Yeah, supposedly she's been diagnosed with a serious long-term underlying condition. I tend to side with the person who is ill rather than assume they are lying cretins.
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No. The tank could well have held 500,000 litres. It would only have had to be about twice as tall. It's not a crazy answer
For it to hold 1000 litres, it would have been smaller than a human
Well ya will sign that Lisbon Treaty!
Let's say you get 3 people in a room, and gave them all a quiz question.
Question: How many Litres does this tank hold
It's a hard question. The human brain does not deal with large numbers well at all, and the cylindrical shape makes things more difficult. There is also little sense of scale. Still nonetheless, everyone gives it their best shot.
Person 1 goes first. He has no idea what a litre is, so says 100 litres. Everyone else laughs.
Person 2 goes next. He thinks about it for a long time and then says 1 million litres. Person 1 goes a bit pale in the face.
Person 3 divides the two and says 500,000 litres, confident that Person 1 was over, but not way over.
The quiz master reveals the answer; 100,000 litres.
Everyone stops to think for a second before releasing that Person 1 has won. He's only 99,900 litres out. Person 3 is next closest being 400,000 litres out.
But if you stop to think about it, it's obvious that Person 2 and Person 3 were a lot closer than Person 1. Person 1 had no concept of what a Litre even was.
There are two ways to deal with this; percentages and orders of magnitude.
As a percentage, Person 1 was 99.9% out. Person 3 was 80% out. But Person 1 argues Person 3 wasn't 80% out, but 400% out.
The better way to deal with this is with orders of magnitude. Person 1 was 3 orders of magnitude out, Person 3 less than one order of magnitude out (0.69)
None of this has anything to do with the General Election, other than to say, Diane Abbott's an idiot. I try to defend her, we all have off days, (Barack Obama said he was a Muslim when he had a cold). But there is a non insignificant difference in saying something costs 50000 times less than it will do, and getting a single digit wrong.
I can only applaud your commitment there.Do hope Diane's okay though.
Yet he was closest, and they weren't.
"Diane Abbott has been diagnosed with “a serious, long-term condition”, Barry Gardiner, the shadow international trade secretary, has told the Huffington Post."
So you're voting for the party that has nearly doubled the debt. That'll show 'em. The party of 6.8p breakfasts and a Home Secretary that claims the average police officers wage is £40,000 is the only logical choice.Or this, which is/ was only partially a 'joke'
Brexit had very little to do with the Lisbon Treaty, it was a split on the Tory right and Cameron gambled the country's future on a referendum to consolidate his position.
Economically speaking, Labour's record is fine (despite the biggest financial collapse in history, which wasn't of Labour's making).Or this, which is/ was only partially a 'joke'
Much as I / we might moan about Abbott's incompetence, it seems fairly innocuous compared to her often bad tempered replacement -
http://www.conservativehome.com/lef...-taken-to-discipline-labour-mp-lyn-brown.html
No - I'm not a conservative voter, but succinctly explains what I'm going on about....
And just to add - she actually resigned from Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet last year saying that his position of Labour Leader was ' untenable '....
http://www.conservativehome.com/lef...-taken-to-discipline-labour-mp-lyn-brown.html
No - I'm not a conservative voter, but succinctly explains what I'm going on about....
And just to add - she actually resigned from Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet last year saying that his position of Labour Leader was ' untenable '....
If the quiz was to be the closest, then of course Person 1 has won.
But I didn't say that, I asked how much it held.
There are any number of ways you could score such a competition, but the worst way would be to go for a pure "who is the closest method", if you want people to guess accurately.
The furthest you can be away by guessing under, is 100%. There is no upper limit on how far you can be away if you guess over.
"Diane Abbott has been diagnosed with “a serious, long-term condition”, Barry Gardiner, the shadow international trade secretary, has told the Huffington Post."
But which only seems to affect her when it suits her....
Good lad.
And an expert told her she had an illness and we all know how anti-Britain they are!
How many stars are there in the milky way galaxy?
Diane Abbott; well about 4.
Phillip Hammond; err, 1 trillion.
Surprisingly Diane Abbott has won!
Diane Abbott; well about 4.
Phillip Hammond; err, 1 trillion.
Surprisingly Diane Abbott has won!
Indeed.
Yeah well, seems to me that Hammond, the great big wally, is idiotically confusing it with the neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy which reputedly (wiki) does have 1 trillion stars. It must have been cloudy when Diane was looking.
Crikey! Is she that good?
I wasn't being entirely serious, just trying to find a tenuous link between Brexit and the last Labour government.
You have inspired me to waste the last 45 minutes.
With some reason, perhaps -
Corbyn's voting record on important Security debates in the Commons....
Those he voted against...
1984 Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act: Outlawed NI terror groups.
1985 Updating the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1974: Gave emergency powers to police forces to quiz terror suspects travelling between Northern Ireland and Great Britain
1989 Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989: Law that requires candidates for election in local and Northern Ireland Assembly to declare they will never support terrorism
1989 Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act: Banned support for the IRA and Irish National Liberation Army
1989 Security Service Act: Established legal basis of the UK Security Service for the first time – giving security services the function of protecting the UK from terrorism
1991 Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions): Allowed police to search sites for weapons and arms
1996 Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act: Banned possession of items for terrorists
1998 Criminal Justice (Terrorism and Conspiracy) Act: Stricter punishment for being a member of terror group following the Omagh bombing
2000 Terrorism Act: Redefined terrorism and gave police stop and search powers
2001 The Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order: Statutory instrument banning Al-Qa’ida in a statutory instrument, 6 months before 9/11
2001 Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act: Following 9/11, indefinite holding without charge of suspects who cannot be deported.
2005 Prevention of Terrorism Act: Gave the Home Secretary the power to impose control orders on terror suspects
2006 Terrorism Act: Outlawed the “glorification” of terror following 7/7 bombings
2008 Counter-Terrorism Act: Banned communication of sensitive details about Armed Forces
2011 Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act: Replaced control orders with new powers to restrict the movement of suspects who could not be prosecuted or deported
2013 Justice and Security Act: Allowed secret hearings in courts on issues of national security
2014 Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act: Gave police emergency access to phone and internet records
And the two he abstained on:
2003 Criminal Justice Act: Modernising the criminal justice system, allows offences to be tried by a judge sitting alone without a jury
2016 Investigatory Powers Bill: To allow the bulk interception of communications, equipment interference, subject to certain safeguards.
Stress is often a trigger for illness, but please continue your crusade mr.dailymail.
May has fecked this up so hard. A few months ago, Labour were there for the taking.
She just seems so complacent.
She just seems so complacent.
As a Eurosceptic of some years standing, i must beg to differ. The EU Con, Lisbon Treaty and resultant lies over referenda, played a significant role in the sovereignty argument. Moreover, holding a vote back then could've lanced the boil if you will.
There was also the total fiasco of accession states to the EU, with Labour estimating that just 13,000 would move to Britain. The ensuing debate then became dangerously polarised and the government lost the trust of many voters.
OK...
But hardly a DailyHateMail reader....I'd prefer you call me a LFC supporter than accuse me of being a DailyHateMail reader....
Largely agree, although the media has played it's part
Reported to mods....
Well, that's unfortunately how you're coming across on this page.
My Dad suffered from long term illness so I can relate and it can be an utter feck. It was also the cause of his death. Hope she's ok.
You may not be a cnut, but you're being one at the moment. Diane Abbott is someone's mother, daughter, sister, wife, etc. She's genuinely ill and you're here trying to score political points by belittling that fact.
I wish that bottom sentence was better written
I hope the mods just call that ''Saying Something You Might Think But Probably Shouldn't Say'' Contest a draw & we can forget it happened eh?
You could both delete for instance - show a bit of willing.
(just an idea)
You could both delete for instance - show a bit of willing.
(just an idea)
Exasperation messes with your syntax!
A truly awful post, absolute awful.
Person 1 is just playing Price is Right rules, not one millilitre over.
In defence of those questioning whether she is ill:
- She was on Sky News yesterday
- There have been lots of rumours that Corbyn was under pressure to remove her.
- On Sky News yesterday, she was repeatedly (like 10 times) asked if Corbyn was about to remove her, whether she had been gagged with by her own party, whether she ran her bookings past her own party first, whether the party was exasperated by her not running her own bookings past the party and making a fool out of herself...
- It's the day before the General Election
- She said she wasn't planning on stepping aside yesterday
- She said she didn't know if Corbyn would pick her as Home Secretary
- She was on Sky News yesterday
- There have been lots of rumours that Corbyn was under pressure to remove her.
- On Sky News yesterday, she was repeatedly (like 10 times) asked if Corbyn was about to remove her, whether she had been gagged with by her own party, whether she ran her bookings past her own party first, whether the party was exasperated by her not running her own bookings past the party and making a fool out of herself...
- It's the day before the General Election
- She said she wasn't planning on stepping aside yesterday
- She said she didn't know if Corbyn would pick her as Home Secretary