BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

That's quite a big fine for just one fan's racist chanting.

 

[C R]

That's quite a big fine for just one fan's racist chanting.

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That's because UEFA are antisemitic, innit.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Which one? "The UK is in a hole"? It's pithy, at least, even if there are another 29,864 words after that.

On the plus side, there are quite a few graphs with zero Y-axes, if you just want to look at the pictures and not get annoyed by the words.

"The UK is in a hole. Wages have barely risen in seventeen years, and the public realm is fraying. "

Actually the second sentence. Why pick 17 years and not 15 or 20?

 

[Pross]

"The UK is in a hole. Wages have barely risen in seventeen years, and the public realm is fraying. "

Actually the second sentence. Why pick 17 years and not 15 or 20?

Because it relates to the GFC which was a watershed? Why are numbers ending in a 0 or 5 considered more relevant. I can understand your annoyance if a date is cherry picked to make things look worse but surely the point here is that in 2008 those things were rising at a reasonable rate.

 

[First Aspect]

"The UK is in a hole. Wages have barely risen in seventeen years, and the public realm is fraying. "

Actually the second sentence. Why pick 17 years and not 15 or 20?

It is a prime number?

 

[Pblakeney]

surely the point here is that in 2008 those things were rising at a reasonable rate.

Your point is well made, and taken.
It could be argued that the growth was at an unreasonable rate and that the crash was inevitable due to that.

 

[First Aspect]

Your point is well made, and taken.
It could be argued that the growth was at an unreasonable rate and that the crash was inevitable due to that.

It's the junior doctor gambit. Pick a relative high point tomcrrate a false impression.

(Tbh I don't know why they don't pick some time in the 1800s when most of them had country estates... At least if BBC dramas are considered as historically accurate.)

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Not that I was in the market for a Tesla anyway, but they seem to be the Evri of car makers. (Side note - US car manufacturers generally don't seem to cover themselves in glory generally.)

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-brands-make-the-best-used-cars-a2811658468/

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When I was test driving EV's earlier this year, the salesman I was talking to used to be a Tesla dealer (I had no interest in buying a Tesla BTW!). When I asked him what the quality was really like his answer was "crap". According to him the software was very good but the actual build quality of the cars and components used was poor, hence why he had now switched to selling Fiat!

 

[briantrumpet]

Because it relates to the GFC which was a watershed? Why are numbers ending in a 0 or 5 considered more relevant. I can understand your annoyance if a date is cherry picked to make things look worse but surely the point here is that in 2008 those things were rising at a reasonable rate.

This is their explicit point later in the essay - it's a useful data point that affected all world economies. They even do a zeroed bar chart. Yeah, you might guffaw at "can be tackled with consistently good decisions".