Recent content by tigerbob

Hi Boot! I thought you'd disappeared too! Very well thanks. Watching the run up to elections with a degree of mild amusement, despair and deja vu.

Proof that when Detroit elected another Democrat it didn't necessarily spell further disaster. Proof that it took the Republican Governor appointing an Emergency Manager to get Detroit turning around. Proof that it took the citizens of Detroit electing a white Mayor to start the city turning...

Manchester United's Wayne Rooney. Friendly boxing match with another soccer player, Phil Bardsley. Straight left. Down he goes. Can't help laughing. Rooney in the blue sweater, Bardsley in the red...

And that is what has now started in Detroit.

The workers also paid the price for the greed of the unions that insisted on crippling contracts. The also paid the price for going onto the line in an industry that was bleeding jobs and thinking they had a job for life and didn't need to keep educating and training themselves in case the...

Interesting article on Buzzfeed today. Isabella Sorley was convicted in 2013 of "sending malicious messages, under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003." Her views at the time she sent the tweets are markedly different from those she holds today. Today, she draws a distinction between...

Lancashire, lah, lah, lah.....

It's a form of class snobbery. By deriding someone as a sheep-shagger or something like that you position them as someone who spends a lot of time working with animals (i.e. a farmer) and therefore imply a pejorative about them being working class and about the working class in general. All...

Your earlier point (sorry, forgot to quote): On a side note, you and Swagger are the only two English I know on this forum who refrained from calling Scottish folks sheep f******. So I commend you two for that.

Interesting map of what countries around the world have declared independence from Britain, and the year each did so, 1776 to the present day. This map shows all the countries that have declared independence from the British GlobalPost

Has that term been used seriously, or just as a joke?

Having worked in marketing and communications for many years, I've been looking at some of the media today and it's interesting to see how some companies / organizations are choosing to use MLK Day as a sales tool. There are some fairly dumb ones that try to leverage the name with a pun...

Anyone who brings religion into politics is an ass.

Interesting piece on the disparity between the favorable ratings UKIP enjoys at present and the likelihood of success at a General Election. There's no doubt UKIP is getting stronger (extremes are always amplified by recession) but it still has a long way to go IMO. Ukip tops Independent on...

Local Election results are always something of a red herring. They are used as an opportunity to register a protest vote, but generate results that are never replicated at general elections. There's no doubt that UKIP has increased in popularity, but 23% at a general election? I doubt it...