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The modern working world? Would you expect to sit down in a busy office and read a book or a newspaper whilst others were busy? What is the difference between Turkish spending hours posting twaddle on the CoT thread or trolling as usual for hours on end every day? Fair play to those who have found jobs where the company don’t mind paying them for carrying out their hobbies. As I say, little wonder the country is in such a state. I guess that is why the Tories struggled so much. All of the Civil Servants have been chatting away in football forums and Mumsnet instead of getting on with running the country.

That’s a bit rich coming from someone who voted for the congenital liar Boris Johnson. Starmer has said many times that he looked at why they lost and changed things. Sign of a good leader. Something your people have sadly lacked. Another in a long line of deeply inappropriate leaders? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/30/kemi-badenoch-accused-of-bullying-and-traumatising-staff

They wanted a 35% increase. We needed to end the strikes, to get the waiting lists down and we need to retain and recruit more doctors. No sign of that happening under the last government.

How do you feel about Trump’s idea of the future? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-vote-christians-2024-election-b2587231.html

Heartbreaking https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cevwgqz0x41t

Maybe, although they don’t expect frequent use of personal phones where my wife works. Up until the point I retired it was frowned upon in our office and it wasn’t ok in the part time jobs I had afterwards. Little wonder this country is going down the toilet if office staff everywhere are spending their days slagging off total strangers on the internet! 😉

Didn’t it used to be mandatory?

Does he count as another “Legohead?”

More good news! https://news.sky.com/story/amp/islamist-preacher-anjem-choudary-jailed-for-at-least-28-years-for-directing-terrorist-organisation-13187158

I know that you aren’t the sharpest knife in the draw Weston, but it isn’t a stretch to work out that most jobs operate between roughly 9 and 6 and most people work a 5 day week. If you see posts from them pretty much every day, through the day, there is a very good chance that they are using social media during working hours. If, as you suggest, they might be working nights, when do they sleep if they are posting consistently through the day? When you say it is possible to work and use social media at the same time, you are making my point for me (bless you). I don’t know about your job, if you ever had one, but where I worked people were expected to work during their hours of employment, not spend their time trolling on social media platforms. I know that you trip over yourself trying to trip up others, but you really need to engage your brain first. You just end up making yourself look silly.

The two girls who died yesterday were just 6 and 7 years old for goodness sakes. It is beyond comprehension. The latest victim was 9 years old.

Here he is David Icke (east-stand-nic) with his conspiracy theories and completely besotted by the most moronic person ever to have become a POTUS. Let’s pass on the mess he made of the job first time round, his attempt at insurrection, his many sexual assaults and criminal activities. Given the state of the world at the moment, his attitude towards NATO, his attitude towards democracy in the USA and his servitude towards Putin, I don’t think it is unreasonable to fear a future under Trump. Have you ever looked back at history and wondered about the people who enabled so many crackpot dictators. Take a look in the mirror Nic and you will see what one looks like.

It gets worse. Just heard that a third child has died.

Both the adults involved were incredibly brave. Let’s hope that they and the injured children all make a full recovery. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-brave-southport-instructor-fighting-33355492.amp

It’s a bit of a motley crew. If the party want to try and out nasty Reform, Badenoch is your go to leader. Tugendhat probably the best bet for a more sensible, centrist leader (although even he has shown signs of pandering to the right of the party). From what she has been saying, Braverman probably realises that her goose has been well and truly cooked within the party and her next stop is Reform. In the next few years they could end up with a the most nefarious gang in Parliament since Guy Fawkes.

He might have to do so in a new language. It sounds like he might be planning to spend some time abroad. Still, more good news eh?

I meant well 🤷🏻

Makes you wonder how many posters here could be sacked for “doing stuff” on company time. Not sure that spending hours on social media when you should be hard at work would go down well at the annual appraisal. [Just to be clear, I didn’t start this thread. It has been split from another thread by a mod which was on a completely different subject]

I think we need a new separate thread to discuss former players body parts and those who they may, or may not, have shagged.

Just because your sister was spending her time making eyes at the players doesn’t mean that other people in hospitality didn’t have contact with others within the club who dealt with transfers, does it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6p24zpeg05o.amp Any article headed “The Bean Counters Get Their Revenge” is worth a read, especially if it makes Jeremy Hunt look even more inept that he normally does.

That’s disappointing as we were hoping for O’Riley. 😉

I’ve found something. Yay! https://www.positive.news/society/good-news-stories-from-week-30-of-2024/

As a couple of the old boys are struggling with the constant stream of bad news in the Lounge and seem to be incapable of starting their own happy threads, this is for them. Their own little corner in The Saints Web forum where they can retreat to when they feel it is all getting too much and bathe in the warm glow of stories of kittens, puppies and all things warm and fuzzy. I was going to kick it off with a warm, fuzzy story myself but couldn’t find any in my news feed that Trousers hasn’t already pinched. I am sure this thread will be a huge success and hope that even the most curmudgeonly of posters finds something here to warm the cockles of their cold hearts. 🦄🐶🐱🌈 ❤️

Remind us again about how Trump reacted when he lost the last Presidential election.