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TBH good on The Amazons to be getting to gigs in abroad. Not easy these days.
Thanks for the status update. Hopefully at 4.30am there won't be many indie bands about, but i'll keep my eyes peeled. John Peeled even. Eh, Eh?

Revving up my holiday dad-joke engine.

Isn't that just your wife?

We had friends that went last week with no issues.

Lol

We're eurotunneling in the morning. Currently 3 hour delays. Wish us luck.

I trust you’ll find this sufficient.

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Spot on. Thank you kindly.

Break a egg.

Dublin airport has had very much the same issue which was due to covid layoffs and I guess staff have found other work so getting qualified replacements in isn't a quick fix

I think they also gave lots of them big payouts as they left and are now prevented from re-employing them.

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Yet somehow he’s managed to get to the position of deputy prime minister!?!?!?

How? Is the guy thick as pig shit? He’s got a degree in law hasn’t he? From Oxford.

He’s basically saying he doesn’t understand geography and economics.

position of deputy prime minister

doesn't he do anything other than going on TV to defending Boris these days.

And another thing, he’s also so dumb that he’s even used a social media platform explain what he doesn’t understand.

Who’s voting for these people. That’s the problem. Someone thought he was a good option.

It’s a quote he made in a speech, that’s been attributed to his Twitter account by the LedByDonkeys org, as part of their campaigning.

He might be dim, but he’s not that dim.

It baffles me, consider me baffled

Anecdata #2 is that arriving in LHR T5 this morning c. 10 am was fine, no queue for the eGates at all. Unlike LAX on Sunday evening (2hr wait in the ESTA queue).

I haven't flown international since 2015, should be same as usual for a UK passport holder right? Quick visit next month.

Boris

Never heard of him, is he some kind of c-list celeb?

I find it hard to believe folks like Raab are genuinely 'dim' to be honest. I agree his were poorly chosen words.

I also find the Donkeys thing a bit disturbing.

Raab won the Clive Parry Prize for International Law after finishing top of the class for his International Law Masters at Cambridge. He's not academically thick.

In my distant memory I'm sure I read that he once represented Tony Blair when he was a solicitor.

^ I was right, but he wasn't lead lawyer on the case. Well, he represented the government on Blair's behalf, but you get my point.

https://www.icty.org/x/cases/slobodan_milosevic/tdec/en/051209.htm

The same is true of most of these politicians - very few went to average unis (or no uni at all). Truss was Oxbridge as well, wasn’t she, as was Braverman?

I wonder if this is evidence of one of the things I have read that troubles me most - the cleverer people are, the more they can be biased on things as they have the intelligence to find arguments to support their position. Hence these (academically intelligent) people being zealots….

It did cross my mind that some of them might have got in to these places due to donations from rich family but looking at Raab's family history, I suspect he must have done it on merit alone.

I wonder if this is evidence of one of the things I have read that troubles me most - the cleverer people are, the more they can be biased on things as they have the intelligence to find arguments to support their position. Hence these (academically intelligent) people being zealots….

I think there might be some truth to this but in reality I just think that intelligence is a really complicated thing. There are loads of different types of intelligence and its rare for somebody to be well endowed with all of the different types. In Raab's case, i suspect we think he's dim because he's light on one or two of these.

He's not academically thick.

No, just regular thick, I found academic people to be the worst when it come to subject outside their field.

The other thing about intelligence is that how you apply it is shaped by your life experiences. a lot of these MPs have had very sheltered lives.