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  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,795
    DUCKETT
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,782
    More than 300,000 Georgians cast ballots on the first day of early voting - *obliterating* surpassing the previous record.
    https://x.com/bluestein/status/1846335140487737477

    And no one knows what it means.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,570
    Sandpit said:

    There were loads of “oh, Trump again, good night” comments here on the night last time, when Biden was 10/1 or thereabouts on Betfair.

    Everyone seems to forget that US elections take literally weeks to count and two months to certify, nearly three months before the new President is sworn in. No-one else does this, and in the UK everyone is used to seeing the handover within 24 hours. 2010 is the only exception in my lifetime, when it still took less than a week.

    Last time the postal vote favoured Biden, because in the context of the pandemic he was encouraging it whereas Trump was encouraging on-the-day voting. It’s not going to be so one-sided this time around. The chance of a Florida 2000 repeat isn’t off the charts sadly.
    Yeh. They've got time to slip in a brutal but short civil war before the inauguration.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    Well done Ben Duckett, that’s a fine hundred.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 34,580
    Duckett's got his ton!
  • BurgessianBurgessian Posts: 2,980

    I tried to use a black cab for the first time in about 3 years yesterday and had the clichéd "nah, I don't want to do it mate - not going that way" response. When I asked how long it would take he then described the impact on him and his schedule for the rest of the day rather than mine, so I gave up and went back to the delayed tube.

    I just won't bother again, or just use Uber.

    It really does remind you how utterly self-serving Unions can be, and, yes, I put cabbies in that category despite their Reformy views.
    t really does remind you how utterly self-serving Unions can be, and, yes, I put cabbies in that category despite their Reformy views.

    I believe it was lobbying by the yellow cab drivers that scotched a decent public transport link from JFK to Manhattan being developed. The taxi fare now is a standard 70 dollars plus extras and tolls meaning very little change from $100. But the alternatives are not much cheaper and a lot less convenient - partic after enduring a transatlantic flight. A real stitch-up.
  • A few years back when out and about near York I came across a village cricket match, so thought I'd watch a few overs, as you do, and took up a position on the boundary.

    The first ball of the next over sailed right over the pavilion and straight through the back window of an unfortunate BMW in the car park.

    The batsman? A 60 year old Collis King...
    https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/prudential-world-cup-1979-60806/england-vs-west-indies-final-65063/full-scorecard
    Next season, ex-England goalkeeper Nigel Martyn will be playing in North Yorkshire Premier League at the ripe old age of 58.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,795
    Barnesian said:

    I think someone with a lot of money is playing silly beggars betting on Trump for some reason. Could be an insurance bet or it could be a deliberate attempt to create a narrative. It's big market, approaching £100million, so it's an expensive strategy. Who could afford it?
    IBD/Tipp has Harris up 4pts today.

    It got the result pretty much spot on in 2020 as I recall.
  • Technical Difficulties (him and his uni mates) should get a show...The wikipedia game they play is very good.
    It's QI isn't it? And half of Radio 4 is a few mates sitting round nattering to each other.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,295
    Any truth in the whale theory?
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 83,550
    edited October 2024

    It's QI isn't it? And half of Radio 4 is a few mates sitting round nattering to each other.
    The wikipedia game they play, no its not QI. Its make up a wikipedia entry for a obscure term (one of which is correct). So i guess its a bit of a more intellectual Would I Lie To You.

    As for isn't half of BBC / R4 all mates sitting around nattering, yes, but its the same sodding set of mates. All the panels shows are the stuffed with a very small niche group of people.

    Tom Scott mates are slightly different in they are quite off the wall folk who know a lot about some very weird things rather than yet another stand-up comic fed lines by a big team of writers.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 79,235
    Nigelb said:

    More than 300,000 Georgians cast ballots on the first day of early voting - *obliterating* surpassing the previous record.
    https://x.com/bluestein/status/1846335140487737477

    And no one knows what it means.

    Carter's got his vote in.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022

    Next season, ex-England goalkeeper Nigel Martyn will be playing in North Yorkshire Premier League at the ripe old age of 58.
    That’s impressive.

    There’s still the possibility that we might see Mike Tyson, 59, back in the ring in the next few months as well. I don’t care how much younger is the opponent, and how much he thinks he can train, he’ll still be facing Mike f*****g Tyson who’s a total freak of a human being.

    I don’t fancy my chances of running against an old and fat Usain Bolt either, unless I’m already in the elite sprinter category.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,679

    t really does remind you how utterly self-serving Unions can be, and, yes, I put cabbies in that category despite their Reformy views.
    I believe it was lobbying by the yellow cab drivers that scotched a decent public transport link from JFK to Manhattan being developed. The taxi fare now is a standard 70 dollars plus extras and tolls meaning very little change from $100. But the alternatives are not much cheaper and a lot less convenient - partic after enduring a transatlantic flight. A real stitch-up.

    Do New York cabbies get to dodge safety regulations like cabbies do in London?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,782
    edited October 2024

    I believe it was lobbying by the yellow cab drivers that scotched a decent public transport link from JFK to Manhattan being developed. The taxi fare now is a standard 70 dollars plus extras and tolls meaning very little change from $100. But the alternatives are not much cheaper and a lot less convenient - partic after enduring a transatlantic flight. A real stitch-up.
    Wait until they introduce electric air-taxis.
    That kind of trip is the perfect market for them, though they'll start operating in the more welcoming regulatory environment of California first.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    Pulpstar said:

    Carter's got his vote in.
    That was sad to watch. I know he just turned 100, but even so…
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,679
    edited October 2024

    t really does remind you how utterly self-serving Unions can be, and, yes, I put cabbies in that category despite their Reformy views.
    I believe it was lobbying by the yellow cab drivers that scotched a decent public transport link from JFK to Manhattan being developed. The taxi fare now is a standard 70 dollars plus extras and tolls meaning very little change from $100. But the alternatives are not much cheaper and a lot less convenient - partic after enduring a transatlantic flight. A real stitch-up.

    Me (quotes duffed) -------------------

    Do New York cabbies get to dodge safety regulations like cabbies do in London?
  • TazTaz Posts: 17,635
    edited October 2024
    Nigelb said:

    Which is fine. And probably sensible.

    But I still don't get your problem with others chatting about it.
    As I said yesterday, my issue is more the slavish devotion we are getting here to Kamala from some posters. For example during the discussion of her barmy tweets about black men and drugs and black men and crypto.

    I get that people are against a Trump win. I am sure you know I am from my previous commentary, but I do not get the level of adoration in some parts, which goes over and above betting on the outcome, for friend Harris.

    As for the odds I genuinely have not got a clue which way this is going to go and what will happen. My feeling is there is a drift back to Trump and some desperation in the Kamala camp.
  • Alphabet_SoupAlphabet_Soup Posts: 3,591
    edited October 2024
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  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,782
    Nigelb said:

    More than 300,000 Georgians cast ballots on the first day of early voting - *obliterating* surpassing the previous record.
    https://x.com/bluestein/status/1846335140487737477

    And no one knows what it means.

    Is there a turnout market yet ?
    Haven't seen one on Betfair.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    edited October 2024
    Nigelb said:

    Wait until they introduce electric air-taxis.
    That kind of trip is the perfect market for them, though they'll start operating in the more welcoming regulatory environment of California first.
    Pan-Am used to do helicopter transfers from JFK to Manhattan back in the ‘70s. It eventually got shut down by the FAA after too many accidents, one of which involved an helicopter crashing into the landing site building but mostly ending up on the street below.

    There’s going to be a very high bar to resuming such operations.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,295
    edited October 2024

    A few years back when out and about near York I came across a village cricket match, so thought I'd watch a few overs, as you do, and took up a position on the boundary.

    The first ball of the next over sailed right over the pavilion and straight through the back window of an unfortunate BMW in the car park.

    The batsman? A 60 year old Collis King...
    https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/prudential-world-cup-1979-60806/england-vs-west-indies-final-65063/full-scorecard
    It's a fact of life that in a conflict between a cricket ball and anything else the cricket ball is always right. 😊
  • JFK to Manhattan by cab best avoided during the UN General Assembly, I can confirm from bitter experience. It took two hours a fortnight ago.

    On the subject of London taxis, all the traffic flow gains thanks to the congestion charge have since been nullified by road closures so they are almost always the slowest option available, apart from Uber and other minicabs who can't use bus lanes and are therefore even slower.

  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,782
    edited October 2024
    Sandpit said:

    Pan-Am used to do helicopter transfers from JFK to Manhattan back in the ‘70s. It eventually got shut down by the FAA after too many accidents, one of which involved an helicopter crashing into the landing site building but mostly ending up on the street below.
    Drones (certainly the ones being developed) are far safer than helicopters - and far quieter.
  • Sandpit said:

    That’s impressive.

    There’s still the possibility that we might see Mike Tyson, 59, back in the ring in the next few months as well. I don’t care how much younger is the opponent, and how much he thinks he can train, he’ll still be facing Mike f*****g Tyson who’s a total freak of a human being.

    I don’t fancy my chances of running against an old and fat Usain Bolt either, unless I’m already in the elite sprinter category.
    A don't know about Tyson, hasn't he smoked his brains out?

    Elite athletes seem to go one of two ways, they either pack it all in and let themselves totally go e.g. Botham or they just can't kick the habit and looking for the next competitive thing and stay in really good shape, such that they could still rinse any normie at sports.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,679

    The wikipedia game they play, no its not QI. Its make up a wikipedia entry for a obscure term (one of which is correct). So i guess its a bit of a more intellectual Would I Lie To You.

    As for isn't half of BBC / R4 all mates sitting around nattering, yes, but its the same sodding set of mates. All the panels shows are the stuffed with a very small niche group of people.

    Tom Scott mates are slightly different in they are quite off the wall folk who know a lot about some very weird things rather than yet another stand-up comic fed lines by a big team of writers.
    It's Call My Bluff with concepts, not words.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,570
    Nigelb said:

    More than 300,000 Georgians cast ballots on the first day of early voting - *obliterating* surpassing the previous record.
    https://x.com/bluestein/status/1846335140487737477

    And no one knows what it means.

    It's got to be good news for Dems surely? Trump has brainwashed his cult into thinking voting early is the devil's work.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 38,520
    HYUFD said:

    Canada's euthanasia laws are a disaster, one good thing about Poilevre and his Canadian Conservatives winning is he has promised to revoke the expansion of assisted dying under Trudeau and his Liberal government
    https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/poilievre-promises-revoke-expansion-maid
    The right to die soon becomes a duty not to burden others, by selfishly clinging to life.
  • MattW said:

    It's Call My Bluff with concepts, not words.
    Yes, that's probably a closer analogy. It works for them because at least 3 out of 4 have some impressive knowledge about some very niche topics.
  • It's got to be good news for Dems surely? Trump has brainwashed his cult into thinking voting early is the devil's work.
    If only the transfer of power didn't take over two months!

    We had our election on 4th July. Within 24 hours, Sunak vacated no. 10 and Starmer moved in.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,570
    Pensioners will get an increase in their benefits more than double that of working age benefit holders.



    Torsten Bell
    @TorstenBell
    ·
    3h
    On the basis of today’s inflation figures you can make that more than double

    https://x.com/TorstenBell/status/1846471711325065725
  • Pensioners will get an increase in their benefits more than double that of working age benefit holders.



    Torsten Bell
    @TorstenBell
    ·
    3h
    On the basis of today’s inflation figures you can make that more than double

    https://x.com/TorstenBell/status/1846471711325065725

    Assuming the government don't "reform" the triple lock.
  • AnneJGPAnneJGP Posts: 3,428
    Sean_F said:

    The right to die soon becomes a duty not to burden others, by selfishly clinging to life.
    Back in the day, pro-abortion MPs swore it would never become a form of birth control.
  • JFK to Manhattan by cab best avoided during the UN General Assembly, I can confirm from bitter experience. It took two hours a fortnight ago.

    Don't they have the Subway?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022

    A don't know about Tyson, hasn't he smoked his brains out?

    Elite athletes seem to go one of two ways, they either pack it all in and let themselves totally go e.g. Botham or they just can't kick the habit and looking for the next competitive thing and stay in really good shape, such that they could still rinse any normie at sports.
    https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/40244442/mike-tyson-vs-jake-paul-watch-date-location-more

    Tyson has apparently spent the last six months training, very much as he used to, and looks scary as Hell. His opponent is a guy who’s YouTube famous, and has about four professional boxing fights to his name plus a few exhibitions.

    Tyson appears to have gone through the let himself go phase, and is now back to the training madly phase. It’s sanctioned as a professional fight, and he’s taking it seriously. He knows that he’s probably not got the stamina over IIRC eight rounds, and needs to knock him out quickly.

    The promotor is expecting tens of millions in PPV revenues, almost up there with a title fight.
  • Here is Starmer releasing the sausages, I mean calling Sunak the PM...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSO5H3OuQUw
  • Sandpit said:

    https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/40244442/mike-tyson-vs-jake-paul-watch-date-location-more

    Tyson has apparently spent the last six months training, very much as he used to, and looks scary as Hell. His opponent is a guy who’s YouTube famous, and has about four professional boxing fights to his name plus a few exhibitions.

    Tyson appears to have gone through the let himself go phase, and is now back to the training madly phase. It’s sanctioned as a professional fight, and he’s taking it seriously. He knows that he’s probably not got the stamina over IIRC eight rounds, and needs to knock him out quickly.

    The promotor is expecting tens of millions in PPV revenues, almost up there with a title fight.
    I presume no drug testing.....not because of Tyson liking a smoke, Jake Paul is about as natural as an IFBB Body Building professional.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,782
    edited October 2024

    It's got to be good news for Dems surely? Trump has brainwashed his cult into thinking voting early is the devil's work.
    That appears not so much to be the case this year.
    No one really has any good historical metric to extrapolate from, and the difficulty of polling a representative sample across the states that matter in deciding the result is horrendous, even if pollsters aren't trying to finagle a result for their clients.

    I think Harris is more likely to win - but I don't have huge confidence in that judgment, given the evidence available.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022

    Don't they have the Subway?
    …and the KFC, and the McDonalds, and the Burger King.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,570
    Sandpit said:

    Still sticking with that prediction?
    Not by an innings, perhaps 🙂

    In all seriousness, this isn’t a great performance with the bat. Duckett apart, everyone has got in and got out. Batting last on this pitch they need a big lead. Right now I would say Pakistan are favourites.
  • England soiling the bed here.
  • Don't they have the Subway?
    There's a new-fangled train-like thingie that links to the Long Island Railroad somewhere or other but I'm too set in my ways. It would almost certainly take less than two hours!
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    Harry Brook you tw@.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,570
    Omnium said:

    I presume what he actually said was that it was time to say good night to Gavin, and a civil servant got the wrong end of the stick.
    ’Johnson’ ‘good night’ and ‘Gavin Williamson’ is a mental image I just didn’t need 😳
  • England soiling the bed here.

    Good job England bat deep....
  • Stokes gone....
  • Good job England bat deep....
    What does Ben Stokes bring to this team?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,570

    If only the transfer of power didn't take over two months!

    We had our election on 4th July. Within 24 hours, Sunak vacated no. 10 and Starmer moved in.
    Would somebody please tell Starmer that?

    About the time the sausages are released, maybe?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,782
    ydoethur said:

    Not by an innings, perhaps 🙂

    In all seriousness, this isn’t a great performance with the bat. Duckett apart, everyone has got in and got out. Batting last on this pitch they need a big lead. Right now I would say Pakistan are favourites.
    You just reverse jinxed us.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    Here comes the collapse.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 79,235

    Assuming the government don't "reform" the triple lock.
    It needs it, does anyone else, anywhere have a triple ratchet system for calculation of anything ?

    To illustrate how bonkers it is, consider the following.

    Scenario 1:
    Year 1 Prices up 3%, Wages up 7%
    Year 2 Prices up 7%, wages up 3%

    Scenario 2:

    Year 1 Prices up 3%, Wages up 3%
    Year 2 Prices up 7%, wages up 7%

    Now in both scenarios both prices and wages are up 10.21%, but in scenario 1 the pension rises 14.5% from year 0 to year 2, rather than the "correct" 10.21% in either scenario.

    Bonus points for year 3 if both wages and prices stay flat, there's still 2.5% additional in there lol.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,570
    Sandpit said:

    Harry Brook you tw@.

    Stokes didn’t exactly cover himself in glory there either.

    And with only Carse and then the rabbits…
  • ClippPClippP Posts: 1,964

    You’ll have to write to Boris Johnson, it was he got Williamson knighted.
    Do the letters patent (or whatever they are called) mention the name of the prime minister who made the recommendation? I think it would be a good idea if they did.

    So a person who was recommended for a honour by Johnson, for example, would be held in the highest contempt.
  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 11,482
    MattW said:

    It's Call My Bluff with concepts, not words.
    It's a shame that the BBC don't make programmes of that calibre now. Quite what they're thinking with the cancellation of hardtalk escapes me.

    I presume they'll get rid of Melvyn Bragg soon, and even Amol Rajan must be feeling he's gone from smug new world of the BBC to very much at risk of cuts.

    Still, Woman's Today Programme will be able to address these questions head on with a phone in, followed up by Woman's hour which will discuss the distress that the phone in may have caused.
  • TazTaz Posts: 17,635

    A don't know about Tyson, hasn't he smoked his brains out?

    Elite athletes seem to go one of two ways, they either pack it all in and let themselves totally go e.g. Botham or they just can't kick the habit and looking for the next competitive thing and stay in really good shape, such that they could still rinse any normie at sports.
    A while ago when we were on an Emirates flight one of the TV shows on the entertainment package was this.

    It had to be seen to be believed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson_Mysteries

    The show follows the fictional misadventures of boxer/actor Mike Tyson, the ghost of the Marquess of Queensberry, Tyson's adopted daughter, and a wisecracking (my amendment) pigeon, as they solve mysteries around the world.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,570
    Nigelb said:

    You just reverse jinxed us.
    The world’s gone weird. I predict an England disaster and one happens. It’s October and I’m sat outside not feeling cold. And it’s in London* and I’m not feeling utterly miserable.

    *OK, so Russell Square Gardens which is one of the nice bits of London, but still.
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 19,163

    I'd be really embarrassed and cringed out by some of this stuff if I was black. My school has a BHM thing where they are teaching Year 5 and 6 how to do rap; like all black people love marijuana and rap.

    It'd be like doing a piece on White people where we all love gin & tonic and Baroque music.
    The original motivation for Black History Month was precisely to teach the less well known history of black people in order to dispel the lazy stereotypes, not to create an opportunity to reinforce those stereotypes. That's maddening.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022

    I presume no drug testing.....not because of Tyson liking a smoke, Jake Paul is about as natural as an IFBB Body Building professional.
    I guess they take a pee the night before, but nothing earlier than that. Paul does indeed look somewhat like a white Ben Johnson.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 83,550
    edited October 2024

    The original motivation for Black History Month was precisely to teach the less well known history of black people in order to dispel the lazy stereotypes, not to create an opportunity to reinforce those stereotypes. That's maddening.
    Or this weird desire to make up stories or massively over state that black people were involved in famous moments in European history. Also, I always find it rather weird the obsession in relation to specifically black people, not people with say Asian or Arabic heritage.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 10,164
    edited October 2024
    MattW said:

    I believe it was lobbying by the yellow cab drivers that scotched a decent public transport link from JFK to Manhattan being developed. The taxi fare now is a standard 70 dollars plus extras and tolls meaning very little change from $100. But the alternatives are not much cheaper and a lot less convenient - partic after enduring a transatlantic flight. A real stitch-up.
    Mattw (quotes duffed) -------------------

    Do New York cabbies get to dodge safety regulations like cabbies do in London?

    Eabhal:

    I'm also aware of one major airport that lobbied hard against public transport provision because they earned so much from parking and taxi fees, so it might not be just the drivers who are responsible.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,570
    ydoethur said:

    Not by an innings, perhaps 🙂

    In all seriousness, this isn’t a great performance with the bat. Duckett apart, everyone has got in and got out. Batting last on this pitch they need a big lead. Right now I would say Pakistan are favourites.
    Well, this has had half of an effect.

    They’ve stopped getting in.

    Shame that they’ve lost four for four.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 83,550
    edited October 2024
    Sandpit said:

    I guess they take a pee the night before, but nothing earlier than that. Paul does indeed look somewhat like a white Ben Johnson.
    He looks like he eat Ben Johnson for breakfast....his piss be glowing like he has been drinking water from Chernobyl.
  • It's got to be good news for Dems surely? Trump has brainwashed his cult into thinking voting early is the devil's work.
    Assuming that those early votes get counted. The Trumpites wanting to slow count them and going through the courts already.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,570
    Sandpit said:

    I guess they take a pee the night before, but nothing earlier than that. Paul does indeed look somewhat like a white Ben Johnson.
    That had me puzzled. I was thinking unless there’s been some really quite radical discoveries since last I studied the Elizabethan theatre, I’m fairly sure Ben Jonson was white.

    Then I realised you meant Ben Johnson.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 121,688
    edited October 2024
    ydoethur said:

    ’Johnson’ ‘good night’ and ‘Gavin Williamson’ is a mental image I just didn’t need 😳
    Do you want me to post that Farage shorts photo as a palete cleanser?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,570

    Do you want me to post that Farage shorts photo as a palette cleanser?
    That loud cry of *NNNNNNOOOOOOO* emanating from the general direction of Bloomsbury was me.
  • CatManCatMan Posts: 3,228
    Taz said:

    A while ago when we were on an Emirates flight one of the TV shows on the entertainment package was this.

    It had to be seen to be believed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson_Mysteries

    The show follows the fictional misadventures of boxer/actor Mike Tyson, the ghost of the Marquess of Queensberry, Tyson's adopted daughter, and a wisecracking (my amendment) pigeon, as they solve mysteries around the world.
    Sounds like the American version of Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,782
    Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.
    https://x.com/NewsWire_US/status/1846297949665386655
  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 11,482
    ydoethur said:

    The world’s gone weird. I predict an England disaster and one happens. It’s October and I’m sat outside not feeling cold. And it’s in London* and I’m not feeling utterly miserable.

    *OK, so Russell Square Gardens which is one of the nice bits of London, but still.
    Clutching your novel to your breast and hoping that when you return to the publishers offices the surly doorman will have better news for you?
  • CatManCatMan Posts: 3,228
    Nigelb said:

    Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.
    https://x.com/NewsWire_US/status/1846297949665386655

    That's gonna piss Trump off
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 83,550
    edited October 2024
    Apparently BBC Click has also got the chop.

    Many moons ago I was quite a good show, but again totally overtaken by much better YouTube content.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    CatMan said:

    That's gonna piss Trump off
    Not as much as it’ll piss off the Harris campaign, who probably had a pile of “Duke endorses Trump” ads ready to run.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022

    Apparently BBC Click has also got the chop.

    WTF are they up to? This is all really cheap TV they’re canning.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,840

    @Leon - as a fellow middle aged white male, would be interested in your take on racism there. Japan is the only country I have been to where I have suffered prejudice for my ethnicity. Being shooed away from sitting next to someone in a vacant seat on trains, that sort of thing. Quietly but very firmly, and in a way that says very clearly that they find me offensive. And it's more than just the well-publicised and understandable pushback against overtourism. This was on a run of the mill half empty Shinkansen. My spouse and I are quiet, considerate people. I wasn't exactly traumatised by it, but it was sobering.

    They think we smell of cheese, because we eat so much dairy - compared to them. Our standards of hygiene are probably lower overall

    Against that you have the pronounced preference of Japanese women for western men, which is constantly demonstrated, I’m told this is because we are less misogynistic and patriarchal and we have bigger penises. I’m not joking. Educated Japanese women have told me this (and they weren’t trying to flatter me)
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,364

    Assuming the government don't "reform" the triple lock.
    They said they wouldn't in the manifesto so it's odds-on, surely.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,711
    Taz said:

    A while ago when we were on an Emirates flight one of the TV shows on the entertainment package was this.

    It had to be seen to be believed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson_Mysteries

    The show follows the fictional misadventures of boxer/actor Mike Tyson, the ghost of the Marquess of Queensberry, Tyson's adopted daughter, and a wisecracking (my amendment) pigeon, as they solve mysteries around the world.
    I've seen this one. The late, great Norm Macdonald as the pigeon.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,295
    This is so funny. Parker "loses" Lady Penelope's yacht at the casino.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGc0ruN1eYQ
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,570
    Omnium said:

    Clutching your novel to your breast and hoping that when you return to the publishers offices the surly doorman will have better news for you?
    I haven’t finished it yet. So I couldn’t bring it.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,570
    Sandpit said:

    WTF are they up to? This is all really cheap TV they’re canning.
    Angling for a big rise in the licence fee, or the scrapping of the over 75 exemption?
  • TimSTimS Posts: 14,951
    ydoethur said:

    The world’s gone weird. I predict an England disaster and one happens. It’s October and I’m sat outside not feeling cold. And it’s in London* and I’m not feeling utterly miserable.

    *OK, so Russell Square Gardens which is one of the nice bits of London, but still.
    It’s shit weather in Leeds. Misty drizzle and about 15C.
  • FossFoss Posts: 1,397
    Sean_F said:

    The right to die soon becomes a duty not to burden others, by selfishly clinging to life.
    Only for the harmless. Because to suggest it for current and past convicts would be beyond the pale...
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    Nigelb said:

    Drones (certainly the ones being developed) are far safer than helicopters - and far quieter.
    But they need to *prove* their much better safety to the authorities. It’ll only need one to end up in bits on Manhattan streets before they’re banned again for another technology cycle.

    As others have said, build an Amercian version of the Heathrow Express from JFK to Manhattan, no matter how many billions it costs it’ll pay itself back inside a decade.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 83,550
    edited October 2024
    Sandpit said:

    WTF are they up to? This is all really cheap TV they’re canning.
    I highly doubt it had any real viewership these days. That been said, explaining technology to the masses, isn't that part of the BBC remit to education and inform? But nothing much is happening in tech these days, checks notes from past week, rockets, robots, self driving cars, Gen AI, nah nothing, so probably no real interest.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,795
    TimS said:

    It’s shit weather in Leeds. Misty drizzle and about 15C.
    Glorious here in north London, as it always is when @Leon is abroad.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,782
    CatMan said:

    That's gonna piss Trump off
    Is it ?
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 24,317

    Could be part of the "steal" strategy? If Trump loses one source of "evidence" that the election was rigged and stolen would be - in his head at least - that he was the favourite on betting sites.
    No, I think it's part of the same strategy employed by Andrea Leadsom's husband (allegedly!) and Clement Freud (unashamedly), which is betting on your candidate to keep them in the public eye.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,818
    Nigelb said:

    Former KKK leader David Duke endorses Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.
    https://x.com/NewsWire_US/status/1846297949665386655

    This joins 'Leon voting Labour' on the list of things that make my brain hurt.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,818
    Nigelb said:

    Is it ?
    The opposite, I'd have thought. I bet there's been 'words'.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,840

    Glorious here in north London, as it always is when @Leon is abroad.
    Given that this is nearly all the time I presume it is always sunny in south london
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022

    I highly doubt it had any real viewership these days. That been said, explaining technology to the masses, isn't that part of the BBC remit to education and inform?
    If they put review segments on YouTube, and hired someone who understands YouTube, they’d have millions of views for them.

    The BBC as an organisation has just totally lost the plot.

    I still can’t get over them cancelling HardTalk. Stephen Sackur is surely going to copy Tucker Carlson and move totally online, making millions (that he doesn’t make now) in the process while still attracting the very very top tier of guests?
  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 11,482
    viewcode said:

    No, I think it's part of the same strategy employed by Andrea Leadsom's husband (allegedly!) and Clement Freud (unashamedly), which is betting on your candidate to keep them in the public eye.
    To be fair I think we ought to call this the Brian Rose strategy. No better exemplar is likely to arise.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,795
    Leon said:

    Given that this is nearly all the time I presume it is always sunny in south london
    Dunno mate, I rarely venture south of the water.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,782
    The swaying to the music in a semi-trance thing wasn't a one-off, then.
    It's a gamble whether he makes it to November.

    https://x.com/atrupar/status/1846364035073110405

    https://x.com/atrupar/status/1846368537868201994

    https://x.com/atrupar/status/1846370848820596941
  • Glorious here in north London, as it always is when @Leon is abroad.
    20 degrees forecast here in east London, blue sky now after a rather dull morning.
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 19,163
    Leon said:

    Given that this is nearly all the time I presume it is always sunny in south london
    I lived in South London until aged 21, and I don't remember a single day when the weather wasn't glorious. In some respect.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,782
    edited October 2024
    kinabalu said:

    This joins 'Leon voting Labour' on the list of things that make my brain hurt.
    Stein is a big fan of Putin, apparently.
    So she's more than a bit fash curious.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,235
    Sandpit said:

    If they put review segments on YouTube, and hired someone who understands YouTube, they’d have millions of views for them.

    The BBC as an organisation has just totally lost the plot.

    I still can’t get over them cancelling HardTalk. Stephen Sackur is surely going to copy Tucker Carlson and move totally online, making millions (that he doesn’t make now) in the process while still attracting the very very top tier of guests?
    Indeed. Given the cachet of the BBC brand (especially in places like America), BBC podcasts seem like an obvious one to go for.

    Free to license payers. Subscription if you are not.
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