Re: Cambridge Police are too busy with serious crime
You've been there too?
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Ideally fundamental units don't change, but Richard Osman will likely get an inch or two shorter due to spinal column compression if he survives until old age. If the coronavirus is still around then, will we finally be able to stand four centimetres closer when queuing or are we going to have to put him through some pretty invasive surgery in order to maintain our safety?
Suppose we picked a national "dumb blonde" and had the people follow his/her every pronouncement - however stupid. What could go wrong ?
The national dumb blond would probably do something daft like tell everyone in the country to stay two metres apart while himself boasting about still shaking hands with strangers in hospitals, then end up in ITU three weeks later after having infected his pregnant partner and most of his senior medical advisers.
He renamed a one-letter drive allocation to have two characters, and got that to work in an OS which didn't yet support spaces in the file system? Sorry, but it sounds a bit iffy to me. It implies the design oversight (if that's what it was) must also have been supported when parsing files like config.sys and the PATH environment variable.
Of course we can control it. Maybe we need to optimise our social distancing, though.
Land area of UK = 240,000 square kilometres
Population of UK = 67,000,000
Which means we each get... scribble ... scribble ... carry the ... scribble ... about half a football pitch each.
I bags the local Tescos. The rest of you can split the remainder of the country between you. Quickly now.
I pity the poor sod who ends up with the Old Man of Hoy.
One of my friends visited the Countdown studio 20-odd years ago, being a friend of one of the producers (or the director; I forget). She was shown around the set and introduced to Carol Vorderman, who invited her to play the part by taking some number cards off the desk and putting them up on the rack. Turns out Carol is short and she has a box to stand on behind the desk, to bring her eyeline up to normal camera height. She said to my friend, "Gently now, you're standing on Carol's box."
How was that info collected?
By the police tipping the council off that they've had to issue a warning to the homophobic racist and that anyone reporting a further problem to the council regarding that tenant should be directed straight to the police re. this case number.
Pity impeachment wasn't successful.
That debacle at least showed that power mattered more than principle to the majority of Republican senators. The only one who voted to impeach stated that he did so from fear of his god rather than out of his duty to uphold the constitution, which basically says that if he hadn't been reminded of his oath of office at the beginning of the hearing he wouldn't have given a shit.
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