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Stout from the Fownd Brewery. Very nice. Something about Worcestershire breweries and pubs, they seem to be very good at providing solid, proper pints of bitter and stout. One of the last holdouts against the juicy pale ale hordes.

Don't stop me blaming the Welsh for the Tudors

The Tudors were PoC (Welsh)

You probably already know it but he's right that the Royal Oak is a beautiful pub and one of the best places to get more trad bitters, milds etc in London. Though it's all Harvey's. Fantastic pub all in all.

The Harp is indeed quite keen on hoppy IPAs. Maybe a good stout or porter now and then. That's ok in the summer but when it's darkest winter in London doesn't really make much sense to have 3 or 4 zesty pale ales with notes of guava and tangerine.

Franz Ferdinand suggesting to Sophie where to book their holiday, May 1914

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How about Normandy, Brittany and Anjou. Can go by train. Laid back and well organized, good food and loads of historic sights obviously. Sure other parts of France are nice too but those are the ones I've been to.

To "stand up to reform" you need to point out that the two things Brits don't like - an underperforming economy and extremely high immigration - are at least partially down to Farage's mid 2010s pet project. But the Conservatives can't do that for obvious reasons.

Brits in the last few years have consistently voted for all the things they then complain about. Although I think that's less gullibility and more lack of understanding of even simple cause and effect relationships.

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You would think the Americans of all people would know you can lose to a country 20x smaller than yours

Thanks. To be honest I do accept the state of the world at the moment a valid reason not to have a baby but I suppose I will need someone to push me on a rusty supermarket trolly through a post apocalyptic wasteland in a decade or so

I think I've met like 4 people off here and thankfully none of them know my girlfriend's Dad

Thanks all. Bit nuts. Hardly told anybody but thankfully this is an anonymous forum

we started a bit late for that

Thanks for the interesting post. It's basically what I'm getting at, that the culture has changed, whether or not one thinks that's a good thing. I have one due in about a month so ask me again in the summer...

Think that would probably be India, quite comfortably

I also think we've picked up a little bit from America this cult of positivity and psychological wellbeing and there is a greater fear in this country of a child growing up in a less emotionally stable environment than in other countries, at least from my observations. Probably should point out I say all this as someone who doesn't have children.

Not phrased very well but I imagine declining birth rates have a lot to do with middle income couples feeling like they are not financially secure enough to be able offer them the same kind of life (relatively large house, regular holidays, university education) that our parents gave us. I am too and I think it's understandable in this culture. I just think it's a negative development.

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My own almost certainly unpopular opinion is that we should renormalise having kids when you don't feel you can financially support them as much as you think you should. It's ironic that it's right wingers who often (correctly) complain about declining birth rates when they're generally the ones who for years denigrated any parents on lower incomes as irresponsible.

It goes like this, the fourth the fifth (and sixth, seventh and eighth) Coady falls, Faes is shit, The M&S wrap: chicken and nduja Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, halleluuuuuujaahhhhh

I think walking alone through the backstreets of Cannaregio or Castello or pretty much any part of Venice away from the centre very early in the morning out of season, or late at night in the summer, is one of the greatest experiences you can have on this earth. Unbelievable atmosphere.

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