The Good News thread, local jobs, economy etc

[purpleronnie]

For 4 months a group of patients have occupied their own mental health clinic, refusing to allow cuts to their service to close it down.

It shows that campaigners and activists still can achieve their goals against the austerity narrative.

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Deal-signed-to-keep-Cambridge-mental-health-drop-in-centre-Lifeworks-open-and-to-end-occupation-by-patients-20140630134516.htm#ixzz36821ejZ1

[MooseBreath]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10944874/IMF-warns-of-negative-spiral-in-France-as-recession-looms-again.html

France still unable to reverse what has been a serious decline under socialist rule. Already a total disaster, it is getting worse and worse. A few short years of socialism will take decades to recover from, if indeed they ever do. Could well be the first major developed economy to regress the point of being academically termed something like "new third world",surely (and here's the good news) putting socialism as a serious theory to bed once and for all.

[purpleronnie]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10944874/IMF-warns-of-negative-spiral-in-France-as-recession-looms-again.html

France still unable to reverse what has been a serious decline under socialist rule. Already a total disaster, it is getting worse and worse. A few short years of socialism will take decades to recover from, if indeed they ever do. Could well be the first major developed economy to regress the point of being academically termed something like "new third world",surely (and here's the good news) putting socialism as a serious theory to bed once and for all.

Here fishy fishy.

[Rincewind]

For 4 months a group of patients have occupied their own mental health clinic, refusing to allow cuts to their service to close it down.

It shows that campaigners and activists still can achieve their goals against the austerity narrative.

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Deal-signed-to-keep-Cambridge-mental-health-drop-in-centre-Lifeworks-open-and-to-end-occupation-by-patients-20140630134516.htm#ixzz36821ejZ1

No it is not happening. It is an optical illusion. That nice Mr cameron says so so it must be true,. He walked to his local Harrods and never saw one poor person so everything is nice and dandy and his local private hospital is running perfect.

[MooseBreath]

Here fishy fishy.

Not sure the French people are taking it lightly at all but OK

[MooseBreath]

No it is not happening. It is an optical illusion. That nice Mr cameron says so so it must be true,. He walked to his local Harrods and never saw one poor person so everything is nice and dandy and his local private hospital is running perfect.

Pathetic post. You're like a child.

[The Doctor]

The BBC have been told to stop letting retards on air: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10944629/BBC-staff-told-to-stop-inviting-cranks-on-to-science-programmes.html

[Mike Oxlong]

For 4 months a group of patients have occupied their own mental health clinic, refusing to allow cuts to their service to close it down.

It shows that campaigners and activists still can achieve their goals against the austerity narrative.

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Deal-signed-to-keep-Cambridge-mental-health-drop-in-centre-Lifeworks-open-and-to-end-occupation-by-patients-20140630134516.htm#ixzz36821ejZ1

Fukkin nutters

[Mike Oxlong]

No it is not happening. It is an optical illusion. That nice Mr cameron says so so it must be true,. He walked to his local Harrods and never saw one poor person so everything is nice and dandy and his local private hospital is running perfect.

I'm like that kid off the Sixth Sense except instead of seeing dead people I hear poor people. They're usually shouting "Big Issue" or "You got some spare change mate?"

[Harry - LCFC]

The BBC have been told to stop letting retards on air: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10944629/BBC-staff-told-to-stop-inviting-cranks-on-to-science-programmes.html

No doubt they'll be accused of being biased for not providing the other side. They can't win here.

[FoxesAreBlue]

I'm like that kid off the Sixth Sense except instead of seeing dead people I hear poor people. They're usually shouting "Big Issue" or "You got some spare change mate?"

.........or have no legs and sit on a skate board playing an accordion until their helper (butler) comes and says its time to go.

[Rincewind]

How do they define retards? Anyone that goes against their broadcasting standpoints?

I thought everyone had a right to voice an opinion. By saying they have no legs are you also assuming they have no brain?

Or am I taking this too serious?

Edited 5 July 2014 by Rincewind

[Mike Oxlong]

.........or have no legs and sit on a skate board playing an accordion until their helper (butler) comes and says its time to go.

I like the "blind" ones who catch the coin mid air. Staggering sense of hearing!

[Dr The Singh]

How do they define retards? Anyone that goes against their broadcasting standpoints?

I thought everyone had a right to voice an opinion. By saying they have no legs are you also assuming they have no brain?

Or am I taking this too serious?

I thought this was the good news thread? Where's the good news Ken?

[Mike Oxlong]

.........or have no legs and sit on a skate board playing an accordion until their helper (butler) comes and says its time to go.

To be fair that's. a pretty dangerous existence. Too much recoil from the accordion and they'll be off that skateboard before you can say "stumps"

[Rincewind]

I thought this was the good news thread? Where's the good news Ken?

I'd like to know that. It all depends on your perspective and situation. If you are in a reasonable position then there is no need to give a shit about anyone else.

[Mike Oxlong]

I'd like to know that. It all depends on your perspective and situation. If you are in a reasonable position then there is no need to give a shit about anyone else.

https://www.cafonline.org/media-office/press-releases/2013/world-giving-index-2013.aspx

[Dr The Singh]

I'd like to know that. It all depends on your perspective and situation. If you are in a reasonable position then there is no need to give a shit about anyone else.

That's abit harsh, Ken, just cus I can afford a roof over my head and 3 meals, doesn't mean I don't care about the unfortunate. But for perspective sales the poor in this country have luxuries that poor in 3rd world would die for, so if your gonna be Bastian of the poor, I would focus on them?

[The Doctor]

No doubt they'll be accused of being biased for not providing the other side. They can't win here.

Sometimes the other side doesn't need to be heard. We don't need to hear the other side when it comes to vaccines or conventional medicine, because anti-vaxxers and homeopaths are flat out morons who need to stop speaking - their opinions hold no value whatsoever.

How do they define retards? Anyone that goes against their broadcasting standpoints?

I thought everyone had a right to voice an opinion. By saying they have no legs are you also assuming they have no brain?

Or am I taking this too serious?

People have the right to voice their opinion. They do not have the right for their nonsensical opinion to be given equal weight when it doesn't have equal grounding. There's not always a middle point that's correct, sometimes people are just flat out wrong. If you were having a discussion on the planet and space, you wouldn't give someone who thought the world rests upon 4 elephants atop a tortoise the same grounding as a astrophysicist.

[Mike Oxlong]

People have the right to voice their opinion. They do not have the right for their nonsensical opinion to be given equal weight when it doesn't have equal grounding. There's not always a middle point that's correct, sometimes people are just flat out wrong. If you were having a discussion on the planet and space, you wouldn't give someone who thought the world rests upon 4 elephants atop a tortoise the same grounding as a astrophysicist.

That would be plainly ridiculous. Everyone knows that our world is a quark in a fart of a greater being.

[Rincewind]

Funny you should say that. Just read the first couple of chapters of Dcience of Discworld 4.

I can understand why people would think that though. Astrophysics is so complicated. The alternative takes no brain power to take in.

I agree to some extent but where does the censorship stop and who decides what is right and what is wrong?

Edited 5 July 2014 by Rincewind

[Rincewind]

That's abit harsh, Ken, just cus I can afford a roof over my head and 3 meals, doesn't mean I don't care about the unfortunate. But for perspective sales the poor in this country have luxuries that poor in 3rd world would die for, so if your gonna be Bastian of the poor, I would focus on them?

not you or the majority on here. I should learn to ignore the worst.

Yes third world countries can be worse but that does not mean that it is OK for some people to suffer here.

[The Doctor]

Funny you should say that. Just read the first couple of chapters of Dcience of Discworld 4.

I can understand why people would think that though. Astrophysics is so complicated. The alternative takes no brain power to take in.

I agree to some extent but where does the censorship stop and who decides what is right and what is wrong?

The reference was deliberate.

Doesn't mean it's worth anything. It's easier to believe that Loki writhing in pain from the serpents venom causes earthquakes than understand plate tectonics, doesn't mean that such an idea is worth considering on equal standing to the actual explanation.

In the case of scientific discussions (which is what that move revolves around), the evidence determines who is right and who is wrong. Basically, quacks like Deepak Chopra can't go on the BBC and act like their ideas are anything less than hogwash.

[broughtonblue]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10944874/IMF-warns-of-negative-spiral-in-France-as-recession-looms-again.html

France still unable to reverse what has been a serious decline under socialist rule. Already a total disaster, it is getting worse and worse. A few short years of socialism will take decades to recover from, if indeed they ever do. Could well be the first major developed economy to regress the point of being academically termed something like "new third world",surely (and here's the good news) putting socialism as a serious theory to bed once and for all.

Forget France, the Tories are still trying to reverse what has been a serious decline under socialist (sorry labour) rule. As you say it will take decades to recover from!

[Rincewind]

One step forward two steps back is pretty slow.