tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-277974482024-10-24T12:14:26.901+01:00Vitriol, Vanity, Validity, Values, Vacuousness, Vacuum-CleanersSteve Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00306829451700413288noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27797448.post-43825245458291904872019-06-17T10:51:00.001+01:002019-06-17T11:25:38.671+01:00

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/17/painted-bike-lanes-waste-money-cycling-commissioners

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Stepping Back from the Brink: An astonishing new field of enquiry explores the deep changes that could avert a planetary disaster By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 31st January 2018   We know where we’re …

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  Doing a deal with EuropeNotice the language - we’re trying to ‘do a deal’.  I wonder if the agreements collectively could be termed ‘a bundle’ – then we could align our aspirations with any damned BT TV advert.It’s the same with Services in the UK, you get a Car Insurance quote, it’s a hundred pounds more than anything on a comparison site, call the company, and they magically find

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Remember when . . . . . . .  three out of four of our members wore sunglasses indoors?

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Love the fact Oxfam have a few properties at Mudeford don't you?

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This morning's Radio 4 news was full of Brexit, this week's Grenfell disaster inquiry, and snow.The single statement that most resonated with me afterwards was "most of the rush-hour traffic has disappeared because of school shut-downs".Imagine a world,  or just a little country, where it would be universally seen as TRULY WEIRD if a schoolchild was driven to school, and the school they went

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Sainsburys did marginally better over Christmas, non-food sales down overall across the segment.  Following this we had endless "analysis": questions about online sales, aldi etc, discussion on market share, future growth/profit warnings.  TV news had exactly the same, business editors (someone who reads you the business news) perched up there expounding on same, questions to industry

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Maybe he's spent the last (what, decades?) doing astonishingly good stuff for charities, I don't know. Ringo Star might have just been sitting about.   (Mind you, if I did nothing else, and lived on Royalties all my life for being a third-rate drummer - I think I'D DO ASTONISHING THINGS FOR CHARITY). It just seems impossibly WRONG somehow.  Sir Ringo Star. Eulogize the mediocre so

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“Your behaviors, you don’t realize it, but you are being programmed,” he said. “It was unintentional, but now you gotta decide how much you’re going to give up, how much of your intellectual independence.”I guess that headline looks a bit dramatic doesn't it?  It came from today's Guardian - citing Chamath Palihapitiya (former vice-present for user growth - facebook) - the whole piece is

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I was in Grefrath, Germany last week - shopping in their new Rewe - this one here (actually this one, you've no idea how much effort I put in to produce these things for you!) Quite interesting Rewe - they've jumped opinion and gone straight for no plastic bags - none of yer "oh we'll charge 5p" rubbish, I mean - what good is that - with stuff dying in the Oceans? (That story is here) We

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By god they must spend millions? Every damned evening - through multiple channels, across multiple time-slots this friendly guy and his sweet, sweet, sweet little Penguin tell us how British Gas are committed to a warm home for everyone, to reducing fuel bills; the music calming, the little sweet, sweet, sweet Penguin waddling about in a really sweet way, little expressions of sweet modesty,

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Well I dunno, I watched it on catch-up, not out of choice - but it was a favourite of the Space Chicken. Having just got to the end of this second season - all I can say is: Depictions - people with too much money worrying about crap. If Simon ever comes back to give a reason for a THIRD season I think I'll throw the TV out.

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Funny isn't it? Not so long ago you or I wouldn't have touched an own brand for love nor money.  No matter how much of good deal it seemed, i just wouldn't be worth it. Soup?  Has to be Heinz. Beans?  Has to be Heinz. Biscuits?  Has to McVities Breakfast?  Has to be Kelloggs. Ketch-up?  Has to be Heinz. Brown Pickle?  Branston. The list goes on doesn't it?

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Steve Evans - Guardian - 08/09/17 8m ago 0 1

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Bloody mad isn't it?  At times of increased awareness (read: acceptance) that there IS such a thing as Global warming, and that car exhausts aren't exactly helping matters - new motors sold recently all seem to sport exaggerated / stylised, extra-large exhausts pipe endy-thingies - in sort of space vehicle type shapes, so you can stylishly proclaim to all just how much crap you're spewing

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Helluva lot of copycat Game of Thrones mini TV series and Movie themes around aren't there? "Owww . . . " said the money men - "they seem to like Empires falling and large armies n' stuff - QUICK! - get a load more shit out there"

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Blimmey the weather babes have been excited - every damned weather report for the past week has been peppered with dark mutterings, heavy expressions and superlatives - all   about the upcoming cold spell (April 25/26 - 2017). It's almost as if they feel finally justified in their roles - in their lives - they are, at last, the NEWS they always wanted to be.

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Eh?  Didn't we all get told this about forty years ago?

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"Amazing"

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Somehow, to me, Slade's 'So here it is, Merry Christmas' (no doubt the title is less threatening than this) seems to speak of absolutely everything that Christmas, to me, ISN'T.

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  Tired of being run-over everyday by sledges?Try these light-up antler horns as part of your business attire."Fun to be with" people will need no prompting - but even us, the more frail and gentle characters of the species might benefit from such a visibility boost.

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I've been surfing the freeview channels this month, and partaking of their Christmas offerings.  To be honest, it's a pleasant change from the 96th repeat of Big Momma's House, or Home Alone.   There are loads of much older Christmas movies out there, but most in the 4:3 Aspect ratio (square shaped picture). So, instead of twiddling with the aspect ratio button - which might

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I moved recently - and with that had to come newly bought appliances.Washing machine, Fridge/Freezer, Wardrobe, and Wardrobes.  4 deliveries.Now, we're on the second floor.  And all but one set of delivery people have let this be known in such terms that would have seen Laurel & Hardy, or Morecambe & Wise reaching for their notepads to get ideas.Huge and volume-rich complaints

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I had an extraordinarily interesting surprise this morning. Having read "Shadow of the Wind" for the second time, I decided to get a couple more titles from Carlos Ruiz Zafon, one being "The Midnight Palace".  In it Ben, his friends, his long-separated sister - all member of the Chowbar Society, meeting at the abandoned mansion they call The Midnight Palace, battle with forces beyond

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