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[graculus]

I shouldn't do it, really I shouldn't... *sigh* Every time I forget how riled up the 'Have Your Say' page on the BBC News website makes me, I go back and see someone spouting nonsense about stuff they have no clue about and it can't be good for my blood pressure!

Today's delightful selection of idiotic comments by know-nothing blowhards is about all us public sector workers and our 'fat cat pensions' and how unfair it is for everyone else to be supporting us and our right to retire at 60 if we've put in the years while we go on strike and inconvenience them. Uh huh. Because we're not council tax and income tax payers like them and of course it's okay for other people to get treated better than us (police, teachers, civil servants, firemen, nurses) because people like them (well, apart from civil servants, who nobody seems to like - sorry lexin!), and yet more inanity along similar lines about how good we have it and how we should put up and shut up. Pffft.

Meanwhile, off to take Lily to the vets as she's developed some nice bald patches at the top of her front legs. Hopefully it's just this skin infection she seems to come down with every few months and antibiotics will clear it right up, since she seems perky other than that. I figured out the other day that she must be about 8 now, which is good going for a ferret, since I've had her 4 years and the rescue place I got her from reckoned she was about 4 then (though understandably aging ferrets is not easy!).

E.T.A. Checking up on google for the phone number of the vets surgery (so I don't have to look for it again when Lily has her follow-up), I'm entertained to see that the blog belonging to the very same 20-something vet we just saw is listed about 3 places below the official site. Am even more entertained to find said blog includes links to a mobile phone picture archive, including pictures of him drunk over New Year with his mates. That's what he gets for mentioning the firm by name, I guess... ;)

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[blktauna.livejournal.com]

*kisses to Lily*

[lexin.livejournal.com]

I get really, seriously annoyed with those buggers who go on about public sector "fat cat" pensions? You know how much the average public sector worker gets as their 'fat cat' pension? £4000 per year. So generous. Not.