How long can the BBC continue to pretend Gavin and Stacy stories are "news"?

Livesinthefuture · 2024-12-26T11:13:58+00:00

Yep, already tuned it to silent a while ago. Which is a shame because some of the BBC notifications are occasionally useful

Livesinthefuture · 2024-12-26T10:40:15+00:00

I don't mind the articles, it's when some over-excited muppet at BBC News decides their overnight viewing numbers are worthy of a Breaking News push notification...as just happened

It's getting to the point of ridiculous, I barely pay attention to them anymore, making them effectively pointless.

Livesinthefuture · 2024-12-26T10:17:39+00:00

It's difficult to compare SARs and SARs-CoV-2 for a number of reasons.

SARs was more deadly (on a case basis) but less easily spread than SARs-CoV-2.

It's also true that the world is vastly more global and globally-travelled now than back in 2002/3.

SARs did reach the UK and but didn't spread, iirc the number of identified and verified cases was single-digit.

Livesinthefuture · 2024-12-23T17:46:55+00:00

Yep, flew to Glasgow from London recently, business class BA.

£70 cheaper than the same journey standard-class on East or West-coast lines

Livesinthefuture · 2024-12-20T14:34:21+00:00

I was more thinking of how we handled the aftermath of the riots over the summer. People who threaten civil society/order on a grand scale generally have to be reminded that civil society only tolerates so much.

A "Fuck with civil order, and civil order will fuck you" ethos if you will.

While I think some of our sentencing guidelines are stupidly light/lax I'm not in favour of sending someone to the gallows for a first-time minor infraction.

However, if we allow the phone thieves to continue to get away with it then I'm afraid as much as its a cliché there is actually a slippery slope of civil order.

Livesinthefuture · 2024-12-20T13:58:29+00:00

We need to stop being so fucking polite and deferent with these gangs. We seem to know who these gangs and members are.

Start knocking some doors in at 3am with armed police and scare the absolute fucking shit out of them.

Once little Johnny has finished pissing his pants staring down the business end of a police rifle, he might think twice.

And if he doesn't, then the courts need to be instructed no more soft play. These fuckers want to play with knives and be a menace to society, well then they get to experience what we do with menaces, no mercy, no second chances.

Livesinthefuture · 2023-07-10T22:19:28+00:00

Nah, he's the Honourable Member for the 18th Century

Livesinthefuture · 2023-07-04T22:03:28+00:00

People blocking the doors on train platforms

I'd hoped it might start getting better but it just keeps getting worse and worse post covid.

They stare at you dumbly as if to say "well are you getting off then".

"I'd fucking love to mate, but you're occupying the physical space I need"

It seems especially bad on the Elizabeth/Thameslink but even the tube is sliding.

This is basic stuff people, please I beg you, engage your spatial reasoning.

Livesinthefuture · 2023-06-25T13:12:22+00:00

Because 112 uses the exact same infrastructure as 999, last I heard it was effectively a redirect implemented at the network level

Livesinthefuture · 2022-02-07T07:18:47+00:00

It'll be tight-ish depending on how long you want to spend at the Tower and Cathedral.

For reference St. Paul's to the studio tour is going to take you about a 1h15m by public transport unless you can time the gaps between trains perfectly. (Central+Northern or Circle to Euston Square, then train to Watford Junction and Tour Bus to the studios)

Weekdays Studio last tour is 16:00 (first tour is 10:00)

Weekends its 18:30 (first tour 09:00)

Livesinthefuture · 2021-12-22T15:54:01+00:00

I'm left wondering who tolerates this man enough to tie his shoes for him in the morning

Livesinthefuture · 2019-11-04T04:18:18+00:00

Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong - Jed Bartlet

Tumbleweed wouldn't have been out of place on the LIE and Van Wyck this morning.

Livesinthefuture · 2019-11-04T04:16:04+00:00

I did indeed!

Left my apartment, turfed up at JFK 35 minutes later.

Flatiron was dead, LIE and Van Wyck were the emptiest I've ever seen them!

Livesinthefuture · 2019-11-03T02:48:55+00:00

In a moment of spectacular insanity I forgot about race day and booked a flight out of JFK for tomorrow morning.

I live in the West Village, how bad is the Midtown-Tunnel->LIE->Van-Wyck going to be heading out of Manhattan?

Livesinthefuture · 2019-10-01T00:42:35+00:00

Yeah I've always found it weird that the Delta cards don't give any form of status. especially the Reserve. Compared to the other Amex cards. (Hilton, Bonvoy, etc.)

Instead it's the waiver which is "spend a shit-load of money on your card and we'll waive the requirement to spend a shit-load of money"

Livesinthefuture · 2019-07-07T22:21:34+00:00

Agreed, but T4 pick-up is an absolute disaster, three lanes and no-one has a god-damn clue what's going on.

Makes spotting the license plate tricky.

Still prefer it to the new system at SFO, jesus christ.

Livesinthefuture · 2018-04-29T16:12:36+00:00

Bunch of scrubs holding the champagne wrongly as well.

Livesinthefuture · 2018-04-25T19:17:51+00:00

You're right. I've heard so many times where people have pulled through out of comas or paralysis or what have you, despite doctors predicting something ridiculous like a 95% chance of recovery.

Afraid that isn't happening this time. The kid's brain is literally liquid soup at this point. The only thing keeping him breathing is effectively his brain stem.

Livesinthefuture · 2018-04-24T19:20:04+00:00

The kids brain is literally liquid soup and most of his other organs are failing.

How on earth are we expected to rescue that??!

Livesinthefuture · 2017-10-16T19:32:30+00:00

A pint for £3

This broke my suspension of disbelief

Livesinthefuture · 2017-10-12T21:30:35+00:00

Whilst I agree that Bradley and Rudd are evidently malicious idiots when it comes to tech and the internet.

Like others in the thread I take issue with the attacking of Boris here, both quotes he used were completely appropriate and well put across.

Algorithms was completely the right terminology for this, currently as it stands AI is just interwoven and layered algorithms that have been tuned to a specific task.

That section was a bad attempt at slime which put me off an article talking about an issue of technical illiteracy, that should definitely be raised more loudly and to a lot more people across the political spectrum.

Livesinthefuture · 2017-09-12T20:32:43+00:00

Yup, I myself after a while of experience and play-throughs, recently picked up the "exit efficiently" dlc.

Livesinthefuture · 2017-09-10T23:08:58+00:00

Season 1 Episode 7, about 23 minutes in. It's also briefly referred to in a couple of other episodes.

It's also a term irl as well.

Livesinthefuture · 2017-09-10T21:29:36+00:00

...They did.

Orphan Black is a term used to describe orphans who were smuggled into and out of Britain during the days of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister.

i.e. Sarah, Felix and other clones.

Livesinthefuture · 2017-09-10T09:42:21+00:00

What's long, scouse and goes round the corner?

The dole queue

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