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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 17, 2024 13:18:18 GMT
Kuenssberg is married to James Kelly, a management consultant. Brother David - works for the Home Office. Sister Joanna works for Shell Oil as vice president of government relations with Russia then VP Corporate Relations Mena/CIS Kuenssberg's father and husband are both Tory party donors. {sarcasm}Thank heavens she manages to remain impartial. {/sarcasm}Ticks all the boxes !
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 23, 2024 17:23:11 GMT
Years ago, 70s-80s I guess I worked my way through all of the newspapers then published Settled on The Sunday Times as the best
Stayed this way for years until I realised that most articles started or contained It is thought it is said and others
Struck me a few days back that I fell into the same place with the news Thought, said, but even worse so many more lies. Opinion stated as fact. Click bait of course
Cutting back on a great deal as I have no interest in speculation and lies
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Post by MartinT on Mar 23, 2024 17:56:36 GMT
It's becoming ever harder to find a reliable source of news these days.
I find I read The Economist more and more, as I benefit from a free subscription at work. The articles are in-depth and appear to be fact checked to a level that would embarrass the BBC.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 23, 2024 19:46:38 GMT
New Scientist gives me a part of that, but nowhere near the complete picture
I'll think on The Economist Do you have paper copies I could look over ?
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Post by MartinT on Mar 23, 2024 20:52:41 GMT
I'll think on The Economist Do you have paper copies I could look over ? No, sorry, electronic subscription.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 24, 2024 10:31:20 GMT
I'll think on The Economist Do you have paper copies I could look over ? No, sorry, electronic subscription. Trying a BIN from ebay.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 24, 2024 10:40:39 GMT
Although it purports to be weekly, you get daily news items e-mailed to you. The website and the app for Android are very good and the articles are almost all analytical and a good read.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 24, 2024 14:56:32 GMT
I will report back. Was wondering if I might have to cut myself off from the news as so much of it is rubbish
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 24, 2024 16:59:11 GMT
I have 3 people in my life (best friend, my 1 co-worker, a female friend) who are only capable of speaking about themselves. I'm not joking when I say they have a toddler-like fascination with themselves.
The co-worker I already know will approach me on Monday (and 25 more times that day) to tell me something about themselves. Big news, big development.
With all 3 (this is a fact) if I interject something about me to balance it out I'll receive dead air or "yea".
The female friend I just told her about a hockey team's logo, she showed me a star tattoo she has similar to that logo so now the conversation is within 2 seconds now about her tattoos.
The friend will text me on Monday to brag about something. Guaranteed.
Is it like this in the UK where each person Is so fascinatated with themselves 365 days out of the year? I've known tons of these people here. This is just the latest configuration.
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Post by mikeyb on Mar 24, 2024 18:34:58 GMT
That's why we've ended up with 'selfie' cameras on our smartphones.
It's all about me, me, me these days.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 24, 2024 19:14:43 GMT
Luckily (or perhaps by intention) it's not like that with my friends, although it certainly is with a couple of work colleagues. Some of the worst are others that we know who post incessant selfies of themselves on Facebook. It's actually become a running joke, as in how much in love with themselves can they be? Just endless photos of them posing for the camera. How do they delude themselves that this is interesting?
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 24, 2024 19:20:10 GMT
I have a feeling that if I take a selfie a pic of some old bloke will come up Must be the technology.....
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 24, 2024 19:56:11 GMT
I believe that it's an underdeveloped part of the brain or a form of self inflicted mental retardation in all 3 of the individuals I mentioned.
But that's not a criticism of them as if I'm not deficient in plenty of ways and since I can't prove my belief I will state a fact of another kind.
All 3 have landed themselves in less than desirable circumstances far from where they wanted to be or once were. This incessant chatter outloud to others about how great they are is a coping mechanism to lie to one's self to be able to at least partially deal with reality. They verbally create a story for themselves to live inside of and if others buy it then it reinforces that story regardless of whether it has any connection to reality at all.
I think what is disturbing is the amount of people doing this.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 24, 2024 20:01:40 GMT
You have to have a positive image of yourself, but foisting it on everyone around is anti social and annoying
Plus your story has to be real not fiction
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 24, 2024 20:16:49 GMT
Right but do you know what I've found? Foisting that illusion on others has different results in different settings.
At the workplace everybody is trapped with each other. A person's level of confidence dictates how much the others will put up with. If that person has confidence and is preaching the gospel of ME to people without confidence it creates a bizarre situation where they can get away with it all day every day.
In a personal setting it's different but the incentive to allow it is still there in a different form which is that this is a friend so you have to endure it for their sake.
At work it's the group dynamic that either allows it or disallows a person to continue broadcasting this illusion for themselves to live in.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 25, 2024 11:11:52 GMT
Agreed Confidence can take you a long way but once you have been found out a few times you won't be trusted
I know people that exude confidence to everyone they know, apart from those that are really close to them
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Post by MartinT on Mar 25, 2024 12:07:19 GMT
I have one character in my team who's a bit me-me-me and loves to talk about himself incessantly, especially "when I was in my previous job..." tedium. A few of us have learned to show him the hand (international sign of 'stop talking')! He actually takes it well and shuts up for a while.
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Post by Tim on Mar 25, 2024 12:23:43 GMT
Is it like this in the UK . . . . I think it's more generational than cultural, certainly for me and my group of friends, who are mostly now all in their 60's. I've personally never bought into the whole selfie craze, but then I tend not to take any pictures of myself anyway, I don't even do the 'picture of me standing next to something' holiday pictures. I actually try very hard to take landscape and location pictures without any people in. I don't have a Facebook account or Instagram though and deleted Facebook about 6 years ago. I guess if you are on those platforms, it's almost impossible not to get sucked into that whole cycle, which of course it's engineered to do. I often wonder what Friedrich Nietzsche would make of today's social media? I'm pretty sure he would consider it pure evil . . .
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Post by MartinT on Mar 25, 2024 18:47:43 GMT
Me too, Tim. I take photos of places mainly, not of people. I abhor the "this is me in front of the Taj Mahal" mentality.
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Post by Tim on Mar 25, 2024 19:33:33 GMT
I abhor the "this is me in front of the Taj Mahal" mentality. I just don't get that, it's pretty stupid really . . . "I know what you look like thanks, you're standing right in front of me - if you're going to show me a picture of the Taj Mahal, show me a picture of the Taj Mahal you nutjob!"
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