Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: Beardy on 08 November, 2018, 09:00:09 am
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Helen Andrews.
Who? She’s a lady who was interviewed on the BBC R4 Today programme this morning on account of her serving at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. She concluded the interview by saying that Brexit was stupid and that we should all be coming closer, not splitting off like that. The interviewer neither interuptered her nor chastised her for being political. I think she has earned the right to voice an opinion on such topics.
** I thought that we had a Not a Super-twat thread, but a/ I can’t find it and b/ I didn’t really want to associate such a person with a thread title containing super-twat.
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Any way of getting a transcript or linking to a podcast?
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If you're in the UK you can listen here (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000117w). Maybe Beardy could give a pointer as to where in the programme the interview fell?
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At or just after 7:22
https://twitter.com/bbcr4today/status/1060432343486398465?s=21
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Every single one of the Mars InSight lander team. Whoop.
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I assume it was sucessful then, haven't seen anything other than the Maybot on news today.
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I assume it was sucessful then, haven't seen anything other than the Maybot on news today.
just this moment, (-4 mins) touched down.
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I assume it was sucessful then, haven't seen anything other than the Maybot on news today.
If it had been totally successful it would have delivered both Trump and May to be king & queen of Mars.
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I assume it was sucessful then, haven't seen anything other than the Maybot on news today.
If it had been totally successful it would have delivered both Trump and May to be king & queen of Mars.
Theyve got to make sure that there’s no life there first, otherwise we’d be up in front of the pan galactic tribunal for inflicting major knobage on an undeserving populace.
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I assume it was sucessful then, haven't seen anything other than the Maybot on news today.
If it had been totally successful it would have delivered both Trump and May to be king & queen of Mars.
I think Elon Musk is planning to be the first, so he can tweet that everyone who challenges him is a "pedo" with the impunity provided by many million miles of space.
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I assume it was sucessful then, haven't seen anything other than the Maybot on news today.
If it had been totally successful it would have delivered both Trump and May to be king & queen of Mars.
I think Elon Musk is planning to be the first, so he can tweet that everyone who challenges him is a "pedo" with the impunity provided by many million miles of space.
...and impending death.
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If this is meant to be an antidote to the SuperTwat thread, it's not working.
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I assume it was sucessful then, haven't seen anything other than the Maybot on news today.
If it had been totally successful it would have delivered both Trump and May to be king & queen of Mars.
I think Elon Musk is planning to be the first, so he can tweet that everyone who challenges him is a "pedo" with the impunity provided by many million miles of space.
Apparently he "knows what he's doing", or so it was reported in the paper yesterday ::-) ;D
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If this is meant to be an antidote to the SuperTwat thread, it's not working.
Okay then: All those splendid engineering types at SpaceX and Tesla, pushing the boundaries of technology, all the while being micro-managed by Elon Musk.
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Pretty much anyone* working in any kind of public service.
*Yes I know there are knob-heads in public service jobs, but given they have to deal with the *us* to do their jobs I'm prepared to cut them quite a bit of slack.
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Two of my children are of that ilk (public services workers, not knobheads1) and I seriously don’t know what motivates them to get out of bed in the mornings, given some of the tales they tell. I’m immensely proud of them, but do sometimes which for an easier life for them.
1. Ms Beardy the younger has her moments, but usually only with those that have earned it. Apart from me of course, even though there’s virtually nothing I wouldn’t do for her.
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A story about taking care of your students to a whole new level...
A chemistry professor at Lund University had a doctoral student under her supervision held up with his family in an ISIS-controlled area of Iraq. So she contacted the university's head of security, who arranged for a team of mercenaries to carry out a rescue operation.
https://www.thelocal.se/20181213/lund-professor-freed-student-from-islamic-state-warzone
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A story about taking care of your students to a whole new level...
A chemistry professor at Lund University had a doctoral student under her supervision held up with his family in an ISIS-controlled area of Iraq. So she contacted the university's head of security, who arranged for a team of mercenaries to carry out a rescue operation.
https://www.thelocal.se/20181213/lund-professor-freed-student-from-islamic-state-warzone
Compare and contrast Reading's attitude to an Iranian student who can't transfer funds because of Benito Orangino's economic blockade. They're threatening to turf him out / suspend him for, in university budgetary terms, want of peanuts. I despair.
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Pretty much anyone* working in any kind of public service.
And of the many documentary strands that demonstrate this, I nominate "Ambulance", closely followed by "Saving Lives at Sea".
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Hatie Katie has been having a go at asylum seekers, so a legal bod, who specialises in asylum cases took it upon herself to set the matter straight & explain what asylum seekers are entitled to when they reach our shining sunlit uplands. Not very much by the sound of it.
https://www.facebook.com/161906123876922/posts/2125984147469100/
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Hatie Katie has been having a go at asylum seekers, so a legal bod OTP, who specialises in asylum cases took it upon herself to set the matter straight & explain what asylum seekers are entitled to when they reach our shining sunlit uplands. Not very much by the sound of it.
https://www.facebook.com/161906123876922/posts/2125984147469100/
Not just a legal bod, but a special legal bod who is always right, and certainly entitled to reside under the "Fantastic People" banner.
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Wonderful woman!
I miss her postings here but appreciate her occupation with Real Life etc.
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RIP Adam Watson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Watson_(scientist))
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Obligatory Guardian link...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/30/man-90-told-to-fly-to-us-to-get-correct-visa-to-remain-in-uk-with-wife (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/30/man-90-told-to-fly-to-us-to-get-correct-visa-to-remain-in-uk-with-wife)
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A Home Office spokesperson said: “All UK visa applications are considered on their individual merits, on the basis of the evidence available and in line with UK immigration rules.”
And then thrown in the bin unless you use a 40' shipping container as a wallet.
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Sara Canning1 for telling T May that ‘she was massively derelict in her duties to Northern Ireland’ in not governing the province from London as power sharing had failed. She was specifically demanding that same sex marriage be legalised for the people of NI.
1. Sara Canning is the partner of Lyra McKee, and this exchange took place at the memorial service last month.
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Yes, she was v good on C4News tonight.
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Brian Moore.
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I thought Marina Ovsyannikova should get mentioned here. Amazing bravery.
(And each time I see Lindsey Filsum on C4 News I'm struck by her bravery too.)
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Brian Moore.
Why?
Not that I necessarily disagree, but would like to understand your reasoning.
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Can I nominate some "pretty ordinary" people, aka the fish man, Simon the veg man, Alan the egg man, the cheese man, all denizens of Ely farmers markets and who collectively after 2 years of me keeping a low profile to protect number 1 son welcomed me with variants of "how are you? Good to see you back here, I thought you might have moved/been dead. How's the family?"
And I've only lived here 17 years
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Someone mentioned that we should have a lovely people thread as a counterpoint to the Super-Twat thread.
I think that's a great idea.
I shall basically say that many of you lot deserve to be in it. So many little posts of kindness here every day. More of this kind of thing.
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There’s someone in my town that is.
This person lives with a disability but does more than any able-bodied person. I cannot say who because it could be worked back to who I am on about.
A super-nice super hero.
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I think such a thread was already tried a while back. That it seems to have sunk without trace goes to show something, although I'm sure I don’t know what.
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I am fortunate to inhabit a part of society where people generously give of their time to help others in various ways. I know people who give of their time and energy to help the weak and vulnerable, elderly and disabled. I have friends who volunteer at the local food bank, run the Christmas charity cafe, repair "stuff" at Rugby's monthly Repair Cafe, help those who need assistance with filling of forms, interpreting of officious paperwork and so on. And all this before I look into the pages of YACF and so many of the exceptionally nice and generous people I have enjoyed the excellent pleasure of interacting with in so many ways.
All these people are super nice but also heroes of our society. They stand out because they are outstanding human beings.
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Not many of us are always super-nice. I know someone who is, in Cambridge.
They have two jobs, one of which is for an animal shelter (they are an animal medic). They write and illustrate children's books. So, busy.
They volunteer for streetvet, treating homeless people's pets.
They are consistently, non-judgmentally welcoming and helpful, in context in which I met them (not saying, because too much will identify them).
When meeting them, I wondered if they were for real. Where is the flaw?
Took not long to realise that they are a genuinely, to the bone, nice person.
They might have harsh words to say to someone who was cruel to an animal, but their harsh words would be like watching a kitten pounce on fluff.
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I created the other thread that Mr L mentions above, but I cannot remember what I called it, and I can’t find it when I did a (n admittedly cursory) search of my threads. I might have a look again later.
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Can a person exist on both threads?
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Not simultaneously. It’s to do with quantum wossnames. Professor B Cox could probably explain it. From up a mountain. In Hawaii.
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I created the other thread that Mr L mentions above, but I cannot remember what I called it, and I can’t find it when I did a (n admittedly cursory) search of my threads. I might have a look again later.
Oddly enough, I had a browse through The Pub yesterday when I pondered pointing out that such a thread existed already. Your thread's called "Fantastic people" and had only slipped down to page 3:
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=110132.0
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So I'm behind some scruffy 'erbert in the queue in Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles, who is seemingly buying enough groceries to see out a six-month Siberian-stylee SNOpocalypse. But why is he buying such titchy packs of for e.g. cereal and rice?
Answer: because he's spending the thick end of three hundred of his own quids on Stuffs to donate to the food bank at the end of his street :thumbsup:
Also, bollocks to the arsewipes in charge of this G7 economy that have turned food banks into one of the few growth industries we now have >:(
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I'm not a football fan, but the England team deserve a shoutout for rescuing Dave the cat from Qatar and bringing him home with them. Although, when he gets off the plane, he'll probably think it's a Siberian gulag.
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And after 4 months in quarantine he'll probably wonder if he arrived in an inflatable.
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Britain for British cats, innit.
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I'm not a football fan, but the England team deserve a shoutout for rescuing Dave the cat from Qatar and bringing him home with them. Although, when he gets off the plane, he'll probably think it's a Siberian gulag.
The qat from Catar.
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Bloody Ay-rab cats! Comin' over 'ere…
[cont. p94 of next weekend’s “Heil On Sunday”]
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Kate Brown, Oregan State Governer because she has commuted 17 death sentences and in one fell swoop has cleared the states death row.
Well, yes, I could have used the Super Nice thread, but hey, this is the one I made earlier ;D
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The police, firefighters, paramedics, doctors & nurses who tried to save lives at Solihull. And the rescue services in the channel now.
None of whom merit a decent pay rise of course, according to the government.
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Alan the egg man
Alan the walrus, coo coo cichoo
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Masters
I have merged the ‘Fantastic People' and 'Super-Nice' threads to assuage the OCD inherent in my 'droidness.
Happy non-denominational December festival!
C-3PO