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Morning all.

Another amazing Trump cabinet pick

The Telegraph isn't a serious newspaper

refitman wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:14 am Another amazing Trump cabinet pick

I remember from his first (2017) appearance on TrumpWorld that there was something odd in his bio. BuzzfeedNews and Adrian Weale a (genuine) Cold War Intelligence Officer thought so too --

refitman wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:46 am The Telegraph isn't a serious newspaper

Good morning.

Hmm...and yes I am aware of the issue of cherry-picking but as Roberts (an actuary) points out, these are hardly the cases you should have put forward as ones where there is genuine hardship.

Frog222 wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:56 am

refitman wrote: Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:46 am The Telegraph isn't a serious newspaper

Which "Daily Telegraph" is that, I don't think the Barclaygraph has gone tabloid (at least formally)

EDIT: googling indicates it is an Oz paper, well much the same applies to their media if not even more so tbf.

I see that the charges against Tulip Saddiq are based on allegations made by the chap who was in opposition to Saddiq's aunt.

Shocked, shocked!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... bangladesh

I mean yeah, this is obviously a fishing expedition by the new government (which doesn't make her automatically innocent, of course)

Patience

Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/d ... -pub-chain

This insane piece of shit has closed 4 pubs in Leeds just in the last couple of years. Amongst them was the closest thing I have to a local called the Nag's Head. It's the oldest pub in the city, had been run by a lovely woman called Tina for years, was thriving with a lot of regulars, then he turned up one day and threw a strop because he saw someone using a mobile phone outside in the beer garden. He sacked her on the spot, closed the place, and it's been empty ever since. Just last month the Harewood Arms was closed with no explanation whatsoever. How anyone can do that to people is beyond me, they don't just lose their living, they lose their home at the drop of a hat while he rips the hearts out of communities. In Harewood for example it's the only pub/restaurant in the village.

And it's not just his pubs, when the bridge in Tadcaster (where his brewery is located) was swept away in a flood he made everyone's lives a misery refusing to allow a temporary one to be erected despite it leaving the town literally cut in two.

Battle of Tadcaster Bridge leaves bitter taste

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/ba ... te-1806112

So there'll be plenty celebrating his retirement and let's hope his son doesn't have the same feudal delusions.

Instead of Question Time I got to watch Manchester United squaring off against Tottenham Hotspur in a competition to see who could be the most comedically inept. It was pretty close, Spurs tried their best, but we eventually outdid them.

So I'm currently having to deal with a bit of a toothache, not bad, more sensitive to heat and cold than constantly painful. So obviously I rang the dentist only to be told I'd been deregistered. 'What!' Said I in a mild rage, 'How could this be?'

Turns out they sent me numerous warning emails over a 6 month period because I hadn't been in for over 18 months but during the lockdowns I got so sick of receiving their emails saying they weren't open I marked them as spam then forgot to un-spam them so it was totally my fault.

Anyway this left me in the unenviable position of having to ring round all the NHS dentists claiming to accept NHS patients in a major English city within reasonable bus distance. Which was quite a few, I cast my net wide. Guess how I got on?

Yep, no room at any of the inns.

I was offered emergency treatment if I paid up front and thought about it until a lovely receptionist lass told me to try smearing sensitive toothpaste on my afflicted molar for a few minutes which worked almost immediately. The tooth's obviously fucked but at least I might get through Christmas relatively pain free. Bless her.

So I guess the moral of this story is don't mark your dentist's emails as spam, but more generally I must have rung about 20 different dental surgeries in an ever widening circle and not one of them would accept a new adult NHS patient.

And who is tasked with sorting this out? Ah shit it's Wes fucking Streeting.