In the news

This is weekly news in China, some company will list TW/HK as separate countries and people go ape shit. I like to mess with things from the inside and I'm working on a report at the moment with plenty of references to Taiwan, and I have insisted we refer to it throughout as a country.

General consensus in mainland China is that HK is acting like a spoiled brat, there was a meme going around to that effect. Other than that, and all the "foreign influences" provoking a "colour revolution", there's not much about HK. Fucking shit loads of nationalistic propaganda everywhere though, things are really gearing up for 1 October.

Country / territory

Yeah I get this all the time at my yard

It's fucking dull

I love a good '/' in a UI

we managed to knock them back from "Country / Territory / Special Administrative Region (SAR)"

anyway it's all behind me now.

Squints

Slash x 2

Brackets.

Acronym.

That has to be some kind of record.

Legal and Compliance people get paid a lot more than you or i so there's no way they could possibly be wrong about any of this.

Some of the cray cray you cannot fight and survive to tell the tale

My family were in TW when it was the ROC and before the UN recognised the current mainland regime. My mother and uncles grew up on friendly terms with Madame Chiang as my grandfather used to play chess with Chiang Ching-kuo

/csb

Not the first time politics has run rampant over a good user journey.

The new leader of UKIP has said that he often confuses London mayor
Sadiq Khan with the 7/7 bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan, in a tweet that
Labour condemned as "unacceptable racism".

Richard Braine, who replaced Gerard Batten as the leader of the
anti-immigration party at the weekend, made the remark just seven
weeks ago.

On June 27, Braine misspelled the London mayor's name on Twitter as
"Siddique Khan". After being corrected by another Twitter user, Braine
replied: "Apologies, I often confuse him with the leader of the 7/7
bombers."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/richard-braine-ukip-sadiq-khan

https://freethinkecon.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/the-voting-system-drives-our-politicians-mad/

Bloody barmy.

Dick Braine. Fitting.

I thought that was fascinating. It really shows how our voting system isn't suited to a 4 party split and an election in the next few months will be impossible to call.

Huh, so it rewards mental behaviour/risk taking for political parties once the two party system breaks?

Another reason to get rid of it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1161145857854640128?s=20

Should rural footpaths be open to cyclists in England and Wales?
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@WeAreCyclingUK
say a change in the law could reduce conflict between riders and others who use the trails

Man wearing TV on head caught on camera leaving old TVs on Virginia front porches

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https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/17831251.video-bus-car-standoff-penny-lane-burtonwood/

Warrington is truly a shithole.
Also, I'm not a fan of fat jokes in general, but some of the comments made me lol.

No your a....

the absolute state of this

https://twitter.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1161629920856084481

Yeah, it's fucking awful.

Incredible...

Fucking hell.

he's baaaaaaack!

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/akinwale-arobieke-newcastle-city-centre-16751396?fbclid=IwAR3LLj7EXh3lPFMql3OgxitnDm0vmnLP6pH6j_7xaKFWvoNkG4eCgP-wozA

Old news man, purple Aki's been about for months, I've seen him in the flesh twice.