frankconway
Subscriber

Christ all *king mighty, global crisis and some of you are carping about motives and tax status.
The NHS needs help and support.
Have a look at yourselves.
For those of you criticising – what have you, personally, done to help; practically or financially?
G doesn’t need the publicity nor does he need to bask in the glory of his efforts.
I suggest you wind your necks in and invest your energy in doing something positive.

It is possible and acceptable to simultaneously praise G’s efforts, criticise tax dodging and be concerned about the charitisation of the NHS. All of those things are ways to help and support health and carer workers.

Need to sort out the house of lords first

A man so proud of his Yorkshire roots he supports a football team from Manchester.

rmoofo

Member
Man, you are right it is “so Brexit” … I fail to understand what it has to do with Brexit…
Listening and taping your neighbours is very “stasi”

Hearing a loud disturbance, calling the police and then recording it is somehow irresponsible?

Event Horizon

Arachnophobia (because i saw it when i was too young for it!)

28 Days Later

“The worrying trend in universities to deny a platform to those with non PC opinions is concerning.”

Just because the Tories made a policy to outlaw it, doesn’t mean it is happening. Actual cases of no platforming are very rare. Moreover, a distinction should be made between what student unions are doing and what universities are doing. They are separate entities.

Alice

Vanessa Helsing

Buffy

Groundhog day

Maybe all the proper outdoors folk – of whatever size – were enjoying something more challenging than a bimble around a country park.

In no particular order:

Prevenge
Hacksaw Ridge
Hidden Figures

“They just work” – not heard that phrase in relation to any kind of new technology for ages. Those were the good old days.

It may be easy to avoid and filter direct exposure, but as we’ve seen with Brexit and Trump, avoiding the impacts of agenda-driven political coverage is much harder.

anagallis_arvensis – Member
The odd thing is that I see top Uni’s only need 3 A’s but lesser unis will look at 4 and combined points. Which means high achievers are best served by 3 and the less able by 4 which is slightly crazy to say the least. If she knows what sort of courses she wants to do then look at their entry requirements.

That is partly to do with gaming the league tables. ‘Average tariff points’ is used in their calculation, so including 4 can boost the numbers depending on the methodology. Some places also include other qualifications which qualify for UCAS points.

Having an extra subject can also help a-level students who feel less pressure to do great in just three a-levels, even though it is extra work.

In my subject area (human geography) what, or how many a-levels a student has goes out the window as soon as they start as degrees are so different to a-levels and learning at uni is different too.

Nuke it from space? Supposedly the only way to be sure.

Read the Which or What Hifi reviews. Ignore individuals telling you how good their TV is, they upgraded and usually are just comparing their new one to their 3-7 year old one.

shuhockey – Member
Were are they? In Sheffield they just keep building accommodation for students, well over the amount actually needed.

It’s the same here in Newcastle. According to a colleague who teaching planning, the accommodation might be marketed as for students now, but that’s mainly because getting planning permission for halls is much easier than for such high density ‘normal’ apartments. Once the over supply fails to be filled for a few years he expects change of use applications to be made to the city council and the accommodation converted to apartments for anyone to buy/rent.

Flight of the Navigator.
Land Before Time.

His gf having to direct him does.

I watched the first two episodes last night and i enjoyed it. Regarding the sex scenes, i thought they were to illustrate Holding’s naivety in understanding the world outside of the FBI.

Trek
Cannondale
Orange
Scott

You should try being a lecturer. All the students stay 18-22 while every year i get older and older. This year i’m going to be twice the age of first years. And next year the freshers will have been born in 2000!!! THAT’S WHEN I STARTED UNI!

poly – Member
i don’t know, but why are you listening and reposting? I’m reasonably switched on to politics and this story passed me by. Without people like you reposting it and feeding the troll the only people to hear him would be people crazy enough to join a political party, attend a party conference and go to the fringe sessions. Most of the people with that much free time and no better way to spend it are unmarried men…

Just because you didn’t see the story doesn’t make it not worth disseminating. IDS has held very senior roles in Government so knowing what he thinks about society is pretty important. Especially as he’s the architect of Universal Credit, the new benefits system which is turning out to be hugely damaging to those put on to it during its pilot phase. Understanding ideological biases might help explain his fervor to develop the system and some of the problems with it.

My greatest sporting moment was in a cricket game at school. I used to bat eleven but i was pretty handy at leg spin. In year 8 we played an inter-school game versus year 10 and i was first change. Remember the ‘ball of the century’ from Warne to Gatting? I did that but better, pitching outside leg stump and bowling a year 10 opener behind his legs. Never got close to a ball like that again, but i was hard to pick. Part of me wishes i’d played more when younger as i stopped after my GCSEs.

maccruiskeen – Member
Its almost like nobody can remember what vacuum cleaners were like before Dyson came along. If Dysons today are ‘average’ then they can at least be credited with having raised the average up by a fair chunk

The original Dyson vacuums were marketed superbly. So well in fact, people still reproduce the notion that vacuum technology before the bagless Dyson was useless.

The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young[/url]

You can ride your bike a long way, right? You’ve got pretty good endurance, right? Well watch this doc about a ridiculous set of marathons in the Tennessee woods and see how wrong you are.

based on the fallacy that more expensive lenses have better optics, better build quality, better materials etc

But generally speaking more expensive lenses do have better optics, build quality and materials etc.

Yes, yes, yes. I bought some AKG noise cancelling headphones and they transformed flights for me.

Other examples off the top of my head (which might prove they are exceptions) from this year:

New Mini
New albums
Autonomous vehicles (lorries this week, French bus earlier in the year)
Social media companies’ new features/growth or not

Ivalo, Finland. A tiny place with fantastic reindeer pie. You can see the door out to the plane from the check-in desk.

Hong Kong is nice, especially as they have a relaxation room away from the gates which do 30 min massages for $25.

Coquetdale last week

A double car drive way in Portsmouth?! Portsea Island is one of the most densely populated areas of the country. Cosham might have some.

Didn’t really experience austerity? LOL we did, and we still are.

The figures on that are only up to 2013, but there is massive cuts to govt dept budgets.

£49.5bn cut from local authority budgets

My dad built a retaining wall with sleepers when i was a kid. It was higher than 50cm and was fine on its own given how heavy they are.

Pete, if you had a proper breakfast you wouldn’t need a second one 90 minutes later. Get some woven wheat patches Shreddies down ya.

IIRC despite a high profile set of stories about the powers of milk as a recovery drink based on a study funded by the dairy industry, it contains something which delays protein uptake. I think i saw that in a GCN video, but can’t find it right now.

I like For Goodness Shakes chocolate powder.

wrecker – Member
Really? I have never lived there.

I’d certainly have no issue with it, my Irish family are lovely!

If a parent was born on the island i think you automatically have Irish citizenship.

I’m currently in the middle of the application (got to resend photos) and i’m eligible because my dad was born in Dublin. He became British because he grew up here from the age of two, but then got dual citizenship with an Irish passport. All i needed was his birth ceriticate, but my cousins are having more trouble because their dad (my uncle) was born in London to Irish parents. They need loads of information about grandparents.

Who did you use? Look for one myself

Careful of the Geth.