If you were fleeing war or persecution, would you not prefer to go to a country where you could speak the language and/or had family? Being able to speak the language would also mean you can start working as soon as your claim is processed. Yes, if I was fleeing war, I would want to go to the first safe place. But after safety, the next thing is being able to actually get on with your life and provide for yourself and family.

For instance I can’t speak Turkish, I find it a very hard language to learn. So if I could choose between settling there and going somewhere like France, Portugal or Spain where I have some proficiency in the languages, I would try to get there, because I’d be able to get into work a lot quicker and become part of a community if my application got approved. And even more so if I knew people there. It’s not a case of being greedy or picky, these people are still humans who need to get on with their lives.

But how is any of this the fault of immigrants? My dad wants to kick me out. If I tell the council I’m being made homeless, I will get sent to a hostel in Luton. According to my tory-loving colleague, this is the fault of asylum seekers.

The actual truth is this is the fault of Thatcher and successive governments selling off council homes. Rich foreign scalpers buy up property and sit on it until it makes them money. There are thousands of empty residential properties gathering dust so they can build up in value for these wealthy scalpers. Flats where £200k can buy you a 25% share of a studio is what’s shown as affordable housing in London. Housing has become a commodity for the rich to trade and profit off, rather than a human need. I’m working class, on a little above minimum wage and soon losing my job again (because of the council, not immigrants. First job I lost was because of Philip Green and his wife being greedy pigs).

Tell me how immigrants are making my life worse, but the wealthy get a pass. Immigrants are keeping a lot of businesses going (just see the Brexit farm debacle).

So you can look for the easy scapegoat if you want, or you can actually look at what’s causing these issues. As People vs Elon showed in their poster, they tell you to blame immigrants so you don’t blame billionaires.

Please do explain for us unenlightened plebs.

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Nah, the correct answer is “You don’t LOOK autistic.”

I’m having the exact same issue. Never taught me any life skills. My mum was told by the GP to get me tested for aspergers (as it was then) when I was 15, and she sat on that for over 10 years. Meanwhile I grew up hating myself for not being able to do things that my peers could. Things got worse when I had to get a job and I didn’t have the social knowledge to pass interviews. My self esteem got worse, my anxiety ruled my life. I would keep attracting men who treated me like dirt and I couldn’t let go because I was so desperate for someone to love and accept me.

She passed away three months ago and now my dad wants to kick me out and I have no freaking idea how to survive in the adult world. I don’t know how to go about renting or setting up utilities, I struggle with navigation so my fear of getting lost stops me going places. I’m going to have to leave London because I can’t afford a place here. All I get is, when are you moving out? Dad wants to sell the house. It’s not fair to deprive your sisters of their share of the house. No offers of help. No acknowledgement that decades of my mum wrapping me in cotton wool and controlling me has left me dysfunctional.

Now go look up how she even got British citizenship in the first place, and what she says about asylum seekers and immigrants. Hypocrite of the lowest order.

Gute Nacht!

口寂しい

Bpa in till roll is banned in the EU.

“Some workers may be more exposed to BPA than the general public (Bousoumah et al., 2021). As an example, BPA was previously used in thermal receipt papers; as a result, cashiers were highly exposed to BPA via skin contact due to frequently handling receipts (Björnsdotter et al., 2017). A restriction introduced under REACH banned the use of BPA in thermal paper in 2020.”

https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/peoples-exposure-to-bisphenol-a

Luckily we got the rule before we brexited. I asked on the intranet in a previous job if our till roll has BPA, and they told me it doesn’t because it’s illegal under EU law.

I had to push that crap for 6 years in a previous job. A lot of our customers were on low incomes (we had to get all this data to fill out their applications), a lot of them in social housing and living off benefits, and we had to push. We had a lot of pressure to get these, and having high anxiety at the time, I let them doormat me into being the one who had to pick up the slack for underperforming colleagues. Some would outright just refuse and the manager would come to me (the same manager who victim blamed me when I was physically assaulted by another manager) and tell me I needed to make up the shortfall. And I would because my anxiety was just too high to start a confrontation.

Ours was with barclaycard, and not only was the commission ridiculously low, they also pretaxed it before we got it. Either that or the company was creaming a bit off for themselves, because it was never a round number in the payslips.

That business deserved to die.

What?! I got one random woman on the bus to school when I was around 17 (so I looked about 12) who mistook my resting grumpy face for actual sadness and spent a good 5 minutes giving me a pep talk about how if anyone bullies me, it’s because they’re jealous that I’m pretty. I was just sitting there confused the whole time.

And then compliments as general love-bombing from my toxic exes. And as part of a few generic “my beautiful daughters” from my parents, which was just hollow to me. So I can literally count it on one hand.

I do get complimented on my miniatures, though. And that’s more important, because that’s something I achieved.

As low as that, eh? I got my first mobile (Nokia 3310) in 2003, and I felt like I was the last of my peers to get one (my classmates had mobiles around 1999, I remember Snake being big during my GCSE years). I expect at that time they were just more common among millennials than the older generations? I’m sure I was the only one in my year group from Year 11 to the end of Year 13 to not have a mobile.

You’re right. First I was autistic, THEN I got a telescope. Evostar 90mm refractor, thank you for asking.

For those who haven’t already watched this, they managed to get Amazon driver wee to be an Amazon bestseller. There are chapter markers if you just want that part:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GdHYM7QT9kw

(Been boycotting Amazon since winter 2020 and I don’t miss it one bit.)

We barely had mobile phones 20 years ago? You sure about that?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk4KK-gh0FM

And the trainer.

The dress was always blue and black to me (blue and copper tinged black really), but this one keeps switching from grey and mint to pink and white and then back again.

I doubt any of these people will change. If you voted for Trump when he wasn’t even trying to hide who he really is, you probably won’t learn from this. It’s only a problem because it happened to him, but he’d probably still be cheering on anyone else he considers undesirable being deported/disappeared. But I’ll be happy if I turn out to be wrong.

All I got yesterday was “severe delays on the Victoria line”