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Pain
It’s Neither All White...
nor a bit of a yolk to go round splatting raw eggs on your kids’ heads... no matter how much they deserve it... apparently!
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cracking an egg on a young child's head, has been criticised by medical experts over the potential damage it could do.’
Absolutely! They could be left shell-shocked....
https://news.sky.com/story/parents-w...trend-12945794
Can anyone eggsplain why 670 million folks would want to watch this addlepated behaviour? They must all be cracked (the viewers, that is, but not necessarily the eggs).
Sounds like a daft and pointless thing to do.
What next, a TikTok-fuelled revival of 'happy slapping'? Or TWOCing and joyriding of vehicles that are still among the easiest to break into and steal? Or even a revival of nicking VW logo badges, etc, etc?
It seems that TikTok has now become what YouTube was in its early years where basically anything goes, while within the past decade or so YouTube has seemingly taken a firmer stance against really 'dodgy'/potentially harmful material, and rightly so IMO, including videos of the aforementioned 'happy slapping' thing.
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Pain
Breaking News!...
The concrete (and the clay, according to the song) begin to crumble, but schools will never die... they’ll simply be shored up with scholarly debate about cementing a new relationship between one broken bit and t’other.
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More than 100 schools have been told to shut areas affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) without safety measures in place.’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-66681702
Talk about schools breaking up for the holidays! When I were a lad, this stuff
never happened (and I’m quite peeved about it!). I mean, schools shutting their doors to pupils at the drop of a reinforced concrete beam and them being allowed to stay away, probably for months on end (yet again). I remember the ’63 winter.... Pipes froze, milk froze in bottles, the coke lorry couldn’t get down the roads so the boiler couldn’t be fired-up... and
still the school stayed open and expected pupils to be there in their duffle coats, balaclavas, wellies and woolly gloves; or face a visit from the schoolboard man! Must have been a different sort of snowflakes in those dim and distant days.
Anyway, in the spirit of ’63, here’s the cheap quick fix.... Issue the kids with ex-military steel helmets, which must be worn at all times when inside school buildings, and tell them to be as quiet as mice. (I should get a knighthood for this suggestion.... after all, Gavin Williamson as education secretary got one for.... something, but no one knows what.)
Stop Press: Apparently, this reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete is set to become an even greater problem, not just in schools. So if you have enlarged pupils, you might not get them treated at your nearest hospital....
'“Heavy patients must be treated on the ground floor because the combined weight with equipment is too heavy to be safe.”''
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...3.html?src=rss
Funnily enough somebody said on another forum the other day that they can't understand why the authorities didn't attempt to carry out the essential remedial works on such defective school buildings 2-3 years ago while they were mostly closed due to Covid restrictions.
Surely such issues had already been known about for some time but the powers that be (previously) were obviously caught napping and brushed them under the carpet, as per usual.
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Pain
How Miserable Can You Get?...
It’s official: We don’t need rose-tinted retrospection* to measure just how much our lives have become so overburdened with the extraneous tat of nowadays, and how we’re now so much more the miserable for it!
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Modern life is more depressing than at any point in past 100 years, world expert says’...
https://inews.co.uk/news/health/mode...expert-2590199
Depressing, isn’t it?
*High-tech, subscription-only, designer-frame, rose-tinted glasses will undoubtedly be available before you can say ‘Do you remember?...’. These will, of course, incorporate a significant AI component, which will warn you that, despite how seemingly so simple everything was in the past, our future ruled by digital technology will be oh so much better!
But wait! Could baring our soles be the answer? This barefoot-in-the-park bloke seems to think giving footwear the boot could be a big step in the right direction.
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For most people, putting their shoes on comes naturally when leaving their home, but not for one man from Lewisham.’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-eng...ondon-66681388
Trouble is, quite a few of us are very good at harping on about how dire the present is and pining for the past, but not very good at trying to find solutions whenever we get the opportunity, including not being interested in voting for alternatives in elections, or even bothering to turn out to the polling stations at all on election days.
'They're all as bad as each other', 'Starmer's too gutless and got no charisma', 'I'm booking to go away on holiday to Spain that week', 'I've got far more important things to think about right now', blah blah blah!
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Pain
Let Us Give Thanks...
to all the f****** folks who’ve done such a good job of sitting on their a***s – past and present – who deserve it. These folks know who they are, but we know them only collectively – one and all – as Members of Parliament....
... ‘
in an extraordinary outburst which left No 10 reeling, the education secretary Gillian Keegan said others had “sat on their a***” over the crisis and she had done a “f****** good job”.’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2404682.html
They’re not known as sitting members for nothing, y’know!
What a plonker!
I might just as well tell all the staff members at my day centre to 'f**k off' if politicians can now swear with impunity. Double standards galore!
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Lencoboy
What a plonker!
I might just as well tell all the staff members at my day centre to 'f**k off' if politicians can now swear with impunity. Double standards galore!
BTW, I only said this in jest first thing this morning and didn't actually get lippy with any staff members at my day centre today. In fact there's not really any mega power-mad staff members currently working there that might probably warrant it, plus they don't really seem to do 'zero tolerance' anymore (at least not over seemingly petty/trivial incidents), unlike my previous day centre (run by the local County Council) where it seemed to be de rigueur no matter what.
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Pain
The Trouble With General Elections Is....
No matter who you vote for, you just know without a shadow of a doubt that whoever wins will be a politician... even if they weren’t before they were elected. And we’ve all seen enough of politicians of every political persuasion to know that the only thing they put any real effort into running are their campaigns when they’re running for office.
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The [Electoral]
commission’s survey finds that a rising number think it’s not worth registering to vote.’
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ions-of-voters
Anyone actually wanting to be a politician should be sufficient reason to have that person barred for life from entering politics.
So many people would rather just simply put up with the current lot in power but still moan and tut about them?
I knew it all along.
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Pain
Junk Food Ban Imminent!…
People now aged 14 or under will be treated as children for the rest of their lives and never legally be allowed to buy beefburgers, chips, deep-fried Mars Bars, pizzas, kebabs, scotch pies, hotdogs, sausage rolls etcetera etcetera…. However, the same type of ban which would have applied to cigarettes will now be reviewed, following the suggestion that obesity leads to far more deaths than smoking related illnesses.
‘“It seems odd to choose to go after smoking when it is already far less of a health problem than poor diet …”’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2424612.html
Food for thought, eh?
I thought the govt said last week during the Tory Party Conference that they were contemplating raising the legal age of purchasing tobacco products even higher partly in response to the current teen vaping 'epidemic'.
Mind you, nothing the current lot in power say really makes a lick of sense anymore.
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Pain
Sounds like yet another typical 'acceptable under the Tories but not acceptable under Labour' kind of thing.
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Pain
Telling It How It Is...
won’t win an election... and that’s the awful truth of the matter!
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Tory MPs have accused Rishi Sunak of “offering the electorate dystopia” after an appearance with Elon Musk in which the billionaire warned that artificial intelligence could take everyone’s jobs and leave them searching for meaning in their lives.’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/04/tory-mps-blast-out-of-touch-sunak-as-he-woos-homeowners-in-kings-speech
It seems, then, that for any political party aiming to be the next elected government, honesty is certainly not going to be their best policy. So what all the parties need at this stage are leaders who can lie over and over again, convincingly without conscience.... There must be many suitable candidates amongst all those politicians.... However, the Conservatives could have a real advantage, as they already know of a bloke with a winning track record who fits the bill....
That wouldn't be Boris Johnson by any chance, would it?