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  1. The meet n greet outside the prison gates is a daily occurrence.

    All sorts of people in all sorts of cars will be out there. This will include friends, family, enemies, and of course the police. The number of people arrested on release is really quite high. The police know where they are, and it prevents one sentence being run parallel with another.

    I think since the Winston Kodogo episode, policing these days has expanded beyond just exclusively shaking down black kids in flash cars. Although I’m sure Bianca Williams would have some comment on that.

  2. 2 minutes ago, MCU said:

    Not sure if this is the correct topic to ask but I overheard a conversation at work last week talking about when Sunak is likely to call a GE. Person A predicts his egotistical 'insert swear word here' won't call it until he's had 2 years as PM, which would be what - November? Surely they would want to campaign before that, no? But then on the other hand I'm thinking, they must know they're **** either way and will just end up dragging it on for as long as possible?

    The absolute latest it could be, would be late January next year. That would involve campaigning over Christmas and nobody will fancy that and the electorate will punish the party that delays the strictly final with a party political broadcast.

    It would be equally daft to ask people to stay sober to vote in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

    May and June have a couple of Westminster recess weeks in there. July and August MP’s will be on their hols as will much of the electorate that has the money for holidays so that would be a bad choice.

    Would they have the kids back in school in September and then give them all a Thursday off?

    By a process of elimination you start to think its October / November as a likely date. But October 31st is a Thursday and he surely wouldn’t call a GE on Halloween, would he?

    What we’re trying to do here, is guess the thought process of a trapped tory when none of the options are flash your cock or grab the money.

     

     

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  3. 11 minutes ago, rodders0223 said:

    I guess it's about time I grew up and become a fat middle aged depressed alcoholic like everyone else.

    It might be worth investigating walking football.

    There are teams all around the place, and it sounds like it’s pretty much for you.

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    The threat of pain, discomfort and injury is reduced due to the combination of a slower pace and reduced contact. This allows people who have loved the sport all their lives to once again safely get back to playing

     

  4. 22 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

    So none of you had parents who sat grumbling watching top of the pops and saying it's all noise. I stress you have all turned into your parents. 

    Oh my parents, or more specifically my dad definitely did. Repeatedly. 

    There was nothing about my choice of music that my dad liked and that was just how I liked it.

    I don’t think there’s anything my kids have played that I’ve been particularly interested in, but I’ve got no problem with them playing it, usually in my bloody car. They don’t come to my gigs, I certainly don’t go to theirs.

     

     

  5. 35 minutes ago, Xann said:

    With a nice record deck and a habit of digitising records it would be an A/D for the nice record deck for me.

    The proof of the pud is in the tasting, ultimately. You're content. Carry on :)

     

     

     

    What I’ve got is quite hit n miss to be honest.

    As a turntable, it’s budget, but you can plug decent speakers in to it and I’ve a set of speakers that have basic knobs so I can get a bit of depth and volume. Though I suspect the stylus eats records, so stuff tends to get a single play on there for conversion.

    Some stuff has converted really well. I’ve got an old sampler album called Dimension of Miracles and the cheapo ion turntable has done a really good job on that. This Fanny stuff, not so good, sounds a bit thin and tinny and there’s no way of even just crudely bumping up the bass or dialling back treble.

    We have considered investing in something noticeably better and some better more editable software. I think we have to both be feeling rich on the same day to commit to it.

     

  6. 4 hours ago, sidcow said:

    Actually there are plenty of modern acts that I like and would know, but it's not the sort of music that gets into the top 5 and is played endlessly on Radio 1 so is not worthy of a Brit that seems to be fixated on pop/dance music.

    I heard that Dua Lipa song the other day, Houdini. When it got to the chorus bit I was amazed she started singing a different lyric, and it wasn't even the Houdini song though it was absolutely identical in every way except the lyrics. 

    It really feels like music is currently in its late 70's disco moment or early 90's europop moment and a revolution akin to Punk or Britpop needs to happen again because chart music is just identikit nonsense at the moment. 

    Yeah, I think I bought a couple of new records by new bands during 2023, but as mentioned up thread, I’m not sure they’d be covered by the BPI trade awards show. It’s difficult breaking in to the charts when you’ve only made 300 copies.

    I knew the Raye song and I know Dua Lipa and Doja Cat and all that, but as Bicks said, it’s not offensive but it’s also not my thing, so it just passes through without really registering.

     

     

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  7. 5 minutes ago, Xela said:

    I'm not PFE, but I've never heard of Raye.

     

    Yeah, Raye, winner of best new artist 2024.

    Raye’s album released on Polydor four years ago got to No 6.

    Best new artist.

  8. Just now, blandy said:

    It’s not extreme. In all the other ones, the winner can point to “I got me some opium sales” or whatever the tangible thing is - land, water, cattle, spices, oil…

    what do Shia or Sunni “win”? For example?

    Really?

    Wow.

    You stick with your ranking the legitimacy of it all, if it works for you. 

    I’m not that sophisticated, I’m just seeing bad people craving more power and personal gain.

     

  9. 3 minutes ago, blandy said:

    You’re right…but some of these religious schisms kind of are or were the root of feuds, based not around water or riches or food or land, but around different and fervent views around which bits of god books are the true ones. It’s another reason to have a killing spree, on top of all the ones you alluded to

     

    I’m not arguing that it isn’t, I’m arguing it’s another reason, no more or less spurious than the others. I’m not attempting a ranking system for good reasons for genocide. 

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  10. 1 minute ago, mjmooney said:

    Of course it won't. But at least it would remove one of the most - no, the most - spurious reasons for going to war. All those other things are arguably worth fighting over. Theology absolutely is not. 

    Religion not worth fighting over, shiny metal, Maoism, opium sales, arguably worth fighting over.

    One day we can console ourselves that the last methodist is dead, and now we fight over the arguably more worthy cause of crips and bloods.

    I struggle with that ranking system. It’s taking an attempt to argue for the rational to a weird extreme.

     

     

     

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  11. 23 minutes ago, blandy said:

    There are quite a lot of religionists and branches of religions who appear to believe their inconsistent books are the actual word of [insert name of deity] and need to be adhered to rigorously. Not all, but plenty. There are ancient and ongoing feuds around particular versions of books and war and horrors have resulted and millions of people have been impacted and affected by the fierce battles over interpretation.

    S’pose they couldn’t be bothered either?

    Well, similar, but different. A different bunch that need to chill out a bit. But similar.

    If they weren’t fighting over that, they’d be fighting over unfair tax on tea imports, or not being allowed to sell their opium products in China, or whether agrarian feudalism, Marxism, Leninism, Trotskyism, or capitalism is best for the people of Cambodia.

    Some people feud, they’ll soon find a new reason if you remove an old one. Peace will not come because the last Quaker pamphlet was burned.

     

  12. 9 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said:

    I myself don't put much store by the literality of the virgin birth, etc. It's not very well supported in textual evidence. I've never really thought much about the properties of God. I don't think I'm intelligent enough to make much headway in such a pursuit. And I'm too intellectually lazy.

     

    It’s hard work explaining to someone that is militantly literal that you don’t have to believe every word is literal. They should maybe stick to tidying up computer code, or sodoku. The angry pushy atheist will point out how unlikely a virgin birth is. Well, yeah agreed, but the idea has to start somewhere. I mean, if they wanted to they could bother to notice there are multiple versions of creation in the same book and the gospels clearly didn’t get their story aligned and straight before committing them to written evidence, and someone somewhere decided what books went in the book and what translations to use. The literal think they’re clever looking at one of the trees and pointing out you can’t base a forest on that. When it’s absolutely evident plenty of people have based a forest on that.

     

     

     

     

  13. 4 hours ago, blandy said:

    Here’s a thing. There is an awful lot of intimidating behaviour and bitter division. In the extreme it’s led to the murder of 2 MPs, massive increases in antisemitism and islamaphobic incidents and attacks, violence and racism and all bad stuff like that. It started increasing with Brexit and has ramped up even more because of Hamas and Israel’s horrible government actions. It’s stoked by the Tories in particular, the likes of Braverman, Anderson, Patel, and then Yaxley Lennon and various other whoppers. Antivaxxers, 5G masts idiots…

    For mainstream party leaders to actually agree it’s a **** disgrace shouldn’t lead to allegations of “they’re exactly the same”, irregardless of the fact that one of their parties is guilty of actively stoking it, while the leader looks the other way (at best) and the other is scared to say boo to a goose on most of it, but is too scared of media optics on some of it.

    TL:DR. They’re nowhere near the same.

    And how difficult would it have been for him to express something similar to what you’ve just said. You’re a bloke on a messageboard, he’s a barrister, a human rights lawyer, potentially our next PM, he literally has a team of professional speech writers.

    ’wot he said’ and an arrow pointing at rishi’s hollow words doesn’t cut it for me. 

  14. BBC

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    Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the prime minister was right to "advocate unity and to condemn the unacceptable and intimidatory behaviour that we have seen recently".

    He added: "This is something agreed across the parties and which we should all defend."

     

    Should we just merge the two main political threads?

    And then save paper, and get Starmer and Sunak to issue a single manifesto.

     

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  15. 6 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said:

    If it’s a double A side, do people count the lesser well known song as the b side? So with The Jam, Going Underground is the main A side and “Dreams of Children” is the b side. 

    I am making the assumption that there wasn’t an actual b side in that instance. Or that DOC really was the b side but they decided to market it as a double A (I know about the pressing mix up).
     

    Well my interpretation would be there’s no B on a double A.

    Oasis’ Masterplan was the first one offered when I discussed it elsewhere.

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  16. 5 minutes ago, fruitvilla said:

    Well if we are talking of hypotheticals ... sell them equipment/technology for digging up the gold and canalization of the water ... in exchange for some of that water.

    The more interesting question would be what would happen if the nation with gold and water were inclined to philosophical agnosticism?

    I think we’ve seen more than enough examples of vast industrial scaled killing by the not particularly religiously driven to know how all the scenarios could play out. 

  17. 25 minutes ago, fruitvilla said:

    Possibly true, but it is difficult to reconcile philosophical agnostics starting wars. We're not sure but let's start a war anyway?

    Put a philosophical agnostic in charge of a people neighbouring another people that have the water or the gold and see if that stacks up.

  18. Anybody that thinks removing religion would reduce conflict and death is either lying to us or lying to themselves.

    Remove religion and we’ll war over gold, wheat, water, red or blue bandanas, curly hair, modern jazz, and oil reserves.

     

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