Anyone want to start a poll or take the odds on how long it will take Charles to pop his clogs now he’s finally king? I’d say 2 years max and then sausage fingers croaks.

It’s all kicking off on Twitter about the inheritance tax swindle

Homegrove

Homegrove it’s the old Carlin-bit about how stupid the average person is. Then consider that average means that half of the population is even stupider.

technically that’s only true under a very specific set of conditions that you wouldn’t expect to hold in the real world, i.e. a perfectly symmetrical, normally distributed mesokurtic data set.

What he’s really talking about here is the median - but that joke would be lost on the average audience I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️/Hugo]

        Cankles-McJeggings Fuck me is there anything else happening on the planet other than the queen karking it?

        We’ll get through this together, I’m here for you hun xox

          There isn’t a dictactor whose arse Bliar wouldn’t kiss for his own enrichment

          C_J technically that’s only true under a very specific set of conditions that you wouldn’t expect to hold in the real world, i.e. a perfectly symmetrical, normally distributed mesokurtic data set.

          What he’s really talking about here is the median - but that joke would be lost on the average audience I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️/Hugo]

          Lol, yes well for one thing it will depend on how you’re measuring stupidity/intelligence. It also depends on what population you’re considering.

          An obvious example might be a typical IQ test, though the results of those are as you suggest typically normalised to a perfectly symmetrical standard distribution. It’s actually surprisingly difficult to find studies which monitor the IQ of a sizeable population and show how the results are distributed without being normalised.

          However, I did find these two papers which appear to be among the most thorough studies out there and which also appear to come to similar conclusions to each other at least with regards to the averages and skew. They’re also both based on data from the UK.

          TLDR - it appears IQ is pretty close to a standard/symmetrical distribution, but with a slight negative skew. i.e. the tail of “idiots” is slightly longer than that of “geniuses”. So if as per the joke you did pick the median average person on the street (the person at the half-way mark if you lined all the humans in a row) they would actually be a teensy bit more intelligent than the mean average intelligence of all the population.

          So the mean average would still be around 100, but the median average person will be slightly higher at an estimate of maybe 101-102, and the modal average (the most common inidividual result) of maybe 105.

          I’ve added the graph below it from wiki to help you visualise where the drawing of the mean, median and mode lines would fall on such a chart considering my points above and the apparent negative skew of IQ (but the size of the skew in the illustration is a bit larger/less symmetrical than what is probably the case).

          https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.880.6529&rep=rep1&type=pdf
          https://www.abelard.org/burt/burt-ie.asp

          Final point - to reiterate the above are focused on studies of the UK, where the mean average is about 100. Different countries will have a different population average IQ, but the shape of the curve could well be consistent across different populations.

          PS I’m aware this isn’t that funny.

              C_J I don’t give a shit about everything else you wrote - but I just want to 👏 for using the word ‘mesokurtic’

                It was an extremely proud moment celebrating monarchistic history and colonialism seeing the Queen drive past in her German made Mercedes hearse, closely followed by her mourning family in a German owned Rolls Royce. Brought a tear to my eye. All it was missing was a Messerschmitt fly by to give it that truly British send off.

                Sieg heil !

                Things that make me sad -

                1. Scratching one of my rarest records.
                2. Tipping curry down my new white t-shirt.
                3. Seeing a tiny little bird fall out of its nest.😭
                4. Getting my new trabs muddy.
                5. Seeing Ukrainians suffer at the hands of murdering fascists.
                6. Scousers shooting kids.

                Things that don’t make me sad -

                1. The Queen dying at ninety fucking six.

                  It makes me happy but not as happy as seeing the Queen enjoying saying high to her subjects!

                  Hi ! 👋👋

                  Amazing how quickly the news cycle has forgotten the cost of living crisis (which they helped perpetuate with their collective hysteria).

                    I’m looking forward to the day when BBC sports news is just showing sport and not loads of articles on the Queen. I get some of them are genuinely sports related, as she was a big horse racing fan etc, but last few days they seem to be including lots of non sports related news regarding the Queen.

                    They need to have a separate section in the Queen and let the rest of us read actual news on what else is happening around the world

                      alistair
                      Plus no mention of the devastating floods in Pakistan.

                        Millsy
                        I’ve got a relative who works for a media agency. He hasn’t been home since her death on Thursday. He even asked me to drive upto Edinburgh on Saturday night to collect a small box and bring it back to London.

                            Does the media genuinely think that the majority of the country want 24 news on the Queen right now? This is what I don’t get, yes 24 hours of news on it is fine. After that surely most people are not interested in constant news on it. What is there to report now that has been said 100 times already.

                              “The contemporary Royals [serve] entirely to enshrine classism in the British nonconstitution. They live in high luxury and low autonomy, cosplaying as their ancestors, and are the subject of constant psychosocial projection from people mourning the loss of empire.”

                              RichM Yeah, I totally get being respectful and all that but you can’t just keep repeating the same material / lines which is all i’m seeing. I’ve turned everything off now.

                                Dubman He even asked me to drive upto Edinburgh on Saturday night to collect a small box and bring it back to London.

                                The Queen?

                                  I caught about 15 mins of the procession from Balmoral yesterday morning. First there was some bint waffling on outside the gates, droning on and on about absolutely nothing, then when the hearse came out and went on its way there were more commentators just waffling on and on. I actually felt it would be more respectful to just have no words at all.

                                  Surely they can’t keep it up for another week?

                                  • Amps replied to this.

                                    She’s ill, she’s dead, she’s going to be buried on Monday. Thinks that covers everything.

                                    You all missed out on these massive gains. 1300x RIO .. lol