Then it shouldn’t survive. It’s not clawing the funds back from Macquarie shareholders, who got paid the funds that should have been used on infrastructure repairs is it?
My favourite local Chinese takeaway has stickers on the menu saying the prices aren’t accurate, presumably because they got a big batch printed and don’t fancy binning them. As they don’t have an online presence, you have to order by phone or in person, so you never know how much it’s going to cost. Despite this, they are always run off their feet as the food is a level above the competitions - the salt and pepper siu mai are divine.
I mean I get that prices have gone up, but it's not difficult or costly these days to print out correct pricing for accurate up to date, in store menus, should someone call in for an order, remind them over the phone prices have changed, and tell them what each item will cost when they order it, anything other is shady as fuck, no matter how good the food is, it would probably annoy me to the point of going elsewhere. Probably. Unless they sold huge old school new york take out egg rolls as big as half your arm, if they did that I'd turn my pockets inside out until lint fell out.
Its around £9 for fish and chips near me. So you multiply it by say, 5 ,for the number of people and you’re spending 45 quid on just fish and chips (scraps might be included)
It’s nearly the same for me, depending on what offers Dominos have that week.
We tend to mostly get Chinese takeaways now because it comes out at almost the same price as fish and chips but with a lot more variety. Even just a portion of chips from the chippy is pricey now.
Well we’ve done nothing to prepare for the next pandemic, we’ve had proof that in crisis people will fight each other before they’ll pull together to help, our social systems continue to be dismantled for profit, everyone except the all-powerful ultra-rich is struggling to afford to live, owning a home is an unattainable dream, education is more expensive and than ever and doesn’t guarantee any employment result, the world is creeping closer to war, fascists are on the march everywhere, minorities are being blamed and threatened for the sins of the rich, and the planet is being destroyed at a rate that makes this generation’s prospects look like mostly starvation and war. Maybe young people aren’t too stupid to notice some of this?
I was seriously appalled with how quick people were to turn on each other during the pandemic. It’s one thing to bitch about people with different politics than yours but quite another to grass up your neighbours for minor infractions. Also the kind of open jingoism between counties/regions during tier-system phase. It made me realise what it must have been like in the soviet union. Shocking to see our own capacity for that.
It’s been over £10 everywhere I’ve been for many years. Just haven’t been able to justify it, especially when they skimp out on the chips ¯\(ツ)/¯
I’m not a child, but my anxiety levels during the actual pandemic were at my lowest ever (working from home, no annoying socializing, I’m kind of a shut-in). Now, though, they’re definitely higher than before, if only because I experienced how I could be in an ideal way before it was taken away.
People were actually mindful. We had weekly applause for caregivers (an empty gesture, just pay those people correctly dammit) and now we’re, well, not back to usual but much worse than before).
I’m especially bothered with the realization of how little regard many of our fellow citizens actually have for others health and well-being. I don’t know how eager i am to return to a society that can’t even agree on diseases being a bad thing.
Totally agree about the empty gestures too, which really stood as a reminder of how little respect healthcare workers (and don’t forget funeral directors and morticians!) actually get especially considering how much they risk for everyone else’s sake
It started as a touching tribute to thank the people in the health service for their bravery and hard work. It then got jumped on by politicians and other arseholes as performative virtuousness, and eventually we had NIgel Farage smugly tapping his saucepan, at which point it became an insult.
It seems so distant now. To say that we learned nothing from the experience is not quite right. The people in charge learned that even brief glimpses of a better life have to be brutally stamped out to stop the drones getting uppity. Hence the push for return to office, abolition of LTNs, and the ridiculous histeria over 20MPH zones - anything that improves the lives of ordinary people must be stopped.
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