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So, there was this bloke who worked in Bath as a software engineer, engineer type in a local company which happened to be one of the world leading ones to do with undersea and North Sea engineering. Oil platforms and the like. Not quite sure why the location, could be the Admiralty engineering peeps strewn around the town, could have been an offshoot of Stothert and Pitt, could be just happenstance.

Like all sensible people he occasionally drank in the best pub in town.

Then California calls and off he goes to work for one of the big ‘uns. Taking with him only his veneration for a US naval officer

At which point:

Google to build ‘Grace Hopper’ subsea cable linking US to UK and Spain

Coincidence? I think not….

No, really, just great:

I’ve been chuckling about this all day so I had to share it with you.

Fergus Walsh, the BBC’s medical correspondent, has written about how he was ‘gobsmacked’ to repeatedly test positive for the coronavirus antibody (meaning, obviously, that he has had the virus).

So, all these unemployed folk are going to be used building the wondrous new infrastructure required for the future.

Gudgeon rather punctures this:

That would be the same pool of labour we’ve deemed incapable of pulling potatoes or picking strawberries.

In response to a comment:

Yes, it’s bloody annoying. The latest update of WordPress (I assume) doubles links. So:

link link

It doesn’t do it for Richard, the code monkey. It doesn’t do it on other sites (ie, the ASI, which uses Squarespace). I’ve changed mouse so it’s not that.

??

Dunno why, but it does.

To show the doubling again, with the html:

<a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree”>link </a><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree”>link </a>

Natalie Solent (Essex)
April 15, 2020 at 3:23 pm
Seen in several places: so how did you like your free 30-day trial of socialism?

When I crawled from my pit this morning to put the kettle on, the kitchen temperature read 10.6°C. You come for my wood stove on pain of death. Mine! Truth to tell I haven’t a problem with cold, so much as the ankle-deep mud and pools of water, the fallen trees and crater-like potholes.

I know, I know, complaints about spam traps and timing of comments etc.

Just had a look at the spam trap, which only holds spam for 30 days, then it falls out into being entirely deleted.

There’re 10,000 pieces in there. Sorry, this is not perfectible. Any system trying to deal with this will have errors and compromises.

Spam trap got over excited……

Hello libertarianview.co.uk ,

Hope you are doing well this day and everything’s fine at your end.

It’s always suggested to keep a website error free and user friendly according to Google. Because having technical issues will hamper the performance as well as reputation.

You must make sure your website can be viewed from every mobile operating system and with most web browsers. For this you need to make sure your website will be error free and mobile friendly.

Rather lost my business with that second word of the email….

“How the Aspiring Can Learn to Write Like Economists”

From our ever popular series of commenting on other people’s headlines.

Jacob Rees-Mogg’s niece, Theo Clarke, has been selected as the Tory candidate for Stafford, following Jeremy Lefroy’s announcement that he will be standing down at the next election. With Jacob, Annunziata and now Theo, the Rees-Mogg dynasty has almost taken over…

Theo – who previously described her uncle as “a well-spoken mortician, come to collect the corpse of compassion” – is the daughter of Jacob’s wife,

The daughter of your wife is not your niece…..

This from BiG has just become the crux of a piece that someone will pay me for:

r, US pricing of insulin is a classic example of regulatory unintended consequences. It’s regarded as a drug in the US, but because of the nature of the product it is impossible to produce a “generic” insulin. In Europe it is regulated as a biological product (which it is), opening the way to demonstrate that “generics” (biosimilars, technically) are as good as without demonstrating they are identical at the molecular level. In the US that route is not open to “generic” competitors to the 3 big insulin manufacturers.

The FDA will catch up with the rest of the world next year and you will see sensible insulin prices in the US from around 2021/2022 onwards.

I guess beer is owed…..

They fuck you up, your mum and dad,
Especially if they’re hippy clowns.
Why would they make a small boy sad
By clothing him in frocks and gowns?

But wouldn’t you grow up deranged,
If your Mum called you “Hobbit’, hey?
The lunacy gets handed down
And never seems to go away.

Eugenics is a dirty word,
But surely there must be a place,
For cleaning the gene pool of turds,
To benefit the human race?

MC

Josephine:

“police suspect stolen by order for the Cistern Chapel…..”

Presumably the Throne of Gold JC’ll sit upon when he returns…..

I think this is just great:

linda
September 11, 2019 at 6:21 pm
I have a Minnesota area code, 507, which is also the country code for Panama. I share my 10-digit number with someone in Panama named Marisa, an ad rep for a medical supplies business, and so every few weeks I get to tell a caller that he has the right number, but he’s dialed the wrong continent by mistake.

How long before Linda and Marisa start exchanging Christmas cards?

A boy who gave up the money he was saving for a trip to Disney World to feed evacuees from Hurricane Dorian received a surprise Disney trip on Sunday for his selfless actions.
While Jermaine Bell was celebrating his seventh birthday, cast members from Walt Disney World and Mickey Mouse showed up at his house to surprise him by telling the now-seven-year-old boy he would be going on a VIP getaway to Disney with his family later in the month.

Of course, it was fairly easy to predict but I did and I was right. Which puts me one up on Snippa in the prediction track record…..

DocBud: “So why illustrate the article with a picture of hotdog rolls instead of baps?”

If someone with a hotdog wishes to identify as somone with baps then stop oppressing xem, bigot.

CJ Nerd

There’s sufficient evidence that Stanley Kubrick directed the fake moon landing film, but being a perfectionist he did it on location.

– Runcie Balspune