GrumpyRN

I don't understand how this is news to a lot of Americans. Trump has been a grifter and con man for the whole of his life, never mind just his time in office.

My initial thought was that you were being facetious but Spain actually did this.🤣😂😅😂🤣👍👍 https://sports.Yahoo.com/articles/donald-trump-edited-spain-trophy-113223588.html Multiple articles about it.

Unfortunately it wasn't the best advertisement for football. Not a great game with some Argentinian players being really dirty and I think there should have been more warnings about ungentlemanly conduct. Ah well, never mind. EURO's in a couple of years. I liked how Carney just ignored the nonsense from Trump and got on with the job as a leader of a host nation. Just knew that Trump would insert himself into Spains celebrations at the end despite Infantino trying to get him off the stage. I haven't spoken with anyone who was actually in US but consensus that I am hearing is that America did well as a host and everyone had a great time.

Came across this and thought I'd share it with you.😂🤣😅😂

"Trump says he's holding Canada responsible for wildfire smoke and threatens higher tariffs" https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/17/politics/trump-canada-wildfire-smoke-tariffs Does Trump really not remember when Canada sent firefighters to help with US fires? Has he not looked around the world and seen that a lot of it is on fire at the moment? The man is deranged and obviously either senile or psychotic. Either way, time for another cognitive test which I'm sure he will "ace".

This is what I wrote; Which ones am I incorrect? It was a quick example. Do I need to go through EVERY sport to see if it gives biological males an advantage over biological females? Could have said Horse Racing, Luge, almost any of the downhill Winter sports. You need to get over this compulsion to just automatically disagree with anything I write. This is what I wrote; Which ones am I incorrect? It was a quick example. Do I need to go through EVERY sport to see if it gives biological males an advantage over biological females? Could have said Horse Racing, Luge, almost any of the downhill Winter sports. You need to get over this compulsion to just automatically disagree with anything I write.

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I have transgender members of my family plus have worked with others over the years. Exactly my point, biological males have an advantage over biological females st sports. Didn't say they were athletic competition, but they are competition where gender does not matter.

Nice to see you have a sense of humour.😀👍

Just as an add on to my previous post about Trump and red cards. Will England get their red card rescinded or is it just Americans this works for? And, it is going to be interesting to see what happens when US play Belgium tonight. I see Belgium are thinking of asking for the USA to be thrown out of the competition. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39669323/folarin-balogun-usa-belgium-world-cup-red-card-fifa/ All the comments on social media I'm seeing are saying that Trump would find some way to make USA win becuase he is such a manbaby. There were even jokes and memes going about that games are to be played until USA wins or their opponents have been deported so that USA wins what will henceforth be known as The Donald Trump World Cup.

Just off the top of my head I was thinking things like Bowls (not Bowling which isn't a big sport in UK although a lot of people play it as a hobby) also Snooker, Billiards, Curling. These are all televised competitions and all can be played by either sex with no advantage. Can also include things like Poker or Chess.

And here we go... Trump cheating and grifting as usual so that the rules don't apply to America. Don't know whats worse, Trump doing his usual or FIFA bowing down to him and allowing it to happen? So what happens if the USA gets beat? Will Trump demand a recount of the goals? Will he get on the phone to someone and see if "they can find him just a few more goals?" Infantino will find himself in a whole heap of trouble after this. "Donald Trump repeatedly lobbied Fifa to lift Balogun's suspension, with sources saying the US president made three calls to Fifa, starting on Wednesday, after Balogun was sent off in the USA's 2-0 last-16 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina, to ensure the change was made." https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2026/07/06/uefa-accuses-fifa-of-crossing-a-red-line-over-lifting-of-folarin-baloguns-red-card/

Ask George Floyd and others like him about institutional racism. Look about you for the others.

You still can't tell the difference between Socialism and Communism - please read a book! What autonomy? I don't know what you do in your part of the world, but over here the medical staff decide your treatment. If you disagree you are completely free to ask for a second opinion or go private. Pay out of pocket? In Scotland thanks to the government I don't pay for parking at our hospitals, I don't pay for medicines that are prescribed. Biggest expenditure when visiting hospitals is the coffee I buy. Oh and the last time I was in hospital the only thing I paid for was my daily newspaper and anything I wanted off the trolley. Your "truly free healthcare system" would be anytthing but and would probably exclude even more people than it does just now. I paid into our system with every pay packet I received whether it was monthly or weekly since I left school and started working. I paid National Insurance which did exactly what it said. I received unemployment benefit when I was unempolyed and I received healthcare as and when I needed it free at the point of use. No one in the UK is afraid to call for an ambulance in case they get charged for it. As I've said, the NHS does have problems, not denying it, but when it comes to the life saving stuff they are excellent. Unfortunately for the life enhancing stuff you have to join a waiting list, but you get there and it doesn't cost a penny. In fact, some hospitals are getting other hospitals to take over and do operations so that the waiting list can come down. This means going to a different city, but they will pay for you to get there and back if needed. Is that the same as RFK jr. taking over HHS? https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/02/13/rfk-jr-year-as-health-secretary/88607416007/ THE GOVERNMENT DO NOT DICTATE CARE IN THE UK. Costs are different in UK so salaries are different. With my salary I was able to buy a house, buy cars, go on holiday, save money. What more do you need? Also, I am free to go anywhere I want to work to increase my wage. I can't be fired with no reason because there are laws in place to protect workers. (Socialism NOT Communism in action). Oh, as an afterthought. I had 6 weeks paid annual leave plus about 10 separate days holiday a year. (e.g. Christmas Day and Boxing Day were 2 days but were not included in my annual leave) I have no idea what PMHNP is so can't compare or contrast. I was an ENP.

Actually, I agree with this to a certain extent. Sports where strength and speed matter then yes - no transgender because they have an advantage. However, sports where you do not require these things but require skill and knowledge then it makes no difference because females are just as good as, if not better than men. Shocker! Grumpy agrees with Beerman on something.🤣😂 🎼It's the 🎵 end of the 🎶 world as we 🎼 know it.🎶🎵

Really? How? And he explained that in his post. But where does it say American which was the point of your retort? Seriously? How old are you? That is something I would expect from a six year old. You do understand that USA is only there because they qualified as co-hosts. They are not there on merit.

Assuming you meant to say "Why do you..." Autocorrect gets us all or just not paying enough attention - wev'e all been there. However, where in Davids post does he say anything about American healthcare providers being homophobic? He mentioned "Clinicians". That is a fairly wide meaning word and can mean anyone of any gender, nationality or sexual orientation. Are you so fragile that you just thought, "Oh dear, the bad foreigner must be criticising my country?" There is plenty to criticise your country about as it is, including your health care system without having to make things up. Oh and by the way, you obviously don't know enough about socialised health care to comment. Just for your information, we don't have, and never have had, death panels. That was some nonsense put out a few years ago. There are a lot of things wrong with UK health care but communisn is not one of them.

I am going to repost this because when I read it back it did look like heron had said them and I don't want them to get any flack for being stupid/racist/homophobic etc because of my mistake. Please give a source for this. If both parties are truly monogamous then their risk has to be zero excluding external factors. Utter nonsense, the example David gave was fairly clear. Utter nonsense, the example David gave was fairly clear. And what you are saying is blatantly homophobic. A nuclear family – also called an elementary family, atomic family, or conjugal family – is a family group consisting of two parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence. The term is used in contrast to both a single-parent family and a larger extended family (which may include more than two parents). A nuclear family typically centers on a married couple that may have any number of children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_family You do not know or understand the meaning of the words you have just used. Socialist does NOT mean Communist. Seems pretty clear to me. Yeah, I don't belive it, please provide (anonimised) examples. Fixed it. I'm sorry I was not paying enough attention originally. Hope you don't get any heat for my mistake heron.

Oh dear. I am so sorry. I got the first quote right then when I went back up to get the rest of the quotes I totally missed that I was on the wrong post. Again my apologies. I did think about reposting it when you pointed out my error but it shouldn't make any difference. I have told this story before but I will repeat it. When I first started nursing it was well known by "everyone" that all male nurses were gay so it was just accepted. In the male changing room at the time the gay male nurses outnumbered the staright male nurses. It was just the way it was, nobody cared and it didn't stop us working with each other or socialising with each other. A few years later one of my colleagues told me that he had wanted to be a nurse but did not want the stigma attached. However, when he saw me - a straight male nurse - taking my children to the football games every week and drinking in the pub with the guys he realised that it didn't matter that he was straight, he could do nursing. In fact he has quite a successful carreer. Just as an aside; I was watching a programme on TV a few years back and it featured the gay community. There was a character on it who pointed out that back in the bad old days when being homosexual was just being legalised (1967) they used the word "gay" because it meant :- Good As You! I have no idea if that's true but it makes a good story. Again my apologies for posting wrongly.

Please give a source for this. If both parties are truly monogamous then their risk has to be zero excluding external factors. Utter nonsense, the example David gave was fairly clear. And what you are saying is blatantly homophobic. A nuclear family – also called an elementary family, atomic family, or conjugal family – is a family group consisting of two parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence. The term is used in contrast to both a single-parent family and a larger extended family (which may include more than two parents). A nuclear family typically centers on a married couple that may have any number of children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_family You do not know or understand the meaning of the words you have just used. Socialist does NOT mean Communist. Seems pretty clear to me. Yeah, I don't belive it, please provide (anonimised) examples.

Just going to put this out there without comment. It's from week beginning 22nd June 2026 if you find it later. https://www.jesusandmo.net/

I have no idea why I wrote South East. I know it is South West. I'm putting it down to age.🤪😉 I love going to Cornwall, we usually stay in St Ives. Been to Looe and Polperro many times and we have stayed in Tencreek holiday park just outside Looe. Great programme on TV called Beyond Paradise with Kris Marshall and Sally Bretton which is filmed there. I have always found the Cornish very friendly and as for pasties and clotted cream - they are superb. Great lunch, Cornish pasty followed by a cornish scone with cream and jam. (No I am not telling you what order I put them on🤣😂😅) and then a pint of Doom Bar Beer. Yeah, you can usually tell the Scotsman in England as he's shouting "It's legal tender". What happens is, you buy a round of drinks then pay for it with a Scottish banknote. Tell the barman that that is all you have so tough. Wouldn't be so bad but the Bank of England was founded by a Scotsman. Never been to the islands unfortunately, I have heard many people agreeing with you. Seems to be a thing, I did see a trader (in England) specifically ask for cash if customers could do it because he was getting charged by his bank for the e-transactions.

Had to Google Rick Steves but he looks interesting. Looks like he has lots of destinations. When I was talking about the money I know I used the word "funny" but the actual story was; I met a couple of American ladies in a pub and we got chatting. What she actually said was "isn't your money cute?" so no big deal. we had a short chat about paying her bill because she had had a meal. She was waiting for a member of staff to come and collect the money. I pointed out that because it was a pub she needed to pay at the bar. She was very pleasant but that concept seemed strange to her. As I said, a nice conversation about cultural differences.

Sorry, I don't want to seem pedantic but there are no 'o's in Edinburgh, yes I know, that just makes me seem pedantic.😂🤣🤪 Haggis is back on the menu - see Massachusetts governor. https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/49108632/haggis-scotland-world-cup-haggis-usa Blood pudding is called black pudding for obvious reasons but is really tasty and is an excellent part of a cooked breakfast. I recently had a Blagiss toastie for my lunch in a cafe. It is a sandwich with haggis, black pudding and some cheese then toasted. It was absolutely wonderfull. The other thing to try is square sausage (sometimes known as Lorne sausage) this is another part of a fry up or on a morning roll. If you do come over you can order a car with an automatic transmission. All the hire companies have them. My car has 6 forward gears and 1 reverse so if you're not used to these things it can cause a lot of stress. A few years ago I was in Cornwall (Southeast part of England) and I was talking with someone who told me that I as a Scotsman was a Celt (pronounced with a k sound - kelt) and that the Scots, the Irish, the Welsh and the Cornish are all Celts so that is why we get on well with one another but the English come from a different background. Fàilte gu Alba

Lots of things to do in Scotland. If you come over in August and go to Edinburgh beware of the Edinburgh Fringe. It is lots of fun and there are lots of acts to see (including in the streets which are free although you can donate a £ or 2) however accomadation in Edinburgh goes up in price and is very short supply. Best thing is stay outside Edinburgh and get the bus in. Lots of busses. You will be made most welcome wherever you go, just don't comment on how our money is "funny" and don't call us English.👍