Today I Read (and Learned) ...

[Noah]

Your electricity bill will now have a capital letter in a square just below your address. This is your Load Block, which if it is necessary to introduce power cuts this winter, will tell you when you will lose power under the Government's Variable Rota Disconnection Plan. Details are at Rota Plans Annex 2 shows when you would be likely to be cut off. At best power would be cut for 3 hours on 3 days of the week. The second to worst option would leave you with an electricity supply for 3 hours on 2 days of the week. Time to stock up on candles and disposable barbecues?

 

[tek-monkey]

Even the daily heil reports on how much they're ripping us off with government consent!

Private companies asylum seeker housing see profits DOUBLE to £110m

Private companies that provide accommodation for asylum seekers have seen their profits increase as much as six-fold on last year as record numbers of migrants enter the UK.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[tek-monkey]

Your electricity bill will now have a capital letter in a square just below your address. This is your Load Block, which if it is necessary to introduce power cuts this winter, will tell you when you will lose power under the Government's Variable Rota Disconnection Plan. Details are at Rota Plans Annex 2 shows when you would be likely to be cut off. At best power would be cut for 3 hours on 3 days of the week. The second to worst option would leave you with an electricity supply for 3 hours on 2 days of the week. Time to stock up on candles and disposable barbecues?

For businesses?

 

[Gramaisc]

Your electricity bill will now have a capital letter in a square just below your address. This is your Load Block, which if it is necessary to introduce power cuts this winter, will tell you when you will lose power under the Government's Variable Rota Disconnection Plan. Details are at Rota Plans Annex 2 shows when you would be likely to be cut off. At best power would be cut for 3 hours on 3 days of the week. The second to worst option would leave you with an electricity supply for 3 hours on 2 days of the week. Time to stock up on candles and disposable barbecues?

Disposable barbecues, or barbecues of a non-disposable form, are not an ideal cooking arrangement in the winter months.

CO poisoning is a common effect when they are used indoors, as people might be tempted to do.

 

[Noah]

For businesses?

Yes homes and businesses, but essential sites like hospitals and sewage works will not get cuts.

 

[proactive]

155 refugees you mean. Never forget how lucky it is to be born somewhere you aren't likely to be persecuted.

4% of people who seek asylum get turned down, so 148 of those people are in desperate need.

Put the buggers up in the Vine and they'd soon want to go back home.

War torn Whateveristan would seem like paradise compared to that place. Even Dover would seem reasonably pleasant.

 

[BobClay]

If anybody should be 'demonised' it's that murderous barbarian Putin. He's pretty much f***** an entire planet ... for what ? (just to say 'my dick is bigger than yours' ?)

If we do end up in a nuclear exchange, (and it is on the cards) there's only one consolation. A nuclear winter might slow down global warming a tad.

Sorry, rant over. But winter has set in over there, and conditions can only get worse.

 

[Noah]

(remember that correlation is not causation and that some scientific research is eminently suitable for an Ig-Nobel Award)

Researchers in Canada have published a paper in the American Journal of Medicine suggesting a correlation between a person's Covid Vaccination status and the probability of them being involved in a road accident. Looking at the records of 11 million people, 16% of whom had not had a Covid vaccination, they discovered that unvaccinated people were 72% more likely to have a road accident in which at least 1 person needed hospital treatment than vaccinated people. Only alcohol had a higher correlation rate. No suggestion that vaccination improves your driving skills but it proposes that opposition to government imposed health measures is likely to be a result of distrust in government, a belief in "freedom", faith in "natural protection or a misconception of everyday risks. All of these could lead people to "neglect basic road safety guidelines". Watch out for car insurance companies askig questions about your vaccination status

Even worse was a study by the Experimental Psychology Unit at UCL on 200 males between 18 & 74. They were given an online survey to complete which they were told was about their ability to remember facts while they were shopping. In each round they were shown a statement and a picture of a product then asked how much they would like to own it. Some of the statements were designed to lead participants to believe their penis was larger than average while others were lea to believe it was smaller. Participants who were led to believe their penis was smaller than average were more likely to rate sports cars as highly desirable, a trait being more marked in those over 30.

 

[Withnail]

(remember that correlation is not causation

Everybody who has ever confused correlation with causation has ended up dead.

Eventually.

Coincidence?

 

[Noah]

Yes, but then everybody who breathes air or drinks water ends up dead as well.

 

[Gramaisc]

... that Kylie Minogue is almost a year older than Jacob Rees-Mogg.

 

[Glam]

... that Kylie Minogue is almost a year older than Jacob Rees-Mogg.

But she doesn't look it.

 

[littleme]

... that Kylie Minogue is almost a year older than Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Today I read & learned that both Jacob Reese mog & Kylie are older than me! No way for Kylie, she looks way younger, but ohhhhh Jacob, you look like you've got more than 10 years on me , not 2!

 

[SketchyMagpie]

Flamingos are grey at birth and only turn pink due to all the shrimp and algae that they eat.