What? Under 30% of the British Pharmacopoeia is plant based, and two of the most popular homeopathic potions are arsenic and sulphur.
Genuine hypothesis: Labour party has just made redundant the bod whose job until recently was to edit The Leader's tweets for utter batshittery, and spelling.
European countries that are closing their borders to at least a substantial minority of the EU: Denmark, Malta, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland
List is growing rapidly.
Brexit won't get finished because there will be no EU left to exit....
How the hell do the EU agree a Budget in this epic mess?
Does it (existentially) matter for the EU if they don't agree a budget?
If there's no goodies to dish out, how many are still interested in it?
What? Under 30% of the British Pharmacopoeia is plant based, and two of the most popular homeopathic potions are arsenic and sulphur.
Genuine hypothesis: Labour party has just made redundant the bod whose job until recently was to edit The Leader's tweets for utter batshittery, and spelling.
European countries that are closing their borders to at least a substantial minority of the EU: Denmark, Malta, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland
List is growing rapidly.
Brexit won't get finished because there will be no EU left to exit....
How the hell do the EU agree a Budget in this epic mess?
Does it (existentially) matter for the EU if they don't agree a budget?
If there's no goodies to dish out, how many are still interested in it?
Yeah, but the money will keep rolling. They'll keep spending it whether it's been agreed or not, because that's the path of least resistance.
What? Under 30% of the British Pharmacopoeia is plant based, and two of the most popular homeopathic potions are arsenic and sulphur.
Genuine hypothesis: Labour party has just made redundant the bod whose job until recently was to edit The Leader's tweets for utter batshittery, and spelling.
It’s from 2010.
Which does however mean Labour members and Labour voters knew he was this batshit crazy when they voted for him.
My wife is a teacher. She has really struggled with motivating herself to do all the pathetic garbage at school which even at the best of times is pathetic garbage. We are hoping the education establishment sees sense
Blimey. We are having multiple religious experiences right now. That’s asking for a miracle on a par with the raising of Lazarus.
If you've seen Ofsted's statement to Schoolsweek this afternoon, I wouldn't be optimistic. It's shameful stuff.
What? Under 30% of the British Pharmacopoeia is plant based, and two of the most popular homeopathic potions are arsenic and sulphur.
Genuine hypothesis: Labour party has just made redundant the bod whose job until recently was to edit The Leader's tweets for utter batshittery, and spelling.
That's a ten year old tweet.
Still good evidence of the existence of the hypothetical bod, just predates not postdates him.
Just back from my trip to Tesco Royston tonight, and the rate of hoarding is definitely accelerating. Here's a list of stock levels that I observed (non-exhaustive, but I did go around quite a lot of the store looking for stuff, some of which I couldn't find...)
Bog rolls: 0% Kitchen paper: 20% Bin bags: 20% Washing up liquid: 1% Tissues: 0% Tinned tomatoes: 1% Tinned spaghetti: 5% Baked beans: 1% Tinned tuna: 0% Other tins (meat, soup, fruit): 30% Flour: 0% Sunflower oil: 0% Olive oil: 10% Fruit squash: 5% Beer: 20%
It wasn't exactly the end of days - levels of fresh and frozen food looked reasonable, given that this was after the post-work cavalry charge - but if this goes on for any length of time then people are going to struggle to get hold of some basic supplies. Notably, I managed to fill in the gaps in my shop by going to the little Morrisons in town, but there was absolutely no bog paper there either. Anybody in this area who's run out of it is going to be wiping their arse with the Daily Mail for the time being.
My wife is a teacher. She has really struggled with motivating herself to do all the pathetic garbage at school which even at the best of times is pathetic garbage. We are hoping the education establishment sees sense
Blimey. We are having multiple religious experiences right now. That’s asking for a miracle on a par with the raising of Lazarus.
If you've seen Ofsted's statement to Schoolsweek this afternoon, I wouldn't be optimistic. It's shameful stuff.
Thanks to all those who shared music. I'm not nimble enough to thank you all by name, but this is much appreciated, as is the warm welcome.
I'm going to avoid the Trump press conference because it will just upset me - in fact, I am thinking of making After Supper a non-browsing time, to give my mind less to worry about in the night. Is anyone else thinking of rationing their covid news intake?
It's like my daughter's Year 4 primary school drama production, where everyone must be allowed to say something fairly pointless or embarrassing, and a slightly simple 8 year old has the chance of compering it, because they felt sorry for him.
Oh God. Poor America. It is North Korea with even more missiles.
And now Pence is saying people should look on with inspiration... and look forward to an incredible website...
Just back from my trip to Tesco Royston tonight, and the rate of hoarding is definitely accelerating. Here's a list of stock levels that I observed (non-exhaustive, but I did go around quite a lot of the store looking for stuff, some of which I couldn't find...)
Bog rolls: 0% Kitchen paper: 20% Bin bags: 20% Washing up liquid: 1% Tissues: 0% Tinned tomatoes: 1% Tinned spaghetti: 5% Baked beans: 1% Tinned tuna: 0% Other tins (meat, soup, fruit): 30% Flour: 0% Sunflower oil: 0% Olive oil: 10% Fruit squash: 5% Beer: 20%
It wasn't exactly the end of days - levels of fresh and frozen food looked reasonable, given that this was after the post-work cavalry charge - but if this goes on for any length of time then people are going to struggle to get hold of some basic supplies. Notably, I managed to fill in the gaps in my shop by going to the little Morrisons in town, but there was absolutely no bog paper there either. Anybody in this area who's run out of it is going to be wiping their arse with the Daily Mail for the time being.
Despite it being extremely scary just how shit this American response is, it does seem like they are at least promising the South Korea approach of drive up tests.
Thanks to all those who shared music. I'm not nimble enough to thank you all by name, but this is much appreciated, as is the warm welcome.
I'm going to avoid the Trump press conference because it will just upset me - in fact, I am thinking of making After Supper a non-browsing time, to give my mind less to worry about in the night. Is anyone else thinking of rationing their covid news intake?
--AS
Yes I try not to look at news or anything coronavirus related after this sort of ti
It's like my daughter's Year 4 primary school drama production, where everyone must be allowed to say something fairly pointless or embarrassing, and a slightly simple 8 year old has the chance of compering it, because they felt sorry for him.
Oh God. Poor America. It is North Korea with even more missiles.
And now Pence is saying people should look on with inspiration... and look forward to an incredible website...
What? Under 30% of the British Pharmacopoeia is plant based, and two of the most popular homeopathic potions are arsenic and sulphur.
Genuine hypothesis: Labour party has just made redundant the bod whose job until recently was to edit The Leader's tweets for utter batshittery, and spelling.
My son and his partner have had colds this week and we have agreed they will keep away for 14 days and also our grandchildren. Will use whats app and phones
How does PB feel about making up with enemies old and past, including family members?
There are people I haven't spoken to in years and swore I would never speak to again who are in their sixties and seventies now.
On the one hand, it may be time to bury the hatchet. On the other hand, a bastard is still a bastard regardless of whether or not their number is up.
I wouldn't feel like that about anyone unless they'd been convicted of a serious crime. Having different political opinions isn't a reason to think of someone as a bastard IMO.
I wondered before this (but didn't have the sense to post it, and therefore appear in any way prescient) that people who've had success at one thing, then come a bit unstuck in another, have a tendency to revert to their previous place of strength in the hope that will get them through it - and so we might well see Trump try to switch into The Apprentice mode. I think that's part of what we just saw.
It's hard to know what to do for the best, isn't it?
Should we panic, prat about, or pray? Supermarket customers have decided to panic-just-to-be-on-the-safe-side, the Prime Minister appears to have decided pratting about will cost less money, and the Archbishop of Canterbury has told priests to stop touching people. But the church has been saying that for years, and it's not worked so far.
Just back from my trip to Tesco Royston tonight, and the rate of hoarding is definitely accelerating. Here's a list of stock levels that I observed (non-exhaustive, but I did go around quite a lot of the store looking for stuff, some of which I couldn't find...)
Bog rolls: 0% Kitchen paper: 20% Bin bags: 20% Washing up liquid: 1% Tissues: 0% Tinned tomatoes: 1% Tinned spaghetti: 5% Baked beans: 1% Tinned tuna: 0% Other tins (meat, soup, fruit): 30% Flour: 0% Sunflower oil: 0% Olive oil: 10% Fruit squash: 5% Beer: 20%
It wasn't exactly the end of days - levels of fresh and frozen food looked reasonable, given that this was after the post-work cavalry charge - but if this goes on for any length of time then people are going to struggle to get hold of some basic supplies. Notably, I managed to fill in the gaps in my shop by going to the little Morrisons in town, but there was absolutely no bog paper there either. Anybody in this area who's run out of it is going to be wiping their arse with the Daily Mail for the time being.
If desperate for bog roll then try Lidl and B&Q.
We don't have those, but I looked when I was in the new retail development out the back of work after I finished at lunchtime (in order to pick up a couple of things I like that I can only get from M&S and Aldi) and the dried pasta and bog roll locusts had stripped them bare as well.
Mercifully the Rook household is sufficiently well supplied that we shouldn't need to resort to newsprint unless this goes on for several more weeks.
Dems steaming down faster than the price of Bitcoin. Act fast to get them @1.93
Sounds like my cashing out of my bets on democratic nominee and splitting the pleasingly large profits between betting on dems and laying trump wasnt a bad idea... if only I hadn't repeatedly lost money betting against starmer because momentum would guarantee RLB would win...
My son and his partner have had colds this week and we have agreed they will keep away for 14 days and also our grandchildren. Will use whats app and phones
Ah, the glories of WhatsApp in this situation. Ideal for medical isolation.
I find it oddly comforting that you read the Daily Star.
Do they still do a tit count?
- I didn't read it! God.
There is an advantage to occasionally reading the Star, Sun, Mirror, Express, even (gasp) the Daily Mail. Or at least there was when newspaper readership was higher, I don't do it so much anymore. My usual source was abandoned copies on buses, trains or the tube, but that's probably not very covidsafe! Most of us have a critical awareness about our own media and information diet, and how that shapes our worldview. But we are massively outnumbered by people on very different information diets to us. Dipping in to what they see can help us see the world through their eyes.
With the decline of the press, splintering of TV channels and fall in linear TV, and explosion of online media and the fact I eschew Facebook, Instagram, Netflix and Amazon Prime (and am not active on Twitter, though will read links from here), and I don't follow any famous Youtubers or podcasters, I've found myself increasingly out of touch with what media sources many people are consuming these days. At least re news, I know BBC Online has a strong presence still even with younger consumers, and I sometimes look at the Guardian and the Mail Online which are both relatively popular. I notice I'm increasingly of touch with the under-thirties and it's not just on music!!
Anyone got any suggestions for how to build some bridges with the young'uns?
Take up video gaming. It's so varied there's something for everyone and even if its a genre not hugely popular with da yoof it allows for shared language and culture. That'll build a bridge through shared consumption without having to take a plunge into all youth focused media.
You’ll also learn that teenage boys are not terribly woke and have a wide vocabulary, albeit limited to specific areas.
Well, I wouldn't suggest leaping straight into discussion in an online game, for that very reason!
Just one trifling question - presumably even though the elections are delayed, they are still the 2020 elections and the winners will serve until 2024?
I ask because I think it probable the 2024 London mayoral election contest will take place on the same day as the next GE.
My wife is a teacher. She has really struggled with motivating herself to do all the pathetic garbage at school which even at the best of times is pathetic garbage. We are hoping the education establishment sees sense
Blimey. We are having multiple religious experiences right now. That’s asking for a miracle on a par with the raising of Lazarus.
If you've seen Ofsted's statement to Schoolsweek this afternoon, I wouldn't be optimistic. It's shameful stuff.
Just back from my trip to Tesco Royston tonight, and the rate of hoarding is definitely accelerating. Here's a list of stock levels that I observed (non-exhaustive, but I did go around quite a lot of the store looking for stuff, some of which I couldn't find...)
Bog rolls: 0% Kitchen paper: 20% Bin bags: 20% Washing up liquid: 1% Tissues: 0% Tinned tomatoes: 1% Tinned spaghetti: 5% Baked beans: 1% Tinned tuna: 0% Other tins (meat, soup, fruit): 30% Flour: 0% Sunflower oil: 0% Olive oil: 10% Fruit squash: 5% Beer: 20%
It wasn't exactly the end of days - levels of fresh and frozen food looked reasonable, given that this was after the post-work cavalry charge - but if this goes on for any length of time then people are going to struggle to get hold of some basic supplies. Notably, I managed to fill in the gaps in my shop by going to the little Morrisons in town, but there was absolutely no bog paper there either. Anybody in this area who's run out of it is going to be wiping their arse with the Daily Mail for the time being.
Well, if you will go to a peasant emporium.
I'm enjoying fresh plaice from the Waitrose fishmonger tonight.
My wife is a teacher. She has really struggled with motivating herself to do all the pathetic garbage at school which even at the best of times is pathetic garbage. We are hoping the education establishment sees sense
Blimey. We are having multiple religious experiences right now. That’s asking for a miracle on a par with the raising of Lazarus.
If you've seen Ofsted's statement to Schoolsweek this afternoon, I wouldn't be optimistic. It's shameful stuff.
OFSTED has literally caused the deaths of headteachers in the past. Why would anyone be surprised that they don’t care?
A more pertinent point, one that hare brained lowlife failure Spielmann seems not to have thought of, is that if a senior teacher dies of a Covid-19 then the school will have to close for cleaning, so there will be nothing to inspect.
Just one trifling question - presumably even though the elections are delayed, they are still the 2020 elections and the winners will serve until 2024?
That's what I want to know. As otherwise the cycle of local elections and mayoral elections is somewhat overburdened. Certainly local authorities have been put on different term lengths before so they then match up with the wider election cycle.
Just one trifling question - presumably even though the elections are delayed, they are still the 2020 elections and the winners will serve until 2024?
I ask because I think it probable the 2024 London mayoral election contest will take place on the same day as the next GE.
Surely they won't allow elections with different systems on the same day?
Just back from my trip to Tesco Royston tonight, and the rate of hoarding is definitely accelerating. Here's a list of stock levels that I observed (non-exhaustive, but I did go around quite a lot of the store looking for stuff, some of which I couldn't find...)
Bog rolls: 0% Kitchen paper: 20% Bin bags: 20% Washing up liquid: 1% Tissues: 0% Tinned tomatoes: 1% Tinned spaghetti: 5% Baked beans: 1% Tinned tuna: 0% Other tins (meat, soup, fruit): 30% Flour: 0% Sunflower oil: 0% Olive oil: 10% Fruit squash: 5% Beer: 20%
It wasn't exactly the end of days - levels of fresh and frozen food looked reasonable, given that this was after the post-work cavalry charge - but if this goes on for any length of time then people are going to struggle to get hold of some basic supplies. Notably, I managed to fill in the gaps in my shop by going to the little Morrisons in town, but there was absolutely no bog paper there either. Anybody in this area who's run out of it is going to be wiping their arse with the Daily Mail for the time being.
Well, if you will go to a peasant emporium.
I'm enjoying fresh plaice from the Waitrose fishmonger tonight.
Delicious.
I was really annoyed with all these bloody hoarders. They had taken so much there were only 26 ready meals left for me.
My wife is a teacher. She has really struggled with motivating herself to do all the pathetic garbage at school which even at the best of times is pathetic garbage. We are hoping the education establishment sees sense
Blimey. We are having multiple religious experiences right now. That’s asking for a miracle on a par with the raising of Lazarus.
If you've seen Ofsted's statement to Schoolsweek this afternoon, I wouldn't be optimistic. It's shameful stuff.
OFSTED has literally caused the deaths of headteachers in the past. Why would anyone be surprised that they don’t care?
A more pertinent point, one that hare brained lowlife failure Spielmann seems not to have thought of, is that if a senior teacher dies of a Covid-19 then the school will have to close for cleaning, so there will be nothing to inspect.
The whole statement is much worse, the tone is appalling.
And yes, I've worked in a school where a key staff member died 24 hours before inspection. It was one of the worst experiences of my life.
Just one trifling question - presumably even though the elections are delayed, they are still the 2020 elections and the winners will serve until 2024?
I ask because I think it probable the 2024 London mayoral election contest will take place on the same day as the next GE.
Surely they won't allow elections with different systems on the same day?
Also, in the biggest news of the day, PB seems to work on Edge but not on Chrome.
You use multiple browsers too?
As I said yesterday it’s a change implement on chrome but not implemented elsewhere just yet
I'm on the latest Chrome for Mac OS and PB's working fine for me.
Only an issue if you are trying to login (where vanilla tries to set a cookie which is rejected). I think existing cookies are valid until a later release.
Just one trifling question - presumably even though the elections are delayed, they are still the 2020 elections and the winners will serve until 2024?
I ask because I think it probable the 2024 London mayoral election contest will take place on the same day as the next GE.
Surely they won't allow elections with different systems on the same day?
Allowed it in 2004 in London.
About five different voting systems
Is there a reason why it hasn't been repeated? Wasn't there a bit of trouble in Scotland in 2007?
My wife is a teacher. She has really struggled with motivating herself to do all the pathetic garbage at school which even at the best of times is pathetic garbage. We are hoping the education establishment sees sense
Blimey. We are having multiple religious experiences right now. That’s asking for a miracle on a par with the raising of Lazarus.
If you've seen Ofsted's statement to Schoolsweek this afternoon, I wouldn't be optimistic. It's shameful stuff.
Dems steaming down faster than the price of Bitcoin. Act fast to get them @1.93
Sounds like my cashing out of my bets on democratic nominee and splitting the pleasingly large profits between betting on dems and laying trump wasnt a bad idea... if only I hadn't repeatedly lost money betting against starmer because momentum would guarantee RLB would win...
I laid Starmer approximately 5 milliseconds before the YouGov came out.
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I am becoming very frightened for America.
The difference between Boris and his two advisers is stark
Genuine hypothesis: Labour party has just made redundant the bod whose job until recently was to edit The Leader's tweets for utter batshittery, and spelling.
Brian, Brian, where ever you are, can you come up...
Which does however mean Labour members and Labour voters knew he was this batshit crazy when they voted for him.
Not one of the speakers has a clue
Trump talking of energy indpendence and now Pence says this should be an inspiration to everyone
It is like 'Chemical Ali' has suddenly appeared again
https://www.oetkercollection.com/hotels/the-lanesborough/
Bog rolls: 0%
Kitchen paper: 20%
Bin bags: 20%
Washing up liquid: 1%
Tissues: 0%
Tinned tomatoes: 1%
Tinned spaghetti: 5%
Baked beans: 1%
Tinned tuna: 0%
Other tins (meat, soup, fruit): 30%
Flour: 0%
Sunflower oil: 0%
Olive oil: 10%
Fruit squash: 5%
Beer: 20%
It wasn't exactly the end of days - levels of fresh and frozen food looked reasonable, given that this was after the post-work cavalry charge - but if this goes on for any length of time then people are going to struggle to get hold of some basic supplies. Notably, I managed to fill in the gaps in my shop by going to the little Morrisons in town, but there was absolutely no bog paper there either. Anybody in this area who's run out of it is going to be wiping their arse with the Daily Mail for the time being.
He won in a landslide...
I'm going to avoid the Trump press conference because it will just upset me - in fact, I am thinking of making After Supper a non-browsing time, to give my mind less to worry about in the night. Is anyone else thinking of rationing their covid news intake?
--AS
We have binned that idea.
[p.s. It's true, I don't]
...and Amen.
There were times during George W.'s Presidency when my American friends were embarrassed for the US.
This is so, so much worse than George W.
This is America's shame, made starkly visible to the whole world.
It's hard to know what to do for the best, isn't it?
Should we panic, prat about, or pray? Supermarket customers have decided to panic-just-to-be-on-the-safe-side, the Prime Minister appears to have decided pratting about will cost less money, and the Archbishop of Canterbury has told priests to stop touching people. But the church has been saying that for years, and it's not worked so far.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/survive-coronavirus-instinct-common-sense-21687435
Mercifully the Rook household is sufficiently well supplied that we shouldn't need to resort to newsprint unless this goes on for several more weeks.
This is absolutely insane.
It should be called the WhatsApp Doc.
Just one trifling question - presumably even though the elections are delayed, they are still the 2020 elections and the winners will serve until 2024?
I ask because I think it probable the 2024 London mayoral election contest will take place on the same day as the next GE.
I'm enjoying fresh plaice from the Waitrose fishmonger tonight.
Delicious.
A more pertinent point, one that hare brained lowlife failure Spielmann seems not to have thought of, is that if a senior teacher dies of a
Covid-19 then the school will have to close for cleaning, so there will be nothing to inspect.
And yes, I've worked in a school where a key staff member died 24 hours before inspection. It was one of the worst experiences of my life.
All it's done is wipe out most of the week's earlier losses - a very long way off its pre-virus levels.
About five different voting systems
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Night night all.
Not my finest betting moment.
https://twitter.com/douglascarswell/status/1238556209000611843?s=21
1) London Mayoral - Supplementary vote
2) London Assembly - FPTP and AMS
3) European Elections - D'Hondt method
5 votes on three ballot papers with 4 voting systems.