Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
This is odd!
If I try to log in to qoto.org (the Mastodon instance I use) in Chrome, I get a message from Bitdefender say that it's a dangerous site as the security certificate is not valid but if I navigate to qoto.org from my Brave browser which is also under Bitdefender's protection, it just goes straight there and works normally.
WTF?!?!?
I don't think he would have fallen foul of "me too" as his lovers were all very willing participants including the royals.
That will apply to Trump if he gets a felony conviction!
If philosophy were to be a core curriculum subject up to ''A" levels, as it is in France, Belgium and Luxembourg (and probably many other countries) I wonder if it would change the voting patterns in the UK electorate. Philosophy is supposed to teach critical thinking skills; something the the great British public appear to be direly in need of as they keep voting tory!
Paul Brownjohn
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Having given up on Facebook years ago because of my concerns about privacy, I rarely login now.
This is a heads up about Meta, privacy, and your data.
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You can opt out...but Meta has intentionally made it complicated!
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Allegedly, Sir Malcolm Sargent was a bit of a 'lad'! Amongst his many lovers were members of the royal family!
Given the incomprehensibly monstrous sums of money he has access to, there are those of us who think that he might think about helping the Americans who are in danger of dying because they can't afford medication or other medically necessary treatment. He might try to help the millions of Americans who are homeless, he might think of ways to help people who are starving elsewhere in the world - in fact there are a million and one things he could do to benefit the world at large but no - he builds a fucking CLOCK!!!
Paul Brownjohn
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🎶I lied to the Queen on Monday.
🎵Prorogued the Parliament on Tuesday.🎵
I was disenfranchising the Windfall generation by Wednesday.🎶
Insulting Grenfell on Thursday and Friday and Saturday.🎶
🎵Checked my Panama account on Sunday.🎶
Yes, having been raised on the Sir Malcolm Sargent version via it's use as the TV theme tune, all the other slower versions sound pedestrian and lacking in verve to me!
The Malcolm Sargent version of the Karelia was used as the theme tune to the news and current affairs programme "This Week".
He had it played much faster than most conductors as it is rumoured, he wanted to finish the recording session and get away to meet up with one of his many lovers!
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You want to worry the drop down country lists in many apps don't list the country where I live, Luxembourg. However I guess it's even worse for residents of Liechtenstein!
A colleague did that. He swapped a mortgage @ around 5% pa for one at 1.44% pa fixed rate throughout the term of 22 years.
He lives just over the border, in France where most mortgages are at fixed interest rates for the whole period of the loan!
There were some interviews on the BBC the other day I believe it was in Bolton. They were asking people in the street what they thought about current political situation so on.
I'm not going to insult the people of Bolton, or wherever it was, by tarring all of them with the brush of abject cretinous stupidity that appeared to come out of the ‘stop a random person in the street’ interviews. I think it far more likely that it was the BBC that engineered the extreme right wing bias of the interviewees.
There seemed to be a vacuous obsession with immigration. I don't know whether the imbeciles interviewed realise the reality of the situation that Britain is in. Britain is in fact in dire need of immigration for a number of reasons:
the birth rate is nowhere near high enough to maintain an active workforce that will be needed to pay the pensions of most of the cretins interviewed! Therefore, immigration is an absolute necessity to ensure that there are enough people paying into the pension pot.
Britain does not train anywhere near the number of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and other medical personnel needed to fully staff the NHS. There are currently tens of thousands of vacancies for both doctors and nurses and those cannot possibly be filled without immigration!
Fruit and vegetables are rotting in the fields due to the lack of suitable personnel to harvest them. Brits themselves seem not to want to do this kind of work and in the past the pickers have been mainly eastern Europeans who were entitled to come here as EU citizens. Now the conservatives have screwed that up completely, they are not allowed to come so farmers and market gardeners are losing millions due to the in their inability to recruit pickers.
It's a mystery to me what the complete imbeciles interviewed think could be a solution to this issue it's pretty blindingly obvious that the only solution is immigration but they hate that – idiots
Good - his only possible useful contribution to a GE would be to suck right-wing & fascist votes away from the tories and although I would dearly love to see that happen, it is insufficient compensation for having to listen to the utter bollox that that arsehole spouts!
Completely private dentistry is the ultimate goal of the tory filth.
The current contract for NHS dentists is a joke and it is not surprising that dentists are fleeing in their thousands.
The only way you can run a healthcare system that includes dentistry is on a "pay per item of treatment" basis. This is what all our European neighbours do and it works well and this is the way UK NHS dentistry was organised when the NHS was founded.
There was an organisation called the Dental Estimates Board (later name changed to the Dental Practice Board) in Eastbourne that processed the claims for payment by dentists in England and Wales. This employed over 2000 people at its height, making it Eastbourne's largest employer, however computerisation substantially reduced the numbers needed to process claims for payment.
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
