and the seaside resort of Schvenigen (sp) which is not far.
Should add that the town of Leiden is sort a smaller, less hectic and uber-urban, more small town and accessible. The central area is very impressive and nice, and stuff around for kids, on or off-bike.
Leiden it is then - thanks. Will report back.
If you have kids in tow go to Efteling as well. You will not regret it!
That is scheduled for day 1! Thanks.
The rides and stuff are fantastic. Use the app to avoid the worsr queues. The accomodation is fine. The service in the restaurants is appalling and- the only vaguely decent place we found in a 3 night stay was the pancake place in the middle.
Tom Tugendhat was labelled as the 'centrist' or 'liberal' or my favourite 'one nation' Tory but here he is standing up for the Jews at a general election hustings in a way one would normally only associate with hard right culture warriors.
I remember the time the Paris Olympic opening ceremony started. You wouldn’t believe it - in those days we had a country called the USA who were about to elect a madman carnival clown, Russia used to claim Crimea, there was a country called Taiwan. Katie Price was on her seventh marriage and nobody had died on Strictly come dancing in those days. It was the days before the England football team won ten back to back tournaments. Who knows how the world will change by the time the opening ceremony ends, one thing for sure I won’t be alive anymore and it will be down to you, dear grandchildren, to remind people of when this hell started.
Tom Tugendhat was labelled as the 'centrist' or 'liberal' or my favourite 'one nation' Tory but here he is standing up for the Jews at a general election hustings in a way one would normally only associate with hard right culture warriors.
Why have so many of you been watching something that you all think was shite?
Because we didn't think in advance that it would be. And because it's an Englishman's birthright, duty and pleasure to laugh at the French (except when we are rescuing them. And actually even then).
I remember the time the Paris Olympic opening ceremony started. You wouldn’t believe it - in those days we had a country called the USA who were about to elect a madman carnival clown, Russia used to claim Crimea, there was a country called Taiwan. Katie Price was on her seventh marriage and nobody had died on Strictly come dancing in those days. It was the days before the England football team won ten back to back tournaments. Who knows how the world will change by the time the opening ceremony ends, one thing for sure I won’t be alive anymore and it will be down to you, dear grandchildren, to remind people of when this hell started.
Oh and its still raining and we all live in boats now
Tom Tugendhat was labelled as the 'centrist' or 'liberal' or my favourite 'one nation' Tory but here he is standing up for the Jews at a general election hustings in a way one would normally only associate with hard right culture warriors.
Tom Tugendhat was labelled as the 'centrist' or 'liberal' or my favourite 'one nation' Tory but here he is standing up for the Jews at a general election hustings in a way one would normally only associate with hard right culture warriors.
The following were not electorally bad, but nevertheless showed some less than positive aspects which were NOT helpful for the Presidents who picked them:
> In 1924 Charles Dawes was Calvin Coolidge's pick for VP on GOP ticket; "Silent Cal" was elected as VP under Harding, whose death mid-term put Coolidge in the White House. Even though 1924 was three-way fight for POTUS he was favorite all the way due to Democrats tearing themselves to pieces over the KKK - now THAT was a real Democratic civil war for ya! After Dawes was elected VP, he caused trouble by actually run the US Senate (something that the Senators refused to even consider) then by missing a key Senate vote on POTUS nominee who lost on a tie vote, he and Coolidge were barely on speaking terms for the rest of their term together.
> In 1928 Charles Curtis Republican VP nominee was not originally a bad pick for Herbert Hoover, who served as Sec. of Commerce for Harding and Coolidge, but who was NOT a regular Republican or even one at all before 1920; wheras Curtis was a stalwart indeed stolid Republican regular of extreme stand-pat wing of the GOP so appeased that ilk.
HOWEVER once elected VP Curtis developed a severely swelled head, and because almost as much of a butt of jokes as his successor Dan Quayle was a half-century later. NOT cause of Hoover's defeat but was another nail in his political coffin.
> In 1940 Franklin Roosevelt never declared, but nevertheless emerged as Democratic nominee for an unprecedented Third Term; he also came to the parting of the ways with his (first) VP John Nance Garner, who by then was in both the anti-New Deal an anti-Third Term camps with the party. So FDR needed a replacement, and he chose Sec. of Agriculture Henry Wallace, a former progressive Republican from the farm belt AND a staunch New Dealer; thus he help Roosevelt, who was sure to carry the Solid South, in the Midwest AND with liberals across the USA.
DOWNSIDE to Henry Wallace emerged even before he was elected VP, thanks to the "Guru Letters" between him and his somewhat unorthodox spiritual advisor. Only reason they were NOT published in 1940, was because Dems had dirt on Republican POTUS nominee Wendell Wilkie and HIS mistress, which was also NOT published. However, by 1944 Democratic insiders were pretty sure the Guru Letters would finally see the light of day; plus moderate Dems were wary of Wallace's strong liberalism AND quirky personality. ESPECIALLY as they were well-aware in 1944 that their Commander-in-Chief was in declining health . . . with WW2 still raging.
THUS it transpired that at 1944 convention that nominated him for 4th term, FDR went along with ditching Henry Wallace. Roosevelt used his usual (or rather superior) skills at political misdirection to eventually "accede" to the nomination of another strong, but FAR less controversial VP selection - Harry S Truman. And the rest as they say is history.
Why have so many of you been watching something that you all think was shite?
Hope.
You know this is an event, and France would have put all their effort into showing us something spectacular. So the worse it gets, the more you hope: surely this dross has just been to reveal *the* moment that will never be beaten?
But they're leaving it late.
The flaming balloon and Celine Dion weren't too shabby
I feel very sorry for Paris for the weather. They’ve been extremely unlucky.
There is diplomatic gold to be had from British politicians and pundits praising the opening ceremony to the skies, whatever they might privately think. I hope they do.
Yes, a shame. Didn't spoil the tv spectacle but it can't have been much fun on the ground.
Tom Tugendhat was labelled as the 'centrist' or 'liberal' or my favourite 'one nation' Tory but here he is standing up for the Jews at a general election hustings in a way one would normally only associate with hard right culture warriors.
Two of my daughters will happily do 10 miles or more on a bike without complaint ‐ my youngest will probably start to wilt after 5. Which is still probably better than I would have done at her age!
Harrison had been physically worn down by many persistent office seekers and a demanding social schedule. On Wednesday, March 24, 1841, Harrison took his daily morning walk to local markets, without a coat or hat. Despite being caught in a sudden rainstorm, he did not change his wet clothes upon return to the White House. . . .
To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. #notinmyname
Tom Tugendhat was labelled as the 'centrist' or 'liberal' or my favourite 'one nation' Tory but here he is standing up for the Jews at a general election hustings in a way one would normally only associate with hard right culture warriors.
'Hard-right culture warriors stand up for the Jews'?
Have you read any 20th century history?
I don't want to be rude about your age but we're living in the 21st century now.
So let's all forget that the worst horror perpetrated on the Jewish people, indeed the worst horror ever perpetrated on any group, was by the hard-right shall we?
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Mind you, the Muskovite might come to his rescue.
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The 2024 presidential election will be the first since 1976 without a Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.
Dissing Snickers? I mean, really?
https://x.com/marionmarechal/status/1816925819077296174
To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. #notinmyname
It sounds like there are 100 people in the crowd - in a stadium it would be a noisy fun experience.
https://x.com/BGrueskin/status/1816798428581507571
That's surreally long sounding, but it's worth remembering that includes four elections as Vice President and a long period of Democrat dominance from 1932 to 1948.
Apart from Moulin Rouge dancers and a bit about the revolution, Notre Dame and the Louvre not much distinctively French in it albeit some good closing images of the Eiffel Tower as President Macron declares the Olympics open
https://x.com/Surreycricfan/status/1816895320854335801
https://x.com/campbellclaret/status/1816923968357409078
You know this is an event, and France would have put all their effort into showing us something spectacular. So the worse it gets, the more you hope: surely this dross has just been to reveal *the* moment that will never be beaten?
But they're leaving it late.
https://x.com/lewisUTBdenison/status/1816503419743404219
There is diplomatic gold to be had from British politicians and pundits praising the opening ceremony to the skies, whatever they might privately think. I hope they do.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/comments/1ecvu87/kier_starmer_at_the_olympics/
Anyway, do I sacrifice an afternoon of Olympics to go see Deadpool & Wolverine at the weekend?
Have you read any 20th century history?
"We underestimate her cultural appeal and her power at our peril".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD5SeQ_jnrA
The following were not electorally bad, but nevertheless showed some less than positive aspects which were NOT helpful for the Presidents who picked them:
> In 1924 Charles Dawes was Calvin Coolidge's pick for VP on GOP ticket; "Silent Cal" was elected as VP under Harding, whose death mid-term put Coolidge in the White House. Even though 1924 was three-way fight for POTUS he was favorite all the way due to Democrats tearing themselves to pieces over the KKK - now THAT was a real Democratic civil war for ya! After Dawes was elected VP, he caused trouble by actually run the US Senate (something that the Senators refused to even consider) then by missing a key Senate vote on POTUS nominee who lost on a tie vote, he and Coolidge were barely on speaking terms for the rest of their term together.
> In 1928 Charles Curtis Republican VP nominee was not originally a bad pick for Herbert Hoover, who served as Sec. of Commerce for Harding and Coolidge, but who was NOT a regular Republican or even one at all before 1920; wheras Curtis was a stalwart indeed stolid Republican regular of extreme stand-pat wing of the GOP so appeased that ilk.
HOWEVER once elected VP Curtis developed a severely swelled head, and because almost as much of a butt of jokes as his successor Dan Quayle was a half-century later. NOT cause of Hoover's defeat but was another nail in his political coffin.
> In 1940 Franklin Roosevelt never declared, but nevertheless emerged as Democratic nominee for an unprecedented Third Term; he also came to the parting of the ways with his (first) VP John Nance Garner, who by then was in both the anti-New Deal an anti-Third Term camps with the party. So FDR needed a replacement, and he chose Sec. of Agriculture Henry Wallace, a former progressive Republican from the farm belt AND a staunch New Dealer; thus he help Roosevelt, who was sure to carry the Solid South, in the Midwest AND with liberals across the USA.
DOWNSIDE to Henry Wallace emerged even before he was elected VP, thanks to the "Guru Letters" between him and his somewhat unorthodox spiritual advisor. Only reason they were NOT published in 1940, was because Dems had dirt on Republican POTUS nominee Wendell Wilkie and HIS mistress, which was also NOT published. However, by 1944 Democratic insiders were pretty sure the Guru Letters would finally see the light of day; plus moderate Dems were wary of Wallace's strong liberalism AND quirky personality. ESPECIALLY as they were well-aware in 1944 that their Commander-in-Chief was in declining health . . . with WW2 still raging.
THUS it transpired that at 1944 convention that nominated him for 4th term, FDR went along with ditching Henry Wallace. Roosevelt used his usual (or rather superior) skills at political misdirection to eventually "accede" to the nomination of another strong, but FAR less controversial VP selection - Harry S Truman. And the rest as they say is history.
Surely though, they didn’t need to take QUITE so long!
Harrison had been physically worn down by many persistent office seekers and a demanding social schedule. On Wednesday, March 24, 1841, Harrison took his daily morning walk to local markets, without a coat or hat. Despite being caught in a sudden rainstorm, he did not change his wet clothes upon return to the White House. . . .
Harrison died at 12:30 a.m. on April 4, 1841