merridew @ merridew @feddit.uk

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Still doesn't make it acceptable to wave your bollocks about at a party.

"Aldridge, 39, exposed himself immediately after overhearing the two women complain servicemen had previously flashed at them.

Capt Rebecca Slee, prosecuting, said: “They had talked about previous incidents of exposure, and said they hoped nothing like that would happen tonight.

“Flt Lt Aldridge was at the bar and overheard the conversation. He then exposed his testicles and put them on the bar.”

The content of the full text of this article is frankly appalling.

Labour previously gave us the disastrous Digital Economy Act (2010), rushed through Parliament without proper debate, a month before being ousted. It contained a totally not-bonkers provision for people to be forcibly barred from accessing the internet if their connection was alleged to have been used to download copyrighted media, and Lord Mandelson (sponsor) was found to have spent a lot of time with film & music industry lobbyists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2010

At one point I was wearing an oodie under a dryrobe.

Toasty core. Chilly toes.

I've seen it. But only among youngsters who look too young to have been ordering in pubs before 2020.

The part complaining about a lack of Russian state-controlled news media?

https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/energy-policy-and-regulation/policy-and-regulatory-programmes/default-tariff-cap

"Media Matters' report said that X remains a "dangerous cesspool of content, especially for advertisers," noting that "since Elon Musk took over the company," X has restored extremist accounts and "placed ads for numerous brands directly on Holocaust denial, white nationalist, and neo-Nazi accounts."

Well you are free to suspect that.

But I'm not going to put the health of my family on hold pending the (impossible) total eradication of global health inequity.

It's under this heading:

How is the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine being distributed?

Pfizer has activated its extensive U.S. and European manufacturing network, including thousands of highly skilled U.S. workers in multiple states and localities, to prepare to produce the COVID-19 vaccine. We currently have the capacity to produce 4 billion doses annually, pending demand.

Influenza they reckon could be scaled up to between 6-8 billion annually, if needed.

"A teenager has described a "freaky" late-night encounter with a man wearing a "gimp suit".

The 19-year-old... said the man was "unpredictable, flopping to the floor, writhing and grunting"."

Presumably that is why.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-63421811

Please tell me what you mean by "capitalist business practices".

"Ignoring warnings" is not a character flaw unique to "capitalists".

Mate if you want to moan about capitalism in healthcare go and find an American community on Lemmy.

This is a publicly funded NHS hospital.

And before anyone makes any assumptions, I am not suggesting that's a bad thing.

Brown was extremely popular among members of the Labour party, and never had a snowball's chance in hell in a general election.

Bit of a pattern there.

Eventually you have to grow up and accept that the perfect is the enemy of the good.

I don't know. He was re-elected with a majority of 66 in 2005, two years after Iraq started, and then in 2007 the Labour party membership forced him out in favour of Brown, who promptly lost the 2010 election to the Tories.

I'll take Blair Mk II in office over Corbyn in opposition any day.

Ah yes, those terrible Blair years. If only the Major government had kept going for longer.

"Contemporarily speaking, the term carpetbagger refers to roving financial opportunists, often of modest means, who spot investment opportunities and aim to benefit from a set of circumstances to which they are not ordinarily entitled."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger#Modern_use

Those without have to take the same risk regardless of whether or not it's offered for sale at Boots.