What Is Happening To Our Country?

[whelk]

If we sort out ‘vertical drinking’ we can sort the rest of the country’s problems

https://news.sky.com/story/no-10-urges-council-to-work-with-london-pubs-amid-row-over-vertical-drinking-13570555

[Baird of the land]

1 hour ago, whelk said:

If we sort out ‘vertical drinking’ we can sort the rest of the country’s problems

https://news.sky.com/story/no-10-urges-council-to-work-with-london-pubs-amid-row-over-vertical-drinking-13570555

Swaddle would rise up the ranks if only that didn't involve verticality

[Gloucester Saint]

2 hours ago, whelk said:

If we sort out ‘vertical drinking’ we can sort the rest of the country’s problems

https://news.sky.com/story/no-10-urges-council-to-work-with-london-pubs-amid-row-over-vertical-drinking-13570555

Mike Ashley likes a bit of vertical drinking in London. And a good fireplace to barf in https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40484091

[Gloucester Saint]

Not content with poisoning customers and landing them with some of the country’s highest water bills in a seasonal economy, SW Water now scares them senseless in the middle of the night with an update about a hosepipe ban https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8ey8lv5jno

[benjii]

This is what's happening to your country. Be aware.

 

 

[AlexLaw76]

From the Private Eye.

[Farmer Saint]

45 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

From the Private Eye.

1 - Number of benefits cheats details @AlexLaw76 said he'd provide if an email address was sent over.

0 - Number of benefits details received by said email address.

[AlexLaw76]

1 minute ago, Farmer Saint said:

1 - Number of benefits cheats details @AlexLaw76 said he'd provide if an email address was sent over.

0 - Number of benefits details received by said email address.

You keep presenting this as though I agreed to give you someone's personal information and then backed out. That's simply not what happened. I just asked you to IM me an email address if you wanted to do it - just to see if you would actually go that far (oddly).

You asked a complete stranger for someone else's personal details. I said no. You then went as far as creating a new/burner email address to try to get me to hand them over.

I'm not sure how many different ways this needs explaining: I don't know you, you don't know me, and I'm not giving a stranger somebody else's personal information just because you want to prove a point.

A little bit weird. Perhaps it's time to let it go.

 

 

[badgerx16]

https://news.sky.com/story/thames-water-risks-fresh-storm-over-1m-payment-to-finance-chief-13571530

 

"Thames Water risks igniting a fresh storm over boardroom pay after handing a £1m signing-on fee to its finance chief even as it teeters on the brink of collaps"

[Farmer Saint]

18 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

You keep presenting this as though I agreed to give you someone's personal information and then backed out. That's simply not what happened. I just asked you to IM me an email address if you wanted to do it - just to see if you would actually go that far (oddly).

You asked a complete stranger for someone else's personal details. I said no. You then went as far as creating a new/burner email address to try to get me to hand them over.

I'm not sure how many different ways this needs explaining: I don't know you, you don't know me, and I'm not giving a stranger somebody else's personal information just because you want to prove a point.

A little bit weird. Perhaps it's time to let it go.

 

 

😂😂😂😂😂

Jesus, no wonder you got thrown out of the Navy if you're that dishonest. But as you said this is your Mrs' friend who you hold in distain for cheating benefits, but won't report for some reason. No morals, no ethics, but then of course "birds of a feather..."

[AlexLaw76]

3 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

😂😂😂😂😂

Jesus, no wonder you got thrown out of the Navy if you're that dishonest. But as you said this is your Mrs' friend who you hold in distain for cheating benefits, but won't report for some reason. No morals, no ethics, but then of course "birds of a feather..."

Good god. Who said I was thrown out of the Navy?

You are displaying some very odd, and mildly obsessive, behaviour.

Calling me dishonest and claiming I have no ethics because I won't hand a complete stranger somebody else's personal information is quite the stretch.

There is nothing dishonest about refusing to disclose someone else's private details. In fact, I'd suggest having enough respect for someone's privacy to say "no" is rather more ethical than handing their details to a stranger simply to win an argument on an internet forum.

You don't know me, you don't know the person whose details you're demanding, and you're not entitled to them.

As said, just let it go.

Edited 3 hours ago by AlexLaw76

[egg]

36 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

You keep presenting this as though I agreed to give you someone's personal information and then backed out. That's simply not what happened. I just asked you to IM me an email address if you wanted to do it - just to see if you would actually go that far (oddly).

You asked a complete stranger for someone else's personal details. I said no. You then went as far as creating a new/burner email address to try to get me to hand them over.

I'm not sure how many different ways this needs explaining: I don't know you, you don't know me, and I'm not giving a stranger somebody else's personal information just because you want to prove a point.

A little bit weird. Perhaps it's time to let it go.

 

 

I think you're trying to rewrite this mate.

[Farmer Saint]

29 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Good god. Who said I was thrown out of the Navy?

You are displaying some very odd, and mildly obsessive, behaviour.

Calling me dishonest and claiming I have no ethics because I won't hand a complete stranger somebody else's personal information is quite the stretch.

There is nothing dishonest about refusing to disclose someone else's private details. In fact, I'd suggest having enough respect for someone's privacy to say "no" is rather more ethical than handing their details to a stranger simply to win an argument on an internet forum.

You don't know me, you don't know the person whose details you're demanding, and you're not entitled to them.

As said, just let it go.

I'm calling you dishonest and having no morals and ethics because you won't report them yourself. You're missing the point and trying to rewrite history.

All you need to do is apologise for not giving the details you promised and admit you're a liar, and I'll stop. Otherwise I will continue. That's what happens when you've spent the last few years piling on another poster for similar behaviours.

Edited 2 hours ago by Farmer Saint

[AlexLaw76]

1 minute ago, Farmer Saint said:

I'm calling you dishonest and having no morals and ethics because you won't report them yourself. You're missing the point and trying to rewrite history.

All you need to do is apologise for not giving the details you promised and admit you're a liar and I'll stop. Otherwise I will continue to pile on. That's what happens when you've spent the last few years piling on another poster for similar behaviours.

I never “promised” anything 

and I am the one re writing this!

I know this must be consuming you, but let it go. It is not healthy. 
 

 

[Farmer Saint]

4 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

I never “promised” anything 

and I am the one re writing this!

I know this must be consuming you, but let it go. It is not healthy. 
 

 

Eating me up, no, but I'm enjoying watching you squirm 😂😂😂

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Farmer Saint

[AlexLaw76]

Just now, Farmer Saint said:

 

Yes, can’t see where I promised anything.

look let it go. Your desire for harvesting personal information of a total stranger, from a total stranger via a burner email account you quickly set up, to win an argument on a football message board is fucking weird.

Of course, I am the bad one here, it’s how it works.

[Farmer Saint]

3 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Yes, can’t see where I promised anything.

look let it go. Your desire for harvesting personal information of a total stranger, from a total stranger via a burner email account you quickly set up, to win an argument on a football message board is fucking weird.

Of course, I am the bad one here, it’s how it works.

TBF, it's not a burner email account, and it's been active for 3 or so years, but anyway.

You are indicating above that if I sent you my email address you would give me details to report them. Or did you mean something different?The point remains, why won't you report them yourself? You're enabling benefits cheats when you post about how they need to be stopped? Or, as we all suspect, you're lying and doing a SOG.

Edited 2 hours ago by Farmer Saint

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

From the Private Eye.

I vaguely recall, from the eye most likely, that there was lots of government/political harrumphing about Fujitsu. Things like holding them to account and making sure they followed through on them saying they had a "moral obligation."

And certainly not giving a company, who had caused so much damage (not just by themselves), new contracts.

That was swiftly watered down to really just referring to bids for brand new things. A thing they were in the bidding process for, was fine.

Then it was also fine to give them renewals on existing contracts. Because it would be fidgety and expensive to switch.

All that was a while back. Plenty of parties involved in it just being business as usual.

[Turkish]

3 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

From the Private Eye.

To be fair Fujitsu have had a really tough few years, rightly so some would argue. Lost a lot of contracts and suppliers moving away from them as don’t want to be associated with the Post Office stuff. We work with them in pockets of central gov and although I don’t know what the a situation is with the compensation for Post Office they’ve certainly felt the damage with other customers and supplies. 

[egg]

12 minutes ago, Turkish said:

To be fair Fujitsu have had a really tough few years, rightly so some would argue. Lost a lot of contracts and suppliers moving away from them as don’t want to be associated with the Post Office stuff. We work with them in pockets of central gov and although I don’t know what the a situation is with the compensation for Post Office they’ve certainly felt the damage with other customers and supplies. 

They deserve more than a tough few years. More to the point, it's astonishing that they haven't picked up the full bill for the post office fallout, and that the government has an ongoing relationship with them. 

[Turkish]

7 minutes ago, egg said:

They deserve more than a tough few years. More to the point, it's astonishing that they haven't picked up the full bill for the post office fallout, and that the government has an ongoing relationship with them. 

Oh I agree 100% as a company yes. But as always it’s the people on the ground who suffer whilst the ones responsible are long gone coining it in elsewhere. The guys we work with are decent people who all feel the same too but they also have mortgages to pay. Home office is one of our joint customers and I too am amazed they carried on working with them.