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  • Cleo, Khyber, Follow that camel, camping. Could watch them over and over. Jim Dale probably the lynchpin for me.
    Dale was a very good actor.

    I once saw him as Autolycus in a poor production of A Winter's Tale (one of the Bard's worst efforts). He stood out head and shoulders above the rest and just about rescued the show.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 39,690
    edited February 2022
    Farooq said:

    I yearn for a war between France and Germany just because all the little heads on here would pop not knowing whom they would want to lose.
    Both is a valid answer.
  • Taz said:

    Cleo is just brill. Kenneth Connor as Hengist Podd and his wife Senna. A cheap laugh but so what. I love all of those four and Jack and Convenience I could watch time and time again. Same with the On the Buses films.

    The Doctor movies are all pretty good too.
    I would add Carry on Screaming. No Sid James but still a wonderful film made all the better by the addition of Harry H Corbett
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,504
    Farooq said:

    I yearn for a war between France and Germany just because all the little heads on here would pop not knowing whom they would want to lose.
    The French.

    We have been at war with the French for 1,000 years. We have had a couple of smallish arguments with the Germans.

    When they are not looking, we can nick The Pale of Calais back.
  • TazTaz Posts: 16,921
    Bulgarian cops use pepper spray but forget the wind direction 😂

    https://twitter.com/based__uk/status/1491066475888902145?s=21
  • Dale was a very good actor.

    I once saw him as Autolycus in a poor production of A Winter's Tale (one of the Bard's worst efforts). He stood out head and shoulders above the rest and just about rescued the show.
    I believe he is just about the last of the core Carry-on crew still alive.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,138
    NEW: Sir John Major is expected to accuse Boris Johnson of corroding trust in politics in a bruising partygate intervention on Thursday. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/02/08/sir-john-major-set-accuse-boris-johnson-harming-trust-politics/
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063
    edited February 2022

    I’ve lost track, is PB currently listening to senior German MPs or screaming appeasing Putinesca at them?
    Perhaps people are taking things comment by comment rather than aiming for some kind of fantasy group consistency? Or is the joke here that people 'should' be judging every single comment out there by who says it, and they are somehow silly if they don't do that?

    Honestly, I don't get the gag.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,504
    Farooq said:

    "We" haven't. You, maybe.
    Sigh. No one watches Yes Minister anymore, do they?
  • Farooq said:

    I yearn for a war between France and Germany just because all the little heads on here would pop not knowing whom they would want to lose.
    Following more or less the pattern of WWI and WWII, both of course.
  • TazTaz Posts: 16,921

    I would add Carry on Screaming. No Sid James but still a wonderful film made all the better by the addition of Harry H Corbett
    Yes, it’s really good and really does work as an homage to the hammer movies of the time.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,570
    Off topic:

    First post from my new tablet.

    The battery life on the old one has become rubbish so time for an update.
  • rcs1000 said:

    She was rude about Radiohead.

    You better watch your step.
    That seems a bit harsh. I do not like Radiohead and I have said so. The only group worth listening to is Abba since human alive is born knowing all the lyrics.

    I do keep a special place in my heart for Gloria Gaynor's "Will I survive" because it is totally a girl-power anthem which is why it was distressing to find that the Chief Knobber and his jester sang it :angry:
  • Scott_xP said:

    NEW: Sir John Major is expected to accuse Boris Johnson of corroding trust in politics in a bruising partygate intervention on Thursday. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/02/08/sir-john-major-set-accuse-boris-johnson-harming-trust-politics/

    After recess starts.

    Hmmmm...
  • geoffwgeoffw Posts: 8,941

    Sigh. No one watches Yes Minister anymore, do they?
    I do. Yes Prime Minister was on just now.

  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,504
    edited February 2022
    Farooq said:

    Yikes, I have and I didn't recognise it. I'm sorry.
    It's in one the explanations about Foreign policy - that it's all about the French. Not the Russians, incidentally.

    Also in the sketch about why the UK *has* to have nuclear weapons.

    EDIT: The Pale of Calais is my addition. Since the various groups representing refugees say that conditions are intolerable there, then that part of France is obviously a failed state. Plus the French have oil (not much, but hey). We all know what happens to failed states with oil, don't we?
  • MaxPB said:

    Both is a valid answer.
    Yes, I think these can now be termed Vardy v Rooney contests.
  • Carnyx said:

    An important and interesting chap - I was reading recently about the C19 movement to separate religion out of science (partly to avoud arguments about religion from a sectarian point of view) and his role in that, allied to Thomas Henry Huxley.

    https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo17213224.html
    Yep he was one of the group of populist scientists around Huxley who were pushing the secularist science approach.

    One story I love is that the group of them would give lectures at the Royal Society and the following night would go to a local factory and give exactly the same lecture to a few thousand workers.

  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,305
    MaxPB said:


    It's actually shocking that Macron is so ready to give away the kitchen sink to Russia and get precisely zero in return. I never had him down as a moron, just an irritant.

    As always with diplomacy and negotiation, the important stuff isn't what is in the public domain but what sits out of sight, behind the scenes, the back door of deal making.

    I've always thought there's a deal to be done - there usually is. Putin is no Peter the Great but he will need to show something for all this (the removal of Zelensky perhaps). He will know the diplomatic, economic and military ramifications of a full invasion - whether there's a plan to emasculate Ukraine by advancing to the Dnieper while leaving a weakened western Ukraine untouched I'm not sure.

    Whatever the case, the assumption the West will "give away the kitchen sink" is, I suspect, far from the truth. Putin may get some of what he wants but there will be a price albeit one which may not be obvious.
  • TazTaz Posts: 16,921

    I believe he is just about the last of the core Carry-on crew still alive.
    Yes he is, the last of the core stars since Babs Windsor died in 2020.

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  • ApplicantApplicant Posts: 3,379
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  • That seems a bit harsh. I do not like Radiohead and I have said so. The only group worth listening to is Abba since human alive is born knowing all the lyrics.

    I do keep a special place in my heart for Gloria Gaynor's "Will I survive" because it is totally a girl-power anthem which is why it was distressing to find that the Chief Knobber and his jester sang it :angry:
    I Will Survive?

    No Karaoke night is complete without some pissed-up divorcee sobbing her way through that one.
  • kjh said:

    That is excellent. Wish I had such a claim to fame.
    Sadly I need it. As some on here know, I am also related to a far more infamous John Tyndall. Mind you he was used by my parents as an example of how not to live your life so I suppose in a way I should be grateful for that as well.
  • Actually, most of the ones I know are quietly sad because they have had to leave Russia. And they do notice that Russians are blamed for everything.

    Do you not think England might be a better target for the Joke?

    Which country has stolen 6 of its neighbour's counties ? Or a rock in Spain? And so on.
    Er, you might want to look up a family that was quite famous a while ago, that was fairly instrumental in starting the "English" Empire. Their name was Tudor. Funny how so-many anti-English fuckwits don't know the first thing about history.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,216
    edited February 2022

    The French.

    We have been at war with the French for 1,000 years. We have had a couple of smallish arguments with the Germans.

    When they are not looking, we can nick The Pale of Calais back.
    Your ambitions are so limited!

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  • This sounds interesting.

    What do you have?
    Some of his notes and then a collection of his own personal copies of his works on Light and Sound.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 50,455
    Taz said:

    Cleo is just brill. Kenneth Connor as Hengist Podd and his wife Senna. A cheap laugh but so what. I love all of those four and Jack and Convenience I could watch time and time again. Same with the On the Buses films.

    The Doctor movies are all pretty good too.
    Convenience is amongst my favourites, though it fell rather flat at the box office.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 13,968
    ydoethur said:

    A fox's tail is called a 'brush.'

    I'm amazed you think I would ever post anything smutty.
    And I’m amazed you thought that was the three-thirty at Newmarket.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 39,690
    stodge said:

    As always with diplomacy and negotiation, the important stuff isn't what is in the public domain but what sits out of sight, behind the scenes, the back door of deal making.

    I've always thought there's a deal to be done - there usually is. Putin is no Peter the Great but he will need to show something for all this (the removal of Zelensky perhaps). He will know the diplomatic, economic and military ramifications of a full invasion - whether there's a plan to emasculate Ukraine by advancing to the Dnieper while leaving a weakened western Ukraine untouched I'm not sure.

    Whatever the case, the assumption the West will "give away the kitchen sink" is, I suspect, far from the truth. Putin may get some of what he wants but there will be a price albeit one which may not be obvious.
    The issue is that we have no leverage over Putin. Forcing a Ukrainian disarmament or just abandoning them leaves the road open for Putin to roll tanks through the whole nation.

    The other problem I've got with this is that we're not in the room and neither is the US, yet Macron may try and bind both nations to whatever he comes up with. That's extremely worrying and what the German MP was getting at, Macron is casting about that he has some European level mandate to negotiate with Putin, yet the reality is that France is incapable of even pursuing individual sanctions on Russia without a negotiation with the other 26 and then he would need to get the UK and US on board. In the end Macron is simply validating Putin and simultaneously watering down Western resolve to not negotiate while Putin has his tanks parked at the border.
  • Your ambitions are so limited!

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    AND

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    Do you think that the French thought that if we had pushed them all the way south, they would have said "We better hold them here or we have nothing Toulouse? "
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,108

    Hillbilly Elegy is one of the stranger books I've read.

    The documentary stuff is very well observed.

    But a good half of it is "how I got out of this terrible situation" mixed with "and here's how America can do it too", and that half is just dire... patronising and glib. Like a right-wing Owen Jones but without the humility and levity. Yes, exactly.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/07/jd-vance-warning-ohio-senate-race-00006310
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063
    Applicant said:

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    🌳 Conservative
    🚌 Militant Bus Pass Elvis
    ➡️ Reform UK
    🔶 Lib Dem
    🌹 Labour
    🌍 Green
    🙋 Holmes (IND)
    🙋 Lutwyche (IND)
    ✝️ Christian People's Alliance
    🧑‍🔧 Trade Union & Socialist Coalition
    🙋 O'Rourke (IND)
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    Three Ind? Our cup runneth over, I hope one of them is a complete nutjob.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,422

    Sadly I need it. As some on here know, I am also related to a far more infamous John Tyndall. Mind you he was used by my parents as an example of how not to live your life so I suppose in a way I should be grateful for that as well.
    When I was doing my grandfather's family tree, I discovered that I'm a descendent of someone who literally got away with murder:

    http://www.thepeerage.com/p10942.htm#i109420
  • Farooq said:

    What about the Tudors?
    er, they were Welsh
  • I would add Carry on Screaming. No Sid James but still a wonderful film made all the better by the addition of Harry H Corbett
    Fenella Fielding looks OK :)
  • rcs1000 said:

    She was rude about Radiohead.

    You better watch your step.
    Is now a good time to mention I have evidence from another place of you being rude about Radiohead as well Robert? :) I did tell you at the time I thought it might come in useful some day ...
  • TazTaz Posts: 16,921
    Foxy said:

    Convenience is amongst my favourites, though it fell rather flat at the box office.
    All of the films were made for next to nothing as well. They had minuscule budgets.
  • TazTaz Posts: 16,921

    Fenella Fielding looks OK :)
    Do you mind if I smoke.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,504

    Your ambitions are so limited!

    image

    AND

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    Read The Secret Plan

    First we get Calais, then we take Normandy. Then the treaty of Paris gets enforced.

    Shushhhhhhhhh!
  • Farooq said:

    I yearn for a war between France and Germany just because all the little heads on here would pop not knowing whom they would want to lose.

    I cannot recall who is reputed to have said "The Germans and the British are just squabbling cousins. The French are the real enemy of both"
  • tlg86 said:

    When I was doing my grandfather's family tree, I discovered that I'm a descendent of someone who literally got away with murder:

    http://www.thepeerage.com/p10942.htm#i109420
    Wow. He was a bit of a wild feller!
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,504
    edited February 2022

    Do you think that the French thought that if we had pushed them all the way south, they would have said "We better hold them here or we have nothing Toulouse? "
    Ah, quite the Gasconade!

    Perhaps an opportunity for a Coup De Maine?
  • geoffwgeoffw Posts: 8,941
     

    Fenella Fielding looks OK :)
    She sounded even better.

  • YBarddCwscYBarddCwsc Posts: 7,172
    edited February 2022



    Er, you might want to look up a family that was quite famous a while ago, that was fairly instrumental in starting the "English" Empire. Their name was Tudor. Funny how so-many anti-English fuckwits don't know the first thing about history.


    I criticise a cartoon that conflates being Russian with being an imperialist land grabber.

    The anglophiles on pb.com respond, 'No. It's a very funny cartoon. It is all fair comment.'

    I transpose the caption, replacing Russian with English to show the nature of the problem.

    The outraged anglophiles on pb.com respond "You Anti-English fuckwit".
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,355


    I criticise a cartoon that conflates being Russian with being an imperialist land grabber.

    The anglophiles on pb.com respond, 'No. It's a very funny cartoon. It is all fair comment.'

    I transpose the caption, replacing Russian with English to show the nature of the problem.

    The outraged anglophiles on pb.com respond "You Anti-English fuckwit".
    I didn’t. I agreed with you, if set when England/Britain was doing this. We are not doing it now.
  • kle4 said:

    Three Ind? Our cup runneth over, I hope one of them is a complete nutjob.
    2nd place for Bus Pass Elvis me thinks.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,138
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  • YBarddCwscYBarddCwsc Posts: 7,172

    Some of his notes and then a collection of his own personal copies of his works on Light and Sound.
    Wonderful. (I have 3 Tyndall early editions).

    What are the notes on? Do the original hand-written manuscripts of Tyndall's books still exist?
  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,305
    After The Times ran an anti-Ardern article yesterday, it's interesting to note the latest poll from NZ suggesting she's far from toast (with mushrooms on top) just yet.

    The poll is from Newshub-Ried Research (changes from September 2020):

    Labour: 44.3% (-5.7)
    National: 31.3% (+5.7)
    Green: 9.6% (+1.7)
    ACT: 8.0% (+0.4)

    The surge of support enjoyed by ACT in 2021 while Collins limped on as National leader has disappeared with the election of Christopher Luxon as National leader and he has made a start in recovering National's poll position but the Labour-Green coalition is on 53.9% and would be comfortably re-elected on these numbers.
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 19,119

    The French.

    We have been at war with the French for 1,000 years. We have had a couple of smallish arguments with the Germans.

    When they are not looking, we can nick The Pale of Calais back.
    The first part of the English war with the French was effectively a civil war, as the upstart Normans tried to claim the French throne as the only way to avoid losing their French lands. The Normans/English lost, and tried to forget all about it out of embarrassment.

    The second part of the English (and then British) war with the French was also out of necessity, because France was the strongest European power, and so war was a matter of resisting French hegemony. This came to an end when the power of France was broken.

    So war with Germany arose because they were now the strongest European power. This is still the case, at least economically. So I should think that if it ever came to another Franco-German conflict we would have to be on the French side again - because Germany would pose the greater threat.

    I'm sure France would be delighted to have our support on that basis.

  • I criticise a cartoon that conflates being Russian with being an imperialist land grabber.

    The anglophiles on pb.com respond, 'No. It's a very funny cartoon. It is all fair comment.'

    I transpose the caption, replacing Russian with English to show the nature of the problem.

    The outraged anglophiles on pb.com respond "You Anti-English fuckwit".
    Because you went on a rant suggesting that the British Empire was "English". Best check the glorious histories of the many Welsh and Scottish regiments and colonialists from all the "Home" nations who enthusiastically helped the building of Empire. It wasn't just England. If you think it was, you are most definitely a first class fuckwit.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 50,841

    Do you think that the French thought that if we had pushed them all the way south, they would have said "We better hold them here or we have nothing Toulouse? "
    If we had pushed any further it would have been too hot to do anything energetic. Sensibly we stuck to the bits with British weather, near enough.
  • geoffw said:

     

    She sounded even better.

    Met her at a live show when I was sixteen. If she'd played her cards right, she could have had me.
  • Farooq said:

    The first one, Henry VII, was born in Wales. But what of it? Wales had been annexed centuries earlier than all that.
    Do you think a single Welsh-born king means that, what, Wales ruled England? That's a vexatiously dishonest interpretation of late mediaeval and early modern English history.
    They were a Welsh family. The fuckwit who went on an anti-English rant was suggesting that teh British Empire was "English". It was a good bit of racism from a person that was suggesting an anti-Putin cartoon was racist
  • YBarddCwscYBarddCwsc Posts: 7,172
    Farooq said:

    The first one, Henry VII, was born in Wales. But what of it? Wales had been annexed centuries earlier than all that.
    Do you think a single Welsh-born king means that, what, Wales ruled England? That's a vexatiously dishonest interpretation of late mediaeval and early modern English history.
    I was going to say just that. Henry VII had some connection with Wales.

    In fact, the later Tudors ruthlessly repressed any signs of Welsh nationalism.

    This is a common phenomenon when an ethnic outsider takes control, e.g., Stalin was a great represser of Georgian nationalism, though he also appointed his Georgian cronies (like Lavrentiy Beria) to help run Russia.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 13,968
    kjh said:

    @MoonRabbit How the hell did you manage to get banned? I better watch my step.
    Exactly. How can the site ban its MoonRabbit 😤

    Though it did give me an opportunity to go out for some fresh limes.

    News from the Moon Parliament ref big decision on Elon Musks junk. Obviously we don’t like the sight of it. We don’t like the sight of it looming ever larger. Though I missed emergency Moon Parliament because I was shopping, but the moon is building a big tennis racket to smash any earth junk straight back at you. My lettuce patch is proper safe.
  • Farooq said:

    The first one, Henry VII, was born in Wales. But what of it? Wales had been annexed centuries earlier than all that.
    Do you think a single Welsh-born king means that, what, Wales ruled England? That's a vexatiously dishonest interpretation of late mediaeval and early modern English history.
    There’s nothing more important than blood and where people were born for certain..er..patriots.
  • stodge said:

    After The Times ran an anti-Ardern article yesterday, it's interesting to note the latest poll from NZ suggesting she's far from toast (with mushrooms on top) just yet.

    The poll is from Newshub-Ried Research (changes from September 2020):

    Labour: 44.3% (-5.7)
    National: 31.3% (+5.7)
    Green: 9.6% (+1.7)
    ACT: 8.0% (+0.4)

    The surge of support enjoyed by ACT in 2021 while Collins limped on as National leader has disappeared with the election of Christopher Luxon as National leader and he has made a start in recovering National's poll position but the Labour-Green coalition is on 53.9% and would be comfortably re-elected on these numbers.

    Yes, I think she's in power until 2026 because the main parties usually get 9 years in power each in New Zealand. That's still arguably surpringly strong for Labour given that the polls including Newshub-Reid understated Labour support in 2020.
  • The first part of the English war with the French was effectively a civil war, as the upstart Normans tried to claim the French throne as the only way to avoid losing their French lands. The Normans/English lost, and tried to forget all about it out of embarrassment.

    The second part of the English (and then British) war with the French was also out of necessity, because France was the strongest European power, and so war was a matter of resisting French hegemony. This came to an end when the power of France was broken.

    So war with Germany arose because they were now the strongest European power. This is still the case, at least economically. So I should think that if it ever came to another Franco-German conflict we would have to be on the French side again - because Germany would pose the greater threat.

    I'm sure France would be delighted to have our support on that basis.
    But France and the UK have nukes; Germany does not. So this somewhat improbable hypothetical war wouldn't last very long.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,504

    There’s nothing more important than blood and where people were born for certain..er..patriots.
    Blood *and* Soil. Blood And Soil. Please get it right.

    One People, One State, One Culture
  • Yes, I think she's in power until 2026 because the main parties usually get 9 years in power each in New Zealand. That's still arguably surpringly strong for Labour given that the polls including Newshub-Reid understated Labour support in 2020.
    This NZ poll just came on my twitter feed

    https://twitter.com/henryolsenEPPC/status/1491159252777730048?t=8z7PNlvICPBxoDJFYoMG9g&s=19
  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 8,714
    edited February 2022
    It strikes me that Macron is seeking to use diplomacy to try to resolve what's going on in Russia/Ukraine without the need for bloodshed. Good luck to him - I prefer his approach to the sabre-rattling rhetoric favoured by others. Of course it may not work, but there's no harm in trying to avoid war/invasion. I also think he recognises the complexities of the issues involved, to which most only pay lip service. If some of Macron's behaviour is for domestic consumption, that's no different from our PM.

    (I now fully expect to be inundated with abuse for being a French-loving Russia-sympathising communist or something. Which I'm not.)
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,504

    Exactly. How can the site ban its MoonRabbit 😤

    Though it did give me an opportunity to go out for some fresh limes.

    News from the Moon Parliament ref big decision on Elon Musks junk. Obviously we don’t like the sight of it. We don’t like the sight of it looming ever larger. Though I missed emergency Moon Parliament because I was shopping, but the moon is building a big tennis racket to smash any earth junk straight back at you. My lettuce patch is proper safe.
    On the LibDems - they are polling where they are because they aren't getting noticed.

    Labour vs Conservative is obvious - tons of churn in the media - mainstream and social.

    The Greens are getting noticed because x% of stories in the media are about climate change/the environment.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    Farooq said:

    I don't agree with your interpretation* of the cartoon, but I gotta admit that's a watertight case of hypocrisy you just presented.

    *because this is obviously a transposition of international politics into a domestic setting. It's "amusing" because it follows a classical satirical form of "what if ordinary people acted like that?" It doesn't serve as an accusation that ordinary people DO act like that. But I don't want to steamroll your other point, which is spot on.
    It really isn't. How would this have worked in the 1930s, saying you can't have anti Hitler cartoons because Germans and racism? Bear in mind that ybc is demented enough to think that Boudicca was Welsh.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 13,968
    Foxy said:

    Convenience is amongst my favourites, though it fell rather flat at the box office.
    Yep - viewing figures went down the crapper.

    That’s the one where the budgie picks the winning horses?
  • Wonderful. (I have 3 Tyndall early editions).

    What are the notes on? Do the original hand-written manuscripts of Tyndall's books still exist?
    They may do but I don't know where they are. The notes are in the form of a couple of notebooks with various scribblings on all sorts of things - some observations on the Alps and some bits on jointing in rocks. I am particularly interested in those as i am a geologist. Nothing that relates to his more famous stuff either on Greenhouse effect or the Tyndall effect in light.

  • "a stack of memory is as important as Windows a memory monster these days."

    One of the things I *hate* about modern programs is the way many are so damned memory intensive. I know there is a heck of a lot of code reuse and modular gubbins, but from looking at GitHub and elsewhere, so many people seem to now know anything about memory-efficient programming. Though I mainly look at C/C++.

    I know we're not in the days when 1MB is all we have (and yes, 32KB and lower), but it does feel as though people just want to throw memory at their programs. People are more interested in optimising for speed rather than memory, which is fine until your program is running with several others that have the same idea...
    It definitely annoys me when I find things like a huge library module being included to run a function about 6 lines long...
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,504

    It strikes me that Macron is seeking to use diplomacy to try to resolve what's going on in Russia/Ukraine without the need for bloodshed. Good luck to him - I prefer his approach to the sabre-rattling rhetoric favoured by others. Of course it may not work, but there's no harm in trying to avoid war/invasion. I also think he recognises the complexities of the issues involved, to which most only pay lip service. If some of Macron's behaviour is for domestic consumption, that's no different from our PM.

    (I now fully expect to be inundated with abuse for being a French-loving Russia-sympathising communist or something. Which I'm not.)

    A sensible concern is that the EU has been trying in recent days, to have a united front on the issue. With some success. If France dashes off in another direction....
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 50,455

    It strikes me that Macron is seeking to use diplomacy to try to resolve what's going on in Russia/Ukraine without the need for bloodshed. Good luck to him - I prefer his approach to the sabre-rattling rhetoric favoured by others. Of course it may not work, but there's no harm in trying to avoid war/invasion. I also think he recognises the complexities of the issues involved, to which most only pay lip service. If some of Macron's behaviour is for domestic consumption, that's no different from our PM.

    (I now fully expect to be inundated with abuse for being a French-loving Russia-sympathising communist or something. Which I'm not.)

    Didn't someone famous once observe "Jaw-jaw is better than war-war"?
  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 8,714

    Sadly I need it. As some on here know, I am also related to a far more infamous John Tyndall. Mind you he was used by my parents as an example of how not to live your life so I suppose in a way I should be grateful for that as well.
    Kudos to you for owning up to that. I confess if I was related to that JT (assuming it's who I think it is/was), I'd do everything I could to keep the connection quiet.
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,910
    What a match.
  • Anent appeasing Putin etc, have any noises been made by our glorious government about BP and its relationship with Rosneft? I know the B doesn’t stand for British anymore but it’s still supposed to be a British company and BJ & Co aren’t usually backward about shooting their mouths off.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 50,455

    Yep - viewing figures went down the crapper.

    That’s the one where the budgie picks the winning horses?
    Correct.

    The problem was the lampooning of the workers rather than the management struck the wrong note with the audience.

    A great state of the nation on the Seventies flick though, alongside "O lucky Man".
  • Mitch McConnell breaks with RNC on Jan. 6: "We all were here. We saw what happened. It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election, from one administration to the next. That's what it was."

    https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1491147442817241088?s=20&t=nuKJ0vqp4OVG4IEgkHtqVQ
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 13,968
    Foxy said:

    Correct.

    The problem was the lampooning of the workers rather than the management struck the wrong note with the audience.

    A great state of the nation on the Seventies flick though, alongside "O lucky Man".
    I love 60’s and 70’s uk films and tv. 🙂
  • Kudos to you for owning up to that. I confess if I was related to that JT (assuming it's who I think it is/was), I'd do everything I could to keep the connection quiet.
    I have spent my life - well since University - arguing and campaigning against everything he stood for. I work on the basis I have nothing to be ashamed of as I couldn't choose who my relatives were and it is easier to be open and honest about it.
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