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If enough people feel the way you do, this lot are destined for the wood chipper. Sunk is a nasty entitled clueless little shit, who needs to f*** off and spend more time with his money. Which he will surely do, piggybacking on his wife's American citizenship, to go 'home' to California (I...

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What a stupid man.

If the likes of Montgomerie are on his case, it is only a matter of time.

Total lack of judgment by an out of touch prick. And the whole nation will see it. As if he's been caught wanking over his mum's knickers. Finished.

Does the 'C' stand for Caretaker?

A small minority of noisy gobshite wankas. And every single one of them will be all over every aspect of social media 25/8. f*** 'em. They are irrelevant.

They won't do it. They have been outmaneuvered. Bit it is hilario.

My best advice is don't retire. Do what you know to be right and have a bit of fun with the lunatics when the chance arises. Here is some correspondence from today with some bits redacted for obvious reasons: Them: "We are preparing Period 2 marksheets by downloading available exam marks. We...

Well I could define myself as the master of sarcasm and wit......but..... (you can guess the rest).

Yes, I can't disagree with that. What I would say to anyone interested in doing research is: crack on. Most of the 'noise' in academia is by-passable. And there are all sorts of opportunities to consult, edit a journal, etc, to bolster income. Yes, the landscape is disappointing, but the one...

I agree. Not sure what I think about state pension. I start getting mine in 5 days, FFS! I probably qualify for other goodies too (benefits, this time) such as free travel on omnibuses, but I'm too busy on NSC and marking exam papers to check. I read somewhere that the NHS sends round a...

TS-DR :wink:

Your comment was made in the context of means testing state pensions, where you note that there are lots of well off pensioners as well as poor ones, making it perfectly reasonable for one to assume you are in favour of means testing state pensions: Perhaps if you made a tiny bit more effort...

Edit: see reliant. :thumbsup:

My point is that matey seemed to be suggesting people can be well of because of state pensions. Alone. That's nonsense. If they have worked long enough to pay off a mortgage, and live simply, like an 80 year old pal of mine, they can be OK. But his house is cold in winter because he can't afford...

Good points. On private pensions, when I started as a lecturer (in fact before that, when I was a post doc) I was automatically signed into USS. I think I was automatically registered with the AUT union too. Around that time the Tories encouraged folk to opt out of workplace pensions and...

Private pensioners. There are no people reliant on state pension who are well off.

State pensions, paid for by a specific tax (NI) and paid out on the basis of what one has paid in is not a benefit. Winter fuel payments is not an 'example' of a means tested pension. It is a means tested benefit. State pension is not a benefit.

I had genuinely forgotten about him!