WhiteRoseKillie

Sorry, I still fail entirely to see where any of this is amusing. Also, "pro-abortion"? I'll be as generous as I can here and say that your communication skills could do with improving. Maybe not batter into grown-up subjects like this when you think they're "amusing", and can't even muster a sensible stance on the issue - even if it were one which I disagreed with.

I'm absolutely calm, but there's no rule to say I cannot judge whether someone is an absolute idiot. Nothing, absolutely nothing in the remainder of the post I lifted "amused" from concerns anything but people using their power to make other, less powerful people's lives poorer at best and non-existent at worst. Forgive me, but I fail to see the humour.

Ten for Wednesday - guessed Camus, only knew the food because I hated it when it ewas foisted on me when I was a kid.

"Amused" you? Give your head a shake, ffs.

Looks like your comprehension is letting you down. Again.

"As was pointed out at the time by one of Mr Johnson’s transport advisers at City Hall, Andrew Gilligan, free travel for pensioners was introduced by the Greater London Council in 1973. When the GLC was dissolved in the mid-1980s, the pass was then funded by the 33 London boroughs, and it was not until the 1990s that it was branded the Freedom Pass. In 2010, it was decided that the age of eligibility of the Freedom Pass would rise on an escalator in line with the retirement age of women, rather than at the age of 60. In 2012, when Johnson was London mayor, he introduced a bridging pass that allowed someone who turned 60 to gain the free travel privileges as a pensioner up until they receive a Freedom Pass. It is this that he is claiming to have introduced in his ITV interview. Under the terms of the travel card, pass holders were entitled to travel on all Transport for London services at any time, including peak hours. But in June 2020, Mr Johnson’s government brought an end to the 24-hr Freedom Pass as a result of the pandemic. As one of the conditions for giving TfL a bailout due to plunging passenger numbers during the Covid outbreak, the Government insisted that Freedom Passes were only eligible after 9.30am." (i News, May 3 2022) So, basically, 1. The fat lying cúnt did not introduce free travel, or even re-brand it as the "Freedom Pass" 2. No fiddling around the edges of terms and cons made any difference to this particular lady's eligibility. 3. At the first opportunity, his Goernemnt rescinded this facility - because pensioners could just drive to the supermarket, right? This should be front-page in all papers, and on every news bulletin on radio and TV. As his easily-provable lies about the twenty-plus thousand lives thrown under the bus in the care-home scandal have largely escaped scrutiny, I won't hold my breath.

Johnson has, from the clips I've just watched, been absolutely ragdolled by Susannah Reid. Susannah fucking Reid. No wonder they don't let the fúcker out in the wild when there's cameras about.

'Twould have been interesting seeing my branch of the CS working from home..* Just to put in my anecdotal two penn'orth on the passport renewal - mine took just over a fortnight, most of which was down to having to send the old one in by snail mail, to make its physical trip through their office mail system. It is nice though, after the whole Pandemic malarkey, to get back to the traditional Public Sector-bashing. Thank goodness I'm picking up my gold-plated** pension in a couple of weeks. I can finally buy that island I've had my eye on. *In seriousness, plenty of non-prisoner facing jobs were (and still are) being done remotely, with no noticeable dip in quality. **Not actually gold-plated. Finish on the Friday, start new job on the Monday.

Eight for Tuesday. Physicist and shoogleshiv.

I've spent all day getting confused as to why there's no post, the council haven't emailed me back about that job, no-one's answering at the school my missus has someone in cleaning tonight... Fucking normal people and their fucking time off..

I can't help but notice one sector where there has been undeniable growth. Can you guess? Rymes with mood tanks. Fucking selfish, uncaring, imaginary tosspot. Even to type this shite as part of some online gag is indefensible.

It is absolutely and precisely what he said. Your poor comprehension skills = your problem, not mine.

The equation of "financial superiority = better person". Next fucking stupid question.

Not seething at all. I just don't like sanctimonious c***s with absolutely no empathy.

Monday Eight. Musical and Jane Eyre.

Aye- fucking geometry!

Echo chamber, is it? Strange, then, that you only start coming on here regularly once the arse dropped out of the Covid thread. Strangely, outside of that wee backwater, the greenies aren't going to be quite as easy to come by for you. Shame, that. Those who I disagree with on here cover a broad spectrum,and I've had engaging debates with many over the years. Those who are just contrarian dicks who think displaying a lack of common decency makes them somehow relevant or edgy are a much smaller group, and get treated with the contempt they deserve. There's not that many of them, but I'll certainly admit you're in that category for me.

"I haven't got anything on my face from running through those dandelions, have I dad?" *sniggering* "Nah, you're fine, bro. Isn't he, dad?"

What the fúck would a charity do with imaginary money?

Couldn't you perhaps try being a cúnt five days a week and have weekends off for a while - see how it goes? You may find your seethe levels and BP dropping. Nobody's asking you to actually meet poor people, ffs. Just let folk get on with their "virtue signalling"* when it's not affecting you personally, eh? *or "being decent human beings" as the rest of us call it.

Ten Friday - hope it's not too late. Easiest ten for a while, as well

None around our way (East Yorkshire), which is a wee bit odd, but I saw a couple of martins flitting around the admin building in the nick this morning. Hopefully they're just stuck in post-Brexit passport queues.. ETA: Yes, I know they don't winter in the EU..

If I were you, going three down in the first quarter of an hour of one of your team's two biggest home league fixtures for decades would leave a bigger scar. Ayr fans leaving after twenty minutes wasn't a good look, either. (Disclaimer: I personally thought it was fucking hilarious)

Absolutely. The reports specifying that two Labour front-benchers are under investigation? Good. It doesn't matter what the affiliation is - a wrong 'un is a wrong 'un. If half, or more than half, of those under investigation are in Opposition, then so be it. Get them dealt with. (Although were I to have a choice, I'd like one of them to be that self-righteous, self-aggrandisingcherry-picker Lammy).

Suits me fine - I'm hearing more grumbling about investigations being delayed than I am about actual wrongdoing.