Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
All sorts of grey areas around whether a TV Licence was required as well!
What's the grey area around a TV license ? It was definitely a live broadcast.
Agreed, but not available via another "mainstream" broadcaster. Netflix don't do scheduled regular broadcasts and can't be considered a TV broadcaster The BlackBelt Barrister on YouTube has done loads around this sort of stuff. On balance, I'd say a licence was marginal.
No, it was definitely required - the main thing which means people don't need licenses is the fact it's essentially unenforceable unless people self incriminate when the license people turn up.
Yup, I know all that, but live streaming has got so many nuances that TV Licencing have never caught up. TV licencing will tell you you need a licence for loads of things. A decent Barrister would get you off.
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
The audience for that won't be anywhere near as big. This was easily one of the biggest global streaming events. All other companies don't usually have global rights and only need to serve one or two territories or like F1TV it's just not as popular or has a premium fee. This was available to all Netflix subscribers across the world, that's a potential ~250m viewers who could watch what would normally be a £50-60 PPV. Netflix hugely underestimated demand, they used their water pistol instead of the firehouse that YouTube has.
30 million is a fairly normal amount to watch the Christmas day NFL game in the US even without Beyonce doing her thing. Now that won't be the 60 million that supposed try to watch the fight on Saturday, but still a huge number of people.
I have said before, I would introduce American style sheriffs alongside the police. Tell them to have at it. If the police didn't sort their shit out, more and more of their funding would go to the sheriffs. They are a monopoly, and all monopolies have the same effect.
FPT Scotland already has Sheriffs, though I can't quite imagine them delivering 'summary justice' in the same way as an American Sheriff from the bench, giving them a six-shooter might change the dynamics in court somewhat. Perhaps @DavidL is in a better place to comment.
I don’t think we're alone - pretty sure England has some too no? But of course I speak of the US kind. I hadn't thought of giving them pistols but the idea is tempting.
In England these days I think we have High Sheriffs, who are a ceremonial official representing the monarch, like Lord Lieutenants.
In Scotland they are a legal official analogous to I think a District Judge in England.
I'm never quite sure what a Justice of the Peace is, except they sometimes emerge to do things. The last I heard of one was when a well-connected friend wanted to put up a notice withdrawing the common law right of some officials to enter his property.
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
Indeed but even then, 99 per cent of the NFL audience is in the same country. The boxing, for want of a better word, was watched around the world (slowly).
Netflix could do worse than hire techies from the Indian cricket streamers.
Nah they need the people from YouTube. I think that's the only platform who have the tech currently for over 20m concurrent viewers of a livestream, no other platform even comes close to that level of demand let alone 60m.
I'm fairly sure I've seen conference talks on YouTube with claims of 30 million for IPL.
Focused in a single country and not at 4k for over half of users. IPL is very impressive but Netflix are looking for a different scale, global live streaming with a similar 20ms delay everywhere for 60m users. I think only YouTube comes close and they have the power of Google/GCP behind them to achieve that.
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
The audience for that won't be anywhere near as big. This was easily one of the biggest global streaming events. All other companies don't usually have global rights and only need to serve one or two territories or like F1TV it's just not as popular or has a premium fee. This was available to all Netflix subscribers across the world, that's a potential ~250m viewers who could watch what would normally be a £50-60 PPV. Netflix hugely underestimated demand, they used their water pistol instead of the firehouse that YouTube has.
30 million is a fairly normal amount to watch the Christmas day NFL game in the US even without Beyonce doing her thing. Now that won't be the 60 million that supposed try to watch the fight on Saturday, but still a huge number of people.
But that's still just in a single country with probably just a few CDNs. I can't imagine what Netflix would actually need for this and whether they might just call it a day with these kinds of global live streams.
Was he on Putin's possible death list for any reason?
IIRC from my past reading of the Mitrokhin Archive, the KGB plotted to do things to Rudolf Nureyev after he defected.
We need to remember and remind ourselves how evil are these regimes. (Yes, that's a moral judgement.)
Or he just had an affair with the wrong person.
Just as likely some random oligarch did it, rather than the state.
Ballet dancer past his best, carrying a painful injury and facing major surgery? Any other nationality and I'd not want to rule out suicide.
Liam Payne had a similar incident a few weeks ago of course
Really ?? How did he piss Putin off ?
I worry about our French house as we're starting to let it out to tourists next year, and the upstairs bedroom windows are huge and would be easy to climb out of if you were so inclined. I read that one of the members of Supergrass broke his back falling from a first floor bedroom window in a Provence holiday let. Hopefully the insurance will cover falling tourist risk.
I hope it's not in Bellou Calvados. Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of my good friend and cameraman Michel Gemmell who fell off the roof of his house there 14 years ago. Here's one of his commercials. One of my favourites and a fitting tribute.....
It's not, but gosh this sort of thing does seem to happen a lot. Your poor friend. A family friend of ours had a house in Calvados and broke (I think) his pelvis falling off a ladder. Was alone and stuck on the ground for hours before he managed to shout to a passer by on the road.
Rule one of anything vaguely hazardous. Don’t do it alone. This includes ladders.
Especially ladders.
The logistics of having two people on a domestic ladder are tricky though. I do prefer to go solo
You are supposed to have someone at the foot of the ladder to steady it. The number of people who don’t know that….
Get a decent ladder with bracing at the base - and/or fix it in at the top so it can't slip.
Lloyds Bank accused of swamping car finance lawyers with truckloads of post
Courmacs Legal claims lender sent ‘tens of thousands’ of letters daily to stop compensation claims
Lloyds Bank has been accused of “swamping” lawyers with truckloads of post to stop them claiming compensation for drivers in the car finance mis-selling scandal.
Courmacs Legal claimed it was receiving “tens of thousands” of legal letters every day from the bank’s finance arm, Black Horse, which other lenders instead send electronically.
Darren Smith, the managing director of Courmacs Legal, said: “We receive cages of post. We’ve gone from having the conventional post van that arrives at your house to a large transit van.
“We now get our post delivered by a truck from the Post Office because they are trying to swamp us out with post.”
Lloyds sent me a letter yesterday confirming I had such a finance agreement. But the form for getting compensation requires me to fill in long-form answers on why I deserve it. Going to hold off for now and wait in the hope that the legal system forces them to make it much simpler and almost automatic.
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
The audience for that won't be anywhere near as big. This was easily one of the biggest global streaming events. All other companies don't usually have global rights and only need to serve one or two territories or like F1TV it's just not as popular or has a premium fee. This was available to all Netflix subscribers across the world, that's a potential ~250m viewers who could watch what would normally be a £50-60 PPV. Netflix hugely underestimated demand, they used their water pistol instead of the firehouse that YouTube has.
30 million is a fairly normal amount to watch the Christmas day NFL game in the US even without Beyonce doing her thing. Now that won't be the 60 million that supposed try to watch the fight on Saturday, but still a huge number of people.
But that's still just in a single country with probably just a few CDNs. I can't imagine what Netflix would actually need for this and whether they might just call it a day with these kinds of global live streams.
At the moment we are at a cross roads in sports streaming. There is a fragmented landscape of certain sports having really leaned into their own streaming platforms, while other sports are still very much still built solely around the traditional model of selling the rights to linear tv.
So far Amazon have only really dipped their toes in the water and the product they produce has been substandard. Not sure what Netflix game plan is with this one-off event and then the odd random sports-ball match.
Lloyds Bank accused of swamping car finance lawyers with truckloads of post
Courmacs Legal claims lender sent ‘tens of thousands’ of letters daily to stop compensation claims
Lloyds Bank has been accused of “swamping” lawyers with truckloads of post to stop them claiming compensation for drivers in the car finance mis-selling scandal.
Courmacs Legal claimed it was receiving “tens of thousands” of legal letters every day from the bank’s finance arm, Black Horse, which other lenders instead send electronically.
Darren Smith, the managing director of Courmacs Legal, said: “We receive cages of post. We’ve gone from having the conventional post van that arrives at your house to a large transit van.
“We now get our post delivered by a truck from the Post Office because they are trying to swamp us out with post.”
Lloyds sent me a letter yesterday confirming I had such a finance agreement. But the form for getting compensation requires me to fill in long-form answers on why I deserve it. Going to hold off for now and wait in the hope that the legal system forces them to make it much simpler and almost automatic.
That is really straightforward - just reference Wood v Commercial First Business Ltd and Others which is the original court case that this all stems from..
Lloyds Bank accused of swamping car finance lawyers with truckloads of post
Courmacs Legal claims lender sent ‘tens of thousands’ of letters daily to stop compensation claims
Lloyds Bank has been accused of “swamping” lawyers with truckloads of post to stop them claiming compensation for drivers in the car finance mis-selling scandal.
Courmacs Legal claimed it was receiving “tens of thousands” of legal letters every day from the bank’s finance arm, Black Horse, which other lenders instead send electronically.
Darren Smith, the managing director of Courmacs Legal, said: “We receive cages of post. We’ve gone from having the conventional post van that arrives at your house to a large transit van.
“We now get our post delivered by a truck from the Post Office because they are trying to swamp us out with post.”
Lloyds Bank accused of swamping car finance lawyers with truckloads of post
Courmacs Legal claims lender sent ‘tens of thousands’ of letters daily to stop compensation claims
Lloyds Bank has been accused of “swamping” lawyers with truckloads of post to stop them claiming compensation for drivers in the car finance mis-selling scandal.
Courmacs Legal claimed it was receiving “tens of thousands” of legal letters every day from the bank’s finance arm, Black Horse, which other lenders instead send electronically.
Darren Smith, the managing director of Courmacs Legal, said: “We receive cages of post. We’ve gone from having the conventional post van that arrives at your house to a large transit van.
“We now get our post delivered by a truck from the Post Office because they are trying to swamp us out with post.”
So on balance I'd take anyone over Rachel Reeves. Even with the lack of talent on the Labour front bench, I'd rather someone who didn't have a frankly dangerous view of his/her own competence and experience.
You've never worked in government I take it? I have, and most ministers I worked for had frankly dangerous views of their own competence and experience. From what I've seen, Reeves isn't particularly exceptional in that way.
The ones that didn't were the ones who never cared about the issues they were supposed to be in charge of, and only ever asked you in a panicked way five minutes before a TV interview "What am I supposed to say about this?" They were the ones Sir Humphrey would have loved - the ones who let the civil service run itself.
So on balance I'd take anyone over Rachel Reeves. Even with the lack of talent on the Labour front bench, I'd rather someone who didn't have a frankly dangerous view of his/her own competence and experience.
You've never worked in government I take it? I have, and most ministers I worked for had frankly dangerous views of their own competence and experience. From what I've seen, Reeves isn't particularly exceptional in that way.
The ones that didn't were the ones who never cared about the issues they were supposed to be in charge of, and only ever asked you in a panicked way five minutes before a TV interview "What am I supposed to say about this?" They were the ones Sir Humphrey would have loved - the ones who let the civil service run itself.
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
I’d take $40 million vs that reputation
Also with loads of money you can always deploy enough PR spin to improve your reputation, ask Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg....
I don't think Bill Gates' reputation ever needed improving.
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
I’d take $40 million vs that reputation
Also with loads of money you can always deploy enough PR spin to improve your reputation, ask Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg....
I don't think Bill Gates' reputation ever needed improving.
He clearly thought so, as he has spent $100 millions doing so.
'With Keir Starmer hoping to reset UK-China relations at the G20 summit this week, 63% of Britons currently see China as either an unfriendly nation or a threatening one
% saying China is generally... A friend and ally: 3% A friendly rival: 14% Unfriendly: 33% A hostile threat: 30%'
Only Russia is seen as a more hostile threat to the UK while Australia, New Zealand and Canada are seen as the UK's closest friends and allies https://x.com/YouGov/status/1858462115679687045
I'm always fascinated by the 3% or so you get in each poll who give the ridiculous answer.
Are they:
- completely uninformed - mentally ill - taking the piss
or a mix of the above?
Either way, worrying that they have as many votes each as the sensible 63%, as questions aren't always this clear-cut.
It's the same 3% who say they believe in vampires.
They dwell among us.
I remember quite a funny Dave Gorman episode where he looked at YouGov panel. It had some crackers e.g. fans of Little Mix are far more right wing, than fans of Karl Marx are left wing.
I enjoyed the Product of the Year, where the organising company makes millions by charging £0 for entering, £4k for being shortlisted, and £18k for winning, across 40+ categories in the UK. Their only expense is paper shuffling, a panel, a not-large survey, and presumably some publicity.
The reward is you get to display their meaningless trademarked logo.
'With Keir Starmer hoping to reset UK-China relations at the G20 summit this week, 63% of Britons currently see China as either an unfriendly nation or a threatening one
% saying China is generally... A friend and ally: 3% A friendly rival: 14% Unfriendly: 33% A hostile threat: 30%'
Only Russia is seen as a more hostile threat to the UK while Australia, New Zealand and Canada are seen as the UK's closest friends and allies https://x.com/YouGov/status/1858462115679687045
I'm always fascinated by the 3% or so you get in each poll who give the ridiculous answer.
Are they:
- completely uninformed - mentally ill - taking the piss
or a mix of the above?
Either way, worrying that they have as many votes each as the sensible 63%, as questions aren't always this clear-cut.
It's the same 3% who say they believe in vampires.
They dwell among us.
I remember quite a funny Dave Gorman episode where he looked at YouGov panel. It had some crackers e.g. fans of Little Mix are far more right wing, than fans of Karl Marx are left wing.
I enjoyed the Product of the Year, where the organising company makes millions by charging £0 for entering, £4k for being shortlisted, and £18k for winning, across 40+ categories in the UK. Their only expense is paper shuffling, a panel, a not-large survey, and presumably some publicity.
The reward is you get to display their meaningless trademarked logo.
Was he on Putin's possible death list for any reason?
IIRC from my past reading of the Mitrokhin Archive, the KGB plotted to do things to Rudolf Nureyev after he defected.
We need to remember and remind ourselves how evil are these regimes. (Yes, that's a moral judgement.)
Or he just had an affair with the wrong person.
Just as likely some random oligarch did it, rather than the state.
Ballet dancer past his best, carrying a painful injury and facing major surgery? Any other nationality and I'd not want to rule out suicide.
Liam Payne had a similar incident a few weeks ago of course
Really ?? How did he piss Putin off ?
I worry about our French house as we're starting to let it out to tourists next year, and the upstairs bedroom windows are huge and would be easy to climb out of if you were so inclined. I read that one of the members of Supergrass broke his back falling from a first floor bedroom window in a Provence holiday let. Hopefully the insurance will cover falling tourist risk.
I hope it's not in Bellou Calvados. Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of my good friend and cameraman Michel Gemmell who fell off the roof of his house there 14 years ago. Here's one of his commercials. One of my favourites and a fitting tribute.....
It's not, but gosh this sort of thing does seem to happen a lot. Your poor friend. A family friend of ours had a house in Calvados and broke (I think) his pelvis falling off a ladder. Was alone and stuck on the ground for hours before he managed to shout to a passer by on the road.
Rule one of anything vaguely hazardous. Don’t do it alone. This includes ladders.
Especially ladders.
The logistics of having two people on a domestic ladder are tricky though. I do prefer to go solo
You are supposed to have someone at the foot of the ladder to steady it. The number of people who don’t know that….
Get a decent ladder with bracing at the base - and/or fix it in at the top so it can't slip.
… and the have someone at the bottom as well.
The number of ladder stories that started with - “I set the ladder up right - square, braced at the foot….”
Was he on Putin's possible death list for any reason?
IIRC from my past reading of the Mitrokhin Archive, the KGB plotted to do things to Rudolf Nureyev after he defected.
We need to remember and remind ourselves how evil are these regimes. (Yes, that's a moral judgement.)
Or he just had an affair with the wrong person.
Just as likely some random oligarch did it, rather than the state.
Ballet dancer past his best, carrying a painful injury and facing major surgery? Any other nationality and I'd not want to rule out suicide.
Liam Payne had a similar incident a few weeks ago of course
Really ?? How did he piss Putin off ?
I worry about our French house as we're starting to let it out to tourists next year, and the upstairs bedroom windows are huge and would be easy to climb out of if you were so inclined. I read that one of the members of Supergrass broke his back falling from a first floor bedroom window in a Provence holiday let. Hopefully the insurance will cover falling tourist risk.
I hope it's not in Bellou Calvados. Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of my good friend and cameraman Michel Gemmell who fell off the roof of his house there 14 years ago. Here's one of his commercials. One of my favourites and a fitting tribute.....
It's not, but gosh this sort of thing does seem to happen a lot. Your poor friend. A family friend of ours had a house in Calvados and broke (I think) his pelvis falling off a ladder. Was alone and stuck on the ground for hours before he managed to shout to a passer by on the road.
Long summer evenings overweight and too much Calvados gave him the idea he could fix the roof .... It's that sort of place
Just the idea of a “long summer evening in Calvados” makes me slightly tearful
Starmer about to sell the country out to China now. He already gave up the Chagos Islands to China, wonder what they'll ask for next?
UK paying China compensation over Opium Wars?
They still haven't forgiven us for smuggling Chinese tea plants to India and setting up in competition. That's why they continue to take a relaxed view about western IP.
Starmer about to sell the country out to China now. He already gave up the Chagos Islands to China, wonder what they'll ask for next?
UK paying China compensation over Opium Wars?
They still haven't forgiven us for smuggling Chinese tea plants to India and setting up in competition. That's why they continue to take a relaxed view about western IP.
The relaxed view of IP isn't exclusive to western companies. Try being a Chinese tech start-up in China that might disrupt one of the big players bottom line, your IP won't see any protection at all (unless your family member is somebody important in the party).
Was he on Putin's possible death list for any reason?
IIRC from my past reading of the Mitrokhin Archive, the KGB plotted to do things to Rudolf Nureyev after he defected.
We need to remember and remind ourselves how evil are these regimes. (Yes, that's a moral judgement.)
Or he just had an affair with the wrong person.
Just as likely some random oligarch did it, rather than the state.
Ballet dancer past his best, carrying a painful injury and facing major surgery? Any other nationality and I'd not want to rule out suicide.
Liam Payne had a similar incident a few weeks ago of course
Really ?? How did he piss Putin off ?
I worry about our French house as we're starting to let it out to tourists next year, and the upstairs bedroom windows are huge and would be easy to climb out of if you were so inclined. I read that one of the members of Supergrass broke his back falling from a first floor bedroom window in a Provence holiday let. Hopefully the insurance will cover falling tourist risk.
I hope it's not in Bellou Calvados. Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of my good friend and cameraman Michel Gemmell who fell off the roof of his house there 14 years ago. Here's one of his commercials. One of my favourites and a fitting tribute.....
It's not, but gosh this sort of thing does seem to happen a lot. Your poor friend. A family friend of ours had a house in Calvados and broke (I think) his pelvis falling off a ladder. Was alone and stuck on the ground for hours before he managed to shout to a passer by on the road.
Rule one of anything vaguely hazardous. Don’t do it alone. This includes ladders.
Especially ladders.
The logistics of having two people on a domestic ladder are tricky though. I do prefer to go solo
You are supposed to have someone at the foot of the ladder to steady it. The number of people who don’t know that….
Get a decent ladder with bracing at the base - and/or fix it in at the top so it can't slip.
… and the have someone at the bottom as well.
The number of ladder stories that started with - “I set the ladder up right - square, braced at the foot….”
I don’t understand this conversation. Aren’t ladders those things the staff* use to get to the guttering? Why should I know how to operate one?
*Admittedly she prefers to be called “Mrs Biggles”.
Biden rather than Harris' favourability ratings seem to have been more indicative of the result so we should probably look at Trump's ratings in 2028 rather than Vance.
Yes. With Trump term-limited, Vance is the obvious continuity candidate. He will be under more focus than many VPs have been from the outset.
Having had a kidney problem misdiagnosed by a doctor who specialised in the condition he misdiagnosed for me, I can well believe this. (Caveat, it's only a small study, so far from conclusive.)
In a surprising small-scale study, ChatGPT-4 outperformed doctors at diagnosing medical cases, even when those doctors had access to the same chatbot. Published in JAMA Network Open, the study tested 50 physicians on six challenging medical cases. The chatbot scored 90%, compared to 76% for doctors using ChatGPT and 74% for those relying only on conventional resources.
The findings highlight three critical issues: 1. Human Bias: Many doctors clung to their initial diagnoses, even when the chatbot suggested alternatives with better reasoning. 2. Underutilization: Most physicians used ChatGPT for targeted questions, failing to exploit its ability to analyze entire case histories comprehensively. 3. Trust Gap: Despite ChatGPT’s superior performance, skepticism remains about integrating A.I. into clinical workflows...
I'd need to see the split of diagnoses there - does the ChatGPT just pick the most common that kind of matches the symptoms? If so, then it could do potentially do well on accuracy by consistently picking the most common diagnoses. Also have to consider the downsides of misdiagnoses in each case. Have to go and find the study to see what the measures were. When I have time.
It may well be as impressive as it sounds, but I hate accuracy as a measure when you don't know the underlying distribution of things.
Also, how did ChatGPT score 90% on six cases? Or did it get 300 goes (50 physicians x 6 cases) like the physicians?
As far as the cases are concerned: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2825395 ..Clinical vignettes were adapted from a landmark study that set the standard for the evaluation of computer-based diagnostic systems. All cases in this study were based on actual patients and included information available on initial diagnostic evaluation, such as history, physical examination, and laboratory test results. The cases have never been publicly released to protect the validity of the test materials for future use, and therefore are excluded from training data of the LLM...
It would be interesting to see how it actually performed in a clinical setting, but that sort of trial would take a lot longer.
Historically, the problem in health informatics is that computer scientists think that diagnosis is the main problem in medicine. A lot of diagnosis is trivially easy. Most doctors don’t spend most of their time on diagnosis. Most of medicine is treatment. Vast amounts of healthcare is dealing with people who have the same condition they’ve had for years, be it diabetes, depression, dementia, back pain, extreme pineapple intolerance, or whatever.
Diagnosing diabetes is easy. Getting the person with pre-diabetes to take their diagnosis seriously, and to eat better and do more exercise, that’s difficult.
Finland has always seemed a bit pointless and “extra”. I mean: Iceland is proper fun. Denmark is near and has Lego. Norway is genuinely Nordic - it’s in the name - and Sweden has meatballs, IKEA and ABBA. All good
But what’s the point of Finland? Just an extra sticky-out bit that exhausts the theme, like that sixth season of House where it all went wrong
Just call it something else. Like, I dunno, “Russia”. Sorted
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
The audience for that won't be anywhere near as big. This was easily one of the biggest global streaming events. All other companies don't usually have global rights and only need to serve one or two territories or like F1TV it's just not as popular or has a premium fee. This was available to all Netflix subscribers across the world, that's a potential ~250m viewers who could watch what would normally be a £50-60 PPV. Netflix hugely underestimated demand, they used their water pistol instead of the firehouse that YouTube has.
30 million is a fairly normal amount to watch the Christmas day NFL game in the US even without Beyonce doing her thing. Now that won't be the 60 million that supposed try to watch the fight on Saturday, but still a huge number of people.
But that's still just in a single country with probably just a few CDNs. I can't imagine what Netflix would actually need for this and whether they might just call it a day with these kinds of global live streams.
Well Netflix have just doubled down on the Christmas day NFL game. - Beyonce will bring in an audience even if the match doesn't..
Beyoncé will perform live during halftime of an NFL Christmas Day game on Netflix, the streaming giant announced. It is the first time NFL games will streamed live on its service.
The star will perform in her hometown of Houston, where the Texans will host the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium.
Starmer about to sell the country out to China now. He already gave up the Chagos Islands to China, wonder what they'll ask for next?
Shein IPO in London, after NY turned them down? A few billion in hard currency heading back to China.
I presume all the usual types will be outraged about their links to slave trade....and when I say links, I don't mean there is some relative from 300 years ago that was involved, I mean they use cotton produced by Uyghurs slaves (hence why NY won't have them).
I’d love to have a long chat with the 13% of LibDem voters with a favourable view. I don’t understand that at all.
They liked him because he split the Tory vote in some seats the Lib Dems won.
No, Trump. 13% have a favourable view of Trump in that poll. Bonkers.
Oh that, it’s obvious, his planned policies make joining the EU inevitable.
Show your workings. 500 words maximum.
I do wonder how long it will take until people realise that will never happen again.
If Trump follows through on his policies either the UK needs to get a very favourable deal or we will need to shift closure to the EU just to avoid contagion from the tariffs...
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
The audience for that won't be anywhere near as big. This was easily one of the biggest global streaming events. All other companies don't usually have global rights and only need to serve one or two territories or like F1TV it's just not as popular or has a premium fee. This was available to all Netflix subscribers across the world, that's a potential ~250m viewers who could watch what would normally be a £50-60 PPV. Netflix hugely underestimated demand, they used their water pistol instead of the firehouse that YouTube has.
30 million is a fairly normal amount to watch the Christmas day NFL game in the US even without Beyonce doing her thing. Now that won't be the 60 million that supposed try to watch the fight on Saturday, but still a huge number of people.
But that's still just in a single country with probably just a few CDNs. I can't imagine what Netflix would actually need for this and whether they might just call it a day with these kinds of global live streams.
Well Netflix have just doubled down on the Christmas day NFL game. - Beyonce will bring in an audience even if the match doesn't..
Beyoncé will perform live during halftime of an NFL Christmas Day game on Netflix, the streaming giant announced. It is the first time NFL games will streamed live on its service.
The star will perform in her hometown of Houston, where the Texans will host the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium.
Live on actual Christmas Day? I thought the Americans were more religious than us? Do they have sport on the day itself?
I’d love to have a long chat with the 13% of LibDem voters with a favourable view. I don’t understand that at all.
They liked him because he split the Tory vote in some seats the Lib Dems won.
No, Trump. 13% have a favourable view of Trump in that poll. Bonkers.
Oh that, it’s obvious, his planned policies make joining the EU inevitable.
Show your workings. 500 words maximum.
I do wonder how long it will take until people realise that will never happen again.
If Trump follows through on his policies either the UK needs to get a very favourable deal or we will need to shift closure to the EU just to avoid contagion from the tariffs...
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
The audience for that won't be anywhere near as big. This was easily one of the biggest global streaming events. All other companies don't usually have global rights and only need to serve one or two territories or like F1TV it's just not as popular or has a premium fee. This was available to all Netflix subscribers across the world, that's a potential ~250m viewers who could watch what would normally be a £50-60 PPV. Netflix hugely underestimated demand, they used their water pistol instead of the firehouse that YouTube has.
30 million is a fairly normal amount to watch the Christmas day NFL game in the US even without Beyonce doing her thing. Now that won't be the 60 million that supposed try to watch the fight on Saturday, but still a huge number of people.
But that's still just in a single country with probably just a few CDNs. I can't imagine what Netflix would actually need for this and whether they might just call it a day with these kinds of global live streams.
Well Netflix have just doubled down on the Christmas day NFL game. - Beyonce will bring in an audience even if the match doesn't..
Beyoncé will perform live during halftime of an NFL Christmas Day game on Netflix, the streaming giant announced. It is the first time NFL games will streamed live on its service.
The star will perform in her hometown of Houston, where the Texans will host the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium.
Live on actual Christmas Day? I thought the Americans were more religious than us? Do they have sport on the day itself?
American's religion is capitalism....it is normal to have big sportsball matches on the big holidays as they get mega audience. 30 million viewers for Christmas day NFL game. Boxing day isn't a thing in US.
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
The audience for that won't be anywhere near as big. This was easily one of the biggest global streaming events. All other companies don't usually have global rights and only need to serve one or two territories or like F1TV it's just not as popular or has a premium fee. This was available to all Netflix subscribers across the world, that's a potential ~250m viewers who could watch what would normally be a £50-60 PPV. Netflix hugely underestimated demand, they used their water pistol instead of the firehouse that YouTube has.
30 million is a fairly normal amount to watch the Christmas day NFL game in the US even without Beyonce doing her thing. Now that won't be the 60 million that supposed try to watch the fight on Saturday, but still a huge number of people.
But that's still just in a single country with probably just a few CDNs. I can't imagine what Netflix would actually need for this and whether they might just call it a day with these kinds of global live streams.
Well Netflix have just doubled down on the Christmas day NFL game. - Beyonce will bring in an audience even if the match doesn't..
Beyoncé will perform live during halftime of an NFL Christmas Day game on Netflix, the streaming giant announced. It is the first time NFL games will streamed live on its service.
The star will perform in her hometown of Houston, where the Texans will host the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium.
Well they’ve got five weeks to sort out their live streaming CDN, at least for the North American market. Might want to test something in Europe for the half time show as well, which will be late evening in that market (roughly 11pm UK time).
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
The audience for that won't be anywhere near as big. This was easily one of the biggest global streaming events. All other companies don't usually have global rights and only need to serve one or two territories or like F1TV it's just not as popular or has a premium fee. This was available to all Netflix subscribers across the world, that's a potential ~250m viewers who could watch what would normally be a £50-60 PPV. Netflix hugely underestimated demand, they used their water pistol instead of the firehouse that YouTube has.
30 million is a fairly normal amount to watch the Christmas day NFL game in the US even without Beyonce doing her thing. Now that won't be the 60 million that supposed try to watch the fight on Saturday, but still a huge number of people.
But that's still just in a single country with probably just a few CDNs. I can't imagine what Netflix would actually need for this and whether they might just call it a day with these kinds of global live streams.
Well Netflix have just doubled down on the Christmas day NFL game. - Beyonce will bring in an audience even if the match doesn't..
Beyoncé will perform live during halftime of an NFL Christmas Day game on Netflix, the streaming giant announced. It is the first time NFL games will streamed live on its service.
The star will perform in her hometown of Houston, where the Texans will host the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium.
Live on actual Christmas Day? I thought the Americans were more religious than us? Do they have sport on the day itself?
Yup! Two matches on Christmas Day, and they’ll get some of the largest TV audiences for regular season games. Will be sold out in the stadia as well.
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
The audience for that won't be anywhere near as big. This was easily one of the biggest global streaming events. All other companies don't usually have global rights and only need to serve one or two territories or like F1TV it's just not as popular or has a premium fee. This was available to all Netflix subscribers across the world, that's a potential ~250m viewers who could watch what would normally be a £50-60 PPV. Netflix hugely underestimated demand, they used their water pistol instead of the firehouse that YouTube has.
30 million is a fairly normal amount to watch the Christmas day NFL game in the US even without Beyonce doing her thing. Now that won't be the 60 million that supposed try to watch the fight on Saturday, but still a huge number of people.
But that's still just in a single country with probably just a few CDNs. I can't imagine what Netflix would actually need for this and whether they might just call it a day with these kinds of global live streams.
Well Netflix have just doubled down on the Christmas day NFL game. - Beyonce will bring in an audience even if the match doesn't..
Beyoncé will perform live during halftime of an NFL Christmas Day game on Netflix, the streaming giant announced. It is the first time NFL games will streamed live on its service.
The star will perform in her hometown of Houston, where the Texans will host the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium.
Live on actual Christmas Day? I thought the Americans were more religious than us? Do they have sport on the day itself?
American's religion is capitalism....it is normal to have big sportsball matches on the big holidays as they get mega audience. 30 million viewers for Christmas day NFL game. Boxing day isn't a thing in US.
Pretty sure we used to have Christmas Day football in the UK too.
I’d love to have a long chat with the 13% of LibDem voters with a favourable view. I don’t understand that at all.
They liked him because he split the Tory vote in some seats the Lib Dems won.
No, Trump. 13% have a favourable view of Trump in that poll. Bonkers.
Oh that, it’s obvious, his planned policies make joining the EU inevitable.
Show your workings. 500 words maximum.
I do wonder how long it will take until people realise that will never happen again.
He pulls out of NATO and/or applies tariffs to the UK.
He also gives Putin the green light to invade outside of Ukraine.
An EU/European Army is essential, helping trade will too
So you can’t show anything of the sort.
If he pulls out of NATO, the European defence agreement that follows will be built on NATO. It will need multiple members not in the EU.
That is, of course, not even touching on the fact that Ukraine shows us that western militaries out match his. He couldn’t invade Poland without a humiliating defeat, never mind Europe.
Nuclear weapons are an issue, but that would make us more essential that ever, alongside the French, in helping to retain a nuclear umbrella; giving us massive leverage. Stick to law - you don’t get defence.
His tariff policies might or might not push us into a closer trading relationship, necessitating some rule taking, but that has nothing to do with joining the EU.
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
The entire world is going to shift right - the immigrants arriving now are only a small number compared to what we will see as global warming really takes effect...
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
The audience for that won't be anywhere near as big. This was easily one of the biggest global streaming events. All other companies don't usually have global rights and only need to serve one or two territories or like F1TV it's just not as popular or has a premium fee. This was available to all Netflix subscribers across the world, that's a potential ~250m viewers who could watch what would normally be a £50-60 PPV. Netflix hugely underestimated demand, they used their water pistol instead of the firehouse that YouTube has.
30 million is a fairly normal amount to watch the Christmas day NFL game in the US even without Beyonce doing her thing. Now that won't be the 60 million that supposed try to watch the fight on Saturday, but still a huge number of people.
But that's still just in a single country with probably just a few CDNs. I can't imagine what Netflix would actually need for this and whether they might just call it a day with these kinds of global live streams.
Well Netflix have just doubled down on the Christmas day NFL game. - Beyonce will bring in an audience even if the match doesn't..
Beyoncé will perform live during halftime of an NFL Christmas Day game on Netflix, the streaming giant announced. It is the first time NFL games will streamed live on its service.
The star will perform in her hometown of Houston, where the Texans will host the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium.
Live on actual Christmas Day? I thought the Americans were more religious than us? Do they have sport on the day itself?
American's religion is capitalism....it is normal to have big sportsball matches on the big holidays as they get mega audience. 30 million viewers for Christmas day NFL game. Boxing day isn't a thing in US.
Pretty sure we used to have Christmas Day football in the UK too.
Edit - just checked - last time was 1965.
Seems like a great idea. Something just after the King to fall asleep to.
I have said before, I would introduce American style sheriffs alongside the police. Tell them to have at it. If the police didn't sort their shit out, more and more of their funding would go to the sheriffs. They are a monopoly, and all monopolies have the same effect.
FPT Scotland already has Sheriffs, though I can't quite imagine them delivering 'summary justice' in the same way as an American Sheriff from the bench, giving them a six-shooter might change the dynamics in court somewhat. Perhaps @DavidL is in a better place to comment.
I don’t think we're alone - pretty sure England has some too no? But of course I speak of the US kind. I hadn't thought of giving them pistols but the idea is tempting.
In England these days I think we have High Sheriffs, who are a ceremonial official representing the monarch, like Lord Lieutenants.
In Scotland they are a legal official analogous to I think a District Judge in England.
I'm never quite sure what a Justice of the Peace is, except they sometimes emerge to do things. The last I heard of one was when a well-connected friend wanted to put up a notice withdrawing the common law right of some officials to enter his property.
Matt, just for you Justice of the Peace courts replaced the previous district courts. In Justice of the Peace courts, lay justices of the peace work with a legally qualified clerk of court who gives advice on law and procedure. Justices of the peace handle minor criminal matters.
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
The audience for that won't be anywhere near as big. This was easily one of the biggest global streaming events. All other companies don't usually have global rights and only need to serve one or two territories or like F1TV it's just not as popular or has a premium fee. This was available to all Netflix subscribers across the world, that's a potential ~250m viewers who could watch what would normally be a £50-60 PPV. Netflix hugely underestimated demand, they used their water pistol instead of the firehouse that YouTube has.
30 million is a fairly normal amount to watch the Christmas day NFL game in the US even without Beyonce doing her thing. Now that won't be the 60 million that supposed try to watch the fight on Saturday, but still a huge number of people.
But that's still just in a single country with probably just a few CDNs. I can't imagine what Netflix would actually need for this and whether they might just call it a day with these kinds of global live streams.
Well Netflix have just doubled down on the Christmas day NFL game. - Beyonce will bring in an audience even if the match doesn't..
Beyoncé will perform live during halftime of an NFL Christmas Day game on Netflix, the streaming giant announced. It is the first time NFL games will streamed live on its service.
The star will perform in her hometown of Houston, where the Texans will host the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium.
Live on actual Christmas Day? I thought the Americans were more religious than us? Do they have sport on the day itself?
American's religion is capitalism....it is normal to have big sportsball matches on the big holidays as they get mega audience. 30 million viewers for Christmas day NFL game. Boxing day isn't a thing in US.
Pretty sure we used to have Christmas Day football in the UK too.
Edit - just checked - last time was 1965.
Seems like a great idea. Something just after the King to fall asleep to.
Reading up it seemed to have been a thing from the start of league football and often involved back to back home and away ties (often on Christmas Day then Boxing Day). A lot less entertainment in those days of course.
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
The entire world is going to shift right - the immigrants arriving now are only a small number compared to what we will see as global warming really takes effect...
I’d love to have a long chat with the 13% of LibDem voters with a favourable view. I don’t understand that at all.
They liked him because he split the Tory vote in some seats the Lib Dems won.
No, Trump. 13% have a favourable view of Trump in that poll. Bonkers.
Oh that, it’s obvious, his planned policies make joining the EU inevitable.
Show your workings. 500 words maximum.
I do wonder how long it will take until people realise that will never happen again.
If Trump follows through on his policies either the UK needs to get a very favourable deal or we will need to shift closure to the EU just to avoid contagion from the tariffs...
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
Hardcore remainers' EU forelock tugging is a far more deeply ingrained predeliction than any distaste they might have for fascism. They will simply explain it away. It will be lovely continental fascism - cut from a far silkier cloth than the lumpen British variety.
I have said before, I would introduce American style sheriffs alongside the police. Tell them to have at it. If the police didn't sort their shit out, more and more of their funding would go to the sheriffs. They are a monopoly, and all monopolies have the same effect.
FPT Scotland already has Sheriffs, though I can't quite imagine them delivering 'summary justice' in the same way as an American Sheriff from the bench, giving them a six-shooter might change the dynamics in court somewhat. Perhaps @DavidL is in a better place to comment.
I don’t think we're alone - pretty sure England has some too no? But of course I speak of the US kind. I hadn't thought of giving them pistols but the idea is tempting.
In England these days I think we have High Sheriffs, who are a ceremonial official representing the monarch, like Lord Lieutenants.
In Scotland they are a legal official analogous to I think a District Judge in England.
I'm never quite sure what a Justice of the Peace is, except they sometimes emerge to do things. The last I heard of one was when a well-connected friend wanted to put up a notice withdrawing the common law right of some officials to enter his property.
Matt, just for you Justice of the Peace courts replaced the previous district courts. In Justice of the Peace courts, lay justices of the peace work with a legally qualified clerk of court who gives advice on law and procedure. Justices of the peace handle minor criminal matters.
What in England would be called the Magistrates’ Court.
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
The entire world is going to shift right - the immigrants arriving now are only a small number compared to what we will see as global warming really takes effect...
The barbed wire will be up long before that
It seems likely that the west will redefine what asylum is in the nearish future. We have an odd geographical situation in the UK - the channel provides a decent obstacle to migrants/asylum seekers etc trying to reach us. And the number one point that annoys many people (mainly on the right, but they are allowed to have opinions) is that anyone leaving France to try to reach the UK to claim asylum is leaving a safe country.
It doesn't matter how many times we are reminded that there is no requirement to claim asylum in the first safe country, most people, I think, suspect that anyone not doing so, or at least not doing so in France, is asylum 'shopping' - preferring the hell-hole that is the UK to the paradise of France. And they don't believe that that is how asylum ought to work.
And we have blurred to lines around asylum/migration so much now that we have forgotten what asylum was originally for.
Twitter is absolutely without peer for on the spot footage of whatever event has just occurred. It showed the shooting at the Fishmongers/London Bridge, for example and generally, if disappointingly, has footage of just about anything serious and bad that happens from moments after and often as it is happening as someone had their camera out to take pictures of their local Budgens/the moon/whatever.
It is also good for the following things:
1. Reading what latest lunacy your political foes are thinking or pushing (eg James O'B, Owen J); 2. Steve Inman's non-essential commentary; and 3. The odd time spent doom-scrolling as long as strictly time-limited.
Carl Froch is getting tasty with Jake Paul on there as well. Apart from the payday aspect, I think the Tyson fight has been a disaster for Paul. Sure he'll make money, but no one takes him seriously as a pro boxer.
Agree. Maybe The Cobra senses a payday.
I haven't brought myself to watch the fight given I was calling it strongly for Tyson, but I did see a couple of clips, one where Paul tagged Tyson and several the other way round.
How did you see it.
It wasn't a fight. It was an old bloke hobbling around the ring, while the young bloke occasionally jabbed him before running away. Rinse and repeat for 2mins x 8. I've seen more action waiting for a taxi on a Friday night in town (not when the pubs are closing, when the play centre closes).
You were lucky if you actually got to watch it, rather than watching a buffering screen, followed by a network error screen, followed by missing two rounds as you restarted your TV box…
The biggest platform fail since Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch on Twitter.
The thing I don't get is why was Netflix (whose entire infrastructure is designed around streaming recorded data which is kept locally to minimise costs all round) trying to do a really big show as it's first attempt as it's first attempt at streaming live media...
A few lower interest comedy specials would have allowed the scaling of their technology to be tested first before it very publicly fell over...
They actually did, with Joe Rogan’s special and the Tom Brady Roast both streamed live earlier this year. But this fight was an order of magnitude bigger, attracting a worldwide live audience, and they couldn’t scale the infrastructure. The suggestion is that 60m devices tried to watch it.
Their next big event will likely be okay, Amazon, Twitter, Apple, and F1TV, all had a nightmare when they first started doing live events, as it’s a different CDN technology from streaming previously recorded and uploaded files - but they all fixed it pretty quickly.
Netflix have the NFL on Christmas Day. with Beyonce doing a concert at half time. They better have their streaming tech sorted for that.
The audience for that won't be anywhere near as big. This was easily one of the biggest global streaming events. All other companies don't usually have global rights and only need to serve one or two territories or like F1TV it's just not as popular or has a premium fee. This was available to all Netflix subscribers across the world, that's a potential ~250m viewers who could watch what would normally be a £50-60 PPV. Netflix hugely underestimated demand, they used their water pistol instead of the firehouse that YouTube has.
30 million is a fairly normal amount to watch the Christmas day NFL game in the US even without Beyonce doing her thing. Now that won't be the 60 million that supposed try to watch the fight on Saturday, but still a huge number of people.
But that's still just in a single country with probably just a few CDNs. I can't imagine what Netflix would actually need for this and whether they might just call it a day with these kinds of global live streams.
Well Netflix have just doubled down on the Christmas day NFL game. - Beyonce will bring in an audience even if the match doesn't..
Beyoncé will perform live during halftime of an NFL Christmas Day game on Netflix, the streaming giant announced. It is the first time NFL games will streamed live on its service.
The star will perform in her hometown of Houston, where the Texans will host the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium.
Live on actual Christmas Day? I thought the Americans were more religious than us? Do they have sport on the day itself?
American's religion is capitalism....it is normal to have big sportsball matches on the big holidays as they get mega audience. 30 million viewers for Christmas day NFL game. Boxing day isn't a thing in US.
Pretty sure we used to have Christmas Day football in the UK too.
Edit - just checked - last time was 1965.
Seems like a great idea. Something just after the King to fall asleep to.
Reading up it seemed to have been a thing from the start of league football and often involved back to back home and away ties (often on Christmas Day then Boxing Day). A lot less entertainment in those days of course.
Although an echo of it still lives on with Boxing Day games still traditionally being derby fixtures, as was - necessarily - the case back when Christmas Day games were a thing.
Finland has always seemed a bit pointless and “extra”. I mean: Iceland is proper fun. Denmark is near and has Lego. Norway is genuinely Nordic - it’s in the name - and Sweden has meatballs, IKEA and ABBA. All good
But what’s the point of Finland? Just an extra sticky-out bit that exhausts the theme, like that sixth season of House where it all went wrong
Just call it something else. Like, I dunno, “Russia”. Sorted
You’ve either never been to Finland or, much more likely, since it’s your usual modus operandi, just jetted in and out without learning anything whatsoever.
UK consumer confidence has fallen this month, as households grow gloomier about their financial prospects.
The latest poll of consumer sentiment, just released by data firm S&P Global, shows that households reported that their current finances continued to deteriorate in November, while pessimism about the financial outlooks for the year ahead has risen.
Households across the UK reported further pressure on their everyday spending, which ate into the amount of cash they had available to spend. It has fallen again this month, at a faster rate than in October.
Debt levels rose in November for the first time in three months, the survey found.
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
Someone flagged this. I take it Remainers don’t like this awkward new fact
I think the EU would have to become a lot fiercer, to make rejoining an attractive proposition. That would mean member states ramping up military spending, and being willing both to inflict, and take, casualties in large numbers. That would mean altering the mindset of decades.
I’d love to have a long chat with the 13% of LibDem voters with a favourable view. I don’t understand that at all.
They liked him because he split the Tory vote in some seats the Lib Dems won.
No, Trump. 13% have a favourable view of Trump in that poll. Bonkers.
Oh that, it’s obvious, his planned policies make joining the EU inevitable.
Show your workings. 500 words maximum.
I do wonder how long it will take until people realise that will never happen again.
He pulls out of NATO and/or applies tariffs to the UK.
He also gives Putin the green light to invade outside of Ukraine.
An EU/European Army is essential, helping trade will too
So you can’t show anything of the sort.
If he pulls out of NATO, the European defence agreement that follows will be built on NATO. It will need multiple members not in the EU.
That is, of course, not even touching on the fact that Ukraine shows us that western militaries out match his. He couldn’t invade Poland without a humiliating defeat, never mind Europe.
Nuclear weapons are an issue, but that would make us more essential that ever, alongside the French, in helping to retain a nuclear umbrella; giving us massive leverage. Stick to law - you don’t get defence.
His tariff policies might or might not push us into a closer trading relationship, necessitating some rule taking, but that has nothing to do with joining the EU.
Why would US tariffs push us into a closer trading arrangement with the EU? UK exports to the US in terms of goods are fairly specialised - things like Scotch whisky. Trump put tariffs on Scotch before (only malts afaicr) and it wasn't great, but didn’t lead to a widespread reorientation of the whisky industry toward the EU or other markets, because that's not how things work.
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
The entire world is going to shift right - the immigrants arriving now are only a small number compared to what we will see as global warming really takes effect...
When are you expecting global warming really to take effect.
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
The entire world is going to shift right - the immigrants arriving now are only a small number compared to what we will see as global warming really takes effect...
When are you expecting global warming really to take effect.
Finland has always seemed a bit pointless and “extra”. I mean: Iceland is proper fun. Denmark is near and has Lego. Norway is genuinely Nordic - it’s in the name - and Sweden has meatballs, IKEA and ABBA. All good
But what’s the point of Finland? Just an extra sticky-out bit that exhausts the theme, like that sixth season of House where it all went wrong
Just call it something else. Like, I dunno, “Russia”. Sorted
You’ve either never been to Finland or, much more likely, since it’s your usual modus operandi, just jetted in and out without learning anything whatsoever.
I’ve not only been to Finland (four times) I’ve done the “sauna in the snowbound forest at midnight then dive in the icebound lake where we’ve just chopped a hole” rigmarole
Felt like a god, afterwards. Ended up in bed with the PR girl, too
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
The entire world is going to shift right - the immigrants arriving now are only a small number compared to what we will see as global warming really takes effect...
When are you expecting global warming really to take effect.
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
The entire world is going to shift right - the immigrants arriving now are only a small number compared to what we will see as global warming really takes effect...
When are you expecting global warming really to take effect.
Any day now, surely.
Oh God, the global warming deniers are back.
Cool it bonzo. Just wondered when @eek thinks global warming will really take effect.
Finland has always seemed a bit pointless and “extra”. I mean: Iceland is proper fun. Denmark is near and has Lego. Norway is genuinely Nordic - it’s in the name - and Sweden has meatballs, IKEA and ABBA. All good
But what’s the point of Finland? Just an extra sticky-out bit that exhausts the theme, like that sixth season of House where it all went wrong
Just call it something else. Like, I dunno, “Russia”. Sorted
You’ve either never been to Finland or, much more likely, since it’s your usual modus operandi, just jetted in and out without learning anything whatsoever.
I’ve not only been to Finland (four times) I’ve done the “sauna in the snowbound forest at midnight then dive in the icebound lake where we’ve just chopped a hole” rigmarole
Felt like a god, afterwards. Ended up in bed with the PR girl, too
Ah, memories
Then your abject ignorance is all the more remarkable.
It really is an achievement to be visiting so many parts of the world, meeting your contact at the airport and then becoming drunk in some hotel bubble by lunchtime every day, and returning just a few days later having learned almost nothing about all the places you have been, apart from what you have managed to scrape on your laptop from Wikipedia.
I’d love to have a long chat with the 13% of LibDem voters with a favourable view. I don’t understand that at all.
They liked him because he split the Tory vote in some seats the Lib Dems won.
No, Trump. 13% have a favourable view of Trump in that poll. Bonkers.
Oh that, it’s obvious, his planned policies make joining the EU inevitable.
Show your workings. 500 words maximum.
I do wonder how long it will take until people realise that will never happen again.
He pulls out of NATO and/or applies tariffs to the UK.
He also gives Putin the green light to invade outside of Ukraine.
An EU/European Army is essential, helping trade will too
So you can’t show anything of the sort.
If he pulls out of NATO, the European defence agreement that follows will be built on NATO. It will need multiple members not in the EU.
That is, of course, not even touching on the fact that Ukraine shows us that western militaries out match his. He couldn’t invade Poland without a humiliating defeat, never mind Europe.
Nuclear weapons are an issue, but that would make us more essential that ever, alongside the French, in helping to retain a nuclear umbrella; giving us massive leverage. Stick to law - you don’t get defence.
His tariff policies might or might not push us into a closer trading relationship, necessitating some rule taking, but that has nothing to do with joining the EU.
Why would US tariffs push us into a closer trading arrangement with the EU? UK exports to the US in terms of goods are fairly specialised - things like Scotch whisky. Trump put tariffs on Scotch before (only malts afaicr) and it wasn't great, but didn’t lead to a widespread reorientation of the whisky industry toward the EU or other markets, because that's not how things work.
As far as the UK is concerned, not being in the EU should be a massive positive when it comes to Trump and tariffs. UK exports to the US are mostly services, and the goods are high-end food and drink, and manufacturing such as cars.
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
Maybe, maybe not. At the moment the only EU governments genuinely hard right led are Italy's and Hungary's.
Nationalist hard right parties are in coalition governments in the Netherlands, Slovakia and Czech Republic and give confidence and supply to the Swedish centre right government but not in outright control
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
Someone flagged this. I take it Remainers don’t like this awkward new fact
I think the EU would have to become a lot fiercer, to make rejoining an attractive proposition. That would mean member states ramping up military spending, and being willing both to inflict, and take, casualties in large numbers. That would mean altering the mindset of decades.
The practical problems of rejoining the EU, by themselves, make it utterly impossible
Consider the process
You’d have to put a Rejoin promise in your manifesto
Win the election
Call a referendum
Win the referendum
Then hope and pray that - over the next 5-10 years of negotiation? - the EU doesn’t demand we hand over Gibraltar, or every fish in Scotland, and that some tiny country doesn’t veto us for the lolz
Meanwhile UK politics - and economics - would be in turmoil waiting for the decision of the EU - for a decade
It’s simply never going to happen. Its done. We’re out forever and huzzah for that
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
The entire world is going to shift right - the immigrants arriving now are only a small number compared to what we will see as global warming really takes effect...
When are you expecting global warming really to take effect.
Any day now, surely.
Oh God, the global warming deniers are back.
Cool it bonzo. Just wondered when @eek thinks global warming will really take effect.
When do you think it will.
Well it's already changing the weather - but my point was that it's likely to be as with bankruptcy - slow changes and then all at once...
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
The entire world is going to shift right - the immigrants arriving now are only a small number compared to what we will see as global warming really takes effect...
When are you expecting global warming really to take effect.
Any day now, surely.
Oh God, the global warming deniers are back.
Cool it bonzo. Just wondered when @eek thinks global warming will really take effect.
When do you think it will.
Well it's already changing the weather - but my point was that it's likely to be as with bankruptcy - slow changes and then all at once...
In the US too Trump polled best with middle aged voters not pensioners, Harris actually tied him with over 65s.
Reform did better with 45-65s than over 65s too in July and in France Macron and his party won pensioners comfortably but Le Pen won the middle aged.
It is a myth pensioners always vote for the most rightwing party. Pensioners are most likely to vote for the centre right and liberal parties but it is the middle aged most likely to vote for the far right and nationalist right, especially middle aged men.
The young are more likely to vote for populist parties of left or right
UK consumer confidence has fallen this month, as households grow gloomier about their financial prospects.
The latest poll of consumer sentiment, just released by data firm S&P Global, shows that households reported that their current finances continued to deteriorate in November, while pessimism about the financial outlooks for the year ahead has risen.
Households across the UK reported further pressure on their everyday spending, which ate into the amount of cash they had available to spend. It has fallen again this month, at a faster rate than in October.
Debt levels rose in November for the first time in three months, the survey found.
Finland has always seemed a bit pointless and “extra”. I mean: Iceland is proper fun. Denmark is near and has Lego. Norway is genuinely Nordic - it’s in the name - and Sweden has meatballs, IKEA and ABBA. All good
But what’s the point of Finland? Just an extra sticky-out bit that exhausts the theme, like that sixth season of House where it all went wrong
Just call it something else. Like, I dunno, “Russia”. Sorted
You’ve either never been to Finland or, much more likely, since it’s your usual modus operandi, just jetted in and out without learning anything whatsoever.
I’ve not only been to Finland (four times) I’ve done the “sauna in the snowbound forest at midnight then dive in the icebound lake where we’ve just chopped a hole” rigmarole
Felt like a god, afterwards. Ended up in bed with the PR girl, too
Ah, memories
Then your abject ignorance is all the more remarkable.
It really is an achievement to be visiting so many parts of the world, meeting your contact at the airport and then becoming drunk in some hotel bubble by lunchtime every day, and returning just a few days later having learned almost nothing about all the places you have been, apart from what you have managed to scrape on your laptop from Wikipedia.
And yet, inexplicably, I am professionally paid to write about my travel experiences - indeed I am paid to HAVE these travel experiences, and then thousands of people happily pay to read about them
Whereas you, sadly, have to pay to travel and no one cares what you do when you’re abroad because you’re a weird friendless idiot
I know this drives you nuts and that only adds to my pleasure. Sorry
UK consumer confidence has fallen this month, as households grow gloomier about their financial prospects.
The latest poll of consumer sentiment, just released by data firm S&P Global, shows that households reported that their current finances continued to deteriorate in November, while pessimism about the financial outlooks for the year ahead has risen.
Households across the UK reported further pressure on their everyday spending, which ate into the amount of cash they had available to spend. It has fallen again this month, at a faster rate than in October.
Debt levels rose in November for the first time in three months, the survey found.
I don't think Sunak waiting until would have helped him.
Why? He wouldn't have spent 3 months talking down Britain and then delivering a quasi-socialist budget.
The general consumer confidence might not have been quite as bad as having to endure Gordon Brittas for the past 3 months and the budget is taking things in the wrong direction, but the major impacts of that are down the road....the deterioration in UK household finances would have still been the same.
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
Someone flagged this. I take it Remainers don’t like this awkward new fact
I think the EU would have to become a lot fiercer, to make rejoining an attractive proposition. That would mean member states ramping up military spending, and being willing both to inflict, and take, casualties in large numbers. That would mean altering the mindset of decades.
If I'm honest, the battle to Remain a member of the EU was lost between 2004-2009 when it was considering the EU Constitution and then moved to the Lisbon Treaty as part of its long-term confederalism as a consequence of adopting the Euro.
That was the time when our membership could have been put on a stable footing: Blair then Brown chose to ignore it, and Cameron/Osborne pretended to be bothered by it but entirely insincerely.
Finland has always seemed a bit pointless and “extra”. I mean: Iceland is proper fun. Denmark is near and has Lego. Norway is genuinely Nordic - it’s in the name - and Sweden has meatballs, IKEA and ABBA. All good
But what’s the point of Finland? Just an extra sticky-out bit that exhausts the theme, like that sixth season of House where it all went wrong
Just call it something else. Like, I dunno, “Russia”. Sorted
You’ve either never been to Finland or, much more likely, since it’s your usual modus operandi, just jetted in and out without learning anything whatsoever.
I’ve not only been to Finland (four times) I’ve done the “sauna in the snowbound forest at midnight then dive in the icebound lake where we’ve just chopped a hole” rigmarole
Felt like a god, afterwards. Ended up in bed with the PR girl, too
Ah, memories
Then your abject ignorance is all the more remarkable.
It really is an achievement to be visiting so many parts of the world, meeting your contact at the airport and then becoming drunk in some hotel bubble by lunchtime every day, and returning just a few days later having learned almost nothing about all the places you have been, apart from what you have managed to scrape on your laptop from Wikipedia.
And yet, inexplicably, I am professionally paid to write about my travel experiences - indeed I am paid to HAVE these travel experiences, and then thousands of people happily pay to read about them
Whereas you, sadly, have to pay to travel and no one cares what you do when you’re abroad because you’re a weird friendless idiot
I know this drives you nuts and that only adds to my pleasure. Sorry
Finland has always seemed a bit pointless and “extra”. I mean: Iceland is proper fun. Denmark is near and has Lego. Norway is genuinely Nordic - it’s in the name - and Sweden has meatballs, IKEA and ABBA. All good
But what’s the point of Finland? Just an extra sticky-out bit that exhausts the theme, like that sixth season of House where it all went wrong
Just call it something else. Like, I dunno, “Russia”. Sorted
You’ve either never been to Finland or, much more likely, since it’s your usual modus operandi, just jetted in and out without learning anything whatsoever.
I’ve not only been to Finland (four times) I’ve done the “sauna in the snowbound forest at midnight then dive in the icebound lake where we’ve just chopped a hole” rigmarole
Felt like a god, afterwards. Ended up in bed with the PR girl, too
Ah, memories
Then your abject ignorance is all the more remarkable.
It really is an achievement to be visiting so many parts of the world, meeting your contact at the airport and then becoming drunk in some hotel bubble by lunchtime every day, and returning just a few days later having learned almost nothing about all the places you have been, apart from what you have managed to scrape on your laptop from Wikipedia.
And yet, weirdly, I am professionally paid to write about my travel experiences - indeed I am paid to HAVE these travel experiences, and then thousands of people happily pay to read about them
Whereas you, sadly, have to pay to travel and no one cares what you do when you’re abroad because you’re a weird friendless idiot
I know this drives you nuts and that only adds to my pleasure. Sorry
I’m happy and able to afford my time spent travelling.
That I am able to return from Finland, with an appreciation of its culture and history and fully understanding why it would never consent to being renamed ‘Russia’, while you travel for nothing and come back with precisely your money’s worth, in terms of understanding and knowledge, says it all.
Finland has always seemed a bit pointless and “extra”. I mean: Iceland is proper fun. Denmark is near and has Lego. Norway is genuinely Nordic - it’s in the name - and Sweden has meatballs, IKEA and ABBA. All good
But what’s the point of Finland? Just an extra sticky-out bit that exhausts the theme, like that sixth season of House where it all went wrong
Just call it something else. Like, I dunno, “Russia”. Sorted
You’ve either never been to Finland or, much more likely, since it’s your usual modus operandi, just jetted in and out without learning anything whatsoever.
I’ve not only been to Finland (four times) I’ve done the “sauna in the snowbound forest at midnight then dive in the icebound lake where we’ve just chopped a hole” rigmarole
Felt like a god, afterwards. Ended up in bed with the PR girl, too
Ah, memories
Then your abject ignorance is all the more remarkable.
It really is an achievement to be visiting so many parts of the world, meeting your contact at the airport and then becoming drunk in some hotel bubble by lunchtime every day, and returning just a few days later having learned almost nothing about all the places you have been, apart from what you have managed to scrape on your laptop from Wikipedia.
And yet, weirdly, I am professionally paid to write about my travel experiences - indeed I am paid to HAVE these travel experiences, and then thousands of people happily pay to read about them
Whereas you, sadly, have to pay to travel and no one cares what you do when you’re abroad because you’re a weird friendless idiot
I know this drives you nuts and that only adds to my pleasure. Sorry
I’m happy and able to afford my time spent travelling.
That I am able to return from Finland, with an appreciation of its culture and history and fully understanding why it would never consent to being renamed ‘Russia’, while you travel for nothing and come back with precisely your money’s worth, in terms of understanding and knowledge, says it all.
Finland has always seemed a bit pointless and “extra”. I mean: Iceland is proper fun. Denmark is near and has Lego. Norway is genuinely Nordic - it’s in the name - and Sweden has meatballs, IKEA and ABBA. All good
But what’s the point of Finland? Just an extra sticky-out bit that exhausts the theme, like that sixth season of House where it all went wrong
Just call it something else. Like, I dunno, “Russia”. Sorted
You’ve either never been to Finland or, much more likely, since it’s your usual modus operandi, just jetted in and out without learning anything whatsoever.
I’ve not only been to Finland (four times) I’ve done the “sauna in the snowbound forest at midnight then dive in the icebound lake where we’ve just chopped a hole” rigmarole
Felt like a god, afterwards. Ended up in bed with the PR girl, too
Ah, memories
Then your abject ignorance is all the more remarkable.
It really is an achievement to be visiting so many parts of the world, meeting your contact at the airport and then becoming drunk in some hotel bubble by lunchtime every day, and returning just a few days later having learned almost nothing about all the places you have been, apart from what you have managed to scrape on your laptop from Wikipedia.
And yet, weirdly, I am professionally paid to write about my travel experiences - indeed I am paid to HAVE these travel experiences, and then thousands of people happily pay to read about them
Whereas you, sadly, have to pay to travel and no one cares what you do when you’re abroad because you’re a weird friendless idiot
I know this drives you nuts and that only adds to my pleasure. Sorry
I’m happy and able to afford my time spent travelling.
That I am able to return from Finland, with an appreciation of its culture and history and fully understanding why it would never consent to being renamed ‘Russia’, while you travel for nothing and come back with precisely your money’s worth, in terms of understanding and knowledge, says it all.
lol
Your surrender accepted.
That the most travelled person on PB comes away with the narrowest of minds is the most tragic of outcomes, to someone who always tries to return from travel at least a little more enlightened than before.
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TV licencing will tell you you need a licence for loads of things. A decent Barrister would get you off.
In Scotland they are a legal official analogous to I think a District Judge in England.
I'm never quite sure what a Justice of the Peace is, except they sometimes emerge to do things. The last I heard of one was when a well-connected friend wanted to put up a notice withdrawing the common law right of some officials to enter his property.
So far Amazon have only really dipped their toes in the water and the product they produce has been substandard. Not sure what Netflix game plan is with this one-off event and then the odd random sports-ball match.
The ones that didn't were the ones who never cared about the issues they were supposed to be in charge of, and only ever asked you in a panicked way five minutes before a TV interview "What am I supposed to say about this?" They were the ones Sir Humphrey would have loved - the ones who let the civil service run itself.
The reward is you get to display their meaningless trademarked logo.
https://youtu.be/3wa9SpmLJUE?t=1824
The (imo) scam continues:
https://www.productoftheyear.co.uk/
https://www.poyworldwide.com/worldwide-presence/
Nice little earner.
The number of ladder stories that started with - “I set the ladder up right - square, braced at the foot….”
Odd
https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/nigel-farage-holds-highest-favourability-rating-ipsos-poll-almost-half-hold-unfavourable-opinion
Trump more popular with younger British voters than older ones.
18-34: Fav 28%, Unfav 48%
35-54: Fav 28%, Unfav 53%
55+: Fav 20%, Unfav 69%
The last such occasion was 2019…
*Admittedly she prefers to be called “Mrs Biggles”.
Polls can provide precision to as many decimal places as you like. But this does not make them more accurate.
C-Lion1 submarine cable running between Finland and Germany has broken, and its communication connections are cut — Yle
Diagnosing diabetes is easy. Getting the person with pre-diabetes to take their diagnosis seriously, and to eat better and do more exercise, that’s difficult.
But what’s the point of Finland? Just an extra sticky-out bit that exhausts the theme, like that sixth season of House where it all went wrong
Just call it something else. Like, I dunno, “Russia”. Sorted
I do wonder how long it will take until people realise that will never happen again.
https://bsky.app/profile/washingtonpost.com/post/3lba2m44ooc2v
Beyoncé will perform live during halftime of an NFL Christmas Day game on Netflix, the streaming giant announced. It is the first time NFL games will streamed live on its service.
The star will perform in her hometown of Houston, where the Texans will host the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium.
He also gives Putin the green light to invade outside of Ukraine.
An EU/European Army is essential, helping trade will too
*Scouts the indyref2 battlefield*
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/18/european-union-right-wing-ursula-von-der-leyen-eu-commission-hard-right-parties
It will be interesting to see how lefty Remainers react to this dawning reality
https://www.nfl.com/news/beyonce-to-perform-at-halftime-of-ravens-texans-christmas-day-game-streaming-on-netflix
Edit - just checked - last time was 1965.
If he pulls out of NATO, the European defence agreement that follows will be built on NATO. It will need multiple members not in the EU.
That is, of course, not even touching on the fact that Ukraine shows us that western militaries out match his. He couldn’t invade Poland without a humiliating defeat, never mind Europe.
Nuclear weapons are an issue, but that would make us more essential that ever, alongside the French, in helping to retain a nuclear umbrella; giving us massive leverage. Stick to law - you don’t get defence.
His tariff policies might or might not push us into a closer trading relationship, necessitating some rule taking, but that has nothing to do with joining the EU.
Justice of the Peace courts replaced the previous district courts. In Justice of the Peace courts, lay justices of the peace work with a legally qualified clerk of court who gives advice on law and procedure. Justices of the peace handle minor criminal matters.
And the number one point that annoys many people (mainly on the right, but they are allowed to have opinions) is that anyone leaving France to try to reach the UK to claim asylum is leaving a safe country.
It doesn't matter how many times we are reminded that there is no requirement to claim asylum in the first safe country, most people, I think, suspect that anyone not doing so, or at least not doing so in France, is asylum 'shopping' - preferring the hell-hole that is the UK to the paradise of France. And they don't believe that that is how asylum ought to work.
And we have blurred to lines around asylum/migration so much now that we have forgotten what asylum was originally for.
The latest poll of consumer sentiment, just released by data firm S&P Global, shows that households reported that their current finances continued to deteriorate in November, while pessimism about the financial outlooks for the year ahead has risen.
Households across the UK reported further pressure on their everyday spending, which ate into the amount of cash they had available to spend. It has fallen again this month, at a faster rate than in October.
Debt levels rose in November for the first time in three months, the survey found.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2024/nov/18/british-households-disappointing-rise-energy-price-cap-january-cornwall-insight-business-live
I don't think Sunak waiting until would have helped him.
chopped a hole” rigmarole
Felt like a god, afterwards. Ended up in bed with the PR girl, too
Ah, memories
When do you think it will.
It really is an achievement to be visiting so many parts of the world, meeting your contact at the airport and then becoming drunk in some hotel bubble by lunchtime every day, and returning just a few days later having learned almost nothing about all the places you have been, apart from what you have managed to scrape on your laptop from Wikipedia.
Nationalist hard right parties are in coalition governments in the Netherlands, Slovakia and Czech Republic and give confidence and supply to the Swedish centre right government but not in outright control
Consider the process
You’d have to put a Rejoin promise in your manifesto
Win the election
Call a referendum
Win the referendum
Then hope and pray that - over the next 5-10 years of negotiation? - the EU doesn’t demand we hand over Gibraltar, or every fish in Scotland, and that some tiny country doesn’t veto us for the lolz
Meanwhile UK politics - and economics - would be in turmoil waiting for the decision of the EU - for a decade
It’s simply never going to happen. Its done. We’re out forever and huzzah for that
Reform did better with 45-65s than over 65s too in July and in France Macron and his party won pensioners comfortably but Le Pen won the middle aged.
It is a myth pensioners always vote for the most rightwing party. Pensioners are most likely to vote for the centre right and liberal parties but it is the middle aged most likely to vote for the far right and nationalist right, especially middle aged men.
The young are more likely to vote for populist parties of left or right
them
Whereas you, sadly, have to pay to travel and no one cares what you do when you’re abroad because you’re a weird friendless idiot
I know this drives you nuts and that only adds to my pleasure. Sorry
That was the time when our membership could have been put on a stable footing: Blair then Brown chose to ignore it, and Cameron/Osborne pretended to be bothered by it but entirely insincerely.
That I am able to return from Finland, with an appreciation of its culture and history and fully understanding why it would never consent to being renamed ‘Russia’, while you travel for nothing and come back with precisely your money’s worth, in terms of understanding and knowledge, says it all.
That the most travelled person on PB comes away with the narrowest of minds is the most tragic of outcomes, to someone who always tries to return from travel at least a little more enlightened than before.