Mudface

6 hours ago, Jose Jones said:

It’s my daughter’s 12th birthday today and when the missus asked her yesterday if she’d like a special breakfast for her birthday she requested a full english. Even though I never make one at home. Little legend (although she’s like 5’6”).

Let herself down slightly by requesting scrambled eggs. Also there was no black pudding in the shop.

 

This is what Fritzl used to serve to his daughter if she'd been acting up.

11 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

when was the last time you saw her?

Fair point, can't remember when. She probably looks like that Conway creature these days.

24 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

There is not a single thing he has touched that hasn't turned to shit.

Even Ivanka?

3 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Brave man 

I like living on the edge.

25 minutes ago, Champ said:

And I bet you don’t acknowledge it properly either.

 

I bet when I see my gym buddy later she’ll still be fretting about it too

I do, I shrug and say, 'oh well, never mind'.

12 hours ago, Champ said:

I went to a new cardio class earlier and came out and discovered my Fitbit hadn’t registered my activity. I could cry. I worked so hard too. 

My missus has that from time to time, it's like there's been a death in the family.

Another Brexit bonus, the wins just keep on piling up- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/01/migrant-workers-greater-risk-modern-slavery-brexit-research

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Migrant workers at greater risk of modern slavery after Brexit, research finds

Exclusive: Visas created hastily to solve labour shortages expose people to ‘hyper-precarity’ and exploitation
 

Visas created hastily to solve labour shortages as a result of Brexit have put workers at greater risk of modern slavery and exploitation, research has found.

Strict conditions on agricultural and care visas created after Britain left the EU expose workers to “hyper-precarity” and increase their vulnerability to exploitation, a study by a coalition of leading universities and charities has concluded. Since Brexit, farm workers and care home workers have had a route to Britain on time-limited visas with stringent conditions.

Workers on the schemes faced significant issues of debt and deductions from wages because of illegal recruitment fees as well as costs incurred from travel, training, accommodation and high visa charges, researchers found. They also described deception by intermediaries, who misled workers about the conditions and length of employment they could expect.

Migrant workers’ vulnerability to exploitation was compounded by the hostile environment as fears of immigration enforcement action deterred them from reporting mistreatment or exploitation to the authorities, researchers found. The risks were increased by the fact that government agencies charged with enforcing employment rights were underfunded and did not have capacity to audit workplaces proactively, the study said.

Dr Inga Thiemann at the University of Leicester, who led the research team, said there was a high risk of “labour exploitation and debt bondage” under both visas. She said Brexit had made workers more vulnerable because those coming from Europe had previously “had the possibility to make complaints and to talk about labour exploitation because they wouldn’t risk their status automatically if their employer revoked the sponsorship”.

Thiemann added: “What we see a lot of in the care sector is that people aren’t willing to come forward even if they are experiencing severe labour abuse because they are not sure that they can find another sponsor within the timeframe that the Home Office gives them to do so. So they’re more afraid of losing their job and having to go back home and having all this debt they have incurred than they are of continuing with the exploitation they are experiencing.”

She said it needed to be easier for workers to change employers, so that moving jobs was “an actual possibility”, adding: “It cannot stay in this hypothetical state because otherwise workers are just too vulnerable.”

One man who came to Britain from the Philippines under a care worker visa in 2022 said he often had to work 12-hour shifts without breaks looking after residents with dementia for minimum wage. The man, 30, who previously worked as a teacher, said he paid more than £3,000 for flights for him and his wife to come at less than two weeks’ notice and was still paying his sister back for the flight.

He told the Guardian: “Everything just goes on whatever you’re paying for and nothing is left. I tried my luck here but right now I have more debt than before and I’ve been here a year and a half.”

He said he was also being charged almost £300 a month in unclear fees from the agents who brought him to Britain. “They say it’s for processing of our visas, but in my opinion they’re trying to get money from us,” he said.

He had been expecting accommodation to be included with the job but had to rent a room in a shared house with his wife and new baby, which uses up most of his income. “I came here to give my family a good chance of living and provide for them and it’s a scary feeling to be in this spot.

“Some of my colleagues had to pay job-finding fees of thousands of pounds to get here … I’m continuously looking for another job. My colleagues even sold land and cars back home just to come here. I need to be strong for my kid and my wife but it’s very stressful.”

Care worker visas have also come under criticism from the former chief inspector of borders and immigration, whose inspection of immigration in the care sector was published this week. In his foreword, David Neal wrote that the Home Office had used a visa model based on one for highly skilled workers sponsored by multinationals and “applied it to a high-risk area – migration into an atomised and poorly paid sector”.

Neal noted: “Its control measures to mitigate the risk were totally inadequate. There is just one compliance officer for every 1,600 employers licensed to sponsor migrant workers.”

The seasonal worker visa has faced similar criticism and was rolled out before a pilot of the plan was reviewed. The report noted that the Home Office continued to expand the scheme despite strong evidence of worker exploitation and mistreatment.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “We do not tolerate illegal activity in the labour market and will always take decisive action where we believe abusive practices are taking place. To address concerns about abuse within the health and care worker sector, providers in England are now only able to sponsor migrant workers if they are undertaking activities regulated by the Care Quality Commission.

“The seasonal workers route has been running for four years and each year improvements have been made to stop exploitation and clamp down on poor working conditions while people are in the UK.”

 

12 minutes ago, Code said:

Not played since N.Clough and M. Marsh both scored around 50 goals a season for me. 

R. Partridge did the business for me in the late '90s. To think I nearly let him go when he got banned for 9 months for punching an opposition player.

4 minutes ago, Toxteth O'Grady said:

No.

Null and void only applies to us winning things.

It's shifting sands criteria mind.

Is anybody dying?

If so and the Redshite are top of the league, then THAT is null and void.

Is a trophy on offer?

Have the Redshite won it, either during people dying or in the period they've had a points deduction?

If so, that's null and void.

Have the Redshite won a trophy on penalties and not in 90 minutes, even though nobody was dying?

You have to win it within the 90 minutes timescale of a match,so that doesn't count and null and void.

Was a match won by buying players with speed and agility and who can finish? Especially if it's the Redshite?

Nope, pace goals don't count, that's not purist football,so that's null and void too.

Were inhalers and PED's involved?

If an unsubstantiated article appears once in a Russian newspaper written by a lunatic, then that's obviously true, so every trophy won by the Redshite either 5 years before or after is null and void.

Have the Redshite won a trophy during Klopp's last season in charge of the Redshite?

That's null and void because everyone, especially Sky and the corrupt PL cartel have all agreed it from the day he announced he was leaving.

Everton right in the mess for systematic cheating and flagrantly abusing the FFP rules that they signed up for?

Everyone else's fault and if they do go down, it shouldn't count and they should be reinstated and the entire season be called null and void.

 

Have I got it right?

 

I did put null and void in there fully aware of its connotations. Well summarised.

I'm a bit confused, they seem to think selling players in the summer gets them off this latest round of cheating. Surely this is the same accounting period as Forest were just penalised for? Their points deduction this season should have been applied last season, so they're due another penalty for cheating within the next week or so?

12 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

 

They just argue that the contract is still in place and legally they couldn't get another sponser or some shit. All the money tied up in Russia. But unless they were getting 50+ million from the dodgy deal they still would have lost a shitload

Don't get that- the contract payments haven't been made so surely it's null and void.

20 minutes ago, Red74 said:

But ithadnerbinferhysel, they'd have made £10 billion.

2 minutes ago, Fugitive said:

I’m gonna have a violent wank tonight

Yes. Yes, you are.

12 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

Some atmosphere in Manchester. Deafening. 

I can't tell, I've been hypnotised by those ridiculous advertising boards. All hail Abu Dhabi.

11 hours ago, Kevin D said:

It’s bizarre to me that he’s spent the last 9 years turning up to his job and arguing with people in the main stand.

 

We did think it was weird before, but then he won all those trophies, so we started pretending it was completely normal behaviour.

Have you seen the people in the Main Stand? Think he's perfectly justified to be honest...

8 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

Just watching motd. After the hilarity of watching Coleman's OG yesterday, but I completely missed Pickford's part in it. Some shit keeping that. It's unusual it's highlighted by pundits. He makes lots of those kinds of mistakes and never gets called on it. And he has the cheek when the ball goes in to point at his head as if his defenders weren't switched on..

The bit where he pushed the ball onto Branthwaite's head was funny, not so brave when he's not lunging in feet first. Also, his weird posturing got highlighted in the build up to the second goal-

8 minutes ago, Elite said:

Only takes one knife to skin a mink

 

It knows what's coming.

21 hours ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

I think its a boss game but I get killed quite a lot but not nearly as much as my main pawn. 

 

I waited fucking ages to talk to a captain who never turned up where he was supposed to, turns out he was in the morgue the NPC got itself killed somewhere by accident and I had to pay 5 grand to bring him back to life just to move the game on.

Microtransactions are ridiculous these days.

1 minute ago, Lee909 said:

Fuck sake I turned it off

Haha, same. Maybe we're reverse jinxing Utd by watching the cunts...

17 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

How do you do spoilers anyway?

15 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

No idea 

You can't any more. Progress, apparently.

2 minutes ago, an tha said:

Fucking ridiculous if case - these cunts are making it up as go.

 

Unless it is just shite bbc reporting.

He looked about a foot or two offside, it wasn't all that close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday

22 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

This Everton game is shite as usual.

I ended up watching meme videos on Youtube instead- not before I'd heard the commentator say that Calvert-Lewin's peak in form was down to Duncan Ferguson.