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Post by lululemonmustdobetter on May 18, 2023 11:56:14 GMT
I think s/he is only one badger and I’m sure you don’t need to apologise. (Sounds like a nasty piece of work to me anyway, befuddled or not.) However, to quote Dick Emery, he is awful - but I like him. Personal pronouns can be contentious. I also have a feeling that Befuddled may well be "an old friend" in new guise  |
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Post by thylacine on May 18, 2023 12:08:53 GMT
Personal pronouns can be contentious. I also have a feeling that Befuddled may well be "an old friend" in new guise Absolutely concur. We are good at this game aren't we 😂 |
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Post by domjg on May 18, 2023 12:10:29 GMT
Personal pronouns can be contentious. I also have a feeling that Befuddled may well be "an old friend" in new guise I have an idea about Befuddled and the two do give the impression of knowing each other but I don't recognise the style of feckless though I it did occur to me that he and a recent poster from the Cotswolds area may never be seen in the same place at one time.. |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2023 12:17:42 GMT
I suspect that may be true of fecklessmiser as well. I have an idea about Befuddled and the two do give the impression of knowing each other but I don't recognise the style of feckless. Well, I’m an ex civil servant, retired to Cumbria (very nice but very, very wet) with the unfashionable name of Malcolm. As for befuddledbadger, I don’t recognise him from past browsing but he does seem moderately funny and I quite like the name - no more to it than that. |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2023 12:22:49 GMT
But yes, I've always been against nazi's so I suppose I am prejudice, though I'd say it was reasonable prejudice. You are Laszlo * and I claim my £5 * minus the intellect of course. That is gratuitously insulting. To us your own protests back at you: you know nothing about him. FM |
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Post by domjg on May 18, 2023 12:35:01 GMT
I have an idea about Befuddled and the two do give the impression of knowing each other but I don't recognise the style of feckless. Well, I’m an ex civil servant, retired to Cumbria (very nice but very, very wet) with the unfashionable name of Malcolm. As for befuddledbadger , I don’t recognise him from past browsing but he does seem moderately funny and I quite like the name - no more to it than that. Fair enough! We can try to read too much into these things sometimes. We get so few new posters here that there seems to be a tendency for us to assume (including me obviously) that it's a previous poster in a new guise. Welcome in any case! Good to have someone else adding to the fun and games. |
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Post by johntel on May 18, 2023 13:11:04 GMT
BT is to cut 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade including replacing around 10,000 workers with artificial intelligence (AI).The telecoms giant will reduce the size of its workforce by 40pc by the end of the 2030 financial year.
Chief executive Philip Jansen said the new BT will be a “leaner business with a brighter future”.
Around 25,000 jobs will be cut through a reduction in engineers as the company’s full-fibre rollout comes to an end and old copper networks are shut down.
Roughly 10,000 roles will be replaced by automation as the company embraces artificial intelligence.
Mr Jansen said BT would be a “huge beneficiary” of AI, which he said could save the company hundreds of millions of pounds compared to its old IT systems.
He said: “Yes it has its risks, we’ve got to be very careful, but I personally think it’s going to be as big as the internet and as big as mobile phones. This is a massive change.”
Telegraph Sounds to me like they're using AI as an excuse to cut costs. I bet if you challenged Jansen to say exactly what the AI is going to do he couldn't tell you. |
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Post by neilj on May 18, 2023 13:24:28 GMT
Yougov, as usual a week out of date
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Post by neilj on May 18, 2023 13:30:27 GMT
Interesting analysis, basically even worse news for the Tories
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Post by steve on May 18, 2023 13:38:58 GMT
In today's edition of Tories talking utter bollocks
Kemi Badenoch says global carmakers’ UK concerns ‘nothing to do with Brexit’
The fact that all car makers in the UK have said it has everything to do with brexit ( or at least the agreed shit barebones free trade agreement) seems to have slipped Kemi's mind I thought Sunak was sure fire winner of this weeks Westminster village idiot with his things are going great and brexits working utter tosh at 35,000 feet but Kemi has definitely sneaked ahead.
Still it's only Thursday plenty of time for even more insane cockwombelry before Sunday.
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Post by pete on May 18, 2023 13:54:17 GMT
But yes, I've always been against nazi's so I suppose I am prejudice, though I'd say it was reasonable prejudice. You are Laszlo * and I claim my £5 * minus the intellect of course. Tbf, I doubt many on here are as smart as Lazlo, including you. Your insults are very play ground childish. |
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Post by steve on May 18, 2023 14:31:39 GMT
You would have hoped that Badenoch as SoS for business and trade might have grasped something of the nature of the trade agreements brexitania has.
Simplifying a little ( but not actually that much) the issue British manufacturers have is rules of origin in the trade agreement the Spaffer regime cobbled together on the back of an envelope with the European union.
In this case it's the car industry screwed but other industries are similarly impacted.
For a car to be deemed "British" around 55% of the constituent parts have to have originated in the U.K.
Failure to do so and a rising percentage of tariffs on imports to the European union apply , that's the agreement that the regime reached its the same For the European union.
For battery car manufacturers this is a particular issue as around 40% of the value of a battery vehicle is the battery and associated drive train and as it stands at the moment none of this is manufactured here, the failure of British volt ensures that's not changing any time soon.
For a European union manufacturer the trade agreement didn't specify a country so any parts manufactured any where in the European union meet the rules of origin requirements. There are 40 battery manufacturers in the European union so this element is easily met , with no trade barriers between member nations,similarly other specialist parts can benefit from economies of scale with just a few manufacturers eu wide.
So for a company such as Vauxhall it's a no brainer to move to the European union not only does it avoid the tariff barriers but it's actually easier to export from the European union to the U.K. as the rules of origin requirements are easily met.
This is a straightforward and obvious cost from the Brexit agreement reached, it's avoided only of course by not leaving the European union but also by single market membership it would also have been avoided by the agreement Theresa May negotiated before the brexitanian head bangers scuppered that as well.
There's no obvious reason why the European union should make any effort to bail the Sunak regime out they gain from the companies moving and 800,000 jobs in the UK are at risk as a result.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2023 14:37:19 GMT
I have an idea about Befuddled and the two do give the impression of knowing each other but I don't recognise the style of feckless. Well, I’m an ex civil servant, retired to Cumbria (very nice but very, very wet) with the unfashionable name of Malcolm. As for befuddledbadger , I don’t recognise him from past browsing but he does seem moderately funny and I quite like the name - no more to it than that. PS I like quoting other people who say things better than I can and meant to add, regarding “Batty” - whose writing style I did admire: befuddledbadger - you are no crossbat11 (though you’re not bad.  ) |
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Post by thylacine on May 18, 2023 14:55:33 GMT
Well, I’m an ex civil servant, retired to Cumbria (very nice but very, very wet) with the unfashionable name of Malcolm. As for befuddledbadger , I don’t recognise him from past browsing but he does seem moderately funny and I quite like the name - no more to it than that. PS I like quoting other people who say things better than I can and meant to add, regarding “Batty” - whose writing style I did admire: befuddledbadger - you are no crossbat11 (though you’re not bad. ) Yes a very distinctive interplay between the two , dare I say bromance even. The one cutting, sharp and witty the other eloquent and lyrical. If only they were still with us. |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2023 14:58:14 GMT
PS I like quoting other people who say things better than I can and meant to add, regarding “Batty” - whose writing style I did admire: befuddledbadger - you are no crossbat11 (though you’re not bad. ) Yes a very distinctive interplay between the two , dare I say bromance even. The one cutting, sharp and witty the other eloquent and lyrical. If only they were still with us. I vaguely remember crossbat11 discussing meeting Crofty somewhere/sometime. Maybe they’ve run off together? |
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Post by thylacine on May 18, 2023 15:05:02 GMT
Yes a very distinctive interplay between the two , dare I say bromance even. The one cutting, sharp and witty the other eloquent and lyrical. If only they were still with us. I vaguely remember crossbat11 discussing meeting Crofty somewhere/sometime. Maybe they’ve run off together? Somewhere nice I hope. Where they can reflect on the folly of life without this hub of intellectual genius and return forthwith . |
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Post by alec on May 18, 2023 15:15:32 GMT
Not sure if this has been covered, and while not on the same level as "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", it comes pretty close -
We can start to discern a clear and very frightening pattern here among the right wing outriders. The NatCons are fawning over new intake MP Miriam Cates, who believes the countries biggest problem is women not having enough babies, no matter that her party has failed totally to provide adequate housing and decent services to those already born, and the whole regeneration of the Conservatives appears to be based around picking on minority groups, waving the flag and demanding fealty to one restrictive vision of nationhood.
Against such a backdrop, having the Mail opine about how dictators might be better for us sends chills down my spine, and should, I think, chill people across the political spectrum.
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Post by barbara on May 18, 2023 15:18:34 GMT
I never realised your A**e was subject of a proverb  I’m reporting barbara for such language. I once knew a very nice family who were voted catholic; when the younger daughter used the word “bottom” she was speedily corrected by her mother with: “Bottom quarters, Angela.” Mind you, threatening to show one’s bottom quarters in public is utterly disgusting. (Especially for a lady.) Enough of your affronted gentility. I'll have you know that that is a well known and very respected Mancunian phrase. More inferior regions such as Yorkshire may say, "I'll go to the foot of our stairs" but we Mancunians don't beat about the bush. |
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Post by oldnat on May 18, 2023 15:27:40 GMT
I’m reporting barbara for such language. I once knew a very nice family who were voted catholic; when the younger daughter used the word “bottom” she was speedily corrected by her mother with: “Bottom quarters, Angela.” Mind you, threatening to show one’s bottom quarters in public is utterly disgusting. (Especially for a lady.) Enough of your affronted gentility. I'll have you know that that is a well known and very respected Mancunian phrase. More inferior regions such as Yorkshire may say, "I'll go to the foot of our stairs" but we Mancunians don't beat about the bush. |
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Post by barbara on May 18, 2023 15:33:15 GMT
Enough of your affronted gentility. I'll have you know that that is a well known and very respected Mancunian phrase. More inferior regions such as Yorkshire may say, "I'll go to the foot of our stairs" but we Mancunians don't beat about the bush. My you were quick to see that! Actually I removed it because the phrase is , " We call a spade a f****** shovel" and I didn't want to upset Feckless's sensitivities any further. Mancunians might play fast and loose with gardening terminology but that's because we all live in terraced houses so have no need for either. |
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Post by wb61 on May 18, 2023 15:35:38 GMT
My how whimsical many of us are today must be the late but welcome arrival of Spring 🌱
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Post by steve on May 18, 2023 15:41:20 GMT
oldnat I recall an incident when my firearms team were called to deal with a man wielding an axe. I felt it incumbent on me before I considered shooting him to point out it was in fact a hatchet not an axe , it's this sort of grammatical confusion that can undermine your entire day.
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Post by steve on May 18, 2023 15:45:13 GMT
I also as a junior police officer went to a pub fight where individuals had broken some of the bar chairs to use as improvised weapons.
One person had a chair leg.
Yes he was armed with a leg!
I shall get my coat.
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Post by thylacine on May 18, 2023 15:47:25 GMT
My how whimsical many of us are today must be the late but welcome arrival of Spring 🌱 Spring yes, but a belting labour lead in the polls and a disintegrating Tory party does help with the whimsy. |
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Post by oldnat on May 18, 2023 15:47:38 GMT
oldnat I recall an incident when my firearms team were called to deal with a man wielding an axe. I felt it incumbent on me before I considered shooting him to point out it was in fact a hatchet not an axe , it's this sort of grammatical confusion that can undermine your entire day. |
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Post by mercian on May 18, 2023 15:53:44 GMT
So the 'more' that got these people agitated was the intervention of the State to stop a group of idiots in red coats tearing foxes apart with hounds. Talk about a loss of perspective while the NHS goes down the tubes! I was simply pointing out that lululemonmustdobetter's contention that it's the left who demonstrate is not always true. Anyway, as the demo I linked to was about a protest in 2002 I'm pleased that you admit that the NHS was going down the tubes under Labour. Note: Not pleased that it was going down the tubes, but just your admission. |
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Post by pjw1961 on May 18, 2023 15:55:38 GMT
Apparently the rising star of the Tory party is Miriam Cates. Cates is a crusader against " wokeness " whatever that is and wishes to impose her own religious fundamentalism on every one else identifying the UK 's falling birthrate and gender fluidity as the two most serious issues of the day. Cates and her husband also have a nice side gig making money out of food banks. She's the emerging voice of the christofascists Steve - the rising star could set reasonably easily on current polling: Penistone and Stocksbridge Conservative Miriam Cates 23,688 47.8 Labour Francyne Johnson 16,478 33.3 Liberal Democrats Hannah Kitching 5,054 10.2 Brexit Party John Booker 4,300 8.7 Majority 7,210 14.6 |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on May 18, 2023 15:56:15 GMT
BT is to cut 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade including replacing around 10,000 workers with artificial intelligence (AI).The telecoms giant will reduce the size of its workforce by 40pc by the end of the 2030 financial year.
Chief executive Philip Jansen said the new BT will be a “leaner business with a brighter future”.
Around 25,000 jobs will be cut through a reduction in engineers as the company’s full-fibre rollout comes to an end and old copper networks are shut down.
Roughly 10,000 roles will be replaced by automation as the company embraces artificial intelligence.
Mr Jansen said BT would be a “huge beneficiary” of AI, which he said could save the company hundreds of millions of pounds compared to its old IT systems.
He said: “Yes it has its risks, we’ve got to be very careful, but I personally think it’s going to be as big as the internet and as big as mobile phones. This is a massive change.”
Telegraph Sounds to me like they're using AI as an excuse to cut costs. I bet if you challenged Jansen to say exactly what the AI is going to do he couldn't tell you. I will ask him next time I see him. (Which could be a while…) |
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Post by pjw1961 on May 18, 2023 15:56:39 GMT
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Post by mercian on May 18, 2023 15:58:41 GMT
She is obviously pandering to the new 'communities' who tend to vote Labour. You know the ones - they are socially conservative in the sense of arranged marriages and so on. I wonder how that sits with the LGBTXYZ community who also tend to vote Labour? It's called changing attitudes so that we can live together in diverse communities through accepting difference. You don't like it, just buy your own little island somewhere, one where you can impose your own rules of white male dominion over all you survey. I think you'll find that some members of other 'communities' are rather less tolerant than white males. I don't know of any of the latter group going in for 'honour' killings or FGM for instance. Still, it's all good for cultural diversity, eh? |
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