BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

There is no click-bait to be had from people dying from heart disease or cancer.

There is, when the headline is about some 'amazing new treatment', but which is usually either a yet-to-be-realised treatment, or one that's only going to become available a long way hence, at vast cost.

Sadly, the cancer news now is that rates of HPV vaccination in the UK (preventing cervical cancer) are plummeting, despite its low cost (zero direct cost to the recipients) and high effectiveness.

https://archive.ph/I2ElI

The HPV vaccine is given to children aged between 12 and 15 before they are typically sexually active. Take-up in girls was around 90% in the years up to 2017. Today the rate for year-nine girls is 74%, on a par with Sierra Leone. In boys, who have been offered the jab for five years, it has fallen by nine percentage points to 69%. In some areas, such as Luton and Leicester, less than half of children are vaccinated.

Vaccination rates have fallen in all of Britain’s child-immunisation programmes, but the drop is sharpest for HPV. The evidence of the vaccine’s efficacy is unequivocal: a study from Scotland in 2024 found no cases of cancer-causing HPV virus among women who received it a decade earlier. The National Health Service (NHS) wants to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040, but says it needs to achieve a 90% vaccination rate by 2030. To do so means tackling the three Cs of vaccine hesitancy: confidence, convenience and complacency.

 

[Pblakeney]

There is, when the headline is about some 'amazing new treatment', but which is usually either a yet-to-be-realised treatment, or one that's only going to become available a long way hence, at vast cost.

Sadly, the cancer news now is that rates of HPV vaccination in the UK (preventing cervical cancer) are plummeting, despite its low cost (zero direct cost to the recipients) and high effectiveness.

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https://archive.ph/I2ElI

Or a treatment to be removed by Kennedy.

 

[Bazzer]

Sadly, I'm actually finding Obama rallies hard to listen to now - not because of the content, but because of the delivery with lots of vocal affectations and tics that seem to have become exaggerated, and which Josh Shapiro was mocked for (probably unconsciously) mimicking when he was in the running for the Democratic nomination for the Presidential election.

It's a pity, as his control of language is excellent (and used as an good example of eloquence by the linguist David Crystal). I suspect it's an effort to sound 'homely' and normal rather than intellectual (which he undoubtedly is), but it's just annoying once you've noticed it.

I thought it was just me. His speech at the DNC in support of (then) Vice President Harris I found really grating. It felt like he needed winding up.
I assumed it was trying to spoon feed Americans.

 

[briantrumpet]

I thought it was just me. His speech at the DNC in support of (then) Vice President Harris I found really grating. It felt like he needed winding up.
I assumed it was trying to spoon feed Americans.

The affectations (such as that kind-of stutter on "a...a...a..and") were still there 12 years ago, but somehow it's got more annoying now.

 

[First Aspect]

I still think he should gonfor a third term if Trump does.

 

[briantrumpet]

I still think he should gonfor a third term if Trump does.

It would be fun. I think Trump would explode. #biglyexplodeytrumpy

 

[icowden]

A non sequitur but I thought this might interest/amuse/disgust people...

https://martinrobbins.substack.com/...-nowhere?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

 

[briantrumpet]

A non sequitur but I thought this might interest/amuse/disgust people...

https://martinrobbins.substack.com/...-nowhere?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Just to note that the parapets are 6ft tall rather than 6m. It's nuts, but not quite that nuts.

 

[Pblakeney]

A non sequitur but I thought this might interest/amuse/disgust people...

https://martinrobbins.substack.com/...-nowhere?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

"I actually think it’s quite a fetching bridge, but I appreciate I’m a deeply unusual person."

If only more people had the same self awareness.

 

[matticus]

The affectations (such as that kind-of stutter on "a...a...a..and")

I don't understand how that is an "affectation" - you mean it's a deliberate thing, that he thinks will enhance his reception?

I'm only about 2 minutes into that tale; it's about 6/10 engaging. I've heard a lot worse story-telling. But these things are subjective :shrugs:

 

[briantrumpet]

I don't understand how that is an "affectation" - you mean it's a deliberate thing, that he thinks will enhance his reception?

Yes. Maybe. It's not a stutter as such as far as I can tell (and I'd certainly not deliberately criticise an unavoidable speech problem), but I think that his rally speech delivery style has developed (probably unconsciously) to make it seem more spontaneous and 'natural'.

Anyway, whatever the reason, I don't find it easy to listen to now, which is a pity, given how eloquent he can be.

 

[briantrumpet]

Choices, choices. Seems they'd rather cancel Christmas than remove their f**king flags.

 

[Bazzer]

Choices, choices. Seems they'd rather cancel Christmas than remove their f**king flags.

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Err, will they not use cherry pickers or similar to put the lights up, so why not cut the flags off and bin them at the same time?

 

[Pblakeney]

Err, will they not use cherry pickers or similar to put the lights up, so why not cut the flags off and bin them at the same time?

I rather like the notion of getting those who put them up in the first place to remove them whilst not wanting to beforehand.

 

[Pross]

Err, will they not use cherry pickers or similar to put the lights up, so why not cut the flags off and bin them at the same time?

Or burn them. That would go down really well.