Thursday 20th July 2017

[PaulfromYorkshire]

This just made me chuckle - and I needed it

To many people’s surprise, the Queen looked delighted at the playing song – ABBA’s disco classic Dancing Queen.
The Queen apparently said quite audibly: “I always try to dance when this song comes on, because I am the Queen, and I like to dance.”

[HindleA]

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[PaulfromYorkshire]

Yes I wonder why she didn't choose that one

[HindleA]

A la Ken Dodd I have a tickling stick.Naked feather dusting therapy I find helps mood.If nothing else uncontrolled laughter in others.

[HindleA]

Not that I get many vistors,or indeed many more than once.

[PaulfromYorkshire]

Not that I get many vistors,or indeed many more than once.

Thanks for cheering me up

[PaulfromYorkshire]

Where did your post go A?

[HindleA]

A mixture of Kindle playing up/editing.

[citizenJA]

Good-evening, everyone

[HindleA]

That was my purposeThanks for being so easily cheered up..Though finding amusement in the plight of a dysfunctional widower might be questionable.


(Joke)

[PorFavor]

e.g. John Flatley denied that the latest statistics were anything to worry about

They're not reliable. The ones to look at the EWCS as the methodology has changed for the police reported ones, which aren't designated NS.

This isn't to say the criminal justice system isn't chronically underfunded (especially compared to the ring fenced NHS), it is.

I was trying to be funny!

"flatly denied"

Sorry

It was funny!

[HindleA]

It was.

[HindleA]

WD is the international vehicle registration code for Dominica,if anybody didn't know/was wondering.

[AnatolyKasparov]

WD is the international vehicle registration code for Dominica,if anybody didn't know/was wondering.

Yeah, I was thinking of little else

[RogerOThornhill]

Talking of Vince Cable, I saw this...

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Reminded me of a pic taken for our company magazine where the Group MD was pictured sitting at a PC with a mouse in his hand.

The only problem was that the mouse was about an inch off the table...

[citizenJA]

Maybe Andrea Leadsom is in fact an apparition from the 18th century?

That'd be a mercy

[citizenJA]

Someone get the code for sending apparitions back

[citizenJA]

Mansfield Park is my favourite Jane Austen novel
use of the novel as a literary art form revolutionary
Faultless, her work

[tinyclanger2]

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[citizenJA]

“In this summer of warm prosecco, I think we in the cabinet would also do well to reflect on those military virtues – loyalty, discipline, cohesion – that might better enable us first to concentrate our fire on a dangerous enemy in reach of Downing Street, somebody who would lower our defences, scrap our deterrent, weaken our response to terrorism,” [defence minister, Michael Fallon] told a reception hosted by the Conservative-supporting Policy Exchange thinktank on Tuesday evening.

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Just when I think I couldn't be more shocked, I am
Fallon says this to his safe crowd
Ignores a disastrous GE result less than two months ago returning a Tory minority government
Further cultivates incredulous antipathy and alarm over their continued leadership

He said the party needed to “better articulate again the moral case for lower taxation, for honest public financing, for wider opportunity, enterprise and ownership”, calling it the “Conservative case”.

[PorFavor]

Apologies if we've already had this -

Tories use 'take out the trash' day to dump controversial reports

Official documents that include details of deep cuts to police numbers published too late to be scrutinised by MPs

Warnings in a separate Foreign Office report that there are grave concerns about the human rights situations in countries such as Saudi Arabia, China and Bahrain though many of the countries listed bought billions of pounds of arms from the UK. (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... al-reports

[HindleA]

I linked to today's written statements without comment.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Without Question Time for the summer how am I going to get my weekly fix of chuckling at angry, shouty Brexiters?

I mean online mockery is all well and good but I like to see them shaking with rage with veins protruding on their shallow foreheads at the merest questioning of their lunacy.

Perhaps a few weeks off will cure me of this fetish.

[PorFavor]

I linked to today's written statements without comment.

No comment.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Without Question Time for the summer how am I going to get my weekly fix of chuckling at angry, shouty Brexiters?

I mean online mockery is all well and good but I like to see them shaking with rage with veins protruding on their shallow foreheads at the merest questioning of their lunacy.

Perhaps a few weeks off will cure me of this fetish.

Don't you mean the WALL OF GAMMON??

[HindleA]

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Britons living in Europe could lose right to live in another EU country
Threat of potential restriction on UK citizens after Brexit emerges at end of intense technical talks in Brussels

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Oh and I'm sure I must be late to the party in laughing at Daniel Hannan's latest bit of deceitful weirdness.

I'll post this nonetheless in case anyone else hasn't seen it.

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[HindleA]

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[HindleA]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... wn-inquiry" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Sky'sGoneOut]

If I were to compare shouty brexiters to a meat product I guess it would have to be that fatty jelly stuff you get in pork pies because it's a small proportion of fucking horribleness that spoils what would otherwise be pleasant experience.

[citizenJA]

Goodnight, everyone
love,
cJA

[PorFavor]

@citizenJA

Night night.

[RogerOThornhill]

Oh and I'm sure I must be late to the party in laughing at Daniel Hannan's latest bit of deceitful weirdness.

I'll post this nonetheless in case anyone else hasn't seen it.

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What is decidedly odd is Andrew Lilico's frenzied defence of Hannan's tweets - he really has gone a bit weird lately...

[Sky'sGoneOut]

The former prime minister Gordon Brown has described the forced migration of British children as a bigger sex abuse scandal than that perpetrated by Jimmy Savile.

There are still a lot of people here in Leeds who think all that stuff about their beloved Jimmy Savile is made up. I live not far from where he used to live and indulge his largesse in the local restaurants, and have had a couple of conversations in pubs with locals who were determined that some shadowy force had besmirched his good name. What shadowy force that might be remained a mystery as they weren't able to tell me, or give a good reason why anyone would give a shit about besmirching Savile's memory, but it must be true because he was such a kind and generous man.

So it seems all you have to do is treat the locals to free pizzas and you can fondle their kids with impunity.

[PorFavor]

Cabinet accepts Brexit transition will mean years of free movement

Senior source tells Guardian mood has shifted under pressure from British businesses to secure a workable deal (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... e-movement

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Would you look at the time. All I'm going to say is I just spent a few days in a posh Cheshire town that now has a new Labour MP (new as in just elected, not that Blair shit). A seat no sane pollster ever gave them a hope of winning. As cynical an old bastard as I am I do now have hope. And for that I must give Corbyn and Momentum their due respect. Grudgingly and with various caveats. I don't want to end up in some kind of perpetual Trotskyist revolution for example. We've got enough of that kind of nonsense from the right at the moment.

[HindleA]

I turned blue,I specifically moved here as one of the most unlikely to.I don't blame Corbyn,nor indeed those who suggested I fuck off.out of the party if I don't like or think democracy /MP control should be best served by three people and a whippet called Trevor.Of course that just makes me stay.