Off Topic The "Discuss Anything Else" Thread

The binge drinking. culture that has developed in uk over years is down to authoritarian attitudes to drugs in general , drink in particular, most civil places allow the weaning of alcohol from teenage years on , in a setting of social inclusion , often with food , and extended family / friends .
Here , people are overnight allowed to drink any amount at 18 , but the day before it’s a criminal offence .
Uk has strange and ultimately damaging attitudes to sex , drugs and rock n roll .....

 

1. I would have thought it obvious by now that no matter what people do this summer there will be no "second wave"
a "second wave" will only occur once it is mixed in with all the winter illnesses, so start battening down the hatches from say October.

2. the reason why you still do not feel safe to go and sit in the pub is because of the dangerous right wing policies and mixed messaging pursued by our right wing populist government. of course you cannot acknowledge this as it does not fit with your narrative.

 

Forbes do an annual list of the World’s Richest People. They do not bother with a list of Left Wing Nutters. You would definitely be on it with your deluded narrative.

They voted loony left Labour in Hull long before Corbyn was leader of the party. The City Council is run by Nanny State Marxists and they used to vote for the Welsh windbag John Prescott, and look what good that did them.

Personally not going to the pub is nothing to do with whether it is ‘safe’ but everything to do with it being stupidly controlled by pointless restrictions that the local troglodytes are not bothering to follow.

The “right wing populist” government was evidently more popular nationally than the “deranged far Left lunatic” government that was the alternative at the ballot box last December.

 

very odd how you still seem to think I am very left wing considering that I despised Jeremy Corbyn and his cronies.
I suppose though anyone left of your extreme right wing viewpoint is a "left wing nutter" whatever that is supposed to mean.

I am surprised that you persist in remaining in Hull - the locals must find you a very odd character.
nice cheap place to live though I suppose, if you don't mind the cold wind blowing in from the North Sea.

 

......Left Wing Nutters.....loony left.....Nanny State Marxists.....Welsh windbag.....troglodytes.....right wing populist.....deranged far Left lunatic.....!!!

You really do have problems, lad, all those choice descriptions in just, what is it, 4 paragraphs. Very very sad.

 

I guess he could be called, ('loosely', I must admit) a "Lincolnshire wetback"? The city of Hull must have been thrilled once he got going?

 

Starmer having a mare. Has vowed to take "unconcious bias training" as he said the BLM movement was a "moment".
You could not make this sh1te up. How on earth are the northern Labour voters ever going to vote for him with this rubbish.
The Tories can make a bollocks of whetever they like, the competition is that poor.

 

What they really need to do is go back to the end of the Swinging Sixties, man. If everyone was mellowed out on drugs they might be happy to have the far Left controlling their lives running a bankrupt Nanny State where everyone had equality in poverty. It was so good in the Seventies.

Did they ever leave it on the council estates of Bangor? Drugs and alcohol the perfect antidote.

Let us go back to those halcyon days of the Victorians where the farm labourer would live ten to a house with his family and move from village to village in search of work, spending at least twelve hours a day in the field followed by a couple of ales in the village pub and his conjugal rights when he got home. Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end.

Just because I know how much you hate facts, it is not illegal for someone under the age of 18 to drink alcohol on private premises. A child over the age of 5 can drink alcohol at home. An under 18 cannot buy alcohol or consume it on licensed premises, although 16/17 year olds can have alcohol with a meal.

Actually, in Labour Leicester it would seem that the slave labour culture is still fine because it keeps huge numbers employed in garment factories. No time for getting down on a knee for a woke virtue signalling protest there.

 

Your arse must be jealous of your mouth , it does all the work .
Drinking in private isn’t socialising , that’s what you’ve obviously have been doing .
You really do need psychedelic therapy .......

 

Who's a lucky boy then? Get hit by a Brown and it can be all over in 15 minutes. You can feel fine at first, then boom, it's all over.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07...iver-survives-snake-attack-at-100kph/12430514

 

Economists are only working in the interest of the big corporations and billionaires. The share from the pot increases for them every year leaving less to go round, is this the direction you think we should continue. When you have someone like Nick Hanauer talking out about The Dirty Secret of Capitalism i think it's time to take heed.

 

Why on earth have Melbourne locked themselves down for six weeks just because they have had a few new cases ?

 

We in Australia have not suffered as the rest of the world, but after the restrictions were lifted, Victoria went from a case or two per day to hundreds per day within a week, so the government is all over it before it spreads again. This virus is a nasty piece of **** that needs to jumped all over as soon as it rears it's ugly head.

Only parts of the city are in lock down Steve.

 

Yes, Cyc, it really is a 'nasty piece of ****' as you rightly say. Germany has done its very best to sensibly control this accursed virus, but the bloody thing is taking the country on all the way. Youngsters are rightly absolutely fed-up and are ignoring warnings, and therefore all age groups are now vulnerable to the disease. It's a pandemic all right, no doubt about that!

Latest R-Value factor is 0.89, which yo-yo's up and down a bit, but is not too bad at the moment.

 

I am confident he will improve, and I would not swap him for any of the others available. At least he looks like a leader, if nothing else at the moment! Bojo is not only a buffoon, but a schlampig (sloppy, slovenly) person, and, as I think I said before, a sartorial disaster. When he is over on the mainland trying to do business, he should pop-in to a decent tailor. The cutters in the UK must all be in lockdown at the moment? Hairdressers too?

 

Don't like the cut of his jib Swanny, my good fellow?

 

A number of concessions from the government just announced. Pretty major stuff this:

Cut in VAT to 5% from 20%
No stamp duty on property purchases up to £500,000
Bonuses for employers of £1000 per employee if they bring them back from furlough
Some sort of incentive to get us all out in August spending

U.K borrowing is forecast to be bigger than after the big financial crash...biggest in peacetime history..

 

Tories trashing the economy. Some things never change...

 

Too much skunk or too much Welsh scrog? Almost certainly no education in English. The result of two years before the mast, some dodgy woodworking and far Left delusions.

 

As an economist is someone who studies the way in which economies work, they are usually as reliable as horseracing tipsters in the media. When it comes to economic forecasts, the Federal Reserve is legendary for being wrong umpteen years on the trot and the ECB is no better.

In 1970s Britain, the runaway inflation and destruction of the economy under the Labour government and the unions led to the Chancellor having to go to the International Monetary Fund for a bailout. Who gained the most out of the 1970s? The people who were smart enough to build up the value of their assets (e.g. property) that were not eroded in value by inflation did the best; whilst the people that suffered the most were the ordinary people who saw inflation erode any savings that they had, erode the value of their pensions and finally led them to vote for someone who would deal with the mess.

It is very easy for a billionaire like Nick Hanauer in Seattle to call on the rich people to rise up in the cause of ending inequality as most of them are paying no attention. He does not seem to advocate the nationalisation of everything like the far Left – we know that does not work as that was the 1970s and the ordinary man was the loser. His argument is simply that paying the workers at the bottom more gives them more money to spend as customers. The senior executives of the businesses just get smaller pay rises and bonuses but are still way ahead of the ordinary people. That seems to be a perfectly sensible argument but is that the New Deal that they will get after November?