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  • EPGEPG Posts: 6,653

    MP_SE said:


    He's an individual who runs an important company. Whether their performance is down to him personally is something that I don't know, but it doesn't make him any kind of authority on the national economic position. My point, though, was that he'd be ineffective as the spearhead of a No campaign, simply because most people have never heard of him. It's not his fault or JCB's, just a fact.

    I presume you have the same opinion of all of the pro-EU businessmen/women - that they do not have any kind of authority on the national economic position? Or is it just eurosceptic business leaders who that applies to?
    Yes, I doubt if any individual business chief has a particular authority on the national economic position. And certainly I don't want the head of British Airways or someone like that running the Yes campaign. As Ydo says, it makes sense to quote senior businesspeople as being pro or anti, but as supporting evidence rather than in lead roles, simply because they're not personally well known.

    The No problem is that they only have one really well-known spokesman and it's Farage. Everyone else - even, say, Hannan or Hoey - is second division by comparison in terms of public recognition. Do they go for Farage, or for the second division?
    They have no choice. Even if Farage were in good health for a 51-year old man, he can't be on every medium, every day.
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,504
    Way off-topic:

    After reading the article about Diggerland, I clicked on the following article. Most certainly NSFW, but very funny/distressing/misogynistic (delete as applicable)

    http://www.vice.com/read/strip-club-crawl-883

    A pleasant Sunday-afternoon read.
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    edited May 2015
    Have you tried watching NinjaWarrior - the retread version of Gladiators on ITV? It's brilliant! try replay

    Way off-topic:

    After reading the article about Diggerland, I clicked on the following article. Most certainly NSFW, but very funny/distressing/misogynistic (delete as applicable)

    http://www.vice.com/read/strip-club-crawl-883

    A pleasant Sunday-afternoon read.

  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053
    GeoffM said:

    surbiton said:

    EPG said:

    The only certainty about Labour's future is that it will never form another UK government before 2020. Probably.

    You need 7 by-election wins. This could be the only way Lib Dems could make an impact.
    Firstly you need 7 by-elections.
    I think surbiton has the insanely brilliant idea that the LibDems could all resign at once and create those by-elections!
    Just come across this:
    I think UKIP would welcome 7 by elections to get their act together, for one thing. Who knows they may even win a seat or two. :)

  • MikeKMikeK Posts: 9,053


    Shame summer is over.

    I wonder how long autumn will last?

    Ahhh, but we are being threatened with Flaming June from Wednesday, just in time to save the UK global warming fraternity from their blushes.
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,504
    edited May 2015
    Plato said:

    Have you tried watching NinjaWarrior - the retread version of Gladiators on ITV? It's brilliant! try replay

    Way off-topic:

    After reading the article about Diggerland, I clicked on the following article. Most certainly NSFW, but very funny/distressing/misogynistic (delete as applicable)

    http://www.vice.com/read/strip-club-crawl-883

    A pleasant Sunday-afternoon read.

    Yes - we were avid watchers of the Japanese version. ISTR there was an incredibly beautiful and athletic woman who would give the men a run for their money. The UK version would have been a heck of a lot better without the presenters, though. A voiceover would have been fine, although Stuart Hall would no longer be available to do it...

    Edit: it was Chie Tanabe : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chie_Tanabe
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    edited May 2015
    I wish they'd included salmon leaps - Stephen Amell does a great job at them
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvxdpv5BKoo
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JANtG5vpTPU

    Plato said:

    Have you tried watching NinjaWarrior - the retread version of Gladiators on ITV? It's brilliant! try replay

    Way off-topic:

    After reading the article about Diggerland, I clicked on the following article. Most certainly NSFW, but very funny/distressing/misogynistic (delete as applicable)

    http://www.vice.com/read/strip-club-crawl-883

    A pleasant Sunday-afternoon read.

    Yes - we were avid watchers of the Japanese version. ISTR there was an incredibly beautiful and athletic woman who would give the men a run for their money. The UK version would have been a heck of a lot better without the presenters, though. A voiceover would have been fine, although Stuart Hall would no longer be available to do it...
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,238
    New thread - guess who was first?
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,504
    Plato said:

    I wish they'd included salmon leaps - Stephen Amell does a great job at them

    They did - they were at the start of the penultimate stage last night, and with a time limit.
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