In todays news...

[Saga Lout]

Oooer, that's a biggun

Just shy of 500 mile long lightening bolt.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60221521

From the video: "The World Meteorological Organisation says this new record is not not climate change related" which leaves me wondering how the story made it onto the BBC.

[irie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60218573

A spelling mistake on thousands of pieces of Platinum Jubilee merchandising, calling it the "Platinum Jubbly", is proving a challenge for souvenir sellers.

Maybe they'll be like those stamps with the airplane printed upside down.

Invest now!

Sell them as 'dell boy' classics.

Looking at photos, as noted above instead of "Jubilee" some of the pieces said "Jubbly" but curiously some of the pieces said "Jublee".

Me suspicious? Nah ...

[slowsider]

Oooer, that's a biggun

Just shy of 500 mile long lightening bolt.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60221521

From the video: "The World Meteorological Organisation says this new record is not not climate change related" which leaves me wondering how the story made it onto the BBC.

Was that a deliberate double negative?

[Saga Lout]

Oooer, that's a biggun

Just shy of 500 mile long lightening bolt.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60221521

From the video: "The World Meteorological Organisation says this new record is not not climate change related" which leaves me wondering how the story made it onto the BBC.

Was that a deliberate double negative?

No, no, a thousand time no.

And now too late to edit.

[Potter]

Slavery alive and well in Carlisle.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-60256915

The case is horrendous, the senior investigating officer said it had been a "truly harrowing and traumatic case" and he could not remember another where "the exploitation of a vulnerable worker has taken place over such a long period of time".

So what sentence for keeping a slave for 40yrs? Nine months suspended sentence.
Utter savages, perhaps the judge is from some shithole backwater up there and as they're all related he let him off.

[gremlin]

Or needs a bit if painting done on the cheap...


Meanwhile, Jimmy Carr is getting some great publicity for his new Netflix show.

BBC News - Jimmy Carr sparks fury with Holocaust routine in Netflix special:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60261876

More worrying is that Nadine Norris is saying that laws could be passed to remove any comedy that people find offensive. What a bland world we're seemingly walking in to....

[Mr. Dazzle]

Ian Hislop summed up what should be the response here.

"You don't ban it. You. Just. Don't. BUY it."

[demographic]

Slavery alive and well in Carlisle.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-60256915

The case is horrendous, the senior investigating officer said it had been a "truly harrowing and traumatic case" and he could not remember another where "the exploitation of a vulnerable worker has taken place over such a long period of time".

So what sentence for keeping a slave for 40yrs? Nine months suspended sentence.
Utter savages, perhaps the judge is from some shithole backwater up there and as they're all related he let him off.

Meow.

Although, reading it through it's not a big surprise he was at Hadrians Camp.

[Potter]

One assumes that the judge must have been from there as well with that sentence.
Imprison a man for forty years, keep him in a damp shed, literally put him to slave labour - and get a 9 month suspended sentence.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I was surprised, to say the least, too.

I genuinely wonder what powers the judge has in this case now. As in, what sentences were they able to impose vs. what they actually did.

[demographic]

I'm pretty sure I've seen the younger of the two Peter Swailes (the one found guilty) , somewhere around.
The city only has about a hundred thousand people and although that seems like a big number, you eventually see most of them about.
One of those places where you learn to come to terms with any mistakes you make instead of just moving away to where nobody knows who you are and re-inventing yourself.

Yonks ago there were a few people being knobs in a local Chinese restaurant and I think he was the main one.
Not positive though.

[Potter]

I'm pretty sure I've seen the younger of the two Peter Swailes (the one found guilty) , somewhere around.
The city only has about a hundred thousand people and although that seems like a big number, you eventually see most of them about.
One of those places where you learn to come to terms with any mistakes you make instead of just moving away to where nobody knows who you are and re-inventing yourself.

Yonks ago there were a few people being knobs in a local Chinese restaurant and I think he was the main one.
Not positive though.

That got a genuine lol out of me this morning, Mrs Potter asked why I was laughing to myself
In some parts of Cumbria you have to be born, live, work and die in a 10 mile radius otherwise it's seen as a character defect

But you help make my point very well for me, up there everyone knows each other and the fact that this bloke was able to keep a slave for forty years means that plenty of people knew about it and said nothing. And that sentence means that even now no one wants to make anything of it.
When you spend your whole life floating around in a little boat, no one wants to rock it.

[demographic]

Well, thats certainly one way of looking at it.
Hell, I'm so parochial that I've even kept the same username for twenty years. Brass neck see?

The building I was born in was a workhouse and I've worked for the company that made the Millenium Falcon door*


*Both of those are technically accurate if slightly misleading in terms of timing.

[Felix]

A lifetime of pies for being stupid

https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news ... ooed-body/

[Potter]

A lifetime of pies for being stupid

https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news ... ooed-body/

My IQ went down a couple of points just from reading that, but to be fair to him you can't knock his commitment.

I also note that he's an NHS worker, gawd bless him.

[Yambo]

Tough new targets for the 'envy of the world' to tackle the backlog of people waiting for treatment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60289635

One wonders if tough new targets are the way to go. If they're too tough the NHS won't achieve them and what will happen then - budget cuts so they're less able to achieve them?

Of course, if they started sacking people that can be held to blame for targets not being met, is there any guarantee that the new people in post will be more efficient? If they are more efficient, why aren't they in post now?

What a mess the 'envy of the world' has become.

[slowsider]

Tough new targets for the 'envy of the world' to tackle the backlog of people waiting for treatment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60289635

One wonders if tough new targets are the way to go. If they're too tough the NHS won't achieve them and what will happen then - budget cuts so they're less able to achieve them?

Of course, if they started sacking people that can be held to blame for targets not being met, is there any guarantee that the new people in post will be more efficient? If they are more efficient, why aren't they in post now?

What a mess the 'envy of the world' has become.

Johnson gave a press conference in an MRI imaging suite earlier; any patients needing scans would have continued queuing outside until he had finished with the photo-op.

[Horse]

Of course, if they started sacking people that can be held to blame

Hmmm interesting concept

[Yorick]

Top man

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60301705

[Felix]

Real top man