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Trolley Snatcha Wrote: ----------------------- ..................................... By far the most cringey, middle class, stuck up thing about the Guardian is local chump Jay Rayner and his column boasting about going to expensive restaurants and triumphantly and quite sneerily telling readers how marvellous it all was. - My comments are written like this - He?s a paid food journalist, in that he?s paid to eat at the restaurants he reviews. The Newspaper pay the bill. On balance Jay?s (seeing as his name is Jay Rayner) reviews are often critical in the required places, though I have seen sneering, but mostly with contempt. This contempt is usually reserved for places with aspiration beyond execution and having the gaul to charge through the nose for it. He hates people taking the piss, trying to pass off and exploit customers. Try a read of this https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/11/blue-boar-smokehouse-restaurant-review to Or in contrast, this one, making what was a chef grafting his own dollar that little bit more successful. This kind of review gives a place a much needed focus. No ?150 dinners here. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/food/2019/sep/22/lagom-at-hackney-church-brew-co-dishes-throbbing-with-flavour-restaurant-review - In fairness, his review can make or break a place. He?s probably the most revered in the industry, because he?s earned it, and the industry respects it. But he stays at the Guardian, because it suits his style, it gives him freedom to be Jay Rayner first, Guardian Food Journalist second. His legion of fanboys who comment underneath are beyond pathetic, gushing about he 'made their Sunday' and writing 'thank you Jay!', as if they are so pally with him they know him by first name terms. - As above, he goes by the name Jay Rayner. What would you rather people called him ? Mr Rayner, or just plain Rayner? Not sure what your point is here, other than you sneering, which you appear to dislike previously. If you dare to say anything other than the hareem do, such as questioning the value for money of a meal costing ?150, you'll be jumped on and criticised for daring to question their darling 'Jay'. I have no doubt that some of these complete melts are here and present on this forum. - You?ve obviously some class warrior aspirations, and best of luck with that. But there?s been many before you (and better at it tbf). You?ll need to up your game somewhat to compete. -Anyways, as they now say at Mc Donald?s -"Lovin' Beats Hatin,"

This is the ?vaccine? I?d read about but lost the article Developed in Israel. And if it?s as said, it could be a massive game changer. https://apple.news/ACJXehpEST--9L6ryRBhxMA

More jolly sensitivity to the cause. Just what?s needed, a tone mutton Tory boy waving a cloth on a stick. https://apple.news/A9UAW34B6R9mX-uRcDBhz3g

From Gavin Esler?s new book ?England is fundamentally broken. Westminster is the problem and unless there is reform all round it cannot be fixed. International comparisons, however, do not always help. For instance, Germany works as a federal state in part because the Germans had the good sense to abolish Prussia; there seems little enthusiasm in England for its own abolition.? https://apple.news/AP7WkW1AYSUKI2_mOwIsCQg

Cat Nobody (apart from you) mentioned ?thick, racist or hoodwinked? and I was very careful to be more rounded in my phrasing. So can we leave that bit out here on in please. Gut feeling is a big part of the reason people vote as they do, and like you alluded to, not many people go to great lengths to measure the arguments as you did etc. But Scotland is hearts and minds and a whole back history of resentment agains Westminister. And this current Team Westminister are pretty tone deaf on matters beyond their own wants. Lots of talking at people, not much talking to people. And I think Scotland is done with that on the whole. Oh and barefaced Brexit shafting (even you must admit this has been shockingly bad for them) the fishing industry is probably a final distillation of enough is enough for many. No shell fish exports until April?! I wonder how that going down. Timing wise, not great for some bluff ?better together? TPHQ type sloganeering. To add insult to injury, George Eustice uses the phrase ?teething problems? and this is a man who apart from being in UKIP was also in PR, amazingly.

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > alex_b Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Blah Blah Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > Sturgeon in some ways is arguing for a choice > > > between the EU or the Union, but the SNP are > > > nationalists at heart and that has to be > > > remembered. How will that nationalism sit in > > the > > > context of the EU? > > > > Scottish nationalism, or at least the SNP, have > > been vocally pro-EU for a very long time. I > > imagine this is for pragmatic (hard to see > > Scotland going it alone outside the EU as was a > > key point in the last referendum), historic > > (French, Scandinavian and Irish ties with > certain > > Scots) and political (it winds up the English > > right wing). In that way the SNP are not a > > traditional isolationist nationalist party. > > > Agree with this. The snp is using the idea of the > EU as a tool to get what it it wants. I can't > recall the SNP banging on about the EU in years > gone by (I'm sure they may have mentioned it, but > it wasn't a key plank in any way)....but now it's > politically expedient to do so...... > > As I stated above, brexit and scexit are very > different beasts....and I personally feel that the > economic cost would be too much for the scots. > > Before I get attacked on this.....I've stated a > few times before that I was undecided post-brexit > referendum, but I ended up coming down on the side > of leave on balance, after my own research, > conscious that there would be a short term > economic hit. In the case of Scotland, I think the > economic hit is too much..... It depends how people ?feel? about it Cat On the adding-up-the-sums logic, many people didn?t really apply the mathematics on Brexit, they went with gut or their heart, how it felt. And if it felt right, it was right. So given the high feeling in Scotland, I?d not be so sure they don?t Braveheart it and go with the vote. And with that the collective unity might carry them through. That and maybe a bus with a dubious slogan or two, that?s how referendums are often won. In fact, I?d go as far to say the more talk of ?how bad it?ll be for Scotland? , specially from the mouths of the current Tory Party truthsmiths, the more the vote seems likely.#ProjectMcFear #WillOfThePeople P.S. I don?t often edit posts, but this adds to the tone deafness from Westminister. Keep it up, it?s all adding to the groundswell against the Union. https://apple.news/A45QKEe02QGaexuHAueM9Zg

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You make a valid point Seabag. The UK has indeed > already split with a range of divisions that will > take decades to heal. But aren't they also a range > of divisions that have always existed in some form > somewhere? It is a set of certain circumstances > that have amplified and brought them to the fore. Trouble is you?ve a party and a bunch of career politicians that have stoked these divisions. Then sought to capitalise on these divisions for their own ends. And what do you end up with? A divided disunited Kingdom, where Scotland and Ireland intend to go their own ways, and leave the English to own their tinpot grandiose idealism. It?s tragic. And within that, where does the monarchy sit? Precariously on a diminished seat of make believe kingdom. I wonder how history will see them. Cameron deserves to be exiled to live in Grays in Essex for the rest of his days, and Johnson should be forced to be Trump?s butler for eternity.

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blah Blah Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I do find it odd that people who support Brexit > > are calling Scottish Independence a bad idea. > If > > Brexit could promise sunlit uplands, then > Scottish > > indy can do the same. After it, it doesn't seem > to > > matter anymore if anything is actually true. > > > > Just on the Euro, pretty sure two years > membership > > of the ERM is required before switching to it > > anyway. > > Just to play devil's advocate for a moment > > I guess if you want to question logic , it's just > as baffling why so many who wanted to remain part > of a bigger whole, are supporting the idea of the > UK splitting up. > > Both your comment and the above seem to put people > at odds with their views in the EU referendum. > > > There's nothing as queer as folk when it comes to > politics Simple, they want to with the people that think like them, feel like them, be in the same love of life as them Not with the wankers that voted them ?out? of what they wanted to stay ?in? And let?s be clear and honest, the UK has split up already. Brexit has been the single most devise anti nation exercise ever.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Basically the electorate of the EU can do nothing > about these useless @#$%&, whereas we can do > something about our useless @#$%&. Our useless English @-*+% are exceptional, way better than any EU lightweights.

AnywYsz Ain?t Brexit great 👍🏽 Totes got the country somewhere

O Cheese In the pantry the dear dense cheeses, Cheddars and harsh Lancashires; Gorgonzola with its magnanimous manner; the clipped speech of Roquefort; and a head of Stilton that speaks in a sensuous riddling tongue like Druids. O cheeses of gravity, cheeses of wistfulness, cheeses that weep continually because they know they will die. O cheeses of victory, cheeses wise in defeat, cheeses fat as a cushion, lolling in bed until noon. Liederkranz ebullient, jumping like a small dog, noisy; Pont l?Ev?que intellectual, and quite well informed; Emmentaler decent and loyal, a little deaf in the right ear; and Brie the revealing experience, instantaneous and profound. O cheeses that dance in the moonlight, cheeses that mingle with sausages, cheeses of Stonehenge. O cheeses that are shy, that linger in the doorway, eyes looking down, cheeses spectacular as fireworks. Reblochon openly sexual; Caerphilly like pine trees, small at the timberline; Port du Salut in love; Caprice des Dieux eloquent, tactful, like a thousand-year-old hostess; and Dolcelatte, always generous to a fault. O village of cheeses, I make you this poem of cheeses, O family of cheeses, living together in pantries, O cheeses that keep to your own nature, like a lucky couple, this solitude, this energy, these bodies slowly dying. ? Donald Hall

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Worryingly for small investors trying this lots > said the investment site crashed at the selling > point and by the time it was back .... it was > Ditto

I read about another drug in development that kills the transmission 100% in early trial, expected to go through final stages in Q4 this year I also quite like this new 🪤 cheese trap emoji

All there well and good TheCat, but it?s the mood of the people. And if they want out, they want out. Look at the mess we?re in here in the Dis-U.K already, and people are still happy. Once people want what they want, there?s little reasoning with them. It?s the will of the people and all that. The people of Scotland will be highly aware of Britain Trump?s lie machine, even if they splash their truths on the sides of a bus.

Once Scotland and Ireland are independent, then what of the monarchy? It?ll be like being the King or Queen of Luxembourg or some piddly joke island. I?m thinking we call it #Quexit or #Kexit depending whether we have a Queen or King, either way it?ll be a diminutive role. But maybe that?s the Greatness of Brexit Plan. F**k the country & the Union up, become a republic and fulfill the Presidential dream. President (Britain Trump) Boris Aaahhh haaa ha! My head just fell off. We are so sh*t.

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This vaccine ?race? has been politicised from the off Britain passed vaccine approval =Britain is first =Britain is beating its European neighbours =Brexit is a success In theory we should wait until everyone has the same chances, then go to it collectively. But what?s stopping that?

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And the politics slip in 😭 > > Rather than looking at the bigger picture of how > can the vaccine be distributed to protect as many > people as it can globally, it falls down to I am / > am not all right Jack on here. > If your slipping Politics out of your idealistic thread, then you?re not seeing the ?bigger picture? and the whole thing becomes a theoretical conversation.

It?s wonderful we left the bloc to exit ourselves from the snails pace bureaucracy, only to create our own snails pace bureaucracy and f**k up our own exports. Nice work, at least I?ll be alive (I?ve had the jab, so fingers crossed) to see mine and other UK businesses ground into the ground.

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Seabag Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > And now the three of you are a happy little > > triangle. > > > > A TheCat?s cradle as it were. > > I've absolutley no idea what you're on about with > either of the above comments.... Near every one else does. It?s fine, carry on, you?re an interesting contributor to the forum.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How do you attach a song to a post or an entire > thread then ... :) > > > nnel=SomeBeachMusic Nice John, super choice

Great idea Bob if you actually had a loft But you live on the 13th floor of a tower block off of the Old Kent Road.

And now the three of you are a happy little triangle. A TheCat?s cradle as it were.

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Seabag Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > TheCat Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > And yet there are children all over the > country > > > with eyes..... > > > > Vigilance by parents not to be underestimated. > > > > But come on, you know, everyone knows he?s a > > shitbag. He might be your guy, but he?s still a > > shitbag of a human being. > > > He is in no way 'my guy'. > > supporting brexit and disliking boris are in no > way mutually exclusive He?s your guy, you know it. Him + Brexit are one thing.

Am I imagining it, but didn?t we go for a new look once ? Some time ago , like years ago?