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Post by felonious on May 26, 2024 13:51:49 GMT
As I’ve said before and been lambasted about, politics needs its own section. Now then, where’s that tin hat?🤔 Yeah i think youre right mate. Have one thread for all politics crap. Apparently it's too much work for the powers that be but it would certainly improve this place no end. |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2024 13:56:10 GMT
See tbh, the volunteering aspect actually has potential to be something beneficial but unfortunately the implementation would be for the benefit of the few rather than the many. Probably have us all "volunteering" for Amazon, tesco or some other private corporation. Or they'd cut nhs numbers further and expect volunteers to keep it going. Instead we should normalise a 4 day working week with day 5 for people to get involved with community based projects. Working in food kitchens, cleaning Green spaces, helping elderly people, restoring/fixing public buildings, running community fitness programmes, building social housing, fixing potholes etc. That's how you build pride and community while also reducing council expenditure so they can invest. Forcing the youngest in society to fight wars and give up their free team to be slaves to the wealthiest of society isn't the way. When my mother worked for the MOD, she recalled to me a conversation she had with some Colonel who stated (paraphrasing) “Britain doesn’t have a standing army. Some definition of a standing army is that in needs x number of people but govt cuts have left us with y”. If Britain wants military readiness, they should take money out of pension schemes and reinvest it in the youth. |
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Post by felonious on May 26, 2024 13:58:44 GMT
See tbh, the volunteering aspect actually has potential to be something beneficial but unfortunately the implementation would be for the benefit of the few rather than the many. Probably have us all "volunteering" for Amazon, tesco or some other private corporation. Or they'd cut nhs numbers further and expect volunteers to keep it going. Instead we should normalise a 4 day working week with day 5 for people to get involved with community based projects. Working in food kitchens, cleaning Green spaces, helping elderly people, restoring/fixing public buildings, running community fitness programmes, building social housing, fixing potholes etc. That's how you build pride and community while also reducing council expenditure so they can invest. Forcing the youngest in society to fight wars and give up their free team to be slaves to the wealthiest of society isn't the way. It's interesting that the three countries mentioned on the BBC article are Norway, Sweden and Denmark so I would suspect that progressive countries like those would have a decent model in place. In terms of the UK it could be quite useful for the young drug pushers and gang members, especially in London  , to properly learn how to use weapons and in terms of meeting a cross section of the poulation it could open up new markets to them  |
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Post by Gawa on May 26, 2024 14:11:40 GMT
See tbh, the volunteering aspect actually has potential to be something beneficial but unfortunately the implementation would be for the benefit of the few rather than the many. Probably have us all "volunteering" for Amazon, tesco or some other private corporation. Or they'd cut nhs numbers further and expect volunteers to keep it going. Instead we should normalise a 4 day working week with day 5 for people to get involved with community based projects. Working in food kitchens, cleaning Green spaces, helping elderly people, restoring/fixing public buildings, running community fitness programmes, building social housing, fixing potholes etc. That's how you build pride and community while also reducing council expenditure so they can invest. Forcing the youngest in society to fight wars and give up their free team to be slaves to the wealthiest of society isn't the way. It's interesting that the three countries mentioned on the BBC article are Norway, Sweden and Denmark so I would suspect that progressive countries like those would have a decent model in place. In terms of the UK it could be quite useful for the young drug pushers and gang members, especially in London , to properly learn how to use weapons and in terms of meeting a cross section of the poulation it could open up new markets to them Some of them actually do have decent models. The Norwegian one is a competitive model where people actually compete to get accepted rather than it being enforced on them. I think another key difference too is none of them are Americas little lap dog fighting needless foreign wars for vanity. Norway has been involved in 3 conflicts since WW2. The uk has been involved in 3 since 2010. |
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Post by steve66 on May 26, 2024 14:12:13 GMT
Should never of been stopped then maybe we wouldn’t be in such a mess, can snowflakes be made to go too?
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Post by andystokey on May 26, 2024 14:49:14 GMT
Its not a bad idea but it needs to be backdated in my opinion as we have swathes of older people who never had the opportunity and could benefit greatly from it. I'd start with those below retirement age and give them the option of military service or volunteering a weekend a month and slowly work your way down. The boomers are the most patriotic generation the uk has ever seen, it would only be fair if they got the chance to experience such pride in my opinion. Bring it on. I reckon some of us 'boomers' are a damn sight fitter than most pampered whining millenials I come across. |
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Post by 4372 on May 26, 2024 16:53:41 GMT
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Post by prestwichpotter on May 26, 2024 17:06:52 GMT
Yeah i think youre right mate. Have one thread for all politics crap. Apparently it's too much work for the powers that be but it would certainly improve this place no end. You don't go on them anyway by your own admission so not sure how it would improve your user experience?  If everyone just read/commented on the threads that interested them, or simply ignored the ones that didn't I think it would function just fine......... |
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Post by felonious on May 26, 2024 18:12:22 GMT
Apparently it's too much work for the powers that be but it would certainly improve this place no end. You don't go on them anyway by your own admission so not sure how it would improve your user experience? If everyone just read/commented on the threads that interested them, or simply ignored the ones that didn't I think it would function just fine......... To be honest between the word games and the ever increasing politics threads you can get halfway down the page before there's another subject. As for politics we both know nothing will change since Corbyn was cancelled...... |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on May 26, 2024 18:14:02 GMT
You don't go on them anyway by your own admission so not sure how it would improve your user experience? If everyone just read/commented on the threads that interested them, or simply ignored the ones that didn't I think it would function just fine......... To be honest between the word games and the ever increasing politics threads you can get halfway down the page before there's another subject. As for politics we both know nothing will change since Corbyn was cancelled...... Don’t forget the Elystokie thread😉 |
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Post by frasier37 on May 26, 2024 18:27:22 GMT
If we are all in this together does this include every politician.
Seriously, I would love them to force this one through....atleast we would finally realise who the enemy really are ...then we could all rise as one huge human salmon and slap the kakistocracy reet in their greedy, fat fucking faces.
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Post by dutchstokie on May 26, 2024 19:04:53 GMT
ABOUT FUCKIN TIME !
Weed out these woke,pant wetting, they/it/ non binary pink haired whining shits.
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Post by elystokie on May 26, 2024 19:23:41 GMT
To be honest between the word games and the ever increasing politics threads you can get halfway down the page before there's another subject. As for politics we both know nothing will change since Corbyn was cancelled...... Don’t forget the Elystokie thread😉 Where all are welcome but few appear to want to engage 🤔😄 |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on May 26, 2024 19:27:31 GMT
Don’t forget the Elystokie thread😉 Where all are welcome but few appear to want to engage 🤔😄 Straight into the keep net😉 |
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Post by elystokie on May 26, 2024 19:29:57 GMT
Where all are welcome but few appear to want to engage 🤔😄 Straight into the keep net😉 Perfectly true nonetheless 😉 |
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Post by wilcopotter on May 26, 2024 19:31:08 GMT
Not likely to happen. However, youngsters may be called up anyway in the next few years the way things are going.
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Post by musik on May 26, 2024 19:51:56 GMT
They have talked to Sweden. |
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Post by RipRoaringPotter on May 26, 2024 20:28:12 GMT
ABOUT FUCKIN TIME ! Weed out these woke,pant wetting, they/it/ non binary pink haired whining shits. You're whining about people whining. |
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Post by westlandstokie on May 26, 2024 20:57:58 GMT
It’s just more bullshit that will never happen…hopefully the last we hear from an increasingly desperate Tory so called Government…they are so desperate to cling onto power they will tell us anything for the odd vote…just go Sunak and take your shower of shite with you.
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Post by noustie on May 26, 2024 21:09:00 GMT
Its not a bad idea but it needs to be backdated in my opinion as we have swathes of older people who never had the opportunity and could benefit greatly from it. I'd start with those below retirement age and give them the option of military service or volunteering a weekend a month and slowly work your way down. The boomers are the most patriotic generation the uk has ever seen, it would only be fair if they got the chance to experience such pride in my opinion. 2024 reboot of Dad’s Army - everyone over 40 with a BMI of obese or above get filmed trying complete assault courses as drones shoot them up the arse with paintballs if they slow down |
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Post by prestwichpotter on May 26, 2024 21:09:21 GMT
You don't go on them anyway by your own admission so not sure how it would improve your user experience? If everyone just read/commented on the threads that interested them, or simply ignored the ones that didn't I think it would function just fine......... To be honest between the word games and the ever increasing politics threads you can get halfway down the page before there's another subject. As for politics we both know nothing will change since Corbyn was cancelled...... The word games are of no real interest me, so I just ignore them. There are plenty of other topics to get involved with if they float your boat. The best posters are the ones that come on to a thread they're not interested in to repeatedly tell everyone they're not interested in them, now they're a special breed......... |
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Post by Gods on May 26, 2024 21:15:54 GMT
I just checked and there are 717,000 18 year olds in the UK.
The scheme only has 30,000 places.
So there is only a place for about 1 in 25 people.
The other 687,000 18 year old will just have 12 unpaid weekends away doing volunteering stuff.
Unless I'm missing something it's a nonsense.
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Post by superjw on May 26, 2024 21:28:07 GMT
I just checked and there are 717,000 18 year olds in the UK. The scheme only has 30,000 places. So there is only a place for about 1 in 25 people. The other 687,000 18 year old will just have 12 unpaid weekends away doing volunteering stuff. Unless I'm missing something it's a nonsense. How does an 18 year old afford to have 12 unpaid weekends doing volunteering? The whole thing is a complete nonsense indeed Perhaps the scheme could be trialed on retirement first, see how it goes 😉 |
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Post by thisisouryear on May 26, 2024 22:13:39 GMT
The Tories seem to be getting good at trying to force people to do things rather than be more creative with their policies. Everything they come up with seems to target people. They clearly hate the people in this country, they are still on a power trip after COVID
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Post by felonious on May 27, 2024 7:03:37 GMT
To be honest between the word games and the ever increasing politics threads you can get halfway down the page before there's another subject. As for politics we both know nothing will change since Corbyn was cancelled...... Don’t forget the Elystokie thread😉 Don't think Ely's one thread is the issue Badge however if he had separate threads for each of the drugs he's using..... |
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Post by superjw on May 27, 2024 7:28:41 GMT
The Tories seem to be getting good at trying to force people to do things rather than be more creative with their policies. Everything they come up with seems to target people. They clearly hate the people in this country, they are still on a power trip after COVID A power trip that labour stood by and voted to support… |
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Post by elystokie on May 27, 2024 7:32:33 GMT
Don’t forget the Elystokie thread😉 Don't think Ely's one thread is the issue Badge however if he had separate threads for each of the drugs he's using..... There'd still only be three 😉 Alcohol, cannabis and chocolate hobnobs 😄 I suspect the alcohol one would be the shortest, but I did have two and a half pints of Guinness yesterday, perhaps I'm on the slippery slope... 😉 |
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Post by LL Cool Dave on May 27, 2024 7:39:24 GMT
ABOUT FUCKIN TIME ! Weed out these woke,pant wetting, they/it/ non binary pink haired whining shits. Yeah that would do it 🙄 |
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2024 8:23:11 GMT
It's a great idea if it is modernised, suits the current state of the country and doesn't involve the military.
I'm thinking of a service that provides help to the social care system, homelessness services and the NHS - breeding an up and coming society that has the skills, empathy and compassion for what is now fastly becoming a number of huge but increasingly silent issues in this country.
Sadly there isn't a politician that is walking the streets of this country that would have the brains, drive or talent to deliver a service like that let alone even think of it.
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Post by henry on May 27, 2024 8:47:15 GMT
It's a great idea if it is modernised, suits the current state of the country and doesn't involve the military. I'm thinking of a service that provides help to the social care system, homelessness services and the NHS - breeding an up and coming society that has the skills, empathy and compassion for what is now fastly becoming a number of huge but increasingly silent issues in this country. Sadly there isn't a politician that is walking the streets of this country that would have the brains, drive or talent to deliver a service like that let alone even think of it. Forcing kids (and anyone) to give up their free time at weekends when they have done nothing wrong will never be a good idea. Why not force the long term unemployed to do this one weekend a month ? |
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