Jacksgranda Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 8 hours ago, pandarilla said: Is flour still not available? I'd have thought it would be sorted out by now, much like the toilet rolls. Maybe people have been using flour as an alternative to toilet roll, hence the shortage? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post vikingTON Posted April 28, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 28, 2020 I presume today's risible, government-proposed minute's silence for all the health care workers it failed to properly protect comes with its own poppy as well? The UK truly is the Liverpool of the international community in terms of mawkish grief mongering. 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 4 hours ago, Dee Man said: @Alert Mongoose I’ve had my tuppence worth. After accidentally seeing the MIL naked (top half) when she just strolled out the bathroom as I was coming up the stairs, I would be happy to live in a den in the woods instead. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 (edited) Really, really pissed off at the PR spin being put on this year's Workers Memorial Day. The manipulation of public opinion over the NHS has been monstrously cynical throughout*, but today is a day for us to remember ALL workers, in ALL industries, in ALL countries, who are injured or killed at work - often at least partly because of employers' actions or inaction. For the Tory spin mahine to hijack this event is beyond obscene. So what should today be about? Helen O'Connor (GMB) puts it pretty well - "On Workers’ Memorial Day let’s honour the dead and wholeheartedly commit ourselves to fight like hell for the living." * Especially as there are many, many other workers without whom society would have collapsed within days who have been partially or wholly ignored throughout. ETA: Yes, it's already a day to remember those who have gone to work and not come home. It's been appropriated by these cúnts, not introduced by them. Edited April 28, 2020 by WhiteRoseKillie 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 5 minutes ago, virginton said: I presume today's risible, government-proposed minute's silence for all the health care workers it failed to properly protect comes with its own poppy as well? The UK truly is the Liverpool of the international community in terms of mawkish grief mongering. The NHS is the new 'support our troops' smokescreen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 22 minutes ago, throbber said: I’ll set up the just giving page. I'll just have to burn the house down to boost the funds then?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 10 hours ago, MixuFixit said: What kind of potatoes are ready in April? Kerr’s McCains and Maris McCains I believe. 53 minutes ago, SlipperyP said: The UK can stick their Captain Tom up their arses. Don’t think there’s enough to go round tbf. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 5 hours ago, Bairnardo said: Despite having no interest in clapping for anyone outside my door like a performing seal at a prescribed time, when I was out for a run today, an ambulance passed me with the blues on. I gave them a wee clap, and the guy in the passenger seat gave me a thumbs up. It gave me an enormous sense of wellbeing. Remind me - does lights and no siren mean the patient is dead or not? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 1 minute ago, Mark Connolly said: Remind me - does lights and no siren mean the patient is dead or not? Are you suggesting he shouldn't have clapped, but actually given them significant abuse for having failed to save the persons life? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 1 minute ago, Dons_1988 said: Are you suggesting he shouldn't have clapped, but actually given them significant abuse for having failed to save the persons life? No, I'm recalling an infamous P&B discussion on the matter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: Remind me - does lights and no siren mean the patient is dead or not? It means the ambulance is in a hurry but there is no traffic or obstructions hindering their path. The siren is to instruct others to get out of the way. Why have lights and speed if the patient is dead? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 (edited) There used to be a hospital on Halbeath Road and the residents would often be outside waving at the passing traffic. Dunfermline feels a bit lifeless now without them. I can see how Bairnardo may have greatly increased the ambiance folks’ sense of well-being and that they’d have been happy for the rest of the day. Edited April 28, 2020 by Shandon Par 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: There used to be a hospital on Halbeath Road and the residents would often be outside waving at the passing traffic. Dunfermline feels a bit lifeless now without them. I can see how Bairnardo may have greatly increased the ambiance folks’ sense of well-being and that they’d have been happy for the rest of the day. There used to be a wee guy who would stand just behind the wall writing car number plates down presumably to grass them off later for speeding. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 11 minutes ago, Fullerene said: Why have lights and speed if the patient is dead? Milk goes off and digestives aren't the same without a cuppa. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 22 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said: Are you suggesting he shouldn't have clapped, but actually given them significant abuse for having failed to save the persons life? Shout. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 41 minutes ago, philpy said: I'll just have to burn the house down to boost the funds then?? Do you have pets and a sob story ready? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Despite having no interest in clapping for anyone outside my door like a performing seal at a prescribed time, when I was out for a run today, an ambulance passed me with the blues on. I gave them a wee clap, and the guy in the passenger seat gave me a thumbs up. It gave me an enormous sense of wellbeing.It's the easiest thing in the world to mock shit like this but it's an important human trait. Feeling connected to something bigger and more important, even in very small ways, is good for us.Was the origins of the clapping thing from Italy? I hope it was started by ordinary people rather than an authority-led idea. But it doesn't matter, as people have taken it for themselves. It should never be used to excuse or cover up the failings of preparation by those in charge. And it's perfectly reasonable, and I'd argue its actual normal, to both support the workers of the nhs and also be critical of mistakes made by the government. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 11 hours ago, MixuFixit said: What kind of potatoes are ready in April? @Fifespud 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 11 minutes ago, Scary Bear said: Do you have pets, a second home, a cruise to Russia, a crowdfunding page and a sob story ready? FTFY 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 1 hour ago, SlipperyP said: https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/social-and-lifestyle/1907580/taxi-drivers-wealth-irks-ta-gets-daddy-itch-sex-pics-row#cxrecs_s Zero fucking chance I'm opening a link with that title. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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