Jeepers, he has a point! Especially when you consider all the peanut allergies today. In the 1970s I was a peanut monitor and sold little bags of peanuts at break-time for 2.5p or nut brittle 5p.
Fortunately for myself I survived without the likes of musk or trump in my childhood living with parents who had lived through their defeat of the likened people of those two at that time in history.
My flannel shorts chafed my sensitive skin and created a permanent red ring of soreness as I walked to school on a path cleared through the snow (this was in Portsmouth! Some very cold winters in those days with the sea freezing)
I was born in London in 1971. Brought there (Islington), and the only thing I agree with in all of that is the toilet paper. He's not lying there tbh. 🤣👀
Absolutely. Before I left X-odious, I had an American gun nut telling me that I was a wimp for wanting to live in a 'nanny state'. He didn't have an answer to school massacres though.
Still, who should it fall to in the aftermath of that massacre of innocents to argue the case for allowing citizens to arm themselves with handguns but the leader of UKIP/Reform UK …https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/24/nigel-farage-uk-gun-control-laws-relaxed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
1 in 3 girls and 1 in 5 boys suffer abuse in the #USA.
Those are the ones that avoid being shot at school.
#Musk, the African billionaire, could look at America or his home country, but he isn't really interested is he?
#American ' #Child #abuse #fatalities increased from 2021 to 2022. An estimated 1,990 #children #died from abuse or neglect in 2022, a #devastating #increase from the 1,820 that died in 2021.'
#Musk, the South #African #billionaire, may not know that in #America, In 2022, a reported 434,000 perpetrators #abused or neglected a #child. In substantiated child abuse cases, 76% of children were victimized by a #parent or legal guardian.
#Musk's #America:
'The physical and emotional damage to #children is staggering. The CDC estimates the total lifetime economic burden resulting from #abuse and #neglect exceeds $592 #billion, which rivals the cost of health problems such as diabetes and heart disease.'
'In 2022, an estimated 1,990 #children died from abuse and neglect in the United States, a number consistently on the rise over the previous five years. Boys have a higher child fatality rate at 3.26 per 100,000 compared to girls at 2.25'
' #US #Child welfare authorities look into the safety of more than 7.5 million #kids annually
Of those, around 3 million children received an #investigation or alternative response from child protective services agencies.'
The African-Billionaire #Musk may not know about #gun death among #children ages 1-17 in America.
'In the #US #gun #death rates in this age group have increased by 106 percent since 2013 and have been the #leading cause of #death among this group since 2020.'
'U.S. 2022 #Gun-Related Deaths: #Firearms Remain Leading Cause of #Death for #Children and Teens, and Disproportionately Affect People of Color
For third straight year, #firearms #killed more #children and teens, ages 1 to 17, than any other cause including car crashes and cancer'
Does #Musk care?
#Musk uses issues like #child #abuse to create #division.
He isn't actually interested in any #solutions or making an effort.
Anyone in the UK who has made any efforts to solve this problem is castigated.
#Populists don't do WORK.
#Populists #COMPLAIN.
#MUSK #gripes.
#Trump mumbles & #groans.
Future Shock
Anyone who isn't nervous about the mad twin Roman #oligarchs of #America, does not have a nervous system. Children will be collateral damage.
The rest of us are just damage.
#Musk
#Trump
I never had my head pushed down any loos either (not possible anyway this time of year because they were outside loos with no roofs and frequently frozen solid)
We were forced to drink it, I hated it and it put me off for life. I've not drunk a glass of milk since, well, not without vodka and kahlua in it as well.
Having an active shooter drill (USA) on your first day at school is not at all traumatic. Whereas being told to hang your coat on a peg with your name next to it (UK) can cause all sorts of issues. 🙄
I believe, at infants' school, I had rather a pretty little butterfly transfer above my coat peg. I've been a gibbering wreck ever since...totally traumatised
Clearly he never had Chocolate Crunch with Lurid Green Peppermint Custard to look forward to.
Although admittedly, losing my position of Milk Monitor (and accompanying enamel badge), due to Maggie Thatcher – Milk Snatcher, was a blow I never really recovered from.
Weird comment. The bereaved of Dunblane are one of the main reasons why most of us haven’t had to worry about school shootings since, because people demanded action in response and tighter gun controls were introduced. Small comfort for them of course, but it’s something.
Of course Dunblane wasn’t funny. But it is the main reason why we have such strict gun control. Australia did the same after a similar crime. It’s worked. The American gun lobby just don’t get it.
I married into a farming family, and i am constantly aghast when the cousins all gather at the family farm where they play.
Nervous goddamn wreck i tell you.
Some were so traumatising that @richardlittler.bsky.social's Scarfolk public info films are a fairly accurate representation of what they were like. https://youtu.be/12CbDyCSV0I?si=UvMzBBstN6d6D4si
If he's wanting to take over our country, isn't it best to try and get us on his side, instead of uniting us against him. I didn't consider myself patriotic, until now.
I wonder who is feeding the Muskrat with snippets of UK info so that he can trash us.
When we find him, (probably a "he"), he should be charged with treason and thrown in the Tower.
(A stretch on the rack might be appropriate to remind him about the times the fascists are trying to re-establish).
Columbine happened when I was still deeply in public school. Why has it gotten so much worse aside from the profiteering?
Now, I was in British schools when I was young. Britain was way more sexist. My mom said men wouldn’t speak to her like a human. & They separated girls to sew & boys to sport..
Add to that the fact that we didn’t have to listen to him trying to rule the world. Someone needs to tell him that British politics and culture are none of his business.
It's also clear that Elon Musk must have experienced trauma in his upbringing in South Africa, because he is determined to take it out on America, and, thereafter, the planet.
To be totally fair we did completely change our gun laws after that horrendous day, US seems to have no limit to the number of children they're happy to sacrifice.
Many,many people think Musk is still in his childhood years and has never grown up and that’s putting it mildly,many think he is one brick short of a load.
He won’t be happy till we become the 51st state. His world wide saturation is really pissing me off. Nothing but a deranged lunatic, Hitler is alive and well and running rants on SM and beyond and the UK are letting him.🤯
I don’t know about “perfectly”, but I think the latitude of where one was at school may have a lot to answer for here. Growing up in West Yorkshire ours was certainly never curdled and only ever so slightly frozen 🥶 on occasion.
I'm from Leeds! Beckett Park J&I gave us iced milk in winter and almost cheese in summer - no fridges in 66, just left outside the classroom to face the elements
I’m also from Leeds 👍
My primary was (still is I think) adjacent to the highest point near “Tinshill Top” and the milk was always left by the - then tiny - teachers car park in the shade at the back of the kitchen. I guess we were lucky with that. But it certainly never saw a fridge.
Where did Musk go to school again? That's right, not the United States and not the United Kingdom, he went to school as a white child in apartheid South Africa as the son of a very wealthy family.
I think he should sit down on the subject of childhood trauma.
Oh I dunno. His father groomed his step sister and has been open about beating Elon. I think there's a good amount of trauma that Musk could spend some of that money on therapy for.
I wonder how he made it through a childhood of South Africa apartheid, witnessing so much suffering and trauma around him, and wasn't traumatized himself... Oh, wait...
Never had any trauma in my English school. In my Irish school, run by the Catholic order Christian Brothers, the headmaster was a pedophile, and the teachers were (to use Roddy Doyle's term) often sadists.
I don't think anyone's forgetting Dunblane, but one of the reasons why it's remembered is because it was not a thing that happens here, and gun laws were tightened further after it. We didn't just offer thoughts and prayers as Americans do
To be honest, he's more or less right. School shootings are not part of everyday life in the UK, and thankfully, they never have been. The things I worried about in school were more related to getting clattered by a teacher for some imagined infraction than anything else
No wonder Musk bought "X" — he wanted to crown himself King of the Trolls, and that's exactly what he's done. As the German Chancellor suggested, he should not be fed.
If you look at the Tory politicians that Eton spewed out in the 80's - Johnson, Mogg, Cameron - then it's certainly evident that they experienced something very bad in order to become so nasty and twisted. Privilege and entitlement spring to mind.
Looking at photos of braggart Johnson in Eton school teams with his knees aggressively wide apart invading the personal space of others I think some of the very bad experiences of his contemporaries might have come from him.
The thing is though, he's highlighted his own failures here and completely missed that. If he'd actually spent time wondering about it, he'd probably conclude some of what he repeats unfiltered and unchecked might actually not be entirely true.
Quite. You could apply the same logic to everyone growing up in Northern Ireland in the 70s - or any other conflict zone. Most of
them are refreshingly free from Musk's particular brand of lunacy.
Extreme leaning parties have no place in a modern society and the way we govern, we need a mix of voices that listen to each other and respect each other for who they are. Hatred,bigotry, racism,and many other words are the tools of extremists who look to disrupt our lives for their selfish reasons
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And it's usually not the standard American fare of pizza, burgers, hotdog and fried cheese sandwich.
Trust me, I have experienced the US public education cafeteria...
https://youtu.be/qs-3XnbqCys?si=KGLpIt44LGluKcgK
I can’t imagine how parents cope in US.
Those are the ones that avoid being shot at school.
#Musk, the African billionaire, could look at America or his home country, but he isn't really interested is he?
#Musk could look at his adopted home in the #USA for child abuse.
https://mandatedreporter.com/blog/the-state-of-child-abuse-in-2022/
https://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/national-statistics-on-child-abuse/
'The physical and emotional damage to #children is staggering. The CDC estimates the total lifetime economic burden resulting from #abuse and #neglect exceeds $592 #billion, which rivals the cost of health problems such as diabetes and heart disease.'
'In 2022, an estimated 1,990 #children died from abuse and neglect in the United States, a number consistently on the rise over the previous five years. Boys have a higher child fatality rate at 3.26 per 100,000 compared to girls at 2.25'
' #US #Child welfare authorities look into the safety of more than 7.5 million #kids annually
Of those, around 3 million children received an #investigation or alternative response from child protective services agencies.'
https://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/national-statistics-on-child-abuse/
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-teens
'In the #US #gun #death rates in this age group have increased by 106 percent since 2013 and have been the #leading cause of #death among this group since 2020.'
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-teens
For third straight year, #firearms #killed more #children and teens, ages 1 to 17, than any other cause including car crashes and cancer'
Does #Musk care?
Motor #vehicle traffic deaths
Number of deaths: 44,534
Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.4
All #firearm deaths
Number of deaths: 48,204
Deaths per 100,000 population: 14.5
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2022)
But THIS much we know.
He isn't actually interested in any #solutions or making an effort.
Anyone in the UK who has made any efforts to solve this problem is castigated.
#Populists don't do WORK.
#Populists #COMPLAIN.
#MUSK #gripes.
#Trump mumbles & #groans.
Anyone who isn't nervous about the mad twin Roman #oligarchs of #America, does not have a nervous system. Children will be collateral damage.
The rest of us are just damage.
#Musk
#Trump
He probably had the awful food and the shiny loo roll, colonial private schools everywhere think that stuff is character building.
Well, unless, of course, you were black
I genuinely consider that ridicule is the best weapon against him & Trump . They take themselves so seriously.
Demolish them with contempt . They spout nothing but ill informed 💩.
Although admittedly, losing my position of Milk Monitor (and accompanying enamel badge), due to Maggie Thatcher – Milk Snatcher, was a blow I never really recovered from.
Remind me again of the one before that? (there wasn't one)
"One and done" as our American friends say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaqTDsGd-iQ
Nervous goddamn wreck i tell you.
https://youtu.be/XNPMYRlvySY?feature=shared
When we find him, (probably a "he"), he should be charged with treason and thrown in the Tower.
(A stretch on the rack might be appropriate to remind him about the times the fascists are trying to re-establish).
Slithery Gove.
Now, I was in British schools when I was young. Britain was way more sexist. My mom said men wouldn’t speak to her like a human. & They separated girls to sew & boys to sport..
That said, love how some in the UK think EM an expert, despite him never living here!
The only things they're good at are telling lies and conning people into believing they're smart.
My primary was (still is I think) adjacent to the highest point near “Tinshill Top” and the milk was always left by the - then tiny - teachers car park in the shade at the back of the kitchen. I guess we were lucky with that. But it certainly never saw a fridge.
I think he should sit down on the subject of childhood trauma.
Mr Musk has " No Standing".
No idea. Not relevant to every day peeps!
Just a money driven parasite.......
The toiletpaper was indeed like tracing paper though, it was almost as though they knicked it from the art/maths department.
(they're right, though)
them are refreshingly free from Musk's particular brand of lunacy.
"Sulk on me Elon Musk." is the unvoiced cry in the repressed dreams of his more nurturing lone skum fanboys.
( leaves a bitter taste🤮)