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| Pensioner poverty and food waste: your best comments on the Guardian today | Pensioner poverty and food waste: your best comments on the Guardian today |
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| We look at your reaction to some of the most resonant topics today – from a rise in UK poverty to supermarkets selling food past its best before date | |
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| Mon 4 Dec 2017 11.42 GMT | |
| Last modified on Mon 4 Dec 2017 15.07 GMT | |
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| A sharp rise in child and pensioner poverty, retailers getting the best out of food’s shelf life to reduce waste and film of the year nominations have got you talking today. | A sharp rise in child and pensioner poverty, retailers getting the best out of food’s shelf life to reduce waste and film of the year nominations have got you talking today. |
| To join in you can click on the links in the comments below to expand and add your thoughts. We’ll continue to highlight more comments worth reading as the day goes on. | To join in you can click on the links in the comments below to expand and add your thoughts. We’ll continue to highlight more comments worth reading as the day goes on. |
| UK government warned over sharp rise in child and pensioner poverty | UK government warned over sharp rise in child and pensioner poverty |
| Research by thinktank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found almost 400,000 more children and 300,000 more pensioners were living in poverty in the UK last year compared with 2012-13. Among its recommendations it has urged the government to unfreeze benefits. | Research by thinktank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found almost 400,000 more children and 300,000 more pensioners were living in poverty in the UK last year compared with 2012-13. Among its recommendations it has urged the government to unfreeze benefits. |
| ‘Austerity and these savage cuts on the poor and vulnerable were not needed’ | ‘Austerity and these savage cuts on the poor and vulnerable were not needed’ |
| The worst aspect of this is that austerity and these savage cuts on the poor and vulnerable were not needed, it was a pure ideologically driven political decision whose purpose was to destroy the welfare state. George Osborne and David Cameron mislead the people, Miliband was taken up defending himself against Blair and Mandelson and these two villains and their accomplices the Orange Book neoliberal Liberals attacked the remains of what used to make Britain a decent place to live.Silvertown | The worst aspect of this is that austerity and these savage cuts on the poor and vulnerable were not needed, it was a pure ideologically driven political decision whose purpose was to destroy the welfare state. George Osborne and David Cameron mislead the people, Miliband was taken up defending himself against Blair and Mandelson and these two villains and their accomplices the Orange Book neoliberal Liberals attacked the remains of what used to make Britain a decent place to live.Silvertown |
| ‘The Tories have tried to deliberately create an alternate history’ | ‘The Tories have tried to deliberately create an alternate history’ |
| The Tories have tried to deliberately create an alternate history in this country for their own narrow, selfish, economic and political ends. Unfortunately, since they now effectively control most of the British media through their allies, a lot of the younger generation have been effectively brainwashed in to believing that everything has always been like this and nothing can ever change. I was heartened to see in the 2017 General Election that young people are now actively participating in elections and are beginning to reject “there is no alternative”.Peter | The Tories have tried to deliberately create an alternate history in this country for their own narrow, selfish, economic and political ends. Unfortunately, since they now effectively control most of the British media through their allies, a lot of the younger generation have been effectively brainwashed in to believing that everything has always been like this and nothing can ever change. I was heartened to see in the 2017 General Election that young people are now actively participating in elections and are beginning to reject “there is no alternative”.Peter |
| Retailer to sell food past its ‘best before’ date in bid to cut waste | Retailer to sell food past its ‘best before’ date in bid to cut waste |
| In an effort to reduce waste the East of England Co-op is to sell tinned goods and dried food such as pasta, crisps and rice for a nominal 10p once they reach their best-before date. | In an effort to reduce waste the East of England Co-op is to sell tinned goods and dried food such as pasta, crisps and rice for a nominal 10p once they reach their best-before date. |
| ‘My task was to transfer perfectly good food into a skip’ | ‘My task was to transfer perfectly good food into a skip’ |
| When I worked in a major supermarket I was put on ‘waste-duty’, my task was to transfer perfectly good food into a skip. | When I worked in a major supermarket I was put on ‘waste-duty’, my task was to transfer perfectly good food into a skip. |
| After that day I used to get the price gun, set it to 10p and stand next too the food at 7pm every day (I would get an influx of customers looking for my deals, which mostly consisted of shrivelled or slightly mouldy Gourds which would be thrown out at the end of my shift, I rarely didn’t manage too shift it all, customers would go around the shop and find the most ‘past it food’ on the shelf, hand it to me and I’d judge it and slap a 10p sticker on it. I got disciplined for doing so, I was taken off the shop floor and put into the warehouse where I resumed putting perfectly good food into a skip – and quit the next day.Calbum | After that day I used to get the price gun, set it to 10p and stand next too the food at 7pm every day (I would get an influx of customers looking for my deals, which mostly consisted of shrivelled or slightly mouldy Gourds which would be thrown out at the end of my shift, I rarely didn’t manage too shift it all, customers would go around the shop and find the most ‘past it food’ on the shelf, hand it to me and I’d judge it and slap a 10p sticker on it. I got disciplined for doing so, I was taken off the shop floor and put into the warehouse where I resumed putting perfectly good food into a skip – and quit the next day.Calbum |
| The Braddies 2017: Peter Bradshaw nominates his films of the year | The Braddies 2017: Peter Bradshaw nominates his films of the year |
| Readers have been responding to Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw’s films of the year nominations. | Readers have been responding to Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw’s films of the year nominations. |
| ‘The blackest humour I have ever seen on screen’ | ‘The blackest humour I have ever seen on screen’ |
| I haven’t seen all those films nominated for Best Film, but of the films I have seen... I would give the prize to The Death of Stalin. The blackest humour I have ever seen on screen... and pure Russia, even with Yorkshire and American accents.Waunarlwydd | I haven’t seen all those films nominated for Best Film, but of the films I have seen... I would give the prize to The Death of Stalin. The blackest humour I have ever seen on screen... and pure Russia, even with Yorkshire and American accents.Waunarlwydd |
| ‘How can you nominate a picture for best film but not then best director?’ | ‘How can you nominate a picture for best film but not then best director?’ |
| How can you nominate Blade Runner for best film but not then best director? It happens at the Oscars too, but with this film in particular, it is very much the work of an emerging auteur and if Bradshaw is going to recognise the merits of film, it would seem impossible to discount the direction.danielplainview | How can you nominate Blade Runner for best film but not then best director? It happens at the Oscars too, but with this film in particular, it is very much the work of an emerging auteur and if Bradshaw is going to recognise the merits of film, it would seem impossible to discount the direction.danielplainview |
| ‘Would you be willing?’: words to turn a conversation around (and those to avoid) | ‘Would you be willing?’: words to turn a conversation around (and those to avoid) |
| This piece on useful turns of phrase to turn a conversation in your favour has provoked much discussion. Mainly about the words and phrases you’d like to see banished from the vernacular. | This piece on useful turns of phrase to turn a conversation in your favour has provoked much discussion. Mainly about the words and phrases you’d like to see banished from the vernacular. |
| ‘Most people ignore everything before the “but”’ | ‘Most people ignore everything before the “but”’ |
| I agree that the j-word [“just”] should be frowned on by all reasonable people in most situations. “Isn’t it just a case of doing x?” becomes more of a statement than a question and totally undermines the value of someone else’s task, for example. | I agree that the j-word [“just”] should be frowned on by all reasonable people in most situations. “Isn’t it just a case of doing x?” becomes more of a statement than a question and totally undermines the value of someone else’s task, for example. |
| Also on “yes, but” – one emotional intelligence expert once explained to me that most people ignore everything before the “but”.ftwMelvin | Also on “yes, but” – one emotional intelligence expert once explained to me that most people ignore everything before the “but”.ftwMelvin |
| ‘People who are stupid and want to sound sophisticated use it a lot’ | ‘People who are stupid and want to sound sophisticated use it a lot’ |
| Incorrectly using the reflexive ‘yourself, myself’, when they mean ‘you, me’ is annoying. | Incorrectly using the reflexive ‘yourself, myself’, when they mean ‘you, me’ is annoying. |
| People who are stupid and want to sound sophisticated use it a lot: “Tomorrow at the meeting it’ll be myself, my colleague, and yourself.” | People who are stupid and want to sound sophisticated use it a lot: “Tomorrow at the meeting it’ll be myself, my colleague, and yourself.” |
| Also the over-correction of all instances of ‘XXXXX and me’ to ‘XXXXX and I’ is irritating. It is awkward because they have just corrected you, hoping to score some points with their peers, so slapping them down does serious harm to their fragile ego. House1546 | Also the over-correction of all instances of ‘XXXXX and me’ to ‘XXXXX and I’ is irritating. It is awkward because they have just corrected you, hoping to score some points with their peers, so slapping them down does serious harm to their fragile ego. House1546 |
| Comments have been edited for length. This article will be updated throughout the day with some of the most interesting ways readers have been participating across the site. | Comments have been edited for length. This article will be updated throughout the day with some of the most interesting ways readers have been participating across the site. |
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