Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 36003680)

Saves Boris from having to sack them seeing as it's very unlikely he would want May's old anti-Brexit dross in his team.

Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36003673)

There ISN'T a deal on offer from the EU to either accept or refuse. The Withdrawal Agreement is not a deal. This is the only mention of the word "deal".
There is nothing on the table that would be in place in 2021 and beyond.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36003667)

BJ in today’s Telegraph (his other employer).

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...mpression=true


a) It wasn’t frictionless - the whole method of re-entry was using the Earth’s atmosphere to friction brake the capsule; all that wasted money, time, and effort with heat shields, then, and all those ablative tiles on the shuttle. The Apollo 11 hitting the Pacific Ocean at 11 km/s would have been the result of frictionless reentry, so I fear BJ’s plan may crash and burn just as spectacularly.

b) 400,000 people worked on the Apollo programme at a total cost of a quarter trillion dollars, and it took 8 years. MIT designed and built the Apollo guidance computer. The issues were vast and exceptionally complex, and its design ground breaking

Once again, BJ doesn’t know what he’s talking about (or doesn’t care, because he thinks a sound bite is better than actuality).

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36003729)

You take all this so literally, Hugh! Boris has a humour gene which kicks in at regular intervals.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36003729)

You take all this so literally, Hugh! Boris has a humour gene which kicks in at regular intervals.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36003731)

I'll bear that in mind the next time he says something counter-factual - "he's being humourous..".

So when the leading contender to be the next Prime Minister compares two things, using the same term for both, we shouldn't actually take what he says to be accurate - OK, then... :rolleyes:

Good job the Apollo team didn't take the astronauts surviving re-entry to be an "aspiration", isn't it? ;)

Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36003734)

I feel sure buzz lightyear and streach armstrong wouldn't hold it against him.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36003729)

You take all this so literally, Hugh! Boris has a humour gene which kicks in at regular intervals.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36003729)

You take all this so literally, Hugh! Boris has a humour gene which kicks in at regular intervals.

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 36003745)

Yeah, tell that to Nazanine Zaghari Ratcliffe, don't worry it was only bozos humour gene kicking in that doubled your sentence, if that were me I doubt I could utter another word in public let alone hold office, she is clearly a pawn in a game but did his specific efforts help her situation or make it much worse

Originally Posted by Mobes (Post 36003754)

Indeed! Also this utter nonsense about not taking Boris so seriously etc is one you hear from Trump supporters too on a regular basis. His 'witty' racist one liners, his 'joke' about dating his own daughter.

Not so funny now we know we have a white supremacist in The White House with very close link to a pedophile and a child sex trafficker.

Guess whose backing Johnson.

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 36003763)

I do not trust a word that comes out of BJ's mouth.