Thread 39 Starmer: chwech/saith - dechreuodd y plant ei

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I am still in Whamageddon.

Richard Hughes has resigned as chair of OBR

Typical. One year, I made it to Christmas Eve. No idea how.

Wrong person according to Badenoch, does she not realise that Reeves doesn't control the OBR?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7v08zkk10o

I believe that Liz Truss would disagree that this was the OBR’s worst mistake.

https://bsky.app/profile/peterstefanovic.bsky.social/post/3m6wxa7qv4k2e

PM Keir Starmer oversees Downing Street’s Christmas lights being switched on.

Community hero Samuel makes history as the first-ever person to switch on the Christmas lights who is not PM

Good.

Someone taking responsibility for what happened in their department?

It'll never catch on...

If previous examples are anything to go by, he'll be back in 6 months.

It leaves Manchester Piccadilly and stops only at Stockport on a direct 2 hour train journey to Euston. Stockport station is huge. Very much like Clapham Junction.

I walked into a classroom today to ask another teacher a question and the kids were choosing Xmas music.

Walked into and one chose “last Christmas” 🤦🏼‍♀️

My classroom is remaining Christmas music free until next week!!!

Banning Christmas ? Surely not ?

@countrygirl99 I could contribute Finnish. I would need to run it past my DIL first as Google translate struggles with Finnish and the results can be hilarious. Online translators can be dodgy.
The English to Welsh makes strange word substitutions.

Forgot to clear the quote.

It's not New Year's Day until Last Christmas is playing.

Dh put the Christmas cd in the car for me this morning. Luckily he could only find the shit one, so I'm still in!

Chris Mason on the news trying to imply that Richard Hughes resigned because of but Labour. His cherry picked report left a lot to be desired. I would suggest he recaps what he learnt in journalism school.

Not sure why he doesn’t just go and work for GB News. It’s what he obviously wants.

I’m sure in some other parts of MN one week day would indeed be a ban, destroying our heritage! In the real world I think we’ll all cope, or there’s always Christmas Radio - 24 hours a day. Wonder how many of the people that worry about our Christian ethos attend church except maybe Christmas Day? They’d get short shrift from most of the people that attend my church.

Absolutely not 🤣🤣

I do all the extra interventions and it’ll be Xmas mad from next Monday.

my students have even put in a request for hot choc and marshmallows which I’ve granted.

But it's still not happening until next week 🤣🤣

Sticking to Radio 4 is a good strategy for Whamageddon

And online shopping 😁

@dandin, out of curiosity, have you tried ChatGPT? My tutor thinks it’s quite good as online translators go. I’m curious.

AIBU to think that Whamageddon is ruining the high street?

@DanDin when I ask Facebook to translate a post in Finnish it produces an unintelligible word salad. Could almost be a Trump post

@BestIsWest, I haven't tried it, but I'd need to think of something to translate to see if it would mess it up.
It told me to use Google Translate.

@countrygirl99 , I imagine it would. Does it try to use English grammar?