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  3. Posted

    30 minutes ago, cuttsie said:

    Could be something to do with Partition from India , Our Sikh newsagent seems very angry if the situation is discussed .

    The situation in India and Pakistan is very volatile.

    As to Brit , when we worked on the building sites in Ireland we were referred to as much worse than the P word or the harmless Brit abbreviation .

    No,  it's that the work p*** was associated with a kicking, dog **** through the letterbox or some other form of abuse. Nobody is concerned because the name is shortened.

     

    This, in 2021, cannot be news to people.

  4. Posted

    2 hours ago, top4718 said:

    I don't think this will happen and never have (it isn't the endgame) but if by any chance it did do you really think it wouldn't be covered up or attributed to something else (eg a new Covid strain) you'd believe it because you believe all the other nonsense the Tories and their press mates have told you.

     

    Saw a report on PPE earlier - The goverment (the ones most of you trust implicitly with this) paid £300m to a company called Uniserve for PPE (they had no experience in making it) all the PPE this company made turned out to be unwanted or unusable and is in storage containers (ten thousand of them) scattered around the south, the fact that all these containers are in use is causing distribution problems in the UK, the cost to keep all this PPE is costing £1m per day, the storage company thats being paid to keep it is (drum roll) Uniserve. It might be coincidence but Uniserves HQ is also home to Tory MP Julia Lopez, coincidence???

     

    Keep wearing ya masks 🤣

    I don't trust this government as far as I can throw them.  And yes, harwich, in particular is littered with containers chock full of substandard PPE. Often supplied by friends/business associates and pub landlords of the tory party.

     

    Now what's your point?

  7. Posted

    1 hour ago, sibon said:

    I think you'd fit in well on the Yorkshire committee, if that is your attitude.

     

    I'm assuming that this is another example of you "stimulating debate", rather than an example of you condoning racism.

    Dont you think its wonderful how many middle aged white men are keen to tell Asian  and ethnic minorities how they should feel about racial slurs. I'm sure they find it very helpful.

  9. Posted

    2 minutes ago, West 77 said:

    The opposition parties weren't going to cooperate and be part of any committee meaning only Tories would be on the committee discussing any changes which is why the u-turn has happened.

    They've got a big majority - they don't need any opposition help. A bit of dissention in the ranks?

  11. Posted · Edited by tinfoilhat

    4 hours ago, Jeffrey Shaw said:

    Go back a bit. In the 1950s, before the first motorways opened, they were designed with hard shoulders.

    Other than increased traffic, has anything changed since then such that hard shoulders are now unnecessary?

    [A: No.]

    Vehicles are more reliable, Motorways are often lit for starters. Cameras - which should always be manned and working - can observe breakdowns. Gantries showing lane closures - ones that stretch across the entire carriageway and are placed within short distances of each other. If you drive on a lane with a red Cross over it, you should be fined.

     

    But it's not like that. Cameras don't always work, aren't always staffed (HA would beg to differ) and the gantries at the side of the road aren't always visible if you find yourself next to a lorry at the wrong angle . 

     

    Compare the smart motorway between 30-28 on the M1 and the busier bits of the M42. Count the signs. Big difference.

  12. Posted

    3 minutes ago, makapaka said:

    A couple of weeks ago the cases were going up and the media wheeled out various people to say plan b was needed etc.

     

    Instead cases have subsequently fallen and are falling and it all went quiet and the news was just full of stories about COP21 and how we’re all going to die from climate change.

     

    the COP finishes and now we are told that it’s “half time in extra time” with Covid and that cases have “stabilised”. 
     

    interesting.

     

     

    Deaths on the up though. Don't get me wrong, I don't want any restrictions but I expect numbers to go back up in the next week or now kids are back at school.

  19. Posted

    10 hours ago, West 77 said:

    The bad news is electric cars are still much more expensive to buy than petrol cars.  The danger is car ownership in the future is going to be out of the reach of many hard working people.

    This too is accurate. Just watched a video on the rising cost of cars - it's mainly down to emissions but the level of safety kit they must have is pushing prices up.

     

    Oddly, they've allowed manufacturers to keep building heavy petrol/diesel cars but if I understood correctly they are going to  get penalised for producing small petrol/diesel cars. The push towards leasing seems to continue unabated.

  22. Posted

    On 21/10/2021 at 17:58, ECCOnoob said:

    What rubbish.  

     

    Difficult.... yes.    Takes a bit of planning... yes. 

    May take longer than expected.... yes.

     

    But a competent driver would expect the same sort of challenges in every big city.  Let's not get silly and pretend that one ways, restricted access and priority traffic is some unique phononema to Sheffield and totally beyond comprehension. 

     

     

     

    I travel alot in unfamiliar cities and sheffield is up there with Derby for the hardest to navigate.

  24. Posted

    4 minutes ago, HumbleNarrator said:

    That dropped off the news agenda pretty quick didn't it, eh? 

     

    I don't think the situation has really changed.

    Because its boring news. Qualified drivers are moving about to where the pay is best. I read that Tufnells aren't guaranteeing next day deliveries now because of a driver shortage. 

     

    The shortage is still there.

  25. Posted

    19 hours ago, bassett one said:

    IN MY MIND my vote goes to chesterfield its top class,been today packed,great atmosphere ,happy people ,great prices,i think sheffield need to pinch some of there  ideas ,in my opinion,what do other folk think?

    You picked the very best day - flea Market day. Go on any other day and it's very slim pickings.

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