This Kingsmill slice is within date - and not only has it got holes in - but you'd have to be a member of the arts and crafts movement to formulate a slice of ham to fit it ... or cut out a complex mosaic of cheese.
Now is the time of year when we are asked for money to get people of the streets over Christmas.Can someone please explain to me ,why we are letting our own citizens sleep in cardboard boxes,and yet anyone arriving by boat over the channel,will get 4 star hotels ,money and generally be looked after.I guarantee Welby and his bleeding heart brigade would be up in arms if he discovered a poor illegal immigrant abandoned on the streets,but not a word about his own people.Ask a street sleeper if he would like a bed 3 meals a day,warm shower on a very large floating barge and I bet they would jump at it. I am well aware that some of our street population may have chosen this way of lifeI am also sure that not all the boat people are from war torn countries or are being persecuted. Charity begins at home.
Probably one for the politics thread, thickandthin63.
Or go elsewhere and research whether immigration centres are really lovely 4 star hotels, research the relative fiscal contributions of the immigrant population v the native one, and research the stats for how much harder it is for immigrants experiencing homelessness to get any sort of support.
Mrs TCE’s inability to close a car door! First attempt, it doesn’t register as closed on the dashboard. Second attempt, nearly takes out all the windows it’s slammed with such force. 🤷♂️
Now is the time of year when we are asked for money to get people of the streets over Christmas.Can someone please explain to me ,why we are letting our own citizens sleep in cardboard boxes,and yet anyone arriving by boat over the channel,will get 4 star hotels ,money and generally be looked after.I guarantee Welby and his bleeding heart brigade would be up in arms if he discovered a poor illegal immigrant abandoned on the streets,but not a word about his own people.Ask a street sleeper if he would like a bed 3 meals a day,warm shower on a very large floating barge and I bet they would jump at it. I am well aware that some of our street population may have chosen this way of lifeI am also sure that not all the boat people are from war torn countries or are being persecuted. Charity begins at home.
Now is the time of year when we are asked for money to get people of the streets over Christmas.Can someone please explain to me ,why we are letting our own citizens sleep in cardboard boxes,and yet anyone arriving by boat over the channel,will get 4 star hotels ,money and generally be looked after.I guarantee Welby and his bleeding heart brigade would be up in arms if he discovered a poor illegal immigrant abandoned on the streets,but not a word about his own people.Ask a street sleeper if he would like a bed 3 meals a day,warm shower on a very large floating barge and I bet they would jump at it. I am well aware that some of our street population may have chosen this way of lifeI am also sure that not all the boat people are from war torn countries or are being persecuted. Charity begins at home.
Sky customer service fella Asif:so you have sky sports, what sport do you watch? me:football mainly Asif:so what team do you support? me:Charlton Athletic Asif:oh yeh I remember them used to be in premier league, what league they in now? me:league one Asif:so what premier league team do you support? me:do what mate? Asif:all my mates come from Sheffield but support Man U, what prem team do you support? me:I support Charlton mate Asif:but they’re not in the prem me:*hangs up*
Commentators pronouncing Erith wrong on national tele.
I remember our full back Mark Reid being interviewed by a Celtic fanzine many years ago, in a ‘where are they now’ feature - the interview started with the memorable line ‘we interviewed Mark in the house he lives in with his family in the delightful village of Erith’ !!!!
Mrs TCE’s inability to close a car door! First attempt, it doesn’t register as closed on the dashboard. Second attempt, nearly takes out all the windows it’s slammed with such force. 🤷♂️
My son slams the car door with such force, I fear getting a perforated ear drum every time !!!
I complain - wife tells me to stop being a grumpy bastard
Commentators pronouncing Erith wrong on national tele.
I remember our full back Mark Reid being interviewed by a Celtic fanzine many years ago, in a ‘where are they now’ feature - the interview started with the memorable line ‘we interviewed Mark in the house he lives in with his family in the delightful village of Erith’ !!!!
🤷
Likewise Kidbrooke Village now according to the marketing of the new style Ferrier Estate 😆
Mrs TCE’s inability to close a car door! First attempt, it doesn’t register as closed on the dashboard. Second attempt, nearly takes out all the windows it’s slammed with such force. 🤷♂️
My son slams the car door with such force, I fear getting a perforated ear drum every time !!!
I complain - wife tells me to stop being a grumpy bastard
Stage two, while she gets comfortable in her seat she continues to block the view from the door mirror, finally sorted I get "are we not going then" If I didn't need her to unlock the school gates when its pi55ing down I'd leave her at home!
Now is the time of year when we are asked for money to get people of the streets over Christmas.Can someone please explain to me ,why we are letting our own citizens sleep in cardboard boxes,and yet anyone arriving by boat over the channel,will get 4 star hotels ,money and generally be looked after.I guarantee Welby and his bleeding heart brigade would be up in arms if he discovered a poor illegal immigrant abandoned on the streets,but not a word about his own people.Ask a street sleeper if he would like a bed 3 meals a day,warm shower on a very large floating barge and I bet they would jump at it. I am well aware that some of our street population may have chosen this way of lifeI am also sure that not all the boat people are from war torn countries or are being persecuted. Charity begins at home.
Now is the time of year when we are asked for money to get people of the streets over Christmas.Can someone please explain to me ,why we are letting our own citizens sleep in cardboard boxes,and yet anyone arriving by boat over the channel,will get 4 star hotels ,money and generally be looked after.I guarantee Welby and his bleeding heart brigade would be up in arms if he discovered a poor illegal immigrant abandoned on the streets,but not a word about his own people.Ask a street sleeper if he would like a bed 3 meals a day,warm shower on a very large floating barge and I bet they would jump at it. I am well aware that some of our street population may have chosen this way of lifeI am also sure that not all the boat people are from war torn countries or are being persecuted. Charity begins at home.
Probably one for the politics thread, thickandthin63.
Or go elsewhere and research whether immigration centres are really lovely 4 star hotels, research the relative fiscal contributions of the immigrant population v the native one, and research the stats for how much harder it is for immigrants experiencing homelessness to get any sort of support.
Whatever standard immigration centres are,it must be better than a cardboard box in the pissing down of rain.Probably would be better under politics thread,but it annoys me that so much attention is given to the welfare of illegal immigrants ,rather than our own sufferers.
Now is the time of year when we are asked for money to get people of the streets over Christmas.Can someone please explain to me ,why we are letting our own citizens sleep in cardboard boxes,and yet anyone arriving by boat over the channel,will get 4 star hotels ,money and generally be looked after.I guarantee Welby and his bleeding heart brigade would be up in arms if he discovered a poor illegal immigrant abandoned on the streets,but not a word about his own people.Ask a street sleeper if he would like a bed 3 meals a day,warm shower on a very large floating barge and I bet they would jump at it. I am well aware that some of our street population may have chosen this way of lifeI am also sure that not all the boat people are from war torn countries or are being persecuted. Charity begins at home.
Probably one for the politics thread, thickandthin63.
Or go elsewhere and research whether immigration centres are really lovely 4 star hotels, research the relative fiscal contributions of the immigrant population v the native one, and research the stats for how much harder it is for immigrants experiencing homelessness to get any sort of support.
Whatever standard immigration centres are,it must be better than a cardboard box in the pissing down of rain.Probably would be better under politics thread,but it annoys me that so much attention is given to the welfare of illegal immigrants ,rather than our own sufferers.
For me, since being a young teen I was profoundly aware and felt guilty about anyone who it was an amplification of destitution, loneliness, loss. It wasn't a conscious thing, but I felt the adverts and commercialisation was a bit, dunno, for the sake of me not finding the right words let's say gluttony of Christmas. I was a pretty thick kid so it wasn't something I could ever express without being called weird.
Thats not to say I dont want people to enjoy Christmas but no other time of the year do I feel more acutely aware of how abjectly horrible it must be for a lot of people. I love the lights in the week or so before Christmas, I like I like non-christmas, Christmas films like Die Hard, Harry Potter, James Bond films on terrestrial TV and I will fight anyone who disagrees with my view that the muppets Christmas Carol is the truest depiction of Charles Dickens finest work, I love the darts and watching worlds strongest man in the Gooch between Christmas and New year. I don't like outward, showy, theatric grumpiness about Christmas in the same way I detest anyone who films themselves doing something charitable (this absolutely isn't aimed at anyone here).
I really cringe at the perfect Christmas adverts of massive spreads of food, nuclear, perfect ethnically diverse families. I've had a lot of personal loss this year and maybe I've been trying to condition myself for it and the realisation that the family gatherings I'd huff about going to don't happen anymore because the people who were the glue are not around, those who effortlessly but probably anything but effortlessly pulled together.
So yeah, seeing the commercialisation of Christmas from the start of November is giving me a low level, dull, rumbling, unpleasant growl in my stomach that will last for most of 2 months. My wife loves Christmas and I act really hard to not dampen that genuine love for the occasion but in truth I want to be away from the United Kingdom for the whole thing which I know she would hate.
Collection Pot and similar organised banking scams. Firstly, for the ridiculous charges on each transaction. Secondly, the fact that they round up the asking amount and pretend you should pay more than you really need to. Thirdly, if you are the lucky recipient of the collection, they try to steer you into taking vouchers for their collaborators businesses rather than making cash the easiest option. I much preferred it when a brown envelope went around the office.
Food bank trolleys filled up by mugs paying for food and giving the supermarket profit to do so then putting the tin/packet in the trolley in supermarkets that make 100s of millions in profit, then they pay minimum shit wages to people that work there and the tax payer props them up with UC or credits. Then some of these poor sods probably use the said food bank after work. It really does rile me.
A perfect example of corporate greed mixed with false philanthropy - absolute bollocks
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Much nicer than Eariff.
This Kingsmill slice is within date - and not only has it got holes in - but you'd have to be a member of the arts and crafts movement to formulate a slice of ham to fit it ... or cut out a complex mosaic of cheese.
I am well aware that some of our street population may have chosen this way of lifeI am also sure that not all the boat people are from war torn countries or are being persecuted.
Charity begins at home.
Or go elsewhere and research whether immigration centres are really lovely 4 star hotels, research the relative fiscal contributions of the immigrant population v the native one, and research the stats for how much harder it is for immigrants experiencing homelessness to get any sort of support.
First attempt, it doesn’t register as closed on the dashboard.
Second attempt, nearly takes out all the windows it’s slammed with such force. 🤷♂️
Asif:so you have sky sports, what sport do you watch?
me:football mainly
Asif:so what team do you support?
me:Charlton Athletic
Asif:oh yeh I remember them used to be in premier league, what league they in now?
me:league one
Asif:so what premier league team do you support?
me:do what mate?
Asif:all my mates come from Sheffield but support Man U, what prem team do you support?
me:I support Charlton mate
Asif:but they’re not in the prem
me:*hangs up*
I complain - wife tells me to stop being a grumpy bastard
If I didn't need her to unlock the school gates when its pi55ing down I'd leave her at home!
A perfect example of corporate greed mixed with false philanthropy - absolute bollocks