mannycalavera
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- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 1 day ago:
The YouTube cartoon must be right then 👍. Glad it helped you to eat less.
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 1 day ago:
Very good points. I walk to our gym and I suppose that is a luxury. Even better if everyone had a place they could easily walk to. And also +1 on the child care point.
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 1 day ago:
It depends on how you work out. Although I agree pairing with a healthy diet is a must.
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 2 days ago:
I wonder how much it would cost to fund a nation wide programme of heavily subsidised gym usage. Bring the price right down to say £20 a month per user. Provide an allocation of personal trainers and physiotherapists. Create a vocational qualification if they don’t exist. Expand the availability of gyms so that they are convenient.
Surely the long term health benefits (in addition to the benefits for your mental health) are going to be cheaper than jabbing yourself with drugs?
- Comment on Rail freight scheme sees 64,000 less lorry journeys in first year 3 days ago:
Fewer
- Comment on Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist is jailed for terrorism offences 5 days ago:
Now this is an overreach of the terrorism law that I can get behind!
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 2 weeks ago:
I never saw the article as anything more than a sarcastic opinion piece. They’re not calling on the chancellor to reverse the budget. They’re not pointing to business opposition. They’re not saying anything but haven’t an armchair moan in, what looks like to me, a light-hearted opinion piece.
But fair enough if others see it differently. I certainly didn’t.
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 2 weeks ago:
I feel… and hear me out… you’re taking this opinion piece too seriously. Read it like you’d read a Spectator article (and I very much appreciate you might read the Spectator). These are meant to be tongue in cheek. They’re not meant to be taken seriously or over analysed.
Could you imagine being this out out about the guardian opinion pieces?
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- Comment on Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick 3 weeks ago:
I’d hope he sends the Tories further down in parliament such that the strong opposition is the Lib Dems. The Tories can language in Green or SNP territory.
- Comment on Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick 3 weeks ago:
Maybe within the Tory party, for sure. I can believe that. But does he not want the Conservatives to be electable in a general election scenario.
I’m not trying to be funny, but isn’t this exactly what Labour did with the Corbyn years? Appealed to what looked like a large majority of their membership that turned out to be spectacularly unpopular at a general election level.
I cannot believe the Tories want to repeat this lesson. I mean, if they want to be out of office for a decade then that’s cool with me.
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 3 weeks ago:
Ancient flag shagging Tories… Hard Left Labour unions… With these powers combined they become:
CAPTAIN BREXIT! He’s their hero. Gonna bring the UK down to zero. Did a skid. Killed a kid. And crashed his balls on a dustbin lid.
- Comment on Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick 3 weeks ago:
To a certain extent I understand courting the fringes of your party every now and then. But for the life of me I don’t understand making that cohort the main goal of your increasingly nuttier and nuttier rhetoric.
What is this electoral calculus?
- Comment on Time has come for reparations conversation, say Commonwealth leaders 3 weeks ago:
Have the conversations.
- Comment on CMA launches court action against Emma to protect UK consumers. 3 weeks ago:
Emma? Emma! Who the fuck is Emma?!
- Comment on Change NHS: Help build a health service fit for the future 4 weeks ago:
That’s nice 👍
- Comment on Change NHS: Help build a health service fit for the future 4 weeks ago:
They really don’t. I’m not sure how much you follow the discourse around this but politicians and political commentators regularly cite German or French models. They also overwhelmingly cite the US model as not one they want.
Can we stop pretending that there are only two health care systems in the world. It’s a bizarre and daft argument.
- Comment on Change NHS: Help build a health service fit for the future 4 weeks ago:
Why does everyone only ever bring up the shambles that is US healthcare? It’s like there’s only two ways of doing it. NHS or US.
Fucking basic.
- Comment on UK experts warn against buying ‘XL bully cats’ 4 weeks ago:
there are probably mad scientists and crazy breeders out there right
It’s worse… there’s “social media influencers”.
- Comment on Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax relief 1 month ago:
Sure, why not 🤷. Let’s go with that. Nice and simple.
- Comment on Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax relief 1 month ago:
If we assume that Ingerland is an acceptable spelling of England (and no other nation exists in the UK 😠) then how about Inglewood?
That way we’ll be immortalised by 2pac in the same song as Hollywood!
- Comment on Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax relief 1 month ago:
We need a tax system that takes not just the headlines into account but assess the relative benefits of various degrees of tax in various industries and individuals vs what they can or can’t contribute back in terms of other economic activity that benefits the economy as a whole.
Simply saying we need more tax (or less if you’re Liz Truss inclined) is a, frankly, GCSE level of understanding of the economy and should be discouraged.
- Comment on Amount UK's richest pay in income tax revealed 1 month ago:
Ha! What the Swiss don’t realise is that we can simply tax everyone else more. Fools 😂.
- Comment on When is an invasion not an invasion? When the British media report on Israel… 1 month ago:
This isn’t isolated to the UK. France, Germany, US, Belgium, Greece, the Netherlands, Australia. You name pretty much any “Western” country and they’re reporting (or not reporting depending how you feel) it like this.
These countries have a vested interest in Israeli aggression succeeding. They flower up the language when asked but they don’t give a fuck ultimately. You need to change what interests they are vested in. And food luck with that.
Over the past decade Israel has done deals with it’s neighbours in the region for amicable coexistence. UAE being a big one. The countries it hasn’t done a deal with they are spanking in an armed conflict and overt assassinations that, with the help of US billions and UN cover, they will win.
The “West” doesn’t want to help and neither does a large swathe of the Middle East.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
Same. Didn’t think it was possible.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
Yea but once or twice every decade in one outlet clearly wasn’t what I meant 😂
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
Nothing I would disagree with. Sound thinking and a well written piece. However, this needs to be published in the Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mirror, and the Sun rather than the guardian for it to do any good and change attitudes. Next the guardian will be telling us that champagne tastes nice 😊.
- Comment on What's his DJ name? 1 month ago:
💀
- Comment on And don't get me started on "Sean" 1 month ago:
Sean Bean obviously
- Comment on I'm homeless after making and losing £1,000,000 and having a hit film 1 month ago:
Saw this guy and the cat Bob during their rose to fame. Pre book, pre film. Utter cunt. Very aggressive with people and literally told my friend she couldn’t look at the cat without a donation.
What a waste of an opportunity he was given.