A good, thoughtful article on the Covid resurge in the USA.
Says there may well be a spike following THE WOKEGASM (I'm claiming that one); says it is a mystery why some states have surged and others not.
I wonder if this is a BAME thing, in part. The states seeing the worst resurge - Texas, Floria, Arizona, SoCal, all have very large Hispanic communities?
More likely that they never had the thing under control in the first place IMO, although your theory is not without merit.
Everyone is being a bit binary here. It is possible for several things to be true.
Probably states easing lockdown too early has caused the surge, which has ALSO been worsened by The Wokegasm, how can mass, crowded, shouty demos NOT cause infections? We know the main means of infection is via aerosols from people breathing heavily: singing, panting, jumping around.
Likewise, there may be a BAME element in the surge, but it's only a partial explanation.
Maybe relatedly, Iran is reporting its worst day for deaths since early April:
Our Anglophone/Eurocentric media would have you believe that the pandemic is on the decline because cases and deaths are way down in Europe and white countries that speak English.
They've maybe just cottoned on to the problem in Brazil - though not the rest of Latin America - but don't mention (perhaps because they haven't even noticed) the surging cases and rising deaths in: - the Middle East - the ex-USSR (excluding Baltic states) - Africa
Indeedydoody. The virus hasn't ebbed, it is just going to work on the poorer countries, now.
Also, Sweden.
It has just recorded 102 deaths - the worst total since mid-May
And more daily cases, today, than the UK: 1,239 over 1,115
And something bad seems to be happening in north Sweden:
The real question when it comes to American elections is "has Cromwell come back under and alt-account and what is his opinion?"
His betting judgement on Rubio was appalling but...
Cromwell said:
Any one who bets on Trump winning the nomination has a crude and simplistic grasp of American politics ; furthermore , they deserve to lose their money
Trump is a ''reality TV star '' who has descended into malignant narcissism and megalomania ..he's Dr Strangelove or a cartoonish James bond villain ; he's not a demagogue , but a comedic parody of a demagogue ...TRUMPOLINI I presume ?
There are simply not that many gormless voters in the GOP ; Trump is polling lower than Bernie Sanders but only looks like a winner because the opposition have not unified ...he probably will win New Hampshire but his victories can only last until the establishment unifies
Trump is a venal opportunist who loves running for president but would be horrified if the presidency were actually forced upon him
Trump's supporters are gormless beyond belief ; if he chewed the head off a puppy on live TV they would applaud him for making the world more safer for cats !
Weirdly predicted Biden's sweep to victory in the Dem race of 2020. Just 4 years too early with his logic.
Apart from the bad prediction that sounds like one great poster.
Where are they? - Come back!
He was very rude to people who did not share his galaxy brain take on Rubio. He was rude in a way to HYUFD that only I am allowed to be
Rubio will now unify the establishment lane and steamroll to victory ; he will win NH and Nevada too .....this has been on the cards for months and would have been clear to anyone able to read between the lines
RUBIO WILL BE THE NEXT US PRESIDENT .....frame this comment for posterity
Which you duly did, I see. What a miss. Charismatic writing sometimes co-incides with acute perception but just as often it doesn't.
So why did this poster leave? Was it under a big thick cloud?
He made strong predictions about what would happen in NH, they didn't happen. He was never seen again.
lol. I like it and shall continue to use it. There is no other catch-all word for the rash of demos, protests, riots, guilt trips, weird washing of feet, statue-topplings, and so on.
It is being done by Woke people, and it offers them the collective rush of an orgasm.
Wokegasm. If you can think of a better coinage, please let us have it.
I think you must go on better demos than me, or perhaps have worse organisms. I think you are underestimating how effective these protests have been already in the US, and also how necessary they are there. Of course there are some absurd performative elements to some of it, and I'm not convinced it's a good idea in the middle of a pandemic, but protesting against police brutality is more useful than shopping or going to a bar and that's allowed in most states now. Some of those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses.
lol. I like it and shall continue to use it. There is no other catch-all word for the rash of demos, protests, riots, guilt trips, weird washing of feet, statue-topplings, and so on.
It is being done by Woke people, and it offers them the collective rush of an orgasm.
Wokegasm. If you can think of a better coinage, please let us have it.
What's the word for the -gasm you were having over all those muscle Marys in the Para berets on Saturday?
lol. I like it and shall continue to use it. There is no other catch-all word for the rash of demos, protests, riots, guilt trips, weird washing of feet, statue-topplings, and so on.
It is being done by Woke people, and it offers them the collective rush of an orgasm.
Wokegasm. If you can think of a better coinage, please let us have it.
What's the word for the -gasm you were having over all those muscle Marys in the Para berets on Saturday?
AA's previous livery was almost all bare metal though, so there may be an additional cost to strip off the existing paintwork. Does seem excessive though!
I'd love to see the cost breakdown for a respray costing almost a million quid.
I reckon paint was a good business to get into when the railways were privatized. The amount of money that has been spent repainting trains over the last 25 years must be astronomical.
lol. I like it and shall continue to use it. There is no other catch-all word for the rash of demos, protests, riots, guilt trips, weird washing of feet, statue-topplings, and so on.
It is being done by Woke people, and it offers them the collective rush of an orgasm.
Wokegasm. If you can think of a better coinage, please let us have it.
What's the word for the -gasm you were having over all those muscle Marys in the Para berets on Saturday?
I thought the reason Boris Force One is currently grey is because its primary rôle is as a tanker and so needs to be as radar un-reflective as possible for survivability in combat. The re-paint means that in the event of Vladimir Vladimirovitch deciding to make a dash for the Baltic, the RAF will be down one tanker as either it'll be a sitting duck or they won't dare to deploy it anyway.
Mind you, I'm no expert. I'd be interested in @Dura_Ace's opinion.
It’ll stick out like a sore thumb on radar, no matter what the colour. The mil grey colour helps for camouflage when on approach in a war zone, and perhaps aids refuelling operations by reducing glare on the pilots following close behind.
If for any reason it needs to see a war zone, they’ll paint it back to boring mil grey, but if it’s going to be flying round the world with trade delegations for a couple of years it’s probably better in red, white and blue.
This is a non political question but as my wife and I may venture out soon after 12 weeks locked away I have acquired face masks but on trying them on my glasses steam up
As I have to wear glasses to drive I will not be able to do both
Is this just me or has anyone advice on this strange issue
I don't think there's any reason to wear the mask actually over your face while you're driving with the windows up, just be ready to put it on properly as soon as you get out.
Also with the disposable kind, the top is usually slightly stiffer so you can mould it to fit close around your nose and cheeks. I've found that very effective in stopping the glasses fogging issue.
I'd love to see the cost breakdown for a respray costing almost a million quid.
I reckon paint was a good business to get into when the railways were privatized. The amount of money that has been spent repainting trains over the last 25 years must be astronomical.
Just think about all the effort involved in spraying all those Virgins.
Oops, I meant in repainting the Virgin Trains fleet when Avanti took over the franchise.
I thought the reason Boris Force One is currently grey is because its primary rôle is as a tanker and so needs to be as radar un-reflective as possible for survivability in combat. The re-paint means that in the event of Vladimir Vladimirovitch deciding to make a dash for the Baltic, the RAF will be down one tanker as either it'll be a sitting duck or they won't dare to deploy it anyway.
Mind you, I'm no expert. I'd be interested in @Dura_Ace's opinion.
It’ll stick out like a sore thumb on radar, no matter what the colour. The mil grey colour helps for camouflage when on approach in a war zone, and perhaps aids refuelling operations by reducing glare on the pilots following close behind.
If for any reason it needs to see a war zone, they’ll paint it back to boring mil grey, but if it’s going to be flying round the world with trade delegations for a couple of years it’s probably better in red, white and blue.
I imagine that a bold Union Flag colour scheme could well make it useless as a tanker - too many confusing extraneous visual cues for pilots used to formating very narrowly on grey tankers with only a few carefully locayed bright colour stripes.
A “Car Crash PMQs for Boris” headline that won’t worry the PM too much.
One embarrassed police driver will be getting tea and biscuits though, with no tea and no biscuits! (Although in his defence, that Range Rover probably weighs around five tonnes).
I'd love to see the cost breakdown for a respray costing almost a million quid.
I reckon paint was a good business to get into when the railways were privatized. The amount of money that has been spent repainting trains over the last 25 years must be astronomical.
The red white and blue plane is a very good idea. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office merger is a very good idea. The motivations for both these actions are quite clear - the Government is going to do its utmost to promote Britain's interests overseas. The people dissing both these ideas are people who were never going to be reconciled to Boris, his Government, or Brexit.
lol. I like it and shall continue to use it. There is no other catch-all word for the rash of demos, protests, riots, guilt trips, weird washing of feet, statue-topplings, and so on.
It is being done by Woke people, and it offers them the collective rush of an orgasm.
Wokegasm. If you can think of a better coinage, please let us have it.
What's the word for the -gasm you were having over all those muscle Marys in the Para berets on Saturday?
Trump displaying signs of poor health may be evidence of Plan B. He cannot risk the legal jeopardy that a defeat represents for him and his family. The solution is to resign for health reasons and then for him and his circle to receive a pardon from Pence in the style that Ford gave Nixon. It could all happen very quickly should Charles Koch and others decide to limit the damage in November.
The red white and blue plane is a very good idea. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office merger is a very good idea. The motivations for both these actions are quite clear - the Government is going to do its utmost to promote Britain's interests overseas. The people dissing both these ideas are people who were never going to be reconciled to Boris, his Government, or Brexit.
Extremely refreshing and important. The identitarian left is about to discover that genuine diversity comes in thought as well as in immutable characteristics...
As refreshing as appointing a homeopath to spearhead a review into cancer treatments.
I thought the reason Boris Force One is currently grey is because its primary rôle is as a tanker and so needs to be as radar un-reflective as possible for survivability in combat. The re-paint means that in the event of Vladimir Vladimirovitch deciding to make a dash for the Baltic, the RAF will be down one tanker as either it'll be a sitting duck or they won't dare to deploy it anyway.
Mind you, I'm no expert. I'd be interested in @Dura_Ace's opinion.
It’ll stick out like a sore thumb on radar, no matter what the colour. The mil grey colour helps for camouflage when on approach in a war zone, and perhaps aids refuelling operations by reducing glare on the pilots following close behind.
If for any reason it needs to see a war zone, they’ll paint it back to boring mil grey, but if it’s going to be flying round the world with trade delegations for a couple of years it’s probably better in red, white and blue.
I imagine that a bold Union Flag colour scheme could well make it useless as a tanker - too many confusing extraneous visual cues for pilots used to formating very narrowly on grey tankers with only a few carefully locayed bright colour stripes.
It's also a bit needy. Imagine this.
Keep the plane grey, but a discreet lion and unicorn in black on the tail.
Because we don't need a gaudy flag, we're the United Kingdom, and we're that confident, classy and practical.
This is a non political question but as my wife and I may venture out soon after 12 weeks locked away I have acquired face masks but on trying them on my glasses steam up
As I have to wear glasses to drive I will not be able to do both
Is this just me or has anyone advice on this strange issue
I think government advice is to do an eye test somewhere in County Durham.
That is a sad answer to a genuine question. Pathetic
Is sense of humour failure a Covid symptom? Hopefully not. On topic, did I get round to recommending the Brewdog Barnard Castle Eye Test Hazy Durham IPA? It's really excellent although at 6% you wouldn't want to be drinking it before driving. Any other PBers got hold of it?
What a horrible comment.
Big G I think you might be over-reacting to some gently playful comments, because of your understandable stress and anxiety.
I certainly didn't mean anything by it, I was just making a joke but it obviously backfired and so I apologise. I would recommend the beer though.
G get the masks with the metal strip in them make sure the strip is at the top and then fit the mask over your nose bending the strip into the contours of your nose. As an aside you don’t need your mask on in the car only when you get out, unless you are picking up random hitch hikers.
A “Car Crash PMQs for Boris” headline that won’t worry the PM too much.
One embarrassed police driver will be getting tea and biscuits though, with no tea and no biscuits! (Although in his defence, that Range Rover probably weighs around five tonnes).
I thought the reason Boris Force One is currently grey is because its primary rôle is as a tanker and so needs to be as radar un-reflective as possible for survivability in combat. The re-paint means that in the event of Vladimir Vladimirovitch deciding to make a dash for the Baltic, the RAF will be down one tanker as either it'll be a sitting duck or they won't dare to deploy it anyway.
Mind you, I'm no expert. I'd be interested in @Dura_Ace's opinion.
It’ll stick out like a sore thumb on radar, no matter what the colour. The mil grey colour helps for camouflage when on approach in a war zone, and perhaps aids refuelling operations by reducing glare on the pilots following close behind.
If for any reason it needs to see a war zone, they’ll paint it back to boring mil grey, but if it’s going to be flying round the world with trade delegations for a couple of years it’s probably better in red, white and blue.
I imagine that a bold Union Flag colour scheme could well make it useless as a tanker - too many confusing extraneous visual cues for pilots used to formating very narrowly on grey tankers with only a few carefully locayed bright colour stripes.
It's also a bit needy. Imagine this.
Keep the plane grey, but a discreet lion and unicorn in black on the tail.
Because we don't need a gaudy flag, we're the United Kingdom, and we're that confident, classy and practical.
I thought the reason Boris Force One is currently grey is because its primary rôle is as a tanker and so needs to be as radar un-reflective as possible for survivability in combat. The re-paint means that in the event of Vladimir Vladimirovitch deciding to make a dash for the Baltic, the RAF will be down one tanker as either it'll be a sitting duck or they won't dare to deploy it anyway.
Mind you, I'm no expert. I'd be interested in @Dura_Ace's opinion.
It’ll stick out like a sore thumb on radar, no matter what the colour. The mil grey colour helps for camouflage when on approach in a war zone, and perhaps aids refuelling operations by reducing glare on the pilots following close behind.
If for any reason it needs to see a war zone, they’ll paint it back to boring mil grey, but if it’s going to be flying round the world with trade delegations for a couple of years it’s probably better in red, white and blue.
I imagine that a bold Union Flag colour scheme could well make it useless as a tanker - too many confusing extraneous visual cues for pilots used to formating very narrowly on grey tankers with only a few carefully locayed bright colour stripes.
It's also a bit needy. Imagine this.
Keep the plane grey, but a discreet lion and unicorn in black on the tail.
Because we don't need a gaudy flag, we're the United Kingdom, and we're that confident, classy and practical.
Basically, what would the Queen prefer?
Indeed. Look at the postage stamps of the UK. Just a simple Queen's head. I know it's because the GPO pioneered them - but it has the same stylistic logic.
And it avoids making a tanker from the very small fleet of the RAF useless.
A “Car Crash PMQs for Boris” headline that won’t worry the PM too much.
One embarrassed police driver will be getting tea and biscuits though, with no tea and no biscuits! (Although in his defence, that Range Rover probably weighs around five tonnes).
You don't think it's ironic that the nasty EU passports were made in the UK while the nice British blue passports are made in the EU? It just sums up the stupidity of the whole exercise and how it was always about prioritising things that don't matter (what colour your passport is) over things that do (jobs). I have nothing but sympathy for the people who lost their jobs, btw. No gloating or sneering from me, I grew up on Tyneside so i can imagine the impact on Gateshead.
I thought the reason Boris Force One is currently grey is because its primary rôle is as a tanker and so needs to be as radar un-reflective as possible for survivability in combat. The re-paint means that in the event of Vladimir Vladimirovitch deciding to make a dash for the Baltic, the RAF will be down one tanker as either it'll be a sitting duck or they won't dare to deploy it anyway.
Mind you, I'm no expert. I'd be interested in @Dura_Ace's opinion.
It’ll stick out like a sore thumb on radar, no matter what the colour. The mil grey colour helps for camouflage when on approach in a war zone, and perhaps aids refuelling operations by reducing glare on the pilots following close behind.
If for any reason it needs to see a war zone, they’ll paint it back to boring mil grey, but if it’s going to be flying round the world with trade delegations for a couple of years it’s probably better in red, white and blue.
I imagine that a bold Union Flag colour scheme could well make it useless as a tanker - too many confusing extraneous visual cues for pilots used to formating very narrowly on grey tankers with only a few carefully locayed bright colour stripes.
It's also a bit needy. Imagine this.
Keep the plane grey, but a discreet lion and unicorn in black on the tail.
Because we don't need a gaudy flag, we're the United Kingdom, and we're that confident, classy and practical.
I thought the reason Boris Force One is currently grey is because its primary rôle is as a tanker and so needs to be as radar un-reflective as possible for survivability in combat. The re-paint means that in the event of Vladimir Vladimirovitch deciding to make a dash for the Baltic, the RAF will be down one tanker as either it'll be a sitting duck or they won't dare to deploy it anyway.
Mind you, I'm no expert. I'd be interested in @Dura_Ace's opinion.
The Airtanker scheme contains a number of core planes setup for RAF duties now and a number of "surge" planes that are leased to commercial airlines but can be called on for military tankers and transports if required. As the VVIP transport probably isn't being used for military duties anyway, it's effectively a surge plane too.
You don't think it's ironic that the nasty EU passports were made in the UK while the nice British blue passports are made in the EU? It just sums up the stupidity of the whole exercise and how it was always about prioritising things that don't matter (what colour your passport is) over things that do (jobs). I have nothing but sympathy for the people who lost their jobs, btw. No gloating or sneering from me, I grew up on Tyneside so i can imagine the impact on Gateshead.
How many really voted based on the color of their passport?
I thought the reason Boris Force One is currently grey is because its primary rôle is as a tanker and so needs to be as radar un-reflective as possible for survivability in combat. The re-paint means that in the event of Vladimir Vladimirovitch deciding to make a dash for the Baltic, the RAF will be down one tanker as either it'll be a sitting duck or they won't dare to deploy it anyway.
Mind you, I'm no expert. I'd be interested in @Dura_Ace's opinion.
It’ll stick out like a sore thumb on radar, no matter what the colour. The mil grey colour helps for camouflage when on approach in a war zone, and perhaps aids refuelling operations by reducing glare on the pilots following close behind.
If for any reason it needs to see a war zone, they’ll paint it back to boring mil grey, but if it’s going to be flying round the world with trade delegations for a couple of years it’s probably better in red, white and blue.
I imagine that a bold Union Flag colour scheme could well make it useless as a tanker - too many confusing extraneous visual cues for pilots used to formating very narrowly on grey tankers with only a few carefully locayed bright colour stripes.
It's also a bit needy. Imagine this.
Keep the plane grey, but a discreet lion and unicorn in black on the tail.
Because we don't need a gaudy flag, we're the United Kingdom, and we're that confident, classy and practical.
Painting a bloody plane! Is that it? Is that what Boris is about?
He will be the envy of the other 27 EU leaders when he rocks up to trade talks in AirBorisOne/ BorisForceOne.
The art of one-upmanship.
Slovakia wins the Presidential Flight Design One-Upmanship award, I think...
DId they get that second-hand from Alaskan Airlines?
It looks a bit like the aero equivalent of a Lada. Anyone recognise what make and model it is?
Is it an old Russian Tupolov?
I had to look it up - I wondered if it was a DC-9 or BAC111 but actually it's a Fokker 100 as best I can make out. Edit: definitely, if that registration is -BYB on the engine nacelle in the photo.
Painting a bloody plane! Is that it? Is that what Boris is about?
He will be the envy of the other 27 EU leaders when he rocks up to trade talks in AirBorisOne/ BorisForceOne.
The art of one-upmanship.
Slovakia wins the Presidential Flight Design One-Upmanship award, I think...
But it looks like a 15 year old Airbus. Style over substance!
That's a Fokker 100 plane, I think. Slovakia does have an AIrbus A319, I think, in its presidential flight but the design doesn't work so well. The plane is too fat.
Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus
Which is bang in the middle for the quoted 777 repaint (not forgetting that there may be more bits n'pieces on the RAF Voyager than a regular airliner.
You don't think it's ironic that the nasty EU passports were made in the UK while the nice British blue passports are made in the EU? It just sums up the stupidity of the whole exercise and how it was always about prioritising things that don't matter (what colour your passport is) over things that do (jobs). I have nothing but sympathy for the people who lost their jobs, btw. No gloating or sneering from me, I grew up on Tyneside so i can imagine the impact on Gateshead.
How many really voted based on the color of their passport?
Extremely refreshing and important. The identitarian left is about to discover that genuine diversity comes in thought as well as in immutable characteristics...
As refreshing as appointing a homeopath to spearhead a review into cancer treatments.
Homeopathy as a specific medical practise uses infinitesimally small quantities of active ingredients diluted so much that any efficacy is implausible except as a placebo. Indeed, people have conducted 'mass overdoses' of homeopathic remedies to show how useless they are.
However, if your comment was aimed more widely and you're referring to any naturopathic doctor spearheading a review into cancer treatments, yes that would be very refreshing. And probably result in far better cancer outcomes that we have in the UK at the moment.
The real question when it comes to American elections is "has Cromwell come back under and alt-account and what is his opinion?"
His betting judgement on Rubio was appalling but...
Cromwell said:
Any one who bets on Trump winning the nomination has a crude and simplistic grasp of American politics ; furthermore , they deserve to lose their money
Trump is a ''reality TV star '' who has descended into malignant narcissism and megalomania ..he's Dr Strangelove or a cartoonish James bond villain ; he's not a demagogue , but a comedic parody of a demagogue ...TRUMPOLINI I presume ?
There are simply not that many gormless voters in the GOP ; Trump is polling lower than Bernie Sanders but only looks like a winner because the opposition have not unified ...he probably will win New Hampshire but his victories can only last until the establishment unifies
Trump is a venal opportunist who loves running for president but would be horrified if the presidency were actually forced upon him
Trump's supporters are gormless beyond belief ; if he chewed the head off a puppy on live TV they would applaud him for making the world more safer for cats !
Weirdly predicted Biden's sweep to victory in the Dem race of 2020. Just 4 years too early with his logic.
Apart from the bad prediction that sounds like one great poster.
Where are they? - Come back!
He was very rude to people who did not share his galaxy brain take on Rubio. He was rude in a way to HYUFD that only I am allowed to be
Rubio will now unify the establishment lane and steamroll to victory ; he will win NH and Nevada too .....this has been on the cards for months and would have been clear to anyone able to read between the lines
RUBIO WILL BE THE NEXT US PRESIDENT .....frame this comment for posterity
Which you duly did, I see. What a miss. Charismatic writing sometimes co-incides with acute perception but just as often it doesn't.
So why did this poster leave? Was it under a big thick cloud?
He made strong predictions about what would happen in NH, they didn't happen. He was never seen again.
OK! - the perils of going out on a limb.
On which topic, if it turns out I'm calling WH2020 all wrong and Donald Trump gets re-elected PB.com will probably not be seeing ME again.
Unless somebody amazingly gifted gets to the ledge in time and talks me down.
Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus
Which is bang in the middle for the quoted 777 repaint (not forgetting that there may be more bits n'pieces on the RAF Voyager than a regular airliner.
Where did Faisal Islam get his £900,000 from?
Bear in mind
(a) scheme is more complex than most (not all) airliners (b) it's a PFI job - with the implications
The idea that the French president suffers an austere life compared to other world leaders is.... interesting.
The Elysee is probably the most opulent HQ for any elected head of state anywhere in the world. It is notoriously sybaritic. And the same lifestyle is expected when the POTFR travels.
Downing St is a slum in comparison.
Indeed, the PM and Queen are Heads of a UN Security Council P5 power, along with the President of the US, and the Presidents and PMs of China and Russia and France, they should certainly have access to the same travel arrangements the French President does
Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus
Which is bang in the middle for the quoted 777 repaint (not forgetting that there may be more bits n'pieces on the RAF Voyager than a regular airliner.
Where did Faisal Islam get his £900,000 from?
Bear in mind
(a) scheme is more complex than most (not all) airliners (b) it's a PFI job - with the implications
It costs 60 times what any sane person would pay for it and is still shit?
I've invested in a 6 pack of stetchy light neck-gaiters, known as snoods, which are less expensive than the masks and available. Plus I'll use them for cycling when cold or windy for the foreseeable.
You don't think it's ironic that the nasty EU passports were made in the UK while the nice British blue passports are made in the EU? It just sums up the stupidity of the whole exercise and how it was always about prioritising things that don't matter (what colour your passport is) over things that do (jobs). I have nothing but sympathy for the people who lost their jobs, btw. No gloating or sneering from me, I grew up on Tyneside so i can imagine the impact on Gateshead.
It's the kind of thing that sends Twitter into a frenzy, but the bottom line is that the May Government awarded the contract to the company that put in the best bid. Obviously the management of De La Rue also felt the prospect of the job going overseas was preposterous, and therefore didn't feel they needed to make their bid competitive. Personally, I would like jobs in the UK to be considered as a factor in public procurement (I don't believe it has up until this point, unlike with almost all other world governments), but equally, companies need to know they can't gouge the taxpayer.
Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus
Which is bang in the middle for the quoted 777 repaint (not forgetting that there may be more bits n'pieces on the RAF Voyager than a regular airliner.
Where did Faisal Islam get his £900,000 from?
Bear in mind
(a) scheme is more complex than most (not all) airliners (b) it's a PFI job - with the implications
It costs 60 times what any sane person would pay for it and is still shit?
If I said that I'd be accused of being agin the UF on political principle - so thank you for coming in and dealing with that!
What Colorado is getting right about reopening https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/16/colorado-coronavirus-reopen-324390 ..Polis has balanced libertarian sensibilities with public health doctrine since issuing a statewide stay-at-home order on March 26 following a burst of cases. His “safer at home” reopening, which even drew praise from President Donald Trump, was more like a tiptoe than a march: Dine-in service at restaurants didn’t begin until May 27. Gyms and pools only followed at limited capacity this month. And bars and residential summer camps can only begin operating at limited capacity this week.
That’s in contrast to Utah, which never imposed a stay-at-home order and where gyms and dine-in service began on May 1. The average number of new infections has roughly doubled there since the beginning of this month. In Arizona, where casinos, restaurants and gyms opened by mid-May, hospitalizations are up 40 percent since June 1 and the health department recently told hospitals to “fully activate” emergency plans.
“We’re only a few steps ahead of this virus,” Polis said this week. “We can’t let good news give us a false sense of security. We see some of our neighboring states, Arizona and Utah, moving the wrong way.”..
Extremely refreshing and important. The identitarian left is about to discover that genuine diversity comes in thought as well as in immutable characteristics...
As refreshing as appointing a homeopath to spearhead a review into cancer treatments.
More like appointing Galileo to research astronomy rather than leaving it in the hands of the Catholic Inquisition...
But some pollsters, especially the relatively few who conduct surveys in battleground states, are still grappling with the problems that plagued those polls four years ago. In fact, most pollsters believe that, on balance, state polls are overstating the scale of Biden’s advantage.
That was precisely the problem in 2016: The national polls were largely accurate, to within the margin of error. But there were too few state polls, and many of those that were conducted failed to collect accurate data, especially from white voters without college degrees in key swing states.
And those issues haven’t been fixed.
“I would say that most, if not all, of the concerns that we expressed still hold — some to a lesser degree,” said Courtney Kennedy, director of research at the Pew Research Center and lead author of the polling industry’s post-2016 autopsy. “But I think some of the fundamental, structural challenges that came to a head in 2016 are still in place in 2020.”
Love the new passports, and the best part is they don't say European Union on them
I think they're a fairly close match to the old ones - I'm too young to remember them, but I've seen my Mum's and it always looked black to me, never blue.
However, the truest black always contains blue. The costume department apparently always put some blue into James Bond's dinner suits so they come out inky black on screen, otherwise they can look grey or brown.
Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus
Which is bang in the middle for the quoted 777 repaint (not forgetting that there may be more bits n'pieces on the RAF Voyager than a regular airliner.
Where did Faisal Islam get his £900,000 from?
Bear in mind
(a) scheme is more complex than most (not all) airliners (b) it's a PFI job - with the implications
It costs 60 times what any sane person would pay for it and is still shit?
I have found it wise to steer clear of the occupants of any vehicle bearing a Union Flag or the flag of St George. Perhaps Boris is channelling his inner chav.
This one looks like a case of the EU doing exactly what it accuses the UK of doing: wanting to reproduce aspects of EU/EEA membership without us being EU/EEA members.
Edit: I see @CarlottaVance has already posted some of the thread.
Extremely refreshing and important. The identitarian left is about to discover that genuine diversity comes in thought as well as in immutable characteristics...
As refreshing as appointing a homeopath to spearhead a review into cancer treatments.
Homeopathy as a specific medical practise uses infinitesimally small quantities of active ingredients diluted so much that any efficacy is implausible except as a placebo. Indeed, people have conducted 'mass overdoses' of homeopathic remedies to show how useless they are.
However, if your comment was aimed more widely and you're referring to any naturopathic doctor spearheading a review into cancer treatments, yes that would be very refreshing. And probably result in far better cancer outcomes that we have in the UK at the moment.
The allusion was - somebody heads an inquiry into something they do not think is worth looking into and probably do not even believe in. It almost worked. It's not bad.
I thought you would be quite big in homeopathy. Just goes to show. Assumptions about people are fraught with danger. Avoid where possible.
Apologies if someone mentioned this but, just skimming the last thread, there's an obvious reason why Starmer won't say yes to schools going back. It's also a stupid question from Johnson, as it seems to be something else that he doesn't know about.
Starmer does want schools to further reopen but he can't push that because he's seen the returning pupil figures and, on average, only 25% of those who could return did so. Parents are clearly not on board (and polls showed that well before anyway). It might just be something to do with the initial attempt to off half a million of us and then Johnson nearly dying himself. If you want the reason why people are so cautious compared to other countries that's why, so there is very little trust left regarding what claims are being made now.
There are millions of people, many of whom are in low-paid or hourly paid work, who can’t go back to work and face losing their jobs if the schools don’t reopen.
That’s before we think of the kids who need school because they have a chaotic home life, live with someone violent, addicted or abusive, don’t have a computer at home, don’t have parents who care about education etc.
It’s fine for a bunch of middle class parents who love educating their kids and can do home school in the nice garden at this time of year.
Yet Starmer, who’s been sending his own kids to school because he can, chooses not to side with getting the poor and disadvantaged kids back to school - siding instead with the teachers’ unions, for whom no amount of precautions taken would be enough.
Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus
Which is bang in the middle for the quoted 777 repaint (not forgetting that there may be more bits n'pieces on the RAF Voyager than a regular airliner.
Where did Faisal Islam get his £900,000 from?
Bear in mind
(a) scheme is more complex than most (not all) airliners (b) it's a PFI job - with the implications
It costs 60 times what any sane person would pay for it and is still shit?
I have found it wise to steer clear of the occupants of any vehicle bearing a Union Flag or the flag of St George. Perhaps Boris is channelling his inner chav.
BJ's going to plaster the windows with Help For Heroes and I Stand With Soldier F stickers, isn't he?
Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus
Which is bang in the middle for the quoted 777 repaint (not forgetting that there may be more bits n'pieces on the RAF Voyager than a regular airliner.
Where did Faisal Islam get his £900,000 from?
Bear in mind
(a) scheme is more complex than most (not all) airliners (b) it's a PFI job - with the implications
It costs 60 times what any sane person would pay for it and is still shit?
I have found it wise to steer clear of the occupants of any vehicle bearing a Union Flag or the flag of St George. Perhaps Boris is channelling his inner chav.
I was myself thinking more of those pop culture Minis or Mini Mokes of the 1960s (I am a bit too young for that era really).
I'd be interested to see how the designers achieve the result on the Johnson-Mobile. It seems to be hard to get a UJ which is recogniseable without it looking like a hippymobile at one extreme or so undertstated at the other that it's not recogniseable as a UJ - like the later British Airways scheme on Concorde for instance. Didn't the latter upset Mrs T so much she draped a hanky over the GRP model showing it at a Farnborough Air Show? Or am I misremembering?
AA's previous livery was almost all bare metal though, so there may be an additional cost to strip off the existing paintwork. Does seem excessive though!
They also had about 500 planes
Perhaps Faisal gets the same price as Barratt when he gets his house done.
I'm not sure that's technically correct as there were public executions in Algeria into the 1940s and I think beyond, some using the guillotine, that Albert Camus documented. And Algeria was part of France (as three French departments rather than a colony) until independence.
Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus
Which is bang in the middle for the quoted 777 repaint (not forgetting that there may be more bits n'pieces on the RAF Voyager than a regular airliner.
Where did Faisal Islam get his £900,000 from?
Bear in mind
(a) scheme is more complex than most (not all) airliners (b) it's a PFI job - with the implications
It costs 60 times what any sane person would pay for it and is still shit?
I have found it wise to steer clear of the occupants of any vehicle bearing a Union Flag or the flag of St George. Perhaps Boris is channelling his inner chav.
I was myself thinking more of those pop culture Minis or Mini Mokes of the 1960s (I am a bit too young for that era really).
I'd be interested to see how the designers achieve the result on the Johnson-Mobile. It seems to be hard to get a UJ which is recogniseable without it looking like a hippymobile at one extreme or so undertstated at the other that it's not recogniseable as a UJ - like the later British Airways scheme on Concorde for instance. Didn't the latter upset Mrs T so much she draped a hanky over the GRP model showing it at a Farnborough Air Show? Or am I misremembering?
My son has a monochrome union flag on the glass sunroof of his Mini Cooper S. It only cost £25 from AliExpress and looks good.
We could paper Boris' plane with AliExpress vinyl decals for next to nothing.
Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus
Which is bang in the middle for the quoted 777 repaint (not forgetting that there may be more bits n'pieces on the RAF Voyager than a regular airliner.
Where did Faisal Islam get his £900,000 from?
Bear in mind
(a) scheme is more complex than most (not all) airliners (b) it's a PFI job - with the implications
It costs 60 times what any sane person would pay for it and is still shit?
I have found it wise to steer clear of the occupants of any vehicle bearing a Union Flag or the flag of St George. Perhaps Boris is channelling his inner chav.
I was myself thinking more of those pop culture Minis or Mini Mokes of the 1960s (I am a bit too young for that era really).
I'd be interested to see how the designers achieve the result on the Johnson-Mobile. It seems to be hard to get a UJ which is recogniseable without it looking like a hippymobile at one extreme or so undertstated at the other that it's not recogniseable as a UJ - like the later British Airways scheme on Concorde for instance. Didn't the latter upset Mrs T so much she draped a hanky over the GRP model showing it at a Farnborough Air Show? Or am I misremembering?
No, she was draping the rebranded BA tailfin art that removed the Union Flag and was just 'world designs' - I think the one she covered was based on Dutch pottery but I could be wrong.
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by Gatsusan April 14, 2018
I think you are underestimating how effective these protests have been already in the US, and also how necessary they are there. Of course there are some absurd performative elements to some of it, and I'm not convinced it's a good idea in the middle of a pandemic, but protesting against police brutality is more useful than shopping or going to a bar and that's allowed in most states now.
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses.
Longevity? It only has to last to the end of Johnson's Premiership- which might not be too long.
I think I'll stop now.
If for any reason it needs to see a war zone, they’ll paint it back to boring mil grey, but if it’s going to be flying round the world with trade delegations for a couple of years it’s probably better in red, white and blue.
Also with the disposable kind, the top is usually slightly stiffer so you can mould it to fit close around your nose and cheeks. I've found that very effective in stopping the glasses fogging issue.
Oops, I meant in repainting the Virgin Trains fleet when Avanti took over the franchise.
The fact is De La Rue are in trouble and have been for a long time and closures are part of,the solution. We are fast becoming a cashless society.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2020/01/30/why-is-a-company-that-prints-money-running-out-of-cash/
One embarrassed police driver will be getting tea and biscuits though, with no tea and no biscuits! (Although in his defence, that Range Rover probably weighs around five tonnes).
Keep the plane grey, but a discreet lion and unicorn in black on the tail.
Because we don't need a gaudy flag, we're the United Kingdom, and we're that confident, classy and practical.
Basically, what would the Queen prefer?
https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1273270123365896194?s=20
And it avoids making a tanker from the very small fleet of the RAF useless.
I have nothing but sympathy for the people who lost their jobs, btw. No gloating or sneering from me, I grew up on Tyneside so i can imagine the impact on Gateshead.
Air Force One for Boris? RAF plane for VIPs gets a union jack makeover
The prime minister’s plane, also used by royalty, is getting a new paint job costing £100,000 plus
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/16/air-force-one-for-boris-raf-plane-for-vips-gets-a-union-jack-makeover
Which is bang in the middle for the quoted 777 repaint (not forgetting that there may be more bits n'pieces on the RAF Voyager than a regular airliner.
Where did Faisal Islam get his £900,000 from?
However, if your comment was aimed more widely and you're referring to any naturopathic doctor spearheading a review into cancer treatments, yes that would be very refreshing. And probably result in far better cancer outcomes that we have in the UK at the moment.
All the wrong sort of BAME, according to the woke left mob.
On which topic, if it turns out I'm calling WH2020 all wrong and Donald Trump gets re-elected PB.com will probably not be seeing ME again.
Unless somebody amazingly gifted gets to the ledge in time and talks me down.
(a) scheme is more complex than most (not all) airliners
(b) it's a PFI job - with the implications
https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1273293116301357057?s=20
https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1273293131845447683?s=20
https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1273293142461120513?s=20
I've invested in a 6 pack of stetchy light neck-gaiters, known as snoods, which are less expensive than the masks and available. Plus I'll use them for cycling when cold or windy for the foreseeable.
I ordered these for £11.99 and they came next day this week, and fit:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01GFQEBC0
Mainly patterned though one design is a bit yoof.
I also have a small number of N95 masks should they be needed
What have others done?
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/16/colorado-coronavirus-reopen-324390
..Polis has balanced libertarian sensibilities with public health doctrine since issuing a statewide stay-at-home order on March 26 following a burst of cases. His “safer at home” reopening, which even drew praise from President Donald Trump, was more like a tiptoe than a march: Dine-in service at restaurants didn’t begin until May 27. Gyms and pools only followed at limited capacity this month. And bars and residential summer camps can only begin operating at limited capacity this week.
That’s in contrast to Utah, which never imposed a stay-at-home order and where gyms and dine-in service began on May 1. The average number of new infections has roughly doubled there since the beginning of this month. In Arizona, where casinos, restaurants and gyms opened by mid-May, hospitalizations are up 40 percent since June 1 and the health department recently told hospitals to “fully activate” emergency plans.
“We’re only a few steps ahead of this virus,” Polis said this week. “We can’t let good news give us a false sense of security. We see some of our neighboring states, Arizona and Utah, moving the wrong way.”..
And they wear masks.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/17/trump-polls-biden-324210
...The national polls showing Trump trailing Biden by an increasing margin aren’t “phony” or rigged.
But some pollsters, especially the relatively few who conduct surveys in battleground states, are still grappling with the problems that plagued those polls four years ago. In fact, most pollsters believe that, on balance, state polls are overstating the scale of Biden’s advantage.
That was precisely the problem in 2016: The national polls were largely accurate, to within the margin of error. But there were too few state polls, and many of those that were conducted failed to collect accurate data, especially from white voters without college degrees in key swing states.
And those issues haven’t been fixed.
“I would say that most, if not all, of the concerns that we expressed still hold — some to a lesser degree,” said Courtney Kennedy, director of research at the Pew Research Center and lead author of the polling industry’s post-2016 autopsy. “But I think some of the fundamental, structural challenges that came to a head in 2016 are still in place in 2020.”
However, the truest black always contains blue. The costume department apparently always put some blue into James Bond's dinner suits so they come out inky black on screen, otherwise they can look grey or brown.
British capitalism was built on the ruthless exploitation of wage slaves, not black slaves.
MOSES DUBE"
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/17/the-myth-of-white-privilege/
https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1273293116301357057
https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1273293120453607429
This one looks like a case of the EU doing exactly what it accuses the UK of doing: wanting to reproduce aspects of EU/EEA membership without us being EU/EEA members.
Edit: I see @CarlottaVance has already posted some of the thread.
I thought you would be quite big in homeopathy. Just goes to show. Assumptions about people are fraught with danger. Avoid where possible.
That’s before we think of the kids who need school because they have a chaotic home life, live with someone violent, addicted or abusive, don’t have a computer at home, don’t have parents who care about education etc.
It’s fine for a bunch of middle class parents who love educating their kids and can do home school in the nice garden at this time of year.
Yet Starmer, who’s been sending his own kids to school because he can, chooses not to side with getting the poor and disadvantaged kids back to school - siding instead with the teachers’ unions, for whom no amount of precautions taken would be enough.
Cheaper too!
Tories: Wonderful. How about these BAME Conservatives with their own considered views on these matters?
Wokeists: Not that kind of diversity! Heretics!
I was going to say Luxembourg, but then I remembered they’re not a republic.
I'd be interested to see how the designers achieve the result on the Johnson-Mobile. It seems to be hard to get a UJ which is recogniseable without it looking like a hippymobile at one extreme or so undertstated at the other that it's not recogniseable as a UJ - like the later British Airways scheme on Concorde for instance. Didn't the latter upset Mrs T so much she draped a hanky over the GRP model showing it at a Farnborough Air Show? Or am I misremembering?
Perhaps Faisal gets the same price as Barratt when he gets his house done.
We could paper Boris' plane with AliExpress vinyl decals for next to nothing.