Comments by "John Warner" (@johncrwarner) on "A Different Bias" channel.

  1. A House of Ill Repute?
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  2.  @barbaracross7426  thanks I forgot to mention they've done it since Russia's attack on Ukraine.
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  3.  @saba1030  The German News has been full of it. I live in Bielefeld BTW.
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  4. It is interesting that all focus this weekend has been on Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and I suspect he liked that. If he had won the nomination process and then the election within the Conservative Party he would have had a lot of work to do. He likes being in the media but is definitely on the lazy side.
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  5. I remember arguing this point about becoming rule takers with people hyped on voting leave and they ignored that argument largely because they had a "British exceptionalism" mentality we can say stuff you to the others but they can't say it to us. Sadly that is not how the world works as we are learning.
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  6. As a fellow mathematician friend said at least the second derivative is negative LOL
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  7. As a British citizen permanently resident in Germany with my husband (who is German) I am still waiting for the call to visit the Ausländerbehörde (Foreigners Department) of the city council who will need to give me at some cost to me a permanent resident permit. This hasn't happened yet because the British government haven't signed any kind of agreement and it is still all up in the air. (I still have a vote in Britain and did not vote for Brexit nor for the current government)
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  8.  @soniaspf9705  I need to naturalise but need to get a certificate in German at B1 level I have a Steuernummer and a husband. My problem is my husband needs care so getting away to go to classes is tricky. As a long-term resident, I went to the Ausländerbehörde last year and after the formal part we had a chat They didn't have guidance from BAMF and it was frustrating for them and me (and my husband).
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  9. Oops, they did it again.
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  10.  @flitsertheo  Which is sad.
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  11. Isn't there a programme hosted by Jimmy Carr on Channel 4 entitled "I Literally Just Told You" where contestants are asked questions on information given them during the programme and have difficulty recalling it.
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  12. Does Johnson either want an EU trade deal or not? I am conflicted as if he doesn't get one the UK will be badly damaged as trade will be made more difficult by choice (of the UK) with all the EU and EU trade partners (which is a majority of the world's economy, I think) and Liz Truss and Dominic Raab are seriously underpowered by international standards as negotiators. The US "deal" would mean the UK accepts US standards (which are lower) but the US doesn't accept any more goods from the UK - not a brilliant idea. The EU - UK deal would mean accepting decisions on standards from the EU with NO input to the decision making process - so we literally have less say and less power than before Brexit - it will be what the Brexit supporters claimed that the current situation was like.
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  13.  G C  I know - but to call them moronic would be an insult to morons.
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  14. Isn#t your area "thick with Gammon"?
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  15.  @poplife123  Not sure what you mean. I am not sure of the source of this tale/joke but I would doubt it would have originated with Christopher Hitchens.
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  16. I was trained to do overlap data sets for a period so that the two methodologies can be seen in operation. Just moaning is not an answer.
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  17.  @sirmeowthelibrarycat  It appears from the information given that the data providers were “moaning“ that the data was not being interpreted correctly. I do not have access to the RAW data nor the old or new methodologies that are claimed. So I am unable to do it unless you have access to the RAW data and the methodologies, do you?
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  18.  @sirmeowthelibrarycat  I agree that brevity is not always advantageous. I was trained as a secondary school teacher in mathematics and special needs. My degree never involved statistics so I mugged up on it when teaching year 9, 10 and 11. I am acutely aware that when for example the basket of goods used in inflation calculations is changed that they run the systems in parallel to deal with these kind of comments.
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  19. Trump seems to now be believing his own hype and hasn't been having others campaign with him. He also seems to be siphoning off most of the cash for his legal funds so Farage, the Iranian looking frog, is expendable.
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  20. On the first of February the cost of the EU goes up as well.
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  21.  @skyblazeeterno  we lose all the negotiated reductions - don't get all the benefits and it costs us more.
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  22. or perhaps "go back to your own country (Dubai)"
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  23. Oh dear, how sad, never mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4uivPpzCGo
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  24.  @pf844  LOL Well a wooden effigy would do better than Liz Truss
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  25. Brexit depends on not being completed as any "completed Brexit" solution would alienate a majority of the "Brexit coalition" keeping Brexit in "permanent revolution" is the only way to keep power.
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  26. A soggy tissue
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  27.  @Steve_Coates  As I am unlikely to visit until next year I will await the outcome of developments I used to have a local prepaid SIM card for a second phone I let it lapse after roaming charges were abolished.
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  28. Is there a fridge big enough for the current prime minister?
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  29.  @jeanvines6646  My mother's GP practice was quick off the mark. One of her friends at a difference practice in the same town hasn't been called either.
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  30.  @scotttracy9333  We have no idea what the effect of the long delay is. It wasn't tested so it could be seen by the cynical as the government playing with the lives of the vulnerable.
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  31. Both my local MP (Liberal Democrat) voted AYE My nearest Labour MP - the neighbouring constituency also voted AYE BTW it is currently about third down on the voting record under parliament.uk
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  32. Royal prerogative powers need to be curtailed and taken into parliament - as Boris Johnson is currently driving a coach and horses through the accepted rules of conduct - aka the British Constitution.
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  33.  @raymccrae  I thought I had said that it was designed to be a chill wind and it was. I was also interested in how long the Labour government took to repeal it in England and Wales. Scotland repealed it in 2000, I think.
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  34. I was in school in 1970 and the plan was to metricate the country by 1980 All the textbooks were changed to metric units but because I was good at mathematics (I think the teacher wanted me to slow down) I was given extra material from the old books, so I worked with pounds, ounces, stones and hundredweights, as well as do calculations in pounds, shillings and pence up until I went to Grammar School in 1973. I can still chant most of the ratios of the Imperial system. The interesting question is the informal weights and measures I remember going into a supermarket to the deli counter and asking for 100 g of olives and the woman had no handle on the amount to put in the container so I said "that's about four ounces" and she set to work she had a informal idea of four ounces of things but the metric units were still foreign to her.
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  35. Okay, so here is the plan: Next year we get Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson in a lift (manufactured in Germany) and it "breaks down" but we "cannot" get parts to repair it he has to remain in the lift until he or his cabinet allow the CE marked items in. Wonder how quickly they would change their policies?
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  36. I am visiting Britain for my mother's funeral and I have been shocked by the lack of fresh fruit and veg in supermarkets. In Germany where I live - I haven't seen as severe shortages.
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  37. Though I cannot get my favourite tomatoes all the time in Germany but we have tomatoes.
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  38. @Robert Wallace Possibly to 2023
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  39. Isn't the right to have things removed from the internet an EU right?
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  40. @jimbofatplum what will happen on 01 February when we leave the EU and have to follow the rules with no input from the UK - basically the UK will transfer into a vassal state of its own free will - voluntary slavery as chosen by the current Conservative government.
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  41. @jimbofatplum BTW it is an ELEVEN month TRANSITION period after LEAVING the EU - the current UK government (in whom I have little faith) have eleven months to negotiate an agreement with the EU or the USA - plus all the other states in the world.
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  42.  @re1644  If they were able to do it "openly and proudly" surely they would have done it already is their failure to nip the problem in the bud (and avoid shortages in shops) because they are incompetent as representations to the Home Office have already been made. I think the current immigration policy (some red meat to the racists and xenophobes) is a key part of keeping the "Brexit coalition" together. Openly saying Britain needs foreign lorry drivers (and hospitality workers too) is not something a Home Secretary would like to announce this needs to be buried in the parliamentary recess.
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  43.  @miastrong151  Are you suggesting that two government policies raising educational levels and immigration policy have opposite results. Perhaps the government needs to choose which policy they want to prioritise.
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  44. Welcome to the land of perpetual electioneering (reminiscent of the the late 1920s in the then USSR) no longer the land of good governance.
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  45.  @Robidu1973  True and the conservative and radical right media would echo it too. Saying it was "unprecedented" etc. Even when we have the evidence that the Tories initiated it.
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  46. She's a rival to Failing Grayling for poor performance.
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  47.  @ADifferentBias  he was certainly disappointed that he got a second when he should have got a first in his own "ever so 'umble" opinion.
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  48. Surely the Tory ideology is that it should be a privatised event? Weird that they choose not to do that?
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  49. Archer sued the newspaper about allegations that he had paid money to a prostitute in 1987 He only won his case because he lied and perverted the course of justice He then went on to be made a life peer, chair the Conservative Party and become the candidate for Mayor of London. His trial was important as he got others to lie for him so he could win the case he brought. He was one of these people like Maxwell and Trump who use the courts to intimidate even newspapers. Not sure there were any noble motives in the Archer case.
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  50. Check out the 1993 Canadian election where the Progressive Conservatives went from the largest and ruling party to TWO seats.
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