A thank you to Brexiteers.

[brogdale]

There is no point, much like saying boo to a goose.

Disagree.
Although there is no conventionally rational explanation for wanting cake but not eating it, saying boo to a goose/geese (that may be aggressive is startled at/close to their nest), might well shock the attacking avians into some sort of retreat.

Hence, the phrase to describe someone too timid to speak up.

 

[Pickman's model]

There is no point, much like saying boo to a goose.

just as an aside, the saying was originally 'saying boo to a ghost' which is a bit pointless.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Disagree.
Although there is no conventionally rational explanation for wanting cake but not eating it, saying boo to a goose/geese (that may be aggressive is startled at/close to their nest), might well shock the attacking avians into some sort of retreat.

Hence, the phrase to describe someone too timid to speak up.

Geese don't really attack very hard, even when protecting goslings, the most they do is hiss. Swans rear up and spread their wings, geese don't. And saying boo to either has no effect on their behaviour at all.

Goose's best shot at me recently...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

just as an aside, the saying was originally 'saying boo to a ghost' which is a bit pointless.

Sounds more plausible, but equally absurd. Should you meet a ghost threaten to turn on the Henry and give the bastard a good sucking.

 

[Pickman's model]

Sounds more plausible, but equally absurd. Should you meet a ghost threaten to turn on the Henry and give the bastard a good sucking.

turning on the henry and giving them a good sucking may not convey the ghostbusters image you desire to an entity with no knowledge of post-1700 technology

it might rather suggest to them an aroused monarch and oral sex.

 

[sleaterkinney]

People lose their jobs for a multiplicity of reasons. The contorted attempts to link them to Brexit, normally accompanied by continuity remain headbangers chirping ‘they can’t say they weren’t warned’ is embarrassing shit politics.

As for your point about the delta variant the attempt made to show ‘all roads lead back to Brexit’ is a prime example of what I’m talking about. The underlying assumption being that if only the UK had voted to remain in a neo-liberal trading bloc the ruling class wouldn’t have killed hundreds of thousands due to venality, greed and incompetence. Otherworldly stuff

Fishermen and now Farmers have already been thrown on the scrapheap as a direct result of brexit, it's not a contortion at all.

 

[JimW]

Disagree.
Although there is no conventionally rational explanation for wanting cake but not eating it, saying boo to a goose/geese (that may be aggressive is startled at/close to their nest), might well shock the attacking avians into some sort of retreat.

Hence, the phrase to describe someone too timid to speak up.

It's that you cannot simultaneously have the cake in your possession and also have eaten it but the tenses haven't been adjusted to make that clear.

 

[brogdale]

It's that you cannot simultaneously have the cake in your possession and also have eaten it but the tenses haven't been adjusted to make that clear.

It's a quiet news day!

 

[Pickman's model]

Fishermen and now Farmers have already been thrown on the scrapheap as a direct result of brexit, it's not a contortion at all.

Sadly not politicians or parasite royals tho their turn will come

 

[Smangus]

Sadly not politicians or parasite royals tho their turn will come

Starving penguins

 

[Artaxerxes]

Fishermen and now Farmers have already been thrown on the scrapheap as a direct result of brexit, it's not a contortion at all.

No no, the most divisive vote in the last 20 years has no echoes or fallout after January 1st 2021*

We left, it’s done. We won.**

*including Iraq - it was vocal but not as vocal as the brexit wars

**where have I heard that before...

 

[Dogsauce]

It's a similar sad story in terms of the economy. Job losses/redundancies/capital flight are all seized on with glee to 'prove' that their apocalyptic warnings are all about to come true. Not only does this wrongly assume that all of the decision making by capital can be understood through the use of a single lens, but as a form of politics it's essentially useless. Worse still, it's a part of a really bad look developed by an embittered wing of the professional middle class and their aspirant allies that has been widely clocked: as the Labour Party are currently discovering.

hashtag ‘wetoldyouso’, a sound political strategy for winning hearts and minds since 2018.

 

[Badgers]

 

[Badgers]

#worldbeating

 

[xenon]

The cake phrase is the wrong way round. In original Shakespearean times I believe it was you want to eat your cake and have it. Which makes more sense.

 

[NoXion]

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People drinking less mineral water is a good thing.

 

[The39thStep]

Lorry driver shortage due to Brexit and Covid

 

[xenon]

Won’t be long before robots are driving the trucks anyway. But as a fan of food and stuff, I’d quite like there to be enough human drivers to keep supplies coming in, in the meantime.

 

[xenon]

How about offering fast track training for those in the UK who want it.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Lorry driver shortage due to Brexit and Covid

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My brothers father in law is a lorry driver for a firm that supplies Tesco’s among others. They’ve just knocked back an 8% pay offer and are holding out for 10.5% plus additional leave days and new rotas. The firm has also had to take contracted drivers into permanent employment- conferring sick pay, annual leave and other employment rights - to retain them.

 

[The39thStep]

First response on Twitter to the TUC pay rise tweet that I saw was some Remainer posing the question of prices having to go up .

 

[Smokeandsteam]

First response on Twitter to the TUC pay rise tweet that I saw was some Remainer posing the question of prices having to go up .

It can’t be long before continuity remain move into open opposition to workers pay rises and efforts to unionise in favour of the free movement and exploitation of workers

 

[The39thStep]

It can’t be long before continuity remain move into open opposition to workers pay rises and efforts to unionise in favour of the free movement and exploitation of workers

Can’t say that on here , you’ll have someone saying it’s a Daily Express headline

 

[Yossarian]

Good news for the truckers - will be interesting to see if the effect of Brexit results in higher wage increase for British truckers than in all the other countries where wages are going up because of driver shortages, including EU countries and the US, where some companies are hiking pay as much as 50%.

Truckers are getting big pay hikes, but there's still a shortage of drivers

America's truck driver shortage is driving pay higher. But it's not solving the scarcity of truckers.

www.cnn.com

 

[krtek a houby]

People drinking less mineral water is a good thing.

Does anyone actually need water, anyway?

 

[Smangus]

I am more concerned about this Haribo shortage

Where are my Gummy Bears?

 

[NoXion]

Does anyone actually need water, anyway?

Oh, come off it. Poncey mineral water is absolutely not essential in a country where drinkable tap water is a thing. And the mineral water industry depletes aquifers and contributes to the plastic problem.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

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No more bottling water and shipping it across a continent to a place where tap water is perfectly good to drink?

As an aside, outside Sainsbury's this morning a morbidly obese gentleman waddled out of the shop, gasped off his mask and lit a fag. He had 6 enormous bottles of water in his trolley. I'm no expert but reckon there maybe one or two steps he could take that would be more beneficial to his health than paying for bottled water...

 

[Smokeandsteam]

No more bottling water and shipping it across a continent to a place where tap water is perfectly good to drink?

As an aside, outside Sainsbury's this morning a morbidly obese gentleman waddled out of the shop, gasped off his mask and lit a fag. He had 6 enormous bottles of water in his trolley. I'm no expert but reckon there maybe one or two steps he could take that would be more beneficial to his health than paying for bottled water...

Leave his mask on whilst smoking you mean?

 

[andysays]

First response on Twitter to the TUC pay rise tweet that I saw was some Remainer posing the question of prices having to go up .

Apparently, people are even expected to pay VAT when they buy records online now...

It's a fucking outrage, I tell you