As long as they advertise them properly, staff them sufficiently, and have them open at hours useful to everyone.
And by that I mean don’t just put the information on the internet, as older people can struggle with that. I know multiple people who only have a dumbphone, a Doro or similar.
Staff them sufficiently should be obvious. Enough staff to keep things from kicking off, and to ensure that facilities are kept in usable order etc. Because these places _will_ need facilities available for users.
Opening hours means not just 9-5. They’d need to be available after school, for example, so that homework can be done in a warm environment. And pensioners and the disabled aren’t just cold during working hours after all.
This does not sound like 2022 britain, it sounds like a third world country
I know doomerism isn’t liked too much but something feels fundamentally broken in society when this is what we have to resort too
Our end of the social contract is dead
I guess we’ll all be moving into communal housing. Insulated underground dormitories with blankets between bunks to serve as privacy screens. People fucking in the dark, trying to stay quiet, all the while thankful they are away from the hellish winter of the overworld.
The overseers will have their own chambers, but they live in fear of the day their guards decide the few benefits they are afforded over the unwashed masses are just not enough anymore.
Or, one day, the overseer sees a young woman he likes little realising she is the wife of one of his guards.
Life will no longer be about making money or advancing humanity. Life will be about keeping the machines that keep humanity warm and fed going.
Then, perhaps, we will finally be free of leaders so fucking inept they managed to turn a first world democracy into a third world hell hole.
How about “Under a nice thick duvet”?
I really don’t get it. It’s not like we live way up north in the middle of the frozen Arctic circle. It doesn’t get *that* cold in Britain. Our winters are quite mild in comparison to other places around the world. Hell, even our closest geographical neighbours have much colder and harsher winters than what we ever see.
It’s not that difficult to be warm and keep warm in winter. Just a layer or two of clothing with a a nice thick woolly jumper when indoors more than suffices. When going outside, a thick winter coat and a scarf is all you ever need – perhaps paired with a woolly hat and gloves, also, if it’s quite windy out.
Right now in some far off country there’s a TV advert asking for just 2 pounds a month to help keep impoverished brits warm
I will always despair at the fact that BMAG is closed, for the first time really in my memory, during the time it would probably have been the most use. And to my knowledge its just bad luck with the electronics.
I wonder if it will stay open now, at least the galleries that are currently.
Liverpool Museum are offering the same too. Such sad times
The councils need to be pushing the government to do more
“Eat the rich” is looking less like a political viewpoint and more like a helpful suggestion to keep warm off the spitroast now.
Imagine telling the average Tory voter this would be the reality in 2019 and you’d be laughed out of Tim Stupidspoons. Today, having no electricity is better than no bREXIt with jEreMy cOrBYn!
Sounds “good” (terrible) in theory but what about sleeping at night when it’s coldest?
The whole “warm bank” thing is silly
Just do it what German pensioners do, go to Thailand over winter. Money saved guaranteed.
Yeah I really don’t see this going well, but then again I lived in Erdington for 7 years, so maybe I’m jaded now.
I suggest putting in underfloor heating in the mosques
Instead of tackling the issue, they offer solutions that sound insane when you really digest what they have said. They are telling people where to stay warm, in one of the richest economies in the world, because people cannot pay their energy bills *en masse*. One person struggling is bad but perhaps expected; millions experiencing the issue is a public disaster. It is a public disaster that we are continuing to ignore because the government are never going to tell the energy companies to put people over profits.
Can’t we all keep warm by burning down the council offices?
Riding the central line in London all day might be worth a try!
5th richest country in the world everyone. What a diabolical state **we** have let the country become by consistently voting in the Tories even though they run the country into the ground time and time again.
This time will be no different from the last, Labour get voted in, start to turn the country around, the tories let them get on with it for 8 or so years, the media machine then whirs into action and convinces the public that Labour are the enemy and we vote the Tories back in. Rinse and repeat.
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I appreciate that the council is trying to do the best for their constituents.
But how are we here as a society, this is actual madness.
Heading down the library personally. Read a book, throw some shapes. Multi task, avoid dying for a bit.
Time to invest in Weatherspoons shares. Those place going to be rammed in winter.
‘Unlimited coffee refill, unlimited heating £1.20’
As long as they advertise them properly, staff them sufficiently, and have them open at hours useful to everyone.
And by that I mean don’t just put the information on the internet, as older people can struggle with that. I know multiple people who only have a dumbphone, a Doro or similar.
Staff them sufficiently should be obvious. Enough staff to keep things from kicking off, and to ensure that facilities are kept in usable order etc. Because these places _will_ need facilities available for users.
Opening hours means not just 9-5. They’d need to be available after school, for example, so that homework can be done in a warm environment. And pensioners and the disabled aren’t just cold during working hours after all.
This does not sound like 2022 britain, it sounds like a third world country
I know doomerism isn’t liked too much but something feels fundamentally broken in society when this is what we have to resort too
Our end of the social contract is dead
I guess we’ll all be moving into communal housing. Insulated underground dormitories with blankets between bunks to serve as privacy screens. People fucking in the dark, trying to stay quiet, all the while thankful they are away from the hellish winter of the overworld.
The overseers will have their own chambers, but they live in fear of the day their guards decide the few benefits they are afforded over the unwashed masses are just not enough anymore.
Or, one day, the overseer sees a young woman he likes little realising she is the wife of one of his guards.
Life will no longer be about making money or advancing humanity. Life will be about keeping the machines that keep humanity warm and fed going.
Then, perhaps, we will finally be free of leaders so fucking inept they managed to turn a first world democracy into a third world hell hole.
How about “Under a nice thick duvet”?
I really don’t get it. It’s not like we live way up north in the middle of the frozen Arctic circle. It doesn’t get *that* cold in Britain. Our winters are quite mild in comparison to other places around the world. Hell, even our closest geographical neighbours have much colder and harsher winters than what we ever see.
It’s not that difficult to be warm and keep warm in winter. Just a layer or two of clothing with a a nice thick woolly jumper when indoors more than suffices. When going outside, a thick winter coat and a scarf is all you ever need – perhaps paired with a woolly hat and gloves, also, if it’s quite windy out.
Right now in some far off country there’s a TV advert asking for just 2 pounds a month to help keep impoverished brits warm
I will always despair at the fact that BMAG is closed, for the first time really in my memory, during the time it would probably have been the most use. And to my knowledge its just bad luck with the electronics.
I wonder if it will stay open now, at least the galleries that are currently.
Liverpool Museum are offering the same too. Such sad times
The councils need to be pushing the government to do more
“Eat the rich” is looking less like a political viewpoint and more like a helpful suggestion to keep warm off the spitroast now.
Imagine telling the average Tory voter this would be the reality in 2019 and you’d be laughed out of Tim Stupidspoons. Today, having no electricity is better than no bREXIt with jEreMy cOrBYn!
Sounds “good” (terrible) in theory but what about sleeping at night when it’s coldest?
The whole “warm bank” thing is silly
Just do it what German pensioners do, go to Thailand over winter. Money saved guaranteed.
Yeah I really don’t see this going well, but then again I lived in Erdington for 7 years, so maybe I’m jaded now.
I suggest putting in underfloor heating in the mosques
Instead of tackling the issue, they offer solutions that sound insane when you really digest what they have said. They are telling people where to stay warm, in one of the richest economies in the world, because people cannot pay their energy bills *en masse*. One person struggling is bad but perhaps expected; millions experiencing the issue is a public disaster. It is a public disaster that we are continuing to ignore because the government are never going to tell the energy companies to put people over profits.
Can’t we all keep warm by burning down the council offices?
Riding the central line in London all day might be worth a try!
5th richest country in the world everyone. What a diabolical state **we** have let the country become by consistently voting in the Tories even though they run the country into the ground time and time again.
This time will be no different from the last, Labour get voted in, start to turn the country around, the tories let them get on with it for 8 or so years, the media machine then whirs into action and convinces the public that Labour are the enemy and we vote the Tories back in. Rinse and repeat.