I can list a handful of friends right now who have never needed the hospital. May never need it as they are luckier than I with their health. Not a single one of them has any objection to paying the NI as they are all aware that they have friends and family who may well need the NHS and at some point, they too might…

Aye and I personally would be happy to contribute more. Even if I never use it again, just having it there for those who need it is worth the cost.

Not really. Aside from some stuff when I was a baby and the recent stuff, I’ve not needed the hospital. I’ve gone thirty odd years without needing them and the end is in sight for the current health issues. With changes in lifestyle and managing my issues, I will likely (touch wood) not need the hospital again for a…

Best part of the UK healthcare system and the thing I love to point out to my American FB friends who try to shit all over us because they are all Trumpists. My dad had stage 4 lung cancer and was treated successfully for two years without once having to start cooking meth to pay for his treatment.
My step-mother,…

Fairly sure, I would be dead without ever seeing a hospital. I know that it would be cheaper to have a life insurance policy and ensure my kids are left the money when I die, rather than try to pay for US treatment.

It’s not even about caring for your fellow man. It’s simply knowing that you are paying less than you would for private insurance and paying into a great big pot that means, yes others might dip into it when they have need, but so can you... because everyone else is paying into the pot too.

Aye, I hear them saying that all the time on the pages they link and comment on. “I’m not paying for everyone else’s healthcare when they can’t be bothered working.” and so on. It’s nauseatingly short sighted.

Reading this, as a UK resident, I can only shake my head in disbelief. Since last year, I have had a number of health issues all no doubt due to hitting 40 and my body deciding that the previous 20 years of ill use were enough.
I’ve had cameras in three orifices, and due for two of those orifices to receive cameras…

Another 7 years of him yet. Yes, 7, because the Democrats can’t stop playing the same games that cost them the election last time. They need to make changes or he will win again... and they won’t.

It’s also used in, “this car is knackered,” meaning broken, buggered, fucked in general. It’s fairly well known to mean fucked in my part of the UK, as in, this country is knackered.

But we ain’t got Trump as our leader, so you’re still more screwed than us. :)

That’s the general tone yeah. All the articles today are about why didn’t they just give all the awards to women. How demeaning to those women.

Gets me through the day.

Aye, I do read them and the comments too. There’s a lot of hate on both those sites and you can try to pretend there isn’t as much as you like, doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

Wouldn’t know to be honest. Haven’t watched the Grammys circle jerk or listened to much current music. Unless one of my daughters plays something, I wouldn’t know what is popular these days at all.

Ask Isha or better yet, nip over to Jezebel or the Root. Plenty of hate for people based on race and gender in those places. Can’t see the point myself, I’m way too lazy to use my energy hating people. Bland indifference is the best you’ll get from me. ;)

Haha, like with Trump being a shitty candidate, it says a lot about the others that this shitty song and that shitty guy still won.

sorry.. not a fan of either, but that struck me as quite amusing. If I were either Clinton or Kesha, I would be pissed that something shitty beat me.

Fairly sure Isha was dragged kicking and screaming from Jezebel and resents the hell out of it, so has to write nonsense like this just to get that man hate out of her system.

Why? Because they have a different opinion to you? Because they aren’t toeing the party line and beating their chest while wailing about how unfair the world is to those multi-millionaire women who should just get the damn awards because they are women dammit!

Yep, a little confused by these cries of “combat sexism by only giving awards to women!” which... is, well, yeah.