Haha yeah that would actually be really good.

The problem we’ve had over here is the big parties haven’t wanted to relinquish power or don’t seem to recognise how much the political climate has changed.

UKIP got big because people wanted an alternative not really because people wanted to leave the EU. You can tell that because Cameron gave people the EU referendum to try and neuter them. They just reformed into Reform UK and are now polling scary well.

The most sensible thing Labour could do this parliament is introduce proportional representation in some kind. That way at rhe next election they’d likley be the biggest party in a centre left colalition. There’s no signs of them even considering it. They seem to still think that power should be all or nothing.

What we get now, because they’ve hung on so tight to FPTP is a really big chunk of people voting tactically against the party they don’t want.

How would more than two work in your system? In the UK it has led (and looks like it will continue to lead) to some very unrepresentative results. FPTP means that the vote gets split so e.g if there’s 3 left wing parties and they each get 24% of the vote but there’s only 1 right wing party and they get 28% the right wing candidate will win (even though 72% of people voted against them)

Must be Aussies then. Brits it’s ache.

misspelled (misspelt?)

Both are correct

Spelt is more common in UK English, spelled is more common with Americans (I have no idea what other variants use)

Which ones?

Do Americans pronounce age ache then?

The UK has spending limits which mitigates that. https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/party-spending-and-pre-poll-donations-and-loans-uk-parliamentary-general-election/spending-limit

You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

No love for the road?

Weird. When I entered 0.5 as a raw figure it gave me Jan 0, 1900 at 12 pm.

Then go format as date on the cell

Do =1/2 see what it gives

1/2 = 0.5 Excel counts dates 1 from 01/01/1900. Entering 0.5 and formatting as date and time gives: 00/01/1900 12:00:00 because of course it does.

"Yes, but that doesn’t automatically mean it’s wrong or a bad thing.

No, one will be seen as aggressive and or uneducated the other as lazy and or uneducated.

Any reminders set in any reminders/task type apps? My phone sometimes picks up those as alarms.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250628010642/https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll

So you don’t need to sign up to the verge to read

I think the point is to try to get people talking about it in the way people did about the Boaty McBoatface thing.

A warriors drink