General Election June 8th

[Prestwich_Blue]

Graphs are my specialty

Bet you're a riot at parties. And clearly they're more of a speciality than your spelling.

 

[SWP's back]

Bet you're a riot at parties. And clearly they're more of a speciality than your spelling.

When trying to be a clever ****, it helps if you're clever:

spe·cial·ty
/ˈspeSHəltē/
noun

• 1.a pursuit, area of study, or skill to which someone has devoted much time and effort and in which they are expert: "his specialty was watercolors"synonyms:forte, strong point, strength, métier, strong suit, ...

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

When trying to be a clever ****, it helps if you're clever:

spe·cial·ty
/ˈspeSHəltē/
noun

• 1.a pursuit, area of study, or skill to which someone has devoted much time and effort and in which they are expert: "his specialty was watercolors"synonyms:forte, strong point, strength, métier, strong suit, ...

'Watercolors'. I rest my case.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

'Watercolors'. I rest my case.

You enjoyed that...

 

[Vic]

I'm not sure that picking up on some of the crazy stuff that spellcheckershe throw up is helpfulocated.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Just heard Labour's Angela Rayner on the radio and she's always so impressive. They should lock that clown Abbott in a room and let her and Barry Gardiner do all the media work.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

I'm not sure that picking up on some of the crazy stuff that spellcheckershe throw up is helpfulocated.

I think wen da debate goes into speling and grama , we is al bored of this erection

 

[Vic]

...

He's not an IRAQI sympathiser. Being against all war and not singling out one, doesn't make you a sympathiser, but it WOULD make you a hypocrite.

He avoided losing his integrity on this.

You can't knock that.

What's wrong with being an Iraqi sympathiser? Or a Libyan sympathiser? Or sympathising with any people whose lives we've made worse over the last century?

Oh - you meant IRA! These spellcheckers!

...

By the way, there was a lot of questions presented to them like they should be rigid on all their policies, that is a recipe for disaster. Political stances should be malleable as opportunities arise, or situations change, or things become clear that weren't before....

Like "Brexit means Brexit"?

...We live in a capitalist society; one that has given us riches beyond the wildest dreams of people 200 years ago. Much of that is down to the banking sector and their wealth creation abilities.

So why are we closing libraries and laying off teachers in state schools and threatening people with dementia that they'll have nowt to leave to their kids?

Surely not so that people on £80k a year can pay less tax so they can afford books and private schools and then hope they're not going to need long-term care? Wouldn't that be a silly Tory world?

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

What's wrong with being an Iraqi sympathiser? Or a Libyan sympathiser? Or sympathising with any people whose lives we've made worse over the last century?

Oh - you meant IRA! These spellcheckers!



Like "Brexit means Brexit"?



So why are we closing libraries and laying off teachers in state schools and threatening people with dementia that they'll have nowt to leave to their kids?

Surely not so that people on £80k a year can pay less tax so they can afford books and private schools and then hope they're not going to need long-term care? Wouldn't that be a silly Tory world?

Wait till 2019, when we take back control and become the land of milk and honey!

 

[Damocles]

So why are we closing libraries and laying off teachers in state schools and threatening people with dementia that they'll have nowt to leave to their kids?

We're closing libraries because they're an outdated concept whose primary function has been made pointless by technology. Now they're glorified internet cafes, and if you want a national chain of them then just build them instead.

Also, we're talking about different definitions of wealth. You're talking about a reduction in state teachers. I'm talking about having sewers and electricity

 

[geoff clipp]

I found it very puzzling that things slightly picked up for May at the end when she just started repeating "no deal is a better than a bad deal" over and over again. In truth a bad deal is a bad deal and no deal is also a bad deal and yet you get people mindlessly clapping along to hollow statements like that.

It's also pretty frustrating that she gets away with willfully misleading people by setting an entirely unachievable target like reducing net immigration to tens of thousands of people. She and her party above repeatedly failed to do this and the fact it remains as high at is from outside the EU proves there is no real will to lower it.

 

[stonerblue]

Well maybe they could make do with a £400,000 house and a state school? And pay a bit more tax. Sorry but you've got it pretty good if you can afford a £3,600 holiday, public school and a half million pound house. And £400 per month on mobile phone contracts!? Are we talking £100 for each child's phone!? I do believe we are living in different worlds mate, because you are describing some very comfortable living here.

Exactly what i thought.

 

[stonerblue]

We're closing libraries because they're an outdated concept whose primary function has been made pointless by technology. Now they're glorified internet cafes, and if you want a national chain of them then just build them instead.

Also, we're talking about different definitions of wealth. You're talking about a reduction in state teachers. I'm talking about having sewers and electricity

Gotta take issue with this one.
The library at the end of my street is a real help to the local community. The unemployed use it to find work (now that we have no job centre in town). Local schools take kids for reading clubs. Pensioners meet and have IT lessons to stop them getting ripped off by business'.
Not everyone has access to, or can afford, the internet at home.

And, as admitted by Bury MBC, proposed closures of local libraries is a purely cost cutting exercise forced on them by a government hell bent on saving cash money.

 

[urban genie]

Just heard Labour's Angela Rayner on the radio and she's always so impressive. They should lock that clown Abbott in a room and let her and Barry Gardiner do all the media work.

Erm can you spell it Labor please ;-)

 

[The perfect fumble]

We're closing libraries because they're an outdated concept whose primary function has been made pointless by technology. Now they're glorified internet cafes.

Libraries are being closed, that's true, but that's not the reason we're closing them.

 

[SWP's back]

'Watercolors'. I rest my case.

It's a pretty shit case.

"Specialty" is perfectly fine English.

http://grammarist.com/usage/speciality-specialty/

In general usage, specialty and speciality are very closely related and often interchangeable. English reference books say various things about them, but in general writers tend to treat them as if they’re the same word.

 

[SWP's back]

So why are we closing libraries and laying off teachers in state schools and threatening people with dementia that they'll have nowt to leave to their kids?

Already happens now, they just take it back to under £30k rather than £100k.

 

[Bigga]

What's wrong with being an Iraqi sympathiser? Or a Libyan sympathiser? Or sympathising with any people whose lives we've made worse over the last century?

Oh - you meant IRA! These spellcheckers!

Actually, a very talkative and pesky seven year old up past his bedtime (along with predictive text on my tablet), got me as I wasn't sat at my computer as per!

Annoying, that I missed it!

 

[Damocles]

Gotta take issue with this one.
The library at the end of my street is a real help to the local community. The unemployed use it to find work (now that we have no job centre in town). Local schools take kids for reading clubs. Pensioners meet and have IT lessons to stop them getting ripped off by business'.
Not everyone has access to, or can afford, the internet at home.

And, as admitted by Bury MBC, proposed closures of local libraries is a purely cost cutting exercise forced on them by a government hell bent on saving cash money.

No that's my point. What you've described there is a community meeting place pretty much based around the internet.

So make them that instead of massive book deposits. Would save a ton of space, create whole new Government owned buildings in every community in the country with meeting and social and educational spaces, and we could centralize book based libraries into the educational sector.

In fact why don't we throw out a ton of the books, stick a few more computer banks in there then use the space to let MPs hold surgeries rather than hiring local offices, potentially saving millions a year in expenses and putting MPs right at the heart of their communities again?

There's thousands of great idea to do with an the spaces. Storing thousands of pieces of an outdated form of information storage is one of the more stupid ones.

 

[jay_mcfc]

I found it very puzzling that things slightly picked up for May at the end when she just started repeating "no deal is a better than a bad deal" over and over again. In truth a bad deal is a bad deal and no deal is also a bad deal and yet you get people mindlessly clapping along to hollow statements like that.

It's also pretty frustrating that she gets away with willfully misleading people by setting an entirely unachievable target like reducing net immigration to tens of thousands of people. She and her party above repeatedly failed to do this and the fact it remains as high at is from outside the EU proves there is no real will to lower it.

She was basically getting heckled and abused when talking about her policies and lack of figures but then Paxman gave her the platform to finish off on Brexit where she sounds strong and stable (arf)