Posts by BebopWeBop 2863 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2015
If we could get a believable statement on whether she had diplomatic immunity that might help understanding. Reports are all over the shop on this and there appear to be little one can actuall believe rather than pander to your favourite confirmation bias. But I agree that diplomatic immunity - even if occasionally abused is a good thing.
Davis also called for British extradition law "to change to exactly mirror the American law, something they can't possibly complain about".
Want a bet? Having been a darling of the Johnsonites (an early sect, still surviving to the current day) I suspect he is blotting his copybook. How long before he is deselected as an MP having had the whip withdrawn (which might really annoy him in all of its interpretations)?
I do hope so. I played and enjoyed rugby and still attend both club matches and an occasional international. I find the US obsession with stats (in both football and baseball) to be puzzling but a largely US one at that. I read a thriller from a US author a couple of months ago in which the credentials of a fan (or the Red Sox I believe) were suspect because she didn't lead conversations about the team with a cornucopia of stats. I don't remember any similar conversations with rugby fans - from any nation. Yes, on television a few stats are thrown up - and promptly ignored by everyone I know in favour of the game. And I am a professional mathematician.
Greybeards might recall the standard from its brief life as an interface bus for early microcomputers, or as something used to hook up testing gear.
Pahh - I'm only 55 and clean-shaven! I remember hacking this to get a better logging program for a rather magnificent data logger from HP In fact they (HP) liked it so much they offered me a job post PhD.
I am not concerned about that. One of my passports is British and I have observed over many years that the Foreign Office will do feck all to help you overseas. Why worry about something over which you have no control. On the other hand, the Irish passport does appear to be more useful - possibly because they have not pissed people off over a long enough time to generate resentment.
As the old saying goes - 'youth is wasted on the young' :)
Quite. I remember suggesting to my of the time that the rather lovely sports car my father (55 at the time - a long and successful professional career and with the bonus of having got rid of all of the kids) had acquired might be wasted on older people!
We were all young and callous, not to mention very dense once upon a time.
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