In the news

I think we’ll be hearing a lot more of these quotes as time goes by:

“The civil protection minister, Nello Musumeci, said: “Climate change is not just a contingency and Italy must realise that it now has a tropical climate.

“On one hand, we are paying the price of climate change, for which we should have paid more attention several years ago, and, on the other, of infrastructure that does not seem to be totally adequate for the new context.”

It's like calling everyone who goes to look at the taj mahal or machu picchu basic bitches because they could've just bought a book or Google imaged it.

Totally valid, given air travel is partly responsible for destroying the lived environment, hitting people in the global south, where many of these destinations are, hardest and first

The ombudsman is going to be busy tidying up the loose ends in the Farage affair...

https://archive.is/LOnUy

Como se dice ‘bous’ en ingles?

bulls.
It's "bulls in the street". A bit like Pamplona, only much smaller, local affairs which don't attract anything like as much attention. A bull is let loose in the streets of your village and you can prove yourself by getting close to it.

Youtube has plenty of videos, all of which are unpleasant to watch if you don't like seeing animals goaded and teased.

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/woman-gets-stuck-snowdonia-cliff-27391914

Thanks, I guessed that’s what it meant but kept thinking toros.

We’ve all been there…

"Bous al carrer" is a Valencian term, and I was trying to be clever; Our new Culture minister is pro-bull fighting, but anti Valenciano as a language. So he will support "Toros en la calle", but not "bous al carrer".

Maybe I'm not ready for my debut as a bi-lingual comedian.

I’m in Alicante a fair bit but still struggle with the differences between Valencian and Spanish dialect.

Now I understand the context me gusta tu intento de comedia.

We went to see a bullfight in Alicante a few years ago and had a steak cut from one of the bulls killed in the ring the same evening. I’m still not sure how I feel about it. Into The Arena is a very interesting book on the subject.

I’m still not sure how I feel about it

I imagine it felt tough and chewy.

Bull "fighting" is fucking bullshit and should be banned.

Basically the moisture expands during cooking and leaches out through the stretched fibres of the meat. Oddly this means that 'wet meat' actually ends up drier after cooking. Nicely hung-meat is tastier and more tender

Nicely hung-meat

Oi oi...

We went to see a bullfight in Alicante a few years ago

Pretty shameful that

The whole coutts natwest farage thing seems to be a massive clusterfuck, doesn't it.

Like anything he touches, really.

Add in a sprinkling of deliberate conflation of issues for good measure.

He was on Today this morning. Had to switch it off. How does he continually turn the news cycle around to himself
?

Because no interviewer will say..

"Nige. In our regulation free sunny Brexit uplands, why can't the free market tell you to piss off because you're an odious cunt? Is this not what you wanted from Brexir you Kremlin stooge?"

How does he continually turn the news cycle around to himself

Part of the Outrage economy... Media companies love the clicks.

It irritates me greatly that because it's Farage any genuine issues get taken seriously.

Perhaps some good will come out of it by improving legislation for people whose account was genuinely closed due to political reasons / a fraud mark on their account they can't fight but FFS, this guy???

All because the CEO made unwise remarks on BBC / Coutts is still part government owned.

Be ironic if he actually does something good ;)

Hah!

The right to a bank account is also originally EU law...

And probably the data protection laws he might have used, but will now avoid citing too?

Pretty shameful that

Who the fuck are you, to be passing judgement on other people?

He's right though.