Off Topic What grinds your gears
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Some of them up my way at the local Catholic High School go to the ****ing chippy for the 'lunchtime special',£5 or whatever it is for any small supper.Then they discard their wrappers on their way back down to the school,the other's who don't go to the chippy,queue up at the key store for the owner to pour boiling hot water into a pot noodle and charge an arm and a leg for the pleasure(no Douglas Bader puns required ta) and they too fling the plastic containers all over the pavements and bushes...Too healthy.
The views expressed in this post are like Dairylea, recycled.
That aside,how can the parents afford such extravagance?We had 4 kids and there's no way we could've given ours that kind of money.
Not sure that £5 is that much for lunch in 2026, to be fair (when I convert it)... Whether they should be eating it, is another thing - didn't Jamie Oliver have a campaign over twenty years ago?
Much depends on a family's weekly budget and how many children are in a particular family? Like I say,we had 4,that's £100 a week if you're giving them £5 each per day,though it probably exceeds that if you factor in a can of full fat coca cola or whatever.
My 4 grandchildren at school all take pack lunches,(not necessarily through cost as 3 of their parents are fairly comfortably off,1 isn't as flush) but more so that the kids actually prefer them as opposed to school dinners and their parents can then provide them healthy,nutritious foods.That aside,they're not apt to be flinging their litter all over the place either or leaving the school premises to go and buy expensive junk food.
My 4 grandchildren at school all take pack lunches,(not necessarily through cost as 3 of their parents are fairly comfortably off,1 isn't as flush) but more so that the kids actually prefer them as opposed to school dinners and their parents can then provide them healthy,nutritious foods.That aside,they're not apt to be flinging their litter all over the place either or leaving the school premises to go and buy expensive junk food.
School dinners don't exist here - all three of mine took packed lunches.. it was a pain in the arse to get them ready at 0630 in the morning when all three needed their lunches. Strangely miss it now. It's a generalisation and not 100% accurate, but most kids' behaviour is a reflection of their parents'. Once a year their sports clubs did a litter pick of the local area, so it meant that every month there was a clean up due to the different types of sports in the area - made a big difference.
No its not. You create your own network, try following companies and people you respect not people who post rubbish.
It used to be. As brady said, its now a narcissist paradise.
My lad mainly takes pack up but he does sometimes fancy a school dinner. Fridays used to be fish so he would do it.
Recently there was some uproar amongst the parents on Facebook (my wife told me I dont actually know what it was all about) about the school dinners being outsourced to a company now ans ready meals would be delivered instead of cooked stuff.
I was amazed to find out off my lad that now when its Pizza day they simply have about 20 domino's pizzas delivered!! Is there any wonder there is an obesity issue with kids?
That's what I saw it as years ago when I was working.
I dabbled but didn't really use it, in spite of pressure from the group I worked for, because of how you describe it.
God knows what it's like now then!
Social media can be about achievement and success, LinkedIn could look like a narcissist paradise to people who don't value this and begrudge it?
Just yet another example of empty rhetoric and promises from those in power over the years (about ensuring schools provide healthy, nutritious food). There will of course be exceptions, but from what I know it's worse than ever. At least back in the day it was freshly prepared food. All about costs - cheap as chips, nothing to do with health.
Good idea. Different attitude in Scandinavia.
How is a woman posting a picture of herself on holiday a sign of success? Laptop and coffee on a table with some 'idyllic' view in the background with the caption 'Being a high flying entrepreneur means even on holiday you never stop. Quick check of my emails before I have an hour with the kids and then back for a teams call'.
They're full on narcissists just constantly pretending theyre something they aren't. They pop up as 3rd connections because some gimp im connected to has commented saying stuff like 'enjoy your break'.
Nobody cares that you've gone on holiday love. Put your laptop and phone away and show your kids some attention.
Its still full of lunatics
Same with the guys on a long haul flight
With laptop out
Doing some coding
'most people watch a movue
But hustlers never stop'
Such posts are more for Insta and I would ignore and concentrate on ex colleagues, family and friends achievements or companies I have a vested interest in. Every social media platform requires some amount of scrolling past dross and LinkedIn seems to have less dross.
As well as the sort of stuff Jim is saying, the profiles of the people I knew in real life didn't match reality. It was mostly inflated bollox about what they had supposedly done and what their abilities supposedly were .... which meant it was pretty meaningless (as well as being disengenous, lies even) !!
That's how it started and it still is. Fact that it's full of useless ****e doesn't alter the fact that it's still a useful tool, you just have to work a bit harder at it. Working life is very different now to how it was 20, 30 years ago, for many it's about having a network of contacts who you can trade and share information with. Even more so now with fewer jobs around, cv's are scanned/rejected by AI, people are recruited by recruitment companies who find candidates using their own networks. Gone are the days of seeing an ad in the press and applying in person or, heaven forbid, phoning somebody up!
It's just yet another thing that has slowly drifted away from being right and now it's so far away it can never be put back on the straight and narrow.
School dinners, the mash may have been lumpy, some of the carrots raw some over boiled, the cabbage an unrecognisable mush but they were real vegetables cooked by real people in an on site kitchen.