Odd news story of the day

[jpkeates]

" The man might be a chef doing some work in his restaurant, but the point of this ad campaign is that they actually don’t want you to think of the most likely explanation."

Why would he buy a brick hammer, then?
That's a specialist type of tool.

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How long before PC Britain adopts this?

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Kate made a Dame Grand Cross

What did she do? Forget to curtsy or something?

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I got kicked out of my apartment for being conservative

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Hmm. But who is going to want to buy an expensive new flat across the hall from benefit claimants?

[AndrewDod]

Hmm. But who is going to want to buy an expensive new flat across the hall from benefit claimants?

Yeah it's a joke -- and the BBC told the story in their usual -- let's give half the story to keep the politicians happy -- approach. Not a word about how builders were forced to build economically and socially dysfunctional buildings to fulfil a political agenda. We should try apply this to other things in society -- posh £600 a head eatery in London not allowed to serve customers unless they also serve a few pimps each day from the local brothel. Music school for talented concert musicians not allowed to teach unless they also enrol me with no musical skills whatsoever.

Achieving equity in society in every domain is never possible, nor is it sensible.

[midlandslandlord]

The Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, continues to provide increasingly solid evidence to back up the already developed, but hereto slightly tentative, hypothesis, that he is in reality a complete wazzock.

[Anna1985]

Yeah it's a joke -- Music school for talented concert musicians not allowed to teach unless they also enrol me with no musical skills whatsoever.

Achieving equity in society in every domain is never possible, nor is it sensible.

I think you are missing a point, you may have 0 musical skills due to lack of opportunity - as your parents didn't enroll you to the school or lacked the funds to do so.

You may be a virtuoso waiting to be discovered.

Equality is an interesting word, but stats are stats, if your school tells you you are a hairdresser or a nurse, you are not going to apply to become a doctor in 99.999%.

the current world based on the economics of growth is unsustainable, growing inequality only makes things worse.

[buzzard1994]

Hmm. But who is going to want to buy an expensive new flat across the hall from benefit claimants?

Not that unusual to have council houses and flats near better off areas. It's when you start banning children from a play area that you look like proper idiots (feel free to substitute a word I wouldnt be allowed to include) https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...nal-playground

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I feel sorry for the poor 25 stone guy who sits down for a dump, and gets sprayed with water by the mechanism thinking it's two people having sex.

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How long before smart meters ration British energy use?

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Who'd want to refuse a tenant failing a 'right to rent' check in New York?

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