Best ever songs on Boris' playlist

pwhole

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Well, three paranoid narcissists if you include The St. Petersburg Leather Boy. Still, Trump's looking at jail now, and even the fragrant Ivanka may soon be doing time too. No kompromat needed on him any more probably, though they may well have some juicy stuff on Johnson, given how much of their gangster money the party's gladly accepted - until last week when they had their unprecedented hot flush of 'conscience'. Although there's not a lot would shock me, given we know he's done it all. Anyway, back to the theme :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY5nYmTUfnQ
 
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Fjell

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pwhole said:
Well, three paranoid narcissists if you include The St. Petersburg Leather Boy. Still, Trump's looking at jail now, and even the fragrant Ivanka may soon be doing time too. No kompromat needed on him any more probably, though they may well have some juicy stuff on Johnson, given how much of their gangster money the party's gladly accepted - until last week when they had their unprecedented hot flush of 'conscience'. Although there's not a lot would shock me, given we know he's done it all. Anyway, back to the theme :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY5nYmTUfnQ
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Are you his spurned love child or something?

Johnson?s biggest issue is he doesn?t do anything, not that he does. This is because he is lazy, can?t say no and seems to spend most of his time procreating as far as I can see. And drinking. He is very very far from your run-of-the-mill ex-lawyer functionary.

Maybe doing nothing is good. Doing something has gone very badly wrong in recent decades. Masterly inactivity might be best.

Do I need to point out the Russians were all here before 2010?
 
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Hahah, luckily I'm a bit too old for that. But I've disliked him for a long, long time, way before all this started up. It's just the latest episode in a very long tragicomedy series. In any normal country he wouldn't have got past 21 without being beaten to a pulp by someone. Being British and posh and going to school at Eton saved his ass, and gave him the cover he needed from then on, though his sister does her best to help out. I still find the fact that there are women out there who are able to reproduce with him almost incomprehensible, and it must be extremely disappointing for the sisterhood. I mean, if the bar's that low on 'acceptable', what hope is there?

Ah, here's some ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovc-O_z4daQ
 
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Fjell

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I?m led to believe by someone acquainted with him that he can be very charming.

Basically your full blown Cavalier. I can understand why the Roundheads don?t like him. Most of my family is worse so maybe it?s what you are used to. I recall my mother doing the Can-Can down a restaurant table in Iran. It takes all sorts.
 
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I'm from Rotherham, and technically still catholic (you can never leave), so I'm probably a bit of both :)

One of my friend recently told me that he worked 'with' Johnson in London, in the mid-90s I think - resisting the obvious comment about a missed opportunity, I asked him what he was like to work with. 'Lazy twat' was the reply :)
 
RobinGriffiths

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An ineffectual Ed Sec, Williamson used to be Chief Whip, so presumably knows where some bodies are buried. Surely he's not being knighted to keep his trap shut?
 
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Fjell

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For all his faults, Williamson (and OFSTED) were right that GCSEs and A levels should have forced using that algorithm. The consequence of abandoning it due to weeping in certain quarters has been an absolute shitshow. Apparently teachers knew best. Now the weeping is that private schools awarded all their pupils A*?s, because they could. University entrance is in meltdown. Luckily got my youngest started last Sept at his first choice. This year is chaos, one nephew (genuine 4 A* prediction) is being knocked back for the same course my oldest got into without 4A*?s.

Also Medicine is now just in bits. They ended up with too many people and have carried people over, cutting this years entry.

A levels are fucked for years to come.
 
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At the 'other end of the spectrum' I just had to resit my CITB Healh And Safety Awareness course and the CITB Health, Safety and Environment course, in order to obtain a new CSCS card to be allowed (but not necessarily qualified) to work on construction sites. Both tests were so laughably easy I could have done them both on a large dose of LSD and still got 100% in each, which I did. I read some questions out to my mother on the phone, who's 83, and she laughed her head off and said 'But that's junior school level!'. Though I was congratulated by the testing receptionist for my 'excellent' result. So far this farce has cost me ?178, and obtaining the card itself will cost me another ?36 - assuming I ever get my pass certificate for the first course from the CITB, which is now two weeks ago. But then plastic is so expensive, what with a war on.

Seven of the guys I did the course with worked in civil engineering - when the 'tutor' went around the room asking us all what our trade was, and I was last to be asked and said 'rope access', he went "Oooooohhh", but not in a good way. Translation: we've got a clever dick here. But I am, it's not my bloody fault. Anyway, the upshot is that by passing these courses, holes still get dug - that's about the best it can achieve.

On the way home from the second safety test I watched a council-contracted workman in Sheffield city centre using a petrol disc cutter on a paving slab, with no goggles, ear defenders, face mask or dust supression methods, nor any safety barriers for the public. Frankly, I'd like a full refund from CITB, but that's another protection racket to take on.
 
andrewmcleod

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Fjell said:
For all his faults, Williamson (and OFSTED) were right that GCSEs and A levels should have forced using that algorithm. The consequence of abandoning it due to weeping in certain quarters has been an absolute shitshow. Apparently teachers knew best. Now the weeping is that private schools awarded all their pupils A*?s, because they could. University entrance is in meltdown. Luckily got my youngest started last Sept at his first choice. This year is chaos, one nephew (genuine 4 A* prediction) is being knocked back for the same course my oldest got into without 4A*?s.

Also Medicine is now just in bits. They ended up with too many people and have carried people over, cutting this years entry.

A levels are fucked for years to come.
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The problem is that the algorithm was rubbish, and they couldn't fix the issues in the little time after their U-turn. There were probably other good options than an algorithm which penalises good kids from bad schools, and purely teacher-awarded grades, but they failed to find them or use them.
 
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I couldn?t think of one at a few months notice, did you? It was already Easter. My kid?s college shut down in March and never started again until Sept. There was no evidence to look at for most kids because mocks are normally a joke. The only thing that held it in check was that schools thought the algorithm would be applied. In 2021 they went hog wild as schools knew what they had to do to game the system, and they did. There is a reason we use exams.

In fact the college tried to carry on remotely, but stopped because it was becoming obvious there were large differences becoming apparent depending on the level of support at home (lots of kids relied on tutoring in college).
 
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Another masterful intervention on the oligarchy from Stewart Lee:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/06/i-knew-abramovich-was-taking-the-piss

?That Ivory Tower song is so good. We do live in an Ivory Tower,? the urinating oligarch next to me moaned drunkenly in an anglicised Russian accent, ?And an Ivory Tower can fall down, any time, my friend! Fantasticheskiy!? And with that, the edified oligarch began to weep hot tears that splashed down into the urinal bowl, diluting the champagne-flavoured micturate his tiny penis had squirted weakly there. I am not a fan of football, kleptocracies or smelting. I did not know I was being addressed by the oligarch, and newly converted Long Ryders fan, Roman Abramovich.

?I agree,? I said, innocently. ?The Long Ryders work within the country rock genre, I suppose, but they invest it with levels of real tenderness, insight and originality, magically greater than the sum of its parts.? ?You are an intellectual, my fat companion. A shoe-shine boy of the elite. You overanalyse,? said my new oligarch friend, suddenly stabilising. ?I never knew this group before, but the sound is Clash, but on a farm! Makes Robbie Williams seem shit.?
 
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