QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL

[Stanley]

Funny thing is the docs reckon it's a long term, rare, incurable immune deficiency disease which 'might ' improve as she ages.

[Tripps]

Funny thing is the docs reckon it's a long term, rare, incurable immune deficiency disease which 'might ' improve as she ages.

I'm guessing they'd only reckon that if they had confused Long Covid with Sarcoidosis.

[Tizer]

I saw this the other day but can't remember where: `It's not AI that we should fear but natural stupidity'

[Stanley]

As you know Peter, I have long held that one of the main factors holding this country back is the staggering level of incompetence that can be found in the higher levels of political leadership. Johnson was a notable example.
Mention of Johnson reminds me of something I found in Private Eye yesterday...

[Tripps]

James O'Brien of LBC who has no 'low self esteem' issues -

"Insomnia - it's a nightmare. . . ."

Peter Kay would be proud of that.

[Stanley]

[Tripps]

Lady called Lottie commentating on a Youtube video of the abandoned Racecourse Hotel Salford.

"It says Racecourse Hotel - it's enormous, but I think it must have been a bank - it says Vault over the top of this door. . . . .

Racecourse Hotel

[Stanley]

'Vaults' Often seen engraved into the glass of pub windows in my youth.....
(Is youth wasted on the young?)

[Tripps]

Is youth wasted on the young?)

No - just that you never had enough money to do what you wanted.
Most education is though - time for a total rethink I'd say - though it will 'never happen lah' .

(Google 'Singlish' or 'lah' to understand that. . . . )
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Today's quote:-
"My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but the fewness of my wants.”
J Brotherton (no me neither)

[Stanley]

David. One of the things that I think has become clear to me in latter years is that the penalty for having such a wide and deep personal experience plus the remnants of all the study I have engaged in is that I see through so many human behaviours immediately. I reckon that's why I find so little TV interests me, I have lost the facility to suspend disbelief. The lady not recognising that there might be another meaning of 'vault' than signifying a bank is one example. You and I immediately thought of the engraving on the windows of the pub. No doubt the lady would have an entirely different perception of a tap room or an out sales window than us. Jug and bottle department would mean nothing to her. Snug would baffle her.
I'm getting old...... that's the bottom line. And yes, you were right the other day when you suggested I might be getting more irascible....

[Tizer]

Count me in too! It's one of the reasons I so enjoy submersing myself in M.J. Trow's novels, especially the ones whose main character is the history teacher Peter `Mad Max' Maxwell. Mad Max has been going for 30 years now and Trow fans reckon that he must have the oldest cat ever! (It's called Metternich and is named after the Austrian Count of that name.)

[Tripps]

One of the things that I think has become clear to me in latter years is that the penalty for having such a wide and deep personal experience plus the remnants of all the study I have engaged in is that I see through so many human behaviours immediately. I reckon that's why I find so little TV interests me, I have lost the facility to suspend disbelief. The lady not recognising that there might be another meaning of 'vault' than signifying a bank is one example. You and I immediately thought of the engraving on the windows of the pub. No doubt the lady would have an entirely different perception of a tap room or an out sales window than us. Jug and bottle department would mean nothing to her. Snug would baffle her.

I'm getting old...... that's the bottom line. And yes, you were right the other day when you suggested I might be getting more irascible....

"I have lost the facility to suspend disbelief."

I don't think I ever had it. - Star Wars was good though.

Wise words - me too - and what's wrong with just a touch of irascibility?

[Stanley]

Thanks Lads! Today we will find out how wise I am at choosing TV sets!

[Tripps]

Needs watching I'd say.
An average of about 3,500 people every month are prosecuted behind closed doors for not paying the BBC licence fee, according to the most recent Ministry of Justice figures.
Last year the BBC spent £136 million collecting its licence fee with enforcement contracted to the private outsourcing company Capita. They employ an army of more than 1,000 people to enforce licence fee payment, including door-to-door enforcement officers and solicitors to prosecute cases.
Licence fee evasion cases are prosecuted by the BBC’s TV Licensing arm. Last week, Lord Macdonald, a former director of public prosecutions, said they should instead be dealt with by the independent Crown Prosecution Service. He drew comparisons to the Horizon scandal, in which Post Office investigators gathered the evidence for their own prosecutions. And the campaign group Silver Voices, which acts on issues particularly affecting the over-60s, said prosecuting evaders behind closed doors was “draconian”. “The ‘little person’ doesn’t have much of a say on what is happening to them. As the Post Office showed, injustices can occur.”

[Stanley]

It is beyond comprehension that the BBC is running a regime like this when they have seen what can happen in the Post Office case. Hasn't anyone got the power to force them to use the CPS?

[Tripps]

Rishi Sunak a few moments ago - in reply to a question from Andrew Bridgen MP>

"Let me say from this despatch box that Covid vaccines are safe".

That will surely be the last word, and end all further discussion on the matter.

[Stanley]

I very much doubt it David. A typical politicians arrogant response to a question or criticism. They actually think they are controlling events.

[Tripps]

It's late but -

"Let me say from this despatch box that Covid vaccines are safe".

Did you see the question session from Durham yesterday when Mr Sunak told a Scottish gentleman, who alleges that he is vaccine damaged, that he could apply to the compensation scheme. Why does a safe 'vaccine' require such a scheme? Beats me. . .

This cannot go unremarked - a very 'special relationship'.
Hard-right Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said “I think that I really don't care what David Cameron has to say. I think that's rude name-calling, and I don't appreciate that type of language. And David Cameron needs to worry about his own country, and frankly, he can kiss my a**,” she added.

Note the American spelling of A**. With which she flounced out and slammed the heavy wooden door behind her, very hard.

[Stanley]

I doubt if 'the special relationship' ever existed between UK and US.
As for 'that sort of language'... "he can kiss my a**' is not very diplomatic language....

[Tripps]

Unnamed Tory (not standing at next election) MP, quoted on Times Radio this morning.

"I'm not quitting because I think I'll lose - I'm quiting because I might win. Then I'd be a member of a rump Tory opposition along with all the nutters".
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PS Apparently this is an actual quote from the 2i/c of the Army.
Britain’s second most senior general has said she wants to see less hierarchical behaviour and more “empowerment” in the Army.
Lt Gen Dame Sharon Nesmith, the deputy chief of the general staff, said in an interview that “just because we have lots of rank structure, doesn’t mean to say that we have to behave in a hierarchical way”.

(Ed note - actually Sharon darlin' - it does. . . . )

Lt Gen Nesmith, tipped by some as future chief of the service, was the author of the controversial Army Race Action Plan which advocates easing security checks in order to drive diversity.

[Stanley]

The MP..... What refreshing honesty and yes, that could well be his problem if he really believes he could win the seat.
As for the Lady General..... quite right David, she needs to spend some time with a good dictionary....
Hierarchy is "a system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority."
The rank structure in the army is a perfect example of this.

[Tripps]

George Galloway -

"A shiver ran along the Labour front bench, looking for a spine to run up"

[Stanley]

That's a clever one! I like it.

[Tripps]

Paul Lewis of Radio 4 Moneybox

"Meanwhile in the UK elected MPs argue about whether there should be an immediate ceasefire, an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, or an immediate humanitarian pause. Words more important to them than food".

[Stanley]

Crazy isn't it.......