We can strike if we want to

We can join a trade union

'Cause your employer sucks

And if a union is employer friendly

well it’s no union of mine

I say, we can strike if we want to

etc etc you get the gist.

Oh please, it maims people every year, kills birds, terrorises animals, I’m all for an organised display but twats who set off dynamite at 3 in the morning can do one.

It goes to show the best solution is to not buy any shit. With the relentless manipulative marketing that everybody is exposed to it’s a bit hard unless you go full hermit mode I guess. Something to strive for imo

Aw dammit!

Well I’m doing my bit, I’ve deleted my Amazon account a few years ago. You can get the same tat from the same sellers on eBay anyway.

Well they’re not technically my government, I don’t have the relevant nationality so I’m not allowed to vote outside of the local stuff.

Although I could do the British thing and write to my MP for them to send back a copy-pasted response telling me to piss off. Even better I could write to the ambassador to complain.Great suggestion! (I mean it I’m not being sarcastic)

I’m still fuming about the absence of provision for personal gifts. I used to love sending Xmas and birthday presents to my family in France but last time I sent a HANDMADE BY ME gift to my mum I had to pay 16eur for the privilege. Ludicrous.

So that only makes me more angry. How dare they lump me in with Chinese tat senders???

He’s not even worthy of being a toe-rag 🤮

I guess if you can afford a house and 7k in upgrades this increase isn’t probably have a significant impact on your finances. Good for you though, this is the way to go with renewables getting better and better.

I hate idling cars with a burning passion because the noise is bloody annoying. My neighbour had the worst irritating habit of spending at least an hour chatting in her car with the engine running from 11pm to well over midnight. Right under my bedroom window. Drove me absolutely mad (pun kind of intended).

Oh gosh thank you I thought I was going mad!

I don’t get the bit about patients on repeat prescription marked as inactive, they have to request those prescriptions, thus interacting with the practice in one way or the other (app or phone call). I have to make a request every 4 weeks to get mine, unless some people are on a 6-monthly repeat?

music to my ears!

Honda just released the Super-N in the UK, but it’s not boxy enough for me :( We definitely need kei cars more than SUVs.

Ok now do it in proto Indo-European!

‘sort of operation’ I wrote, I’m aware that supercars aren’t SUVs but they are yet another egregious, offensive wealth display like huge SUVs are. So ya know, eat the rich and all that jazz.

I hope no one was hurt and that it’s kind of a ‘slashing-tires-of-huge-SUVs’ sort of operation.

Nononono you fool, we just need to increase the amount of adverts everywhere, make them more colourful, loud and invasive! (/s just in case)

I was hopeful because I made abundantly clear in my declaration that it was handmade by me with cheap yarn and the item was not worth more than 5€. I did put my own email address so I got the customs bill, not my mum because that would have been insulting (and it would have ruined the surprise).

The lousy workaround I found was to buy presents from online shops in France. I get Christmas chocolates from Klaus.fr, I got my nan a lovely top from Armorlux and so on. No money goes to Amazon for obvious reasons. It’s not great but it works, when the retailer accepts foreign addresses in the billing details.

I really do like exchanging homemade stuff which is only possible when I travel there .

Well I won’t even try to send Christmas presents to my continental family from the UK then… Earlier this year I sent my mum a handbag I crocheted myself with some cheap yarn and French customs had the audacity to charge me 14€ for the privilege. I’ve not even paid that much for the bloody yarn. I am still fuming.