Jon the Hat

Yarp.

In a moment of either genius or madness I signed up for F45 gym yesterday. Went this morning at 7am. It hurts. Need to do something though, hopefully this is it for mental and physical health. Fully funded by buying fewer bottles of wine.

Poland could beat Russia & Belarus on their own tbh, so with or without the US, NATO is more than strong enough to fight off Russia.

Those generals have got some lovely boats in marinas in Turkey though!

No need for the pregnant pause there, this isn't would I lie to you ffs.

Try to look at it from the managers perspective. Firstly they are really talking about booking a week or two weeks holidays, not the odd day off for a funeral or whatever. Nowhere does it say they wouldn't allow you to change a holiday day if needed, and I am sure any decent manager would always try to help, as long as they are able to cover the resident's needs. Secondly, the OPs wife is obviously in a supervisory role, hence why only one is allowed off at a time, the other staff need managing. Thirdly as someone else noted, an employe is legally obliged to allow an employee holiday - so if they let someone leave it unbooked they are effectively allowing them to force time off at the end of the year, which is unfair on others who would love that time off, but play buy the rules. While HR work for the company not the employee, I do find that most policy like this is driven by a desire to treat people fairly, to avoid any legal breaches, and to ensure they have the staff they legally need on any given day to care for the residents (or indeed provide the customers expected level of service in other industries). I can also believe that policy gets firmed up because there are always those who take the piss, and impair others right to a fair distribution of holidays. Its not that much to ask that you plan your main holiday in advance, most people do.

Madness as this stage. If everyone was fit and here it would still be stupid, but where we are right now literal madness.

I think you hit the nail on the head there. There should be a route to saying this is murder, and they will spend the rest of their natural life in a secure facility in cases such as this. Vistims families are never goingt o be satisifed with Manslaughter and undetermined sentence in a hospital.

Nadine Dorries had a talk show? Must have started after I left. Did she actually resign as an MP yet?

He is talking about Billionaires no? They live where they want. I see Bezos has moved to Miami from Seattle and his boat is too big for the Marinas.

We have massively outperformed my expectations. Honestly I thought we would struggle to make the playoffs. The league is worse than I thought, but we also had about as good a transfer window as you could possibly have in terms of manager and players in and out.

I understand your point. There is a difference in seriousness of the offence between being 0.37 and 2.5, and the law recognizes this in sentencing. It is not unreasonable to say we should also take this into account when judging the guy rather than jumping to the worst conclusions. That said the refusal does suggest he knew he was over the limit, and he was right.

I stopped during Covid at the age of 43 or so. You can do it!

What a dickhead. His employer has a right to expect him to work though, and with the shortage of players they made that call. Once he is prosecuted / sentenced they can and no doubt will take disciplinary action.

1993 man, best year for alternative music ever. Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Green Day, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, the list goes on and on. As a side note I'm seeing PWEI in a month or so at Freo Social!

Its football, if you are only a goal up with a few minutes to go the opposition will go for it. Sometimes it will work. Even against Man City.

It did of course, but mostly it led to the changes in behaviors which it was hoping to. Most smokers despite the noise still went to the pub, and popped outside when they wanted a smoke. I would bet you hard cash though that the fact that young adults are in a smoke free environment socialising massively reduced the numbers taking up smoking.

Those are supernoodles you numpty!

They also get the credit for being the ones taking the fight to the US and the UK! Heroes of the revolution etc. We cannot be seen to be doing nothing though. It all started as they were firing missiles towards Israel and the US shot them down. The problem being they have very cheap missiles & drones and the US/UK are shooting them down with missiles which cost $1M each. Not sustainable, hence bombing them instead, much cheaper.

No one wants to back the loser. What would be the point? He is moving on to winning in 4 years. Thank goodness for the 8 years maximum term is all I can say.

Yeah I watched it much to my irritation. Shame but Rublev really raised his game in the 4th and 5th sets.

This is the post I came to this thread for. Imagine Kane joining just as Bayern start dropping down the table. Too funny.

Even without the US Russia is completely incapable of taking over Eastern Europe. They way Poland are upping their game they could probably beat them on their own. Whether the shift of power in Eastern Europe is a good thing is another question. NATO countries have had time to invest and most of them failed to do so. Trump only said out loud what the US have thought for a long time about Europe taking them for granted.

Why would we? The replacement of blast furnaces with electric arc furnaces (which is the reason for the job losses) is exactly the plan and is required to continue long term steelmaking in the UK, which is a strategically important capability. "Unions fighting for every job" is therefore exactly counter the environmental goal no?

Just realised this Aussie guy I’m watching is Katie Boulter’s boyfriend. Hope he wins! He’s punching.