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KungFooBob wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:51 am Oh, the irony.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-5 ... YWPkeqF8-g
And they were the same when sold as anti 3G back in the day, and anti 4G more recently.
They've been around in the same forms for years n years n years
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As the government can't promise no more restrictions I assume the hospitality industry is asking to be shut down for Christmas.
BBC wrote:Covid: Firms urge PM for clarity on restrictions over Christmas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59736716
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Mussels wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 10:29 am As the government can't promise no more restrictions I assume the hospitality industry is asking to be shut down for Christmas.
BBC wrote:Covid: Firms urge PM for clarity on restrictions over Christmas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59736716
Sometimes people just need to accept that 'don't know', means 'don't know'.
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Mussels wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 10:29 am As the government can't promise no more restrictions I assume the hospitality industry is asking to be shut down for Christmas.
BBC wrote:Covid: Firms urge PM for clarity on restrictions over Christmas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59736716
wheelnut wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 10:34 am
Mussels wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 10:29 am As the government can't promise no more restrictions I assume the hospitality industry is asking to be shut down for Christmas.
BBC wrote:Covid: Firms urge PM for clarity on restrictions over Christmas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59736716
Sometimes people just need to accept that 'don't know', means 'don't know'.

Guessing they need to know so they can work out whether they need lots of staff, no staff or just a few staff. They have a responsibility to employees to let them know if there will be any work - so asking for clarity is pretty reasonable, isn't it?
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Noggin wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 6:41 am
Guessing they need to know so they can work out whether they need lots of staff, no staff or just a few staff. They have a responsibility to employees to let them know if there will be any work - so asking for clarity is pretty reasonable, isn't it?
They can ask as much as they like. No one yet knows how severe omicron is.

We can choose to lock everything down now, just in case. Or we can take sensible precautions, let people define their own acceptable risk, and wait and see.

There will be a lot more data available in a week or two.

What would you rather do?
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Taff wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 11:37 am Darwin awards gets a new nominee


https://marineindustrynews.co.uk/car-ow ... -for-help/
:D

Mind you, painting 'Keep Clear, Lifeboat Access' on the roller door wouldn't be a bad idea.
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slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:20 pm
Taff wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 11:37 am Darwin awards gets a new nominee


https://marineindustrynews.co.uk/car-ow ... -for-help/
:D

Mind you, painting 'Keep Clear, Lifeboat Access' on the roller door wouldn't be a bad idea.
It looks like the shed next to it has that written in big letters across the tarmac, maybe he thought that was the lifeboat shed.
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Mussels wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:45 pm
slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:20 pm
Taff wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 11:37 am Darwin awards gets a new nominee


https://marineindustrynews.co.uk/car-ow ... -for-help/
:D

Mind you, painting 'Keep Clear, Lifeboat Access' on the roller door wouldn't be a bad idea.
It looks like the shed next to it has that written in big letters across the tarmac, maybe he thought that was the lifeboat shed.
Well spotted. He did what was asked.
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slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 2:15 pm
Mussels wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:45 pm
slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:20 pm Mind you, painting 'Keep Clear, Lifeboat Access' on the roller door wouldn't be a bad idea.
It looks like the shed next to it has that written in big letters across the tarmac, maybe he thought that was the lifeboat shed.
Well spotted. He did what was asked.
If he hadn't parked over them, he might have been able to read the messages ...
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Ah, warning sign overload. He saw the other sign and thought "That's OK, the lifeboat is over there".
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Horse wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 2:22 pm
slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 2:15 pm
Mussels wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:45 pm
It looks like the shed next to it has that written in big letters across the tarmac, maybe he thought that was the lifeboat shed.
Well spotted. He did what was asked.
If he hadn't parked over them, he might have been able to read the messages ...
But that message is crossed-out ;)
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Covid: Care home boss remortgages own home amid staff crisis
A care home owner who was unable to find local staff to fill vacancies has remortgaged her own home to fund bringing in workers from abroad.

Sandra Joyce has also bought a new house so that her new staff, from India and Nigeria, have a place to stay.

She said she could not bring staff over on the promise of a job, and then say "sorry but you've got nowhere to live".

Linden House Nursing Home in Wellington, Somerset, is operating at 50% capacity due to staff shortages.

Ms Joyce said: "I actually made the decision to remortgage my own home and buy a four-bedroom property so that I knew that when the recruits came from abroad, that I would have somewhere for them to live."
Desperate times need desperate measures, it seems.
Blundering about trying not to make too much of a hash of things.
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Lutin wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 5:25 pm Covid: Care home boss remortgages own home amid staff crisis
A care home owner who was unable to find local staff to fill vacancies has remortgaged her own home to fund bringing in workers from abroad.

Sandra Joyce has also bought a new house so that her new staff, from India and Nigeria, have a place to stay.

She said she could not bring staff over on the promise of a job, and then say "sorry but you've got nowhere to live".

Linden House Nursing Home in Wellington, Somerset, is operating at 50% capacity due to staff shortages.

Ms Joyce said: "I actually made the decision to remortgage my own home and buy a four-bedroom property so that I knew that when the recruits came from abroad, that I would have somewhere for them to live."
Desperate times need desperate measures, it seems.
That sounds like a modern slavery court case in the making.
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wheelnut wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 7:01 pm Jesus wept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... e-59754035

Suffer little children . . . ?

Awful, disgusting people.
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Mussels wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 6:30 pm
Lutin wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 5:25 pm Covid: Care home boss remortgages own home amid staff crisis
A care home owner who was unable to find local staff to fill vacancies has remortgaged her own home to fund bringing in workers from abroad.

Sandra Joyce has also bought a new house so that her new staff, from India and Nigeria, have a place to stay.

She said she could not bring staff over on the promise of a job, and then say "sorry but you've got nowhere to live".

Linden House Nursing Home in Wellington, Somerset, is operating at 50% capacity due to staff shortages.

Ms Joyce said: "I actually made the decision to remortgage my own home and buy a four-bedroom property so that I knew that when the recruits came from abroad, that I would have somewhere for them to live."
Desperate times need desperate measures, it seems.
That sounds like a modern slavery court case in the making.
Really? How'd you work that one out?

A care home owner cannot get local staff for love nor money, so decides to employ foreign nationals. Not only that but she re-mortgages her own home to provide accommodation for said foreign workers as they would be unlikely to be able to get accommodation themselves what with the state of the housing/rental market.

And you reckon that this is the basis for slavery?

Seriously, wtf are you drinking?
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slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 3:22 pm
Horse wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 2:22 pm
slowsider wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 2:15 pm

Well spotted. He did what was asked.
If he hadn't parked over them, he might have been able to read the messages ...
But that message is crossed-out ;)
Nah, yellow lines. That's highlighter :)
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Lutin wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:28 pm
Mussels wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 6:30 pm
Lutin wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 5:25 pm Covid: Care home boss remortgages own home amid staff crisis



Desperate times need desperate measures, it seems.
That sounds like a modern slavery court case in the making.
Really? How'd you work that one out?

A care home owner cannot get local staff for love nor money, so decides to employ foreign nationals. Not only that but she re-mortgages her own home to provide accommodation for said foreign workers as they would be unlikely to be able to get accommodation themselves what with the state of the housing/rental market.

And you reckon that this is the basis for slavery?

Seriously, wtf are you drinking?
It's the way most modern slaver cases seem to be where the employer is also the landlord and charges so much rent the immigrant employees are stuck and broke. Not saying this case is the same but it has key similarities.
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Mussels wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 11:05 pm
Lutin wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:28 pm
Mussels wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 6:30 pm
That sounds like a modern slavery court case in the making.
Really? How'd you work that one out?

A care home owner cannot get local staff for love nor money, so decides to employ foreign nationals. Not only that but she re-mortgages her own home to provide accommodation for said foreign workers as they would be unlikely to be able to get accommodation themselves what with the state of the housing/rental market.

And you reckon that this is the basis for slavery?

Seriously, wtf are you drinking?
It's the way most modern slaver cases seem to be where the employer is also the landlord and charges so much rent the immigrant employees are stuck and broke. Not saying this case is the same but it has key similarities.
Only if you look at it with a completely negative outlook.

Getting a 2nd mortgage and then telling the BBC, well it's hardly professor Moriarty if you're covering up your new slave ring.