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Assume v. Presume

What a great picture you have planted in my mind.

Julia Bradbury playing Twister, preferably in a mini skirt. Ah well, I can but dream...
 
Black Hole said:
OK OK, for all you schnozz fetishists, the programme is called "Take On The Twisters":
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Oh dear, was that on daytime TV? I assume they blasted the correct pronunciation into her ear between the first and second time she said virginal.

Never heard of the show. It is almost bad enough to be on Sky.
 
Not exactly "daytime", IIRC it was in the 5pm slot when The Chase was off air. Now you know what I mean about the blotted copy book.
 
Black Hole said:
Not exactly "daytime", IIRC it was in the 5pm slot when The Chase was off air. Now you know what I mean about the blotted copy book.
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Quite a few people have been tempted by that route recently. Nick Knowles, Alexander Armstrong, John Barrowman.

They must pay well. A real blotted copy book would be going to work for BSkyB, IMHO.
 
I'm trying to write a piece about electoral fraud. Gerrymandering is when the constituency boundaries are deliberately arranged so that there is a biased demography, but I am looking for a word which describes when the opposition are prevented from putting their case to the electorate before the vote. Any ideas?
 
Black Hole said:
I'm trying to write a piece about electoral fraud. Gerrymandering is when the constituency boundaries are deliberately arranged so that there is a biased demography, but I am looking for a word which describes when the opposition are prevented from putting their case to the electorate before the vote. Any ideas?
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Sounds like a bit of legislation about lobbying trying to make its way through Parliament currently.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/05/lobbying-bill-paused-six-weeks-government-rethink
 
Ezra Pound said:
Sounds a bit like Filibustering
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Isn't that when a vote is prevented by talking out the time available? Not what I meant. I'm talking about the situation where the ruling party rules submissions by the opposition out of order.

Mike0001 said:
Sounds like a bit of legislation about lobbying trying to make its way through Parliament currently.
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Not really. MPs are supposed to represent their constituents, not pressure group lobbyists. Anti-lobbying legislation won't stop the opposition contributing to the debate before a division.
 
Black Hole said:
Not really. MPs are supposed to represent their constituents, not pressure group lobbyists.
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If you believe that...

But there are pressure groups like big business and unions that should be stopped, and others like 38degrees and avaaz that are the MPs' constituents protesting their stupid actions.
 
Bloody Gadget Show's at it now. New Guinness World Record for the largest video game (PacMan projected onto a building) at 2218.65 "metres square" (sic).

For those who are mystified, that should read "square metres". 2218.65 metres square would be nearly 5 million square metres (and would have required the side of a building that was over two kilometres wide and two kilometres high).
 
Well, you can't expect the Gadget Show to do technical stuff right.
I watched it a couple of times years ago (one was when they reviewed the 9200 IIRC). Never bothered since.
 
Cobblers. The Gadget Show said "metres square" i.e. a square with >2km sides, not "metres squared"
Perhaps they should have used the unambiguous and generally excepted "square metres" as that is what they meant.

EDIT to correct meters to metres
 
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