Westminstenders: Just another DEADline

[RedToothBrush]

Today is the last scheduled day for talks with the EU.

We have til 30th June to ask for a transition extension. We won't.

That leaves us starring down the barrel of a no deal exit, when we still could be in a covid-19 crisis and the US may be in turmoil given recent events and the coming election...

It's not a pretty picture.

So many farmers up in arms now

Do you know the best time to avoid being crushed by a falling rock ? It's not when it's descending approaching terminal velocity and shouting for anyone nearby to intervene.

It's to ensure that no fucking moron can push an unstable rock off a cliff ledge in the first place.

(See also: best way to tackle a fire is not to start one).

Reading a burial register at the moment .... COVID are cremated

PS
Decontaminating an ambulance that has transported a COVID patient takes 4 hours

PPS
I shall start stockpiling in time for the end of the year

Double Tap

Meanwhile ..

www.thenational.scot/news/18494353.joanna-cherry-snp-needs-radical-rethink-independence/

My Sainsbury’s is currently selling big 10 or 16 kg bags of flour, and the local Waitrose often has flour too.

I’m perfecting the sourdough proving in the bread maker and then baking in the oven (either in a Dutch oven or on a baking sheet with a bowl of water below it in the oven).

Need to try doing bagels though, as that’s what the teens tend to eat. I once got a Sainsbury’s voucher saying that I was the customer that had bought the most bagels in store over the last year

What if people have specified that they wish to be buried? Is that wish overridden?

PMK

What if people have specified that they wish to be buried? Is that wish overridden?

Well given they've already lost their organs if they didn't say anything, I would have thought the disposal of remains isn't really up to them anymore.

Prof. Alice Roberts said she'd like to be buried in a crouch burial ... I must admit I find going old-style appealing. Just depends how "old" you go ... www.spoilheap.co.uk/burial.htm

harking back to when England was good, I liked the Law Lords adjudging that a "building" doesn't need a roof in order to accommodate Sikh and Hindi funeral pyres in England. Not for me ... Sky burial has a natural feel to it. I think that's also be allowed by sleight of regulations.

@DGRossetti

Marvellous piece of Beebtwattery this morning, with shots of rows and rows of freshly dug graves

Curious as to how the UK has been digging all our graves (I am assuming we have, not just quietly pushing weighted coffins off cliffs).

Surely there's work there for the people who aren't picking fruit ? Would have a pleasing symmetry to it. Some people pulling stuff out of the earth while others are putting stiffs into the earth ... there might even be a hit BBC comedy-drama in it. I wonder what Rickys upto these days ?

Gervais or Tomlinson?

Although I’d like to see them work together on that TBF. Stir in some Frankie Boyle too and you’re onto a winner.

In the area around Nazca in Peru a lot of buildings don't have roofs. I gather it's something to do with tax, and since in those parts that touch the Atacama desert don't have rain, it doesn't make much difference.

Sorry - bit of a digression there - reminded me of going on holiday to foreign parts.

pmk feeling like already.

Acknowledged Covid deaths have passed 40,000

(actual deaths well over 50k)

Meanwhile, my local pratts are still clapping and singing "My Way" last night.

In the area around Nazca in Peru a lot of buildings don't have roofs. I gather it's something to do with tax, and since in those parts that touch the Atacama desert don't have rain, it doesn't make much difference.

Was it Greece where you don't pay taxes until a building is "finished". Hence so many buildings sporting scaffolding ?

Well given they've already lost their organs if they didn't say anything

come on now... are they going to chlorinate them?

I thought this was an interesting read:

www.economist.com/international/2020/06/03/fake-news-is-fooling-more-conservatives-than-liberals-why

We've had some good results with sourdough. The last effort had a lovely taste, but was tad too crusty (in a certain light you might have said burnt) and had a "clingy" feel as the knife got to the bottom of the loaf.

Growing up my DF used to bring back a constellation of different breads from the various delis he knew. It's why I detest the Chorleywood abomination that is the "sliced white".

Peregrina
No idea whether its preference - not many COVID deaths in the area (same as most areas)

www.economist.com/international/2020/06/03/fake-news-is-fooling-more-conservatives-than-liberals-why

Is it because conservatives are a bit dim ?

Breaking:

“Hours before facing court proceedings from openDemocracy over its massive NHS COVID-19 data deal with private tech firms, the UK government has caved to pressure and released all the contracts governing its deals with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and controversial AI films Faculty and Palantir.
“The contracts, released to openDemocracy and tech justice firm Foxglove today, reveal details of what has been described as an ‘unprecedented’ transfer of personal health information of millions of NHS users to these private tech firms.
“Significantly, the contracts show that the terms of at least one of the deals – with the Dominic Cummings-linked firm Faculty – were changed after initial demands for transparency under the Freedom of Information Act.
“The contracts show that the companies involved, including Faculty and Palantir, were originally granted intellectual property rights (including the creation of databases), and were allowed to train their models and profit off their unprecedented access to NHS data.
“Government lawyers have now claimed that a subsequent (undisclosed) amendment to the contract with Faculty has cured this problem, however they have not released the further contract. openDemocracy and Foxglove are demanding its immediate release.”

The last effort had a lovely taste, but was tad too crusty (in a certain light you might have said burnt) and had a "clingy" feel as the knife got to the bottom of the loaf.

I can almost see Paul Hollywood's face in Bake Off as he slices through your loaf and encounters the 'cling'.

DGR,
where is the breaking news from?

www.opendemocracy.net/en/under-pressure-uk-government-releases-nhs-covid-data-deals-big-tech/

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So the lies are being exposed thick and fast.

-Irish border - there will be checks, contrary to what BJ said when he wanted your vote.
-US trade deal - we will get chl. chicken and other such delicacies. (Have you heard of ractopamine-fed pork?) After the manifesto said we wouldn’t lower our food standards.
-And now Barnier is saying the govt are reneging on the PD that they signed.

How can we do anything about all this? It’s disgraceful. It’s not fair to say we should have known/not trusted them. We should be able to trust government. They’ve become toxic in the last few years and we’re inured to it already. Yes - I’m angry.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/20/brexit-gove-confirms-plans-for-checks-on-goods-crossing-irish-sea

mobile.twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/status/1268803228797411330

www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/if-you-think-chlorinated-chicken-sounds-disgusting/05/06/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52934128

PMK

Both Leave and Remain voters have a right to be aggrieved. Remainers, because they saw it coming; Leavers, because they were lied to.

Leavers aren't angry though are they? They're still insisting they knew what they voted for/project fear etc. Have a look at polling and how few Leave voters have changed their minds, almost none. I thought the destabilising of the peace in NI would change Leave voters minds, how wrong I was. Even the killing of Lyra McKee didn't move the needle at all. And now we have covid. Voters are burying their relatives while saying what a great job Boris Johnson is doing and how glad they are they voted for him.