Posts by Rich 11

Re: Where he tweets from?

He uses an iPhone to send his tweets. The iPhone his security people told him to stop using. And then -- get this, it'll really surprise you -- he lies about it.

Re: No impressed

Was the translator his seven year old son?

Re: Forsooth!

I believe "thee" is correct as I was using it

Nowt wrong wi' using "tha" an' all.

Re: The sign of a dying company

If you've read their marketing bumph you'll know they are fluent in twatwaffle.

Re: US military services

And why doesn't your list include Space Force? You can't leave out the mighty Space Force!

Re: Milk in Bags?

but because people were no longer being woken by the early morning clinking of glass bottles, so ended up late for work.

I was lucky when I was a kid, because my neighbour was a milkman and I was woken up at five o'clock every fucking morning as he tried to start his fucking Ford Anglia. And if it was the weekend or the summer holiday and I was trying to have a lie-in, he'd be back by eight thirty with an electric milk float jammed full of crates of noisily clanking empty bottles to have his fucking fried breakfast before clanking off back to the dairy.

Good bloke, mind.

Re: Door locks.

Ditto with the use of the back door. It was only once my parents were in their late fifties and turned paranoid ("all them immigrants in town, coming over here and working hard in our fields") that they got to locking the back door half an hour before sunset and the back gate half an hour after sunset. And then started leaving the gate locked during the day ("Betty down the road got burgled, you know" - Yeah, Mum, that was four years ago, when she was in hospital for a fortnight and the place was signalling **EMPTY** to the world 'cos her lad never bothered with the curtains when he watered the plants morning and evening, and Betty told me aaaall about it yet again just last week).

Let me get this straight, you are saying that you stopped voting anti-Tory in your constituency and are angry that the Tory then got in? Sounds like it's your fault!

If you want to get it straight, read what I said again: it's Clegg's fault my constituency now returns a Tory. I'm angry with the Lib Dems (and I told them why), not with the smarmy git who now sits in Westminster (though I have caught him lying, but then like most politicians his lips do move).

The Lib Dems went into a coalition with the Tories, so voting Lib Dem turned out to be functionally indistinguishable from voting Tory. There's no point in repeating that action. The problem with tactical voting is that you never vote for what you want, only against what you dislike the most, and consequently no smaller party ever sees much of an increase in their vote and people then carry on voting tactically because they don't think any other party stands a chance. Sooner or later it has to stop. The Lib Dem vote collapsed in 2015 precisely because of the coalition, so they might yet learn their lesson. I have since voted for another party, even though I know they won't win, because at least it improves their chances over time. That's the only way to make a lasting difference.

Re: Boring boring boring.

You do some of your stuff and some of their stuff.

Except he failed to achieve the Lib Dems' main political intent of going into coalition: getting a meaningful vote on AV. He was outmanoeuvered by Cameron (can you imagine being outmanoeuvered by the man who thought a Brexit referendum would heal the divisions in his party?) and the referendum was held on the shittiest version of AV possible, with no-one except the Lib Dems arguing for it. Doomed to failure.

And charge employees nine grand to read a manual for themselves.

Re: RE: Forget It

And let's not forget David Cameron as Head of All That Green Crap.

If Clegg hadn't sold out for a taste of power as he did, my constituency wouldn't now be returning a f-witted Tory drone to Westminster. All the time I've lived here I've held my nose and voted Lib Dem just to keep the lower-than-vermin party out, but it became too agonising to sustain after 2010. And it seems about 2000 of my neighbours thought the same, not to mention similar numbers in another 39 constituencies.

Thanks, Nick, you useless wanker. Enjoy California. You won't recognise what remains of the UK by the time you come back.

Re: "Iron Mike Pence"

Yes I know, politically incorrect, but...yeesh

Definitely the wrong track there. After all, we know that he himself believes that he can't be left alone in a room with any woman who isn't his wife.

If it doesn't turn into a comedy show, I guess lawyers get to use the situation as an example of what not to do if you're looking for a simple life.

It's already being used as a teaching point on university law courses. To considerable amusement, I'm told.

Re: It's all relative

Some are indeed very secure, if you unplug them, remove the batteries and bury them in concrete. And then chuck the concrete in a lake.

Re: EU red tape bonfire

It's called shitting in a bucket with a bloody great hole in it. Lift it up and see what runs out.

Re: Scale of Challenge

In all fairness, I would say that's Theresa May's fault for issuing Article 50 before getting any sort of national agreement on what we wanted out of Brexit. HMRC was never going to get their systems sorted out in time anyway, and they've been given ridiculous deadlines and a moving target.

Then again, Farage, Gove, Johnson et al were amongst those calling for A50 to be issued ASAP, not to mention doing their level best to bugger up any attempt at agreement which didn't suit their immediate personal benefit, and sod everyone else. Fuck them. Fuck 'em, fuck 'em, fuck 'em. They've got a lot to answer for. There's a vast gulf of guilt between malice and incompetence.

Re: Don't worry. Be happy.

if UK production collapses it means we'll have to import even more than we already do

Not if we don't have the money. If prices go up and jobs become less secure, people will concentrate their spending on the essentials such as food and fuel. Replace that old fridge that's starting to sound a bit clunky? Not until it breaks, and even then you look for a cheap refurbished one to see you through another year or two. Need a new bed? No, just stick a bit of foam over the mattress for now.

It kicks off a cycle, and it can be a bugger to get out of. The less money there is going round and round in the local economy, the worse it is for everyone. If too few people are buying, people lose their jobs and even less gets bought. If a big local employer goes bust, the town suffers as the local shops sell less. This is why, during 2008 and 2009, there was discussion over whether giving every adult in the country £1000 in time-limited vouchers was a better idea than printing money to give to the banks and force them to keep it as a reserve. Increase demand so that the suppliers are kept busy, so that people get to keep their jobs and the government doesn't have to spend as much on social security (and can collect more VAT).

Re: What kind of conservatives want to tax everything?

If America wants access to our Dutchy Original Shortbread it will bow down to our tariff demands on Facebook

Jam today and jam tomorrow. Jam manufacturers, unite and seize the future with your sticky grip!

Re: What kind of conservatives want to tax everything?

I would like someone to vote for who is in favour of lower taxes and fewer regulations.

And I would like someone to vote for who is not going to offer yet more monetary bribes, but who would restore the necessary degree of taxes which have been cut over the last three decades so that we can once again properly fund healthcare and schools and even (and I never thought I would ever say this) the police, and who will step back from kicking the economy in the bollocks by abandoning the irresolvable stupidity of Brexit.

Re: 3 steps forward and 3 paces back

all the time I have given a dam about politics the home secretary has always been a loon

Now that's just not fair. Michael Howard wasn't a loon -- he was outright dangerous.

Re: William Gibson

Maybe that awareness is countered to some degree by the knowledge that a lot of the talk about AI is overblown, and that in this context machine learning can fail to produce an effective attack just as easily as it can fail to produce an effective defence.