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RogerOThornhill wrote:
JonnyT1234 wrote:Last post from me today too. Features an accordion.

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The EU vote really was a Once In A Lifetime event that has left many thinking My God, what have I done?

I know - it's like Living In Wartime.

Hobiejoe

HindleA wrote:There is probably a word for sexual arousement due to yachts.

The Sex Pistols wrote a little ditty about it.

Hobiejoe

I would've thought Co-op tea would be the ethical choice?

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I've got Matthew Parris in my train compartment as I type. I've not given him a slap yet as he's behaving himself. Was listening to his R4 programme - I think it's called Great Lives - with my daughter on the way home from school the other day. Eliza Carthy was talking about Caroline Norton, we bot...

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It appears that brave Sir Dave is continuing to run away by taking the Chiltern Hundreds - no link, on 'phone, newsflash on BBC website.

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Looking at the way he's holding the memo, he might as well have been singing "Flash, bang, wallop; what a picture! What a photograph!" as he walked past the paps.

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:But is the person who leaked it in favour of the idea or against?

Apparently the doc was being carried by Lord Howe, and mentions the opposition of the Lords, so "against" is my guess.

Hobiejoe

Can't link to it because I'm on my "intuitive" iPhone, but the Beeb news website has a new grammar school story....

*edit* As does the Graun.

Hobiejoe

Well, that was noisy.

A Eurofighter just did a ten minute low level display over the town. Not sure aeroplanes should be able to do things like that.

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Sorry to run the Shatner thing into the ground, but there is some political background here, not least because old Bill manages to put a real snarl into this, anger is felt. And when was the last time you felt that in any track that came near the MSM? Yes, I know he was acting, but that makes it eve...

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JonnyT1234 wrote:Now intrigued. Was the Velcro patch where Shatner stored a spare rug?

Tribble patch.

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No Act is required to leave the EU. Don't believe me? The Professors of Public law at Oxford and Cambridge both agree. No. Because you haven't provided any evidence to support your assertion, an assertion presented as a statement of fact. Sloppy work for such an eager legal beagle as yourself. I'm ...

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RogerOThornhill wrote:Traingate eh?

Good to see we're focusing on the really important stuff...

Meanwhile I passed my viva this afternoon. Some minor corrections to be completed inside 2 months but that's it. PhD done.

DrRogerOThornhill, PhD.

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WHAAAT! When and WHY WASN'T I TOLD? (For anyone who has never seen it before, the above is the Oxford Dictionary definition of faux outrage.) Ridiculous travesty. As bad as or worse than when they stopped using feathers for their cocks? Indeed. I grew up in the seventies and eighties and had to mak...

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Got home from work about 45 minutes ago, decided to check out the Perseids. Gorgeous - first one I saw left a streak across the sky like a firework.

Now raising a glass to the shade of LadyC.

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*edit* oops, I thought I was on the Politics bit...

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Evening all, Cap'n Lurk here.

Some reassuring news from Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com about the US elections. He's done pretty in the past - my missus likes his stuff.

Hobiejoe

JonnyT1234 wrote:
HindleA wrote:Realise how inflammatory the latest egg production figures might be,but I think never the less we shouldn't ignore them.
Were they rotten?

No, cracking. Apparently.

Hobiejoe

After the furore over the pupil being stuck in a different room and given a sandwich for lunch, did we see the article where Birbalsingh tried to justify it? https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jul/29/headteacher-defends-policy-of-putting-pupils-in-lunch-isolation Birbalsingh said the policy...

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Sorry if this has been posted before, but since when has the government led by May been elected? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/29/edf-boss-confident-hinkley-point-c-nuclear-plant-will-be-built Particularly: The Guardian understands that there would have been no review under the former...

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JonnyT1234 wrote:Just a quick reminder to anyone who is still awake. Apocalypse. Less than 30 minutes away.

BST or GMT? Because, you know, an hour might make all the diffe

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Ooops, sorry PF, I see you've already picked up on the NatWest story.

I blame myself for an outbreak of negative attention to detail, with particular reference to keeping abreast of the thread.

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In tonight's Blow Your Own Trumpet/How Crap Is The Graun's Churnalism? spot, I did mention this several days ago...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... rest-rates

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Dear PorFavor - We are all - all of us I tell you! - unworthy of these magisterial visitations. What we must do now is wallow in our unworthiness and know our place. Dear HindleA - Upon my soul, Sir! You have been promoted, haven't you? Your Agent Number has gone up by 25,000. Impressed, I am. You ...

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Only going to Roscoff this time Hobie, Saint Paul de Leon (?), just for the flavour. I will wave to you, although I expect you'll be in deep slumber :-) It's not as if you're getting the ferry in Dunkerque or Calais - Roscoff is a gorgeous little town, as is St Pol de Leon. I've used that ferry so ...

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Thank you all for your good wishes. At which point on the A38 should I wave to you, Hobiejoe? When you get to Buckfastleigh you'll cross the river Dart. At that point face left and wave in a downstream direction as far as you can before your waving reaches the sea. We're just back a little bit, on ...

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In a few hours time I will be heading down to Plymouth for the early crossing to Roscoff. Haven't been to France for about 14 years, feeling very excited. Have a good time Chris. Welcome to France ! Hey, steady on, he's not got to Plymouth yet - still time to give me a wave as he wafts down the A38...

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I'm rather thinking that (with respect to the late Gary Marshall) English Heritage has just jumped the shark on this one...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/ ... ition-2020

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Hmmm. A letter from NatWest announcing changes to the T&C's of our business account, including the warning of the possibility of negative interest rates being imposed, and the subsequent charging of interest on positive balances.

Tweet-tweet *cough* *splutter* went the miner's canary.

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Funnily enough, I was just thinking that if he (Owen Smith) wins the leadership vote I'll only really know if he's a good'un if a small but vocal (and media-loved) group of MPs tries to undermine him. (Although, in the case of Jeremy Corbyn, I think a lot of those in the PLP who would like to see t...

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Melania Trump’s speech: she couldn’t make it up Was Donald Trump’s wife’s address to the Republican convention a blatant steal from Michelle Obama (and Rick Astley)? Or was it all an elaborate act of sabotage by a rogue speechwriter? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2016/jul/19/melania...

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Ok, has anyone got the faintest idea of what might happen next? The odds on full-scale planetary invasion by aliens must be shortening by the day. Our only hope is if our putative Alien Overlords organising the coup invasion are "moderate" aliens.... makes me wonder who they sent down in ...

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The Turkish Military have form with coups it has to be said. They are normally quite efficient in them - a lesson to some perhaps - but in the age of social media, and after the arab spring went sour, it could go very badly. Am I right in thinking that, certainly in the past, the military would act...

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PorFavor wrote:Priti Patel - International Development.

Good work PF - seven minutes ahead of The Graun!

Although, to be fair, they were probably spending the time checking as to how the appointment might be bad news for Corbyn.

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RogerOThornhill wrote:
PorFavor wrote:Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary? (BBC)

Laura Kuenssberg Verified account
‏@bbclaurak

Boris Johnson confirmed as foreign secretary

Well that's really going to enhance our international standing - the fool will be able to lie on a global scale now.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-prime-minister-brexit-eu-referendum-leave-campaigners-pyrrhic-victory-a7131521.html There is no precedent for what must now be recorded as a “Brexit victory”. Not in the classics, not in Shakespeare, not the West Wing and nor in Game of Thrones has th...

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For the "we're Boris and Mike, we're running the Leave campaign but for our career's sake hope you'll vote Remain" team I suggest Ed Wood's bid at making the worst film of all time, "Plan 9 From Outer Space". For those not familiar with this masterpiece, it's a low budget sci-fi...

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You do have to wonder at the Tories saying "well she's lost my vote now" - why on earth were they going to vote for her before? http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/07/the-perfect-champion-for-the-new-nasty-party-andrea-leadsom “I’m an optimist,” Andrea began, fixing her face into...

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Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha :lol: :lol: :lol: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Someone has registered http://www.gove2016.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; before Gove himself could. There is only one thing there. Genius! That just made my day, thank you R-Man.

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RogerOThornhill wrote:As I've just discovered it's a parody account.

And yet very much plausible....

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So Eagle is out. Then she's in. That's the kind of determined, decisive leadership we need. Maybe if she starts reconsidering again she should hold a referendum. "oh the hokey cokey, oh the hockey cokey................" Greetings all, Thanks to those of you who responded to my post last n...

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London stays demonstation tonight. Sorry about the language but Im feeling rather whimsical now. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmEFmrtWQAAZj68.jpg Agree entirely with the sentiment, but the poster looks a little odd, too clean, as if photoshopped. Added to the fact that a young boy has his hand on it...

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RobertSnozers wrote:Evening all.

I have nothing to say.

Not sure why I started this post, really

Because, paradoxically, it is very much worth saying.

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Well done Labour. OhSo's feeling like never voting again. I am thinking of voting Lib Dem if they stand on an anti-Brexit ticket at a snap election, despite a lifetime of not agreeing with people who vote for one issue only, and having voted Labour at every general election of my voting life. My hu...

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http://news.sky.com/story/1717625/corbyn-sacks-hilary-benn-over-leadership-coup Corbyn Sacks Hilary Benn Over Leadership Coup http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36632539?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central" onclick="window....

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Evenin' night owls, and particularly the shade of LadyC. Had my mind taken off the horrors of the last 24 hours by an evening of, somewhat appropriately, some awesome Delta blues in the pub by a guy from southern Georgia by the name of Kent Duchaine and Leadbessie , his 1934 steel guitar. I have to ...

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Stay strong all. The left didn't make this and needs to rise above it. Respect the Leave vote but don't be blamed for it. Love to you all, Paul x Indeed, but we must always, always remember that this is entirely the fault of Cameron and the tories, brought about by cynical electoral considerations.

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Give up. It's over.

The bastards have won.

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Both the Guardian and Telegraph's live coverage have those bar chart things across the top. Both are portraying the referendum as a cartoon competition between Cameron and Johnson. It's a bit more important than that I would have thought. It's an infantile affectation that I think started from the ...

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Cards on the table. I'm probably going to suffer personally in the event of a Brexit. My wife is an academic, and because of the amount of funding for research that comes to Britain via the EU, it's likely to have catastrophic effects on her. She works in a small department that's only ever one or ...

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