lincsexplorer.bsky.social
(He/him) UK, interested in words, history and the great outdoors
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It's not just schools. Most large businesses now have security precautions. Before our gates went up, random people would come on site to walk dogs or meet girlfriends. We even had someone live on site, unseen, for a couple of weeks. Only discovered when food went missing from the staffroom.
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Exactly this! Our nearest chippy closed soon after gates went up. I didn't have much sympathy because the owner had threatened me one lunchtime when I spoke to our pupils who were queued out the door.
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OK, makes more sense!
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My Kennedys? Dead
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Wales "built up "????
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Leeds
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Any chance of some investment for people who live north of Watford?
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It might work for motivated adults. Lockdown showed us how good teens are at gaming the system. Maybe 20% of the pupils I taught online actually did the work.
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It absolutely lacks social housing, which is why the waiting list increased by 43,000 last year. House buying or private rental are unaffordable for many, which is why thousands of children are currently in B&B's.
Taxpayers money shouldn't be subsidising private landlords.
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And a list of names became a roll call.
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So, a bit like using Camembert to create a sculpture in the shape of cheese.
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🤣🤣🤣
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Yes, but what's it made of?
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Is this where Shelley took her daughter?
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If only there was an example from history to show us how this will work out.
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Beautiful
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🤣 Definitely a scam. Pages of PR guff but no mention of who would staff these sites during civil war. Who prepares meals, fixes the electricity supply, empties the trash?
A great idea for a dystopian novel where some of the worst people in society meet reality.
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A huge thank you for this. It's really helpful for someone who works with children.
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I teach 11-16 year olds and they would agree. More books with happy endings and good defeating evil through skill and resilience. So much of what they read is about death and dystopian worlds with no hope.
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@brendancox.bsky.social is active here and worth a follow.
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I'm getting tired of blocking sites showing malnourished children with no shoes, captioned 'poor but happy'.
Or praising a front garden full of vegetables without mentioning that this was only because thousands of farm workers were absent fighting nazis.
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I think I can suggest why they didn't just use the first syllable of 'Association' and call it Ass football.
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This clown...
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Is that a bit like animal nitrate?
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Thanks. That came at just the right moment.
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Ever heard of 'convenience foods'?
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I asked ChatGPT to rewrite a short story in 1000 words, suitable for a 13 yr old. It gave me a 730 word summary which included a new ending.
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A bird shat on my windscreen once.
That was the last time I took her to the pub I can tell you.
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Puzzled. I thought the payment was for pensioners over 65, so if she is 67 now, why did she not qualify last year?
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If it's windy shouldn't you be drinking draught
beers?
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The fall of the Berlin wall demonstrated the weakness of the Soviet Union. If it lost any authority over satellite countries, people questioned how it could keep its member states in order.
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I discovered this 6 months ago and it's a life changer. It hurt to throw out every odd sock I had kept for the last 2 years but worth it.
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I feel like I should be able to understand this, but...nope.
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Making it harder for some people to own multiple houses while others have none seems like a good first step.
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The Grammar school story is the same. Our local Grammar is full of kids whose parents can afford the transport and £1000's for 11+ coaching.
Half the number of free school meal pupils than a nearby Comp.
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I'm trying to think of any other workplace where employees can visit the bar in working hours. A brothel perhaps?
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I rarely watched The Bill but recall London experiencing NF marches, regular IRA terrorist attacks, racist violence, police violence, football riots and the police shooting of Cherry Groce. Presumably these crimes were not of concern since they didn't involve wokeness.
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Add 'virtue signalling' to your list. As if doing good us something to be ashamed of.
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Yes, if it has a circus accompaniment.
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That's the dad who fathered two children by his own stepdaughter.
Ironic given Musk's sudden interest in groomed children.
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It's more simple than that. Reform is Farage's vehicle for wealth and influence. If Yaxley-Lennon is allowed to join, Farage will have someone he cannot control, who is also trying to position himself as the leader of the British far-right. There can only be one fuhrer.
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Isn't there a quote somewhere about "if I can shoot rabbits..."
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Is this a thread?
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'haemorrhage' if you bleed in the Uk
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Analysing a newspaper report used to be on the GCSE English syllabus. Gove replaced it with Victorian nonfiction.
Our pupils now prepare for adult life by picking the similes out of an 1890's complaint about insomnia.