[Fultonius]

Does anyone else get this image in their head every time the government do another U-Turn?



One or policy reversals in a term shows you're not afraid to say "yup, we got it wrong". However, it starts to look a bit embarrassing when it happens twice a month....

[Falling Down]

Quite ironic on today of all days.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=eUemTNZDRXo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DeUemTNZDRXo

[tomtom]

Does anyone else get this image in their head every time the government do another U-Turn?

One or policy reversals in a term shows you're not afraid to say "yup, we got it wrong". However, it starts to look a bit embarrassing when it happens twice a month....

Well, it all bodes well for the NHS privatisation thats going on at the moment... lets hope they get their sums properly audited for that one too..

[mrjonathanr]

Oh, that one was easy for Osborne and Lansley.

Ageing population, obesity and new drugs? Check!
£20bn cut to budget by 2015? Check!
GPs with little experience of commissioning? Check!
and finally...
GPs' budgets set by Treasury? Check!!

Failure is guaranteed, and easily achieved. Who's going to audit that one? Jeremy Hunt?!!

[Stubbs]

The commissioning board are short a few staff at the mo too!

Good piece on commissioning from yesterday http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/02/why-i-quit-nhs-commissioning-champion?INTCMP=SRCH

I remember Ben Goldacre tweeting that he thought the commissioning boards were being set up to fail to allow private companies to manage that part of the process too...

[Jaspersharpe]

Bionic bees!

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/03/robot-bee-brains

[tomtom]

Bionic bees!

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/03/robot-bee-brains

Obviously ideal for keeping track of folk whilst out bouldering in Font. Genius!

[tomtom]

It just keeps getting better for this government. Way to go chaps.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/03/new-uk-nuclear-power-station-setback

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

YOU. FAT. BASTARDS!
YOU. FAT. BASTARDS!
YOU. FAT. BASTARDS!

[slackline]

Man dies after winning cockroach eating contest 

[SA Chris]

Man dies after winning cockroach eating contest 

shit, isn't that

[tomtom]

Wow.. It's not often I'm taken by a 15 min video of a politicians monologue, but this is quite something.... Australian pm Julia Guilard puts the opposition leader in his squirming place over sexism...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-09/julia-gillard-attacks-abbott-of-hypocrisy/4303634

[lagerstarfish]

here's some useful science

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0043007

some more research needs doing to see what happens when multiple drinks are consumed....

[slackline]

I'll volunteer for the multi-drink research! 

[lagerstarfish]

apart from the multiple drinks trial, we also need to try out glasses that are wider at the base than they are at the top - if the hypothesis is correct, then the way that these will disrupt the subjects ability to judge where the half full point is will cause even slower drinking

my mind experiment where the diameter of the top of the glass tends towards zero seems to agree with the hypothesis.... at diameters below 1mm anyway

[r-man]

Attempting to break the sound barrier without a vehicle...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19867246

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Attempting to break the sound barrier without a vehicle...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19867246

Next attempt due on Sunday, 6:30am 'MDT' which I think is 1:30pm  BST.

[Mike Tyson]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19916243

Talk about money laundering!

[slackline]

Phone bill == 5000 x French GDP!!! 

[dave]

Fucking hell they're all at it! Welcome to paedogeddon.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9603959/John-Peel-got-15-year-old-pregnant-after-meeting-at-Black-Sabbath-concert-claims-woman.html

I dread to think what's going to be uncovered next about some dead celeb in the music industry. George Formby raping badgers or something.

[RAK Punter]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8930168/Allowing-women-drivers-in-Saudi-Arabia-will-be-end-of-virginity.html

This gem really caught my eye, "It warned that allowing women to drive would "provoke a surge in prostitution, pr0nography, homosexuality and divorce".

Within 10 years of the ban being lifted, it claimed, there would be "no more virgins" in the Islamic kingdom."

Bring it on.

[tomtom]

I dread to think what's going to be uncovered next about some dead celeb in the music industry. George Formby raping badgers or something.

What was he up to when he was cleaning windows eh!

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Here? Or "Ultimate Internet"?

[Fultonius]

What a strangely unflattering picture of her.



Thaaaats, better. 

[Stubbs]

What a strangely unflattering picture of her.