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Reply | The 20MPH punishments
at 09:42 3 May 2024
These people seem to think that all danger can be eliminated from life, and all you have to do is inconvenience millions of people based on statistically negligible risks. |
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Reply | The 20MPH punishments
at 07:00 3 May 2024
I am liking the narrative that despite basically everyone (other than a strange few) I've ever discussed the 20mph rule with thinking that it's an idiotic idea, the petition with half a million signatures on it is apparently worthless because of a few thousand votes that came from outside Wales. |
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Reply | Unbelievable these Tories
at 08:34 2 May 2024
In some cases yes. Mobility is a big one. In a lot of cases, most definitely not.
I deal with cases on a daily basis of people in receipt of PIP who barely ever leave the house. I've seen people who should get the full rate of it turned down, I've seen obvious malingerers awarded everything. I've seen most things in between.
It's a system not fit for purpose that locks some people into a cycle of despair, enables some to live a life of comfort on the taxpayer and denies others what they should be getting. |
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Reply | SWANSEA CITY CONFIRM LATEST ACCOUNTS ...
at 08:27 2 May 2024
How much of the loss was down to expenses incurred in the last 25% of the year? How much of it was as a result of contracts/transfers agreed well before that?
I'm not denying that there's a bit of blame shifting going on, but it's also fairly obvious that little of it can seriously be laid at his feet. The next accounts will be all on him. |
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Reply | Unbelievable these Tories
at 07:31 2 May 2024
Your last sentence is basically the opening scene of Idiocracy, and it's frighteningly close to the truth.
There has been the predictable outrage from the predictable sources to the Governments plans to reform PIP, but it is, at heart, something that probably does need looking at. I do question whether someone who suffers from mental health issues needs extra funding. More to the point, in my experience, the worst thing you can do for people with poor mental health is pay them to sit at home all day.
Covid saw an explosion in the cases of people reporting poor mental health. Quite clearly as a direct result of the lockdown mandates, especially amongst the young. Humans are social creatures. They need to be outdoors and with other people. Forcing or enabling them to do the opposite has done a tremendous amount of damage. [Post edited 2 May 8:03]
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Reply | Aliens!
at 07:24 2 May 2024
On the basis of sheer mathematical probability alone it's effectively impossible that out of the countless billions of planets out there, this one is the only one where life has evolved, especially if you consider the sheer variety of life that comes with it when it does.
Whether that life has in most cases progressed past very basic forms or if your Star Trek/Star Wars type advanced civilisations exist is another matter. |
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Reply | SWANSEA CITY CONFIRM LATEST ACCOUNTS ...
at 07:15 2 May 2024
If it's for the financial year 22/23 then it does pre-date his arrival as chairman. It's also not beyond likely, indeed based on my understanding of how the club is currently financed perhaps the most probable situation that much of the budget for the forthcoming season had also been agreed.
It is a clumsy attempt at blame shifting, but not an altogether unjustified one. |
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Reply | SWANSEA CITY CONFIRM LATEST ACCOUNTS ...
at 08:01 1 May 2024
The only way we can, by buying cheap, selling high, and not caving in to demands by barely adequate strikers to pay them half a million a year. |
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Reply | Ollie Cooper
at 20:21 29 Apr 2024
Unfortunately energy and desire only goes so far without quality.
He's always been a nuisance and a willing worker but there's always been issues with his technical ability. I can remember people clamouring for him to start ahead of Pato as if that wasn't going to be a major downgrade.
File alongside Cullen. Hard working popular local boy who we really need better than for next season. |
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Reply | Angela Van Den Bogerd
at 10:59 28 Apr 2024
Technically the DWP isn't a rebranded Benefits Agency, but an organisation formed by the merging of the BA and the Employment Service, who I was working for when it happened (still got my old name badge somewhere).
The primary IT system used by the BA at the time is still in use now, although less and less as more things switch over to the UC systems, which is much more user friendly and less prone to bugs compared to the old one, which isn't even navigable with a GUI.
I can vaguely remember back in the dim and distant past some talk about payment cards but that came to nothing at the time. Ironically a similar system does actually exist today for people who cannot or do not have a bank account. |
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Reply | Sturgeon arrested
at 20:08 27 Apr 2024
Trolling is a problem everywhere unfortunately. |
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Reply | Sturgeon arrested
at 20:01 27 Apr 2024
Oh for sure.
When I was a moderator the biggest crime you could commit was being tedious. Spats and arguments are par for the course. You could even post something that I vehemently disagreed with and I wouldn't mind. Hell, I've crossed swords with Perchy more often than most, but he's far too much fun to ban.
Be dull and repetitive? You were gone. Trampie was a prime example of the type I would target. [Post edited 27 Apr 20:02]
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Reply | Putin and his propagandists are deluded
at 19:22 27 Apr 2024
We're probably at the point where if Putin tried his chances against Poland on its own he would get his arse handed to him. The Poles have had enough of being Europe's wartime crossroads. They've got a well trained, well funded armed forces and are in no mood to muck around.
The idea that Russia could take them on, alongside France, Germany, Sweden, Finland, The UK, Belgium, The US and others? Laughable. Even at the height of the Cold War the Soviets never considered it worth the risk, preferring to rattle the sabre occasionally in return for concessions that the West considered cheaper than going to war. Now? Not a chance. |
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Reply | Sturgeon arrested
at 18:59 27 Apr 2024
The rest of Wales outside the central Cardiff postcode area has certainly suffered as a result of devolution. The desperation of the Senedd to see the cancerous capital bloom at the expense of everywhere else is plain to see.
It is one of the great ironies that Cardiff voted no in the first place. Maybe if the citizens of Swansea had had the same common sense we'd have been spared the whole catastrophe. |
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Reply | Sturgeon arrested
at 18:57 27 Apr 2024
Maybe he was banned for being boring.
Seriously, that should go on the list of reasons for getting one. |
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Reply | Norwich City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 18:39 27 Apr 2024
I'm "consumed with hate" says the guy spewing seven lines of vitriol at a player who came on for 22 minutes.
If me calling you on your nonsense bothers you, I don't care. |
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