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@YourSouthend Well it creates jobs I guess. The beach brings in money for local businesses and so everyone is a winner.

Unfortunately, these photos were all taken on Southend seafront over the last week, as the heatwave brought thousands of visitors to the city. But have you ever wondered what happens to the litter after the crowds leave the beach? Early each morning, while most people are still waking up, cleaning teams are already out making sure the beaches, paths and public areas are tidy and ready again by 8am. It is a huge daily operation, especially during busy periods like the Bank Holiday weekend, when thousands of people head to Southend for the sun, sea and seafront attractions. Across more than seven miles of coastline, SUEZ crews work incredibly hard to clear tonnes of litter left behind after busy days. Their work includes picking up litter by hand, using litter pickers, emptying hundreds of bins and using specialist equipment, including a mechanical beach rake, to sift through the sand and remove waste. The teams also stay on the seafront throughout the day, clearing litter where they can and keeping bins emptied as visitor numbers build. On a busy summer weekend, up to 20 tonnes of waste can be collected from the seafront alone. That's roughly the same amount of waste produced by around 22 households in an entire year. By the time visitors arrive each morning, there is often very little sign of what came before. It is an incredible effort from the crews working behind the scenes to keep Southend looking its best during the busiest and hottest days of the year. 👏

@Lord_Sugar Humble brag about having a TNT Sport subscription 😉

I am watching the CL final. I know Ally McCoist is a very experienced football person but there are times I can't understand a word he is saying.

@fesshole Civil servant?

I'm contracted to be in the office 3 days a week. It's totally unnecessary so about a year ago I just stopped turning up. Kept doing all my work dialling in to any meetings I needed to be in. My manager never said anything and neither did HR. The moral is, don't ask, just do.

@peterstopcrime He is now dead. Died in prison.

He suppose to be 22, he came here’s as an unaccompanied minor in 2016 from Afghanistan. Anyway he sees a lone woman and beats her up in the street, she makes it to her house where he tries kicking her front door in, she rings her dad, who gets his front teeth punched out and then he smashed a car up in the street. Gulwali Stanekzay, 22, 3 Years Prison He needs to be kept in prison/ secure accommodation or go home. Not on our streets! Deport him

@fesshole Forward planning is an important skill.

Software developer here. I was going for a promotion at my company and a few days before my interview I entered some code for the website incorrectly so I could 'fix' it. I got the job over a colleague with far more experience

@SandyofSuffolk @JuliaHB1 @TalkTV Let me know which village my son is looking for a part time job.

Hey @JuliaHB1 on @TalkTV the fish and chip shop in the next village to me always has a 'staff wanted' sign in the window. At the moment, it's been there 2 months. When I was young, my mum would have dragged me there to make me take the job. And there lies the problem today. Molly coddled youngsters.

@NipseyHoussle Where do you live? Obviously not UK.

Interesting thing about being an American in Europe: Europeans don’t work weekends. Ever. You might think, well, nobody works weekends. But in the US there are whole industries built around it. Real estate agents. Car dealerships. Saturday and Sunday are the business. Not here. If you want to see a house or test drive a car, you take time off work to do it. Somehow this is normal. I don’t know how they pull it off. But they do.

@Testudo_aubreii @RoyRobertson1 @fesshole Hahaha

@RoyRobertson1 @fesshole I think this is about directional cables, if you plug one in to run from amp to speaker and the other from speaker to amp you will get a noticeable delay in the second. I did it and it drove me mad.

I'm one of those audiophiles who go on about speaker settings and placement, cables and DACs to play all my vinyl and high bitrate music, and force people listen to 'my incredible setup'. Turns out I've had my left/right speakers the wrong way round. For 7 years.

@BaughTracy @SandyofSuffolk May be if young people listened to the older generations they might learn something and make better decisions in life. They be able to save a deposit for a house.

@SandyofSuffolk This is why this world is so messed up. I am 60 years of age and both my husband and I have both worked hard all our lives raising two daughters. Let the youngsters live their lives how they wish to. Judging younger people just reflects the hardships we endured.

For everyone who doesn't know. And there seems to be lots of you. A babymoon is a holiday most young women seem to require now before they give birth. They spend 5 grand on stag and hen weekends, they spend 25 grand on a wedding, 5 grand on a honeymoon, 5 grand on a babymoon and their husbands spend all day on here abusing me because they can't afford a deposit on a house. Apparently it's all my fault. Because I'm a boomer. 🙄🤣

@james_e_b_ Inflation has been higher than wage increases over the last 30 years without a doubt but today's young people don't seem to understand that you have to go without a few things and save money for the future.

Why are there all these Gen Xers announcing that when we were kids we could only afford McDonald's once a year? It's bollocks

@james_e_b_ We are not saying that. Just pointing out that today's young people seem to eat out and get delivered food more often than we did. Way more in fact

@supertolerant Same here. Eating out was for birthdays. Fish and chips takeaway an very occasional treat.

I was young in the 80s/90s in the UK. I don’t remember my parents ever going out to eat, except when we were on holiday (in the UK). I don’t think they ever took me to a fast food restaurant, or ordered takeaway food. People today have no clue how working people lived. /1

@BladeoftheS You have no understanding of business. Tesco has a total debt of £15 billion. How do think it will service that debt if it doesn't make enough profit?

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

@BlairBarley @mrwtffacts Beats getting a proper job and having to work for a living to support your family.

@mrwtffacts His actual story is more interesting. No Russian prison time, but regular visa issues. Prison time in Panama. Lots of US visa issues and his trailer stolen in the USA. Now in Germany and on a clean stretch to the UK: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bush…

@fasc1nate And then what?

In April 1990, Ray and Marie Thornton were out for a casual Sunday drive along a rural highway in southern Michigan when a van suddenly sped past them erratically. They had been playing a little game of simply noting license plates they saw just to pass the time. When Marie saw that the first letters of the speeding van's plate read "GZ," she joked, "Geez, he's in a hurry!" Moments later, however, laughter turned to terror when they saw that same van parked alongside an abandoned schoolhouse — and the driver carrying what looked like a bloody bundle of sheets. The couple wasn't sure what to think and kept going, but then the same van appeared in their rearview mirror and roared right up to their bumper before chasing them down for the next two miles. When the van suddenly veered off to the side of the road, Ray decided to turn around and try to get its full license plate. But as they crept by the parked van once more, the Thorntons stared in horror as they realized that the inside of the vehicle was completely covered in blood. This scene was helped inspire the movie Jeepers Creepers. The creepiest photos ever taken: bit.ly/3MhKiB3

@JamesCleverly We have all had enough of virtual signalling nonsense. Let that sink in.

One of the first decisions made by Essex Reform was to remove the Ukrainian flag from County Council HQ. Let that sink in. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@0xlordmicky Why do I read this made up sht.

A black man was sitting next to a white girl on a flight. She was extremely upset by the situation, so she called the flight attendant and said: “It's obvious you don't see the situation I find myself in. You seated me next to a black man, and I refuse to stand next to someone like that. You'll have to find me another seat.” The flight attendant replied, “Calm down madam. All the seats on this flight are almost full, but let me find a seat… free! The stewardess left for a few minutes, then came back saying: “Madam, as I told you, I did not find a single empty seat in the economy class. So I informed the captain, who told me that there are no seats available in the business class either. But there is one empty seat in the first class. » Before the woman could say anything, the stewardess continued, “It is not customary in our company to allow an economy class passenger to sit in first class. But given these exceptional circumstances, the Captain believes it is inappropriate to force someone to sit next to such a disgusting person. So…” The stewardess turned to the black man and said, "Sir, could you take your purse and follow me?" There is a seat in first class waiting for you! » At that moment, the stunned passengers, who had followed the situation from the beginning, stood up and warmly applauded the stewardess for this great lesson given to this r@cist. Let us meditate on these words of the prophet of humanity: “All humanity is the offspring of Adam and Eve. An Arab is not superior to a non-Arab, and a non-Arab is not superior to an Arab; and whites are not superior to blacks, just as blacks are not superior to whites. No person is superior to another except by piety and good deeds.

@Wydenzoo Nice. Have you got any other made up stories?

My dad died when I was 20. My uncle took over the logistics company. First thing he said: “You’re too young. Go do deliveries. Real business is for men.” So I did deliveries for 4 years. 12-hour days. Rain, heat, 3 AM runs. Meanwhile my cousin got the office job. AC, laptop, “operations manager” on his LinkedIn. What they didn’t know: I memorized every route, every client, every rate. I rebuilt our dispatch sheet at night because their Excel was a mess. Drivers trusted me more than my uncle. I was the one fixing late shipments at 2 AM. One day DHL comes for a partnership meeting. Uncle and cousin sit in suits. I’m in my delivery uniform, unloading a truck in the back. DHL guy: “Who handles route optimization and client retention?” Uncle: “I do.” DHL guy: “Then why does your churn rate show 40% on routes you ‘handle’?” They turn to me. “32% savings on fuel last year. We dropped 12 bad clients. Re-negotiated contracts with 4 suppliers. All under my name in the system.” DHL: “We only work with the person who actually runs it.” Here’s the kicker: Dad left me 51% in the will. Uncle “lost” the paperwork. I found the original in dad’s old locker. I called a board meeting. Bought out my uncle’s 49% with an investor loan using the warehouse as collateral. He tried to sue. Lost. Last month he called asking for a “consultant” role. I told him we’re fully automated now. No consultants needed.

@mcdonalds and as always the F in printer doesn't work! Can we just enter our name and call us when it's ready.

@SlyForTheRight Oh no. A politician with a job!

🚨 YOU COULDN’T MAKE THIS UP 🚨 This is the problem with Reform UK candidates. Joshua Kim wins in Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni… and when the returning officer goes looking for him to announce the result, he’s nowhere to be found because he never expected to win and was still at work. 😭 He reportedly arrived 45 minutes later after the hall had already started being reorganised for a football match. And this is the party asking people to trust them with government?