Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 3 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: I see the EPL WC break is being cited by the Govt as partly responsible for the lack of growth in the economy in the final quarter of 2022. The UK really is a baw hair away from being a fully fledged Banana Republic. UK economy beats expectations with November growth - BBC News I though I must have been misremembering, but apparently not: The EPL WC Break was responsible for a lack of growth and the World Cup gave the economy a boost at the same time. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 2 minutes ago, Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo said: UK economy beats expectations with November growth - BBC News I though I must have been misremembering, but apparently not: The EPL WC Break was responsible for a lack of growth and the World Cup gave the economy a boost at the same time. Good spot, laughable stuff. It's almost as if these goons are making it up as the go along !!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 44 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: I see the EPL WC break is being cited by the Govt as partly responsible for the lack of growth in the economy in the final quarter of 2022. The UK really is a baw hair away from being a fully fledged Banana Republic. I think this is becoming more evident to more people. It's as if the Tories know they're going to be eviscerated at the next GE and they're carrying out a scorched earth policy to really f*ck up the next govt. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pub car king Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 2 hours ago, Florentine_Pogen said: I think this is becoming more evident to more people. It's as if the Tories know they're going to be eviscerated at the next GE and they're carrying out a scorched earth policy to really f*ck up the next govt. Very much this, they atre utterly fucked come election time and are looking at a 1997 scale emptying. So f**k it might as well do what they like while they still can. Labour won't even know where to start and will spend their whole first term at least trying to bail out a sinking battleship with an egg cup. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shipa Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 17 minutes ago, pub car king said: Very much this, they atre utterly fucked come election time and are looking at a 1997 scale emptying. So f**k it might as well do what they like while they still can. Labour won't even know where to start and will spend their whole first term at least trying to bail out a sinking battleship with an egg cup. And five years later the Tories can point and say 'Look what a mess Labour's made,' and get voted straight back in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 2 minutes ago, Shipa said: And five years later the Tories can point and say 'Look what a mess Labour's made,' and get voted straight back in. To be fair, they'll probably be correct. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bickerton Buddie Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 21 hours ago, tamthebam said: Is the next musical to be staged Chingy Chingy Bang Bang? E Will Rock You 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 ^^ Chapeau, sir........ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Blades Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Fiddler on the roofies. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Greees 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Blues Brothers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 (edited) I'm actually so out of touch, I'm looking at musicals and googling to see if drugs fit the titles rather than the other way round. Edited February 10 by Loonytoons Two many ooo's in too 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Should I worry that I don't know half these drugs references and you lot do. . Anyway Kiss Me Cake ... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 (edited) On 09/02/2023 at 09:44, ICTChris said: Theatres are reporting increasing violence against staff during musicals. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-64571538 I'm not an afficianado of musical theatre but it doesn't strike me as being a natural precusor to hand-to-hand combat. Apparently it's worse since the end of lockdowns etc strange correlation with that ina number of areas. Maybe it's just recency bias but there seems to have been more instances of misbehaviour / hooliganism at football since lockdown as well. Did being locked up make us all realise that we just love violence? I saw this on the news the other night. it looks to me to be part of a wider phenomenon that is baffling, but does definitely seem to exist. In schools, basically all the issues have worsened. Attendance levels have collapsed, violence has increased as have all other shades of misbehaviour and non compliance. It really bugs me when people come out with crap like "they missed two and a half years of school through lockdowns" when the reality is that they missed three months twice. I don't see why the effect of that should apparently be so profound, but something does seem to have shifted. I don't think it's a massive leap to see breakdowns in basic standards of conduct in theatres and cinemas as related to this. I don't understand it though. I would actually have cited football as a bit of an exception. Given that there is a history of hooliganism in football, a deterioration in behaviour might have seemed likely. I don't think there's really been much evidence of that though. Christ knows what exactly is going on with people. Edited February 10 by Monkey Tennis 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 22 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said: It really bugs me when people come out with crap like "they missed two and a half years of school through lockdowns" when the reality is that they missed three months twice. I don't see why the effect of that should apparently be so profound, but something does seem to have shifted. Missing even two weeks in the sciences and maths and you're playing catch up for the rest of the year. Highers and a week is a sore miss. A shit teacher thrown into the mix and you can forget any sort of half decent teaching. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 28 minutes ago, Loonytoons said: Missing even two weeks in the sciences and maths and you're playing catch up for the rest of the year. That's just nonsense tbh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Les Metherables. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Seven Jellies for Seven Junkies. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty It Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Entitlement and ignorance has been off the scale since lockdown, it's a shite state of affairs but some people use it as justification for them acting like animals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkay Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 I was a child of the EIS strikes of the 80s and it nevver did mee,,, any harum..,,, 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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