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By cheesey_toastie · Posted
On the way home to Manchester this year driver deliberately went the wrong way towards Cardiff so that he could mount some hours up, then claim he was going to bust his maximum mileage and refused to go any further than Sandbach. The company had to send out relief driver. I'm not driving expert but once on the M5 I don't get effing lost on the way to the M6. It's pretty bloody simple. I could have murdered him with my bare hands. But I was too weak with exhaustion. We've had some brilliantly quick journeys, good drivers and good coaches. And some shockers driving absolute sheds! Pot luck! -
Some people are completely obsessed with the use of this word. The same people who love calling Israel Nazis. Many of these same people actively celebrated an explicitly genocidal organisation committing an obvious act of genocide on 7/10/23, so can't argue that they are against genocide at all. The worst thing about it is that it's counterproductive. You end up with arguments about nomenclature that are a complete distraction from the issue. They allow people on one side of the argument to write the other side off as antisemites, and the other to write off the first as Zionist shills, when in large part neither are either. Organisations like Amnesty International produce lengthy reports designed to show how what is happening in Gaza can somehow, with a little twisting, still be defined as genocide. It genuinely puzzles me. It's not as if Israel haven't done and are not currently doing terrible things in Gaza - the destruction of homes, neighbourhoods, the means of food production, access to safe water, forced and repeated relocation. This week there was this, for example: https://archive.ph/J63LD. There's enough to fight without constantly scrapping over the (ab)use of one word. (I really have tried to understand why people are so absolutely indignant about using this word. According to the Gaza health ministry/Hamas, including combatants around 0.3% of the population of Gaza has been killed in the last six months (sources: this, this and, though not ideal, this), and maybe 2% since 7/10/23. This is a lot of human life, I don't want to minimise it, but it is absolutely clear that there has been no attempt to deliberately murder the people of Gaza in entirety. It is also lazy and ludicrous to blame this loss of life only on Israel. Obviously Israel being guilty of genocide would be helpful for those who argue against the existence of Israel in the first place - perhaps they're engaged in a grotesque kind of wishful thinking?) -
By CaledonianGonzo · Posted
The Wonderstuff came up as a freebie on SFF last week and - even when I was a loose end and the venue was only a 10 minute walk from my house - I still opted to watch Blackadder's Xmas Carol for the 35th year in a row. -
People complained Charli has played too many times so its a good thing she's doing something different. Tbh this is what I want to see at a festival, something more than just the usual set they're touring with at the time -
Just listening to the new live album, they'll go down a storm at Bearded
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