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Hobiejoe

Snuck out after midnight, as per usual, the mendacious bastards... http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/27/syrian-refugee-children-to-be-made-welcome-in-uk And I imagine that the actual care given to actual children will, once the media move on to the next story, be the square root of fuck all.

Hobiejoe

Poppers? There's a song about that.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Nitrate You can get rid of the annoying boxes by mousing over them and clicking the little 'x' that appears on their top right corner - I chose this version as the quality is good, good enough to see all the piggy faces....a...

Hobiejoe

Could it get any worse? Why yes, yes it could.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... -interview

Hobiejoe

Tubby Isaacs wrote:What time was the resignation on TV?

Tories can watch TV with the best of them.

Hey now! Less of the sensible commenting please. I was working up to an enjoyable froth of indignation, perhaps with even a spot of outrage to liven up my evening.

Spoilsport.

Hobiejoe

Does anyone know what the timeline of the resignation was? There are claims that he had already tendered his resignation to Corbyn but the indication from the complaint is that this was not the case. That is also the impression I got from the blog post If the resignation was announced on air before...

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That is awful. Really sorry to hear about this. I assume this is an academy? In the last year or two - it was part of a federation of four primaries, now part of http://www.academiessouthwest.org.uk/ . Led by Kingsbridge Community College, who took over the federation and Dartmouth Academy (one tha...

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This is our future. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/nyregion/success-academy-principal-who-created-got-to-go-list-takes-leave.html?_r=3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Charter school apparently doing great. Then someone accidentally sent out a memo saying "we want to...

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@hobiejoe That sounds really really stressful. Hope you find a good solution for your lad and yourselves. Thank you, steep learning curve for all of us, challenging but enjoying it. Got him signed up with a very good online school for six hours a week to keep him in touch with the English/Maths/His...

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This is our future. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/nyregion/success-academy-principal-who-created-got-to-go-list-takes-leave.html?_r=3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Charter school apparently doing great. Then someone accidentally sent out a memo saying "we want to...

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Morning Star ‏@M_Star_Online 22m22 minutes ago NHS choir takes early lead in race for Xmas No 1 | http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b2e9-NHS-choir-takes-early-lead-in-race-for-Xmas-number-1#.VnhRr_EzTm0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; … Good. Yes, good news, but expect an ac...

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Plus - terrible mixed and bungled metaphors and cliche. I am mortified. We'll always have Brussels (sprouts) . . . . . (I'm a Brussophile, too. The responsibility for keeping that industry going singlehanded has, today, been lifted from my shoulders. So, I thank you!) I think there may be more of u...

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Scares me that there are people out there who are actually like that ;) Is there something we can do for Beryl? Seriously, her mate is one crazy nutter. Strikes me there might be something Beryl could do for the world. Yup, I reckon it's a case of "when" rather than "if". Poor w...

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I am on my high horse. Room for one more? And they sang: "Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me your grey mare All along, down along, out along lee. For I want to go down to Widecombe Fair Wi’ Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawk, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all ...

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Benjamin Haddad ‏@benjaminhaddad 13m13 minutes ago Manhattan, NY The National Front seems ahead in almost every region (except Paris IDF, Bretagne, Corsica, and Overseas Territories). I'm surprised and reassured by Bretagne - the old bastard Le Pen Snr comes from the otherwise lovely La Trinite sur...

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Good lord, if this bombshell from the BBC doesn't lead to a COBRA meeting forthwith then I don't know what kind of natural disaster will. For pity's sake think of the poor hordes who rely on this integral part of London's transport infrastructure to go about their daily lives. Cable care service shu...

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HJ I am glad you had a good time at the Eden Project. It was wonderful, and I'm really pleased that they included home schooled or educated, or whatever we call them, kids. If only because kids like Sprog2 won't be able to go on school trips there - Sprog1 didn't come with us today because, ironica...

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Just starting to rain down here in the SW, so more on the way for the rest of you later. Very blustery day today - MrsHJ, Sprog2 and I drove down to the Eden Project and the car was buffeted about a fair old bit. The good news was that over the winter they hold community weekends where various group...

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So where are my jokes? Helloooooooo!!!!!!!!! What do you call a deer with no eyes? No idea. What do you call a deer with no legs and no eyes? Still no idea. What do you call a man with a spade in his head? Doug. I'm here all week. Have you tried the prawns? Evening. So...what do you call a man with...

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It's a quarter past two in the morning.

Just the right time to pay my respects to a fellow night owl.

M'Lady.

Hobiejoe

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/04/labour-sweep-to-conclusive-victory-in-oldham-byelection Labour sweeps to conclusive victory in Oldham byelection Jim McMahon defeats Ukip challenge with massive majority Well, yes - thank gods the sub-editor was paying attention. As for Helen Pidd, th...

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New restrictions imposed on farmers over cattle movement http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2015-11-22/new-restrictions-imposed-on-farmers-over-cattle-movement/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; A West Country farming leader claims that cattle producers will go out of busine...

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CULv2--WwAEZAVC.jpg:large Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 4h4 hours ago Corbyn has the best satisfaction ratings of any leader in today’s Ipsos poll. Farron ahead of Cameron http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2015/11/19/corbyn-has-the-best-satisfaction-ratin...

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Fokker? Or there is\was something called a Fairey Swordfish. It would give him something to point at. Far too classy for Dave. Blimey, talk about coincidence - a Swordfish has just flown very low over my house! I think it's something to do with BRNC commemorating last week's anniversary of the Batt...

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The Loon ? http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/aea_loon.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (That's the bird of course, before anyone shouts 'disgusting' at me. ;) _) The Bald Eagle? The Booby? Especially because, according to Wikipedia, "Their name was possibly based on t...

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Just caught the anniversary - forty years ago today. All twenty nine hands lost.

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Edited to add - if you're not familiar with the story, it's well told here, mainly by way of a modern folk classic by Gordon Lightfoot.

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Actually, with five minutes of watching I rather think that this may not be entirely about actual SAS bollocks. Which would make this....Oh FFS. Boys playing are boys playing. Let them get on with it, just why the SAS thing? Is this official collaboration? Or am I either missing something or being o...

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Well this is a post that is in the moment, but I'm watching Storyville on BBC4, and the next click up on my TV is a Ch4+1 thing about SAS trainees banging on about the SAS ethos. No contest as to who the stronger people are.

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[disgusted noise] ‏@tekkah 10 hrs10 hours ago Rupert Murdoch just laid off everyone at NatGeo. This asshole just ruined the greatest magazine in the world. http://reverbpress.com/business/rupert-murdoch-national-geographic-layoffs/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; … ?! My ne...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Looking like a landslide for Erdogan in today's Turkish GE. Ugh.

I was under the impression - albeit one gained some years ago - that the military were staunch defenders of Turkey's secularism, a legacy of Ataturk. Is this still the case, and if so, what now?

Hobiejoe

Another little gift for the (especially this particular eve) people of the night - Julian Fellowes getting a right good kicking btl in The Graun. Apologies if repeating a post.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle ... w#comments

G'night

Hobiejoe

I've been with Virgin forever, and the longer you are with them the more you seem to have to pay. I need to be able to use my phone anytime and pay through the nose for the privilege, and like you would be lost without the internet. I haven't used a tv or accessed scheduled programmes by any other ...

Hobiejoe

Well, late it is again. So, as a late night goody for the night owls, here's some Steely Dan celebrating the 50th anniversary of FM broadcasts from the Empire State building..... guess which track they chose.... Can't remember how to embed bloody youtube, so here's a link... https://youtu.be/kfyPB1X...

Hobiejoe

Sneaked out late at night (hello from one of Team Nightbird *wave*), but this has "dodgy" written all over it - and the Beeb blaming it all on care failures. And slap bang in the middle of it is the expectation that people with learning difficulties and ASD would be queuing up to buy their...

Hobiejoe

Just read Sparrow's summation of tonight's HoL events. Not one single mention of Labour. At all. Anywhere.

Harrumph.

G'night anyhoo.

Hobiejoe

@seeingclearly Apologies I am being particularly unwittingly cryptic tonight I don't even understand myself.Over indulgence in tomato eating. Not at all. After a day of babbling and railing was starting to not really know whether I was reading things right. Could happily live off tomato sarnies and...

Hobiejoe

And once you've handed in your homework you may enjoy a round of golf... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-34591272 Now that should get them squealing in the golf club bars...it seems that a chap/pess can "strive" to achieve the Surrey "gin'n'jag" dream, only to have th...

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Blimey! So, here's a little late-night homework for you: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/21/theresa-may-criticises-police-chief-bernard-hogan-howe-stop-search-race-record Screeching U-turn after being fixed up as nasty right-winger at conference, or rational view taken after much conside...

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Investigative journalist Martin Hickman, who co-wrote Dial M for Murdoch with Tom Watson, defends Watson against the recent full on abuse levelled at him. http://www.martin-hickman.com/tom-watson-witch-hunt.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I didn't see it last night, bu...

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http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2015/oct/09/awake-3am-entrepreneurs-biphasic-sleep-insomnia Lying awake at 3am? Perhaps you should try biphasic sleeping Extensive research by historian Roger Ekirch shows humans have traditionally slept in two phases. In his book, At Day’s Close: N...

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danesclose wrote:Ironically, not long after Denis Healey dies, Geoffrey Howe has followed him

I'd imagine that the Tory tributes are going to be rather muted given his part in Thatcher's downfall (Ha! Sounds like a volume of Spike Milligan's autubiography.)

Hobiejoe

Afternoon. One to file in the ever-growing You Couldn't Make It Up collection: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/09/freedom-of-information-commission-not-very-free-with-its-information And with the potted biogs of the members of the commission you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduc...

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Home from work early, and see HIGNFY appear on the iPlayer. Hosted by Jeremy Clarkson and with the not-at-all-over-priviledged Camilla Long. Think I'll find something more enervating. Maybe even catch up with the new Dangermouse. And you think I, a child of the seventies and eighties, am joking? Ju...

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Home from work early, and see HIGNFY appear on the iPlayer. Hosted by Jeremy Clarkson and with the not-at-all-over-priviledged Camilla Long. Think I'll find something more enervating. Maybe even catch up with the new Dangermouse. And you think I, a child of the seventies and eighties, am joking? Jus...

Hobiejoe

RogerOThornhill wrote:I'm not going to quote it as the nesting is horrendous, but why is Australia "under the US umbrella" - they're not even in NATO.

I can understand it for Germany but Australia?

A hangover from the Henry Kissinger SE Asia domino theory I suppose.

Hobiejoe

portugal.jpg In Portugal, binmen were on strike, so people left their rubbish outside the banks. I like the Portugese very much. We did a house swap with a family in Lisbon last Easter, just as the country were preparing to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their revolution. They had just put up a ...

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Edited because the text without context is, errr.....

Because I couldn't post my holiday snap, or remove evidence of my sad failure. I'm sure we used to be able to delete posting fails.

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That "privatise Channel Four" gaff. Nice and clear shot, thumb neatly aligned, gaff my arse.

Get the idea out there first, let the usual suspects (us) froth and grumble, and than announce it to the wider world who always thought it was in the private sector anyway.

Job done.

Hobiejoe

Oh, and is it still the case that under-sixteens have free travel in London? Only I've just bought a bus pass to get Sprog No.1 to her new secondary school. £180. Per term. *muttergrumble* They do indeed get it free and it's good, but it's more of a necessity in London than most places. I used to c...

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Oh, and is it still the case that under-sixteens have free travel in London? Only I've just bought a bus pass to get Sprog No.1 to her new secondary school.

£180.

Per term.

*muttergrumble*

Hobiejoe

Hadn't seen this from a couple of days ago. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/18/routemaster-buses-in-london-to-be-refitted-with-windows-that-open" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Routemaster buses in London to be refitted with windows that open Boris Johnson chide...

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