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Good afternoon, everyone.
Mr. JS, there was irritation a few years ago when the EU decided that drugs and hookers should be included in GDP stats when considering the financial contribution the UK should make.
A poll by @SkyData suggests 45% of people think former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson should apologise for comments he made about women wearing the burka while 48% of people think he should not say sorry
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A poll by @SkyData suggests 33% of people believe it is racist to describe women in burkas as letter boxes and bank robbers while 60% of people think it is not
Makes you wonder about the 12% of people which think it's not racist, but Boris should apologise anyway......
- Boris in The Daily Telegraph 10 January 2002
- Boris on being sacked from the Tory front bench, in The Daily Telegraph, 2 December 2004,
One of the worst things about modern life is people being forced to apologise for offending someone, when they aren't sorry at all.
https://washingtonspectator.org/donald-trump-alex-jones/
That said, this is the kind of polling that makes me wish they'd poll some placebo stories for calibration purposes, like PPP once did with a made-up deficit reduction plan.
https://twitter.com/LiamFox/status/1026791209220624385
He said: "“My perception was that it was two against one” and the two were prepared to use bottles." and the two men were strangers and he “feared they could have other weapons” on them. Claims the force he used was reasonable and entirely justified given the circumstances.
The position in the US appeared to be that exculpatory parts of the statement are not admissible but that is not the position here.
Difficult to judge by little snippets but I think he has had a better day today.
- Grand Ayatollah Nudistani
Gordon Brown had to apologise for calling that woman a bigot in 2010. He didn't mean it. I bet he thought her a poor, uneducated council-dwelling lard-arse... and he still probably hates her.
I know nobody who doesn't take the piss out of burkas. They are fucking ridiculous. We've just had a Saharan summer where I couldn't even go to bed bollock-naked without sweating inside out, yet I see poor young women walking round with tents over their heads. Take the religion out of it, and let's be honest, it is absolutely bananas.
BUT, I 100% defend their right to wear a burka. Just as I'd defend the rights of that naked rambler to walk round Britain with his old boy out. It's entirely up to them.
I would, however, like politicians to feel free to point out the utter lunacy of wearing a tent over your head in the searing sunshine, without being called to book over it. Just as I'd like politicians to point out the idiocy of drug laws, without fearing the wrath of the Daily Mail.
It is ‘The disgraced national security risk Liam Fox’
"...one of those legendary inverted pyramids of piffle that Mr Johnson used to amuse us with, back when he was funny"
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/evening-standard-comment-boris-johnson-s-lost-liberalism-is-a-test-for-tory-future-a3906506.html
I can't believe Jews and some other faiths perform MGM on boys;
I can't believe some nuns and monks seclude themselves away, and disallow themselves from speaking to outsiders.
Many (all?) religions involve 'true' adherents to give something up to show the scale of their faith; the more they give up, the more faithful and nearer to God they are. For most Christians it is a visit to church every Sunday and on special festivals; the truly devout go two or three times a week.
The burkha, nijab and hajib are becoming symbols of their faith. It's a visible sign of how devout they are. That's why so many Muslim women choose to wear them (and yes, some are semi- or fully- forced to).
I think it's crazy, but then again, I find the three examples above crazy as well. But it's their choice.
Riyadh takes action after Ottawa calls for release of women’s rights activist"
https://www.ft.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/27/italian-priests-mistresses-letter-pope
It even extends as far as some bishops:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eamonn_Casey
And of course a number of Popes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_VI
Employment in the capital is growing faster than elsewhere but the housing market is a concern"
https://www.ft.com/content/2a812cf6-9af7-11e8-ab77-f854c65a4465
He didn't make a mistake, he made a conscious decision to ridicule and attack a group of vulnerable and marginalised women because he thought it'd help his career.
That's not a mistake, that's a cold hearted calculation by an amoral sociopath. He has nothing to apologise for; Indeed I find it unlikely that he's capable of feeling sorrow or remorse anyway.
! rang the number for cancelling. It rang and rang. I got with other things, but after 25 minutes I gave up.
I then rang the general BT helpline. This time I got someone after 15 minutes. I said I could see there was an offer which was £5 cheaper, and other loss-leading providers that were cheaper stil, so I'd decided to switch, what steps should I take?
He said how about we make it £2 cheaper?
I said no, that was still £3 more * 24 months. Let's just call it a day.
He said in that case, how about £4 cheaper? Just £1/month more than the others, saves the hassle.
I said OK. But I wanted to switch my mobile for similar reasons.
He said ah, in that case we can reduce your landline by a further £2 so long as you don't switch the mobile.
Thoughts:
1. Shouldn't Ofcom look into a cancellation line that doesn't actually answer?
2. Is it in the public interest that list prices are fictitious and the actual price is determined by how much you haggle, like a bazaar?
In the case of BT, I quit them some time ago after a very large number of problems, but it took five months of arguing before they accepted they were so far in breach of my contract that I could do so without penalty.
That said recently they have taken to offering good deals or improvements without prompting. So maybe they're worrying about switching again.
PS I don't disagree with Boris on the (admittedly flagrantly attention-seeking) letterbox comparison but I'd like to hear from women in burkhas about what they think Boris looks like.
https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1027223201837969408
It may be have been connected to AV thread I'm uploading to the PB server.
But aside from that aren't letterboxes red?
I just didn't quite expect you to prove it by taking PB off air...
I'm informed that I'll be getting a Vodafone (no surprise there) corporate line in a few months, might switch my personal line to Three if that's the case.
Yes, the system is utterly ridiculous and essentially relies on people never being bothered to ring up.
As any good sports fan knows, all you do every so often is threatened to cancel Sky Sports and BT Sport and you end up getting it for vastly cheaper than the list price.
I'm currently in a blissful period with Virgin Media (broadband and cable TV) where it is actually cheaper for me to have all the sports channels in HD than none at all. It is utterly bonkers, but they will do anything to retain longstanding customers who threaten to cancel a service, because they fear it will lead to their switching to another supplier. I guess their stats bear that out – once a customer cancels premium sports channels (say) he is at high-risk of leaving altogether.
I've been with them quite a long time now and they offer you better deals at the drop of a hat.
In particular the other day I got one of those text stop to this number or we'll charge you £xx per month. I called Three and they were brilliant. Scrubbed the charge and talked me through what I had to do.
That's a programme I'd watch
I like the Wuntu app on Three, my sister and I had a buy one get one free burger through it for lunch a few weeks back. It seems randomly useful.
https://twitter.com/SeanTrende/status/1027220026317844480
This looks to me like a good result for the Dems but not necessarily a great one.
https://twitter.com/catspraddled/status/1026983169940221954
Just sayin'
Mwah!
What were you wearing when you were born?
I'm inclined to agree with the markets but it's not automatic that Republicans who don't care about special elections will feel equally lethargic about the midterms.