Interesting Links for 08-01-2016

[andrewducker]

• Google Maps giving live updates on Edinburgh buses and trams
  • Google maps Edinburgh buses trams
• A political question about opposition parties in the UK
  • politics uk
• Every Comment On Recipe Blogs
  • funny food cooking blogging
• The Comment Section For Every Article About Bikini Waxing Ever
  • funny women comments hair vagina
• The hair of the Skywalkers
  • hair

Comments

[kalimac]

The angry Star Wars guy is angry at the other article calling Finn a janitor. He says, "Finn was a Stormtrooper assigned to sanitation .... Nowhere in this movie is it said that Finn was a janitor." Um ... you just did.

[erindubitably]

I think maybe it's the difference between 'Stormtrooper who does sanitation duties while not in combat' and 'janitor' that got him riled up. I mean, plenty of soldiers do sanitation stuff when they're not fighting, I'd imagine, but we don't call them janitors.

[cartesiandaemon]

That makes sense. It probably could have been clearer in the film, I got that sense that Finn had had combat training but no experience, but I wasn't completely sure.

[movingfinger]

That was my sense, too, that we see him in his first real combat and he realizes it's not for him. Which suggests that this culture doesn't have simulators, or not very good ones.

On Finn's "sanitation" work, I didn't think he was a janitor either: the complex has been under construction for years, and I took "sanitation" to mean he was in the plumbing crew---and that was why he knew so much detail about the layout and functions of the various areas, because plumbers have to know everything or you'll get a waste pipe routed through your hyper-plasma-planet laser area.

I'm not clear on what was supposed to happen when they used up either a star or a planet with that weapon. (Possibly the characters weren't either.) The scenes with the First Order's big opening day concert looked distractingly like scenes from Captain America and I may have missed something, thinking about the film homages etc going on there.

[alitheapipkin]

I already knew that a load of old bollocks gets written about nutrition but that article is very interesting and well written :)

Funnily enough, I was yelling at the radio only this morning when they were discussing those new alcohol consumption guidelines. Fundamentally, there is no 'safe' level for most things, only degrees of risk, and most people seem to be remarkably poor at understanding that, not helped by the level of scientific literacy shown by most 'science' journalists.

[naath]

Yes, degrees of risk, degrees of effectiveness, varying with individual factors... and there are degrees of risk of not-doing as well as doing for almost all the things that people actually *do*.

Also - just because something *works* (for whatever value of "works" you are after) doesn't mean it is "safe" (for whatever value of "safe" you will accept). The trade off between "effective" and "safe" has to be made individually in most cases.

[kalimac]

I don't have permission to respond to the opposition-leader question where it was asked, but, as the first commenter implies, this is really a question about the Labour Party's internal constitution rather than the rules of Parliament. It's up to the Labour Party to figure out who its leader is, and whether a vote of MPs has any effect on the standing of a leader who was chosen by a vote of all members. Once it has done so, the party being in opposition, then that leader gets designated as Leader of the Opposition.

The commenter also notes that there was no opposition during the WW2 coalition. It's worth noting that, since the Leader of the Opposition has a designated part in daily Parliamentary business, somebody had to take that role, and it was given to the senior Labour Party privy councilor who did not hold a government post.

[danieldwilliam]

I also wasn't able to respond on situ.

Like you I think it's an internal Labour Party matter  (so long as the Speaker considers the Labour Party to be the largest non-government party ).

I suppose dis-gruntled Labour MP's could leave the Labour Party and form the Parliamentary Labour Party for Electable Leaders and become the largest non-government party.

[steer]

Agree with both comments here -- see longer comment I make below.

[bart_calendar]

I've always found the pube discussion to be pretty weird. Like how many people are ever going to see your pubes. And if they give a shit about your pubes how many are going to get to see them a second time?

[alitheapipkin]

Yeah, it boggles me too. I mean body policing is bad enough, but body policing of stuff that most people never see anyway? Seriously people.

[naath]

I find it really creepy how many people apparently think that "what I do with my pubes" is something that they should have an opinion about.

[bart_calendar]

Yep. If ever there was a personal decision that's it.

[danieldwilliam]

The Star Wars guy should take up Doctor Who. He'd be a natural.

[andrewducker]

Half of me is appalled at the thought of JJ Abrams doing Dr Who.

And half of me is really curious to know how it would turn out...