JonnyF

12 minutes ago, bendejo said:

Social Justice Warrior types like to point to the centuries of oppression, exclusion, discrimination etc to make their case.

Now with movies coming out where there are Black solicitors and doctors in Victorian England, as just a small example, doesn't this sort of diminish their claims?  Some might say that this rush to show diversity in the entertainment industry can be seen as an attempt to whitewash the past: "see? Even Dickens told of Black solicitors in his day!"  This is ironic because the wholesale virtue signaling is an attempt to make themselves the good guys.

 

 

Yes it is incredibly stupid. Similar to the black Anne Boleyn in the Channel 5 series. Just pointless virtue signalling to keep the Wokerati from clutching their pearls too tightly.

It's a bit like casting Rowan Atkinson as Muhammad Ali. Or how about Jim Carey as Martin Luther King? Gwyneth Paltrow as Oprah Winfrey? Oh sorry, this inane casting policy only flows in one direction. My bad...

5 minutes ago, stevenl said:

It wasn't her that made the comments.

Strange then, that she apologized for them.????

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-65365978

25 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Strange post, showing an incredible bias and no bearing on reality.

The party dealt with the anti semitism from one of its members. Your opening sentence should have been 'No surprises. Yet more anti-semitism dealt with by the Labour party.'.

You then continue to say Abbott should be removed from the party, she made ridiculous comments. Abbott was the one who dealt with this. In your opinion she should be removed, after she's the one that dealt with this.

How has she dealt with it? By withdrawing her remarks after being caught out? She clearly still holds these racist and anti-semitic views she just apologizes for them occasionally when caught out. It's hardly the first time she's exposed her racism.

https://news.sky.com/story/diane-abbotts-history-of-gaffes-10482258

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/fb-6915369/What-Diane-Abbotts-gaffes-controversies.html

Not to mention breaking the law (drinking alcohol on the train), or claiming she could hire 10,000 police officers for a total of 300,000 pounds, earning her the nickname Dianne Abacus. What an example to set as an MP... 

Judging by her son's disgraceful behaviour, the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree either. He's the English version of Hunter Biden.

https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/22932379.diane-abbotts-son-charged-alleged-assaults-royal-free-homerton-hospitals/

She's a deeply unpleasant individual, I wouldn't hire her to do my laundry let alone run the country.

It would appear Joe's parenting skills are on a par with his Presidential skills.

Let's see if the family can wriggle out of this one as well. 

16 hours ago, placeholder said:

How would their hypocrisy be relevant to the science.

As for the rest of what you wrote, once again when someone has nothing germane to answer with, they try to make it personal.

This topic about the scientific evidence that Greennalands and Antarctica's sheets are melting. Not about details of my home life.

You've got nothing.

Thanks for confirming your hypocrisy. 

Pontificating on internet forums while people like me make a real difference.

You've got nothing of worth. Just links to articles. You're probably driving a diesel truck while posting links to articles where Gates hires people to confirm 99.9% of people agree with him.

I'm sure your links will save the planet though :).

5 hours ago, placeholder said:

Even if your comment about your friends is true, who cares? This is about the science. Not about the behavior of your alleged friends or the behavior of world leaders. 

Comments like yours have nothing to do with the overwhelming evidence of the increasing pace of the melting of the ice sheets on Greenland and the Antarctic.

If man made climate change were real, the hypocrisy of people virtue signalling about it while simultaneously contributing to it would very much be relevant.

I suspect you are exactly the type of person who spouts off about it on internet forums but does little in the real world to address it. 

Or is your electric car charged by the solar panels on the roof of your eco farm? My farm is organic, how about yours?

This is a strange United team. You never know which version is going to turn up. They've been doing OK in the league and then they put in a performance like that against Sevilla or the 7-0 loss to Liverpool. 

Massive game for them on Sunday vs. Brighton. 

I'm guessing Ten Hag is going to be in the market for a new back 4 in the summer. De Gea might be out as well.

9 hours ago, Celsius said:

Didn't we go to the moon like half a century ago?

Yep.

In a little pod covered in tin foil. And the wind was blowing when we got there. Amazing indeed.

32 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

from the article:

son of high-ranking military officer Gen. Somchai Chaiwanichaya.

Yep. What an idiot. 18 years old, wealthy, protected. A long luxurious, priviliged life ahead of him.

And he ends it all over some plastic 'influencer'. You have to wonder about the intelligence, you really do.

9 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

I might buy one for my 5 year old grandson. Looks like it would be good for going around the garden. 

With the greatest respect, I very much doubt you'd be able to ride this bike anywhere near it's limits.

10 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I had a Honda VFR400 NC30 for a couple of years in Bangkok. 100km/h in first gear with screaming 14,500 RPM (red line). I loved it. And if I would need a new bike now then I am pretty sure I would buy the ZX-4R - exactly for that reason that it has 4 cylinders and high rev and only 400cc.

 

Obviously bigger bikes have more power and more torque and can be ridden at lower RPM. But who wants that? There is a reason they call these things pocket rocket. Does it make sense? Not really. And that's the point. 

I agree.

I have an MT09 and a Panigale but you can only really stretch their legs on longer trips and you have to do silly speeds if you want to ride them hard. 

I'll probably buy the ZX4R (SE) for that reason. You get all the fun without the need for massive speeds. Having said that, it's no slouch, does 240kph top speed and 0-100 in about 4.5 seconds so it would outrun a lot of these lolopping thumpy heavy machines that some people like to own.

Plus "small" bikes have a lot of benefits. Light clutch, less weight, less engine heat, less gyroscopic force from the engine, flickable, good fuel economy, good stopping power, cheaper consumables etc.

Kawasaki aren't making it easy for me though. I tried to put a deposit one at the motor show and was told the sales person was "having dinner", then I signed up for a test ride from a FaceBook link and nobody called me back. Gotta love Thailand ????. 

Very sad.

It's amazing how dogs are such excellent judges of character.

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Putin basically wants to help divide the US to death but frankly we're doing that very well ourselves without foreign assistance.

Absolutely. 

Home grown Identity Politics is doing a fantastic job of sowing hatred and division amongst the various groups in the US.

17 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

The perfect post to illustrate the saying, 'if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail'.

Just pointing out the irony of people who support uncontrolled immigration arguing that the use of foreign words stifles a culture.

It was clearly lost on you. Or maybe you prefer not to see it.

22 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

Banning words seems very Draconian, but while foreign words can enrich a language (Draconian, for example), the invasive creep of a foreign language, like Japanese knotweed, can have a stifling effect on a culture. 

I would argue that excessive, uncontrolled (and often illegal) immigration has a much more detrimental impact on a culture than using a few foreign words.

Most cultures use foreign words as part of daily language. I remember growing up in the UK words like Deja Vu, Pro Rata, Faux Pas, Prima Donna were all frequently used. I don't remember it negatively impacting the culture, if anything it enriched it. Same in Thailand, plenty of English words used as part of Thai language when I'm in meetings with Thai managers speaking Thai. Nobody seems upset about it.

Being unable to walk through certain parts of the city on my way home from a good night out due to drug dealing immigrants (mainly but not exclusively Somalians) flooding the 'culturally diverse' areas after midnight was much more "stifling". But we must celebrate that apparently (unless they describe short changing a client as a Faux Pas, or seeing the same cop car go by twice as Deja Vu of course, that's terrible for the culture ????).

4 minutes ago, placeholder said:

The article reported on piece of research.  And, not surprisingly, you didn't actually provide a link to the source of that characterization

The "Alliance for Science" created the algorithm that produced the results. It's in your link.

They are funded by Gates. 

It's a PR piece for Gate's organization. It may as well have been funded by Greta herself. The fact that papers don't contain keywords like solar, cosmic rays etc. does not mean those papers are backing their theory. Although, by using such an algorithm that is how they reached their conclusion. 

Facts? Hardly... More like an algorithm created by Gates organization to produce results that backs up Gates opinion. 

"Oh, the paper doesn't contain the word solar so it must be agreeing with us". Laughable. ????