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Indeed it is, much appreciated.MoonRabbit said:
I think that’s done now Ben 🙂Benpointer said:
Well, it feels a bit unfriendly.MoonRabbit said:
Yes. Me. Last night before bed. Yesterday we were talking about geology, someone said they come here to talk geology so I posted it. If it wasn’t for rust the landscape wouldn’t look as it does, and paintings wouldn’t look as they do. That’s a bit of geology I know from art. But truth is it is good writing as well as good knowledge isn’t it? Are there any better examples of how to write than Ruskin?Benpointer said:
Why the private profile? I've neverseen anyone else on PB elect to have a private profile.MoonRabbit said:
I was bottom of the class for punctuation and spalling and gramarye always, and they tested me for dyslexia twice in two different schools and both times said no, not that, you’re just rubbish.ydoethur said:
No, puntuation.Benpointer said:
So your specialism is spelling?ydoethur said:
Witch would be amusing in its own way.MoonRabbit said:
Lol. I will have to watch out for them. Maybe I should have asked what is specialism in puns, not in history.turbotubbs said:
His main specialism is puns. Some history teaching as a hobby...MoonRabbit said:
I was wrong then. 😕ydoethur said:
No, I'm a PhD in History and a former lecturer before I went into teaching.MoonRabbit said:
Are you an historian?ydoethur said:
Oi!Fairliered said:
He’s an arse. What is it about historians? Oliver, Sharkey!Theuniondivvie said:
Definite whiff of occupant of cult compound under siege by the FBI about him nowadays.kinabalu said:
Just accidentally caught Neil Oliver on GBNews. Rocking the double denim.Theuniondivvie said:
Thank goodness you could only vote for one of them otherwise the embarrassment would be excruciating.Big_G_NorthWales said:
Macron and Boris are equally dreadful and both are embarrassingRoger said:Most impressive French spokeswoman on BBC News. It really is time this country rid itself of this quite dreadful Prime Minister and Home Secretary. They are well beyond embarrassing.
I read a proper history book about the real Merlin by Gordon Strachan, and was a very wise man, but also apparently a bit haughty though could be very light and funny too.
And I have also looked up you name “ydoethur “ in an old book.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1jnBa3UwmgwC&pg=RA3-PA121&lpg=RA3-PA121&dq=doethur+similar+words+in+welsh&source=bl&ots=aYw8Y2921t&sig=ACfU3U3qO11WtqpXw50xDzc5fAKIFUIufw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAucaKqKD0AhUO_KQKHa0KAiEQ6AF6BAgTEAM#v=onepage&q=doethur similar words in welsh&f=false
So I have done the detective work and put two and two together. Have I outed a big secret hidden in your name?
Are you in fact a descendant of Merlin?
But being a teacher is still good though, 👍🏻
What would you say is your specialism?
Fun history fact: did you know God made the earth design all the churches based on the curves of the female nude?
PS. Shh - he still might be a Merlin just denying it
And according to @MoonRabbit also gramarye.
And one teacher gave me a book on Venice by Ruskin, do you know it, and said read this and what he is doing with punctuation and gramarye will subconscious sink in. And the first thing I noticed was he would use every punctuation excuse not to use a full stop.
But that didn’t work either.
Look in this example, whole paragraphs and no full stops. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Two_Paths/Lecture_V
Why did I notice? I was looking to see if it was you that posted the same Ruskin lecture a day or so ago... Assuming it was, why the obsession with this Ruskin lecture?
I don’t know about private profile or not when I set up just pressed buttons. Should I go back and unpress it now if it helps?
It's sometimes nice to be able to look back at an indivudual's previous posts and you markng your profile as private prevents that.
Click on you name where it appears against any post, clikc the settings wheel, edit profile, uncheck the private profile box.
As I say, I have not come across anyone else who has a private profile on PB.
Edit: I have sent you a private message.1 -
RIP Stephen Sondheim.
Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story is out at Xmas.1 -
Dead or voting Tory, what a choice.HYUFD said:
So past tense then, the former miners will be pensioners now if still aliveSandyRentool said:
They used to be miners in the villages in County Durham. I don't think many of them turned to farming.HYUFD said:
Most people in villages now are pensioners or farmers, not commutersdixiedean said:
Unable to get to where you want by public transport?HYUFD said:
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford CircusSunil_Prasannan said:
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!HYUFD said:
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrowFairliered said:
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.NickPalmer said:
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"HYUFD said:
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
Welcome to everyday rural life.0 -
I’m slightly surprised to have been to a UK station you have missed!Sunil_Prasannan said:
Sadly, no! And I didn't get to do the Thurso/Wick line either! If it weren't for the pandemic, I would have done those some time during spring or summer 2020.Fysics_Teacher said:
Did you get to The Kyle of Lochalsh?Sunil_Prasannan said:
Ah, Aberdeenshire. I was in Aberdeen visiting relatives just before the first lockdown. Managed to do the Aberdeen to Inverness rail line.RochdalePioneers said:
New PitsligoSunil_Prasannan said:
All the best - where are you incidentally?RochdalePioneers said:
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.turbotubbs said:
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!RochdalePioneers said:Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
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Oh quite, it's not a buying opportunity yet. Just amused that we hit all time highs within 12 months of the market losing half it's value - leaves you wondering who the mopes are taking part in the sell offs once they've got going.IanB2 said:
We’re hardly in that territory - a 1000 self off with probably the same tomorrow barely takes the US back a few weeks, given how high the market is. Many think a correction overdue and if this variant is more dangerous, who knows…maaarsh said:
Invest generically enough and you still win even if it's horrific. Anyone buying an S&P 500 tracker after the first sell off has doubled their money now.IanB2 said:
Yes, and with US trading truncated due to the holiday.CarlottaVance said:Carnival Corp down nearly 11% in one day.....
If you think this new variant will prove a storm in a teacup - perhaps infectious but not harmful - then buying CCL might be a good play.
But maybe not just yet.0 -
You'll need to go to Oakhampton now too. Then Portishead. Then Ashington. It never ends!Sunil_Prasannan said:
Sadly, no! And I didn't get to do the Thurso/Wick line either! If it weren't for the pandemic, I would have done those some time during spring or summer 2020.Fysics_Teacher said:
Did you get to The Kyle of Lochalsh?Sunil_Prasannan said:
Ah, Aberdeenshire. I was in Aberdeen visiting relatives just before the first lockdown. Managed to do the Aberdeen to Inverness rail line.RochdalePioneers said:
New PitsligoSunil_Prasannan said:
All the best - where are you incidentally?RochdalePioneers said:
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.turbotubbs said:
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!RochdalePioneers said:Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
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If/when they get that far I think it would be a good idea to skip Omega and go for aleph or something similar.Jonathan said:Just been watching classic seventies sci-fi The Omicron Variant. Or was it Newsnight? Hard to tell these days.
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I know we shouldn't focus on cases, etc.
But 50k feels like a milestone to me.
With this and Omicron will be fascinating to see how folk react.0 -
Trevor Bedford
@trvrb There have been a number of overview threads on the emerging variant designated as
@PangoNetwork lineage B.1.1.529, @nextstrain clade 21K and @WHO
Variant of Concern Omicron. I'm not going to attempt to be comprehensive here, but will highlight a few aspects of the data. 1/16
"I believe we're looking at a variant that potentially has significant immune evasion and that appears to be spreading rapidly."0 -
A lot of people are in the market for want of any other way to earn income from their savings, and are ready to pull their money out if there’s a sniff of a downturn. Hence the potential for a big correction is there if the bad virus news continues into next week.maaarsh said:
Oh quite, it's not a buying opportunity yet. Just amused that we hit all time highs within 12 months of the market losing half it's value - leaves you wondering who the mopes are taking part in the sell offs once they've got going.IanB2 said:
We’re hardly in that territory - a 1000 self off with probably the same tomorrow barely takes the US back a few weeks, given how high the market is. Many think a correction overdue and if this variant is more dangerous, who knows…maaarsh said:
Invest generically enough and you still win even if it's horrific. Anyone buying an S&P 500 tracker after the first sell off has doubled their money now.IanB2 said:
Yes, and with US trading truncated due to the holiday.CarlottaVance said:Carnival Corp down nearly 11% in one day.....
If you think this new variant will prove a storm in a teacup - perhaps infectious but not harmful - then buying CCL might be a good play.
But maybe not just yet.0 -
Apparently an entire barn has taken flight and landed on the Edinburgh - Glasgow line.0
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Is it like the Andromeda strain?Jonathan said:Just been watching classic seventies sci-fi The Omicron Variant. Or was it Newsnight? Hard to tell these days.
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That reminds me: I showed a class this xkcd todayGardenwalker said:RIP Stephen Sondheim.
Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story is out at Xmas.
I then said it was as if an opera buff would assume that most people could only name a few operas by composers such as Mozart or Wagner.
They said “what’s an opera?”3 -
Barnstorming?Eabhal said:Apparently an entire barn has taken flight and landed on the Edinburgh - Glasgow line.
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No. Next it has to be ancient religious demonsFysics_Teacher said:
If/when they get that far I think it would be a good idea to skip Omega and go for aleph or something similar.Jonathan said:Just been watching classic seventies sci-fi The Omicron Variant. Or was it Newsnight? Hard to tell these days.
THE CHORONZON MUTATION
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You were not mistaken. Hope you enjoyed it.Fysics_Teacher said:
The one time I went I thought it was via Inverness. I am probably mistaken.Fairliered said:
Not from Aberdeenshire I expect.Fysics_Teacher said:
Did you get to The Kyle of Lochalsh?Sunil_Prasannan said:
Ah, Aberdeenshire. I was in Aberdeen visiting relatives just before the first lockdown. Managed to do the Aberdeen to Inverness rail line.RochdalePioneers said:
New PitsligoSunil_Prasannan said:
All the best - where are you incidentally?RochdalePioneers said:
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.turbotubbs said:
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!RochdalePioneers said:Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
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What with Arwen and Omicron I must say they're picking some epic names for absolute carnage events.1
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Haha. But a bit sad. Don’t kids do music these days?Fysics_Teacher said:
That reminds me: I showed a class this xkcd todayGardenwalker said:RIP Stephen Sondheim.
Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story is out at Xmas.
I then said it was as if an opera buff would assume that most people could only name a few operas by composers such as Mozart or Wagner.
They said “what’s an opera?”0 -
Didn't that almost set off a nuclear weapon?rottenborough said:
Is it like the Andromeda strain?Jonathan said:Just been watching classic seventies sci-fi The Omicron Variant. Or was it Newsnight? Hard to tell these days.
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I've been to Oakhampton on a GWR Class 150. Back in August 2019.SandyRentool said:
You'll need to go to Oakhampton now too. Then Portishead. Then Ashington. It never ends!Sunil_Prasannan said:
Sadly, no! And I didn't get to do the Thurso/Wick line either! If it weren't for the pandemic, I would have done those some time during spring or summer 2020.Fysics_Teacher said:
Did you get to The Kyle of Lochalsh?Sunil_Prasannan said:
Ah, Aberdeenshire. I was in Aberdeen visiting relatives just before the first lockdown. Managed to do the Aberdeen to Inverness rail line.RochdalePioneers said:
New PitsligoSunil_Prasannan said:
All the best - where are you incidentally?RochdalePioneers said:
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.turbotubbs said:
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!RochdalePioneers said:Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
But I also need the Trafford Centre branch on Metrolink!0 -
And what does "nu" mean in French? (innocent face).CarlottaVance said:
Too easily confused with "new" was what I read.Benpointer said:
What happened to Nu?rottenborough said:OK. BBC saying it is oh-me-cron.
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Shares are the only things that most people buy dear and sell cheap.IanB2 said:
A lot of people are in the market for want of any other way to earn income from their savings, and are ready to pull their money out if there’s a sniff of a downturn. Hence the potential for a big correction is there if the bad virus news continues into next week.maaarsh said:
Oh quite, it's not a buying opportunity yet. Just amused that we hit all time highs within 12 months of the market losing half it's value - leaves you wondering who the mopes are taking part in the sell offs once they've got going.IanB2 said:
We’re hardly in that territory - a 1000 self off with probably the same tomorrow barely takes the US back a few weeks, given how high the market is. Many think a correction overdue and if this variant is more dangerous, who knows…maaarsh said:
Invest generically enough and you still win even if it's horrific. Anyone buying an S&P 500 tracker after the first sell off has doubled their money now.IanB2 said:
Yes, and with US trading truncated due to the holiday.CarlottaVance said:Carnival Corp down nearly 11% in one day.....
If you think this new variant will prove a storm in a teacup - perhaps infectious but not harmful - then buying CCL might be a good play.
But maybe not just yet.0 -
They could use Greek nymphs. There were hundreds. It might be a bit embarrassing to die from the Doris variant though.Leon said:
No. Next it has to be ancient religious demonsFysics_Teacher said:
If/when they get that far I think it would be a good idea to skip Omega and go for aleph or something similar.Jonathan said:Just been watching classic seventies sci-fi The Omicron Variant. Or was it Newsnight? Hard to tell these days.
THE CHORONZON MUTATION
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There wasn’t a Wicked Witch underneath was there?Benpointer said:
Barnstorming?Eabhal said:Apparently an entire barn has taken flight and landed on the Edinburgh - Glasgow line.
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Fora moment I thought you said the Boris variant. That would be really embarrassing.Fysics_Teacher said:
They could use Greek nymphs. There were hundreds. It might be a bit embarrassing to die from the Doris variant though.Leon said:
No. Next it has to be ancient religious demonsFysics_Teacher said:
If/when they get that far I think it would be a good idea to skip Omega and go for aleph or something similar.Jonathan said:Just been watching classic seventies sci-fi The Omicron Variant. Or was it Newsnight? Hard to tell these days.
THE CHORONZON MUTATION0 -
I did: I got to go on a boat over the sea to Skye.Fairliered said:
You were not mistaken. Hope you enjoyed it.Fysics_Teacher said:
The one time I went I thought it was via Inverness. I am probably mistaken.Fairliered said:
Not from Aberdeenshire I expect.Fysics_Teacher said:
Did you get to The Kyle of Lochalsh?Sunil_Prasannan said:
Ah, Aberdeenshire. I was in Aberdeen visiting relatives just before the first lockdown. Managed to do the Aberdeen to Inverness rail line.RochdalePioneers said:
New PitsligoSunil_Prasannan said:
All the best - where are you incidentally?RochdalePioneers said:
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.turbotubbs said:
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!RochdalePioneers said:Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
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It also approximately equals woman in Chinese.No_Offence_Alan said:
And what does "nu" mean in French? (innocent face).CarlottaVance said:
Too easily confused with "new" was what I read.Benpointer said:
What happened to Nu?rottenborough said:OK. BBC saying it is oh-me-cron.
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I was under the misapprehension that you couldn't even go into bars or restaurants without a covid passport in Europe, let alone go jollying off to the Middle East.....Philip_Thompson said:.
Unvaccinated person catches Covid. 😱FrancisUrquhart said:
Already been posted....individual was neither vaccinated nor previously infected...but allowed to travel...shakes head.rottenborough said:
Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
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⚠️FIRST #OmicronVariant EUROPE CASE DID **NOT** TRAVEL TO SOUTHERN AFRICA—Tracing details of the Belgium #B11529 case reveals only travel to Egypt🇪🇬 & Turkey 🇹🇷—but not Sub-Saharan Africa at all. I’m concerned #Omicron is global 🌍 already—very worried. 🧵
It was also 11 days after their return they developed symptoms, so it might not be from their travels.0 -
And cow.dixiedean said:
It also approximately equals woman in Chinese.No_Offence_Alan said:
And what does "nu" mean in French? (innocent face).CarlottaVance said:
Too easily confused with "new" was what I read.Benpointer said:
What happened to Nu?rottenborough said:OK. BBC saying it is oh-me-cron.
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How many weeks until we get the "Boris Variant" nonsense again?0
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Israel has identified four cases of the B.1.1.529 variant, all recent travellers. One case, a 32-year-old woman returning from South Africa, was triple vaccinated with Pfizer and had her 3rd dose just two months ago.
Another, a hotel worker from Malawi, had her second dose of AZ in mid-July. A third had her second J&J dose two months ago.
No reports yet if these people are suffering from any symptoms at all; all travelers are screened with PCR tests on arrival, which is how they were identified.
https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1464190991204859919?s=20
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Yes, but most schools aren’t exactly up to putting on a groundbreaking version of The Ring Cycle. Musicals, yes, but actual opera is much harder to do.Gardenwalker said:
Haha. But a bit sad. Don’t kids do music these days?Fysics_Teacher said:
That reminds me: I showed a class this xkcd todayGardenwalker said:RIP Stephen Sondheim.
Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story is out at Xmas.
I then said it was as if an opera buff would assume that most people could only name a few operas by composers such as Mozart or Wagner.
They said “what’s an opera?”
Having said that when I was their age I had been to three or four operas via school trips (including one at the Bolshoi), something this lot have not had the chance to do for the last couple of years. I’m sure if there had been any A-level music students in the class they would have known a few (or at last what an opera is) but we don’t get more than a dozen or so each year and not many of them also do Physics.0 -
Wasn't Omicron the bad guy in the original Transformers movie? The one voiced by Orson Welles?0
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Some people even say "Europe" is made up of several different countries.FrancisUrquhart said:
I was under the misapprehension that you couldn't even go into bars or restaurants without a covid passport in Europe, let alone go jollying off to the Middle East.....Philip_Thompson said:.
Unvaccinated person catches Covid. 😱FrancisUrquhart said:
Already been posted....individual was neither vaccinated nor previously infected...but allowed to travel...shakes head.rottenborough said:
Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
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44m
⚠️FIRST #OmicronVariant EUROPE CASE DID **NOT** TRAVEL TO SOUTHERN AFRICA—Tracing details of the Belgium #B11529 case reveals only travel to Egypt🇪🇬 & Turkey 🇹🇷—but not Sub-Saharan Africa at all. I’m concerned #Omicron is global 🌍 already—very worried. 🧵
It was also 11 days after their return they developed symptoms, so it might not be from their travels.1 -
Which in some ways isn't odd at all, but also maybe is when you consider that music and its generation is all physics.Fysics_Teacher said:
Yes, but most schools aren’t exactly up to putting on a groundbreaking version of The Ring Cycle. Musicals, yes, but actual opera is much harder to do.Gardenwalker said:
Haha. But a bit sad. Don’t kids do music these days?Fysics_Teacher said:
That reminds me: I showed a class this xkcd todayGardenwalker said:RIP Stephen Sondheim.
Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story is out at Xmas.
I then said it was as if an opera buff would assume that most people could only name a few operas by composers such as Mozart or Wagner.
They said “what’s an opera?”
Having said that when I was their age I had been to three or four operas via school trips (including one at the Bolshoi), something this lot have not had the chance to do for the last couple of years. I’m sure if there had been any A-level music students in the class they would have known a few (or at last what an opera is) but we don’t get more than a dozen or so each year and not many of them also do Physics.
A couple of decades back I worked with a guy who won a science communication competition, using guitar to explain waves, I think. His surname was Looney or similar spelling, so one of the papers (or maybe ch4 website, they sponsored it, I think) had the immortal headline "Axe wielding Looney cleans up at science contest", or something like that1 -
The Brian Cox Brian May crossover. Wasn't Borodin a professor of chemistry?Selebian said:
Which in some ways isn't odd at all, but also maybe is when you consider that music and its generation is all physics.Fysics_Teacher said:
Yes, but most schools aren’t exactly up to putting on a groundbreaking version of The Ring Cycle. Musicals, yes, but actual opera is much harder to do.Gardenwalker said:
Haha. But a bit sad. Don’t kids do music these days?Fysics_Teacher said:
That reminds me: I showed a class this xkcd todayGardenwalker said:RIP Stephen Sondheim.
Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story is out at Xmas.
I then said it was as if an opera buff would assume that most people could only name a few operas by composers such as Mozart or Wagner.
They said “what’s an opera?”
Having said that when I was their age I had been to three or four operas via school trips (including one at the Bolshoi), something this lot have not had the chance to do for the last couple of years. I’m sure if there had been any A-level music students in the class they would have known a few (or at last what an opera is) but we don’t get more than a dozen or so each year and not many of them also do Physics.
A couple of decades back I worked with a guy who won a science communication competition, using guitar to explain waves, I think. His surname was Looney or similar spelling, so one of the papers (or maybe ch4 website, they sponsored it, I think) had the immortal headline "Axe wielding Looney cleans up at science contest", or something like that
Or didn't I dream that?1 -
There are alway some that do both (though maths is a more common addition to music than physics, with a few doing both).Selebian said:
Which in some ways isn't odd at all, but also maybe is when you consider that music and its generation is all physics.Fysics_Teacher said:
Yes, but most schools aren’t exactly up to putting on a groundbreaking version of The Ring Cycle. Musicals, yes, but actual opera is much harder to do.Gardenwalker said:
Haha. But a bit sad. Don’t kids do music these days?Fysics_Teacher said:
That reminds me: I showed a class this xkcd todayGardenwalker said:RIP Stephen Sondheim.
Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story is out at Xmas.
I then said it was as if an opera buff would assume that most people could only name a few operas by composers such as Mozart or Wagner.
They said “what’s an opera?”
Having said that when I was their age I had been to three or four operas via school trips (including one at the Bolshoi), something this lot have not had the chance to do for the last couple of years. I’m sure if there had been any A-level music students in the class they would have known a few (or at last what an opera is) but we don’t get more than a dozen or so each year and not many of them also do Physics.
A couple of decades back I worked with a guy who won a science communication competition, using guitar to explain waves, I think. His surname was Looney or similar spelling, so one of the papers (or maybe ch4 website, they sponsored it, I think) had the immortal headline "Axe wielding Looney cleans up at science contest", or something like that0 -
He's talking about the mutations on the virus. So maybe we will be ok if vax still deals with them. Maybe even t-cells alone will be enough.Leon said:“I scared myself… it looks bad.”
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1464367575471644678?s=21
This is my optimistic mode.0 -
Don’t forget this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herscheldixiedean said:
The Brian Cox Brian May crossover. Wasn't Borodin a professor of chemistry?Selebian said:
Which in some ways isn't odd at all, but also maybe is when you consider that music and its generation is all physics.Fysics_Teacher said:
Yes, but most schools aren’t exactly up to putting on a groundbreaking version of The Ring Cycle. Musicals, yes, but actual opera is much harder to do.Gardenwalker said:
Haha. But a bit sad. Don’t kids do music these days?Fysics_Teacher said:
That reminds me: I showed a class this xkcd todayGardenwalker said:RIP Stephen Sondheim.
Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story is out at Xmas.
I then said it was as if an opera buff would assume that most people could only name a few operas by composers such as Mozart or Wagner.
They said “what’s an opera?”
Having said that when I was their age I had been to three or four operas via school trips (including one at the Bolshoi), something this lot have not had the chance to do for the last couple of years. I’m sure if there had been any A-level music students in the class they would have known a few (or at last what an opera is) but we don’t get more than a dozen or so each year and not many of them also do Physics.
A couple of decades back I worked with a guy who won a science communication competition, using guitar to explain waves, I think. His surname was Looney or similar spelling, so one of the papers (or maybe ch4 website, they sponsored it, I think) had the immortal headline "Axe wielding Looney cleans up at science contest", or something like that
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It's a type of browser with an integrated VPN that the kids use to evade geoblocks.Fysics_Teacher said:
That reminds me: I showed a class this xkcd todayGardenwalker said:RIP Stephen Sondheim.
Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story is out at Xmas.
I then said it was as if an opera buff would assume that most people could only name a few operas by composers such as Mozart or Wagner.
They said “what’s an opera?”
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I just told a friend that I wobble between fragile optimism, frank despair, and drunken fuck-it nihilismrottenborough said:
He's talking about the mutations on the virus. So maybe we will be ok if vax still deals with them. Maybe even t-cells alone will be enough.Leon said:“I scared myself… it looks bad.”
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1464367575471644678?s=21
This is my optimistic mode.
She said she was similar. Everyone has been so battered by 2 years of this shit, the prospect of another 2 years (or more? a decade?) pushes us all to the edge. At some point we will just say to hell with it, let it kill, the rest of us need to live. I reckon Europeans are quite close to that1 -
Without the whole symptomatic/asymptomatic thing, the information is basically useless.FrancisUrquhart said:Israel has identified four cases of the B.1.1.529 variant, all recent travellers. One case, a 32-year-old woman returning from South Africa, was triple vaccinated with Pfizer and had her 3rd dose just two months ago.
Another, a hotel worker from Malawi, had her second dose of AZ in mid-July. A third had her second J&J dose two months ago.
No reports yet if these people are suffering from any symptoms at all; all travelers are screened with PCR tests on arrival, which is how they were identified.
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Unicron.Aslan said:Wasn't Omicron the bad guy in the original Transformers movie? The one voiced by Orson Welles?
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Isn’t UK approval now expected, though ?Charles said:
*buffs nails*MaxPB said:
No. Significant manufacturing difficulties. The shareholders were very upset.rcs1000 said:
Did Novavax actually managed to get their previous Covid vaccine actually manufactured?FrancisUrquhart said:The pharmaceuticals manufacturer Novavax has begun work on a new version of its Covid-19 vaccine, aimed at targeting the Omicron variant.
It says it hopes the vaccine will be ready for testing and manufacturing within a matter of weeks.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you about NovaVax over a year ago
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Probably an upwards bounce on Monday. My portfolio down about 4% today. Ouch.IanB2 said:
A lot of people are in the market for want of any other way to earn income from their savings, and are ready to pull their money out if there’s a sniff of a downturn. Hence the potential for a big correction is there if the bad virus news continues into next week.maaarsh said:
Oh quite, it's not a buying opportunity yet. Just amused that we hit all time highs within 12 months of the market losing half it's value - leaves you wondering who the mopes are taking part in the sell offs once they've got going.IanB2 said:
We’re hardly in that territory - a 1000 self off with probably the same tomorrow barely takes the US back a few weeks, given how high the market is. Many think a correction overdue and if this variant is more dangerous, who knows…maaarsh said:
Invest generically enough and you still win even if it's horrific. Anyone buying an S&P 500 tracker after the first sell off has doubled their money now.IanB2 said:
Yes, and with US trading truncated due to the holiday.CarlottaVance said:Carnival Corp down nearly 11% in one day.....
If you think this new variant will prove a storm in a teacup - perhaps infectious but not harmful - then buying CCL might be a good play.
But maybe not just yet.
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Wasn’t that the case pre pandemic, though ?Leon said:
I just told a friend that I wobble between fragile optimism, frank despair, and drunken fuck-it nihilism …rottenborough said:
He's talking about the mutations on the virus. So maybe we will be ok if vax still deals with them. Maybe even t-cells alone will be enough.Leon said:“I scared myself… it looks bad.”
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1464367575471644678?s=21
This is my optimistic mode.
I’m moderately optimistic - though that was probably me pre-pandemic, too.
Seeing a pattern here….
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No need to seek it out. Vaccines probably give some protection even with spike mutations, but also the protease and other drugs are on their way. Their mechanism of action makes resistance very difficult.Leon said:
I just told a friend that I wobble between fragile optimism, frank despair, and drunken fuck-it nihilismrottenborough said:
He's talking about the mutations on the virus. So maybe we will be ok if vax still deals with them. Maybe even t-cells alone will be enough.Leon said:“I scared myself… it looks bad.”
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1464367575471644678?s=21
This is my optimistic mode.
She said she was similar. Everyone has been so battered by 2 years of this shit, the prospect of another 2 years (or more? a decade?) pushes us all to the edge. At some point we will just say to hell with it, let it kill, the rest of us need to live. I reckon Europeans are quite close to that
Restaurants in Leicester looked busy tonight.0 -
You’re missing out on drunken fuck-it nihilism. It has served me well. It’s fun. I don’t recommend frank despairNigelb said:
Wasn’t that the case pre pandemic, though ?Leon said:
I just told a friend that I wobble between fragile optimism, frank despair, and drunken fuck-it nihilism …rottenborough said:
He's talking about the mutations on the virus. So maybe we will be ok if vax still deals with them. Maybe even t-cells alone will be enough.Leon said:“I scared myself… it looks bad.”
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1464367575471644678?s=21
This is my optimistic mode.
I’m moderately optimistic - though that was probably me pre-pandemic, too.
Seeing a pattern here….0 -
This thread has mutated and created a new vaccine escape variant....0
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I'm the same. However many continue to insist it hasn't affected them much.Leon said:
I just told a friend that I wobble between fragile optimism, frank despair, and drunken fuck-it nihilismrottenborough said:
He's talking about the mutations on the virus. So maybe we will be ok if vax still deals with them. Maybe even t-cells alone will be enough.Leon said:“I scared myself… it looks bad.”
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/1464367575471644678?s=21
This is my optimistic mode.
She said she was similar. Everyone has been so battered by 2 years of this shit, the prospect of another 2 years (or more? a decade?) pushes us all to the edge. At some point we will just say to hell with it, let it kill, the rest of us need to live. I reckon Europeans are quite close to that
Are people with a history of acknowledged mental health issues weirdly more able to cope?
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Storm isn't abating. Hail now. Fortunate to have no power outage like much of the NE.0
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Mad Bullingdon Disease?FrancisUrquhart said:How many weeks until we get the "Boris Variant" nonsense again?
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Yes, but how many they actually deliver is definitely an unknown.Nigelb said:
Isn’t UK approval now expected, though ?Charles said:
*buffs nails*MaxPB said:
No. Significant manufacturing difficulties. The shareholders were very upset.rcs1000 said:
Did Novavax actually managed to get their previous Covid vaccine actually manufactured?FrancisUrquhart said:The pharmaceuticals manufacturer Novavax has begun work on a new version of its Covid-19 vaccine, aimed at targeting the Omicron variant.
It says it hopes the vaccine will be ready for testing and manufacturing within a matter of weeks.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you about NovaVax over a year ago
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