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Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Stroller, Jun 25, 2015.

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

Poll closed Jun 24, 2016.
  1. Stay in

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  2. Get out

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  1. Stroller

    Stroller Well-Known Member

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    It's a non-issue.

    One policeman, David Carrick, has been charged with 48 rapes committed over 20 years and he almost certainly committed many more. Is the answer to this a female-only police force?
     
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    No, it's not a non-issue if Scottish gender converts can enforce Scottish rights in UK jails outside Scotland. That's why the government is opposing the Scottish Bill and I don't hear Starmer cheering for the Scots. He's sitting on the fence as usual, while Rosie Duffield gets abused by bullying men in her own party like the excrable Russell-Moyle.
     
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    Does your car lock itself after a few minutes or something?
     
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    Nah, put the dog in threw keys on the back seat for some reason, closed the door, went to put some stuff in the boot and couldn’t open it…or any of the other doors. Me and the RAC man reckoned that Stan the dog had trodden on the fob and locked himself in and me out……
     
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    <laugh><laugh><laugh> Couldn't make it up.
     
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    keep cake away from ambulance drivers
    stop trying to kill our superheroes


    Keep cake away from office, suggests food watchdog head
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    If you work in an office, you know the drill. It's someone's birthday and the unwritten rules mean they or a generous boss supplies cake (or cakes) for all.

    But is it time to kick the cupcakes, to get the gateaux away? A food adviser says workers should not bring in sweet treats - to avoid tempting colleagues.

    Food Standards Agency chairwoman Prof Susan Jebb compared being around cake in the office to passive smoking.

    She said: "If nobody brought cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes."


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    Interviewed by the Times newspaper, and speaking in a personal capacity, she said workers should stop testing the willpower of colleagues.

    But speaking to the BBC, GP Dr Helen Wall said people had to take responsibility for their own health.


    The family doctor who practises in Bolton said: "If someone's got a cake next to you, you don't have to eat it, do you."

    Prof Jebb, also a professor of diet and population at the University of Oxford, argued eating cake was a choice but colleagues could help each other by providing "a supportive environment".

    She said: "We all like to think we're rational, intelligent, educated people who make informed choices the whole time, and we undervalue the impact of the environment.

    "If nobody brought cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day. But because people do bring cakes in, I eat them. Now, OK, I have made a choice, but people were making a choice to go into a smoky pub.

    "With smoking, after a very long time we have got to a place where we understand that individuals have to make some effort but that we can make their efforts more successful by having a supportive environment.

    "But we still don't feel like that about food."


    In many workplaces cake, biscuits and and sweets - brought by colleagues returning from holiday or to celebrate last days and birthdays - can start a scramble as hungry and sweet-toothed colleagues try to get their hands on the treats.

    It is a rare workplace that breaks the tradition and supplies a fruit platter. And who wants to be known as the one staff members who brings in healthy nuts rather than chocolates as they regale colleagues about their weekend in Switzerland?

    GP Dr Wall said it was fine to have some pleasures in the workplace.

    Speaking on BBC Breakfast, she said: "It does feel like we're trying to control everything. At the end of the day you've got to have a little bit of willpower, haven't you...

    "If somebody's smoking next to you, you can't help but inhale that.

    "If someone's got a cake next to you, you don't have to eat it, do you?"


    As to the government's official position, the prime minister's official spokesman said Rishi Sunak believed "personal choice should be baked into our approach".

    He added: "We want to encourage healthy lifestyles and are taking action to tackle obesity, which has cost the NHS £6 billion annually.

    "However, the way to deal with this issue is not to stop people from occasionally bringing in treats for their co-workers."

    Mr Sunak's spokesman added that the prime minister was "very partial to a piece of cake" and most enjoyed carrot and red velvet cake.

    According to the NHS website, a majority of adults in England are overweight. Regularly consuming foods and drinks high in sugar increases your risk of obesity and tooth decay.

    The FSA is responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

    Prof Jebb who is on the Times Health Commission, a year-long inquiry by the paper into the future of health and social care in the UK, expressed frustration at ministers' decision to delay the introduction of a TV watershed for junk food advertising.

    The Department of Health said the plans would be deferred for a year while officials assessed the impact on household finances as families struggled with the increasing cost of living.

    Prof Jebb also said it was not enough to rely on "extraordinary efforts" of willpower to avoid overeating in a society which plied people with food.
     
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    I thought prison was a punishment? Apparently it's an excuse to indulge in Scotland...

     
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    Should be in a mental hospital
     
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    About %35 of people in prisons should be in a mental hospital but they were all sold off.
     
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    care in the community

    must be cheaper to run prisons than mental hospitals
     
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    ...or a neonatal clinic
     
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    It's only an issue for anyone whose mind is twisted enough to believe that male would-be rapists are queuing up to proclaim themselves female and get themselves jailed so that they have access to female inmates. Give your head a wobble.
     
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    Of course, it's not just about women's prison, but all women's safe spaces. But, seeing as it's already happened in prison, it's less about people who care about women's safety being twisted, and more about those who are nonchalant about the safety issue, and have their head up their arse when it comes to reality.
     
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    Fair few going on strike on Feb 1st. Seems like we are back in the 70's. Thanks a bunch Corbyn
     
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    You're just massively exaggerating the potential threat to women's safety from this. Try focussing on the threat from police officers.
     
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    What's happening at the Met is a scandal, agreed. Sadly it's more of the same.

    And I also want genuine trans people to have all the rights they can, so long as they don't conflict with the rights of others, namely women and girls. You cannot get away from the fact that under the Scottish bill, any pervert can pretend to be a genuine trans, self-declare and go into women-only spaces, exposing themselves to women, young girls and possibly doing worse.
     
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    Gender row legal challenge likely to fail - judge
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    The Scottish government's chances of winning a legal challenge over the gender reform row are "very low", a former Supreme Court judge has said.

    Lord Hope said a UK government document outlining its reasons for blocking the Scottish reforms was "devastating".

    And he said Scotland's first minister was risking wasting a lot of time and money by taking the issue to court.

    He instead called for both sides to attempt to find compromise "in a much calmer atmosphere".

    And he claimed it was "quite wrong" to characterise the UK government's blocking of the bill as an attack on devolution.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-64315517
     
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