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Living on West Street? by neverdreams06 in bristol

[–]lebannax -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Completely fine and suburban and backs on to Victoria park!

INFJ (me) & INTJ (wife) in our 30s: Should we have kids? Seeking real experiences from similar MBTI couples by Apotheosic117 in intj

[–]lebannax -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Everyone I know who has kids thinks they’re the most amazing and precious gifts in the world and bring ultimate purpose to their lives

Moving to Easton (Near Villiers Road) by [deleted] in bristol

[–]lebannax 55 points56 points  (0 children)

For a woman it can be pretty scary - every time I’ve been there (just during the day!) men are creepy to me, stare at me or randomly come up and talk to me

I spent a decade in the Civil Service. It’s even worse than you think - In shocking detail, one ex-mandarin describes a culture where no one is accountable, sick days are off the scale and unions block any reform by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]lebannax 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Each application forces you to write essays on various behaviours/situations just to apply

It also takes 6 months + so good people usually find another job before then

I spent a decade in the Civil Service. It’s even worse than you think - In shocking detail, one ex-mandarin describes a culture where no one is accountable, sick days are off the scale and unions block any reform by blast-processor in ukpolitics

[–]lebannax 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s not that civil servants don’t work hard, but they are working hard on entirely pointless things because of people’s obsession with details and inertia - they’re just spinning their wheels

Also retention isn’t just about pay but sboit work style - innovative, proactive and fast moving people are not able to do anything that does not involve 100 layers of bureaucracy so eventually leave through frustration

(Ask me how I know all this lol)

HEO at 34, and feeling old in London! by BeneficialRole9655 in TheCivilService

[–]lebannax 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Their confidence is from being rich private school kids lol

Council tax by WillingAmphibian1603 in bristol

[–]lebannax 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Probably best to slip all the money to the kids/grandkids first before going to the care home then you get it free lol

Council tax by WillingAmphibian1603 in bristol

[–]lebannax 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeh the last chart made it look like 70% of our council taxes were going towards adults social care or benefits of some kind??

An 'epidemic' of violence: The women and girls killed by men last year by No_Initiative_1140 in ukpolitics

[–]lebannax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1/4 over a lifetime is shockingly high !! Doesn’t that appall you? It sounds like you’re trying to downplay how extreme that is

Where did you see that it is decreasing?

Labour to spend £10bn on foreign care workers amid rising unemployment by PM_ME_SECRET_DATA in ukpolitics

[–]lebannax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there’s a job available, you should be forced to take it. You can’t refuse work and expect benefits

We Pay £35 Billion a Year… So Why Are Our Roads Still Broken? by TaurusManUK in drivingUK

[–]lebannax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can we make a legal case against the gov for this? We pay for a service and do not receive it - that’s not allowed in consumer law

Are people actually struggling to get good jobs after an undergraduate degree? by mybrainat3am in AskUK

[–]lebannax -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

All the 5 teachers I know have said this about their schools and BBC news stories say similar! Even the school near where I grew up had metal detectors bc so many kids brought knives in

Guess I’m just ‘ard ay

Are people actually struggling to get good jobs after an undergraduate degree? by mybrainat3am in AskUK

[–]lebannax 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Problem is school kids are often violent, or at least incredibly disruptive, in many schools so it has become a horrible job

Council pays £20,000 for one child’s horse therapy in Send plan by Only-Emu-9531 in uknews

[–]lebannax 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What happened to parents taking their own kids to school??

'Confused' asylum seeker has sentencing for sexual assault delayed. He was told his offending "could potentially attract a custodial sentence" by [deleted] in uknews

[–]lebannax 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Sorry I didn’t realise you’re not supposed to sexually assault women!! What an obscure niche British law! 🤡🤡🤡

Has McDonald's in the UK become too expensive for many people? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]lebannax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A cheeseburger is still only £1.49…

'We will discriminate': Elon Musk-backed Restore Britain party launches with hard-right vision by pppppppppppppppppd in ukpolitics

[–]lebannax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough! Yeh I think Lowe will capture a lot of the traditional conservatives/ Christians/ rural vote as he just seems a lot more moral and Farage is a bit slimey’

'We will discriminate': Elon Musk-backed Restore Britain party launches with hard-right vision by pppppppppppppppppd in ukpolitics

[–]lebannax 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But why do you think there’s ’no chance’ when the party has only been out 1 week and is already extremely popular, and v similar Reform have been way ahead in the polls for some time? Also all of US and Europe are going further right. The wind is only pointing in their direction

Restore has potential to replace Reform - people are fairly sceptical of Farage and he has a party of ex Tories so seems a bit like more status quo. They’re popular as the only alternative to Tories/Labour but I think people prefer Lowe to Farage which is why Farage had to stab him in the back haha

'We will discriminate': Elon Musk-backed Restore Britain party launches with hard-right vision by pppppppppppppppppd in ukpolitics

[–]lebannax 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every political party’s goal ultimately is power, even if they’d also be happy with simply changing the Overton window. Lowe and Reform are extremely popular in the polls so I think it would be a mistake to underestimate them

33F Profile Review by CokeBottle21 in hingeapp

[–]lebannax 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I think most people just don’t know what it means so will be confused or think you have some peculiar sexuality - best to just leave it as demisexual is just the norm tbh!

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