Bully Wee Villa Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 I'm not sure you get many snowflakes in 40 degree heat. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Boo Khaki said: "We" ?? Scotsman patented the telephone in the USA. f**k all to do with "we". Twat. Aye, this "we" thing needs knocked on the head. The people talking about what "we" have done have invariably done nothing, and are talking about individuals or groups who are long dead, and just happened to reside in a particular geographic area. Often they had to actively struggle against their surroundings and authority in order to see their ideas come to fruition, and it's surprising how many of them turn out to have stolen other people's ideas and patented them, fucking over the actual inventor. Inventors deserve credit for what their work, but don't trust the motives of people who want to pretend they were uniquely talented, or it was their place of birth that made them special. For perspective, in a hundred years Elon Musk will be remembered as one of the great inventors of the age, and there'll likely be chancers who'll use his name as evidence of South African ingenuity. The fact that he was born into wealth and used it to pass off other people's work as his own will be neither here nor there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duries Air Freshener Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 43 minutes ago, BFTD said: Aye, this "we" thing needs knocked on the head. The people talking about what "we" have done have invariably done nothing, and are talking about individuals or groups who are long dead, and just happened to reside in a particular geographic area. Often they had to actively struggle against their surroundings and authority in order to see their ideas come to fruition, and it's surprising how many of them turn out to have stolen other people's ideas and patented them, fucking over the actual inventor. Inventors deserve credit for what their work, but don't trust the motives of people who want to pretend they were uniquely talented, or it was their place of birth that made them special. For perspective, in a hundred years Elon Musk will be remembered as one of the great inventors of the age, and there'll likely be chancers who'll use his name as evidence of South African ingenuity. The fact that he was born into wealth and used it to pass off other people's work as his own will be neither here nor there. Think you’re reading too much into it buddy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 4 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: Far right snowflakes are now getting upset about international dialling codes. Wait til they hear Canada gets to share +1 with America. ‘Special relationship’ my arse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 10 hours ago, Clown Job said: The c**t is sitting in his house in Spain Sacking someone for asking to work from home definitely isn't massive 'snowflake' behaviour. These c***s are always projecting. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duries Air Freshener Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 37 minutes ago, Snafu said: the right wing side of the Lib Dems 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 I see the grifters are trying to cash in on this heatwave 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duries Air Freshener Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, Snafu said: Adding ex Conservatives who don't give up their Conservative ways to in this case the Lib Dems would on the whole move the Lib Dems further to the right on the political spectrum, same as Labour picking up Conservative policies, they shuffle to the right. A bit like the average intelligence of the average person in the UK has dropped in the last 10 years if it could be measured. You can't really argue that the bigger mainstream parties haven't all moved to the right. Mainly serving business interests rather than the people who voted for them. I agree that the mainstream parties mainly serve business interests. This applies to the Tories, Labour, SNP and Lib Dems. I don’t agree that all the parties have swung to the right though. In a general, high-level sense, the right have lost so much ground in my lifetime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 9 hours ago, Snafu said: Virtue signalling, the right does it as well, .........that is the right wing side of the Lib Dems as he is now. The first sentence on his wiki page is quite telling - Sidney Charles Mullins OBE (born 28 October 1952) is a British businessman and well renowned cockwomble. He is the founder of Pimlico Plumbers, London's largest independent plumbing company, which he sold in 2021. I didn't know who that was but that's a pretty notorious company name. They employed people but didn't enter into employment contracts and treated them as self empmoyed to avoid giving them sick pay, holidays, expenses etc. A tribunal found against them. Sounds like the sort of person who should be dispensing advice on employee's rights right enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 23 minutes ago, Duries Air Freshener said: I agree that the mainstream parties mainly serve business interests. This applies to the Tories, Labour, SNP and Lib Dems. I don’t agree that all the parties have swung to the right though. In a general, high-level sense, the right have lost so much ground in my lifetime. If you're talking cultural left/ right, you're probably correct. If you're talking economic left/right, there's barely any "left" still standing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 The Labour Party is utterly broke, especially their Scottish branch office. They were having to beg for donations just to be able to field candidates in the 2021 SGE. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Snafu said: That is quite a large list of unions who have nothing to do with the Labour Party, who funds the Labour Party now? Still mostly the Unions by the looks of it. Search - The Electoral Commission I wonder who Dusty TLP Ltd are. Given £400k split between Scottish Labour and the LibDems in Scotland. Edited July 19, 2022 by Suspect Device 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEd Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 43 minutes ago, Snafu said: That is quite a large list of unions who have nothing to do with the Labour Party, who funds the Labour Party now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)_affiliated_trade_union You do realise that most of those former affiliates don't exist any more? A good few merged to form larger unions, such as Unison and Unite. Others either dissolved or were subsumed by other unions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 42 minutes ago, Suspect Device said: Still mostly the Unions by the looks of it. Search - The Electoral Commission I wonder who Dusty TLP Ltd are. Given £400k split between Scottish Labour and the LibDems in Scotland. Owned by Robert and Jane MacGeachy, who appear to be also involved with this lot https://www.camphillscotland.org.uk/author/robert-mcgeachy/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 It says a lot on what people tolerate now if greedy scum like that can go onto social media and can crow about how badly they treat their employees believing they are above employment laws and simply having any morals at all.Hasn't he sold up and now lives the life of Riley abroad hence why he can now openly "boast" about how he circumvented workers rights and generally shafted his employees to build his own foreign mansion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 4 hours ago, Clown Job said: I see the grifters are trying to cash in on this heatwave That’s the MET now woke for telling us the dangers of extreme heat 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 That’s the MET now woke for telling us the dangers of extreme heat There's plenty willing to agree over on the "getting hot in here" thread despite this heat now officially being unprecedented in the UK 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTG_03 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 4 hours ago, Boo Khaki said: The Labour Party is utterly broke, especially their Scottish branch office. They were having to beg for donations just to be able to field candidates in the 2021 SGE. Good. I would like to one day vote for labour as I feel that is where my vote lies naturally but I can't do so in their current form. Hopefully I'll get to vote for them in an independent Scotland but it's probably long odds for that to happen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Park Boy Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 44 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: 1 hour ago, Clown Job said: That’s the MET now woke for telling us the dangers of extreme heat There's plenty willing to agree over on the "getting hot in here" thread despite this heat now officially being unprecedented in the UK It’s just that, in this day and age of 24 hour news, social media, etc., they just go completely over the top. It was the same with Covid where I’m sure once all the post pandemic reports come out, we’ll find out that all the lockdowns, mask enforcement, etc., were a complete waste of time. It’s pretty well borne out with the very high non-Covid excess deaths which are currently being reported. We just need a sense of proportion. Interestingly, more people die of extreme cold than they do of extreme heat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 2 hours ago, Clown Job said: That’s the MET now woke for telling us the dangers of extreme heat A Met Office spokesperson said "It will be quite nice in Paisley today and St Mirren are shite and going down" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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