I wonder if Gove wishes he'd never described Mrs Thatcher's "new empire" as a place where "the happy South stamps over the cruel, dirty, toothless face of the Northerner". It doesn't really sit happily with the concept of Levelling Up... and yes, I agree with you @philippasmith2 - that phrase is a terrible misuse of English.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
But this curmudge is OK here. I've just finished a bottle of liquid sugar soap, for cleaning rather sooty walls before painting. The instructions say "Wash from the bottom of the wall upwards, to prevent runs". The new sugar soap (powder, incidentally, to be mixed with water - but not relevant to this comment) says "Wash the wall from the top downwards, to prevent runs".
I'll continue washing from the bottom up, like my mum always did... dirty water runs down onto damp emulsion & washes off more easily that way
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Can't find the Covid thread so I'll ask my question here. Travelled on public transport to get a haircut. I don't need to say more. My question is, when should I take a LFT to see if I got away with it?
My answer would be only if you start to feel ill. I suspect if the entire population took LFT the country would grind to a halt because so many would test positive. Definitely a case for ignorance being bliss in a vaccinated society. Where my wife works, an entire department got 'pinged' as close contacts after one person tested positive. All others tested negative but there were a lot of anxious people for a while.
Why not just say "raising" then ? Levelling is just that - making everyone/everywhere equal. If that is the intention, why not just say that ? I have yet to see at what level the Govt think we should be at and what is classed as the current median - info on that seems to be in short supply. Levelling could be seen as every region having the same infrastructure, job opportunities, housing - not very likely really. I think it is simply the phrase which gets my goat - bit like the We got Brexit done - they didn't, still arguing
Because if I have a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being low and 10 high, I could level at any point from 1 to 10 couldn't I? If I have a mix of situations where all the levels are used to some degree (ie a spread across all the numbers from 1 to 10 - 1,3,1,7,6,8,3,5,8,8,9,2,....etc), I could level at 3, but that would drag down those above 3 to that level. In the number list above if I level up, everyone becomes a 9 (or at least that is my understanding of what the gov are saying).
If I just say 'raise' - raise to what? Raise the 1s to 2s, the 4s to 5s? Raise by 1 across the board? Raise everything below 5 to 6?
Sorry @steveTu - agree to disagree ? As I said, it is the phraseology that T's me off rather than the sentiment. As @B3 says, no doubt there will be another equally crappy slogan raising it's head before too long. Get Boris Done could be on the cards
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My when is it most likely to be positive answer, would be 72 hours.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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I'll continue washing from the bottom up, like my mum always did... dirty water runs down onto damp emulsion & washes off more easily that way
My answer would be only if you start to feel ill. I suspect if the entire population took LFT the country would grind to a halt because so many would test positive. Definitely a case for ignorance being bliss in a vaccinated society. Where my wife works, an entire department got 'pinged' as close contacts after one person tested positive. All others tested negative but there were a lot of anxious people for a while.
As @B3 says, no doubt there will be another equally crappy slogan raising it's head before too long. Get Boris Done could be on the cards