Mhmm. Still though!

Why did I have to read this as am lying in bed feeling peckish.

Disappointed these won’t be single 3ft sausage rolls though!

What’s with the article putting “innocent victim” inside inverted commas?

Sure, they may be quoting a witness, but is there need to quote that specifically? Was anyone thinking that a nine year old child shot having dinner with her family is somehow culpable for the violence done to her?

Knew someone who collected wwii militaria, including Nazi stuff. Claimed that some tiny shoulder or lapel badges were worth close to 6 figures.

Even if they were wildly exaggerating on value, it makes that stuff an easy way to move large amounts of money undetected.

Sounds like less boozy Jägermeister (also made by monks) with added caffeine.

Had always assumed it would be fizzy.

Mmmmmrrrm. Idk, saw them as a child & though I had not heard of them at the time & therefore had no expectations, not even the most dramatic, high-tech camera footage has come close to those moments.

Overheard a lady tonight claiming they were visible “all around, everywhere, just get outside” on the phone to her friend in the centre of Birmingham. Tried to ask her for tips, but she was too distracted by it all & not looking at the sky in any case.

Quite, lol. Nuffink to lose tho’!

The article does not suggest that it is.

The guy is appealing to the sympathy of the British government, but also does not suggest it is a British problem, and likely knows he won’t even get a response - he just has nothing to lose by asking.

Right, because screeching about trans, non-binary and intersex people as if they’re to blame for a decade & a half of Tory asset-wrecking deathly malfeasance will totally magic this extra NHS capacity into reality.

(Ok, they didn’t mention the latter two, because they never do, but we all know how it goes).

Tbh I think staff on the wards will be able to ignore this, as the demand for care far exceeds availability, but they shouldn’t fucking have to.

Because Tory cuts mean the money to run these websites has to be found elsewhere.

Can recall being a young teenager and being on the one hand struck that they were suddenly including men as consumers of household products, but at the same time that they were depicting these men as bizarre & wildly incompetent.

It took a further TWO DECADES to see an ad with a normal man using a normal product like a normal person.

Was splendidly unaware of the substantive issues back then, so that I even noticed this as startling seems telling.

Aye, it is a whole thing.

All of the “safeguards” they used to get the public to accept privatisation back in the day were sleights of hand.

Just here hoping you live in a village called Spankslugs.

Makes one nervous that this will be yet another scandal in which postmasters & postmistresses end up under attack…

Uh, not sure how else to describe when it is laid down in a garden (other than for drainage or whatever).

Expanse of gravel? Visible gravel?

Useful for drainage channels & such.

As a garden surface, it makes me angry. So ugly, so annoying, so depressing.

Oh no.

Hope you heal up quickly!

Don’t be hard on yourself though - we’re all aware of the hazard, but we all do it.

Managing with slightly warmed olive oil when mine itch, but still go in with an earbud from time to time.

And there was me thinking I was an only child!

They ordinarily attempt to double-speak the intention of these groups & roles in how they name them, or at least go for neutral-seeming, so a shift to a title which so bluntly states intent seems to me to indicate something. I don’t know what that something could be, and drawing a blank when I attempt to speculate.

Last week was reminded that they unofficially appointed a “Minister for Common Sense” (MP without Portfolio, Esther McVey) but that seems a different flavour of brazen, openly mocking Orwell’s warnings, but we also know it is designed to appeal to voters who are unable to cope with the complexity of reality.

Anyhow, enough of my pointless ramblings. Am off to seek further verification of this story. Well know Tories to be ghoulish, and those currently controlling the party to be especially so, but feel that think tanks, etc. mostly push to have their ideas adopted, rather than the party pushing them to provide ideas.

Which is a nitpick if the ideas are implemented, but an accurate view of the workings of these relationships seems a necessary aspect of a robust counter-offensive.

How I loathe all of this. Ugh.