Jeff (Ninepenneth) 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Fighting to end the cruel & unjustifable impoverishment and unfair punishment of Britain's 'frozen' pensioners abroad.
#EndFrozenBritishPensions

[Jeff (Ninepenneth) 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ninepenneth]

@guardian @DrAyshaRaza Already on the bottom of of the OECD list of how countries treat their pensioners. Can you get any lower than FREEZING one of the lowest pension of the "civilised" world??🔰

[Travel Hiking View @hikingview]

Athabasca Falls in Jasper National Park, Canada 🇨🇦

[France Safety Travel @francesafetytra]

When the Paris metro opened on July 19, 1900, it offered two classes of travel from day one. Second-class passengers sat on hard wooden benches. First-class passengers sat on leather seats and paid 50% more for the privilege.

For most of the 20th century, this was standard. The two classes were color-coded: red cars for first class, green for second. The class number was marked on the seats and the windows. First-class cars stopped in the middle of the platform; second-class cars filled either end.

During the German occupation of World War II, the class system took on a darker dimension. Jewish Parisians were banned from buying first-class tickets and were forced into the last car of the train. Some Parisians avoided first class altogether during those years, it was where the occupying soldiers rode.

After the Liberation, the RATP briefly abolished the two classes entirely in 1946, then quietly reinstated them two years later.

By 1982, the distinction had become almost symbolic. First class was restricted to the hours of 9am to 5pm only. Outside those hours, the car was open to anyone. In 1990, with 120 million monthly riders, only 21,000 first-class passes were sold, roughly one hundredth of one percent of total ridership.

On August 4, 1991, first class was officially abolished. Paris was the last capital city in the world to give it up.

[Tock @yvan_theriault]

Les retraiter

Les gens qui travaillent demandent souvent à ceux qui sont à la retraite ce qu'ils font dans la journée.

Et bien par exemple, l'autre jour avec mon mari, nous sommes allés en ville et nous sommes entrés dans un magasin.
Nous n'y sommes restés que 5 minutes.
Quand nous sommes sortis, un flic était en train de remplir une amende de stationnement.
Nous nous sommes approchés et lui avons demandé :
"Allez ! Vous feriez bien un petit geste envers des retraités ?"
Il nous a ignorés et a continué de remplir son ticket.
Je l'ai traité de gros porc.
Il m'a regardée et a commencé un autre ticket pour des pneus lisses.
Alors, mon mari l'a traité de roi des trous du cul.
Il a fini le deuxième ticket, l'a mis sous l'essuie-glace et en a commencé un troisième.
Ce petit manège a continué pendant 20 minutes, plus on l'insultait, plus il remplissait de contraventions !

Nous, on s'en fichait, on était venu en autobus !
Depuis notre retraite, nous essayons chaque jour de nous amuser un peu...
C'est important à notre âge 🤓

[Idiotocracy @theidiotocracy]

The RCMP announced a Greenbelt investigation in 2023.

It’s now 2026.

No charges. No public update. No explanation.

Ontarians don’t need a particular outcome.

We do deserve transparency.

What’s the status of the investigation?

#GreenbeltScandal #DougFord #ONpoli #RCMP

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I had to read this three times before I could believe it was real.

Rotherham. A small town in northern England.

For sixteen years, at least 1,400 children — some as young as eleven — were raped, gang-raped, and trafficked between cities by organized groups of men.

Eleven years old.
Petrol was poured on them so they would stay quiet.
Their families were threatened with death.
Photos were taken and used as blackmail.

The police knew.
The council knew.
The social workers knew.

For sixteen years, not one of them moved.

Why?
Because officers were afraid of being called racist if they acted on what they were seeing.
That was the whole reason.
While children were being sold, adults were protecting their own reputations.

That is the moment something in you breaks.

And here is the part that makes it worse.

The TV networks did not report it. The papers did not chase it.
When the journalist Andrew Norfolk finally broke the story, even he thought maybe 150 girls had been hurt.
The real number was 1,400.
He was staggered.

This should have been the biggest story of the decade. It was not.
The networks looked away. The advertisers preferred safer topics.
The cover-up did not end when the report was published — it continued in the silence of every newsroom that refused to chase it.

Then Elon Musk bought X.

The advertisers fled.
The press declared the platform finished.
X almost did not survive.

But it did.

And on X, the names of those towns started trending.
Rotherham.
Telford.
Rochdale.
Oldham.

Towns the country had been told to forget.

Britain understands itself differently today.
Not because the politicians confessed.
Not because the broadcasters apologized.
Because one platform refused to let it stay buried.

X almost did not survive.
1,400 children almost stayed forgotten.

That is worth saying out loud.

[It's Your Wales @ItsYourWales]

Stunning views at Pontypridd. Courtesy @EmmaLWales #Wales #WelshPassion

[Jeff (Ninepenneth) 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ninepenneth]

@CABP_News @analogcon And we "put into the system" didn't we? 👇🤷‍♂️
Fair play was what Britain WAS once renowned for. Now, it's disappeared, not a bit of it. 🥺

[#EndFrozenPensions Canada @CABP_News]

⚽ FIFA celebrates fair play on the world stage.

But for 400,000+ 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗨𝗞 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 worldwide, fair play is still missing.

Many paid into the UK system for decades, yet their pensions remain frozen simply because of where they live.

Time to end this unfair policy.

📢 Join the campaign:
🇨🇦 100,000+ affected in Canada
🌍 400,000+ affected worldwide

#EndFrozenPensions @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

Tensions ran high & frustrations were palpable at a TDSB parent budget meeting Tuesday night, where parents pressed for answers on hundreds of staff cuts and program reductions planned for this fall.

But the Ford government-appointed TDSB Supervisor didn’t answer questions during the meeting & declined an interview with me afterward. Watch:

[Mark Mattson @waterkeepermark]

The future of Toronto Harbour is being decided right now. Federal consultation closes July 24. Takes 8 minutes. The lake can’t speak for itself. You can. #Toronto @SwimDrinkFish https://t.co/Q5dTPs4y4x

[Jeff (Ninepenneth) 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ninepenneth]

@LifeAfloat I knew it! I knew it!
From your canoe trip around Scotland, your descriptions of Skye were poetic.
Best of British to you! 🙏

[Nick Ray @LifeAfloat]

I’m moving! This is the 50th move in my 62 years of living. (Not counting the thousands of nights I’ve spent camping when I’ve created a home wherever I’ve pitched my tent). This will be this last time I throw my belongings into cardboard boxes. I’ve found the home where my roots will dig deep and grip tightly. I envy those who have lived a settled life, in a community and place they’ve known all their lives. However, I value the experiences I’ve enjoyed in the many locations in the UK and Africa I’ve been fortunate to call home.

Isle of Skye - here I come!

[Jeff (Ninepenneth) 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ninepenneth]

@nikpet1 In Swansea we called them Prefabs. Families who had been bombed out when Swansea was blitzed, loved them.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

How gorgeous is this? Cruising my narrowboat along a London canal and these swans and their cygnets paddling alongside me. The cutest thing. (Apologies for dodgy camerawork as trying to steer my boat at the same time)

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

The teacher asked the class to use the word “fascinate” in a sentence.

Molly put up her hand and said, “My family went to my granddad’s farm, and we all saw his pet sheep. It was fascinating.”

The teacher said, “That was good, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate,’ not ‘fascinating.’”

Sally raised her hand. She said, “My family went to see Rock City and I was fascinated.”

The teacher said, “Well, that was good, Sally, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate.’”

Little Johnny raised his hand, but the teacher hesitated because she had been burned by him before. She finally decided there was no way he could damage the word “fascinate,” so she called on him.

Johnny said, “My aunt Carolyn has a sweater with ten buttons, but her tits are so big she can only fasten eight!”

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Have you heard of the Military Intelligence Museum?

It’s moving to one of Britain’s best-kept secrets: the London Tunnels.

Built to protect us during the Blitz and hidden for nearly 70 years - these mile-long tunnels are about to open to the public!

I’m proud to be an ambassador for this exciting project!

Follow: @mi_intel to stay up-to-date and show your support.

[Jeff (Ninepenneth) 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ninepenneth]

@Jdavis_Halton @CBS My daughter drove through Lowville yesterday evening on her way to Burlington. She told us "There's something bad going on in Lowville, there's all sorts of emergency vehicles there!!" 🥵
Thanks for the info, we can calm down now. 🥴

[Jeff (Ninepenneth) 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ninepenneth]

@GrannyWales Years ago, my sister lived here. I loved it as much as I loved the Mumbles Train journey to get there. ❤️

[susan metcalfe @GrannyWales]

Up Western Lane onto Mumbles Hill & down to Bracelet. The westerly wind was brisk (20mph) & it felt like resistance training walking back along the front! Light on the sea ❤️🌊

[Frank Brown @FrankBr05713205]

I teach auto shop at a small high school. We work on students cars, teachers cars, students parents cars and some community people cars. We only charge for parts and not labor, so we saved some people a lot of money last school year. This last school year we did 126 oil changes, 68 brake jobs, 85 alignments, 4 steering racks, 22 tune ups, 32 struts, 20 shock absorbers, 4 transfer cases, mounted and balanced 82 new tires, 4 timing chains, 15 valve cover gaskets, 14 thermostats, 4 radiators, 12 in tank fuel pumps, 8 EVAP canisters, 6 exhaust manifolds, 4 mufflers, 15 AC repairs including evacuate and recharge, 8 alternators, 22 batteries, 9 starters and so much more! Proud of those students I am!