Friday 13th October 2017

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 3:09 pm

Did they ever follow through with the this fuckers costing x to the British taxpayer,neon lighted on prescriptions thing?

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 3:27 pm

Have a good evening, everyone
love,
cJA

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 3:32 pm

And you (and afternoon by the looks of it)

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 4:09 pm

I just ate a pepperami and now I'm wondering why.

I kind of got a craving for one, but it was really rather horrible in actuality. I'm pretty certain I came to the same conclusion the last time I ate one, so why did I eat another one? Must be the same reason people keep voting Tory. Pepperami have brainwashed me.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 5:28 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/oc ... l-aid-cuts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 5:32 pm

https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment ... rain-52784" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 5:32 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ip-hammond" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 5:34 pm

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/uni ... 98196.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

tinybgoat · Post by **tinybgoat** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 6:01 pm

Willow904 wrote:I just ate a pepperami and now I'm wondering why.

I kind of got a craving for one, but it was really rather horrible in actuality. I'm pretty certain I came to the same conclusion the last time I ate one, so why did I eat another one? Must be the same reason people keep voting Tory. Pepperami have brainwashed me.

Might be one way to get into Accident and Emergency, but it seems a bit extreme.

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 6:07 pm

tinybgoat wrote:
Willow904 wrote:I just ate a pepperami and now I'm wondering why.

I kind of got a craving for one, but it was really rather horrible in actuality. I'm pretty certain I came to the same conclusion the last time I ate one, so why did I eat another one? Must be the same reason people keep voting Tory. Pepperami have brainwashed me.
Might be one way to get into Accident and Emergency, but it seems a bit extreme.

Ha!

All I can say is I wouldn't recommend it, for any reason. I blame the power of advertising.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 6:12 pm

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/br ... ar-schools" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 6:29 pm

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/sto ... fit-618458" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 6:36 pm

Hammond, oh dear. And we are always told that he is one of the sensible ones.......

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 6:52 pm

http://www.itv.com/news/2017-10-13/may- ... christmas/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Peston

"To be clear, I am not saying Boris Johnson will be PM within weeks. But I am saying that I no longer regard that as an absurd notion."

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 6:57 pm

#Paul Krugman

Right now, I'm feeling more terrified than at any point since the 2016 election. Why? It's time for some game theory! 1/

Start with a clear-eyed assessment of Trump's character: he basically has negative empathy -- that is, enjoys seeing others hurt 2/

Normally, however, one would expect him to pretend to care and maybe even do some good things out of ambition and self-aggrandizement 3/

At this point, however, it's clear to everyone -- probably even him -- that he just can't do this president thing, and won't get better 4/

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 6:59 pm

The prospect that he will be removed, say by 25th amdt, getting realer by the day. And again, he probably knows this at some level

So we're getting into the end game. He can't save his presidency. He can, however, still hurt a lot of people. And he surely wants to

So from now on, until he's gone, I'm going to fire up my computer every morning in a state of existential dread 7/

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 7:06 pm

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/c ... xemptions/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 7:24 pm

Stop doing that!

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 7:41 pm

Not sure if cja's impressed by a packet of chewing gum as a wedding anniversary present.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 7:43 pm

More than I ever bought,though I did make a card using better half's materials.Sometimes not all the embellishments fell off on opening.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 7:47 pm

Dad gave the same one for decades,it had an adjusteable "number".

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 7:58 pm

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/stat ... -judgement" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Government response
Statement on Al-Hijrah school judgement

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 8:00 pm

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new- ... -the-world" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Press release
New leave allowance for bereaved parents will be one of the most generous in the world

Carlsberg theme continuing.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 8:11 pm

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... -authority" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Correspondence
Letter to the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee on Spending Authority

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 8:11 pm

HindleA wrote:https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new- ... -the-world

Press release
New leave allowance for bereaved parents will be one of the most generous in the world

Carlsberg theme continuing.

That's all very well, but I don't know which world they live in.

Post by **refitman** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 8:35 pm

HindleA wrote:The prospect that he will be removed, say by 25th amdt, getting realer by the day. And again, he probably knows this at some level

So we're getting into the end game. He can't save his presidency. He can, however, still hurt a lot of people. And he surely wants to

So from now on, until he's gone, I'm going to fire up my computer every morning in a state of existential dread 7/

Trump goes, Pence "Christian, conservative, republican. In that order" comes next. Scary thought.

RogerOThornhill · Post by **RogerOThornhill** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 8:39 pm

HindleA wrote:https://www.gov.uk/government/news/stat ... -judgement

Government response
Statement on Al-Hijrah school judgement

Odd one that - where does it leave single sex schools I wonder?

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 8:41 pm

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/econ ... ld-rethink" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

When it comes to the economy, Britain has a choice: May’s 80s rerun or Corbyn’s bold rethink

Joseph E. Stiglitz

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 8:59 pm

Josh Stein

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 9:38 pm

I can't help thinking that Philip Hammond's "enemies" comment was his attempt at a humourous piss-take. Which backfired.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 9:39 pm

PF please feed your cat,it's chewing at the skirting board.

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 9:42 pm

RogerOThornhill wrote:
HindleA wrote:https://www.gov.uk/government/news/stat ... -judgement

Government response
Statement on Al-Hijrah school judgement
Odd one that - where does it leave single sex schools I wonder?

Yeah I thought that. Haven't seen the judges reasoning so wonder what the exact grounds for the ruling were. Certainly as a co-ed school, it seems reasonable for Ofsted to expect it to provide a co-ed education, but the idea that single sex learning is fundamentally detrimental in and of itself is going to come as something of a surprise to the British upper classes!

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 9:44 pm

Judgement:-

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/ ... ah-school/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 9:46 pm

PorFavor wrote:I can't help thinking that Philip Hammond's "enemies" comment was his attempt at a humourous piss-take. Which backfired.

It's just another example of Tories playing to the home crowd as if the rest of Europe can't hear what they're saying. It's this insular, arrogant outlook that got us into this mess in the first place and it seems few Tories are immune.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 9:48 pm

Willow904 wrote:
PorFavor wrote:I can't help thinking that Philip Hammond's "enemies" comment was his attempt at a humourous piss-take. Which backfired.
It's just another example of Tories playing to the home crowd as if the rest of Europe can't hear what they're saying. It's this insular, arrogant outlook that got us into this mess in the first place and it seems few Tories are immune.

You think it was an attempt to be "in" with the "in crowd" (or, in this case, the "out crowd")? Perhaps I'm being too charitable.

Edited - for all sorts

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 9:51 pm

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(Sorry)

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 10:09 pm

Night night.

Eric_WLothian · Post by **Eric_WLothian** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 10:19 pm

Willow904 wrote:
RogerOThornhill wrote:
HindleA wrote:https://www.gov.uk/government/news/stat ... -judgement

Government response
Statement on Al-Hijrah school judgement
Odd one that - where does it leave single sex schools I wonder?
Yeah I thought that. Haven't seen the judges reasoning so wonder what the exact grounds for the ruling were. Certainly as a co-ed school, it seems reasonable for Ofsted to expect it to provide a co-ed education, but the idea that single sex learning is fundamentally detrimental in and of itself is going to come as something of a surprise to the British upper classes!

Doesn't appear to affect single-sex schools:

The ruling applies only to co-educational schools. Single-sex schools are given a specific exemption from discrimination claims related to admissions under the Equalities Act, although it is unclear if the provisions would extend to arguments that both sexes suffer from the absence of the other.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... -of-appeal" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Willow904 · Post by **Willow904** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 10:23 pm

HindleA wrote:Judgement:-

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/ ... ah-school/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There's a lot there but a quick skim through suggests a precedent that when the opposite sex are allowed into a single sex school, such as girls studying 'A' levels at a boys school, whether and what they can attend to study can be decided by the school, but social activity can't, so being excluded from the cafeteria or trips because they are girls would be viewed as discrimination.

Odd in many ways, but certainly suggests a co-ed school which allows both girls and boys to attend could be seen as discriminating under current UK law if they limit access to the canteen or trips based on sex, in a way that it isn't discrimination, bizarrely, to only offer places in a school generally to one sex or the other. I guess that would have to be the case or you wouldn't legally be able to have women only gym sessions, for instance.

I can see this rumbling on. There are other schools segregating in this way and this ruling does suggest they are acting unlawfully by not allowing a girl to socialise with a fellow boy pupil solely because she is a girl and vice versa.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 10:32 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... CMP=twt_gu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Martin Rowson on the woes of Philiip Hammond

Eric_WLothian · Post by **Eric_WLothian** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 10:40 pm

Letter in the Indy:

No Prime Minister is better than this Prime Minister

The Eccentric Party propose that Britain adopts a radical new plan of replacing Theresa May with nobody at all and leaving the post permanently vacant.

As plotting against the Prime Minister gathers strength, the country has largely agreed with the Tories that there are no suitable candidates and suggested Downing Street should be left fallow for the immediate future.

...Theresa May’s already essentially a vacancy at the top. We’d just be making it formal.

Lord Toby Jug, leader, the Eccentric Party of Great Britain

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/let ... 99051.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A sentiment I could go along with.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 13 Oct, 2017 11:28 pm

https://blueannoyed.wordpress.com/2017/ ... claimants/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Sat 14 Oct, 2017 12:23 am

@NevilleSouthall Shurrup about politics nev, tell us what you had for tea last night

@KyloRem_ Tories on toast