But NFL has 32 teams drawn from a population of >340million, so is the equivalent of top 6 in England - I don't think you'd say any of the managers of top 6 in England were "bad"?
"Bad" management in football don't get rewarded/flattered by favourable draft.
And just how much influence anyway?
I thought that was warning us to expect fog, & drizzle falling on the banks of the Nene...? 😂
Budding cell is the traditional pictogram for yeast (see eg @yeastgenome.bsky.soc... avatar), to satisfy pedants like me you could flip the two circles at the bottom and fuse them into a budding cell?
What no yeast budding somewhere?
Define "better" - awards, box office, personal prejudice?
Jennifer Aniston
Drew Barrymore
Miley Cyrus
Whitney Houston
Lenny Kravitz
Ben Stiller
Charlie Sheen [certainly more notorious and more watched than dad]
Lot of debatable ones :
Jane Fonda
Angelina Jolie
Norah Jones
Liza Minelli
Winter of Discontent is fundamentally different to Westminster village story like expenses- blackouts, bins etc touch daily lives, even young kids will be impacted & remember them.
School-aged had no reason to be aware of expenses.
Would "averagely-engaged" student have known Thorpe/Stonehouse?
Could happen if you've still got some smells knocked out - I've still got significant loss 6 years on (not ideal), but it's like colour blindness, affects some smells but not others.
For instance I can't bear dark chocolate now, as I just taste it as burnt/bitter, I've lost the chocolate flavours.
....but that's its meaning! We can't use that word in other way!
Beer/ale is a good example of why it doesn't work to get purist about original meanings of words - qv terrific/terrible both originally meant "inspiring terror", or awful/awesome (ditto "awe"), physicists with impulse, momentum etc
Also probably tied up with Japanese being more likely to be supertasters of bitterness thanks to higher frequency of 'bitter' versions of TAS2R gene family.
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Cambridge claims 33,000 visitors in 2024 and 35k in 2025, but per capita consumption rather less :
www.cambridgebeerfestival.com/2024/10/19/o...
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/35-000-...
as being a cider festival.
Wine/gin etc - within reason. Include if <10%? 20%?
It's one of those, you know a beer festival when you see it, and when it's trying to be something else.
I think the UK idea of a "beer festival" is so closely linked to the CAMRA format that anything along those lines gets counted.
So include all real cider in the volume, if there's more real cider than cask beer it is a cider festival which is counted as part of the family for list purposes but *'d
It's primarily about the beer, so I'd suggest the priority is something like :
Volume sold
Visitors
Number of beers
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[big gap]
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Floorspace
Capacity
Trouble down there is - who do you sell it to? Pre-pandemic I was told there were more breweries in Cornwall than free houses.
And if you want to sell elsewhere, it's nearly 2 hours to Exeter, 3 hours to Bristol.
Starmer was at the opening ceremony and congratulated them on social media, athletes usually go to No10 in a few weeks time
Nandy as Culture/ Sport secretary seems to have spent quite some time there.
But maybe less public interest than football and summer games,so fewer random bandwagon jumpers?
That's one way to say you saw a cracking pair of tits without the missus twigging....
....because at least it's not Swindon?
Of course that's the weakness of the same person being head of government and the embodiment of a country as head of state, half the country are bound to hate them. Small-r republicans have same problem in a monarchy of course, German system of separate president as elected 'monarch' is least bad?
Harvey's did a nice little video on the 60th anniversary of their yeast coming from Tadcaster - they even know what train it came on :
www.harveys.org.uk/news/60th-an...
Thing is - ultimately all that stuff is irrelevant. It just came down to TSG's 18%pa guaranteed, and Covid.
Equity is there to absorb risks and if sale/IPO had gone ahead in 2020/21 they would have done nicely out of it - but Covid smashed that plan.
[non-shareholder, rarely drink BD]
But first they have to make a show of examining alternatives - and maybe selling off some noncore bits like the US hotel - so that they can tell the small shareholders that they've tried but sadly they have no option but to wipe them out. Maybe give them some beer vouchers for new company, nowt more
the end game is the current owners (100% TSG) take it private in a way that wipes out all other shareholders, then they give a small piece of new company to Watt and a payoff to Dickie ?and Keith Greggor? to thank them for their cooperation with their votes.
Doughnut chart of Brewdog shareholders
Nah, it's not a fire sale. TSG effectively own the company - they get the first >£800m of any sale, when it's probably worth ??£400m. But they only have 23% of votes so can't force a sale directly, they need Watt/Dickie's votes. Company is EBITDA positive, just has too much debt from TSG. So ...
Rag & bone man with pony and cart near St James' Hospital, Leeds in 1986
I saw a rag-and-bone man with a cart in Yorkshire after Eurostar opened, so I guess that counts as coexisting with high-speed trains?
And with, umm - Doom?
Not quite that late, but this has a photo in Leeds in 1986 :
www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/retro/photos...
Or perhaps they meant green teas?
Now that would be weird with port.
Bottle of Dow's 1985 vintage port
Four pack of tonic water from Green Cola
six pack of soda water from Green Cola
Dow I get. Green TS I'm not so sure on - Tonic-Soda from Green Cola in Greece perhaps?
It feels more like a way to pretend they're doing due diligence for the small shareholders, but unless they get some truly daft offers for the individual bits, the most likely plan is TSG taking it private while throwing a bone to Watt for not blocking it.
I'd guess that people who participate in a forum are rather more aware of what's going on than the average shareholder....
The original TSG deal was a plausible punt on growth (or more particularly the notional shareprice qv Tesla) exceeding 18% until an IPO (in 2020/1?). Covid screwed them.
