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Good lord... <wince> The UK handling of the COVID 19 pandemic has been nothing short of disastrous with many thousands of unnecessary lives lost Professor John Ashton, author of Blinded by Corona: How the Pandemic ruined Britain’s Health and Wealth and What to do about it A Timeline of the Plague of...

If nobody minds, I might use this post to accumulate potential consequences of the Republican victory. First and foremost, we have a potentially destructive climate denier in the White House. Drill baby drill, if I got that quote right. Ukraine will have to look for new sources of support, they'll s...

There were seven swing states. Six of those were won by Biden in 2020. All of those six states appear as though they'll be flipped and no other state will have changed. It would be enough to have given a 94 electoral college vote majority to the Republicans.

There have been no confirmed flips, but those considered probable look rather grim for Kamala Harris. One swing state, Wisconsin, is being discussed as a flip to Republican. Three others, Minnesota, Maine and Virginia, originally considered very likely Democrat, are also being suggested as flips to ...

Betty Boop wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 3:34 pm Think I have just lost my mind in subclassing and inheritance arrows and appearing and disappearing code.

I'm not sure why I would have subclassed, I'm quite sure I never have. I shall go and look up reasons.

We have a new entitled prat under the spotlight to join Prawit Wongsuwon, one Alex Ikwechegh. Nigerian politician Alex Ikwechegh has caused outrage after he was caught on video slapping and verbally abusing a taxi driver delivering food to his house. "Do you know who I am?... I can make you dis...

Pensylvania? Most polls seem to have it within 0.5% You could, yes. You'll remember it voted for Biden in 2020. If you treat these 7 swing states as too close to call, they are 93 electoral college votes. There are 128 permutations. I just ran a small combinatorial script. Kamala Harris needs at le...

As for "particularly in vogue for office wear this season?", might I commend fur? Real, as opposed to fake, fur? Because fake fur is made of fossil fuel and real fur is made of recyclable material? Thus according to Mark Oaten, at least. Who? You can't mean who, surely. The chap who was in...

So, the election is tomorrow. I shall be much surprised if President Trump loses. I'm not sure how he can. As usual I expect I'm entirely wrong. I shall watch early on Wednesday morning UK time, when we might see the first declarations. With any luck there will be a few entirely unexpected flips. Fl...

I can't think of anybody in Parliament who could possibly be a half decent Prime Minister. Kemi Badenoch, Minister of State for Levelling Up Communities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Badenoch Badenoch elected Tory leader Blackman is now reading out the results. Kemi Badenoch: 53,806 Robert Je...

Ahead of her paperback release, Liz Truss issues a scathing attack on Rishi Sunak in the Mail Claims he was "complicit in amplifying Labour's lies and spreading smears about me and my premiership" https://x.com/JAHeale/status/1852642624328307054 Your "premiership", Ms Truss? Tha...

Betty Boop wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 2:48 pm When you get up in the morning, you will no doubt know who won.
The bizarre...

That, on reflection, ought to have won.

What is Hello Kitty?

Radio 4 is going on about a fiftieth anniversary of Hello Kitty. They went on at great length about kawaii culture which I didn't comprehend even slightly.

How have I never heard of this in fifty years?

Today's Guardian poll of polls has state predictions for all the swing states. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/nov/01/presidential-polls-latest-donald-trump-kamala-harris-election The national poll shows Kamala Harris one point ahead, which is clearly insufficient of a nation...

President Trump, meanwhile, is making spectacular threats at his final rallies: “She’s a radical war hawk,” he said of Liz Cheney. Then said: “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her fac...

And the chap who wrote Fire and Fury, Siege and Landslide, Michael Wolff, seems not to be aware there's an election on. At least, he doesn't mention the fact. But he wants to be seen too. A New York author and journalist has released audio tapes that appear to detail how Donald Trump had a close soc...

And now there's five days. Someone called Carlson Tucker is keen to be visible to the public: He addressed a rally in Georgia last week, telling Trump supporters that the candidate’s possible return to the White House was like a father returning home and Trump would give the country a “vigorous span...

I would note another difference, having listened to this morning's news on Radio 4. If people think back to Beirut four years ago: On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, a...

Gustav Kuhn and Brian Rappert, academics from the universities of Plymouth and Exeter, asked hundreds of magicians from around the world about attitudes to exposure. They found that exposing another magician’s trick when they are still alive was a big no-no, with fewer than 3% feeling this was acce...

These people seem to exist in an entirely different dimension than I, or anyone with whom I've ever associated, have visited. And we have movement. The A&AP-meter has twitched... Football Focus discusses the potential Tranmere Rovers takeover by rapper A$AP Rocky A$AP Rocky, pictured with partn...

May I file a quote here, from Benjamin Carter Hett in “The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic”: Thinking about the end of Weimar democracy in this way - as the result of a large protest movement colliding with complex patterns of elite self-interest, i...

Lawyers acting for President Trump's election campaign have written to the UK Labour Party and to the Federal Election Commission complaining about political interference in America's domestic Presidential election two weeks from now. The UK Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, said in the House to...

Flirtation is not high on my list of attainments. Nor conversation, really. I shall, if I may, blame my incomprehensible schooling. I think you denigrate your conversational abilities unnecessarily. It's true that your repartee is sometimes esoteric or abstract, but speaking to someone with a vocab...

Hannah Fry and Carol Vorderman are perceived as mathematicians, though Vorderman trained as an engineer as did Phil Wang. Why HIGNFY has three such science-centred guests I'm not sure. Hannah Fry has retained her math genre though perhaps the other two haven't. She podcasts, though I have little und...

"It is produced by Easy Tiger Productions and CBS Studios for Foxtel, and is currently streaming on Binge." - that's the first sentence I've seen in a while where every aspect rings no bells at all. There's a streaming platform called Binge? Rupert Murdoch owns a TV channel? The Guardian l...

ood lord, even the capital ' is "one too. It 'ives you a wonderful accent thouh. The chap next door has a van similar. I hope you stay warm and manage to cook. I've taken to cooking on a portable gas stove, it can be done. It won't roast, I've not found out how to do cakes yet. And you'll need ...

Ultimately, the left will lose. Big business will pollute the planet, capitalist culture will kill off the arts and humanities, schools will all be privatised, libraries will all close, social mobility will cease, the gulf between rich and poor will grow and everything beautiful will die. The left ...

Ship me somewhere east of Suez,
Where the best is like the worst,
Where there ain’t no Ten Commandments,
An’ a man can raise a thirst.

Rudyard Kipling

The most annoying thing about here is if you click a link it doesn't open it up in a new tab, it should. It's missing a ' _blank ' instruction somewhere in the code. :?: Right-click "open link in new tab". And _blank is just showing off! And, having checked, just wheel-clicking on any lin...

The most annoying thing about here is if you click a link it doesn't open it up in a new tab, it should. It's missing a ' _blank ' instruction somewhere in the code. :?: Right-click "open link in new tab". And _blank is just showing off! And, having checked, just wheel-clicking on any lin...

Greggs to open champagne bar ‘inspired by 1920s Paris wine bars’

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -wine-bars

I'll be down there twice weekly then. Just what I needed.

Vox pops, to whatever extent such a thing exists on the streets of Beijing, on how the contenders are seen there: That is why Mr Meng, in his 70s, hopes Donald Trump will win the election. “Although he imposes economic sanctions on China, he does not wish to start or fight a war. Mr Biden starts mor...

"The Generals' Plan" is, according to the generals involved, legal. I've no idea how they can have so twisted their judgement as to think so. It definitively isn't. It resembles strategic hamlets and free-fire zones in Vietnam: The US military and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)...

George Osborne backs ‘HS2 light’ plan for Manchester-Birmingham route https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/14/george-osborne-backs-hs2-light-plan-for-manchester-birmingham-route "light"? What?? It's like seeing people write "tonnes" to mean lots. "Lite"! For g...

What's a mixtape?

I get so puzzled on occasion. What on earth is this? A US Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued a man who was left clinging to an ice box in the Gulf of Mexico after his boat was stranded overnight in waters roiled by Hurricane Milton. [...]But on Thursday searchers located the man about 30 miles (48...

I get so puzzled on occasion. What on earth is this? A US Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued a man who was left clinging to an ice box in the Gulf of Mexico after his boat was stranded overnight in waters roiled by Hurricane Milton. [...]But on Thursday searchers located the man about 30 miles (48k...

Some have said they were told that they were instructed they were acting as a backup in case https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/03/rudy-giuliani-michigan-fake-electors-text Q1: Poo to that for clarity then. Discuss. 10 marks. Q2: And are "some" the same people as "they"...

That will be end of round five, eleven to go and you're still standing.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51642/invictus

We all remember the dodgy dossier? Here's a new instalment: PM, this afternoon, Evan Davies interviewing the unhinged John Bolton, sometime National Security Adviser. Bolton (my transcription from the broadcast): "What would you expect the US to do if 300 ballistic missiles were aimed at London...

Badenoch complains about about too many immigrants 'who hate Israel' coming to UK In an article for the Sunday Telegraph today Badenoch complains that too many immigrants don’t like Israel. She says: We cannot be naïve and assume immigrants will automatically abandon ancestral ethnic hostilities at...

Flirtation is not high on my list of attainments. Nor conversation, really. I shall, if I may, blame my incomprehensible schooling.

I also note that new threads now appear on the recent-first thread list as started by "Guest". This is unexpected and unexplained, I have no idea why. I'm labelling it a quirk until I have time to look for a reason, which might be months off. All the posts within the thread are correctly a...

Damn right too. Banks, 33, said she was convinced her visit to the market, in the city’s Bull Ring, led to her becoming ill, resulting in two days “sweating that shit out”. She wrote: “Sidebar. The city officials in Birmingham, UK, need to do something about the fish market at the Bull Ring market. ...

It must be said, President Trump ha a tendency to say whatever will generate a headline regardless of sounding honest. Or reasonable. Your Vance chappie was cast in a similar mold. And once he’s said it, it must be true. He can’t back down even when proven wrong. Don't knock the idea, it's worked f...

Well, since I've retired, I wear this to my office...which happens to be the nearby lake. And it's still beautiful here in New Mexico... I'm amazed you can keep hold of a phone out there! It's in a floatable, sealed lake holder. Cool, huh? And it streams to my powerful lakeshore speaker. The bag at...

Saint_ wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:20 pm Right here, dude! I retired. Here's a look at my 30 year career....

The skateboarding is definitely the skill to keep practising. I can't do that.

President Trump's commitment would be honored if he wins his second term? 1. trump has to commitment to anything...even from minute to minute. 2. trump has no honor, nor any conception of it. 3. If he wins a second term...you should stock up on canned goods and bottled water. It must be said, Presi...

Whoa...2004. Was it really that long ago? I remember the original crew. There was never a shortage of drama. I wonder what ever happened to some of them like Rob Farrider? We put a call out for him a while back but there's no sign yet. But a terrible number are dead, if we carved them on a stone it...

Saint_ wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:11 pm Here my latest artwork: Cats in Love 2

That's extreme talent, you could be designing film sets. I'd not know where to begin and I don't have a cat to model for me either.

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