His name escapes me for the moment. A bit po-faced, working on blight resistance in spuds. I'll try and find out.
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His name escapes me for the moment. A bit po-faced, working on blight resistance in spuds. I'll try and find out.
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There's a very good portrait of Sir Paul nurse in the NPG, and he's an old boy of my school. There - knowledge sharing again. 
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Jonathan Jones I'd guess; he's a clever bloke IMHO.
Jonathan Jones. Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.
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I recorded the Horizon programme and am looking forward to watching it.
I have worked with people who were 100% sure in particular situations that they were right when I knew with 100% certainty that they were wrong! It is really annoying when the evidence is there in front of them but they won't listen.
On one occasion, a manager swore blind that there was no need to check a circuit design again because it had already been checked 3 or 4 times. Actually, each time it had only been checked after an earlier version was found to be defective. Each time, some mistakes had been missed, and a couple of times new ones were introduced by the 'improvements'. Every iteration caused several days delay to an important project and cost several thousand pounds. But no, it was now perfect so we could go ahead and order the circuit boards without further checking. A colleague ignored the manager, checked the new drawings anyway and found over 10 mistakes in the latest design in less than a minute!
This makes me really angry...
I have worked with people who were 100% sure in particular situations that they were right when I knew with 100% certainty that they were wrong! It is really annoying when the evidence is there in front of them but they won't listen.
On one occasion, a manager swore blind that there was no need to check a circuit design again because it had already been checked 3 or 4 times. Actually, each time it had only been checked after an earlier version was found to be defective. Each time, some mistakes had been missed, and a couple of times new ones were introduced by the 'improvements'. Every iteration caused several days delay to an important project and cost several thousand pounds. But no, it was now perfect so we could go ahead and order the circuit boards without further checking. A colleague ignored the manager, checked the new drawings anyway and found over 10 mistakes in the latest design in less than a minute!
This makes me really angry...
How do they know what is going on in my head?Idiot said:
I've read his (Delingpole's) 'not enough bullets' bit, and here's the funny thing. I know more than he does. Despite not knowing very much at all and having no real appetite to know any more than I do, I know that 2010 was one of the warmest years on record and that extremes of temperature and rainfall may be a feature of global warming (which is a slightly different thing from a bit of weather).
How can somebody that truly ignorant get a job on a newspaper? And get paid for it?
I'm puzzled by the 'intellectually raped' thing, though. Is there one amongst us skilled at unscrambling that kind of gobbledegook?
How can somebody that truly ignorant get a job on a newspaper? And get paid for it?
I'm puzzled by the 'intellectually raped' thing, though. Is there one amongst us skilled at unscrambling that kind of gobbledegook?
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Nowt to unravel, he was made to look like the knob he is and didn't like it, though I'm sure he'll claim his finest moments ended up on the cutting room floor.
XmisterIS
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I drive a Range Rover Sport, so I must own the road. I read the Daily Mail, so every thought I have must be true. I get a taxi to the local pub and drink ten pints while watching sky sports, and if you're different to me then everything you believe must be wrong. I hate gays, blacks, hippies, intellectuals, cyclists or anyone who doesn't live exactly as I do. I must be right because my view of the world is the only reasonable one.
The universal answer to the question posed in this thread title could be "More than James Delingpole, obviously..." He now claims not to have made the "intellectually raped" complaint. Perhaps someone pointed out that it sounded ridiculous. Even more ridiculous if you saw the programme. Nurse didn't so much rape Delingpole as present him rather quietly with an analogy (a pretty duff one, actually, but never mind). I got the impression Nurse was surprised at how easy it was.
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I'm loathe to make a categorical statement around this as I'm aware of the power of editing. But I got the impression from Nurse that he seemed surprised, and a little bemused, by the lack of debate proffered by the 'antis'.
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Wow! That was a rare stuffing of an unappetizing turkey. 
Like Morecambe and Wise, we have all the right answers but not necessarily in the right order.
Many have the right answers, to the wrong questions
Spot the person who's procrastinating at work, but you simply must have a look at the "About" page on Delingpole's website!
