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Mexico's erupting Colima volcano triggers evacuations
stewgreen
@TinyCO2 What's up are you on the run or something ?
Join=choose an account name+ choose a password,
that is hardly an abuse of your human rights.
stewgreen
Stewgreen, it reqires you to join. I'm politically opposed to joining anything unless I have to.
TinyCO2
The best place for discussing BBC madness is over on biasedbbc.org
stewgreen
And Mitch Benn! Dear god, the BBC deserve to be scrapped. Dominic Holland said a few months ago that the BBC had thrown him out for being a white male and I thought it was more because he is a white male Conservative. Look out for Andrew Neil to be replaced with Charlotte Church.
TinyCO2
Those who live by the BBC die by the BBC
Jon Holmes is one of the high points of the Now Show on R4. I can only imagine they'll replace him with talentless, tone deaf Isy Suttie or someone even worse. I haven't been able to listen to anything topical from the BBC since Brexit because I knew that they'd be unbearable. Now I don't even have to bother.
TinyCO2
@Tomo Re : "Daily Mail believes spoof rapper Zebadiah Abu-Obadiah " tht Tim Wostnall mentions
I went straight to the comments ..and in BEST the 2 one down says it's a comedy video you idiots
..but incredibly it has been voted DOWN much more than otheres ..273 times
..and almost no other of the 1000 commenst mention it's a spoof.
stewgreen
@Pcar on the St Helena 737 vs 767 issue ..I am only the messenger.
stewgreen
@GC I did presume there were rational reasons why St Helena doesn't have flying boats like that the sea is mostly too heavy and no sheltered harbours.
I note Maldives does have a seaplane airline
and "1934 - First flight over St Helena - made by a seaplane from HMS Dorsetshire."
@Pcar Re Madeira ..I made the comparison with Tenerife where I have lived in the north which is definitely a year round resort
Madeira on the other hand does have this 4 month winter ..you know when the storms come and wash away all the artificial beaches and lifts all the boats out the harbour (not every year same harbour)
Big oil money and all that , I exist on £10/day so in expensive countries I do campervan travel without the campervan... I do long distance walking and free camp in my hammock. So I first walked around the island ..an then cos I didn't bump into any cheap plcae to stay I alternated between 2 camping spots one at Camara Los Lobos west of Funchal and the other east at an old barn in Cancela (..it belongs to the family of the bar where I used to go to use the internet.) and other walks across the island
The 18C is the peak average the avg low is 14C so I needed 2 woolly hats for sleeping..In Jan it can drop below 10
and like the UK it's not dry so the humidity makes it feel colder.
I suggest you are misremebering the Dec 31 midnight temp
accuweather has it 18Cday 14C night ..with "Real Feel" 16C and 9C
I can say most things in Portuguese, but you know the locals have an unintelligible accent.
Do you know the Telexfree pyramid scheme that we helped to get stopped ?
stewgreen
@stewgreen
the spoof rapper is only a very, very tiny part of the carnival of distilled stupidity that the circus of freelance and staffer f-wits at the DM perpetrate.
The comments voting system is simply beyond bizarre - it is manipulated for certain - to what ends I really don't want to think about. I don't believe for a moment it's a reliable reflection of feedback from individuals (the way the stats leap around shows that in spades).
It has on average about the same credibility as the Daily Star - although they do occasionally make mistakes and some truths and verifiable facts slip through - something they have in common with the rest of the MSM.
Volume of content and churn rate rule - and it shows.... I occasionally look up the article history of some of the byline credits on scaremongering and fantastical pieces - and it generally aint a pretty sight - scum comes to mind.