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  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,272
    rcs1000 said:

    Still woke.

    Ultimately, deer are woke. Look at the buggers, even the ostensibly male ones look effeminate. God knows how they self identify.
    I think they are just in a rut. Have a hart and give them a break.
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    Eh?

    California is a crime infested hell hole: how can it possibly be wealthy?
    Well silicon valley for a start is extremely wealthy. As is much of the coast, orange county and the western side of los angeles.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    Citrus said:

    Ive seen rumours on social media that all uk airports bar Heathrow, Glasgow and Belfast will close by 2030.
    Is this on the sites you're allowed to view from your windowless bunker in Russia?
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 4,651
    rcs1000 said:

    Show me a man who's a vegan, and I will show you a man who's trying to shag a vegan.
    I was a vegan for many a year and all I thought about was kale.

    I await a TSE innuendo or I want many wasted years back.

    (If it's any help - my final weakness was oily fish and black pudding)
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,594
    edited April 2023
    I guess those rights were not so cherished after all, eh Fox?

    Ahead of the trial, attorneys for Fox repeatedly objected to the $1.6bn in damages that Colorado-based Dominion was seeking, and characterised the figure as massively inflated.

    The "real cost" of the case, Fox said, would be the "cherished" rights to freedom of speech and of the press enshrined in the First Amendment of the US Constitution.


    Also, if they are complaining about the context of these messages, ergo that they are presumably misleading, is that in fact saying they did believe the claims and Fox stands by its claims?

    In one series of text messages, top-rated host Tucker Carlson said some of the claims were both "absurd" and "insane", while another host, Sean Hannity, said privately he did not believe them "for one second".

    Fox has said the words were taken out of context.


    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65318654
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 54,559
    Nigelb said:

    You're in the ball tonight, Big_G.

    I said they might settle during the trial; fear beat out greed in the end. Will be interesting to see the details - if made public.
    The judge was very clearly unimpressed with everything about Fox's presentation of their case. The risk of a massive punitive settlement must have focused minds.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    Citrus said:

    Well silicon valley for a start is extremely wealthy. As is much of the coast, orange county and the western side of los angeles.
    Actually, you make a good point. Even in Russia, there are parts where some people - the ones who stole all the money - have lots of money and long lives.

    Pity the poor bastards in the rest of the country.
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    Is this on the sites you're allowed to view from your windowless bunker in Russia?
    Have you noticed how the price of long haul flights have soared ie likely around £ 800 to £ 1000 to fly to Bangkok. Now if the price of short haul flights soar due to net zero many of the uks regional airports will see vastly reduced traffic.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    As an aside, I see Hogwarts Legacy is the third most played game on Steam.

    I wonder how that boycott is going...
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,594

    The judge was very clearly unimpressed with everything about Fox's presentation of their case. The risk of a massive punitive settlement must have focused minds.
    To agree the settlement they did they must have feared Dominion getting the bulk of what it was demanding, or estimated the damage caused by testifying + the likely cost if they lost as being higher than $800m.

    What the heck did they fear would come out from Rupert and Co testifying that it was worth that?
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 4,651
    Leon said:

    It's bloody brilliant, If spiced up a tiny bit. It has completely turned me on to venison - and I am trying to reduce my consumption of dubiously farmed beef, pork and chicken to near zero. If not zero

    I only ever eat steak now (cooking at home) if I can research the provenance down to the actual cow, basically

    Industrial farming of animals disturbs me greatly

    Somewhat related - I've quite enjoyed these fermented hot sauces https://www.ooftsauce.com/ . The scotch bonnet in particular is good for pepping up a dish without being too OTT in the 'bourbon with sugar and vanilla and and and and' ...
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,295
    We haven't had any Scottish opinion polls since 3rd April.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Scottish_Parliament_election
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    Citrus said:

    Have you noticed how the price of long haul flights have soared ie likely around £ 800 to £ 1000 to fly to Bangkok. Now if the price of short haul flights soar due to net zero many of the uks regional airports will see vastly reduced traffic.
    British Airways long haul load factor is at a post 2020 high, so your "have you noticed" bears an uncanny non-alignment with reality.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,344
    edited April 2023
    rcs1000 said:

    Still woke.

    Ultimately, deer are woke. Look at the buggers, even the ostensibly male ones look effeminate. God knows how they self identify.
    U what?

    There must be an hell of a lot of testosterone being pumped out by the rcs1000 gonads.




  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    Actually, you make a good point. Even in Russia, there are parts where some people - the ones who stole all the money - have lots of money and long lives.

    Pity the poor bastards in the rest of the country.
    Why are so many people on antidepressants and psychological medication in the usa if its that great. Bottomline is the usa is a dysfunctional highly atomised society.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,778
    Omnium said:

    O/T Evening all

    I'm selling my flat and will likely have a fair chunk of cash that will essentially sit idle for a while. Could anyone suggest routes for that cash that avoid bank/system risk? I had hoped to just invest directly in gilts, but I can't see a 100% route of doing that. It seems that you have to go via 'computershare'.

    I have most of my investments with Hargreaves Lansdowne, and they're great, but I don't want to have all of my eggs in one basket.

    It doesn't have to be Gilts - could be UST or ECB bonds. Not interested in Gold or the like.

    I'd appreciate any thoughts.

    You could try a money market (“enhanced cash”) fund with just about any of the major asset managers

  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,594
    Citrus said:

    Why are so many people on antidepressants and psychological medication in the usa if its that great. Bottomline is the usa is a dysfunctional highly atomised society.
    Why can't they just have a crippling alcohol problem like proper countries? That's how a manly nation deals with its issues.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,824
    Ooh, I just made an unexpected £30,000

    That is the joy of the Knapping Industry. You toil for years on a Travertine Tickler, put it other there for people to enjoy, forget all about it, then suddenly someone from Brazil or California or Spitzbergen says "can I license that for 5 years, but in stiffened latex", and there you go. £30k

    Sweeeeeeeeeet
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    British Airways long haul load factor is at a post 2020 high, so your "have you noticed" bears an uncanny non-alignment with reality.
    Doesnt change the fact prices are substantially higher. And BA serves the more upper end of the market anyway. An average middle class family will now find long haul extremely expensive, not so much the elite class for whom life continues as normal.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,824
    ohnotnow said:

    Somewhat related - I've quite enjoyed these fermented hot sauces https://www.ooftsauce.com/ . The scotch bonnet in particular is good for pepping up a dish without being too OTT in the 'bourbon with sugar and vanilla and and and and' ...
    Ah, I love OOOFT!

    One of my go-to sauces if I want my noggin exploded. In a good way
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    kle4 said:

    Why can't they just have a crippling alcohol problem like proper countries? That's how a manly nation deals with its issues.
    Oh you mean like the uk. Of course i forgot.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,711
    Leon said:

    Ooh, I just made an unexpected £30,000

    That is the joy of the Knapping Industry. You toil for years on a Travertine Tickler, put it other there for people to enjoy, forget all about it, then suddenly someone from Brazil or California or Spitzbergen says "can I license that for 5 years, but in stiffened latex", and there you go. £30k

    Sweeeeeeeeeet

    I have been paying my car insurance out of Korean language translation royalties for the last five years. It matches the amount very closely. No idea how the Koreans made any money though, given the translation cost.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 27,530
    rcs1000 said:

    Here's a funny thing:

    All the States with the highest life expectancy are Democrat. You need to get numbers 10 and 11 (Florida and Utah) to get to Republican ones.

    And it's a real mix too: Hawaii, California, New York and Minnesota are all very different states demographically and racially.
    The differences between Minnesota and Wisconsin are surprising.
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    Actually, you make a good point. Even in Russia, there are parts where some people - the ones who stole all the money - have lots of money and long lives.

    Pity the poor bastards in the rest of the country.
    As opposed to starting money losing companies in silicon valley without a hope of making a profit then going public and dumping the stock on some poor suckers "investors" whilst making a fortune for yourself having created nothing of value. You mean that sort of stealing.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    edited April 2023
    Citrus said:

    Doesnt change the fact prices are substantially higher. And BA serves the more upper end of the market anyway. An average middle class family will now find long haul extremely expensive, not so much the elite class for whom life continues as normal.
    British Airways is trying to make a profit.

    It will therefore charge the highest price the market will bear.

    The completely full flight I;'ve just boarded from LA to London (despite the current high prices) is testament to this.

    I see, as I gaze towards the back of the bus that the Premium Economy and... yes... even the Economy seats are also completely full.

    So either: (a) plutocrats have been forced to travel economy, or (b) it turns out that while people might grimace, there's plenty of demand for flights from LA to London.

    Although, I guess people might might just be fleeing the crime infested streets of Santa Monica.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,778

    Ghastly.

    As Dominic Raab inquiry nears end, there’s one thing tha I’m told has made process particularly daunting for complainants. They got message @LucyJMcDaid & I have seen) saying deputy pm will see all evidence. That’s for his right of reply-but some haven’t taken part cos of that.

    https://twitter.com/AnushkaAsthana/status/1648403039559057412

    The ability to face and answer your accusers is a fundamental part of justice.

    Are you suggesting that Raab should have to face accusations where he isn’t shown the detail of the complaints?
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    Citrus said:

    Why are so many people on antidepressants and psychological medication in the usa if its that great. Bottomline is the usa is a dysfunctional highly atomised society.
    Because they can afford them?

    Who wouldn't choose an evening of magic mushrooms and valium over a bottle of adulterated vodka?
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,295
    "Two publishers and the National Union of Journalists have condemned the police after anti-terror laws were used to arrest a French publisher as he arrived in London.

    Ernest Moret was searched under counter-terrorism legislation after travelling from Paris on Monday.

    His employer claimed he was stopped over his alleged involvement in French pension age protests.

    The Metropolitan Police said a man had been arrested over obstruction."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65314605
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    British Airways is trying to make a profit.

    It will therefore charge the highest price the market will bear.

    The completely full flight I;'ve just boarded from LA to London (despite the current high prices) is testament to this.

    I see, as I gaze towards the back of the bus that the Premium Economy and... yes... even the Economy seats are also completely full.

    So either: (a) plutocrats have been forced to travel economy, or (b) it turns out that while people might grimace, there's plenty of demand for flights from LA to London.

    Although, I guess people might might just be fleeing the crime infested streets of Santa Monica.
    Yes but as i said ba serves more the upper end of the market. And please dont overdo the humble bragging business class is just slightly more legroom and slightly better food.
  • Wulfrun_PhilWulfrun_Phil Posts: 4,780
    rcs1000 said:

    Show me a man who's a vegan, and I will show you a man who's trying to shag a vegan.
    Well, in the case of my vegan son and vegan daughter in law you may have a point.

    Although we're still without grandchildren.

  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,824
    rcs1000 said:

    British Airways is trying to make a profit.

    It will therefore charge the highest price the market will bear.

    The completely full flight I;'ve just boarded from LA to London (despite the current high prices) is testament to this.

    I see, as I gaze towards the back of the bus that the Premium Economy and... yes... even the Economy seats are also completely full.

    So either: (a) plutocrats have been forced to travel economy, or (b) it turns out that while people might grimace, there's plenty of demand for flights from LA to London.

    Although, I guess people might might just be fleeing the crime infested streets of Santa Monica.
    I just booked a longhaul ticket to Asia, for Thursday

    For a moment - a shuddering, horrific moment - I toyed with going Economy, then I looked at the prices. Insane for Economy. Biz was about twice as much, rather than 5 times as much. So I yielded to logic and went Biz

    But if they can charge that much for Economy, then airlines are filling their planes, and then some
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    Because they can afford them?

    Who wouldn't choose an evening of magic mushrooms and valium over a bottle of adulterated vodka?
    No because people in the usa are psychologically messed up. It is a dog eat dog society dominated by large amoral corporations and a ruling class that has contempt for the people.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,778

    I may be being dumb but gilts are pretty risky short-term investments are they not? Their value can go down significantly if interests rates rise.

    (Someone please correct me if I have that wrong).
    Not if you hold to maturity. So you want to be short duration in a situation like this
  • Jim_MillerJim_Miller Posts: 3,264
    Here are two ecological fallacy examples you may find instructive:
    "Research dating back to Émile Durkheim suggests that predominantly Protestant localities have higher suicide rates than predominantly Catholic localities.[3] According to Freedman,[4] the idea that Durkheim's findings link, at an individual level, a person's religion to his or her suicide risk is an example of the ecological fallacy. A group-level relationship does not automatically characterize the relationship at the level of the individual.

    Similarly, even if at the individual level, wealth is positively correlated to tendency to vote Republican, we observe that wealthier states tend to vote Democratic. For example, in 2004, the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, won the fifteen poorest states, and the Democratic candidate, John Kerry, won 9 of the 11 wealthiest states. Yet 62% of voters with annual incomes over $200,000 voted for Bush, but only 36% of voters with annual incomes of $15,000 or less voted for Bush.[5]."

    And here's another that they don't mention: States that habitually vote Republican often have higher murder rates than states that habitually voted Democratic. Can we infer from this that Republicans are more likely to be murderers thatn Democrats?

    No. And, in fact, individual data shows that the reverse is true.

    (The third example is even more complicated: There is strong reason to believe that rising crime often leads to more support for Republicans.)
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    I'm sorry @Citrus, someone is trying to force champagne on me and therefore I need to go.

    In an hour or so, as I drift into slumber, I will consider the good I've done in the world. Maybe you might want to consider the same.

    Do you consider your job, trolling on a Western website, to be adding to the sum of human happiness? How many more people have healthcare and food, as a result of your actions?

    Ok if you consider working for goldman sachs as doing good in the world. Others on this site would disagree.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,824
    edited April 2023
    The weird thing about long haul airline ticket prices is that Economy tickets seem to have doubled in cost in the last 2-3 weird years, but Biz tickets remain roughly the same price

    I cannot fathom the logic of this
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    Leon said:

    I just booked a longhaul ticket to Asia, for Thursday

    For a moment - a shuddering, horrific moment - I toyed with going Economy, then I looked at the prices. Insane for Economy. Biz was about twice as much, rather than 5 times as much. So I yielded to logic and went Biz

    But if they can charge that much for Economy, then airlines are filling their planes, and then some
    I dont think they are flying as many planes as they used to.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,711
    Leon said:

    The weird thing about long haul airline ticket prices is that Economy tickets seem to have doubled in cost in the last 2-3 weird years, but Biz tickets remain roughly the same price

    I cannot fathom the logic of this

    Fewer actual business flights due to zoom?
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    Leon said:

    The weird thing about long haul airline ticket prices is that Economy tickets seem to have doubled in cost in the last 2-3 weird years, but Biz tickets remain roughly the same price

    I cannot fathom the logic of this

    They dont want as many plebs flying. Its net zero you see.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,867
    edited April 2023
    Don't do it Fergie

    Fergie's consolation prize? Duchess of York 'will be a VIP attendee at the coronation concert' after being snubbed from Westminster Abbey guest list

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11987397/Sarah-Ferguson-VIP-attendee-coronation-concert.html

    It's a bit like getting an invitation to attend the "night do" of a wedding but not the actual wedding/reception itself.

    My mother didn't do "night do's" she always said if she wasn't good enough to attend the wedding she wasn't good enough to attend the night do.

    You gotta have some dignity and self respect... though I think in Fergie's case she might be a bit beyond that lol
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    The next step will be to increase short haul flight prices so many can no longer afford their 2 weeks in Spain.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,824
    carnforth said:

    Fewer actual business flights due to zoom?
    But then why aren't they reconfiguring their planes to reduce the Biz Class area, and stuff more people into the newly-profitable cattle class section?

    I guess it's not cheap to reorganise planes but hmmm
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,295
    rcs1000 said:

    British Airways is trying to make a profit.

    It will therefore charge the highest price the market will bear.

    The completely full flight I;'ve just boarded from LA to London (despite the current high prices) is testament to this.

    I see, as I gaze towards the back of the bus that the Premium Economy and... yes... even the Economy seats are also completely full.

    So either: (a) plutocrats have been forced to travel economy, or (b) it turns out that while people might grimace, there's plenty of demand for flights from LA to London.

    Although, I guess people might might just be fleeing the crime infested streets of Santa Monica.
    Is £628 return a high price? Just found that on the BA website.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    Citrus said:

    Ok if you consider working for goldman sachs as doing good in the world. Others on this site would disagree.
    You have no idea how flattered I am that there's a file in St Petersburg that says:

    rcs1000 - worked at Goldman Sachs, son of OGH, known to spot paid posters at 120 yards

    Is there any more I should know? Sexual predilections? That kind of thing.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,778
    rcs1000 said:

    Here's a funny thing:

    All the States with the highest life expectancy are Democrat. You need to get numbers 10 and 11 (Florida and Utah) to get to Republican ones.

    And it's a real mix too: Hawaii, California, New York and Minnesota are all very different states demographically and racially.
    Sounds like a correlation with wealth?
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    You have no idea how flattered I am that there's a file in St Petersburg that says:

    rcs1000 - worked at Goldman Sachs, son of OGH, known to spot paid posters at 120 yards

    Is there any more I should know? Sexual predilections? That kind of thing.
    Hows your company doing. Is it making money yet.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,229
    Leon said:

    But then why aren't they reconfiguring their planes to reduce the Biz Class area, and stuff more people into the newly-profitable cattle class section?

    I guess it's not cheap to reorganise planes but hmmm
    At a random guess, they’ve put prices up until the market (seats) just clears (sells out)

    Given that volume of air travel between many locations is capacity constrained - a lot of airports are at max flights - not much opportunity to increase volume….
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    Citrus said:

    The next step will be to increase short haul flight prices so many can no longer afford their 2 weeks in Spain.

    And this benefits who? And how?

    If you want to make some money from your "top tip", can I suggest you short the shares of Ryanair and Easyjet.

    I do realize that sanctions mean that IGIndex and SpreadEx will sadly mean that they are unable to take your money.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    Citrus said:

    Hows your company doing. Is it making money yet.
    It's doing very well thank you.

    How's your company doing? Any customers other than the Kremlin?
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,778
    rcs1000 said:

    Eh?

    California is a crime infested hell hole: how can it possibly be wealthy?
    Looking out on the dystopian vista of Sepulveda Boulevard at the moment… it’s ok… traffic is moving at least

  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,711
    The new budget arm of Japanese Airlines, ZipAir, does budget lie-flat business seats. You get a full flat seat, but otherwise it's mostly just the same as economy - same food and so on. From about £1750 LA to Tokyo return. Sadly no London flights yet.
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    And this benefits who? And how?

    If you want to make some money from your "top tip", can I suggest you short the shares of Ryanair and Easyjet.

    I do realize that sanctions mean that IGIndex and SpreadEx will sadly mean that they are unable to take your money.
    Fewer people at higher price means airlines still make money. Just fewer plebs flying to spoil your day rcs.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411

    Looking out on the dystopian vista of Sepulveda Boulevard at the moment… it’s ok… traffic is moving at least

    Damnit, I'm on a plane to England.

    See you next time.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,295
    edited April 2023
    edit
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,778
    Leon said:

    Ooh, I just made an unexpected £30,000

    That is the joy of the Knapping Industry. You toil for years on a Travertine Tickler, put it other there for people to enjoy, forget all about it, then suddenly someone from Brazil or California or Spitzbergen says "can I license that for 5 years, but in stiffened latex", and there you go. £30k

    Sweeeeeeeeeet

    Before tax…
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    Citrus said:

    Fewer people at higher price means airlines still make money. Just fewer plebs flying to spoil your day rcs.
    And how does this mesh with your claim that ask the UK airport are closing down?
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    It's doing very well thank you.

    How's your company doing? Any customers other than the Kremlin?
    You didnt answer my question. Is your company making money.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,778
    rcs1000 said:

    British Airways is trying to make a profit.

    It will therefore charge the highest price the market will bear.

    The completely full flight I;'ve just boarded from LA to London (despite the current high prices) is testament to this.

    I see, as I gaze towards the back of the bus that the Premium Economy and... yes... even the Economy seats are also completely full.

    So either: (a) plutocrats have been forced to travel economy, or (b) it turns out that while people might grimace, there's plenty of demand for flights from LA to London.

    Although, I guess people might might just be fleeing the crime infested streets of Santa Monica.
    They cancelled my flight (17.50) - I have to fly American
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,867
    edited April 2023
    I went to NYC last year and few BA premium economy.

    Was the first time I'd flew a long way and it was pretty good. The cabin crew were very "attentive" though on the flight home the meal gave me an upset stomach so I spent most of the flight going backwards and forwards to the toilet which is embarrassing at 30,000 feet lol...
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    Citrus said:

    You didnt answer my question. Is your company making money.
    And you didn't answer mine.

    But, for the record, I think March will have been my insurance carriers first profitable month.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    rcs1000 said:

    And you didn't answer mine.

    But, for the record, I think March will have been my insurance carriers first profitable month.
    And our financials are filed with the Arizona Department of Insurance and the NAIC, so feel free to check for yourself.
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    And how does this mesh with your claim that ask the UK airport are closing down?
    Its not my claim. Its what official documents circulating on social media are showing. Fits in with net zero.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    Citrus said:

    Its not my claim. Its what official documents circulating on social media are showing. Fits in with net zero.
    The official documents circulating about the coming closure of 93% of the UK's airports?

    You've ceased being amusing and are just talking shit.

    Goodnight dear @Citrus.
  • CitrusCitrus Posts: 27
    rcs1000 said:

    And you didn't answer mine.

    But, for the record, I think March will have been my insurance carriers first profitable month.
    Life aint bad when you can fly business class on the back of a money losing company. Ah the perks of the western parasites (elites sorry)
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,824

    Before tax…
    Hence my likely absence from the UK for 9 months this year
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411

    They cancelled my flight (17.50) - I have to fly American
    Wait. You're not on the 1615 American flight are you?
  • MikeLMikeL Posts: 7,772
    Per The Times:

    "The leader of Britain’s largest anti-monarchist group says more than 1,350 people have pledged to protest during the coronation parade in May.

    Graham Smith, the head of Republic, said the demonstration would mark “the largest protest action” in the group’s 50-year history.

    Republic activists will wear yellow T-shirts and wave yellow placards to create an “unmissable sea of yellow” along the procession route in central London, he said. When the newly crowned King passes in his gold stage coach, they plan to boo loudly and chant: “Not my King”."
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,594
    MikeL said:

    Per The Times:

    "The leader of Britain’s largest anti-monarchist group says more than 1,350 people have pledged to protest during the coronation parade in May.

    Graham Smith, the head of Republic, said the demonstration would mark “the largest protest action” in the group’s 50-year history.

    Republic activists will wear yellow T-shirts and wave yellow placards to create an “unmissable sea of yellow” along the procession route in central London, he said. When the newly crowned King passes in his gold stage coach, they plan to boo loudly and chant: “Not my King”."

    That's their largest protest action in 50 years?

    Still, I hope they have a good time doing it.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,867
    That's the end of @Citrus then? 😂
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,411
    GIN1138 said:

    That's the end of @Citrus then? 😂

    He didn't exactly try and hide his troll-ness, and I respect that.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,867
    rcs1000 said:

    He didn't exactly try and hide his troll-ness, and I respect that.

    Will him or one of his co-workers be back on Saturday (or maybe before then) ?
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,711
    rcs1000 said:

    He didn't exactly try and hide his troll-ness, and I respect that.
    They seem to be instructed not to deny that they are russian trolls, but just to pretend the allegation has not been put.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,295
    carnforth said:

    They seem to be instructed not to deny that they are russian trolls, but just to pretend the allegation has not been put.
    I'd be interested to know if they are actually posting from Russia.
  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559

    What if Leon hunts the deer himself?
    Better yet (in one way, anyway) IF he skins, guts, cleans, etc., etc., the critter using only flint tools of his own manufacture.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,295
    We have crossover with Betfair Exchange. Labour majority now less than a 50% chance.

    https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.167249195
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,795
    Trumpton 40
    Sanity 49
    DK/WNV 11

    Interesting poll
  • BartholomewRobertsBartholomewRoberts Posts: 23,427
    edited April 2023
    From a couple of threads ago @kinabalu
    kinabalu said:

    I can forget or I can forgive. Just say which you prefer.

    My main point, though, is that this exciting LD news from you isn't really so exciting because it's a PROTEST vote and you'll be back to the Cons at the GE. That's fair, isn't it?
    No its not fair.

    2019 was a protest vote. I disliked Theresa "Go Home" May but still felt like a Conservative even if not in the Party. But my leaving the Tories now is a lot more substantial, the Tories under Sunak have turned their backs on aspiration and everything that made me support them in the past.

    If the Tories only stand for being the party of inheritance and the party of the retired and screw people who work for a living - then they can choose to do that, but it will be without my vote. At either the local election, or the General Election too.
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,422
    Senior members of the SNP are braced for Nicola Sturgeon’s imminent arrest in the wake of detectives interviewing her husband and the party treasurer amid an investigation into party finances.

    Senior MPs and MSPs claim it is “inevitable” that the former first minister will be interviewed under caution or as a witness in the coming weeks.

    Sturgeon is the only senior SNP official named on the party’s most recent financial accounts who has not been arrested.


    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/will-nicola-sturgeon-be-arrested-snp-2023-jrbftdjjm
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 51,131

    Oops! Here's that table of life expectancies, by American state: https://247wallst.com/state/heres-how-life-expectancy-in-north-dakota-compares-to-the-nation/

    I have a friend who’s about to move from Kentucky to Texas; who’d have thought that would add four years to her life?
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 51,131
    Leon said:

    I reckon @kinabalu finds it genuinely difficult to think outside his predictable, progressive, social democratic box. He has a world view, and he diligently sticks to it, and it comforts him, and it probably verifies often enough for him to feel it is acceptably accurate, so why risk changing his perspective? Easier to label opponents as "reactionaries" and file them comfortably away

    But he is terrible at processing new data or coming up with new ideas or confronting fresh dilemmas….
    Concluding that all new data means that the End of the World is Nigh is hardly an improvement, tho.

  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,766
    .

    Better yet (in one way, anyway) IF he skins, guts, cleans, etc., etc., the critter using only flint tools of his own manufacture.
    Not an easy task using a stone dildo. Respect.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,766
    New Details Emerge in Deadly Upstate Shooting of Woman in Wrong Driveway
    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/nyregion/kaylin-gillis-ny-shooting.html

    Killer’s lawyer: He “sincerely regrets this tragedy”; “feels terrible that there was a fatality,” but felt the sheriff was “basically acting as judge, jury and executioner in this case.”

  • Penddu2Penddu2 Posts: 754
    IanB2 said:

    And the last non-Labour party leader with a beard (pre-Yousaf) was…?
    Arlene Foster
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,766
    edited April 2023
    Context on Fox-Dominion: Before this, Washington Post reported that Rupert Murdoch's "cumulative settlements over the past 13 years"—UK phone hacking, Fox sexual harassment, etc.—totaled near $750 million.

    Today's $787.5 million eclipses all those settlements combined.

    https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/1648459888333561862

    The magnitude of the settlement is perhaps related to the fact that Fox did not agree to apologise.

    A source has confirmed to @Axios that Fox News will not be required to give any apologies or retractions on its air as a part of the settlement deal.
    https://twitter.com/sarafischer/status/1648439877636333572
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 22,100

    From a couple of threads ago @kinabalu

    No its not fair.

    2019 was a protest vote. I disliked Theresa "Go Home" May but still felt like a Conservative even if not in the Party. But my leaving the Tories now is a lot more substantial, the Tories under Sunak have turned their backs on aspiration and everything that made me support them in the past.

    If the Tories only stand for being the party of inheritance and the party of the retired and screw people who work for a living - then they can choose to do that, but it will be without my vote. At either the local election, or the General Election too.
    British politics resembles Italian politics. Short lived PMs wrestling with instability. The type of PM oscillating between an ideologue like Truss, populists like Johnson and technocratic managers like May.

    Sunak is a technocrat. He’s here to stabilise the ship, shore up the Tory core and manage decline. His vision such as it is, is to reverse the excesses of the previous regime, borrow the more attractive opposition ideas and carve out a win to enable five more years of spreadsheets.

    I’m not surprised you’re switched off. One of the tragedies of the British politics is how the Conservatives owned and strangled entrepreneurialism. Wih the exception of Thatcher their Tory tradition always trumps old school Libreralism.
  • squareroot2squareroot2 Posts: 7,012
    edited April 2023
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 62,355
    Nigelb said:

    .

    Not an easy task using a stone dildo. Respect.
    Well, I wasn't expecting to wake up to a comment like that on here.

    I never would have guessed the poster either!
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,567

    Well, I wasn't expecting to wake up to a comment like that on here.

    I never would have guessed the poster either!
    You found it hard?
  • squareroot2squareroot2 Posts: 7,012
    edited April 2023
    Deleted
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 62,355
    The weather forecast now seems to be totally inaccurate, unless it's less than 12 hours or so away - in which case, there's little point in having a weather forecast.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 51,131
    ydoethur said:

    You found it hard?
    It was a penetrating comment, for sure.
  • NEW THREAD

  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 51,131
    Not yet there isn’t!
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,567
    Comments are buggered up. Just tried to leave one there and it’s not having it.

    It’s a thread on the royal family, which is astonishing as we all know Mr Eagles is not in any way obsessed with them.
  • ydoethur said:

    Comments are buggered up. Just tried to leave one there and it’s not having it.

    It’s a thread on the royal family, which is astonishing as we all know Mr Eagles is not in any way obsessed with them.

    Should be able to comment there.

    It is a polling thread.
  • squareroot2squareroot2 Posts: 7,012
    IanB2 said:

    Not yet there isn’t!

    It is now....
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 51,131

    Le nouveau fil est arrivé !

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