BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany
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Rusty Nails
Country Member
Sounds like a plot from an Ealing comedy of the 1950s.
icowden
Pharaoh
Still pissing me off that the subtitle is "Daniel Thomas appearing to slash at a boat." There is no other farking interpretation. It's not a paintbrush he's holding. There is 0% doubt.
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
I suspect that that is general house style, as it also says he is 'alleged' to have livestreamed himself while saying stuff, and it's up to the court to confirm that interpretation before being reported as fact – i.e., everything he is charged with (as per court wording) has to be treated as an allegation until he is tried.
Just for once, I'm not going to criticise the BBC on this 😮 but I'm sure I'll return to habit sooner rather than later.
Dorset Boy
Über Member
They have to wait until it is legally confirmed that he slashed the boat.
C R
Squire
Or possibly given the real ploters (if there are any) a chance to asses their plan against current events and improve where needed.
First Aspect
Squire
Were there any witnesses? Other than the 15000 live streamers?
First Aspect
Squire
In other news South West Water have been fined £8M for sewage releases.
It's literally a plop in the ocean.
And a bit like Dr. Evil holding the world to ransom for "one million dollars, ha ha ha" (menacingly).
It's literally a plop in the ocean.
And a bit like Dr. Evil holding the world to ransom for "one million dollars, ha ha ha" (menacingly).
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
Thames Water has flooded out a school somewhere in London because of a broken water main they haven't got round to repairing... it's probably just as well they aren't in charge of a gas company, all things considered.
First Aspect
Squire
I see the proposed removal of the statutory limits of public ownership of water companies as aimed initially at Thames Water. I've thought for a while that going into administration and being bought for £1 by the government might be a good option.
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
I guess that the elephant in the room is that investors who have taken profits at the vast expense of customers have at no time considered whether excessive extraction of $s while the basic infrastructure was falling apart and customers paying massively increased bills have apparently assumed that their investments were safe, no matter what, and that has emboldened the companies not to ask themselves "Is this really sustainable?" That ought to be the check on such practices, but I suspect happens vanishingly rarely.
Maybe now wouldn't be a bad time to see the effect on shareholders' oversight of companies like this who assume they can't go bust (the 'too big/important to fail' gambit).
Pblakeney
Shaman
Even sillier than you thought!
One of five men arrested near RAF Fairford in the early hours of Sunday morning had dialled 999 himself, the BBC understands.
First Aspect
Squire
B b b b but the market always decides and self corrects and er other things.
This is, in my opinion, an example of investment timescales mismatching, predictably and obviously so. The infrastructure investment cycle is over decades, whereas the investment return is over about 5 years.
Why on earth would any given investor want to invest on behalf of the next guy, when the alternative is a cheap papering over the cracks?
This is, in my opinion, an example of investment timescales mismatching, predictably and obviously so. The infrastructure investment cycle is over decades, whereas the investment return is over about 5 years.
Why on earth would any given investor want to invest on behalf of the next guy, when the alternative is a cheap papering over the cracks?
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
Seems bad. Is this bad?
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
Times, they are a changin', maybe. Voters quite like not being run over and suffocated, it turns out.
