Scott Goody

[Scott Goody @Scott_Goody]

@PetsatHome I cannot see/enter/update any of my details in the app OR your website.

I cannot get anyone in Live Chat to talk to me. (I can provide a transcript if you would like)

Can you propose another method to resolve this please?

[Scott Goody @Scott_Goody]

@PetsatHome I have been waiting 56 mins in Live Chat now. After 41 mins a colleague messaged, then I was reconnected and after a further 6 mins a new chat began with a new colleague. It's now been 11 mins since my last message from them.

Extremely poor service.

[Scott Goody @Scott_Goody]

@PetsatHome Any alternative method available for solving issues other than your "Live Chat"?

I'm having major issues with you app and website in addition to this.

[Scott Goody @Scott_Goody]

@TheRestHistory Can we get an episode (or at least a brief mention) explaining why San Marino is independent from Italy to celebrate their historic international football victory?

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵

1. All roads lead to Rome

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

This is a truly incredible speech by the great Tony Benn that I’d recommend everyone watch.

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[Scott Goody @Scott_Goody]

Nice one Bobby.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Wow.

Here’s Robert De Niro’s full statement about how Donald Trump should NEVER be president again:

“I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty.

Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly.

I see an evil one.

Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong. 

Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped.

Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them.

We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego.  We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.  We tried to warn the world in 2016.

The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination.  Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world.

We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags.

The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior.  That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse.

Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously.

So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America:
This is our last chance.

Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator.

And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided.

So what do we do about it?  I know I’m preaching to the choir here.  What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.   We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House. 

They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice.  Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them.

Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.  Let’s not talk about “democracy.”  “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it. 

Let’s talk about right and wrong.  Let’s talk about humanity. 

Let’s talk about kindness.  Security for our world. 

Safety for our families. 

Decency. 

Let’s welcome them back. 

We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”

[Scott Goody @Scott_Goody]

Sadly I'm selling my ticket to https://t.co/0Vk82lMIbl

Tickets are currently priced £27, but selling mine for £22.

Let me know if YOU want it.

[Scott Goody @Scott_Goody]

Not often I literally burst out laughing when I’m in private, but you got me.

[Shehab Khan @ShehabKhan]

Lee Anderson MP, former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party: "I'm pretty sure that coal 100 million years ago was trees and plants.. it was, well I would argue that's sustainable."

[90s Football @90sfootball]

Brian Clough on socialism.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

This is simply superb from @vicderbyshire. An absolutely sublime masterclass in how UK media should be holding these truth twisters to account

[Scott Goody @Scott_Goody]

Where on earth are these police coming from?! Excellent and warranted call out video.

[TizzyEnt @TizzyEnt]

A father in Columbus OH called police to report a child predator, they instead blamed his 11 year old daughter

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

BREAKING 🚨: NASA reports the Parker Solar Probe has just flown through an eruption from the Sun

[Scott Goody @Scott_Goody]

You know when you watch something and you start to wonder… Have I really done anything with my life… ever?

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This is wow

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

The Prime Minister’s LBC interview was filled with enough bull**** to fertilize an entire field. If like me you think the public deserve the actual FACTS RT this widely.

If UK media can’t get the job done let’s do it ourselves

[Scott Goody @Scott_Goody]

I’m not sure if I am impressed or scared by this.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Japanese High School students demonstrating 'Shuudan Koudou', the art of synchronized precision walking

[Scott Goody @Scott_Goody]

@HumansNoContext Dwayne “The Barrack” Johnson

[Scott Goody @Scott_Goody]

Oh to be, as care free… as this

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

https://t.co/9WmDTPutcX