[davidjay]

I can honestly say that in all my time on this earth I have never heard anyone use the phrase 'bacon banjo'.

[Boiler]

I can honestly say that in all my time on this earth I gave never heard anyone use the phrase 'bacon banjo'.

No, me neither. Bacon butty/bacon sarnie, yes - but I didn't hear "egg banjo" until I was in my 30s. Even my ex-Army mate says "bacon sarnie"...

[Andy McDandy]

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"Why does one thing happen while another does not?"

Because they're completely fucking different, you cunt.

[Andy McDandy]

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Did you know that Littlejohn likes Jews, and did a documentary on them once?

Fairly pointless rant about why demonising Muslims isn't a bad thing, and how the Guardian is evil. Corbyn, Khan, Polanski and the killers of Yvonne Fletcher all get the blame.

[Bones McCoy]

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Did you know that Littlejohn likes Jews, and did a documentary on them once?

Fairly pointless rant about why demonising Muslims isn't a bad thing, and how the Guardian is evil. Corbyn, Khan, Polanski and the killers of Yvonne Fletcher all get the blame.

Polanski - Beautiful muslim name!

[Andy McDandy]

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Where to begin?

With growing fuel costs meaning potential reductions in commuting, Littlejohn revisits the Covid lockdowns. No mention of Partygate, the PPE scandals, the government's ineptitude, Dido Harding etc; just the war on the motorist, the rise of WFH, the consideration of the 4 day week, the boom in online shopping, and the greatest crime of all: vape shops.

For him (and Dacre), it was the end times. People got money from the government, to buy food and pay rent. Disgraceful! They should have been out there selling hooky bog rolls, or being filthy disgusting street whores if they wanted some pennies. People got a bit more considerate, and we can't be having that. People even compared it to the war, and only we can do that.

Seems that his issue here is that the ruthless feudalism he advocates, where above a certain point it's anything goes and welcome to the goodie room; while below it's endless toil and privation for the scum; didn't work and was seen to catastrophically fail to work. Ever since then, there has been a desperate pushback against the idea that an alternative model would take on. One that seems to be all about labelling opponents as soft, and retreating into toxic machismo.

Well, that's one take. Alternatively, he could just be a colossal cunt.

[Bones McCoy]

I'm puzzled by the Binfluencers who increasingly associate Work form Home with War on the Motorist.

Common Sense (tm) would suggest quieter roads = pleasant, safer and cheaper motoring.

This would appear to be bozo filtering of the highest level.

[Boiler]

I'm puzzled by the Binfluencers who increasingly associate Work form Home with War on the Motorist.

I thought "Binfluencers" were those who put their wheelie bins out at least a day early and thus saved everyone else having to work out what bin goes out this week?

Common Sense (tm) would suggest quieter roads = pleasant, safer and cheaper motoring.

I do know that during Covid and then for some time after when many were still WFH, the roads were a much nicer place. You could make good time on a journey at a slower, therefore more economical pace and arrive at your destination relatively unstressed.

When people were eventually forced back onto the roads and into their offices, it was noticeable - and remains so - that the standard of driving had dropped dramatically. And it's not just me saying that; there's many a driving instructor will say the same. Why? No idea. How many drivers remain ignorant of the new Hierarchy of Road Users is alarming, for example.

[Andy McDandy]

I just think it's about control: have your staff where you want them, have them do what you want when you want. Plus the other stuff - office rents and buying physical newspapers. as said, Littlejohn and co have no problem with themselves working from home - they've earned it.

If you want to sum their worldview up in one word, it's be privilege. Everything is discretionary and the higher you rise, the more things are allowed.

[Boiler]

If you want to sum their worldview up in one word, it's be privilege. Everything is discretionary and the higher you rise, the more things are allowed.

And when you get to the Trump/techbro level...

[davidjay]

WFH is something different. He's never done it so therefore nobody should do it. The creed of Dickie and the Mail is that everyone's on the make, everyone's up to something that decent folk wouldn't get involved in.

[Andy McDandy]

When he started whingeing about it, he acknowledged that he WFHd, but said it was different for him because he had served his time at the coalface, and his job could be done from anywhere with a secure Internet connection.

He then started laying into WFHers for being apparently lazy, using coffee shops and working from the beach (although quite why using a suburban coffee shop is bad, but frequenting an inner city one is your essential duty to the economy is never explored*). But basically, it's about resentment. I think it was Robert Hutton who pointed out that journalists always see the opportunity for grift in everything, and assume that everyone is on the make. While I appreciate that journalism can be a cut-throat business , and that it offers considerable exposure to the seamier side of life, I'm with Hutton in thinking that says more about journalists than the general public**.

*Yes, it's inner city rents again.

**Although there is the tabloid tendency to assume everything is overpriced and a rip-off. At one level it's the Top Tips-style "Save money on expensive penny sweets by coating sprouts with treacle", and "They were seen quaffing pricey drinks at the all-expenses-paid bash in the leafy suburb"; at another it's a suspicion of anyone having fun or enjoying life in an unacceptable way (see also: work isn't work unless you're sweating, etc). Basically it boils down to resentment and privilege, with a side order o control.