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  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,382
    edited March 28
    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Ratters said:

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.

    You're welcome.
    A sterling service to the nation. Actuaries are great people. It's just that they're not very filmable.
    Like Chartered Accountants?
    It's a simplification but I'd say Actuaries are the "roundheads" to the Chartered Accountants "cavaliers".
    Ben Kingsley: Do you have any money hidden away someplace that I don't know about?
    Liam Neeson: No. Why, am I broke?
    Ben Kingsley: Uh, well …
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 5,517
    rcs1000 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".

    Then I read:



    And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
    And that's the problem with having laws on the books which are not normally enforced. Ideally, we would remove them, or enforce them. In reality, of course, it suits for everyone for the laws to remain on the books - in normal circumstances.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,254

    Not sure this is a wise thing to say to Trumpski:

    Tymofiy Mylovanov
    @Mylovanov
    ·
    20h
    Zelensky: I told Trump that in three years there will be another president in US. Putin can break promises he makes to you. Who will be responsible then?

    Possibly trying to appeal to his vanity by suggesting anyone else won't be as awesome and able to deal with the situation, but more likely to just get his back up that Putin would dare go back on his word. Being a famously on the level bloke.
  • TazTaz Posts: 17,141
    edited March 28

    Scott_xP said:

    Nigelb said:

    After this morning's revelation that Reform are planning to "counter housebuilding", a couple more gems from their new policy group:

    I’m also surprised the leaked policy platform
    1) does not mention immigration once
    2) positions net-zero as ‘the next Brexit’, which seems way off, focus on migration or justice/public safety surely?..

    https://x.com/meIisactu/status/1905561810817679501

    @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social‬

    Blimey. One of Nigel Farage's biggest donors, and the owner of 55 Tufton Street, is helping the Russian military effort

    https://bsky.app/profile/jolyonmaugham.bsky.social/post/3llha7ssdpc2e
    That is potentially huge. The other parties need to bang on about this.
    Oh it’s massive. Colossal. On. Par with Jo(n Major punching the Queen. Let’s vote for the same old shit we’ve had for the last 40 years because…….l Joylon 😂😂😂😂
  • RogerRoger Posts: 20,256

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Best ever accountancy based film:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Malry's_Own_Double-Entry_(film)
    Not while Monty Python's lion tamer still exists!!

    https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=monty+python+lion+tamer+sketch#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f8357692,vid:-8I5TtNfjBI,st:0

  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    rcs1000 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".

    Then I read:



    And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
    Normally a $500 fine, apparently.

    William seems happy for that to attract 10 to life in the gulag.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,278
    Battlebus said:

    Leon said:

    Greetings from Terminal 4, Heathrow

    Can’t wait for my retirement when I’ll finally get to travel

    Hello from the other end of T4. Terrible place. Have retired to Spoons
    Omg was just there 10 minutes ago! Now boarded. How odd!
  • TazTaz Posts: 17,141

    Not sure this is a wise thing to say to Trumpski:

    Tymofiy Mylovanov
    @Mylovanov
    ·
    20h
    Zelensky: I told Trump that in three years there will be another president in US. Putin can break promises he makes to you. Who will be responsible then?

    No doubt Zelenskyy will still be there
  • No_Offence_AlanNo_Offence_Alan Posts: 4,911
    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Or Glasgow-based data analysts. One of my answers to an FOI request from Martin Lewis made the front page of the BBC website.
  • FossFoss Posts: 1,339

    Oh ffs..

    Gonna have to sharpen my Samurai sword

    Apply for an arts council grant to fund you beating it into a ploughshare. Tell them you’re going to use a toffee hammer or something.

  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,278
    There’s a man across the aisle doing a crossword while wearing deck shoes

    Two reasons to hate someone in one. I might punch him during any turbulence while everyone is distracted
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,995
    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    Foss said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
    And wasn't Marty the central character in Ozark an accountant? Looks like I was wrong and there's no shortage of tv accounting drama. Perhaps "actuaries" are the way to go after all.
    Shawshank Redemption, of course.
    Shawshank is currently number one rated move in the IMDB, alongside the Godfather, Goodfellas, etc.

    The fascinating bit - to me at least - is that no one knows who the Director was. Every other movie, you're like "oh, that was Nolan or Scorcese or that New Zealand bloke". But Shawshank, no idea.

    And then when you look him up, you discover he only directed three movies. And two of them were Stephen King prison story adapations.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 50,744

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Best ever accountancy based film:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Malry's_Own_Double-Entry_(film)
    No, Mel Brooks "The Producers", with Leo Blooms accountancy skills key to the plot.

  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,278
    Crosswords are basically TikTok for old people
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,254
    Leon said:

    There’s a man across the aisle doing a crossword while wearing deck shoes

    Two reasons to hate someone in one. I might punch him during any turbulence while everyone is distracted

    What have you got against crosswords?

    I mean, I hate them because I'm crap at them, but that's on me.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,278
    kle4 said:

    Leon said:

    There’s a man across the aisle doing a crossword while wearing deck shoes

    Two reasons to hate someone in one. I might punch him during any turbulence while everyone is distracted

    What have you got against crosswords?

    I mean, I hate them because I'm crap at them, but that's on me.
    I dunno. I just hate them and people that do them
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,254
    edited March 28
    rcs1000 said:

    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    Foss said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
    And wasn't Marty the central character in Ozark an accountant? Looks like I was wrong and there's no shortage of tv accounting drama. Perhaps "actuaries" are the way to go after all.
    Shawshank Redemption, of course.
    Shawshank is currently number one rated move in the IMDB, alongside the Godfather, Goodfellas, etc.

    The fascinating bit - to me at least - is that no one knows who the Director was. Every other movie, you're like "oh, that was Nolan or Scorcese or that New Zealand bloke". But Shawshank, no idea.

    And then when you look him up, you discover he only directed three movies. And two of them were Stephen King prison story adapations.
    Looking it up I did know the name, because I knew he wrote the movie yet had no idea he directed it.

    I cannot get on board with the Godfather love because whilst I like the movie, I will maintain to my dying day that Marlon Brando's performance was dogshit and I feel like society is gaslighting me by saying otherwise. He looked and sounded stupid and wasn't the least bit intimidating in the role.

    It's an opinion I only dare share on the internet.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,254
    Eabhal said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".

    Then I read:



    And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
    Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/02/australia-biosecurity-act-change-visa-cancellation-meat-plant-declaration

    Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.

    New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
    You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
    They're all about a proportionate response. I step on your toe, you shoot me in the face kind of thing.
  • RogerRoger Posts: 20,256
    edited March 28
    Leon said:

    There’s a man across the aisle doing a crossword while wearing deck shoes

    Two reasons to hate someone in one. I might punch him during any turbulence while everyone is distracted

    Save your strength for men who tuck their jeans into boots
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 9,948
    Taz said:

    Not sure this is a wise thing to say to Trumpski:

    Tymofiy Mylovanov
    @Mylovanov
    ·
    20h
    Zelensky: I told Trump that in three years there will be another president in US. Putin can break promises he makes to you. Who will be responsible then?

    No doubt Zelenskyy will still be there
    That's a half glass empty/full kind of response. Positive - the Russians still haven't managed to kill him. Negative - the Russians are still waging war on Ukrainian territory.
  • CookieCookie Posts: 14,691
    Leon said:

    kle4 said:

    Leon said:

    There’s a man across the aisle doing a crossword while wearing deck shoes

    Two reasons to hate someone in one. I might punch him during any turbulence while everyone is distracted

    What have you got against crosswords?

    I mean, I hate them because I'm crap at them, but that's on me.
    I dunno. I just hate them and people that do them
    Never been able to do them. And then, about two months ago, I found I could. Really into them now.
    With you on deck shoes, mind.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 23,925
    Good afternoon @rcs1000 and @TheScreamingEagles . I have sent the final version of the article (THE MATTER OF BRITAIN4 - Copy) to you. I hope that you will look on it kindly.

    @TheScreamingEagles, please note that an unanomynised version "THE MATTER OF BRITAIN4" (without the "- Copy") was sent to you by accident: please delete it unread.

    Kind regards,
    viewcode
  • No_Offence_AlanNo_Offence_Alan Posts: 4,911
    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Ratters said:

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.

    You're welcome.
    A sterling service to the nation. Actuaries are great people. It's just that they're not very filmable.
    Like Chartered Accountants?
    It's a simplification but I'd say Actuaries are the "roundheads" to the Chartered Accountants "cavaliers".
    I once worked on a project where our client, a bank, employed a mathematician who complained that actuaries were "too imprecise".
  • CookieCookie Posts: 14,691
    Leon said:

    Crosswords are basically TikTok for old people

    I'd say the opposite. Tiktok is switching off your brain. Crosswords is switching them on.
    I'm quite a fan of puzzles in general actually.
  • FairlieredFairliered Posts: 5,473
    Nigelb said:

    .

    HYUFD said:

    Ratters said:

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.

    You're welcome.
    Jack Nicholson was an actuary in About Schmidt
    You have forgotten the most famous of all - Double Indemnity.
    I can imagine a plot where an actuary uses his professional skills to bet on when certain people die, and tilt the odds in their favour by murdering a few.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 64,877
    Eabhal said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".

    Then I read:



    And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
    Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/02/australia-biosecurity-act-change-visa-cancellation-meat-plant-declaration

    Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.

    New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
    You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
    Actually New Zealand is very strict and a woman next to us was arrested for not declaring a banana in her rucksack and they have sniffer dogs everywhere

    Not a joke with the Kiwis
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 9,948
    Roger said:

    Leon said:

    There’s a man across the aisle doing a crossword while wearing deck shoes

    Two reasons to hate someone in one. I might punch him during any turbulence while everyone is distracted

    Save your strength for men who tuck their jeans into boots
    You'll soak your feet and get blisters if you are tucking in, whether that's under gaiters or into wellies.

    (Perhaps it's different in urban areas? ;) )
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,519

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Best ever accountancy based film:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Malry's_Own_Double-Entry_(film)
    That does sound good. I can relate to it too. Double entry is more than just an accounting technique, it's a way of looking at the world.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 9,948
    kle4 said:

    Eabhal said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".

    Then I read:



    And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
    Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/02/australia-biosecurity-act-change-visa-cancellation-meat-plant-declaration

    Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.

    New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
    You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
    They're all about a proportionate response. I step on your toe, you shoot me in the face kind of thing.
    One of my friends forgot to clean his flysheet before we landed in Christchurch. They forced me to watch him being fed to a pod of killer whales just off Kaikoura.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    God, I hate show offs, be modest and self effacing.

    A new KC has celebrated her elevation by trotting to her chambers on horseback.

    Jane Russell KC told RollOnFriday she rode from the ceremony appointing 105 new King’s Counsel at Westminster Hall back to Essex Court “to honour the important role that horses have played in my life and also in London’s life”.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/barrister-gallops-through-london-celebrate-becoming-kc

    Wasn't the most noticeable role of horses in London shitting in the street?
  • BlancheLivermoreBlancheLivermore Posts: 6,200
    Leon said:

    kle4 said:

    Leon said:

    There’s a man across the aisle doing a crossword while wearing deck shoes

    Two reasons to hate someone in one. I might punch him during any turbulence while everyone is distracted

    What have you got against crosswords?

    I mean, I hate them because I'm crap at them, but that's on me.
    I dunno. I just hate them and people that do them
    Do you actually hate the fact that you've never cracked a cryptic clue on your own?
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,005
    kle4 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    Foss said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
    And wasn't Marty the central character in Ozark an accountant? Looks like I was wrong and there's no shortage of tv accounting drama. Perhaps "actuaries" are the way to go after all.
    Shawshank Redemption, of course.
    Shawshank is currently number one rated move in the IMDB, alongside the Godfather, Goodfellas, etc.

    The fascinating bit - to me at least - is that no one knows who the Director was. Every other movie, you're like "oh, that was Nolan or Scorcese or that New Zealand bloke". But Shawshank, no idea.

    And then when you look him up, you discover he only directed three movies. And two of them were Stephen King prison story adapations.
    Looking it up I did know the name, because I knew he wrote the movie yet had no idea he directed it.

    I cannot get on board with the Godfather love because whilst I like the movie, I will maintain to my dying day that Marlon Brando's performance was dogshit and I feel like society is gaslighting me by saying otherwise. He looked and sounded stupid and wasn't the least bit intimidating in the role.

    It's an opinion I only dare share on the internet.
    You gonna give us an opinion you can't reuse?
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,868
    Vance being a charmer again I see.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,254
    Eabhal said:

    kle4 said:

    Eabhal said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".

    Then I read:



    And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
    Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/02/australia-biosecurity-act-change-visa-cancellation-meat-plant-declaration

    Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.

    New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
    You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
    They're all about a proportionate response. I step on your toe, you shoot me in the face kind of thing.
    One of my friends forgot to clean his flysheet before we landed in Christchurch. They forced me to watch him being fed to a pod of killer whales just off Kaikoura.
    It's exactly how I want to go.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 27,383
    This seems like an interesting new book which features idead mentioned on PB:

    Despite being the richest country in the world, the US has a problem of scarcity, particularly in Democratic-run metropolitan areas, where the costs of housing and other basic needs have spiraled out of control. This is exacerbated by the traditional progressive solution of giving people money or vouchers to help them pay for finite resources such as housing, healthcare and food, the book argues, which increases demand and merely makes those things even more expensive.

    “The problem is that if you subsidize the cost of something that there isn’t enough of, you’ll raise prices or force rationing,” Klein has said. He and Thompson have described themselves as “supply-side” progressives, borrowing a term usually associated with conservative economic theories.

    What the US badly needs to do is build, they argue – build more houses, public transportation, power plants and other infrastructure – but that isn’t happening.

    One obstacle is nimbyism, the tendency of people to support public works and development in the abstract but fight them when they affect their own neighborhoods. Another is “everything bagel” logrolling that complicates what should be narrowly focused legislation by layering it with other social and political objectives, such as diverse hiring requirements or climate crisis goals, in order to appease interest groups or political constituencies.

    In an example Thompson recently discussed on a podcast, then president Joe Biden signed legislation in 2021 providing $42bn of funding to expand access to broadband internet in rural America. As of this December, according to Politico, the program had “yet to connect a single household”. Critics told Politico that this was partly because of a “suite of federal conditions” that required states “accepting the money to make sure providers plan for climate change, reach out to unionized workforces and hire locally”, as well as guarantee affordable broadband plans for people with low incomes.

    “I don’t want the state of Virginia taking, say, federal money to build broadband internet and then charging poor rural folks, like, $200 a month to go online,” Thompson said. “But by holding those values so closely … we accidentally built just about nothing.” A “confusion of process versus outcomes” meant that “very little was actually done on behalf of the Americans for whom we wanted to raise their living standards”.


    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/what-is-abundance-liberalism
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,155
    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
    Good point.

    Back to the software engineer thrillers then?
  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,381

    Eabhal said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".

    Then I read:



    And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
    Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/02/australia-biosecurity-act-change-visa-cancellation-meat-plant-declaration

    Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.

    New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
    You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
    Actually New Zealand is very strict and a woman next to us was arrested for not declaring a banana in her rucksack and they have sniffer dogs everywhere

    Not a joke with the Kiwis
    Yes they are the only country I have ever visited where they x-ray all your luggage once you've gone through immigration ON ARRIVAL. They also have dogs to sniff out illicit foodstuffs (and presuambly drugs). The last thing you need at 5am is something sniffing round your crotch.

    The checks are carried out by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) staff.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,005

    This seems like an interesting new book which features idead mentioned on PB:

    Despite being the richest country in the world, the US has a problem of scarcity, particularly in Democratic-run metropolitan areas, where the costs of housing and other basic needs have spiraled out of control. This is exacerbated by the traditional progressive solution of giving people money or vouchers to help them pay for finite resources such as housing, healthcare and food, the book argues, which increases demand and merely makes those things even more expensive.

    “The problem is that if you subsidize the cost of something that there isn’t enough of, you’ll raise prices or force rationing,” Klein has said. He and Thompson have described themselves as “supply-side” progressives, borrowing a term usually associated with conservative economic theories.

    What the US badly needs to do is build, they argue – build more houses, public transportation, power plants and other infrastructure – but that isn’t happening.

    One obstacle is nimbyism, the tendency of people to support public works and development in the abstract but fight them when they affect their own neighborhoods. Another is “everything bagel” logrolling that complicates what should be narrowly focused legislation by layering it with other social and political objectives, such as diverse hiring requirements or climate crisis goals, in order to appease interest groups or political constituencies.

    In an example Thompson recently discussed on a podcast, then president Joe Biden signed legislation in 2021 providing $42bn of funding to expand access to broadband internet in rural America. As of this December, according to Politico, the program had “yet to connect a single household”. Critics told Politico that this was partly because of a “suite of federal conditions” that required states “accepting the money to make sure providers plan for climate change, reach out to unionized workforces and hire locally”, as well as guarantee affordable broadband plans for people with low incomes.

    “I don’t want the state of Virginia taking, say, federal money to build broadband internet and then charging poor rural folks, like, $200 a month to go online,” Thompson said. “But by holding those values so closely … we accidentally built just about nothing.” A “confusion of process versus outcomes” meant that “very little was actually done on behalf of the Americans for whom we wanted to raise their living standards”.


    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/what-is-abundance-liberalism

    Definitely concur on housing and impacts UK too. Housing benefit has risen very sharply and is a now a significant tax burden, but doesn't house extra people, it just changes the allocation very slightly and pushes market prices upwards for everyone else. A complete waste of money. Few on either the left or right accept this but it seems obvious to me.

    Build, build, build.
  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 11,395
    kle4 said:

    Eabhal said:

    kle4 said:

    Eabhal said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".

    Then I read:



    And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
    Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/02/australia-biosecurity-act-change-visa-cancellation-meat-plant-declaration

    Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.

    New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
    You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
    They're all about a proportionate response. I step on your toe, you shoot me in the face kind of thing.
    One of my friends forgot to clean his flysheet before we landed in Christchurch. They forced me to watch him being fed to a pod of killer whales just off Kaikoura.
    It's exactly how I want to go.
    And people think the black sand is just its colour.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    Eabhal said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".

    Then I read:



    And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
    Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/02/australia-biosecurity-act-change-visa-cancellation-meat-plant-declaration

    Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.

    New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
    You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
    You mean they would send you to the us?
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,519
    edited March 28
    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 11,395
    Cookie said:

    Leon said:

    Crosswords are basically TikTok for old people

    I'd say the opposite. Tiktok is switching off your brain. Crosswords is switching them on.
    I'm quite a fan of puzzles in general actually.
    The PB Xmas crossword is the pinnacle of civilisation on that most uncivilised of days.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
    Good point.

    Back to the software engineer thrillers then?
    Hey accountants are only allowed to exist to make software engineers appear relatively attractive and interesting
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    Eabhal said:

    rcs1000 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".

    Then I read:



    And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
    Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/02/australia-biosecurity-act-change-visa-cancellation-meat-plant-declaration

    Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.

    New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.
    You're right - when I flew to New Zealand, they were quite clear that if I brought any fruit with me from Australia I would be sent to a hostile country where I would be tortured and killed.
    Actually New Zealand is very strict and a woman next to us was arrested for not declaring a banana in her rucksack and they have sniffer dogs everywhere

    Not a joke with the Kiwis
    What if it had been a kiwi fruit?
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,155
    Leon said:

    kle4 said:

    Leon said:

    There’s a man across the aisle doing a crossword while wearing deck shoes

    Two reasons to hate someone in one. I might punch him during any turbulence while everyone is distracted

    What have you got against crosswords?

    I mean, I hate them because I'm crap at them, but that's on me.
    I dunno. I just hate them and people that do them
    I presume your IQ of 184 means they are all just a bit too easy for you.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,155
    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,795
    Cicero said:

    MattW said:

    @TSE: "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    What?

    Architects, surely?

    Refuse disposal operatives.

    "Shuggy, the rat catcher in Glasgow´s glamorous east end faces a dilemma when his pal Jamesie from his days at high flying Springburn Academy announces in the glittering surroundings of the Lauriston Inn that he is set to leave the cutting edge world of rodent control and join a new elite squad of refuse disposal operatives working to rid the city from a recent plague of cockroaches. Tension mounts when Robina, who has a past with both men, as well as quite a few others in Blytheswood Square, tells Shuggy that they´re out of Buckie and White Lighting. Friendships are put to the test as Jamesie goes on a bender to celebrate but the Corpy announces a further round of cuts to the recycling budget."
    Shudupandjusttakemymoney
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
    Well that describes most of humanity
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,022

    (((Harry Enten)))
    @ForecasterEnten
    ·
    4h
    Just 6% of Greenlanders want to join the United States. There are more people who think we faked the moon landing (~10%).

    85% of Greenlanders are opposed.

    Meanwhile, less than 30% of Americans want Greenland to join the U.S.

    I've rarely seen anything so unpopular.

    https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1905634237639688413
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,519
    edited March 28

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    Ratters said:

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.

    You're welcome.
    A sterling service to the nation. Actuaries are great people. It's just that they're not very filmable.
    Like Chartered Accountants?
    It's a simplification but I'd say Actuaries are the "roundheads" to the Chartered Accountants "cavaliers".
    I once worked on a project where our client, a bank, employed a mathematician who complained that actuaries were "too imprecise".
    Ah well true pure mathematicians, they are top of the intellectual foodchain. There's absolutely nowhere to hide there.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,382
    Leon said:

    Crosswords are basically TikTok for old people

    TikTok is basically Crosswords for thick people.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 35,155
    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
    Well that describes most of humanity
    Speak for yourself!
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,254

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
    I know you need sources of dramatic tension sometimes, and there's tropes which work just fine, but it's actually more interesting now if they don't have such issues. And if one more copper in some programme whinges about a personal life being impossible, despite examples in their own universes, I will roll my eyes so hard they will fall out.

    Reminds me a little of how in the Sharpe books it was obviously important for Cornwell that Sharpe not be loaded, so every time he did get hold of a comfortable level of wealth in a book he had to contrive a way for him to lose it.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,254


    (((Harry Enten)))
    @ForecasterEnten
    ·
    4h
    Just 6% of Greenlanders want to join the United States. There are more people who think we faked the moon landing (~10%).

    85% of Greenlanders are opposed.

    Meanwhile, less than 30% of Americans want Greenland to join the U.S.

    I've rarely seen anything so unpopular.

    https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1905634237639688413

    I doubt most gave it any thought before Trump brought it up. That and his hatred of Canada seem to have caught everyone by surprise.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,022

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
    Good point.

    Back to the software engineer thrillers then?
    Anyone watched Halt and Catch Fire over the years? I think now series 3 or 4.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,995

    This seems like an interesting new book which features idead mentioned on PB:

    Despite being the richest country in the world, the US has a problem of scarcity, particularly in Democratic-run metropolitan areas, where the costs of housing and other basic needs have spiraled out of control. This is exacerbated by the traditional progressive solution of giving people money or vouchers to help them pay for finite resources such as housing, healthcare and food, the book argues, which increases demand and merely makes those things even more expensive.

    “The problem is that if you subsidize the cost of something that there isn’t enough of, you’ll raise prices or force rationing,” Klein has said. He and Thompson have described themselves as “supply-side” progressives, borrowing a term usually associated with conservative economic theories.

    What the US badly needs to do is build, they argue – build more houses, public transportation, power plants and other infrastructure – but that isn’t happening.

    One obstacle is nimbyism, the tendency of people to support public works and development in the abstract but fight them when they affect their own neighborhoods. Another is “everything bagel” logrolling that complicates what should be narrowly focused legislation by layering it with other social and political objectives, such as diverse hiring requirements or climate crisis goals, in order to appease interest groups or political constituencies.

    In an example Thompson recently discussed on a podcast, then president Joe Biden signed legislation in 2021 providing $42bn of funding to expand access to broadband internet in rural America. As of this December, according to Politico, the program had “yet to connect a single household”. Critics told Politico that this was partly because of a “suite of federal conditions” that required states “accepting the money to make sure providers plan for climate change, reach out to unionized workforces and hire locally”, as well as guarantee affordable broadband plans for people with low incomes.

    “I don’t want the state of Virginia taking, say, federal money to build broadband internet and then charging poor rural folks, like, $200 a month to go online,” Thompson said. “But by holding those values so closely … we accidentally built just about nothing.” A “confusion of process versus outcomes” meant that “very little was actually done on behalf of the Americans for whom we wanted to raise their living standards”.


    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/what-is-abundance-liberalism

    Nate Silver "reviews" it: https://www.natesilver.net/p/america-probably-cant-have-abundance

    (It's a weird piece from Nate - over long, and poorly focused. A rare example of him not producing amazing copy. Even though I think I basically agree with him.)
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,254

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
    Good point.

    Back to the software engineer thrillers then?
    Anyone watched Halt and Catch Fire over the years? I think now series 3 or 4.
    I watched the first season. I remember enjoying it ok but it was one of those 'Oh, i'll catch the next season' but then never remembering do so situations.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
    Well that describes most of humanity
    Speak for yourself!
    The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life
    The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends

    A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,519
    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
    I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,993

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    Is it based on David of this parish and his friends
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,995

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
    Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,757
    On Topic: There's not that much to choose between Starmer and Farage's personal ratings, which is quite surprising?
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
    I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
    Thankfully no else I would have probably had to apply for retrospective abortion
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,435
    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
    Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
    Her brother was a sperm donor?
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,382

    BTW I started wearing shorts on Wednesday

    It is now Blanche Summer Time

    Not hotpants?
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,519
    edited March 28

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
    And quite often the case has one of the detectives returning to their small sleepy home town after many years away in the big city.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,022
    Trump just posted a glitzy film segment on X about how US helped Greenland in WW2 and now they must stand together because of "Russian aggression".

    I mean WTAF??



  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,005
    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
    Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
    Clearly not actual nieces and nephews, but her trusted lieutentants in her crime syndicate are called that to be respectful to the Godmother.
  • BlancheLivermoreBlancheLivermore Posts: 6,200

    BTW I started wearing shorts on Wednesday

    It is now Blanche Summer Time

    Not hotpants?
    Hotpants don't have big enough pockets for a postie
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,254

    Trump just posted a glitzy film segment on X about how US helped Greenland in WW2 and now they must stand together because of "Russian aggression".

    I mean WTAF??



    NOW he cares about Russian aggression?!
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,382
    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
    Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
    Fun fact. Angela Lansbury's real-life niece Felicia appeared in a couple of episodes.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    BTW I started wearing shorts on Wednesday

    It is now Blanche Summer Time

    Not hotpants?
    Thanks to a certain johnathon creek episode I imagine all postal workers lying naked in a bath full of cold baked beans....that series has a lot to answer for
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,519

    BTW I started wearing shorts on Wednesday

    It is now Blanche Summer Time

    Me too, and they remain on until October.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,993
    Taz said:

    I picked a fantastic time to move my DC company pension to my SIPP., 😂

    shares are dire just now, hope you got them across before they crashed and did it in cash
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,005

    Trump just posted a glitzy film segment on X about how US helped Greenland in WW2 and now they must stand together because of "Russian aggression".

    I mean WTAF??



    We are probably missing some history on this side of the Atlantic.

    The US pushed for sovereignty post WWII too. Suspect Trumps father and/or Roy Cohn were big fans of that and annoyed it didnt happen.

    https://apnews.com/article/9d4a8021c3650800fdf6dd5903f68972
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,995

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
    @Leon is a detective???
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,435

    Trump just posted a glitzy film segment on X about how US helped Greenland in WW2 and now they must stand together because of "Russian aggression".

    I mean WTAF??

    Here it is:

    https://x.com/trump_repost/status/1905689925892407329
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 50,744

    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
    Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
    Fun fact. Angela Lansbury's real-life niece Felicia appeared in a couple of episodes.
    Fun Fact 2: Her grandfather was the leader of the Labour Party before Attlee.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
    @Leon is a detective???
    you mispelled the first t was surely meant to be f
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 9,948
    kle4 said:

    Trump just posted a glitzy film segment on X about how US helped Greenland in WW2 and now they must stand together because of "Russian aggression".

    I mean WTAF??



    NOW he cares about Russian aggression?!
    But Vance was suggesting it was due to Chinese aggression? I don't want to put my ESTA at risk, but perhaps they are just making stuff up to justify a territorial conquest?
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,995

    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    In real life Jessica Fletcher would be convicted based mostly on the statistic of being at the venue of 238 separate murders and pb would then be discussing whether those stats were safely presented to the jury or not.
    Personally, I can't work out how she has 87 nieces and nephews.
    Fun fact. Angela Lansbury's real-life niece Felicia appeared in a couple of episodes.
    Fun fact: Angela Lansbury used to shop at my local supermarket.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,995
    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
    I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
    I think you mean "faucet".
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,112
    "How History Begins Again
    A Point of View

    The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.

    John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.

    'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00290fh
  • BlancheLivermoreBlancheLivermore Posts: 6,200
    In 696 hours time I hope to be eating the world's best fresh anchovies in Biarritz, washed down with a fine local white

    I'm planning to go back to the same restaurant I had my final dinner at on my last big walk. The menu promised those anchovies, but they'd sold out

    The oysters were amazing if they've run out again

    I fly out four weeks tomorrow

  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,435
    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
    I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
    I think you mean "faucet".
    Accountants aren't known for turning on the waterworks.
  • FffsFffs Posts: 90

    Humble onanist holding pen (4)

    This is very nicely done!
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,005
    Andy_JS said:

    "How History Begins Again
    A Point of View

    The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.

    John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.

    'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00290fh

    Both theories suffer from a lack of imagination and extrapolation of the present to the future. We are about to enter unprecedented technological and biological changes. No-one knows how society will be structured after those.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,993
    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
    I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
    Let me guess you are an accountant
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,993
    kinabalu said:

    BTW I started wearing shorts on Wednesday

    It is now Blanche Summer Time

    Me too, and they remain on until October.
    be smelly by then
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,519
    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
    I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
    Thankfully no else I would have probably had to apply for retrospective abortion
    Well they wouldn't let you in anyway. You'd be stopped at the door.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 34,388
    kinabalu said:

    BTW I started wearing shorts on Wednesday

    It is now Blanche Summer Time

    Me too, and they remain on until October.
    Not very sanitary!
  • BattlebusBattlebus Posts: 623
    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
    There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.

    The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.

    For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.

    The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.

    Etc etc

    (with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
    The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
    Well that describes most of humanity
    Speak for yourself!
    The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life
    The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends

    A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
    Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,580
    Foss said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more
    violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
    My wife is in the sequel. So going to see it is mandatory for you all 😁
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    Andy_JS said:

    "How History Begins Again
    A Point of View

    The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.

    John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.

    'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00290fh

    Both theories suffer from a lack of imagination and extrapolation of the present to the future. We are about to enter unprecedented technological and biological changes. No-one knows how society will be structured after those.
    What unprecedented tech and biological changes....please don't say ai for tech because its really not true.....its just a more sophisticated rules engine its not aware, it cant think, its not sentient
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