Politics

[Gemmill 53890]

I considered the sniff test, but I thought it would be too easy to misjudge and be left with shit on your nose. And how does a blind person know when they've finished washing shit off their nose? 

[Gemmill 53890]

1 minute ago, Craig said:

Surely the important question is whether they stand or squat? 

 

I'm sure they sit. There could be turds all over their bathroom otherwise. 

[Dazzler 13224]

7 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

I was medicated last night and found myself wondering how blind people know when they've finished wiping their arse.

 

I nearly posed the question on here but fortunately realised it was absolutely rank stoner patter. I'll be on Joe Rogan's podcast before the year's out. 

Bet you’ve already read up on how much a silver back can deadlift

[Craig 8121]

2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

I'd forgotten about it until my deaf postman rang the Ring doorbell when I was out with the dog at lunchtime. 

That reminds me of the bloke who does the cleaning at my local. He's deaf and unable to speak and got stung by a hornet. Interesting observation.

[Dazzler 13224]

2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

I considered the sniff test, but I thought it would be too easy to misjudge and be left with shit on your nose. And how does a blind person know when they've finished washing shit off their nose? 

The Labrador stops licking their face.

[Monkeys Fist 47294]

9 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

I'm sure they sit. There could be turds all over their bathroom otherwise. 

@Howmanheyman- how’s the eyesight these days? 

[Gemmill 53890]

The human Glade air-unfreshener. 

 

Pffft. 

[Howmanheyman 39040]

Talking of shit, club I used to get into was always rammed on a Sunday, especially when we were on sky, pre-firestick sports, the main bogs would regularly clog up and be out of order so one Sunday, there's the glass collector, decent enough bloke but not the full shilling, coming out of the bogs up to his arms in, err liquid, says he's just about fixed it. Twenty minutes later he's walking around, same clothes offering roast tatties and roast sausages on platters to everyone. I'd never known so few takers as normally everyone got stuck in. Carry on and Betty when you call me, you can call me Keyth. 

[Alex 38516]

1 minute ago, Howmanheyman said:

Talking of shit, club I used to get into was always rammed on a Sunday, especially when we were on sky, pre-firestick sports, the main bogs would regularly clog up and be out of order so one Sunday, there's the glass collector, decent enough bloke but not the full shilling, coming out of the bogs up to his arms in, err liquid, says he's just about fixed it. Twenty minutes later he's walking around, same clothes offering roast tatties and roast sausages on platters to everyone. I'd never known so few takers as normally everyone got stuck in. Carry on and Betty when you call me, you can call me Keyth. 

Wallsend Buffs? 

[Howmanheyman 39040]

1 minute ago, Alex said:

Wallsend Buffs? 

 

The now gone Willows on Scrogg road.

[Alex 38516]

6 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:

 

The now gone Willows on Scrogg road.

Was driving past the Scrogg recently, which is now a social club and not a pub I think. My laddie was playing v Walker Central. I’ve been in the Scrogg years ago when my grandad who lived near there was still alive. It was canny rough then but now the fortifications added give it the appearance of a police station near the Falls Road  

Edited 8 hours ago by Alex

[Toonpack 12727]

2 hours ago, PaddockLad said:

 

Am now absolutely certain you voted Tory in 1979

 

I don't blame you tbh. My folks were born in the mid 30s and after (according to them) Wilson & Callaghan having every major union leader in and out of Downing Street most nights  beamed live to the nation on news at 10  and the winter of discontent 78-79 am fairly certain that they did too. As am fairly sure they never did again. Basically it has to be pointed out that 70s Labour begat 80s Tories and the invention of Modern Britain  

 

 

 

 

I was never, still aren't tbh politicaly motivated (or particularly interested) I have as I got older voted for whoever would beat the Tory, which usually meant Labour. I'd vote green if we had PR. I did once vote for Neville Trotter (possibly 79, my first election or maybe the next one) because I came across him through work and he was a first rate local MP who got regularly involved for his constituents and given my line of work at the time, they were "anything but" what you could call core Tory voters. 

 

Voting for your local MP used to be a thing, none of this US-like vote for who'll be PM shite.

 

I probably only became semi interested with politics due to my views on brexit and the shitshow that followed.

 

If it's any consolation to Gloom I've become way more lefty as I got older, that said, I possibly haven't and it's like the right has gone so far right my position has gone left by default.

[Toonpack 12727]

2 hours ago, The Fish said:

 

Old people, generally, and the press.

 

 

Do me a solid, just copy this phrase - "Young people don't vote" and pop it into www.google.com then hit return and watch as the page fills up with results from a whole host of sources.

 

Point one - who the fuck other than some old people read (and thus are infuenced by) the fucking press.

 

Point two - already looked at the stats earlier today and "checks notes" young'uns don't vote. Less than half of them per BBC.

[Rayvin 6730]

Young people don't vote because they're disillusioned with democracy and don't believe any of the options will do anything to improve their lives. This is because the options cater to older people rather than the young. Vicious circle.

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/11/younger-people-more-relaxed-alternatives-democracy-survey

[Rayvin 6730]

And in news which I guarantee is going to annoy absolutely everyone... Corbyn is exploring setting up a new left wing party.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/03/jeremy-corbyn-hints-at-launch-of-new-party-as-leftwing-alternative-to-labour

[Gemmill 53890]

It's a shame it'll have his name associated with it. I know he has a big and very loyal following on the left, but nobody outside of that specific group has any time for the bloke and he's regarded as a bit of a joke. 

 

 

[Howmanheyman 39040]

44 minutes ago, Alex said:

Was driving past the Scrogg recently, which is now a social club and not a pub I think. My laddie was playing v Walker Central. I’ve been in the Scrogg years ago when my grandad who lived near there was still alive. It was canny rough then but now the fortifications added give it the appearance of a police station near the Falls Road  

 

I never went in there back when, very, very rarely, last time I was in was a couple of years ago for a wake for an old mate's Mam. Still rough but they did still have McEwan's best scotch on draught which was a real throwback and I bought a couple of pints of it.

[Toonpack 12727]

2 hours ago, Gemmill said:

Average UK house price was £19,273 in 1980. It had more than trebled to £58,250 by 1990.

 

The largest five year increase in house prices in the last 45 years was 109%, which took place from 1985 to 1990.

 

A frankly unbelievably fortunate time to already be a homeowner.

 

And that percentage growth from 1980 to today is over 1,300%. 

 

Those boomer homeowners trudging through the 80s had it TOUGH. 

 

 

Yeah we did, average salary in 1980 was £8K my Mrs worked evenings after having to give up her day job when she had the kids. No paternity/maternity leave, no childcare, no central heating in a house I lived in until I was 14, and no central heating for our first 5 years married. When I was really young we did have two bogs though, one of those was outside mind, I only wiped my boomer arse on £50 notes on the inside one though.

 

No generation can be blamed for the years they live through, that's the thing that's just luck.

 

Who's fault is it house prices rocketted ? It's no member of the general publics fault housing has shot up, it's the fault of successive governments doing nothing about housing stock. The area of land taken up in this country by housing (exc. Gardens) is less than the land taken up by golf courses.

 

Don't tar everyone with your mothers brush.

 

 

[Rayvin 6730]

21 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

It's a shame it'll have his name associated with it. I know he has a big and very loyal following on the left, but nobody outside of that specific group has any time for the bloke and he's regarded as a bit of a joke. 

 

 

 

It sounds as if he doesn't intend to spearhead it and that it's the brainchild of several other MPs as much as him. The left wing Reform, I suppose.

[wykikitoon 24535]

[Toonpack 12727]

17 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

Young people don't vote because they're disillusioned with democracy and don't believe any of the options will do anything to improve their lives. This is because the options cater to older people rather than the young. Vicious circle.

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/11/younger-people-more-relaxed-alternatives-democracy-survey

 

Politicians in slanting policy towards those who actually vote shocker.

[Renton 25125]

1 hour ago, Howmanheyman said:

Scrogg road.

 

Even the name man.

 

[Rayvin 6730]

3 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

 

Politicians in slanting policy towards those who actually vote shocker.

 

If there's no one to vote for who represents what you want, why vote? Chicken and egg I suppose. Additionally, insufficient work is done to prepare young people for the realities of adult life, so they only start taking politics seriously once they've realised how fucked they are. Either way though, I remember Brexit enough to blame older people for a lot of the shit we're in, my own grandparents included. I think there'd be more sympathy with the nuance if the same was applied the other way around - instead we have had to endure decades of being called feckless and worthless. 

 

It sucks, but I honestly have more anger for the boomers than I do for any other grouping of society. That's not personal btw, and I would never apply it indiscriminately, but as a group - the numbers over time justify the view. A generation who don't know how good they had it compared to those that came after, and then preached to the rest of us about how hopeless we all were that we couldn't achieve the same things they did. Again, I know that's not you.

[Renton 25125]

1 hour ago, Toonpack said:

 

I was never, still aren't tbh politicaly motivated (or particularly interested) I have as I got older voted for whoever would beat the Tory, which usually meant Labour. I'd vote green if we had PR. I did once vote for Neville Trotter (possibly 79, my first election or maybe the next one) because I came across him through work and he was a first rate local MP who got regularly involved for his constituents and given my line of work at the time, they were "anything but" what you could call core Tory voters. 

 

Voting for your local MP used to be a thing, none of this US-like vote for who'll be PM shite.

 

I probably only became semi interested with politics due to my views on brexit and the shitshow that followed.

 

If it's any consolation to Gloom I've become way more lefty as I got older, that said, I possibly haven't and it's like the right has gone so far right my position has gone left by default.

 

I've genuinely never heard anyone have anything good to say about Neville Trotter mind. He did absolutely fuck all of note in his protracted time as an MP other than hold back good people like Paddy Cosgrove imo. Thankfully the last tory MP ever to win in Tyne and Wear I believe.

[Howmanheyman 39040]

8 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

Even the name man.

 

 

The willows club was a well to do key club once upon a time, my dad was flapping someone would black ball him because there was always one funny cunt. Changed when we were started getting in.  The Scrogg was always a hole tbf.