So we decided not to bother buying Christmas gifts for our newborn because he doesn't even know he has hands yet and we have enough baby stuff as it is but I did go Christmas shopping for our dogs because they believe in Santa so basically that's where we are right now.
The privileged sneeringly criticising WASPI women for not planning & preparing for their retirement reveals they haven’t a clue about the challenges working class women face.
Some women hold down 2-3 jobs to make ends meet while running a home, raising a family…
If Keir Starmer had said before the election that he would remove the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners, add inheritance to family farms, council tax & energy price increases, raise university tuition fees, plaster mass-scale solar panels on thousands of acres of prime farmland despite huge local community objections, spaff £22bn of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines, give £3bn a year of taxpayers’ money to Ukraine, pledge a 20% cut in meat & dairy and get exposed for receiving over £100,000 worth of freebies - he almost certainly wouldn’t have won. He duped the electorate. An utterly shameless display of snake oil political salesmanship. And still he lectures all of us in that gratingly sanctimonious manner of his like we are all somehow the problem here.
Shoutout to everyone who remembers going to the video shop on a Friday night to rent a VHS tape. You’d take the empty box of the popular new film up to the counter and they’d shock you by saying all the copies were out. “Well why is this box on the shelf then?” Then you’d end up with some film you’d never heard of, based purely on the cover looking interesting, and it’d end up being absolutely terrible. Great times.
If conversations with friends were 100% honest:
“Hey, shall we just cancel meeting up tonight?“
“Yes, that would be wonderful, I really want to see you but I’m quite tired and I love getting into my pyjamas by 6pm at the latest”
“Great, me too. Phew!”
“I was just working up the nerve to suggest it myself, to be honest”
“I’m happy to continue just exchanging WhatsApps now and then, if that’s okay? Mainly funny memes and news stories… and let’s still remember to wish each other happy birthday, either by text or on Facebook”
“Sounds good. Well, let’s make plans to cancel meeting up again soon”
“I’ll not make a note in my diary”
“Lovely, see you never!”
“Bye!”