spademashie.bsky.social
Retired. Golf, Liverpool FC, history, archaeology, astronomy, climbing, hillwalking, family, social justice
500 posts
124 followers
448 following
Getting Started
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
She didn't start the process, thatcher did, but she's continuing to moving the Tories from a broad church to a little gospel choir
comment in response to
post
Next year it will be 60 years I'll never get back. Still, we live in hope😫
comment in response to
post
The news stopped being about reporting facts about 20 years ago and became about the stories that would drive ratings. There's no story when the incumbent wins, there's a big story when the insurgents win. Not actually sure where you go for even moderately objective reporting any more
comment in response to
post
Your son probably misheard and the other kid is called Porsche. People like to flaunt their wealth these days.
comment in response to
post
Be interesting to cross map that curve with water and fertiliser use
comment in response to
post
The one Liverpool fans are playing for Man u is even smaller
comment in response to
post
Apres moi, la salade
comment in response to
post
The cock and pullet. Everyone will call it the wanker
comment in response to
post
Whereas if they wanted to find descendants of the invading Norman army from 1066 they would just have to open Debretts. The rich have history, everybody else just has pictures on the mantlepiece
comment in response to
post
The budget is keeping starships on the launchpad when all logic says the programme should be cancelled. The proposed extended range version with teslas strapped round the 2nd stage to save rocket fuel at launch is a sign of desperation.
comment in response to
post
British roads are numbered. The higher the number, the smaller the road (generally, as with all British systems the exceptions can be more common than the rules). If you end up on a road numbered in the 1000s the last person to use it before you was Roman!
comment in response to
post
PE is all about the directors of failing businesses taking as much money out as they can while leaving pennies for the staff and creditors to fight over as the business collapses. A sale to PE should be seen as a liquidation and staff and creditors should get the first cut of the assets
comment in response to
post
Looks like your spellchecker couldn't work out whether you were trying to spell parasites or idiots, both would work
comment in response to
post
And local yeomanry, so big landowners can have their own troop of cavalry to keep hikers off their land
comment in response to
post
We've been at war tacitly in the information space for 20 years and it's increasingly transferring to the meat space, with sabotage of western assets occurring with increasing tempo. Not sure attack subs make sense here but do nothing is not an option
comment in response to
post
I don't think you have to be right wing to accept that people like Johnson and farage and even rees-mogg, appalling though they are, have an ability to cut through in modern media in a way that few others do. The beeb is broken but I don't actually think this is evidence for it
comment in response to
post
No doubt they'd be rock hard..
comment in response to
post
The same paper that was outraged (does it actually have any other state?) when the Spanish made it more difficult for Brits to live in Spain..
comment in response to
post
IT (actually everything saleable) is like the unbreakable cup. If it was actually unbreakable people would go bankrupt so the breaking rate has to be pitched at what's acceptable in the industry, price band etc. Nobody expects anything to work in IT so that's what the industry produces
comment in response to
post
The imagery in that speech (family, religion, country) could have been taken from any Himmler script and the underlying strategy - accuse the opposition of whatever tactics you are using, is rule 1 in the Himmler playbook.
comment in response to
post
Nearly half of British adults polled recently thought they would be unable to cope with an unexpected £100 bill. How would they cope with a new baby? Low wages and insecure housing are serious baby deterrents
comment in response to
post
The boycott of the sun is enough. No clearer indication of a civilized society
comment in response to
post
Elon, you try that again and I'm going tell everyone you're high as a kite and you just pissed yourself again. And I have the photos..
comment in response to
post
Apart perhaps for the last Tory govt, when have year 1 polls for a govt ever born any resemblance to year 4 polls. By all means slan the govt for it's crap performance but all this projection stuff is complete tosh
comment in response to
post
The Dems need to be asking how musk got his clearance. They wouldn't give clearance for a floor sweeper with an apparently known drug habit like musk's
comment in response to
post
So how does a well known incontinent drug addict get security clearance for the white house and major govt depts and data? Looks like the vetting process didn't work very well?
comment in response to
post
From here to Paternity
comment in response to
post
Happened while I was working. 10% redundancies one week, compulsory attendance for senior and middle mgt the next week at seminar on 'how to inspire your team to superstar performance'.
comment in response to
post
Lie back and think of England is still a thing?
comment in response to
post
Add a letter to ruin a movie:
To Have and To Have Snot
comment in response to
post
I don't think it was a lucky ship. I had a copy of it's original log and they lost a man overboard in the first week of shakedown trials out of Liverpool, another one later on off the Hebrides and they lost a prize crew they put on a Dutch barque that then sank in a storm. Tough life!
comment in response to
post
medium.com/predict/star... it will never work, and they know it
comment in response to
post
www.spink.com/lot/22003000... interesting description of various aspects of the sinking here
comment in response to
post
There's a good analysis in The Conversation that shows this project has already failed and can never succeed. Musk is throwing good money after bad, and not for the first time
comment in response to
post
I believe they haven't been freeloading digital copies of books from Amazon. I wonder why?
comment in response to
post
British cynicism is proof against almost all forms of management and motivational bollocks.
comment in response to
post
I thought it was a universal law that businesses moved from centralisation to decentralisation when business is good and reverses when the economy declined. Typically a 10 year cycle. Also tends to align with change of CEO/ Strategy director who wants to be seen to be doing something.
comment in response to
post
Is there a traceable link between the mythology associated with this icon and the biblical ram in a thicket story?
comment in response to
post
My dad's father was on that ship and survived the sinking. He described the sea monster as like a giant silver herring. My grandfather had actually worked for the Booth line prior to joining the RN, working the passenger service from Liverpool to Manaus
comment in response to
post
They've gone for the arts because it's weakly protected. If they'd gone for IP protected business data they would have been slaughtered in court and they know it
comment in response to
post
What's that Skippy? What do you mean you've always hated me and you're going to kick my head in?
comment in response to
post
Some people appear to have fought and bled to avoid becoming soldiers..