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@BritisherPaz49 @ArmySgtMajor Woke nonsense, beards should be reserved for matelots.

Wow, how the British Army has fallen. I couldn’t imagine a Guardsman looking like that in my day. He literally looks like a hairy, unkempt bag of shit. How the hell is this acceptable @ArmySgtMajor

@PatronesHumanos Nothing touches Gomorrah.

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@SaintsExtra @sfcawaynumbers

🚨🎟️ Southampton’s 37,604 ticket allocation for Saturday’s Championship play-off final at Wembley is now SOLD OUT #saintsfc @sfcawaynumbers

@Dell800659341 @fez_1892 @NUFC It’ll be partly in Castle Leazes I’d imagine.

@IntZBZ @fez_1892 @NUFC Honestly mate leazes park isn’t big enough to build that size of stadium

We have completed the purchase of a significant portion of the historic Leazes Terrace building next to St. James' Park 🤝⤵️

@Dell800659341 @fez_1892 @NUFC It’s not an architectural diagram mate, merely pointing out that new stadium will be in that general direction. A few hundred yards at most from the current stadium.

@IntZBZ @fez_1892 @NUFC That land is not big enough

@Im_RobM When the current stadium is dismantled they’ll have a fantastic view out onto green parkland. They’ll be worth much more.

Am I being dim here or even though they have bought Leazes Terrace, they can't actually do anything with the properties because they are listed buildings? #NUFC

@fez_1892 @NUFC We’re literally going there. We’d all love to build around the same pitch but it’s not possible. Moving a goal kick away is essentially still SJP.

@NUFC St James’ Park isn’t just a stadium it’s our history, our memories, our home. You can’t replace that with something new somewhere else. Hopefully this is news of expanding , improved, and carried forward for future generations right where it belongs.Keep us where we are 🖤🤍

@TheHost_ Blocked - bullshit alert.

Someone stole my baby North Face jacket from school yesterday & didn’t know her gg put a AirTag in it. Go to the school this morning cause that’s where it’s been tracked at surprisingly a teacher & her daughter gets out a car walking to the school & the only thing I said was Can my daughter have her jacket back before I start acting up ma’am🤔 she tried to lie & say she purchased the jacket until I showed the AirTag that’s hidden in it

@JonBellHistory @FootballInT80s Back in the 80s the accepted wisdom was that Shilton was. ‘World class’. Watching 70s/80s footage you can see the amount of clangers he dropped.

@FootballInT80s Why was Shilton berating his defence? It was his clanger! 🤣

Remember when The Rous Cup (what’s that?) briefly had South American guest appearances? 19/05/1987 — under the floodlights at Wembley, England drew 1–1 with Brazil. After some brilliant work from Peter Beardsley, Gary Lineker’s header gave the home side the lead, but future Newcastle striker Mirandinha equalised within a minute.

@lagomsensei @AllForProgress_ @CitizynKayne I agree but lots of departments are seriously undermanned, despite the growth of the CS . A lot of uniformed people beating on quite low paid Civil servants. In lots of areas, like digital, most CS roles are filled by contractors who cost the taxpayer circa £1000 per day.

@IntZBZ @AllForProgress_ @CitizynKayne Yes I am fully aware of instances but my point is, that should not be the norm and your welfare is not being looked after if you are legitimately building up 3 hours every week.

A whistleblower has revealed this month that civil servants across multiple Whitehall departments have been gaming the flexitime system to award themselves up to fifty extra days of paid holiday a year That's about 2.5 months of full-time work lifted off the public payroll without record, on top of the CS-norm 26 days of annual leave, the eight public holidays, the contractual sick days, and of course the parental allowances that are already part of the standard package. The methods and techniques by which this fraud has been accomplished are worth dwelling on, because the detail tells you something about the institution. The first technique is the laptop-open-on-the-kitchen-table move. Here, the civil servant clocks off for all intents and purposes at 5pm but leaves a work laptop on, accumulating "active hours" from a home Wi-Fi connection, registering the evening as labour without performing any of it. The second trick is the commuting-time-as-paid-hours wheeze, in which the round trip from Surbiton to Whitehall - coffee-and-podcast - is logged as part of the working day. The third con, which the whistleblower reported as the most brazen of them all, is the straightforward falsification of office attendance against the three-days-a-week-on-site rule that this government, having promised the public a return of civil servants to civil-service buildings, has manifestly failed to enforce. The falsifications, in some cases, have been running for years. Sit, for a moment, with the kind of person who does this and the kind of institution that permits it. The person doing it is, in the main, a desk-bound senior official on between £55,000-130,000 a year, with access to a clocking system that runs on trust, who has decided, with the active connivance of his line manager and the silent assent of his department, that the appropriate response to that public trust is to defraud it. And it's not even ambitious or spectacular. At least with a major fraud, you have a level of vision and nerve you have to admire even as you despise the motivating corruption. No, here, it's done through a series of small, deniable engineered manoeuvres that together transfer large sums of public money into undeserving pockets. No honour among thieves, but some thieves are even less honourable than others. The institution that permits it is the British Civil Service, an organisation whose senior cadre has spent the last decade in a state of escalating public-facing self-pity about its working conditions while the country it is paid to run has visibly fallen apart underneath it. These are the same people who inherited the mandate of Brexit and, because the idea ran against the Metropolitan class bromides by which they orient their lives, hashed it up on purpose to punish the electorate whom they are duty-bound to serve. And it's the same civil service that could not, in the end, manage a single COVID procurement contract without losing about £30 billion out of the back of the warehouse. In light of this general disposition, a flexitime fraud is its small, daily, individual expression. And the cost is not abstract. The Civil Service pay bill runs to roughly £15 billion a year. Headcount has grown by approximately a hundred and fifty thousand since 2016, with the deepest expansion in the policy and "leadership non-teacher" desk grades, the exact cohort the whistleblower says is gaming hardest. Every 50-day phantom holiday, on a senior salary, is around £20k of public money paid for nothing. The country has been told for years, under successive governments, that there is no fiscal room for the things the country actually wants, like policing, prosecutions, courts that sit, borders, doctors, dentists, because the public finances are too tight. Bollocks are they. You've got a whole parallel economy of piss-artist leave-taking running in Whitehall, and there'll be plenty more cash coming in to keep its subsidy even given this whistleblower's report. I don't for a second believe that no one senior saw it or knew about it, just as I don't believe that the rampant inequities in our police departments go unnoticed by whole legions of bystanders. But the bystanders are not arsed. That's why I say "Hooray for the whistleblower." Their life is going to be hell. They will be hugely unpopular. They will be described as bitter, disloyal, mentally ill, motivated by personal grievance, and unrepresentative of the dedicated public servants who go above and beyond. That is what these institutions always say when one of their own breaks ranks. It is what they said to Maggie Oliver about Rotherham, to Alan Bates about Horizon, to the survivors of the Letby ward, the Cumberlege report, and the Sussex maternity unit. The smothering of internal dissent is now part of what the British civil service does for a living. The actual public service is something it has subcontracted to itself, badly, in stolen office hours, from the kitchen table. I was the Civil Service comprehensively remade in this country, the only way such things are ever made, which is by changing the people and all the incentives under which they operate. These people have been on the public payroll for fifteen years and have produced nothing for which the public can be grateful. It's time to find out where the hours went, and dispense with those who are wasting them, along with our money.

@OfficielKaybaye No one hates SJP but it’s just a bunch of ageing stands. Only the East Stand remains from my first visit and it’s nearly 60 y/o. Leazes Park is near enough to essentially still be SJP with a new stadium. I’d prefer to flatten the stadium and build in situ but it’s not possible.

Absolutely fucking mental to me how many of our fans seem to hate St James’. I’d wager it’s 99% of people that want in again.

@lagomsensei @AllForProgress_ @CitizynKayne There’s been a recruitment freeze for over two years, teams have shrunk whilst the workload increases. At the end of a 37 working hour week it’s incredibly easy to have worked 40 hours.

@AllForProgress_ @CitizynKayne If a civil servant is accumulating 2.5 days a month flexi regularly then the LM should be asking if the workload is too much. No-one should have to work above their contractual hours unless they have to. Excess credit should be addressed as much as excess debit.

@Landofillusion1 @alphafox Tip is 10% of the bill. End of story.

@alphafox No it shouldn’t. If you dine in a restaurant where servers only make $2.13 an hour, then tips is are how they make a living. I didn’t make the system but that’s how it is. Until they change it, I tip and I tip well.

Tipping should be optional:

@AlexTran677026 Yeah. That's really heavy. The Orphans, right? Yeah, our youth worker, she talks about you guys all the time.

The Warriors (1979) is one of the most unique cult films ever made. Inspired by the ancient Greek story Anabasis, the movie turns New York City into a violent urban battlefield where gangs rule the night. Hated by many critics when it first released, it later became a midnight movie phenomenon and is now considered a true classic of street cinema. Stylized, gritty, surreal — and unforgettable.

@OasisArchives It was about 3 years ago not 21, wasn’t it? 🥺

Oasis - Lyla turns 21 today 🎂

@BrianEastwood7 @NoContextBrits Germans are sound, best people I worked with in NATO.

@NoContextBrits Lived in Germany twice as a brit, from all the countries I've ever lived never been felt more welcome and at home. Yes I like beer and german food.

@thomashammond__ There’s honestly too many to pick from and that’s not even counting the draws where we hoyed away a lead, those felt like defeats too. See Spurs at home.

Besides the derby defeats, which loss this season messed with your head the most?

@historyinmemes Watched it with my droogs, all the malchicks I know who watched this horizontal sinny went a bit bezoomny.

A Clockwork Orange was pulled from cinemas in the United Kingdom by Stanley Kubrick after he and his family received threats tied to the controversy surrounding the film.

@Gabriele_Corno AI bollocks - blocked 🚫

This dachshund brought home a puppy (so it seemed) and then this is what happened

@VinnieSull1van Used to love those flat mince pies 🥧

This is Gregg's second ever shop/bakery to exist in 1974. Firstly, you'll notice how much better quality it used to be. It had to be to compete with the abundance of bakeries that existed at the time. Little did the people using it know that like supermarket chains, etc, it would undercut and slowly destory the vast majority of Britain's family run bakeries before dramatically lowing its standards to what's essentially just another form of McDonald's. Back when it made scones, buns, bread, and many other things that actually look like they belong in a bakery. Nowadays, many people have no idea as to the difference between a good sausage roll and a bad one. ⏳️