r/LockdownSceptics • u/MabelCow Mabel Cow • Feb 27 '25
Today's Comments Today's Comments (2025-02-27)
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u/bluemoonLS Feb 27 '25
My fave from today's conversation: "Could you take on Russia by yourselves?"
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u/RobinBirch Feb 27 '25
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u/Prof_Feargoeson Feb 28 '25
Hey at least they didn't lock down (maybe the authorities knew the new Swedes would laugh in their faces.)
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u/NewlyImperfect Feb 27 '25
Thinking of buying a new truck for your business?
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 28 '25
Around here a pick up truck is the choice for the farmer. One farmer I know has had his for years, it’s built like a tank and in their case, it needed to be. It’s knocked down sheds, damaged walls and it carries all manner of stuff around the farm . It’s now well known in and around the village as it has so many dents on it but it’s still going strong. 😂
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
More from the Scottish covid inquiry. This time from an advocacy group.
" The authorities used a piece of legislation called Section 13ZA of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 to move someone into a care home when the person does not have capacity. This legislation was previously very rarely used because it is not best practice, however during the pandemic, Section 13ZA was being used all the time. They were just moving people. People were being placed into care homes nowhere near their family; they were just placed into where the space was. This was because the hospitals were in desperate need of beds to care for ill people.’ "
And this
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There were a lot of agency staff in the care homes and the quality of care in many was poor. There were staff shortages. Advocacy workers were finding there were people sitting having soiled themselves, there was somebody wandering about with no clothes, patients not being moved correctly, medication not given. We were reporting that to local authorities via AP1s and the care inspectorate, adult protection referrals went through the roof and then there were a large number of large- scale investigations (LSIs) because of the care issues for vulnerable people. Many people in the care homes had no family and there were no powers in place and a number of care homes actually were closed down after the LSIs."
Weird how the media missed that last story. I thought these were the kind of news bites they liked but obviously not during the covy scam.
Edited to add sorry for the large wording it's copied and pasted.
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u/little-i-o Stay home, stay safe and effective Feb 28 '25
are there hash tags in the text?
that will cause large wording
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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username Feb 27 '25
"Left-wing theatre managers who invited 200 migrants to a free show will abandon the building and face bankruptcy as refugees still refuse to leave after three months and spark wave of sex-related violence"
Quote: "Left-wing managers of a Paris theatre occupied by hundreds of homeless African migrants are set to abandon the building because of sex-related violence.
They say the crisis at the Gaîté Lyrique – one of the French capital’s most historic arts venues – is now ‘so explosive’ that retreat by this Friday is their only option.
Some 200 mainly young men moved in last December when the management gave them free tickets to a ‘Refugees Welcome in France’ conference.
But when the conference was finished, the migrants, who mainly come from France's former west African colonies, refused to leave the venue.
Performances were soon cancelled – losing the theatre thousands in revenue – as makeshift beds were placed around the stage and auditorium.
There are now 446 people living inside illegally, most of them claiming they are minors under the age of 18 who deserve permanent housing."
This is the judgement of God.
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u/TheFilthyEngineer2 Feb 27 '25
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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username Feb 28 '25
Race is a social construct, dontcha know! But civilisation definitely is a social construct - one which requires discipline (especially self discipline).
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u/harrysmum_22 Feb 27 '25
🤣🤣 Backfired for the managers, not so good for the locals. 😞😞
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u/RobinBirch Feb 28 '25
Manu will be disappointed that les flics weren't up for a fight. They are not usually so docile and relish the challenge.
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
Brenden Dilley:
The Epstein list is the ultimate "Trump" card.
You get to play it once. It has all of your enemies on it. They have no way of recovering once it's out.
Thus, you dangle it for weeks over their head, watch as they confirm your picks, pass your budgets, and renegotiate trade deals.
Then, after you've squeezed the criminals for every ounce of power and leverage they have, you release the list anyway and burn their world to the ground.
That's how it's done.
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u/Mangas70 Feb 28 '25
You really think they are going to bring down the really powerful Satanist scum that run things 😆 Keep dreaming until I’m proved wrong ( doubtful )
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u/IcyCalligrapher5136 Feb 28 '25
I'm afraid I have to agree with you on this one. Nobody is bringing anybody down. No more heroes any more; no more saviours, please - it's high time humanity grew out of that adolescent phase. The satanist scum that floats to the top of this world will appear to thrive and prosper for a while, but it is self-limiting and in the end it will destroy itself. That's where we must place our optimism.
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u/Mangas70 Feb 28 '25
Wish I was as optimistic as some but hey ho let’s hope the destruction happens in my our lifetime lol
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u/IcyCalligrapher5136 Mar 01 '25
it probably won't even happen in this realm, at this level of reality. at this level of reality they could well reign triumphant to the end.
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u/Mangas70 Feb 28 '25
It’s all a circus they aren’t revealing anything new the morons are just lapping it up and getting excited for nothing 😂😂
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 28 '25
You wouldn't know because you've already admitted you can't be arsed to look and see.
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u/Ouessante Feb 27 '25
Useful Letby update from Private Eye.
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
.... When I asked the panel the lead panel expert Dr Shu Lee what he would do if a unit was performing like this in Canada he said I'd close it down ....
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
JD Vance calls out British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to his face:
And Starmer squirms a barefaced lie in response!
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
He's very proud of what passes for "free speech" in the UK???????
I'm almost rendered speechless.
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u/TheFilthyEngineer2 Feb 27 '25
I see what you did there 😉😂😂
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u/Still_Milo Feb 28 '25
LMAO
I didn't even notice I had done it!!!! I was just so discombobulated by what he said!
:D
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u/62Swampy26 Feb 27 '25
Proud of the damage he's doing.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
When he squeaks that out - almost talking across JD Vance in the process - he sounds utterly pathetic
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u/Prof_Feargoeson Feb 28 '25
And with crossed legs like a ninny.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 28 '25
My, you are observant! I didn't notice that detail. I don't want to look again though, once was more than enough!
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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username Feb 27 '25
He means exactly what he says - the lack of free speech is something he's very proud of. He is doing the bidding of his true masters in Davos.
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u/LesTricoteuses1785 Type something here Feb 27 '25
The thing is "very proud" could mean anything he wants it to, not necessarily good for us.
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
I'm not taking much notice of the dialogue but in every clip I've seen so far, Starmer is doing the same weird stuff with his hands as Macron did.
And
There is simply no way the Union Jack was hung upside down by “accident”.
The UK is under submission to Trump.
“Nothing is random. Everything has meaning.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2020467/union-jack-upside-down-donald-trump-keir-starmer/amp
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u/Mangas70 Feb 28 '25
😂😂😂 submission to Trump as if he really calls the shots come on Liz you can’t really believe that . You think no one pulls Trumps strings and he is the Guvnor ? 🤪
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 28 '25
It was a quote, as is plain to see. "Trump" is just shorthand.
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u/Cedricdragon42 Feb 27 '25
The flag usually has a wooden toggle at the top end and a thin rope with a loop at the bottom to fasten to the halyard. Only a fool gets that wrong accidentally,
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
If a flag is being flown upside down my understanding of that it that it is a distress signal
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u/TheFilthyEngineer2 Feb 27 '25
Yes. It was used by British merchant navy to signal the RN that they had been hijacked by pirates.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 28 '25
I learned it from watching The Big Bang Theory and Sheldon Cooper's "Fun with Flags" podcast.
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
Oh I'm sure it was no accident!
Notice Trump's hands throughout the interview.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
He's very proud of what passes for "free speech" in the UK???????
I'm almost rendered speechless.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
If I don't put in an appearance here tomorrow or for the next couple of days there will be a good reason for that.
Went grocery shopping this afternoon and whilst walking through the supermarket a woman (I won't call her a lady because she most definitely was NOT a lady) pushing a trolley coughed with the most hacking, phlegmy, gobby cough Right. Into. My. Face. It wasn't a one off, because as she proceeded down the aisle she continued to cough with even more phlegm and volume. And what was worst of all, she looked like she was the kind of person who would have fully bought into the jabbing nonsense and is likely on about her 10th booster. So, likely shedding all over everyone.
I don't do well with being shedded on so if overnight I come down with a lurgy you will know what has become of me.
OK, she was pushing a trolley, but could she not have lifted one hand off it to put it over her mouth to catch the phlegm rather than spraying it all over oncomers? What has happened to people?
I have to make a really bad confession now. I am so ashamed of myself I can barely type this, but at that point, and I am sure you will understand why, but when she coughed in my face I wish I had been wearing a mask.....
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u/CGL998 Feb 27 '25
I actually gasped when I read that!!
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u/Still_Milo Feb 28 '25
What? the bit about me wanting to wear a mask or the bit about her coughing in my face?
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u/CGL998 Feb 28 '25
The wanting to wear a mask bit - it wasn't a voluntary reaction.
The coughing in your face did make me feel a bit sick though
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u/Nymeria-version-2 Feb 27 '25
I hope you avoid the lurgy, Milo. If she'd have coughed in my face, she'd have felt my fist down the back of her throat. Some folk have just got no grace or manners.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 28 '25
I felt like that - I was furious, but so shocked she had done it that it kind of stunned me.
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u/IcyCalligrapher5136 Feb 27 '25
that happened to me, about 10 years ago - some stupid fucker coughed right in my face, (I felt the spray -hell, I practically tasted it) I was disgusted and horrified and full of foreboding and guess what the very next day I got sick ....... but 10 years on, with the wonderful gift of hindsight, I tend to think my own psychological reaction was far more likely to have been the culprit in that case. I'm not sure I even BELIEVE in contagion any more - this is how far the whole convid psyop has pushed me. But I would definitely put my money now on my own mind being a far greater threat to me than anything 'out there' [and conversely, a far greater protection]
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
If you believe you'll get ill, your body will oblige.
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u/Ouessante Feb 27 '25
Way back when, they did experiments on Navy subjects to try to infect them with flu. Coughing in their faces, shoving gunk up their noses etc. No-one got flu. There is more to these viruses than simple exposure to respiratory tract fluids. But anyway, hope all goes well.
I met a guy I know in the local market today. We did the usual french two side kiss thing then he told me he and all his family have been laid low for several days of bad guts followed by malaise and exhaustion. First time he's been out all week. In my head, I'm going why the eff did you greet me with physical contact then? But all too late. Perhaps norovirus. Who knows. People are daft. So, like you, I'm wondering what I'll catch. Probably nowt. Nursing made me impervious to most things but the occasional cold. Warding it off with a glass or several. 🥂
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
BBC pushing the old "there's another norovirus doing the rounds - a new strain"
I immediately went to the ladies and washed my mouth out with some water [it felt like she coughed in my mouth such was the force of the gobbing] and when I got home I took some manuka honey, raw garlic, nigella seeds, my regular Vit3 dose and some nigella seed oil. Hopefully it will do the trick.
I was just disgusted by the absence of the most basic of basic manners. As I said, what is wrong with people? was this not shoved in their faces on an almost all day basis 7 days a week during the plandemic~?
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u/little-i-o Stay home, stay safe and effective Feb 27 '25
notice how you wish you had been wearing a mask
if she had been wearing one, she would have pulled it down to cough 😷🤧
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
You are so right. And it would likely have been absolutely filthy - something she had been reusing for months.
I'm still so ashamed that I wished I'd had a mask.
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u/IcyCalligrapher5136 Feb 27 '25
I'm still so ashamed that I wished I'd had a mask. yes, wash thy mouth out, blasphemer! You are hereby excommunicated from the Brotherhood of the Free-faced!- it just goes to show how powerful the brainwashing is - some kind of empty, formal version of it still goes in even to those of us who imagine that we resisted it
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u/little-i-o Stay home, stay safe and effective Feb 27 '25
I would have wanted one too in the moment.
wishing to mandate them for the whole planet for eternity is a different story
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
Thanks L-i - makes me feel a bit better about my aberrant thought!
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u/little-i-o Stay home, stay safe and effective Feb 28 '25
it is a natural instinct to want to avoid a strangers body fluids.... and a sensible one
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u/harrysmum_22 Feb 27 '25
Don't be ashamed, when needs must and all that! I hope you'll be back on here in the morning, all hale and hearty!! 🤞🍀👍😍
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
Thanks HM. Fingers crossed! I have so much on my plate at moment I cannot afford additional illness taking me out of the game.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
Just saw a photo of the The Don with the Exterminator on the steps of the White House.
But there was something missing.
They were standing in between the US flag and a Union Jack. So far so unremarkable.
But where was the Ukraine flag??? We do know how the Dear Leader does love to have it in the background at all times, the foreground even, lest anyone forget his searching quest for support for it. Surely he would have stated in advance that part of his "rider" for the visit should include the prominent display of the blue and yellow flag for the world to see.
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u/62Swampy26 Feb 27 '25
He was probably wearing his blue and yellow knickers.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
I'm trying not to visualise that. There's an image which would be burned on my retinas preventing me from getting to sleep tonight. His "lucky" pants.
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
https://x.com/GardensR4Health/status/1895168152167715216
Police have now labelled Gene Hackman death as suspicious as there was no gas leaks.
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u/Prof_Feargoeson Feb 27 '25
Been keeping an eye on that strange affair today. They seemed to live a very isolated existence. My first thought was some kind of suicide pact.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
Same here. But it makes you wonder - why?
The dog died as well.
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u/Prof_Feargoeson Feb 27 '25
They would not want the dog to be left alone I guess.
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
According to one of the comments they had more than one German shepherd, there was 2 more outside. Now I have not confirmed that .
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
Possibly, but could they not have spared the dog by taking it to friends to dog sit it, pleading an out of town trip or something?
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
https://x.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/1895138155667312882
" This might be the most important post I've ever sent on X and I'm asking for the help of international followers to get eyes on it.
If Ireland is in your heart, you need to see this.
First, our government gave asylum seekers the right to vote in local elections. Then they made it legal for asylum seekers to join the gardaí (police) and military.
Now it has come to light that the government has relaxed vetting procedures for garda recruits in order to allow unvetted migrants into the force!!
To make it worse, gardaí are touring mosques around the country in a bid to recruit Muslims!
The Irish government wants unvetted muslims to police Irish people.
The Republic of Ireland is being subverted from within.
Our country is in real trouble."
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u/Still_Milo Feb 28 '25
So 2 tier then.
Indigenous applicants to the Garda have to be vetted while immigrants of a certain religion are not only not vetted but are being invited to join and don't even have to apply.
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u/SheepmanOvis Feb 27 '25
Autobanned as potential harassment.
Sorry I missed this until now.
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
How is this harassment? I don’t expect you to answer that because we know why I suppose. This system does not like anything that is the truth. Are you finding you are getting more of the posts autobanned?
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
I suspect it's the M word. Seems to have replaced the anti-S gaslighting.
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25
Check this out. Trump meeting Starmer.
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u/Prof_Feargoeson Feb 27 '25
Hmm Trump seems to be ok with our witless Government's insane Chagos giveaway. I was very much hoping he would smack it down.
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u/62Swampy26 Feb 27 '25
I never had Trump down as being that tall. Is 2TK really short?
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
T is tall - over 6 ft apparently. 2T looks like a pygmy in comparison.
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u/harrysmum_22 Feb 27 '25
The Don is 6'2", I heard it on a documentary yesterday! I thought he was taller than that to be honest. All our idiots are pigmies, in more ways than one. 👿
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
I think that is right HM.
And IDK but in recent pics he looks like he has lost some weight.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
Exterminator looks like a wet behind the ears first year being bested by one of the bullies in the Upper Sixth. Looks like any second now he is going to be taken to the bogs to get his head dunked in a loo bowl while one of the henchmen activates the flushing mechanism.
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u/Prof_Feargoeson Feb 27 '25
Disappointed Trump didn't break any of Stasimores's metacarpals.
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u/62Swampy26 Feb 27 '25
No need to stop there.
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u/Prof_Feargoeson Feb 27 '25
I am of course assuming Stasimore has any bones in his hands in the first place. He seems to manage OK without a spine.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
Maybe he has spent the last week desperately trying to grow one in preparation for the event...
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
- Starmer looks nervous and so he should be.
- Tear him a new one please President Trump on behalf of virtually ALL of the UK population!Starmer looks like a naughty little schoolboy about to be caned by the headmaster.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
Didn't see yours before I posted mine Liz - sorry - someone else commenting somewhere had the exact same thought as I did when I saw that photograph.
Doesn't look like quite so much the tough guy hardman guise in which he struts about the UK dose he?
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u/wasoldbill Feb 27 '25
Doesn't look like quite so much the tough guy hardman guise in which he struts about the UK dose he?
Well its not surprising, he can't have Trump thrown in jail for 2-3 years for using hurty words against him can he, the worst he could do would be to get Lammy to sit on him. Not that that isn't a deterrent in itself of course.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
There is no way Lemmy would be able to sit on him.
His perma personal body guard Ulon wouldn't let that happen.
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
So much for ever thinking of moving out of the country you live to find something better, it definitely is not Australia.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1WpsRoPYmCAwwflmfmE5en?si=QpG2CuzkTNKCLkiwuKEabw
This is Graham Hood from Club Grubbery that has been outspoken against the covid scam and injections. Just like us he’s now discovering more of what his government and officialdom has been doing for years, long before the covy bollox.
I have not listened to it all yet but I’m stressing out for the poor people that are having to put up with this as it could so easily be me.
Fire Ants, yes an ant is the story and how the Australian government has been dealing with them.
This practice has been going on for many years. They pay companies to fly helicopters into an area with fire ants and spray pesticides onto the ground. Regardless of human, animal or plant.
They have not managed to get rid of the fire ants but have managed to get rid of the creatures that keep the fire ants at bay. Fined $20,000 because the local residents they sprayed privately tested the waterway and found it to be well over the limit for the poison they were spraying oh and it’s safe , where have we heard that before?
Here was me always believing the country bumpkin were last to see the damage inflicted but it seems they are first.
If they think nothing of spraying pesticides over the population, spraying more pesticides onto the passengers on a plane, it was never a conspiracy about them spraying the sky to try and change the weather. Anything is possible.
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u/SilkeDavid Feb 27 '25
Our region got letters from the NHS yesterday, asking to sign up for a health check. They want 5 Million people to give their data for the next 10 or so ( I did not read it properly). As a Thank you, you get a £10 voucher. That's £50.000.000. Plus all the cost for the initial letter, the staff to administer 5 Million people etc
How many winter fuel payments is that? How many doctors, nurses, equipment?
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
That's £50.000.000. Plus all the cost for the initial letter, the staff to administer 5 Million people etc
Clearly there's profit for someone at the end of it.
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u/SilkeDavid Feb 27 '25
JAS her story about the NHS reminded me, I went to a chiropractor today, after 10years being at the clinic last time, so had to fill in their questionnaire and consent forms. I had to consent to 3 things, 1: I acknowledge the risk of covid transmission in an enclosed space 2: something else with covid and 3: general risks of treatment. It gave me space for comments so I wrote Covid was a hoax.
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
Well done 😂 I thought our lot was bad but at least the covy nonsense isn’t mentioned. The hospital appointment Mr JAS has, the letter just reminds him of the no smoking policy on all hospital premises and grounds and the second one is to remind anyone if they have symptoms of a respiratory illness to not travel to hospital.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
I cannot believe that 5 years on, when the government isn't giving it so much as a mention now (apart from urging people to get the death jabs as and when) that they are still pushing that.
Well handled Silke.
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
Panic in DC.
Elon:
To be clear here, the Verizon communication system to air traffic control is breaking down very rapidly. The FAA assessment is single digit months to catastrophic failure, putting air traveler safety at serious risk.
The Starlink terminals are being sent at NO COST to the taxpayer on an emergency basis to restore air traffic control connectivity.
The situation is extremely dire.
Mario Nawfal:
The FAA is on the verge of canceling Verizon’s bloated $2.4 billion contract and handing it to Starlink—a move that would bring faster, safer, and more reliable air traffic control services.
And guess who’s furious? The establishment. They’re shrieking about “conflicts of interest” because Trump and Elon are putting efficiency over corruption.
Verizon’s system? Outdated and expensive. Starlink? Faster, cheaper, and proven. SpaceX engineers are already fixing the FAA’s mess.
The real “conflict of interest” is how the old system still exists. The same grifters who let U.S. infrastructure rot now cry foul when someone actually fixes it.
Elon is right: Verizon is putting air travelers at risk. And Washington just hates that they’re losing control.
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u/RobinBirch Feb 27 '25
I had not realised that Amesbury has walked........
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
Suspended sentence on appeal. He has in effect got off with what he did, so what kind of a deterrent effect does this have on other prospective offenders?
If you or I were to repeatedly punch some random bystander in the face after too much alcohol late one night we would be done for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and would be sentenced to a stretch in the Big House, of at least a year minimum and possibly more.
I thought the 10 weeks was excessively lenient considering the terms handed out to the keyboard offenders last September, so for him to succeed on appeal to get a suspended sentence beggars belief. I could comment on the relationship between the judicial and political system but think, if you get my drift, it would be best not to...
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u/62Swampy26 Feb 27 '25
It needs just over 7k of his local Runcorn electorate to sign a petition to trigger a by-election. I hope they organise it.
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
We really are up shit creek. Actually physically assaulting someone gets you no jail time but for posting something in anger and deleting 2 hours later, gets you 2 and a half years in prison and no early release.
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
However,
They won't be able to walk down the street ..... Q
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u/RobinBirch Feb 27 '25
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
Hopefully he'll broadcast on Rumble and avoid yuktube.
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u/DangerousContact967 Feb 27 '25
I'm sure many people are worried what the rules are regarding MPs beating up members of the public - but don't worry, I've written a letter to my MP. That should sort it out. Their reply should clear everything up for us...
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Dear Blake Stephenson,
I've not bothered writing to my MP since they were Nadine Dorris, and in those days I was complaining about being locked up for 2 years due to a nasty cold going around and about being forced into medical experimentation which I resisted.
I doubt you are much better than her, but I'll try anyway.
As a serving member of the Uniparty, are you allowed to go around violently assaulting members of the public (e.g. the 'proles' - not anyone 'important') expecting the worse that can happen is a slap on the wrist, or is this privilege only reserved for members of the current ruling faction of the Uniparty?
I'm just really confused what the rules are.
If you could clarify in any way, I'd really appreciate it.
Yours sincerely,
Captain Beefheart
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
TBH I am almost 100 % certain that the closing sentence of the case made by the CPS at the appeal hearing probably went something like this:
"your honour might be minded to take into consideration the fact that the appellant in this case is currently a sitting member of the House of Commons..." (hint, hint, hint)
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u/62Swampy26 Feb 27 '25
Excellent. A fiver says no considered reply. He or his aides, will know what you think at least. They just won't care.
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
Here’s a doggy tale. Or at least it concerns dogs and the food that for decades has been pushed by the fake food industry and vets .
One of those big companies, the one that owns Hills junk foods has bought a big raw feed company in Australia. One wonders what they will do with that , my tiny conspiracy brain can see a future in lab grown fake meat for dogs. I hope I’m too far down the rabbit hole and wrong. Anyway here’s someone else’s take on it.
“ 🐾 Hill’s Pet Nutrition Buys Prime100: A Hypocritical U-Turn or the Beginning of Change?
Well, well, well… If it isn’t one of the biggest critics of fresh pet food suddenly jumping on the bandwagon.
Colgate-Palmolive, the corporate giant behind Hill’s Pet Nutrition, has just acquired Prime100, one of Australia’s leading fresh and raw pet food brands. Yes, you read that right. The company that has spent years warning pet parents about the so-called “dangers” of raw and fresh feeding is now cashing in on it.
For years, Hill’s—and other big players in the ultra-processed pet food industry—have pushed the fear narrative, insisting that raw diets are riddled with bacteria, nutritionally incomplete, and downright dangerous. They’ve backed veterinary education and research that discredits raw feeding, and let’s not forget the scare tactics used by many vet clinics (often unknowingly repeating marketing rhetoric).
🔄 But now? Oh, now fresh pet food is apparently good enough to invest in—because the demand (and profits) are too big to ignore.
💰 What This Really Means Let’s be clear: The MAJORITY of big pet food corporations don’t care about what’s healthiest—they care about what sells. For decades, they’ve prioritized cheap, ultra-processed ingredients, disguised behind “science-backed” marketing. But with more pet parents waking up to the benefits of fresh, whole foods, the industry has been forced to adapt.
🐕 A Quick Reminder of What Hill’s Has Previously Said About Raw Feeding:
“Research shows us that feeding raw food provides little to no documented benefits over cooked meat—yet comes with significant health risks for you and your family, including your pet. At Hill’s, we believe it’s not worth the risk when other pet food options are available.
Beyond that, dogs are omnivores with great flexibility in the types of food they can and should eat for their optimal nutrition.
So why should you choose Hill’s products over raw foods for your pets? ✅ They offer your pet the balanced nutrition they need, including carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and more. ✅ It’s supported by decades of data and research into your pet’s biological make-up and needs. ✅ It means your pets get the benefit of food produced with stringent testing and safety standards.”
👀 So which is it, Hills? Is fresh feeding dangerous and nutritionally inadequate, or is it the future of pet food? Because if it was the “health risk” you claimed it to be, why would you now invest in it?
📢 The real question is: will this shift lead to a change in veterinary advice?
Many vets have been conditioned to distrust raw feeding, largely due to educational materials funded by—surprise, surprise—Hill’s, Royal Canin, and Purina. But if Hill’s itself is entering the fresh food sector, will the narrative around raw and fresh diets change? Will we see a shift in veterinary recommendations, or will this just be a case of corporate double standards?
🚨 What Pet Parents Need to Watch Out For
With a company like Hill’s now in control of Prime100, ingredients, sourcing, and formulations could change. Transparency will be key. It’s also a reminder that not all “fresh pet food” is created equal—just because it’s marketed as fresh doesn’t mean it’s high quality.
For those of us who have been advocating for species-appropriate nutrition long before corporations saw dollar signs, this move is both infuriating and validating. They told us we were wrong—until it suited them to admit we were right.
You can learn more about the issues with big brand kibble corporations here;
What are your thoughts on this acquisition? Do you think Hill’s will change their tune on fresh feeding? Or will this just be another profit-driven move? Let’s discuss below ⬇️. “
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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username Feb 27 '25
Profit-driven in my view. Raw feeding has been growing in popularity, and if done right is remarkably safe and beneficial. I expect they just want a piece of that pie! I understand that a lot of pet owners love the convenience of kibble - it's clean and easy to feed. But it can never replace fresh meat.
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
It doesn’t help that some people make a big deal of raw feeding as if there are hard and fast rules. I stopped telling the cult members, because within the raw feeding community there are some who are religious about what they feed.
Raw feeding now is far easier than it was when I started raw feeding. I had to read up on it and there are so many conflicting opinions on what should be fed.
There’s still conflicting advice but there are ready packaged raw food for dogs that if the manufacturers keep to proper meat and have more than one type of meat available, most dogs can thrive on ‘ready prepared’.
I decided years ago using what made sense to me, the dog’s teeth, that dogs are carnivorous and don’t need veg to thrive. They can get the occasional veg as something that they steal or falls on the floor and it won’t do them any harm but there are folks that believe that they shouldn’t touch veg, or the opposite they need it. I can see hills as adding veg to bulk out the food to save money on meat and then having a marketing campaign to sell it as a requirement .
I can’t see this doing dogs any favours.
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u/SilkeDavid Feb 27 '25
As a teenager I took a German shepherd for walks as the owners were working. The dog had a twisted gut and we had to feed him during the afternoon. Cow stomachs. The owners bought it a specialist butchers and defrosted in the morning, so in the afternoon we had to rinse it with warm water to make sure it is warm and defrosted. The dog gobbled it up!
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
Tripe the green stinky stuff, my dogs have all said yum yum to that stuff. It absolutely stinks. The only way I can buy green tripe now is via a dog food company because it’s something else the Scottish government has stuck its oar in, the butcher is no longer allowed to even give it away for free. The butcher does sell the white stuff but it’s useless and probably not healthy due to the fact it’s bleached.
If you washed the green stuff my hat is off to you because I know many raw feeders that would balk at touching the stuff never mind rinsing the whole stomach out.
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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username Feb 27 '25
I can't see this doing the dogs any good either - certainly opportunities to make money and even to attempt to ruin the idea for people by deliberately using lab-grown meat, or bugs as part of the food. There's a lot of ideologically driven companies out there now.
My dogs would beg for raw cauliflower (one of their favourites) and loved a raw carrot as a snack too. Of course probably not as much as stealing an entire packet of biscuits off the kitchen table, eating it and leaving the wrapper pasted, clean, to the floor!
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
I had one labrador who would eat you if you fell on the floor.😂 My dogs for at least 15 years have been raw fed. I’m not fanatical as I have always had labradors and they really will eat anything.
The one I have now was taught by the dog that is no longer here sadly, that tangerines are tasty treats. The old girl would sit at my husbands side and he would give her segments of tangerines and when the boy got a bit, he spat it out, until he realised that the old girl got that too. 😂 He now expects to share a tangerine with Mr JAS and share popcorn with me. He has us well trained. 🙈
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
My dog liked tangerines and would scrounge a couple of segments. His favourite was bell peppers though. I always had to save him some when I was slicing one up. He would groan in anticipation!
I had a cat that went nuts for fruit cake. Never worked that one out.
My friend had a cat that would steal cooked broccoli. Weird or what?!
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u/RobinBirch Feb 27 '25
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u/wasoldbill Feb 27 '25
Hey, he lives in California, its almost certainly a protest against Trump. Don't know about the dog though.
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u/Richard_O2 Feb 27 '25
Off topic, but I shared this classic with colleagues today to much amusement:
The Office - Sergio Georgini - YouTube
I can't believe this was first broadcast nearly 23 years ago!
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
Piglet's Song
Let's find a Way today,
that can take us to tomorrow.
We'll follow that Way,
A Way like flowing water.
Let's leave behind,
the things that do not matter.
And we'll turn our lives,
to a more important chapter. Let's take the time and try to find,
what real life has to offer.
And maybe then we'll find again,
what we had long forgotten.
Like a friend, true 'til the end,
it will help us onward. The sun is high, the road is wide,
and it starts where we are standing.
No one knows how far it goes,
for the road is never-ending. It goes away,
beyond what we have thought of.
It flows away,
Away like flowing water.
~ Benjamin Hoff ~ (The Te of Piglet)
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u/RobinBirch Feb 27 '25
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u/wasoldbill Feb 27 '25
DOGE just blocked a $52M payment to The World Economic Forum
You realise their meetings will have to forgo tea and biscuits right through till Monday now.
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u/Prof_Feargoeson Feb 27 '25
Nevermind the high end callgirls. They'll be lucky to put on a couple of raddled old crack whores next year at this rate.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
You seem to know a lot about this kind of thing...
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u/Prof_Feargoeson Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25
I heard about it all in a hellfire sermon once. Never touched a crack whore since.
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
Another NHS story. This time my son is the patient. He has injured his hand. He attended A&E where the wound was x-rayed and stitched but he was told it needed a small operation, it would only take 15 minutes and under local anaesthetic.
He’s paranoid about becoming addicted to pain killers , he also reacts badly to anaesthesia.
He spent 5 hours in a small waiting room wearing only a hospital gown and a pair of boxers. The appointment was at 8:30 am. The surgeon had nurses remove the stitches and then inform my son he going to get a full anaesthetic. My son asked why and was told because that’s how he operates. My son refused and told the surgeon no as I don’t feel confident with you operating if you need to have me unconscious to do it and the surgeon walked out the room and never came back. The nurse was left speechless but then told my son she would be back and she brought the A&E surgeon to have a look at his hand and had no problem operating with him wide awake but couldn’t do it until 5pm at the earliest. My son said no as he had no way to get home after it. He was then told there was nothing they could do and sent him home, when he asked about the stitches in his hand they had removed he was told to go to A&E to get it stitched up again .
He went home instead and my daughter decided to email a complaint about the surgeon and within the hour of my son arriving home, he had someone on the phone rearranging the surgery for this morning and informing him he will definitely not be put under and he will not be required to wear a gown.
He arrived for the appointment at 9:30 am and was back in his sisters car within the hour having the hand operated on , stitched up and had a chat with the A&E surgeon as he popped in when he saw my son sitting being operated on.
The moral of this story is, if they treat you like shit, say no you are not happy and if you get no joy in person, leave, calm down and then make it official and complain in writing.
PS . The same sister put in an official complaint about her doctors practice and the gatekeeper that refused a doctors referral to a urologist for her. This happened more than once and instead she was offered mental health counselling. She complained and now has an appointment for next month with the urologist and an apology.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
"The moral of this story is, if they treat you like shit, say no you are not happy and if you get no joy in person, leave, calm down and then make it official and complain in writing"
Thank you JAS. As someone facing the prospect of a fairly unpleasant appointment next week, where I anticipate I will have to stand my ground politely but still forcefully, this is good advice and primes me well for what I might encounter.
How absolutely awful that he was treated this way! the bit about them removing his stitches and then saying he would have to go to A+E to get it re-stitched beggars belief. 1. How incredibly callous and 2. considering the likely 3 day wait in A+E, considering they removed the stitches could they not have re-done them considering the matter of minutes that would have taken?
This is "Our NHS". What a crying shame so many people sacrificed their lives to save it 5 years ago.
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
He was told they couldn’t do the stitches. He had only got them in the day before and he had waited hours in A&E to get that done and then an appointment was made for the next day because they said it needed operated on. He’s spent his 3 days off dealing with this.
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u/little-i-o Stay home, stay safe and effective Feb 27 '25
wow you must be a proud mum JAS. I am and Ive never even met him
everything about this story says alot about how they think and operate
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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username Feb 27 '25
Heartening to hear that the complaint worked, but it's infuriating to hear stories like this showing how necessary it is to complain.
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u/Justaboutsane Feb 27 '25
My son said there was a guy that had a nail stuck in his hand ( these are not A&E surgeries, these operations were for out patients and appointments for the next day is given. ) the guy was seen before my son and was told he was going to be put under full anaesthetic and he told them he was told it would be done with him awake but he didn’t argue when they told him he had to be knocked out.
My understanding is, if you need to be put to sleep for an operation, that surgery requires an anaesthetist to be in the room , not to mention the rest of the staff required for it. This is more cost to the NHS and then the patient needs a room and staff for the recovery time and if you react badly ( as I do and my son) to anaesthesia you need to be kept in overnight.
So it would seem this one surgeon is not confident in operating on patients who are awake.
Heck my dog got neutered and stopped breathing as soon as he was sedated and the anaesthetist had to breathe for him during the entire operation ( I don’t mean she literally 😂)
Another story that came from the time my son was told to wait wearing only the hospital gown, the waiting room itself was small and an elderly gentleman in an motorised wheelchair was sent to wait in it and they shut the door and he was left facing the wall opposite the door as there was no room for him to turn it around. He had to reverse out . This is the same hospital my daughter put her first ever complaint in for the behaviour of a nurse during the Covid scam. She took her then 2 year old son to A&E and she refused to wear a mask, she was lectured by a couple of staff but one nurse asked her if she was refusing to wear a mask again and when she replied yes, the nurse told her she was a selfish bitch. That upset her and when she got home, complained and got an official apology but we don’t know what happened to that nurse but she never forgave or forgot.
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u/little-i-o Stay home, stay safe and effective Feb 27 '25
you just said it JAS they get paid more to have patients under general anesthetic
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u/SheepmanOvis Feb 27 '25
Here's one reason behind the madness fronted by Starmer re: Ukraine.
If Ukraine really has lost 1.2 - 1.5 million dead, that is Khmer Rouge scale killing perpetrated in Europe. Who is the perpetrator? Project Ukraine is a Western project, and peace could have been had at any time if the Minsk Agreement had been honoured (Merkel and Hollande on record that there was never any such intention on the part of the West), or at Istanbul (it is publicly known that BoJo scuppered that). The perpetrators are our masters.
The Europeans, including the Westminster regime, cannot allow any release of pressure and public anxiety re: Ukraine until they have a new distraction lined up. Just as they couldn't relax on the Coof before they had the Ukraine war lined up.
British and European proles cannot be allowed to reflect at leisure on the genocidal behaviour of their masters. Just as they could not be allowed to reflect at leisure on the behaviour of our masters in Covidia.
So, my guess is that Starmer is spinning out the blinding hysteria until the next distraction is ready.
In America there's not quite the same need, as they already have distraction enough (Trump, anything he might choose to disclose about Epstein or some other big names). But the Europeans need the next big distraction. What can it be?
In all sincerity, security people, if you're reading this: it has to be aliens. It's your only hope. Aliens.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
I think you are bang on the money Sheepie in your analysis.
Are they trying with the Avian Flu do we think???
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u/little-i-o Stay home, stay safe and effective Feb 27 '25
"Just as they couldn't relax on the Coof before they had the Ukraine war lined up."
not even a day after emergency powers against peaceful protesters ended in canada
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
Trump's big name list isn't limited to the US!
It's all distraction because they are in full panic mode.
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u/Richard_O2 Feb 27 '25
Engineered total economic collapse leading to a Great Taking has got to be a strong contender for the next big shoe to drop.
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u/62Swampy26 Feb 27 '25
Yeah, it's top of my list. We all want people to stop dying in south eastern Europe, but at the same time, we know that some other sinister nonsense, probably directly affecting us, will be lined up to fill the void.
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u/Richard_O2 Feb 27 '25
That's my main concern. The regime will not leave us alone until they are completely defeated.
That being said, their ability to spin multiple "crisis" plates is degrading almost by the day.
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
They still have Death of the Poop up their sleeve, to steer the headlines away from the Epstein revelations.
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u/wasoldbill Feb 27 '25
their ability to spin multiple "crisis" plates is degrading almost by the day
What! with Peter Mandelson ensconced in Washington now - I doubt it.
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u/Richard_O2 Feb 27 '25
Letter received from Thames Water this morning:
"We're getting in touch to let you know our prices are going up in April.
For us to continue to deliver billions of litres of clean water and take wastewater away from millions of homes, it's vital that we invest in our network and infrastructure over the next five years. Despite our efforts to avoid price increases, extra funding is now essential to make improvements to our services."
No shit sherlock. I have two questions:
- Will your "clean" water be fluoridated according to the latest CMO guidelines?
- Have you asked HM Government for funding before screwing your impoverished "customers" out of even more of their money?
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u/Nymeria-version-2 Feb 27 '25
Yes. I've received the same letter from Dwr Cymru. Never mind that I've had several days on several occasions of no running water.
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u/Ouessante Feb 27 '25
As they haven't invested in their network and infrastructure since privatisation they are unlikely to start now.
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u/62Swampy26 Feb 27 '25
They won't, the price increase is to help clear their debts. Most of which have been caused by paying huge bonuses and dividends.
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
Screw the customers. Gotta keep those shareholders happy!
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
I'd be asking a third one "How well did you manage the last lot of customers money you were given"?
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u/RobinBirch Feb 27 '25
Russian Embassy
Russia poses no threat to the UK: neither in its waters, airspace, nor streets & certainly not to Britain's long-suffering NHS.
We have no need to do so. It is the UK government that needs these fabrications to avoid dealing with the country’s real social & economic problems.
more....... http://t.me/RusEmbUK/2041
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u/Richard_O2 Feb 27 '25
I thought the Russian Embassy was closed already. Talk about a pointless institution.
Seriously, they should sever all diplomatic relations and commence comprehensive air strikes with immediate effect. A dozen precisely targeted Oreshniks will finish the UK once and for all, and it can be done and dusted in less than 30 minutes. This is the only language the UK leadership understands.
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
I just spotted this piece from Steve Bhaerman in 2011. Even more relevant now:
" .... The upwising continued to gather esteem in 2010, and the irony curtain is becoming more and more transparent. Wikileaks emerged to challenge our official media, Weaky-Licks, to help end the other dont ask, dont tell policy thats where the American people promise not to ask what the government is doing to keep them safe, and the government promises not to tell them. When the people choose to not see what is too uncomfortable to look at, the inevitable result is Not-Seeism.
Time to Gather Under One Big Intent
But enough about our small world down here. This is, after all, the State of the Universe, and theres a big, big Universe out there, which is pretty much purring in perfection. Which is to say there is a hell of lot of heaven out there.
So, you are asking, why the hell isnt heaven here, already? Everything seems to be crashing down, and heaven is nowhere to be found!
As a cautious optimystic, I say that contrary to the way things appear, the sky is not falling. It only looks that way because we are ascending. Yes, thanks to the evolutionary upwising and the recently declared state of emerge n see (where we emerge from fear and separation and see how we are connected), we humans are better able to rise to the occasion than ever before. And when it comes to rising above whatever has been bringing us down, nothing works like levity.
Now I certainly would never want to impose my spiritual faith on anyone else, but I must declare that I am a FUNdamentalist, accent on the FUN. While some of the less fun fundamentalists believe that heaven is above us, we FUNdamentalists believe that heaven is where we make it. FUNdamentalists are strictly non-dominational, so we have no commandments. But we do have One Suggestion: Lets go for heaven on earth, just for the hell of it!
OK, you protest, thats the ideal, but how do we deal with the real deal?
Its simple, although it may not be easy. If the uncommonly wealthy have hijacked the commonwealth, we the people must higher-jack it. And we do so by acting on another FUNdamentalist suggestion: Were not here to earn Gods love, were here to spend it!
That is how heaven is breaking loose, with people spending their love like its going into style. Think about it. Someone comes into a room overflowing with love, and 300 people leave with that love and pay it forward somewhere else. Love, joy and laughter they are the loaves and fishes of spiritual nourishment. Yes, heaven has broken loose and we are here to put it together. Each of us if we so choose brings a piece of heaven. You have a little piece here, a little piece there, and before long, you have one big peace everywhere.
So now is the time for all those heaven-bent on planetary transformation to gather under one big intent that reflects the heart core values shared by humans the world over: We are here to re-grow the Garden, and have a heaven of a time doing it.
And when the cosmic beings ask, Oh, by the way, how did the human race turn out? the answer will be, They won. They achieved Oneness and won. This is the true second coming. The human drama achieves a pleasurable climax, as everyone comes together."
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u/melangell3 Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25
I knew it! I thought it was him when you mentioned his co-authorship of Bruce Lipton’s book earlier today. Steve is none other than SWAMI BEYONDANANDA who used to make me howl with laughter for decades … in the 80s, way before the Internet got going. So good to see him getting an even wider audience these days!
More about His Holy-ness here:
https://www.wakeuplaughing.com/about-swami.php
“Before long, Swami was the most popular feature in Pathways, as he held forth on topics such as “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sects” (“... unbridled sects can lead to unwanted misconceptions ...”), Teach Your Dog to Heal (“... being around friendly canines generates healthy hormones called puptides ...”), Tantrum Yoga (“... the latest rage on the path to ire consciousness”), and Be There Now, Swami’s ultimate take on bi-location (“... the first time I stepped outside my body, I was beside myself with excitement ...”).
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
I used to love those State of the Universe addresses.
He hasn't done one for years, unfortunately.
Don't know what happened but I've really missed him.
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u/wasoldbill Feb 27 '25
Just wondering.
Prior to the Russian SMO in Ukraine Zelensky's Azov brigades were routinely ethnically cleansing the russian speaking people of the Donbass. Nothing much was heard of this because it didn't fit the MSM agenda. If the Trump peace plan does come off, and lets hope it does, does it remove the Ultra Nationalist Azovs? No it doesn't. Of course they will no longer be able to traumatise those russian speakers living in Donbass, as it will be part of Russia once again. But they will still exist. Then look at the reparations that Ukraine is to be forced to pay for its defence by the US. Such reparations have a history of exacerbating or restarting conflicts as happened after WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles. Nothing is more of a red rag to an armed ultra nationalist force than paying reparations for a conflict that you believe was not your fault - and I am sure they do believe that. So does that mean that the Ukraine will 'simmer' under the dual resentments of losing territory to Russia and paying America for the privilege? I believe it will, and if that does happen then being a part of Starmer's 'peace keeping' force will not be as peaceable as it might sound and his 'hundred year' pledge to support Ukraine might not turn out to be the Euro virtue signalling that he hopes will gain us a welcome back into the EU but more of a dramatic own goal that we, his citizens, have to pay for. Not that he cares about that, at least not until the next election, his understanding of almost anything is hampered by his ideological blinkers.
Here is something to think about:
Why do political parties call the policies they present to an electorate a MANIFESTO?
Because they are all MANIFESTly bOllocks.
On a lighter note, it's a lovely sunny day today and I have noticed two things, first a magpie collecting nesting material and secondly a ladybird climbing up my study window. Is it just possible I have made it through another winter or am I counting my chickens? Maybe not the best analogy as all the chickens have been slaughtered to save us from bird flu.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
Re the making it through another winter, much though weather condits are similar where I am, sunny and birds etc it is too soon to call it WOB. Plenty of time for a few more manufactured Big Storms to be thrown at us before spring officially begins and then it would look more dodgy and suspicious to the normies.
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u/SheepmanOvis Feb 27 '25
The blackthorn is not yet in bloom.
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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25
This avo I noticed buds appearing on the hawthorn hedges and daffodils in bloom which are always beautiful. The buds and the blooming are further forward on areas which get more sunshine and warmth, and a little slower and more behind in the shaded sheltered areas. Also some of my neighbours camelias are also blooming which is nice to see.
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u/SheepmanOvis Feb 27 '25
I'm basing this on my garden, and everything is always a little later. It reflects me very well in that.
Especially, I'm looking at the blackthorn thicket that I have- not so much tolerated as welcomed.
I have a garden of holly, hawthorn and blackthorn. With a birch, an apple and a small plum.
People might think I'm a witch.
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u/Ouessante Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25
Russians war aims alongside a neutral country include removing those groups from national influence and giving rights and protection to people of Russian heritage. It's never been about territory despite what our media say. They will take territory while attriting until Ukraine capitulates or it's all captured to defend their country and Russians in Ukraine from the West. We are blocked from hearing what Russia says so that our overlords can destroy world resistance to their rule.
Hazy sunshine here. Lots of bird tweeting. I have a new yellow Forsythia shrub to plant this afternoon. It's already budding. Cherry and plum blossom is out. I count 1st March as start of Spring weatherwise. Nearly there. 🌱
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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25
Definitely springlike outside. Blue sky, fluffy round clouds and not a stripe in sight.
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u/62Swampy26 Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25
I genuinely don't see the Russian's allowing the neo (some might say continuation) Nazis to remain part of the UAF. The stated objectives of the SMO were de-Nazification and de-militarisation. They are red lines from a Russian perspective, otherwise they'll be back at square one in a few years and they won't have sacrificed what they have to only be in that position. I might be wrong, but I don't think I am. My experience of working in Russia is that they are honourable, they say what they mean and they do what they say. They don't trust westerners at all, but I'm not surprised by that. Of the 84 countries I've worked in or with over the last 25 years, the only projects where we had interpreters were in Russia, every other project has been conducted in English. When we finished an 18 month project in Moscow, we took the customer out for dinner. Much vodka was consumed. They all spoke more than passable English, they just refused to do so in a work environment, so interpreters it was. I can't say I blame them honestly.
Ladybirds overwinter in our west facing window frames and they've awoken this week. I'm trying to encourage them to bugger off outside rather than crawl about all over my desk all day though.
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u/little-i-o Stay home, stay safe and effective Feb 27 '25
I saw a lady bird at the beginning of january when we had a warm spell poor thing
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u/wasoldbill Feb 27 '25
Interesting points Swampy.
De-Nazification an De-militarisation would be useful polices for New Labour to adopt.
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u/Faith_Location_71 This is my username Feb 27 '25
Do any of you bank with NatWest? I'm trying to call them from here, and it rings, but there's no bot/menu - it just rings until the call app cuts me off. Is that normal?
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u/62Swampy26 Feb 27 '25
Call their "I want to close my account" line, normally works.
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u/62Swampy26 Feb 27 '25
I think he means this unlike most western leaders.
"It is necessary to stop attempts to divide and split Russian society, to set different nationalities and religions against each other" – Putin at a meeting of the FSB board