nightrider

13 hours ago, butlers said:

Gets better a registered doctor also spoke.

 

The good doctor was invited to speak by a Republican member of the House.

 

 

 

All well and good to laugh at how stupid they are - but if invited by a Republican politician, just how many other republicans believe what they have to say?

On 25/05/2021 at 20:47, Janus said:

40 minutes is a long time to get through. I could not cope with that. Is there an option to change to a different surgery.  

 

The best advice I can give anyone is avoid phoning up on Mondays. 

Its absurd you cannot book online this day and age. You can at my practice - no reason why any practice cannot have such  feature.

18 hours ago, The_DADDY said:

Aside from actual legit mental illness I cant understand it.

Some people are just nasty I'm afraid.

18 hours ago, RJRB said:

I would bet that too much alcohol is the main cause for these stupid actions and for much more anti social behaviour.

Its not the cause - plenty of people manage to get drunk without behaving like this. If you behave like this there is something wrong with you.

On 30/05/2021 at 09:43, Resident said:

How long before people are moaning when buses can't get to the stop due to the cars of customers? Parking on Commonside is already ridiculous. 

Why don’t the authorities ticket bad parking? There is a small fortune to be made inWslkkey from that.

1 hour ago, Fudbeer said:

Could not agree more.

 

This is the same man who thought it was acceptable to break the lockdown rules so spectacularly during lockdown and was defended by Boris!

 

Maybe he thought the rules only apply to the "little people"

 

Absolute snake and I don't think anyone takes him seriously.

He is a hardcore brexiteer and I suspect voters in places like Hartlepool will take notice of what he says - his accusations will gain traction, where Labours could not, because he is one of their beloved "true believers" in brexit.

17 hours ago, El Cid said:

The Johnson Government is giving people money left, right and center; isnt that socialism? Helping your fellow man.

 

No. Isn't socialism completely removing capitalism? Johnson relies on a capitalist economy to keep things going.

Having a good welfare state is not socialism (see many european countries who have much better welfare states than the UK/USA, yet still run capitalist economies).

16 minutes ago, whiteowl said:

They just won't quarantine. Like that lad in the North West last year who became a super-spreader.

 

In my opinion, there should be no amber - it's either green or red. No quarantine or mandatory quarantine in a hotel. Relying on people to follow the rules and use "common sense" is a bit like relying on King Canute for flood defences.

still won't work - have seen people talking about how they can fly to Portugal and then drive over the border into Spain to get round a ban on travel to Spain etc.

3 hours ago, the_bloke said:

Apparently Jeremy Corbyn is still refusing to admit or deny as to having his Covid vaccination.

 

If you want to speculate on how the pandemic would have played out under Corbyn's Labour government, give that some thought.

His brothers is a very vocal covid denier.

On 06/05/2021 at 11:57, Bargepole23 said:

All of it. Meeting new people and doing new things. They have been given online lectures, sometimes prerecorded, and nothing else. No practical work, no lab work, no group work.

Not true. Lab work has been allowed to be carried out to some extent, depending on the subject and when in the various lockdowns.

2 hours ago, horribleblob said:

According to the BBC (see link in post  #134 above) :

 

'Labour Group leader Terry Fox congratulated campaigners on their achievement before saying he wanted to use the result "as a positive opportunity to improve how the council works".'

So? Doesn’t negate what my councillor said.

3 hours ago, dave_the_m said:

The referendum has chosen the committee system by 2/3 to 1/3.

Our local labour councillor has already informed the locals via facebook that the voters didn't understand what they were voting for and therefore this will be a disaster!

3 minutes ago, El Cid said:

Johnson, as are many MPs are Eton boys and girls. Margaret Thatcher and John Major formed Governments, nothing do do with class at all.

Around 60% identify as being working class, some of those will be earning £50,000+

I meant that the tories are who the working class vote for nowadays, not that tory party members are working class. Most of the current cabinet are extremely wealthy!

2 minutes ago, Consheff said:

Greens gain Walkley who was that gobby councilor on twitter from up there hope he lost his seat

he wasn't up for election this time. 

2 hours ago, Consheff said:

Amazing how Labour have been banging on a bout the curtains in no10 now it looks like it's curtains for Labour 😉 

But in all honesty it looks like unless your a far lefty then brand Labour is as toxic as the elephants foot que Britney spears 

 

council leader has lost his seat to the greens!

1 hour ago, rogets said:

I was shocked to hear a neighbour voted Conservative 

 

Even bought a blue coloured budgerigar after the last election

 

A blue household, their forefathers would have turned in their graves, always pro Labour and pro working class until 2019

 

Even the tory budgie is a disgrace

The tories seem to be the working class party nowadays. Its mostly the middle classes who go for labour now (see e.g a lot of comments on local sheffield facebook groups about labour being middle class only from the local working classes in the area).

46 minutes ago, Anna B said:

What makes you say that?

I don't think I'm partisan, I just think we all should have more access to information about the candidates whoever they may be. 

Many people have pointed out on social media groups that its run by Labour. Many also spotted that certain questions were only asked of Labour candidates (odd if its non-partisan).

On 05/05/2021 at 09:45, drolnhoj said:

So I've visited the "whoismycouncillor" site and all I can find is a list of candidates and their party. Nothing seems to tell me what they are about. I have only had one leaflet through the door and this is from a candidate who is alledgedy under investigation for something (not sure what), so I do not believe I have sufficient information to vote for any of the candidates and do not believe any of them have demonstrated enough to deserve a vote. I kind of understand the reforendum vote but have still had to actively search for info. If all areas are as devoid of information as I am, then I can only think the results will be based on party preference. 

Its a partisan website, which is why many candidates seem to have boycotted it. 

On 02/05/2021 at 17:06, Box11 said:

Zero tolerance is what's needed now I know they are building new prison's basically "Supermax Prison's" just like they have in America...

Hasn't worked in america though has it. One of the largest prison populations in the world and yet they still have horrendous problems with drug gang violence.

On 28/04/2021 at 11:52, alchresearch said:

Amusing take on neoliberalism and those who use the word

 

https://twitter.com/AnyaMartin8/status/1386954101330694145

 

 

I've always taken it to mean anything that it isn't socialism/communist enough for the far left of the labour party - then its new-liberal and just used as a way to insult anything they don't agree with.

2 hours ago, RollingJ said:

Exactly - but these people i.e. the spokesperson who said this: 'Sheffield said it is “committed to upholding freedom of speech”.

 Not really true though because adding the material on Newton won't be an option for whomever gives the course, but rather an instruction. So no freedom to chose how it is taught at all.

2 hours ago, the_bloke said:

Which is totally irrelevant to an engineering/physics degree. The laws of physics don't change because the person who discovered said laws had financial interests in something once very commonplace but is now considered taboo. 

 

 

I agree it's irrelevant.

8 minutes ago, RollingJ said:

I don't know - maybe because the whole idea is to introduce irrelevant detail into all courses/studies to make then totally meaningless?

It would be better if they had a dedicated course about this, if they want to teach this. There won't be time to cover the material properly in a course about laws of motion, unless they would remove a lot of existing content!

2 minutes ago, RollingJ said:

I like it, @the_bloke 👍😃

Which are not really relevant to his scientific knowledge or teachings.

True.

But then why would they drop Marx entirely to compensate? Instead they should add material explaining his racism, if true, in order to be consistent with how they treat Newton.

1 minute ago, the_bloke said:

I look forward to Universities dropping Marx and Marxism from their courses due to him being a massive racist.

They are not dropping Newton from the course. They are adding material about his financial interests in slave trading.

12 hours ago, Longcol said:

On the thread before this (which I think got mangled) there were a few people who claimed having symptoms similar to Covid at the back end of 2019 although I can't recall any of them making a convincing case for covid.

The start date has been pushed back a few times already as new evidence came too light.

I certainly had something very nasty in May 2019 - in bed for a week, at one point was struggling to breathe and could not even walk to the bathroom without holding onto furniture (I was close to calling for an ambulance, and if I had heard of covid I probably would have!). I assumed it was flu, but now who knows? I had spent an evening in a pub with a friend who flew in from Hong Kong shortly before I came ill.  Maybe it was just flu, certainly no way to know if it was covid or not. I suppose its always possible the start date will push back again though, just as it has a few times already (I think it is back to November 2019 or so by now, originally it was claimed Jan 2020).

On 13/04/2021 at 13:46, spilldig said:

Good to hear nightrider. Surely it wouldn't  take much organisation to give , say a minimum three weeks notice.

No it would not. But this is AMEY and SCC we are talking about, so don't expect too much!