Random political stuff - old news, or not news

[briantrumpet]

We can go on looking to prove who was most correct...or we can look at the Aldi website:

https://www.aldirecruitment.co.uk/early-careers/graduate-area-manager-programme


My case is now relaxing elegantly on a velvet chaise longue.

It's probably a bit late for me for a change in career, even if they would like an academic musician-trumpeter on their payroll.

But this seems to counter the suggestion that degrees are worthless these days.

 

[briantrumpet]

My case is now relaxing elegantly on a velvet chaise longue.

BTW, didn't you know it's now a chaise lounge, if you believe Americans aren't idiots?

 

[Rusty Nails]

BTW, didn't you know it's now a chaise lounge, if you believe Americans aren't idiots?

I can't get my tounge around that pronunciation.

 

[briantrumpet]

I can't get my tounge around that pronunciation.

You need to get some tongs on your tung.

 

[briantrumpet]

Oo-er, apparently appearances of 'chaise lounge' (which, obviously is as simply incorrect as it would be to spell 'chair' as 'cahir') are almost as common in printed books now as the actual, like, right spelling.

 

[AndyRM]

We can go on looking to prove who was most correct...or we can look at the Aldi website:

https://www.aldirecruitment.co.uk/early-careers/graduate-area-manager-programme


My case is now relaxing elegantly on a velvet chaise longue.

We could indeed. But there's no need to.

 

[Psamathe]

Re: Party Conferences
I've always thought the timing of a Party Conference relative to others might be important on the wider public leanings (given that I consider the Conferences more for the electorate than those attending whose votes are already a sure thing).

Given how short a memory much of the electorate has, whilst public might currently be remembering Reform eg raising the Personal Allowance, next whoever's conference will undoubtedly be presenting benefits to as wider number of voters as possible, then another party with new shiny offers by which time Reform's offers are long forgotten.

But just a view without evidence.

 

[briantrumpet]

Haha, just spotted on FB, Argos is having to delete most of the comments on their advert for Meta Perv Glasses. Only five left from 122 comments posted.

 

[briantrumpet]

What a ridiculous question, in pretty much every aspect.

 

[Pross]

What a ridiculous question, in pretty much every aspect.

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How could an event that involved an invasion by thousands illegally crossing the channel in small boats and attacking the good old Anglo-Saxon locals have been anything other than negative?

At least the majority in Wales had the sense to admit they don't know.

 

[icowden]

At least the majority in Wales had the sense to admit they don't know.

I think "neither positive or negative" is just another way of saying "don't know". SO by my reckoning 79% of respondents replied "WTF?"

 

[Rusty Nails]

Yebbut what did the  Romans Normans ever do for us?

 

[C R]

Yebbut what did the  Romans Normans ever do for us?

Apart from almost turning English into a romance language?

 

[briantrumpet]

Someone's having some fun on the Underground...

 

[Ian H]

Apart from almost turning English into a romance language?

Barnes strongly advocated against borrowing foreign words into English, and instead supported the use and proliferation of "strong old Anglo-Saxon speech".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barnes