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Will the weirdo cat hater be gone soon? – politicalbetting.com
Will the weirdo cat hater be gone soon? – politicalbetting.com
Wow this is a brutal clip for JD Vance. He somehow made his childless cat lady comments even worse. https://t.co/Zdk73fYcTz
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Trump would find admitting he made a mistake more embarrassing than replacing his VP. He won't do it.
Edit: It wouldn't be his mistake, it would be him fixing someone else's mistake/betrayal/whatever.
Trump budget would spike deficits by nearly 5 times Harris proposal, says Penn Wharton
https://x.com/CNBC/status/1828543721710694545
Also, he's a fairly weak VP candidate, and that may cost Trump some votes at the margins (which could of course matter in a very close election). But he's not unelectably bad - he's weak in the sense Dan Quayle was weak.
https://x.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1828734275216101521
Because a cats the only cat who knows where its at
During that hearing, prosecutors told the judge that the “60-day rule” does not apply to cases like Trump’s that have already been charged and are now in the hands of the judicial system.
https://x.com/AnnaBower/status/1828575793871470718
It stood up pretty well. The music was excellent and the conversational parts were still hilarious. Rather more casual racism than you would get these days. There was a bit where they were driving in a car and it was incredibly obvious that it was a movie out the back window and they were not actually driving but I suspect that was Tarentino's joke/homage to earlier films.
Well worth a watch if you can catch it.
Trump would believe he was brazening it out. Millions of others would rightly regard it as the admission of a stupid mistake. There's a difference.
Trump is not omnipotent. Increasingly, he looks like a satire of himself.
What you want is a few, but sane, building regs, actually efforced. What we have is the total opposite, insane numbers of regs, little meaningful result, lots of cost.
The fix for this is not more regs - it's to abolish most of them, then actually enforce the ones that are worth having.
Except where the inspections were independent and rigorous.
The problem is that real inspections and oversight have been deprecated in favour of more paperwork requirements.
were they USB-C chargersis all okay with you?Point being that fear of looking like a chump has never stopped him before, and it wouldn't stop him from changing his VP pick.
DJT stock is so close to being in the teens that @mattgaetz has started paying attention to it. https://t.co/GQh0rEbkOh
One thing I did note was that LAS ambulances seem to be crewed mainly by women.
I'm a big fan of the Mercedes buses in the Isle of Man - comfortable, smooth and the drivers wait for everyone to sit down before moving off.
Enjoyed a walk through Finsbury Park this morning as I didn't fancy a 12-minute wait for a Piccadilly at Manor House. Got a look at the Arena Shopping Centre by Harringay Green Lanes station - the site of the old Harringay Arena. The cafe by Manor House Station only average.
Trump would bin Vance after the ballots are printed. Then declare it was election interference not to reprint them. Then get a lawyer with no law degree to sue. And win in the Supreme Court. But too late for the actual election.
Personally, I would spay the parents.
DavidL's post got me thinking about how the passage of time is not linear. 1970s television series Happy Days looked back only 20 years but it was another world. 20 years before now, 2004, is merely a primitive version of now, with mobile but not quite smart phones, and the web just before Twitter and YouTube.
1994 had mobile phones but they were status items. Rich people with teenage children had home computers but they were by no means universal. PCs were, however, taking over offices. Britpop. Cool Britannia. Whatever happened to Oasis? Tbh in the course of writing this paragraph, I've changed my mind. 1994 was not qualitatively different from now.
When got back in early 93 Suede were just starting, heralding 3 and a half years of Britpop shite. Okay, it had its moments (I actually quite like Suede and Pulp were ace in that period) but a lot of it was twee bollocks. There was definitely a cultural shift of sorts while I was away. And I missed nearly the entire run of 'Eldorado', which I've always regretted.
Then Britpop definitively ended when the BBC played 'Walkaway' by Cast over the closing credits of England's Euro '96 semi-final loss. The following year everyone seemed to have a mobile phone. Except me.
Rearranging the scenes in real chronological order is a useful mental exercise when e.g. under the dentist's drill.
Perhaps that's how it works. Cultural change, particularly pop-culture change, happens when things are politically and economically stable or doing well. Whereas social and political upheaval freezes pop culture while it's underway.
Nothing much changed in pop culture during WW1 or 2, unless you count war poetry. There was little or no culture change during the period from the Wall St crash to the end of the great depression (someone will now prove me wrong with lots of counter-examples). In the relatively upbeat 1890s, 1920s and 1960s there was huge cultural evolution. The only sort of exception I can think of is the sudden arrival of punk during a very restless period of geopolitics and economics in the mid 70s.
I was on online forums back in the early noughties but they were niche places for people with specific interests - weather in my case - rather than mass platforms.
Building regs are things like "if you build anything, thou shalt insulate it to standard x or above according to part 17 of the environmental protection standards 2013 annexe C, except under where under the provisions of the... Etc. For about 2 million pages".
Building regs add lots of cost, much of it generating paper to show that what you're doing is acceptable, and are somewhat haphazardly enforced at best.
Increasing the extent of enforcement, particularly with regard to quality, whilst culling lots of the expensive paperwork excersises might well cut the cost of housing and drive up quality.
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen."
Maybe less doom and gloom is needed from Starmer and labour
23% approval
51% disapproval
https://x.com/YouGov/status/1828810673398104174?t=5c9cU_0xQcF7OJ8N5ibY7w&s=19
https://x.com/YouGov/status/1828810675919229293?t=snufQEZ3jLPBdyrsibg4VA&s=19
Netflix have done a couple of very successful live broadcast comedy shows this year, but they’re inevitably picking a time slot for the larger US audience.
My kids see things from the 90s or hear things described from the 90s and its utterly alien to them and sounds like the 50s would have to me.
The idea of only watching what's being broadcast, everyone watching the same thing or not watching anything at all; the idea of live TV broadcasts let alone the idea of being unable to pause/rewind live TV; the lack of streaming; the lack of YouTube and self-broadcasts.
When I watched TV in the 80s I'd watch cartoons made for then like He Man or Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (not allowed to use the word Ninja in the UK), as well as cartoons from my parents generation like Flintstones, Scooby Doo, Tom & Jerry etc.
When my kids watch "TV" now they go on Kids YouTube and watch streamers like Mariah Elizabeth or Aphmau.
The cultural change from then to now is leaps and bounds.
Very poor start from Reeves frankly.
This is a betting site after all!
Everyone else is spending time online, as we are here, not watching the telly.
And streaming means it doesn't matter if its 99% shit as there's so many things out there there's something for everyone.
She has been in post for 2 months now and AFAIK not a SINGLE PBer has yet referred to her as
Rachel Theeves
Standards are slipping...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lgl9kypno
A company as badly run as that with so many questions over where the money has gone should not be asking for hiked bills in a monopoly they have mismanaged to survive.
Not, at least, until they have explained how debts ballooned while they were paying dividends claiming large profits - and recovered that money....
Someone is paying for that £10k drone that appears over Doncaster Common during racing...
I don't miss having live TV or the licence fee, good riddance to it. We didn't watch anything live other than sport anyway, so don't miss it.
The BBC can go the way of Thames Water for all I care now, if it has no interest in reforming or moving on from the licence fee then let it be consigned to its fate.
Unfortunately the situation has accelerated and it appears that two, not one, will need to be extracted in Q3/Q4 and ongoing gum disease and bone loss (yes, really) bring into question my suitability for implants
The minimum treatment now required is surgery and the use of bone cement/grafts to reinforce the vanishing bone. This is beyond the capacity of the average dentist and will require the services of a more advanced one, such as a periodontist or a dental reconstruction dentist.
My question to the PB brains trust is: what qualification or job title or membership should I look for? For example, the Dip Impl Dent RCSEd is a qualification, The British Society of Peridontology and Implant Dentistry is a society, a "periodontist" is a job title.
Would be grateful for pointer, folks
Kind regards,
@viewcode
The Universities pension fund owns 20% of Thames Water. Could be awkward. Still, never mind.
So far we have
- But the suppliers to Thames Water... (simples - if you are a supplier of pipe, valves and the like, you will get paid. If you are a shareholder, or bond holder, FU)
- But the pension funds... (Ha Ha)
- But the foreign pension funds.... (Ha Ha Ha Ha)
- But the UK market reputation... (Fuck off and die horribly).
I get the strong impression that there is a can of worms here.
Labour should abolish it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Health_Service
As does the system run by the VA.
https://dronedj.com/2021/07/09/and-theyre-off-uk-drone-pilots-feed-live-horse-race-videos-to-betting-rings/
https://www.wired.com/story/horse-racing-drone/
That would be a cool job to do if I was in the UK.
A friend had similar issues and as far as I know he went to a specialist dentist in Birmingham
The treatment was as no doubt you expect very expensive (£35, 000) and lengthy
I hope I have not upset you and wish you well in receiving treatment and hopefully less expensive
It's not vitriol at the owners of the debt and equity - it's directed at the people using them (the debt owners) as a flimsy excuse to protect the companies using public money.
Go for the first if you can, but it won't be cheap.
Incidentally probably a good idea to get investigated as to the cause of the accelerated bone loss, such as calcium and magnesium levels, as well as Vit D etc.
Reality TV and digitalisation arguably ended that in the 2000s. Once ratings begun to go into permanent decline and programmers had lots of data on hand they began producing the same old mush plus the odd prestige show.
TV comedy in particular has been killed by the panel show - as they're so cheap to make and inoffensive. No one's going to give a couple of people with a weird but possibly hilarious idea for a sitcom a load of money to make it when they can have several series of a panel show for the same cost.