Squaredy

I totally agree with some of the comments above.  I think gift giving has gone way too far.  But of course if you say that you are called a scrooge.

The expectation kids have these days is truly horrible.  Luckily my two are at the age where they mainly receive money.  But I always say to them expect nothing, and appreciate anything you get.  I think they get it; but we live in a highly materialistic society. 

And then after everyone has overspent at Christmas some people have the cheek to whinge about the cost of living!

1 hour ago, Stubby said:

Ah . On a motor bike . Typo

Ah I see….sort of.  Thank you.

3 hours ago, Logdaft said:

Can someone explain to me what a date laning is?  Then maybe I will get the joke…?

22 hours ago, sime42 said:

Funny; but scarily close to reality!

Whatever next?  Does he load up a truck and then push it along the road?!  No I know, he gets a chainsaw chain and fells a tree without using the actual saw…

Another interesting thing….1969 Concorde first flight, moon landing, harrier vertical take-off and landing jet; a few years earlier we reached the deepest part of the ocean.  

I find modern technology rather underwhelming by comparison.  What is the 21st century amazing equivalent?  I mean this computer I am typing on which is also a phone and a camera is quite impressive; but not compared to supersonic flight or space travel!

We are always being told these days how amazing technological advancement is, but what has it actually achieved that makes you go “Wow!”?

31 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

The Conservatives don’t want a general election, they’ve just elected a new leader and have barely started organising themselves into forming an opposition.

Just say, in the magic fairy world that is the inside of some people’s heads, there was another election, you know Labour would win again?

What would you do then?

I don’t think anyone believes there will be another general election anytime soon.  This petition is just another protest.  Another way of trying to persuade your local MP that something has gone wrong.

Just now, MattyF said:

Put a link up

You mean a link to the petition?  OK.  

Petition: Call a General Election

PETITION.PARLIAMENT.UK

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I would like there to be another General Election. I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.

10 hours ago, AHPP said:

How about a list of what public opinion hasn’t brought down? It’ll be long…

The petition has just topped two million.  It has slowed down - currently about 40,000 per hour are signing.

1 hour ago, Doug Tait said:

Although Truss didn't really need the public's help!

No she didn't did she!

53 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

As for the OP about this petition, it's just another construct that gives people the illusion their voice is heard. Ultimately the only voices heard are Unions and those few in a position to lobby ministers.

Public opinion brought down in my lifetime:  Thatcher, Blair, May, Johnson and Truss.  

26 minutes ago, Rich Rule said:

Means f’ all.

 

The legalise cannabis petition about 10 years ago hit the numbers in record time and continued to soar into the millions.

 

Theresa May at the time said it won’t be discussed in Parliament as there is zero medicinal benefit to Cannabis and therefore not worthy of the Mp’s time.

 

So what is the point of the whole petition process?

 

 

At the end of the day it is just another lever.  When enough Labour back benchers feel there needs to be change, then there will be.  Exactly the same as happened to Boris and Truss.

It is accelerating.  About 140,000 per hour now...

1 hour ago, Rough Cutter said:

Who voted them in?

Mainly public sector workers.

Fastest petition in uk history apparently.   Started yesterday and now over 400,000.  Currently increasing at a rate of about 70,000 per hour.

Of course we know it will not directly achieve it’s aim.  But as part of a process it will make a difference.

3 hours ago, Doug Tait said:

Biggest joke of the day here was seeing our esteemed council clearing the pavements of snow with a little tractor plough, followed not long after by the council gritter clearing the road back onto the pavement.

Couldn't make it up.

Had similar on my street a few days ago.  The gritter lorry came round in the evening, followed by the road sweeper early the next morning!

I don’t use eBay much any more, though I used to sell loads through the site.  Surely eBay don’t stop you looking at an item you are considering buying do they?  

After all, some of the items listed are worth many thousands, and surely only a fool parts with that sort of money without checking the item exists and what condition it is in?

Are you just giving away the dehumidifier?  I don’t see a kiln in the pictures.

30 minutes ago, Stubby said:

I can believe it but when did it happen ? 

Not sure.  I am just hoovering up now, then I am going for a dip in the jacuzzi, and maybe will throw my frisbee a while; finally if I get a chance I will google it.....!

6 minutes ago, Stubby said:

He makes vacuum cleaners . Hoover make hoovers .

The word hoover without a capital letter means vacuum cleaner as a noun, and as a verb meaning to clean with a vacuum cleaner.

7 minutes ago, Stubby said:

He doesn't make Hoovers though ....

He doesn't make Hoovers.  But he does make hoovers.

11 hours ago, sime42 said:

So convinced that Brexit was a good idea that he moved his Dyson headquarters to Singapore. It's alright though cos he employs 250 people, (I think I heard this morning) on his farms. I wonder how many are British as opposed to immigrants? What a guy. Another "Man of the People". 

 

It is probably worth a reminder that he also employees 3500 people in the UK in research and development etc; mainly at his Wiltshire academy, which has a very good reputation for it's apprenticeship scheme which has a starting salary of something like £23,000.  

I am proud that I employ one and a half people in my business...

I don’t have a DCPU, but is this now saying that they will attract the same Benefit In Kind tax treatment as cars?

If so that will be a blow for a lot of people.

I am sure most of us would acknowledge that house prices (and therefore rental costs) have gone off the scale in many parts of the UK.  I was brought up in a nice part of Surrey, and by the time I started work at age 17 (in 1987) I knew I had zero hope of buying a nice little starter house (in a reasonable area this would have been maybe ten times my yearly income).  So when my parents said they were moving back to Wales I moved with them, and easily bought a house near Ebbw Vale.

That was a long time ago.  And since then this problem has become a huge issue in many areas.  My brother lives in a crowded part of Bristol in a smallish two bedroom terraced house - worth around £400,000.  How does a worker (even with a fairly decent wage) hope to get a house unless they inherit at these prices?  Because of Bristol prices my area (Newport South Wales) is now becoming silly as well.

And what about the youngsters being brought up in Devon and Cornwall, where they feel at home, but know they will have to move away or live with their parents?

The system is broken, and there would be an outcry (from many property owners) if house prices started dropping.  So I am afraid it is what we are stuck with.  I guess the best we can hope for is huge wage inflation over the coming years without correspondingly huge house price increases.  But the result of large wage rises would of course be huge inflation, so no-one really wins.

It should never have been allowed to get this far, but every colour of government in recent decades has failed to tackle this problem.

2 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Is that video backwards?

 

I thought you were meant to pick them up roadside and get them ON the wagon!

Ah no, that is my site!