Screaming, I'm in Asda and people misread the sign thinking the Pringles were 35p. They were fighting & clamoring like old school black Friday. People put whole crates on their trolley.
Now customer services is overrun with Pringles refunds 😂
For those who don't already know this (corporate world) tip. After you have finished drafting your email, go back and delete the word "just".
"I just wanted to..."
"I'm just emailing to..."
"I just thought to check..."
It creates an unnecessarily weak/ passive impression.
I was in my nail shop getting a pedi when Tier 4 was announced. The owner of the shop was shocked and devastated. She found out in front of all her customers and couldn’t even hide the stress and pain. It was so sad to watch.
Not everyone is supposed to like you. People not liking you can actually be a really good sign, especially if you are happy with who you are and have introspection.
Men not getting up on the tube for pregnant women is one of the worst examples of social contract being well and truly broken. The way they avert their eyes makes me sick.
My publicist said I’m allowed to drop my January flex...
On Friday, we got the keys to our beautiful new home 🏡 🗝️, and I haven't stopped grinning 🥳🙌🏽
#2020goals
#NewHome
I don’t like to join salary debates for many reasons but if your parents raised you on £30k in 1990 that’s the equivalent of £72k today and thats just inflation. Factor in cost of living and reduction of welfare, its about £94k (rough calc) equivalent
Do with that what you will.
The man holding the sign is a civilian who couldn't take the insanity any longer so tore the sign down.
For the rest of the shop they were announcing intermittently: "Pringles are £1.85" on the tannoy 😭
This aspiring surgeon and Oxford University student stabbed a man she met on Tinder. She plead guilty to the assault but didn’t go to jail because “to prevent this extraordinary, able young lady from following her long-held desire to enter the profession she wishes to, would be a…
@BeyondThePowers
This is a strange take given that there are literally hundreds of scholarships and bursaries for countless special interest groups...? Do you also take issue with these?
When our parents were our age it was big family barbecues & cousin sleepovers & hall parties & community and now we can barely afford to have 2 children each and halls cost £3k for the night. Cooler of jollof is £250.
Decor is £3k.
A company that made £1billion in *profit* has been contracted by the UK government to provide food to children and is spending 16% of the contract on the actual food and pocketing 83% to cover operations and profit.
This observation is made without comment.
A partner asked me if my husband works full time today and I can't stop thinking about it. Like it is heavily coded. I'm too impressed with this elite level of read to properly take offence.
She wasn’t being mean but said to me “you just work from home don’t you? So none of this effects you”.
Just made me think would they do this ‘4 hrs notice’ thing to banks, law firms, consultancy’s etc?
@paulg
delve, safeguard, robust, demystify, 'in this digital world',
all chatgpt.
I am rejecting all content with any of these words.
there is no problem with these words, but they make human language mechanical.
I feel like men get so mad at (black)girls who do hair / makeup as a side hustle because it hurts that we can make a quick £500+ in one day with an actual skill, instead of deetsing someone's grandma.
NEW: This week’s tube strikes have now been suspended.
Londoners and visitors to our city will no longer face several days of disruption.
This shows what can be achieved by engaging with trade unions and transport staff rather than working against them.
Thankfully she dropped out of university after this. But imagine she actually became a surgeon. In the care of people at their most vulnerable time. The judge was okay with that. He called her drug fuelled outburst a “one off” despite knowing she struggled with substance abuse.
This applies to the UK btw. We're not as litigious but the 3 actions I've participated in have netted me upwards of £10k over the years. For a bit of paperwork? Join!
i want you to know that you should sign up for every class action settlement you ever get an email about because why did i just get one that was over $1k when i thought it would be like $1
We've had a guy painting our flat to get it ready for new peeps to move in. He messaged saying he has tidied up and done some "decoration". Meanwhile the flat is basically empty so I'm thinking what decoration???.
Guys come and see what he did with our BROOM 😭
The wealthy Nigerians of North / Northwest London are living a different life. And they are doing it in *secret* but like right in our face.
The Barnet Babes. The Mill Hill Moguls, the Hampstead Heauxs.
I remember being 14 and told by a teacher that they will do everything in their power to make sure I amount to “nothing in this life”. Why so much energy for a child??
Had to let A5O5 know they had broken the law. They went from unnecessarily hostile and dismissive to responding how they should have two months ago!
Its always the principle. Dont let these companies take you fi eediat.
Since Premium Bonds are doing the rounds, I would like to say that I put in £1000 in 2014 and so far I have won absolutely nothing.
All I’ve won is depreciation 😂. Bless up 🙏🏾
This housing stuff is such a sad reflection of where our society is. I remember after Grenfell we discovered that all the housing association tenants in our apartment complex didn't have sprinklers in their flats :/ the rest of us did. Can't begin to understand why.
The school decided to punish (checks notes 📝) a *child* for their parents/guardians decision to purchase a skirt that was around 70% cheaper and virtually identical.
The Rawcliffes skirt is £18-22 for 1.
The Asda skirt is £10 for 2.
The reviews for the school are abysmal
Holderness Academy has defended placing a child in isolation for wearing the supermarket version, insisting parents were made aware of the policy in June.
Lockdown has meant I’ve spent £0 on avocado toast in 18 months but the brand new house did not magically appear.
Can someone send me the playbook again please?
Ever since I landed in Mexico, got searched at customs & they pulled out clear pastic baggies with tiny dried green leaves and I literally vomitted screaming “it isn’t mine”…before I remembered I packed loose leaf green tea incase I got bellyache.
I don’t take any type of…
Suddenly there are bricklaying complications…
(can we all for a minute be very serious here)
The job is now £3,250. They are adamant.
I said okay and asked them not to come back. They have been calling me non stop to finish the job back at the original price.
NO. BYE. ✌🏾
@korejay
It's a combination of certain biases re the work ⚫ men do. Also a slight dig at me as a woman working in a high stress /demanding job. Almost like you must be working like this cause you *have* to. It's very layered.
You condescendingly and publicly banter your friends salaries and then start acting confused when friends choose to ghost instead of talking about what they are going through.
A bricklayer quoted me £1.5k to take down and re-build some walls and pillars that had been destroyed by a tree. They did two days of the job before Christmas and I paid the 2/3rds. Asked to use the bathroom (of course luv!). Came out saying “ooh nice house” (thanks luv).
I’ve realised in this life that many people are lazy and do not like hard work, discipline or sacrifice. But I also know that you cannot outwork privilege no matter how hard you try.
It’s my baby’s first Christmas 🎄
I started to think I’d never say those words. I have an👼🏽 for each of the 3 yrs we waited on God for Him and I’m still in awe each day of the manifestation of His promise.
His Yoruba name means “my testimony of Joy” and I really mean it 🤍
This legislation is being passed by the UK government in response to COVID-19 but will be in place for at least 2 years:
Some significant points clipped below
Am I the only one that when someome tweets absolute nonsense on here, I open their profile pic and stare at it for a few seconds to see if I can understand ‘why’. 😅
@__TheUnsullied
Everyone is supposed to. That's what makes society work, everyone participating in the social contract. This tweet is about noticing a trend of men opting out.
@__TheUnsullied
Everyone is supposed to. That's what makes society work, everyone participating in the social contract. This tweet is about noticing a trend of men opting out.
I wish people called out their local MPs with as much vim as they called out fashion and beauty influencers who are minding their business doing the job that pays them...
Anyway once I had cleared that debt, I had built up enough financial discipline to start saving & investing. Still in my 20's, I started with just £50 a month and built a six figure investment portfolio split into:
25% cash savings
60% - ETFs and Mutual Funds
10% - stocks
5%…
Wow, a council officer who got PTSD helping Grenfell victims has been awarded £4.6million, the highest Employment Tribunal award following a dismissal from Hammersmith & Fulham Council.
@t0nit0ne
She doesn't even look that different.
Our hair, makeup, style and camera quality will typically improve over time too. Even just getting her teeth done is transformative.
Nursery fee update came out and it's honestly eye watering. The government childcare changes which come in in April are truly transformative and I really hope they survive the political circus.
If I had circles I would say that paying £650 to attend a marriage masterclass that includes a livestream to the “teachers” wedding is natural selection.
But I don’t have circles so… 🤷🏽♀️
You have to be realistic when dating & marrying in modern times. My husband not being an active tweeter was a non-negotiable for me. Browsing and LinkedIn only.
3 people are primarily responsible for UK’s societal decline of last 40 years
1 Ayn Rand - her philosophy permeates politics, media & ideas of morality
2 Thatcher
3 Murdoch
They are behind selfish individualism, worship of the rich, contempt for the poor & thralldom to USA
If pensioners didn't spend all their money on avocado toast, cruises, flat screen TVs, car finance and nights out they'd have saved enough to top up the pension and meet that basic living wage...
Can someone explain to me why the new basic state pension amounts to about £12.5k a year and yet basic living wage amounts to £21.5k a year and yet pensioners are expected to pay tax if their income exceeds £12570 pa ?
A colleague just completed on her flat. I said “Congratulations!” She said “Thanks it was such a long process! Kudos to you for buying a house all alone”.
..............................?
When, in the ra•ci$t assumption did I tell this woman I bought alone 🤔
The cricket, the ski season, where do you summer, what your parents do, what are you reading at the moment, what time do you need to relieve the nanny? the Lakes, the Aga…
You start to understand this country on a deeper level once you realise just how seriously they take social class and the amount of signalling they do. If you’re not alive to it, you wouldn’t even notice it
Reminder to take your workplace pension seriously please. Do NOT opt out and find your old ones.
Private pension age is 55 (soon 57) which isnt great but better than 71.
I've been working since I was 16. In 2020 I searched & scooped up all my smol smol pensions into Pension Bee. It came to about £16k - in 3 years it's made over £4k just chilling.
Sign up to Pension Bee and do the same, don't let those coins disappear.
I sent about £150 worth of baby items using
@Hermesparcels
next day delivery last Friday. Hermes now claim the contents have all been "destroyed" and cannot be delivered. Are offering £20 compensation and no evidence of the destroyed items or if any survived said destruction??
The wedding industry is in a shambles. I’ve just seen a bride complaining about the price of decor for 200 guests (£4000) and vendors are in the comments saying her budget is too small and cussing her for not wanting to spend money. Is it CRACK?!