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Sabine is very good in small doses, but not I think for full time. The chemistry between Joey and bald white guy is really beginning to build as they battle for alpha male status, and Rory is slotting in nicely as "enthusiastic kid who talks whilst the parents are arguing" role that Hamster so memorably filled.Tim_B said:Top Gear - I like Matt and Cliff. Rory was in a car with Sabine last week and she connects much better than he does. She should be the regular and he the 'guest presenter'.
However they *have* to get rid of Eddie Jordan. He's creepy.
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On topic, no. Not without invading and installing him as a puppet anyway.0
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As a Brit I should support Rose but I agree it would nice to see Sergio win it at lastTim_B said:
Sergio by 2 thru 4. If he won it would be special, because today would have been Seve's 60th birthday.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
Top Gear - I like Matt and Cliff. Rory was in a car with Sabine last week and she connects much better than he does. She should be the regular and he the 'guest presenter'.
The Grand Tour - excellent in parts but is still finding its feet.0 -
Thank you.chestnut said:
NINOs are given to anyone on a benefit claim.viewcode said:
Less-probable (but still valid?) explanations include people with more than one NiNo, NiNo reuse, or British immigrants (people who left for a while but then came back) messing up the figures.
Hmph.
Partners, children on child benefit claims etc.
If a worker turns up with wife and three kids and claims Child Benefit - one worker generates five national insurance numbers.0 -
I love the masters. And Peter Alliss, the last of the golden oldies after Alistair Cook and John Arlott.0
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If Melenchon won the decline in the quality of their food would be the least of the French's worriesSeanT said:
Disagree. I find both disappointing, the new Top Gear is still pretty desperate and contrived, the Grand Tour is over-scripted, but has glimpses of genius - but nowhere near enough, yet.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
The viewing figures for both are dire in comparison to the Old Top Gear.
The BBC's Top Gear will become what it was, a niche programme for petrolheads, with minimal foreign viewers (so the BBC will lose squillions), the fate of Grand Tour depends on Clarkson's ability to re-invent himself one more time - who knows.
Talking of the old-ish making way for the new-ish, did anyone read Jay Rayner's brilliant evisceration of Le Cinq restaurant in Paris in the Observer today? The best hatchet job on a restaurant I have seen, maybe ever. Better than AA Gill in his prime. French food is really fucked, on many levels.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner0 -
Golf is still one of the most popular sports for the over 40s and the retired as you can still do it well past your athletic peakSeanT said:
Both sports have something in common: they are in real trouble, with quickly falling numbers of participants, spectators and viewers. Though at least cricket has one dayers and, even more, 20/20, which are booming.Sunil_Prasannan said:Is Golf the only sport more boring than Test Cricket?
Golf does not have any of that.0 -
Yes, but what has that got to do with Top Gear?Sunil_Prasannan said:
LEAVE 52%viewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
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It's a very amusing review. On one point of detail, the handbag stool is not that unusual (I ate in a very nice but not Michelin-starred restaurant in Munich two weeks ago with handbag stools at every table). In Central Europe it's unlucky to put your bag on the floor.SeanT said:
Disagree. I find both disappointing, the new Top Gear is still pretty desperate and contrived, the Grand Tour is over-scripted, but has glimpses of genius - but nowhere near enough, yet.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
The viewing figures for both are dire in comparison to the Old Top Gear.
The BBC's Top Gear will become what it was, a niche programme for petrolheads, with minimal foreign viewers (so the BBC will lose squillions), the fate of Grand Tour depends on Clarkson's ability to re-invent himself one more time - who knows.
Talking of the old-ish making way for the new-ish, did anyone read Jay Rayner's brilliant evisceration of Le Cinq restaurant in Paris in the Observer today? The best hatchet job on a restaurant I have seen, maybe ever. Better than AA Gill in his prime. French food is really fucked, on many levels.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
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Watching Eddie Jordan reminds me of players walking onto the pitch at soccer matches holding kids by the hand. Creepy is the word.viewcode said:
Sabine is very good in small doses, but not I think for full time. The chemistry between Joey and bald white guy is really beginning to build as they battle for alpha male status, and Rory is slotting in nicely as "enthusiastic kid who talks whilst the parents are arguing" role that Hamster so memorably filled.Tim_B said:Top Gear - I like Matt and Cliff. Rory was in a car with Sabine last week and she connects much better than he does. She should be the regular and he the 'guest presenter'.
However they *have* to get rid of Eddie Jordan. He's creepy.
Hamster, Clarkson and May were a better threesome than any two of them. Not sure if Matt and Chris are any better with the addition of Rory, or any worse without. Hamster could - by the skin of his teeth - have a show on his own. No way Rory could do. Sabine outshone Rory so much on the Nurburgring it wasn't true. Her enthusiasm and personality came through so much compared to his.0 -
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Horse racing place odds (Grand national)
Say an even race 40 horses. Odds should be 40.0 or 39-1.
5 places
There are 8 lots of 5 places so logically the odds to place if each horse is equal ought to be 7-1. Or 8.0
8 = 40.0 (The horse odds)/5 (The number of places).
Say we had a horse going off odds on though, 1.5
Place odds 1.5 / 5 = 0.3 (Which doesn't make sense)...0 -
Well they're obviously not paying a huge amount otherwise they wouldn't have just renewed them. Unless it's Wimbledon or MotD, the BBC aren't particularly bothered.Tim_B said:
I don't know what the rights fees for The masters are for the beeb, but it can't be much. CBS has broadcast the tournament for as long as I can remember, advertising is limited to 4 minutes an hour, and limited to the three sponsors - Mercedes Benz, AT&T and IBM. There are also 2 international sponsors - Rolex and UPS. In 2003 during the female membership controversy, the club swallowed the broadcasting fees and the tournament was shown commercial free.tlg86 said:
The ratings for both shows are dire - though hopefully the Beeb aren't having to spend too much on the wages of the new hosts. I actually thought Top Gear had run its course, but if some people are still watching then good for them.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
To be honest, I actually would have put the Masters on BBC1. If you're going to spend money on sports rights like the Masters you might as well stick it on the main channel. But I guess they don't want to mess around with the news at 10 which I believe has to be in that slot six out of seven days (they like to use their one pass on Saturdays).
Interestingly, Sky have yet to renew their deal and I believe they are yet to agree a deal to show this year's PGA Championship. Last year they didn't show the US Open Tennis championship which just goes to show how tight for money Sky have become since the last Premier League deal.0 -
Figure 6 on this page covers it:chestnut said:
Would you like to have a bash at backing that up?foxinsoxuk said:
Non-EU migrants favour London more than EU migrants, who are dispersed around the country and often living in places like Leicester with cheap housing.chestnut said:
Scale it up to the best part of 3 million arrivals - mainly in London/SE.foxinsoxuk said:8 Poles in one house is rather overcrowded, but not much pressure on housing stock.
http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/london-census-profile/
A higer percentage of Indian born migrants live in London than Polish. Of the top 10 countries of origin of the 37% of Londoners born overseas only 3 countries are EU: Poland, Ireland and France. The other 7 are New Commonwealth or Somalia.
Figure 8 and 9 also support my point. A higher percentage of New Commonwealth migrants live in London than EU migrants.0 -
Sabine and gone?viewcode said:
Yes, but what has that got to do with Top Gear?Sunil_Prasannan said:
LEAVE 52%viewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
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I'm not sure if it's "tight for money" or just unsure if they'll make a profit on their investment. As a commercial network, if you can't make money by showing it, you shouldn't bid for the rights.tlg86 said:
Well they're obviously not paying a huge amount otherwise they wouldn't have just renewed them. Unless it's Wimbledon or MotD, the BBC aren't particularly bothered.Tim_B said:
I don't know what the rights fees for The masters are for the beeb, but it can't be much. CBS has broadcast the tournament for as long as I can remember, advertising is limited to 4 minutes an hour, and limited to the three sponsors - Mercedes Benz, AT&T and IBM. There are also 2 international sponsors - Rolex and UPS. In 2003 during the female membership controversy, the club swallowed the broadcasting fees and the tournament was shown commercial free.tlg86 said:
The ratings for both shows are dire - though hopefully the Beeb aren't having to spend too much on the wages of the new hosts. I actually thought Top Gear had run its course, but if some people are still watching then good for them.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
To be honest, I actually would have put the Masters on BBC1. If you're going to spend money on sports rights like the Masters you might as well stick it on the main channel. But I guess they don't want to mess around with the news at 10 which I believe has to be in that slot six out of seven days (they like to use their one pass on Saturdays).
Interestingly, Sky have yet to renew their deal and I believe they are yet to agree a deal to show this year's PGA Championship. Last year they didn't show the US Open Tennis championship which just goes to show how tight for money Sky have become since the last Premier League deal.0 -
Best crab I've ever had was at Coverack - Mrs Stodge had crab sandwiches, I went for the crab bisque. Truly excellent.SeanT said:
We went to Glendurgan Gardens, we went to St Michael's Mount and Penare and Dodman's Point, we walked the cliffs of Lamorna, whence comes her middle name, we visited the cove by Place where Jesus landed as a boy, we walked Swanpool and Maenporth, we ate Cornish oysters and Cornish crab sandwiches, we skimmed stones on the beach at Trelissick, we drank absurdly expensive wine in the sunshine on the terrace at Idle Rocks in St Mawes and it was all, all, all sublime. Just sublime.
Good evening.
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I'm the same. And now very red on both Fillon and Le Pen.Pulpstar said:
Macron-Melenchon is the dream.BudG said:
Melenchon is the one that will give Macron the toughest fight in the final round, if he gets through.Cyan said:
And Poutou is up to 2.5%. Perhaps some polls will soon have Mélenchon in second place. He's certainly got some momentum.BudG said:
Melenchon on 6 from the Kantar Sofres previous poll. Le Pen and Macron both down 2 and Fillon stagnant.Pulpstar said:
That's what I'm talking aboutBudG said:First poll showing Melenchon ahead of Fillon:
Macron 24%
Le Pen 24%
Melenchon 18%
Fillon 17%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_French_presidential_election,_2017
Head to heads
Melenchon beats Le Pen 57-43 and narrowly loses to Macron 53-47
53-47 head to head can easily be turned around in the TV debate ahead of the final vote, given Melenchon's performance in TV debates so far.
Not sure how Fillon is still at 6.0, though I'm red enough on him at the moment.
Fast approaching squeaky bum time.0 -
There are more Indians in the UK than Poles as a whole so that's hardly a surprise and largely irrelevant to the original point about EU arrivals settling in London and the SE.foxinsoxuk said:
Figure 6 on this page covers it:chestnut said:
Would you like to have a bash at backing that up?foxinsoxuk said:
Non-EU migrants favour London more than EU migrants, who are dispersed around the country and often living in places like Leicester with cheap housing.chestnut said:
Scale it up to the best part of 3 million arrivals - mainly in London/SE.foxinsoxuk said:8 Poles in one house is rather overcrowded, but not much pressure on housing stock.
http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/london-census-profile/
A higer percentage of Indian born migrants live in London than Polish. Of the top 10 countries of origin of the 37% of Londoners born overseas only 3 countries are EU: Poland, Ireland and France. The other 7 are New Commonwealth or Somalia.
Figure 8 and 9 also support my point. A higher percentage of New Commonwealth migrants live in London than EU migrants.
From your link
About 44,848 residents of London were born in Romania and this total accounts for 56.3% of all Romanian-born residents in England and Wales.
A few numbers (EU settlement within LONDON only as a % of E and W)
59.3 Bulgarian
56.3 Romanian
51.3 French
46.6 Portuguese
46.1 Italian
45.3 Spain
41.0 Lithuania
London datastore will provide the full details.
The notion of genuine dispersal across the UK is well wide of the mark.0 -
Brilliant, though I don't think he would lay a glove on AA Gill. The single best killer blow is not the writing but the contrast between the actual versus stock photos of the onions.SeanT said:
Disagree. I find both disappointing, the new Top Gear is still pretty desperate and contrived, the Grand Tour is over-scripted, but has glimpses of genius - but nowhere near enough, yet.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
The viewing figures for both are dire in comparison to the Old Top Gear.
The BBC's Top Gear will become what it was, a niche programme for petrolheads, with minimal foreign viewers (so the BBC will lose squillions), the fate of Grand Tour depends on Clarkson's ability to re-invent himself one more time - who knows.
Talking of the old-ish making way for the new-ish, did anyone read Jay Rayner's brilliant evisceration of Le Cinq restaurant in Paris in the Observer today? The best hatchet job on a restaurant I have seen, maybe ever. Better than AA Gill in his prime. French food is really fucked, on many levels.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
For anyone who missed it if you follow the link to his website http://www.jayrayner.co.uk/news/
you will see that the Observer only picked up 25% of the tab, the rest was his own/his companion's money. That must hurt.0 -
It does sound pretty pisspoor. Mind you the description of Hotel X (George V) in Orwell's Down and out in Paris and London, shows there is nothing new about over rated reputation.SeanT said:
I have, and I think I could turn a handy phrase or two, but I don't think I have the expert knowledge to challenge the best (and that's probably Rayner, right now, as Gill has gone). This only comes from experience, and Jay Rayner has been at it for nearly 20 years.TheWhiteRabbit said:
Ever thought of turning your hand Sean?SeanT said:
Disagree. I find both disappointing, the new Top Gear is still pretty desperate and contrived, the Grand Tour is over-scripted, but has glimpses of genius - but nowhere near enough, yet.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
The viewing figures for both are dire in comparison to the Old Top Gear.
The BBC's Top Gear will become what it was, a
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
My expertise is in more general travel journalism. I've been doing it three decades. I know a good 5 star or a good B&B or a rip-off gastropub when I see it. I am content to keep enduring free trips to nice places, for as long as they will employ me.
My next gig is the chateaux, vineyards, gardens and Michelin-starred restaurants of the Loire, in a fortnight. I shall let you know if the crisis in French gastronomy is nationwide.0 -
Estimating the value of individual rights to broadcasters like Sky is fiendishly difficult. Would the dropping of the US Open Tennis cost them subscribers? Probably not as it's on Eurosport anyway. But Sky's motto is "Believe in Better" so it's not a great look. Losing the PGA Championship would be a blow as golf probably does get Sky a fair few subscriptions (whereas I don't think tennis would).Tim_B said:
I'm not sure if it's "tight for money" or just unsure if they'll make a profit on their investment. As a commercial network, if you can't make money by showing it, you shouldn't bid for the rights.tlg86 said:
Well they're obviously not paying a huge amount otherwise they wouldn't have just renewed them. Unless it's Wimbledon or MotD, the BBC aren't particularly bothered.Tim_B said:
I don't know what the rights fees for The masters are for the beeb, but it can't be much. CBS has broadcast the tournament for as long as I can remember, advertising is limited to 4 minutes an hour, and limited to the three sponsors - Mercedes Benz, AT&T and IBM. There are also 2 international sponsors - Rolex and UPS. In 2003 during the female membership controversy, the club swallowed the broadcasting fees and the tournament was shown commercial free.tlg86 said:
The ratings for both shows are dire - though hopefully the Beeb aren't having to spend too much on the wages of the new hosts. I actually thought Top Gear had run its course, but if some people are still watching then good for them.
To be honest, I actually would have put the Masters on BBC1. If you're going to spend money on sports rights like the Masters you might as well stick it on the main channel. But I guess they don't want to mess around with the news at 10 which I believe has to be in that slot six out of seven days (they like to use their one pass on Saturdays).
Interestingly, Sky have yet to renew their deal and I believe they are yet to agree a deal to show this year's PGA Championship. Last year they didn't show the US Open Tennis championship which just goes to show how tight for money Sky have become since the last Premier League deal.0 -
Cinq was the dullest most overpriced restaurant I've been too. I even splashed out on a 1990 Vosne Romanie which they served chilled to death.AlastairMeeks said:
It's a very amusing review. On one point of detail, the handbag stool is not that unusual (I ate in a very nice but not Michelin-starred restaurant in Munich two weeks ago with handbag stools at every table). In Central Europe it's unlucky to put your bag on the floor.SeanT said:
Disagree. I find both disappointing, the new Top Gear is still pretty desperate and contrived, the Grand Tour is over-scripted, but has glimpses of genius - but nowhere near enough, yet.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
The viewing figures for both are dire in comparison to the Old Top Gear.
The BBC's Top Gear will become what it was, a niche programme for petrolheads, with minimal foreign viewers (so the BBC will lose squillions), the fate of Grand Tour depends on Clarkson's ability to re-invent himself one more time - who knows.
Talking of the old-ish making way for the new-ish, did anyone read Jay Rayner's brilliant evisceration of Le Cinq restaurant in Paris in the Observer today? The best hatchet job on a restaurant I have seen, maybe ever. Better than AA Gill in his prime. French food is really fucked, on many levels.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
I have not been back in a decade.0 -
Six hundred quid on one meal? I've genuinely bought cheaper cars!Charles said:
Cinq was the dullest most overpriced restaurant I've been too. I even splashed out on a 1990 Vosne Romanie which they served chilled to death.AlastairMeeks said:
It's a very amusing review. On one point of detail, the handbag stool is not that unusual (I ate in a very nice but not Michelin-starred restaurant in Munich two weeks ago with handbag stools at every table). In Central Europe it's unlucky to put your bag on the floor.SeanT said:
Disagree. I find both disappointing, the new Top Gear is still pretty desperate and contrived, the Grand Tour is over-scripted, but has glimpses of genius - but nowhere near enough, yet.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
The viewing figures for both are dire in comparison to the Old Top Gear.
The BBC's Top Gear will become what it was, a niche programme for petrolheads, with minimal foreign viewers (so the BBC will lose squillions), the fate of Grand Tour depends on Clarkson's ability to re-invent himself one more time - who knows.
Talking of the old-ish making way for the new-ish, did anyone read Jay Rayner's brilliant evisceration of Le Cinq restaurant in Paris in the Observer today? The best hatchet job on a restaurant I have seen, maybe ever. Better than AA Gill in his prime. French food is really fucked, on many levels.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
I have not been back in a decade.0 -
OK I think I've got it, but don't laugh at me if I got it wrong. If I remember correctly probability = 1/decimal odds, so we're going to have to do this European then translate to Brit at the end.Pulpstar said:Paging @viewcode
Horse racing place odds (Grand national)
Say an even race 40 horses. Odds should be 40.0 or 39-1.
5 places
There are 8 lots of 5 places so logically the odds to place if each horse is equal ought to be 7-1. Or 8.0
8 = 40.0 (The horse odds)/5 (The number of places).
Say we had a horse going off odds on though, 1.5
Place odds 1.5 / 5 = 0.3 (Which doesn't make sense)...
PART 1: ALL HORSES HAVE THE SAME ODDS
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40 horses, so p(horse x wins) = 1/40 = 0.025
5 places, so p(horse x places) = 5/40 = 0.125
Translating that into decimal odds gives us
decimal odds (horse x wins) = 1/0.025 = 40
decimal odds (horse x places) = 1/0.125 = 8
PART 2: HORSE X IS ODDS ON AT 1.5
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p(horse x wins) = 1/1.5 = 0.667
p(horse x doesn't win) = 0.333
p(horse x places) = p(horse x wins) + p(horse x doesn't win). p(horse achieves place 2,3,4 or 5 out of the remaining 39)
= 0.667 + 0.333(4/39)
= 0.667 + 0.333(0.103)
= approx 0.7
Translating that into decimal odds gives us
decimal odds (horse x wins) = 1/0.667 = 1.5
decimal odds (horse x places) = 1/approx 0.7 = 1.43
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My paradise is the Coast between Dartmouth and Burgh Island.SeanT said:
A week of cloudless Spring skies. The gardens at Glendurgan were just embarrassingly beautiful: Edenic, with the camellias in full bloom.HYUFD said:
I spent half the summer holidays of my childhood in Cornwall, in the sunshine as it has been this past week it is sublimeSeanT said:I've just had the most blissful week in the sun in Cornwall, introducing my older daughter to her dozens of mad Cornish relatives.
We went to Glendurgan Gardens, we went to St Michael's Mount and Penare and Dodman's Point, we walked the cliffs of Lamorna, whence comes her middle name, we visited the cove by Place where Jesus landed as a boy, we walked Swanpool and Maenporth, we ate Cornish oysters and Cornish crab sandwiches, we skimmed stones on the beach at Trelissick, we drank absurdly expensive wine in the sunshine on the terrace at Idle Rocks in St Mawes and it was all, all, all sublime. Just sublime.
Good evening.
Nowhere in the world is like Cornwall if you get lucky with the weather, especially in April or May.
But it's been a lovely weekend, even in my garden.0 -
I think we managed £150 a head on food and more than doubled it with the wine. The Americans paid, bless 'emTwistedFireStopper said:
Six hundred quid on one meal? I've genuinely bought cheaper cars!Charles said:
Cinq was the dullest most overpriced restaurant I've been too. I even splashed out on a 1990 Vosne Romanie which they served chilled to death.AlastairMeeks said:
It's a very amusing review. On one point of detail, the handbag stool is not that unusual (I ate in a very nice but not Michelin-starred restaurant in Munich two weeks ago with handbag stools at every table). In Central Europe it's unlucky to put your bag on the floor.SeanT said:
Disagree. I find both disappointing, the new Top Gear is still pretty desperate and contrived, the Grand Tour is over-scripted, but has glimpses of genius - but nowhere near enough, yet.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
The viewing figures for both are dire in comparison to the Old Top Gear.
The BBC's Top Gear will become what it was, a niche programme for petrolheads, with minimal foreign viewers (so the BBC will lose squillions), the fate of Grand Tour depends on Clarkson's ability to re-invent himself one more time - who knows.
Talking of the old-ish making way for the new-ish, did anyone read Jay Rayner's brilliant evisceration of Le Cinq restaurant in Paris in the Observer today? The best hatchet job on a restaurant I have seen, maybe ever. Better than AA Gill in his prime. French food is really fucked, on many levels.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
I have not been back in a decade.
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I write over 200 threads a year for PB, I'm allowed to have some fun occasionally.0
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Now you must write 200 AV threads as a penance.TheScreamingEagles said:I write over 200 threads a year for PB, I'm allowed to have some fun occasionally.
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Basically, the market is still a trading market rather than a betting market. As we get nearer to polling day in two weeks time, one would presume there will be one or two serious bettors entering the market for the first time, with a view to taking advantage of the anomalies that exist and then we might see prices starting to reflect the real chances of the candidates.Casino_Royale said:
I'm the same. And now very red on both Fillon and Le Pen.Pulpstar said:
Macron-Melenchon is the dream.BudG said:
Melenchon is the one that will give Macron the toughest fight in the final round, if he gets through.Cyan said:
And Poutou is up to 2.5%. Perhaps some polls will soon have Mélenchon in second place. He's certainly got some momentum.BudG said:
Melenchon on 6 from the Kantar Sofres previous poll. Le Pen and Macron both down 2 and Fillon stagnant.Pulpstar said:
That's what I'm talking aboutBudG said:First poll showing Melenchon ahead of Fillon:
Macron 24%
Le Pen 24%
Melenchon 18%
Fillon 17%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_French_presidential_election,_2017
Head to heads
Melenchon beats Le Pen 57-43 and narrowly loses to Macron 53-47
53-47 head to head can easily be turned around in the TV debate ahead of the final vote, given Melenchon's performance in TV debates so far.
Not sure how Fillon is still at 6.0, though I'm red enough on him at the moment.
Fast approaching squeaky bum time.
Looking at the head to heads, the best chance both Le Pen and Fillon have is to face each other. For that to happen, Macron has to fade quite a bit, Melenchon's momentum has to come to a juddering halt and Fillon has to somehow drag himself up form 4th place (in the latest poll) to overtake both his male competitors, while at the same time hoping that Le Pen doesn't also slip much further. Not saying it cannot happen, but the stars really do have to align for either Le Pen or Fillon to win this.0 -
Those numbers are pretty similar for New Commonwealth arrivals too. Where do most Somali or Nigerian migrants settle for example?chestnut said:
There are more Indians in the UK than Poles as a whole so that's hardly a surprise and largely irrelevant to the original point about EU arrivals settling in London and the SE.foxinsoxuk said:
Figure 6 on this page covers it:chestnut said:
Would you like to have a bash at backing that up?foxinsoxuk said:
Non-EU migrants favour London more than EU migrants, who are dispersed around the country and often living in places like Leicester with cheap housing.chestnut said:
Scale it up to the best part of 3 million arrivals - mainly in London/SE.foxinsoxuk said:8 Poles in one house is rather overcrowded, but not much pressure on housing stock.
http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/london-census-profile/
A higer percentage of Indian born migrants live in London than Polish. Of the top 10 countries of origin of the 37% of Londoners born overseas only 3 countries are EU: Poland, Ireland and France. The other 7 are New Commonwealth or Somalia.
Figure 8 and 9 also support my point. A higher percentage of New Commonwealth migrants live in London than EU migrants.
From your link
About 44,848 residents of London were born in Romania and this total accounts for 56.3% of all Romanian-born residents in England and Wales.
A few numbers (EU settlement within LONDON only as a % of E and W)
59.3 Bulgarian
56.3 Romanian
51.3 French
46.6 Portuguese
46.1 Italian
45.3 Spain
41.0 Lithuania
London datastore will provide the full details.
The notion of genuine dispersal across the UK is well wide of the mark.
There are 7 Indian born migrants for each Romanian born. This should not come as a surprise when we look at the work that Sunilndid a couple of years ago on demographic changes within constituencies.
The only A8 country featuring in the top 10 migrants countries of origin is Poland. The majority of the pressure on housing etc in London relating to immigration is non-EU. The highest percentage of Polish speakers in London is Ealing at 7%, far below the levels of non english speakers in Boroughs like Tower Hamlets. Polish migrants are more evenly spread than most, and increasingly indistinguishable from the native born in terms of habits.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/25/polish-in-wakefield-brexit-vote-britain
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Have you received representations to devote 30 threads to the Corbynites? (And is this the result?)TheScreamingEagles said:I write over 200 threads a year for PB, I'm allowed to have some fun occasionally.
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Devoting threads to them is not the issue, so much as the tone of them, I suspect.williamglenn said:
Have you received representations to devote 30 threads to the Corbynites? (And is this the result?)TheScreamingEagles said:I write over 200 threads a year for PB, I'm allowed to have some fun occasionally.
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They've given up on me because I'm part of the Murdoch Zionist polling and media conspiracy against Corbyn.williamglenn said:
Have you received representations to devote 30 threads to the Corbynites? (And is this the result?)TheScreamingEagles said:I write over 200 threads a year for PB, I'm allowed to have some fun occasionally.
Their logic, the political editors of The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, and several pollsters follow me on twitter, thus I'm part of the cabal.0 -
I'd find it hard to judge really pricey restaurants.Charles said:
I think we managed £150 a head on food and more than doubled it with the wine. The Americans paid, bless 'emTwistedFireStopper said:
Six hundred quid on one meal? I've genuinely bought cheaper cars!Charles said:
Cinq was the dullest most overpriced restaurant I've been too. I even splashed out on a 1990 Vosne Romanie which they served chilled to death.AlastairMeeks said:
It's a very amusing review. On one point of detail, the handbag stool is not that unusual (I ate in a very nice but not Michelin-starred restaurant in Munich two weeks ago with handbag stools at every table). In Central Europe it's unlucky to put your bag on the floor.SeanT said:foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
The viewing figures for both are dire in comparison to the Old Top Gear.
The BBC's Top Gear will become what it was, a niche programme for petrolheads, with minimal foreign viewers (so the BBC will lose squillions), the fate of Grand Tour depends on Clarkson's ability to re-invent himself one more time - who knows.
Talking of the old-ish making way for the new-ish, did anyone read Jay Rayner's brilliant evisceration of Le Cinq restaurant in Paris in the Observer today? The best hatchet job on a restaurant I have seen, maybe ever. Better than AA Gill in his prime. French food is really fucked, on many levels.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
I have not been back in a decade.
I like places that are smart, comfortable, with good food and wine, like say Al Duca, the Bleeding Heart, the National Liberal Club, but I'd never dream of paying £150 a head for food or wine.0 -
The Quantocks were fabulous this weekendSean_F said:
My paradise is the Coast between Dartmouth and Burgh Island.SeanT said:
A week of cloudless Spring skies. The gardens at Glendurgan were just embarrassingly beautiful: Edenic, with the camellias in full bloom.HYUFD said:
I spent half the summer holidays of my childhood in Cornwall, in the sunshine as it has been this past week it is sublimeSeanT said:I've just had the most blissful week in the sun in Cornwall, introducing my older daughter to her dozens of mad Cornish relatives.
We went to Glendurgan Gardens, we went to St Michael's Mount and Penare and Dodman's Point, we walked the cliffs of Lamorna, whence comes her middle name, we visited the cove by Place where Jesus landed as a boy, we walked Swanpool and Maenporth, we ate Cornish oysters and Cornish crab sandwiches, we skimmed stones on the beach at Trelissick, we drank absurdly expensive wine in the sunshine on the terrace at Idle Rocks in St Mawes and it was all, all, all sublime. Just sublime.
Good evening.
Nowhere in the world is like Cornwall if you get lucky with the weather, especially in April or May.
But it's been a lovely weekend.0 -
I write pro-Jez threads, see this as an example.kle4 said:
Devoting threads to them is not the issue, so much as the tone of them, I suspect.williamglenn said:
Have you received representations to devote 30 threads to the Corbynites? (And is this the result?)TheScreamingEagles said:I write over 200 threads a year for PB, I'm allowed to have some fun occasionally.
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2016/08/30/in-praise-of-jeremy-corbyn/0 -
Perhaps so, but nothing ever satisfies Corbynites.TheScreamingEagles said:
I write pro-Jez threads, see this as an example.kle4 said:
Devoting threads to them is not the issue, so much as the tone of them, I suspect.williamglenn said:
Have you received representations to devote 30 threads to the Corbynites? (And is this the result?)TheScreamingEagles said:I write over 200 threads a year for PB, I'm allowed to have some fun occasionally.
http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2016/08/30/in-praise-of-jeremy-corbyn/0 -
Somalia is not in the Commonwealth.foxinsoxuk said:
Those numbers are pretty similar for New Commonwealth arrivals too. Where do most Somali or Nigerian migrants settle for example?chestnut said:
There are more Indians in the UK than Poles as a whole so that's hardly a surprise and largely irrelevant to the original point about EU arrivals settling in London and the SE.foxinsoxuk said:
Figure 6 on this page covers it:chestnut said:
Would you like to have a bash at backing that up?foxinsoxuk said:
Non-EU migrants favour London more than EU migrants, who are dispersed around the country and often living in places like Leicester with cheap housing.chestnut said:
Scale it up to the best part of 3 million arrivals - mainly in London/SE.foxinsoxuk said:8 Poles in one house is rather overcrowded, but not much pressure on housing stock.
http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/london-census-profile/
A higer percentage of Indian born migrants live in London than Polish. Of the top 10 countries of origin of the 37% of Londoners born overseas only 3 countries are EU: Poland, Ireland and France. The other 7 are New Commonwealth or Somalia.
Figure 8 and 9 also support my point. A higher percentage of New Commonwealth migrants live in London than EU migrants.
From your link
About 44,848 residents of London were born in Romania and this total accounts for 56.3% of all Romanian-born residents in England and Wales.
A few numbers (EU settlement within LONDON only as a % of E and W)
59.3 Bulgarian
56.3 Romanian
51.3 French
46.6 Portuguese
46.1 Italian
45.3 Spain
41.0 Lithuania
London datastore will provide the full details.
The notion of genuine dispersal across the UK is well wide of the mark.0 -
So, wave after wave of immigration is all falling in the same places?foxinsoxuk said:
Those numbers are pretty similar for New Commonwealth arrivals too. Where do most Somali or Nigerian migrants settle for example?
There are 7 Indian born migrants for each Romanian born. This should not come as a surprise when we look at the work that Sunilndid a couple of years ago on demographic changes within constituencies.
The only A8 country featuring in the top 10 migrants countries of origin is Poland. The majority of the pressure on housing etc in London relating to immigration is non-EU. The highest percentage of Polish speakers in London is Ealing at 7%, far below the levels of non english speakers in Boroughs like Tower Hamlets. Polish migrants are more evenly spread than most, and increasingly indistinguishable from the native born in terms of habits.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/25/polish-in-wakefield-brexit-vote-britain
Commonwealth immigration has has decades to settle, and European A8 has had just over a decade while Romanians and Bulgarians have only been allowed in for three or four years.
I would point out that up to the late 90s Commonwealth immigration was part of negligible net migration. Since 1997, it's gone barmy.
And it is disproportinately falling on London/M25 - where the housing problems are.
London is about 13% of the population but it's picking up 30-40-50% of the migration.0 -
Has Ken Livigstone ever fancied a role as a historian on French TV? His skills may be needed...
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Part of me wants to ask, how did he become a multi Millionaire?SeanT said:
A newly rich friend of mine got me lunch at Kaspar's at the Savoy just before Christmas.TwistedFireStopper said:
Six hundred quid on one meal? I've genuinely bought cheaper cars!Charles said:
Cinq was the dullest most overpriced restaurant I've been too. I even splashed out on a 1990 Vosne Romanie which they served chilled to death.AlastairMeeks said:
It's a very amusing review. On one point of detail, the handbag stool is not that unusual (I ate in a very nice but not Michelin-starred restaurant in Munich two weeks ago with handbag stools at every table). In Central Europe it's unlucky to put your bag on the floor.SeanT said:
Disagree.er. Better than AA Gill in his prime. French food is really fucked, on many levels.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
I have not been back in a decade.
£980. For two.
A grand. For lunch.
Thing is tho, we knew it was mad, but we had £300 of caviar to share, and the best possible vintage champagne, oysters, lobster, etc. So it didn't feel like a rip-off. We knew it was going to be absurdly expensive, and it was. And it was great fun, and delicious (it's hard to fuck up the world's best caviar, oysters, lobster and bubbly).
And he's a multi-millionaire with an intent to enjoy life, who five years ago was in Cardiff jail serving time for manslaughter and heroin dealing.
Life is short. But not short enough to go to Le Cinq, perhaps.
The other part thinks maybe I should not ask.
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I ate in a two star recently, with tasting menu and wine that came to about €180 per head. It was worth it, though seven wines was a little bit much for me.Sean_F said:
I'd find it hard to judge really pricey restaurants.Charles said:
I think we managed £150 a head on food and more than doubled it with the wine. The Americans paid, bless 'emTwistedFireStopper said:
Six hundred quid on one meal? I've genuinely bought cheaper cars!Charles said:
Cinq was the dullest most overpriced restaurant I've been too. I even splashed out on a 1990 Vosne Romanie which they served chilled to death.AlastairMeeks said:
It's a very amusing review. On one point of detail, the handbag stool is not that unusual (I ate in a very nice but not Michelin-starred restaurant in Munich two weeks ago with handbag stools at every table). In Central Europe it's unlucky to put your bag on the floor.SeanT said:foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
The viewing figures for both are dire in comparison to the Old Top Gear.
The BBC's Top Gear will become what it was, a niche
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
I have not been back in a decade.
I like places that are smart, comfortable, with good food and wine, like say Al Duca, the Bleeding Heart, the National Liberal Club, but I'd never dream of paying £150 a head for food or wine.
This unstarred restaurant though was the best that I have eaten in last year. If in Prague book it, it is going to be very popular. The tasting menu is a very reasonable £50 per head.
http://www.portfolio-restaurant.cz/en0 -
The most expensive meal I've ever had was £200 at the "Old Vicarage". It seems to have lost it's Michelin Star since I left - though I couldn't find fault with the food myself. The couple on the table next to us were having a quiet (But definitely blazing row), which seemed a bit of an odd way to spend a small fortune on a meal they clearly weren't enjoying
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And non EU migrants are about as numerous as EU, and more likely to settle permenantly alongside existing communities.chestnut said:
So, wave after wave of immigration is all falling in the same places?foxinsoxuk said:
Those numbers are pretty similar for New Commonwealth arrivals too. Where do most Somali or Nigerian migrants settle for example?
There are 7 Indian born migrants for each Romanian born. This should not come as a surprise when we look at the work that Sunilndid a couple of years ago on demographic changes within constituencies.
The only A8 country featuring in the top 10 migrants countries of origin is Poland. The majority of the pressure on housing etc in London relating to immigration is non-EU. The highest percentage of Polish speakers in London is Ealing at 7%, far below the levels of non english speakers in Boroughs like Tower Hamlets. Polish migrants are more evenly spread than most, and increasingly indistinguishable from the native born in terms of habits.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/25/polish-in-wakefield-brexit-vote-britain
Commonwealth immigration has has decades to settle, and European A8 has had just over a decade while Romanians and Bulgarians have only been allowed in for three or four years.
I would point out that up to the late 90s Commonwealth immigration was part of negligible net migration. Since 1997, it's gone barmy.
And it is disproportinately falling on London/M25 - where the housing problems are.
London is about 13% of the population but it's picking up 30-40-50% of the migration.0 -
I wonder. Which do the Natonal have more of.... sales, or tweets here?williamglenn said:twitter.com/scotnational/status/851173693862678532
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Shan, I do like your anecdotes and story's, They bring something to this site! and keep me amused.SeanT said:
Bathroom and kitchen design. I kid you not. He has the most incredible lifestory of anyone I know, or indeed anyone I have heard of. When he got out of jail after his manslaughter conviction he thought he'd "try being a plumber".BigRich said:
Part of me wants to ask, how did he become a multi Millionaire?SeanT said:TwistedFireStopper said:
Six hundred quid on one meal? I've genuinely bought cheaper cars!Charles said:
Cinq was the dullest most overpriced restaurant I've been too. I even splashed out on a 1990 Vosne Romanie which they served chilled to death.AlastairMeeks said:
It's a very amusing review. On one point of detail, the handbag stool is not that unusual (I ate in a very nice but not Michelin-starred restaurant in Munich two weeks ago with handbag stools at every table). In Central Europe it's unlucky to put your bag on the floor.SeanT said:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-raynerfoxinsoxuk said:
rown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
I have not been back in a decade.
And he's a multi-millionaire with an intent to enjoy life, who five years ago was in Cardiff jail serving time for manslaughter and heroin dealing.
Life is short. But not short enough to go to Le Cinq, perhaps.
The other part thinks maybe I should not ask.
We first met when we were both heroin addicts. We both nearly died of drugs several times. Now he has a chauffeur and a fleet of limousines.
But you know what's even better, Capitalism and its ability to give people second chances. Good for him!0 -
If I had Salmond's form for over-enthusiastic mountaineering in Donald Trump's nether regions, this is a subject I would steer clear of. Business ambassador, lol.williamglenn said:0 -
I've no idea what you hoping to demonstrate. None at all.foxinsoxuk said:And non EU migrants are about as numerous as EU, and more likely to settle permenantly alongside existing communities.
That Anjem Choudhury and Winston Silcott are more likely to settle than Lech Walesa? What?0 -
And it rewards (some) people who go outside of their comfort zones and take a risk. Am rather jealous!BigRich said:
Shan, I do like your anecdotes and story's, They bring something to this site! and keep me amused.SeanT said:
Bathroom and kitchen design. I kid you not. He has the most incredible lifestory of anyone I know, or indeed anyone I have heard of. When he got out of jail after his manslaughter conviction he thought he'd "try being a plumber".
We first met when we were both heroin addicts. We both nearly died of drugs several times. Now he has a chauffeur and a fleet of limousines.
But you know what's even better, Capitalism and its ability to give people second chances. Good for him!0 -
Pavlov's Yoons will respond as expected.williamglenn said:0 -
It's hard not to poke fun at the Nat-onal.Theuniondivvie said:
Pavlov's Yoons will respond as expected.williamglenn said:twitter.com/scotnational/status/851173693862678532
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Like you spending a pound on a burger to a multi-squillionaire. He does love to boast about having squillions.TwistedFireStopper said:
Six hundred quid on one meal? I've genuinely bought cheaper cars!Charles said:
Cinq was the dullest most overpriced restaurant I've been too. I even splashed out on a 1990 Vosne Romanie which they served chilled to death.AlastairMeeks said:
It's a very amusing review. On one point of detail, the handbag stool is not that unusual (I ate in a very nice but not Michelin-starred restaurant in Munich two weeks ago with handbag stools at every table). In Central Europe it's unlucky to put your bag on the floor.SeanT said:
Disagree. I find both disappointing, the new Top Gear is still pretty desperate and contrived, the Grand Tour is over-scripted, but has glimpses of genius - but nowhere near enough, yet.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
The viewing figures for both are dire in comparison to the Old Top Gear.
The BBC's Top Gear will become what it was, a niche programme for petrolheads, with minimal foreign viewers (so the BBC will lose squillions), the fate of Grand Tour depends on Clarkson's ability to re-invent himself one more time - who knows.
Talking of the old-ish making way for the new-ish, did anyone read Jay Rayner's brilliant evisceration of Le Cinq restaurant in Paris in the Observer today? The best hatchet job on a restaurant I have seen, maybe ever. Better than AA Gill in his prime. French food is really fucked, on many levels.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
I have not been back in a decade.0 -
A Pavlovian compulsion, one might say..RobD said:
It's hard not to poke fun at the Nat-onal.Theuniondivvie said:
Pavlov's Yoons will respond as expected.williamglenn said:twitter.com/scotnational/status/851173693862678532
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Some might say the same about the reaction to said compulsionTheuniondivvie said:
A Pavlovian compulsion, one might say..RobD said:
It's hard not to poke fun at the Nat-onal.Theuniondivvie said:
Pavlov's Yoons will respond as expected.williamglenn said:twitter.com/scotnational/status/851173693862678532
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Rose (-8) over Sergio by 1 thru 10. Now it begins: the biggest pressure cooker in golf. The back 9 on masters Sunday. Sergio's drive on 11 looks like trouble again.
A while ago on 15 Rory hit a wedge 164 yards. Kuchar aced 16.0 -
The jokes on you yoons with all your World Power mince , willy waving your trident subs etc and yet , Russia mock you , unable to beat a carpet , your heroes ordered about like dogs by the yanks. Oh how we laugh.RobD said:
It's hard not to poke fun at the Nat-onal.Theuniondivvie said:
Pavlov's Yoons will respond as expected.williamglenn said:twitter.com/scotnational/status/851173693862678532
O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!0 -
I have only one issue with The National.Theuniondivvie said:
A Pavlovian compulsion, one might say..RobD said:
It's hard not to poke fun at the Nat-onal.Theuniondivvie said:
Pavlov's Yoons will respond as expected.williamglenn said:twitter.com/scotnational/status/851173693862678532
That columnist they have that speaks some weird Scottish, do people really speak like that in Scotland?
Edit: Rab Wilson is the fella that I'm talking about.0 -
Could well be. Speith in the water on 12.tlg86 said:
It's all over. Rose will be wearing the Green Jacket in a couple of hours. Spieth, LOL!Tim_B said:Rose (-8) over Sergio by 1 thru 10. Now it begins: the biggest pressure cooker in golf. The back 9 on masters Sunday. Sergio's drive on 11 looks like trouble again.
If Kuchar finishes birdie birdie following the ace on 16 he'll be in the clubhouse at -7.0 -
Sergio f***** on 11. The azaleas may be over, but Rose is in full bloom this week.Tim_B said:
Could well be. Speith in the water on 12.tlg86 said:
It's all over. Rose will be wearing the Green Jacket in a couple of hours. Spieth, LOL!Tim_B said:Rose (-8) over Sergio by 1 thru 10. Now it begins: the biggest pressure cooker in golf. The back 9 on masters Sunday. Sergio's drive on 11 looks like trouble again.
If Kuchar finishes birdie birdie following the ace on 16 he'll be in the clubhouse at -7.
EDIT: Very good recovery from Garcia. What is it about him and trees?0 -
That is a simply TERRIBLE line!tlg86 said:
Sergio f***** on 11. The azaleas may be over, but Rose is in full bloom this week.Tim_B said:
Could well be. Speith in the water on 12.tlg86 said:
It's all over. Rose will be wearing the Green Jacket in a couple of hours. Spieth, LOL!Tim_B said:Rose (-8) over Sergio by 1 thru 10. Now it begins: the biggest pressure cooker in golf. The back 9 on masters Sunday. Sergio's drive on 11 looks like trouble again.
If Kuchar finishes birdie birdie following the ace on 16 he'll be in the clubhouse at -7.
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But Rose does even better on 11 approach.tlg86 said:
Sergio f***** on 11. The azaleas may be over, but Rose is in full bloom this week.Tim_B said:
Could well be. Speith in the water on 12.tlg86 said:
It's all over. Rose will be wearing the Green Jacket in a couple of hours. Spieth, LOL!Tim_B said:Rose (-8) over Sergio by 1 thru 10. Now it begins: the biggest pressure cooker in golf. The back 9 on masters Sunday. Sergio's drive on 11 looks like trouble again.
If Kuchar finishes birdie birdie following the ace on 16 he'll be in the clubhouse at -7.
EDIT: Very good recovery from Garcia. What is it about him and trees?
I remember standing on 11 getting soaking wet watching Faldo win almost 30 years ago0 -
I believe Anjem Choudhury was born in the UK, so not a migrant.chestnut said:
I've no idea what you hoping to demonstrate. None at all.foxinsoxuk said:And non EU migrants are about as numerous as EU, and more likely to settle permenantly alongside existing communities.
That Anjem Choudhury and Winston Silcott are more likely to settle than Lech Walesa? What?
I was merely pointing out that most of the adverse impacts of immigration are from non EU migrants, while EU migrants are more dispersed, in tax paying employment and assimilating rapidly. In a few years, apart from challenging names to spell, they will be indistinguishable from other Britons.0 -
I'd expect Ewan Murray on Sky Sports to come out with something like that if he does win.Tim_B said:
That is a simply TERRIBLE line!tlg86 said:
Sergio f***** on 11. The azaleas may be over, but Rose is in full bloom this week.Tim_B said:
Could well be. Speith in the water on 12.tlg86 said:
It's all over. Rose will be wearing the Green Jacket in a couple of hours. Spieth, LOL!Tim_B said:Rose (-8) over Sergio by 1 thru 10. Now it begins: the biggest pressure cooker in golf. The back 9 on masters Sunday. Sergio's drive on 11 looks like trouble again.
If Kuchar finishes birdie birdie following the ace on 16 he'll be in the clubhouse at -7.0 -
It's just been revoked!Tim_B said:
That is a simply TERRIBLE line!tlg86 said:
Sergio f***** on 11. The azaleas may be over, but Rose is in full bloom this week.Tim_B said:
Could well be. Speith in the water on 12.tlg86 said:
It's all over. Rose will be wearing the Green Jacket in a couple of hours. Spieth, LOL!Tim_B said:Rose (-8) over Sergio by 1 thru 10. Now it begins: the biggest pressure cooker in golf. The back 9 on masters Sunday. Sergio's drive on 11 looks like trouble again.
If Kuchar finishes birdie birdie following the ace on 16 he'll be in the clubhouse at -7.0 -
You might like the one star Johns house in nearby Mountsorrel. The tasting menu is a not unreasonable £70. Not too bad for a special occasion, about the same as my Champions League tickets for next week...TwistedFireStopper said:
Six hundred quid on one meal? I've genuinely bought cheaper cars!Charles said:
Cinq was the dullest most overpriced restaurant I've been too. I even splashed out on a 1990 Vosne Romanie which they served chilled to death.AlastairMeeks said:
It's a very amusing review. On one point of detail, the handbag stool is not that unusual (I ate in a very nice but not Michelin-starred restaurant in Munich two weeks ago with handbag stools at every table). In Central Europe it's unlucky to put your bag on the floor.SeanT said:
Disagree. I find both disappointing, the new Top Gear is still pretty desperate and contrived, the Grand Tour is over-scripted, but has glimpses of genius - but nowhere near enough, yet.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best effortsviewcode said:I have clocked off work and prepared a tasty meal, ready to sit down and watch NewTopGear, with the wonderful Joey from Friends, the bald white one, the bald black one, the sexy German and the elderly goateed pervert. I switch on the telly and there's some ridiculous fucking golf thing going on until midnight. I am forced to watch the Fellowship of the Ring on ITV2, a film I can damn nearly recite by now.
I am sorely vexed.
Quick, somebody give me a leaver using statistics poorly so I can express my wrath.
(Looks down the list)
Ah...
The viewing figures for both are dire in comparison to the Old Top Gear.
The BBC's Top Gear will become what it was, a niche programme for petrolheads, with minimal foreign viewers (so the BBC will lose squillions), the fate of Grand Tour depends on Clarkson's ability to re-invent himself one more time - who knows.
Talking of the old-ish making way for the new-ish, did anyone read Jay Rayner's brilliant evisceration of Le Cinq restaurant in Paris in the Observer today? The best hatchet job on a restaurant I have seen, maybe ever. Better than AA Gill in his prime. French food is really fucked, on many levels.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
I have not been back in a decade.
http://www.johnshouse.co.uk/0 -
RACIST REMAINER!foxinsoxuk said:
I believe Anjem Choudhury was born in the UK, so not a migrant.chestnut said:
I've no idea what you hoping to demonstrate. None at all.foxinsoxuk said:And non EU migrants are about as numerous as EU, and more likely to settle permenantly alongside existing communities.
That Anjem Choudhury and Winston Silcott are more likely to settle than Lech Walesa? What?
I was merely pointing out that most of the adverse impacts of immigration are from non EU migrants, while EU migrants are more dispersed, in tax paying employment and assimilating rapidly. In a few years, apart from challenging names to spell, they will be indistinguishable from other Britons.0 -
You lucky git.Tim_B said:
But Rose does even better on 11 approach.tlg86 said:
Sergio f***** on 11. The azaleas may be over, but Rose is in full bloom this week.Tim_B said:
Could well be. Speith in the water on 12.tlg86 said:
It's all over. Rose will be wearing the Green Jacket in a couple of hours. Spieth, LOL!Tim_B said:Rose (-8) over Sergio by 1 thru 10. Now it begins: the biggest pressure cooker in golf. The back 9 on masters Sunday. Sergio's drive on 11 looks like trouble again.
If Kuchar finishes birdie birdie following the ace on 16 he'll be in the clubhouse at -7.
EDIT: Very good recovery from Garcia. What is it about him and trees?
I remember standing on 11 getting soaking wet watching Faldo win almost 30 years ago0 -
They do, or variations thereof.TheScreamingEagles said:
I have only one issue with The National.Theuniondivvie said:
A Pavlovian compulsion, one might say..RobD said:
It's hard not to poke fun at the Nat-onal.Theuniondivvie said:
Pavlov's Yoons will respond as expected.williamglenn said:twitter.com/scotnational/status/851173693862678532
That columnist they have that speaks some weird Scottish, do people really speak like that in Scotland?
Edit: Rab Wilson is the fella that I'm talking about.
Imagine hardcore Scally put into print.0 -
Thanks.Theuniondivvie said:
They do, or variations thereof.TheScreamingEagles said:
I have only one issue with The National.Theuniondivvie said:
A Pavlovian compulsion, one might say..RobD said:
It's hard not to poke fun at the Nat-onal.Theuniondivvie said:
Pavlov's Yoons will respond as expected.williamglenn said:twitter.com/scotnational/status/851173693862678532
That columnist they have that speaks some weird Scottish, do people really speak like that in Scotland?
Edit: Rab Wilson is the fella that I'm talking about.
Imagine hardcore Scally put into print.0 -
Not really - I got soaking wet.tlg86 said:
You lucky git.Tim_B said:
But Rose does even better on 11 approach.tlg86 said:
Sergio f***** on 11. The azaleas may be over, but Rose is in full bloom this week.Tim_B said:
Could well be. Speith in the water on 12.tlg86 said:
It's all over. Rose will be wearing the Green Jacket in a couple of hours. Spieth, LOL!Tim_B said:Rose (-8) over Sergio by 1 thru 10. Now it begins: the biggest pressure cooker in golf. The back 9 on masters Sunday. Sergio's drive on 11 looks like trouble again.
If Kuchar finishes birdie birdie following the ace on 16 he'll be in the clubhouse at -7.
EDIT: Very good recovery from Garcia. What is it about him and trees?
I remember standing on 11 getting soaking wet watching Faldo win almost 30 years ago
I was on the scoring committee at The Masters for 4 years. I lived in Augusta for 11 years.
Fun fact - the 11th green is the only place on the course that doesn't slope towards Rae's Creek.
The first year I was there, I watched the honorary starters - Sam Snead, Gene Sarazen and Byron Nelson.0 -
Calling all brexiteers,
Based on the facts as presented in the article, does anyone actually have a problem with our country granting this young lady a British passport?
http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/french-born-ipswich-student-denied-british-citizenship-despite-having-british-mother-1-4964524
Do you consider her a different nationality, other than British?0 -
English is the best language in the world!Theuniondivvie said:
They do, or variations thereof.TheScreamingEagles said:
I have only one issue with The National.Theuniondivvie said:
A Pavlovian compulsion, one might say..RobD said:
It's hard not to poke fun at the Nat-onal.Theuniondivvie said:
Pavlov's Yoons will respond as expected.williamglenn said:twitter.com/scotnational/status/851173693862678532
That columnist they have that speaks some weird Scottish, do people really speak like that in Scotland?
Edit: Rab Wilson is the fella that I'm talking about.
Imagine hardcore Scally put into print.0 -
This is where the migrants are sent... & when the existing population complain they're called racist. Wonder why they stuck two fingers up last June
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/8511801986577612800 -
Of all the claims to fame from people on this site, I rank that as number 1. Pieters at -6 could set a decent target but Rose is looking very good right now.Tim_B said:
Not really - I got soaking wet.tlg86 said:
You lucky git.Tim_B said:
But Rose does even better on 11 approach.tlg86 said:
Sergio f***** on 11. The azaleas may be over, but Rose is in full bloom this week.Tim_B said:
Could well be. Speith in the water on 12.tlg86 said:
It's all over. Rose will be wearing the Green Jacket in a couple of hours. Spieth, LOL!Tim_B said:Rose (-8) over Sergio by 1 thru 10. Now it begins: the biggest pressure cooker in golf. The back 9 on masters Sunday. Sergio's drive on 11 looks like trouble again.
If Kuchar finishes birdie birdie following the ace on 16 he'll be in the clubhouse at -7.
EDIT: Very good recovery from Garcia. What is it about him and trees?
I remember standing on 11 getting soaking wet watching Faldo win almost 30 years ago
I was on the scoring committee at The Masters for 4 years. I lived in Augusta for 11 years.
Fun fact - the 11th green is the only place on the course that doesn't slope towards Rae's Creek.0 -
On the basis of that article alone it is hard to see why we wouldn't.Pong said:Calling all brexiteers,
Based on the facts as presented in the article, does anyone actually have a problem with our country granting this young lady a British passport?
http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/french-born-ipswich-student-denied-british-citizenship-despite-having-british-mother-1-4964524
Do you consider her a different nationality, other than British?0 -
See this is the casus belli for Putin making Corbyn PM
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/8511865246077214720 -
The joys of an expense account!malcolmg said:
Like you spending a pound on a burger to a multi-squillionaire. He does love to boast about having squillions.TwistedFireStopper said:
Six hundred quid on one meal? I've genuinely bought cheaper cars!Charles said:
Cinq was the dullest most overpriced restaurant I've been too. I even splashed out on a 1990 Vosne Romanie which they served chilled to death.AlastairMeeks said:
It's a very amusing review. On one point of detail, the handbag stool is not that unusual (I ate in a very nice but not Michelin-starred restaurant in Munich two weeks ago with handbag stools at every table). In Central Europe it's unlucky to put your bag on the floor.SeanT said:
Disagree. I find both disappointing, the new Top Gear is still pretty desperate and contrived, the Grand Tour is over-scripted, but has glimpses of genius - but nowhere near enough, yet.foxinsoxuk said:
I am with viewcode, New Top Gear series 2 is rather good. It has grown on me, while The Grand Tour has faded. Victory to Auntie methinks.HYUFD said:
Fair to say the gripping Masters' battle between Rose and Garcia will be more than a replacement for Top Gear, which is now a shadow of its former self without the original trio, despite Le Blanc's best efforts
The viewing figures for both are dire in comparison to the Old Top Gear.
The BBC's Top Gear will become what it was, a niche programme for petrolheads, with minimal foreign viewers (so the BBC will lose squillions), the fate of Grand Tour depends on Clarkson's ability to re-invent himself one more time - who knows.
Talking of the old-ish making way for the new-ish, did anyone read Jay Rayner's brilliant evisceration of Le Cinq restaurant in Paris in the Observer today? The best hatchet job on a restaurant I have seen, maybe ever. Better than AA Gill in his prime. French food is really fucked, on many levels.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq-paris-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
I have not been back in a decade.
Personally I rarely spend more than 30-40 per head on food (although I do splash out on good wine)0 -
My first year on the committee Nicklaus won his 6th. It was utter magic. I had an all access pass and my desk was in the Post Office in the clubhouse.tlg86 said:
Of all the claims to fame from people on this site, I rank that as number 1. Pieters at -6 could set a decent target but Rose is looking very good right now.Tim_B said:
Not really - I got soaking wet.tlg86 said:
You lucky git.Tim_B said:
But Rose does even better on 11 approach.tlg86 said:
Sergio f***** on 11. The azaleas may be over, but Rose is in full bloom this week.Tim_B said:
Could well be. Speith in the water on 12.tlg86 said:
It's all over. Rose will be wearing the Green Jacket in a couple of hours. Spieth, LOL!Tim_B said:Rose (-8) over Sergio by 1 thru 10. Now it begins: the biggest pressure cooker in golf. The back 9 on masters Sunday. Sergio's drive on 11 looks like trouble again.
If Kuchar finishes birdie birdie following the ace on 16 he'll be in the clubhouse at -7.
EDIT: Very good recovery from Garcia. What is it about him and trees?
I remember standing on 11 getting soaking wet watching Faldo win almost 30 years ago
I was on the scoring committee at The Masters for 4 years. I lived in Augusta for 11 years.
Fun fact - the 11th green is the only place on the course that doesn't slope towards Rae's Creek.0 -
If I ever, through luck or hard work, find myself with extraordinary wealth, I will only ever consume food which is either hideously overpriced, or normal but literally served off the backs of local poor people. Rich man's human table would still count toward the employment statistics, right?0
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No she's not a different nationality.Pong said:Calling all brexiteers,
Based on the facts as presented in the article, does anyone actually have a problem with our country granting this young lady a British passport?
http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/french-born-ipswich-student-denied-british-citizenship-despite-having-british-mother-1-4964524
Do you consider her a different nationality, other than British?
But if the rules say "include X with your application" and you don't you shouldn't expect to be successful0 -
Just look at the crowds Melenchon is pulling in. This was him today in Marseille.Casino_Royale said:
I'm the same. And now very red on both Fillon and Le Pen.Pulpstar said:
Macron-Melenchon is the dream.BudG said:
Melenchon is the one that will give Macron the toughest fight in the final round, if he gets through.Cyan said:
And Poutou is up to 2.5%. Perhaps some polls will soon have Mélenchon in second place. He's certainly got some momentum.BudG said:
Melenchon on 6 from the Kantar Sofres previous poll. Le Pen and Macron both down 2 and Fillon stagnant.Pulpstar said:
That's what I'm talking aboutBudG said:First poll showing Melenchon ahead of Fillon:
Macron 24%
Le Pen 24%
Melenchon 18%
Fillon 17%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_French_presidential_election,_2017
Head to heads
Melenchon beats Le Pen 57-43 and narrowly loses to Macron 53-47
53-47 head to head can easily be turned around in the TV debate ahead of the final vote, given Melenchon's performance in TV debates so far.
Not sure how Fillon is still at 6.0, though I'm red enough on him at the moment.
Fast approaching squeaky bum time.
It's sad that UK campaigns these days are devoid of this kind of public speaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrjWwsV4zS40 -
Are the Kremlin gonna use their evil "mind-control" ray on us, so that we are "persuaded" to vote Corbyn?TheScreamingEagles said:See this is the casus belli for Putin making Corbyn PM
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/8511865246077214720 -
Putin backs Scottish independence so not that surprising The National backs the line from the Kremlinwilliamglenn said:0 -
Sergio in trouble on 13 with his tee shot. Taking an unplayable.His irons go right, and his woods go left. Looks like Rose's to lose now.
Scoreboard looks almost like the Olympics.0 -
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I'd feel embarrassed to go along to such an event and get so worked up about what is sure to be either tedious pablum we've all heard a million times before, or stirringly delivered but likely silly political posturing and vague nonsense.williamglenn said:
Just look at the crowds Melenchon is pulling in. This was him today in Marseille.Casino_Royale said:
I'm the same. And now very red on both Fillon and Le Pen.Pulpstar said:
Macron-Melenchon is the dream.BudG said:
Melenchon is the one that will give Macron the toughest fight in the final round, if he gets through.Cyan said:
And Poutou is up to 2.5%. Perhaps some polls will soon have Mélenchon in second place. He's certainly got some momentum.BudG said:
Melenchon on 6 from the Kantar Sofres previous poll. Le Pen and Macron both down 2 and Fillon stagnant.Pulpstar said:
That's what I'm talking aboutBudG said:First poll showing Melenchon ahead of Fillon:
Macron 24%
Le Pen 24%
Melenchon 18%
Fillon 17%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_French_presidential_election,_2017
Head to heads
Melenchon beats Le Pen 57-43 and narrowly loses to Macron 53-47
53-47 head to head can easily be turned around in the TV debate ahead of the final vote, given Melenchon's performance in TV debates so far.
Not sure how Fillon is still at 6.0, though I'm red enough on him at the moment.
Fast approaching squeaky bum time.
It's sad that UK campaigns these days are devoid of this kind of public speaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrjWwsV4zS4
If the candidate is charismatic and has something genuinely new and interesting to say, while still being more than just talk, I could see the appeal, but how often does that happen?0 -
53% of Leave voters back restoration of the death penalty once the UK leaves the EU
http://www.thenationalstudent.com/National/2017-04-05/over_half_of_leave_voters_would_restore_the_death_penalty_in_the_uk.html0 -
"Quantocks" sounded rude. So by saying "ew" I was juxtaposing the mundane reality of the place name with the more genital interpretation, thereby simultaneously creating tension between the two modes and releasing it with the response, generating humour as the two resolved: the origin of all comedy as Freud speculated.Charles said:
Next week: the fart joke. What is the efficacy of "he who dealt it, smelt it"? We discuss.0 -
Is that particularly surprising? Support generally for the death penalty has been pretty high. This 2014 piece registers support had been falling, but it was still supported more than opposed.HYUFD said:53% of Leave voters back restoration of the death penalty once the UK leaves the EU
http://www.thenationalstudent.com/National/2017-04-05/over_half_of_leave_voters_would_restore_the_death_penalty_in_the_uk.html
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/08/13/capital-punishment-50-years-favoured/
By 45-39% people tend to support the reintroduction of the death penalty for murder.
Support has been dropping steadily - in 2010, 51% were in favour and 37% opposed
Leave voters might be more inclined, but it really doesn't seem an especially Leave/Remain issue - 53% of those who supported Brexit means something like 26% of those who voted in the referendum, meaning a very good portion of Remain voters would presumably support it too.0 -
Hmmm.... guess I'm one of the 47%HYUFD said:53% of Leave voters back restoration of the death penalty once the UK leaves the EU
http://www.thenationalstudent.com/National/2017-04-05/over_half_of_leave_voters_would_restore_the_death_penalty_in_the_uk.html
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As I've said on here before, I used to be pro-death penalty, but following my grand jury involvement in the process, I no longer am pro.HYUFD said:53% of Leave voters back restoration of the death penalty once the UK leaves the EU
http://www.thenationalstudent.com/National/2017-04-05/over_half_of_leave_voters_would_restore_the_death_penalty_in_the_uk.html0 -
Yes, it is one of those issues where MPs are significantly more liberal than the population as a whole, personally I would only consider it for serial killerskle4 said:
Is that particularly surprising? Support generally for the death penalty has been pretty high. This 2014 piece registers support had been falling, but it was still supported more than opposedHYUFD said:53% of Leave voters back restoration of the death penalty once the UK leaves the EU
http://www.thenationalstudent.com/National/2017-04-05/over_half_of_leave_voters_would_restore_the_death_penalty_in_the_uk.html
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/08/13/capital-punishment-50-years-favoured/
By 45-39% people tend to support the reintroduction of the death penalty for murder.
Support has been dropping steadily - in 2010, 51% were in favour and 37% opposed0 -
What's the American response to the suicide bombings in Egypt? Air strikes against IS?0
