OT: UK to move back to imperial units?

[Jan Panteltje]

Cursitor Doomed

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 13:00:34 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:

There is little to gain from leaving the EU, and 'Will of the People'
does not make what those want the right thing.

Oh dear. I'm afraid I'm a very firm believer in democracy so the 'will of
the people' (who do all the work to support the parasite class and have
to take all their rules) is paramount IMV. Any leader who can't see that
is going down a very dangerous path indeed.

Na, I do not see it that way, for me it is OK if my bosses make lots of money.
Rich? You can eat only so much.
Then you can buy a rolls and then you can have your workers push it of it breaks down it is British after all.

UK has nothing to negotiate left, it stands alone if Brexit succeeds.

Stood alone in 1940 as well as you seem to forget. Not afraid to do it
again, either.

No, US was helping.

The new guy in number 10 is just a trumpist puppet has has nothing but
words whispered into his ears by trumps CIA messengers.

Hard to see how he can be a "Trumpist puppet" when he said Trump was out
of touch with reality over his London crime remarks and unfit for the
office of President!

Don't remember that, but if he really did say that, then it was probably to fool somebody (you?),
apart from that he is right on that.

But you carry on trotting out the rubbish printed and broadcast by the
media if it makes you happy, Jan.

I do not see where exactly you stand, and your attitude to some Russian businessmen.
Sure after Reagan conned them into collapse (you need a GOOD actor for that, his starwars,
no trump cannot come close).
Some made big money, was it legal ? What rules are there during a system collapse?
Some are more opportunist than others... or are in a position or have the experience to do so, the desire to do so.
For the people, with Putin a stable society emerged.
All the current protest, undoubtedly fed by undercover CIA clowns, man I have seen one in action in my country,
Let us just hope things in Russia will quiet down, and not result in some silly chaos that will only hurt people.

US sees Russia as competition for gas, oil, Russian gas is much better quality or so I have read from reports.
Trade is OK, putting up all those silly barriers is not.
I have a different attitude.

Again I would not buy from somebody who holds a gun to my head, like trumpasite does to Europe.
Now he threatens tariffs on French wine, after France wants to tax google & co. What's next??
We will just retaliate like China did.
US deficit keeps going up, the dollar is going down, soon they will have to print 100,000 dollar notes.
Russia will always be there, Napoleon tried, Hitler tried,
Maybe only climate change can move things, but by that time even more US cities will be abandoned
there will be just some warlords running N America, maybe what is left of civilization will be where now is the arctic.
Or on other planets, Russia has the tech, China too, India just launched a moon probe, France launches satellites, all have nuclear arms,

Today there is a meeting with Iran and EU representatives about the problems in that region.
trumpest stepped out the Iran deal that everybody including US during Obama made, because NethanYahoo told him so.
trumpest stepped out of the nuclear missile treaty.

If the world (except trumpy) does not come to an agreement on Iran, the nukes may well fly before you expect.
UK will then side (Boris) with US and as I said before,
US will be divided in a Chinese part and Russian part after that in the Washington conference.
'merricans will have to learn different languages, Mandarin and Russian and likely Spanish.
EU will no longer allow and teach English, will be German and French, and the waves will rule Britannica as it sinks beneath those due to
glowball worming.

A large thunderstorm is approaching here, I can here it, but it could also be lots a Boeings crashing or just an intercontinental missile exchange
(looks at radiation monitor) no, not yet.

sigh

EU will always be there of course
Russia may even join it.
And China,
now that would teach them 'merricans.

 

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:35:03 +0100) it happened Michael Kellett
<mk@mkesc.co.uk> wrote in <IaadndcKwr8lU6DAnZ2dnUU78VXNnZ2d@giganews.com>:

On 27/07/2019 13:36, Jan Panteltje wrote:

UK to move back to imperial units?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/the-comma-touch-jacob-rees-mogg-sends-language-rules-to-staff

Now all we need is Pi = 3 (or 4)
How very sad when clueless politicians dictate science,
hope UK leaves EU today.

Absolutely unacceptable, and shows the ongoing chaos,
got to be a sign of an IQ equal to apes.
Ask yourself what is the future for UK now,
this sort of dictatorship seems unacceptable to any sane person,
those lot are hopefully still a majority in the UK.
I am not pleased to learn about this folly.

duh



One of the great glories of SED is watching all you guys who don't live
here in the UK getting the wrong end of the stick.
JRM is the new boss in his department. He likes the written output of
his department to stick to the style guide he prefers.
It's not folly, or dictatorship.
For example, in British politics it has become commonplace to describe
practices, events or occurrences as "unacceptable". It's used mainly for
virtue signalling.
JRM wants his minions to think before they write, so banning lazy
shorthand and platitudes is OK by me.

So what has his madness to do with imperial units?
minions, well if he has some they should kick him in the rear-end,
Freedom of speech?
The man is a moron, he was assigned to that post by Boris,
that makes Boris also a moron
maybe he thinks if he assigns a moron he looks better compared to it himself,
well that does not work for outside of the UK, does it IN the UK?
I estimate their intelligence higher.
Been wrong before though :-(

 

[Dimiter_Popoff]

On 7/28/2019 19:32, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:01:20 +0300, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:

Yeah yeah, like I said in another post on another topic I know all the
repertoire of you russian troll crowd. Asking for agruments against
retarded nonsense you post is quite stadard.

Tell us what you do for a living. Then tell us *when* you do it.

So says someone who's obviously got no counter argument.

Standard russian troll babble again.

Tell us what you do for a living.
Then tell us *when* you do it.

 

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:56:01 -0700 (PDT)) it happened
jrwalliker@gmail.com wrote in
<0bbe3ef5-b4c9-423a-8cfe-482d9a65b2b5@googlegroups.com>:

On Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:00:19 UTC+1, Jan Panteltje wrote:

Then you can buy a rolls and then you can have your workers
push it of it breaks down it is British after all.

German actually.

OK, seesm it was bought, OK then it won't break down
maybe ran out of fuel?

 

On Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:00:19 UTC+1, Jan Panteltje wrote:

Then you can buy a rolls and then you can have your workers
push it of it breaks down it is British after all.

German actually.

John

 

[Piotr Wyderski]

John Larkin wrote:

> No, my problem with TV is that the content is usually trash

To be specific, the broadcasters have that unbearable habit of
interrupting commercial blocks and injecting the trash content you mention.

Best regards, Piotr

 

[Tom Gardner]

On 28/07/19 10:28, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:10:17 +0300, upsidedown wrote:


Sure it solvable, but may lead to bizarre solutions, like the Åland
island case.

It doesn't require a solution because there's no problem in the first
place! The whole "Irish Backstop" issue (the prevention of a hard border
arising between N. Ireland and the Republic) is a non-issue. Both parties
have stated unequivocally that they don't want any border infrastructure
erected

Sigh. CD's usual lack of comprehension of the English
language.

Of course neither side *wants* it, but in the absence of
an appropriate agreement, they will *need* it.

 

[Tom Gardner]

On 28/07/19 17:01, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:

On 7/28/2019 17:16, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:24:19 +0300, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:

If anything, you trolls are both voicy and persistent, I'll give you
that.

So says someone who's obviously got no counter argument.






Yeah yeah, like I said in another post on another topic I know all
the repertoire of you russian troll crowd. Asking for agruments
against retarded nonsense you post is quite stadard.

Tell us what you do for a living. Then tell us *when* you do it.

He should also tell us which country he lives in, because
he has stated it isn't part of the UK, viz...



On 27/07/19 19:55, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:23:57 +0300, Tauno Voipio wrote:

Including guineas, pounds, shillings and pence?

Served us perfectly well for centuries. I for one would love to see them
re-introduced. In fact I might even move back if that happened.

 

[John Larkin]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 21:24:21 -0000 (UTC), Chris <cbx@noreply.com>
wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:59:59 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:

No, US was helping.

Not until Pearl Harbour at the end of 1941.

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/lend-lease

Two critical American contributions were food and aviation gas.

https://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2009/SpitfireFuel.asp




--

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lunatic fringe electronics

 

[Gunther Heiko Hagen]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:01:20 +0300, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:

> Tell us what you do for a living. Then tell us *when* you do it.

Who is this "us" you claim to be speaking on behalf of?

 

[Cursitor Doom]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 20:01:30 +0300, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:

Standard russian troll babble again.

Tell us what you do for a living.
Then tell us *when* you do it.

So says someone who's obviously got no counter argument.



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[Chris]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:59:59 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:

> No, US was helping.

Not until Pearl Harbour at the end of 1941.

 

[Tom Gardner]

On 28/07/19 12:45, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 14:12:49 +0300, upsidedown wrote:

There needs to be a customs border somewhere, otherwise the Brit tons
will be trucking toll-free their goods from England across to Northern
Ireland, then into Republic of Ireland and then to the continental EU.

I'm sorry, but you've started off with a completely false premise here.
That's not the way it works. There are no viable routes from the Irish
Republic to mainland Europe except via England.

Bullshit. All you have to do is read the newspapers to see
the new port facilities the Irish are building, and be able
to use google maps to see that is simply wrong.

Clearly CD is incapable of seeing lines on maps such as
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3054698,-5.995522,8z

The EU could try
establishing a new ferry service direct, but that would add huge cost to
good shipped *and* be impossible to make work in the period October to
April due to the dangerous and unpredictable storms in the Irish Sea
during that period. Geopolitically, the UK has the Republic by the balls
- we are trying to avoid being nasty but it will happen if there's no
alternative. They're asking for it already IMV.

Twit.

 

[Tom Gardner]

On 28/07/19 15:38, John Larkin wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 07:36:37 +0100, Tom Gardner
spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

On 28/07/19 02:21, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:36:27 GMT, Jan Panteltje
pNaOnStPeAlMtje@yahoo.com> wrote:


UK to move back to imperial units?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/the-comma-touch-jacob-rees-mogg-sends-language-rules-to-staff

Now all we need is Pi = 3 (or 4)


2pi = 6 is usually close enough.

It's a game in our place to do math in our heads, standing at the
whiteboard.

Does that RC time constant affect the loop? Think for three or four
seconds and decide.

Newbies and visitors are impressed.

When I was a kid pi*pi = g = 10, and that was allowed
in physics and chemistry exams.

Time to resurrect my slipstick



A slide rule doesn't manage the exponent, and often the exponent is
all you need.

Too true.

But using a slide rule gave (gives?) *gravitas* to the
person doing the calculation.

There's the old lament:
- when I was an undergraduate I had a 12" slipstick
- when I was doing my PhD I had a helical slipstick
- now I'm a professor I have a 6" slipstick

 

[Dimiter_Popoff]

On 7/28/2019 23:43, Tom Gardner wrote:

On 28/07/19 17:01, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
On 7/28/2019 17:16, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:24:19 +0300, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:

If anything, you trolls are both voicy and persistent, I'll give you
that.

So says someone who's obviously got no counter argument.






Yeah yeah, like I said in another post on another topic I know all
the repertoire of you russian troll crowd. Asking for agruments
against retarded nonsense you post is quite stadard.

Tell us what you do for a living. Then tell us *when* you do it.

He should also tell us which country he lives in, because
he has stated it isn't part of the UK, viz...

He will tell neither. His behaviour is standard for a russian troll,
he'll keep on babbling as long as he gets paid for his babble.
Pathetic way to earn a living.

 

[Dimiter_Popoff]

On 7/29/2019 0:27, Cursitor Doom wrote:

Standard russian troll babble again.

Tell us what you do for a living.
Then tell us*when* you do it.

So says someone who's obviously got no counter argument.

Standard russian troll babble again. Babble does not deserve
arguments dear, just a brush off.

__Tell us what you do for a living.__
__Then tell us *when* you do it.__

 

[Tom Gardner]

On 28/07/19 23:09, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:

On 7/28/2019 23:43, Tom Gardner wrote:
On 28/07/19 17:01, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
On 7/28/2019 17:16, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:24:19 +0300, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:

If anything, you trolls are both voicy and persistent, I'll give you
that.

So says someone who's obviously got no counter argument.






Yeah yeah, like I said in another post on another topic I know all
the repertoire of you russian troll crowd. Asking for agruments
against retarded nonsense you post is quite stadard.

Tell us what you do for a living. Then tell us *when* you do it.

He should also tell us which country he lives in, because
he has stated it isn't part of the UK, viz...

He will tell neither. His behaviour is standard for a russian troll,
he'll keep on babbling as long as he gets paid for his babble.
Pathetic way to earn a living.

CD's behaviour is indistinguishable from a false-flag
propaganda merchant. "Russian trolls" would do the same.

 

On Sunday, 28 July 2019 17:35:08 UTC+1, Michael Kellett wrote:

One of the great glories of SED is watching all you guys who don't live
here in the UK getting the wrong end of the stick.
JRM is the new boss in his department. He likes the written output of
his department to stick to the style guide he prefers.
It's not folly, or dictatorship.
For example, in British politics it has become commonplace to describe
practices, events or occurrences as "unacceptable". It's used mainly for
virtue signalling.
JRM wants his minions to think before they write, so banning lazy
shorthand and platitudes is OK by me.

MK

You misunderstood his note completely. Read it instead of reading the grauniad's bs.


NT

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Monday, July 29, 2019 at 12:31:02 AM UTC+10, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 13:00:34 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:

There is little to gain from leaving the EU, and 'Will of the People'
does not make what those want the right thing.

Oh dear. I'm afraid I'm a very firm believer in democracy so the 'will of
the people' (who do all the work to support the parasite class and have
to take all their rules) is paramount IMV.

Cursitor Doom is a gullible twit, so the idea that the people could be mislead by a bunch of plausible liars - Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage lead the pack - doesn't register with him.

> Any leader who can't see that is going down a very dangerous path indeed.

The fact that you can sell a really silly idea to an appreciable chunk of the electorate doesn't make it a good idea.

UK has nothing to negotiate left, it stands alone if Brexit succeeds.

Stood alone in 1940 as well as you seem to forget. Not afraid to do it
again, either.

Scarcely a comparable situation. Margaret Thatcher hadn't got around to dismantling the UK manufacturing industry in 1940 - it was still the workshop of the world back then. It isn't now.

The new guy in number 10 is just a trumpist puppet has has nothing but
words whispered into his ears by trumps CIA messengers.

Hard to see how he can be a "Trumpist puppet" when he said Trump was out
of touch with reality over his London crime remarks and unfit for the
office of President!

All part of the widow dressing.

But you carry on trotting out the rubbish printed and broadcast by the
media if it makes you happy, Jan.

Cursitor Doom prefers the rubbish printed out and broadcast by his right-wing media. If it's far-right enough, Cursitor doom will believe it. It does have to be thoroughly divorced from reality to make him happy.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Clifford Heath]

On 28/7/19 2:28 am, Tom Gardner wrote:

On 27/07/19 16:30, upsidedown@downunder.com wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:50:02 +0100, Tom Gardner
spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
BTW, it is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland". Presumably if N Ireland does a "reunification" with
Eire, all domain names will have to be registered as .gb
This would also solve the N.I. border issues.
Precisely.

While we're on unlikely suggestions, how about Europe modernises enough
that they can compete on their merits and are competitive without the
need for customs excise, then they wouldn't need a customs border anyhow?