Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Family Christmases were always dangerous, but it was a lot easier when my uncle was hosting and greeted everyone at the door with a frozen double of vodka. Usually nice stuff, Belvedere or summat.
Why the Guardian is going down the pan!
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And I mean:
Arrive 15 minutes late, wear flats, and skip the fish canapes: 32 ways to smash the Christmas party season
From red wine spillages to a fuss-free exit, experts share their top hacks for surviving festivitieswww.theguardian.com
This is one of the biggest loads of bollocks I've ever read. Taking fancy bread and butter to a dinner party doesn't make you clever, it makes you look like ypu don't expect to get fed anything nice by the host so have brought your ownAnd wearing socks under tights? Sensory nightmare!
“Don’t drink to cope with difficult family members or annoying colleagues,” she adds. “Save your drinking days for when you’re feeling celebratory.”
She's clearly never spent Christmas with family or gone to a work Christmas party.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Arrive 15 minutes late, wear flats, and skip the fish canapes: 32 ways to smash the Christmas party season
From red wine spillages to a fuss-free exit, experts share their top hacks for surviving festivities
This is one of the biggest loads of bollocks I've ever read. Taking fancy bread and butter to a dinner party doesn't make you clever, it makes you look like ypu don't expect to get fed anything nice by the host so have brought your own
Or, pay your babysitter with actual money and don't fuck them about by rolling home shitface drunk and two hours late.
I’m sure the office party at Kings Place is a barrel of laughs.And I mean:
“Don’t drink to cope with difficult family members or annoying colleagues,” she adds. “Save your drinking days for when you’re feeling celebratory.”
She's clearly never spent Christmas with family or gone to a work Christmas party.
And not the two sides who normally slag each other on twitter getting pissed and starting fights for real.
Indeliblelink
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Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Observer lifestyle section Christmas present guide so a bit of a free hit
First one up is an envelope to send to Father Christmas for £8
www.theguardian.com
First one up is an envelope to send to Father Christmas for £8
Christmas gift guide: 92 excellent present ideas from the Observer
From arty to indulgent, cosy to cool, 92 great Christmas gift ideas for everyone in your life from Observer Magazine
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
(copied from the Starmer thread)
The Toynbee announcing that Margaret Hodge has found some sources of income that have never ever been noticed before.
www.theguardian.com
Had to get a kick in at Corbyn in the final paragraph, just couldn't resist it although as I recall the "extravagance" was pretty well just an end to the progressive austerity since the 80s and actually costed in 2017 and included tax evasion/avoidance" plus quantitative easing which fuels inflation when the left propose it even though the money is going to invest in infrastructure but which is fine when the tories do it even though it's largely going to pay off their covid-supplying mates or paying for their general balls-ups and doesn't touch the infrastructure
(and breathe
).
The Toynbee announcing that Margaret Hodge has found some sources of income that have never ever been noticed before.
Where do we find the £100bn needed to fix Britain? Margaret Hodge has the answer | Polly Toynbee
In the Commons, she ripped into the Tories’ economic mismanagement – and pointed a way forward for Labour, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Had to get a kick in at Corbyn in the final paragraph, just couldn't resist it although as I recall the "extravagance" was pretty well just an end to the progressive austerity since the 80s and actually costed in 2017 and included tax evasion/avoidance" plus quantitative easing which fuels inflation when the left propose it even though the money is going to invest in infrastructure but which is fine when the tories do it even though it's largely going to pay off their covid-supplying mates or paying for their general balls-ups and doesn't touch the infrastructure
(and breathe
).also hated by people on the non-left for protecting a paedophile as people here keep pointing out but unlike the antisemitism smear sneer seems not to bother Toynbee at all.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
This obituary was ripped to bits in the comments section - which then promptly got closed and the btl posters censored.
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
Even if you're pro-Brexit this is an objectively embarrassing article by the Graun economics editor:
www.theguardian.com
Wanging on about universally flat GDP figures as though Britain's slightly less anemic than expected performance in that singular blunt investment indicator is proof of economic benefit. Making the utterly bizarre assertion that Britain has remained uncaptured by the far right (meaning he is too stupid to have realised that, like in the US, FPTP means far right capture takes place via the Tories rather than founding a new party, which places us further right-drift than eg. Italy). Honestly I'm surprised no-one spiked it.
I've got news for those who say Brexit is a disaster: it isn't. That’s why rejoining is just a pipe dream | Larry Elliott
Many still hanker for how things were: but looking across the Channel, it’s completely illogical to do that, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
Wanging on about universally flat GDP figures as though Britain's slightly less anemic than expected performance in that singular blunt investment indicator is proof of economic benefit. Making the utterly bizarre assertion that Britain has remained uncaptured by the far right (meaning he is too stupid to have realised that, like in the US, FPTP means far right capture takes place via the Tories rather than founding a new party, which places us further right-drift than eg. Italy). Honestly I'm surprised no-one spiked it.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I reckon I could write a better advice column than this shite:
www.theguardian.com
‘Sigh exasperatedly, tut, turn to your father-in-law and bark: WILL YOU PLEASE STOP GIVING ME WINE FOR XMAS. I HAVEN’T HAD A DRINK FOR FIVE YEARS!’
I gave up drinking five years ago. How should I deal with my father-in-law presenting me wine each Christmas? | Leading questions
This is incredibly irritating, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but you will need to find ways to channel that annoyance
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I'd have thought that some enterprising academic would have done an econometric analysis on where the British and eu economies would be now if brexit hadn't happenedEven if you're pro-Brexit this is an objectively embarrassing article by the Graun economics editor:
I've got news for those who say Brexit is a disaster: it isn't. That’s why rejoining is just a pipe dream | Larry Elliott
Many still hanker for how things were: but looking across the Channel, it’s completely illogical to do that, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
Wanging on about universally flat GDP figures as though Britain's slightly less anemic than expected performance in that singular blunt investment indicator is proof of economic benefit. Making the utterly bizarre assertion that Britain has remained uncaptured by the far right (meaning he is too stupid to have realised that, like in the US, FPTP means far right capture takes place via the Tories rather than founding a new party, which places us further right-drift than eg. Italy). Honestly I'm surprised no-one spiked it.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Primary schools in England close, merge and shrink as pupil numbers fall
London boroughs among hardest hit due to falling birth rate and family struggles with Covid and rising costs
Haringey has never been in inner London, it's always been an outer London borough
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I assume they mean Greater London?View attachment 404508
Primary schools in England close, merge and shrink as pupil numbers fall
London boroughs among hardest hit due to falling birth rate and family struggles with Covid and rising costs
Haringey has never been in inner London, it's always been an outer London borough
anyway, I would describe it as inner london - it's an inner zone for transport anyway (the station is, not the whole borough). It's not as if it's Dagenham or Uxbridge
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I'm quite surprised by that headline tbh - I would have thought schools in London were oversubscribed. They are very much so in Leeds, particularly primary schools
ska invita
back on the other side
great find, thats belly laugh materialArrive 15 minutes late, wear flats, and skip the fish canapes: 32 ways to smash the Christmas party season
From red wine spillages to a fuss-free exit, experts share their top hacks for surviving festivities
This is one of the biggest loads of bollocks I've ever read. Taking fancy bread and butter to a dinner party doesn't make you clever, it makes you look like ypu don't expect to get fed anything nice by the host so have brought your own
To make a blazer less work-y, roll the sleeves up.
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
Both the Guardian and the i have this strange puritanical streak against drinking. The i had "I drank like a boomer and hated it" the other week without any balance. It's so frustrating.I reckon I could write a better advice column than this shite:
‘Sigh exasperatedly, tut, turn to your father-in-law and bark: WILL YOU PLEASE STOP GIVING ME WINE FOR XMAS. I HAVEN’T HAD A DRINK FOR FIVE YEARS!’I gave up drinking five years ago. How should I deal with my father-in-law presenting me wine each Christmas? | Leading questions
This is incredibly irritating, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but you will need to find ways to channel that annoyance
ska invita
back on the other side
yeah its incredible but true, article fails to mention the pricing of people out + the destruction of social housing and replacement with childless yuppie flats, people cant afford to have kids and pay rent/mortgage and so on etc
Also no mention of the impact of free schools. The two free school primaries I'm aware of in Hackney (and which opened in the last 10 years or so) are near some of the primary schools that are being closed/merged. Without those free schools, I suspect things would be looking quite different.View attachment 404508
Primary schools in England close, merge and shrink as pupil numbers fall
London boroughs among hardest hit due to falling birth rate and family struggles with Covid and rising costs
Haringey has never been in inner London, it's always been an outer London borough
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
yes
not necessarily.
for most purposes, 'inner london' is (with minor tinkering at the edges) the area of the 1889 london county council - the area north of the river is much smaller than south of the river, covering the current boroughs of (from the west) hammersmith + fulham, kensington + chelsea, westminster, camden, islington, hackney, tower hamlets.
before 1889, all of these except the 'square mile' city of london were in middlesex (south london was either surrey or kent.)
today's haringey borough was in middlesex until 1965, and places east of the river lea (canning town, stratford and so on) were in essex.
south of the river, the LCC area extended out to include current lambeth, southwark, lewisham and greenwich boroughs, so goes out to places like plumstead, abbey wood and crystal palace.
i'm sure it all made sense in 1889
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Tbf, and this is only personal experience, but tend to find the younger generation doesn't drink as much as us elderly people
PTK
Paul Kegan
My Dad was born in Canning Town in 1920, and lived in East Ham, which was a county borough of Essex. County boroughs had more powers than ordinary Urban District Councils. So, what my Dad would have called London when he was young would not have included much of that that we today called London.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yeh well you'd be wrong too then
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
Wink winkTbf, and this is only personal experience, but tend to find the younger generation doesn't drink as much as us elderly people
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
“Arrive 15 minutes later than the invite says. Any earlier and your hosts will be in the loo, furiously chopping lemon for drink”
Fucking hell. In that case I’ll arrive early to stop them chopping lemon for my drink in the loo!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
So bloody picky.
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