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  • How did he cost his temper and raised BP? 🤔 
    She doesn't get angry,  probably why she was a good teacher rising up the career ladder quickly. Head of science at a good, decent sized state school in her 20s. Born a teacher,  of teacher parents and always wanted to be a teacher. Has to be seen to be believed. You'd know she's a teacher if you met her. She'd have you under control in no time!!!  :D
  • If you get upset by Rees mogg then get worried. His son is a mini me and says he's going to be an mp too! Only his son seems more of a chocolate fireguard than his dad! Useless tawts!

    Eton also produces quality it's just that politics no longer get the talent from public schools or wider public. Quality does other things. Not just for money but also for doing good. 

    John Maynard Keynes

    George Orwell

    HUGH LAURIE
    Aldous  Huxley 
    Boyle ( boyles law iirc)
    Duke of Wellington,
    Numerous actors, writers, artists,  PMs and creatives. 

    Unfortunately all ppl remember are Cameron,  Johnston,  Lord Snooty / Walter and the two prince's Windsor. 
  • Why rush to the door of a train and wait for it to open,  30s plus, during which time you have plenty of time to see there's three bikes, their owners and other people all queuing to get off before you can get on? Then having seen that you've got to move away from the door you not do so until  you find nobody is getting off until you do.

    Sorry but most rush up to the door,  see there's people waiting for the doors to open to get off and then step clear to give people space to get off. It's the rare idiots who don't know good social etiquette wrt train arrival at stations.

    This time it was middle aged couple or rather the woman,  the man stood back and had to say something to the woman before she actually moved clear.

    In another case it's this late 20s, skinny man in a fancy/extravagant weave, sharp suit with trousers too short to show shoes in winter with no socks. He actually pushes on before anyone gets off. Or he did.  I think he got told by someone a bit too forcefully as of late he's been doing the step back for space good practice thing. I used to push my brompton across my body in front of me,  he soon stepped back with a 16" front wheel looking like it was headed to his brain box! It wasn't because before head contact I'd have stepped down off the train so I'd hit him square in the chest to groin area depending on my mood.

    Sorry,  I should point out my description above was imaginary. There is no way I'm going to hit someone with my bike I'm non violent. Of course my brain isn't,  it likes to think what if? What if my bike took him out by the groin hit just once. Would he learn a lesson or go to another door? My common sense says you can't hit someone with a bike and commo sense wins out more often than not. 

    Still,  why block peoples egress? It only slows things down.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Obviously they weren’t trained properly by the school bus prefect 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    A quick whack in the groin with the wheel followed by "So sorry, I thought I saw you stepping back" would fulfil the desire of the brain and caring version of you.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Just had the first trick or treaters knocking the door :|  I'd assumed parents wouldn't be sending their kids out this year with the rates of covid in schools but I guess not.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    As OH says, “that shows a rare degree of idiocy, co-mingled with a huge amount of arrogance” 😡 
    I love those wise words bet I won't be able to remember them the next time a situation arises that warrants them.  :)
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited October 2021
    What indeed?? @Dovefromabove. I was too gobsmacked, disgusted and depressed to read past the first few sentences. I assume it didn't get any better. 
    The American film and TV industry sold the world the chimera that the USA was a beacon of civilisation.  To mix metaphors, we are beginning to see the picture in the attic.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Just read that article on the NFL payouts. Gobsmacked, it’s beyond belief. Made my skin crawl. The more I read about what seems to be acceptable behaviour and practice in the USA, the more it confirms my belief that I will never set foot over there again. Are there any decent, normal people there? Or are they such a minority that only the crackpots and monsters get to decide on legislation?
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