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Post by adrianc on Apr 18, 2024 11:10:00 GMT
...and some platforms have very strange rules regarding password choice. 🤬 Chuffing Screwfix have recently changed their password requirements. Minimum 13 characters... but no need for extended character set.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 18, 2024 9:22:01 GMT
Three of the four are massively unlikely to see the general election after the imminent one. They are far too old. The most best and most popularly appealing candidate to replace the King is Jürgen Klopp. Let's assume eligibility is the same as standing for Westminster... www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/electing-mps/candidates/"To stand as a candidate in a UK Parliamentary General Election you need to be at least 18 years old and: * a British citizen * a citizen of the Republic of Ireland * a citizen of a commonwealth country who does not require leave to enter or remain in the UK, or has indefinite leave to remain in the UK"Germany, as far as I'm aware, hasn't joined the Commonwealth yet.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 18, 2024 7:03:55 GMT
design. Never heard of Tandem, but both the banking apps I use (FD and Nationwide) use fingerprint for unlock, once you're in the phone. If that doesn't work, you've got a separate PIN or password to the device's. If that doesn't work, it's an unlock that requires you to confirm ID with phone banking. TBH, though, if your phone is in the hands of a bad actor AND unlocked, you've got bigger problems - because they've got your email as well as mobile number.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 17, 2024 16:09:38 GMT
David Attenborough - 97yo Michael Caine - 91yo Next? Esther Rantzen - 83yo (also has terminal cancer) Trevor McDonald - 84yo I think the age of these individuals would be a bonus to people who consider themselves "royalists" - they do not want to have to bow and curtsy to some "young upstart" Three of the four are massively unlikely to see the general election after the imminent one.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 17, 2024 16:03:13 GMT
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Post by adrianc on Apr 17, 2024 15:19:28 GMT
any one of the list would have made a better PM than any of the lot we've had since 2010. That's not the highest bar.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 17, 2024 15:12:44 GMT
So who, amongst the current field of potential statesmen and notable figures, would you like to see as president of a republican UK? I would say it should be someone who is not heavily political and widely respected by the public, have an above average IQ and cannot be blackmailed easily. I personally would like to see Sir David Frederick Attenborough or Sir Michael Caine or someone of that caliber David Attenborough - 97yo Michael Caine - 91yo Next? Esther Rantzen - 83yo (also has terminal cancer) Trevor McDonald - 84yo
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Post by adrianc on Apr 17, 2024 8:25:06 GMT
Special clinics for gender issues now being g considwhilst I wait a potential 5 years for a knee op. You do know it's not the same doctors etc, right?
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Post by adrianc on Apr 17, 2024 7:29:16 GMT
In my opinion the fact we still have a Royal family as head of state is a pretty damning indication of the subservience of the people in this country So who, amongst the current field of potential statesmen and notable figures, would you like to see as president of a republican UK?
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Post by adrianc on Apr 16, 2024 20:03:38 GMT
My neighbour's child's secondary school class is going on a school trip next month. They are flying to Morocco. I was thinking about this. If I was a Morroccan. You'd see the parties of rich tourists flying in, and plane loads of school children doing something you could never have afforded for your kids, flying in and going, oh climate change, isn't it awful. Your country's a bit hot! Lovely to see you, doubt you'll be very comfortable here in ten years time, won't be coming back and don't you try coming over to our country. Then flying off again. Try thinking of it the other way around, if Britain was the poor hot country and it was Moroccan tourists who flew in and out of Heathrow coming to look at you and your hut. Look at their quaint clothes. Will they do a dance for us? Just musing. Yes, the massive assymetry of tourism... Yet... Tourism is nearly 15% of Morocco's GDP. The Moroccans who see and deal with the tourists? The tourists are their living, and the living for all those in their supply chain. We were travelling around Tunisia (tourism a little over 5% of GDP) in 2012, the year after President Ben Ali did a runner as the Arab Spring kicked off (and before the descent into Islamism with the Port al Kantaoui and Bardo attacks). We had kids coming up to us in the street, thanking us for coming to their country. We met nothing but utter friendliness. Tourism is about 3% of UK GDP, btw.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 16, 2024 18:38:45 GMT
I'm trying to watch less news. Call it burying my head in the sand but itsall a bit too much. I've no control over any of it and what will be will be so trying to get on with life. We have a house to do up and sell, identify a new area/country to live and find a home. Plenty to get on with without worrying myself with building a bunker, stashing food and painting a door white to hide under. That's fair enough until and unless it starts to affect you directly. It won't. Not in the UK, not to the reasonably comfily-off. The worst that'll happen is a cost-of-living squeeze, and first-world-problems like NHS queues and relatively minor increases in crime statistics - all of which we've already had, thanks to the incompetence of our own governments over the last decade or two. We won't get the ongoing woes of the wider world - the Middle East or Russian expansionism - knocking physically on our door. Climate change is going to make the weather in this country more seasonal, but still habitable. The biggest direct "risk" is of those who aren't so lucky wanting to come and share in our good fortune. And, yes, the odd one or two may want to point a finger in various ways at our own complicity. Can you really blame them? Perhaps if we were better neighbours...
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Post by adrianc on Apr 16, 2024 18:33:59 GMT
I'd say that the older demographics (also the less educated and the lower socio-economic demographics) are more likely to be unquestioning about whatever ticks their preconceptions, regardless of how the evidence and facts actually stack up. Telegraph, Mail, GBNews, etc. They retreat in silos, not engaging with anything or anybody outside their comfort zone.
Sure - at the other end of the spectrum, you've also got the young, naive, and gullible. The Tiktok generation. The big difference is - they'll grow out of it as they get more experience of the real world.
They're the groups that the charismatic populists appeal to, at both ends of the political spectrum.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 16, 2024 16:01:25 GMT
It's not the same government. It's 21 years and six prime ministers ago. It was that particular PM's biggest failing, amongst a decade of broadly beneficial and competent governance. The last decade or so, otoh, has seen mass incompetence and lies on a scale that makes Iraq look minor, yet people still gloss over all of THAT and point so far back. If you believe the government has become more trust worthy since the WMD lie then you are (as I have already said) living in a different universe to me.
Thank you for so eloquently confirming my opinion of your comprehension skills.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 16, 2024 14:53:43 GMT
A government ... that will take a country into war based on a total pack of lies is to be treated with extreme suspicion in my opinion. It's not the same government. It's 21 years and six prime ministers ago. It was that particular PM's biggest failing, amongst a decade of broadly beneficial and competent governance. The last decade or so, otoh, has seen mass incompetence and lies on a scale that makes Iraq look minor, yet people still gloss over all of THAT and point so far back. No, you've got that the wrong way round. Not everybody that questions the official narrative is a conspiracy nut. Every conspiracy nut refuses to believe plain obvious facts and common sense.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 16, 2024 7:28:01 GMT
Chris Mason, BBC political correspondent, interviews Liz Truss. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hr0km0I haven't listened to the whole thing yet - but from the trails they're giving it on Today, it sounds like this is going to be comedy gold. She's absolutely fruitloop, and heading further into the boonies by the minute. Quote just now - "Liz Truss's public approval rate is currently 10%. That's the same as approve of North Korea."Also - second reading for Sunak's fixed DoB for tobacco purchasing is today. bills.parliament.uk/bills/3703/newsLabour and just about the entire opposition are in support. Truss and Johnson and their acolytes are against. This should be an amusing result.
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