Thursday 25th August 2016

[PorFavor]

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‏@KateEMcCann

More bad news for Labour. G4S declines awkward last ditch plea to provide conference security, despite boycott:

What was I saying yesterday about G4S being over-dominant in the security business?

If Labour were smart (and right now they're not) they ought to be making this point loudly.

Or, you know, that it is appalling that any commercial organisation is permitted to get away with not allowing any union representation for its workforce.

Well, they could have used Showsec, but too late now.

What about Mitie or Securitas?

There must be other firms? Are other unions in dispute with them? Are they too small?

I'd imagine that you need quite a long lead in time to book security for a big event like this. I doubt a month is long enough now.

Breweries and piss ups.

There's always that nice Milly Molly Mandy woman. (Close Protection, was it?)



Edited to make my reply not in the middle of your post.

[JonnyT1234]

You would have thought that someone, somewhere would have said, "No. It's a really, really shit name. This is an absolutely terrible idea." But, no...

Expect a lot more of this sort of thing at our own cultural institutes as they are forced to prostitute themselves for money due to severe cuts in government funding.

The Chicago White Sox announced Wednesday they have signed a 13-year-naming rights agreement for the ballpark.

Beginning Nov. 1st, it will be known as Guaranteed Rate Field.

http://wgntv.com/2016/08/24/white-sox-a ... -ballpark/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[PorFavor]

Ah! Molly Prince - that's her name.

[JonnyT1234]

Kevin Costner is probably free. In both senses.

[PorFavor]

Kevin Costner is probably free. In both senses.

I thought he'd got a job as a postman?

[PaulfromYorkshire]

http://www.chris-hackley.com/2016/08/br ... r.html?m=1

But who knows- perhaps in a hundred years there will be a new statue in Trafalgar Square, of Boris Johnson naked on a sixty foot plinth, triumphantly eating a snot sandwich.

Why this sudden trend for naked statues?
I'd settle for him being dressed & untriumphant.

edited to add: Before anyone gets the wrong idea, no, I haven't been googling "naked politicians"

Oh I don't know. There might be something we could correlate with propensity to fire missiles at struggling states

[JonnyT1234]

Before or after he grew gills? How we laughed at him but with sea levels rising...

[PaulfromYorkshire]

Mungo & Midge?

[PaulfromYorkshire]

Oh no that was Mary, not Milly, Molly, Mandy

[JonnyT1234]

Zippy and Bungle seem more apt somehow.

PS. 32 degrees in the office today. If this carries on I may have to get naked [...profuse apologies, I will grow up one day.]

[JonnyT1234]

Deleted. Just like my cookies by the free wifi. Grrr.

[JonnyT1234]

Breaking News: Party conference back on. Labour Party cancelled instead.

[AnatolyKasparov]

2. Lord Sainsbury donates to Lib Dems

Is he a party member? If so, that is surely a bit more serious than being somewhat indiscreet on Twitter......

[JonnyT1234]

"Sainsbury sells out."

Writes itself, doesn't it.

[SpinningHugo]

2. Lord Sainsbury donates to Lib Dems

Is he a party member? If so, that is surely a bit more serious than being somewhat indiscreet on Twitter......

Not any longer. No.

[tinyclanger2]

Am too hot.

[PorFavor]

2. Lord Sainsbury donates to Lib Dems

Is he a party member? If so, that is surely a bit more serious than being somewhat indiscreet on Twitter......

Not any longer. No.

I can't find that information. Where did you, please?

[SpinningHugo]

Is he a party member? If so, that is surely a bit more serious than being somewhat indiscreet on Twitter......

Not any longer. No.

I can't find that information. Where did you, please?

Twitter.

Reliable source I know.

But if you give money to other parties you get thrown out, so safe to assume correct.

[tinyclanger2]

Have just found this:

Star-Trek-The-Original-Series-Kirk-TOS-Stunt-Pants-1.jpg (118.9 KiB) Viewed 10160 times

And am now keen to own a pair of Star Trek "stunt pants"

[tinyclanger2]

Am equally keen to hear from our plethora of ex-posters, including firm favourites such as:

Rebecca Riots 2
Robert Snozers
The Grim Squeaker
Ohso (and indirectly Mr Ohso)
Ernst Remarx
RearoftheStore
Letskip
NonOxbrideCol
etc
etc

[tinyclanger2]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... urkini-ban" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
demonstrators create beach outside French Embassy to protest burkini ban.
good work.

[howsillyofme1]

Am equally keen to hear from our plethora of ex-posters, including firm favourites such as:

Rebecca Riots 2
Robert Snozers
The Grim Squeaker
Ohso (and indirectly Mr Ohso)
Ernst Remarx
RearoftheStore
Letskip
NonOxbrideCol
etc
etc

Evening

I have been in contact with a number of those who have gone and they are not going to be coming back in a hurry I am afraid.....a real shame but that is how it is.....this leadership campaign has done untold damage to the party and by consequence sites such as this, and I know who I am blaming for that!

[frightful_oik]

Not any longer. No.

I can't find that information. Where did you, please?

Twitter.

Reliable source I know.

But if you give money to other parties you get thrown out, so safe to assume correct.

Not safe at all. Read the article about the "rigged purge" in the Graun. He's still a member.

[PorFavor]

@tinyclanger2

Are Star Trek stunt pants acceptable dancing attire?

Would Rick Astley (or even his evil twin, Nick Astley) wear them? You have to ask yourself that.

[RogerOThornhill]

So.you're the Minister for Schools on the day that something like 3,400 secondaries received GCSE results.

So how many do you congratulate individually by name?
Just the one.
Which one would that be?
Oh.



Couldn't be more obvious that they really don't give a shit about anyone unless you're one of their pet projects.

Someone asked whether all schools were going to get similar...

[TR'sGhost]

Zippy and Bungle seem more apt somehow.

PS. 32 degrees in the office today. If this carries on I may have to get naked [...profuse apologies, I will grow up one day.]

Move to the Black Country. Highest temperature we've had here this "summer" is about 23C. With weeks on end that barely reach 20C, and then only for a few hours in the afternoon.

[tinyclanger2]

Star Trek stunt pants practically MADE for dancing.

[tinyclanger2]

(in my view)

[howsillyofme1]

Zippy and Bungle seem more apt somehow.

PS. 32 degrees in the office today. If this carries on I may have to get naked [...profuse apologies, I will grow up one day.]

Move to the Black Country. Highest temperature we've had here this "summer" is about 23C. With weeks on end that barely reach 20C, and then only for a few hours in the afternoon.

People should just move to the Black Country anyway....Heart of England!

[55DegreesNorth]

'kin melting

Move here. Mrs 55 had the fire on this afternoon.

[tinybgoat]

Star Trek stunt pants practically MADE for dancing.

To boldly go-go where no man has go-goed before.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/dis ... 0127204936

edit:changed image link to standard link,
nobody should be made to watch that.

[tinyclanger2]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/ ... ishop-ukip" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
BBC one-off Nigel Farage comedy starring Kevin Bishop of Porridge remake fame

[JonnyT1234]

Star Trek stunt pants practically MADE for dancing.

Can't touch this. Do doo do doo. Waaah wah.

[JonnyT1234]

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

[Hobiejoe]

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

Tribble patch.

[JonnyT1234]

Edit: OK. That's enough of those big pants.

Can't touch this. Do doo do doo. Waaah wah.

[JonnyT1234]

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

Tribble patch.

Very much LOL. Ha.

[JonnyT1234]

Star Trek stunt pants practically MADE for dancing.

To boldly go-go where no man has go-goed before.

Snip

edit:changed image link to standard link,
nobody should be made to watch that.

I'll see your Chekov and raise you a Spock:

[youtube]AGF5ROpjRAU[/youtube]

[tinyclanger2]

From rail nationalisation to grammar schools, rather than look to the future our parties seek to reclaim a lost postwar British greatness
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... c-gestures" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Indeed. False nostalgia. Cue another attempt to have Mediterranean George replaced by Saxon Edmund as our patron "Saint".

[JonnyT1234]

Of course, nothing can ever defeat Kirk. Not when he has a Tribble patch.

[youtube]V1Ar79f8aN8[/youtube]

[JonnyT1234]

... except, in true Trek fashion, Kirk himself ...

[youtube]lul-Y8vSr0I[/youtube]

[Allegory for the Labour leadership contest alert]

[PorFavor]

From rail nationalisation to grammar schools, rather than look to the future our parties seek to reclaim a lost postwar British greatness
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... c-gestures" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Indeed. False nostalgia. Cue another attempt to have Mediterranean George replaced by Saxon Edmund as our patron "Saint".

Surprisingly good article. True of both Jeremy Corbyn's Labour (in my opinion) and the Conservatives. Only I don't have the problem of ever having to think about voting for the Conservatives.

I don't feel that Jeremy Corbyn quite has the hang of how to, or even the desire to, achieve what is described in the penultimate sentence of the article. That the Conservatives don't, either, is a given.


Edited to add

That's not to say that the right wing of Labour have got the hang of it either. They're guilty of trying to totally ditch the past. Denying it even, Peter-style, in some cases.

[JonnyT1234]

From rail nationalisation to grammar schools, rather than look to the future our parties seek to reclaim a lost postwar British greatness
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... c-gestures" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Indeed. False nostalgia. Cue another attempt to have Mediterranean George replaced by Saxon Edmund as our patron "Saint".

Surprisingly good article. True of both Jeremy Corbyn's Labour (in my opinion) and the Conservatives. Only I don't have the problem of ever having to think about voting for the Conservatives.

I don't feel that Jeremy Corbyn quite has the hang of how to, or even the desire to, achieve what is described in the penultimate sentence of the article. That the Conservatives don't, either, is a given.


Edited to add

That's not to say that the right wing of Labour have got the hang of it either. They're guilty of trying to totally ditch the past. Denying it even, Peter-style, in some cases.

Personally, I thought it was rubbish. This bit in particular is just egregious projection - it's what he wants Corbyn to be and what he wants people to think Corbyn is, not necessarily what Corbyn actually is:

One senses he has not had a genuinely new idea in 40 years and is proud of it. And that he won’t be happy until the coal mines are open again and the NUM is on strike against the National Coal Board too.

And the problem with New Labour was not that they suffered from "valueless newness" it was that they suffered from valueless oldness dressed in a shiny suit. They're politics was just Thatcherism with a slight leftwards twist, sold as being a different, third way.

[JonnyT1234]

Similarly this:

Now, under Jeremy Corbyn, Labour has turned to the past. Corbyn speaks of renationalising the railways, not because it would work well but because he thinks state ownership is right.

Or, despite the truly laughable attempts of some here to try and persuade us that what we have is amazingly brilliant, maybe it is because privatisation has been a disaster and continues to be a disaster for the rail service?

[PorFavor]

Similarly this:

Now, under Jeremy Corbyn, Labour has turned to the past. Corbyn speaks of renationalising the railways, not because it would work well but because he thinks state ownership is right.

Or, despite the truly laughable attempts of some here to try and persuade us that what we have is amazingly brilliant, maybe it is because privatisation has been a disaster and continues to be a disaster for the rail service?

Kind of see your point on the bits that were simply personal attacks - which I rather glided over. It was the general sentiment of the article that I felt was good. Could have stood on its merits without the personal stuff, I grant you.

You still melting?

Edited to add -

And yes - renationalise rail. And a good few other things.

[Hobiejoe]

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 even worse.

Guitar and joint vocals by Joe Jackson, backing band by the Ben Folds Five. Choir by the awesome audience who were lucky enough to be in the theatre when this was recorded. Sadly no video other than a crappy Daily Motion bit. Your choice, but I'll stick with the audio.

Oh yes, politics. Other than a song enjoying a coruscating filleting of privilege there is a bit of a debate as to whether the young lady in question was Danae Stratou, who studied at St Martins College between '83 and '88, and went on to marry Yanis Varoufakis. I can't get too worked up about it, just trying to keep it politics rather than political.

Anyway, cracking track.


[youtube]ainyK6fXku0[/youtube]

[extankie]

All the controversial items that dodgy Dave erm dodged are now coming home. It's ok though, TM's a leftie, we all heard her speech outside number ten.

Yep,we all heard the speech, but none of us gets the "between the lines" bits, or the "misspoke" bits..till they happen:(