cyderspaceman

Indy bonus IMO.

Chanced upon this. Is there just a hint of mischief in the positioning of the ad?

From PressGazette December 9 2016. Journalist of the Year Laura Kuenssberg: 'I would die in a ditch for the impartiality of the BBC' Is that a commonly used phrase? Just wondering.

It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world...

Really? We'll see.

I've never seen a French postie walking a delivery route. They all seem to have bikes or vans. I haven't been able to verify this for all of France. Yet. All houses have a mailbox outside at delivery van window height and all blocks of flats have mailboxes on the ground floor, which must make the job a lot easier. Having said that, there is a big lump of 'publicite' that we get delivered once a week, which usually goes straight into the recycling. They must hate that.

Really? No objective journalism in the Guardian? How often do you read these two papers/websites? The Express is a pile of absolute far-right shite, even after being taken over by the Mirror Group. In that vein, I see the Daily Mail has bought the i newspaper from JPI.

I'm sure he meant to put 'unwittingly', not 'unknowingly'. Simple grammatical/contextual error.

Correct. It suits certain parties to conflate anti-Israeli sentiment with anti-semitism. And anyway, I've never understood the 'race' thing about Jewishness. It's a religion. There are black African Jews as well as white European Jews. It's a can of worms. (absolutely no offence meant!)

A 'dollar' was slang for 5 shillings when I were a lad. In the early 20th century the exchange rate was approx 4 dollars to the pound. Changed days indeed. ETA It'll be back up there after brexit, of course. Aye, right, more like £4 to the $

Why do we bother having an election?

As far as brexit is concerned, I fear the remain vote is going to be split, allowing brexit to happen. Our first past the post system needs changing. We could theoretically have 30% voting LibDem, 30% voting Labour, 9% voting Other and the Cons getting in on 31%, when 69% of the electorate don't want them. (doesn't apply solely to the Tories, of course) I know it's been said before but it's shit.

I don't often see the Guardian and the Express being linked on an issue.

Anyone on here from the Sutherland area? How's the shiny new spaceport coming along? I have a vested interest

The way I read it, they are saying it could possibly be worse than the prediction.

It's just 'myriad', not 'myriad of' and 'gist' not 'jist'. I'm educating you, nothing else.

I had two lots of Jehova's Witnesses last week. Told them to go away, there is no god, no heaven. Would tell Tories to go to hell.

I had a very quick look at his history and failed to see how he generated his 22bn+ dollar wealth. His early gains were 'only' in the hundreds of millions. Admittedly I didn't find details of his profits (or losses) in his current ventures. I'm no expert eta I'm really not! Just realised I was equating 'personal wealth' with 'money in the bank'. It will be based on share value of his companies. (Which could of course crash for various reasons. ) Time to go.

The British Ever Ready Electrical Company was a British electrical firm. The company closed Tanfield Lea, its last UK factory, in 1996. Tbf, I found other UK manufacturers but they appear to be a bit Japanesey...

Sometimes fairness is not required! But yer right.

Top ten countries with the highest per capita debt in the world 1. Japan – $90,345 2. Ireland – $62,687 3. United States – $61,539 4. Italy – $59,372 5. Belgium – $59,680 6. Austria – $49,975 7. France – $51,768 8. Greece – $49,630 9. United Kingdom – $52,816 10. Portugal – $44,819 So what does it mean? Japan seems to be a good place to live. We're constantly being told the US is the greatest country in the world. UK is 15-ish% better than Ireland but still in the mire with just about everyone else, apparently.

Err, they appear to have quite a lot of that now...

He's obviously rattled.