The Israel-Hamas war, which is dividing the left and posing a huge political problem for President Biden, has allowed Republicans to put the academic left on the spot and position themselves as the party more concerned with the safety of Jewish students.
These things happen. Less problematic than nodding off in court.
I think my favourite candidate flub was still George H. Bush, who unintentionally announced that he and Ronald Reagan had been in a gay relationship during their time together.
I wonder if Rayner has lost Labour the votes of a lot of shorter-than-average men with her comments today.
1) I haven't seen it repeated aside from on here, and on the political Twatter. In other words, it hasn't gained currency.
2) As comments earlier showed, it's by someone on the left about someone on the right, therefore funny and true, not insulting. But if anyone made stereotypical comments based on Rayner's red hair or breast size, that would be AWFUL!!!!!
Managed to get over 41km walked today, so now a bit more than 195km in on day five
I was, though, rather slow in the first half of the day. While I was up high in the mountains, I kept on feeling compelled to sit down and really take in the spectacular views in front of me
Somewhere along the way, I started to feel really strangely emotional. I actually cried a few times, but didn't feel remotely sad
I started to think about how, although I'm just doing this for me and on my own, I'm actually part of a collective experience with the thousands of people doing this right now, and with the millions that have over the last millennium
We've all shared that same stunning scenery, and all worked damned hard on the way up to get it
I've never felt quite like I did today, and I'm still buzzing from it
Is it noom?
That, my friend, is Maximum Noom
This is one of the more interesting of your thread hijacks.
One of my undergrad mini dissertations (we did one big one and 2 little ones) was all about 18th and 19th century travel writers in Africa - Mungo Park, Mary Kingsley etc.
The proposition was that the writing told us more about the writer and their social context than the societies in which they travelled. Classic post-colonial theory. I said maybe, but it also tells us about the moment of contact between the writer and the society they are visiting. And also about their contact with and experience of place. All the best do that. At its best you find yourself sharing a moment of spiritual epiphany with the place the writer is describing.
Mungo Park did it best. His description of the landscape around him when left for dead, robbed of everything and beaten up by the Moors, is very intense.
I probably used the word numinous. I liked to use fancy words where I could back then. But it’s a very good word.
“Numinous” is too poncey. And also inexact - it means “arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring”
Noom is very specific to place, the terrible lovely or dreamy sensation of the sacred, in a specific place. Also it sounds like doom and loom, which is perfect. Noom can be doomy - Dark Noom in Angel Meadow - yet it looms the fabric of our souls always. And it’s a nice Anglo Saxon monosyllable
My work is done! I’m gonna watch Masterchef
May everyone encounter Bright Noom tomorrow
I prefer numinous. It also refers to place. Sounds nicely like luminous, and lives in the same underused word universe as “liminal”.
No, numinous definitely does NOT explicitly and only refer to place, hence my coinage of Noom
Dictionary.com: Numinous: of, relating to, or like a numen; spiritual or supernatural. surpassing comprehension or understanding; mysterious: that element in artistic expression that remains numinous.
Cambridge: Numinous - having a deep spiritual (= religious) quality or connection
You can have a numinous dream, or encounter, or moment, but Noom is “place plus Numinosity”. A building can be roomy, and noomy
Also, saying “numinous” sounds pretentious, but saying “it’s got great Noom” just means you’re a hepcat dude who’s reading PB and it’s cool
Managed to get over 41km walked today, so now a bit more than 195km in on day five
I was, though, rather slow in the first half of the day. While I was up high in the mountains, I kept on feeling compelled to sit down and really take in the spectacular views in front of me
Somewhere along the way, I started to feel really strangely emotional. I actually cried a few times, but didn't feel remotely sad
I started to think about how, although I'm just doing this for me and on my own, I'm actually part of a collective experience with the thousands of people doing this right now, and with the millions that have over the last millennium
We've all shared that same stunning scenery, and all worked damned hard on the way up to get it
I've never felt quite like I did today, and I'm still buzzing from it
Is it noom?
That, my friend, is Maximum Noom
This is one of the more interesting of your thread hijacks.
One of my undergrad mini dissertations (we did one big one and 2 little ones) was all about 18th and 19th century travel writers in Africa - Mungo Park, Mary Kingsley etc.
The proposition was that the writing told us more about the writer and their social context than the societies in which they travelled. Classic post-colonial theory. I said maybe, but it also tells us about the moment of contact between the writer and the society they are visiting. And also about their contact with and experience of place. All the best do that. At its best you find yourself sharing a moment of spiritual epiphany with the place the writer is describing.
Mungo Park did it best. His description of the landscape around him when left for dead, robbed of everything and beaten up by the Moors, is very intense.
I probably used the word numinous. I liked to use fancy words where I could back then. But it’s a very good word.
“Numinous” is too poncey. And also inexact - it means “arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring”
Noom is very specific to place, the terrible lovely or dreamy sensation of the sacred, in a specific place. Also it sounds like doom and loom, which is perfect. Noom can be doomy - Dark Noom in Angel Meadow - yet it looms the fabric of our souls always. And it’s a nice Anglo Saxon monosyllable
A big part of the collective experience thing for me has been the power of Hola
When I started out in the dark in Santiago on Saturday morning it was just me. As the sun came up I started to see a few other walkers; they all gave me an hola
I decided that I was going to hola everyone
It soon became rather overwhelming. As I'm going the wrong way, I'm passing thousands of other peregrinos
But I stuck at it, and came up with some hola rules for myself
Smile Say hola to everyone; don't discriminate Don't just say it, sing it a bit Sing it like you mean it Smile some more
I think that being a relentlessly cheerful postie has been as good training for this walk as all the walking has been
Managed to get over 41km walked today, so now a bit more than 195km in on day five
I was, though, rather slow in the first half of the day. While I was up high in the mountains, I kept on feeling compelled to sit down and really take in the spectacular views in front of me
Somewhere along the way, I started to feel really strangely emotional. I actually cried a few times, but didn't feel remotely sad
I started to think about how, although I'm just doing this for me and on my own, I'm actually part of a collective experience with the thousands of people doing this right now, and with the millions that have over the last millennium
We've all shared that same stunning scenery, and all worked damned hard on the way up to get it
I've never felt quite like I did today, and I'm still buzzing from it
Is it noom?
That, my friend, is Maximum Noom
This is one of the more interesting of your thread hijacks.
One of my undergrad mini dissertations (we did one big one and 2 little ones) was all about 18th and 19th century travel writers in Africa - Mungo Park, Mary Kingsley etc.
The proposition was that the writing told us more about the writer and their social context than the societies in which they travelled. Classic post-colonial theory. I said maybe, but it also tells us about the moment of contact between the writer and the society they are visiting. And also about their contact with and experience of place. All the best do that. At its best you find yourself sharing a moment of spiritual epiphany with the place the writer is describing.
Mungo Park did it best. His description of the landscape around him when left for dead, robbed of everything and beaten up by the Moors, is very intense.
I probably used the word numinous. I liked to use fancy words where I could back then. But it’s a very good word.
“Numinous” is too poncey. And also inexact - it means “arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring”
Noom is very specific to place, the terrible lovely or dreamy sensation of the sacred, in a specific place. Also it sounds like doom and loom, which is perfect. Noom can be doomy - Dark Noom in Angel Meadow - yet it looms the fabric of our souls always. And it’s a nice Anglo Saxon monosyllable
My work is done! I’m gonna watch Masterchef
May everyone encounter Bright Noom tomorrow
I prefer numinous. It also refers to place. Sounds nicely like luminous, and lives in the same underused word universe as “liminal”.
No, numinous definitely does NOT explicitly and only refer to place, hence my coinage of Noom
Dictionary.com: Numinous: of, relating to, or like a numen; spiritual or supernatural. surpassing comprehension or understanding; mysterious: that element in artistic expression that remains numinous.
Cambridge: Numinous - having a deep spiritual (= religious) quality or connection
You can have a numinous dream, or encounter, or moment, but Noom is “place plus Numinosity”. A building can be roomy, and noomy
Also, saying “numinous” sounds pretentious, but saying “it’s got great Noom” just means you’re a hepcat dude who’s reading PB and it’s cool
OK, I really will watch Masterchef now
Though when I asked you if the apocalyptic London horses were numinous you said no, because not related to place.
Definitions don’t get tougher than this, as Greg Wallace might say.
Guns, even artillery barrels, are not easy to make, even nowadays. The greater pressure they have to withstand, the harder they are to make. And the further you want to the thing-that-goes-boom to go, the greater the pressure. Unless you put the 'further' into the 'thing', and create a missile hittile. Where the pressure has to be contained within the thing...
I've never quite seen the logic in abandoning battleships and going for carriers.
USS Arizona, Oklahoma, HMS Repulse, Prince of Wales (1941), the Roma, the Yamato, Musashi, and the Tirpitz say Hello!
DK Brown put simply - in the age of the carrier, battleships were useless. A 1% chance of hitting anything, meant that 100 rounds per gun… didn’t mean much. The armour couldn’t stop an aircraft bomb. The shells had a range of 10 miles.
So they couldn’t defend themselves, couldn’t hit the enemy and couldn’t survive being attacked. Apart from that…..
Managed to get over 41km walked today, so now a bit more than 195km in on day five
I was, though, rather slow in the first half of the day. While I was up high in the mountains, I kept on feeling compelled to sit down and really take in the spectacular views in front of me
Somewhere along the way, I started to feel really strangely emotional. I actually cried a few times, but didn't feel remotely sad
I started to think about how, although I'm just doing this for me and on my own, I'm actually part of a collective experience with the thousands of people doing this right now, and with the millions that have over the last millennium
We've all shared that same stunning scenery, and all worked damned hard on the way up to get it
I've never felt quite like I did today, and I'm still buzzing from it
Is it noom?
That, my friend, is Maximum Noom
This is one of the more interesting of your thread hijacks.
One of my undergrad mini dissertations (we did one big one and 2 little ones) was all about 18th and 19th century travel writers in Africa - Mungo Park, Mary Kingsley etc.
The proposition was that the writing told us more about the writer and their social context than the societies in which they travelled. Classic post-colonial theory. I said maybe, but it also tells us about the moment of contact between the writer and the society they are visiting. And also about their contact with and experience of place. All the best do that. At its best you find yourself sharing a moment of spiritual epiphany with the place the writer is describing.
Mungo Park did it best. His description of the landscape around him when left for dead, robbed of everything and beaten up by the Moors, is very intense.
I probably used the word numinous. I liked to use fancy words where I could back then. But it’s a very good word.
“Numinous” is too poncey. And also inexact - it means “arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring”
Noom is very specific to place, the terrible lovely or dreamy sensation of the sacred, in a specific place. Also it sounds like doom and loom, which is perfect. Noom can be doomy - Dark Noom in Angel Meadow - yet it looms the fabric of our souls always. And it’s a nice Anglo Saxon monosyllable
My work is done! I’m gonna watch Masterchef
May everyone encounter Bright Noom tomorrow
I prefer numinous. It also refers to place. Sounds nicely like luminous, and lives in the same underused word universe as “liminal”.
No, numinous definitely does NOT explicitly and only refer to place, hence my coinage of Noom
Dictionary.com: Numinous: of, relating to, or like a numen; spiritual or supernatural. surpassing comprehension or understanding; mysterious: that element in artistic expression that remains numinous.
Cambridge: Numinous - having a deep spiritual (= religious) quality or connection
You can have a numinous dream, or encounter, or moment, but Noom is “place plus Numinosity”. A building can be roomy, and noomy
Also, saying “numinous” sounds pretentious, but saying “it’s got great Noom” just means you’re a hepcat dude who’s reading PB and it’s cool
OK, I really will watch Masterchef now
Though when I asked you if the apocalyptic London horses were numinous you said no, because not related to place.
Definitions don’t get tougher than this, as Greg Wallace might say.
Guns, even artillery barrels, are not easy to make, even nowadays. The greater pressure they have to withstand, the harder they are to make. And the further you want to the thing-that-goes-boom to go, the greater the pressure. Unless you put the 'further' into the 'thing', and create a missile hittile. Where the pressure has to be contained within the thing...
I recently walked along the Coventry Canal. Literally the industrial heart of the City for over a Century it played its part in both World Wars, and is now one of the quietest places around.
Anyway, it winds its way past many former industrial sites, including this one
When it was built, it was the largest workshop in Europe, constructed for the manufacture of naval guns
I wonder if Rayner has lost Labour the votes of a lot of shorter-than-average men with her comments today.
1) I haven't seen it repeated aside from on here, and on the political Twatter. In other words, it hasn't gained currency.
2) As comments earlier showed, it's by someone on the left about someone on the right, therefore funny and true, not insulting. But if anyone made stereotypical comments based on Rayner's red hair or breast size, that would be AWFUL!!!!!
Managed to get over 41km walked today, so now a bit more than 195km in on day five
I was, though, rather slow in the first half of the day. While I was up high in the mountains, I kept on feeling compelled to sit down and really take in the spectacular views in front of me
Somewhere along the way, I started to feel really strangely emotional. I actually cried a few times, but didn't feel remotely sad
I started to think about how, although I'm just doing this for me and on my own, I'm actually part of a collective experience with the thousands of people doing this right now, and with the millions that have over the last millennium
We've all shared that same stunning scenery, and all worked damned hard on the way up to get it
I've never felt quite like I did today, and I'm still buzzing from it
Is it noom?
That, my friend, is Maximum Noom
This is one of the more interesting of your thread hijacks.
One of my undergrad mini dissertations (we did one big one and 2 little ones) was all about 18th and 19th century travel writers in Africa - Mungo Park, Mary Kingsley etc.
The proposition was that the writing told us more about the writer and their social context than the societies in which they travelled. Classic post-colonial theory. I said maybe, but it also tells us about the moment of contact between the writer and the society they are visiting. And also about their contact with and experience of place. All the best do that. At its best you find yourself sharing a moment of spiritual epiphany with the place the writer is describing.
Mungo Park did it best. His description of the landscape around him when left for dead, robbed of everything and beaten up by the Moors, is very intense.
I probably used the word numinous. I liked to use fancy words where I could back then. But it’s a very good word.
“Numinous” is too poncey. And also inexact - it means “arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring”
Noom is very specific to place, the terrible lovely or dreamy sensation of the sacred, in a specific place. Also it sounds like doom and loom, which is perfect. Noom can be doomy - Dark Noom in Angel Meadow - yet it looms the fabric of our souls always. And it’s a nice Anglo Saxon monosyllable
My work is done! I’m gonna watch Masterchef
May everyone encounter Bright Noom tomorrow
I prefer numinous. It also refers to place. Sounds nicely like luminous, and lives in the same underused word universe as “liminal”.
Which reminds me that the universe is pretty numinous, especially when you reckon that realistically there ought to be nothing rather than something.
Guns, even artillery barrels, are not easy to make, even nowadays. The greater pressure they have to withstand, the harder they are to make. And the further you want to the thing-that-goes-boom to go, the greater the pressure. Unless you put the 'further' into the 'thing', and create a missile hittile. Where the pressure has to be contained within the thing...
I've never quite seen the logic in abandoning battleships and going for carriers.
USS Arizona, Oklahoma, HMS Repulse, Prince of Wales (1941), the Roma, the Yamato, Musashi, and the Tirpitz say Hello!
DK Brown put simply - in the age of the carrier, battleships were useless. A 1% chance of hitting anything, meant that 100 rounds per gun… didn’t mean much. The armour couldn’t stop an aircraft bomb. The shells had a range of 10 miles.
So they couldn’t defend themselves, couldn’t hit the enemy and couldn’t survive being attacked. Apart from that…..
I agree, but one minor quibble: the range was much greater than ten miles. The problem was accuracy: from the dreadnought era onwards, the limits were not the distance guns could fire, but the accuracy, and how far the ship could see to target. Many ships of that era could fire guns further than they could target, which is kinda pointless - except those shells have more penetrating power on closer targets.
Hence some rather ridiculous pagodas on Japanese ships to give them better targeting. And the greater the range, the more precise the necessary targeting (unless you're the Piorun...)
The Numinous. The tingle of the sacred, derived from place
Not a word that feels right to me - always imagine it's lots of things religious (although that isn't it's meaning). "Noom" - I presume you made that up?
I made it up, by taking numinous and making it mean exactly what I mean, that unplaceable shiver, that unmistakable tingle, when you walk inyp somewhere or you gaze up at something and you think Oooh, God has been here, for some reason
And it’s not always a good reason, there is Noom in the Great War Battlefields because of all the human suffering and sorrow, the landscape of cemeteries is a prayer in pale green and bone-white stone
What’s more, I haven’t had a drink yet
Well if it becomes a thing as a word then hoorah for you. I guess 'meme' got there (Dennet was my first encounter with it)
I feel your noom about great battlefields not because of the suffering and endeavour, but because of the huge collection of great hopes that fired brightly and were snuffed out.
Meme was coined by Dawkins, surely
This whole discussion has been very illuminating, it’s also led me to this place where I am now desperate to go, and which looks like - despite being French - it has a high Noom Factor, requiring Noomblock
An absolutely brilliant concept and insight, which makes him immortal by itself. Fair play
He’s quite an odd figure now. I see he has taken to praising Christianity because he is frightened of the rise of Islam in the west. This is the same Christianity which he has been effectively deconstructing for five decades. Oops
If he’d asked, we could have told him that if you destroy one religion, it doesn’t mean it will be replaced by cold secular logic, it means it will be replaced by other religions. In our case this is either Wokeness or Islam, and Dawkins is right but rather late to see that this is not necessarily progress
'People who don't believe in God don't believe in nothing, they'll believe in anything.'
G K Chesterton
Wokeness is so obviously a religion. It actively states that “feels” are what matters, not “facts”. It is the leap of faith, the problem is it leaps somewhere very dark, where we are all obsessively racialised and guilt ridden and also super weird about gender
Once it has led to centuries of warfare, the deaths, torture and mutilation of millions, and countless wrecked, abused, repressed lives, that clickbait might have some point to it.
Another remark that could easily have made in response to someone calling communism a religion at the beginning of the 20th century.
You'd say it's less a religion, more a symptom of a deeper belief - namely that reality can be reshaped rather than just described if you theorise hard and well enough. An endpoint of certain types of postmodernist theory.
Which is of course why it's so popular in universities - it centres the academic as incredibly important. Like a priest in helping show you the way and 'solving' problems by theorising correctly. Want to solve racism? Read Ibrahim X. Kendi and understand 'whiteness' as a concept. Want to solve the myriad complexities around sexuality and gender? Just wade through your Judith Butler until the porridge prose makes sense.
Exists on the right too - with its self-help guru types who promise that you too, can shape the world around you to your liking by learning from them. There's a reason both Andrew Tate and Trump pitched grifting online courses as their own 'universities'.
All basically play off the idea that we don't have a proper shared reality so need to reshape it to suit us. Which is the religious bit.
Indeed you can argue things like equality between the sexes are pure social constructs in modern western societies that have no correlation in nature.
In nature, some species are matriarchal (like elephants at one size extreme, and bees at the other). Other species are patriarchal.
There are a few species - like wolves - where packs can be led either by a male or a female.
I wonder if Rayner has lost Labour the votes of a lot of shorter-than-average men with her comments today.
1) I haven't seen it repeated aside from on here, and on the political Twatter. In other words, it hasn't gained currency.
2) As comments earlier showed, it's by someone on the left about someone on the right, therefore funny and true, not insulting. But if anyone made stereotypical comments based on Rayner's red hair or breast size, that would be AWFUL!!!!!
Guns, even artillery barrels, are not easy to make, even nowadays. The greater pressure they have to withstand, the harder they are to make. And the further you want to the thing-that-goes-boom to go, the greater the pressure. Unless you put the 'further' into the 'thing', and create a missile hittile. Where the pressure has to be contained within the thing...
I recently walked along the Coventry Canal. Literally the industrial heart of the City for over a Century it played its part in both World Wars, and is now one of the quietest places around.
Anyway, it winds its way past many former industrial sites, including this one
(snip_
When it was built, it was the largest workshop in Europe, constructed for the manufacture of naval guns
The Numinous. The tingle of the sacred, derived from place
Not a word that feels right to me - always imagine it's lots of things religious (although that isn't it's meaning). "Noom" - I presume you made that up?
I made it up, by taking numinous and making it mean exactly what I mean, that unplaceable shiver, that unmistakable tingle, when you walk inyp somewhere or you gaze up at something and you think Oooh, God has been here, for some reason
And it’s not always a good reason, there is Noom in the Great War Battlefields because of all the human suffering and sorrow, the landscape of cemeteries is a prayer in pale green and bone-white stone
What’s more, I haven’t had a drink yet
Well if it becomes a thing as a word then hoorah for you. I guess 'meme' got there (Dennet was my first encounter with it)
I feel your noom about great battlefields not because of the suffering and endeavour, but because of the huge collection of great hopes that fired brightly and were snuffed out.
Meme was coined by Dawkins, surely
This whole discussion has been very illuminating, it’s also led me to this place where I am now desperate to go, and which looks like - despite being French - it has a high Noom Factor, requiring Noomblock
An absolutely brilliant concept and insight, which makes him immortal by itself. Fair play
He’s quite an odd figure now. I see he has taken to praising Christianity because he is frightened of the rise of Islam in the west. This is the same Christianity which he has been effectively deconstructing for five decades. Oops
If he’d asked, we could have told him that if you destroy one religion, it doesn’t mean it will be replaced by cold secular logic, it means it will be replaced by other religions. In our case this is either Wokeness or Islam, and Dawkins is right but rather late to see that this is not necessarily progress
'People who don't believe in God don't believe in nothing, they'll believe in anything.'
G K Chesterton
Wokeness is so obviously a religion. It actively states that “feels” are what matters, not “facts”. It is the leap of faith, the problem is it leaps somewhere very dark, where we are all obsessively racialised and guilt ridden and also super weird about gender
Once it has led to centuries of warfare, the deaths, torture and mutilation of millions, and countless wrecked, abused, repressed lives, that clickbait might have some point to it.
Another remark that could easily have made in response to someone calling communism a religion at the beginning of the 20th century.
You'd say it's less a religion, more a symptom of a deeper belief - namely that reality can be reshaped rather than just described if you theorise hard and well enough. An endpoint of certain types of postmodernist theory.
Which is of course why it's so popular in universities - it centres the academic as incredibly important. Like a priest in helping show you the way and 'solving' problems by theorising correctly. Want to solve racism? Read Ibrahim X. Kendi and understand 'whiteness' as a concept. Want to solve the myriad complexities around sexuality and gender? Just wade through your Judith Butler until the porridge prose makes sense.
Exists on the right too - with its self-help guru types who promise that you too, can shape the world around you to your liking by learning from them. There's a reason both Andrew Tate and Trump pitched grifting online courses as their own 'universities'.
All basically play off the idea that we don't have a proper shared reality so need to reshape it to suit us. Which is the religious bit.
Indeed you can argue things like equality between the sexes are pure social constructs in modern western societies that have no correlation in nature.
In nature, some species are matriarchal (like elephants at one size extreme, and bees at the other). Other species are patriarchal.
There are a few species - like wolves - where packs can be led either by a male or a female.
So, I'm not sure your contention holds up.
I think it proves my point that equality between the sexes is a social construct. You can have female dominance in nature of male dominance(much more common) but you cant have equality.
Does anyone have an uncanny feeling that Truss will be back as PM again one day?
Sometimes, but I find a couple of Alka Seltzer help.
(The next Conservative PM is most likely someone who can say, with feeling, "2019-24? Nothing to do with me.")
The next Conservative PM (assuming that isn't in the same category as 'the next King of France') is likely to be someone not currently an MP. It's not at all impossible that this is 15 years away or more.
Thanks. I never knew about that. I haven't associated Coventry with naval guns before.
Me neither. If you follow the link, it was specifically set up to provide competition to the established manufacturers, but it's only one of the many fascinating* stories compressed onto a 6 mile stretch of water
WASHINGTON — Testing conducted by the Food and Drug Administration on pasteurized commercially purchased milk has found genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the agency confirmed Tuesday. But the testing, done by polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, cannot distinguish between live virus or fragments of viruses that could have been killed by the pasteurization process.
Thanks. I never knew about that. I haven't associated Coventry with naval guns before.
Me neither. If you follow the link, it was specifically set up to provide competition to the established manufacturers, but it's only one of the many fascinating* stories compressed onto a 6 mile stretch of water
* for various values of fascinating. YMMV
There's a factory just off the A6 in the Peak District. A heavy-steel forgings plant, called Firth Rixons. The Peak district is not a natural place for steel; it is better known for lead over iron. Or even heavy industry. But the factory was built there during WW2, when there were fears that Sheffield might get heavily bombed.
The Russians were not the only people to move their industries.
Does anyone have an uncanny feeling that Truss will be back as PM again one day?
Sometimes, but I find a couple of Alka Seltzer help.
(The next Conservative PM is most likely someone who can say, with feeling, "2019-24? Nothing to do with me.")
The next Conservative PM (assuming that isn't in the same category as 'the next King of France') is likely to be someone not currently an MP. It's not at all impossible that this is 15 years away or more.
More bad news for Leons magnificent 7 tech holdings. META getting pounded after hours after disappointing on earnings. This is after the pummeling the mag 7 took last week.
WASHINGTON — Testing conducted by the Food and Drug Administration on pasteurized commercially purchased milk has found genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the agency confirmed Tuesday. But the testing, done by polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, cannot distinguish between live virus or fragments of viruses that could have been killed by the pasteurization process.
Does anyone have an uncanny feeling that Truss will be back as PM again one day?
Sometimes, but I find a couple of Alka Seltzer help.
(The next Conservative PM is most likely someone who can say, with feeling, "2019-24? Nothing to do with me.")
The next Conservative PM (assuming that isn't in the same category as 'the next King of France') is likely to be someone not currently an MP. It's not at all impossible that this is 15 years away or more.
What makes you say that? Even after 1997 they were back 13 years later?
Her problem is she is toxic to the vast majority of voters
I don't think that's her only problem, but two plusses are that she does a good interview and a good speech - those things she's got in the bag.
Her problem is her wedding photos look like a deleted scene from Get Out.
Braverman too often gets herself in hot water by saying the quiet part out loud or conflating a certain disquiet about her opponents/their positions, with support for her own extreme ones the other way.
To take the Palestine marches as an obvious example. There's an awful lot of people - including those not on the right - who think they have a decidedly ugly element that needs to be confronted (preferably by organisers, but they haven't done so in 30+ years, so unlikely). And that some protesters really are taking the proverbial, especially after 6 months.
Yet that doesn't equate with Braverman's rhetoric, which sounds like she wants to shut down almost any dissent from views she finds acceptable - which lots who might be sympathetic to more nuanced criticism of the protests will find just as if not more frightening than them.
Or on immigration. The British public are immigration sceptics. The default is wanting it reduced, albeit with little understanding of its nature. But they also don't like performative cruelty. It's why Trumpism is so unpopular here and a British version remains marooned. It offends our sense of fair play and view of ourselves.
Does anyone have an uncanny feeling that Truss will be back as PM again one day?
Sometimes, but I find a couple of Alka Seltzer help.
(The next Conservative PM is most likely someone who can say, with feeling, "2019-24? Nothing to do with me.")
The next Conservative PM (assuming that isn't in the same category as 'the next King of France') is likely to be someone not currently an MP. It's not at all impossible that this is 15 years away or more.
Actually, as Firth Rixons at Darle Dale make jet engine components AIUI, then you can say the very start of the industrial revolution and the current end of that revolution are all within a few miles of each other, nestled in the quiescent Derwent valley.
Thanks. I never knew about that. I haven't associated Coventry with naval guns before.
Me neither. If you follow the link, it was specifically set up to provide competition to the established manufacturers, but it's only one of the many fascinating* stories compressed onto a 6 mile stretch of water
* for various values of fascinating. YMMV
There's a factory just off the A6 in the Peak District. A heavy-steel forgings plant, called Firth Rixons. The Peak district is not a natural place for steel; it is better known for lead over iron. Or even heavy industry. But the factory was built there during WW2, when there were fears that Sheffield might get heavily bombed.
The Russians were not the only people to move their industries.
A lot of industry moved out of Coventry during the war (famously Rover production moved to a shadow factory in Solihull and never moved back) which makes it all the more remarkable that huge workshop survived. From an architecture perspective, it's obviously a giant steel frame, so why is one half of the end wall made of brick? I wonder if there was something inside that demanded 'heavier' construction???
The Numinous. The tingle of the sacred, derived from place
Not a word that feels right to me - always imagine it's lots of things religious (although that isn't it's meaning). "Noom" - I presume you made that up?
I made it up, by taking numinous and making it mean exactly what I mean, that unplaceable shiver, that unmistakable tingle, when you walk into somewhere or you gaze up at something and you think Oooh, God has been here, for some reason
And it’s not always a good reason, there is Noom in the Great War Battlefields because of all the human suffering and sorrow, the landscape of cemeteries is a prayer in pale green and bone-white stone
What’s more, I haven’t had a drink yet
Just to comment that the numinous often isn't found in the set pieces. If St Paul's Cathedral has any, I have missed it. 100 yards away St Vedast and St Martin Ludgate have it to give away. More parish churches have it than cathedrals. Iona has it, but not the abbey. It doesn't happen by trying and takes you by surprise. Salle in Norfolk has it. And Walpole St Peter. Best keep the numinous in Lincolnshire a well guarded secret but follow signs to Whaplode.
Is he Epstein plaque still in place at St Vedast-alias-Foster?
WASHINGTON — Testing conducted by the Food and Drug Administration on pasteurized commercially purchased milk has found genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the agency confirmed Tuesday. But the testing, done by polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, cannot distinguish between live virus or fragments of viruses that could have been killed by the pasteurization process.
I'm going to stop drinking chicken milk. Just in case.
Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing · Apr 10 Europe does not allow cattle to be fed poultry feed. US does. This helps explain why US is seeing a cow outbreak of avian flu.
That's quite a story. And I can see why someone's religion might be reinforced by a loved one's survival after prayer. Though not his father leaving them shortly afterwards...
If I remember correctly, the late @SeanT of this parish invented the phrase, “wet as an otter’s pocket” when he wrote for FHM, using it as a sly sexual reference. That coinage (from 1999) was confirmed by the editors of the Profanisaurus and now you can find it everywhere
If I remember correctly, the late @SeanT of this parish invented the phrase, “wet as an otter’s pocket” when he wrote for FHM, using it as a sly sexual reference. That coinage (from 1999) was confirmed by the editors of the Profanisaurus and now you can find it everywhere
WASHINGTON — Testing conducted by the Food and Drug Administration on pasteurized commercially purchased milk has found genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the agency confirmed Tuesday. But the testing, done by polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, cannot distinguish between live virus or fragments of viruses that could have been killed by the pasteurization process.
I'm going to stop drinking chicken milk. Just in case.
Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing · Apr 10 Europe does not allow cattle to be fed poultry feed. US does. This helps explain why US is seeing a cow outbreak of avian flu.
Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson · 46m Frank Field was one of the best and most principled people in politics. He backed Brexit from a simple belief in British democracy and he attacked welfarism out of sheer Christian compassion. His ideas remain vital today.
Managed to get over 41km walked today, so now a bit more than 195km in on day five
I was, though, rather slow in the first half of the day. While I was up high in the mountains, I kept on feeling compelled to sit down and really take in the spectacular views in front of me
Somewhere along the way, I started to feel really strangely emotional. I actually cried a few times, but didn't feel remotely sad
I started to think about how, although I'm just doing this for me and on my own, I'm actually part of a collective experience with the thousands of people doing this right now, and with the millions that have over the last millennium
We've all shared that same stunning scenery, and all worked damned hard on the way up to get it
I've never felt quite like I did today, and I'm still buzzing from it
Is it noom?
That, my friend, is Maximum Noom
This is one of the more interesting of your thread hijacks.
One of my undergrad mini dissertations (we did one big one and 2 little ones) was all about 18th and 19th century travel writers in Africa - Mungo Park, Mary Kingsley etc.
The proposition was that the writing told us more about the writer and their social context than the societies in which they travelled. Classic post-colonial theory. I said maybe, but it also tells us about the moment of contact between the writer and the society they are visiting. And also about their contact with and experience of place. All the best do that. At its best you find yourself sharing a moment of spiritual epiphany with the place the writer is describing.
Mungo Park did it best. His description of the landscape around him when left for dead, robbed of everything and beaten up by the Moors, is very intense.
I probably used the word numinous. I liked to use fancy words where I could back then. But it’s a very good word.
“Numinous” is too poncey. And also inexact - it means “arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring”
Noom is very specific to place, the terrible lovely or dreamy sensation of the sacred, in a specific place. Also it sounds like doom and loom, which is perfect. Noom can be doomy - Dark Noom in Angel Meadow - yet it looms the fabric of our souls always. And it’s a nice Anglo Saxon monosyllable
My work is done! I’m gonna watch Masterchef
May everyone encounter Bright Noom tomorrow
I prefer numinous. It also refers to place. Sounds nicely like luminous, and lives in the same underused word universe as “liminal”.
Which reminds me that the universe is pretty numinous, especially when you reckon that realistically there ought to be nothing rather than something.
Why ought there to be nothing rather than something? It's true that nothing existing would be simpler, but why should simplicity be some kind of guiding principle? Why shouldn't abundance or confusion be the underlying principle of existence?
The Numinous. The tingle of the sacred, derived from place
Not a word that feels right to me - always imagine it's lots of things religious (although that isn't it's meaning). "Noom" - I presume you made that up?
I made it up, by taking numinous and making it mean exactly what I mean, that unplaceable shiver, that unmistakable tingle, when you walk inyp somewhere or you gaze up at something and you think Oooh, God has been here, for some reason
And it’s not always a good reason, there is Noom in the Great War Battlefields because of all the human suffering and sorrow, the landscape of cemeteries is a prayer in pale green and bone-white stone
What’s more, I haven’t had a drink yet
Well if it becomes a thing as a word then hoorah for you. I guess 'meme' got there (Dennet was my first encounter with it)
I feel your noom about great battlefields not because of the suffering and endeavour, but because of the huge collection of great hopes that fired brightly and were snuffed out.
Meme was coined by Dawkins, surely
This whole discussion has been very illuminating, it’s also led me to this place where I am now desperate to go, and which looks like - despite being French - it has a high Noom Factor, requiring Noomblock
An absolutely brilliant concept and insight, which makes him immortal by itself. Fair play
He’s quite an odd figure now. I see he has taken to praising Christianity because he is frightened of the rise of Islam in the west. This is the same Christianity which he has been effectively deconstructing for five decades. Oops
If he’d asked, we could have told him that if you destroy one religion, it doesn’t mean it will be replaced by cold secular logic, it means it will be replaced by other religions. In our case this is either Wokeness or Islam, and Dawkins is right but rather late to see that this is not necessarily progress
'People who don't believe in God don't believe in nothing, they'll believe in anything.'
G K Chesterton
Wokeness is so obviously a religion. It actively states that “feels” are what matters, not “facts”. It is the leap of faith, the problem is it leaps somewhere very dark, where we are all obsessively racialised and guilt ridden and also super weird about gender
Once it has led to centuries of warfare, the deaths, torture and mutilation of millions, and countless wrecked, abused, repressed lives, that clickbait might have some point to it.
Another remark that could easily have made in response to someone calling communism a religion at the beginning of the 20th century.
You'd say it's less a religion, more a symptom of a deeper belief - namely that reality can be reshaped rather than just described if you theorise hard and well enough. An endpoint of certain types of postmodernist theory.
Which is of course why it's so popular in universities - it centres the academic as incredibly important. Like a priest in helping show you the way and 'solving' problems by theorising correctly. Want to solve racism? Read Ibrahim X. Kendi and understand 'whiteness' as a concept. Want to solve the myriad complexities around sexuality and gender? Just wade through your Judith Butler until the porridge prose makes sense.
Exists on the right too - with its self-help guru types who promise that you too, can shape the world around you to your liking by learning from them. There's a reason both Andrew Tate and Trump pitched grifting online courses as their own 'universities'.
All basically play off the idea that we don't have a proper shared reality so need to reshape it to suit us. Which is the religious bit.
Indeed you can argue things like equality between the sexes are pure social constructs in modern western societies that have no correlation in nature.
In nature, some species are matriarchal (like elephants at one size extreme, and bees at the other). Other species are patriarchal.
There are a few species - like wolves - where packs can be led either by a male or a female.
So, I'm not sure your contention holds up.
I think it proves my point that equality between the sexes is a social construct. You can have female dominance in nature of male dominance(much more common) but you cant have equality.
Errr: if there were no species with "equality", you would be correct. But there are a (admittedly small) number of species where pack leaders can be either male or female: wolves are one, bottlenose dolphins and bonobos are others. Yes, it is rarer than patriarchal or matriarchal species, but it does exist.
If I remember correctly, the late @SeanT of this parish invented the phrase, “wet as an otter’s pocket” when he wrote for FHM, using it as a sly sexual reference. That coinage (from 1999) was confirmed by the editors of the Profanisaurus and now you can find it everywhere
If I remember correctly, the late @SeanT of this parish invented the phrase, “wet as an otter’s pocket” when he wrote for FHM, using it as a sly sexual reference. That coinage (from 1999) was confirmed by the editors of the Profanisaurus and now you can find it everywhere
Interesting to see the big majorities in both the House and Senate for the Ukraine aid money. The GOP obviously isn't quite as isolationist as we were led to believe by the commentariat.
Of course evangelicals really don’t care that much about Trump, he was a means to an end when they got behind him when he won in 2016. That end being the reversal of Roe v Wade in the SC which they achieved and which has now enabled them to start banning or severely restricting abortion in deep red states.
If Trump wins in November for them all to the good, if he loses again and ends up in a jail cell never mind. Roe v Wade will still have been repealed and the SC as stands looks unlikely to change that anytime soon while they have a firm grip on the GOP platform ensuring pro life candidates and nominees for some time to come
Labour 40% (-9) Conservatives 18% (+2) Reform UK 18% (+3) Plaid 14% (+4) Lib Dem 6% (+1) Green 4% (-1) Other 0% (-1)
Changes +/- 23-24 Mar
What's happened in Wales to cause Labour to be -9?
Small sample sizes.
Oh hang on, isn't that an actual poll of Wales (with usual 1K sample) rather than a sub-sample from a GB poll?
Yes. The sample sizes are about 850, which is small by GB standards, but not particularly small enough to airily wave away a 9pt drop. That said, if you look at the last three polls, the sequence in the Labour shares is: 45, 49, 40 - so that could be random variation around a mid-40s mean.
Interesting to see the big majorities in both the House and Senate for the Ukraine aid money. The GOP obviously isn't quite as isolationist as we were led to believe by the commentariat.
I thought that, in the House, more GOP representatives voted against Ukraine aid than voted for? That's pretty damn isolationist.
The Numinous. The tingle of the sacred, derived from place
Not a word that feels right to me - always imagine it's lots of things religious (although that isn't it's meaning). "Noom" - I presume you made that up?
I made it up, by taking numinous and making it mean exactly what I mean, that unplaceable shiver, that unmistakable tingle, when you walk inyp somewhere or you gaze up at something and you think Oooh, God has been here, for some reason
And it’s not always a good reason, there is Noom in the Great War Battlefields because of all the human suffering and sorrow, the landscape of cemeteries is a prayer in pale green and bone-white stone
What’s more, I haven’t had a drink yet
Well if it becomes a thing as a word then hoorah for you. I guess 'meme' got there (Dennet was my first encounter with it)
I feel your noom about great battlefields not because of the suffering and endeavour, but because of the huge collection of great hopes that fired brightly and were snuffed out.
Meme was coined by Dawkins, surely
This whole discussion has been very illuminating, it’s also led me to this place where I am now desperate to go, and which looks like - despite being French - it has a high Noom Factor, requiring Noomblock
An absolutely brilliant concept and insight, which makes him immortal by itself. Fair play
He’s quite an odd figure now. I see he has taken to praising Christianity because he is frightened of the rise of Islam in the west. This is the same Christianity which he has been effectively deconstructing for five decades. Oops
If he’d asked, we could have told him that if you destroy one religion, it doesn’t mean it will be replaced by cold secular logic, it means it will be replaced by other religions. In our case this is either Wokeness or Islam, and Dawkins is right but rather late to see that this is not necessarily progress
'People who don't believe in God don't believe in nothing, they'll believe in anything.'
G K Chesterton
Wokeness is so obviously a religion. It actively states that “feels” are what matters, not “facts”. It is the leap of faith, the problem is it leaps somewhere very dark, where we are all obsessively racialised and guilt ridden and also super weird about gender
Once it has led to centuries of warfare, the deaths, torture and mutilation of millions, and countless wrecked, abused, repressed lives, that clickbait might have some point to it.
Another remark that could easily have made in response to someone calling communism a religion at the beginning of the 20th century.
You'd say it's less a religion, more a symptom of a deeper belief - namely that reality can be reshaped rather than just described if you theorise hard and well enough. An endpoint of certain types of postmodernist theory.
Which is of course why it's so popular in universities - it centres the academic as incredibly important. Like a priest in helping show you the way and 'solving' problems by theorising correctly. Want to solve racism? Read Ibrahim X. Kendi and understand 'whiteness' as a concept. Want to solve the myriad complexities around sexuality and gender? Just wade through your Judith Butler until the porridge prose makes sense.
Exists on the right too - with its self-help guru types who promise that you too, can shape the world around you to your liking by learning from them. There's a reason both Andrew Tate and Trump pitched grifting online courses as their own 'universities'.
All basically play off the idea that we don't have a proper shared reality so need to reshape it to suit us. Which is the religious bit.
Indeed you can argue things like equality between the sexes are pure social constructs in modern western societies that have no correlation in nature.
In nature, some species are matriarchal (like elephants at one size extreme, and bees at the other). Other species are patriarchal.
There are a few species - like wolves - where packs can be led either by a male or a female.
So, I'm not sure your contention holds up.
I think it proves my point that equality between the sexes is a social construct. You can have female dominance in nature of male dominance(much more common) but you cant have equality.
Errr: if there were no species with "equality", you would be correct. But there are a (admittedly small) number of species where pack leaders can be either male or female: wolves are one, bottlenose dolphins and bonobos are others. Yes, it is rarer than patriarchal or matriarchal species, but it does exist.
As is true of human societies. Matriarchal is rare but not entirely unknown. LFC ha ha. Klopp quadruple my shiny blue arse.
Labour 40% (-9) Conservatives 18% (+2) Reform UK 18% (+3) Plaid 14% (+4) Lib Dem 6% (+1) Green 4% (-1) Other 0% (-1)
Changes +/- 23-24 Mar
What's happened in Wales to cause Labour to be -9?
Small sample sizes.
Oh hang on, isn't that an actual poll of Wales (with usual 1K sample) rather than a sub-sample from a GB poll?
Yes. The sample sizes are about 850, which is small by GB standards, but not particularly small enough to airily wave away a 9pt drop. That said, if you look at the last three polls, the sequence in the Labour shares is: 45, 49, 40 - so that could be random variation around a mid-40s mean.
Thanks for confirming. Next poll will be interesting.
Most U.S. presidential polling is giving 8-14% to Kennedy. To me, this creates huge uncertainty about the eventual outcome.
Key is to look backwards I think. When Kennedy’s rise happened, who fell in lockstep? (I don’t know, I’ve not looked).
Similar to how I look backwards to the Rise of Reform and see them taking around 5-6% from Con and 1-2% from Lib Dem. That’s where I think the votes will go back if they decline.
Two guesses:
1) Most people saying they will vote RFK are currently disaffected Dems trading on his name recognition without awareness of how big a numpty he is;
2) As time goes on, he will lose some of those but maintain his share by picking up votes from Trump - people who hate Biden and have (ahem) interesting views but can't bring themselves to vote for a traitor, failure and criminal.
Simplest at this stage is just look at the Biden Trump head to head polling.
These things happen. Less problematic than nodding off in court.
I think my favourite candidate flub was still George H. Bush, who unintentionally announced that he and Ronald Reagan had been in a gay relationship during their time together.
The Tories moaning that Labour have stolen the name Great British Railways from them!
I think the rail nationalization is a big story and will help shore up the left . It’s also not expensive as it’s simply waiting for the franchises to finish .
Managed to get over 41km walked today, so now a bit more than 195km in on day five
I was, though, rather slow in the first half of the day. While I was up high in the mountains, I kept on feeling compelled to sit down and really take in the spectacular views in front of me
Somewhere along the way, I started to feel really strangely emotional. I actually cried a few times, but didn't feel remotely sad
I started to think about how, although I'm just doing this for me and on my own, I'm actually part of a collective experience with the thousands of people doing this right now, and with the millions that have over the last millennium
We've all shared that same stunning scenery, and all worked damned hard on the way up to get it
I've never felt quite like I did today, and I'm still buzzing from it
Is it noom?
That, my friend, is Maximum Noom
This is one of the more interesting of your thread hijacks.
One of my undergrad mini dissertations (we did one big one and 2 little ones) was all about 18th and 19th century travel writers in Africa - Mungo Park, Mary Kingsley etc.
The proposition was that the writing told us more about the writer and their social context than the societies in which they travelled. Classic post-colonial theory. I said maybe, but it also tells us about the moment of contact between the writer and the society they are visiting. And also about their contact with and experience of place. All the best do that. At its best you find yourself sharing a moment of spiritual epiphany with the place the writer is describing.
Mungo Park did it best. His description of the landscape around him when left for dead, robbed of everything and beaten up by the Moors, is very intense.
I probably used the word numinous. I liked to use fancy words where I could back then. But it’s a very good word.
CAme from the Borders, and has not been forgotten. I was intrigued to come across the plaque on his house in Peebles a few years back when having a wander around.
Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson · 46m Frank Field was one of the best and most principled people in politics. He backed Brexit from a simple belief in British democracy and he attacked welfarism out of sheer Christian compassion. His ideas remain vital today.
The Tories moaning that Labour have stolen the name Great British Railways from them!
I think the rail nationalization is a big story and will help shore up the left . It’s also not expensive as it’s simply waiting for the franchises to finish .
Lets hope Great British Railways works out better than British Rail lol!
That said, I was never keen on rail privatization, personally.
Coming at the bitter end of the 79-97 Conservative government, it always felt like Major and Hezza were desperate to try and find a "legacy" beyond the Cones Hotline (the the Tories worst defeat since 1832) and didn't give much thought to how it would actually work.
Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson · 46m Frank Field was one of the best and most principled people in politics. He backed Brexit from a simple belief in British democracy and he attacked welfarism out of sheer Christian compassion. His ideas remain vital today.
The Tories moaning that Labour have stolen the name Great British Railways from them!
I think the rail nationalization is a big story and will help shore up the left . It’s also not expensive as it’s simply waiting for the franchises to finish .
Lets hope Great British Railways works out better than British Rail lol!
That said, I was never keen on rail privatization, personally.
Coming at the bitter end of the 79-97 Conservative government, it always felt like Major and Hezza were desperate to try and find a "legacy" beyond the Cones Hotline (the the Tories worst defeat since 1832) and didn't give much thought to how it would actually work.
I agree BR was crap . Whether GBR is better I really don’t have a lot of expectations but it’s very good politics and will help Starmer with the left of the party .
These things happen. Less problematic than nodding off in court.
I think my favourite candidate flub was still George H. Bush, who unintentionally announced that he and Ronald Reagan had been in a gay relationship during their time together.
These things happen. Less problematic than nodding off in court.
I think my favourite candidate flub was still George H. Bush, who unintentionally announced that he and Ronald Reagan had been in a gay relationship during their time together.
How has the GOP gone from Reagan and HW Bush who won the Cold War and Gulf War, to Trump in just a few decades?
It's more shocking how they've gone from backing Trump but some having reservations about his more outrageous comments and behaviour, to full throated worship in only four years. No potential crime, no behaviour, nothing puts them off, and even those who used to mildly criticise it bend knee and lick boot.
The caption says it's in "Lower Belgrave Street in Victoria at the spot where a witness says the horses lost control", but I couldn't find a place in LBSt that looks like that - not even outside no.46 where Lord Lucan's nanny was murdered. Other sources give Belgrave Square.
The Independent coyly say the route they show is "estimated":
Guns, even artillery barrels, are not easy to make, even nowadays. The greater pressure they have to withstand, the harder they are to make. And the further you want to the thing-that-goes-boom to go, the greater the pressure. Unless you put the 'further' into the 'thing', and create a missile hittile. Where the pressure has to be contained within the thing...
I've never quite seen the logic in abandoning battleships and going for carriers.
USS Arizona, Oklahoma, HMS Repulse, Prince of Wales (1941), the Roma, the Yamato, Musashi, and the Tirpitz say Hello!
DK Brown put simply - in the age of the carrier, battleships were useless. A 1% chance of hitting anything, meant that 100 rounds per gun… didn’t mean much. The armour couldn’t stop an aircraft bomb. The shells had a range of 10 miles.
So they couldn’t defend themselves, couldn’t hit the enemy and couldn’t survive being attacked. Apart from that…..
I agree, but one minor quibble: the range was much greater than ten miles. The problem was accuracy: from the dreadnought era onwards, the limits were not the distance guns could fire, but the accuracy, and how far the ship could see to target. Many ships of that era could fire guns further than they could target, which is kinda pointless - except those shells have more penetrating power on closer targets.
Hence some rather ridiculous pagodas on Japanese ships to give them better targeting. And the greater the range, the more precise the necessary targeting (unless you're the Piorun...)
You could throw shells more than 10 miles. The problem was that the rate of hitting declined. A lot. A hundred rounds per gun, 1% hit rate. At a reasonable range….
The Tories moaning that Labour have stolen the name Great British Railways from them!
I think the rail nationalization is a big story and will help shore up the left . It’s also not expensive as it’s simply waiting for the franchises to finish .
Lets hope Great British Railways works out better than British Rail lol!
That said, I was never keen on rail privatization, personally.
Coming at the bitter end of the 79-97 Conservative government, it always felt like Major and Hezza were desperate to try and find a "legacy" beyond the Cones Hotline (the the Tories worst defeat since 1832) and didn't give much thought to how it would actually work.
The Cones Hotline was a good idea. Major was trying to formalise the idea of feedback: means whereby the governed could inform their governors of dissatisfaction and so improve governance. We're so used to it now that we've forgotten it was almost wholly absent outside of elections.
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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/24/us/columbia-protests-mike-johnson
https://youtu.be/eySs4Iu8dV4?si=xPLwL7ZVYHnZEjCi
SSI - Which voted for repeal recently HOWEVER re-vote by state senators may NOT happen before end of current legislative session May 10.
Oh ETH, go, go now. Please.
2) As comments earlier showed, it's by someone on the left about someone on the right, therefore funny and true, not insulting. But if anyone made stereotypical comments based on Rayner's red hair or breast size, that would be AWFUL!!!!!
Dictionary.com: Numinous: of, relating to, or like a numen; spiritual or supernatural. surpassing comprehension or understanding; mysterious: that element in artistic expression that remains numinous.
Cambridge: Numinous - having a deep spiritual (= religious) quality or connection
You can have a numinous dream, or encounter, or moment, but Noom is “place plus Numinosity”. A building can be roomy, and noomy
Also, saying “numinous” sounds pretentious, but saying “it’s got great Noom” just means you’re a hepcat dude who’s reading PB and it’s cool
OK, I really will watch Masterchef now
Reckon Liverpool will pull a draw out the bag, but not the win - still have Citeh just nabbing the title from Arsenal though
When I started out in the dark in Santiago on Saturday morning it was just me. As the sun came up I started to see a few other walkers; they all gave me an hola
I decided that I was going to hola everyone
It soon became rather overwhelming. As I'm going the wrong way, I'm passing thousands of other peregrinos
But I stuck at it, and came up with some hola rules for myself
Smile
Say hola to everyone; don't discriminate
Don't just say it, sing it a bit
Sing it like you mean it
Smile some more
I think that being a relentlessly cheerful postie has been as good training for this walk as all the walking has been
Definitions don’t get tougher than this, as Greg Wallace might say.
So they couldn’t defend themselves, couldn’t hit the enemy and couldn’t survive being attacked. Apart from that…..
In their support for Labour.
Anyway, it winds its way past many former industrial sites, including this one
When it was built, it was the largest workshop in Europe, constructed for the manufacture of naval guns
https://war-work.com/coventry-ordnance-works-limited-coventry-works/
Here is one being transported by train through the streets of Coventry
And how did they get it on the train?
The railway runs through the site
And I don't mean outside. It runs through the workshop
The tracks are visible to this day
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4181086,-1.4932678,3a,75y,45.2h,78.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sygufSb262gcfeI3_zEn_sA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Hence some rather ridiculous pagodas on Japanese ships to give them better targeting. And the greater the range, the more precise the necessary targeting (unless you're the Piorun...)
There are a few species - like wolves - where packs can be led either by a male or a female.
So, I'm not sure your contention holds up.
He's done it again.
Comrades, stop falling for it.
* for various values of fascinating. YMMV
https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/23/h5n1-bird-flu-virus-particles-in-pasteurized-milk-fda/
The Russians were not the only people to move their industries.
To take the Palestine marches as an obvious example. There's an awful lot of people - including those not on the right - who think they have a decidedly ugly element that needs to be confronted (preferably by organisers, but they haven't done so in 30+ years, so unlikely). And that some protesters really are taking the proverbial, especially after 6 months.
Yet that doesn't equate with Braverman's rhetoric, which sounds like she wants to shut down almost any dissent from views she finds acceptable - which lots who might be sympathetic to more nuanced criticism of the protests will find just as if not more frightening than them.
Or on immigration. The British public are immigration sceptics. The default is wanting it reduced, albeit with little understanding of its nature. But they also don't like performative cruelty. It's why Trumpism is so unpopular here and a British version remains marooned. It offends our sense of fair play and view of ourselves.
https://www.derwentvalleymills.org/discover/learning-for-all/learning-families/how-the-derwent-valley-changed-the-world/
A description of Lord David Cameron which has only gotten truer with time
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That only makes it more exclusive. Only the cognoscenti of PB have access to these coinages. It’s like being a Freemason but better
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-accidental-speaker/ar-AA1nsO6X
Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
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Apr 10
Europe does not allow cattle to be fed poultry feed. US does. This helps explain why US is seeing a cow outbreak of avian flu.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1778030457453449347
indeed, in Viz itself
https://www.moretvicar.com/products/viz-the-otters-pocket
https://linskeldfield.co.uk/otters-pocket-holiday-cottage-linskeldfield-farm-holiday-cottages-glamping-pods-campsite/
@BorisJohnson
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Frank Field was one of the best and most principled people in politics. He backed Brexit from a simple belief in British democracy and he attacked welfarism out of sheer Christian compassion. His ideas remain vital today.
https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1783226820441014586
It's true that nothing existing would be simpler, but why should simplicity be some kind of guiding principle? Why shouldn't abundance or confusion be the underlying principle of existence?
And a grand old team to support.
Sing-along @TSE .
If Trump wins in November for them all to the good, if he loses again and ends up in a jail cell never mind. Roe v Wade will still have been repealed and the SC as stands looks unlikely to change that anytime soon while they have a firm grip on the GOP platform ensuring pro life candidates and nominees for some time to come
"Bunco makes the case for Liz Truss as next CON leader and PM"
https://web.archive.org/web/20160625200236/http://www2.politicalbetting.com/
LFC ha ha.
Klopp quadruple my shiny blue arse.
This has been quite a disappointing and anticlimactic end to the season, considering where we were just a few weeks ago.
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I think the rail nationalization is a big story and will help shore up the left . It’s also not expensive as it’s simply waiting for the franchises to finish .
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186508-d19922444-Reviews-Plaque_Marking_Mungo_Park_s_Residence-Peebles_Scottish_Borders_Scotland.html
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/505383
That said, I was never keen on rail privatization, personally.
Coming at the bitter end of the 79-97 Conservative government, it always felt like Major and Hezza were desperate to try and find a "legacy" beyond the Cones Hotline (the the Tories worst defeat since 1832) and didn't give much thought to how it would actually work.
You have still got a trophy and Champions League football for next season 👍
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2024/04/24/army-on-the-hunt-for-escaped-horses-on-loose-in-london/
The caption says it's in "Lower Belgrave Street in Victoria at the spot where a witness says the horses lost control", but I couldn't find a place in LBSt that looks like that - not even outside no.46 where Lord Lucan's nanny was murdered. Other sources give Belgrave Square.
The Independent coyly say the route they show is "estimated":
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-horses-cavalry-running-loose-map-where-b2533971.html
The map in the Daily Express is crap and the editors seem to have no care for leylinology whatsoever:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1891846/horses-escape-in-london