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Sirius

06-08-2025 21:26

Re: Reform UK's chronicles

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36200568)

I'm glad we've worked out Reform won, i was on the edge of my seat, it was a real nail biter

:LOL:

Hugh	06-08-2025 23:40

Re: Reform UK's chronicles

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36200568)

I'm glad we've worked out Reform won, i was on the edge of my seat, it was a real nail biter

Glad you managed to work that one out, eventually…

1andrew1

07-08-2025 00:10

Re: Reform UK's chronicles

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Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36200558)

Take it, maths isn't your strong point then OB?

I've heard Liz Truss is missing her calculator.

Carth

07-08-2025 00:51

Re: Reform UK's chronicles

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36200573)

I've heard Liz Truss is missing her calculator.

It's not missing Andrew, it's slightly broken. The = key sometimes acted as a - (minus) or ÷ (divide) which is obviously awkward, and it has now been loaned out to Diane Abbott.

papa smurf

07-08-2025 07:44

Re: Reform UK's chronicles

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36200573)

I've heard Liz Truss is missing her calculator.

Rachael Reeves found it :tu:

Sephiroth

07-08-2025 09:47

Re: Reform UK's chronicles

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36200578)

Rachael Reeves found it :tu:

It had two + buttons.

Carth

07-08-2025 10:54

Re: Reform UK's chronicles

Calculators, brilliant things that took the hard work out of learning how to do math at school. No longer 3 pages of calculations required, log books thrown in the bin (sine cosine), Trigonometry turned into childs play, Algebra no longer gave you migraine.

Come on admit it, you just used to input a few numbers then turn it upside down to see what word they spelt :D

Sephiroth

07-08-2025 11:05

Re: Reform UK's chronicles

There were no calculators in my day (other than the semi-mechanical ones that they had in banks and shops). In my day, it was the slide rule and log books. Using these, I could calculate (e.g.) Reform's chances of winning the next GE divided by the square root of a right angle triangle (which is also the square root of its boiling point).

thenry

07-08-2025 12:50

Re: Reform UK's chronicles

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Originally Posted by Carth (Post 36200582)

Come on admit it, you just used to input a few numbers then turn it upside down to see what word they spelt :D

58008 :D

5318008 even :naughty:

tweetiepooh

07-08-2025 12:57

Re: Reform UK's chronicles

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Originally Posted by Carth (Post 36200582)

My we get diverted here. Trouble is calculators could also remove the need to think about what you were doing and why. Looking at a slide rule you could see a log scale and remember that adding logs is equivalent to multiplication.

Carth

07-08-2025 15:19

Re: Reform UK's chronicles

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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh (Post 36200592)

Yeah, sort of my point in a way.

Kids leaving school/university whatever with qualifications gained by the use of fingers and not the brain. Heck you don't even need to learn English because whatever you now write with has a program to check and correct errors.

Already many people are asking A1 questions to save looking for an answer themselves, and, more worryingly, believing what AI tells them . . and then those people get to vote - probably for whoever the AI suggested :D

pip08456

07-08-2025 19:49

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Saw this on X, thought it was appropriate.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...9&d=1754592504

1andrew1

07-08-2025 23:16

Re: Reform UK's chronicles

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Reform civil war erupts as Nigel Farage suffers 'Nicola Sturgeon moment'

Reform UK is on the brink of a civil war over the issue of transgender women in female prisons and in a particularly unflattering twist, Nigel Farage has been compared to Nicola Sturgeon. Reform has been engulfed in a trans row ever since the insurgent party's new justice adviser spoke out against a blanket ban on trans women being imprisoned in women's jails.

Vanessa Frake, a former prison governor, said on Monday that some transgender criminals should be imprisoned in women's jails. Farage's backing is understood to have dismayed some party figures leading him to face a party revolt in Scotland. Reform was then blasted by author JK Rowling over its support of housing men in women's prisons, which also goes against the recent Supreme Court ruling.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other...8f700ef8c&ei=8