Steve Gaastra

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

@SFB20142016 In Tobermory in June on family holiday. Clubs will be packed. Fun course, photo from visit in 2022 (that’s not me, notice the classic golf attire, a good reason to love Scottish 9 holers)

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

@michael_howlett @SFB20142016 Play Gairloch. Par 5 eighth would be a great hole on any course

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

@MerrynSW Raymond Chandler

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

@prnstnr @jamierkennedy Super fun holiday course, played it many times

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

@prnstnr @jamierkennedy Gairloch

[Professor John Hearn @jbhearn]

Brief descriptions of the four main fallacies that have caused the macroeconomic management of the economy to fail.

https://t.co/b7DxhUI5py

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Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science...

The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert.

However, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.

A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years.

It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.

This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass.

When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

@ciw62 @ChipJohnson01

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

@MerrynSW Why don’t more students save money and go to their local uni. I expect a large proportion live close to unis that offer full range of courses..They could offer preferential admission to local students. (Would of course stuff the student accom providers!)

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

@GiveBloodNHS I donated yesterday. The box on the form for recording foreign travel is far too small. The nurse had to cram in info and it wasn’t easy. She had to refer to other documents. Surely this would be much more efficient using an AI solution?

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

@DavidBCollum This is only possible if the company can borrow. Who lends it money that will put it in a precarious financial situation? Never understood.

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

A truly heroic story

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

Remembering Calvin Peete, who overcame an allergy attack to win the 1985 @WMPhoenixOpen before winning @THEPLAYERS later that spring ⬇️

Peete, who never played organized sports as a kid, dropped out of school in the eighth grade to work with his dad in the Florida corn fields, supporting a family that included 18 siblings. He first picked up a golf club at age 23 while selling jewelry and clothes from his '56 Plymouth station wagon in western New York. Peete was tricked into playing golf at first – his friends said they were going to a clambake – but he developed a quick knack for the game, breaking 80 within six months and breaking par within a year.

Peete was never able to fully straighten his left arm after falling out of a tree and breaking it in three places when he was 12 years old. But the self-taught Peete adapted his golf swing accordingly with the help of Ben Hogan's instruction book, "Five Lessons," and he took three stabs at Q-School before earning his TOUR card in 1975 at age 31.

Peete’s strength was in finding the fairway – he led the TOUR in driving accuracy for 10 years. Many people felt his childhood accident restricted his swing, kept it on target and took the big miss out of Peete's game. He took what made him different and made it his superpower.

In over 1,200 rounds, Peete only hit one ball OB.

"Some of the players still drive farther than I do," Peete told The New York Times in a 1983 profile. "But I'm always in the fairway, and they're sometimes in the trees."

Peete became the fourth Black player to win on the PGA TOUR, joining pioneers like Pete Brown, Charlie Sifford and Lee Elder. Among his 12 TOUR wins: the 1985 WM Phoenix Open, where he relied on longtime caddie Adolphus 'Golf Ball' Hull to read putts and pick clubs in a third round where the allergies caused trouble with his eyesight. Peete grinded out a 72 that day, then sealed the deal with a final-round 68 in a week that marked the WM Phoenix Open's 50th anniversary.

"Really, I felt that I was not going to be able to play today," Peete said after the victory. "The irritation that I was suffering from yesterday was very painful all day long ... it eased up, but it was a very slow process."

As he always did, Peete fought through.

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

@jamierkennedy Look out for the dolphins at Chanonry Point

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

@MerrynSW Who funds the continuation funds? What are they told in the fund prospectus?

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

Last week's rate cut by the Bank of England is unlikely to boost growth and could do serious damage.

"Why I'm not cheering this pre-Christmas rate cut"

My latest "Economic Agenda" column for @Telegraph

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https://t.co/jh5kNTJd2I

[Latimer Alder @latimeralder]

Here's an absolute classic of false information from somebody who should know better

It is NOT 40% of our ENERGY,

It may be 40% of our ELECTRICITY.

But electricity is only about 20% of our total ENERGY

So renewables are just 20% of 40% = 8% of our ENERGY

She's lying to us

Don't be fooled

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Alternative reading. We had a plan, worked out in cooler-headed times, which was junked following a hysterical media campaign led by Piers Morgan. Sweden, which stuck to Britain's original plan, emerged with a lower excess death rate - to say nothing of a healthy economy.

[Steve Gaastra @sgaastra]

@John_Stepek Don’t agree with that, that amounts to a voluntary tax, the principle of which solves nothing. How about everyone has to pay and you then apply for free prescription if you can’t afford. Might be open to some abuse but I doubt a lot in £ terms