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  • eadric said:

    The kinder theory is that these are people sleeping, because they are locked out of their welded and quarantined homes. Who knows.

    But then, look at this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaWWbS4clpU&feature=emb_logo

    Seems authentic. Deeply disturbing. Again, who knows.

    At least one of those - with trees covered in leaves - looks to have been taken at a different time of year to now.

  • I'm sorry but in my opinion, whilst no doubt a widely held view, this is broadly nonsense, and dangerous nonsense.

    Physical beauty - plentiful shiny hair, well developed facial bone structure in which teeth have plenty of space to hang evenly, healthy skin etc., is the hallmark of good health, and good health is the hallmark of good nutrition. Yes, it can be intra-generational to an extent, because the health the parents possess obviously becomes the building material of the next generation. But the nutrition the mother is passing on to the baby in the womb, in nursing, and the nutrition during childhood are added effects. This is obvious when you think about it. It is a strange belief in evolution that argues that there is a quotient of disease-vulnerable ugly troglodytes amongst us who have somehow performed every bit as well in natural selection as the healthy and beautiful ones.

    All of us have evolved (or been created if you prefer) perfectly for our environment. It is up to us then to discover what we need to do for ourselves and for the next generation to enjoy great health, and all its side-benefits.
    I'm not sure where we're disagreeing.
  • That looked like at least 23 body bags in 30 seconds on just one street in a city the size of London.....

    Again, leaves on trees. Maybe that’s what happens in Wuhan in the winter, but we should be careful.

  • eadric said:

    No way I would go to East Asia right now. Why take the risk? If you come back with an innocent sniffle, you are in quarantine for 14 days. I've already experienced much of that.

    This is gonna hammer tourism (along with many other industries)

    Personal anecdote: my wife is massively into astrology (I know, I know). About 3 months ago she said "something terrible is about to damage the world".

    Dominic Cummings?
  • rural_voterrural_voter Posts: 2,038
    HYUFD said:

    Selective abortions only within the time limit of any other abortion
    Canada allows abortion virtually on demand, though of course subject to medical approval. As a liberal democracy, we should seek to move that way.

    Our abortion law is one of the most restrictive; at least, among protestant countries. David Steel was ahead of his time but he and other social liberals probably could only get the legislation through parliament in 1967 by making it that way.
  • ydoethur said:

    Extinction Rebellion will be disappointed.
    No they won't.
  • Sabisky has resigned
  • EPGEPG Posts: 6,675
    Why is SeanT allowed propagate fake news about the coronavirus on PB.com
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 29,294

    I'm not sure where we're disagreeing.
    My reading of your comments is that some people are simply genetically gifted, and that the race would be healthier if those people interbred and those less fortunate stayed celibate. I find that dangerous, because it is an argument between believing in eugenics, and believing in it but thinking it's unethical. That makes it almost inevitable that it will return to vogue.

    I am saying that we *all* have the potential to be perfectly healthy, and produce 'perfect' offspring if we tend to our nutritional and other environmental factors.
  • Sabisky has resigned

    About bloody time.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 43,313

    Labour leadership debate on Channel 4 at 8pm.

    Yep. Should be good. 3 candidates all strong and yet very different.
  • Jeff Bezos pledges $10bn to fight climate change
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51539321
  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 39,790
    edited February 2020
    Removed, repetition
  • dr_spyn said:
    Glad he's gone, but complaining that people are quoting you is a bit rich.
  • kinabalu said:

    Yep. Should be good. 3 candidates all strong and yet very different.
    Up against Chelsea v Man Utd
  • EPG said:

    Why is SeanT allowed propagate fake news about the coronavirus on PB.com

    Well, he does write fiction.
  • MonkeysMonkeys Posts: 758
    kinabalu said:

    Yep. Should be good. 3 candidates all strong and yet very different.
    Long-Bailey a simpleton, Starmer a busted flush who's there to stop the simpleton, Nandy unfortunately has at least half a brain - this will put her at odds with the rest of the party.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 61,289
    edited February 2020



    I am saying that we *all* have the potential to be perfectly healthy, and produce 'perfect' offspring if we tend to our nutritional and other environmental factors.
    Then you've misread my comments. I made no statement on believing in eugenics. In fact, quite the contrary. Yet alone wish it to return to vogue.

    I agree with the environment and nutrition points but that wouldn't address some genetic factors that lead to unpleasant diseases and illnesses.

    The good news is that gene editing (note: not eugenics) might provide a solution there as we could manipulate DNA and code to get there rather than relying on stigmatism, sterilisation and termination (although there are ethical issues there too) and access to this might largely be restricted by wealth.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 29,294

    Animals experience hybrid vigour. Why not just encourage humans to inter-marry with other races and in general travel more widely and marry people from other countries?

    It's been happening more and more. Also all couples should be allowed selective abortions because I think one in ~16 of us carry unpleasant genetic diseases that will shorten our life or reduce its quality (just one small example is retinitis pigmentosa which makes you almost blind by middle age).

    Oh, what's that you say ... there was a vote in 2016 against freedom of movement ...?
    I don't think that would improve peoples' health. It is a fact that we are evolved toward our surroundings. The most obvious example being skin colour. Ginger people have a layer less of skin, so they can absorb more sunlight in the icy North, but not very good at being in constant hot sunshine. Black people have very robust natural defences against a lot of hot sun, but in colder environments have a high risk of vitamin D deficiency and associated conditions. So whilst I think marriage between races is beautiful and culturally enriching, I don't think health wise it is necessarily a win.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,315

    Glad he's gone, but complaining that people are quoting you is a bit rich.
    To be fair, there was some disgraceful selective quoting on here at the weekend.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 43,313
    edited February 2020

    Up against Chelsea v Man Utd

    Dead rubber that though. Liverpool have utterly ruined this season. It's one big yawn.

    No, has to be the Labour leader debate if it's excitement you're looking for.
  • kinabalu said:

    Dead rubber that though. Liverpool have utterly ruined this season. It's one big yawn.

    No, has to be the Labour leader debate if it's excitement you're looking for.
    Far from it. Champions league qualification at stake for both clubs and others
  • ArtistArtist Posts: 1,893
    Pointless holding the debate in Dudley, that's not going Labour any time soon.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    edited February 2020
    HYUFD said:

    Bodyguard, Night Manager, Dracula
    And here we have the problem in one as to why the BBC is dying as an institution. What are its key successes?

    Night Manager - 6 episodes made 4 years ago. Late Feb to late March 2016. Talk immediately of a second season but 4 years later that's still not happened left.

    Bodyguard - 6 episodes two years ago. Late August to to late September 2018.

    Dracula - 3 episodes this year. Spanning 3 days.

    That's it? One good show, running over one month if we're lucky every couple of years? The Crown alone in the same timespan has had twice as many episodes as all that combined - and I think The Crown has been spoken about here more than those 3 put together.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 29,294


    Then you've misread my comments. I made no statement on believing in eugenics. In fact, quite the contrary. Yet alone wish it to return to vogue.

    I agree with the environment and nutrition points but that wouldn't address some genetic factors that lead to unpleasant diseases and illnesses.

    The good news is that gene editing (note: not eugenics) might provide a solution there as we could manipulate DNA and code to get there rather than relying on stigmatism, sterilisation and termination (although there are ethical issues there too) and access to this might largely be restricted by wealth.

    I see. Genetic predisposition toward diseases is an interesting subject that I know nothing about. Given the right conditions, nobody should have a predisposition to a disease - at least not one that comes to anything.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,658
    dr_spyn said:
    Another “win” for the online hate mob, which is all they care about.

    Sadly this was entirely predictable, as people who have had Twitter accounts since they were teenagers now move into serious jobs.

    This will end up with people changing their name on graduation, and deleting everything they ever wrote online, in case someone decides to come after them a decade later to try and get them fired.
  • Sandpit said:

    Another “win” for the online hate mob, which is all they care about.

    Sadly this was entirely predictable, as people who have had Twitter accounts since they were teenagers now move into serious jobs.

    This will end up with people changing their name on graduation, and deleting everything they ever wrote online, in case someone decides to come after them a decade later to try and get them fired.
    These were not undergraduate ramblings. The one likening women’s sport to the Paralympics was from last year. He seems to have been charmless and gormless, and the wallow in self-pity as he heads for the exit is the mouldy icing on a very stale cake. No loss.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 43,313
    Monkeys said:

    Long-Bailey a simpleton, Starmer a busted flush who's there to stop the simpleton, Nandy unfortunately has at least half a brain - this will put her at odds with the rest of the party.

    RLB has made a strong start just now actually.

    And c'mon Starmer is hardly a busted flush given he's about to become the leader of one of this country's great political parties.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 29,294

    And here we have the problem in one as to why the BBC is dying as an institution. What are its key successes?

    Night Manager - 6 episodes made 4 years ago. Late Feb to late March 2016. Talk immediately of a second season but 4 years later that's still not happened left.

    Bodyguard - 6 episodes two years ago. Late August to to late September 2018.

    Dracula - 3 episodes this year. Spanning 3 days.

    That's it? One good show, running over one month if we're lucky every couple of years? The Crown alone in the same timespan has had twice as many episodes as all that combined - and I think The Crown has been spoken about here more than those 3 put together.
    Killing Eve was also very popular. They've had some not too bad dramas over the past few years. Undoubtedly some stinkers too.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,188

    I see. Genetic predisposition toward diseases is an interesting subject that I know nothing about. Given the right conditions, nobody should have a predisposition to a disease - at least not one that comes to anything.
    I thought there were genetic markers that indicated increase chance of getting certain types of cancer, for example.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 53,294
    Jeez, somebody have the balls to say "Corbyn was a fucking disaster and we need to row away from him as fast as we can....."
  • BluestBlueBluestBlue Posts: 4,556
    kinabalu said:

    RLB has made a strong start just now actually.

    And c'mon Starmer is hardly a busted flush given he's about to become the leader of one of this country's great political parties.
    He's defected to the Liberals?!
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,658

    These were not undergraduate ramblings. The one likening women’s sport to the Paralympics was from last year. He seems to have been charmless and gormless, and the wallow in self-pity as he heads for the exit is the mouldy icing on a very stale cake. No loss.
    So none of the comments people disliked were from during his current employment with the government?
  • tlg86 said:

    To be fair, there was some disgraceful selective quoting on here at the weekend.
    People do it when doing so supports the case they want to make.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
  • glwglw Posts: 10,026
    Sandpit said:

    Another “win” for the online hate mob, which is all they care about.

    Sadly this was entirely predictable, as people who have had Twitter accounts since they were teenagers now move into serious jobs.

    This will end up with people changing their name on graduation, and deleting everything they ever wrote online, in case someone decides to come after them a decade later to try and get them fired.
    Deleting won't work, a lot of what you post will be archived whether you like it or not. You really should assume that anything you post online will be online forever.
  • Sandpit said:

    So none of the comments people disliked were from during his current employment with the government?
    I look forward to you applying such an exacting standard to Labour aides’ past. Do you really think you have managed to follow that approach previously?
  • EPGEPG Posts: 6,675
    Sandpit said:

    Another “win” for the online hate mob, which is all they care about.

    Sadly this was entirely predictable, as people who have had Twitter accounts since they were teenagers now move into serious jobs.

    This will end up with people changing their name on graduation, and deleting everything they ever wrote online, in case someone decides to come after them a decade later to try and get them fired.
    They may also care about the moral and intellectual qualities of special advisors, who have the authority to instruct civil servants to formulate and conduct policy without direct Ministerial orders. As of last week, a SpAd working in No 10 can now additionally direct Treasury civil servants. So maybe people also cared about keeping out private agendas to promote eugenics from the mechanism of the government that rules them. Fact is, a SpAd is just as powerful as a minister nowadays, and less accountable.
  • And here we have the problem in one as to why the BBC is dying as an institution. What are its key successes?

    Night Manager - 6 episodes made 4 years ago. Late Feb to late March 2016. Talk immediately of a second season but 4 years later that's still not happened left.

    Bodyguard - 6 episodes two years ago. Late August to to late September 2018.

    Dracula - 3 episodes this year. Spanning 3 days.

    That's it? One good show, running over one month if we're lucky every couple of years? The Crown alone in the same timespan has had twice as many episodes as all that combined - and I think The Crown has been spoken about here more than those 3 put together.
    That's certainly a good summary of the good BBC shows I've enjoyed over recent years.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 29,294
    RobD said:

    I thought there were genetic markers that indicated increase chance of getting certain types of cancer, for example.
    Yes, there are. But given that some get away with never getting it despite having the marker, it's more a shared vulnerability isn't it? Something that causes the cancer, causes it particularly much in you if you have that marker. Like being tall. Being tall is a marker for bashing your head if you don't duck when passing low beams. It is not something that you would want to edit out of your genetic code per se.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 53,294

    Killing Eve was also very popular. They've had some not too bad dramas over the past few years. Undoubtedly some stinkers too.
    Which do people remember as the stinkers? Jamaica Inn was a notorious mumbleathon, but that was May 2015.

  • ArtistArtist Posts: 1,893
    I don't know what Caroline Flack has to do with the Labour leadership election?
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  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,669

    About bloody time.
    What's the pay like for the job ? I could apply but the half life of an adviser I reckon will be a few months ( Even with a clean Twitter etc) and quite honestly I need better security than that
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 53,294
    Second question of Labour leadership contendors is about Fleck? FFS.....
  • speedy2speedy2 Posts: 981

    Then you've misread my comments. I made no statement on believing in eugenics. In fact, quite the contrary. Yet alone wish it to return to vogue.

    I agree with the environment and nutrition points but that wouldn't address some genetic factors that lead to unpleasant diseases and illnesses.

    The good news is that gene editing (note: not eugenics) might provide a solution there as we could manipulate DNA and code to get there rather than relying on stigmatism, sterilisation and termination (although there are ethical issues there too) and access to this might largely be restricted by wealth.
    This thread needs a James Bond to mop up all the Hugo Draxs and Max Zorins.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,658

    I look forward to you applying such an exacting standard to Labour aides’ past. Do you really think you have managed to follow that approach previously?
    I’d like to think I’ve been quite consistent on this, certainly with regard to those who are not holding elected office. The old Jeremy Corbyn stuff was all from when he was already an MP.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,658
    Artist said:

    I don't know what Caroline Flack has to do with the Labour leadership election?

    An opportunity for them to bash the media?
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,188

    Yes, there are. But given that some get away with never getting it despite having the marker, it's more a shared vulnerability isn't it? Something that causes the cancer, causes it particularly much in you if you have that marker. Like being tall. Being tall is a marker for bashing your head if you don't duck when passing low beams. It is not something that you would want to edit out of your genetic code per se.
    Yeah, not everyone gets cancer, but it has been shown that if you have this marker you are more at risk. Doesn't that suggest there are genetic predisposition to diseases?
  • Pulpstar said:

    What's the pay like for the job ? I could apply but the half life of an adviser I reckon will be a few months ( Even with a clean Twitter etc) and quite honestly I need better security than that
    You're no good.

    You might have told the next President of the USA to fuck off 😉
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 72,192

    About bloody time.
    Disagree, he should never have been appointed. He stands as a monument to Cummings’ stupidity, arrogance and atrocious judgment.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 73,128
    ydoethur said:

    Disagree, he should never have been appointed. He stands as a monument to Cummings’ stupidity, arrogance and atrocious judgment.
    Agreed.
    “Selective quoting”, forsooth !
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 29,531
    kinabalu said:

    RLB has made a strong start just now actually.

    And c'mon Starmer is hardly a busted flush given he's about to become the leader of one of this country's great political parties.
    Long Bailey has looked almost as ridiculous as her hero Corbyn. On her accession as Leader of the Opposition she will take the Party down the same dead end as Corbyn took us.

    Starmer's chance only arrived after Corbyn sacked or expelled the biggest beasts in the Labour Party. I can live with him but feel there is more on offer from the back benches or former MPs now with the Liberal Democrats.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 43,313
    Fleabag and Mum are Beeb. Great for comedy in fact right from the old days through to today. Office. Fawlty. Partridge. Morecambe and Wise. Goons. Python. Cook and Moore. Flanagan and Allen. Chaplin. Keaton. Arbuckle. And many many more. It's an incredible litany of laughs through the ages. Let's not stop laughing now.

    #lovethebeeb
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,267
    Watching the Man U game. Crossed my mind that if Covid19 does get established here we may not be able to finish the EPL season. Which would be terribly sad, of course.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 73,128
    RobD said:

    Yeah, not everyone gets cancer, but it has been shown that if you have this marker you are more at risk. Doesn't that suggest there are genetic predisposition to diseases?
    Of course - some directly causative (cystic fibrosis, for instance).
    These could well be susceptible to genetic cures fairly soon (variants of the CRISPR gene editing technique and so on).
    After that, stuff gets steadily more complicated and difficult to both characterise and do anything about. It’s a continuum.
  • BigRichBigRich Posts: 3,492
    kinabalu said:

    Fleabag and Mum are Beeb. Great for comedy in fact right from the old days through to today. Office. Fawlty. Partridge. Morecambe and Wise. Goons. Python. Cook and Moore. Flanagan and Allen. Chaplin. Keaton. Arbuckle. And many many more. It's an incredible litany of laughs through the ages. Let's not stop laughing now.

    #lovethebeeb

    If you love the BBC, - you are welcome to it, spend your own money supporting it and your time watching it.

    What I object to is your/their determination to put me in prison, for watching one of there competitors without simultaneously being forced to pay for something I detest.

    #stopthetellytaxnow.
  • kinabalu said:

    Fleabag and Mum are Beeb. Great for comedy in fact right from the old days through to today. Office. Fawlty. Partridge. Morecambe and Wise. Goons. Python. Cook and Moore. Flanagan and Allen. Chaplin. Keaton. Arbuckle. And many many more. It's an incredible litany of laughs through the ages. Let's not stop laughing now.

    #lovethebeeb

    You forgot Flanders and Swann.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,842
    HYUFD said:

    Bodyguard, Night Manager, Dracula
    Strictly. Mrs Brown's Boys.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 73,128
    BigRich said:

    If you love the BBC, - you are welcome to it, spend your own money supporting it and your time watching it.

    What I object to is your/their determination to put me in prison, for watching one of there competitors without simultaneously being forced to pay for something I detest.

    #stopthetellytaxnow.
    You’re right, it should be funded out of general taxation, like all the other things some of the electorate detest.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 29,531
    ydoethur said:

    Disagree, he should never have been appointed. He stands as a monument to Cummings’ stupidity, arrogance and atrocious judgment.
    I wholly disagreed with Sabisky over his dreadful racial stereotyping and misogynistic ramblings.

    His analysis of multi generational social security recipients and their enormous families was by and large accurate. His remedy might have been somewhat flawed in its presentation, but something has to be done about this uncontrolled drain of government finances.

    Sabisky may have fallen on his sword, nonetheless Boris can't ignore the issue highlighted by Sabisky. Boris must deal with this urgently as he knows more than most that uncontrolled procreation causes significant social and financial problems.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 29,531
    viewcode said:

    Strictly. Mrs Brown's Boys.
    I hope the inclusion of Mrs Brown's Boys was for ironic purposes. It is mindless smutty drivel. The licence fee should be removed immediately if only to curtail production of this nonsense.
  • MysticroseMysticrose Posts: 4,688
    eadric said:

    No way I would go to East Asia right now. Why take the risk? If you come back with an innocent sniffle, you are in quarantine for 14 days. I've already experienced much of that.

    Unpacking that slightly loose comment, there are two related angles. The first is whether or not you are at risk of catching Coronavirus if you travel to 'East Asia'. If by the rather esoteric terminology you're referring to China and Hong Kong then the chances are obviously higher on the mainland. Generally at the moment you're no more likely to catch coronavirus in SE Asia than you are in Brighton or London. Usual precautions apply: probably wear a mask in certain situations, wash your hands especially before putting them anywhere near your face.

    But I guess you're really referring to the other angle, namely the 'risk' of being put in quarantine. It's fair to say that you're only put in quarantine if you present with symptoms and fess up to where you've been. If you're prepared to take the risk that the sniffle you picked up whilst getting up close and personal to that Thai girl in Soi Cowboy (Sean T) is only a common cold then you can carry on your life. It's only if you turn out to have it that you'll be rather unpopular with your neighbours.

    I'm not making light of the virus. It's serious stuff. But life goes on. I'm flying out to 'East Asia' this week and thoroughly looking forward to it.
  • Dura_AceDura_Ace Posts: 13,882
    ydoethur said:

    Did they finally nick Dura Ace for speeding?

    The Taycan arrived on Friday so watch this space.

    I've only ever spent one night in the cells in the UK, two (separate ones, LOL) in Bahrain and one in Thailand.
  • DavidL said:

    Watching the Man U game. Crossed my mind that if Covid19 does get established here we may not be able to finish the EPL season. Which would be terribly sad, of course.

    The EPL isn't finished yet?
  • squareroot2squareroot2 Posts: 6,905

    I hope the inclusion of Mrs Brown's Boys was for ironic purposes. It is mindless smutty drivel. The licence fee should be removed immediately if only to curtail production of this nonsense.
    It is perfect ammunition to those who want to abolish the tv licence .. its worse than drivel.
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