Rob H

Desperately need to go here woodnest.no

I have quite a few mutuals who support the anti-Israel cause, and who I believe to be decent people. To them, I ask: does the similarity between these two slogans not cause you a *moment*'s disquiet? Bearing in mind, I have repeatedly tweeted about far right support *for* Israel.

There’s a new viral Korean skincare product with pink collagen Googles, oh, from fish. Cannot have Oh but it’s cruelty feee. Back in Googles more - why is it cruelty free? Oh it’s salmon ~spunk~. Ok But don’t they die after spawning? So not cruelty free then What’s worse?

Wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

@MysteriosoX @BradfemlyWalsh My ex was Hungarian and this applies to her too

@BradfemlyWalsh I used to have a very lovely Bulgarian colleague. Sexy but also batshit.

Aww, I'm so happy that Bulgaria won!! My SIL is Bulgarian and Bulgarian women are just so beautiful, talented, sweet and hardworking - and just the right amount of sexy-mental ❤️❤️ честито!!

Waking up by Norwegian Fjords. WOODNEST Treehouse.

Went for a carvery on a Saturday, lads

Hats off to Villa, they’ve been fantastic. Liverpool have been toothless as always.

@CageFooName @Ersatz_F Acquitted as suffering from clinny deps and schissy phrenz

@Ersatz_F Stabby chestings

Going to call them 'Traddy Sauns'

@Shiv_who_burns Sorry to hear Shiv, hope they get him sorted and home soon

Dad has a letter from the hospital diagnosing some serious heart* problems and to go to a and e if he has twinges He has twinges So he’s having a cup of tea, getting his letter copied in case they lose it and is getting a taxi to a and e Sighs Coronary heart disease

There is a scene in @HBO's Chernobyl that most viewers miss. A scientist presents evidence of the disaster to a Belarusian party official. The official dismisses her expertise, then boasts that he used to run a shoe factory. It is not central to the plot, but it explains everything. The Soviet Union was governed by a snowball of incompetence - decades of nepotism where ministries were handed to people with no relevant knowledge, provided they had the right party connections. Pedigree was political, not professional. I grew up there. My parents were subject matter experts who spent their careers battling apparatchiks enforcing decisions they did not understand. That is why I flinch when I hear the same logic here in Britain. @UKLabour politicians celebrate the "right background" - the poorer, the more deprived, the better. Council house to government, presented as triumph. Progress and resilience deserve recognition. But in these jubilations, merit vanishes. And celebrating ascent without competence is not progress. It is the embryo of disaster. Look at the Labour Party's front bench. Britain's central challenge is wealth creation - economic growth. Yet these are former charity workers, public sector lifers, people who have always been on the receiving end of funds rather than generating them. They have never had to create value others willingly pay for. So they look to regulators for growth ideas. It is farcical. It is only possible in a culture where navigating party structures replaces proven ability. A friend told me recently his wife had to close her coffee shop - high traffic, real revenue, still unprofitable due to taxes and business rates. In his frustration he said something raw: he no longer cares if folks running the government are toolmakers' sons or landed gentry. He wants competence. He found himself saying he would rather be ruled by Old Etonians. Not because Eton College guarantees talent. It does not. But sheer competence - knowing your subject - has become so scarce in British governance that the impulse is understandable. We are not the Soviet Union. We are nowhere near collapse. But on the left of our politics, the distance is shrinking faster than we admit.

@Lindsay04555896 I'm enjoying it a lot

Is anyone watching Legends on Netflix? I mean, its a fairly tall but watchable tale but the last episode is like a homage to the OFAH special, To Hull and Back

@BertDalziel You could monetise this easily

@SpongeBrainBob1 I’ll take notes

Anyway, tomorrow I am taking my bravery in my hands and going to the gym and asking them to show me how the damn machines work. I’m very brave.

@DavidPGCSE There were actually rumours (I knew of him before I met her), so yes

@SpongeBrainBob1 Put him down as a probable quare

Wes Streeting reminds me of Mrs H’s ex. So on that basis alone I both dislike and feel superior to him

@FunkadelicHorse I don’t understand how politicians DON’T have this as a prerequisite

I can understand people thinking "Step 1: Starmer is shit." But if you don't have "Step 2: The plans I've developed at length means I can be sure I'd do better than his drift" objectively nailed down in your head you should really just stop there.

@Shiv_who_burns Sounds like 6 more weeks job hunting runway

Survived. Another meeting in six weeks Have to try smiling more.

The Labour Party, ladies and gentlemen

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