John MacLean Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 4 hours ago, AuAl said: Get your rangers top on we're off to London to pay some respects to the queen. Could you imagine being stuck in a queue for 14 hours next to that? Rants against wee nippy and comments about bheasts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, John MacLean said: Could you imagine being stuck in a queue for 14 hours next to that? Rants against wee nippy and comments about bheasts. Beefeater Loyal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) NON-ROYAL NORMAL ISLAND KLAXON Commas are serious business Quote New health secretary Therese Coffey has come under fire after her office issued guidance telling workers to “be positive” and avoid using policy wonk “jargon”. An email, understood to have been sent to staff at the Department of Health and Social Care and sent on to workers at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), is reported to have told them to avoid using “Oxford commas” – the final comma used in a list of things. The Financial Times (FT), which first reported the story, said the document was titled “New secretary of state ways of working preferences”. It asked employees to “be precise” and “be positive — if we have done something good, let us say so and avoid double negatives”, the newspaper said. One UKHSA employee told the FT that the email was “super patronising” and added: “The idea that we have to frame issues positively indicates a person who doesn’t want to deal with problems, so that’s not encouraging.” Ms Coffey also came under fire for the email on Twitter from NHS staff and patients. In the past, she has shared her hatred of the Oxford comma on Twitter, describing it in 2015 as one of her “pet hates”. “I abhor the Oxford comma and refuse to use it,” the MP wrote. She said she was “delighted” to learn that the Oxford University Press was reducing its use in 2011, adding: “I cannot bear it and constantly remove it. Rant over.” According to government sources, it is not unusual for ministerial teams to set out ways of working for staff when new ministers are appointed. They said the Government has “set out a broad guide for staff to help provide an efficient service to the public and deliver better outcomes to patients”. The FT reported that UKHSA workers were feeling “demoralised” after the Government earlier this year made substantial job cuts to fixed-term staff who were involved in outbreak control during the Covid pandemic. Some permanent staff have been offered a 2.5% pay increase to help manage the rising cost of living. “We are actually getting a salary cut,” one employee with knowledge of the plans told the FT. A UKHSA spokesman said: “UKHSA does not comment on leaked emails or briefings. “We value enormously all of our hard-working colleagues who work tirelessly to make our nation’s health secure.” Edited September 16, 2022 by GNU_Linux 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagtastic Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 14 hours ago, Antlion said: Look, they just want a deeply personal moment between themselves and the corpse of someone they’ve never met. Guaranteed some of these weirdos will genuinely consider shuffling past the coffin as the time they met her. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 I seem to be getting a lot of breaking news alerts from bbc about the length of a queue. This has absolutely broken the bbc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Will Mountain Rescue be operating on Monday or will it be assumed that anybody stuck on a hill that day is a treacherous Republican who doesn't deserve to be rescued? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 10 minutes ago, jagtastic said: Guaranteed some of these weirdos will genuinely consider shuffling past the coffin as the time they met her. No sure if you like Michael Spicer, but this is his pisstake of that kinda stuff 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, djchapsticks said: I now await the emergence of a rouge unofficial Queue designed to rejoin The Queue when it reopens. The unofficial Queue will shuffle behind the end of the ever shrinking Queue at a respectful distance of 40 yards. When anyone in The Queue turns around to look at those in the rogue Queue, the members of the unofficial Queue will be seen kicking their heels and staring at the sky nonchalantly whistling like in the old cartoons. When The Queue reopens though, all bets will be off. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/16/queen-mourners-queue-southwark-park-capacity-reached-london "Those wanting to see the Queen were told not to attempt to join it until 4pm on Friday at the earliest. The decision raised the prospect of people forming a queue to join the queue." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Catafalqueue. Edited September 16, 2022 by Florentine_Pogen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/16/queen-mourners-queue-southwark-park-capacity-reached-london "Those wanting to see the Queen were told not to attempt to join it until 4pm on Friday at the earliest. The decision raised the prospect of people forming a queue to join the queue." Those responsible for the sacking, have been sacked. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, doulikefish said: Quite incredible. Now waiting to see if someone has exhumed a relative and taken the remains "to see the Queen". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 31 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said: NON-ROYAL NORMAL ISLAND KLAXON Commas are serious business Therese Coffey is a lunatic, and then some. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUcal Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 1 hour ago, John MacLean said: Could you imagine being stuck in a queue for 14 hours next to that? Rants against wee nippy and comments about bheasts. Trying to gee up the crowd with a rendition of Simply the Best in honour of her majesty. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 4 hours ago, hk blues said: Where's your workings on that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Watched V for vandetta last night and the dystopian future painted in that film seemed strangely more welcoming than the actual shiteshow we are currently experiencing/ living in.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 I mentioned the tube earlier but this might be even better. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleMoo Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 I mentioned the tube earlier but this might be even better. Just realised what the bagpipes are playing there at the end [emoji1787] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Andrew creeping around the queue? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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