Yep that's Lidl & Aldi of course, and as Sybil Fawlty would might have said 'the reason that they're cheap is because they're no bloody good'.
Now, I'm not complaining too much about the fare which is of course OK but no more than that. The issue is you can can get the same stuff at the mainstream supermarkets just as cheaply if you can bear the ignomany of picking up the 'Value' or 'Basic' brands - its the same fucking stuff that Lidl/Aldi sell only not dressed up in colourful make-believe branding..
And you know best thing about shopping at 'Sainastescossons' - no bloody queues and plenty of staff.
Monday, 30 November 2015
Thursday, 19 November 2015
International Man's Day
Yes, that's right - it's today! What's more according to this text (cribbed shamelessly from the comments to a feminist article by the once amusing Richard Herring) - we do get a poor deal see:-
1) Male suicide rate: 77.1% - Female suicide rate: 22.9%
2) Male workplace deaths: 93% - Female workplace deaths: 7%
3) Average male life expectancy: 78.9 years. - Average female life expectancy: 82.8 years
4) NHS spending on female-specific health conditions (breast cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, etc...) is eight times greater than NHS spending on male specific health conditions (prostate cancer, testicular cancer etc...) despite the fact that male-specific cancers tend to be more common and more dangerous.
5) When corrected for (a) choice of degree, (b) choice of career, (c) overtime hours worked, (d) propensity for part-time work, and (e) willingness to negotiate higher salaries, the much-vaunted gender pay gap shrinks from 23% to almost nothing (i). Indeed, once these necessary corrections are made, statistics show that women in their 20s out earn men (ii). Moreover, women tend to report much greater job satisfaction than men (iii). This is reflected in the suicide statistics cited at the top of this post. The "Happiness gap" barely gets mentioned.
6) Male criminals receive 63% longer prison sentences than female criminals who commit the exact same crimes.
I could go on, but I trust the point is made. International Men's Day should get more publicity than it does, and not just because Richard Herring wastes too much time on Twitter.
1) Male suicide rate: 77.1% - Female suicide rate: 22.9%
2) Male workplace deaths: 93% - Female workplace deaths: 7%
3) Average male life expectancy: 78.9 years. - Average female life expectancy: 82.8 years
4) NHS spending on female-specific health conditions (breast cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, etc...) is eight times greater than NHS spending on male specific health conditions (prostate cancer, testicular cancer etc...) despite the fact that male-specific cancers tend to be more common and more dangerous.
5) When corrected for (a) choice of degree, (b) choice of career, (c) overtime hours worked, (d) propensity for part-time work, and (e) willingness to negotiate higher salaries, the much-vaunted gender pay gap shrinks from 23% to almost nothing (i). Indeed, once these necessary corrections are made, statistics show that women in their 20s out earn men (ii). Moreover, women tend to report much greater job satisfaction than men (iii). This is reflected in the suicide statistics cited at the top of this post. The "Happiness gap" barely gets mentioned.
6) Male criminals receive 63% longer prison sentences than female criminals who commit the exact same crimes.
I could go on, but I trust the point is made. International Men's Day should get more publicity than it does, and not just because Richard Herring wastes too much time on Twitter.
Monday, 2 November 2015
Seumus Milne - Corbyn's latest partner in 'crime'..
The first and last entries from his Wikepedia bio..
'The younger son of the former BBC Director General Alasdair Milne, Milne attended Winchester College and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and Economics at Birkbeck College, London University. His sister, Kirsty, who died in July 2013, was an academic and former journalist.[9]
After graduating from Oxford University, Milne was the business manager of Straight Left, a monthly publication of the faction within the Communist Party of Great Britain which wanted the CP, according to Michael Mosbacher, to remain "on a solidly Stalinist path".'
'Milne married Cristina Montanari, an Italian-born director of an advertising firm, in 1992. The couple have two, now adult children, a son and daughter, who were educated at selective grammar schools.'
Not so much 'Champagne Socialist' as 'Champagne Communist' then.
Ho hum..
'The younger son of the former BBC Director General Alasdair Milne, Milne attended Winchester College and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and Economics at Birkbeck College, London University. His sister, Kirsty, who died in July 2013, was an academic and former journalist.[9]
After graduating from Oxford University, Milne was the business manager of Straight Left, a monthly publication of the faction within the Communist Party of Great Britain which wanted the CP, according to Michael Mosbacher, to remain "on a solidly Stalinist path".'
'Milne married Cristina Montanari, an Italian-born director of an advertising firm, in 1992. The couple have two, now adult children, a son and daughter, who were educated at selective grammar schools.'
Not so much 'Champagne Socialist' as 'Champagne Communist' then.
Ho hum..
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1) 'A Crisis of Masculinity: Men are Struggling to Cope with Life' - Daily Telegraph, 19/11/2014
2) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Summary, 2013 - U.S. Bureau of Statistics, 11/09/2014.
3) CIA World Fact Book.
4) 'Men's Health Shock' Anthony Brown - Guardian, 08/01/ 2001.
5) (i) '77 Cents on the Dollar Myth About Women's Pay' - Mark J. Perry & Andrew Biggs, Wall Street Journal, 07/04/2014 (ii) 'Women in their 20s Earn More Than Men of Same Age, Study Finds' - Guardian 29/08/2015. (iii) Gender Differences in Job Satisfaction - Randy Hodgson, Sociological Quarterly, Autumn 1989.
6) Michigan Law Society - 'Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases' - Sonja Starr.