It has never been clear to me what Tory principles Davidson holds dear. She always strikes me as a liberal social democrat, not a conservative.
Her not inconsiderable trick is to manage to triangulate between Tories in general, right wing fruitcakes, loonies & closet racists (to the point of having them as elected members), and dewy eyed, progressive media types in London. I'm not sure that trick can be sustained while having to string together some coherent policies or bearing the responsibilities of government.
She can, at least, hopefully work out what are the Twitter accounts of her political opponents, and which are spoof ones.
It's quite a useful trick for politicians to have. Or people who comment on politics.
(And yes, I've done the same in the past...)
On what planet would anyone possibly think that was Ruth Davidson's twitter account, and that she'd be highlighting her own tendency to duck difficult questions? That's the fecking point you tumshie!
Yeah, you got it wrong.
Do you reallllly think that? Divvie was pointing out the much commented on tenancy for Davidson to disappear from the media when any tough questions are being asked.
Yes, I do think he got it wrong. Besides, I'm unsure it is 'much commented on' aside by some silly Conservative-hating people north of the border.
He got it wrong.
FWIW I'm pretty sure Divvie knew it was a fake, but was being somewhat impish in posting it without mentioning the fact.
It's not like the subtle Nicola Sturgeon fake account that Carlotta keeps being fooled by.
On topic I can see a time when Ruth ends up leading the Conservatives but it won't be until after Brexit is over because of her position on that. She is personable, witty and an excellent organiser. Whether she can actually run a public institution is an unknown because she has never had to.
She does benefit considerably from being a big fish in a small pond up here. Nicola is a skilled and dogged politician but other than her the competition is very modest bordering on embarrassing. She would find Westminster a lot more testing but she is young enough and clever enough to learn.
I think that there is an argument that she has taken the Scottish Tories as far as she can (much further than most of them ever dreamed was possible). Davidson for FM looks a pretty much unbridgeable stretch and my guess is the Tories will be playing defense rather than offense at the next GE. There is still ground to recover in local government but that is about it.
That'll probably be too late for her. Party leaders - particularly of the big parties - get very few opportunities (if any) to become leader, and if they miss that precious moment when the stars align, then they're out. By the time Brexit is over, there might well be someone better positioned, both in terms of parliament and support.
There is a significant chance she will have mucked something up by then as well, lost the drive, or some other factor. Politics post-Brexit might be very different as well.
So let's accept Thatcher helped free Nelson Mandela... she was far more responsible for enabling Robert Mugabe, is that 2-0 or 1-1 in terms of wisdom vs idiocy?
On topic I can see a time when Ruth ends up leading the Conservatives but it won't be until after Brexit is over because of her position on that. She is personable, witty and an excellent organiser. Whether she can actually run a public institution is an unknown because she has never had to.
She does benefit considerably from being a big fish in a small pond up here. Nicola is a skilled and dogged politician but other than her the competition is very modest bordering on embarrassing. She would find Westminster a lot more testing but she is young enough and clever enough to learn.
I think that there is an argument that she has taken the Scottish Tories as far as she can (much further than most of them ever dreamed was possible). Davidson for FM looks a pretty much unbridgeable stretch and my guess is the Tories will be playing defense rather than offense at the next GE. There is still ground to recover in local government but that is about it.
That'll probably be too late for her. Party leaders - particularly of the big parties - get very few opportunities (if any) to become leader, and if they miss that precious moment when the stars align, then they're out. By the time Brexit is over, there might well be someone better positioned, both in terms of parliament and support.
There is a significant chance she will have mucked something up by then as well, lost the drive, or some other factor. Politics post-Brexit might be very different as well.
Mr. Stereotomy, I was thinking that the problem was that bones can only support creatures of a given height, which is why dinosaurs (on land) never got any bigger than brachiosaurus or diplodocus. A Kanye of that height would surely collapse under its own weight, the legs unable to bear the burden of the body.
Mr. Stereotomy, I was thinking that the problem was that bones can only support creatures of a given height, which is why dinosaurs (on land) never got any bigger than brachiosaurus or diplodocus. A Kanye of that height would surely collapse under its own weight, the legs unable to bear the burden of the body.
But do all the little Kanyes have the patience to hang back and wait for the inevitable?
Mr. Stereotomy, I was thinking that the problem was that bones can only support creatures of a given height, which is why dinosaurs (on land) never got any bigger than brachiosaurus or diplodocus. A Kanye of that height would surely collapse under its own weight, the legs unable to bear the burden of the body.
Is that why the documentary was only about the attack of the 50 foot woman?
Mr Dancer, you can probably add Ericsson to your list of engine penalties. He destroyed his car with a DRS failure at 220mph in P2. Leclerc’s car has the same problem but he didn’t crash.
On topic I can see a time when Ruth ends up leading the Conservatives but it won't be until after Brexit is over because of her position on that. She is personable, witty and an excellent organiser. Whether she can actually run a public institution is an unknown because she has never had to.
She does benefit considerably from being a big fish in a small pond up here. Nicola is a skilled and dogged politician but other than her the competition is very modest bordering on embarrassing. She would find Westminster a lot more testing but she is young enough and clever enough to learn.
I think that there is an argument that she has taken the Scottish Tories as far as she can (much further than most of them ever dreamed was possible). Davidson for FM looks a pretty much unbridgeable stretch and my guess is the Tories will be playing defense rather than offense at the next GE. There is still ground to recover in local government but that is about it.
That'll probably be too late for her. Party leaders - particularly of the big parties - get very few opportunities (if any) to become leader, and if they miss that precious moment when the stars align, then they're out. By the time Brexit is over, there might well be someone better positioned, both in terms of parliament and support.
There is a significant chance she will have mucked something up by then as well, lost the drive, or some other factor. Politics post-Brexit might be very different as well.
All too true. If only Boris weren't so oblivious.
Boris faces another problem: if people know you want the job, then you become the target of others within the party who want the job, or want to stop you getting it. This has not worked out to his advantage before.
If you want to become leader, be prominent, be friendly with other MPs in your party, and do not obviously cherish the job.
Mr. Stereotomy, I was thinking that the problem was that bones can only support creatures of a given height, which is why dinosaurs (on land) never got any bigger than brachiosaurus or diplodocus. A Kanye of that height would surely collapse under its own weight, the legs unable to bear the burden of the body.
But do all the little Kanyes have the patience to hang back and wait for the inevitable?
They wouldn't need patience; they'd just need to avoid dying.
As you say, Giant Kanye, if scaled up proportionately (about 17:1) would weigh about 400 tons. Not only would that be far too much for the human bone structure, ligaments etc, it's almost certainly far too much for *any* possible design of land animal - certainly, any design that involves only two legs.
I'd also imagine that a 100ft tall person would have severe problems with blood circulation.
He thinks weight scales proportionately to height. It doesn't, it scales with volume.
Indeed. Something half the size is an eighth of the weight, assuming it’s a 3D shape of the same material.
This is why small children bounce when they fall over (sort of). Not only are their bones more supple anyway but they weigh something like an eighth the amount of someone twice their size (not quite true as not a proportional mini-me, but pretty close). Further, because they only have half as far to fall, you have a quartic relationship.
On topic I can see a time when Ruth ends up leading the Conservatives but it won't be until after Brexit is over because of her position on that. She is personable, witty and an excellent organiser. Whether she can actually run a public institution is an unknown because she has never had to.
She does benefit considerably from being a big fish in a small pond up here. Nicola is a skilled and dogged politician but other than her the competition is very modest bordering on embarrassing. She would find Westminster a lot more testing but she is young enough and clever enough to learn.
I think that there is an argument that she has taken the Scottish Tories as far as she can (much further than most of them ever dreamed was possible). Davidson for FM looks a pretty much unbridgeable stretch and my guess is the Tories will be playing defense rather than offense at the next GE. There is still ground to recover in local government but that is about it.
Mentioning SCons and local government, that's brave. Still it's been positively weeks since a SCon Councillor has been unmasked as running an anonymous bigoted abuse twitter account so things are on the up.
I think Frank would win a by-election. I think Frank knows this, and I suspect the constituency body who pick their Labour candidate know this too.
If they de-select Frank, he will probably go ahead with a by-election and they will lose the seat, and that is the reality they face.
Basically, he's called their bluff. He holds the ace, and they have an idealistic two of clubs.
There's also risk versus reward to be weighed up. They probably really want to get rid of him, but they might lose the seat. It'll also keep the story in the news for longer, and might even generate some more sympathy for him amongst others in Labour - especially when the more stringent Crobynites go over the top, as they will.
It'll be interesting to see what happens.
Corbynites are agitating for Galloway to run if FF calls a by election
That would be George Galloway, one of the prominent figures in the Brexit campaign on the Leave side?
Mr. Stereotomy, I was thinking that the problem was that bones can only support creatures of a given height, which is why dinosaurs (on land) never got any bigger than brachiosaurus or diplodocus. A Kanye of that height would surely collapse under its own weight, the legs unable to bear the burden of the body.
But do all the little Kanyes have the patience to hang back and wait for the inevitable?
They wouldn't need patience; they'd just need to avoid dying.
As you say, Giant Kanye, if scaled up proportionately (about 17:1) would weigh about 400 tons. Not only would that be far too much for the human bone structure, ligaments etc, it's almost certainly far too much for *any* possible design of land animal - certainly, any design that involves only two legs.
I'd also imagine that a 100ft tall person would have severe problems with blood circulation.
Giant Kanye West and erectile disfunction. Discuss. Use both sides of the paper.
Mr. Sandpit, cheers for that. Bit unlucky for Ericsson.
Big shunt, but he walked away. h ttps://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1035514811231219712
Lucky man.
Indeed so. As Martin Brundle said commentating, the spectacular looking accidents aren’t the most dangerous ones, as the kinetic energy is dissipated over a comparatively long period of time. The main risk is of debris hitting the driver, the wheel teathers did their job to keep the biggest flying bits attached to the car.
Can’t see much bar the steering wheel making it out of that crash though, the rest of the car is scrap.
On topic I can see a time when Ruth ends up leading the Conservatives but it won't be until after Brexit is over because of her position on that. She is personable, witty and an excellent organiser. Whether she can actually run a public institution is an unknown because she has never had to.
She does benefit considerably from being a big fish in a small pond up here. Nicola is a skilled and dogged politician but other than her the competition is very modest bordering on embarrassing. She would find Westminster a lot more testing but she is young enough and clever enough to learn.
I think that there is an argument that she has taken the Scottish Tories as far as she can (much further than most of them ever dreamed was possible). Davidson for FM looks a pretty much unbridgeable stretch and my guess is the Tories will be playing defense rather than offense at the next GE. There is still ground to recover in local government but that is about it.
Mentioning SCons and local government, that's brave. Still it's been positively weeks since a SCon Councillor has been unmasked as running an anonymous bigoted abuse twitter account so things are on the up.
True, the SNP have massively upped the stakes on party scandals, the SCons are far behind.
So let's accept Thatcher helped free Nelson Mandela... she was far more responsible for enabling Robert Mugabe, is that 2-0 or 1-1 in terms of wisdom vs idiocy?
What would you have done in Zimbabwe? Continued white minority rule?
Mr. Sandpit, cheers for that. Bit unlucky for Ericsson.
Big shunt, but he walked away. h ttps://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1035514811231219712
Lucky man.
Indeed so. As Martin Brundle said commentating, the spectacular looking accidents aren’t the most dangerous ones, as the kinetic energy is dissipated over a comparatively long period of time. The main risk is of debris hitting the driver, the wheel teathers did their job to keep the biggest flying bits attached to the car.
Can’t see much bar the steering wheel making it out of that crash though, the rest of the car is scrap.
To quote Q, 'there wasn't much left but the steering wheel. I'm fairly sure I said "bring it back in one piece," not "bring back one piece."'
So let's accept Thatcher helped free Nelson Mandela... she was far more responsible for enabling Robert Mugabe, is that 2-0 or 1-1 in terms of wisdom vs idiocy?
What would you have done in Zimbabwe? Continued white minority rule?
From my reading of it, there was a black candidate, Bishop Muzarewa, that would have allowed evolution towards a moderate black government, and that would have been for the best, but Thatcher and Lord Carrington insisted on Mugabe and Nkomo being allowed to stand, which has led to the worst.
To my mind, the fate of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe has many echoes in modern UK politics, not least Brexit and the Corbynite takeover of the Labour Party. I asked the question earlier, though no one replied, when have rebels that take over ever tolerated any dissenting voices?
So let's accept Thatcher helped free Nelson Mandela... she was far more responsible for enabling Robert Mugabe, is that 2-0 or 1-1 in terms of wisdom vs idiocy?
What would you have done in Zimbabwe? Continued white minority rule?
From my reading of it, there was a black candidate, Bishop Muzarewa, that would have allowed evolution towards a moderate black government, and that would have been for the best, but Thatcher and Lord Carrington insisted on Mugabe and Nkomo being allowed to stand., which has led to the worst.
To my mind, the fate of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe has many echoes in modern UK politics, not least Brexit and the Corbynite takeover of the Labour Party. I asked the question earlier, though no one replied, when have rebels that take over ever tolerate any dissenting voices?
Thatcher initially supported Muzarewa, because Mugabe had Marxist links. However, Carrington and the wider Foreign Office persuaded her (probably correctly) that there was no realistic way of stopping Mugabe taking power and it would look bad if they tried. So she abandoned her support. It was I think probably not something she felt very strongly about anyway. Once Zimbabwe ceased to be a colony, it wasn't our problem and it is difficult to argue it was a vital British interest (South Africa with its mineral wealth was a different matter).
On topic I can see a time when Ruth ends up leading the Conservatives but it won't be until after Brexit is over because of her position on that. She is personable, witty and an excellent organiser. Whether she can actually run a public institution is an unknown because she has never had to.
She does benefit considerably from being a big fish in a small pond up here. Nicola is a skilled and dogged politician but other than her the competition is very modest bordering on embarrassing. She would find Westminster a lot more testing but she is young enough and clever enough to learn.
I think that there is an argument that she has taken the Scottish Tories as far as she can (much further than most of them ever dreamed was possible). Davidson for FM looks a pretty much unbridgeable stretch and my guess is the Tories will be playing defense rather than offense at the next GE. There is still ground to recover in local government but that is about it.
Mentioning SCons and local government, that's brave. Still it's been positively weeks since a SCon Councillor has been unmasked as running an anonymous bigoted abuse twitter account so things are on the up.
True, the SNP have massively upped the stakes on party scandals, the SCons are far behind.
It's just not a fair competition. Who could possibly be as embarrassing as Salmond?
So let's accept Thatcher helped free Nelson Mandela... she was far more responsible for enabling Robert Mugabe, is that 2-0 or 1-1 in terms of wisdom vs idiocy?
What would you have done in Zimbabwe? Continued white minority rule?
From my reading of it, there was a black candidate, Bishop Muzarewa, that would have allowed evolution towards a moderate black government, and that would have been for the best, but Thatcher and Lord Carrington insisted on Mugabe and Nkomo being allowed to stand, which has led to the worst.
To my mind, the fate of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe has many echoes in modern UK politics, not least Brexit and the Corbynite takeover of the Labour Party. I asked the question earlier, though no one replied, when have rebels that take over ever tolerated any dissenting voices?
Isn't the whole point of independence that the colonial power stop meddling?
Mr. Stereotomy, I was thinking that the problem was that bones can only support creatures of a given height, which is why dinosaurs (on land) never got any bigger than brachiosaurus or diplodocus. A Kanye of that height would surely collapse under its own weight, the legs unable to bear the burden of the body.
But equally, Tiny Kanyes would have brains to small to support cognition.
Mr. Stereotomy, I was thinking that the problem was that bones can only support creatures of a given height, which is why dinosaurs (on land) never got any bigger than brachiosaurus or diplodocus. A Kanye of that height would surely collapse under its own weight, the legs unable to bear the burden of the body.
But equally, Tiny Kanyes would have brains to small to support cognition.
An idle musing that's utterly OT: been keeping my eye on some games out soon. Divinity Original Sin 2 (yes, silly title) came out today. The price drop on Amazon from yesterday to today is £7. Just seems a little odd to me. I wonder if that's indicative of preorders not meeting expectations.
Anyway, think waiting for games a bit is usually a good idea. Not only does the price decline (this'll happen more rapidly when the PS5 is announced, of course) but the early patchwork can be done to fix some holes in the game.
So let's accept Thatcher helped free Nelson Mandela... she was far more responsible for enabling Robert Mugabe, is that 2-0 or 1-1 in terms of wisdom vs idiocy?
What would you have done in Zimbabwe? Continued white minority rule?
From my reading of it, there was a black candidate, Bishop Muzarewa, that would have allowed evolution towards a moderate black government, and that would have been for the best, but Thatcher and Lord Carrington insisted on Mugabe and Nkomo being allowed to stand, which has led to the worst.
To my mind, the fate of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe has many echoes in modern UK politics, not least Brexit and the Corbynite takeover of the Labour Party. I asked the question earlier, though no one replied, when have rebels that take over ever tolerated any dissenting voices?
Isn't the whole point of independence that the colonial power stop meddling?
No, so far as I can see the whole point of independence is so the local politicians can blame the former colonial power for everything that goes wrong for the next 75-100 years (longer in Ireland's case, natch).
So let's accept Thatcher helped free Nelson Mandela... she was far more responsible for enabling Robert Mugabe, is that 2-0 or 1-1 in terms of wisdom vs idiocy?
What would you have done in Zimbabwe? Continued white minority rule?
From my reading of it, there was a black candidate, Bishop Muzarewa, that would have allowed evolution towards a moderate black government, and that would have been for the best, but Thatcher and Lord Carrington insisted on Mugabe and Nkomo being allowed to stand, which has led to the worst.
To my mind, the fate of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe has many echoes in modern UK politics, not least Brexit and the Corbynite takeover of the Labour Party. I asked the question earlier, though no one replied, when have rebels that take over ever tolerated any dissenting voices?
Isn't the whole point of independence that the colonial power stop meddling?
Well the Rhodesians considered themselves independent long before 1980. I think they would have liked the colonial power to stop meddling in the 60s!
So let's accept Thatcher helped free Nelson Mandela... she was far more responsible for enabling Robert Mugabe, is that 2-0 or 1-1 in terms of wisdom vs idiocy?
What would you have done in Zimbabwe? Continued white minority rule?
From my reading of it, there was a black candidate, Bishop Muzarewa, that would have allowed evolution towards a moderate black government, and that would have been for the best, but Thatcher and Lord Carrington insisted on Mugabe and Nkomo being allowed to stand, which has led to the worst.
To my mind, the fate of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe has many echoes in modern UK politics, not least Brexit and the Corbynite takeover of the Labour Party. I asked the question earlier, though no one replied, when have rebels that take over ever tolerated any dissenting voices?
Isn't the whole point of independence that the colonial power stop meddling?
We would have remained a bit pregnant with the oversight of Zimbabwe.
A by-election now could well bring out a full-on civil war in the Labour Party.
This is the sort of problem I had in mind when I said it was bad news for Labour that this had become the main silly season story.
If Field quits and there is a by-election during the Conference season, Labour's opponents will just run with every statement Corbyn has made on the Jews. More likely to be effective than in a general election, because with no government at stake issues will matter much less.
It shouldn't make a difference to the result, but it would be ferrets in a sack - especially as conference this year is in Liverpool!
Mr. Stereotomy, I was thinking that the problem was that bones can only support creatures of a given height, which is why dinosaurs (on land) never got any bigger than brachiosaurus or diplodocus. A Kanye of that height would surely collapse under its own weight, the legs unable to bear the burden of the body.
But equally, Tiny Kanyes would have brains to small to support cognition.
So let's accept Thatcher helped free Nelson Mandela... she was far more responsible for enabling Robert Mugabe, is that 2-0 or 1-1 in terms of wisdom vs idiocy?
What would you have done in Zimbabwe? Continued white minority rule?
From my reading of it, there was a black candidate, Bishop Muzarewa, that would have allowed evolution towards a moderate black government, and that would have been for the best, but Thatcher and Lord Carrington insisted on Mugabe and Nkomo being allowed to stand, which has led to the worst.
To my mind, the fate of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe has many echoes in modern UK politics, not least Brexit and the Corbynite takeover of the Labour Party. I asked the question earlier, though no one replied, when have rebels that take over ever tolerated any dissenting voices?
Isn't the whole point of independence that the colonial power stop meddling?
No, so far as I can see the whole point of independence is so the local politicians can blame the former colonial power for everything that goes wrong for the next 75-100 years (longer in Ireland's case, natch).
For the EU we'll probably still be blaming them in 2316 if Trump hasn't blown up the world first.
Mr. Sandpit, cheers for that. Bit unlucky for Ericsson.
Big shunt, but he walked away. h ttps://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1035514811231219712
Lucky man.
Indeed so. As Martin Brundle said commentating, the spectacular looking accidents aren’t the most dangerous ones, as the kinetic energy is dissipated over a comparatively long period of time. The main risk is of debris hitting the driver, the wheel teathers did their job to keep the biggest flying bits attached to the car.
Can’t see much bar the steering wheel making it out of that crash though, the rest of the car is scrap.
Its hard to tell from that angle, but it looks as though there might have been a marshal who was even luckier ...
If you want a sharp crash, then Blundell's IndyCar crash was something like 122G:
Mr. Stereotomy, I was thinking that the problem was that bones can only support creatures of a given height, which is why dinosaurs (on land) never got any bigger than brachiosaurus or diplodocus. A Kanye of that height would surely collapse under its own weight, the legs unable to bear the burden of the body.
But equally, Tiny Kanyes would have brains to small to support cognition.
An idle musing that's utterly OT: been keeping my eye on some games out soon. Divinity Original Sin 2 (yes, silly title) came out today. The price drop on Amazon from yesterday to today is £7. Just seems a little odd to me. I wonder if that's indicative of preorders not meeting expectations.
Anyway, think waiting for games a bit is usually a good idea. Not only does the price decline (this'll happen more rapidly when the PS5 is announced, of course) but the early patchwork can be done to fix some holes in the game.
I have been repeatedly asked* when the new Spiderman game comes out.
Mr. B, plenty of animals exist that are half the size of a human, or smaller.
The clear implication was that they are 1/1000th of full size.
Exist, sure - but full human level cognition in an organism of that size would require a far more efficient brain structure. Perhaps if he had bird brain...
So let's accept Thatcher helped free Nelson Mandela... she was far more responsible for enabling Robert Mugabe, is that 2-0 or 1-1 in terms of wisdom vs idiocy?
What would you have done in Zimbabwe? Continued white minority rule?
From my reading of it, there was a black candidate, Bishop Muzarewa, that would have allowed evolution towards a moderate black government, and that would have been for the best, but Thatcher and Lord Carrington insisted on Mugabe and Nkomo being allowed to stand, which has led to the worst.
To my mind, the fate of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe has many echoes in modern UK politics, not least Brexit and the Corbynite takeover of the Labour Party. I asked the question earlier, though no one replied, when have rebels that take over ever tolerated any dissenting voices?
Isn't the whole point of independence that the colonial power stop meddling?
No, so far as I can see the whole point of independence is so the local politicians can blame the former colonial power for everything that goes wrong for the next 75-100 years (longer in Ireland's case, natch).
For the EU we'll probably still be blaming them in 2316 if Trump hasn't blown up the world first.
I think that there are differences of view as to whether or not they are truly a colonial power but why not? It's got to be better than taking responsibility for your own actions doesn't it?
Mr. B, plenty of animals exist that are half the size of a human, or smaller.
The clear implication was that they are 1/1000th of full size.
Exist, sure - but full human level cognition in an organism of that size would require a far more efficient brain structure. Perhaps if he had bird brain...
So let's accept Thatcher helped free Nelson Mandela... she was far more responsible for enabling Robert Mugabe, is that 2-0 or 1-1 in terms of wisdom vs idiocy?
What would you have done in Zimbabwe? Continued white minority rule?
From my reading of it, there was a black candidate, Bishop Muzarewa, that would have allowed evolution towards a moderate black government, and that would have been for the best, but Thatcher and Lord Carrington insisted on Mugabe and Nkomo being allowed to stand, which has led to the worst.
Abel Muzorewa had worked with Ian Smith in forming an "internal settlement' which was condemned by the UN and ignored by ZANU & ZAPU who carried on fighting. Lancaster House was called to end the fighting. The subsequent elections were won by ZANU and that was the end of British involvement. Once a former colony is independent its not up to us to say how things are run 'we do not ask that you govern us well, we ask that you do not govern us at all.'
Mr. B, plenty of animals exist that are half the size of a human, or smaller.
These include my daughter's cat which gets quite intimidated by the weird looking cat on the other side of the glass. I think the current sized Kanye is at least 1 step up from that.
An idle musing that's utterly OT: been keeping my eye on some games out soon. Divinity Original Sin 2 (yes, silly title) came out today. The price drop on Amazon from yesterday to today is £7. Just seems a little odd to me. I wonder if that's indicative of preorders not meeting expectations.
Anyway, think waiting for games a bit is usually a good idea. Not only does the price decline (this'll happen more rapidly when the PS5 is announced, of course) but the early patchwork can be done to fix some holes in the game.
I have been repeatedly asked* when the new Spiderman game comes out.
Mr. B, plenty of animals exist that are half the size of a human, or smaller.
The clear implication was that they are 1/1000th of full size.
Exist, sure - but full human level cognition in an organism of that size would require a far more efficient brain structure. Perhaps if he had bird brain...
Mr. Sandpit, cheers for that. Bit unlucky for Ericsson.
Big shunt, but he walked away. h ttps://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1035514811231219712
Lucky man.
Indeed so. As Martin Brundle said commentating, the spectacular looking accidents aren’t the most dangerous ones, as the kinetic energy is dissipated over a comparatively long period of time. The main risk is of debris hitting the driver, the wheel teathers did their job to keep the biggest flying bits attached to the car.
Can’t see much bar the steering wheel making it out of that crash though, the rest of the car is scrap.
Its hard to tell from that angle, but it looks as though there might have been a marshal who was even luckier ...
If you want a sharp crash, then Blundell's IndyCar crash was something like 122G:
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hes5ZxPx0i0
His seatbelts were five inches longer afterwards.
Yes, that’s the way people get killed in motorsport, spearing into a concrete wall at high speed. See Dale Earnheart Sr’s fatal crash in NASCAR for a good example of why they now wear the HANS device to stop the head and neck moving forward in that type of accident.
Re the marshal, he’s about 15’ back from the barrier so he’s safer than he looks from that angle. Still a silly place to be though.
This site should report naught but the Scottish subsample.
SNP 34, Con 27, Lab 24, LD 8, UKIP 3, Greens 3
SNP down 3% on the 2017 general election on that subsample
You have to remember that their little green helpers will probably only stand in a token seat or 2 at a GE.
What about Ruth's little Kipper helpers? Yougov subsamples aside, are they now completely assimilated into the racist fruitcake wing of the SCons?
Anyone that supports the SNP should look at it's pretty disgusting historical of fascist sympathy record before it calls anyone racists. As I have often said, the clue is in the name
Mr. B, plenty of animals exist that are half the size of a human, or smaller.
The clear implication was that they are 1/1000th of full size.
Exist, sure - but full human level cognition in an organism of that size would require a far more efficient brain structure. Perhaps if he had bird brain...
Kanye West is who we are talking about here.
self-made multi millionaire in a fantastically competitive field but yeah let’s all all humble-brag about our A levels in Home Economics to sooth our fragile egos - I got shit A levels and a DPhil in complex systems but that doesn’t mean I feel smarter than Kanye
Isn't Corbyn from Shropshire and was parachuted into Islington?
Doncaster born Ed Miliband replaced Peckham maid Harriet Harman who succeeded Gordon Brown - who had actually been brought up in Kirkcaldy from age 3. Tony Blair of course was a Sedgefield lad through & through.....
Mr. Sandpit, cheers for that. Bit unlucky for Ericsson.
Big shunt, but he walked away. h ttps://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1035514811231219712
Lucky man.
He'll be glad of that Halo...
Without it he'd have had a different sort of halo!
Interesting that there was so much harrumphing initially about the halo being fitted - for aesthetic reasons even - but it now seems to have saved two lives already this season....
Mr. B, ah, I was going by the example answer which I think said they were half-sized.
I agree, reducing a human to a thousandth their usual size would have negative implications for intelligence, though I'd still expect them to be able to function as a living animal.
Mr. Eagles, I very much enjoyed Spiderman 2, for the PS2 (I think). Probably won't be picking up the new game, though.
Mr. L, dogs are around that cusp of intelligence. Some recognise their reflections, others don't.
So let's accept Thatcher helped free Nelson Mandela... she was far more responsible for enabling Robert Mugabe, is that 2-0 or 1-1 in terms of wisdom vs idiocy?
What would you have done in Zimbabwe? Continued white minority rule?
From my reading of it, there was a black candidate, Bishop Muzarewa, that would have allowed evolution towards a moderate black government, and that would have been for the best, but Thatcher and Lord Carrington insisted on Mugabe and Nkomo being allowed to stand, which has led to the worst.
Abel Muzorewa had worked with Ian Smith in forming an "internal settlement' which was condemned by the UN and ignored by ZANU & ZAPU who carried on fighting. Lancaster House was called to end the fighting. The subsequent elections were won by ZANU and that was the end of British involvement. Once a former colony is independent its not up to us to say how things are run 'we do not ask that you govern us well, we ask that you do not govern us at all.'
I think that it was a LOT more complicated than that. It's not as though Rhodesia was really a British Colony the day before Mugabe took over.
Anyway, my point was that Thatcher was responsible for Mugabe being allowed to take over, although she was only finishing Harold Wilson's work, so she has to bear some responsibility for the damage he has done. It was clear that Mugabe and friends were Communist sponsored Marxist terrorists that would rip the country to shreds. Ian Smith's Project Fear turned out to be Project Reality.
An idle musing that's utterly OT: been keeping my eye on some games out soon. Divinity Original Sin 2 (yes, silly title) came out today. The price drop on Amazon from yesterday to today is £7. Just seems a little odd to me. I wonder if that's indicative of preorders not meeting expectations.
Anyway, think waiting for games a bit is usually a good idea. Not only does the price decline (this'll happen more rapidly when the PS5 is announced, of course) but the early patchwork can be done to fix some holes in the game.
I have been repeatedly asked* when the new Spiderman game comes out.
Mr. B, plenty of animals exist that are half the size of a human, or smaller.
Plenty of *humans* exist that are half the size of kanye. But the definition of tiny Kanye is poor. For a like-for-like comparison, we should really be using the same 1:17 ratio, which shrinks Tiny Kanye from 2'8" right down to 4". While there are animals that small, the human body wouldn't be able to survive - apart from brain size, it'd cool too quickly.
(The alternative is to make Giant Kanye double-sized i.e. 11'4", which might not necessarily be fatal giganticism - at least from physical factors.)
Mr. Sandpit, cheers for that. Bit unlucky for Ericsson.
Big shunt, but he walked away. h ttps://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1035514811231219712
Lucky man.
He'll be glad of that Halo...
Without it he'd have had a different sort of halo!
Interesting that there was so much harrumphing initially about the halo being fitted - for aesthetic reasons even - but it now seems to have saved two lives already this season....
Jackie Stewart's comments on it are worth reading:
Mr. Sandpit, cheers for that. Bit unlucky for Ericsson.
Big shunt, but he walked away. h ttps://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1035514811231219712
Lucky man.
He'll be glad of that Halo...
Without it he'd have had a different sort of halo!
Interesting that there was so much harrumphing initially about the halo being fitted - for aesthetic reasons even - but it now seems to have saved two lives already this season....
Jackie Stewart's comments on it are worth reading:
It is also perhaps worth remembering it would very possibly have saved Bianchi and Senna (as would the now standard wheel tethers in the latter case).
The FIA or one of the teams must have modelled a halo with Bianchi's crash; they'd have all the relevant data. It'd be interesting to know the results as his crash was vicious.
What exactly is Frank Field's position in Labour? I never good work out if he was a principled left winger (anti-EU) or well on the right (welfare reform). I don't think he is exactly a Blairite, he seems perhaps to have more in common with the tradition of Peter Shore.
"Abuse received correlates reliably with attention received. However, within that, there is a tendency for the more prominent politicians to receive proportionally less abuse, and for those that engage with Twitter to receive more. Male MPs and Conservatives were the target of more abuse in the data studied."
Mr. Sandpit, cheers for that. Bit unlucky for Ericsson.
Big shunt, but he walked away. h ttps://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1035514811231219712
Lucky man.
He'll be glad of that Halo...
Without it he'd have had a different sort of halo!
Interesting that there was so much harrumphing initially about the halo being fitted - for aesthetic reasons even - but it now seems to have saved two lives already this season....
Jackie Stewart's comments on it are worth reading:
It is also perhaps worth remembering it would very possibly have saved Bianchi and Senna (as would the now standard wheel tethers in the latter case).
Having seen* the footage of the Bianchi Crash, I'm not sure the halo would have saved him, it's a terrifyingly brutal impact. Doesn't mean the halo is a bad idea though.
The Trump administration is planning to cut all remaining US funding for the main UN programme for Palestinian refugees, with potentially devastating impacts, and is lobbying other countries to follow suit.
The threat emerged days after the US announced it was withdrawing $200mfrom its main development agency, USAid, for programmes based largely in Gaza where they help tens of thousands of people.
On topic I can see a time when Ruth ends up leading the Conservatives but it won't be until after Brexit is over because of her position on that. She is personable, witty and an excellent organiser. Whether she can actually run a public institution is an unknown because she has never had to.
She does benefit considerably from being a big fish in a small pond up here. Nicola is a skilled and dogged politician but other than her the competition is very modest bordering on embarrassing. She would find Westminster a lot more testing but she is young enough and clever enough to learn.
I think that there is an argument that she has taken the Scottish Tories as far as she can (much further than most of them ever dreamed was possible). Davidson for FM looks a pretty much unbridgeable stretch and my guess is the Tories will be playing defense rather than offense at the next GE. There is still ground to recover in local government but that is about it.
Mentioning SCons and local government, that's brave. Still it's been positively weeks since a SCon Councillor has been unmasked as running an anonymous bigoted abuse twitter account so things are on the up.
True, the SNP have massively upped the stakes on party scandals, the SCons are far behind.
It's just not a fair competition. Who could possibly be as embarrassing as Salmond?
Units of embarrassment would need to be worked out.
eg
Cabinet minister wanking on work computer + cabinet minister groping journos + minister who resigned after texting dick pics + minister who resigned after sending thousands of s&m texts = one former FM accused of sexual harassment
MSP suspended & expelled for inappropriate behaviour = 20 plus racist, misogynist, far right, homophobic, bigoted councillors still in in place
MP who'd resigned as a minister over previous sexting found to have sexted a 19 year old job candidate = one MP who stood down from her party after being accused of (groundless) financial irregularities
Of course some filters would have applied for suspended, resigned, stood down, expelled from party, sent to diversity training etc. Any word how many Tory elected 'members' have stood down or been suspended from their party due to their shenanigans?
The Trump administration is planning to cut all remaining US funding for the main UN programme for Palestinian refugees, with potentially devastating impacts, and is lobbying other countries to follow suit.
The threat emerged days after the US announced it was withdrawing $200mfrom its main development agency, USAid, for programmes based largely in Gaza where they help tens of thousands of people.
Whilst it is not obvious why the US is and has been spending so many of its tax dollars on people who insist that they hate them this will be both devastating and destabilising unless someone picks up the slack and the Palestinians seem to have relatively few friends in the Arab world.
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There is a significant chance she will have mucked something up by then as well, lost the drive, or some other factor. Politics post-Brexit might be very different as well.
I'll get my coat...
Surgeon punched doctor in head in row over 'whether Laura Kuenssberg is attractive enough to be on BBC'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/31/surgeon-punched-doctor-head-row-whether-laura-kuenssberg-attractive/
Don't read the report. It is all rather squalid.
Mr. Sandpit, cheers for that. Bit unlucky for Ericsson.
If you want to become leader, be prominent, be friendly with other MPs in your party, and do not obviously cherish the job.
https://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1035514811231219712
Not that Root could catch a cold right now, unfortunately.
As you say, Giant Kanye, if scaled up proportionately (about 17:1) would weigh about 400 tons. Not only would that be far too much for the human bone structure, ligaments etc, it's almost certainly far too much for *any* possible design of land animal - certainly, any design that involves only two legs.
I'd also imagine that a 100ft tall person would have severe problems with blood circulation.
Frank might endorse him.
Can’t see much bar the steering wheel making it out of that crash though, the rest of the car is scrap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dQGqoTtCqI
Looks like M. Barnier's "ticking clock" is concentrating minds on both sides of the table....
To my mind, the fate of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe has many echoes in modern UK politics, not least Brexit and the Corbynite takeover of the Labour Party. I asked the question earlier, though no one replied, when have rebels that take over ever tolerated any dissenting voices?
My money is on Tinie Tempah.
Anyway, think waiting for games a bit is usually a good idea. Not only does the price decline (this'll happen more rapidly when the PS5 is announced, of course) but the early patchwork can be done to fix some holes in the game.
If Field quits and there is a by-election during the Conference season, Labour's opponents will just run with every statement Corbyn has made on the Jews. More likely to be effective than in a general election, because with no government at stake issues will matter much less.
It shouldn't make a difference to the result, but it would be ferrets in a sack - especially as conference this year is in Liverpool!
If you want a sharp crash, then Blundell's IndyCar crash was something like 122G:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hes5ZxPx0i0
His seatbelts were five inches longer afterwards.
*Like 300 times a day.
Exist, sure - but full human level cognition in an organism of that size would require a far more efficient brain structure. Perhaps if he had bird brain...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird-brains-have-as-many-neurons-as-some-primates/
Re the marshal, he’s about 15’ back from the barrier so he’s safer than he looks from that angle. Still a silly place to be though.
I make no comment on other forms of mass murderers...
I agree, reducing a human to a thousandth their usual size would have negative implications for intelligence, though I'd still expect them to be able to function as a living animal.
Mr. Eagles, I very much enjoyed Spiderman 2, for the PS2 (I think). Probably won't be picking up the new game, though.
Mr. L, dogs are around that cusp of intelligence. Some recognise their reflections, others don't.
Anyway, my point was that Thatcher was responsible for Mugabe being allowed to take over, although she was only finishing Harold Wilson's work, so she has to bear some responsibility for the damage he has done. It was clear that Mugabe and friends were Communist sponsored Marxist terrorists that would rip the country to shreds. Ian Smith's Project Fear turned out to be Project Reality.
(The alternative is to make Giant Kanye double-sized i.e. 11'4", which might not necessarily be fatal giganticism - at least from physical factors.)
The whips are going to have to get even busier breaking pairing agreements.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/131147/stewart-halo-critics-like-1960s-safety-backlash
It is also perhaps worth remembering it would very possibly have saved Bianchi and Senna (as would the now standard wheel tethers in the latter case).
"Abuse received correlates reliably with attention received. However, within that, there is a tendency for the more prominent politicians to receive proportionally less abuse, and for those that engage with Twitter to receive more. Male MPs and Conservatives were the target of more abuse in the data studied."
* wish i hadn't.
The threat emerged days after the US announced it was withdrawing $200mfrom its main development agency, USAid, for programmes based largely in Gaza where they help tens of thousands of people.
Ha. 29-ball duck. A record?
[Edit: joint record for India. Our own Jimmy managed 55 balls, and Geoff Allott managed 77(!) for the Kiwis.]
Edit - turns out it was quickly surpassed. Pant had a way to go to catch up with the winner, Geoff Alott of New Zealand:
https://m.sportskeeda.com/cricket/most-number-balls-faced-for-duck-test
Record is 77
https://www.sportskeeda.com/cricket/most-number-balls-faced-for-duck-test
eg
Cabinet minister wanking on work computer + cabinet minister groping journos + minister who resigned after texting dick pics + minister who resigned after sending thousands of s&m texts = one former FM accused of sexual harassment
MSP suspended & expelled for inappropriate behaviour = 20 plus racist, misogynist, far right, homophobic, bigoted councillors still in in place
MP who'd resigned as a minister over previous sexting found to have sexted a 19 year old job candidate = one MP who stood down from her party after being accused of (groundless) financial irregularities
Of course some filters would have applied for suspended, resigned, stood down, expelled from party, sent to diversity training etc. Any word how many Tory elected 'members' have stood down or been suspended from their party due to their shenanigans?