Couple of quizzes to keep you entertained. There are no real rules; I will post the answers after a suitable period of time. Discussion is permitted.
Cwiz 1: Prisons
1. In which novel did Edmond Nantes escape from the Chateau d’If?
2. In which prison was the Marquis de Sade incarcerated?
3. Which South African prison was named after the Afrikaans word for seal?
4. Which Cavalier poet wrote, “Stone walls do not a prison make”?
5. Which US prison took its name from pelicans?
6. Who wrote
I never saw a man who looked,
With such a wistful eye,
Upon that little tent of blue,
Which prisoners call the sky.
7. Tartarus was a dungeon in Greek myth; for whom was it built?
8. Frank Darabont directed which prison movie?
9. Which isolated UK prison opened in 1809 to house Napoleonic War prisoners?
10. In 1952, the Kray twins were held in which historic prison?
This cwiz is courtesy of ProfessorPineapple
Cwiz 2: Scrambled Plays
1. Forgoing toadwit
2. Meth cab
3. Née in lewd farmyards
4. Limp agony
5. Anal seas fathomed
6. Sex up or die
7. A Leo knocking bar
8. See earthling games
9. I scorn hero
10. Sole had soul
Ovally Balls 
@slade
UK is a good place to do electrification. We’re opening battery factories like billio.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/20/uk-first-car-battery-gigafactory-amte-power-britishvolt
https://www.marklines.com/en/global/9850
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from the Secret Barrister re: Suella Braverman:
“This, I’m afraid, is a resigning issue for @SuellaBraverman. She has, through a wholesale failure to understand her role as Attorney General, politicised an independent criminal inquiry, presupposing the outcome and embarrassing the CPS.”
well…call me surprised………………
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even better from Starmer:
“I’ve seen what Durham Police have said [see 1.24pm.]. Obviously that, on the face of it, is inconsistent with what the prime minister said.
And that presents him with a problem. But, frankly, he’s too weak to do anything about it.”
He added:
“I don’t think he’s going to do anything because he cannot, it seems, continue without his adviser.”
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Well there we have it
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Where’s an Orca when we need one? Dress him up in baby seal or sea otter suit.
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…………………won’t fit, unless it’s a big one (karl)
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OT, as Ticht said, I haven’t had a reply from Sag since the shutdown. I do hope he’s ok, but it’s odd.
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Also, re the statement from Durham Police. It can be boiled down to
“He broke the law, and if we’d caught him at the time, we’d have bollocked him and sent him home. As he doesn’t seem to have been gathering with other people it wasn’t at the serious end and we probably wouldn’t have given him a ticket so we’re not going to do that 8 weeks later. This is exactly the process we took with other people.”
This is the right decision, I think.
One point that may not be obvious is that police don’t have general powers to send people home – if they did it in this case, it would be under the power explicitly granted in the coronavirus regs to deal with people who have broken this law. Ignore all the “might have broken the law” nonsense – they are saying he broke it bang to rights, and Cummings, Johnson et al know he broke it.
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Might there not be a problem though if the police have in other cases apprehended, fined and sent home evildoers heading to Durham or elsewhere?
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Old South African rugby game. 1976 Currie Cup final between Free State and Western Province (Cheetahs v Stormers in new money).
This is something that doesn’t happen nowadays:
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Anyway I think what we are seeing generally are political ideologies and experiments around what if you don’t follow established norms – especially around values, morality, shame, responsibility and accountability.
What I see is that you can actually get away with it if you can live with your own conscience regardless of what you say and do. This might be par for the course for the likes of Putin and Xi, but it is frightening how comfortable those in charge of the USA and UK seem to be with this at the moment.
I’ll say again that Cummings doing the rose garden thing was a piece of performance art mainly aimed at Johnson and his enablers, to prove a point and push an agenda of ‘no one can stop us’ forward.
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I should add that this is a much easier path to follow if you lack competence, intellect, emotional intelligence and leadership skills, and therefore can’t cope with a complex situation. You get what others vote for, I suppose…
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It depends on the circumstances, MrIks. Most forces were doing the ‘educate before prosecution’ thing, so unless there were aggravating circumstances, most people doing what he did will have been sent home with no ticket. Only those who were, say, in large groups etc, or refused to go home would normally have been ticketed. Take away the fact is was Cummings, he seems to have gone for a nice day out and keep his distance, so it’s against the law, but it’s at the minor end.
Mind you, if he’d tried the ‘I’m driving to see if my eyes are up to driving’ nonsense, I’m not saying that some PCs wouldn’t have invoked the “Are You Taking the Piss, Sir’ Regulations and ticketed the cheeky bastard anywayfor being stupid.
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Also:
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Enough about Cummings.
Chimpie and other fans of anti-5G conspiracy theories will want to know how to protect yourselfves. One of the best deals on the market at the moment is the ‘not 600 quid, not 500 quid, not 400 quid but and I’m virtually giving it away’ £339 5GBioShield.
Here’s a link with most of the details: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52810220
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And, as a counterweight to the general shithousery of the public world, something genuinely heartwarming…
Don’t know if anyone else has been following but JK Rowling released a previously unpublished children’s story a couple of days ago (for free), and asked kids to post their drawings of the characters in the story.
She’s spent the entire day today retweeting their pictures (I haven’t counted but it feels like hundreds) and commented individually on every single one. It’s only a minor thing in some ways, but what a lovely thing to do for those kids — they must be made up and I bet they remember it for years.
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Ha! One of the four people @ed in that tweet by Charles Cumming is one of the two Etonians I was at university. Not the good one either.
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Iks, On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt is the text to read. They’re not liars, they’re just bullshitters. No concern for truth, only for persuasion.
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Ta DCI. I still have a bee in my bonnet about the ‘testing his sight-seeing’ after being caught at a sightseeing sight.
Coincidence maybe, but I saw a jester mocking the public to amuse a foolish king who would be lost without his jester.
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Pfft. That monster would never approach by marsh. Anyone can see that, Miss Bloody Harry Pottering Cock.
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The eyesight test excuse is a real insult to the public — it’s such a farcical explanation that it screams “I can do what I like and I don’t give a shit what you think”. I think that’s probably what most people will remember at the end: they think they can do what they like, he drove to see if his eyes were well enough to drive, and the charlatans in the cabinet danced to his tune.
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Top artwork and a great idea though (grumbles)
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Morning…
There’s a theme on Twitter at the moment, where election workers recount their worst door knocking experience. This one is from CJ’s old manor. Who says romance is dead?
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~discuss……
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St Kilda is empty of permanent residents these days
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For further discussion, Bowman also tweeted this
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Note that the big yellow blob in ‘Norn Iron’ is Lough Neagh as pointed out here ….
If they opt for the underwater city idea, then Atlantis is the obvious name ….
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@trisk
The Excel centre in London is unused now. Perhaps they could all live there.
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Perfectly simple. If one is prone to magical thinking.
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Morning all!
……who said anything good comes out of exploiting a nation and opium.
Weren’t we clever to to get those agreements after the two opium wars – what a shame we are now seeing the inevitable outcomes of our wizardry.
It’s a disaster for the pop. of HK but no-one should say we couldn’t see it coming.
The Chinese will do what they want and continuing western greed will allow us to turn a blind eye..
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……..and why limit support to the HK-ese……………………what about the descendants of all the other populations we exploited who are now in difficulties?
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……..and on that note…………………..I see the Home Office is straining every sinew to help the Windrush lot since recognizing the problem……………………………….
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I’m not in a bad mood this morning no, not at all!
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@slade
Loads of Irish came over in the 19th Century and ended up playing Rugby League
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ah!…………………….sweet, cold revenge
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Trisk, plenty of people already prepared. Lough living shouldn’t be an issue.
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Got a new boss who is moving to Hong Kong. I don’t think that he’s going to be affected by the lack freedoms tbh. His boss told him to attend a meeting at 3am UK time and he did.
Luck the brown nose his.
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He is.
Should have just given up on that last sentence.
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Yeah – that “it can wait till Monday” vibe…..
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I’m melting into a smelly, greasy puddle.
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You attending a cabinet meeting, Chimpie? You can pick a country.
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Being cynical about the HK situation, there must be a way to turn it into our advantage. As part of the overall plan to become a low tax, no regulation, small govt tax haven just outside the nasty EU right?
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It’s over 20 degrees Deebee. In Scotland. Taps are aff. Pale flesh is on show. People are melting.
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Chimpie – Shirley they are burning? Some of the tans on show must be gawgeous.
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I’ve discovered that an irisk folk punk band I’ve been listening to is actually five German’s pretending.
They’ve got songs called ‘Barrels of Whiskey’, ‘Green Blood’ and ‘Irish Way’.
Feel cheated. Not sure exactly why, but something feels wrong about the situation.
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Blatant cultural appropriation. Worse than Exeter.
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Pasty flesh turning red. With the sharp delineations around the vest edges. Classic look north of the border.
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Roddy Doyle’s “The Van” has a great description of pale Dubliners burnt to a cinder by the sea on a summer day and drawn out from the beaches by the smell from the chip van
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@trisk
See also: Blackpool.
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