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So who is doing it then? Hindus? Russians? Zoroastrians? All the article says is "integration" might be an issue.Nigelb said:
No, it is more likely because Sweden does not officially record ethnicity, so I guess the Guardian were simply reporting the facts as they had themFishing said:
Reading the article, they obviously strained every editorial muscle not to mention the ethnicity of those involved in the bombings.Pulpstar said:
Lol - from that well known right wing rag, the Grauniad tooByronic said:The wonderful enrichment of Swedish life
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/bombs-blood-feuds-malmo-explosions-rocking-swedens-cities
And people wonder why Sweden's leading party, in the polls, is on the Hard Right, and descended from pukka Fascists.
The quote which includes ‘inshallah’ is hardly straining your imaginary editorial muscle...
If you have greater knowledge, please tell us.0 -
Did it take a week there and a week back?Jonathan said:
The year was 1986, my parents, my sister and I head off to Cornwall for two weeks. With us the dog, duvets, pillows and suitcases for the four of us.Casino_Royale said:
One reason for that (having now got a family) is that almost all other cars don't have the spaces for kids and luggage.Pulpstar said:
Estate cars with roofracks used to be a big alternative in the 90s but these seem to have now largely disappeared from the roads.
In a classic mini.
I remember helping my dad force the boot shut. We didn’t need airbags. The pillows did that.0 -
I already told you, dolt.Byronic said:
So who is doing it then? Hindus? Russians? Zoroastrians? All the article says is "integration" might be an issue.Nigelb said:
No, it is more likely because Sweden does not officially record ethnicity, so I guess the Guardian were simply reporting the facts as they had themFishing said:
Reading the article, they obviously strained every editorial muscle not to mention the ethnicity of those involved in the bombings.Pulpstar said:
Lol - from that well known right wing rag, the Grauniad tooByronic said:The wonderful enrichment of Swedish life
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/bombs-blood-feuds-malmo-explosions-rocking-swedens-cities
And people wonder why Sweden's leading party, in the polls, is on the Hard Right, and descended from pukka Fascists.
The quote which includes ‘inshallah’ is hardly straining your imaginary editorial muscle...
If you have greater knowledge, please tell us.0 -
A year or two? Do we really think it'll be that quick?Sunil_Prasannan said:Crossrail's probably still a year or two away from opening, but almost all the stations between Stratford and Shenfield have new purple "roundel" signs in the style of London Underground. Only Romford doesn't at time of writing.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Sunil060902+Crossrail+roundel&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
If HS2 ever gets completed it'll probably have been rendered obsolete by Star Trek-style beaming technology before King George XXIV gets the chance to cut the ribbon.2 -
This one has been doing the rounds a bit, getting little to no coverage in the mainstream media though.Byronic said:
I know. It's kind of impressive, in its own way. A whole story about a wave of terrible violence centred very much on one "community", and they still manage to avoid explicitly identifying it.Fishing said:
Reading the article, they obviously strained every editorial muscle not to mention the ethnicity of those involved in the bombings.Pulpstar said:
Lol - from that well known right wing rag, the Grauniad tooByronic said:The wonderful enrichment of Swedish life
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/bombs-blood-feuds-malmo-explosions-rocking-swedens-cities
And people wonder why Sweden's leading party, in the polls, is on the Hard Right, and descended from pukka Fascists.
Heroic.
https://twitter.com/SwanOfTuonela/status/1220345332418084864?s=20
Warning - one of the images contains some blood.0 -
Ruins the aerodynamics.Black_Rook said:
The roof rack is overdue a return. If you strap the children to it then you don't have to listen to their moaning and bickering all the time, nor do you have to stop every few miles for wee-wee or risk spoiling the interior of the vehicle, and all the insects flying into their mouths will provide good nutrition and reduce the requirement to feed them. I mean, what's not to like?Casino_Royale said:
One reason for that (having now got a family) is that almost all other cars don't have the spaces for kids and luggage.Pulpstar said:
Estate cars with roofracks used to be a big alternative in the 90s but these seem to have now largely disappeared from the roads.
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Are we more concerned about Muslim gangsters or the Guardian being coy about it?0
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No you didn't. So who is it?Nigelb said:
I already told you, dolt.Byronic said:
So who is doing it then? Hindus? Russians? Zoroastrians? All the article says is "integration" might be an issue.Nigelb said:
No, it is more likely because Sweden does not officially record ethnicity, so I guess the Guardian were simply reporting the facts as they had themFishing said:
Reading the article, they obviously strained every editorial muscle not to mention the ethnicity of those involved in the bombings.Pulpstar said:
Lol - from that well known right wing rag, the Grauniad tooByronic said:The wonderful enrichment of Swedish life
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/bombs-blood-feuds-malmo-explosions-rocking-swedens-cities
And people wonder why Sweden's leading party, in the polls, is on the Hard Right, and descended from pukka Fascists.
The quote which includes ‘inshallah’ is hardly straining your imaginary editorial muscle...
If you have greater knowledge, please tell us.0 -
If we're lucky interstellar travel will be as in the Commonwealth saga by Peter Hamilton, in which trainlines go through artificial wormholes to different planets, and that way all this investment will really last for the future.Black_Rook said:
A year or two? Do we really think it'll be that quick?Sunil_Prasannan said:Crossrail's probably still a year or two away from opening, but almost all the stations between Stratford and Shenfield have new purple "roundel" signs in the style of London Underground. Only Romford doesn't at time of writing.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Sunil060902+Crossrail+roundel&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
If HS2 ever gets completed it'll probably have been rendered obsolete by Star Trek-style beaming technology before King George XXIV gets the chance to cut the ribbon.0 -
Crossrail is basically finished. It's just the systems integration and dynamic testing that's outstanding.Black_Rook said:
A year or two? Do we really think it'll be that quick?Sunil_Prasannan said:Crossrail's probably still a year or two away from opening, but almost all the stations between Stratford and Shenfield have new purple "roundel" signs in the style of London Underground. Only Romford doesn't at time of writing.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Sunil060902+Crossrail+roundel&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
If HS2 ever gets completed it'll probably have been rendered obsolete by Star Trek-style beaming technology before King George XXIV gets the chance to cut the ribbon.
Unfortunately it ain't going anywhere until it can be proved it's 100% safe and at least 98%+ reliable to it's very high frequency timetable, and that may require testing, fixing, retesting and repatching software, and then testing again.
So yes, I can see it taking at least another two years. No-one understands just how hard or long systems integration is in a railway project, and it's always underestimated.2 -
"Ruins" might be overstating things a little, and the problem can be mitigated by investing in a cheap deflector to mount on the roof above the windscreen (albeit admittedly at the cost of depriving the kids of all the valuable free insect protein.)Nigelb said:
Ruins the aerodynamics.Black_Rook said:
The roof rack is overdue a return. If you strap the children to it then you don't have to listen to their moaning and bickering all the time, nor do you have to stop every few miles for wee-wee or risk spoiling the interior of the vehicle, and all the insects flying into their mouths will provide good nutrition and reduce the requirement to feed them. I mean, what's not to like?Casino_Royale said:
One reason for that (having now got a family) is that almost all other cars don't have the spaces for kids and luggage.Pulpstar said:
Estate cars with roofracks used to be a big alternative in the 90s but these seem to have now largely disappeared from the roads.
Anyway, think of another obvious compensation: with plenty of room released in the car itself for luggage, your valuable suitcases won't get bashed about, and there's room for more of them. So a selection of evening wear can be brought along, for all those nice dinners you'll be enjoying after the kids have been sedated and locked in the hotel room for the night.1 -
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Vegans? Ovo-lacto-vegetarians?Byronic said:
No you didn't. So who is it?Nigelb said:
I already told you, dolt.Byronic said:
So who is doing it then? Hindus? Russians? Zoroastrians? All the article says is "integration" might be an issue.Nigelb said:
No, it is more likely because Sweden does not officially record ethnicity, so I guess the Guardian were simply reporting the facts as they had themFishing said:
Reading the article, they obviously strained every editorial muscle not to mention the ethnicity of those involved in the bombings.Pulpstar said:
Lol - from that well known right wing rag, the Grauniad tooByronic said:The wonderful enrichment of Swedish life
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/bombs-blood-feuds-malmo-explosions-rocking-swedens-cities
And people wonder why Sweden's leading party, in the polls, is on the Hard Right, and descended from pukka Fascists.
The quote which includes ‘inshallah’ is hardly straining your imaginary editorial muscle...
If you have greater knowledge, please tell us.0 -
Is that the Swedish Katie Hopkins?0
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Hence the fact that it would, presumably, be quicker and cheaper to build a new motorway from London to Glasgow and commission a fleet of gold-plated buses to run up and down it than it would be to construct HS2?Casino_Royale said:
Crossrail is basically finished. It's just the systems integration and dynamic testing that's outstanding.Black_Rook said:
A year or two? Do we really think it'll be that quick?Sunil_Prasannan said:Crossrail's probably still a year or two away from opening, but almost all the stations between Stratford and Shenfield have new purple "roundel" signs in the style of London Underground. Only Romford doesn't at time of writing.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Sunil060902+Crossrail+roundel&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
If HS2 ever gets completed it'll probably have been rendered obsolete by Star Trek-style beaming technology before King George XXIV gets the chance to cut the ribbon.
Unfortunately it ain't going anywhere until it can be proved it's 100% safe and at least 98%+ reliable to it's very high frequency timetable, and that may require testing, fixing, retesting and repatching software, and then testing again.
So yes, I can see it taking at least another two years. No-one understands just how hard or long systems integration is in a railway project, and it's always underestimated.
If HS2 is really about capacity rather than speed then there's your answer, *AND* the buses have this miraculous ability to depart the motorway and serve other destinations at any point.0 -
I don't have a clue. Apparently Nigelb knows, but he's not telling us.Sunil_Prasannan said:
Vegans? Ovo-lacto-vegetarians?Byronic said:
No you didn't. So who is it?Nigelb said:
I already told you, dolt.Byronic said:
So who is doing it then? Hindus? Russians? Zoroastrians? All the article says is "integration" might be an issue.Nigelb said:
No, it is more likely because Sweden does not officially record ethnicity, so I guess the Guardian were simply reporting the facts as they had themFishing said:
Reading the article, they obviously strained every editorial muscle not to mention the ethnicity of those involved in the bombings.Pulpstar said:
Lol - from that well known right wing rag, the Grauniad tooByronic said:The wonderful enrichment of Swedish life
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/bombs-blood-feuds-malmo-explosions-rocking-swedens-cities
And people wonder why Sweden's leading party, in the polls, is on the Hard Right, and descended from pukka Fascists.
The quote which includes ‘inshallah’ is hardly straining your imaginary editorial muscle...
If you have greater knowledge, please tell us.
A mystery indeed0 -
Devotees of Alan's SnackbarByronic said:
So who is doing it then? Hindus? Russians? Zoroastrians? All the article says is "integration" might be an issue.Nigelb said:
No, it is more likely because Sweden does not officially record ethnicity, so I guess the Guardian were simply reporting the facts as they had themFishing said:
Reading the article, they obviously strained every editorial muscle not to mention the ethnicity of those involved in the bombings.Pulpstar said:
Lol - from that well known right wing rag, the Grauniad tooByronic said:The wonderful enrichment of Swedish life
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/bombs-blood-feuds-malmo-explosions-rocking-swedens-cities
And people wonder why Sweden's leading party, in the polls, is on the Hard Right, and descended from pukka Fascists.
The quote which includes ‘inshallah’ is hardly straining your imaginary editorial muscle...
If you have greater knowledge, please tell us.0 -
7 glorious hours, and that was mostly getting out of the back seat.MarqueeMark said:
Did it take a week there and a week back?Jonathan said:
The year was 1986, my parents, my sister and I head off to Cornwall for two weeks. With us the dog, duvets, pillows and suitcases for the four of us.Casino_Royale said:
One reason for that (having now got a family) is that almost all other cars don't have the spaces for kids and luggage.Pulpstar said:
Estate cars with roofracks used to be a big alternative in the 90s but these seem to have now largely disappeared from the roads.
In a classic mini.
I remember helping my dad force the boot shut. We didn’t need airbags. The pillows did that.1 -
Is ignorance as blissful as they make out?Black_Rook said:Hence the fact that it would, presumably, be quicker and cheaper to build a new motorway from London to Glasgow and commission a fleet of gold-plated buses to run up and down it than it would be to construct HS2?
If HS2 is really about capacity rather than speed then there's your answer, *AND* the buses have this miraculous ability to depart the motorway and serve other destinations at any point.0 -
One in each town. What could possible go wrong?ralphmalph said:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51233444
Rolls Royce this week confirmed that it is to go ahead and manufacture mini-nukes. Seeing as this project has been done with the aid of Govt money i.e Tory Govt money then the right is providing and supporting solutions.
"We just Blackburn" the Govt. confirmed tonight.
It comes barely three months after ISIS destroyed the reactor in Weston-super-Mare, leading to the evacuation of Bristol....."0 -
I have had actual people complaining to me over the terrible government policy regarding offshore wind - apparently it is very hard to find reasons to stop the projects so they go through far too quickly.Black_Rook said:
A year or two? Do we really think it'll be that quick?Sunil_Prasannan said:Crossrail's probably still a year or two away from opening, but almost all the stations between Stratford and Shenfield have new purple "roundel" signs in the style of London Underground. Only Romford doesn't at time of writing.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Sunil060902+Crossrail+roundel&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
If HS2 ever gets completed it'll probably have been rendered obsolete by Star Trek-style beaming technology before King George XXIV gets the chance to cut the ribbon.0 -
Such a new motorway would be even less popular, and probably more expensive. Then you have the sustainability issues. Railways have a very low coefficient of friction and are far more efficient at carrying heavy loads at speed for limited energy outlay. Not to mention all the extra civils work (spoil and concrete) required of a new trunk road.Black_Rook said:
Hence the fact that it would, presumably, be quicker and cheaper to build a new motorway from London to Glasgow and commission a fleet of gold-plated buses to run up and down it than it would be to construct HS2?Casino_Royale said:
Crossrail is basically finished. It's just the systems integration and dynamic testing that's outstanding.Black_Rook said:
A year or two? Do we really think it'll be that quick?Sunil_Prasannan said:Crossrail's probably still a year or two away from opening, but almost all the stations between Stratford and Shenfield have new purple "roundel" signs in the style of London Underground. Only Romford doesn't at time of writing.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Sunil060902+Crossrail+roundel&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
If HS2 ever gets completed it'll probably have been rendered obsolete by Star Trek-style beaming technology before King George XXIV gets the chance to cut the ribbon.
Unfortunately it ain't going anywhere until it can be proved it's 100% safe and at least 98%+ reliable to it's very high frequency timetable, and that may require testing, fixing, retesting and repatching software, and then testing again.
So yes, I can see it taking at least another two years. No-one understands just how hard or long systems integration is in a railway project, and it's always underestimated.
If HS2 is really about capacity rather than speed then there's your answer, *AND* the buses have this miraculous ability to depart the motorway and serve other destinations at any point.
People are far less tolerant of new roads than they are of new railways.0 -
For octuple points you could put the "Phase II*" power trains from the new Routemaster buses in them....Black_Rook said:
Hence the fact that it would, presumably, be quicker and cheaper to build a new motorway from London to Glasgow and commission a fleet of gold-plated buses to run up and down it than it would be to construct HS2?Casino_Royale said:
Crossrail is basically finished. It's just the systems integration and dynamic testing that's outstanding.Black_Rook said:
A year or two? Do we really think it'll be that quick?Sunil_Prasannan said:Crossrail's probably still a year or two away from opening, but almost all the stations between Stratford and Shenfield have new purple "roundel" signs in the style of London Underground. Only Romford doesn't at time of writing.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Sunil060902+Crossrail+roundel&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
If HS2 ever gets completed it'll probably have been rendered obsolete by Star Trek-style beaming technology before King George XXIV gets the chance to cut the ribbon.
Unfortunately it ain't going anywhere until it can be proved it's 100% safe and at least 98%+ reliable to it's very high frequency timetable, and that may require testing, fixing, retesting and repatching software, and then testing again.
So yes, I can see it taking at least another two years. No-one understands just how hard or long systems integration is in a railway project, and it's always underestimated.
If HS2 is really about capacity rather than speed then there's your answer, *AND* the buses have this miraculous ability to depart the motorway and serve other destinations at any point.
*The plan for the Routemaster design was to start with a hybrid design, but make them upgradeable to fully electric when battery prices dropped.0 -
Hence some of the more comic rage at what Elon Musk's Boring Company is doing. Aside from the Hyperloop stuff, what he is trying to do is automate tunnelling. If you do that at sufficient depth, then an enormous planning problem arrises....Casino_Royale said:
Such a new motorway would be even less popular, and probably more expensive. Then you have the sustainability issues. Railways have a very low coefficient of friction and are far more efficient at carrying heavy loads at speed for limited energy outlay. Not to mention all the extra civils work (spoil and concrete) required of a new trunk road.Black_Rook said:
Hence the fact that it would, presumably, be quicker and cheaper to build a new motorway from London to Glasgow and commission a fleet of gold-plated buses to run up and down it than it would be to construct HS2?Casino_Royale said:
Crossrail is basically finished. It's just the systems integration and dynamic testing that's outstanding.Black_Rook said:
A year or two? Do we really think it'll be that quick?Sunil_Prasannan said:Crossrail's probably still a year or two away from opening, but almost all the stations between Stratford and Shenfield have new purple "roundel" signs in the style of London Underground. Only Romford doesn't at time of writing.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Sunil060902+Crossrail+roundel&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
If HS2 ever gets completed it'll probably have been rendered obsolete by Star Trek-style beaming technology before King George XXIV gets the chance to cut the ribbon.
Unfortunately it ain't going anywhere until it can be proved it's 100% safe and at least 98%+ reliable to it's very high frequency timetable, and that may require testing, fixing, retesting and repatching software, and then testing again.
So yes, I can see it taking at least another two years. No-one understands just how hard or long systems integration is in a railway project, and it's always underestimated.
If HS2 is really about capacity rather than speed then there's your answer, *AND* the buses have this miraculous ability to depart the motorway and serve other destinations at any point.
People are far less tolerant of new roads than they are of new railways.
How can the whole planning law industry sustain itself on projects where they can't block stuff? How will politicians try and bribe (and receive bribes) from automated tunnelling machines?
HS2 might have been cheaper as 100% tunnel with todays technology....1 -
Rip up the M1 and M6/M74 and turn them into 6-track super railways - service stations can be turned into, er, stations.Casino_Royale said:
Such a new motorway would be even less popular, and probably more expensive. Then you have the sustainability issues. Railways have a very low coefficient of friction and are far more efficient at carrying heavy loads at speed for limited energy outlay. Not to mention all the extra civils work (spoil and concrete) required of a new trunk road.Black_Rook said:
Hence the fact that it would, presumably, be quicker and cheaper to build a new motorway from London to Glasgow and commission a fleet of gold-plated buses to run up and down it than it would be to construct HS2?Casino_Royale said:
Crossrail is basically finished. It's just the systems integration and dynamic testing that's outstanding.Black_Rook said:
A year or two? Do we really think it'll be that quick?Sunil_Prasannan said:Crossrail's probably still a year or two away from opening, but almost all the stations between Stratford and Shenfield have new purple "roundel" signs in the style of London Underground. Only Romford doesn't at time of writing.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Sunil060902+Crossrail+roundel&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
If HS2 ever gets completed it'll probably have been rendered obsolete by Star Trek-style beaming technology before King George XXIV gets the chance to cut the ribbon.
Unfortunately it ain't going anywhere until it can be proved it's 100% safe and at least 98%+ reliable to it's very high frequency timetable, and that may require testing, fixing, retesting and repatching software, and then testing again.
So yes, I can see it taking at least another two years. No-one understands just how hard or long systems integration is in a railway project, and it's always underestimated.
If HS2 is really about capacity rather than speed then there's your answer, *AND* the buses have this miraculous ability to depart the motorway and serve other destinations at any point.
People are far less tolerant of new roads than they are of new railways.
And hey-presto, a new high-speed route from London to Carlisle and Glasgow and London to Birmingham and The North!0 -
No, I just decline to be catechised by those with your trolling instincts.Byronic said:
I don't have a clue. Apparently Nigelb knows, but he's not telling us.Sunil_Prasannan said:
Vegans? Ovo-lacto-vegetarians?Byronic said:
No you didn't. So who is it?Nigelb said:
I already told you, dolt.Byronic said:
So who is doing it then? Hindus? Russians? Zoroastrians? All the article says is "integration" might be an issue.Nigelb said:
No, it is more likely because Sweden does not officially record ethnicity, so I guess the Guardian were simply reporting the facts as they had themFishing said:
Reading the article, they obviously strained every editorial muscle not to mention the ethnicity of those involved in the bombings.Pulpstar said:
Lol - from that well known right wing rag, the Grauniad tooByronic said:The wonderful enrichment of Swedish life
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/bombs-blood-feuds-malmo-explosions-rocking-swedens-cities
And people wonder why Sweden's leading party, in the polls, is on the Hard Right, and descended from pukka Fascists.
The quote which includes ‘inshallah’ is hardly straining your imaginary editorial muscle...
If you have greater knowledge, please tell us.
A mystery indeed0 -
It used to be grenades. Then heavy-duty fireworks. No it is industrial explosives the "gangs" are using. The image of this block of flats in a quiet University town wasn't no firework....
"The use of explosives in the Nordic country is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police."
https://quillette.com/2019/06/11/its-time-for-sweden-to-admit-explosions-are-a-national-emergency/0 -
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I'm still none the wiser. Apparently you know the identity of the "community" here, even though you say Sweden does not gather stats "by ethnicity".Nigelb said:
No, I just decline to be catechised by those with your trolling instincts.Byronic said:
I don't have a clue. Apparently Nigelb knows, but he's not telling us.Sunil_Prasannan said:
Vegans? Ovo-lacto-vegetarians?Byronic said:
No you didn't. So who is it?Nigelb said:
I already told you, dolt.Byronic said:
So who is doing it then? Hindus? Russians? Zoroastrians? All the article says is "integration" might be an issue.Nigelb said:
No, it is more likely because Sweden does not officially record ethnicity, so I guess the Guardian were simply reporting the facts as they had themFishing said:
Reading the article, they obviously strained every editorial muscle not to mention the ethnicity of those involved in the bombings.Pulpstar said:
Lol - from that well known right wing rag, the Grauniad tooByronic said:The wonderful enrichment of Swedish life
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/bombs-blood-feuds-malmo-explosions-rocking-swedens-cities
And people wonder why Sweden's leading party, in the polls, is on the Hard Right, and descended from pukka Fascists.
The quote which includes ‘inshallah’ is hardly straining your imaginary editorial muscle...
If you have greater knowledge, please tell us.
A mystery indeed
So you do know, but you won't tell us? For reasons which are near unfathomable.0 -
Or just build monorails above them.....Sunil_Prasannan said:
Rip up the M1 and M6/M74 and turn them into 6-track super railways - service stations can be turned into, er, stations.Casino_Royale said:
Such a new motorway would be even less popular, and probably more expensive. Then you have the sustainability issues. Railways have a very low coefficient of friction and are far more efficient at carrying heavy loads at speed for limited energy outlay. Not to mention all the extra civils work (spoil and concrete) required of a new trunk road.Black_Rook said:
Hence the fact that it would, presumably, be quicker and cheaper to build a new motorway from London to Glasgow and commission a fleet of gold-plated buses to run up and down it than it would be to construct HS2?Casino_Royale said:
Crossrail is basically finished. It's just the systems integration and dynamic testing that's outstanding.Black_Rook said:
A year or two? Do we really think it'll be that quick?Sunil_Prasannan said:Crossrail's probably still a year or two away from opening, but almost all the stations between Stratford and Shenfield have new purple "roundel" signs in the style of London Underground. Only Romford doesn't at time of writing.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Sunil060902+Crossrail+roundel&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
If HS2 ever gets completed it'll probably have been rendered obsolete by Star Trek-style beaming technology before King George XXIV gets the chance to cut the ribbon.
Unfortunately it ain't going anywhere until it can be proved it's 100% safe and at least 98%+ reliable to it's very high frequency timetable, and that may require testing, fixing, retesting and repatching software, and then testing again.
So yes, I can see it taking at least another two years. No-one understands just how hard or long systems integration is in a railway project, and it's always underestimated.
If HS2 is really about capacity rather than speed then there's your answer, *AND* the buses have this miraculous ability to depart the motorway and serve other destinations at any point.
People are far less tolerant of new roads than they are of new railways.
And hey-presto, a new high-speed route from London to Carlisle and Glasgow and London to Birmingham and The North!
(although, maybe not above Spaghetti Junction!)0 -
You have to read between the lines. Only the penultimate sentence gives a clue.MarqueeMark said:It used to be grenades. Then heavy-duty fireworks. No it is industrial explosives the "gangs" are using. The image of this block of flats in a quiet University town wasn't no firework....
"The use of explosives in the Nordic country is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police."
https://quillette.com/2019/06/11/its-time-for-sweden-to-admit-explosions-are-a-national-emergency/
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There's no need to be rude, I'm just having a bit of fun. Although FWIW even the most extravagant new road building scheme ought to take considerably less than the 200 years it seems it's going to need to run the new railway all the way through to its proposed Northern termini and to actually get the trains operating on it.kinabalu said:
Is ignorance as blissful as they make out?Black_Rook said:Hence the fact that it would, presumably, be quicker and cheaper to build a new motorway from London to Glasgow and commission a fleet of gold-plated buses to run up and down it than it would be to construct HS2?
If HS2 is really about capacity rather than speed then there's your answer, *AND* the buses have this miraculous ability to depart the motorway and serve other destinations at any point.
After all, Crossrail is a fraction of the length of HS2, runs largely on existing tracks, and yet has already taken over ten years to build and shows no immediate signs of being opened. And Crossrail didn't have to put up with the legions of enraged homeowners and environmental campaigners who'll be placard waving and doing their best to disrupt construction every few hundred metres along the route, either. Expect repeated battles over rare snails, great crested newts and thickets of ancient woodland until at least mid-century.0 -
Sweden is in a really bad place and needs to face up to some hard truthsMarqueeMark said:It used to be grenades. Then heavy-duty fireworks. No it is industrial explosives the "gangs" are using. The image of this block of flats in a quiet University town wasn't no firework....
"The use of explosives in the Nordic country is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police."
https://quillette.com/2019/06/11/its-time-for-sweden-to-admit-explosions-are-a-national-emergency/0 -
The same can be said of mass racialised gang rape. We have experienced it, here in the UK, on a scale unprecedented outside war. eg the Red Army raping its way across Germany in 1945.MarqueeMark said:It used to be grenades. Then heavy-duty fireworks. No it is industrial explosives the "gangs" are using. The image of this block of flats in a quiet University town wasn't no firework....
"The use of explosives in the Nordic country is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police."
https://quillette.com/2019/06/11/its-time-for-sweden-to-admit-explosions-are-a-national-emergency/0 -
I always wondered why Scorsese never cast Roger Moore....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51230754
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@Casino_Royale.......
Meat eating in the future will be viewed as disgusting as child abuse...probably more so because a sentient being can survive being abused rather than being eaten
An increasing amount of people find the concept of eating meat viscerally repellant....its only a matter of time before it becomes one of those things that people look back on and say..."eughhhh...did human's seriously do that to intelligent, and emotional mammals?"
Aside from all that...it's just unhygienic to eat animal flesh....google why they chlorinate chicken and anyone would puke.....
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Well animals from foxes to bears to sharks to crocodiles to lions to wolves eat other animalstyson said:@Casino_Royale.......
Meat eating in the future will be viewed as disgusting as child abuse...probably more so because a sentient being can survive being abused rather than being eaten
An increasing amount of people find the concept of eating meat viscerally repellant....its only a matter of time before it becomes one of those things that people look back on and say..."eughhhh...did human's seriously do that to intelligent, and emotional mammals?"
Aside from all that...it's just unhygienic to eat animal flesh....google why they chlorinate chicken and anyone would puke.....1 -
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The only way the Swedish Establishment will be slapped into some awareness is if the Swedish people elect a Far Right government.Floater said:
Sweden is in a really bad place and needs to face up to some hard truthsMarqueeMark said:It used to be grenades. Then heavy-duty fireworks. No it is industrial explosives the "gangs" are using. The image of this block of flats in a quiet University town wasn't no firework....
"The use of explosives in the Nordic country is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police."
https://quillette.com/2019/06/11/its-time-for-sweden-to-admit-explosions-are-a-national-emergency/
According to the latest polls, that is far from impossible
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1220702369790464003?s=20
Indeed I would go further. Eventually the rebellion against multi-culti and mass immigration, in Europe, will produce a Far Right government in a major western nation, like Italy or France.
In this light, Brexit can be seen as the means by which the UK avoids that dire fate. Popular anger has been democratically vented before it gets explosive1 -
I changed my mind and wanted to remain in the end, but while predicting catastophe is fair enough (even if it turns out wrong), the 'country is finished stuff' is a step beyond even that. Surely someone like Grant can see how saying things like that just makes it easier for Boris to claim people overreact abotu how bad things are? He's helping Boris.HYUFD said:0 -
Shame Groucho Marx was not a few years younger.Nigelb said:I always wondered why Scorsese never cast Roger Moore....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51230754
... It turns out that Scorsese "hates it when an actor uses eyebrows to emphasise something. He does not allow eyebrow movement"0 -
Hugh Grant is destroying himself, as a public persona. It is sad.HYUFD said:
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Ah was it obvious? I was just casting my empathy hook. Doesn't always work. ☺Sunil_Prasannan said:Nah, 'course not
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Surely they can receive proper instruction/ training - vegies are luverlyHYUFD said:
Well animals from foxes to bears to sharks to crocodiles to lions to wolves eat other animalstyson said:@Casino_Royale.......
Meat eating in the future will be viewed as disgusting as child abuse...probably more so because a sentient being can survive being abused rather than being eaten
An increasing amount of people find the concept of eating meat viscerally repellant....its only a matter of time before it becomes one of those things that people look back on and say..."eughhhh...did human's seriously do that to intelligent, and emotional mammals?"
Aside from all that...it's just unhygienic to eat animal flesh....google why they chlorinate chicken and anyone would puke.....0 -
HG is truly the luvvy prick of all luvvy pricksHYUFD said:2 -
The greatest quality of a human being is to choose not to do something that harms another entity.....ultimately that quality is what is going to make human beings evolve and thrive and treat the environment and nature kindly....not in my lifetime...but to be a fly on the wall in a 150 years time....I'm in touching distance of it, and can see what it can look like....but will not experience it....HYUFD said:
Well animals from foxes to bears to sharks to crocodiles to lions to wolves eat other animalstyson said:@Casino_Royale.......
Meat eating in the future will be viewed as disgusting as child abuse...probably more so because a sentient being can survive being abused rather than being eaten
An increasing amount of people find the concept of eating meat viscerally repellant....its only a matter of time before it becomes one of those things that people look back on and say..."eughhhh...did human's seriously do that to intelligent, and emotional mammals?"
Aside from all that...it's just unhygienic to eat animal flesh....google why they chlorinate chicken and anyone would puke.....
That is why I look at Greta Thunberg as a pathway to our future...Leonardo de Vinci was supposed to suffer from asbergers....history is sparsely littered with people who have something of the future about them.....
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'England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, as I trust, save Europe by her example'
- Pitt the Younger
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Eh, if he can still act entertainingly, then whatever.Byronic said:
Hugh Grant is destroying himself, as a public persona. It is sad.HYUFD said:
Artists should never touch politics directly. Only obliquely, if at all.
Though I did think he was the worst part of The Gentleman. Irritating and pointless, but for use as a framing device which hardly seemed necessary.0 -
Too absurd a post to even bother responding to.tyson said:@Casino_Royale.......
Meat eating in the future will be viewed as disgusting as child abuse...probably more so because a sentient being can survive being abused rather than being eaten
An increasing amount of people find the concept of eating meat viscerally repellant....its only a matter of time before it becomes one of those things that people look back on and say..."eughhhh...did human's seriously do that to intelligent, and emotional mammals?"
Aside from all that...it's just unhygienic to eat animal flesh....google why they chlorinate chicken and anyone would puke.....
Given the tone, coupled with the day and time of night, I can only assume you've been drinking again.
Go to bed.1 -
I wasn't being rude. I was being punchy.Black_Rook said:There's no need to be rude, I'm just having a bit of fun. Although FWIW even the most extravagant new road building scheme ought to take considerably less than the 200 years it seems it's going to need to run the new railway all the way through to its proposed Northern termini and to actually get the trains operating on it.
After all, Crossrail is a fraction of the length of HS2, runs largely on existing tracks, and yet has already taken over ten years to build and shows no immediate signs of being opened. And Crossrail didn't have to put up with the legions of enraged homeowners and environmental campaigners who'll be placard waving and doing their best to disrupt construction every few hundred metres along the route, either. Expect repeated battles over rare snails, great crested newts and thickets of ancient woodland until at least mid-century.
You are in fact one of my favourite posters. Few write with quite the elegance and authority that you do. But it is very often nonsense and one must not get sucked in.
Are you a male or female construct btw? I can't tell. Which is unusual.0 -
OMG - I believe that's the correct usage.tyson said:
The greatest quality of a human being is to choose not to do something that harms another entity.....ultimately that quality is what is going to make human beings evolve and thrive and treat the environment and nature kindly....not in my lifetime...but to be a fly on the wall in a 150 years time....I'm in touching distance of it, and can see what it can look like....but will not experience it....HYUFD said:
Well animals from foxes to bears to sharks to crocodiles to lions to wolves eat other animalstyson said:@Casino_Royale.......
Meat eating in the future will be viewed as disgusting as child abuse...probably more so because a sentient being can survive being abused rather than being eaten
An increasing amount of people find the concept of eating meat viscerally repellant....its only a matter of time before it becomes one of those things that people look back on and say..."eughhhh...did human's seriously do that to intelligent, and emotional mammals?"
Aside from all that...it's just unhygienic to eat animal flesh....google why they chlorinate chicken and anyone would puke.....
That is why I look at Greta Thunberg as a pathway to our future...Leonardo de Vinci was supposed to suffer from asbergers....history is sparsely littered with people who have something of the future about them.....0 -
It's not an uncommon sci-fi trope that in the future people will look back at the concept of eating actual meat as repellant, but no one will look back and say that because they will know human's didn't have the capability to manufacture meat substitutes at the time, and that being omnivores was part of humanity's development even where vegetarianism became viable later. So no one will ever act surprised we used to eat meat, that's just stupid.tyson said:@Casino_Royale.......
Meat eating in the future will be viewed as disgusting as child abuse...probably more so because a sentient being can survive being abused rather than being eaten
An increasing amount of people find the concept of eating meat viscerally repellant....its only a matter of time before it becomes one of those things that people look back on and say..."eughhhh...did human's seriously do that to intelligent, and emotional mammals?"0 -
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I don't think there's much sense in trying to talk sense in these circumstances, but I'm pleased you toned down the "stupid".kle4 said:
It's not an uncommon sci-fi trope that in the future people will look back at the concept of eating actual meat as repellant, but no one will look back and say that because they will know human's didn't have the capability to manufacture meat substitutes at the time, and that being omnivores was part of humanity's development even where vegetarianism became viable later. So no one will ever act surprised we used to eat meat, that's just stupid.tyson said:@Casino_Royale.......
Meat eating in the future will be viewed as disgusting as child abuse...probably more so because a sentient being can survive being abused rather than being eaten
An increasing amount of people find the concept of eating meat viscerally repellant....its only a matter of time before it becomes one of those things that people look back on and say..."eughhhh...did human's seriously do that to intelligent, and emotional mammals?"0 -
I'm actually in a contemplative mode...I've just come back from watching Terence Malick's "A hidden life" this evening.....it was outstanding...Casino_Royale said:
Too absurd a post to even bother responding to.tyson said:@Casino_Royale.......
Meat eating in the future will be viewed as disgusting as child abuse...probably more so because a sentient being can survive being abused rather than being eaten
An increasing amount of people find the concept of eating meat viscerally repellant....its only a matter of time before it becomes one of those things that people look back on and say..."eughhhh...did human's seriously do that to intelligent, and emotional mammals?"
Aside from all that...it's just unhygienic to eat animal flesh....google why they chlorinate chicken and anyone would puke.....
Given the tone, coupled with the day and time of night, I can only assume you've been drinking again.
Go to bed.
I'm going to double down with "Son of Saul" now on BBC player, and so avoid calling you a "fuckwit of the highest calibre"
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Except if your surname is Reagan.Byronic said:
Hugh Grant is destroying himself, as a public persona. It is sad.HYUFD said:
Artists should never touch politics directly. Only obliquely, if at all.
Charlie Hunnam, sitting next to Hugh Grant, got himself into trouble too after saying he was a fan of Jordan Peterson
https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a26871145/charlie-hunnam-jordan-peterson-controversy/0 -
You should try to avoid focusing on your naveltyson said:
I'm actually in a contemplative mode...I've just come back from watching Terence Malick's "A hidden life" this evening.....it was outstanding...Casino_Royale said:
Too absurd a post to even bother responding to.tyson said:@Casino_Royale.......
Meat eating in the future will be viewed as disgusting as child abuse...probably more so because a sentient being can survive being abused rather than being eaten
An increasing amount of people find the concept of eating meat viscerally repellant....its only a matter of time before it becomes one of those things that people look back on and say..."eughhhh...did human's seriously do that to intelligent, and emotional mammals?"
Aside from all that...it's just unhygienic to eat animal flesh....google why they chlorinate chicken and anyone would puke.....
Given the tone, coupled with the day and time of night, I can only assume you've been drinking again.
Go to bed.
I'm going to double down with "Son of Saul" now on BBC player, and so avoid calling you a "fuckwit of the highest calibre"0 -
Are we talking about Huge Grant or @byronic hereCasino_Royale said:0 -
"This is of course the caucases in the midwest state of Iowa which has a reputation of pulling off some surprises"
Indeed.
And the surprise will be Buttigieg.0 -
It might depend on whether you transition from entertainment to politics. Not impossible to do both, but if your living is around entertaining people, there is a risk that politics might get in the way of that, even for the woke, and of course with actors part of the difficulty is their job is pretending to be serious and emotional, when called for, so that when they are genuinely so might be harder for some peopel to fully buy that they mean what they say, or that they are not using their greater charisma or presence to manipulate us even if they don't have a bloody clue what they are on about.HYUFD said:
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https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1221193235437162498/photo/1
HS2 is now the war of brief and counter brief.
I still think Matthew Parris has it right in the Times. This is a transport corridor for the next two generations. Do it.0 -
Moore as Travis Bickle - Why on earth not?Nigelb said:I always wondered why Scorsese never cast Roger Moore....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51230754
... It turns out that Scorsese "hates it when an actor uses eyebrows to emphasise something. He does not allow eyebrow movement"
"Are you addressing me, old sport?"0 -
That was a great article by Parris.rottenborough said:HS2 is now the war of brief and counter brief.
I still think Matthew Parris has it right in the Times. This is a transport corridor for the next two generations. Do it.1 -
Peter Singer, looking a bit like mash up of several PBers, interviewed by Richard Dawkins on the ethics of eating meattyson said:
The greatest quality of a human being is to choose not to do something that harms another entity.....ultimately that quality is what is going to make human beings evolve and thrive and treat the environment and nature kindly....not in my lifetime...but to be a fly on the wall in a 150 years time....I'm in touching distance of it, and can see what it can look like....but will not experience it....HYUFD said:
Well animals from foxes to bears to sharks to crocodiles to lions to wolves eat other animalstyson said:@Casino_Royale.......
Meat eating in the future will be viewed as disgusting as child abuse...probably more so because a sentient being can survive being abused rather than being eaten
An increasing amount of people find the concept of eating meat viscerally repellant....its only a matter of time before it becomes one of those things that people look back on and say..."eughhhh...did human's seriously do that to intelligent, and emotional mammals?"
Aside from all that...it's just unhygienic to eat animal flesh....google why they chlorinate chicken and anyone would puke.....
That is why I look at Greta Thunberg as a pathway to our future...Leonardo de Vinci was supposed to suffer from asbergers....history is sparsely littered with people who have something of the future about them.....
https://youtu.be/GYYNY2oKVWU0 -
The number of nuclear power plants built without public subsidy anywhere in the world is...MaxPB said:
Thorium is a waste of time and money, the technology isn't developing fast enough and it still carries a lot of the negative connotations of nuclear. I used to be a huge proponent in favour of nuclear but the facts have changed since then, renewables are so much cheaper and the mineshaft power storage idea has a lot of potential to solve the problems of peak usage etc...Nigelb said:
This tech is perhaps more interesting:Malmesbury said:
This idea has substantial problems...ralphmalph said:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51233444
Rolls Royce this week confirmed that it is to go ahead and manufacture mini-nukes. Seeing as this project has been done with the aid of Govt money i.e Tory Govt money then the right is providing and supporting solutions.
It is leveraging submarine power plant technology, particularly the natural circulation technology given to us by the US. For those who don't know, the noise a nuclear sub makes is a function of the noise made by the pumps for cooling the reactor. A reactor can generally run at lower power with the coolant being moved by the natural convection in the cooling circuit So "silent" speed for a nuclear sub means the speed at which the sub can run its reactor without pumps. in the case of the old Polaris subs this was 2-3 knots - slow walking speed. The new designs based on the American breakthroughs can achieve much more - the Seawolf class can run at 20+ knots without turning on the pumps....
When applied to land based reactors, this means among other things, that they are much safer, since they only use the pumps for a maximum power operations.
Where are the "substantial problems"? Well, by using a standardised design, that means only one enquiry into the design of the reactor. For all installations. Which in turn means a huge diminution of lawyers earnings per GW installed.
https://www.moltexenergy.com/
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I trust "Huge" was a typo and not first hand knowledgeMikeSmithson said:
Are we talking about Huge Grant or @byronic hereCasino_Royale said:1 -
I quite liked Ronnie, either way.kle4 said:
It might depend on whether you transition from entertainment to politics. Not impossible to do both, but if your living is around entertaining people, there is a risk that politics might get in the way of that, even for the woke, and of course with actors part of the difficulty is their job is pretending to be serious and emotional, when called for, so that when they are genuinely so might be harder for some peopel to fully buy that they mean what they say, or that they are not using their greater charisma or presence to manipulate us even if they don't have a bloody clue what they are on about.HYUFD said:1 -
Could have worked but not with RM - Hollywood loves Brit villainskinabalu said:
Moore as Travis Bickle - Why on earth not?Nigelb said:I always wondered why Scorsese never cast Roger Moore....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51230754
... It turns out that Scorsese "hates it when an actor uses eyebrows to emphasise something. He does not allow eyebrow movement"
"Are you addressing me, old sport?"0 -
I am sure his sex worker friend could enlighten usalterego said:
I trust "Huge" was a typo and not first hand knowledgeMikeSmithson said:
Are we talking about Huge Grant or @byronic hereCasino_Royale said:2 -
BiB - or bat soup...tyson said:@Casino_Royale.......
Meat eating in the future will be viewed as disgusting as child abuse...probably more so because a sentient being can survive being abused rather than being eaten
An increasing amount of people find the concept of eating meat viscerally repellant....its only a matter of time before it becomes one of those things that people look back on and say..."eughhhh...did human's seriously do that to intelligent, and emotional mammals?"
Aside from all that...it's just unhygienic to eat animal flesh....google why they chlorinate chicken and anyone would puke.....
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Is he a PBer?oxfordsimon said:
I am sure his sex worker friend could enlighten usalterego said:
I trust "Huge" was a typo and not first hand knowledgeMikeSmithson said:
Are we talking about Huge Grant or @byronic hereCasino_Royale said:0 -
Are the explosions from Yugoslav gangs or Arab gangs?Byronic said:
The only way the Swedish Establishment will be slapped into some awareness is if the Swedish people elect a Far Right government.Floater said:
Sweden is in a really bad place and needs to face up to some hard truthsMarqueeMark said:It used to be grenades. Then heavy-duty fireworks. No it is industrial explosives the "gangs" are using. The image of this block of flats in a quiet University town wasn't no firework....
"The use of explosives in the Nordic country is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police."
https://quillette.com/2019/06/11/its-time-for-sweden-to-admit-explosions-are-a-national-emergency/
According to the latest polls, that is far from impossible
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1220702369790464003?s=20
Indeed I would go further. Eventually the rebellion against multi-culti and mass immigration, in Europe, will produce a Far Right government in a major western nation, like Italy or France.
In this light, Brexit can be seen as the means by which the UK avoids that dire fate. Popular anger has been democratically vented before it gets explosive0 -
Yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore.Gabs3 said:
Are the explosions from Yugoslav gangs or Arab gangs?Byronic said:
The only way the Swedish Establishment will be slapped into some awareness is if the Swedish people elect a Far Right government.Floater said:
Sweden is in a really bad place and needs to face up to some hard truthsMarqueeMark said:It used to be grenades. Then heavy-duty fireworks. No it is industrial explosives the "gangs" are using. The image of this block of flats in a quiet University town wasn't no firework....
"The use of explosives in the Nordic country is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police."
https://quillette.com/2019/06/11/its-time-for-sweden-to-admit-explosions-are-a-national-emergency/
According to the latest polls, that is far from impossible
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1220702369790464003?s=20
Indeed I would go further. Eventually the rebellion against multi-culti and mass immigration, in Europe, will produce a Far Right government in a major western nation, like Italy or France.
In this light, Brexit can be seen as the means by which the UK avoids that dire fate. Popular anger has been democratically vented before it gets explosive0 -
"The country is finished." Sounds a bit like Peter Hitchens.0
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I was using it as a group term for Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks.rottenborough said:
Yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore.Gabs3 said:
Are the explosions from Yugoslav gangs or Arab gangs?Byronic said:
The only way the Swedish Establishment will be slapped into some awareness is if the Swedish people elect a Far Right government.Floater said:
Sweden is in a really bad place and needs to face up to some hard truthsMarqueeMark said:It used to be grenades. Then heavy-duty fireworks. No it is industrial explosives the "gangs" are using. The image of this block of flats in a quiet University town wasn't no firework....
"The use of explosives in the Nordic country is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police."
https://quillette.com/2019/06/11/its-time-for-sweden-to-admit-explosions-are-a-national-emergency/
According to the latest polls, that is far from impossible
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1220702369790464003?s=20
Indeed I would go further. Eventually the rebellion against multi-culti and mass immigration, in Europe, will produce a Far Right government in a major western nation, like Italy or France.
In this light, Brexit can be seen as the means by which the UK avoids that dire fate. Popular anger has been democratically vented before it gets explosive0 -
Johnson is going to have to write two essays, possibly four to decide this one.kinabalu said:
That was a great article by Parris.rottenborough said:HS2 is now the war of brief and counter brief.
I still think Matthew Parris has it right in the Times. This is a transport corridor for the next two generations. Do it.
It is a massive decision for him and his administration.
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The best zingers money can buy.rottenborough said:0 -
Very funny but it is not going to win over Democrats heading to vote for Sanders who loathe the billionaire classrottenborough said:0 -
Fundamentalist Unitarians.rottenborough said:
Yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore.Gabs3 said:
Are the explosions from Yugoslav gangs or Arab gangs?Byronic said:
The only way the Swedish Establishment will be slapped into some awareness is if the Swedish people elect a Far Right government.Floater said:
Sweden is in a really bad place and needs to face up to some hard truthsMarqueeMark said:It used to be grenades. Then heavy-duty fireworks. No it is industrial explosives the "gangs" are using. The image of this block of flats in a quiet University town wasn't no firework....
"The use of explosives in the Nordic country is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police."
https://quillette.com/2019/06/11/its-time-for-sweden-to-admit-explosions-are-a-national-emergency/
According to the latest polls, that is far from impossible
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1220702369790464003?s=20
Indeed I would go further. Eventually the rebellion against multi-culti and mass immigration, in Europe, will produce a Far Right government in a major western nation, like Italy or France.
In this light, Brexit can be seen as the means by which the UK avoids that dire fate. Popular anger has been democratically vented before it gets explosive0 -
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/world/asia/china-wuhan-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Being utterly PB about this...But is this a is this a black swan for POTUS 2020?
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Indeed.HYUFD said:
Very funny but it is not going to win over Democrats heading to vote for Sanders who loathe the billionaire classrottenborough said:
And unless those Dems wake up from their 'lets do a Jeremy Corbyn moment' then Trump has four years in the bag without even leaving the golf course.
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Reagan was an actor - but was rather more than that.kle4 said:
It might depend on whether you transition from entertainment to politics. Not impossible to do both, but if your living is around entertaining people, there is a risk that politics might get in the way of that, even for the woke, and of course with actors part of the difficulty is their job is pretending to be serious and emotional, when called for, so that when they are genuinely so might be harder for some peopel to fully buy that they mean what they say, or that they are not using their greater charisma or presence to manipulate us even if they don't have a bloody clue what they are on about.HYUFD said:
He was a bookworm as a kid - complete with glasses an inch thick. Hence re-inventing himself as a swimming star. His eye sight was too bad for football etc.
He was into real politics from early in his acting career - actually working his way up the political system, rather than just throwing soundbites at reporters. It's also worth remembering that he had been Governor of California before he ran for President.1 -
a) I don't believe these fanatical Bernie voters.HYUFD said:https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1221207693546807296?s=20
87% of Biden voters and 90% of Warren voters by contrast will vote for whoever is the nominee
b) if it is true then it is yet another example of why anyone or anything to do with Bernie should not be allowed near the 2020 race.
THE OBJECTIVE IS TO BEAT TRUMP YOU IDIOTS!2 -
No, Simon Jenkins has it right in the Guardian: "the courage will not be to proceed but to call a halt to this nonsense, to do something better with so much money."rottenborough said:HS2 is now the war of brief and counter brief.
I still think Matthew Parris has it right in the Times. This is a transport corridor for the next two generations. Do it.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/24/hs2-politics-boris-johnson
I note the £106 billion cost figure is dubious and a new figure "with contingency" is closer to £130 billion. Or £5,000 for every household in the UK.1
