In todays news...

[Horse]

It seems everybody has forgotten the title of this thread and trying to bore us to death.

Fair point

I was posting about something 50 years ago

[Ant]

Doing well today. I upset irie by being on his ignore list and I've upset you by quoting you.

'Remain' was totally irrelevant.

Keep it bitter

You changed what I said, there's quite the difference.

No, I'm saying that I don't need to be bitter, just because remoaning has infected someone who is resenting that their vote was in the minority over half a decade ago.

Get a grip.

There you are, your full statement. With bits in bold that were irrelevant, so removed.

If you feel they were relevant to the birthday of legislation, fill your boots.

So by upsetting people you think you're doing well? Well that's a small insight into the person I suppose.

That you told us this morning that you were busy, but have spent half the day banging on is a similar insight Or this is it


Life is too short for that, I've got better things to be doing.

We'll keep it remainery anyway.

[demographic]

bore us to death.

Good of you to join in.

[irie]

bore us to death.

Good of you to join in.

And that makes two of you.

[Horse]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/63188718

Italy's Filippo Ganna has smashed cycling's hour world record - registering 56.792km in 60 minutes on a track in Switzerland.

He beat the previous UCI mark, 55.548km, set by his Ineos Grenadiers team-mate Dan Bigham in August, by a margin of 1.244km.

Ganna, 26, rode a specially designed 3D-printed Pinarello bike at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen.

Details of the bike:
https://pinarello.com/global/en/bikes/r ... bolide-f-1

[Yorick]

Apparently there's a new F1 champion. After last years fiasco I've paid very little attention to F1 this year.

And by the lack of F1 chat here lately, it seems that many others have done the same.

[Noggin]

Well, I still watch it - either in French or the highlights on C4. But I got pretty shouted down here when I last commented, so I figured I'd leave conversation about F1 to people that know much more than me!!!

[MrLongbeard]

It's been a bit of a 'meh' season this year with the new rules & cars, with luck a few more teams will catch up and make it a more interesting season in 2023

[Mr. Dazzle]

Red Bull have kinda fucked off with it haven't they.

The greater shame has been Ferrari's total inability to capitalise on their decent car and great driver

Even bigger shame is that I've cancelled my Sky subscription.

[Pirahna]

Even bigger shame is that I've cancelled my Sky subscription.

I get my telly via an Amazon Firestick with a dodgy app installed. I seem to have every UK channel, every Sky channel, BT Sport, Eurosport, you name it I've got it.

[slowsider]

It's been a bit of a 'meh' season this year with the new rules & cars, with luck a few more teams will catch up and make it a more interesting season in 2023

And the odd tractor

[Ant]

If we were still in the EU, the F1 wouldn't have been such a disaster.

[Yorick]

Tourists slightly up on 2019 numbers which is good.
Here's where they came from..

The tourist figures for August 2022 are as follows:
Spain – 53,159
Germany – 17,117
Belgium – 5,945
France – 18,038
Netherlands – 29,097
Ireland – 9,518
Italy – 8,343
Nordic Countries – 3,816
United Kingdom – 124,117
Other – 9,051
TOTAL – 278,200

[JackyJoll]

Tourists slightly up on 2019 numbers which is good.
Here's where they came from..

The tourist figures for August 2022 are as follows:
Spain – 53,159
Germany – 17,117
Belgium – 5,945
France – 18,038
Netherlands – 29,097
Ireland – 9,518
Italy – 8,343
Nordic Countries – 3,816
United Kingdom – 124,117
Other – 9,051
TOTAL – 278,200

Didn’t quite knock the bombing of Kiev off the front page.

[irie]

"The 2023 slowdown will be broad based with countries accounting for a third of the global economy expected to contract this year or next. The three largest economies, the United States, China, and the EU area will continue to stall. In short, the worst is yet to come, and for many people 2023 will feel like a recession.

So will there or will there not be recessions in 2023, and in which countries?

What an utter waste of space the IMF is with its pretense to prescience.

[Horse]

"The 2023 slowdown will be broad based with countries accounting for a third of the global economy expected to contract this year or next. The three largest economies, the United States, China, and the EU area will continue to stall. In short, the worst is yet to come, and for many people 2023 will feel like a recession.

So will there or will there not be recessions in 2023, and in which countries?

What an utter waste of space the IMF is with its pretense to prescience.

They're complimentary about the UK. Not.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63206733

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has doubled down on criticism of the chancellor's mini-budget, days after warning it will fuel rising prices.

The body, which works to stabilise economic growth, admitted tax cuts announced by Kwasi Kwarteng would boost growth in the short-term.

But it said the cuts would "complicate the fight" against soaring prices.

It expects high prices to last longer in the UK with only Slovakia out of the eurozone set to see higher inflation.

Inflation, which measures how the cost of living changes over time, is expected to peak at about 11.3% before the end of the year in the UK, according to the IMF's latest assessment of the global economy.

In each of the next two years, it expects price rises will average at about 9% - far above the Bank of England's target of 2%.

Although the UK economy is set to grow the fastest of the major economies included in the G7 group this year, it is projected to grind to a near-halt next year, with it expanding by just 0.3%.

[JackyJoll]

We can live without compliments.

[Mr. Dazzle]

So the government needs to find about £60bn right?

I couldn't help but notice when I saw this chart that there's one easy thing they could drop which would save the money and also make loads of people happy. Win win

[Cousin Jack]

I assume you mean HMRC.

Good idea at first sight, but the drop in the tax take would be about £700 billion. Who would pay tax if they didn't have to?

Or should we cast the poison dwarf in Scotchland adrift?

[Mr. Dazzle]

I was thinking of the latter

I just laughed when I saw all these departments and then "Scotland"...why are they not also part of Health, DWP, etc.?