Echoing the words the democrats uttered in 2016, when they lost fair and square.
Oh wait....
You mean the election where Hillary had the decency and dignity to concede the day after the vote? You mean the election where Obama had the decency and dignity to facilitate a smooth transition for Trump?
I remember when Obama became POTUS and how the Secret Service/DIA were worried that his Blackberry was a security risk.
To which the kids say what's a blackberry.....
I officially became an old git in 2019 when I explained to a very young staff what Ceefax was.
'It was the internet on your TV' after I had told them that they haven't lived if they've never watched a football match on Ceefax 303.
My neighbours kids don't really believe there was a time before the internet....at least not experienced by those that aren't pushing 80.
Explaining dial up internet to them, they genuinely think I am just winding them up.
Tell them what was included in your first ever mobile contract monthly allowance and the price.
They looked at me weirdly that I paid £45 a month for 200 minutes to landlines and people on the same network as me.
No inclusive texts, and no data, as data didn't exist then.
Calling cross network was 50p a minute, and texts 20p a pop, limited to a 160 characters.
Try explaining what your first computer cost and how much memory you got with it: I normally have to explain what KB are at that point. (I do this in the lesson on SI prefixes).
My first computer cost 1k-ish. It had 48k of memory.
I saved for it by working in McDonalds. I was initially paid 89p an hour.
I want to know what his Peloton username is so that I can check my scores against his
Here's a question: do any other PBers Peloton? If so, let me know your username so I can follow you.
(My username is pretty easy to guess.)
I nearly went for a Peleton, but ended up going for a BikeERG and use Zwift. Really enjoying it, other than the number of cheating bastards in the races claiming to be average cyclists then pulling 4W/kg with ease via faking their weight, while I am melting trying to keep up.
I remember when Obama became POTUS and how the Secret Service/DIA were worried that his Blackberry was a security risk.
To which the kids say what's a blackberry.....
I officially became an old git in 2019 when I explained to a very young staff what Ceefax was.
'It was the internet on your TV' after I had told them that they haven't lived if they've never watched a football match on Ceefax 303.
My neighbours kids don't really believe there was a time before the internet....at least not experienced by those that aren't pushing 80.
Explaining dial up internet to them, they genuinely think I am just winding them up.
Tell them what was included in your first ever mobile contract monthly allowance and the price.
They looked at me weirdly that I paid £45 a month for 200 minutes to landlines and people on the same network as me.
No inclusive texts, and no data, as data didn't exist then.
Calling cross network was 50p a minute, and texts 20p a pop, limited to a 160 characters.
Try explaining what your first computer cost and how much memory you got with it: I normally have to explain what KB are at that point. (I do this in the lesson on SI prefixes).
I was always fond of my ZX81 1K.
I had you down as too young to have had one of those!
It was gift from a neighbour.
I was old enough to get the Spectrum 128K +3 though.
My first ever proper computer in 1992, as a callow teenager, had 2 MB of RAM, which I'm fairly certain was top of the range.
My first proper computer had 640K, twin floppy disks, and a 10MHz chip. All for the same price as a Apple iMac would cost now.
I remember when Obama became POTUS and how the Secret Service/DIA were worried that his Blackberry was a security risk.
To which the kids say what's a blackberry.....
I officially became an old git in 2019 when I explained to a very young staff what Ceefax was.
'It was the internet on your TV' after I had told them that they haven't lived if they've never watched a football match on Ceefax 303.
My neighbours kids don't really believe there was a time before the internet....at least not experienced by those that aren't pushing 80.
Explaining dial up internet to them, they genuinely think I am just winding them up.
Tell them what was included in your first ever mobile contract monthly allowance and the price.
They looked at me weirdly that I paid £45 a month for 200 minutes to landlines and people on the same network as me.
No inclusive texts, and no data, as data didn't exist then.
Calling cross network was 50p a minute, and texts 20p a pop, limited to a 160 characters.
Try explaining what your first computer cost and how much memory you got with it: I normally have to explain what KB are at that point. (I do this in the lesson on SI prefixes).
Pretty sure it was about £100 quid, a ZX Spectrum with a magnificent 48K...
Thanks to all the PB Putinists, for showing just how crushed they are that their foul Fearless Leader has now been consigned to the dustbin of history.
Your wailing and gnashing of teeth, rending of garments and other signs of Extreme Loser Syndrome, are all music to my ears!
I remember when Obama became POTUS and how the Secret Service/DIA were worried that his Blackberry was a security risk.
To which the kids say what's a blackberry.....
I officially became an old git in 2019 when I explained to a very young staff what Ceefax was.
'It was the internet on your TV' after I had told them that they haven't lived if they've never watched a football match on Ceefax 303.
The fun part was watching cricket.
You always knew when there was a wicket, as there was about a three minute pause in the update.
People forget that Ceefax had enough information for about 95% of the things you really needed to know, as opposed to the gossip and inane chat which is what the internet is mostly composed of. It was so useful that when you visited another country and realised the TV in that country didn't have an equivalent service it was often a real inconvenience.
I remember when Obama became POTUS and how the Secret Service/DIA were worried that his Blackberry was a security risk.
To which the kids say what's a blackberry.....
I officially became an old git in 2019 when I explained to a very young staff what Ceefax was.
'It was the internet on your TV' after I had told them that they haven't lived if they've never watched a football match on Ceefax 303.
The fun part was watching cricket.
You always knew when there was a wicket, as there was about a three minute pause in the update.
People forget that Ceefax had enough information for about 95% of the things you really needed to know, as opposed to the gossip and inane chat which is what the internet is mostly composed of.
News headlines, sports scores and the TV guide, what else did anyone use it for?
In my simple view I think Trump was a glib charlatan but Biden is honestly sincere. Boredom isn't an issue for me.
If it’s a choice it’s a no brainer. But recently someone linked to Kennedy’s speech to the country about segregation in 1963 recently. That was oratory.
I remember when Obama became POTUS and how the Secret Service/DIA were worried that his Blackberry was a security risk.
To which the kids say what's a blackberry.....
I officially became an old git in 2019 when I explained to a very young staff what Ceefax was.
'It was the internet on your TV' after I had told them that they haven't lived if they've never watched a football match on Ceefax 303.
The fun part was watching cricket.
You always knew when there was a wicket, as there was about a three minute pause in the update.
People forget that Ceefax had enough information for about 95% of the things you really needed to know, as opposed to the gossip and inane chat which is what the internet is mostly composed of.
I remember a friend visiting me c. 1988 and being overjoyed to discover I had Ceefax on my TV. He'd inherited shares in Whitbreads or some such firm who were being taken over and he could watch the price go up and up and then rush to the phone and ring his stockbroker ...
Thanks to all the PB Putinists, for showing just how crushed they are that their foul Fearless Leader has now been consigned to the dustbin of history.
Your wailing and gnashing of teeth, rending of garments and other signs of Extreme Loser Syndrome, are all music to my ears!
I think folk (even experts) can be given a pass for what they said in the first few months of the pandemic since let's face it we were all at sea, but she was posting this guff in October & November. Of course people were also firing off big old Declarations in October..
Indeed, I cannot tell you how much I despise people like this.
Healing sometimes involves surgery. Forgiveness and redemption require contrition and an admission of guilt to be effective.
Trump did many things in the course of his term in office which showed that he had no respect for the law. Many of these things will probably not lead to punishment as no punishments were laid down in the statutes, but it is right that he should face trial for anything for which a judge or grand jury decides he has a case to answer.
The real problem will be finding a jury to convict, as I think that in the US you need a unanimous verdict.
I have to write something for Trump’s exit. No choice. No choice.
And not to make it about me but I can’t help my overriding feeling being one of enormous pride in myself. I had this guy sussed and properly evaluated from the start. That took perception – to see the truth – and also standards below which I refused to fall. So I never, throughout this sorry episode, lost my sense of outrage and depression, tinged with unreality, about such an individual being the President of the United States. I never sought to come to terms with it. Never shrugged him off as just a joke. Never went crawling back through the records and character of previous Presidents in order to phony up a case that he was nothing to lose your shit about. Never bent over backwards to find some sort of valid respectable “left behind by globalization bla bla” reason for his election. No. I stuck to my initial assessment. Orange Man Bad. Simple, correct, complete. This was much and often derided as “Trump Derangement Syndrome” but now the whole of the sane world has come around to it. Ah bisto.
But I have some disturbing news to share too. It’s about my relationship with another political leader. Boris Johnson. He is not Britain Trump. Not even close as regards absurdity and malignancy. However, he is amoral, shallow, glib, immature, deceitful, and not really fit for office. About three years ago, chatting to my wife, I said that if Boris Johnson ever became PM, we should emigrate, and I was 100% serious. Yet he has and we haven’t. Not because my wife refuses but because I no longer want to. I have lost my negative passion for Johnson. What I’m patting myself on the back for, viz Trump, is I’m afraid exactly what has happened with Johnson. I can’t stand the bloke, obvs, or much of his politics, but the fact of him as PM is not driving me each & every day into a pit of rage and despair. I’m awfully ashamed of this, it shows my standards are slipping, but I felt I had to make the confession. I’ve got used to "Boris". I’m sorry, PB.
A key difference right now between Trump and Johnson is that the Americans eventually got rid of Trump. Johnson is still there.
I suspect Johnson got more bearable once he got rid of his aggression, as projected by Cummings? Johnson is fundamentally a charlatan. He wants his suckers to feel good
Thanks to all the PB Putinists, for showing just how crushed they are that their foul Fearless Leader has now been consigned to the dustbin of history.
Your wailing and gnashing of teeth, rending of garments and other signs of Extreme Loser Syndrome, are all music to my ears!
You mean they both had to rebuild parties shattered by the dogmatism of previous leaders by doing something radical that the diehards hated, but Disraeli took his party back to power and Kinnock didn’t?
In my simple view I think Trump was a glib charlatan but Biden is honestly sincere. Boredom isn't an issue for me.
If it’s a choice it’s a no brainer. But recently someone linked to Kennedy’s speech to the country about segregation in 1963 recently. That was oratory.
True elegance was Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Unbelievably sad.
In my simple view I think Trump was a glib charlatan but Biden is honestly sincere. Boredom isn't an issue for me.
If it’s a choice it’s a no brainer. But recently someone linked to Kennedy’s speech to the country about segregation in 1963 recently. That was oratory.
True elegance was Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Unbelievably sad.
Thanks to all the PB Putinists, for showing just how crushed they are that their foul Fearless Leader has now been consigned to the dustbin of history.
Your wailing and gnashing of teeth, rending of garments and other signs of Extreme Loser Syndrome, are all music to my ears!
Actually talking of Putin, I read with amusement the tweet of a journalist that covers Russia saying CNN's coverage of Biden is more sycophantic than the Russian media is of their president.
Four years of why Joe loves puppies, kids and fluffy clouds though his soldiers have to be vetted.
Obama is one of the best speechmakers. Biden can be excruciating to listen to. Nevertheless this Biden speech is more important than any Obama delivered because of the circumstances.
In my simple view I think Trump was a glib charlatan but Biden is honestly sincere. Boredom isn't an issue for me.
If it’s a choice it’s a no brainer. But recently someone linked to Kennedy’s speech to the country about segregation in 1963 recently. That was oratory.
True elegance was Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Unbelievably sad.
And astonishingly short. But profound.
It was a post-script to the main oration of the day: a really cruel trivia question would be "who gave the Gettysburg Oration" on November the 19th,1863?"
In my simple view I think Trump was a glib charlatan but Biden is honestly sincere. Boredom isn't an issue for me.
If it’s a choice it’s a no brainer. But recently someone linked to Kennedy’s speech to the country about segregation in 1963 recently. That was oratory.
True elegance was Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Unbelievably sad.
And astonishingly short. But profound.
And called by the New York Times, ‘silly remarks’ and by the Times in London ‘anything more dull and commonplace it would be hard to find.’
Thanks to all the PB Putinists, for showing just how crushed they are that their foul Fearless Leader has now been consigned to the dustbin of history.
Your wailing and gnashing of teeth, rending of garments and other signs of Extreme Loser Syndrome, are all music to my ears!
Actually talking of Putin, I read with amusement the tweet of a journalist that covers Russia saying CNN's coverage of Biden is more sycophantic than the Russian media is of their president.
Four years of why Joe loves puppies, kids and fluffy clouds though his soldiers have to be vetted.
Keep it up! You are most definitely VERY persuasive. Just NOT they way you think.
In my simple view I think Trump was a glib charlatan but Biden is honestly sincere. Boredom isn't an issue for me.
If it’s a choice it’s a no brainer. But recently someone linked to Kennedy’s speech to the country about segregation in 1963 recently. That was oratory.
True elegance was Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Unbelievably sad.
And astonishingly short. But profound.
And called by the New York Times, ‘silly remarks’ and by the Times in London ‘anything more dull and commonplace it would be hard to find.’
The Times of London - ""The ceremony was rendered ludicrous by some of the luckless sallies of that poor President Lincoln."
I have to write something for Trump’s exit. No choice. No choice.
And not to make it about me but I can’t help my overriding feeling being one of enormous pride in myself. I had this guy sussed and properly evaluated from the start. That took perception – to see the truth – and also standards below which I refused to fall. So I never, throughout this sorry episode, lost my sense of outrage and depression, tinged with unreality, about such an individual being the President of the United States. I never sought to come to terms with it. Never shrugged him off as just a joke. Never went crawling back through the records and character of previous Presidents in order to phony up a case that he was nothing to lose your shit about. Never bent over backwards to find some sort of valid respectable “left behind by globalization bla bla” reason for his election. No. I stuck to my initial assessment. Orange Man Bad. Simple, correct, complete. This was much and often derided as “Trump Derangement Syndrome” but now the whole of the sane world has come around to it. Ah bisto.
But I have some disturbing news to share too. It’s about my relationship with another political leader. Boris Johnson. He is not Britain Trump. Not even close as regards absurdity and malignancy. However, he is amoral, shallow, glib, immature, deceitful, and not really fit for office. About three years ago, chatting to my wife, I said that if Boris Johnson ever became PM, we should emigrate, and I was 100% serious. Yet he has and we haven’t. Not because my wife refuses but because I no longer want to. I have lost my negative passion for Johnson. What I’m patting myself on the back for, viz Trump, is I’m afraid exactly what has happened with Johnson. I can’t stand the bloke, obvs, or much of his politics, but the fact of him as PM is not driving me each & every day into a pit of rage and despair. I’m awfully ashamed of this, it shows my standards are slipping, but I felt I had to make the confession. I’ve got used to "Boris". I’m sorry, PB.
A key difference right now between Trump and Johnson is that the Americans eventually got rid of Trump. Johnson is still there.
I suspect Johnson got more bearable once he got rid of his aggression, as projected by Cummings? Johnson is fundamentally a charlatan. He wants his suckers to feel good
Yes. And with Trump gone I can now really focus on Johnson. Get myself back on track and in the state of permanent pissed offness about him that I ought to be.
I only got to catch the start of Biden's speech, good solid delivery and standard optimistic talk along with talk of the major challenges.
I did laugh at two points, one of which might be my imagination.
First of all when he talked about today not being about the success of a canididate, and I was like 'No, it definitely is. Ok, some other things too, but also your success'.
And two, he said something about righting wrongs, and I could have sworn it cut to a shot of Ted Cruz.
I remember when Obama became POTUS and how the Secret Service/DIA were worried that his Blackberry was a security risk.
To which the kids say what's a blackberry.....
I officially became an old git in 2019 when I explained to a very young staff what Ceefax was.
'It was the internet on your TV' after I had told them that they haven't lived if they've never watched a football match on Ceefax 303.
The fun part was watching cricket.
You always knew when there was a wicket, as there was about a three minute pause in the update.
People forget that Ceefax had enough information for about 95% of the things you really needed to know, as opposed to the gossip and inane chat which is what the internet is mostly composed of.
I remember a friend visiting me c. 1988 and being overjoyed to discover I had Ceefax on my TV. He'd inherited shares in Whitbreads or some such firm who were being taken over and he could watch the price go up and up and then rush to the phone and ring his stockbroker ...
Ceefax was unleashed in 1974. I penned an article at the time complaining about the monopolistic nature of the technology, arguing that the world needed more diverse sources of information, not less. I think I may have overdone it.
I only got to catch the start of Biden's speech, good solid delivery and standard optimistic talk along with talk of the major challenges.
I did laugh at two points, one of which might be my imagination.
First of all when he talked about today not being about the success of a canididate, and I was like 'No, it definitely is. Ok, some other things too, but also your success'.
And two, he said something about righting wrongs, and I could have sworn it cut to a shot of Ted Cruz.
The National Youth Poet Laureate is stunningly beautiful. Not the kind of comment I would usually make, as I am not one of Seant's many aliases... But she is.
The National Youth Poet Laureate is stunningly beautiful. Not the kind of comment I would usually make, as I am not one of Seant's many aliases... But she is.
Isn't it wierd that Donald was a far more interesting speaker yet most of what he said was a gibberish random selection of words.
It's very hard to pull off - his energy and confidence being what they were he was a fascinating figure. The Trump children just don't cut the mustard, there's something just too self conscious about Donny junior for instance, like he's doing an act where his dad actually is that way.
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You mean the election where Obama had the decency and dignity to facilitate a smooth transition for Trump?
Those words? Those actions?
now, lock him up.
Boring Biden is POTUS
Good, calm, boring sleepy Joe speech. Just what America needs.
Your wailing and gnashing of teeth, rending of garments and other signs of Extreme Loser Syndrome, are all music to my ears!
Toby Young and JHB seem to have been on a relentless whine-fest for several days now.
Trump did many things in the course of his term in office which showed that he had no respect for the law. Many of these things will probably not lead to punishment as no punishments were laid down in the statutes, but it is right that he should face trial for anything for which a judge or grand jury decides he has a case to answer.
The real problem will be finding a jury to convict, as I think that in the US you need a unanimous verdict.
Aka roasting some poor sod of a Mar-a-Lago bus boy for getting the temperature of his burger wrong.
I suspect Johnson got more bearable once he got rid of his aggression, as projected by Cummings? Johnson is fundamentally a charlatan. He wants his suckers to feel good
Great line. We'll hold you to that one, Joe.
Yeah, that works as a parallel.
Four years of why Joe loves puppies, kids and fluffy clouds though his soldiers have to be vetted.
Also, of course, the oldest ever president as of this moment, a year older than Reagan.
And that is what makes Joe Biden acceptable under the circumstances.
https://twitter.com/LadPolitics/status/1351262830834688001
https://twitter.com/RichardNabavi/status/1351300967715758080
I did laugh at two points, one of which might be my imagination.
First of all when he talked about today not being about the success of a canididate, and I was like 'No, it definitely is. Ok, some other things too, but also your success'.
And two, he said something about righting wrongs, and I could have sworn it cut to a shot of Ted Cruz.
https://twitter.com/TheAmandaGorman
Never heard so many Martin Luther King wannabe's
Just goes to show.