Bank Holiday weekend 24th, 25th & 26th August 2019

Post by **refitman** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 7:35 am

Morning all.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 7:52 am

My usual what Bank Holiday?
"Playing the martyr"

Post by **PaulfromYorkshire** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 7:57 am

I am having a bit of a holiday myself for a few days so won't be around much.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 8:59 am

Have a great time.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 8:59 am

(through gritted teeth)

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 9:00 am

"I haven't had a holiday for 63 years"

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 9:01 am

Of course you could argue for a few thousand years given you can't if you didn't exist.

Post by **refitman** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 9:34 am

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:I am having a bit of a holiday myself for a few days so won't be around much.

I'm at a wedding today, so also won't be around for a while.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 10:26 am

HindleA wrote:Of course you could argue for a few thousand years given you can't if you didn't exist.

Few thousand years, pah.

(adopts "Four Yorkshiremen" mode)

How about four billion?

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 10:47 am

You were lucky.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 10:56 am

https://www.theguardian.com/education/v ... tain-video" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 10:58 am

A bit of a wedding or a full one?

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 11:25 am

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:I am having a bit of a holiday myself for a few days so won't be around much.

Enjoy your time away

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 11:28 am

refitman wrote:
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:I am having a bit of a holiday myself for a few days so won't be around much.
I'm at a wedding today, so also won't be around for a while.

Please give my love to them & have a lovely time

Post by **refitman** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 11:31 am

HindleA wrote:A bit of a wedding or a full one?

Church and everything.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 11:52 am

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/education/v ... tain-video

Educational inequities are unjustifiable.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 12:03 pm

Good afternoon, everyone.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 12:12 pm

I like Marina Hyde's latest published yesterday. It's powerful and moving.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 12:12 pm

refitman wrote:
HindleA wrote:A bit of a wedding or a full one?
Church and everything.

My sister's first wedding was in a church - divorced within a decade. Second one with a registrar in a hotel - still going strong after 20 years.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 1:03 pm

Everything, what all of it?

(Please ignore in a "funny mood")

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 1:37 pm

@AK
What this about Dawn Foster? I'm referring to your post last night.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 2:28 pm

citizenJA wrote:@AK
What this about Dawn Foster? I'm referring to your post last night.

She has announced she isn't going to be a Guardian columnist anymore (though she will continue as a journalist on the paper)

Most seem not happy at the news, some suspect its not unconnected with the very anti Tom Watson piece she wrote a while ago.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 5:47 pm

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england ... ssion=true" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Post by **adam** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 10:12 pm

*waves* Been on holiday (Aberdyfi/Penhelig mainly, trips to Tywyn/Machynlleth). (Pronounciation test over). (Sorry, how did you just pronounce 'Pronounciation'?).

Back now.

Post by **adam** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 10:16 pm

AnatolyKasparov wrote:
refitman wrote:
HindleA wrote:A bit of a wedding or a full one?
Church and everything.
My sister's first wedding was in a church - divorced within a decade. Second one with a registrar in a hotel - still going strong after 20 years.

When I was telling during the local byelection here a fortnight ago the strange not-really-a-conservative woman I was chatting with was saying she was off to a wedding, and then said it was because she was the registrar. I said that it was funny, i used to be the opposite to her, and she asked me if I was Death. I said yes, obviously, to start with, but then admitted that I had been a clerk in the County Court and my job was to deal with Decrees Absolute, so I have divorced hundreds of people.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 10:17 pm

"woof woof";sorry mispronounced "back"

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 10:19 pm

citizenJA wrote:I like Marina Hyde's latest published yesterday. It's powerful and moving.

It was different from her usual style, and all the better for it.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 10:19 pm

"Death of a marriage"

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 11:11 pm

Why do banks need a holiday,anyway,barring mobile ones they just sit there?

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 11:12 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... admissions" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 11:14 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... cines-food" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sat 24 Aug, 2019 11:36 pm

adam wrote:*waves* Been on holiday (Aberdyfi/Penhelig mainly, trips to Tywyn/Machynlleth). (Pronounciation test over). (Sorry, how did you just pronounce 'Pronounciation'?).

Back now.

Message received . . .

Post by **adam** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 7:10 am

Good piece in the observer

So used are we to a borderless Europe we’re not ready for the coming shock

The argument gets more traction than it deserves because of a confusion about borders. In particular, there seems to be a common assumption that the absence of checks on goods crossing frontiers is the default state of the world and that the existence of border controls is a weird aberration. The assumption is false. As even a cursory glance at border arrangements across the globe reveals, border controls are entirely normal: it is their absence that is the aberration.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 7:13 am

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... nt-closure" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 7:20 am

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... mped-homes" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I was brought up in a shoe box,apart from glorifying in others destitution and being a selfish shithouse ,never did me any harm.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 7:33 am

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/amp28 ... ssion=true" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 11:22 am

HindleA wrote:https://www.runnersworld.com/news/amp28 ... ssion=true

I was very disappointed to find that the article wasn't about beans.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 11:23 am

Good morfternoon.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 11:36 am

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... nt-closure

Completely normal behaviour this, can't see any downsides to such a plan at all

gilsey · Post by **gilsey** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 12:01 pm

adam wrote:Good piece in the observer

So used are we to a borderless Europe we’re not ready for the coming shock
The argument gets more traction than it deserves because of a confusion about borders. In particular, there seems to be a common assumption that the absence of checks on goods crossing frontiers is the default state of the world and that the existence of border controls is a weird aberration. The assumption is false. As even a cursory glance at border arrangements across the globe reveals, border controls are entirely normal: it is their absence that is the aberration.

I saw his twitter thread the other day, it's a very very good point.

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gilsey · Post by **gilsey** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 12:04 pm

More than halfway there. #cricket

gilsey · Post by **gilsey** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 12:10 pm

gilsey wrote:More than halfway there. #cricket

From the G OBO.

We really really really want and hope England to win. But, it’s horribly possible to see them collapse in under an hour.

There can’t be many sporting sides around the world where the gap between two credible outcomes is so vast. Nor where that dichotomy is so keenly embraced by the team’s supporters.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 12:15 pm

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Fight, fight!

gilsey · Post by **gilsey** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 12:27 pm

I agree with Boles for once.

Nick Boles MP
@NickBoles
No 10 can plot all it likes but there won’t be a mid-October election unless 2/3 MPs vote for it. Opposition MPs are not going to vote for it while No Deal Brexit is baked in for 31 October. To get an election Johnson must first negotiate a 6 month extension of Article 50.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 1:49 pm

Nothing substantive emerged from today's meeting between Donald Tusk and Boris Johnson (Sky TV breaking news).

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 3:36 pm

HindleA wrote:https://www.runnersworld.com/news/amp28 ... ssion=true

During her last four miles, [Ellie] Pell held sub-7:00 mile pace, her fastest splits of the race. She broke the tape as the overall winner in 3:58:37, which meant she averaged around 7:40 mile pace for the 50K.

Wonderful!

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 3:36 pm

adam wrote:*waves* Been on holiday (Aberdyfi/Penhelig mainly, trips to Tywyn/Machynlleth). (Pronounciation test over). (Sorry, how did you just pronounce 'Pronounciation'?).

Back now.

Welcome back!

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 3:53 pm

adam wrote:Good piece in the observer

So used are we to a borderless Europe we’re not ready for the coming shock
The argument gets more traction than it deserves because of a confusion about borders. In particular, there seems to be a common assumption that the absence of checks on goods crossing frontiers is the default state of the world and that the existence of border controls is a weird aberration. The assumption is false. As even a cursory glance at border arrangements across the globe reveals, border controls are entirely normal: it is their absence that is the aberration.

This information (and other Brexit realities) should've been emphasised daily by the BBC

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 3:56 pm

PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sun 25 Aug, 2019 4:17 pm

Well!