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Can we please stop including PETA stuff in “woke watch” - they’ve got a deliberate PR strategy of ridiculous stuff like this that has the sole intention of creating a media “lol are they mad?!!” nonsense. They’re also a bunch of c***s This x1000 Bunch of wanks who live on manufacturing ludicrous ou...

The heavyweights and thought leaders of British society are weighing in. Greg's got no chance now. "Rod Stewart, whose wife, Penny Lancaster, appeared on Celebrity MasterChef in 2021, used his Instagram account later on Thursday to comment on Wallace’s break from the show. Calling him a “tubby...

The have certain exceptions and allowances due to the complex industry they are in. Farming is a very difficulty industry and has one of the highest suicide rates. Farmers pay other taxes alongside their main farming levies . What "other taxes" do they pay ? Is there some special tax that...

And Capital Grains Tax

And Cow-peration Tax too, I guess.

They do pay tax like the rest of us. They are not exempt. They literally do not pay tax like the rest of us. They have their own special rules. The have certain exceptions and allowances due to the complex industry they are in. Farming is a very difficulty industry and has one of the highest suicid...

Don't usually quote Marina Hyde, but this is mildly amusing: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/26/elon-musk-petition-uk-election-keir-starmer "Finally, an answer to what would happen if Maga had sex with the People’s Vote. I assume we don’t use the phrase “b*stard offspring” an...

Is it just me or do alcohol-free drinks taste chemically? Some of the poorer ones seem to taste of burnt caramel, but Guinness 0.0 is the best of the lot. I can hardly tell the difference (except, of course, that I don't have the impulsive need for another). Spent a day at the Rugby at Murrayfield ...

Just looking at the signatories data, they're spread very evenly. Vast majority of constituencies have a four figure number of signatories, only a few have 3 figures. Seems a bit unusual to me. Almost as if bots are ensuring they spread their vote around. Even 650 people in the outer hebrides const...

Exactly the same nonsense when the "rejoin the EU" petition reached 1 mill, then 2 mill, and so on up to about 5.

And exactly 21 years after that some stupid cow pulled out of a side road in Buckhurst Hill and broke my thigh bone.

You’re correct, however the banana itself isn’t the artwork (and the act of eating it is itself an inherent part of this particular “artwork’s” concept); the piece comes with detailed instructions on replacing the banana and the tape. It’s essentially a physical NFT, the “owner” has purchased the r...

Basically the point is that the high end art world is a racket, and that things such as this exist only as a handy way of storing money. The narrative around such artworks is useful not in what it says about art or about the world, but about simply presenting a plausible context for such transactio...

Can't I just get the £1.29 and have the monarchy abolished ? That sounds the neatest solution.

Very sad to hear this. However, I hope Theo can take some comfort from the story of his fellow Scot - Lewis Vaughan - who suffered, and recovered from 4 (yes FOUR) ACL injuries - 2 in each leg. A lesser man might have buckled - but he was determined to get back to playing and did. 'Mon Theo - keep a...

https://parcilsafety.uk/pages/how-to-survive-world-war-3-guide-and-information#:~:text=Improve%20Your%20Emergency%20Kit%20with%20New%20Essentials&text=Beyond%20basic%20needs%20like%20food,ensure%20your%20devices%20remain%20usable. Handly updated for 2024 Why on Earth anyone would want to surviv...

So is the expectation that owner-occupiers will have to sell up because they can't afford maintenance charges etc ? So there'll be lots of flats coming on the market (driving prices down) but with big liabilities in terms of maintenance?

Or what ?

Edit (this was a Qu from your 3:47 post)

I just finished the 1st series of Wolf Hall and I really enjoyed it. Mark Rylance is bloody brilliant in everything he does, and this is no exception.
Started 2nd Series last night and it seems to be just as good (and the substitutions at half time seem to be working out well)

New series of Day of the Jackal is, to my surprise, good. It doesn't try to recreate the film, but is a short series influenced by the book. I've watched three of the five episodes, so hopefully it doesn't tank in the final two, but so far this one is recommended. Watched it and it was OK. Redmayne...

An interesting article. Less than 500 estates per year will be affected. Seems to me that today's protests are yet another example of the extremely rich getting the hoi poloi to do their dirty work BBC News - How many farms will be affected by Budget tax rises? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rl...

The bad news is that they're neither civil nor servile.

Boom-tish

Rich Tea Wellin wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2024 12:23 am Tin foil hat nut RFK jr as health secretary.

Insane times. Welcome back all the big virus’ that kill kids that we’ve managed to quash with scientific breakthrough over the last hundred years

Russell Brand seems quite chuffed about his appointment

I'm guessing that because they are a new-ish party and new to Parliament they didn't know what the protocol was . 🤣 Enlighten me , did they know it ? Yes or No ? However Tice should have checked if he didn't know . Oh come off it. You've been had and you can't bring yourself to admit it (unsurprisi...

New series of Day of the Jackal is, to my surprise, good. It doesn't try to recreate the film, but is a short series influenced by the book. I've watched three of the five episodes, so hopefully it doesn't tank in the final two, but so far this one is recommended. Started it yesterday. Really enjoy...

I'd just about managed to forget that Moores penalty / moonshot.