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Much as I’d like this to be 100% true, I’m taking it with a pinch of salt. Some of the way the article is worded seems off, especially if we assume, based on the name, that the author is a native English speaker.

I really hope I’m wrong because the Ukrainian counter-propaganda folks ought to be able to do better.

Corbyn was and is no more pro-Russia than Starmer, despite the fact that a lot of anti-Corbyn propaganda painted him that way back when he was in charge of the party.

Because, for all his faults, he’s critical of Russia.

Russia would much rather have someone at the helm more amenable to Russian politics, seeking to undermine the European help that Ukraine has been getting from other nations.

And they’re getting impatient, running out of money and can’t wait around for the next UK general election.

I was thinking “The Poot-Trumpin’ Fart Tube”, but yours might be more suitable for business purposes.

There’s a minimum temperature for indoor work in Britain, but no maximum. The minimum for sedentary work used to be 17°C, but they reduced it to 16°C during the last government. Notably, it hasn’t been increased again under the current one. (For active indoor work, it’s 13°C. Outdoor work has no limits otherwise the country would be even less functional in extreme weather than it already is.)

Zelenskyy would have to be foolish to expect anything else at this point, so this had to have been for another reason. Possibly to prove that Putin remains a terrible person and to keep the conflict in the news.

Stopped clocks and all that.

Two excellent reasons to not play on that course then. Either out of, you know, respect, or if you lack that, some equally disrespectful pissed-off Vietnamese might have chosen to set up some war-era style surprises.

Would you risk it?

If Putin hadn’t decided to forcibly annex parts of Ukraine in the first place, many Russian sons would still be alive and Zelenskyy perhaps wouldn’t be seeking help from the “wrong” people (not that I think that’s an entirely valid way to think about it.)

And as best as I can tell Zelenskyy is not in favour of the way Israel is going about what they’re doing in Palestine, and I’m sure he very much recognises the parallels with what’s happening to his own country.

Of course. If you can’t be loud and obnoxious, you can’t compensate for the fact you have a tiny penis.

Which I wish they’d quit because they’re giving the rest of us with tiny penises a bad name.

Both definitely happen, but this is almost certainly a formal writing versus common vernacular thing.

As for why, I’d guess the pronunciation as a word could be mistaken for the actual word “vat” or, worse, “fat”. Most people want fat on their goods almost as much as they want V.A.T., but now there’s confusion added into the mix.

Well, I suppose there’s precedent elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Specifically anyone who likes stinky cheese, or enjoys tucking into things like hakárl or lutefisk.

Regardless of who the star turn is, this is grounds for a class action lawsuit if ever I heard one.

On the other hand, there’s very little chance that would go well for Owens or her would-be audience.

… how do we convince them to push for it?

Tough times require tough measures. Either you find what the students do in there acceptable or you don’t. If you don’t, someone needs to check, and if not that sysadmin, then it’s going to have to be someone even further away.

One alternative would be to have the restrooms be locked and to be unlocked on request. How key management works with that I leave open.

This would be ideal if there was a suite of unitary WCs, because one key per room per person.

Not ideal in the case of emergencies, I grant you, but then, you don’t want to be using a filthy restroom in an emergency either, so I guess go the whole way into that and put a chemical toilet somewhere outside nearby. OR the old outhouse with hole in the ground if you can’t stretch to that.

The attendant doesn’t have to be a custodian. The member of staff with the office closest to each bathroom is now responsible for at least checking that bathroom once an hour. It’s a budget crunch. Everyone has to do their part!

And if that doesn’t fix the budget crunch within a week or two, the bathrooms are now being checked.

I’m leaning towards no. If you’re sat on the toilet in a small WC room, that urinal is going to be nearby and very close to face height. Also urinals are only really usable by half the population.

Sanitary wipes might be a better plan. Even better if they can be made reusable, but that could be too much to hope for what with the need for yet another bin, and the propensity for confused people to put things in the wrong one.

The problem with that is not the students, or the layout, communal or otherwise, but the unwillingness of the institution to pay a toilet attendant.

There is a solution to all of this. Unitary WCs. Each has one toilet, one sink, at least one method for drying hands and at least one sanitary disposal for non-flushable items. Mirror optional. A toilet brush might also be a good idea.

Communal rooms should go the way of the dinosaur.

That way, anyone, regardless of persuasion, intent or comfort level, can use a toilet in peace. And if they want to invite someone else in for safety, so be it.

All the problems with this solution are excuses, and usually not very good ones.

Terrible as Ebola is, I’ll be surprised if this doesn’t disappear from the news cycle in a week or two only to resurface again in three to six months, regardless of how bad it actually is.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s awful for those with it and their loved ones. It just feels like Ebola is a constant and convenient bogeyman with how frequently it turns up in the news. It’s almost like it’s being kept on a low boil on purpose.

A lot of British Pakistanis like to holiday in Pakistan, and I mean, a lot, and like any sufficiently large group of humans, there’s bound to be a handful who bear a grudge.

Which is to say that If I hear that something terrible has happened to him, I won’t be in the least bit surprised.

(Which is NOT to endorse someone doing anything like that. This is merely an observation.)