28th September, 2025.
It’s officially: England’s (ladies) rugby team have won the World Cup.
I’m no fan of the game: but it’s nice to see it happen,
I have just one minor question.
Was it Rugby League, or Rugby Union?
Like I say, I’m not a fan … !
~≈🏟️≈~
OK, I’m possibly a lot of things.
Including mildly bored on a Sunday morning.
But … ?
I’m interested enough in current affairs: at least, interested enough to keep an eye on the petition against the Prime Minister’s Digital ID scheme.
When I put my name to it, yesterday?
It was hovering around the 1, 600, 000 mark.
As I write?
It’s at the 2, 100, 000 mark.
Given the House of Commons has to debate these things, if they get 10, 000 signatures?
It’s getting debated.
Whether the proposal goes through, or fails, is a whole other matter.
But at least a debate is guaranteed.
Let’s move on.
Yesterday’s Teaser saw Mum* and Debbi† putting in their answers: with Debbi scoring five out of five, and Mum on four.
The day also saw Olga§ leaving us a message.
Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?
Q1) According to the United Nations, 28th September is the International Day for Access to what: Information, Indecision or Illegibility?Q2) 28th September is also World Rabies Day. Rabies itself, can cause a fear or what: water, peanuts or being stared at by ducks?Q3) Kong Qui was born on 28th September, 551BC. Kong Qui is better known how?Q4) Sir Robert Stout was born on 28th September, 1844. He was the thirteenth prime minister of where: Australia, New Zealand or South Africa?Q5) Finally … ? Lata Mangeshkar was born on 28th September, 1929. She was a singer who performed in which country’s movie industry: the USA’s, India’s or China’s?
Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) The RMS Queen Elizabeth was launched on 27th September. Of which year of the 1930s?A1) 1938.Q2) The ship was built in which Scottish town: Clydebank, Dumbarton or Govan?A2) Clydebank.Q3) The ship was built by John Brown and Company. It was operated by which line: Pacific and Oriental, Cunard or Inman?A3) Cunard.Q4) The ship was named after Queen Elizabeth, the Queen … who?A4) Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. (She married George 6th: and was the grandmother of the current king, Charles 3rd.)Q5) Finally … ? The RMS Queen Elizabeth was an RMS. In other words, it was a Royal what Ship?A5) A Royal mail ship.
Here’s a thought …
“I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy.”Brigitte Bardot, born 28 September 1934.
A song …
And an earworm …
The next ten question sets are tomorrow and Tuesday: they’re TV themed ones about The Prisoner, and Thunderbirds.
Your comments will be published, tomorrow morning.
Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.
Decisions about scores are final.
Thank you for coming: have a good day.
* Hello, Mum!
† You mean Bill Gates, Debbi … ? :D
‡ Those meetings sound seriously useful, Olga, and vaguely remind me of AA meetings: there’s always something to learn from them!
If it’s any help with the Sant3 events? I've usually do the tv and movie reviews over two days, now: but I’d imagine the station’s on a far tighter deadline!
Cheers for at least looking at the petition!
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Thanks, Paul. The news items I work on for the radio are usually articles about events that happen during the week, and we then edit them and include them in Sants al dia, a news programme. What I tend to do is prepare the introduction before the event takes place (sometimes we have a fair amount of information, like in this case, because they had sent a press release, although sometimes I have to get creative, or include information about the organisations involved or the subject in general), and then, depending on what happens and the people I interview, add some information about that. When I go to the radio station, I record the intro and then I have to add cuts of audio from the interviews or whatever I have recorded. On Saturday, as there was a political act where different people talked, I recorded the whole event, but I also interviewed somebody from the organisation celebrating the anniversary, some of the cooperatives that had stalls in the fair, and a politician who came by. Of course, the whole item has to be around 10 or 12 minutes (it depends a bit on how many other news are programmed for the day, but I don’t know until I talk to Pau, the editor. And, sometimes news items get moved around if something more urgent comes by, so… He can, of course, cut things if he want to, afterwards).
The issue is that we also produce a written version (you’ve seen the pictures and the articles in el3.cat), and apart from the introduction and what I’ve written, we add bits from the interviews or the recording. Pau also looks at the articles and tends to cut them down quite a bit, because I like to include more of what the people said, but the articles shouldn’t be too long, because people don’t read them otherwise.
It is a bit of a process, but if he item is going to be broadcast on the same afternoon I go to do the editing (the programme is at 7 pm and they open at 4 pm, so that’s the time I have) it can be a bit of a push. Some of the items are very simple, because I only talk to one or two people, but sometimes, things like fairs or events where a lot of people participate, you don’t want to leave anybody out, but there’s only so much time.... Well, you know what I mean.
I’ve signed many petitions from Change and similar places, related to other countries, without any problem, but in this case I guess it is because it is addressed to Parliament and official. Of course, nothing is to stop people from starting up another one in one of those other channels to gather wider support, although I am not sure how much good it would do.
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Ah! Blame it all on Bill Gates! :)
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is thank God for Bill Gates. Someone's got to compete with Baldy. :)
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Will steel myself and flex my fingers for the 10-question set on The Prisoner!
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