Kopek Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Apples are from Mars, Oranges from Venus! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 7 minutes ago, Kopek said: Apples are from Mars, Oranges from Venus! Please, no one ask him which planet Cucumbers are from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 25 minutes ago, Sheldon said: Titter ye not! We've got the Woe, Woe and thrice Woe bit though..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 38 minutes ago, The Voice of Reason said: It wasn’t somehow, some sort of random happening Did you vote for him? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 42 minutes ago, Uhtred said: There’s absolutely nothing about our comedian that raises a titter. Oh I don't know. Whenever he appears lots of people can be heard saying the word "Tit". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhtred Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 40 minutes ago, Roxanne said: Nothing worse than a limp waist. I’d settle for one compared to the monster I actually have. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 There are some titters to be had from the malapropisms, last weeks briefing.... ....residule ! Though we shouldn't dwell on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah 01 Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 2 hours ago, The Voice of Reason said: some sort of random happening .......which sums up concisely how government decisions appear to be formulated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 4 hours ago, pongo said: It's worth noting that the small minority of people whining loudly against the government, here and on social media (especially the mess that is Twitter) are not representative of the population as a whole. Most of those underemployed angry voices would be picking holes in policy whether or not the administration here was trying to best cope with a global pandemic. Nobody signed up for this. Actually the point is they did sign up for it. When you join government, either as a politician or as a civil servant, you don't get to specify that you only want to do the easy bits. Coping with crises is part of the job specification. As it would be in any other job, public or private. And, guess what, so is criticism. Especially in a democracy - indeed it's the essence of a democracy. Picking holes in policy is what people are supposed to do. How else are improvements in policy supposed to come about? 10 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 @Roger Mexico - the vast majority of anti-government noise is from people who inherently are anti-government whatever the policy and whatever the issue. If it wasn't about Covid, it would be about something else. And it's not especially democratic in the sense that it is not representative. It's just the loudest mob voices. As usual. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 These are the same people in many cases who have argued against there being a lockdown at all. The same people who thought it better to just let the virus run through the community. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc.fixit Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 9 hours ago, Roger Mexico said: Oh I don't know. Whenever he appears lots of people can be heard saying the word "Tit". er! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc.fixit Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 9 hours ago, Roger Mexico said: Oh I don't know. Whenever he appears lots of people can be heard saying the word "Tit". er! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynragh Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 10 minutes ago, pongo said: @Roger Mexico - the vast majority of anti-government noise is from people who inherently are anti-government whatever the policy and whatever the issue. If it wasn't about Covid, it would be about something else. And it's not especially democratic in the sense that it is not representative. It's just the loudest mob voices. As usual. Do you think IOMG are being harder on the SSS & Mera this time as a form of social engineering? Like... "you should be able to survive without income through at least a month... " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 24 minutes ago, pongo said: @Roger Mexico - the vast majority of anti-government noise is from people who inherently are anti-government whatever the policy and whatever the issue. If it wasn't about Covid, it would be about something else. I think you'll find most so called anti-government rhetoric is focused on government-stupidity and government-selfishness. In recent times - under Brown, Bell and now Quayle - all too many government spending decisions have hardly been effective, efficient nor economic. Can you name ONE major IOM Govt project that has ever been delivered on time and to budget? And remember the "Scope of Government" reports of 2006 and then 2012? The whole of government and all of its systems needs a top to bottom overhaul. Nothing has been done, in fact instead it continually spirals out of control offering little or no value for money. And in this pandemic, how many non-essential government staff have been furloughed during this latest lockdown? Like the first - NONE. There are hundreds that could be - just for starters we don't need steam trains and museum staff. Yet government expect many in the private sector to survive on £280 pw or nothing and then to pay any extra taxes to make up any government spending shortfalls - including a large chunk to cover bloated government and CS/PS pensions government awarded themselves. Pissing away £1million on a diesel train is one thing. But the main difference with covid is that stupid government decisions (such as not bringing in second week testing when it was obvious to many it was needed) costs lives and livelihoods. And you think people are just going to take that quietly? 16 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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