Making the news today....

[eggsarascal]

7 minutes ago, breffni said:

I heard Boris Johnson comparing the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland with london borough boundaries. What a clown. 

It's a very relative comparison!

[difflock]

Please bring back our "hard" border, for the better smuggling opportunities presented, a long missed business opportunity for our somewhat lawless, and currently mostly unemployed  communities in those border areas.

mth

[Khriss]

On 22/02/2018 at 20:07, Stubby said:

Yes he is but knowing there might be " armed teachers " could encourage even more nut jobs .....

...ye see - thats the thing abt 'Nut - Jobs '  Mr Stubby , they er, don't need encouraging ...they Are 'Nut Jobs ' ! K

[Khriss]

Hmmm - bit of snow today , thats twice in a row - how come our resident yakkers are silent on Global Warming now ? K

[breffni]

I thought it was called climate change? It must be that all those thousands of scientists who agree that humans are affecting the earths climate are wrong. 

[the village idiot]

25 minutes ago, Khriss said:

Hmmm - bit of snow today , thats twice in a row - how come our resident yakkers are silent on Global Warming now ? K

If you know full well that you have an extremely loose grasp of a scientific concept, you can save a lot of future embarassment by keeping your head down.

[Lucan]

59 minutes ago, Khriss said:

Hmmm - bit of snow today , thats twice in a row - how come our resident yakkers are silent on Global Warming now ? K

That's because most people know the difference between climate and weather

[WesD]

On 27/02/2018 at 19:44, matelot said:

Imho, political correctness is like a religion for many people. It's a set of ideas that don't really stand up to scrutiny.

 

We often get told "all cultures are equal". That's clearly ludicrous, some cultures have clearly failed.... Some cultures are also better than others. Or does anyone here think that women should be treated as second class citizens? Or maybe homosexuals should be thrown off buildings?

 

We're then told that "diversity is strength". How can that be? Politically Correct people constantly tell us we're all the same then suddenly "diversity is strength"? Either all cultures are the same or they are not...

 

Then we're often told that the colonial powers were unbelievable evil by stealing resources 200 years ago. However it's a good idea to "steal" skilled workers (like nurses and doctors) from the third world... The third world is never going to improve if the West keeps on taking their skilled professional classes. Do people in the third world not need their nurses and doctors? Let's face it, people in places like Africa are dying because we've stolen their doctors....

 

Throughout history mankind has had some awful ideas. We used to believe that witches were real and we'd throw "witches" onto bonfires. We used to believe that earthquakes were a sign God was angry. IMHO, political correctness will go the same way as those beliefs....

 

Lets face it, it's only white western countries that spout this PC rubbish. No other country comes out with it.

So it’s not ok for doctors from outside the UK to move here for more money, better standards and better equipment to carry out their practice of helping people YET it’s ok for you to go to the Middle East to earn more money?!

 

Quick Q @matelot when you worked in the Middle East was your first stint longer than 6 months before returning for a break? ?

[Khriss]

Some people also know the difference between irony and a flat iron ... however , overcoat ready for tomorrow  ! K

[matelot]

2 hours ago, WesD said:

So it’s not ok for doctors from outside the UK to move here for more money, better standards and better equipment to carry out their practice of helping people YET it’s ok for you to go to the Middle East to earn more money?!

 @matelot

How can it be morally acceptable for the NHS to take medical workers from the third world? I've been to the third world and the medical conditions are horrendous. Anyone that's seen the lepers in India wouldn't come out with the guff you just wrote. 

 

You think the life's of Africans don't matter? As long as the NHS gets a supply of doctors and nurses? You think the life's of Africans are worth less than Brits? That's racist.

 

Yeah, I worked in the Middle East as a civil engineer. What's wrong with that? I was doing a job that no local could do (Arab universities are rubbish). I was earning far more than I was earning in the UK. Did anyone die in the UK because I was no longer working in the UK? No....