trigger_andy

Wealthy ancestors. Millionaire father. Claims that you’re also well off are all completely contradictory to your other posts about how you’re now having to work 7 days a week cleaning windows because your supposedly amazing state pension only covers the mortgage which if you’re that well off, at retirement age and still have a mortgage makes not one jot of sense. So much for the “money gene” when you’re retired and still having to scratch a living doing manual Labour. You really are full of it.

Thanks though.

You’d have to use the Scottish Governments website. But it was updated to say the same thing last night anyway. I’m not downstream though. And if you read the bit at the bottom it’s for workers coming to the U.K. to keep our oil and gas infrastructure running. Not returning from another country where we have kept theirs running.

Believe me I am. 😁 It seems Scotland is making crossing the border and not going into mandatory hotel quarantine illegal. So whilst it would be legal to cross the border I’d have to have already checked into the hotel in my chosen Scottish, or even English city. As things stand it looks like I’ll be finding a as nice a hotel in England as possible within budget to wait out my 10 days. Anything’s better than putting money into that evil bitches grasp.

Like 99% of his other posts then?

See? That proves my point. I went to a state school so it explains why I’m thick as mince and not an millionaire. 😁

Ah the good old false equivalence fallacy. Id also be genuinely interested in said study and not relying on your dubious anecdote. I'll suspect whatever study you now quickly google search for will conveniently miss out the likes of Eaton, Harrow and Winchester, you know, the very Public Schools that Million and Billionaires send their children and Eaton where about 20 Prime ministers and a huge number of senior cabinet ministers attended.

As much as I detest his general POV to the point it makes me deeply frustrated, I find his line of reasoning the epitome of everything that is wrong with the UK today and no doubt the feelings mutual. But he does avoid the ad hominem though and that's something the vast majority of people here fall back to, including you and I. I tend to ignore the vast majority of his replies to me as there is simply no point in engaging someone who's views are as deeply entrenched as my own. But on this subject due to us both being parents I felt there would be at least a slither of common ground. And a slither it was.

Well, its no surprises that we hold polar opposite opinions on this subject as we do on every other. But you do make some compelling arguments and there is points I had not fully considered. I do feel you've intentionally avoided my points regarding the Teachers Unions though and of course both our POV are entirely empirical and we're at completely different ends of our island and in two different countries. I know full well the efforts involved in getting a state school educated child the same chances as privately educated ones. But this further exasperates and compounds what I feel is unduly harsh restrictions. I guess its another small example of how the rich will continue to get richer and the poor poorer in this pandemic and jo public lap it up whilst the rich laugh their arses off at us fighting one another.

I dont think you're taking the mental anguish of being cooped up in a house 24/7 into account. Nor the seriously flawed home schooling system either. Have you seen or heard what this schooling actually consists of now? Its abysmal and fluctuates wildly from teacher to teacher. Combining these two and the mental pressures they are under trying to achieve the grades needed amongst this mess is almost unbearable for a lot of kids. They've children that have had a jail sentence thrust upon them and expected to just make do and carry on. Exams have been a tried and tested method up till now. The whole education system has been geared to polishing the pupils so they can perform at these end of year tests. And no, if you mess up badly on the day its not the end of the world. Its why Prelims are a thing and can and are taken into account if a pupil fails spectacularly on the day. But thats gone, we're told to rely on a teachers judgement instead. Im not sure if you've been following how many teachers have been acting during the crisis, perhaps I dont want to even know your views on it but from my perspective many have been extremely quick to drag their heels at doing anything to help the kids. The unions seem hell bent on politicizinging what instructions they give their members and seem to be thwarting any attempt the government makes at getting this generation of children the missing education they need. Teachers are only human, some will be overly sympathetic to some kids and others may be overly harsh to the the ones they dislike. They'll be made Judge Jury and executioner based on how well they deliver home schooling. And from what Ive seen so far its atrocious. Then we have the children of 'front line' parents who can still attend school in person and get an almost private education off of the teachers in a class that might have had 20-30 pupils before. From what I gather Boarding Schools remain open. In reality for the most part these are the kids my Daughter is up against when it comes to placements. To even get an interview for medical school is near on impossible. And for the three Universities my Daughter applied for there was 600 students getting interviewed for 80-130 places. Yes, the next 7 years will be very tough for the kids that do manage to get a placement. A baptism in fire so to speak. My older Daughter is in the only class thats allowed back to Dundee University just now. Supposedly cadaver disection is not something that can be done from home. Who knew?

Well they're hardly trying to drum up the rich to follow suit. They're trying to force the Governments to make them. Thats a big difference. The people in the link seem to have more money than they could possibly ever spend in a lifetime and potentially untold millions squirreled away. If I could be arsed It would be a good exercise to see how many of these supposed altruistic benefactors in waiting are in the Panama Papers. Its all well and good the obscenely wealthy asking to pay more tax whilst they sycophantly flatter themselves and will never see even a slither of the removal. But I still think there is an angle.

Conflicts of interest among the UK government’s covid-19 advisers WWW.BMJ.COM Little is known about the interests of the doctors, scientists, and academics on whose advice the UK government relies to... I really dont know why I continue to spood feed you knowing full well you're gonna cook up some half arsed apologist response. But the link is from the British Medical Journal so hopefully you'll actually take the time to read through it and digest it instead of automatically poo-pooing it simply because of who posted it.

I like that one.

One day you can say that to my face and Im looking forward to that.

I have an Esse Ironheart with a Boiler and I love it. Its a joy to cook on. The controls allow you to really fine tune it. It takes half meter logs. It has a Log only option that allows for deep filling of logs. The reported issues of being smokey when opening are in my opinion from people who cannot follow simple instructions. Follow them and you'll never have that issue. It heats my 280l hot water tank and a single radiator in the upstairs hallway. The tank has a separate coil for the Oil Condensing boiler but very rarely do we need it. Maybe in the summer? Its 10 or 11kw and it really throws out the heat.

Its the best retort you could expect from someone who votes SNP. The irony is a whole generation of potential Doctors chosen (altruistic) career paths could be on the rocks and unable to care for the lives of everyone, not just the very old.

We're destroying the lives of our children for the sake of the ones who have already lived theirs.

But the sad reality is they are! Its just a cold hard fact. We're so focused on the ethics of shielding the people who are on average 82 years or older over the ravages we're doing to the young and I find that grossly out of proportion and wrong. My 17 year old is at a very critical point in her education and her acceptance into Medical School to train as a Doctor hinges on her grades this year. How well do you think that's going from her bedroom? She was a previously outgoing girl who studied hard but still found the odd hour for her friends. Now she's a depressed wreck. My three year old has had no interaction with anyone her age for almost a third of her life, the very stages she needs to be. She seen a woman walk past the house and she asked if that was maybe a friend for her. To say that I am seething even thinking about this is an understatement thats constantly brought to the fore when I see my work collogues here in Norway proponing meetings as they are dropping the kids off at barnehage. And not one person here has come up with an even remotely valid reason other than ''its different over there'' for why the approaches in Norway and the UK are vastly different and yet the infections rates are still lower than the UK.

My hashed-up by-passing of the 2 handed operation was initially at the vauge advice of the guys at Rock who for legal reasons sent me a silent whatsapp vid of what to remove. Namely the level on the left you initially pull down and retracting the spring and inserting a R-pin or split pin. But it never worked and I had to put it back together again. I think what I did was remove or adjust the stop for the operating handle, I cant quite remember, but I might have a picture on my phone, I'll if I can find it. Has been working fine since the first week of ownership, which must be close to a year now. The oil does get quite hot but never seems to get excessively hot, even in the Summer. Well, the Scottish Summer anyway, all 4 days of it. 😧

So its an ethical dilemma and not one of necessity after all?

I'll never understand that line of reasoning from them. There has to be an angle I'm not seeing. If these eighty odd millionaires wanna pay more tax then why not contact the IR and ask for that to happen. Or why not donate it to genuinely worthwhile causes and ensure the extra money ends up in the hands that need it and not syphoned off to fund the likes of HS2?

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Very very nice! The lump pf Bur Elm I used to mount my Antlers on has very similar colouring. Actually made a few things outta that slab

Im only in Norway for work, I'll be returning to the UK in 20 days time. By then I'll have to see if the loop-hole is still open to fly into England where only 32 countries that are 'Red' make you eligible for quarantine in the Hotels then run the Gauntlet up to Scotland and past her Goons manning the Border or bend-over and take Jimmys pounding due to her political point scoring.

Now we're talking!