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“Punnet” is the key word there. That’s 10 strawberries to the Wimbledon “punnet”. My local shop for local people is selling local strawberries for £2.50 a real punnet. Hollow? Just the belly, then.
How did Salmond manage to get involved in this? Do you grudge him his strawberries, Anon? Only rich fools with Southern voices qualify, no doubt.
£57.50 and a good day had by all. It’s a sad fact that when teh Murrayistas run out of injustices, they have to make them up. Life is good!
The debate on arming anti-government forces in Syria is on now Freeview Channel 81.
‘Just have the damn thing put down Clark’ was your human response to us trying to find a place for Prrt.
The basis of humanity on earth is, after all, to put down species of all kinds, and on a daily basis, to advance their puny lifestyles and fill their pockets with silver. So don’t despair anon, you are stink normal in your suggestion.
And my case to Radio 4’s today program stands, the BBC harbours and employs gushing sexists and closet abusers.
maybe this self promoting monolith should be put down instead.
Try not stirring the pot The CE. We do not want a rerun of P5 of the Work for the UN thread. I have already said that my remark was not racist nor was it intended to be. It was about the efficiency or otherwise of pilots who crashed a plane in which over 300 souls nearly died.
Nowhere near as elitist as some of the tired old voices would have us believe.
Sorta rules out quite a lot of low-income scum, though, doesn’t it? Not that you’d want social security scroungers (there’s no other kind)in their trackies blotting the landscape. With their pitbulls and all.
Another take on the farce:
The elitist nature of the tournament (see the name of the venue for starters) does little to temper my frustrations either. Too many ‘famous’ people or Royal hangers-on (what a surprise, Pippa Middleton) with too little interest in the sport, just turning up to been seen. Then you have the queuing. People think Britons love queuing, but I for one don’t. I’d rather buy tickets online and rock up when the gates open rather than queue for five hours before hand (or camp on a London street for a night, like some do). There are also the ‘commoners’ who go to Wimbledon just to say “I’ve been to Wimbledon”. They tend to be those happy-clappy, Union flag waving, “Come On Andy” types. If you want to do that kind of thing, go to the Mall with the rest of the tourists and swap fake Royal Family stories.….
…The last time I was in Wimbledon was December, eating, drinking and relaxing near the Common. Three staples of a good afternoon with friends. Prior to that day Wimbledon (the town center) had been a meet-in-the-middle place for those of us living in south-east London to meet friends living in the south-west part of the city. Those times included witnessing the theft of five tankard-style pint glasses from an over-priced bar, watching people throw up on a tram, and being threaten by a teenager after refusing to give him money. Wimbledon really does offer something for everyone, apart from your typical tennis fan, who would no doubt shudder in horror at the mere mention of such anecdotes.
http://www.taylormarsh.com/blog/2013/06/a-brits-view-an-outsiders-guide-to-wimbledon/
I thought the remark about putting the cat down was heartless. Perhaps the perpetrator has never had to take a sick or injured animal to the vets for that purpose.
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Anon – or “Anon” – is being intentionally provocative, Nevermind. Seems to be out of character.
“How is Craig?
Anyone! Any news about his repairs, and how these have gone?”
Yes, I wonder is Craig well enough to pop in and tell us – or maybe he has no internet, wherever he is. I’ve been ‘kind-of’ assuming it wasn’t repairs to his heel that were being done. Various websites, and various individuals here, seemed to be saying that surgery is not the first option with that problem.
So, I’ve been wondering if maybe he was having a stent put in. I hope not, although I gather this is now described as a “routine procedure”. (Had it done myself, on more than one occasion, without complications, thankfully.)
“Sorta rules out quite a lot of low-income scum, though, doesn’t it?”
Totally.
The death of a 23 year old man by taser is described as a ‘medical episode’ by the police in Manchester.
http://news.sky.com/story/1114286/taser-death-jordan-begley-dies-in-manchester
“It was about the efficiency or otherwise of pilots who crashed a plane in which over 300 souls nearly died.”
It was in its arse, Mary. You tacked it on to the end of this:
“The scheme has been passed A1 by the president of the World (ie paid for and captured by the US) Bank, the South Korean Mr Jim Yong Kim.”
It had nothing to do with 300 poor souls who nearly died. It was a remark about South Koreans. For some inexplicable reason.
back anon
South Koreans everywhere are feeling offended because of Mary’s cruel and racist remark.
Is John Humphrey scared of Ms. Bartoli? why did the today program not give her a few seconds of their time when they have minutes of time for gushing war criminal Tony?
What is this unspecified fear of powerful women in sport come from in our presenters? Straight from the top? genetic? nurture and nepotism within a monolithic institution? we ought to be told.
or is the fact that she’s a very clever female. Should the BBC not try and put it right that she has been slagged off for her looks, in the tabloids, that there is more to Ms. Bartoli than the sexism and scandals of abuse that is raking the BBC?
Should they not give her a platform to speak about her great achievement at Wimbledon, rather than leave such despicable media talk hanging in the air, a low for any sporting nation.
No, this isn’t Anon either.
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racists everywhere, under the bed, in the garden and on top of the garage roof, it must be the island mentality, or some other affliction, the ‘Irish problem’ or the fact that ‘brutalising’ against other thinking is rife in society.
I hope that this spat between you has nothing to do with gender.
Is free speech dead?
Yes, it’s Hubba.
Sincerely,
Not Anon II
Apologies to the real Anon.
Bye!
Not Anon II
Must be the Norfolk air anon, you ditto, have you run out of blue pills?
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“it must be the island mentality, or some other affliction, the ‘Irish problem’ or”
Villager is Irish?
The CE: Did you notice your strawberries getting smaller as you emptied the punnet?
Decades ago, I used to pick strawberries for Wimbledon. A punnet was half a pound weight in those days. Strawberries, unlike most other fruits, tend to be tastier the bigger they are. We’d put 12 empty punnets into a tray and begin by partly filling the first punnet with small strawberries before moving on on the next. As we worked our way through the tray any large, luscious looking ones would be used to ‘top out’ the partly filled punnets. “Dress ’em up nice, boys” the farmer would say.
Falk cuts through all the US propaganda obscuring what Snowden did to defend our legal right to privacy.
Falk:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/07/201371011618650821.html
What a coincidence. Didn’t have to look very hard for that, did you, “Anon”?
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A piece in the Telegraph about MPs pay -rises says in part;
“Sir Ian Kennedy has made it known that that he likes the idea that MPs’ pay could rise or fall in line with national average earnings, a sort of payment by results.”
I couldn’t see how this could be a sort of payment by results so I looked the subject up on Wikipedia:
“The purest form of PbR is Payment by Outcomes, which seeks to maximise payments linked to outcomes. This is where the commissioner is fully able to contract in terms of the outcomes it wants and to transfer the financial risk of non-delivery to providers. However, commissioners may face a number of challenges that may make a pure Payment by Outcomes approach either impractical or sub-optimal in terms of achieving the aims of PbR models.”
“Challenges can include outcomes only being delivered beyond the provider or investor’s return horizon, meaning an earlier payment or proxy outcome must be used; having sufficient confidence that the cash savings used to fund the payment of outcomes will ultimately be realised; finding a contractual solution that ensures transactional costs are reasonable; and determining how far the delivery of outcomes is attributable to the actual intervention rather than other services or background factors.”
Well now I know!?!?
Does anybody know whether cream and sugar are included in the prices of the strawberries at Wimbledon? I believe this particular piece of information will be viital in trying to ascertain whether the punnet represents good value for the average pleb.
Also, on a more topical theme, are contributors of the feeling that The Ashes is fascist/racist/elitist/imperialist? Why are women and countries other than Australia excluded. Why is it not free and should a sport with colonial, imperialist associations be allowed in modern Britain. Why are there no Aboriginals represented in the Australian team and why is Radio 4 giving airtime to cricket when Tony Blair ought to be on trial for war-crimes? Please discuss.
Doug –
Think he means that national earnings are a measure of national prosperity and hence of the success or otherwise of the government. Not sure what other measure could be used – on the face of it not a bad idea IMO. How the “average” is calculated would be crucial, though. The term is used loosely by politicians; their statistical massaging often involves deciding whether to present the mode, median or mean values of a dataset in spinning their efforts. We could end up with a “national average” wage which would be most easily increased simply by paying bankers more…