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by faldO
Fri Mar 28, 2025 12:59 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Emigration
Replies: 24
Views: 509

Re: Emigration

My daughters out in Oz since October and says it's just like the UK. She's visiting Vietnam and Indonesia at the moment and popped over to NZ for a bit last month. Said NZ was like 1950s UK. Long term nowhere will be better than anywhere once the climate collapses. I hope you've educated her on the...
by faldO
Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:28 am
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Labour Watch
Replies: 7454
Views: 292764

Re: Labour Watch

It's at least two annecdotal cases.



Shlammybles.
by faldO
Mon Mar 24, 2025 5:30 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Thames Water - the ugly reality of 'Privatisation'
Replies: 75
Views: 1294

Re: Thames Water - the ugly reality of 'Privatisation'

I’m assuming that, aside from writing to TW to tell them I genuinely hate them for bending me over a barrel like this, there’s nothing to be done? Are you metered? The first thing I'd check is whether the increase is accurate. Everyone's bills are going up but is it a huge hike from what you curren...
by faldO
Mon Mar 24, 2025 9:44 am
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Labour Watch
Replies: 7454
Views: 292764

Re: Labour Watch

CEB2ElectricBoogaloo wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 9:42 am Heads up faldO - AI tells you what you want to hear.
It's certainly put me right on a few points I was unsure about with this bloke.
by faldO
Mon Mar 24, 2025 9:34 am
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Labour Watch
Replies: 7454
Views: 292764

Re: Labour Watch

AI's view... British left-leaning fans of Gary Stevenson often describe him as a compelling and authentic voice for economic justice, blending insider credibility with a relatable, working-class edge. They tend to praise him as a "truth-teller" who exposes the rigged nature of capitalism, ...
by faldO
Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:07 am
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Russia / Ukraine Watch
Replies: 2294
Views: 96531

Re: Russia / Ukraine Watch

Sky News have reported that the SAS are involved. Looking suspicious...
by faldO
Fri Mar 21, 2025 8:50 am
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Russia / Ukraine Watch
Replies: 2294
Views: 96531

Re: Russia / Ukraine Watch

Heathrow airport shut down for the day after major fire at nearby substation causes power outage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly24zvvwxlt
by faldO
Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:59 am
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Bankrupt councils
Replies: 188
Views: 8798

Re: Bankrupt councils

by faldO
Wed Mar 19, 2025 9:12 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Israel
Replies: 3485
Views: 170972

Re: Israel

Making no excuses for Hamas but maybe they didn’t bother with dead bodies with all the other carnage going on. Hamas took bodies of dead Israelis they killed from Israel back into Gaza on Oct 7th. That is well documented. But then Gaza was blown to pieces by the Israeli's. It may have been difficul...
by faldO
Wed Mar 19, 2025 8:23 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Israel
Replies: 3485
Views: 170972

Re: Israel

BoniO wrote: Wed Mar 19, 2025 8:07 pm
Currywurst and Chips wrote: Wed Mar 19, 2025 8:04 pm Releasing dead bodies to their families
Making no excuses for Hamas but maybe they didn’t bother with dead bodies with all the other carnage going on.
Hamas took bodies of dead Israelis they killed from Israel back into Gaza on Oct 7th. That is well documented.
by faldO
Fri Mar 14, 2025 2:36 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Cheltenham Races
Replies: 84
Views: 1935

Re: Cheltenham Races

Hoover Attack wrote: Fri Mar 14, 2025 1:51 pm Also, According to the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) :lol:
You've done it again, haven't you. :roll:
by faldO
Wed Mar 12, 2025 10:14 am
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Russia / Ukraine Watch
Replies: 2294
Views: 96531

Re: Russia / Ukraine Watch

The captain of the cargo ship that crashed into a tanker carrying oil for the US military is a Russian national, the ship’s owner said. The 59-year-old was arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter on Tuesday after Monday’s fiery collision about 12 miles off the East Yorkshire coast, wh...
by faldO
Wed Mar 12, 2025 9:10 am
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: The trans debate
Replies: 2321
Views: 107331

Re: The trans debate

I think this is real but I'm not sure. The intersectionality is off the scale...

Queer canine becomings: Lesbian feminist cyborg politics and interspecies intimacies in ecologies of love and violence

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10 ... 73971?src=
by faldO
Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:24 am
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Net Zero Watch
Replies: 27
Views: 661

Re: Net Zero Watch

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in ...
by faldO
Tue Mar 11, 2025 1:27 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Syria Watch
Replies: 6
Views: 250

Re: Syria Watch

Two of the UK's weirdest political podcasters met at the beginning of February with "fighter turned President Ahmed al-Sharaa" to reminisce about their respective involvements in Iraq. Four weeks later and it's all gone pear-shaped. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlkCqSaa0AA1ziC?format=jpg&am...
by faldO
Tue Mar 11, 2025 7:45 am
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Syria Watch
Replies: 6
Views: 250

Syria Watch

Syria is going the way many predicted it would after the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the arrival of Syria's new Islamist rulers, led by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former leader of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Hundreds of people, including civilians, women and children, ki...
by faldO
Mon Mar 10, 2025 8:36 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Labour Watch
Replies: 7454
Views: 292764

Re: Labour Watch

A senior aide to Wes Streeting has been suspended from the Labour Party and is under investigation in Parliament after pleading guilty to unlawfully exposing his genitals. Sam Gould, 33, intentionally exposed his genitals "intending that someone would see them and be caused alarm or distress&qu...
by faldO
Thu Mar 06, 2025 8:46 am
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: China...A real threat to the World
Replies: 175
Views: 11561

Re: China...A real threat to the World

China has said it is “ready for war” with America as it raises defence spending and imposes retaliatory tariffs on US imports. In a direct threat to Donald Trump, China’s representatives in America said: “If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re r...
by faldO
Wed Mar 05, 2025 4:08 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: China...A real threat to the World
Replies: 175
Views: 11561

Re: China...A real threat to the World

China has said it is “ready for war” with America as it raises defence spending and imposes retaliatory tariffs on US imports. In a direct threat to Donald Trump, China’s representatives in America said: “If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re re...
by faldO
Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:33 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Russia / Ukraine Watch
Replies: 2294
Views: 96531

Re: Russia / Ukraine Watch

"No world wars and one world cup" doesn't have the same ring to it...
by faldO
Thu Feb 27, 2025 9:29 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: BBC Watch
Replies: 186
Views: 7606

Re: BBC Watch

BBC review finds 'serious flaws' over Gaza documentary https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07zz5937llo The review has identified serious flaws in the making of this programme. Some of these were made by the production company, and some by the BBC; all of them are unacceptable. BBC News takes full r...
by faldO
Thu Feb 27, 2025 1:55 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: BBC Watch
Replies: 186
Views: 7606

Re: BBC Watch

Gaza Lineker
by faldO
Thu Feb 27, 2025 1:24 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: BBC Watch
Replies: 186
Views: 7606

Re: BBC Watch

As someone sane enough to still recognise that the BBC are very much the opposite of The Voice of Hamas , yes I am. Don't you mean "The Voice of Hamas" ( proscribed as a terrorist organisation by many Western governments, including the UK ). I doubt you've even read the story about the do...
by faldO
Thu Feb 27, 2025 12:51 pm
Forum: General Chat (League One Boardin')
Topic: Labour Watch
Replies: 7454
Views: 292764

Re: Labour Watch

Omygawd wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:31 pm Amesbury jailed for 10 weeks for punching a constituent. Sets a precedent.
I see he's out after only a few days following a successful appeal.

Now, if he'd tweeted his punches...