Enjoy It...

...because none of us will ever see its like again. Congratulations, ma'am, and thanks for the lifelong service.

Rewatchable TV June: Buffy The Vampire Slayer

I remember when this series was first suggested, and - yes Reader, I'd seen the original film - I couldn't figure out why anyone thought it would be a successful series. Well, I was wrong.  

An incredible seven seasons later, it bowed out, having catapaulted Joss Whedon to super-stardom (though not too many of its stars) and spawned an equally successful spin-off series 

It's true that some of its episodes were stinkers, but others were sublime. My favourite was always this one:

 

Because No-One Other Than Ethnic Minorities Do This...

A majority of women of colour felt they needed to hide their identity at work in some way, with more than 60% modifying their language, hairstyle, clothes or diet in order to fit in.

Yes, it's another useless report by the usual suspects, the Fawcett Society (who - to the best of my knowledge - are doing their best to ignore the real issues facing women), and the Runnymede Trust.

More than half of Muslim and black African women said they had changed the clothes they wore at work, while a quarter of those with Indian heritage said they had changed their name.

Do they really think other women - and men - don't do the same? Are they unaware that very, very few people don't change the way they dress and speak and behave when at work? 

The research also found persistent obstacles to career progression, with more than half of women of colour reporting discrimination in the application or interview process and 42% saying they were passed over for promotion.

Was there any evidence that this wasn't simply their perception?  

The report calls on the government to force companies with more than 50 employees to publish ethnicity pay gap data, which it has resisted, leading to accusations that it lacks the “will or care” to create a fairer and more equal society.

How would this do that? Wouldn't it just provide more fuel for the grievance indus...oh, I see.

Hopefully, since we have a conservative government, these idiots will be put firmly back in their box? 

Responding to the findings, Caroline Nokes, the Conservative chair of the women and equalities committee, called for “positive action from the government”.

*sighs* 

Wow, Technology's So Advanced These Days!

...you can punch someone over the phone now!

Staff are facing unprecedented assaults, abuse and aggression by patients, with surgeries struggling to cope with “unmanageable levels of demand” after years of failure to recruit or retain sufficient numbers of family doctors.

It's not entirely the failure of recruitment, is it, though...it's the failure of doctors during the two years of lockdown to treat their patients as people, and not walking disease vectors to be avoided at all costs!

Security measures such as CCTV, panic buttons and screens at reception are now increasingly being rolled out across GP surgeries, the Guardian has learned, with senior medics claiming ministers perpetuate a myth that services are “closed”.

Wait, what? Make up your minds - why are patients flocking to surgeries they believe are closed to kick Dr Findlay in the nuts?  

Richard Van Mellaerts, a GP in Kingston upon Thames and an executive officer for the BMA’s GP committee, said... “Some sections of the media have driven a view that general practice was closed during the pandemic, which is of course the opposite of the truth. Unfortunately, that opinion has been adopted by some people, and that’s been a driver for some of the aggression. That’s not been adequately quashed by the government, which could have taken the opportunity to be more supportive of general practice.”

Technically, they weren't completely closed, no, but boy, did the majority of them make it absolutely as difficult as possible to get seen. 

Insisting, like my surgery, on no walk-ins, keeping the door closed and insisting patients rang the bell to be seen (when one of the lard-arse receptionists could bother to stop chatting away to her chum in the next seat and waddle over to open the door a crack to a freezing pensioner who'd been standing there for 10 minutes). 

And yes, Dickie old chum, I witnessed this first hand!

Richard Vautrey, a GP in Leeds and former chair of the BMA’s GP committee, said the officially recorded crimes of violence were only “the tip of a much, much bigger iceberg” of the incidents occurring in general practice. Staff are now facing “often daily abuse”, he said.

I'm not in the least surprised. I'm not the type to physically assault someone, but point out in print how much I despise the lazy, cowardly, uncaring GPs at my local surgery, and how I wouldn't micturate on them if they were on fire? 

Yup, that I can do! So there's another 'incident' for your stats...

Tweet Of The Month

 

Post Title Of The Month

Fahrenheit211 celebrates a departure:

Quote Of The Month

DumbJon on the modern Tory Party:

"Back to my usual point: if the cuckservatives really were all about electability, well, here's a £1,000 note lying on the ground that none of them want to pick it up. Kicking these entitled snooty prats to the kerb would do more for the Tories electoral prospects than any number of fine-tuned facebook ads and cutesy slogans. But no, they won't do it. "

Post Of The Month

Bill Sticker on the madness of the modern world.

Better Tighten Our Belts Then...

Almost £60,000 has been spent on kennelling and vet bills for dogs seized by Dorset Police over the past three years, a freedom of information request has revealed.

The request, which was sent by the Dorset Echo, also uncovered that over the past three years a total of 36 dogs were seized of which 13 were disposed or euthanised by the force.

...and start shooting them immediately. The taxpayer can't afford anything else.  

The original freedom of information (FOI) request stated that it was unknown how many dogs were seized by Dorset Police in 2019 but later it was uncovered that figure was four. In 2020 that figure came out at 17 and then 15 for 2021.

Now imagine this multiplied by all the other forces.  

For the 2020-21 financial year the FOI also originally stated £0 was spent on kennelling and vet bills but this figure later transpired to be more than £6,000.

The figure for kennelling and vet bills in 2021 up until March 10 of the current year was more than £20,000 greater than the previous year at £27,362, compared with the approximate £6,500 in 2020-21.

Wait until the dogs bought during lockdown and never trained or socialised start hitting the streets... 

I Guess It's Futile To Expect Him To Know The 9th Commandment...

Justin Welby criticised online platforms for giving people ‘a very loud voice’ and creating colliding ‘waves’ of opinions.

The only voice should be yours, eh, Justin? 

How very dare the hoi-polloi have opinions, especially when they are about you:

And how dare people have a voice to speak out about what you are doing to destroy Christian heritage: 

You know what to do, don't you, Justin?

The utter hypocrisy of this creature posing as a man of God proves there's no god, because if there were, he'd be vaporised the next time he set foot across the threshold.