Interesting Links for 03-11-2020

[andrewducker]

Want to buy books online while supporting indie booksellers? Now you can!

(tags:books internet )

Your Scottish Covid questions answered

(tags:Scotland pandemic questions )

Baby Shark becomes YouTube's most-watched video of all time

(tags:baby sharks videos children YouTube )

Coronavirus: Scottish Police break up over 300 house parties over Halloween

(tags:Halloween pandemic OhForFucksSake )

Less than a quarter of UK voters would vote for Trump

(tags:UK USA polls politics )

Thor: Ragnarok - alternate scene introducing Hela. (I hadn't seen this before, not sure if I prefer it)

(tags:Thor marvel movies video )

Liverpool to be offered new 'rapid result' coronavirus tests in city-wide pilot

(tags:UK pandemic testing )

Did you know about the first illegal prime number?

(tags:PrimeNumbers law USA copyright )

"How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories"

(tags:conspiracy UK psychology debate conversation communication )

Why Tunnels in The US Cost Much More Than Anywhere Else in The World

(tags:tunnels cost economics USA newyork )

The Hyper-Regional Chippy Traditions of Britain and Ireland

(tags:UK Ireland fish food )

The TRUTH about Article 61 of Magna Carta

(tags:law UK history )

Comments

[cmcmck]

I find it terrifying that 25% WOULD vote for him!

[calimac]

Bookshop.org? Why didn't I hear about this before. Turns out I don't need it myself; it includes the local chain from which I've been purchasing most of my new books. But what a great service for those who need it. I hope it has Amazon's depth of recommendations and forwards.

"Less than a quarter of UK voters would vote for Trump" - can you imagine asking US voters if they'd vote for Boris? Probably over 95% would say, "Who's that other guy again? Keir something? Who's that? How do you spell it?" I suspect you'd have to go back to Tony Blair to find a Labour leader most of them had heard of.

[andrewducker]

Sadly your politics impacts on us an awful lot, so we have to keep on top of what you're up to!

(I don't know if you saw that a lot of people think Johnson is holding off to see who wins the election before deciding whether to go for No Deal)

[calimac]

Of course it does. It's just that the lack of reciprocity amuses me. You do know, for instance, that Neil Kinnock is known almost exclusively in the US as "the guy whose life story Joe Biden plagiarized"?

[andrewducker]

I... had not heard that!

[calimac]

Do you mean you don't know about the plagiarism? Kinnock gave this speech in the '87 GE saying (quasi-quote), "Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand years to go to university? Were my ancestors all a bit thick?" (Answer: no.)

Anyway, Biden liked the speech and started quoting it, with credit, in his 1988 presidential campaign. Then he started quoting it as if it were he who was having these thoughts and he of whom the facts were true (which they weren't). Nobody has ever explained why Biden did this. Anyway, when the lie was exposed he dropped out of the race.

Later on the event came to be brushed aside as some sort of weird past anomaly in his career, like Chappaquiddick.

[andrewducker]

Thank you - hadn't heard of that!

[bugshaw]

Instead of browsing your local bookshop then buying from Amazon, you could browse on Amazon and buy from bookshop.org or hive.co.uk :-)

chippies

[channelpenguin]

In Hamburg, I was stunned to find they ALSO serve Edinburgh-style "sauce" (the thin watery vinegary brown sauce) with chips. (as well as the more German curry ketchup option).

They also do recognisable English-style fried breakfasts in Hamburg. Sailors. I blame sailors.

Re: chippies

[andrewducker]

That would make sense!

[mountainkiss]

My friend Inga on the bookshop sites here: seems sensible I think?

[andrewducker]

Yup! If you have a favourite local shop then checking with them seems like an excellent idea.