I'm Gen X and benefitted hugely from university fee support, student grants (although these were coming to an end and I also had loans), unemployment benefits, back to work incentives and schemes, and the availability of social housing (I'm still in my housing association flat now) back in the 90s. It's not like being on the dole back then was amazing, but fuck me it wasn't as brutal as the current system which is intentionally cruel. And the fact that young people now have to take on huge debt to go to university, and have virtually no hope of getting an affordable rented home through social housing, is just appalling. These things are so crucial to getting a chance to start off in life. Each generation seems to be getting fucked over harder than the one before.
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"And can we have the view of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom please... Oh!"
"Erm, I am the Prime Minister, I'm not a cat"
Thank you, your comment gave me a lovely warm feeling in my stomach. I'll get through this.
Just about kept my shit together. It's been a really shitty week.
I only yesterday learned that some education instituitions in the US and Canada had limits on the number of Jewish students who could attend. The European countries who practiced this weren't so much of a surprise to me, but the fact that universities like Harvard did this was an eye opener.
My heating is set at 21°C (70F) for daytimes and 16°C (61F) for the night time, so it doesn't come on at all during summer, and a lot of spring (UK). During winter when it gets colder out (like below about 6°C/43F) I will usually need to whack it up by a couple of degrees, or give it a little extra blast in the morning to warm up. Its an old building (late 1800s) and my flat has external walls on three sides, and a cold empty basement below, so it can get quite cold when the outside temperature drops.
Edited to make it clear i mean my heating thermostat, because I realised most people here are talking about AC and that's very rare in homes here.
In the UK here, have you guys had a cool, wet summer too? And if so have people (not necessarily you as it seems you live in a modern well insulated home) needed to put the heating on? I'm in a flat in a late 1800s building and have put it on a couple of times to take the chill off, my mum's in a 1920s semi detached and has had the heating on most days.
I have a massive soft spot for his stuff. I'm still hoping that someone will adapt The Kraken Wakes for film or TV one of these days.
I thought this was an early misconception of the pandemic and had since been debunked?
Most of the funerals I've been to over the last 10 years were for heavy drinkers. At least 3 (including my dad) alcohol was the direct cause of the death.
I find sorting by 'Top' either 6 hours or 12 hours helps me see new posts I've not seen that have decent engagement
That's because it is. These "why don't YOU do something about it" comments always are, I just don't get why people are so aggressive straight out of the starting block.