Diluted Dante wrote:

Fucking hell, the council take every opportunity to show that they are terrible fucking human beings. I mean, this entire article, but specifically this bit at the end in relation to th rent issue:

Responding to these claims, Faulks said: “Oh come on. I’m not saying it’s a tiny thing, for them it’s a huge thing and its very upsetting. “But the council are in the process of trying to house 400 people. They’ve got people in hotels. They’ve put a social worker for every single family who is triaging them into a wraparound service. “I’m sorry to hear that happened, but that person will have a one person connection to go to to explain that’s happened to sort out.”

The Beeb only reported that last line. Sounds terrible with the rest of his words next to it. 

Is this a systematic oversight with many being charged or is this one or two residents, which is within the scope of human error?

The greatest letter ever published in the Financial Times.

Edit:  Suddenly seems to have a paywall over it.  So here it is:

Sir, I see from your Big Read article “Braced for the fall” (July 5) that the pro-Brexit wing of the Conservative party are to be known as “fuckers”, while they describe their opponents as “wankers”.Surely this rhetoric inverts the truth? It is the Europhobes who shut themselves away in self-gratifying fantasies, while the Remainers know that real life is possible only through interaction with others.

Woman at work said today that she only voted Brexit because of what Germany were like in the 2nd World War, something she said she had no direct experience of 'but people before me in my family did'. I mean, JFC.

I fired her of course.

It's precisely why a referendum is a car crash.

General Elections for better or worse, siphon idiots like this out of the decision making process.

So G20.
Trump and Putin must be patting each other on the back with Trump visibly beaming: mission accomplished! Thanks for the help Vlad, luv ya bro. No doubt they had a lot of catching up to do.

Meanwhile the UK gets sidelined because of Brexit and an uncertain future.

Holiday and second homes are a real big problem in Cornwall, but this is a bit... extreme...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4677520/Cornish-terror-group-says-SUICIDE-attacker.html

(It is the Daily Mail though, so more than a pinch of salt is no doubt required)

Rick's Hot-Fishy Wreckers.

Most of the grockles are coming from the Wycliffes of Dover, though.

That's because you're a grockle.

dynamiteReady wrote:

Tragic story this one - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3987968/greenford-boy-dies-allergic-reaction-at-school-london/

Yeah, utterly tragic.  I suspect the kid who did it probably hadn't really understood he was going to kill him.

One of my daughter's friends is someone who's "allergic to everything" as she puts it.  To the degree that the school canteen has had to stop selling a whole bunch of things because of the level of risk.  The boy in question's had anaphylactic shock 3 times in school alone.  (The kids are now incredible with him, and have administered his Epipen for him on the last 2 occasions.)

It's been a bit of an eye opener for them, as a lot of children just seem to think "allergy" means "doesn't really like".  (My daughter is, herself, very badly allergic to nuts, and carries an Epipen with her wherever she goes.  Though luckily, probably in part because of the school's approach to this other child, she hasn't needed it.)

Yossarian wrote:

My daughter is, herself, very badly allergic to nuts.

This interests me. Unless I'm mistaken, the current medical advice is that it's good to feed babies nut-based products (if not whole nuts because of the choking hazard) in order to help them avoid allergies when they are older. When your daughter was a baby, were you following the earlier advice to avoid feeding her nuts or did you feed her peanut butter but she still developed an allergy?

To be honest, we didn't really worry about it enormously one way or the other.  The advice at the time was that they thought nuts under 1 might cause allergies, but they weren't really certain.  We took the view that no-one really knew and so just fed her whatever was to hand.  Which, on reflection, probably means she didn't get any nuts as we certainly didn't actively grind them up for her dinner, and neither of us is desperately keen on peanut butter.  I suspect that, had the advice been as it is now, we might have actively promoted her having some - but of course there's no way of knowing whether it would have made a difference.

Her first allergic reaction was when she was when she was 2.  She had managed to nab a praline chocolate from the coffee table at my Dad's house, and promptly started swelling up like the Michelin Man.  Its subsequently turned out that she's allergic to pretty much anything with the word "nut" in the name.  So all nuts do it, as do peanuts and coconut too.  (We had formal allergy testing, rather than experimenting with them all!)

A former housemate of mine is allergic to lemons, which is fun, as they're in lots of cleaning products.

She once leaned on the counter which had been cleaned the day before , and within minutes was bright red and swelling up.

I meant tell the allergy so it can stop reacting to coconut. A quick Wikipedia article and your daughter will be able to enjoy Bounty bars.

Bounty is upper tier chocolate bar.

Double decker is top tier chock.