john07
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Post by john07 on Dec 7, 2020 0:21:59 GMT
As I wrote here in Jan 2016 "I love Dilbert but Scott Adams doesn't come across well. His none Dilbert posts on Facebook come across badly and his attitude to women is awful." This was before he really came out for Trump. I differ from you in that I always thought that Dilbert was shite. Very unfunny at best. My late wife used to work in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University. Her colleagues invented a character even less funny than Dilbert. I can’t remember what they named him but it was based on computer logic gates. I have framed examples on my wall at home.
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J.G.Harston
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Post by J.G.Harston on Dec 7, 2020 2:21:09 GMT
As I wrote here in Jan 2016 "I love Dilbert but Scott Adams doesn't come across well. His none Dilbert posts on Facebook come across badly and his attitude to women is awful." This was before he really came out for Trump. I differ from you in that I always thought that Dilbert was shite. Very unfunny at best. My late wife used to work in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University. Her colleagues invented a character even less funny than Dilbert. I can’t remember what they named him but it was based on computer logic gates. I have framed examples on my wall at home.
Pah! You probably don't like John Shuttleworth and Count Arthur Strong either.
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john07
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Post by john07 on Dec 7, 2020 3:19:34 GMT
I differ from you in that I always thought that Dilbert was shite. Very unfunny at best. My late wife used to work in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University. Her colleagues invented a character even less funny than Dilbert. I can’t remember what they named him but it was based on computer logic gates. I have framed examples on my wall at home. Pah! You probably don't like John Shuttleworth and Count Arthur Strong either.
I remember John Shuttleworth when he styled himself as Jilted John and had a hit record with Gordon is a Moron: It went down well when I was in Coventry as the Labour Party Secretary/Organiser was called Gordon Daly and it seemed appropriate. I certainly like Count Arthur Strong. But Dilbert never!
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Post by carlton43 on Dec 7, 2020 9:06:43 GMT
I differ from you in that I always thought that Dilbert was shite. Very unfunny at best. My late wife used to work in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University. Her colleagues invented a character even less funny than Dilbert. I can’t remember what they named him but it was based on computer logic gates. I have framed examples on my wall at home.
Pah! You probably don't like John Shuttleworth and Count Arthur Strong either.
I really like Dilbert and have done for years. I warm to the concept and underlying ethos. But John Shuttleworth and Count Arthur Strong are the most abysmal comics of all time IMO.
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Post by John Chanin on Dec 7, 2020 9:29:02 GMT
Pah! You probably don't like John Shuttleworth and Count Arthur Strong either.
I remember John Shuttleworth when he styled himself as Jilted John and had a hit record with Gordon is a Moron: Fantastic. Uber punk - I’d quite forgotten this work of genius.
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Post by Merseymike on Dec 7, 2020 9:30:19 GMT
This was the B side and it's just as good
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Dec 7, 2020 12:36:27 GMT
Pah! You probably don't like John Shuttleworth and Count Arthur Strong either.
I remember John Shuttleworth when he styled himself as Jilted John and had a hit record with Gordon is a Moron: The name of the song was Jilted John, not 'Gordon is a moron'
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 7, 2020 12:41:12 GMT
This was the B side and it's just as good It was originally the A side and Jilted John the B side when it was first released on Manchester's punk label Rabid records. When EMI picked it up for general release, they 'flipped' it.
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john07
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Post by john07 on Dec 7, 2020 18:19:13 GMT
This was the B side and it's just as good Not as good as this one:
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johng
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Post by johng on Dec 7, 2020 18:58:57 GMT
'Election night' was five weeks ago and they are still counting in NY-22. Imagine if NY was a swing state... The Republican challenger is currently 12 votes ahead of the Democratic incumbent.
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European Lefty
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Post by European Lefty on Dec 7, 2020 20:46:54 GMT
Perhaps the thread should have been named "election month"
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Post by manchesterman on Dec 7, 2020 21:34:04 GMT
..or year
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Post by manchesterman on Dec 7, 2020 21:34:44 GMT
Anyway, this could almost be a rehearsal for Trump's first pitch for the job...
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Post by MacShimidh on Dec 7, 2020 21:49:34 GMT
I'm reminded of the countless "Here's how Bernie can still win..." articles that were everywhere in the summer of 2016. The main difference being that this is being done by people who really should know better, therefore making the whole spectacle just a bit sad.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 8, 2020 11:24:57 GMT
Today is (notionally) the last day by which any dispute about appointment of members of the Electoral College should be settled.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 8, 2020 12:07:09 GMT
Nope. Not even sure if you get travelling expenses to get to the state capitol and cast your vote. And in most states, if you choose to vote a different way from the candidate who was on the ballot, you're immediately dismissed and replaced by someone else who will.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 8, 2020 14:42:52 GMT
The parties seem to choose people who have been longtime activists and organisers to be Electoral College nominees, although with a spattering of the 'great and the good' (typically former office-holders not current ones). There's a partial list on Wikipedia of the 2020 electors, many of whom have blue links: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2020_United_States_presidential_electors
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Post by jamie on Dec 8, 2020 15:16:55 GMT
Anybody got more info on this?
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Post by ColinJ on Dec 8, 2020 16:39:27 GMT
Anybody got more info on this? That's a poor show by Suffolk county. There is a piece about Suffolk in the Wall Street Journal, unfortunately most of it is behind a paywall. I'm not sure what the final NY figures (excluding the late Suffolk ballots) are. Syracuse.com, in a story posted on 5 Dec, gives: Biden 5,230,985 Trump 3,244,798 Hawkins (Green) 32,753 so may be the above. CNN currently gives us: Biden 5,244,006 Trump 3,250,230 i.e. the late ballots in the tweet have been added in to the statewide total, as well as (presumably) their running total for 50 states BBC same as CNN but with Jorgenson (Libertarian) 60,367 PA same as CNN but with Jorgenson 60,369 Hawkins 32,822
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Post by Sibboleth on Dec 8, 2020 17:08:59 GMT
Peak Lawn Guyland.
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