A musical Masterclass. Rush playing YYZ.
The local BBC News site had a warning after some local troglodytes were seen waving bags at stags in Wollaton Park. Bear in mind that it is the rutting season, and the last thing any sane person needs is a pair of deer antlers up their backside.
But this bit is funny:
Kath George, museum assistant at Wollaton Hall, said…
“Our advice is always the same, no matter what the season, or whether the deer have children with them – DO NOT approach them!
“They are wild animals…”
I always thought a young deer was a fawn. But it seems that we’re now anthropomorphising them for some reason.
That well-known scientific organisation VoucherCodesPro.co.uk has carried out some “research” into the kind of music being listened to at the time people had accidents. They conclude that Adele, Justin Bieber, and Sia were the biggest offenders. The full list is as follows:
- Adele – 18%
- Justin Bieber – 17%
- Sia – 15%
- Slip Knot – 14%
- Rihanna – 14%
- Drake – 13%
- The Beatles – 10%
- Calvin Harris – 8%
- Eminem – 8%
- Kanye West – 7%
No other data are given – such as age, sex, ethnicity, or location – which would be on any scientist’s list of vital pieces of information (mind you, it’s probably illegal to identify sex and ethnicity in case they point to something the Thought Police don’t like). All they say is that respondents were “over 18”. Oh, and that the average number of accidents these people had had over a two-year period was two, with fourteen near misses!
When you combine that last part with the fact that – with only one or possibly two exceptions, and even then only just – the type of music being listened to says a lot about the mental ages of the people responding, you get a very good idea of where the problem actually lies. It’s all baby music.
By comparison, I have had one accident in 10 years – and that was because some stupid cow ran a red light in poor weather in the dark. I can’t recall any “near misses” in that same period, even with learners driving. The “research” clearly shows that the kind of person most likely to listen to Adele or Justin Bieber is the type most likely to be an inexperienced/crap driver who is likely to hit things instead of going around them. It doesn’t prove in any way that Adele and Justin Bieber are direct distractions.
When asked why the music has been such a distraction, the top reasons cited were – “I was singing and dancing when I should have been focusing on the road” (43%)…
I can’t imagine many men doing that. I’m sorry, but I just can’t.
An email alert just came through from DVSA advising that from 28 October 2016 the permanent Chilwell location for the test centre (formerly situated in Beeston) will be at Unit 24 on Eldon Road. This is little more than a stone’s throw away from the Village Hotel, where it is currently situated.
Up until 28 October, tests are from the Village. There will be an open day on 1 November.
This is a big story in the tech world. Samsung, which recently launched its Galaxy Note 7 phone in a blaze of publicity, has halted all sales.
Many people will be aware that they had to do a recall after a number of devices caught fire or exploded either during or after charging. Samsung said that they’d traced the fault back to a faulty batch of batteries, and began replacing recalled devices with ones which were apparently safe to use. However, a number of these “safe” phones have also caught fire.
There were around 100 cases in America with the original version, and at least seven incidents have been reported so far with the replacement versions.
This is really going to hurt Samsung. It is quite likely that the Galaxy Note 7 will now never be (re)launched, which could cost them billions. They’ll lose around $10 billion in sales from the US alone. And that’s even before you consider the costs associated with the mass recalls – which are among the largest in history – and the damage to their reputation.
Anyone who bought one is advised to contact the place they got it from to initiate the return process.
Even before this latest announcement, Note 7s were gradually being banned from flights after at least two instances of smoking units on board causing flights to be abandoned.
Original article – 3 October 2016.
So there we go. After selective reporting by the media, only saying anything when the GBP goes up against the US Dollar (USD), today it has hit a new 31-year low.
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As I write this, it stands at $1.286 – and it’s still trending down. The BBC has been careful not to mention this new record, instead rattling on about the FTSE – which, incidentally, is only increasing because the GBP is falling, since many FTSE listed companies who sell in $s can report better figures in £s, thus encouraging share dealing.
This is what the mere stench of Brexit has done. Just wait until we start to taste it as well!
It fell to $1.272 at the end of 4 October – 14.2% below what it was at before the Referendum.
On 6 October it was at $1.260 – that’s over 15% below its pre-Referendum value.
On the morning of 7 October the GBP appeared to enter freefall again. Laughingly, this is being blamed on an “Asian flash crash”, as the UK media frantically seeks to blame it on someone outside the UK, and on events which are non-Brexit related. They even declared that the GBP “recovered immediately”.
Let’s get something straight. It didn’t “recover”. It momentarily dropped to about $1.14 and then rose again – but not to the original value. Throughout the day it only recovered half of what it lost in the “flash”, and then progressively lost half of that gain again. It is barely holding $1.24, and even the slight rise at the close of trading was due to the USD weakening on disappointing unemployment figures (it is absolutely not because the GBP strengthened). It was at $1.260 yesterday, $1.272 two days before that, and $1.286 on 3 October. It has therefore lost almost 5 cents – nearly 4% of its value – in consecutive stages in around four days. Whatever happened last night was – and remains – real.
Performance against the EUR is almost identical.
There is only one reason this happened. And that reason is Brexit.
Late afternoon of 10 October and the Forex rate is below $1.24. The media – particularly the BBC – is still trying to talk things up and avoid the obvious. They point out that many airports are now offering less than €1 to the GBP, adding that:
You can find better currency rates almost anywhere other than at an airport.
Well, yes. M&S is offering €1.08 – and so is Asda. John Lewis is offering €1.09. Tesco is offering €1.10. There is a transaction fee which pulls the actual rate down by a few cents in each case. For all practical purposes, the rate is €1.08, and airports ALWAYS give lower rates. They always have.
The fact is that the GBP has fallen so much that the €1 threshold is painfully apparent.
I’m dying to see them talk this one up. By the end of 11 October (the first trading day after the weekend) it had hit as low as $1.21 and finished at around $1.22. Early on 12 October it has risen to almost £1.23.
However, since its highest level post-referendum, it has dropped by the virtually the same number of cents that it lost the day after the referendum! In other words, it lost 14 cents as a direct result of the referendum, and it has fallen 13 cents since early September. It is around 26 cents lower than it was the day before the referendum (or nearly 18% down).
But I bet you they start talking about how it is 2% up on yesterday’s low.
Final proof – if ever it were needed – that Donald Trump must not become US President. The actual transcript of what he has been recorded saying about women makes damning reading.
This is the same man who has been making similarly derogatory remarks about anyone who isn’t American – and most of those who are – on average about once a week, though that frequency has increased of late as the campaign ramps up.
This is the man who has made what has been seen by some as the suggestion that his opponent should be assassinated.
In the UK, someone like this would not even be allowed to keep their job as a McDonalds burger flipper or Big Issue seller. They most certainly would not be awarded sole responsibility for the country’s security. So it is frightening to think that Trump is running neck and neck with Hillary Clinton – it means that approximately half of voting Americans support his warped views, and so must hold most of those views themselves.
In this latest shambles, Trump has not even had the decency to apologise. Instead, he chose to argue that he is not perfect and he is still learning. He is quoted:
I said it, I was wrong, I apologise
This is the man who, should he become president, will have access to the Big “LAUNCH” Button. It makes your blood run cold to think how close Doomsday is, with those NRA nutters and Trump up each others’ backsides all ready to get a set of keys to the Nukem console.
America is currently in the grip of what appears to be an epidemic of creepy clowns trying to abduct children. It even appears that the problem has moved over to the UK.
It started out as a dimwit prankish kind of thing, then the sicko-perverts got in on the act. In the UK, incidents seem confined to the Newcastle area at the moment, suggesting that over here it’s still just a low-IQ thing.
I had to laugh when I saw this progression in America, though. Utah police have had to issue warnings to residents that it isn’t OK to shoot clowns at random if you see one.
Mind you, as I’ve already mentioned, this IS America, and Utah police obviously have to keep hold of that baton. Someone asked:
Can I shoot or take action against someone that is dressed up like a clown?
Now, in most civilised territories, the answer to this would be a straightforward “no”. But not in Utah. There, they have to cloud the issue with this response:
That’s not a simple yes or no question. It has a lot of variables to it.
Erm. No, it doesn’t. It has one variable: x = “can I kill someone dressed as a clown?” And there’s a simple, single answer: “no!”
This story in the Huffington Post made me smile. Pentahotels has labelled the toilet doors in one of its branches as shown in the picture below.
As you can probably guess, this was perfectly OK (and passably amusing) until it was noticed by a professional feminist and complainist – in this case, someone called Cassie Chadderton – who is “head of UK Theatre”.
She demands to know if Pentahotels know that we are “in the 21st century”.
In a further tweet to an unrepentant Pentahotels, she says that they are “reinforcing outdated gender stereotypes”.
No they’re not, Cassie. They’re using a very valid generalisation. You can pretend that women are the same as men all you want, but the reality is that – in general – the signs make a realistic distinction between male and female toilets based on a realistic generalisation of the very real general differences between the sexes.
They could have painted a penis on one door and a vagina on the other, and Cassie Chadderton (or some other obnoxious person of similarly flawed character) would probably have seen that as an “outdated gender stereotype”, too.
Plenty of men don’t like football, but I doubt that they’re offended by having to use a toilet stall with a door which implies that they do. It’s only feminists and serial complainists who seem to see offence in things like this – and who, incidentally, are happy to stereotype everyone they disagree with as “sexist”.
It’s amazing that these people were even allowed to vote, let alone vote on something as important as EU membership. A selection of comments from people with serious mental problems on the BBC Have Your Say pages:
Elizabeth Kirkby
There is absolutely no need to wait any longer before triggering Article 50, nor any excuse for doing so. The sooner the process is started, the better. I do not see any need for complicated negotiations either. I just hope the “remainers” do not use delaying tactics or throw a spanner in the works out of spite.
Davey Tusker
I don’t know what these remainers are bleating about. They lost the vote – surely they should try and help their country rather than just throwing their hands in the air and calling everyone who voted out stupid. Maybe they could leave the country and go somewhere else where people appreciate cowardice.
Kevin
Stop stalling, dithering and pussy-footing around.
Get a move-on with the Brexit.
Peter Charles
Complete & utter waste of money. The EU should sort out the numerous bankrupt nations its Euro has created & start to fund its own defence rather than relying on the USA, Canada & UK. Europe is in massive decline & wants to prop itself up with this figment that, as a continent as one it matters. The EU is finished, Europe is irrelevant and the English speaking nations will take the world forward.
Alfresco
I’m not normally a religious man but i THANK GOD that we have taken our country back and rejected the right-wing Germanic dictatorship of the EU.
We are FREE again, Free to celebrate only BRITISH culture and to once again RULE THE WORLD
This next one is special – inasmuch as the author clearly seems to have special needs:
AuntieLeft
YES!!
The sooner we get out of this EU madhouse the better
Did not see the report in the FT about the UK getting part of the 42,000 bottles of wine and 1,000 bottles of spirits on Brexit deal on the BBC
Junker must be devastated
All with OUR money and it wont be Aldi wine that is for sure
The Eurocrats really do extract the urine from us plebs
OUT – ASAP
Leave the madhouse to the insane
And this one’s not far behind:
Project Fear Phase 2 – Project Tantrum
Wasn’t it by January 3 months ago? What’s all this stalling for, the people have voted so stop playing games and trigger it already Sharia May, it’s going to take 2 years after that, tons of time to plan and negotiate, so stop giving the anti-democratic EU marxists a chance to form a coup against it and for the EU, who we are still paying vast cash to, to take a fat turd on the UK in the meantime.
Now try and work out what this prat is going on about:
Jon
Let’s hope we can drop these EU employment laws which are killing business – no more softy lefty nonsense – lets man up and get people doing a hard weeks work. The French don’t work anymore and they can’t raise the taxes as the rich have moved to London
This one doesn’t seem to be aware that zero-hours contracts are actually illegal in many European states. It’s the UK – which hasn’t banned them – which is at fault all by itself:
edinthesouth
@1414 so why does your beloved EU not ban ‘zero hour contracts’ across the 28 EU States? does not suit their neoliberal agenda to destroy working classes and replace with “immigrants”?
There are hundreds more. I just repeat again: why on earth were these people allowed to vote?
None of them is capable of understanding the complexities of removing the last third of the 20th century from UK Law and finances, and think it can be done just like that. Most of them are operating purely on the flag-waving level. Several are clearly wrong on key issues, and yet cast their votes based on that. And others are simply a few olives short of a pizza.