On the subject of jokes - Nick Robinson. This would have to rank as one the worst pieces of hypocritical ****e I've ever had the misfortune to read: Alternative news sites are waging a “guerrilla war” against the BBC in an attempt to promote their own editorial agenda, according to the BBC’s former political editor Nick Robinson. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...erm=245544&subid=14315946&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
I don't expect that too many on here are avidly following the Scottish Labour leadership contest - but one of the hopefuls, Richard Leonard (being English, known up here as Richard the Lyinfart) recently described the words of Labour MSP Jackie Baillie (who backs his opponent) as 'pish', a favourite Scots term with an obvious meaning. Of course, the Twitterati gleefully set to the task... Labour do have a problem up here.
I remember when weather maps were covered with magnetic clouds and letters, one time the map showed "Mist and -og" the presenter said, "i must apologise about the effin fog!"
A friend on Twitter has a small business making badges - this one is the perfect size for an avatar, and is somewhat topical...
This surely has to be a joke - £15 a head maximum for training up volunteer mental health first aiders, because they can't replace departing professionals.
To highlight the desperately low standard of MSPs within the Scottish Tory party. This story was 'leaked' to STV News yesterday - expressing outrage about a 66 year-old SNP Minister taking a taxi to an official engagement and claiming the cost back in expenses: https://stv.tv/news/politics/1399772-minister-takes-4-6-taxi-to-physical-activity-speech/ Scottish Conservative shadow health secretary Miles Briggs said: "This is another classic example of SNP hypocrisy. Clearly this minister thinks she can dish out lectures on an active lifestyle yet she sees it fit not only to take a miniscule taxi journey but charge taxpayers for the privilege. "It's time for SNP ministers to practice what they preach." Clearly a case of engaging mouth before engaging brain...
He's really opened a can of worms - his ̶i̶l̶l̶u̶s̶t̶r̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ shabby leader Davidson does it too. And hers is for travelling from home to work - not something the plebs are entitled to do.
The Tory plan to return Britain to Victorian times appears to be working - as sepia photographs become the order of the day...
Excellent idea. Half a crown, a florin, a bob, a tanner; could even have a farthing but I can't imagine what you could buy with it. Everything started going wrong when they got rid of ten bob notes.
Ah the good old units of currency - I used to save my half farthing pocket money until I had enough for a theepenny bit. Then I could buy a new three piece suit, a few pints of bitter and .... Your mention of half a crown takes me right back to when I worked for British Rail - I was Area Rover & was required to work in any of the Booking Offices in the Watford Area - from Tring to Headstone Lane - covering absences. At one point, I was asked to work a week of late shifts at Headstone Lane & on the first day, I found that the early shift guy had left me two half crown coins in the float - no longer legal tender. I knew that he was Ugandan and just thought that he wasn't aware they were no longer currency, so left him a note telling him, and asking him to arrange for them to be swapped at the bank. I came back for my next shift to find the coins still there in the float, so I left another note. This went on for three more shifts, by which time I was getting a tad angry and was plotting what to say to him when we were due to meet for a shift handover. At 6:00am on the Saturday I got a call from my boss asking me to work a double shift as Uganda Man had not turned up for work & had gone missing. Muttering expletives and dire threats against him, I agreed - a 16 hour shift on a Saturday was worth about a week's pay and not to be sniffed at. During the morning, a station porter came into the office and showed me a story in the local paper. It seems he had been arrested - the police had been unsuccessfully looking for his landlord for some time and had called round to Uganda Man's flat the day before to see if he knew the landlord's whereabouts. They found what was left of him in the fridge freezer - the rest having been eaten over a couple of weeks.
And to think this Tory fool is Minister of State for International Trade... You'd think that someone in such an exalted position would have realised that Germany gave us the doner kebab as a fast food - or, at the very least, looked it up before mouthing off.
http://archive.is/uubjm Tory minister calls his secretary 'sugar tits' and gets her to buy his sex toys. Charming sod...
