I'm a beer wank and I don't even know what the fuck it means so I'll just assume it's a load of old shit that means nothing but makes our bacony elders happy and gives them a Royalty-powered semi while they're drinking.
Theresa May's Conservatives
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats
Paul Nuttall's UKIP
2 people's Greens
Nicholas Durgeon's Scottish Nationalists
Satan's Sinn Fein
Dr Ian Paisley's DUP
Some other bunch of nonces
I'm foreign, but I wish I were an Englishman
I'm a beer wank and I don't even know what the fuck it means so I'll just assume it's a load of old shit that means nothing but makes our bacony elders happy and gives them a Royalty-powered semi while they're drinking.
It basically means that the Queen vouches that this is an actual pint, and the dastardly commoner landlord isn't having you over by passing off smaller glaases as a pint.
Also, I don't think I can ever recall seeing a pint glass with the CE mark on it.
The only thing that sticks in my mind is the number 2043 which I think refers to a French glass manufacturer.
Office jobs are (supposed to be) 9-5 in the main though right? My understanding is that lorry driving basically takes over your life.
Not if it is done locally. Traveling long distances, it does.
In the U S of A, they cannot legally drive for more than eight hours per day. Or at least that's what the driver who delivered my car a while ago told me.
If you're happy giving up your life, you're best off just working out on the oil rigg. They earn £50k minimum and only work for 6 months of the year.
It does make you go bald, see what happened to Foe.
Someone who rode with the same groups I did all the time was a truck driver. Local deliveries only. He seemed to have plenty of time to ride his bicycle around, and can't have been that poor. He also said that they always had job openings. That does sound better than working in fast food or something.
He claims they enforced it pretty heavily. He actually wanted to drive longer, since more driving = more money. Driving only eight hours a day means that you start your trip in the morning and then you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do once you've done your eight hours.
Presumably they have to use a Tacograph over there too.
A Tacograph is probably a very different thing in Mexico.
They've all got tachometers in their vehicles, so if they work for any sort of halfway house reputable organisation they have to stick to the rules.
On a related note, how much do couriers end up with after their costs? The shitter GIG ECONOMY sob stories tend to tie in to some clown financing a plush van as part of it, but if you had your own banger, like the woman who seemed to do all of it back home from her estate car, it could probably be a decent job.
I was just chatting to someone 20 minutes ago about that and she said once you know your route you can get £20 an hour. They gave her a van too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-58593615
I know there's the culture war and all, but what the fuck is this all about?
Labour's former candidate to be Tees Valley mayor, Jessie Joe Jacobs, accused Ms Dorries of "cultural vandalism".
It's not, perhaps, not really."The Dorman Long tower is one of UK's best examples of brutalist architecture and a proud symbol of Teesside's industrial heritage. This is just tragic,"
It's a fucking eyesore.
It's a cool building but it's about 20 years too late to be trying to 'save' it.
Yeah, I didn't feel aggrieved when they knocked the Gateshead multi-storey down. It was falling to bits to start with. You can only save something if there's a solid plan for its future.
The thing with lorry driving is there are not as many secure car parks and truckhavens and drivers like to cheap out on it which is why you seem them parked up everywhere in the evening. They leave the doors open to show thieves they are running empty. My mrs company will pay you £80k annually(probably more now) to run the show yourself so you work for them but provide vehicle, fuel etc. Could be a decent screw depending how you work. But the job is tenuous. I know lads used to pay people a good wedge just to ride out with them for company (and to make sure they didn't fall asleep.
You provide the HGV?
Yeah... what?
"Driver wanted.
Excellent rates.
Must provide own transport (20 tonne Articulated Lorry)"
You still see hitchhiking mugs waiting on motorway slip roads needing to be picked up cos they switched shifts and had no way to get home. It’s bizarre.
I'm a twit
Some lad at my mrs work once didn't realise he had cocked up a job until he was having his tea and a lorry turned up outside his house - he'd given his own post code instead of the delivery post code He didn't last long in the job after that.
Never mind protesting, we should be going full Guy Fawkes at this point.
Putting shitty slogans like that in actual government departments is seriously cringe, like when they turned Education into 'Children, Schools and Families'. Embarrassing. It's the sort of thing Sweden would do.
The sort of thing Sweden would do.
On the plus side, I guess we now have a measure for when we get a proper leader. Anyone renaming all that crap would get my attention.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport will be The Department of Ballers and Banter by Christmas.
Maybe 'Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office' was the end of serious country status.
No government department should have a comma in the name.
Liz Truss is Foreign Secretary, we are all just living in an Armando Ianucci skit now.
Real life surpassed satire in the political world quite a few years ago now.
I'm struggling to put my finger on the precise event, but I'm sure something happened that actually was in The Thick Of It.
I don't know if he or Roy Hodgson caused it, but everything started to go irreversibly wrong when Harry Kane started taking corners.
Foreign Secretary has been a non-job for about sixty years, but you get the big office (which is falling to bits) and a load of foreign travel, so they all think it's a major promotion.
I think it was Ferguson leaving Man Utd. The country's been an out-of-kilter mess ever since.
Robin Cook was all about the house you get to live in wasn't he? To the point that one of his conditions for resigning/stepping down/whatever happened was that he could carry on living there, no?
The French seethe from this submarine thing is the best thing that's happened in politics since ages.
Jean-Yves 'deal down' Le Drian has been coming out with some top tier shit.
Definitely my favourite appropriately named foreign chap since Maurizio Arrivebene.
The Rainbow Warrior incident has popped up in conversation this week.
We really should be kicking them with that for the rest of time.
Lol
Russia dunking the French on twitter, doesn't get any better.
Even better than the French seething is the remain nonce seething, playing it down, or making out that we have made some major mistake. Imagine if America, Australia and the European Union had signed a comparable agreement (which they couldn't because we will probably be doing most of the technology transfer). It would be wall-to-wall end of days stuff.
Just the energy and food crisis instead, eh?
The energy stuff isn't Brexit-related. Food I don't know. I haven't noticed any shortages of what I buy so what do I care.
Hush, Lofty, it's only The Left who react to news selectively.