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  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,389

    Pulpstar said:

    https://twitter.com/FionaOnasanya/status/1075422858971701251

    She's appealing; how the flying f*ck did she pass her LPC ?

    I think that's a parody account. She's not an ex MP... yet....
    "Proud to be Labour’s ex- Member of Parliament for my home city, Peterborough, where I hear the women’s prison is quite nice".
  • rural_voterrural_voter Posts: 2,038

    Presumably that only affects remote controlled drones, not autonomous ones.
    It appears that the question 'what happens if commercial aircraft use brute force, i.e. go ahead and be prepared occasionally to smash a drone to bits' was answered by an unplanned experiment a week ago

    https://www.rt.com/news/446416-plane-drone-collision-mexico/
  • Sean_F said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    Would the fact that the first jury did not convict her be likely to have an impact on sentencing?

    Depends how close it was.
    As much as anything the case does highlight the arbitrary 'luck of the draw' nature of justice. A third jury might have acquitted her.
    I doubt it, the evidence was overwhelming.

    In the two trials, 21 out of 23 jurors believed her to be guilty.
    And Lord only knows what the other two were thinking!
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 38,868
    He's dead Jim.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    SeanT said:

    Cyclefree said:

    IanB2 said:

    Cyclefree said:

    IanB2 said:

    tlg86 said:

    So why Gatwick? Why not Heathrow, or both?

    Lots of countryside around Gatwick to do the recovery and recharging without being spotted. This has got to be a deliberate protest; whoever it was ran it throughout the night and today is the busiest travelling day for the Xmas getaway

    It will be environmentalists stopping emissions.
    Or it could be a trial run for something more sinister. Airplanes grounded. The police diverted looking for the drone operator. Meanwhile, hundreds, thousands of people are trapped inside an airport and anyone can just turn up and ..... well, use your imagination.
    Err...why would you need a trial run? I hope you are not the only one with such a thought.
    So do I. But I am assuming those with sinister intentions do some form of reconnaissance and planning.

    Anyway it doesn’t bear thinking about.

    In more joyful news I have just been given as a Xmas surprise tickets to the Olympia Horse Show this evening so I shall be quaffing champagne and watching horse dancing and jumping and there is some stuff going on with dogs too. Sounds wonderful! I am a sucker for horse shows and agricultural shows and stuff like that.
    In the same spirit as cyclefree's vulgar boasting, I'd like to announce that I've just won an award, my first for novel writing. I can't tell you what it as there is a media embargo (really) but I can say it's quite a rubbish award which you get JUST for selling squillions of copies and yet it is a big thing in the the industry, and it's better than the Nobel for the good reason that I have won this, rather than the Nobel

    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.
    Congratulations on the award.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    So, is the leader of the Labour party literally quoting Karl Marx going to make any sort of news today ?
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,257
    I work hard and do whatever I'm told.
  • SeanT said:

    Cyclefree said:

    IanB2 said:

    Cyclefree said:

    IanB2 said:

    tlg86 said:

    So why Gatwick? Why not Heathrow, or both?

    Lots of countryside around Gatwick to do the recovery and recharging without being spotted. This has got to be a deliberate protest; whoever it was ran it throughout the night and today is the busiest travelling day for the Xmas getaway

    It will be environmentalists stopping emissions.
    Or it could be a trial run for something more sinister. Airplanes grounded. The police diverted looking for the drone operator. Meanwhile, hundreds, thousands of people are trapped inside an airport and anyone can just turn up and ..... well, use your imagination.
    Err...why would you need a trial run? I hope you are not the only one with such a thought.
    So do I. But I am assuming those with sinister intentions do some form of reconnaissance and planning.

    Anyway it doesn’t bear thinking about.

    In more joyful news I have just been given as a Xmas surprise tickets to the Olympia Horse Show this evening so I shall be quaffing champagne and watching horse dancing and jumping and there is some stuff going on with dogs too. Sounds wonderful! I am a sucker for horse shows and agricultural shows and stuff like that.
    In the same spirit as cyclefree's vulgar boasting, I'd like to announce that I've just won an award, my first for novel writing. I can't tell you what it as there is a media embargo (really) but I can say it's quite a rubbish award which you get JUST for selling squillions of copies and yet it is a big thing in the the industry, and it's better than the Nobel for the good reason that I have won this, rather than the Nobel

    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.
    What a post from PB's master of vulgar boasting showing he has absolutely no self-awareness.
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,469
    Depends who the job interview is with surely!? :smiley:
  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300
    Pulpstar said:
    All those ecological disasters in the USSR weren't the product of real socialism.

    https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sgsm18565.doc.htm
  • justin124justin124 Posts: 11,527
    Sean_F said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    Would the fact that the first jury did not convict her be likely to have an impact on sentencing?

    Depends how close it was.
    As much as anything the case does highlight the arbitrary 'luck of the draw' nature of justice. A third jury might have acquitted her.
    I doubt it, the evidence was overwhelming.

    In the two trials, 21 out of 23 jurors believed her to be guilty.
    How do we know that?
  • dr_spyn said:

    Pulpstar said:
    All those ecological disasters in the USSR weren't the product of real socialism.

    https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sgsm18565.doc.htm
    If you want real, concentrated, highly dense socialism then the Campaign Group is the place to look:
    https://twitter.com/RichardBurgon/status/1075469916759867392
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    justin124 said:

    Would the fact that the first jury did not convict her be likely to have an impact on sentencing?

    I'd have thought it's completely irrelevant to sentencing.
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
  • Carolus_RexCarolus_Rex Posts: 1,414
    AndyJS said:

    justin124 said:

    Would the fact that the first jury did not convict her be likely to have an impact on sentencing?

    I'd have thought it's completely irrelevant to sentencing.
    You'd be right.
  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300

    dr_spyn said:

    Pulpstar said:
    All those ecological disasters in the USSR weren't the product of real socialism.

    https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sgsm18565.doc.htm
    If you want real, concentrated, highly dense socialism then the Campaign Group is the place to look:
    https://twitter.com/RichardBurgon/status/1075469916759867392
    I believe that light bends round them.
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    Pulpstar said:

    So, is the leader of the Labour party literally quoting Karl Marx going to make any sort of news today ?


    A spectre is haunting Europe.
    It is the spectre of stupid women.
  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787
    SeanT said:

    Cyclefree said:

    IanB2 said:

    Cyclefree said:

    IanB2 said:

    tlg86 said:

    So why Gatwick? Why not Heathrow, or both?

    Lots of countryside around Gatwick to do the recovery and recharging without being spotted. This has got to be a deliberate protest; whoever it was ran it throughout the night and today is the busiest travelling day for the Xmas getaway

    It will be environmentalists stopping emissions.
    Or it could be a trial run for something more sinister. Airplanes grounded. The police diverted looking for the drone operator. Meanwhile, hundreds, thousands of people are trapped inside an airport and anyone can just turn up and ..... well, use your imagination.
    Err...why would you need a trial run? I hope you are not the only one with such a thought.
    So do I. But I am assuming those with sinister intentions do some form of reconnaissance and planning.

    Anyway it doesn’t bear thinking about.

    In more joyful news I have just been given as a Xmas surprise tickets to the Olympia Horse Show this evening so I shall be quaffing champagne and watching horse dancing and jumping and there is some stuff going on with dogs too. Sounds wonderful! I am a sucker for horse shows and agricultural shows and stuff like that.
    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.
    I got a D in Art at O-Level, and the exam board retained my entry as an example of how to just snatch a fail from the jaws of minimal pass. (The question was "What I see from my window." so I painted a brick wall.)
  • Donny43Donny43 Posts: 634
    dr_spyn said:

    dr_spyn said:

    Pulpstar said:
    All those ecological disasters in the USSR weren't the product of real socialism.

    https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sgsm18565.doc.htm
    If you want real, concentrated, highly dense socialism then the Campaign Group is the place to look:
    https://twitter.com/RichardBurgon/status/1075469916759867392
    I believe that light bends round them.
    Is that guy left middle the muppet who picked up the mace last week?

  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,176
    Does anyone else think it's odd that no photos of these drones have emerged? I'd have thought the country's photographers would have descended on to Sussex to try to get a shot of them.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,389

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    rpjs said:


    I got a D in Art at O-Level, and the exam board retained my entry as an example of how to just snatch a fail from the jaws of minimal pass. (The question was "What I see from my window." so I painted a brick wall.)

    That kind of indenpendence of spirit could win you a Turner prize these days.
  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300
    edited December 2018
    Donny43 said:

    dr_spyn said:

    dr_spyn said:

    Pulpstar said:
    All those ecological disasters in the USSR weren't the product of real socialism.

    https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sgsm18565.doc.htm
    If you want real, concentrated, highly dense socialism then the Campaign Group is the place to look:
    https://twitter.com/RichardBurgon/status/1075469916759867392
    I believe that light bends round them.
    Is that guy left middle the muppet who picked up the mace last week?

    You are correct the star of Maces High is 2nd on Left.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,705

    Cyclefree said:

    What on earth has it got to do with him?
    Well he did pay for it.
    :lol:
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    edited December 2018
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  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
    Bulbous salutations aside, one of the most baffling things about Morrisey's entry was that he was under the impression that breasts are capable of barrel-rolling.

    they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth

    I'm by no means an expert of the boobs, but even I know that's not how they work.
  • dr_spyn said:

    Pulpstar said:
    All those ecological disasters in the USSR weren't the product of real socialism.

    https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sgsm18565.doc.htm
    If you want real, concentrated, highly dense socialism then the Campaign Group is the place to look:
    https://twitter.com/RichardBurgon/status/1075469916759867392
    Wonder if they have 2 brain cells to rub together collectively.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,705
    SeanT said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    Yes, that was another highlight in my illustrious career - an award for the worst sex scene in British fiction in the previous year, and up until now has been my most cherished moment: a career peak.

    But this new rubbish award is for a complete work of fiction. A novel in itself. So it's even greater. I shall buy extra champagne for Chrimbo, after all it's our last go at the French stuff.

    We're gonna be drinking English fizz after March 29.
    Well done on your award!

    English fizz will of course run out very soon after March 29 so enjoy it while you can.
  • Carolus_RexCarolus_Rex Posts: 1,414

    rpjs said:


    I got a D in Art at O-Level, and the exam board retained my entry as an example of how to just snatch a fail from the jaws of minimal pass. (The question was "What I see from my window." so I painted a brick wall.)

    That kind of indenpendence of spirit could win you a Turner prize these days.
    Why bother painting bricks when you could make decent money just stacking them?

    https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/how-to-build-controversy-from-a-pile-of-bricks-2277359.html
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 38,868

    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
    Bulbous salutations aside, one of the most baffling things about Morrisey's entry was that he was under the impression that breasts are capable of barrel-rolling.

    they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth

    I'm by no means an expert of the boobs, but even I know that's not how they work.
    Me neither, though I've never known them to barrell roll. A PB breastxpert needs to weigh in, I think.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,705
    SeanT said:

    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
    Mine was pretty far out there. I might put it on here when everyone is drunk over the Christmas period.

    NB - ignore all the versions of my my award winning Bad Sex prose online, they are all redacted and censored; for the full and fruity glory you have to go to the book itself....
    Haha, never miss a sales opportunity, eh?
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    edited December 2018
    MaxPB said:


    Me neither, though I've never known them to barrell roll. A PB breastxpert needs to weigh in, I think.

    I mean, I can't imagine the ability of boobs to barrel-roll would make them any more convenient for their intended evolutionary purposes, and you'd just have to spend time greasing your axles after every shower. Inconvenient.

    Actually, that reminds me of one of my favourite evolutionary biology thought experiments: what would it take for a species to evolve wheels?
  • MaxPB said:

    Me neither, though I've never known them to barrell roll. A PB breastxpert needs to weigh in, I think.

    Of course we can't rule out the possibility that the distinguished author's confusion relates to how barrels behave when rolled, rather than to the dynamics of boob kinetics.
  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787

    rpjs said:


    I got a D in Art at O-Level, and the exam board retained my entry as an example of how to just snatch a fail from the jaws of minimal pass. (The question was "What I see from my window." so I painted a brick wall.)

    That kind of indenpendence of spirit could win you a Turner prize these days.
    Ahead of my time I am.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,936
    SeanT said:

    Crikey

    Gatwick is basically gonna be closed all day, because of a few kids with drones

    https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1075761989060677634

    As others have said, imagine what a concerted attack could do. Cripple the country in a few days.

    If and when they catch the culprits the punishments will have to be obscene and draconian, to discourage les autres.

    Could we have a modern equivalent of the condemned being chained to two horses... but instead with drones?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871

    Presumably that only affects remote controlled drones, not autonomous ones.
    It appears that the question 'what happens if commercial aircraft use brute force, i.e. go ahead and be prepared occasionally to smash a drone to bits' was answered by an unplanned experiment a week ago

    https://www.rt.com/news/446416-plane-drone-collision-mexico/
    Pretty similar damage to that which happens with seabird collisions. Another reason why Boris Island was always nuts.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,705
    Dura_Ace said:

    I’m flexible and open to new positions.

    https://twitter.com/mistaoowl/status/1074317613705113601?s=21

    I work well on my own and in teams.
    Come again?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871

    Pulpstar said:

    https://twitter.com/FionaOnasanya/status/1075422858971701251

    She's appealing; how the flying f*ck did she pass her LPC ?

    I think that's a parody account. She's not an ex MP... yet....
    And you'd hope for better spelling from a (soon to be struck off) solicitor
  • Scott_P said:
    Dinosaurs are obviously not extinct. Behold the MPs who want to get paid lots of money for simply doing as Brussels tells them.
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,469

    Scott_P said:
    Dinosaurs are obviously not extinct. Behold the MPs who want to get paid lots of money for simply doing as Brussels tells them.
    Yawn.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
    edited December 2018
    Chris said:

    Does anyone understand Andrea Leadsom's plan for a managed No Deal?

    Apparently it still involves negotiating a deal with a transition period, but presumably no backstop? Is she suggesting we should give up anything in return for the EU giving up the backstop? If not, why should the EU agree to her "No Deal Deal"?

    Does she understand that this isn't really no deal, is it?
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    edited December 2018
    SeanT said:


    If and when they catch the culprits the punishments will have to be obscene and draconian, to discourage les autres.

    It would have to be. Bad luck boys, I know it was just a harmless jape to you, but for sound jurisprudential and political reasons, I'm afraid we're going to imprison you for an unreasonably lengthy time period more usually associated with serious sexual offences.

    Nothing personal, but you have to be seen to suffer.
  • rpjsrpjs Posts: 3,787
    SeanT said:

    Crikey

    Gatwick is basically gonna be closed all day, because of a few kids with drones

    https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1075761989060677634

    As others have said, imagine what a concerted attack could do. Cripple the country in a few days.

    If and when they catch the culprits the punishments will have to be obscene and draconian, to discourage les autres.

    Sussex police are claiming these aren't OTS kiddie kit but "industrial" drones (whatever that means). I wonder if this is a practice run for March 30th when the roads to the ports start jamming up and air is the only way to get vital supplies into the UK.
  • DanSmithDanSmith Posts: 1,215
    Scott_P said:
    Explain this to me, does this block No Deal?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
    Donny43 said:
    The PM won't go there either, so it's somewhat academic, but they can if they wanted to, although the measures they'd have to take are drastic.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,705
    IanB2 said:

    Chris said:

    Does anyone understand Andrea Leadsom's plan for a managed No Deal?

    Apparently it still involves negotiating a deal with a transition period, but presumably no backstop? Is she suggesting we should give up anything in return for the EU giving up the backstop? If not, why should the EU agree to her "No Deal Deal"?

    Does she understand that this isn't really no deal, is it?
    It isn't really a plan, it's a contradiction in terms. No Deal with a transition period?
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,362
    ydoethur said:

    Anazina said:

    Once May’s deal is defeated, she can’t possibly stay and no one in the Tory Party would want her to. She would face a proper VNOC from Labour then, which she’d probably win but she would then be the news rather than policy which would be a massive distraction.

    With Labour currently on the back foot after Corbyn’s mad moment yesterday, and idiotic attempt at a VNOC which made the Keystone Cops look competent, she’d after to make way. She won’t be missed.

    As for Brexit, it might not happen at all. The chances of no deal or no Brexit must be about neck and neck.

    Why do people insist on abbreviating it to VNOC?

    It’s VONC man!
    That’s the kind of pedantry I expect on PB - I always give people the benefit of the doubt as m6 autocorrect is bonkers on my Ipad

    Mine keeps changing 'because' to 'becuase' for some reason. Does anyone know how I change it?
    I often transpose two letters when typing , it is seemingly very common and something to do with one side of the brain working faster than the other, especially when you are a genius like me.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,389
    SeanT said:

    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
    Mine was pretty far out there. I might put it on here when everyone is drunk over the Christmas period.

    NB - ignore all the versions of my my award winning Bad Sex prose online, they are all redacted and censored; for the full and fruity glory you have to go to the book itself....
    "He puts his hands on Bianca’s shoulders and slips off her low-cut top. Suddenly inspired, he whispers into her ear, as if to himself: ‘I desire the landscape that is enveloped in this woman, a landscape I do not know but that I can feel, and until I have unfolded that landscape, I will not be happy …’

    Bianca shivers with pleasure. Simon whispers to her with an authority that he has never felt before: ‘Let’s construct an assemblage"
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    DanSmith said:

    Scott_P said:
    Explain this to me, does this block No Deal?
    Doesn't look like it to me.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
    SeanT said:

    Crikey

    Gatwick is basically gonna be closed all day, because of a few kids with drones

    https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1075761989060677634

    As others have said, imagine what a concerted attack could do. Cripple the country in a few days.

    If and when they catch the culprits the punishments will have to be obscene and draconian, to discourage les autres.

    Bet this turns out to be more than kids.
  • Donny43Donny43 Posts: 634
    edited December 2018
    DanSmith said:

    Scott_P said:
    Explain this to me, does this block No Deal?
    No.

    If we reach 11pm March 29th and the WA hasn't been ratified and the A50 notification hasn't been revoked and the A50 negotiations period hasn't been extended then we leave with no deal.
  • Donny43Donny43 Posts: 634
    IanB2 said:

    Donny43 said:
    The PM won't go there either, so it's somewhat academic, but they can if they wanted to, although the measures they'd have to take are drastic.
    No, they can't. All they can do is ratify the WA or revoke A50.
  • SeanT said:

    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
    Mine was pretty far out there. I might put it on here when everyone is drunk over the Christmas period.

    NB - ignore all the versions of my my award winning Bad Sex prose online, they are all redacted and censored; for the full and fruity glory you have to go to the book itself....
    I hope you got to see the Australian sexting MP's efforts:

    “I pull you close, run my strong hands down your back, softly kiss your neck and whisper G’day mate.” In other messages, it is alleged Broad said: “I’m a country guy, so I know how to fly a plane, ride a horse, fuck my woman. My intentions are completely dishonourable.”
  • Ishmael_ZIshmael_Z Posts: 8,981
    malcolmg said:

    ydoethur said:

    Anazina said:

    Once May’s deal is defeated, she can’t possibly stay and no one in the Tory Party would want her to. She would face a proper VNOC from Labour then, which she’d probably win but she would then be the news rather than policy which would be a massive distraction.

    With Labour currently on the back foot after Corbyn’s mad moment yesterday, and idiotic attempt at a VNOC which made the Keystone Cops look competent, she’d after to make way. She won’t be missed.

    As for Brexit, it might not happen at all. The chances of no deal or no Brexit must be about neck and neck.

    Why do people insist on abbreviating it to VNOC?

    It’s VONC man!
    That’s the kind of pedantry I expect on PB - I always give people the benefit of the doubt as m6 autocorrect is bonkers on my Ipad

    Mine keeps changing 'because' to 'becuase' for some reason. Does anyone know how I change it?
    I often transpose two letters when typing , it is seemingly very common and something to do with one side of the brain working faster than the other, especially when you are a genius like me.
    Carp.
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    Pulpstar said:

    DanSmith said:

    Scott_P said:
    Explain this to me, does this block No Deal?
    Doesn't look like it to me.
    Pre FTPA, if the finance bill was amended, it was considered a confidence issue. Post-FTPA, it's not a confidence issue, so it's possible for a government to end up in the epistemologically nebulous space of having confidence, but no supply. Labour and the DUP already forced several amendments to this finance bill, that by historical convention would have been fatal.

    After Brexit shakes out, the FTPA is gonna need some serious bodywork.
  • ChameleonChameleon Posts: 4,264
    IanB2 said:

    SeanT said:

    Crikey

    Gatwick is basically gonna be closed all day, because of a few kids with drones

    https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1075761989060677634

    As others have said, imagine what a concerted attack could do. Cripple the country in a few days.

    If and when they catch the culprits the punishments will have to be obscene and draconian, to discourage les autres.

    Bet this turns out to be more than kids.
    One of my mates is big into drones and RC planes, and he's said that it's very hard to get drones that will fly for more than an hour without the battery needing to be replaced, and the batteries are several hundred quid a pop. Which means it's either a group who's spent £5000+ and stayed up through the night, or a foreign actor. My bet is on greencepeace and the like.
  • Donny43Donny43 Posts: 634

    Pulpstar said:

    DanSmith said:

    Scott_P said:
    Explain this to me, does this block No Deal?
    Doesn't look like it to me.
    Pre FTPA, if the finance bill was amended, it was considered a confidence issue. Post-FTPA, it's not a confidence issue, so it's possible for a government to end up in the epistemologically nebulous space of having confidence, but no supply. Labour and the DUP already forced several amendments to this finance bill, that by historical convention would have been fatal.

    After Brexit shakes out, the FTPA is gonna need some serious bodywork.
    It's already due for review by the end of 2020 IIRC and no doubt this will feed into it.
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    It's gonna be some autistic nerd who was doing it to impress 4chan or something.
  • Mr. D, I haven't field tested this myself, but my understanding is horses aren't fast/strong enough to tear someone apart like that.

    Enormo-haddock, on the other hand...

    Mr. G, yeah, I do that quite a lot. Also, homophonic typos and a weirdly recurrent problem of adding 'ly' when it isn't neededly.
  • kyf_100kyf_100 Posts: 4,951
    SeanT said:

    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
    Mine was pretty far out there. I might put it on here when everyone is drunk over the Christmas period.

    NB - ignore all the versions of my my award winning Bad Sex prose online, they are all redacted and censored; for the full and fruity glory you have to go to the book itself....
    I actually have a copy of the book in question, purchased from a charity shop about ten years ago! I really quite enjoyed it. Swaggering prose, even back then.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    IanB2 said:

    Donny43 said:
    The PM won't go there either, so it's somewhat academic, but they can if they wanted to, although the measures they'd have to take are drastic.
    I think the latest "No deal" can be blocked if the Gov't really wants to go through with "No deal" is before the meaningful vote. Any time after the MV they have to err put Corbyn into power:

    Scenario - Corbyn VONCs on 16th, 20 Tories vote down the Gov't then promptly resign their seats.
    30th - Corbyn states he can't forma Gov't so we're into GE timetable.
    31st? Parliament prorogued

    5th Feb ? Parliament disolved

    14th March? Polling day

    28th+ State opening of parliament ?

  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,127
    IanB2 said:

    SeanT said:

    Crikey

    Gatwick is basically gonna be closed all day, because of a few kids with drones

    https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1075761989060677634

    As others have said, imagine what a concerted attack could do. Cripple the country in a few days.

    If and when they catch the culprits the punishments will have to be obscene and draconian, to discourage les autres.

    Bet this turns out to be more than kids.
    Pprune hasn’t an interesting thread on this.

    Strikes me that it must be a concerted effort. Remarkable that we don’t have anti drone technology that can be deployed at airports, mind...
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234


    “I pull you close, run my strong hands down your back, softly kiss your neck and whisper G’day mate.” In other messages, it is alleged Broad said: “I’m a country guy, so I know how to fly a plane, ride a horse, fuck my woman. My intentions are completely dishonourable.”

    I hope he calls his knob his "dishonourable member".
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Drones should be banned IMO. There's no reason for members of the public to own them.
  • Scott_P said:
    Dinosaurs are obviously not extinct. Behold the MPs who want to get paid lots of money for simply doing as Brussels tells them.
    Yawn.
    Take a few nitrazepam
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 33,503
    AndyJS said:
    Stupid woman?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
    DanSmith said:

    Scott_P said:
    Explain this to me, does this block No Deal?
    That clause of the Finance (no 3) Bill gives the Treasury power to make various regulations to maintain tax and manage finances after we leave the EU. The amendment seeks to make the granting of these powers conditional upon leaving with a deal (or in the other circumstances set out in the amendment, such as Parliament actually agreeing no deal).

    If carried, presumably its effect is that Treasury would not have those powers in the event of a no deal departure that hadn't been agreed by parliament. I'd assume this would be fairly critical to the continued operation of public finances and therefore would make government very reluctant to go down that path without parliaments agreement.

    Whether the amendment is ruled in order and taken for debate are, of course, other matters.
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    AndyJS said:

    Drones should be banned IMO. There's no reason for members of the public to own them.

    Photography?
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,705
    malcolmg said:

    ydoethur said:

    Anazina said:

    Once May’s deal is defeated, she can’t possibly stay and no one in the Tory Party would want her to. She would face a proper VNOC from Labour then, which she’d probably win but she would then be the news rather than policy which would be a massive distraction.

    With Labour currently on the back foot after Corbyn’s mad moment yesterday, and idiotic attempt at a VNOC which made the Keystone Cops look competent, she’d after to make way. She won’t be missed.

    As for Brexit, it might not happen at all. The chances of no deal or no Brexit must be about neck and neck.

    Why do people insist on abbreviating it to VNOC?

    It’s VONC man!
    That’s the kind of pedantry I expect on PB - I always give people the benefit of the doubt as m6 autocorrect is bonkers on my Ipad

    Mine keeps changing 'because' to 'becuase' for some reason. Does anyone know how I change it?
    I often transpose two letters when typing , it is seemingly very common and something to do with one side of the brain working faster than the other, especially when you are a genius like me.
    Neevr happens to me.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,362
    Ishmael_Z said:

    malcolmg said:

    ydoethur said:

    Anazina said:

    Once May’s deal is defeated, she can’t possibly stay and no one in the Tory Party would want her to. She would face a proper VNOC from Labour then, which she’d probably win but she would then be the news rather than policy which would be a massive distraction.

    With Labour currently on the back foot after Corbyn’s mad moment yesterday, and idiotic attempt at a VNOC which made the Keystone Cops look competent, she’d after to make way. She won’t be missed.

    As for Brexit, it might not happen at all. The chances of no deal or no Brexit must be about neck and neck.

    Why do people insist on abbreviating it to VNOC?

    It’s VONC man!
    That’s the kind of pedantry I expect on PB - I always give people the benefit of the doubt as m6 autocorrect is bonkers on my Ipad

    Mine keeps changing 'because' to 'becuase' for some reason. Does anyone know how I change it?
    I often transpose two letters when typing , it is seemingly very common and something to do with one side of the brain working faster than the other, especially when you are a genius like me.
    Carp.
    LOL
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
    Pulpstar said:

    IanB2 said:

    Donny43 said:
    The PM won't go there either, so it's somewhat academic, but they can if they wanted to, although the measures they'd have to take are drastic.
    I think the latest "No deal" can be blocked if the Gov't really wants to go through with "No deal" is before the meaningful vote. Any time after the MV they have to err put Corbyn into power:

    Scenario - Corbyn VONCs on 16th, 20 Tories vote down the Gov't then promptly resign their seats.
    30th - Corbyn states he can't forma Gov't so we're into GE timetable.
    31st? Parliament prorogued

    5th Feb ? Parliament disolved

    14th March? Polling day

    28th+ State opening of parliament ?

    They always have the option of taking down the government, forming an alternative one (which is the possibility allowable under the FTPA before you get to a GE), and then the new government pushes through the revocation act that I am sure civil servants already have in the drawer. If this were cross-party and had a clear majority in the house, I don't see how it could be stopped. It also gives HMQ another chance to wear her EU flag hat.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    Isn't the "finance bill" normally passed by now, or does it take eons normally.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 33,503
    IanB2 said:

    Chris said:

    Does anyone understand Andrea Leadsom's plan for a managed No Deal?

    Apparently it still involves negotiating a deal with a transition period, but presumably no backstop? Is she suggesting we should give up anything in return for the EU giving up the backstop? If not, why should the EU agree to her "No Deal Deal"?

    Does she understand that this isn't really no deal, is it?
    IanB2 said:

    Chris said:

    Does anyone understand Andrea Leadsom's plan for a managed No Deal?

    Apparently it still involves negotiating a deal with a transition period, but presumably no backstop? Is she suggesting we should give up anything in return for the EU giving up the backstop? If not, why should the EU agree to her "No Deal Deal"?

    Does she understand that this isn't really no deal, is it?
    Does she understand .........
  • I’m flexible and open to new positions.

    https://twitter.com/mistaoowl/status/1074317613705113601?s=21

    I think inside the box.
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    All seems a moot point now. In the event of a no-deal Brexit, it seems the EU already has in place contingency plans to essentially indulge in a full regulatory annexation of the UK.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220
    edited December 2018
    IanB2 said:

    Pulpstar said:

    IanB2 said:

    Donny43 said:
    The PM won't go there either, so it's somewhat academic, but they can if they wanted to, although the measures they'd have to take are drastic.
    I think the latest "No deal" can be blocked if the Gov't really wants to go through with "No deal" is before the meaningful vote. Any time after the MV they have to err put Corbyn into power:

    Scenario - Corbyn VONCs on 16th, 20 Tories vote down the Gov't then promptly resign their seats.
    30th - Corbyn states he can't forma Gov't so we're into GE timetable.
    31st? Parliament prorogued

    5th Feb ? Parliament disolved

    14th March? Polling day

    28th+ State opening of parliament ?

    They always have the option of taking down the government, forming an alternative one (which is the possibility allowable under the FTPA before you get to a GE), and then the new government pushes through the revocation act that I am sure civil servants already have in the drawer. If this were cross-party and had a clear majority in the house, I don't see how it could be stopped. It also gives HMQ another chance to wear her EU flag hat.
    Where is this mythical centrist Gov't commanding the authority of the house from ? Both front benches will whip against it :o

    Which means realistically the magnificent seven or however many there are need to be prepared to put Corbyn in power....
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234

    I’m flexible and open to new positions.

    https://twitter.com/mistaoowl/status/1074317613705113601?s=21

    I think inside the box.
    Which way's the lavatory?
  • ChameleonChameleon Posts: 4,264
    Also, I wonder if it actually is drones, logistically it makes no sense. For the perpetrator to not have been caught it must have GPS off, and won't be transmitting AIS signals etc, so likely isn't being controlled by a person, but rather has pre-programmed flight instructions.

    It's been well over 12 hours now of a drone in the sky, so multiple (over 10) trips would have had to have been taken for new batteries (even if it is top-end), hard to believe that no progress has been made on tracking it. The alternative is that it's either a better drone than is available on the commercial market, or many drones have been used. Both are unlikely.

    Without wishing to go all tin foil, I don't particularly believe that it is drones.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,389

    SeanT said:

    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
    Sean_F said:

    SeanT said:


    So from now on I can call myself "award winning author S K Tremayne", and if Mr Exton, my old Art teacher is reading, the man who said I was rubbish and rightly predicted I would get a U meaning my art was so bad it was unclassifiable, I'd like to say hahahahahahahahahaha and uhm sorry about your death.

    As far as I'm concerned you entered an elite literary pantheon when you won a Bad Sex Award, the rest is window dressing.
    I doubt if Sean T could beat this, from Morrisey

    "Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
    Mine was pretty far out there. I might put it on here when everyone is drunk over the Christmas period.

    NB - ignore all the versions of my my award winning Bad Sex prose online, they are all redacted and censored; for the full and fruity glory you have to go to the book itself....
    I hope you got to see the Australian sexting MP's efforts:

    “I pull you close, run my strong hands down your back, softly kiss your neck and whisper G’day mate.” In other messages, it is alleged Broad said: “I’m a country guy, so I know how to fly a plane, ride a horse, fuck my woman. My intentions are completely dishonourable.”
    Not as good as this (unfairly IMhO, only the runner-up for 2017)

    “Her vaginal ratchet moved in concertina-like waves, slowly chugging my organ as a boa constrictor swallows its prey”
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,286
    malcolmg said:

    ydoethur said:

    Anazina said:

    Once May’s deal is defeated, she can’t possibly stay and no one in the Tory Party would want her to. She would face a proper VNOC from Labour then, which she’d probably win but she would then be the news rather than policy which would be a massive distraction.

    With Labour currently on the back foot after Corbyn’s mad moment yesterday, and idiotic attempt at a VNOC which made the Keystone Cops look competent, she’d after to make way. She won’t be missed.

    As for Brexit, it might not happen at all. The chances of no deal or no Brexit must be about neck and neck.

    Why do people insist on abbreviating it to VNOC?

    It’s VONC man!
    That’s the kind of pedantry I expect on PB - I always give people the benefit of the doubt as m6 autocorrect is bonkers on my Ipad

    Mine keeps changing 'because' to 'becuase' for some reason. Does anyone know how I change it?
    I often transpose two letters when typing , it is seemingly very common and something to do with one side of the brain working faster than the other, especially when you are a genius like me.
    There are no other geniuses like you, malc.
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    edited December 2018
    Pulpstar said:

    Isn't the "finance bill" normally passed by now, or does it take eons normally.

    The programme motion is the same as previous bills, it's just that Christmas and Brexit and other parliamentary shenanigans have gotten in the way.

    Its third reading in the HoC will be over two months since the first reading which is an unusually long passage for a finance bill.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
    Pulpstar said:

    IanB2 said:

    Pulpstar said:

    IanB2 said:

    Donny43 said:
    The PM won't go there either, so it's somewhat academic, but they can if they wanted to, although the measures they'd have to take are drastic.
    I think the latest "No deal" can be blocked if the Gov't really wants to go through with "No deal" is before the meaningful vote. Any time after the MV they have to err put Corbyn into power:

    Scenario - Corbyn VONCs on 16th, 20 Tories vote down the Gov't then promptly resign their seats.
    30th - Corbyn states he can't forma Gov't so we're into GE timetable.
    31st? Parliament prorogued

    5th Feb ? Parliament disolved

    14th March? Polling day

    28th+ State opening of parliament ?

    They always have the option of taking down the government, forming an alternative one (which is the possibility allowable under the FTPA before you get to a GE), and then the new government pushes through the revocation act that I am sure civil servants already have in the drawer. If this were cross-party and had a clear majority in the house, I don't see how it could be stopped. It also gives HMQ another chance to wear her EU flag hat.
    Where is this mythical centrist Gov't commanding the authority of the house from ? Both front benches will whip against it :o

    Which means realistically the magnificent seven or however many there are need to be prepared to put Corbyn in power....
    There is a clear majority across the house against no deal. They would have to get together, form a government to do the single job (only takes a day or two) and then they could dissolve, presumably to a GE. It does however require a level of common intent, co-ordination and co-operation that is beyond anything even hinted at by our representatives' recent behaviour.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,286
    AndyJS said:
    Press will crucify her for that....
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,627
    malcolmg said:

    ydoethur said:

    Anazina said:

    Once May’s deal is defeated, she can’t possibly stay and no one in the Tory Party would want her to. She would face a proper VNOC from Labour then, which she’d probably win but she would then be the news rather than policy which would be a massive distraction.

    With Labour currently on the back foot after Corbyn’s mad moment yesterday, and idiotic attempt at a VNOC which made the Keystone Cops look competent, she’d after to make way. She won’t be missed.

    As for Brexit, it might not happen at all. The chances of no deal or no Brexit must be about neck and neck.

    Why do people insist on abbreviating it to VNOC?

    It’s VONC man!
    That’s the kind of pedantry I expect on PB - I always give people the benefit of the doubt as m6 autocorrect is bonkers on my Ipad

    Mine keeps changing 'because' to 'becuase' for some reason. Does anyone know how I change it?
    I often transpose two letters when typing , it is seemingly very common and something to do with one side of the brain working faster than the other, especially when you are a genius like me.
    Explains why you no longer work at the Large Hadron Collider......
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,220

    Pulpstar said:

    Isn't the "finance bill" normally passed by now, or does it take eons normally.

    The programme motion is the same as previous bills, it's just that Christmas and Brexit and other parliamentary shenanigans have gotten in the way.

    Its third reading in the HoC will be over two months since the first reading which is an unusually long passage for a finance bill.
    I guess the Gov't is trying to blackmail backbenchers into voting through the deal; so the backbenchers might as well try something back.

    Blackmail is bad whoever tries it, noone should give in to blackmail.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 49,871
    Nigelb said:

    malcolmg said:

    ydoethur said:

    Anazina said:

    Once May’s deal is defeated, she can’t possibly stay and no one in the Tory Party would want her to. She would face a proper VNOC from Labour then, which she’d probably win but she would then be the news rather than policy which would be a massive distraction.

    With Labour currently on the back foot after Corbyn’s mad moment yesterday, and idiotic attempt at a VNOC which made the Keystone Cops look competent, she’d after to make way. She won’t be missed.

    As for Brexit, it might not happen at all. The chances of no deal or no Brexit must be about neck and neck.

    Why do people insist on abbreviating it to VNOC?

    It’s VONC man!
    That’s the kind of pedantry I expect on PB - I always give people the benefit of the doubt as m6 autocorrect is bonkers on my Ipad

    Mine keeps changing 'because' to 'becuase' for some reason. Does anyone know how I change it?
    I often transpose two letters when typing , it is seemingly very common and something to do with one side of the brain working faster than the other, especially when you are a genius like me.
    There are no other geniuses like you, malc.
    Certainly it's unusual to come across one with a brain running slow on one side.
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 21,676
    SeanT said:

    Gatwick now closed til 7pm.

    This will fuck up hundreds of thousands of holidays and biz trips. And it could all be just one guy - Greenpeace or jihadi, evil nutter or teen off his tits. Or a drunk who has forgotten he's got a drone and has fallen asleep on the joystick.

    My money is on someone fed up with noise.
  • AnneJGPAnneJGP Posts: 3,081

    AndyJS said:
    Stupid woman?
    It's certainly a very round-about way of asserting her innocence in spite of the conviction.

    Good afternoon, everybody.
  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    Sean_F said:


    Not as good as this (unfairly IMhO, only the runner-up for 2017)

    “Her vaginal ratchet moved in concertina-like waves, slowly chugging my organ as a boa constrictor swallows its prey”

    It sometimes makes you wonder whether these authors have ever had sex before, or if they're just guessing about how ladyparts work.

  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,752
    IanB2 said:

    Chris said:

    Does anyone understand Andrea Leadsom's plan for a managed No Deal?

    Apparently it still involves negotiating a deal with a transition period, but presumably no backstop? Is she suggesting we should give up anything in return for the EU giving up the backstop? If not, why should the EU agree to her "No Deal Deal"?

    Does she understand that this isn't really no deal, is it?
    The BBC quotes her as saying:
    "A managed no deal does not necessarily mean there is no withdrawal agreement at all."
    and:
    "What I am looking at is trying to find an alternative so that in the event that we cannot agree to this deal that there could be a further deal that looks at a more minimalist approach but enables us to leave with some kind of implementation period."

    So, yes, she knows she is advocating a deal, but she is still calling it "no deal".

  • grabcocquegrabcocque Posts: 4,234
    Pulpstar said:


    I guess the Gov't is trying to blackmail backbenchers into voting through the deal; so the backbenchers might as well try something back.

    Blackmail is bad whoever tries it, noone should give in to blackmail.

    This is what the next three months will be. Labour and the Tories blackmailing each other to see whose front bench will be the first to crack and call for a Deal-vs-Remain referendum.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,389

    Sean_F said:


    Not as good as this (unfairly IMhO, only the runner-up for 2017)

    “Her vaginal ratchet moved in concertina-like waves, slowly chugging my organ as a boa constrictor swallows its prey”

    It sometimes makes you wonder whether these authors have ever had sex before, or if they're just guessing about how ladyparts work.

    A lot of it does read like teenage fanfiction (I remember one fanfic that referred to the heroine's "lavender labia").
  • malcolmg said:

    ydoethur said:

    Anazina said:

    Once May’s deal is defeated, she can’t possibly stay and no one in the Tory Party would want her to. She would face a proper VNOC from Labour then, which she’d probably win but she would then be the news rather than policy which would be a massive distraction.

    With Labour currently on the back foot after Corbyn’s mad moment yesterday, and idiotic attempt at a VNOC which made the Keystone Cops look competent, she’d after to make way. She won’t be missed.

    As for Brexit, it might not happen at all. The chances of no deal or no Brexit must be about neck and neck.

    Why do people insist on abbreviating it to VNOC?

    It’s VONC man!
    That’s the kind of pedantry I expect on PB - I always give people the benefit of the doubt as m6 autocorrect is bonkers on my Ipad

    Mine keeps changing 'because' to 'becuase' for some reason. Does anyone know how I change it?
    I often transpose two letters when typing , it is seemingly very common and something to do with one side of the brain working faster than the other, especially when you are a genius like me.
    Don't work in penisons.
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