Comments by dglp
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetWhat’s discriminatory about obeying a law against smoking indoors? Put another way, what’s discriminatory about the weather being cold some of the time and warm at others?
Like so many unthinking functionaries, your contact at the bar is just fudging a response in terms that sound familiar but which make no sense. the correct person to contact is obviously higher up the corporate ladder.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetSimon, I hope you would put it in stronger terms than 'vexes', as there is something broader at stake that will require concerted effort across the city to address.
It's not just Handsworth allotments, nor just s106 money, but an assortment of things relating to greenspace and related services. We shall see this more clearly in the new year, but I believe we need to be gathering forces to combat cuts to local provision.
If that comes to pass, your input and campaigning skills around these issues will be needed.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweet@Nick: in that case, what designation do you suggest for things invented in Cumbria before 1974?
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweetre:reading: perhaps the director of the National Year of Reading campaign has been reading a bit too much - between the lines.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetGrammar pedant’s are getting used to the idea that extra apostrophe’s are being added all over Eastside. But in Harborne? I hope David Cameron - or at least lolDiedre - will have something to say about that.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetPut off by porridge, are you? I presume you mean the textureless, goopy stuff that’s made from rolled oats, as distinct from the nutty flavoured, chewy stuff made from coarse-chopped oats. The latter takes a bit longer to cook, but the grains can be roasted a bit for extra flavour. Top it with home made plum or apple compote, slivered almonds or chopped hazelnuts, maple syrup and butter. It’s hearty stuff.
Had I the time, I’d do hash browns and corned beef, or eggs benedict. But most of the time I settle for a cappucino, a biscuit, a banana and maybe a yogurt, then have an early lunch.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetClarification about the poster text, please.
‘Extinction… under threat’ tells me that the extinction is threatened, not the creature. Please tell me it was intended to mean ‘creature threatened with extinction’.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAround my place it’s called a poodle moment. But it has roots in Repo Man:
Suddenly someone’ll say, like, plate, or shrimp…
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetSometimes I get the impression that news organisations are susceptible to a false memory effect I call ‘retina burn’, where the afterimage of an event lingers well past the actual presence. It’s time to pay attention to something else, but the intensity of events has burned itself into the news circuits. Or perhaps it’s that nobody’s come up with a new focus of attention that’s anywhere near as compelling. The ordinary is just too ordinary.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetYour guest sounds complex, or maybe complicated, and sounds like he would have been an interesting interview. Or does couchsufer etiquette dissuade one from making projects with/from the people who visit?
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetMaybe there’s a particular quality to your eyes that will have them deteriorate over the next five years. But, I wouldn’t generalise about it. I’m seeing better now than I did five years ago - and I might be a decade older than you. So if there’s no specific cause for concern, you might start looking forward to improved eyesight.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetIn a mapping vein, there’s also the Grim Reaper’s Roadmap. The
PDF is here. It’s not fine-grained, but worth a look. It’s also worth checking out the other publications from this group.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetDon’t be ridiculous! It’s all to do with Stalin, of course. And quite possibly that Chamberlain fellow.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThat’s funny. I blame the authoritarian left in the USA. The reactionary right have only learned it lately.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI haven’t followed this story, partly because I’m a bit bewildered by the thought of anyone complaining that a very well known British company has offered to subsidise the out-of-control Olympic spend. How could an objection be anything other than hypocritical or naively idealistic?
