Month: March 2016

Now That April’s Here

Posted on by weeks4send

If you’re happy and you know it, thank your ex!  All you really need in life is someone who sees the psycho you are and likes you anyway.  It’s important to be yourself.  People don’t have to like you… and you don’t have to care.

As we grow up, it becomes less important to have more friends, and more important to have real ones.  You see, I’m a nice person, so if I’m a bitch to you, you need to ask yourself why.  I don’t have a short temper- I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.  I literally love being at home, in my own space, not surrounded by people.  Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done.  And maybe that’s not surprising- after all, I’m so old, I can remember going through a whole day without taking a picture of anything.

And I’m sorry if anyone’s upset at finding out that the world doesn’t revolve around them.  Here, let me pour you a nice cup of Get the Fuck Over It.  Personally, though, I’m doing my part to conserve water by drinking wine instead.

 

(Edited to add:  This was an April Fool’s joke.  Those Facebook memes sound really aggressive when you string them all together.)

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The NHS versus the Weasels

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I’m going to have to repeat what I said on Facebook:  What fuckery is this?

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/richard-grimes/government-moves-to-consider-nhs-user-charges

Now, I’m not stupid- I know this isn’t exactly an unbiased source.  I know this article was written last July, and a lot of things have changed since then (Jeremy Corbyn things!).  I know my Facebook feed is largely made up of hardcore left-wingers, which means I’m probably primed to accept any story that makes David Cameron look bad.*  And I know these quotes could easily have been taken out of context- maybe every other peer in the room responded with shouts of Eh?  What are you smoking? and the article just didn’t mention it.  But a) I doubt the writers made these quotes up out of whole cloth, and b) the fact that they were even brought up with a straight face should provoke howls of rage in the citizenry.

I mean, just look at these things.  It’s not even just the Tories:

 Another Labour peer, Lord Desai, suggested bizarrely that patients should be issued with an “Oyster card” which is deducted whenever a patient uses healthcare, and patients should receive a “bill” at the end of the year, saying this would “help make it clear to people that a free National Health Service is not a costless one.”

In other words, “let’s charge sick people for getting sick.”  You know, the exact thing the NHS was created to avoid.  (Also?  “Free” and “costless” mean the exact same thing, numpty.)

It’s a terrifying vision of a dystopian future- attempts to take away our rights couched in weasel words like “begin the process of helping the public engage in a discussion,” just to add insult to injury.  But luckily, Britain is still a democracy, and our MPs all have email accounts.  Let us join forces and spam them into submission.

 

 

* Although David Cameron himself hasn’t exactly helped in this regard- not one of us saw Piggate coming.

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