Posts made by Rembrandt

With outbreaks now in Iran, Korea and Northern Italy seems a bit suspicious that China's figures aren't exploding.

Oh good, send the police round to check their thinking. That'll win hearts and minds.

@antipodean said in Twitter:

@jegga said in Twitter:

@voodoo said in Twitter:

@jegga said in Twitter:

After reading the sage and powerful words of this cuttlefish I altered my plans for the weekend and will spread bark mulch around the garden rather than murdering women and children.

Well fuck, that's my weekend plans ruined.

He doesn’t seem to mind you killing men though .

No internet points in virtue signalling about that unless it's on Movember. And then really if the only person you're thinking about killing is yourself.

In fact #killallmen became quite the viral virtue signal not that long ago.

@jegga said in Twitter:

After reading the sage and powerful words of this cuttlefish I altered my plans for the weekend and will spread bark mulch around the garden rather than murdering women and children.

Imagine being retarded enough to post this.

Responses are gold.

I just hope that one more left wing election collapse will be enough for political parties to realise that maybe the extremists in the twitter-sphere aren't actually representative of normal people. As much as I like what Trump has managed to accomplish there really needs to be a sane alternative...for everyone's sake.

He did get one good jab at the millionaire socialist.

@sparky said in US Politics:

Longer clip of Bloomberg's being mugged:

What a car crash. Not just Bloomberg either, love the optics of Biden explaining how to remove a harrassment non-disclosure agreement and then mixing his words all up.

@Duluth Any moves against Bernie based on his recent supporter issues?

@canefan maybe...then again maybe this:

@Crucial

The Ministry of Justice figures from magistrate court appearances also state that in the past children as young as 10 were prosecuted along with a handful of those aged between 12 and 14.

Between 2008 and 2016, the figures state that more than 400 teenagers were proceeded against for TV licence evasion.

However, a TV Licensing spokesperson said that the official figures must be wrong as they “don’t prosecute people that young”.

“Our policy is to prosecute people aged 18 or over. We have reviewed this issue before and found around 10 cases where someone aged 17 – but no younger - had been prosecuted

They admitted that they had not contacted the department about the alleged error and the MoJ stood by its figures.

So they admit to prosecuting 10 under the age of 18 however they claim that the Ministry of Justice figures must be wrong because they don't prosecute people under the age of 18 (although have in the past to 17 year olds). MOJ stand by their figures.

Would be interesting to get to the bottom of it.

How on earth did they manage to prosecute kids?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/23/bbc-criminalising-thousands-young-people-failing-pay-licence/

@Bones said in British Politics:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51550421

Sooo.....speaking English is only worth 10 points.

Good to see they are following through here. Would like to the see the point breakdowns and how they compare to what they were when I went through the process. It was a bit of a nightmare at the time with rules changing every year, from memory the squeeze went on commonwealth applicants due to the influx of european migrants at the time.

@Siam said in British Politics:

@Rembrandt yeah, I thought the general dissatisfaction of the BBC was more around governance than content. A lot of taxpayer money spent on achieving superficial equality with men getting pay cuts and women getting staggering compensation payouts. Perhaps another example of get woke, go broke.

Certainly that too. It's not something that's easily tabulated but there is certainly at least the perception by some (rightly or wrongly) that the BBC doesn't represent views fairly. Get woke go broke tends to only work when an institution isn't propped up by tax dollars and that's where the rub is.

Aussies ABC is another shocker with calls to reduce funding, remember this gem?

@MajorRage said in British Politics:

I think the comments sum up my thoughts.

Gold. Doyle has quite the gift in summing up these issues in so few words.

To paraphrase Douglas Murray, In the grand scheme of things woke ideology only came about last week, the rules are undefined, constantly changing and breaking these rules can have significant negative consequences on someones life and freedoms.

I listened to this interview the other day with Paul Embery who is a firefighter, trade unionist and die hard Labour supporter in regards to the divide in the Labour party between the traditional working class and the middle-class urban wokeists. I see this as reflective of the existing media (including the BBC) whose content might be disproportionally put together by this loud minority of wokeists who may be generally disconnected from audiences who don't view the world through their lens.

(This 5 minute clip is a good summary)

From what I understand despite the Sun's headline discussion at the moment regarding the license fee is just to decriminalise non-payment, its not until 2027 that there can be any removal of the fee. Just because it may be decriminalised won't mean they won't still receive their funding but I don't see any harm in the BBC getting a bit of a shakeup (and maybe that is all Boris et al are trying to achieve here) and reminder that their security isn't guaranteed if they are to venture away from impartiality guidelines or into too much London centric representation. I would think the election result should also be a bit of a wake-up call as to the UKs views as a whole.

Can't for the life of me understand why a struggling working class family based outside of a major city wouldn't want to finance (upon threat of prison) such stunning and brave reporting about the real issues.

@MajorRage Neil is absolute quality. They should do his interviews in the style of a UFC fight night, pay per view.

As to the bias, maybe yes maybe no, there are certainly examples for both Labour vs Conservative camps though establishment vs anti-establishment would paint a different picture. I'm all for letting the market decide. Certainly enough examples of shoddy journalism and way over the top salaries to make the bbc not seem like the necessity it once was.

Will be interesting what comes of it.

@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:

@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:

Bit of talk at the moment about it potentially coming from a lab in Wuhan..surely impossible to know for sure. Does have a chernobyl type feel to it.

That came out ages ago. Of course China denies it caused the outbreak, but the media suggest there is a huge biochemical weapons lab in Wuhan

Yeah I think zerohedge got banned off of twitter for saying it. Now other outlets seem to be picking it up..looking forward to their bannings too...

@MiketheSnow said in British Politics:

@Rembrandt said in British Politics:

No more tv license?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10973379/bbc-licence-fee-scrapped-subscription-service/

Fuck.

Best value TV in the world.

£154.00 per year on threat of prosecution if you don't pay.

Netflix and equivalent optional subscriptions are roughly £108.00 per year and maybe don't appear to be propaganda to certain sections of British society.

I'd love to see viewing numbers vs salaries for some of their shows, I understand their news have dropped 1/3rd of viewers since 2012. https://www.statista.com/statistics/290866/bbc-news-viewers-reached-quarterly-uk/

@dogmeat said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:

@canefan My brothers back in NZ for a few days. In the last 5 weeks he's visited NZ, Oz, Singapore, Dubai, Qatar, Saudi, Finland, Germany , UK. Sat on a flight from Dubai to Sin next to a Chinese guy who coughed over him for 10 hours. Next day he had a fever and was coughing himself. He's still coughing. He's been to Europe and now NZ with the cough. No one has asked him about it. He may have had corona - he doesn't know. All he knows is he was poleaxed by a bad flu.

Not only did he sit next to a man that was clearly ill, someone in his office has been confirmed with CV.

Meanwhile everyone entering his office building has their temperature checked as they come into the lobby and again every two hours but somehow a guy who was feverish and coughing has had no tests done on him.

Ummm yeah, probably worth him checking himself out...I wouldn't be reliant on 'officials' to do their job properly.

I had flu like symptoms after my recent NZ holiday, went to the doctors in Melbourne just-in-case when in a normal situation I wouldn't bother. Got asked 3 times in the appointment if I'd been to China on my holiday, after 3 negatives he diagnosed me with some sort of viral infection and recommended bedrest. Clearly they are on reasonably high alert.

Bit of talk at the moment about it potentially coming from a lab in Wuhan..surely impossible to know for sure. Does have a chernobyl type feel to it.

No more tv license?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10973379/bbc-licence-fee-scrapped-subscription-service/

@MajorRage said in British Politics:

@Rembrandt luckily we’ve got 20,000 more cops being recruited then!

I blame Khan and Corbyn.

Well lets not forget May and ...Deans.

@Salacious-Crumb said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:

“A map created by Southampton University researchers shows how 60,000 out of a total of five million people who have traveled out of Wuhan since the beginning of the outbreak and before the city was fully locked down have crisscrossed the globe.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7989071/Coronavirus-death-toll-surpasses-1-000-100-people-died-China-one-day.html

Looks bloody. Hell, it looks like the elevator scene in The Shining ffs!

With a supposed incubation period of up to 24 days I guess we'll know soon enough as to whether the more sensational claims are based in reality or not. My buddy is now back in Oz, hoping to have a chat soon to see what the inside goss is from the big C.

Bernie gets pranked.

@MajorRage said in British Politics:

@Rembrandt one hour video .... no chance!

Woujd be interested in 30-45 second summary video!

Aren't you pounding the pavement now? You should be smashing through these 1-3 hour podcasts

In short. Bloke is an ex-copper but now owns some company on the docks. Police call the guy who runs his company in regards to the 'hate incident'. He calls police back. They tell him he has to check his thinking, give him a lecture on how some male babies are born with female brains inside (absolutely serious here) and that a hate incident is now recorded under his name. As an ex cop he does some digging and as it turns out these 'hate incidents' (which are commonly referred to by media) don't actually require any evidence, in addition they come up if say an employer does an enhanced background check on you. They also don't require a victim as such, just someone who thinks someone might be offended.

There's a bit more to it hence the hour long but its a good listen. He finishes by likening the rainbow flag to a modern day swastika, a comparison which might get him in as much trouble as a retweeted limerick..but that'd only prove his point.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-51501202

This is the bloke who had police call to 'check his thinking' and had a 'hate incident' recorded under his name because he re-tweeted a limerick written by a feminist that said men weren't women.

Thankfully he won his case.

He goes into further detail about the sheer insanity of it all in this interview.

@canefan said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:

@Rembrandt Singapore are apparently not messing around. A mate had colleagues cancel a conference trip because the Singapore government have put a stop to any significant public gatherings

Yeah its a bit scary looking
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-singapore-map-shows-spread-worst-hit-outside-china-2020-2/?r=AU&IR=T

I imagine the panic would be worse than the disease, haven't heard of any shortages yet. I'd be concerned about it slipping over to Johor Bahru, going across that border and you see a significant drop-off in available wealth to deal with something like this.

Pretty big spike in infections and deaths in the last day or two.

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/coronavirus-explained-death-toll-and-cases-spike-mwc-cancelled-15th-us-case/

This is an interesting tool showing infections, deaths and recoveries

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

I only recline when the person in front reclines. Unfortunately this poor bugger is in the end seat that doesn't. Would be interesting to get his side of the story, did he try talking to her about it or did he go right for the childish antics.

@Crucial said in Going Vegetarian / Vegan ..:

The shit that annoys my is when vegos and vegans attribute their feeling healthier to removing animal products from their diet when in fact they have really only started eating well when they took this up. Of course you are going to notice a difference going from cheap and nasty food to a diet of fresh vegetables!

Yep..their 'giving up meat' meant they put a stop to their 'McD's/KFC/BK/Kebab&Chips' fix. Hardly a fair comparison.

Just to balance this snag topic out. Anyone given the carnivore diet a go?

I have an acquaintance who gave it a whirl for a month and has decided to push on with it due to the benefits (fat loss, increased energy, clear headedness, better skin). She hasn't mentioned the temporary diaherria which for many apparently goes along with it.

Rogan did one month and reported the good with the bad.

@jegga said in British Politics:

I love that the leading candidate to take over from Corbyn looks like Titania McGrath

Holy shit, not just looks, acts like her too. Oh please please let her be the new leader. They need one more utter collapse at least before they purge their extremists

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51465800?fbclid=IwAR3mEaSD5LpFcTWH82SGjU1dxRriLhep2JCt3yYCvmu__I79qHQFrVkyD1Y

@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:

I've also never seen it. Might remedy that tonight.

Expecting big things now though. HUGE.

Same boat here. Looks like a strong contender for a date night watch. V day tomorrow right? A doz roses and Galaxy Quest on the telly, what more could a woman want?

@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:

Doc from three years ago. If you haven’t seen, now would be a very good time to get acquainted.

Funniest part of trailer is who he’s toasting champagne with the day after Trump’s election triumph.

Cheers for that, interesting dude alright.

You can't stop progress!

https://m.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/parent-fury-as-primary-school-bans-cupcakes/3943752/

China reported on Wednesday its lowest number of new coronavirus cases in nearly two weeks, lending weight to a forecast by its foremost medical adviser for the outbreak to end by April

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/new-coronavirus-cases-lowest-since-jan-but-experts-disagree-over-peak-idUSKBN20609M

I wonder if that is taking into consideration China's change of definition of infection to no longer include those testing positive but who are asymptomatic. Something unnerving about a definition change during an outbreak.

My mate in Shenzhen has gone dark on social media, which in itself isn't that unusual in China as he has to go through some hoops to break out of the firewall but still is concerning. Hoping to get some details through from his wife soon, she made it back just prior to the borders being shutdown.

@mariner4life It's a thing. An interesting rabbit-hole to go down.

@Salacious-Crumb said in Jussie "MAGA Country" Smollett:

The gift that keeps on giving.

Jussie Smollett indicted by grand jury on six counts for making false reports, special prosecutor says

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/us/jussie-smollett-indictment/index.html

I thought Tupac was gay

@MajorRage said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

Sir Elton lost his right to at any point to be on a soap box about climate, given he flew his private jet NZ - LA return to make his appearance.

I'm just glad in his case I can still seperate the art from the artist. Will be seeing him live in a couple weeks..ear plugs might be necessary if he's gonna do a sermon during the show.

What! A decent in-touch opinion piece from Stuff?!

...well its from The Telegraph but some slight kudos for reposting something that isn't complete sycophantic celeb dribble.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/119441575/the-oscars-is-now-just-a-sermon-for-the-selfrighteous

@Victor-Meldrew I injured my ankle in April during a hike which wasn't coming right after an ultrasound/mri I had a GP tell me in October that I'd never run again and would have to minimise time on my right ankle. Thankfully my sister put me on to an awesome physio who after some 3 months of work I can now run short distances, completed the tongariro crossing last week relatively pain free and no longer walk with a limp first thing in the morning. GP seemed to just see the word 'arthrosis' and figured that was the end. Physio has had me doing a world of calf workouts as he figured correctly that that was the underlying cause, says anyone over a certain age has some form of arthritis but it rarely means anything too serious. I my case staying off of it was doing more harm than good. Anyway highly recommend shopping around for a good physio, who is also a runner, seems to be a different mindset runners vs non-runners.