What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)
Discussion
carlo996 said:
captain_cynic said:
You mean the woman who he paid to sleep with him and didn't do anything until he was charged with fraud to do with paying her off to keep silent about how he cheated on his wife.
Aside from everything you wrote, you were spot on.
So no resposibility on her part whatsoever then. Tell me. Has she gone after the other men who paid to sleep with her...or didn't they have millions of reasons to do so Aside from everything you wrote, you were spot on.
Pair of them are morally bankrupt individuals, but singling out one over the other is wrong.
bodhi said:
Short Grain said:
bodhi said:
If you're after a detailed discussion of the case itself you probably are as this isn't really the thread for it - I'm told there's one in NPE where you can find deep discussion and popular opinions on it to your heart's content.
However political prosecutions do make me deeply uncomfortable for reasons stated, and I'm struggling to see how they help an already massively divided country. Guess we just have to wait to see how the appeal goes.
Please Bodhi, just tell us how it was politically motivated! It was a gift to the Democrats, or could be, but show us where and when the Dems brought the case against the Orange Orangutan! Please!However political prosecutions do make me deeply uncomfortable for reasons stated, and I'm struggling to see how they help an already massively divided country. Guess we just have to wait to see how the appeal goes.
The question was HOW it is politically motivated. You've just said WHY you think it's politically motivated.
carlo996 said:
So no resposibility on her part whatsoever then. Tell me. Has she gone after the other men who paid to sleep with her...or didn't they have millions of reasons to do so
Pair of them are morally bankrupt individuals, but singling out one over the other is wrong.
The other men didn't send a newspaper after her... Nor have they been ina court case where she was requires to testify...Pair of them are morally bankrupt individuals, but singling out one over the other is wrong.
Nor did she actually go after trump. It was the other way around.
Spot on except for everything you wrote again.
J77wck said:
The NHS is not underfunded, because it's government run nobody can be held accountable.
The management are NHS, not Whitehall employees. Whilst it's true they have plenty of money and spend it poorly, the fault lays with the NHS itself for that. Government supplies only money and targets, not day-to-day management.hidetheelephants said:
CalMac should be liquidated and the ferries run by Western or some other commercial ship manager; route planning and replacement vessels should be decided by professionals with input from island residents rather than some pluke in Holyrood.
admittedly i've only used calmac maybe 10 times but to me they always come over as quite a well run company...J77wck said:
The NHS is not underfunded, because it's government run nobody can be held accountable.
Read an article basically the NHS is getting more money yet treating yes. So there is a black hole of people basically not doing a lot. Another gravy train like councils that will have to get addressed.mickythefish said:
Read an article basically the NHS is getting more money yet treating yes. So there is a black hole of people basically not doing a lot. Another gravy train like councils that will have to get addressed.
Was it this one, from 2022?https://ifs.org.uk/news/nhs-2022-more-funding-more...
Some explanation given here;
https://nhsproviders.org/news-blogs/news/ifs-repor...
There are definitely issues. My operation was cancelled at the last minute (i.e. in the anaesthetic room, all wired up and ready for lights out) because there wasn't a bed for me to go to. Imagine the cost of that, surgeon, anaesthetist, theatre nurses, all stood down at the last minute because someone they had expected to discharge hadn't been able to go. My mother had been on the same ward a couple of months earlier, and had been kept in an additional 24 hours because pharmacy hadn't been able to sort her (admittedly complex) meds for discharge. And then you have beds blocked because non-NHS services are failing and there's nowhere safe to discharge people to. Running too close to capacity seems pretty inefficient.
captain_cynic said:
The other men didn't send a newspaper after her... Nor have they been ina court case where she was requires to testify...
Nor did she actually go after trump. It was the other way around.
Spot on except for everything you wrote again.
Defending someone who accepted both having sex with an orange relic, and taking over a hundred grand.Nor did she actually go after trump. It was the other way around.
Spot on except for everything you wrote again.
You’re not big on details are you?
otolith said:
Was it this one, from 2022?
https://ifs.org.uk/news/nhs-2022-more-funding-more...
Some explanation given here;
https://nhsproviders.org/news-blogs/news/ifs-repor...
There are definitely issues. My operation was cancelled at the last minute (i.e. in the anaesthetic room, all wired up and ready for lights out) because there wasn't a bed for me to go to. Imagine the cost of that, surgeon, anaesthetist, theatre nurses, all stood down at the last minute because someone they had expected to discharge hadn't been able to go. My mother had been on the same ward a couple of months earlier, and had been kept in an additional 24 hours because pharmacy hadn't been able to sort her (admittedly complex) meds for discharge. And then you have beds blocked because non-NHS services are failing and there's nowhere safe to discharge people to. Running too close to capacity seems pretty inefficient.
Can't find the article but ft talks about. Which is why when politicians say recruit more it is bs it won't fix the issues. https://ifs.org.uk/news/nhs-2022-more-funding-more...
Some explanation given here;
https://nhsproviders.org/news-blogs/news/ifs-repor...
There are definitely issues. My operation was cancelled at the last minute (i.e. in the anaesthetic room, all wired up and ready for lights out) because there wasn't a bed for me to go to. Imagine the cost of that, surgeon, anaesthetist, theatre nurses, all stood down at the last minute because someone they had expected to discharge hadn't been able to go. My mother had been on the same ward a couple of months earlier, and had been kept in an additional 24 hours because pharmacy hadn't been able to sort her (admittedly complex) meds for discharge. And then you have beds blocked because non-NHS services are failing and there's nowhere safe to discharge people to. Running too close to capacity seems pretty inefficient.
https://www.ft.com/content/69ffd8e2-eb4a-4c01-98cb-436dbc8ddc5b
"So you have a mix of staff that now is more skewed towards junior members of staff, who can therefore do less,” he said. There had been considerably more “churn” in NHS ranks in the past few years, he added."
....
"NHS in England has 11 per cent more nurses, 10 per cent more consultants and 16 per cent more junior doctors than pre-pandemic"
Basically it is a mess.
The D-day 80th Anniversary should have had the likes of Putin invited as a call for world peace rather than being used as an excuse for further war mongering.
Listening to some of the speeches, it feels like the losses of the time have been long forgotten and those poor people who gave so much really did it for nothing.
What's more, the subsequent successes of operation Overload were significantly helped by the Russians own offensive shortly after under operation Bagration which saw the largest German losses of the entire war, forcing the Germans to try to defend against 2 major fronts.
I imagine the fact that a lot of the success of Bagration came about as as a result of Russia's occupation of Ukraine at the time might now be seen as an uncomfortable historical fact.
Listening to some of the speeches, it feels like the losses of the time have been long forgotten and those poor people who gave so much really did it for nothing.
What's more, the subsequent successes of operation Overload were significantly helped by the Russians own offensive shortly after under operation Bagration which saw the largest German losses of the entire war, forcing the Germans to try to defend against 2 major fronts.
I imagine the fact that a lot of the success of Bagration came about as as a result of Russia's occupation of Ukraine at the time might now be seen as an uncomfortable historical fact.
Edited by Pistom on Friday 7th June 07:02
carlo996 said:
epom said:
williamp said:
How about this opinion:
Trump was the victim of blackmail and extorsion.
And a second opinion: Because its Trump, most people are Ok with, and even celebrating this fact.
I’m ok with it. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but the small handed Fat Orange one has plenty wrongs to his name so yeah I’m cool with it to be honest. Trump was the victim of blackmail and extorsion.
And a second opinion: Because its Trump, most people are Ok with, and even celebrating this fact.
Countdown said:
It should be legal to have as many wives or husbands as you want.
Marriage should be banned. It is a pointless contract, that complicates life. And I say this as someone who has survived 34 years of marriage and its ups and downs. One of my neices seems to have it sussed. Got engaged 5 years and hasn't yet set a date and probably never will.
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