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11 January 2012 9:59AM
Today we talked about:
Iranian nuclear scientist killed - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/11/bomb-kills-iranian-nuclear-scientist
Gove to scrap 'boring' IT classes - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/11/michael-gove-boring-it-lessons
Hungary possible bail out
Scotland referendum - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/10/scottish-independence-referendum-autumn-2014
1 in 5 people think fiddling expenses is fine
Raid public sector pensions
Social policy kite marks - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/10/cabinet-secretary-social-policy-kitemark
Mitt Romney winning New Hampshire
Class sizes new challenge
Brazil rainforest being protected
11 January 2012 10:03AM
jolly hockey sticks
11 January 2012 10:09AM
For only those policies that fly?
Or only for those that came out of blue-sky thinking?
What a load of hot air.
11 January 2012 10:11AM
I think my buttons might be back. They seem to be on all threads at the moment... Fingers crossed.
11 January 2012 10:12AM
Wow...
11 January 2012 10:13AM
Good morning, I wonder if it would be possible to have an articule from the disabled Conservative Councillor Flitcroft, who has decided to step down in protest at Government plans to abolish Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2012/01/09/tory-quits-in-cuts-protest/
11 January 2012 10:13AM
Some editorials and articles offering avuncular advice to the Tories on how to win elections.
11 January 2012 10:13AM
Scotland referendum:
1 in 5 people think fiddling expenses is fine
11 January 2012 10:15AM
Morning Bella, Morning everyone!
@Serious Suggestion
Give that several larger building firms have cut their central/government contracts down in a bid to save money or in our case generally getting pissed off with building the buildings they planned to spec and then getting blamed for the public outcry when they were too small, drafty etc. who is going to be building all these new houses?
Or
The scourge of bed hair and why it damages the economy. It took 5 minutes to tame my barnet this morning, if we multiply by days I work it's half an hour a week, roughly 2 hours a month and therefore 24 hours a year where I could be working but instead, the time has been wasted sorting my hair out. Mutliply this figure by the number of sufferers of bed hair in the UK and we've got a major problem.
11 January 2012 10:16AM
Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran bomb explosion
Let's not forget that this Iranian man is like millions of people in the world who go out to work in other to put food on the table for his family -- he happens to be a nuclear scientist. An ordinary Iranian citizen is brutally killed because of his job preference? -- And this is not the first time. Why are we not condemning such barbaric acts, but instead, boasting about it. What now stops the Iranian or their surrogates from assassinating not just western and Israeli scientists but also business people, tourists, etc?
11 January 2012 10:18AM
@Bella
I seem to have my buttons back. Please give Martin a sunflower seed treat and the IT Hamster a peck on the cheek.
11 January 2012 10:18AM
Wow 'Gove to scrap 'boring' IT classes', what are they going to replace them with boring Morality in Big Society by Dave?. I loved IT as do many.
11 January 2012 10:18AM
I'd like to discuss which sexually deviant things you can describe a poodle doing to a hippopotamus as a simile for the relationship between the government and the financial sector, whilst not getting moderated on cif.
Indeed, I would argue that swearing is often a good clean healthy outpouring of uninhibited fun, and we should be more tolerant of it.
11 January 2012 10:20AM
What's with yesterday's Networking article about Ms Hobsbawm?
11 January 2012 10:20AM
Put them all on the HS2, and open the windows. Should fix it. And you'll be in Birmingham twenty minutes earlier, with HP sauce for breakfast.
11 January 2012 10:23AM
You know what would be really great, is a section on CiF with summaries on what has been in the papers in other countries this week, with a focus on Europe. I can read the French papers, but that's it. It would be cool if the Guardian hired some translators/multi-lingual people to do a weekly round-up, so we know what other Europeans are concerned with atm.
Sorry, I know that's not an idea for an article, just putting that out there.
11 January 2012 10:24AM
"It took 5 minutes to tame my barnet this morning"
You should get a buzz cut, looks much better on you baldies than a comb-over, you know.
11 January 2012 10:27AM
You know that thing boy's comics used to do: 'you are the ref'? They'd set up a situation and invite their readers to interpret the rules and give a decision, then an expert would explain the correct decision. I'd like to suggest 'You are the mod'. Last night I responded to this:
With this:
No, it's brutal wit. In fact I'm not even sure it's particularly brutal.
It was deleted under the 'community guidelines'. I've studied the rule book carefully but can find no explanation.
I am perplexed.
11 January 2012 10:28AM
How about an article putting numbers into context.
For example - SJ has written about the high speed rail project projected to cost £32 billion* - £32 bn just to build a railway line from London to Birmingham - about 120 miles or so - but how many people nowadays actually have a feel for just how astronomical a sum of money that is?
(*Which is far from the largest such sum being chucked around casually in articles and announcements nowadays.)
Familiarity has brought a form of contempt when it comes to such large numbers - people just can't picture how large they are and look at the more reasuring £32, rather than the zeros which follow.
If you translate it into time, though,whilst a million secords is about 12 days, a billion seconds is around 34 years.
As for 32 billion? Well 32 billion seconds ago we were in the year 924. - with over 100 years still to go before the Norman invasions.
So ... an article on numbers may help people actually to visuaise the billions (and trillions) being so casually disposed of by our political masters around the world.
11 January 2012 10:28AM
BellaM
What about something on how well it is all going over at Fukushima?
What about the hundreds of thousands of refugees?
What about the cost of the clean up?
What about the ineffectivness of the clean up?
What about the projeced time scale of the clean up?
What about the disproportionate number of men doing the cleaning up?
What about the contamination of the Pacific?
What about all the industry lies and PR spin
What about the Japanese people crumbling belief in the authorities?
What about it?
11 January 2012 10:29AM
Dear yeahyeahsure
This site gives links to loads of newspapers which publish in English from all over the world.
Funnily enough some European countries are worse served than places like China.
11 January 2012 10:30AM
Worried about your hair?Ever tried varnishing your nails in a hurry? When you take your hands out of your gloves your nails are covered in woolly bits.
11 January 2012 10:30AM
He's not bald. He's follically challenged. Leastways, that's what Monsewer le GF always claims when anyone draws attention to his lack of roofing materials.
11 January 2012 10:30AM
-The outcasts are rebelling
-Sack them!
-No can do, they have no jobs
-Cut their benefits!
-We can't, they don't get any
-Tear down their homes!
-Impossible, they haven't got any
*pause*
-In that case, we're done for!
From a recent Spanish cartoon.
11 January 2012 10:30AM
Are they "English" billions or "American" billions I wonder ?
11 January 2012 10:31AM
I got the impression they want to scrap boring IT classes rather than IT classes in general.
11 January 2012 10:32AM
Some people would regard referring to women as a 'bitch' as misogynistic or offensive language.
I would have thought that was fairly obvious?
11 January 2012 10:32AM
Tim works in the building trade, Bru. Don't reckon he goes in much for nail varnish. I'm surprised he worries about his hair, given that it spends all day under a hard hat.
11 January 2012 10:32AM
Mitt Romney - never understood why he lost to John McCain last time round. Not that I'm a Republican sympathiser but I just never understood it.
11 January 2012 10:34AM
That's American billions.
If you take an English billion (an Amercan "trillion"), a billion seconds have not yet passed since the first human being was born.
11 January 2012 10:34AM
I want to know how he managed to squeeze up timthemonkey's wire.
11 January 2012 10:35AM
Lagrande
As a self-respecting pirate lover TimMonkey should be used to rough hair (and beards).
11 January 2012 10:35AM
32 billion is nothing. The smallest of small change when compared to the projected TRILLIONS required for the completion of the Fukushima salvage plan.
The comparison between Fukushima and the high speed rail project is more apt when you consider that they hope to have Fukushima nicely tidied up sometime around 2070. This is about the same date we can expect to see the first trains running between London and Brum. Probably at a much slower speed than was advertised due to unforseen problems with the rolling stock or leaves or something.
11 January 2012 10:35AM
How much is a Scottish billion?
11 January 2012 10:37AM
So?
11 January 2012 10:38AM
That looks very interesting, thank you!
11 January 2012 10:38AM
Thanks, kizbot, but that word was in the article and the comment I was responding to (both still there); I didn't even include it in mine.
Now, is the a mechanic or an organ-grinder around? ;0)
11 January 2012 10:44AM
American billions are the accepted standard these days, and jolly useful the term is too.
English billions have gone the way of the dinosaurs.
Off topic, I'm breaking out in buttons all over! Hurrah!
11 January 2012 10:45AM
It was quoted directly from the article. Maybe the article should have been moderated?
11 January 2012 10:46AM
Correct!!
11 January 2012 10:47AM
I see Atos are living up to their high standards again. Scandalous.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/14073931
11 January 2012 10:49AM
Erm, so... It does actually say in the guidelines that this kind of thing is subject to modding..
So I don't get why gb was perplexed and couldn't see why such comments are modded.
What's your point?
11 January 2012 10:49AM
You really have to make things difficult for yourself, don't you?
Guys, a US billion is the same as here: 1,000,000,000.
11 January 2012 10:51AM
Oh, I see.. the ditch the bitch thing was in an article? and then someone said it was a brutal thing to say and you responded with no it wasn't and only you were modded?
Is that it?
11 January 2012 10:51AM
This site is usefull for some countries. But there is more information available about what happens in and around Gibraltar than in Belgium for example. And if you compare the Netherlands with France, for NL there is a site with a daily overview over what the paper say but France will remain a blind spot.
So very patchy
11 January 2012 10:52AM
My view of posts that are deleted for no obvious reason, developed over a long frustrating time, is to forget it and get on with my life! It's not worth the worry.
11 January 2012 10:53AM
What kind of thing? The kind of thing some people would consider misogynistic language or offensive? Do the guidelines supply a list of outlawed terms?
11 January 2012 10:53AM
Yep, that's about the size of it. Is there a rule about mere gainsaying? If there is, I'll go quietly...
11 January 2012 10:53AM
So everyone has their buttons back?
Martin must have done something! Perhaps he confiscated the hamsters game consoles...
11 January 2012 10:54AM
young Liam Wood (13) died playing football. He was frail
An Essex 10 year old died doing compulsory school run She was smaller than other runners. LESSON TO BE LEARNED.
can we have heart tests for school kids on compulsory sport. ?
GABBY LOGAN is supposed to know something about this from an establishment point of view.
She does no challenge bosses publicly (Fears sack, maybe)