Gemmill

Short thread. Far right scum gathering outside a mosque in Stockport. Riot police with dogs have been called out, police van is on fire. As far as I'm aware, nobody knows that the killer is Muslim.

Steven Seagal in Under Siege.

Been practising this move all afternoon for IRL use.

Setting aside the fact that the election was 25 days ago, wtf is he meant to have done. Think this probably says more about the kind of ghouls that hang around at the scene of tragedies with their camera phones out. Fucking weird.

@wykikitoon

Watching the archery the other day and they were saying that the targets were SEVENTY METRES away, and that if you're holding the bow to aim, if you lifted your thumb, your nail would be big enough to completely obscure the target. And these motherfuckers are just pinging bullseyes. I'm aware they practice and they're the best around, but it's still ludicrous that anyone can do that.

Platinum blonde baby. In those days. Bald as a fucking coot now.

Fucking LOVE a proper peri-peri. The local bar in Carvoeiro was called Smiler's and Ruth Madoc had a house in town so was a regular in there. This was 1986 so she'd have been near the PEAK of her powers at the time. Used to go there for toasties. Think it was the only place in Portugal with a Breville.

I was TEN, Huw!

I lived in Portugal for a year as a kid. Place called Carvoeiro. I was 10 so I don't remember loads about it, but if my memory is right, it was just fucking pools and beaches, interrupted during the week by school. I think my mam just treated it like she was on holiday for a year. Think that would have been the last time I had an escudo in my hand. Usually to buy a Calippo or knock off cassette tapes from the stall in the town centre.

It was a James May themed wedding tbf.

I'd completely forgotten about escudos.

@PaddockLad

I can accurately predict anybody's age. I use their current age and the single assumption that they age one year for every year that passes. It has yet to let me down. Would you like to hear my prediction for how old 37 year old John Ruddy will be 5 years from now?

They'll all be drawing a pension by the time any of these kids come good.

or 🔥 as they say on twitter. Pleased to see Rayner is not gonna allow this fucking arsehole Badenoch to stand and talk down to her, which she's done twice now in the last week.

Either Ireland are gonna be great in 6 or 7 years, or we're gonna have a whole new fleet of Jeff Hendricks on our hands.

Where were the people hitting it with a flip flop after it came down? The Iraqis could show these idiots a thing or two about how to dismantle a dictator's statue.

Could you not do some of the stuff you're doing, but as a self employed consultant? So you could get a lot closer to your day rate being your actual salary?

Harder to just walk out when you've got a full bus too. Could be on to something here.

https://jamaicanpatwah.com/dictionary/category/insult-words Blabba mout Patois: Mi bredda a blabba mout English: My brother is a chatterbox Dunce bat Patois: Yuh a dunce bat, yuh cyaa duh nuttin. English: Your stupid, you can't do nothing. Wasteman Patois: Him a wasteman, thirty six an still liv inna him madda house English: He's a worthless person, thirty six and still live in his mother's house Just a few of the insults Steve can look forward to in Jamaica.

Aye I don't really have an answer beyond "if at all possible, don't quit til you've found something else", but I know you wouldn't be doing that if you didn't think that the situation had become intolerable. You do probably need to start thinking about how this is gonna look when you apply for other jobs though, as it will become a factor in their decision if they think they might be looking for someone else a month down the line. I think you were in your old job a long time (is that right?). Do you think that maybe the way employers treat people has shifted while you've been there, but it hasn't impacted you cos you were comfortable there and knew what worked and what didn't, and what you could get away with? And since you've left, you're the new boy so a) you're getting the shitty end of the stick for a bit anyway, and b) these people just operate differently now cos of the shift in worker rights. Not suggesting that it's OK that the way employers treat people has shifted btw, but it might be something that you're gonna find everywhere you go. It might be that your tolerance for feeling like an employer is taking the piss out of you needs to be recalibrated, because unless there is something you could do self employed*, there's always some cunt sat above you, trying to make their life easier by making your life harder. None of these are good answers, and I hope you take them in the spirit intended. When I was working for a start up recently and it genuinely looked like it was all gonna fall over, the prospect of going through an interview and assessment process terrified me - I just knew I couldn't be arsed with it. 50s/approaching 50s is a really fucking shit time to suddenly find yourself having to look for work. *being self employed is no bed of roses either obviously.

Blair didn't start off in 97 with the public finances in the toilet either.

Just read that. I clicked on it thinking "wtf is Caulkin doing with these puff pieces" but it's impossible not to warm to Staveley. Right decision for them to leave if they were just gonna be interfering, but big shoes for Eales to fill. Sounds like the players loved her.