That's brilliant.
That's brilliant.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/...london-english
One for Giggles.
They should bring back capital punishment just for the word mandem.
As a former linguistics goon, I always thought that 'street talk' was characterised by using a smaller area of the mouth than ever (standard English already uses far less of the mouth than it did 300 years ago, and far less than other modern languages). Basically it's linguistic Darwinism and the lazier option always wins.
Say 'bare' instead of 'very' or 'really', it's just far less effort.
My favourite version (which I may have posted before).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitkern_language
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-...ester-61801804
This is outrageous. Honestly puts me off the internet.
I'm a twit
They're only doing what they did in the staff room 30 years ago.
Behaving in such a way that has you nicknamed The Rapist: lololol crack on big man #lad
Being a cunt in a Whatsapp group: sacked
Makes sense.
You can see why they would have sacked him, but prison for that (and other such stuff) is insane and makes a mockery of the justice system.
Community service at best, really.
I feel there must be more to it.
As a legitimate Dementia Friends Ambassador I do not condone that.
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The justice system needs to stick by the principles it's based on - in the given example, requiring someone to be mentally competent to stand trial - regardless of how abhorrent the crime is.
Putting a demented person on trial is just a show designed to satisfy people's need for vengeance rather than an attempt at justice.
It's fucking dreadful for the victims, I can't begin to imagine how it must feel for them, but that's not a good enough reason to abandon principle.
Another demented person should go and kill him.
All the people mentioned in this article are just fucking drips, aren't they? Even this guy:
Well your options, as I see it Graham, are either Ł165 or death. So you're still getting quite a good deal really, aren't you?Graham Benton had been due to catch a train to London on Tuesday for a heart operation, but because of the strikes he will now have to pay Ł165 for a taxi to get there.
"I am having a procedure on my heart tomorrow which is very stressful," the 48-year-old from Portsmouth says.
"The operation is in central London so I have booked a taxi with one of those airport taxi firms... at 05:30 tomorrow. "
Also, imagine how much of a cunt you must be to make it through 48 years of life and not know a single person who will drive you the couple of hours from Portsmouth to London for literal life saving surgery.
Are there even trains running at 5:30am?
Trains go faster than a car. Class traitor alert.Originally Posted by Boydy
You could probably beat the train to this central London hospital if you left at half-five.
The media, some not surprising but even the BBC are joining in, seem to be making a big effort to turn everyone against the strike action. So much for workers' rights, eh.
Fuck you Lofty you lazy scrote.
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Poor train drivers, struggling along on Lionel Messi's wage.
The strike isn't about train drivers pay.
Who cares? PEOPLE ARE MISSING LIFE EVENTS.
The strike isn't about your mum's pay.
Looks like the internet is down. Loads of Cloudflare errors, including TfL and National Rail websites.
Drivers aren't on strike. Different union.Poor train drivers, struggling along on Lionel Messi's wage.
Had to skip the heart op, fuck sake
The RMT are a bunch of intractable cunts, no one should ever support them.
The RMT are great and what every union should be.
Absolutely shocked to see that the Government are telling rail firms not to negotiate with RMT. More divide and conquer shit that the retired electorate will lap up.
Another example of Jimmy Floyd being born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
I'll take that over whatever kind of spoon it is that makes people stand around with Soviet era iconography chatting shit on picket lines for no tangible benefit to themselves or others.
Jimmy, son of the Metropolitan Police saying that Railway Unions are a problem.
The police aren't allowed to strike, obvs, because it would be fucking stupid if they were. Can think of a few other sectors where that should apply.
My union isn't on strike, yet anyway. Ballot in the post.
There are definite benefits for passengers long term defending customer facing jobs and opposing the drive to close all ticket offices. Baring in mind a lot of older people are completely reliant on the trains but also useless at using them without assistance at all stages. I once had a nana flag my train down at 9pm at a request stop station, purely to ask me a question about timetables for another date
The government hates ticket offices but they are necessary, especially when the ticketing system is prohbitively complicated. I once went to an RMT demo at the DFT and even with a group of rail staff getting some stafg discount tickets out of the machines on the tube required assistance.
Their dream is a near fully automated railway with some minimum wage mooks mopping up any issues, which doesn't work in reality. They already trialled it with lower paid 'revenue assistants' and some of them couldn't find their arse with both hands never mind react quickly to emergencies/effectively manage hundreds of people at a time on their own.
Never mind their proposals to strip back track workers when they themselves identified lack of maintenance was the key factor in crashes like Grayrigg, Potter's Bar and Hatfield. The culture at Network Rail has always been 'health and safety unless it costs too much' but it is definitely escalating to cut back regardless of the effects.
One way to save a lot of money would be to end franchising and the ROSCO system but that makes high level people who hate strikes too much money so just sack the plebs instead. The current offer is 2% backdated to April and a further 1% in October contingent on accepting 'reforms' that eviscerate jobs. Comical considering Merseyrail were given 7% no strings recently.
Some people seem to think that the government plans will save them money on fares if they come to fruition, which seems to me as misguided as the idea we wouldn't pay national insurance anymore if the NHS was privatised. The quickest way to modernise the railway and save money is to take all franchised back into public ownership and eliminated tens of millions in executive salaries by only needing 1 of each top job, again unpopular with the toffs.
I fully expect ASLEF and TSSA to join the RMT when their ballot results are announced.
The Conservative Party has a bit of a mong idea of unions based on old notions that they were always striking for a laugh, rather than because the inflation they caused was mental. The 'inherent bad faith model' in action. That said, the railways have led a bit of a charmed existence these last couple of years (second only to irreplaceable civil servants like myself), so I don't know or particularly care about this one.
The government are being mongs politically (they should just let unions do whatever and not start slinging mud at them, imagining that this will impress anyone) but that's nothing new for this lot.
The thing with the Kay Burley clip is there is actually have a reasonable question underneath what she's saying, but for some reason she's completely incapable of actually asking it and instead looks like her brain is exploding.
She's just terrible all round. She's so desperate for drama and GOTCHA moments that she just lurces betweek hyperbole and strawmen that make her sound retarded.
I'm a twit
Has anyone done a normal interview with him?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...ngham-61882384
What the hell is this and what joke was it? Whatever law/regulation/rule that made the police follow that up needs to be binned now.
I thought we were bad but your country is falling apart with shit like that. I really thought you’d be of the last ones left that would be largely bullshit free.
Apparently not.
Didn't think they could better Big Bad Bob, especially after the European Union killed him, but Mighty Mick might top him over the coming weeks.
It's absolute madness and I've no idea what's driving it.
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