My missus worked there for about a year. That sounds like a quiet day. A peaceful day was one where she wasn't threatened to be shot after work.
https://x.com/GBNewsSpin/status/1817890965647974707 This is incredible. Every time you think it can't get more disgusting,it somehow manages to.
I reckon the context is he's not black,brown or a muslim, so calling child rape "a holiday romance" doesn't seem strange to her. Any other channel in the UK, and she'd be gone. But most of these "protect women and kids" crowd, couldn't really give a fuck about women and kids,they just use it as a vehicle to attatch their bigotry and racism to. They'll spend their days defending this guy(paedo rapist),Trump(paedo rapist and prolific criminal), Russell Brand(rapist), Joey Barton(domestic abuser and prolific criminal),Tommy Robinson(domestic abuser and prolific criminal), well basically any right wing figure who thinks like they do. Its not about keeping anybody safe,its about what side youre on in the culture wars.
My little fella is 7 and football mad. So he spent some of his money on a good set of goals in May, good 8ft Forza ones and he stuck them out on the green. We live in Rosslare Strand and there’s a few kids in the estate but older , so this summer the estate has been really busy due to people visiting and he’s been out there most days playing football from all over Ireland . It’s great. He’s out there at the moment playing football with a girl and boy from Dublin. Yesterday it was two girls from Tipperary and last week it was people from Cork. Reminds me of what our summers used to be when you got out early in the morning and kicked a ball off a wall for most of the day and if anyone new came into your estate it was great craic .
Your dog - "oh my favourite,another dogs piss" Also your dog - "hey you,that water in my bowl is two hours old. I aint drinking that. Fresh water now"
I'm in the middle of renewing the kids passports here and even though you can do it online you've to print and sign the consent form. Does anyone know if the witness can be anyone or does it have to be someone off the same list as the approved witnesses for the first time applications for kids? The website really isnt clear
Cheers, maybe it was down to my head being fried yesterday but it really didn't make sense to me it seemed that the list was for first timers!
A couple of months back my missus received a €50 bankers draft from a former employer (hasn't worked there for 6/7 years). It was to cover expenses for her attendance in court as witness on their behalf. The date of the case had already passed by the time she got the cheque. My memory from business studies back in the day is that cheque is basically cash and she should keep it. She's had it sitting in a pile of other useless post, saying she can't cash it as she didn't do anything for it.
If it's a bank draft it's already out of the company's accounts so she may as well go ahead and cash it because it's out of their account already. If it's a cheque it's a different story. A cheque has a limit that it has to be cashed within but a draft is technically has no time limit.
A bit random,but I've always been a bit baffled by how impressed people get with a public figure making a good speech,that you know they haven't written. It's basically just reading. Also a lot of journalism,where people go "what a great scoop" ,when it's often just somebody they know or they're mates with,giving them a bit of gossip. I know it's about making contacts,but that's just networking,and I dont see whats impressive about it.
Not that I would care that much either way, but when you boil things down you can say that of an awful a lot of things humans do. It is impressive in comparison with the bulk of ordinary or even terrible performances/standards that are the norm.
You're probably right,but I think part of that is down to how we measure stuff and what we decide is important. What got me thinking about the speech thing was all the praise Georgia Meloni is getting the last couple of days for a speech she gave. She didn't write it,so it's praise for being a good orator. Im not saying being a good orator isn't a good quality to have,but she's the leader of a country and an ability to read somebody else's words well should be very low down the list of qualities we look for in politicians. It's like Biden in some ways. My personal feelings about him and Israel aside, by all reasonable measures, he's executed the job of being president well. He could keep executing it well,but what he can't do is run for president again because he can't do all of the far less important stuff that actually gets a person elected,hes become shit at campaigning due to his age. So he would have lost to a different old man whose not only proven he can't do the job,but whose cognitive capabilities are at least as bad as Biden. Because Biden couldn't clear the bar that everybody set for him,he can't keep the job which would make sense if they weren't giving the job to somebody who can't clear a far lower bar,that Biden clears easily. And we do that across the board. Most people have seen situations in work where one person is obviously more capable than another who beat them out of a promotion, because they performed better in an aptitude test or an interview. We're placing people's ability to be impressive in an interview,above their ability to actually do the job. And I know that's partly to avoid cronyism/nepotism,but it's also about ego. The people doing the hiring want people lining up to try and impress them. We forgive poor behaviour from people who are good at sports or music or acting, while being far less forgiving of similar behaviour from people who have nothing going for them. Paul McGrath and Gazza are national treasures, and I'm glad there's understanding for their addictions. But if they hadn't of been talented footballers,they'd have been written off as scumbags for a fraction of their behaviour. Mike Tyson is a convicted rapist,he's still incredibly popular. Then theres one of my biggest pet hates. The way we excuse deeply damaging decisions made out of self interest by politicians,because they're politicians. They literally get to cause misery and even death to avoid losing votes, and keep the moral high ground over the guy who calls them a cunt for it. The cult of civility. We reward low standards across the board,which drops the standards to even lower levels,then stand and applaud when somebody proves they can tie their shoelaces.
speeches are all in the delivery by the person the same speech spoken by someone else, may not have the same impact writing a speech to suit a specific person or delivery type, is where the recognition should go If the “I Had A Dream” speech was spoken by Kerry Katona, it wouldn’t have the same impact but would be the same words