Making the news today....

[openspaceman]

4 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Cash usage discussions, draws me like a moth to the flame…

 

They want to get rid of cash so that EVERY transaction is taxed.

Don’t let them do it, do like I do, pay cash for your weekly supermarket shop (and restaurants etc.)
I go to the ATM and withdraw the money before going in.

 

 

I seldom go shopping and use the "pay at pump" machines at petrol stations and buy most toys online else always pay cash whenever I can.

 

I also wonder who pays for those ATMs? As only the amount drawn out shows on my statements.

[Botty Cough]

I regularly take out cash from the bank ... FU** em.

 

I smashed my glasses recently and managed to get into town to the boots store where I was a regular customer.

I followed a bus for guidance 👀🫣

I asked for an emergency pair and picked some off the shelf jobbies.

I don't carry cards or anything when out working so raided the cash stash in the wagon ... They then refused to serve me saying they didn't take cash now due to COVID ...

 

So I left without glasses and drove dangerously home... 

I now have a proper optician that would come out and fetch me if I was stuck.

I also paid him cash for 3 pairs of very nice Oakley's and see him every year now...

 

Keep spending cash please 

 

Edited March 16, 2024 by Botty Cough

[woodlover2]

Cash=`s freedom...even shopping for the Mrs at xmas with my joint account debit card she gets to see what I have spent and where and then can guess what I got her...and then you have the threats of power cuts not so many years ago which would make everyone skint until the powers back on if we just had cards....and as well, bigger than all of that... it was not that many years ago we had the riots and the Gov said after that we was only 2 days away from martial law. I think we should all stash some cash if we can, things are never stable enough to go cashless.

[Johnsond]

The sickly seaside town that turned its back on work

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How lockdown and the benefits system deepened the UK’s workforce crisis

I wonder what if anything is ever gonna change this. 

[Mark J]

4 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

The sickly seaside town that turned its back on work

APPLE.NEWS

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How lockdown and the benefits system deepened the UK’s workforce crisis

I wonder what if anything is ever gonna change this. 

Cleethorpes is the mobility scooter capital of Britain and was long before COVID. 

Options:

Bring back freedom of movement with EU as BREXIT isn't looking too pretty right now for our little Island.
Life in jail for anyone on the dole for longer than 28 days.
Shoot the disabled and the mentally unwell on sight.


 

[Will C]

24 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

The sickly seaside town that turned its back on work

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How lockdown and the benefits system deepened the UK’s workforce crisis

I wonder what if anything is ever gonna change this. 

An end to the benifit system as we know it might do the trick.
I’m all up for helping those who genuinely can’t work- they should be supported BUT the vast majority of benifit claimers need to be given a “job” to still get their benifits. If I was in charge they would be out sweeping the streets and digging the ditches out! Once the job was completed to the required standard they would receive a fair wage. If they didn’t like it they could go and get a better job more to their liking! As to the community service lot they would be doing similar. I reckon as a result most of the unemployed would find a “better job” fairly quickly and start to put a bit back in the pot but if they didn’t the country would be clean and tidy! Win win 👍

[Mick Dempsey]

On 07/03/2024 at 20:26, Steve Bullman said:

Don’t quite know what to think about this

 

Mike Tyson, 57, will return to ring against YouTuber turned fighter Jake Paul | Boxing | The Guardian

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Mike Tyson will return to the ring against YouTuber turned fighter Jake Paul as the thirst for crossover boxing...

 

Yeah, strange one.

Like most peeps I hope Tyson knocks him on his ass, but 57?  As I know a lot of power disappears in your 50s, and as big a dick as he appears to be Jake Paul is no powderpuff.

[Johnsond]

21 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Cleethorpes is the mobility scooter capital of Britain and was long before COVID. 

Options:

Bring back freedom of movement with EU as BREXIT isn't looking too pretty right now for our little Island.
Life in jail for anyone on the dole for longer than 28 days.
Shoot the disabled and the mentally unwell on sight.


 

Why bring back freedom of movement? If you have skills Mark the options for work are there bud. 
Apart from that 🤔

Edited March 16, 2024 by Johnsond

[Mark J]

18 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Why bring back freedom of movement? If you have skills Mark the options for work are there bud. 
Apart from that 🤔

Freedom of movement works both ways. I had the time of my life climbing trees in Munich, it was as easy as getting on a plane, starting a job, and staying as long as I wanted. I think that 'The Youth' of today have been unjustifiably robbed of that.

I also think that without freedom of movement there isn't a cat in hells chance that the gaping hole in staffing levels within social care and the NHS will be filled anytime soon. Competent people in any role take some time to train.

Edited March 16, 2024 by Mark J

[sime42]

I've not been to Cleethorpes but I'm guessing half the mobility jockeys are on them because they can't physically walk anymore. This'll explain that;-

Huge rise in the number of takeaways in the Grimsby area - and this is where they are - Grimsby Live

WWW.GRIMSBYTELEGRAPH.CO.UK

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North East Lincolnshire Council is looking to stem the rise of fast-food outlets as a new report shows they are becoming...

 

The government could grow a pair and do something about the disastereous food policy in this country. That would fix half the problem. It could also stop paying people to ride around on mobility scooters and instead pay them to do manual labour. That'd kill more than a couple of birds with one stone.

A decent diet and physical exercise is a great antidote to mental as well as physical health problems.

 

Not forgetting that coastal areas have suffered from economic deprivation due to underinvestment and a host of other issues for generations.

 

There's no quick, easy fix, that's for sure.