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@bax
The grimmest working day of my life was eight hours of combing through mainframe datasets looking for tiny errors with the effects of the previous night in The Pond raging inside and around me.
Some fancy German beer that had a hint of bubblegum? Nothing to eat but pickled eggs.
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@stickman how can you tell if any of the edinburgh live stories are true?
The police stopped 61 drivers on the Western Approach this morning? What percentage of traffic was that?
The one set on Arthur’s seat has absolutely no corroboration well I gave up reading at the point. Where Sarah, 31 from Corstorphine said the trick was to take a blanket and a pillow. This is surely a total spoof?
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Yeah the Edinburgh Live story might just be "fake news". Search "Daily Mail" and "What is this, China?" and it turns up a story about pensioners in a park in Melbourne, Oz.
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In order of increasing fake ness
a.61 drivers stopped on WAR this morning. Police Scotland seem to corroborate
2. Crammond. . Polis maybe down there. Idea one 61 year old shouted China and was fined bogus
Iii Sarah 31, up Arthur’s Seat with her lovers. Bit chilly for that, oh wait she takes a blanket. Total rot.Posted 3 years ago # -
Crash at "rush hour" on bypass closed a lane this morning. Radio reporting 15 minute tailback to get past that spot. Suggesting very busy bypass.
Radio also adding caveat of "also please make sure you're only taking essential journeys"
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Struth Not sure we had any bypass crashes last lockdown?
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Overheard in the street on Friday:
'Awright Davey?' (Davey and the other guy shake hands.)
'You going out tonight?'Did not want to hear the reply. Lock-ins at private clubs not an easy thing to contemplate right now.
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Latest stats show Edinburgh’s new cases has fallen 40.7% since Jan 3rd peak.
Still double level in Nov but THANK YOU to everyone following rules to keep folk safe.Edinburgh now 8th lowest level of new cases in Scotland- sacrifices being made are working- please keep at it!
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A substantial pay rise for NHS staff in England battling the coronavirus pandemic would cost the exchequer only a fifth of the headline price tag and boost Britain’s struggling economy, according to a report.
Setting out the economic case for raising the wages of England’s 1 million nurses, midwives, health professionals and NHS support staff, researchers from the London Economics consultancy said 81% of the cost of a 5% or 10% pay rise would be recovered by the government.
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/18/government-pay-rise-cost-nhs-england-staff-report
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Re Edinburgh Live story is it really illegal to drive places to exercise? If so why haven't they shut all the car parks again? I was under the impression you could drive 'a short distance' to exercise and certainly no further than 5 miles, or possibly 5 miles outside your local authority.
Perhaps they came over from Fife?!
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@gembo - even more scandalous - they missed the opportunity to have the headline "Salisbury Shags". What sort of tabloid are they running?
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“I was under the impression you could drive 'a short distance'”
Under 5 miles is pretty much the normal normal driving distance.
Often by the same people who complain about ‘traffic’.
And ‘parking’.
And ‘cyclists’.
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Dido Harding rejects claims test and trace only having marginal impact on transmission
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"Perhaps they came over from Fife?!"
Why would you come over from Fife when there are plenty of seaside walks there?
Midlothian perhaps?
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@gembo, top tip for Arthur's Seat exhibitionists: "Do not do it in heeled boots."
But do blog about it, post on Instergrom, etc.
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Why are we discussing an Edinburgh Live “story” from 10 months ago, as if it were relevant to today? What did I miss?
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Discusyon is about the extent to while EL is "fake news". Arthur's Seat salaciousness all over the Sun, Record, back in June so it must be true. (So what? But hey).
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> Why are we discussing an Edinburgh Live “story” from 10 months ago, as if it were relevant to today?
Oops! Too contemporary-sounding to be drawn to check the date.
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Edinburgh Live is part of Reach. Have a read of the Wikipedia article and decide if it is the sort of media company you want to support with your browser clicks. (It's also well known for creepily lurking in local social media groups to dredge through them to churn out "stories".)
(The depressing thing is whether there is any Scottish written news media that is worth reading/paying for these days? (Revealing my own bias, the Guardian is sometimes rather a bit too Guardian for me, and it also barely knows that Scotland (or much outside London) exists, which really is poor, but at least it doesn't engage in constant cyclist/environmentalist bashing.))
Also, further upthread, does mention of commercial sportsball teams count as a breach of Rule 2? Those are certainly pretty dirty words in my opinion... ;-)
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Salisbury Shags was second story on edinburgh live today. As I pressed the forward button. But as Icecream for Crowriver says we were debating fake ness levels. Glad it was June,bit warmer if somewhat busier and lighter on Arthur’s Seat in June.
Robert Wringhim went up there with his doppelgänger in the truly superb Confessions of a Justified Sinmer, also suspected to have been written by wilson and maybe Lockhart who wished to remain anonymous so passed off as James Hogg. Certainly better than Hoggs other stuff and different from Hogg’s other stuff. Also structurally post modern or written by different hands.
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On the media question. Not sure if Guardian has done much on the huge online music festival version of Celtic Connections?
Much more varied musically than you might think.
National of course does mention - surely this equals anything else going on in January musically across the fou r nations?. Lots of young musicians.
See online thread from @SRD.Posted 3 years ago # -
"it also barely knows that Scotland (or much outside London) "
To think it used to be the Manchester Guardian...
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Severin Carrell is Grauniad Scotland correspondent.
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That would waste a great deal of fuel at motorway speeds.
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Covid: UK health secretary Matt Hancock to self-isolate
He's not Ill but its better for everyone if we don't have to hear him.
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Today in Holyrood. From National
Responding to Davidson, the First Minister went on: “On supplies, and I want to be quite blunt and perhaps brutally so here Presiding Officer. We last week published detailed estimates of supply, now and well into the future.
“We put that out on a document that went on the web and was circulated. I hope I’m not about to use unparliamentary language but the UK Government had something of what I can only describe as a hissy fit about us doing that.
“So, we agreed in consultation with them to take away the publication of those supply figures. They don’t want us to be open about supply for reasons of commercial confidentiality.”
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