I'd totally forgotten about this! Stone cold classic. He's almost definitely talking about Club bars, they have orange and mint flavours and tick all the other boxes.

This isn't entirely true - someone calculated that, on a good year, a peasant could only work 150 days a year towards the rent of their own farmland. Then they have to actually work that land, take care of their animals, and manually do basically every industrial process we take for granted to get food in their belly. They didn't work 150 days a year then go off with a cheque that will sort them out for the rest of the year.

Source: https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/regulation-industry/medieval-peasants-really-did-not-work-only-150-days-a-year/

Talk about issues that affect the working class. Not the white working class, not working class men, just everyone who makes a living by drawing a wage. Progressive movements are formed by solidarity, and we have more in common with other working class people than any of the politicians or business leaders who set the tone of this debate.

Imagine being the guy in Shin Bet who has to draw a hoax children's drawing, leaving the office to buy crayons.

We've had some bad PMs lately but Cameron is still the worst since Thatcher. Austerity, Brexit, demonisation of disabled people, bombing Libya and creating the biggest refugee crisis of our time, it's all down to this cunt. And centrists like to say "the Tories were fine until Johnson and Truss messed it all up".

Looking forward to the next issue of Private Eye, I bet they'll be able to get the inside story on what happened here.

To steal a tip from JB Smoove - walk around with one shoelace untied. Someone will notice.

"Hey, your shoelace is untied"

"Oh, thanks"

Ice: broken

If this NHS data is properly anonymised, why not open it to everyone instead of just select "researchers and innovators"? (And how do I know that "researchers and innovators" just means Microsoft and Google?)

This just seems like a multi billion pound gift to US tech companies. We're still effectively in austerity and this is what they're spending money on.

But I thought LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder?!

Actually I never got that. WINE isn't an emulator, but LAME very much is an MP3 encoder

We've been spending much more per capita in the NHS in recent years than we used to. Part of that is the aging population and Covid, but a big part is probably the increase in privatisation. Paying agency workers to fill up chronic staffing shortages etc

I think part of it is not wanting to be mugged off. Even though it doesn't materially affect you, having someone come in everyday and nick stuff in front of you would probably wear you down. No excuse for violence of course but I can see how it comes to this.

BELLEND?