Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
PB is obsessed with Scotland! Three leads in a row, meanwhile Northern Ireland erupts in long-predicted violence. Is there no-one qualified to write a lead about the principal issue of the day?
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
Bells?
I jest - I know nothing about whiskies but my neighbour fancies himself as a whiskey connoisseur so I wind him up by asking how he's enjoying his Bells. He splutters "I wouldn't use THAT to disinfect my loo"!
Bells isn't as bad as one might think. Admittedly I'm basing this on about 30 years ago when was the last time I drank it.
Like wine you can spend as much as you like and perhaps you get something better. As I mentioned above my favourite whisky ever was a thing called the Black Bowmore - you basically can't find it, but if you do it's many thousands for a bottle. It was nice, but not that nice. I think I decided not to buy a case priced at about 30 pounds a bottle back then. I'd just have drunk it anyway, so it's hardly a missed opportunity.
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
Bells?
I jest - I know nothing about whiskies but my neighbour fancies himself as a whiskey connoisseur so I wind him up by asking how he's enjoying his Bells. He splutters "I wouldn't use THAT to disinfect my loo"!
Sadly whisky has been infected by the constitutional debate, gratifyingly the Union has a shit one.
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
I've been unexpectedly enjoying a Welsh Whisky (Penderyn) recently after being given it as a Christmas present.
No special spelling for Welsh whisky, then.
I must admit Penderyn is really nice, but oh so expensive..
PB is obsessed with Scotland! Three leads in a row, meanwhile Northern Ireland erupts in long-predicted violence. Is there no-one qualified to write a lead about the principal issue of the day?
I would do but I'm busy this weekend
I would refer you all to this literally seminal thread header on Northern Ireland I wrote a few weeks ago.
Much like getting your girlfriend pregnant on a pull out sofa there’s a deep sense of irony that the Conservative & Unionist Party, aided and abetted by the DUP, have via Brexit done more to weaken Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom than the IRA.
As we can see from Northern Ireland pollster LucidTalk, 77% of all voters in the province and 67% of DUP voters think Boris Johnson’s Northern Ireland protocol will weaken Northern Ireland position in the United Kingdom.
Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
We can now elect and throw out all the important people who have power over us. The poor EU citizenry are stuck with Ursula von der L, even tho she has probably killed 50,000 of them with her vaccine blunders
That is the greatest Brexit bonus of all, and probably the only one that really matters, and it entirely outweighs any downside. We are free
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
I was drinking Talisker the other day but I don't have any idea whether it's regarded as a good whisky or not. I hope it is. Just happened to be the first one I saw in the shop.
Any Speyside single malt is good for me.
Age is a factor too. I never drink anything under 12 years old. If the bottle does not specify the age, I never buy.
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
I was drinking Talisker the other day but I don't have any idea whether it's regarded as a good whisky or not. I hope it is. Just happened to be the first one I saw in the shop.
Nothing wrong with Talisker. Hope you still appreciate it. -
Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
We can now elect and throw out all the important people who have power over us. The poor EU citizenry are stuck with Ursula von der L, even tho she has probably killed 50,000 of them with her vaccine blunders
That is the greatest Brexit bonus of all, and probably the only one that really matters, and it entirely outweighs any downside. We are free
You sound like an absolute d**khead.
There's no way I can throw out Johnson or any other Tory, that's the fallacy of it all. Most people in this country have not had any change to their power of "kicking out" any politicians.
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
The ones I like are Talisker, Bowmore, Springbank, Highland Park, Jura, Dalwhinnie, and, provided I am feeling ill already, Laphroig or Lagavulin.
There's no way I can throw out Johnson or any other Tory, that's the fallacy of it all. Most people in this country have not had any change to their power of "kicking out" any politicians.
Indeed and according to some on here, every constituency is trending Conservative so it'll be 400 seats in 204, 500 in 2029 etc.
I'd like to think East Ham will hold out for a while but there was a 4.8% swing to the Conservatives last time so it'll be a marginal after 2024 and safely in the blue camp by 2029.
Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
We can now elect and throw out all the important people who have power over us. The poor EU citizenry are stuck with Ursula von der L, even tho she has probably killed 50,000 of them with her vaccine blunders
That is the greatest Brexit bonus of all, and probably the only one that really matters, and it entirely outweighs any downside. We are free
You sound like an absolute d**khead.
There's no way I can throw out Johnson or any other Tory, that's the fallacy of it all. Most people in this country have not had any change to their power of "kicking out" any politicians.
I know this point enrages dim-as-dung Remoaners like you. It does this because it is indisputably true, unlike all the other talking points, mainly economic, which can be tediously argued back and forth. As you just did.
If Salmond fails to win a seat so also disappears any pressure Sturgeon might feel to declare UDI if the SNP win a majority and hold a referendum and Boris as is likely ignores the result.
Out of interest, is there any credible outcome of the Holyrood elections that isn't a big win for the Conservatives/Union in your opinion?
If the Nationalists win a majority then Boris can continue to press home that failing to vote Tory at the 2024 UK general election means a minority Labour government with Starmer propped up by the SNP and a divisive indyref2 that Boris would keep refusing.
If Unionists win a majority then that of course removes the chance of Sturgeon even trying for an indyref2 anyway
Not propped up. Supported by.
Will be doing this correction until you drop it. Let's see who blinks first.
Neither is correct. 'Controlled by' is the term that would describe the reality of the situation. And just like in 2015, the voters will notice that reality too.
Always the partisan angle with you.
I can never utilize one of my favourite barbs - "the mask slips" - because you don't bother wearing one.
Saying whatever I like is simply a pleasure of mine; that it happens to make some of your favourite tactics less useful is just a side bonus.
Unless of course my frontless parrhesia is itself but a mimesis, a mask within a mask...
Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
We can now elect and throw out all the important people who have power over us.
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
Bells?
I jest - I know nothing about whiskies but my neighbour fancies himself as a whiskey connoisseur so I wind him up by asking how he's enjoying his Bells. He splutters "I wouldn't use THAT to disinfect my loo"!
Puts me in mind of a chap who sneared at the Baron de Sigognac I was drinking. Not good enough for him apparently.
He had spent the previous couple of weeks drinking Everest Whisky. Not sure what the Nepalese made that from, but it was quite... interesting... in a four-anti-acid-tablet kind of way....
I used to drink a VERY reasonably priced whisky called High Commissioner. Seems to have disappeared from supermarket shelves now though. Nothing to do with the pandemic, it had already been withdrawn before that. Maybe the company went under. Not sure. Was never quite interested enough to investigate.
But no probs. Red wine only these days. Always Chilean.
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
The ones I like are Talisker, Bowmore, Springbank, Highland Park, Jura, Dalwhinnie, and, provided I am feeling ill already, Laphroig or Lagavulin.
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
The ones I like are Talisker, Bowmore, Springbank, Highland Park, Jura, Dalwhinnie, and, provided I am feeling ill already, Laphroig or Lagavulin.
Springbank is awesome. Not as easy to find in England as most of the others on your list, and consequently seriously underrated.
PB is obsessed with Scotland! Three leads in a row, meanwhile Northern Ireland erupts in long-predicted violence. Is there no-one qualified to write a lead about the principal issue of the day?
I’ll do one on county cricket if you specially want.
In fact, I did do an early draft of one at 7am today, but it looks a bit silly this evening in light of Surrey’s batting collapse.
If Salmond fails to win a seat so also disappears any pressure Sturgeon might feel to declare UDI if the SNP win a majority and hold a referendum and Boris as is likely ignores the result.
Out of interest, is there any credible outcome of the Holyrood elections that isn't a big win for the Conservatives/Union in your opinion?
If the Nationalists win a majority then Boris can continue to press home that failing to vote Tory at the 2024 UK general election means a minority Labour government with Starmer propped up by the SNP and a divisive indyref2 that Boris would keep refusing.
If Unionists win a majority then that of course removes the chance of Sturgeon even trying for an indyref2 anyway
Not propped up. Supported by.
Will be doing this correction until you drop it. Let's see who blinks first.
Neither is correct. 'Controlled by' is the term that would describe the reality of the situation. And just like in 2015, the voters will notice that reality too.
Always the partisan angle with you.
I can never utilize one of my favourite barbs - "the mask slips" - because you don't bother wearing one.
Saying whatever I like is simply a pleasure of mine; that it happens to make some of your favourite tactics less useful is just a side bonus.
Unless of course my frontless parrhesia is itself but a mimesis, a mask within a mask...
Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
We can now elect and throw out all the important people who have power over us. The poor EU citizenry are stuck with Ursula von der L, even tho she has probably killed 50,000 of them with her vaccine blunders
That is the greatest Brexit bonus of all, and probably the only one that really matters, and it entirely outweighs any downside. We are free
For every one of me I need the help of c.5 people like you to throw out the prick currently in charge. I can't be arsed with the wearying and fruitless ball ache of persuading 5 people like you so I'd prefer to try something different. Oh, that's right, the prick in charge is going to block any opportunity on deciding if we want to try something different.
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
I was drinking Talisker the other day but I don't have any idea whether it's regarded as a good whisky or not. I hope it is. Just happened to be the first one I saw in the shop.
Any Speyside single malt is good for me.
Age is a factor too. I never drink anything under 12 years old. If the bottle does not specify the age, I never buy.
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
Bells?
I jest - I know nothing about whiskies but my neighbour fancies himself as a whiskey connoisseur so I wind him up by asking how he's enjoying his Bells. He splutters "I wouldn't use THAT to disinfect my loo"!
Puts me in mind of a chap who sneared at the Baron de Sigognac I was drinking. Not good enough for him apparently.
He had spent the previous couple of weeks drinking Everest Whisky. Not sure what the Nepalese made that from, but it was quite... interesting... in a four-anti-acid-tablet kind of way....
Old Mull, available on the eponymous island, could knock sheep over from 20 paces.
Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
We can now elect and throw out all the important people who have power over us. The poor EU citizenry are stuck with Ursula von der L, even tho she has probably killed 50,000 of them with her vaccine blunders
That is the greatest Brexit bonus of all, and probably the only one that really matters, and it entirely outweighs any downside. We are free
You sound like an absolute d**khead.
There's no way I can throw out Johnson or any other Tory, that's the fallacy of it all. Most people in this country have not had any change to their power of "kicking out" any politicians.
You can, by winning an election. It's democracy and the last election was won by Johnson.
If you don't like it, don't lose the next one. Being a sore loser doesn't mean democracy doesn't work.
Once again, the debate on Scotland is clouded by the fundamental misconception Nicola Sturgeon wants a second referendum.
She doesn't - her supporters might, the SNP might advocate it as a policy position but they don't want it.
The current stand off works well for Sturgeon - she gets to be First Minister of Scotland ad infinitum now she has seen off Salmond. She can talk about a referendum safe in the knowledge she'll never have to do anything about it because of her and the SNP's greatest ally, not Keir Starmer but Boris Johnson.
The Prime MInister's refusal to countenance a second vote, and we see this echoed by a "Senior Official" from the Department of the Bleedin' Obvious, is a double edged win-win strategy. It gives Sturgeon a let out for never having a second referendum and allows her to paint Boris Johnson as the source of all Scotland's problems thus strengthening her and the SNP's position.
At the same time, Boris Johnson gets to look "firm" which does him no harm in England (which is what matters) and within the Conservative Party. Thus, the current stand off works well for Johnson as well.
The last thing either Johnson or Sturgeon want or need is a disruption to the status quo. In essence, they've already achieved a de facto division - Johnson and the Conservatives have England, Sturgeon and the SNP have Scotland.
The problem for both with a Second Referendum isn't what happens if they lose but what happens if they win. There's far too much for risk for both to countenance a second vote so it won't happen and the dance will carry on.
Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
I think this take will gain traction as time passes.
If Salmond fails to win a seat so also disappears any pressure Sturgeon might feel to declare UDI if the SNP win a majority and hold a referendum and Boris as is likely ignores the result.
Out of interest, is there any credible outcome of the Holyrood elections that isn't a big win for the Conservatives/Union in your opinion?
If the Nationalists win a majority then Boris can continue to press home that failing to vote Tory at the 2024 UK general election means a minority Labour government with Starmer propped up by the SNP and a divisive indyref2 that Boris would keep refusing.
If Unionists win a majority then that of course removes the chance of Sturgeon even trying for an indyref2 anyway
Not propped up. Supported by.
Will be doing this correction until you drop it. Let's see who blinks first.
Neither is correct. 'Controlled by' is the term that would describe the reality of the situation. And just like in 2015, the voters will notice that reality too.
Always the partisan angle with you.
I can never utilize one of my favourite barbs - "the mask slips" - because you don't bother wearing one.
Saying whatever I like is simply a pleasure of mine; that it happens to make some of your favourite tactics less useful is just a side bonus.
Unless of course my frontless parrhesia is itself but a mimesis, a mask within a mask...
Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
We can now elect and throw out all the important people who have power over us. The poor EU citizenry are stuck with Ursula von der L, even tho she has probably killed 50,000 of them with her vaccine blunders
That is the greatest Brexit bonus of all, and probably the only one that really matters, and it entirely outweighs any downside. We are free
You sound like an absolute d**khead.
There's no way I can throw out Johnson or any other Tory, that's the fallacy of it all. Most people in this country have not had any change to their power of "kicking out" any politicians.
If you're complaining about safe seats, any seat can become marginal if the voters decide it should. Look at Labour's previously safe seats in Scotland and the north east of England.
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
I was drinking Talisker the other day but I don't have any idea whether it's regarded as a good whisky or not. I hope it is. Just happened to be the first one I saw in the shop.
Any Speyside single malt is good for me.
Age is a factor too. I never drink anything under 12 years old. If the bottle does not specify the age, I never buy.
Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
We can now elect and throw out all the important people who have power over us. The poor EU citizenry are stuck with Ursula von der L, even tho she has probably killed 50,000 of them with her vaccine blunders
That is the greatest Brexit bonus of all, and probably the only one that really matters, and it entirely outweighs any downside. We are free
You sound like an absolute d**khead.
There's no way I can throw out Johnson or any other Tory, that's the fallacy of it all. Most people in this country have not had any change to their power of "kicking out" any politicians.
You can, by winning an election. It's democracy and the last election was won by Johnson.
If you don't like it, don't lose the next one. Being a sore loser doesn't mean democracy doesn't work.
Philip you are not seeing the wood for the trees. Being in the EU was perfectly democratic for us and yes we could very very easily get rid of UvdL as we proved in 2016.
If Salmond fails to win a seat so also disappears any pressure Sturgeon might feel to declare UDI if the SNP win a majority and hold a referendum and Boris as is likely ignores the result.
Out of interest, is there any credible outcome of the Holyrood elections that isn't a big win for the Conservatives/Union in your opinion?
If the Nationalists win a majority then Boris can continue to press home that failing to vote Tory at the 2024 UK general election means a minority Labour government with Starmer propped up by the SNP and a divisive indyref2 that Boris would keep refusing.
If Unionists win a majority then that of course removes the chance of Sturgeon even trying for an indyref2 anyway
Not propped up. Supported by.
Will be doing this correction until you drop it. Let's see who blinks first.
Neither is correct. 'Controlled by' is the term that would describe the reality of the situation. And just like in 2015, the voters will notice that reality too.
Always the partisan angle with you.
I can never utilize one of my favourite barbs - "the mask slips" - because you don't bother wearing one.
Saying whatever I like is simply a pleasure of mine; that it happens to make some of your favourite tactics less useful is just a side bonus.
Unless of course my frontless parrhesia is itself but a mimesis, a mask within a mask...
Airplane is genius. The stupidest jokes, yet done so well they are still childishly hilarious
There must be 20 or 30 gags/scenes that have endured over FIVE decades
Half of them would probably get you cancelled now
Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
It is the first movie I recall where very serious actors took on roles where they made fools of themselves on purpose for cheap gags. Truly brilliant.
Now, how would that scene of the nun providing interpretation into Jive work today?
Well exactly. Would be struck from the script, like half of the jokes. That is one of the worst things about our censorious cancel culture, the crippling of humour
I wonder if Airplane is the funniest movie ever made; certainly in terms of laughs per minute, I cannot think of a rival
Life of Brian was a more profound humour, and is brilliantly insightful, but not quite as basically amusing?
What others? Early Woody Allen
I see Airplane is number 2 in this list, with Spinal Tap as number 1. In the top 100 comedy movies
Spinal Tap is genius, but again not as consistently amusing as Airplane?
Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
We can now elect and throw out all the important people who have power over us.
Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
We can now elect and throw out all the important people who have power over us. The poor EU citizenry are stuck with Ursula von der L, even tho she has probably killed 50,000 of them with her vaccine blunders
That is the greatest Brexit bonus of all, and probably the only one that really matters, and it entirely outweighs any downside. We are free
You sound like an absolute d**khead.
There's no way I can throw out Johnson or any other Tory, that's the fallacy of it all. Most people in this country have not had any change to their power of "kicking out" any politicians.
If you're complaining about safe seats, any seat can become marginal if the voters decide it should. Look at Labour's previously safe seats in Scotland and the north east of England.
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
If Salmond fails to win a seat so also disappears any pressure Sturgeon might feel to declare UDI if the SNP win a majority and hold a referendum and Boris as is likely ignores the result.
Out of interest, is there any credible outcome of the Holyrood elections that isn't a big win for the Conservatives/Union in your opinion?
If the Nationalists win a majority then Boris can continue to press home that failing to vote Tory at the 2024 UK general election means a minority Labour government with Starmer propped up by the SNP and a divisive indyref2 that Boris would keep refusing.
If Unionists win a majority then that of course removes the chance of Sturgeon even trying for an indyref2 anyway
Not propped up. Supported by.
Will be doing this correction until you drop it. Let's see who blinks first.
Neither is correct. 'Controlled by' is the term that would describe the reality of the situation. And just like in 2015, the voters will notice that reality too.
Always the partisan angle with you.
I can never utilize one of my favourite barbs - "the mask slips" - because you don't bother wearing one.
Saying whatever I like is simply a pleasure of mine; that it happens to make some of your favourite tactics less useful is just a side bonus.
Unless of course my frontless parrhesia is itself but a mimesis, a mask within a mask...
Airplane is genius. The stupidest jokes, yet done so well they are still childishly hilarious
There must be 20 or 30 gags/scenes that have endured over FIVE decades
Half of them would probably get you cancelled now
Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
It is the first movie I recall where very serious actors took on roles where they made fools of themselves on purpose for cheap gags. Truly brilliant.
Now, how would that scene of the nun providing interpretation into Jive work today?
Well exactly. Would be struck from the script, like half of the jokes. That is one of the worst things about our censorious cancel culture, the crippling of humour
I wonder if Airplane is the funniest movie ever made; certainly in terms of laughs per minute, I cannot think of a rival
Life of Brian was a more profound humour, and is brilliantly insightful, but not quite as basically amusing?
What others? Early Woody Allen
I see Airplane is number 2 in this list, with Spinal Tap as number 1. In the top 100 comedy movies
Spinal Tap is genius, but again not as consistently amusing as Airplane?
So what's the story here - does Sputnik not work as well as claimed? Is this the vaccine Germany is procuring lots of?
Who knows? But if I had to guess, I'd say the likelihood is that the quality control and batch testing is the problem. It's not easy making these vaccines in large quantity, and I suspect that the Russian processes aren't as rigorous as they might be, especially given the pressure from Putin and his thugs to get them out of the door.
Certainly the death figures in Hungary are not promising considering they have been using for a while.
Once again, the debate on Scotland is clouded by the fundamental misconception Nicola Sturgeon wants a second referendum.
She doesn't - her supporters might, the SNP might advocate it as a policy position but they don't want it.
The current stand off works well for Sturgeon - she gets to be First Minister of Scotland ad infinitum now she has seen off Salmond. She can talk about a referendum safe in the knowledge she'll never have to do anything about it because of her and the SNP's greatest ally, not Keir Starmer but Boris Johnson.
The Prime MInister's refusal to countenance a second vote, and we see this echoed by a "Senior Official" from the Department of the Bleedin' Obvious, is a double edged win-win strategy. It gives Sturgeon a let out for never having a second referendum and allows her to paint Boris Johnson as the source of all Scotland's problems thus strengthening her and the SNP's position.
At the same time, Boris Johnson gets to look "firm" which does him no harm in England (which is what matters) and within the Conservative Party. Thus, the current stand off works well for Johnson as well.
The last thing either Johnson or Sturgeon want or need is a disruption to the status quo. In essence, they've already achieved a de facto division - Johnson and the Conservatives have England, Sturgeon and the SNP have Scotland.
The problem for both with a Second Referendum isn't what happens if they lose but what happens if they win. There's far too much for risk for both to countenance a second vote so it won't happen and the dance will carry on.
That Nicola Sturgeon does not want to achieve the goal of her political life - Scottish Independence - through getting and winning a legal referendum is a wholly evidence free assertion. It relies on mind reading and projecting onto her a sterile "man of the world" cynicism that is in itself a form of naivety.
It is in other words, Stodge, complete and utter drivel.
Remainers voted against a brexit where Britain is knee deep in apparently vital vaccines?
Yeah right.
We would have been even without Brexit. Our pharma sector is huge. Participation in the EU procurement program would almost certainly been dodged by a UK government. The only "victory for Brexit" is, like Brexit itself, a simplistic load of bollox
genuinely funny
I would hazard a guess that my knowledge of the pharma industry gives me a reasonable perspective. You are not quite in the same ludicrous fantasy world of Philip Thompson, but I think based on your unintentionally funny pronouncement on most matters, this is not an area of expertise for you! Your nom de plume is a give away for your ludicrous and sad perspective on life. Keep taking the tablets.
Nobody does bile like Remainers. World class
Au contraire, I think most "Remainers" are quite polite and reserved. I choose not to fit into either category when calling out bollox by people that believe in the fairy tales that were spun by lying little toads like Boris Johnson.
There is a certain irony in you calling yourself a "contrarian" when you are clearly unable to see the ridiculousness of the Brexit cause, and find ways to argue against it. All your posts suggest you are a brainwashed Brexit conformist without the slightest ability to think for yourself.
Brexiteers only have the successful vaccine roll out to cling to. This is why whenever anyone challengies brexiteers to mention any benefits they immediately go back onto the vaccine issue. Our economy is on the way to hell in a handcart, but nobody discusses it, not the BBC, Sky or any newspapers. We have effectively lost our fisheries industry. Our farming industry is in a mess because we don't have the woekforce now to pick the crops. Our exports to the EU are miniscule now. Our so-called new export agreements are just extentions of the old eu agreements but on a worse footing. We have a massive virus bill to pay, yet we can't pay it unless we start TRADING again.
We can now elect and throw out all the important people who have power over us. The poor EU citizenry are stuck with Ursula von der L, even tho she has probably killed 50,000 of them with her vaccine blunders
That is the greatest Brexit bonus of all, and probably the only one that really matters, and it entirely outweighs any downside. We are free
For every one of me I need the help of c.5 people like you to throw out the prick currently in charge. I can't be arsed with the wearying and fruitless ball ache of persuading 5 people like you so I'd prefer to try something different. Oh, that's right, the prick in charge is going to block any opportunity on deciding if we want to try something different.
We are free, ffs.
At least you've now accepted that Boris is just gonna say Naw
I believe that will better for you, mentally, in the medium term. Feel free to thank me for this therapy, whenever you like
One of the tropes the Nats trot out is that the UN will force the UK government to grant another Indyref, I keep on asking two questions which never get answered
1) Why would the UN get involved and what powers and enforcement action does it have?
and
2) So why hasn't the UN enforced this principle for Catalonia?
Even as an extremely online Scot Nat Twitter user I have never seen that said by anyone.
I think we should let the Tibetans and Uighars have a go at a referendum first, followed by the North Koreans. I am sure the UN will be keen to arrange it.
Parliament also 'took control' in order to find a compromise, and failed.
Too many on both sides wanted to go all or nothing. Only one side won.
That's the game. And the politicians went in eyes open - they knew what was at risk by compromising, and what was at risk by not compromising. They took the latter risk.
If Salmond fails to win a seat so also disappears any pressure Sturgeon might feel to declare UDI if the SNP win a majority and hold a referendum and Boris as is likely ignores the result.
Out of interest, is there any credible outcome of the Holyrood elections that isn't a big win for the Conservatives/Union in your opinion?
If the Nationalists win a majority then Boris can continue to press home that failing to vote Tory at the 2024 UK general election means a minority Labour government with Starmer propped up by the SNP and a divisive indyref2 that Boris would keep refusing.
If Unionists win a majority then that of course removes the chance of Sturgeon even trying for an indyref2 anyway
Not propped up. Supported by.
Will be doing this correction until you drop it. Let's see who blinks first.
Neither is correct. 'Controlled by' is the term that would describe the reality of the situation. And just like in 2015, the voters will notice that reality too.
Always the partisan angle with you.
I can never utilize one of my favourite barbs - "the mask slips" - because you don't bother wearing one.
Saying whatever I like is simply a pleasure of mine; that it happens to make some of your favourite tactics less useful is just a side bonus.
Unless of course my frontless parrhesia is itself but a mimesis, a mask within a mask...
Airplane is genius. The stupidest jokes, yet done so well they are still childishly hilarious
There must be 20 or 30 gags/scenes that have endured over FIVE decades
Half of them would probably get you cancelled now
Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
It is the first movie I recall where very serious actors took on roles where they made fools of themselves on purpose for cheap gags. Truly brilliant.
Now, how would that scene of the nun providing interpretation into Jive work today?
Well exactly. Would be struck from the script, like half of the jokes. That is one of the worst things about our censorious cancel culture, the crippling of humour
I wonder if Airplane is the funniest movie ever made; certainly in terms of laughs per minute, I cannot think of a rival
Life of Brian was a more profound humour, and is brilliantly insightful, but not quite as basically amusing?
What others? Early Woody Allen
I see Airplane is number 2 in this list, with Spinal Tap as number 1. In the top 100 comedy movies
Spinal Tap is genius, but again not as consistently amusing as Airplane?
Animal House is up there, but even that for laughs per minute lags.
Animal House has that superb performance by John Belushi, but I wonder if it has dated now. Haven't watched it in decades
I don't quite understand why Airplane doesn't date, but it doesn't. This is so rare in comedy. Life of Brian is similar. Sometimes Life of Brian seems eerily prescient, as if it describes the modern world of 2021. The Jehovah stoning scene is a superb critique of social media cancel culture
Indeed it also seems to predict the trans debate, and the rise of ISIS and conservative Islam. Uncanny
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
I've been unexpectedly enjoying a Welsh Whisky (Penderyn) recently after being given it as a Christmas present.
No special spelling for Welsh whisky, then.
I must admit Penderyn is really nice, but oh so expensive..
I find it a bit sweet. Norfolk whisky is quite OK.
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
I know we are all meant to be outraged by everything, but he's an adult, she's an adult, he fancies her, maybe she fancies him (who knows) and he's trying his luck
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
Once again, the debate on Scotland is clouded by the fundamental misconception Nicola Sturgeon wants a second referendum.
She doesn't - her supporters might, the SNP might advocate it as a policy position but they don't want it.
The current stand off works well for Sturgeon - she gets to be First Minister of Scotland ad infinitum now she has seen off Salmond. She can talk about a referendum safe in the knowledge she'll never have to do anything about it because of her and the SNP's greatest ally, not Keir Starmer but Boris Johnson.
The Prime MInister's refusal to countenance a second vote, and we see this echoed by a "Senior Official" from the Department of the Bleedin' Obvious, is a double edged win-win strategy. It gives Sturgeon a let out for never having a second referendum and allows her to paint Boris Johnson as the source of all Scotland's problems thus strengthening her and the SNP's position.
At the same time, Boris Johnson gets to look "firm" which does him no harm in England (which is what matters) and within the Conservative Party. Thus, the current stand off works well for Johnson as well.
The last thing either Johnson or Sturgeon want or need is a disruption to the status quo. In essence, they've already achieved a de facto division - Johnson and the Conservatives have England, Sturgeon and the SNP have Scotland.
The problem for both with a Second Referendum isn't what happens if they lose but what happens if they win. There's far too much for risk for both to countenance a second vote so it won't happen and the dance will carry on.
That Nicola Sturgeon does not want to achieve the goal of her political life - Scottish Independence - through getting and winning a legal referendum is a wholly evidence free assertion. It relies on mind reading and projecting onto her a sterile "man of the world" cynicism that is in itself a form of naivety.
It is in other words, Stodge, complete and utter drivel.
But nicely written as always. ☺
I think Stodge is about right here. One can't make windows into souls of course but if you take it that the Referendum was lost and Westminster isn't going to have another until well after NS's day, coupled with the apparent impossibility of getting the sort of c60% polling you would need to try to force and win a Ref2, NS's position of steady as she goes would make perfect sense.
My only disagreement - tentative - with Stodge is that NS would be deeply fearful of losing a Ref2, as it would finish her, whereas the possibility being always there but not now will keep the troops going. I also think that politicians being what they are, in another world in which she could hold Ref2 and win, she would.
PB is obsessed with Scotland! Three leads in a row, meanwhile Northern Ireland erupts in long-predicted violence. Is there no-one qualified to write a lead about the principal issue of the day?
Sir Keir's poxy ratings? A noer no goer than somewhere in Ireland that's erupting in violence
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
I know we are all meant to be outraged by everything, but he's an adult, she's an adult, he fancies her, maybe she fancies him (who knows) and he's trying his luck
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
Was she interning for him? If so, I think that does make it an abuse of power. If not, well, I guess it does really mean that the meek shall inherit the world.
Parliament also 'took control' in order to find a compromise, and failed.
Too many on both sides wanted to go all or nothing. Only one side won.
That's the game. And the politicians went in eyes open - they knew what was at risk by compromising, and what was at risk by not compromising. They took the latter risk.
And we still don't know what deal the DUP would have voted for. Because there is no answer to that question.
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
I know we are all meant to be outraged by everything, but he's an adult, she's an adult, he fancies her, maybe she fancies him (who knows) and he's trying his luck
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
Was she interning for him? If so, I think that does make it an abuse of power. If not, well, I guess it does really mean that the meek shall inherit the world.
OK, she's an employee of the Commons, and he's an MP. So pretty inappropriate, given the power structure.
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
I know we are all meant to be outraged by everything, but he's an adult, she's an adult, he fancies her, maybe she fancies him (who knows) and he's trying his luck
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
This kind of nonsense is academic, theoretical, overtthinking, leftyness to a tee - everything has to be equal, the confident, charming, successful socialite (not Rob Roberts I suppose, but talking generally) cant have any advantage over the insecure nerd at home having a wank and a pot noodle; so the ability to chat up someone you fancy is being phased out
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
I know we are all meant to be outraged by everything, but he's an adult, she's an adult, he fancies her, maybe she fancies him (who knows) and he's trying his luck
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
Was she interning for him? If so, I think that does make it an abuse of power. If not, well, I guess it does really mean that the meek shall inherit the world.
Is it now an abuse of power to fancy the secretary? She's 21, not 16. She's an adult. She can tell him to Get stuffed, you old perv - if she wants
This kind of faux horror infantilises adult women. They are not toddlers in need of eternal protection
EDIT, to be fair, this bit does add some more troubling context: "Roberts is also alleged to have asked out a male Commons employee on several occasions and made repeated inappropriate comments, which led the man to change jobs."
Parliament also 'took control' in order to find a compromise, and failed.
Too many on both sides wanted to go all or nothing. Only one side won.
That's the game. And the politicians went in eyes open - they knew what was at risk by compromising, and what was at risk by not compromising. They took the latter risk.
And we still don't know what deal the DUP would have voted for. Because there is no answer to that question.
They just got too enamoured of holding the whip hand over May and saw it blow up in their face. They deserve zero sympathy for any of their whinges about what went down, even if the people in Northern Ireland have proper grievance about it.
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
I know we are all meant to be outraged by everything, but he's an adult, she's an adult, he fancies her, maybe she fancies him (who knows) and he's trying his luck
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
It’s shocking that when there is a nationalistic angle on vaccines, being able to play it straight goes out the window.
The truth is we have already long passed the point of sharing, the nationalism has ensured this mistake, because the longer it’s out there in the rest of the world mutating the bigger the threat it is to us and what we are doing.
The nationalistic angle on vaccines is that we have a national interest in reaching herd immunity so that we can get our economy functioning again without people dying.
Your second point is logically wrong. Sharing an insignificant number of vaccines does nothing to reduce the risk of mutations elsewhere.
Firstly, you are definitely wrong if you feel our sharing of vaccine with ROI two weeks ago would have been inconsequential, it would have been consequential and in terms more than just fighting covid on shared land border.
If you think UK is going to rush and embrace new normal with open arms, and economy just isn’t going to suffer from inevitable hesitancy and cageyness from so many, then you are also blisteringly wrong. Can’t you see getting back on it is is more (and far more difficult) than a vaccination programme?
Someone who is definitely right is Leon, who deserved more support today from PBers for saying Oxozenica is the core component of COVAX, what damage have UK politicians and media achieved in the last two days to COVAX and take up of this vaccine throughout a world, especially where that world is young and not given alternative vaccine option others in this world fortunate to have?
Covid doesn’t recognise human nation states, it’s fight is daft to be so nationalistic because No ones safe till everyone’s safe. Nor should any covid fighting knowledge be protected by IPR law preventing manufacture, that’s just murdering people.
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
I know we are all meant to be outraged by everything, but he's an adult, she's an adult, he fancies her, maybe she fancies him (who knows) and he's trying his luck
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
I know we are all meant to be outraged by everything, but he's an adult, she's an adult, he fancies her, maybe she fancies him (who knows) and he's trying his luck
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
Was she interning for him? If so, I think that does make it an abuse of power. If not, well, I guess it does really mean that the meek shall inherit the world.
OK, she's an employee of the Commons, and he's an MP. So pretty inappropriate, given the power structure.
Eastern Ukraine was part of Russia for centuries. Prediction: Russia will within the next few years take it and the rest of the world has no plan, and will have no plan to intervene.
It is noteworthy that not a word from the west has made any promises to Ukraine of actual help.
The Americans got this wrong as well, although they haven't admitted it yet.
There are quite a few Americans who think the doses should be spread out, but Dr Fauci is opposed, which is why it is not happening. As I understand his reasoning it's that there is a balance of risks between extending the coverage to as many people as quickly as possible, against clobbering potential mutations with the full vaccination, and you can reasonably go either way on that. The clincher for him is on the public health messaging. He thinks people won't bother getting their second dose if you leave it to months later.
Does anyone have any whisky recommendations? My taste being - favourite ever, a half glass that I had of the Black Bowmore, but also I really like a blended whisky called 'MacDonald's Glencoe' (no doubt for tourists, but I like it). I'm a great fan of Japanese whisky too.
I've generally stuck to the Bowmore distillery, their 'darkest' was good, but I've been underwhelmed by them recently.
Anyway I'd be interested to hear any suggestions.
I've been unexpectedly enjoying a Welsh Whisky (Penderyn) recently after being given it as a Christmas present.
Fantastic whisky. Will possibly be too sweet for the peaty Islay lovers on PB. But I absolutely adore Penderyn.
Yeah. He'd be better off saying "we followed existing protocol regarding the relative standing of Presidents while on foreign trips, but in retrospect, seeing the impression it gave, particularly in relation to recent events in Turkey, I was wrong. This is something we need to address jointly in the EU, so similar embarrassing situations do not arise in the future."
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
I know we are all meant to be outraged by everything, but he's an adult, she's an adult, he fancies her, maybe she fancies him (who knows) and he's trying his luck
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
This kind of nonsense is academic, theoretical, overtthinking, leftyness to a tee - everything has to be equal, the confident, charming, successful socialite (not Rob Roberts I suppose, but talking generally) cant have any advantage over the insecure nerd at home having a wank and a pot noodle; so the ability to chat up someone you fancy is being phased out
Don't agree. Junior staff members have the right to do their jobs and go home without feeling like their career progression is tied to their willingness to provide non-work-related favours to their superiors. He can use his status as an MP to chat up whoever the hell he wants as long as they don't work anywhere underneath him. So to speak.
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
I know we are all meant to be outraged by everything, but he's an adult, she's an adult, he fancies her, maybe she fancies him (who knows) and he's trying his luck
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
The Americans got this wrong as well, although they haven't admitted it yet.
There are quite a few Americans who think the doses should be spread out, but Dr Fauci is opposed, which is why it is not happening. As I understand his reasoning it's that there is a balance of risks between extending the coverage to as many people as quickly as possible, against clobbering potential mutations with the full vaccination, and you can reasonably go either way on that. The clincher for him is on the public health messaging. He thinks people won't bother getting their second dose if you leave it to months later.
It's also possible that he might feel differently if the Americans had supply constraint issues. But that's one problem they don't have to wrestle with.
The Americans got this wrong as well, although they haven't admitted it yet.
There are quite a few Americans who think the doses should be spread out, but Dr Fauci is opposed, which is why it is not happening. As I understand his reasoning it's that there is a balance of risks between extending the coverage to as many people as quickly as possible, against clobbering potential mutations with the full vaccination, and you can reasonably go either way on that. The clincher for him is on the public health messaging. He thinks people won't bother getting their second dose if you leave it to months later.
The other point is that:
1) the USA is a litiginous place,
2) the USA is approaching vaccine surplus where supplies are not an issue, reluctance still is.
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
I know we are all meant to be outraged by everything, but he's an adult, she's an adult, he fancies her, maybe she fancies him (who knows) and he's trying his luck
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
Was she interning for him? If so, I think that does make it an abuse of power. If not, well, I guess it does really mean that the meek shall inherit the world.
Is it now an abuse of power to fancy the secretary? She's 21, not 16. She's an adult. She can tell him to Get stuffed, you old perv - if she wants
This kind of faux horror infantilises adult women. They are not toddlers in need of eternal protection
I think, if that is the situation, that that is why context and exact details will matter, and may well make a lack of punishment for his actions reasonable even if his proposition was felt not to be acceptable. Tactless or 'age inappropriate' propositions, in themselves, would probably not usually be punishment worthy without aggravating factors (persistence, power dynamics). MPs are held to higher standards in general, and I don't think that is unreasonable given the power they have over us. We don't need saints, but we don't need idiots.
I seem to recall an article making a similar point to yours when there was a dramatisation of the Profumo affiar a few years back, as the lead actress had made some comments which some author or another had felt infantilised Keeler, who was young but still an adult.
The Americans got this wrong as well, although they haven't admitted it yet.
There are quite a few Americans who think the doses should be spread out, but Dr Fauci is opposed, which is why it is not happening. As I understand his reasoning it's that there is a balance of risks between extending the coverage to as many people as quickly as possible, against clobbering potential mutations with the full vaccination, and you can reasonably go either way on that. The clincher for him is on the public health messaging. He thinks people won't bother getting their second dose if you leave it to months later.
I think Fauci is wrong on this, and I think the mutations are coming from long infections in the immuno-compromised, not from the unvaccinated in general.
But he is right to be worried about whether people in the US would go back for a second shot if the gap were too long. I have heard several people mention unbidden that they are glad their second shot is only 2-3 weeks from the first, as otherwise they wouldn't bother. Incomprehensible to me, but there it is.
Parliament also 'took control' in order to find a compromise, and failed.
Too many on both sides wanted to go all or nothing. Only one side won.
That's the game. And the politicians went in eyes open - they knew what was at risk by compromising, and what was at risk by not compromising. They took the latter risk.
And we still don't know what deal the DUP would have voted for. Because there is no answer to that question.
They just got too enamoured of holding the whip hand over May and saw it blow up in their face. They deserve zero sympathy for any of their whinges about what went down, even if the people in Northern Ireland have proper grievance about it.
The people of Northern Ireland have to take responsibility for how they vote and who they elect. they chose to electorally demolish two (at least) moderate parties, the UU and the SDLP who brought them a high degree of sanity and peace. They have elected professional opposers and agitators with no plan and must live with it. You cannot please all the people all the time.
Once again, the debate on Scotland is clouded by the fundamental misconception Nicola Sturgeon wants a second referendum.
She doesn't - her supporters might, the SNP might advocate it as a policy position but they don't want it.
The current stand off works well for Sturgeon - she gets to be First Minister of Scotland ad infinitum now she has seen off Salmond. She can talk about a referendum safe in the knowledge she'll never have to do anything about it because of her and the SNP's greatest ally, not Keir Starmer but Boris Johnson.
The Prime MInister's refusal to countenance a second vote, and we see this echoed by a "Senior Official" from the Department of the Bleedin' Obvious, is a double edged win-win strategy. It gives Sturgeon a let out for never having a second referendum and allows her to paint Boris Johnson as the source of all Scotland's problems thus strengthening her and the SNP's position.
At the same time, Boris Johnson gets to look "firm" which does him no harm in England (which is what matters) and within the Conservative Party. Thus, the current stand off works well for Johnson as well.
The last thing either Johnson or Sturgeon want or need is a disruption to the status quo. In essence, they've already achieved a de facto division - Johnson and the Conservatives have England, Sturgeon and the SNP have Scotland.
The problem for both with a Second Referendum isn't what happens if they lose but what happens if they win. There's far too much for risk for both to countenance a second vote so it won't happen and the dance will carry on.
That Nicola Sturgeon does not want to achieve the goal of her political life - Scottish Independence - through getting and winning a legal referendum is a wholly evidence free assertion. It relies on mind reading and projecting onto her a sterile "man of the world" cynicism that is in itself a form of naivety.
It is in other words, Stodge, complete and utter drivel.
But nicely written as always. ☺
I think Stodge is about right here. One can't make windows into souls of course but if you take it that the Referendum was lost and Westminster isn't going to have another until well after NS's day, coupled with the apparent impossibility of getting the sort of c60% polling you would need to try to force and win a Ref2, NS's position of steady as she goes would make perfect sense.
My only disagreement - tentative - with Stodge is that NS would be deeply fearful of losing a Ref2, as it would finish her, whereas the possibility being always there but not now will keep the troops going. I also think that politicians being what they are, in another world in which she could hold Ref2 and win, she would.
We've done this before. If she doesn't want a referendum now because she thinks No would win and that would kill Sindy, this IS a commitment to the cause.
But that's in any case mere supposition. The fact is, a referendum is front and centre of the manifesto. The manifesto on which she is seeking a majority to implement.
Any which way you look at, there is tons of evidence she does want Sindy and little or no evidence that she doesn't.
So I find the oft heard, confident assertions to the contrary to be illogical, jaundiced and tbh rather ludicrous.
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
I know we are all meant to be outraged by everything, but he's an adult, she's an adult, he fancies her, maybe she fancies him (who knows) and he's trying his luck
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
This kind of nonsense is academic, theoretical, overtthinking, leftyness to a tee - everything has to be equal, the confident, charming, successful socialite (not Rob Roberts I suppose, but talking generally) cant have any advantage over the insecure nerd at home having a wank and a pot noodle; so the ability to chat up someone you fancy is being phased out
Don't agree. Junior staff members have the right to do their jobs and go home without feeling like their career progression is tied to their willingness to provide non-work-related favours to their superiors. He can use his status as an MP to chat up whoever the hell he wants as long as they don't work anywhere underneath him. So to speak.
So no one in any business or organisation or whatever, male or female, is allowed to flirt with anyone else in that business, organisation or whatever, however distant they might be in jobs, if they are in any way inferior in rank.
So.... You can only flirt with people superior to you? Or just exact equals?
Genuine questions. I did not realise the anti-sex league had conquered so much territory
Parliament also 'took control' in order to find a compromise, and failed.
Too many on both sides wanted to go all or nothing. Only one side won.
That's the game. And the politicians went in eyes open - they knew what was at risk by compromising, and what was at risk by not compromising. They took the latter risk.
And we still don't know what deal the DUP would have voted for. Because there is no answer to that question.
They just got too enamoured of holding the whip hand over May and saw it blow up in their face. They deserve zero sympathy for any of their whinges about what went down, even if the people in Northern Ireland have proper grievance about it.
Arlene should be the one resigning, not the PSNI chief...
Eastern Ukraine was part of Russia for centuries. Prediction: Russia will within the next few years take it and the rest of the world has no plan, and will have no plan to intervene.
It is noteworthy that not a word from the west has made any promises to Ukraine of actual help.
Turkey might fancy a proxy contest. Otherwise it’s going to be test of what lot and training the west has supplied in the last 5 years and whether it’s any good.
Eastern Ukraine was part of Russia for centuries. Prediction: Russia will within the next few years take it and the rest of the world has no plan, and will have no plan to intervene.
It is noteworthy that not a word from the west has made any promises to Ukraine of actual help.
Turkey might fancy a proxy contest. Otherwise it’s going to be test of what lot and training the west has supplied in the last 5 years and whether it’s any good.
Turkey, via Azerbaijan, whipped Russia (posing as Armenina) in the most recent bout. Turkey might give the Bear a singed, er, bear-pelt
Yeah. He'd be better off saying "we followed existing protocol regarding the relative standing of Presidents while on foreign trips, but in retrospect, seeing the impression it gave, particularly in relation to recent events in Turkey, I was wrong. This is something we need to address jointly in the EU, so similar embarrassing situations do not arise in the future."
He would have been better advised to go with "It was an awkward situation, and I made it worse by a mistaken action."
O/T, I’ve been having problems loading tweets on my iPhone for months, and now it’s started on my iPad.
Is this because vanilla is totally useless, or is there a way round it?
Use the vanilla forums.
Once there are a lot of posts on a page it just conks out all the time. Tries t oload them then just says "Sorry page keeps failing" or words to that effect
Forums is the one with the black header where the comments go oldest at the top to newest at the bottom?
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Like wine you can spend as much as you like and perhaps you get something better. As I mentioned above my favourite whisky ever was a thing called the Black Bowmore - you basically can't find it, but if you do it's many thousands for a bottle. It was nice, but not that nice. I think I decided not to buy a case priced at about 30 pounds a bottle back then. I'd just have drunk it anyway, so it's hardly a missed opportunity.
I would refer you all to this literally seminal thread header on Northern Ireland I wrote a few weeks ago.
Much like getting your girlfriend pregnant on a pull out sofa there’s a deep sense of irony that the Conservative & Unionist Party, aided and abetted by the DUP, have via Brexit done more to weaken Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom than the IRA.
As we can see from Northern Ireland pollster LucidTalk, 77% of all voters in the province and 67% of DUP voters think Boris Johnson’s Northern Ireland protocol will weaken Northern Ireland position in the United Kingdom.
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2021/02/07/how-do-you-solve-a-solution-like-the-northern-ireland-protocol/
That is the greatest Brexit bonus of all, and probably the only one that really matters, and it entirely outweighs any downside. We are free
Age is a factor too. I never drink anything under 12 years old. If the bottle does not specify the age, I never buy.
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There's no way I can throw out Johnson or any other Tory, that's the fallacy of it all. Most people in this country have not had any change to their power of "kicking out" any politicians.
I'd like to think East Ham will hold out for a while but there was a 4.8% swing to the Conservatives last time so it'll be a marginal after 2024 and safely in the blue camp by 2029.
Apparently...
Thanks very much for all the suggestions.
@Daveyboy1961 - I'm not so keen on Irish Whisky (or is it Whiskey) - anyway I've never found one that has a wow factor.
Welsh whisky (whoever mentioned it) - yes I'd like to try that, and will.
Talisker (@andy_js) - good, but doesn't light my fire.
Now, how would that scene of the nun providing interpretation into Jive work today?
He had spent the previous couple of weeks drinking Everest Whisky. Not sure what the Nepalese made that from, but it was quite... interesting... in a four-anti-acid-tablet kind of way....
But no probs. Red wine only these days. Always Chilean.
In fact, I did do an early draft of one at 7am today, but it looks a bit silly this evening in light of Surrey’s batting collapse.
https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1380213809516851205
https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1380213842026897410
We are free, ffs.
Never seen it elsewhere, that said.
If you don't like it, don't lose the next one. Being a sore loser doesn't mean democracy doesn't work.
Just kidding although as mentioned I did drink a whole bottle overnight during the McGregor Mayweather card.
Once again, the debate on Scotland is clouded by the fundamental misconception Nicola Sturgeon wants a second referendum.
She doesn't - her supporters might, the SNP might advocate it as a policy position but they don't want it.
The current stand off works well for Sturgeon - she gets to be First Minister of Scotland ad infinitum now she has seen off Salmond. She can talk about a referendum safe in the knowledge she'll never have to do anything about it because of her and the SNP's greatest ally, not Keir Starmer but Boris Johnson.
The Prime MInister's refusal to countenance a second vote, and we see this echoed by a "Senior Official" from the Department of the Bleedin' Obvious, is a double edged win-win strategy. It gives Sturgeon a let out for never having a second referendum and allows her to paint Boris Johnson as the source of all Scotland's problems thus strengthening her and the SNP's position.
At the same time, Boris Johnson gets to look "firm" which does him no harm in England (which is what matters) and within the Conservative Party. Thus, the current stand off works well for Johnson as well.
The last thing either Johnson or Sturgeon want or need is a disruption to the status quo. In essence, they've already achieved a de facto division - Johnson and the Conservatives have England, Sturgeon and the SNP have Scotland.
The problem for both with a Second Referendum isn't what happens if they lose but what happens if they win. There's far too much for risk for both to countenance a second vote so it won't happen and the dance will carry on.
I wonder if Airplane is the funniest movie ever made; certainly in terms of laughs per minute, I cannot think of a rival
Life of Brian was a more profound humour, and is brilliantly insightful, but not quite as basically amusing?
What others? Early Woody Allen
I see Airplane is number 2 in this list, with Spinal Tap as number 1. In the top 100 comedy movies
Spinal Tap is genius, but again not as consistently amusing as Airplane?
https://www.timeout.com/london/film/100-best-comedy-movies
https://twitter.com/FreeNorthNow/status/1380212897524166660
https://twitter.com/FreeNorthNow/status/1380212898685935620
Attempting to paint a cockup as being the fault of the system is just sad. They're also going fast enough and with so many supplies that they're not likely to bother at this point.
Edit:
Also, I've never seen Airplane.
Texts sent to a 21-year-old intern by British Conservative MP Rob Roberts inviting her to “fool around” were “unacceptable,” the party has concluded — but Roberts will not face dismissal over his behavior.
Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) began an inquiry into the behavior of Roberts, the MP for Delyn in North Wales, in July 2020 after complaints that he had sexually harassed a young woman working in parliament.
The probe was prompted when the BBC reported he had sent WhatsApp messages to an intern asking her to “fool around with no strings” and commenting that she had “lovely legs.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/conservative-tory-mp-rob-roberts-not-suspended-texts/
He reminds me of Andrew Lilico, but on the other side
It is in other words, Stodge, complete and utter drivel.
But nicely written as always. ☺
I didn't know Ed Miliband was this influential.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edstone_Aqueduct
I believe that will better for you, mentally, in the medium term. Feel free to thank me for this therapy, whenever you like
https://twitter.com/naebD/status/1380215867548516356?s=20
https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1380222098799480834
Too many on both sides wanted to go all or nothing. Only one side won.
That's the game. And the politicians went in eyes open - they knew what was at risk by compromising, and what was at risk by not compromising. They took the latter risk.
I don't quite understand why Airplane doesn't date, but it doesn't. This is so rare in comedy. Life of Brian is similar. Sometimes Life of Brian seems eerily prescient, as if it describes the modern world of 2021. The Jehovah stoning scene is a superb critique of social media cancel culture
Indeed it also seems to predict the trans debate, and the rise of ISIS and conservative Islam. Uncanny
https://youtu.be/SYkbqzWVHZI
If no man ever does this we will expire as a species
My only disagreement - tentative - with Stodge is that NS would be deeply fearful of losing a Ref2, as it would finish her, whereas the possibility being always there but not now will keep the troops going. I also think that politicians being what they are, in another world in which she could hold Ref2 and win, she would.
Good to be watching the Masters with crowds in attendance
Not so good watching Rory making a 'horlicks' of it
This kind of faux horror infantilises adult women. They are not toddlers in need of eternal protection
EDIT, to be fair, this bit does add some more troubling context: "Roberts is also alleged to have asked out a male Commons employee on several occasions and made repeated inappropriate comments, which led the man to change jobs."
https://twitter.com/politicsforali/status/1380227968564355085?s=21
If you think UK is going to rush and embrace new normal with open arms, and economy just isn’t going to suffer from inevitable hesitancy and cageyness from so many, then you are also blisteringly wrong. Can’t you see getting back on it is is more (and far more difficult) than a vaccination programme?
Someone who is definitely right is Leon, who deserved more support today from PBers for saying Oxozenica is the core component of COVAX, what damage have UK politicians and media achieved in the last two days to COVAX and take up of this vaccine throughout a world, especially where that world is young and not given alternative vaccine option others in this world fortunate to have?
Covid doesn’t recognise human nation states, it’s fight is daft to be so nationalistic because No ones safe till everyone’s safe. Nor should any covid fighting knowledge be protected by IPR law preventing manufacture, that’s just murdering people.
It is noteworthy that not a word from the west has made any promises to Ukraine of actual help.
Yeah. He'd be better off saying "we followed existing protocol regarding the relative standing of Presidents while on foreign trips, but in retrospect, seeing the impression it gave, particularly in relation to recent events in Turkey, I was wrong. This is something we need to address jointly in the EU, so similar embarrassing situations do not arise in the future."
Is this because vanilla is totally useless, or is there a way round it?
1) the USA is a litiginous place,
2) the USA is approaching vaccine surplus where supplies are not an issue, reluctance still is.
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1380209941588418564?s=19
I seem to recall an article making a similar point to yours when there was a dramatisation of the Profumo affiar a few years back, as the lead actress had made some comments which some author or another had felt infantilised Keeler, who was young but still an adult.
But he is right to be worried about whether people in the US would go back for a second shot if the gap were too long. I have heard several people mention unbidden that they are glad their second shot is only 2-3 weeks from the first, as otherwise they wouldn't bother. Incomprehensible to me, but there it is.
But that's in any case mere supposition. The fact is, a referendum is front and centre of the manifesto. The manifesto on which she is seeking a majority to implement.
Any which way you look at, there is tons of evidence she does want Sindy and little or no evidence that she doesn't.
So I find the oft heard, confident assertions to the contrary to be illogical, jaundiced and tbh rather ludicrous.
So.... You can only flirt with people superior to you? Or just exact equals?
Genuine questions. I did not realise the anti-sex league had conquered so much territory
Forums is the one with the black header where the comments go oldest at the top to newest at the bottom?