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40 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Nonetheless it is not some imaginary woke pc cancel culture (itself a right wing mythical bogeyman) attempt to change the wording of frankly dated literature but a commercial decision taken by those who profit from dahl’s writings. 

OK. If that is true, please explain why the words edited were chosen. Two examples to start with; "fat" and "ugly".

It is quite clear they have been edited as to not offend certain groups. What groups of people tend to get most offended? The woke community. Simple.

My children are too old now for such stories. Should I, in the future, have grandchildren I will be reading them the original versions. I will use them as teaching aids with regards to certain words and how they should and shouldn't be used. Calling someone "fat" or "ugly" in anger or in order to get a reaction is totally different to an author using they to correctly describe someone in a book and should be kept that way. 

2 hours ago, Neeranam said:

What's wrong with assumptions? 

Pretty obvious. 

Woman goes missing near river, body found in river. 

They are not assumptions. They are the facts. Re read the posts here and you will find the assumptions.

No further information so far. The body was found a mile away from the last sighting of her alive.

Those making assumptions on here are just as bad as those being condemned nearer the scene.

7 hours ago, opporna said:

You missed the point.

If an electrician was asked to do plumbing, he most likely would defer to a trained plumber. Just because the electrician says 'I can fit my style to include pipes and such' doesn't mean they have the qualifications to do so. 

I believe you missed my point.

13 hours ago, CrunchWrapSupreme said:

I teach English, but only upper high school and up. Sometimes I'll get good, mature M1-M2 students (7th-8th grade) but it is rare. If you're used to teaching advanced vocabulary, academic reading and writing, professional applications, you're certainly not going to switch into colorful flash cards, noisemakers, hand puppets, silly faces, for the next student. Haha. They are totally different beasts.

 

Some really don't get that. "You're an English teacher? Here, teach my 10 year old." Uh, no. But I'll have you know, that certain famous name BKK private school I once worked for and keep mentioning, once tried to hand a primary class off to me. The fact that secondary and primary teaching have totally different requirements should be common knowledge in education. That pretty much let me the know the quality of that school.

A good teacher can easily adapt. It's not difficult. 

One of my best teaching jobs was at a private school that had Kibdergarden 1-3, Junior 1-6 and Senior 1-3. I taught classes ranging from Kindergarden 2 to Senior 3. I simply loved the variation in my classes. It was easy to switch my style according to the class I was teaching.

34 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

So no part of the profit comes from higher tariff pre-payment meters?

 

Forcing entry to install pre-payment meters is amongst the business practices Centrica has engaged in while racking up these vastly increased profits.

 

I’m sure they appreciate you defending them and their abusive practices.

Incorrect.

I believe it is British Gas that were responsible for that.

20 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

While forcing entry into people’s homes to install prepayment meters that operate a significantly higher tariff.

7 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The headline is correct.

The headline maybe correct but you linking it to those installing prepayment meters is not.

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The only ‘hidden agenda’ relevant to this thread is that surrounding the Government’s secret Brexit Conference, refer to of the thread.

I was quoting someone else. Their post is on this thread. Thus, making my post relevant.

3 minutes ago, kwilco said:

That is clearly a racist view - There is stupid, stupider and racist.....the idea you can look at the world in terms of race is scientific nonsense - if you are talking about things like =kin color on the same species =then the EU has every kind of that.

Oh dear. You clearly have hidden agenda clouding your view and ability to comprehend what others write.

13 minutes ago, kwilco said:

As ever a Brexiteer gets it wrong - I was replying to a post.... Race played a strong part in Brexit - racists used immigration and lies about who could and couldn't join the EU specifically to play one people's racist misbeliefs.

Racists always use the same cliches instead of arguments - like "play the race card" as i=f that has any relevance to the discussion - they just can't stand to be exposed as racist..

There is a flaw in your thinking. We are talking EU. That is Europe. All member states of EU are European.

How can one be racist against their own race? 

Is Covid19 still newsworthy?

I don't think it is.

20 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

No assumption on my part about your wealth in your cross thread posting.

 

Perhaps getting back to the topic in under discussion (I’m not it) will help you avoid getting into spacious semantics and save you wasting time trawling through past threads in an attempt to score ‘points’ with snatched comments out of context of the thread they were made in.

 

 

 

 

 

Wriggle wriggle. 5555

11 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I don’t recall ever telling you that ‘you should share your wealth’.

 

I don’t assume anyone is wealthy on the basis of things they’ve said on an anonymous Internet forum.

 

 

OK. Not "share" but "spread". Same assumption though.

10 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I don’t recall ever telling you that ‘you should share your wealth’.

 

I don’t assume anyone is wealthy on the basis of things they’ve said on an anonymous Internet forum.

 

 

Selective memory syndrome. Just as I suspected.

5 years on the hop more likely.

2 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

We get lots of Scottish people coming to London for a short holiday as well and we have the same problems 

They can never visit Wembley without stealing the goalposts. ????????????

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

 

The only question applicable to the subject of discussion is how is President Biden going to fund Social Security.

 

The President has made very clear statements on where on the income scales he will not raise taxes.

So sorry, I’m not interested in your continuing baiting over months across multiple threads.

 

 

 

 

 

 

You once posted that I and another should "share our wealth". You'd made an assumption that we are wealthy.

On what did you base that assumption?

2 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

True enough but doesn’t change a thing. 

 

It’s fair enough if residents, whether new or long term, have legitimate concerns and thankfully for them these have been addressed. 

Have they been addressed?

There's not much changing. Strangely, the restrictions are aimed at Marijuana. The guys that smoke that are the least likely to cause any problems.

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Let me correct you.

Under the topic of discussion (US President Biden has yet to say just how he would strengthen Social Security and Medicare trust funds)  what matters is pledges President Biden has made on who will not pay higher taxes.

 

I’ve suggested raising taxes on the rich and in particular the hyper wealthy.

 

So let’s see what US President Biden has said about who’s taxes will not go up:

 

Firstly he has this to say:

 

“Joe Biden believes that there’s no greater economic engine in the world than the hard work and ingenuity of the American people. But for too long, the economy has worked great for those at the top, while working families continually get squeezed.”

 

I think most Americans will agree with that.

 

He then adds this:

 

“Under this historic agreement, nobody earning less than $400,000 per year will pay a penny more in taxes.”

And from Biden’s 2022 ‘State of the Union Speech’:

 

“Biden reiterated a promise not to raise taxes on households with annual income below $400,000, a pledge he's made since his presidential campaign.”

 

Therefore any increases in taxes to fund social security must under Biden’s pledge and campaign promises not be funded by raising taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000.

 

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/10/28/president-biden-announces-the-build-back-better-framework/

 

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/03/02/biden-reiterates-400000-tax-pledge-to-fund-agenda.html

Why do you never answer questions?

Unless you did and agree with the figure of $400000

9 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

The residents have legitimate concerns and they are being dealt with. 
 

As I said earlier, fair enough. 
 

Nowhere in the article does it state those complaining are new residents. Could well be those living there have had enough. 
 

Again fair enough. 

There has been a red light district in Amsterdam since 14th Century. I doubt there are many residents who have lived there for 700 years.

21 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Don’t agree I’m afraid.
 

If people live somewhere and enough of them are in favour of changes such as those being put into action in the OP then, as far as I’m concerned, fair enough. 

So, someone finds a property they'd like to buy. They have a survey and local searches are completed.

The purchaser ignores everything in those documents, buys the property and moves in.

Then, and only then, they start to complain about what goes on around them. How stupid can you get.

If you don't like it, don't move there.

2 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Putting aside the concept of ‘margin of error’, there is another issue with voter polls that are published in the immediate run up to elections.

 

The published poll results themselves Drive media coverage and in turn that impacts voter turnout.

 

This is obviously a bigger issue when the polls are indicating a close run race, as with BREXIT.

 

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/323018021.pdf

 

 

3 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Putting aside the concept of ‘margin of error’, there is another issue with voter polls that are published in the immediate run up to elections.

 

The published poll results themselves Drive media coverage and in turn that impacts voter turnout.

 

This is obviously a bigger issue when the polls are indicating a close run race, as with BREXIT.

 

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/323018021.pdf

 

 

That's quite funny. Prior to me pointing out a few glaring examples of how sampling doesn't work, there were no issues. Now there are issues. Wriggle aids by the looks of things. 

4 hours ago, RayC said:

 

If what you say is correct then governments and businesses the world over are wasting their money conducting market research.

 

Apologies for being blunt but it appears that you have no understanding of sampling theory, survey design or statistics in general.

5 hours ago, placeholder said:

Actually, you do have a quarrel with me. Of course, it's possible. Political polling, which gets lambasted all the time, actually come quite close to predicting actual outcomes. Statistics couldn't be done in any useful way was it not valid to use small samples.

Interesting comments. About as accurate as polls, it would appear. Here are a few glaring examples:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/24/how-eu-referendum-pollsters-wrong-opinion-predict-close

https://www.britishpollingcouncil.org/performance-of-the-polls-in-the-eu-referendum/

g.ft.com/elections/uk/2017/polls/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/05/why-the-opinion-polls-were-wrong-in-the-2015-general-election