I get very annoyed when people mix up there, they're and their.........from now on I'm going to point it out, weather they like it or not.

Someone - not one person but perhaps only a few - constantly puts up these posts in the Anything loop.
Why not set up a separate loop for these, to declutter Anything a bit. After all, they're all similar, so would make more sense grouped together.

England's last qualifying match for the next World Cup. They go into the game needing a draw against San Marino, who are officially the worst team in the world. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1520684/eu-snooping-laws-uk-residents-private-messages-read-stark-warning-privacy

What are the 2 things you could be given that you would think are absolutely useless to you?

Mine are hair straighteners and perfume!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/14/austria-orders-lockdown-those-not-fully-vaccinated-against-covid

Do members agree

Was enjoying all the comments on perfume and found that discussion is now closed. Why
https://www.scooploop.com/user/Danni

It is reported she has strained her back but as she has been resting for a few weeks on medical advice how has she done it ?
Is there something we are not being told ?

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What’s your favourite ad?

And favourite perfume?

https://youtu.be/qeMqcApmS7g

Staying ex-directory and registered with the Telephone Preference Service mostly keeps away scam callers, except those using foreign 'phone banks beyond the ICO's reach, but I had a tiresome new variety of caller today.
She sounded English, rang my home landline number and used my correct title and surname, which is unheard of. (Spam callers mostly misaddress me by a first name that I don't use, which is an invaluable tell-tale.) And the call came from an unhidden London exchange number, also not at all usual.
The reverse lookup records a lot of previous reports about unsolicited calls from that number, as follows:
"💡 The overall rating for telephone number 020 3154 6770 is Negative. There have been 3,372 phone lookups and 107 comments relating to this number. On this page: 12 Users rated it as Dangerous, 6 Users rated it as Harassing and 2 Users rated it as Unknown.

The summary of detected keywords found in the reports is as follow: scam (12 times), lottery (9 times), bank (5 times), spam (1 time), credit card (1 time)"

Fortunately, I've never played a lottery in my life, so being told that the caller was "from the Lottery Department" didn't sound right. And she broke off the call when I asked where she'd got my name and number from, since I've never played any lottery.

So don't be fooled into believing that you've won the lottery if a civilised-sounding English stranger rings your home number and addresses you by your correct name. It's just yet another scam, although I didn't wait long enough to find out exactly what they wanted.

It has now been collected.

1,000 illegal immigrants arrived today, well 90% economic migrants let’s face it.
We have nigh on 25,000 illegals expected this year. Not only is it costing a fortune, especially in these Covid days, and not only do we not have enough housing ourselves, even some RNLI volunteers are starting to get annoyed. Some of these young men are told by the smugglers just call 999 and you will be looked after. Already recent two drownings. How many are sent back??? None at this stage as they will throw away their papers and passports. The French say we make it easy with our handouts. Well we e handed out enough to them that’s for sure and they seem to find our fishing boats ok!! This has been discussed before. Hotels and a weekly £39.63ish.

This is looking a bit worrying.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Incoming email from postmaster@netsrv.live
Subject: [5] messages to xxx@xxx.co.uk delayed for 24 hours

You have 5 pending incoming messages today on 11.11.2021
You have to resolve it now.

Plus a link to click on . . . OK, it's fairly obviously a scam, but one of my addresses is with Plusnet, which has had major email problems this week, and just for a fleeting moment I thought it was connected.

Tonight's match is a World cup qualifier. Get your predictions in by 7pm.
Good luck

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-hospital-speaks-out-after-pm-pictured-without-a-face-mask-during-visit-12466377

I took in a parcel for a neighbour on Tuesday, the driver said he had emailed them to tell them who had it, since then I have knocked several times but got no answer, I have put a note through their door and managed to find one of them on FB and sent a message.
Still nobody had been for it or answered my message.
What can I do now ? - the parcel says 'next day delivery'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYfXHWldGU&ab_channel=FEDROYLHSHD

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month has now sadly passed.
In WW1, the orders were "Business as usual" until 11.00 a.m on the 11/11/1918.
These poor guys were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Henry Nicholas John Gunther (June 6, 1895 – November 11, 1918) was an American soldier and likely the last soldier of any of the belligerents to be killed during World War I. He was killed at 10:59 a.m., one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11:00 a.m.

Gunther had recently been demoted, and was seeking to regain his rank just before the war ended.

George Edwin Ellison (10 August 1878 – 11 November 1918) of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers was the last British soldier to be killed in action during the First World War. He died at 09:30 a.m (90 minutes before the Armistice came into effect), shot by a sniper while on a patrol in woodland on the outskirts of Mons, Belgium.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/john-cleese-pulls-cambridge-union-182848728.html

One claims she had less than 5 drinks. 2 glasses of wine is about my limit. Plus she claims it was the pills she was taking. Perhaps less alcohol with pills would have been a good idea.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/labour-snp-mps-criticised-drinking-204553251.html

I used the NHS website to book my anti-Covid booster and had the jab at a local pharmacy yesterday. Meanwhile, I've also received a text invitation from a collective address called (I think) GPHubClinic every day this week, to book a booster at one of the local vaccination centres.
So there are two NHS-connected systems for getting the booster, which plainly don't liaise with one another. The steward at the pharmacy yesterday thought that the texts would stop after I'd had my booster jab because both systems are connected to the NHS, but it doesn't work that efficiently - I've just had yet another text!
If you've booked/had the booster via the NHS website and keep getting these texts, then the way to stop them is to follow the link provided in them, which will give you an option NOT to book your booster by that route and explain why. Otherwise, these redundant texts may continue for some time, which is maddening.

click on

The Green party leader of Brighton City council, Phelim McCafferty, flew to COP26 in Glasgow, because he thought trains to Glasgow might be cancelled, to lecture people about reducing carbon emissions. And to be seen next to Greta Thunberg.

Fury as the BBC announces a drama series about Jimmy Savile.

What are your views, I won't be watching myself. Cannot for the life of me understand why they would consider this 'entertainment'

What’s the point in us driving electric cars and trying to get zero emissions when there are idiots like this

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8XruGUA/

Did you know that MPs are allowed to work for private companies as consultants? Some do this in addition to their actual job - representing their constituents. That means that time spent representing big businesses who pay them on top of their salary, could be spent lobbying on behalf of you - or your constituency. And the worst thing? It’s entirely within the current rules.

If the government’s attempt last week to take control over who scrutinises MPs behaviour has shown us anything, it’s that the rules over who has influence in our democracy need to be strengthened. And in the wake of the scandal, the committee that oversees MP behaviour is considering banning MPs from being paid to consult private companies.

The problem? Some government ministers think the general public don’t really care about the sleaze scandal. They’re hoping the scandal - and any rule changes as a result - can be swept under the rug and forgotten about.

That’s where we come in. We can prove them wrong. If hundreds of thousands of us sign an open letter today, it could help show that we, the public, want the rules changed - and give the powerful committee considering the ban, the public support it needs.

https://bit.ly/3mWRuU0

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/ex-worlds-fattest-man-now-25367063?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=organic

https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/i-accidentally-named-five-kids-25359776

I admit I wouldn’t have known the connotations of these names - would you?

click on

One for Boots in particular when you mentioned Bradley Walsh recently being all over the TV,
“all day long”!! plus with his son.
....and Rylan was just on “We’ve got news for You”.
See Gino D’Acampo was introducing his children on telly last night on a free trip to Italy series.

A message to the Prime Minister from Led By Donkeys.

(It's an amusing /depressing watch, but only a minute or so.)

https://fb.watch/99-QfIjuJ5/

My hearing is no longer that of a bat and for TV I wear a hearing aid.

No problem, except with every single documentary a continuous and aggravating background noise is imbedded into the program by the producers.

There is no reason for this at all, since most of the time people are only speaking. Sometimes elderly people with frail voices just sitting in their living rooms talking are completely drowned out by this noise.

The continuous noise completely masks both the hosts and participants voices and I just cannot hear them.

Almost every program becomes a nuisance and irritating to watch.

Why the producers ruin every single documentary with this stupid and unnecessary audio abuse is beyond my comprehension.

On occasions the background noise is so bad that I turn the sound off and rely on the subtitles IF there are any.

Over the years various organisations have made many official protests about this anti-social practice, but neither the program producers or the Government have taken no notice.

With the inevitable mammoth Christmas online ordering, when must we order to ensure that the goods are delivered reasonably close to Christmas without being far too early ?

I know that @Sandie is in this group but there might be others. Seems like there is confusion about third jabs and booster jabs. Some people should be getting 4 jabs. Hope the link works.
https://apple.news/AZ7Wsg3y0TFiFSmu9NrVCTA

Good news for the Tory old boys club!
They are now very happy.

Boris is showing how to work a way out of his job...

"Get it done!" was his manifesto.

Brexit accomplished, his severe limitations as a political leader are now obvious.
Even to him?

Will this Sleaze scandal see him off?

It's a big step on the way to the exit door.

In the smoke-filled clubs of St.James they are delighted current events have him cowering behind the sofa in his apartment decorated by rich friends [allegedly].

When will the Tory party will wheel in the candidate they really expect to win the next election?

An interesting time for UK politics in the coming year.

I feel rather undecided about this. On the one hand, I can see that people with relatives in care homes/hospitals would want their relatives protected but even if she did have the vaccination she can still give it to others. I can't help feel it's really a case of getting the jabs and taking as many precautions as possible if you feel at risk.

Not sure how many staff the NHS/care homes can afford to lose.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/care-worker-video-sacked-refused-covid-vaccine-095618005.html

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