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Nope. Nothing you have overlooked. That's pretty much it for that road now. One way in, everybody has to turn around and one way back out. The council had the genius idea to "temporarily" close all traffic on Pinstone Street for alleged covid precautions but now seem to have taken advantage and convert it into some pointless permanent dead space to appease a couple of cyclists that use it once a week and stroke the egos of some Green Party councillors. Default Council bashing is not normal my bag, however on this particular decision I do have issues and I do think it is one of their most ridiculous ones.

I bet they can if the patient gives them sufficient authority. After all, medical insurers, private health clinics and non-NHS hospitals do it all the time. I am not so cynical about such virtual services, at the end of the day, if it gets people quicker and easier access to a medical professional - why not? I did it on my own private health insurance a few months ago. I had a problem with my foot, a video conference call and sending of a couple of photographs to the clinician - just like that, I got a prescription for the relevant antibiotics by email the same evening. A quick trip to the pharmacy and two weeks later and the problem was all solved without having to step into a GP practice or play the telephone lottery trying to get an appointment. Yes of course, not everybody has the luxury of money to pay for these things or private medical Healthcare, but surely for the large numbers of people who do, getting them out of the NHS GP surgeries onto somewhere else is hardly going to be a bad thing. It can free up more space for others. Particularly for the more minor levels of ailments which seems to frequently and wastefully clogging up A&E or GP surgeries right now.

Yep there is definitely some truth in that. Although from looking at various Facebook post commenters from Yorkshire Post, Yorkshire live, Manchester Evening News, Birmingham Mail, Eastern Daily Press, London Evening Standard..... the same sort of petty, unjust criticism, whinging and moaning about any new project seems to be across the land. Brit mentality.

Not necessarily. They could just reduce or just the portion sizes as they did when they brought in the Sugar Tax. Given those nutritionist experts are screaming there is an obesity crisis, might not be a bad thing anyway. I am taking some of the dramatic headlines about soaring, outrageous, unmanageable costs of food with a bit of a pinch of salt. There is still a massive war going on between the supermarkets with each other desperately trying to compete. Sainsbury's has well and truly set direction for going downmarket by removing lots of their fresh food counters and replacing with prepackaged. ASDA has recently announced another hundred products to be added to their smart price brand, Aldi checkouts still seem to have queues right down the length of the store and Lidl now seems to be on continuing expansion mode given there has been announcements of two brand new stores just in Sheffield alone. Let's also not forget that the delivery apps are still blooming which means there must be plenty out there, despite these soaring costs, still more than willing to pay an extra £4, £5, £10 on top of the the base shop/restaurant price just to get items without having to leave the sofa. Comparing with the soaring costs a few decades ago when people were literally having to go to the shop and see what daily price changes happened, when there was not the luxury of pile it high superstores exploiting third world markets, when Housewives would use every single part of an animal and recycle meat between multiple different meals or when people where reusing their tea bags to make several cups...... that to me will be the sign of REAL soaring unmanageable food costs. Tracy and Steve wandering out with their piled high trolley complaining because they've had to swap from HP to Smartprice is hardly a crisis yet. As with other aspects in the world right now, people really need to look at the bigger picture sometimes.

Don't they? They have two extra years of education.... A far more better chance of wandering into university to get a degree or free to go and do some remote study course without assessment and minimum accedemic thresholds.... the security of a mandatory minimum wage rate which seems to go up year by year.... a globalised society in the world of Commerce and advances in technology which can allow for work opportunities with companies accross jurisdictions... a government supported help to buy scheme.... and a far bigger proportion of of parents whom actually have an asset or home they can pass over to their younger compared to the generation previous who didn't own homes or other property. That's just some things I can think of that my generation didn't have the luxury of when I was younger.

If they are part of the 'current' generation of pensioners then the rules are not going to affect them - so what's the problem. If they are the next generation of pensioners I can tell you that they wouldn't have started in any such Industries until at least the late 70s early 80s by which time all those hazardous operations were mandated by various health and safety rules and protective equipment which were coming into force. Add on that most of the mines particularly were on strike during the 80s and closed altogether by early 1990s they have hardly had a lifetime of exposure have they. By the time the third extended pension generation comes into force, it will be affecting people who started work in the early 1990s onwards and whom would have not had anything near such hazardous harmful, hazardous or distressing conditions. I'm not buying your tales of woe about warehousing work or care work or stress related symptoms caused by the uncertainty of the gig economy. These are free choices that people are making and something most consumers could not care less about when they are more than happy to continually usually services and reap the rewards of of their cheap prices and immediate service. We can't have it both ways. In any event, as I have mentioned earlier, likely such will slowly be replaced by automation or light touch human interaction over time. Further doesn't change the obvious fact that people don't even leave school until 18 now with a vast majority at least going do some form of higher education . You may have started work at 16, but the next generation of pensioners who will be affected by the changes highly likely didn't start work until 18 if not into their 20s. Therefore it is surely only fair, reasonable, common sense that they should be retiring at a later age.

Those that did work in such conditions are already well retired or on their way to being, so the change won't even affect them. Majority of the next generation had it far easier and more likely started work later. Like I said, people are naive if they think it was going to remain stagnant with such dramatic changes in not only life expectancy but the years people actually work. Do you want to put your feet up and retire early? Pay for it.

Completely disagree. Somebody has to pay for all these pensioners. Average life expectancy in the UK has been steadily increasing. Back in the 1970s and 80s it was around the low aged 70s. By 1990 it was hitting mid to high aged 70s, and by 2019 the average figure was aged 80 or above. Even now with all the pandemic there might have been a slow down or stagnation but you still at such level. Add on the fact that there has been significant change as to when people join the workforce. Let's compare how many people back in the 70s and 80s left school at 15/16 and straight into work. Now, at least for the past two decades we have had significantly more numbers of people going into further education, at the very least a couple of years in technical college after school or as one of the huge numbers of people going to university. That means we have far far more people not even starting any sort of full-time work until in their 20s. The work itself has dramatically changed, no longer are we having vast numbers of people working in dangerous life-threatening Heavy Industries. We now have advances in machinery and methods, safety and controls with much more work being done at the press of a button or click of a mouse. That technology advancement is showing no signs of slowing down with even more aspects of so-called 'grunt work' being completely humanless or human light involved operations. It's absolutely naive to think things could just stay as they were.

Well actually character Keith Lemon has done touring shows alongside Paddy Mcguiness. He's also done shared gigs alongside other comics. Regardless, as with most television productions in this country they are performed in front of people - it is a live studio audience if not the entire show beamed live. Just because the stereotype position is stood in front of a microphone telling jokes, I don't believe this is the limited definition of 'comedian'. There are plenty of comedians who focus on soley sketch, character or dialogue work. Francis as Lemon is clearly one of them. Catherine Tate rarely does anything outside scripted comedy but she can hardly be dismissed as not being a comedian, neither does Steve Coogan, the League of Gentlemen, The Mighty Boosh, Vic & Bob..... If we want to be picky, we could even part apply that to Roy Chubby Brown. After all it is a character and one whose views, the real life Mr Vasey will unlikely want to be linked to. Ultimately it all comes down to personal taste. Whether or not you like Lemon is irrelevant. It can't be stated that he's not a talented comedian. He didn't make multi millions, have a feature film and several lucrative contracts on network television by accident.

Does M&S foodhall have loads of trolleys chained up all over the high street? Does the co-op? Did Sommerfield when it was there? Does Sainsbury's on the Moor? City centre supermarkets are not a new concept. Not everyone in the world has a car and does bulk shop weekly. Once again the Sheffield Forum pessimists descend on any new venture before it's even off the ground.

Personally, I wouldn't lay that necessarily on the modern generation of overly woke comics. That seems to be the nature of stand-up. I can think of comedians who have been on the circuit for 30+ years who still have their dusty stock of core gags, a token sprinkling of topical based on whatever they have glanced at in the days paper and a bit of bantering with half a dozen people from the front row. Copy, paste and repeat in every single town throughout the tour. Find out half a dozen facts about the town before going on stage, find out what the worst area in the town is, mock the local football team whichever league they are in etc... Observational comedy may well be basic 101 but it's what people are familiar with and actually enjoy. If they didn't, these Comics would not be selling out arenas in cities up and down the land. Something which their previous generation could have only dreamed off. Let's face it, a sold-out club in the 70s was impressive but compared to selling out a 20,000 + seat Arena it's a different planet. I think it was Rob Newman who said that the 90s became the point when comedy shifted from bow tie frilly shirt dinner jacket into mirroring the hip, cool, groupie appeal of rock and roll groups.

Interesting point. Although I'd like to think that most parents when asked by the driver would comply. You would have to be one hell of a self-entitled tool to refuse to move your ridiculous sized offspring carrier and delay and disrupt a person with genuine disability needs.

Sports Direct manages to get its deliveries, as does Poundland, as did House of Fraser and TJ Hughes for many years before that. I personally don't feel it would be an issue and certainly not a reason to debar them from moving in. As others have said, it will probably do very well down there given the areas around are changing with much more residential and leisure. It was never ever going to be occupied by another department store and it is obvious that the shift in the 'core retail' is now at the other end of town down the Moor. Better Lidl than an empty decaying unit for decades.

You do realise that at the time the entire world was fighting each other for dominance over land and territories. Have you not heard of things such as the Portuguese Empire, the Spanish Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Persian Empire.... You honestly think we will be in any sort of better position if we just sat back and kept out of it. They were nobody's to begin with until they were discovered as were lots of places around the world. It was Britain that established the dominant settlements on that Island. It was Britain that made the island into what is now. You go ask people of the Falklands exactly what they want. I bet it won't be under the Argentinian regime. It never was or will be a possession of Argentina, no matter how many revolving door dictators try to protest so or try to use military force to bully their way in.

Sorry, but if they are offended by my dismissal of a building that represents a controlling, backward, outdated (and let's face it often dubious) religious cult that is the Catholic church so be it. Let's also not forget we are not talking about that building. That building is still there. It hasn't been pulled down, it hasn't been covered in vinyl, it hasn't been been blocked out from society it is still there. Your objection, and seemingly many of those for you claim may be offended, is anything being built near by a sacred Church which doesn't look exactly the same. Such a concept is totally preposterous in a city centre which like many others constantly evolves over time. That, by the way, includes churches with many modern examples of church buildings being some real ugly monstrosities I found it more offensive that some people still in this day and age think we are going to live like twee little peasant villages with nothing but the 'mighty' house of God showing any prominence. Life moves on.

Agree. You got there a head of me, as I had some suspicions regarding this original post. All seems a little bit far-fetched to me. How exactly did the poster's friend know the worker was taking drugs. Were they openly snorting coke on the checkout counter or injecting heroin behind the bread rolls? Why exactly did they not report it at the time if they were so disturbed by it? If so, what was the outcome? Add on the OP's slightly odd comments regarding staff members 'asserting their authority' 'creating problems and arguments' 'power mad' and declaring how public are often 'in the right'...... seems a little bit chip on their shoulder to me.

That's just your personal taste. I personally don't want a modern building to 'suggest age'. I want it to look like a modern building. Renovations or conversions to existing structures are different, something like what's happening on Pinstone Street makes sense - retaining of the Georgian facade will fit in with the new hotel. However, when there is empty land surrounding some old building we cannot just sit there continually emulating the past just because people don't like change. The building shown in the picture fits perfectly well as expected in any continually evolving City. It's hardly like it's gaudy bright pink or surrounded by neon lights. Nor is it some site of prominent historical important must be fully preserved at all times.

Because how else do you fairly apply a wage rise across the board when you have got multiple different grades of staff on multiple different levels of salary. You don't seriously think it will be acceptable in a large organisation offering annual increments to boldly say that the office junior gets £2,000 rise because they are the lowest paid salary and the department manager gets just £25 rise because they earn the highest salary. Just what sort of conflict do you think would arise when lower grades in a firm could suddenly overtake the earnings of those people on higher level grades. It's nonsense. There is already enough friction going off in companies without fixed pay grades when people undertaking exactly the same job are on different pay just because they were bold enough to demand more at an interview. There is always going to be gaps. Low skilled low paid jobs do not give the same wealth and lifestyle of high paid, high-level executive jobs.... SHOCK HORROR!

Maybe. But stripping away the emotive language and headline figures and it equates to around 2.5 to 3% increase. For anyone in White Collar professions, such is pretty industry-standard I would say. I'm sure they'll be lots out there who demand they don't deserve it but ultimately its a salaried job and those come with increments. It's not exactly the worst percentage increase I've seen. Interesting, when the NHS staff were offered a 3% pay increase recently the Unions immediately slagged it off, dismissed it as a derisory amount and demanded much more...... maybe MPs are being modest. As for the comments from the labour MP moronicaly stating its a "..Tory cost-of-living crisis..." Maybe if the silly mare opened her eyes as to what's been going on in the world for the past few years she will soon realise exactly what the problem is and why its something which all parties have had responsibility in. Yes good on her for donating but nothing but a tactical political point scoring move.

Personally, I just thought it was crap. Having said that, I have never really been a Gervais fan. Some of his earlier stuff was ok but I felt he became completely overrated and self-important.

Yeah I saw that too when I was in there. Obviously the two women stocking up unnecessarily were so blind they didn't see the multiple giant signs stating they were making some improvements to the layout which is why there was no stock in certain places. Just goes to show how easy these panics get started and how moronic some people can be when they don't even bother to look or ask before opening their mouth.

Most cars all look alike for the same reason why nearly all mobile phones look alike. One type of design, shape or style takes the lead and every manufacturer from German to Korean follows. Mass vehicle manufacturers are businesses after all. They will make what the vast majority want to buy and carbon copy processes/moulding just with a different badge slapped on the front is far far cheaper than individual bespoke techniques. Individualism, creativeness and outlandish risk-taking design is still out there hidden away but when you're making for 10 rather than 100,000 the end price tag becomes is X times more. The world of consumerism has changed over the decades. It is far less about quality purchases for a lifetime in favour of quick, cheap and disposable. Such fractors have influenced the world of fashion, home furnishings, electronics and now it's getting into cars. For a large majority, no longer is a car a considered and long-term purchase which one will scrimp and save for. Quick easy credit arrangements, frequent ability to swap and change has made buying a £15k, £20k vehicle as easy as buying a TV, washing machine or sofa.

Yeah right... all those hardcore brexiteers and tory voters in poor northern industrial towns have a real affinity with offshore money laundering billionaires. The "rumour" seems a load of bull. There is plenty of dirty money sloshing around the EU just as much as over here. Despite their one upmanship, gesturing and bold statements don't you believe EU leaders would actually tackle it any harder than us - given their leaders are just as easily seduced, sold out, possessive and power hungry as anywhere else. A fact we are seeing right now with the 27 nations solidarity and decisive strength falling apart over Russia, as they all start dithering, dragging their heals and fence sitting to ensure self preservation for their individual nations piggy bank and cash flows. Lets get real here.... Brexit was a little more than a knee jerk election tactic to appease the rising trend of right wingers bleating on about immigration, immigrants and stopping those funny foreigners coming on our land. It certainly worked. The Tories played the election game to win and they smashed it. They read the room and got the reward. Something Labour continually fails to achieve.

I hardly think some woe is me tabloid level TV documentary and a load of emotional outpourings in newspaper interviews is to be classed as some academic study and forensic analysis into the effects of long-covid. I don't also believe it is very much highlighting 'people with disabilities'. If that was the purpose, she could have used her prominence and years of journalistic experience to get out there to produce a proper documentary with full credible facts highlighting those ordinary people suffering day in day out. That is certainly not what I have seen broadcast. It's nothing more than some gaudie reality show seeking attention and self-pity....... of course, along with a nice little payday at the end for her public displays of emotion. Something which the majority of those ordinary disabled sufferers don't get.

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