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Post by andy on Apr 25, 2024 9:38:42 GMT
The end of the Bute House Agreement.
Not that a government without a majority will make much difference anyway.
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Post by willien on Apr 25, 2024 10:46:55 GMT
The end of the Bute House Agreement. Not that a government without a majority will make much difference anyway. Downside is Harvie is not honour bound to resign as his party was pushed. |
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Post by andy on Apr 25, 2024 11:15:36 GMT
The end of the Bute House Agreement. Not that a government without a majority will make much difference anyway. Downside is Harvie is not honour bound to resign as his party was pushed. Pushed before they jumped by the sound of it. Makes no odds to things like making booze more expensive so Tesco can make more profit from us as that was 88 votes to 28... or banning single use vapes which was a no-brainer and one of the few things they have done that I support. |
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Post by willien on Apr 25, 2024 12:16:51 GMT
Downside is Harvie is not honour bound to resign as his party was pushed. Pushed before they jumped by the sound of it. Makes no odds to things like making booze more expensive so Tesco can make more profit from us as that was 88 votes to 28... or banning single use vapes which was a no-brainer and one of the few things they have done that I support. I am actually starting to find this really funny. Politics being politics I assume Harvie and Slater thought they had 4 weeks (time till the Green's own meeting) to do a DUP and extort as much as they could going forward in order to persuade thir party to keep the agreement going.
Instead their bahookies are unceremoniously oot the windae.
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Post by andy on Apr 25, 2024 13:47:55 GMT
Pushed before they jumped by the sound of it. Makes no odds to things like making booze more expensive so Tesco can make more profit from us as that was 88 votes to 28... or banning single use vapes which was a no-brainer and one of the few things they have done that I support. I am actually starting to find this really funny. Politics being politics I assume Harvie and Slater thought they had 4 weeks (time till the Green's own meeting) to do a DUP and extort as much as they could going forward in order to persuade thir party to keep the agreement going.
Instead their bahookies are unceremoniously oot the windae.
I'm not convinced the agreement was ever a good idea. A fair summary could be youngsters getting free bus travel so Sturgeon could claim to have a mandate for independence. |
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Post by willien on Apr 25, 2024 14:06:47 GMT
I am actually starting to find this really funny. Politics being politics I assume Harvie and Slater thought they had 4 weeks (time till the Green's own meeting) to do a DUP and extort as much as they could going forward in order to persuade thir party to keep the agreement going.
Instead their bahookies are unceremoniously oot the windae.
I'm not convinced the agreement was ever a good idea. A fair summary could be youngsters getting free bus travel so Sturgeon could claim to have a mandate for independence. And the prize for non sequiter of the month...  |
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Post by aitch on Apr 26, 2024 18:38:15 GMT
Whoopee! I have a new office chair. This one.
Well, the old secretary's chair fell apart. Just after I bought a set of new wheels for it. Anyway, got this one. A pig to assemble (aren't they always?) and when I finished, guess what I had left? Yep...
Fortunately, it uses a LOT of screws to hold together, so it shouldn't be a problem.
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Post by spinno on Apr 26, 2024 18:50:43 GMT
Jack, the young lad who collapsed on the basketball court a couple of months ago is back in Nottingham.
Originally he went to Glenfield hospital in Leicester, and then on to Great Ormond street for a while.
He's in Neuro rehab so Spike went to see him tonight.
Progress is slow but steady.
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Post by MJB on Apr 26, 2024 19:10:21 GMT
Spotted in town this evening. Made me smile, but I'm sure some residents will be more gammony than normal.  |
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Post by spinno on Apr 26, 2024 19:34:32 GMT
Spotted in town this evening. Made me smile, but I'm sure some residents will be more gammony than normal. View AttachmentC'est si bon! |
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Post by willien on Apr 28, 2024 22:03:40 GMT
My old (comprehensive) school has a Facebook page. Someone put up a thread on getting the tawse (AKA belt or leather strap). Most of the comments were before or about my time at the place - cannot remember when it was banned. However, I absolutely adored one about my old pal growing up and flatmate, when, frankly we were still working on it, - " Mr. **** ****** used to let us belt each other when we had not done our Maths homework - brilliant days". I cannot believe the old bugger did not tell me about that himself. He also, as a recently qualified teacher, flattened a 16 year old pupil with a single punch. Three of them who were leaving that day, cornered him in his teaching room during a break. As a maths teacher he quickly worked out the odds and punched the lead one. End of problem. Happy days. You tell that to kids these days...
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Post by MJB on Apr 29, 2024 7:59:10 GMT
Ben White's world class shithousery in the Arsenal v Spurs game.
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Post by steveandthedogs on Apr 29, 2024 10:22:55 GMT
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Post by geoffr on Apr 29, 2024 12:29:52 GMT
Having purchased a 2021 MacBook Pro I wanted to upgrade the OS to the same one as on my older 15” MacBook Pro. I could have just upgraded to the latest but I want to continue using some software that might not run on Sonoma. Thus I visited the Apple support website for a download link. In the process I discovered that there is a repair available for a keyboard problem. Occasionally on the 15” machine I get a double letter when typing, which is exactly the problem the repair addresses. I have spent several years thinking the problem was my fingers. It’s booked to go in on Friday.
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Post by JohnY on Apr 29, 2024 13:13:26 GMT
My old (comprehensive) school has a Facebook page. Someone put up a thread on getting the tawse (AKA belt or leather strap). Most of the comments were before or about my time at the place - cannot remember when it was banned. However, I absolutely adored one about my old pal growing up and flatmate, when, frankly we were still working on it, - " Mr. **** ****** used to let us belt each other when we had not done our Maths homework - brilliant days". I cannot believe the old bugger did not tell me about that himself. He also, as a recently qualified teacher, flattened a 16 year old pupil with a single punch. Three of them who were leaving that day, cornered him in his teaching room during a break. As a maths teacher he quickly worked out the odds and punched the lead one. End of problem. Happy days. You tell that to kids these days...
In the 60's the Scottish headmaster of a grammar technical school near Sunderland used a tawse. I don't know if that was officially allowed in County Durham. No-one complained. In some cases I suspect that if boys had mentioned it at home then they would have felt their father's miner's belt. |
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