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Jel Shaker posted:one in four people still think the tories are doing a good job The Tories could be sat on the floor in their own poo poo and so long as house prices keep going up there are parts of the Home Counties who will always say the Tories are doing a good job.
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Bunch of cunts posted:Others – those who have bought country houses costing £2m-£4m – are selling the London flat they kept as an investment “to bridge the financial gap created by rising interest rates and the cost of living” Bunch of cunts posted:For those whose lifestyles include domestic staff, wages have risen by 10-25pc. "This is because there is so much demand they can pick and choose the work they want to take on. Try getting a gardener in South Oxfordshire. If you find one, expect to pay £35 an hour for weeding.” Sounds really tough, and so very relatable to all of us.
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I charge £50 an hour for Saturday weeding here in Cornwall. If you don't want your air b&b/holiday let customers inconvenienced by having a gardener show up during the week then expect to pay a premium for weekend between 10am and 3pm on Saturday changeover day. E. Weeding, mow, blow and waste away Salisbury Snape fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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I recall they did a prison interview with this disgraced former swedish red cross chief who'd been caught stealing millions from his charity, and he argued that he'd been acting because of poverty--relative poverty that is, not poverty in any other sense, he didn't--and shouldn't--argue he was hard off. After paying green fees, boarding school for two kids, having dinner invitations with the upscale high brow society and so on, his decent-but-not-obscene salary didn't cut it, and that was the actual reason he'd started "supplementing" it. He did really seem to be regretful and content with serving time for his crimes What struck me was that he described circumstances that, while painfully middle class myself didn't exactly relate to directly, the stress and sense of impotence from being unable to afford the things you think you should, I did find eerily familiar--there is a dimension to relative poverty that you're always potentially vulnerable to, whatever your financial circumstances. I think it's important to consider that in instances when we're enticed to instead hahaha just eat your loving ponies you immeasurably tedious loving "oh let's talk to Zoe at the Telegraph" self-satisfied pampered loving wankers
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what the gently caress is even a "groom" I refuse to google it
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Everybody has to deal with not being able to have everything they want, but most of us also have to deal with not having everything we need either.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:what the gently caress is even a "groom" I refuse to google it Like a butler for your horses
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Sounds really tough, and so very relatable to all of us. The true victims of Brexit!
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We moved to the countryside: nobody told me that this would mean we'd no longer get the benefits of city living.Tijuana Bibliophile posted:I recall they did a prison interview with this disgraced former swedish red cross chief who'd been caught stealing millions from his charity, and he argued that he'd been acting because of poverty--relative poverty that is, not poverty in any other sense, he didn't--and shouldn't--argue he was hard off. After paying green fees, boarding school for two kids, having dinner invitations with the upscale high brow society and so on, his decent-but-not-obscene salary didn't cut it, and that was the actual reason he'd started "supplementing" it. He did really seem to be regretful and content with serving time for his crimes Well, maybe don't send your kids to boarding school & drop the golf club rather than stealing from a charity. I don't know though, I'm poor & miserable so I'm probably just jealous. Politics of envy etc etc.
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OwlFancier posted:Everybody has to deal with not being able to have everything they want, but most of us also have to deal with not having everything we need either. It's this. I'm not struggling for food, heat, or comfortable living, but running my mouth about inability to afford comparative luxuries around those that are actually struggling would rightly garner resentment.
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If you don't send your kids to boarding school, you don't make the connections that get them the painfully middle class jobs.
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sorry, no, "relative poverty" isn't a thing despite all the Guardian columns trying to convince people that actually it's very hard coping when you have a 6-figure household income
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Most of it is just the utterly stupid high-end secondary education system in Britain, it's so pricey that only the genuinely wealthy can afford it without impoverishing themselves. e: I'm almost certain it is also a major contributor to the lack of equality and social mobility in Britain. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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That article filled me with a boiling rage. Rich cunts selling their london flat to buy a "£2-4 million" country house then having conniptions that they have to pay a gardener £35 an hour for weeding. gently caress all the way off with your ponies and your Aga. I hope you drive into a field filled with silage.
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Julio Cruz posted:sorry, no, "relative poverty" isn't a thing despite all the Guardian columns trying to convince people that actually it's very hard coping when you have a 6-figure household income Like all things it got abused by the HENRYs to mean "I'm sad because I have to pay my gardener and choose which horse goes to private school"
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forkboy84 posted:We moved to the countryside: nobody told me that this would mean we'd no longer get the benefits of city living. There are two boarding schools in Sweden, may have been three at the time. It's such a ridiculously upperclass thing I imagine it alone got him a beating or two, even in low security baby prison
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Mebh posted:That article filled me with a boiling rage. Rich cunts selling their london flat to buy a "£2-4 million" country house then having conniptions that they have to pay a gardener £35 an hour for weeding. gently caress all the way off with your ponies and your Aga. I hope you drive into a field filled with silage. While I wholeheartedly agree they need to gently caress right off, silage is just slightly mouldy grass. Now a muck spread field or a field that has been spread with fish guts and shellfish shell.......
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Reminded of that article by the person who moved to the country and then demanded the farmers stop muck spreading because it made everywhere smell.
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like that guardian article represents what 0.01% of people or something? Like just don't worry about it and think about more important things than people who have 5 million quid and are upset. Like charge them 50quid an hour to cut their grass
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Former head of the Social Mobility Commission somehow finding a way to post even weirder hot takes: https://twitter.com/tabitasurge/status/1632441808666886151?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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50 years ago we agreed that Jimmy Savile should have a more active role in children's entertainment, so I'm not sure that's a good guide to the present.
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OwlFancier posted:Reminded of that article by the person who moved to the country and then demanded the farmers stop muck spreading because it made everywhere smell.
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cat botherer posted:You don't have a link to this do you? Oh god it was ages ago, and I can't remember actually if it was an article or one of those letters to the editor or something, I am sure I read it in here.
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It's like people who move next door to 1000 year old churches and complain about the call to service bell ringing on Sundays. Anyway muckspreading complaint https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/londoner-claims-smell-muckspreading-forced-9469813 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It's like people who move next door to 1000 year old churches and complain about the call to service bell ringing on Sundays. Or the cunts who move next to music venues that have been running for decades and then get them shut down for noise.
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Salisbury Snape posted:While I wholeheartedly agree they need to gently caress right off, silage is just slightly mouldy grass. Now a muck spread field or a field that has been spread with fish guts and shellfish shell....... Fair point! Shows how little I country. I meant manure! Met my new neighbour today when they came round to apologise for their grandchild "Theodore" raining small military men with parachutes into my rhubarb patch from the bathroom window. "He shan't be allowed to play with those outdoors again! " But why? It was quite amusing and meant I got to check the rhubarb and I've got loads under the buckets. Crumble time tomorrow!
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Guavanaut posted:50 years ago we agreed that Jimmy Savile should have a more active role in children's entertainment, so I'm not sure that's a good guide to the present. 
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Well, Savile wasn't a dangerous stranger. Everyone knew who he was.
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https://twitter.com/lara_spirit/status/1632521144409497600
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Private Speech posted:Most of it is just the utterly stupid high-end secondary education system in Britain, it's so pricey that only the genuinely wealthy can afford it without impoverishing themselves.
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For services to Greek holidays during lockdown?
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It's like society had been labouring for decades under the misapprehension that public outrage could stop you doing whatever the gently caress you wanted to do and the tories have just discovered the truth.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:like that guardian article represents what 0.01% of people or something? Like just don't worry about it and think about more important things than people who have 5 million quid and are upset. Like charge them 50quid an hour to cut their grass *telegraph also did you add that paragraph to your redtitle or is someone else dickriding for you
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Kill All Cops posted:Sir Boris Johnson OBE, of the House of Lords when? Welp
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:It's like society had been labouring for decades under the misapprehension that public outrage could stop you doing whatever the gently caress you wanted to do and the tories have just discovered the truth. This is exactly what happened, yes.
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This is incredible TV https://twitter.com/planet_belfast/status/1632678024972730368?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg
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smellmycheese posted:This is incredible TV This is the best lawyering I've seen in a long time
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Pol prof levels of lawyering.
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