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edited August 10 in General
Your afternoon watch – politicalbetting.com

I hadn’t seen that @LadPolitics had done this – interesting little vignette! https://t.co/DHZr8DUn3o

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  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,490
    First?
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 44,258
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    First?

    Of course you're first - you devised, posted, and then commented on your own thread.

    Jeez.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,666
    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    First?

    Of course you're first - you devised, posted, and then commented on your own thread.

    Jeez.
    We need a judge-led inquiry.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 23,296
    RobD said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    First?

    Of course you're first - you devised, posted, and then commented on your own thread.

    Jeez.
    We need a judge-led inquiry.
    Lessons will be learnt.
  • FossFoss Posts: 1,592
    SandyRentool said:

    RobD said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    First?

    Of course you're first - you devised, posted, and then commented on your own thread.

    Jeez.
    We need a judge-led inquiry.
    Lessons will be learnt.
    Documentation will be e-mailed to Afghanistan.
  • DopermeanDopermean Posts: 1,453
    Leans back thinking wistfully of the 2020 Presidential election and the sensible precaution taken to set up deposit limits on Smarkets and Betfair... weeps gently.
  • BartholomewRobertsBartholomewRoberts Posts: 25,775
    Foss said:

    SandyRentool said:

    RobD said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    First?

    Of course you're first - you devised, posted, and then commented on your own thread.

    Jeez.
    We need a judge-led inquiry.
    Lessons will be learnt.
    Documentation will be e-mailed to Afghanistan.
    In secure .xls format.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 33,757
    Foss said:

    SandyRentool said:

    RobD said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    First?

    Of course you're first - you devised, posted, and then commented on your own thread.

    Jeez.
    We need a judge-led inquiry.
    Lessons will be learnt.
    Documentation will be e-mailed to Afghanistan.
    Don't forget to bcc Iran, Russia and China.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 15,888
    FTP...
    williamglenn said:

    Jenrick goes for the kill:

    https://x.com/robertjenrick/status/1946203405464056168

    I call bullshit.

    You’ve spent the last 48 hours calling me a ‘traitor’ for not drawing attention to a leaked spreadsheet with our special forces and MI6 officers’ names on.

    But we’re meant to believe this tweet attacking me as a traitor for having a Jewish wife & family was liked ‘accidentally’ by ‘one of the team.’ You must think we’re all thick.

    No. The mask has slipped. Likes are private. You thought nobody would ever know. Unfortunately for you, the racist account who posted the tweet and could see the likes exposed you.

    Reform should give you the boot.

    Good to see Jenrick going after Reform, although he shouldn't have finished with "Reform should give you the boot". That suggests Yusuf is the anomaly. He should have finished, "This is all too typical of Reform."
  • LeonLeon Posts: 64,664
    I don’t know why people are so down on the British economy

    I’ve literally just walked from St James and through St James Park, then across the Mall to St James Palace and onwards - ever onwards - past Buck House and Piccadilly and the Ritz and now I’m on Albermarle St with the art galleries and caviar shops and it’s all, quite frankly, wonderful. Prosperous and beautiful and glistening in the sun and full of rich blonde people

    Enough of this doomerism. Britain is doing fine
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,490
    They’ve upgraded Vanilla again.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,470
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    They’ve upgraded Vanilla again.

    Is that good?
    There appears to be a new header.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 23,296
    Mexicanpete said:

    Foss said:

    SandyRentool said:

    RobD said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    First?

    Of course you're first - you devised, posted, and then commented on your own thread.

    Jeez.
    We need a judge-led inquiry.
    Lessons will be learnt.
    Documentation will be e-mailed to Afghanistan.
    Don't forget to bcc Iran, Russia and China.
    And leave paper copies on a train, in a bar, and in a waste paper bin.
  • SelebianSelebian Posts: 9,573
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    They’ve upgraded Vanilla again.

    I feel like that needs quotes around 'upgraded'. There's lots of white space and the font is a bit more fuzzy.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 25,654
    The font has changed. @TheScreamingEagles , you've redecorated. I don't like it.
  • DopermeanDopermean Posts: 1,453
    bondegezou said:

    FTP...

    williamglenn said:

    Jenrick goes for the kill:

    https://x.com/robertjenrick/status/1946203405464056168

    I call bullshit.

    You’ve spent the last 48 hours calling me a ‘traitor’ for not drawing attention to a leaked spreadsheet with our special forces and MI6 officers’ names on.

    But we’re meant to believe this tweet attacking me as a traitor for having a Jewish wife & family was liked ‘accidentally’ by ‘one of the team.’ You must think we’re all thick.

    No. The mask has slipped. Likes are private. You thought nobody would ever know. Unfortunately for you, the racist account who posted the tweet and could see the likes exposed you.

    Reform should give you the boot.

    Good to see Jenrick going after Reform, although he shouldn't have finished with "Reform should give you the boot". That suggests Yusuf is the anomaly. He should have finished, "This is all too typical of Reform."
    He couldn't help himself from blaming it on the person rather than the party
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,470
    I don’t like how Jenrick wants to “call bullshit”.
    Sounds very American to me.

    He should suggest that Zia is peddling stuff and nonsense.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,490
    Gardenwalker said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    They’ve upgraded Vanilla again.

    Is that good?
    There appears to be a new header.
    On the Vanilla Forums the font is a bit fuzzy and there’s far too much white on the screen.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 23,296
    On topic, I'm wearing the same watch I was wearing this morning.

    Do people really change watches during the day?
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 6,890
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    They’ve upgraded Vanilla again.

    Optimistic. Changed, though.
  • DopermeanDopermean Posts: 1,453
    Leon said:

    I don’t know why people are so down on the British economy

    I’ve literally just walked from St James and through St James Park, then across the Mall to St James Palace and onwards - ever onwards - past Buck House and Piccadilly and the Ritz and now I’m on Albermarle St with the art galleries and caviar shops and it’s all, quite frankly, wonderful. Prosperous and beautiful and glistening in the sun and full of rich blonde people

    Enough of this doomerism. Britain is doing fine

    You're just waving at people right? Like Elon was... :)
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,490
    viewcode said:

    The font has changed. @TheScreamingEagles , you've redecorated. I don't like it.

    In the words of Shaggy, It wasn’t me.

    I can only assume Vanilla have hired Liz Truss.
  • boulayboulay Posts: 7,024
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Gardenwalker said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    They’ve upgraded Vanilla again.

    Is that good?
    There appears to be a new header.
    On the Vanilla Forums the font is a bit fuzzy and there’s far too much white on the screen.
    One way to boost the number of Reform posters.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 44,258
    Leon said:

    I don’t know why people are so down on the British economy

    I’ve literally just walked from St James and through St James Park, then across the Mall to St James Palace and onwards - ever onwards - past Buck House and Piccadilly and the Ritz and now I’m on Albermarle St with the art galleries and caviar shops and it’s all, quite frankly, wonderful. Prosperous and beautiful and glistening in the sun and full of rich blonde people

    Enough of this doomerism. Britain is doing fine

    You must have had a good lunch.

    First off, "St. James's" is the other side of St. James's Park and then you can indeed go across the Mall to St. James's Palace but then...onwards past Buck House?? That is doubling back on yourself, you are already across the Mall and at SJP. Then Piccadilly and the Ritz and Albermarle Street fine.

    Plus, it's St. James's, you wordsmith, you.
  • DopermeanDopermean Posts: 1,453
    edited July 18
    SandyRentool said:

    Mexicanpete said:

    Foss said:

    SandyRentool said:

    RobD said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    First?

    Of course you're first - you devised, posted, and then commented on your own thread.

    Jeez.
    We need a judge-led inquiry.
    Lessons will be learnt.
    Documentation will be e-mailed to Afghanistan.
    Don't forget to bcc Iran, Russia and China.
    And leave paper copies on a train, in a bar, and in a waste paper bin.
    That's why Leon is so well-informed, it's not the gossip, it's wandering around St James's Park checking the bins
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 6,890
    SandyRentool said:

    On topic, I'm wearing the same watch I was wearing this morning.

    Do people really change watches during the day?

    I have an ordinary watch on a leather strap, a tough watch for times the ordinary one might get scratched, and a dive watch for timekeeping in hotel swimming pools.

    All fine pieces of quality Japanese Quartz, obvs.
  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,325
    I see NHS Fife have just applied a Gatling gun to both feet by issuing a statement about the ongoing Employment Tribunal hearing.
  • TresTres Posts: 3,016
    What the hell has happened to Vanilla? Make it SMALLER. make it SMALLER. MAKE it SMALLER
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 6,890
    Nice how they changed the grey at the top to a lighter one so the PB logo looks as if it has a rectangle around it. For no advantage whatever. Classy.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 6,890
    There appears to be a new thing called "best of" in the sidebar. Amusingly, it is empty.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 52,726
    FIFA is considering relocating more 2026 World Cup matches to Canada due to U.S. immigration laws. The tipping point is Iran, whose fans, media, and team staff may be denied entry into the U.S. under current travel restrictions. FIFA now faces pressure to ensure all qualified nations can attend, with Toronto and Vancouver emerging as likely alternatives for added games.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 35,577
    Quite difficult to get access. Had to reload.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,490
    SandyRentool said:

    On topic, I'm wearing the same watch I was wearing this morning.

    Do people really change watches during the day?

    Nah my Apple Watch Ultra 2 can go 3/4 days without a charge which i pretty much exclusively charge when I am asleep.

    If I wasn’t worried about getting mugged I would wear my Breitling more often, the downside with a Breitling isn’t I cannot use Apple Pay.
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 7,845
    edited July 18
    SandyRentool said:

    On topic, I'm wearing the same watch I was wearing this morning.

    Do people really change watches during the day?

    My Garmin might as well be grafted to my wrist. I have much nicer conventional watches I could wear, but I am now hopelessly addicted to Data.
  • TazTaz Posts: 20,745
    bondegezou said:

    FTP...

    williamglenn said:

    Jenrick goes for the kill:

    https://x.com/robertjenrick/status/1946203405464056168

    I call bullshit.

    You’ve spent the last 48 hours calling me a ‘traitor’ for not drawing attention to a leaked spreadsheet with our special forces and MI6 officers’ names on.

    But we’re meant to believe this tweet attacking me as a traitor for having a Jewish wife & family was liked ‘accidentally’ by ‘one of the team.’ You must think we’re all thick.

    No. The mask has slipped. Likes are private. You thought nobody would ever know. Unfortunately for you, the racist account who posted the tweet and could see the likes exposed you.

    Reform should give you the boot.

    Good to see Jenrick going after Reform, although he shouldn't have finished with "Reform should give you the boot". That suggests Yusuf is the anomaly. He should have finished, "This is all too typical of Reform."
    bondegezou said:

    FTP...

    williamglenn said:

    Jenrick goes for the kill:

    https://x.com/robertjenrick/status/1946203405464056168

    I call bullshit.

    You’ve spent the last 48 hours calling me a ‘traitor’ for not drawing attention to a leaked spreadsheet with our special forces and MI6 officers’ names on.

    But we’re meant to believe this tweet attacking me as a traitor for having a Jewish wife & family was liked ‘accidentally’ by ‘one of the team.’ You must think we’re all thick.

    No. The mask has slipped. Likes are private. You thought nobody would ever know. Unfortunately for you, the racist account who posted the tweet and could see the likes exposed you.

    Reform should give you the boot.

    Good to see Jenrick going after Reform, although he shouldn't have finished with "Reform should give you the boot". That suggests Yusuf is the anomaly. He should have finished, "This is all too typical of Reform."
    Yes, that’s a really good point.
  • TazTaz Posts: 20,745
    I quite like the new format.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 64,186
    Leon said:

    I don’t know why people are so down on the British economy

    I’ve literally just walked from St James and through St James Park, then across the Mall to St James Palace and onwards - ever onwards - past Buck House and Piccadilly and the Ritz and now I’m on Albermarle St with the art galleries and caviar shops and it’s all, quite frankly, wonderful. Prosperous and beautiful and glistening in the sun and full of rich blonde people

    Enough of this doomerism. Britain is doing fine

    London is.

    Is that Britain?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 75,151
    edited July 18
    SandyRentool said:

    On topic, I'm wearing the same watch I was wearing this morning.

    Do people really change watches during the day?

    It comes from ancient Israel, where they had multiple watches as attested in Psalm 130:

    My soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch; I say, before the morning watch.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 67,573
    What fresh hell is this?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 75,151
    And completely off topic, this new Vanilla layout sucks harder than an intern Bill Clinton is paying by the orgasm.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 15,888
    Taz said:

    I quite like the new format.

    Some of us are middle-aged and appreciate a larger font size!
  • squareroot2squareroot2 Posts: 7,119
    Cant say i notice any difference
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,731
    Taz said:

    I quite like the new format.

    I blame TSE!
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 61,245
    Casino_Royale said:

    Leon said:

    I don’t know why people are so down on the British economy

    I’ve literally just walked from St James and through St James Park, then across the Mall to St James Palace and onwards - ever onwards - past Buck House and Piccadilly and the Ritz and now I’m on Albermarle St with the art galleries and caviar shops and it’s all, quite frankly, wonderful. Prosperous and beautiful and glistening in the sun and full of rich blonde people

    Enough of this doomerism. Britain is doing fine

    London is.

    Is that Britain?
    That's not even London: that's Mayfair.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 64,186
    Gardenwalker said:

    I don’t like how Jenrick wants to “call bullshit”.
    Sounds very American to me.

    He should suggest that Zia is peddling stuff and nonsense.

    There is far too much Americanism creeping into our language at the moment.

    I've seen Cotton Candy replace candyfloss recently, with my kids, and donut replace doughnut. Yuk.

    Next: they'll be calling armbands waterwings.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 39,770
    Taz said:

    I quite like the new format.

    This is the new standard for identifying deviants. Radiohead and Pineapple pizza are passe
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 47,005
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    SandyRentool said:

    On topic, I'm wearing the same watch I was wearing this morning.

    Do people really change watches during the day?

    Nah my Apple Watch Ultra 2 can go 3/4 days without a charge which i pretty much exclusively charge when I am asleep.

    If I wasn’t worried about getting mugged I would wear my Breitling more often, the downside with a Breitling isn’t I cannot use Apple Pay.
    You can use the Apple watch as a walkie-talkie, I believe.
  • FairlieredFairliered Posts: 6,464
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    They’ve upgraded Vanilla again.

    You mean they’ve downgraded Vanilla. I use it because it’s more user friendly than the standard version. Now it’s just the same.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 35,577
    Casino_Royale said:

    Gardenwalker said:

    I don’t like how Jenrick wants to “call bullshit”.
    Sounds very American to me.

    He should suggest that Zia is peddling stuff and nonsense.

    There is far too much Americanism creeping into our language at the moment.

    I've seen Cotton Candy replace candyfloss recently, with my kids, and donut replace doughnut. Yuk.

    Next: they'll be calling armbands waterwings.
    Back in youth I spent a summer making and selling candy floss.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 61,245
    bondegezou said:

    FTP...

    williamglenn said:

    Jenrick goes for the kill:

    https://x.com/robertjenrick/status/1946203405464056168

    I call bullshit.

    You’ve spent the last 48 hours calling me a ‘traitor’ for not drawing attention to a leaked spreadsheet with our special forces and MI6 officers’ names on.

    But we’re meant to believe this tweet attacking me as a traitor for having a Jewish wife & family was liked ‘accidentally’ by ‘one of the team.’ You must think we’re all thick.

    No. The mask has slipped. Likes are private. You thought nobody would ever know. Unfortunately for you, the racist account who posted the tweet and could see the likes exposed you.

    Reform should give you the boot.

    Good to see Jenrick going after Reform, although he shouldn't have finished with "Reform should give you the boot". That suggests Yusuf is the anomaly. He should have finished, "This is all too typical of Reform."
    Actually, I think it's rather cleverer than it looks, not least because the only relationship in Reform that seems to survive longer than about 30 minutes is the one between Nigel Farage and Yusef.
  • FairlieredFairliered Posts: 6,464
    Casino_Royale said:

    Leon said:

    I don’t know why people are so down on the British economy

    I’ve literally just walked from St James and through St James Park, then across the Mall to St James Palace and onwards - ever onwards - past Buck House and Piccadilly and the Ritz and now I’m on Albermarle St with the art galleries and caviar shops and it’s all, quite frankly, wonderful. Prosperous and beautiful and glistening in the sun and full of rich blonde people

    Enough of this doomerism. Britain is doing fine

    London is.

    Is that Britain?
    It is if you are a Londoner. Otherwise no.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 75,151
    Gardenwalker said:

    I don’t like how Jenrick wants to “call bullshit”.
    Sounds very American to me.

    He should suggest that Zia is peddling stuff and nonsense.

    Zia's a Fukker. It sort of goes without saying.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 47,005
    OldKingCole said:

    Casino_Royale said:

    Gardenwalker said:

    I don’t like how Jenrick wants to “call bullshit”.
    Sounds very American to me.

    He should suggest that Zia is peddling stuff and nonsense.

    There is far too much Americanism creeping into our language at the moment.

    I've seen Cotton Candy replace candyfloss recently, with my kids, and donut replace doughnut. Yuk.

    Next: they'll be calling armbands waterwings.
    Back in youth I spent a summer making and selling candy floss.
    I bet that put you off it for life.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 56,235
    dr_spyn said:

    I see NHS Fife have just applied a Gatling gun to both feet by issuing a statement about the ongoing Employment Tribunal hearing.

    If they are only using a Gatling gun they are lifting their game. After (1) the Supreme Court decision and (2) the dismissal of all disciplinary proceedings against Peggie earlier this week I am genuinely at a loss as to why the Tribunal is still hearing evidence. The only conceivable motive is to waste as much public money as possible and to put off the evil day when they are officially declared to be incompetent and inept.

    ps, this new font is horrible.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 64,186
    rcs1000 said:

    Casino_Royale said:

    Leon said:

    I don’t know why people are so down on the British economy

    I’ve literally just walked from St James and through St James Park, then across the Mall to St James Palace and onwards - ever onwards - past Buck House and Piccadilly and the Ritz and now I’m on Albermarle St with the art galleries and caviar shops and it’s all, quite frankly, wonderful. Prosperous and beautiful and glistening in the sun and full of rich blonde people

    Enough of this doomerism. Britain is doing fine

    London is.

    Is that Britain?
    That's not even London: that's Mayfair.
    I've still never been able to afford to buy that in any Monopoly game, and lace it with hotels.

    Much to my chagrin.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,731
    carnforth said:

    There appears to be a new thing called "best of" in the sidebar. Amusingly, it is empty.

    https://vf.politicalbetting.com/bestof/everything
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 25,096
    ydoethur said:

    Gardenwalker said:

    I don’t like how Jenrick wants to “call bullshit”.
    Sounds very American to me.

    He should suggest that Zia is peddling stuff and nonsense.

    Zia's a Fukker. It sort of goes without saying.
    I'd like to concur and repeat that, but I fear that might make me a refuker.
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 6,890
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    carnforth said:

    There appears to be a new thing called "best of" in the sidebar. Amusingly, it is empty.

    https://vf.politicalbetting.com/bestof/everything
    Ah, it just takes an age to load.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,490
    kinabalu said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    SandyRentool said:

    On topic, I'm wearing the same watch I was wearing this morning.

    Do people really change watches during the day?

    Nah my Apple Watch Ultra 2 can go 3/4 days without a charge which i pretty much exclusively charge when I am asleep.

    If I wasn’t worried about getting mugged I would wear my Breitling more often, the downside with a Breitling isn’t I cannot use Apple Pay.
    You can use the Apple watch as a walkie-talkie, I believe.
    You can.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 64,664
    Dopermean said:

    SandyRentool said:

    Mexicanpete said:

    Foss said:

    SandyRentool said:

    RobD said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    First?

    Of course you're first - you devised, posted, and then commented on your own thread.

    Jeez.
    We need a judge-led inquiry.
    Lessons will be learnt.
    Documentation will be e-mailed to Afghanistan.
    Don't forget to bcc Iran, Russia and China.
    And leave paper copies on a train, in a bar, and in a waste paper bin.
    That's why Leon is so well-informed, it's not the gossip, it's wandering around St James's Park checking the bins
    I’ve just had enough of it. The constant negging. The gloomsters

    I’m still walking - I went down old Bond Street and then new Bond Street. Mile after mile past sothebys and the Louis Vuitton flagship. Then on - heedless of my safety - past south molton street and into Marylebone and ALL the way down wimpole street, not just part of it - all of it. Hours

    And now I am in the Regent’s Park by the Nash terraces and it’s all Bentleys and Ferraris and the like. And happy people like me drinking free pouilly fusse in the sun

    Where is this so-called “breadline Britain”??? It doesn’t exist. It’s a tabloid fiction, and it’s time we stopped listening to these doom-mongers
  • MattWMattW Posts: 29,468
    DavidL said:

    dr_spyn said:

    I see NHS Fife have just applied a Gatling gun to both feet by issuing a statement about the ongoing Employment Tribunal hearing.

    If they are only using a Gatling gun they are lifting their game. After (1) the Supreme Court decision and (2) the dismissal of all disciplinary proceedings against Peggie earlier this week I am genuinely at a loss as to why the Tribunal is still hearing evidence. The only conceivable motive is to waste as much public money as possible and to put off the evil day when they are officially declared to be incompetent and inept.

    ps, this new font is horrible.
    Aren't we due about 4 levels of Appeal, before it reaches SCOTUK ?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 64,664
    edited July 18
    This is Britain today. Randomly chosen. This photo could easily have been taken in newent or Rotherham or Blackpool or Birmingham

    Does this look like a place on the verge of “civil strife”????

    lol


  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 39,770
    @euanmccolm

    gascoigne/lager/chicken/nhs fife.

    https://x.com/euanmccolm/status/1946238816253092269
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 75,151
    Leon said:

    This is Britain today. Randomly chosen. This photo could easily have been taken in newent or Rotherham or Bradford or Birmingham

    Does this look like a place on the verge of “civil strife”????

    lol


    No it couldn't.

    Newent doesn't have any tacky pseudo-Georgian fountains.
  • stodgestodge Posts: 15,180
    Leon said:

    Dopermean said:

    SandyRentool said:

    Mexicanpete said:

    Foss said:

    SandyRentool said:

    RobD said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    First?

    Of course you're first - you devised, posted, and then commented on your own thread.

    Jeez.
    We need a judge-led inquiry.
    Lessons will be learnt.
    Documentation will be e-mailed to Afghanistan.
    Don't forget to bcc Iran, Russia and China.
    And leave paper copies on a train, in a bar, and in a waste paper bin.
    That's why Leon is so well-informed, it's not the gossip, it's wandering around St James's Park checking the bins
    I’ve just had enough of it. The constant negging. The gloomsters

    I’m still walking - I went down old Bond Street and then new Bond Street. Mile after mile past sothebys and the Louis Vuitton flagship. Then on - heedless of my safety - past south molton street and into Marylebone and ALL the way down wimpole street, not just part of it - all of it. Hours

    And now I am in the Regent’s Park by the Nash terraces and it’s all Bentleys and Ferraris and the like. And happy people like me drinking free pouilly fusse in the sun

    Where is this so-called “breadline Britain”??? It doesn’t exist. It’s a tabloid fiction, and it’s time we stopped listening to these doom-mongers
    Very true. Mrs Stodge and I have visited Matlock today. Very pleasant town with a park and nice walks along the banks of the Derwent. Plenty of food and drink options and as I remarked to Mrs Stodge over lunch, the place reeks of money.

    Prosperous Derbyshire - Reform heartland. Who’d have thunk it?
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 35,577
    kinabalu said:

    OldKingCole said:

    Casino_Royale said:

    Gardenwalker said:

    I don’t like how Jenrick wants to “call bullshit”.
    Sounds very American to me.

    He should suggest that Zia is peddling stuff and nonsense.

    There is far too much Americanism creeping into our language at the moment.

    I've seen Cotton Candy replace candyfloss recently, with my kids, and donut replace doughnut. Yuk.

    Next: they'll be calling armbands waterwings.
    Back in youth I spent a summer making and selling candy floss.
    I bet that put you off it for life.
    Gave me chance to chat with girls down in Southend for a some summer fun, though. Eg Do you want a big pink one?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 64,664
    ydoethur said:

    Leon said:

    This is Britain today. Randomly chosen. This photo could easily have been taken in newent or Rotherham or Bradford or Birmingham

    Does this look like a place on the verge of “civil strife”????

    lol


    No it couldn't.

    Newent doesn't have any tacky pseudo-Georgian fountains.
    Pseudo-Georgian? This is the frigging Regent’s Park you thicko

    Who was the Regent? George. Prince Regent. George. Of the Georgian era

    He literally ordained this park and its palatial surrounds. This is Georgian Central. It’s like you just said St Peter’s Basilica “isn’t very papal”
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 46,709
    OldKingCole said:

    kinabalu said:

    OldKingCole said:

    Casino_Royale said:

    Gardenwalker said:

    I don’t like how Jenrick wants to “call bullshit”.
    Sounds very American to me.

    He should suggest that Zia is peddling stuff and nonsense.

    There is far too much Americanism creeping into our language at the moment.

    I've seen Cotton Candy replace candyfloss recently, with my kids, and donut replace doughnut. Yuk.

    Next: they'll be calling armbands waterwings.
    Back in youth I spent a summer making and selling candy floss.
    I bet that put you off it for life.
    Gave me chance to chat with girls down in Southend for a some summer fun, though. Eg Do you want a big pink one?
    I was nearly going to do a triathlon in Southend on Sunday. I didn't register in time, and looking at the forecast of rain, wind and thunderstorms, I'm quite glad I missed out!
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 7,845
    edited July 18
    stodge said:

    Leon said:

    Dopermean said:

    SandyRentool said:

    Mexicanpete said:

    Foss said:

    SandyRentool said:

    RobD said:

    TOPPING said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    First?

    Of course you're first - you devised, posted, and then commented on your own thread.

    Jeez.
    We need a judge-led inquiry.
    Lessons will be learnt.
    Documentation will be e-mailed to Afghanistan.
    Don't forget to bcc Iran, Russia and China.
    And leave paper copies on a train, in a bar, and in a waste paper bin.
    That's why Leon is so well-informed, it's not the gossip, it's wandering around St James's Park checking the bins
    I’ve just had enough of it. The constant negging. The gloomsters

    I’m still walking - I went down old Bond Street and then new Bond Street. Mile after mile past sothebys and the Louis Vuitton flagship. Then on - heedless of my safety - past south molton street and into Marylebone and ALL the way down wimpole street, not just part of it - all of it. Hours

    And now I am in the Regent’s Park by the Nash terraces and it’s all Bentleys and Ferraris and the like. And happy people like me drinking free pouilly fusse in the sun

    Where is this so-called “breadline Britain”??? It doesn’t exist. It’s a tabloid fiction, and it’s time we stopped listening to these doom-mongers
    Very true. Mrs Stodge and I have visited Matlock today. Very pleasant town with a park and nice walks along the banks of the Derwent. Plenty of food and drink options and as I remarked to Mrs Stodge over lunch, the place reeks of money.

    Prosperous Derbyshire - Reform heartland. Who’d have thunk it?
    I find we are often rather blinkered in our attitudes to our local/national environments.

    Most of Britain is a very pleasant looking country and a lot of our town environments aren’t too bad compared to places on the continent. Yes, we do have some very grim and soulless bits and I am not going to pretend that there are not significant challenges for our town centres, and urban environments alongside small town and rural economies. But if you are not careful you can walk into a pessimistic vision of the place as a hellscape, when that is very far from the truth.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 75,151
    edited July 18
    Leon said:

    ydoethur said:

    Leon said:

    This is Britain today. Randomly chosen. This photo could easily have been taken in newent or Rotherham or Bradford or Birmingham

    Does this look like a place on the verge of “civil strife”????

    lol


    No it couldn't.

    Newent doesn't have any tacky pseudo-Georgian fountains.
    Pseudo-Georgian? This is the frigging Regent’s Park you thicko

    Who was the Regent? George. Prince Regent. George. Of the Georgian era

    He literally ordained this park and its palatial surrounds. This is Georgian Central. It’s like you just said St Peter’s Basilica “isn’t very papal”
    Well, it isn't. The Quirinial Palace is far more papal.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 35,577
    JosiasJessop said:

    OldKingCole said:

    kinabalu said:

    OldKingCole said:

    Casino_Royale said:

    Gardenwalker said:

    I don’t like how Jenrick wants to “call bullshit”.
    Sounds very American to me.

    He should suggest that Zia is peddling stuff and nonsense.

    There is far too much Americanism creeping into our language at the moment.

    I've seen Cotton Candy replace candyfloss recently, with my kids, and donut replace doughnut. Yuk.

    Next: they'll be calling armbands waterwings.
    Back in youth I spent a summer making and selling candy floss.
    I bet that put you off it for life.
    Gave me chance to chat with girls down in Southend for a some summer fun, though. Eg Do you want a big pink one?
    I was nearly going to do a triathlon in Southend on Sunday. I didn't register in time, and looking at the forecast of rain, wind and thunderstorms, I'm quite glad I missed out!
    Sadly, I think you might have made a good decision.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 25,654
    DavidL said:

    dr_spyn said:

    I see NHS Fife
    have just applied a Gatling gun to both feet by issuing a statement about the ongoing Employment Tribunal hearing.

    If they are only using a Gatling gun they are lifting their game. After (1) the Supreme Court decision and (2) the dismissal of all disciplinary proceedings against Peggie earlier this week I am genuinely at a loss as to why the Tribunal is still hearing evidence. The only conceivable motive is to waste as much public money as possible and to put off the evil day when they are officially declared to be incompetent and inept...
    IIUC the case was bought by the nurse against NHS Fife and the doctor, and so only the nurse can stop it: obviously NHS Fife and the doctor can't.

    The statement is now inaccessible due to the NHS Fife site going down. Fragments can be retrieved by looking at the news reporting, albeit skewed by the framing of the individual newspaper.
  • BlancheLivermoreBlancheLivermore Posts: 6,579
    Bus travel doesn’t have to be horrible


  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 25,654
    viewcode said:

    DavidL said:

    dr_spyn said:

    I see NHS Fife
    have just applied a Gatling gun to both feet by issuing a statement about the ongoing Employment Tribunal hearing.

    If they are only using a Gatling gun they are lifting their game. After (1) the Supreme Court decision and (2) the dismissal of all disciplinary proceedings against Peggie earlier this week I am genuinely at a loss as to why the Tribunal is still hearing evidence. The only conceivable motive is to waste as much public money as possible and to put off the evil day when they are officially declared to be incompetent and inept...
    IIUC the case was bought by the nurse against NHS Fife and the doctor, and so only the nurse can stop it: obviously NHS Fife and the doctor can't.

    The statement is now inaccessible due to the NHS Fife site going down. Fragments can be retrieved by looking at the news reporting, albeit skewed by the framing of the individual newspaper.
    ...and the site and the report is now back up. Enjoy.

    There is an archived version available but following a request from the mods I won't publish a link to the archive.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 80,669
    Leon said:

    This is Britain today. Randomly chosen. This photo could easily have been taken in newent or Rotherham or Blackpool or Birmingham

    Does this look like a place on the verge of “civil strife”????

    lol


    All credit to Keir.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 80,669
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    First?

    Inter pares.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 80,669
    Perhaps this will teach the MoD to be less keen of foreign adventures ?

    UK defence budget hit by paying for Afghan relocation costs. So far, Defence Eye has been told that at least the £850m of the emergency Afghan evacuation costs have come from the core budget. Progs not on contract (GBAD) have lost £00ms and been delayed
    https://x.com/FTusa284/status/1946142312637067650

    Like Leon, I can see only upside this afternoon.

    After all, tomorrow is Saturday.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 29,468
    edited July 18
    Leon said:

    ydoethur said:

    Leon said:

    This is Britain today. Randomly chosen. This photo could easily have been taken in newent or Rotherham or Bradford or Birmingham

    Does this look like a place on the verge of “civil strife”????

    lol


    No it couldn't.

    Newent doesn't have any tacky pseudo-Georgian fountains.
    Pseudo-Georgian? This is the frigging Regent’s Park you thicko

    Who was the Regent? George. Prince Regent. George. Of the Georgian era

    He literally ordained this park and its palatial surrounds. This is Georgian Central. It’s like you just said St Peter’s Basilica “isn’t very papal”
    The Triton Fountain was installed in 1950.

    Before that the place was a greenhouse.

    (Never believe anything you are told by a Londoner; they are all spivs in varying degrees.)
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 19,566
    ydoethur said:

    Gardenwalker said:

    I don’t like how Jenrick wants to “call bullshit”.
    Sounds very American to me.

    He should suggest that Zia is peddling stuff and nonsense.

    Zia's a Fukker. It sort of goes without saying.
    It pains me to say it, but what the Conservatives could really do with is a Boris- preferably the pre-2016, Mayor of London Boris. Able to laugh at Nigel and Zia, and encourage others to do so as well- Pyramid of Piffle and all that. Remember that proud sprites cannot bear to be mocked.

    Unfortunately, that Boris was sacrificed on Alex de Pheffel's will to power, and the subsequent Boris is totally discredited. But there we are.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 33,757
    viewcode said:

    The font has changed. @TheScreamingEagles , you've redecorated. I don't like it.

    Do they not understand we are a forum of miserable old b*stards and we can't read a tiny font?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 80,669
    You know who did claim to have been at uni with the Unabomber ?

    Q: "On Tuesday the president told a very detailed story about his uncle, John Trump, and Theodore Kaczynski, the late Unabomber. He said Dr. Trump taught Ted Kaczynski. Ted Kaczynski was not identified as the Unabomber until 1996, 11 years after John Trump passed away. It would have been impossible for John Trump to have ever discussed the Unabomber with the president. So what was he talking about?"

    Leavitt: "With so many issues going on in the world, I'm a little bit surprised you would ask such a question...The president's uncle did teach at MIT."
    https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1945910740478513349

    Donald's good friend Jeffrey Epstein.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 32,478
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    They’ve upgraded Vanilla again.

    Looks like we've gone mobile first, even on desktop. Are you sure this is Vanilla and not rcs1000 pressing buttons?
  • FishingFishing Posts: 5,812
    Casino_Royale said:

    Leon said:

    I don’t know why people are so down on the British economy

    I’ve literally just walked from St James and through St James Park, then across the Mall to St James Palace and onwards - ever onwards - past Buck House and Piccadilly and the Ritz and now I’m on Albermarle St with the art galleries and caviar shops and it’s all, quite frankly, wonderful. Prosperous and beautiful and glistening in the sun and full of rich blonde people

    Enough of this doomerism. Britain is doing fine

    London is.

    Is that Britain?
    No.

    Just the part that funds it.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,470
    Overcast in New York.

    The sultry heatwave of the last weeks - the kind of heatwave that drove Sylvia Plath mad in the Belljar - has abated a tad.

    New York architecture is sometimes awful, but America followed a Beaux-Arts tradition right up into the 1940s, which has left a much handsomer legacy than much anything London managed in the 20th century.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 64,664
    Another lunchtime anecdote (I'll save the juicy gossip til I'm PROPPA drunk)

    One of my editors, young guy, around 30, told me of his new fiancee, Rich American Catholic girl

    She has a new favourite place on earth. Where? - Cornwall

    She finds it "utterly enchanting" and magical and can't get enough of it, and says it has the best of Britain with a unique lovely spooky quality of its own (noom?!). And this isn't just the coast, she loves the moors and mines as well - the bleak stuff

    It is interesting how others perceive us, for good AND bad
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 87,038
    edited July 18

    "During a company event at a Coldplay concert I offered my head of HR a Murray Mint
    which she accepted. Whilst singing along to Yellow she accidentally swallowed the mint, and I was forced to perform the Heimlich maneuver just as the Jumbotron camera focused on us."

    https://x.com/DachshundColin/status/1946102109402775593?s=19
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 35,577
    Nigelb said:

    You know who did claim to have been at uni with the Unabomber ?

    Q: "On Tuesday the president told a very detailed story about his uncle, John Trump, and Theodore Kaczynski, the late Unabomber. He said Dr. Trump taught Ted Kaczynski. Ted Kaczynski was not identified as the Unabomber until 1996, 11 years after John Trump passed away. It would have been impossible for John Trump to have ever discussed the Unabomber with the president. So what was he talking about?"

    Leavitt: "With so many issues going on in the world, I'm a little bit surprised you would ask such a question...The president's uncle did teach at MIT."
    https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1945910740478513349

    Donald's good friend Jeffrey Epstein.

    It's dragging in all sorts of false trails to confuse the hounds.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 25,096
    OldKingCole said:

    kinabalu said:

    OldKingCole said:

    Casino_Royale said:

    Gardenwalker said:

    I don’t like how Jenrick wants to “call bullshit”.
    Sounds very American to me.

    He should suggest that Zia is peddling stuff and nonsense.

    There is far too much Americanism creeping into our language at the moment.

    I've seen Cotton Candy replace candyfloss recently, with my kids, and donut replace doughnut. Yuk.

    Next: they'll be calling armbands waterwings.
    Back in youth I spent a summer making and selling candy floss.
    I bet that put you off it for life.
    Gave me chance to chat with girls down in Southend for a some summer fun, though. Eg Do you want a big pink one?
    Good job the BBC weren't filming the Great British Floss off at the time.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 87,038
    Has somebody hacked Leon's account?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 80,669
    OldKingCole said:

    Nigelb said:

    You know who did claim to have been at uni with the Unabomber ?

    Q: "On Tuesday the president told a very detailed story about his uncle, John Trump, and Theodore Kaczynski, the late Unabomber. He said Dr. Trump taught Ted Kaczynski. Ted Kaczynski was not identified as the Unabomber until 1996, 11 years after John Trump passed away. It would have been impossible for John Trump to have ever discussed the Unabomber with the president. So what was he talking about?"

    Leavitt: "With so many issues going on in the world, I'm a little bit surprised you would ask such a question...The president's uncle did teach at MIT."
    https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1945910740478513349

    Donald's good friend Jeffrey Epstein.

    It's dragging in all sorts of false trails to confuse the hounds.
    MAGA: The WSJ story is fake. That’s not how Trump talks. He never uses the word “enigma.”

    Roll the tape. Trump: “Carson’s an enigma to me.”
    https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1946219558051684683
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 75,151
    OldKingCole said:

    Nigelb said:

    You know who did claim to have been at uni with the Unabomber ?

    Q: "On Tuesday the president told a very detailed story about his uncle, John Trump, and Theodore Kaczynski, the late Unabomber. He said Dr. Trump taught Ted Kaczynski. Ted Kaczynski was not identified as the Unabomber until 1996, 11 years after John Trump passed away. It would have been impossible for John Trump to have ever discussed the Unabomber with the president. So what was he talking about?"

    Leavitt: "With so many issues going on in the world, I'm a little bit surprised you would ask such a question...The president's uncle did teach at MIT."
    https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1945910740478513349

    Donald's good friend Jeffrey Epstein.

    It's dragging in all sorts of false trails to confuse the hounds.
    So basically, to divert attention from his association with a paedophile Trump is saying other members of his family were familiar with various terrorists?

    In a sane world, this would not be a sane stratagem.
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 19,566
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Has somebody hacked Leon's account?

    Bear in mind that he's been to a marvellous party. This is probably a good thing.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 32,478
    DecrepiterJohnL said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    They’ve upgraded Vanilla again.

    Looks like we've gone mobile first, even on desktop. Are you sure this is Vanilla and not rcs1000 pressing buttons?
    OK. I see rcs1000 has credited @Pagan2. It still looks like the mobile-first version though. That said, it is easy to read.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 33,757
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Has somebody hacked Leon's account?

    I could give you a list of suspects: Eadric, Lady G., Byronic...
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 80,669
    JD has discovered journalistic ethics.

    Doesn’t it violate some rule of journalistic ethics to publish a letter like this without showing it to the victim of this hit piece?

    Will the people who have bought into every hoax against President Trump show an ounce of skepticism before buying into this bizarre story?
    https://x.com/JDVance/status/1945996088474800544
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 33,757
    Cancel my TV licence.

    Paddy O'Connell on presenting duties on R4 PM tonight.

    Why do the BBC keep promoting this useless t*sser? Next stop MasterChef!
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 75,151
    Nigelb said:

    JD has discovered journalistic ethics.

    Doesn’t it violate some rule of journalistic ethics to publish a letter like this without showing it to the victim of this hit piece?

    Will the people who have bought into every hoax against President Trump show an ounce of skepticism before buying into this bizarre story?
    https://x.com/JDVance/status/1945996088474800544

    I do wish people wouldn't do this. That's the second irony meter I've lost this afternoon.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 33,757
    Leon said:

    Another lunchtime anecdote (I'll save the juicy gossip til I'm PROPPA drunk)

    One of my editors, young guy, around 30, told me of his new fiancee, Rich American Catholic girl

    She has a new favourite place on earth. Where? - Cornwall

    She finds it "utterly enchanting" and magical and can't get enough of it, and says it has the best of Britain with a unique lovely spooky quality of its own (noom?!). And this isn't just the coast, she loves the moors and mines as well - the bleak stuff

    It is interesting how others perceive us, for good AND bad

    F*** me! That's hardly going to sell a million copies of the Sun on Sunday!

    When you said gossip I assumed you meant salacious gossip!
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 80,669
    ydoethur said:

    Nigelb said:

    JD has discovered journalistic ethics.

    Doesn’t it violate some rule of journalistic ethics to publish a letter like this without showing it to the victim of this hit piece?

    Will the people who have bought into every hoax against President Trump show an ounce of skepticism before buying into this bizarre story?
    https://x.com/JDVance/status/1945996088474800544

    I do wish people wouldn't do this. That's the second irony meter I've lost this afternoon.
    With apologies to the third one.

    The White House is preparing an executive order requiring AI models to be 'politically neutral and unbiased' according to a report by the WSJ. Compliance will determine eligibility for federal contracts, so this is a big deal for all the labs. The EO is expected next week.
    https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1946238951309885939
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