Fullerene
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Feel like I'm watching Orange versus 02 here. Orange aren't doing too well.
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4 hours ago, welshbairn said:
I remember when George worked for War on Want, before his political career, he wrote an article in the Spectator saying there was no point in helping Bangladeshis after a huge flood, it was their fault for farming on land that was susceptible to flooding. Stupid people!
At 58%, Bangladesh has the highest amount of arable land for its size of any country in the world. This is in part due to all the flooding providing nutrients to the soil.
Similarly Java has a lot of good farmland due to all the active volcanoes.
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1 hour ago, BFTD said:
Do people do that in real life? Like, has anyone been summoned into their boss' office to hear the plans for expansion, wage rises, and employee benefits, only to hear "but I'm afraid you won't be joining us for any of this" and be given your jotters?
I've had a couple of bosses who'd have loved to do this, only they never had any good news to share.
Does all this James Bond stuff happen to me in real life.
Yeah. All the time but I try not to talk about it.
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13 hours ago, ICTChris said:
The thing that really tells on Galloway is that when he was expelled by Labour, didn’t take anyone with him. He was a fairly prominent figure on Scottish politics - MP for nearly two decades, leader of the council in a major city, prominent in mainstream campaigning organisations (Scotland United, War On Want). But absolutely nobody from Scottish Labour came with him, even those on the Left.
The reason he lacks allies is that the George Galloway project is all about getting as much attention as he can.
He opposed the Iraq War but he is also in favour of capital punishment.
He was in favour of EU membership but then he went against it.
Hopelessly inconsistent about where he is on the political spectrum.
Just a maverick.
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On 04/05/2024 at 20:56, Soapy FFC said:
In a similar vein, the baddie is about to kill the good guy but decides to explain things to the good guy first, thereby giving said good guy time to over power the baddie and escape. Just shoot them, a dead guy doesn't need an explanation.
Goldfinger is ridiculous on this one.
SpoilerHe explains his plans to a bunch of gangsters including a scale model for their benefit only to then kill all of them afterwards. All except one but he gets killed too.
Why not just kill them all and skip the explanation - and the scale model too.
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23 hours ago, JS_FFC said:
I’m not sure it’s possible to be less Islamphobic than Galloway. He’s whatever the opposite of Islamophobia is.
Islamophilic.
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2 hours ago, Granny Danger said:
Lose massively in local elections to political parties that are by and large perceived as more progressive and argue that the response should be to become more right-wing.
All parties heading for defeat start looking inwards, adopting policies that are most appealing to their own members and activists and giving themselves a sense of purity - "This is who we really are".
That continues until they realise that it doesn't win elections and then they change tack.
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19 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said:
Interesting quirk in local elections for Castle Point a district & borough in south Essex centred on Canvey Island (who knew?).
All mainstream parties lost all their seats, and council is now divided between the localist PIP and the separatist CIIP:
24 People's Independent Party
15 Canvey Island Independent Party
The People's Independent Party - Wikipedia
The People's Independent Party (PIP) is a localist political party based in Castle Point, England. Formed in 2021[1] by independent councillor Steven Cole and registered in 2023,[2] PIP sought to prevent a local plan to build 5,000 homes in the borough, mostly on Green Belt, by taking control of the council from the ruling Conservatives.[3]
Canvey Island Independent Party - Wikipedia
The Canvey Island Independent Party (CIIP) is a local political party active on Canvey Island, in Essex, England.[2] It was established in 2004 to campaign for a separate district council for Canvey Island.I wonder what Doctor Feelgood have to say about this.
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7 hours ago, tamthebam said:
If the allocation of media coverage of Reform compared to their performance was transferred to the world of football then I look forward to Edinburgh City competing in the Champions League next season
"Realistically Edinburgh City might not be playing in the Champions League but the usual teams had better watch out. Edinburgh City have a style and tactics that people have been crying out for. If the likes of Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid don't come to Edinburgh and see what it is all about then they can forget about winning trophies for the foreseeable future."
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12 hours ago, Central Belt Caley said:
Never been to Montrose, what’s it like?
I once had to go to Stonehaven so I took the train to Aberdeen and then leapt on to the train to Dundee only to discover it didn't stop at Stonehaven.
In answer to your question Montrose is like twice as far from Aberdeen as Stonehaven.
HTH
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5 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:
At this rate of electoral success they will be ready to form the government just in time for the singularity.
Nonsense. They have doubled their numbers just like that. If that keeps happening year on year then it won't be long before they will have more councillors than the entire population of the world.
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I love how they say cut immigration and raise wages and everybody cheers and says everybody deserves a decent wage but when Mick Lynch says his workers need a pay rise and everybody deserves a decent wage they say that would be nice but it can't happen because it would fuel inflation.
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11 hours ago, coprolite said:
They've won!
The new force in British politics with a headline photo story on the BBC has secured a massive victory in a council ward taking their total number of councillors into single figures.
They're still three behind the workers party (currently not mentioned in any bbc article covering the results) and 24 behind "Residents Association". Whatever the f**k that might be.
A massive, seismic shift in grass root politics here.
No idea who this one Councillor is but fairly certain they will be invited on to Question Time in the very near future.
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On 29/04/2024 at 10:40, scottsdad said:
I can honestly say I have never heard of him.
He was once in a band called "Mott the Hoople" who did a Bowie song called "All the Young Dudes".
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1 hour ago, BFTD said:
I've always thought of them as one of those groups who are well known here because of their American popularity, but don't have a huge fanbase in the UK. If they were big here it was before my time, and they've kept their popularity going in the States much better. Oddly enough, I read something recently about them being a notorious joke in the music industry years ago for being terrible on their instruments and needing session musicians to help out.
In series 2, Simmons is driven in a car where the chauffeur was once in a band called Splodgenessabounds who had a song called "Pint of lager and two packets of crisps please". Gene let's him play the song on the cassette recorder.
At this point the narrator points out that the only person in the car who has had commercial success in the UK is the chauffeur. Ouch.
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7 hours ago, scottsdad said:
Wrath of Man
you fill in the blank, cunto
Grapes of Wrath?
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21 minutes ago, D Angelo Barksdale said:
Or the 23,000 odd that voted for her in the last leadership election.
Are you referring to the P&B poll here? 23,000 posters sounds a lot.
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45 minutes ago, ICTChris said:
Forbes could go to other parties and try and work with them to abstain. When Salmond first formed a government, the Greens voted with him but the Tories and Lib Dems abstained, allowing him to form an administration.
I think that Scottish politics is a different place now and that there is little apetite in either the SNP or the Tories to co-operate. In addition, the SNP government is currently in a very rocky place and the opposition might look at this and think, what's to be gained by us propping them up? If the Tories fancy playing some 4D chess, they could abstain for Forbes knowing that that will cause merry hell within the SNP.
Then again it might be the Tories' only opportunity to be in government somewhere in the UK at Christmas time.
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Although I do like Rock Music, I have never understood the appeal of Kiss. I don't like their stage show, all the heavy make-up and most of all I don't really like any of their songs with the exception of "Beth". Beth was a ballad written by their drummer, it doesn't sound like any of their other songs and worse of all for them - it was their most successful song. There is an acoustic version (i.e. unplugged) and an orchestral version. After they sacked the drummer - Peter Criss - they re-recorded with their new drummer.
Having said all that, Gene Simmons was entertaining with his Rock School series - especially in Series 2 where he goes to a comprehensive in Lowestoft and they show him no respect at all.
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Wizard of Oz
The Hound of Baskerville
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9 hours ago, tamthebam said:
BBC Radio 4 report tonight:
They went to a Scottish town to gauge opinion regarding Humza's resignation: Glasgow? Dundee? Aberdeen?
No, it was Dumfries. Solid Tory Dumfries. And the people they stopped all had non-Dumfries accents and sounded English to my mind. To be fair rather than getting "Hooray, the end of the SNP. Rule Britannia" type opinions the most strident opinion was "they're all useless". Hardly an endorsement of Ross, Sarwar or Cole-Hamilton really.
"They are all useless" is a ploy to start a narrative to get rid of the Scottish Parliament altogether and have all decisions made in London.
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58 minutes ago, Leith Green said:
R4 Nick Robinson is in Edinburgh today, and they just went over the Scottish newspaper headlines (as if papers are in some way the main method that people consume news).
He was almost giggling at the Herald editorial slagging off HY departure, while he was at pains to state that The National was a paper "designed to pursue Independence" before reading out its headline.
Reciting from newspapers gives a false legitimacy to all of them.
Most are owned by Tory loving tax exiles and maybe that should be pointed out before reading from them.
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Those magnificent men in their flying machines.
The Magnificent Seven
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6 hours ago, Boghead ranter said:
I just watched S5 Ep1 last night, and I have a question (not just why I was watching).
Burnham is standing on top of the fleeing spaceship, trying to break the engines. There are 2 Federation ships hanging around really closely too, which are able to beam her up.
Why don't they beam her inside the fleeing ship, where she can do much more damage? Or is that too simplistic?
They would never hear the end of it.
"What are you doing? This was my plan. You need to believe in me. Did I ask you to beam me inside the ship? Did I? Did I?"
Golden rule. Michael decides everything.
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