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4 minutes ago, filthyfox said:

Honestly, pork is among my favourite meats.  

 

Cant say ive ever come across a fat idiot declaring love for pork.  

 

Pork coukd well solve the issues in the middle east

You should order from here - Collections – Beal's Farm Charcuterie

If you like pig based meat. Melt in mouth, so tasty.

7 hours ago, PAULCFC said:

If anyone is looking for a place to come not far away(about 3 and a half hours) I'd recomend Nortumberland......Moved here 2 years ago and it's a different world up here!

I'm cold just thinking about this. But the area is varied, cheap and fun, I like it up there too.

When I see people on holiday in Jersey I just feel sorry for them. Really cold and vastly overpriced.

None of it was justified as climate policy. It was insurance. An electron can be sourced from coal, gas, sun, wind, or uranium; a combustion engine is married to a single fuel that must cross someone else’s chokepoint. Electrification is the purchase of optionality, and China bought more of it than any nation in history.

The happy clappers (unlike China) fail to understand that ‘green’ policies are about building resilience and varied profitable revenue streams. These people actual listen to cretins like Farage and probably believe what they read on twitter

Try living on an island on the sea. It's absolutely freezing

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

With respect to current discussion in the ****s thread:

 

Flat fee fines for criminal acts are just a surcharge for rich people to do that crime, they have no deterrent value. 

 

Assess such fines as a percentage of total assets or choose another sentence. 

Yep, remember my mind being blown when a client said he never bought a tube ticket as the expected value of fines was lower than the price of paying for a daily ticket.

No way I'd be so ballsy to do that, usually in life it's easier to just follow the rules, but fines legitimise the crime.

An 18 yr old got elected in Jersey in the elections on Sunday. Despite all the happy clappers saying 'but he's got no life experience!!' I think it's absolutely class. The lad will be on min £60k p.a and be making decisions in economy with nearly half a trillion £ AUM LOL.

1 hour ago, AjcW said:

Yawnnnn....

 

He's quite clearly in control, comes across that way in the documentary(s) too, they were literally packing to move to Holland and he changed his mind that day and shipped them off to a newly promoted Italian side  

 

John Morris has more control of Jamie than Becky.

That was one of the most contrived stories of that weird documentary. It hurt me to watch all the non-Leicester bits.

At least the Furys are good actors and make their Netflix scripted events seem real. 'Right then boys we're off on an impromptu John O Groats trip!!!!!!' 'Tyson has taken off spontaneously AGAIN leaving me with the kids!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!' etc etc etc.

Listening to RebeKAH describe that plane journey was loathsome, abhorrent, hurtful, you pick the synonym. 

17 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

Your group sounds like it's having a great time.

It was fun! There was us and another group of Leicester fans on the other side of the ground with a flag 

When asked why I didn’t follow some bullsh1t compliance procedure I replied with ‘because I don’t want that side of my brain to grow.’

I genuinely don’t see a problem with this statement, especially as compliance people are a total waste of time and funding. But was forced to apologise. 
I don’t think this would offend anyone under the age of 50, maybe 60. 

20 minutes ago, FoxesDeb said:

Yes I work full time so have to book my leave, and I need to get in fairly quick to be sure of getting the dates I want.

 

In January we're off on a cruise from Singapore to Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, and that was booked in April 2025. The thing with cruises is they are usually cheapest when they're released, and if you want to choose your cabin you need to be pretty quick too. We booked another cruise in the Caribbean for November 2027 just a couple of weeks ago. Weekend breaks we book pretty last minute, depends when and where we see cheap flights, but the 'big' holidays are planned well in advance.

 

Until 2024 I'd never been outside Europe so now I have a pretty hefty list of places I want to go and I think this is why I've fallen in love with cruising, it's a great way to see a little bit of a lot of the world in a short time frame. A lot of places I know I want to see slowly when we've retired so for now it's about going where we can within the constraints of annual leave.

 

And yes to Perth in November 2028, I know we want to go to Vietnam early 2028, so realistically for me it's the next big holiday window  

Seriously cool - enjoy it all

2 hours ago, FoyleFox said:

1.5 months ahead isn't in advance that's last minute for me 

 

We've booked Japan and Korea for June '27 and South America for January '28 already!

I work for myself and the OH is retired so, leave isn't an issue for us. If you've an employer with strict leave rules, I can see how it would be more challenging. 

That's mad but fair play. Not strict leave requirements but nature of the job is peaks and troughs so mad surge times and down cycles when we're looking for work. I've ben caught out too many times having to work on a holiday so prefer to be last min now.

And this damn war as well as Iran and Israel bombing each other last summer when I was in Jordan has scarred me, so I'm not booking anything outside of Europe longer than a month in advance. 

Your trips sound epic btw.

14 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

Are you going there on a cruise? You're very much a forward planner like me 

 

Our main holidays for 2027 are booked and I'm now planning 2028, so far looking at a Vietnam tour followed by the beach in Phu Quoc in March/April and then Perth in Australia in November.

 

After that our only continent to visit would be Antarctica so I'm interested in your plan

Christ, how!? Do you work/need to book leave? I booked Thailand 1.5 months in advance and then was kicking myself for being convinced into booking it early after getting caught in the Iran war on the way back. Do you mean Perth in Nov 2028??

1 hour ago, JonnyBoy said:

“unskilled” Is subjective isn’t it? I know a lot of trades people who earn more money than a lot of professional teachers. Are the bricklayers more middle class than teachers? it’s an interesting one 

 

 

Defo. Trades people rule the world imo. Funny how British society, class and perceptions have endured for so long

18 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Are they not?

48 minutes ago, JonnyBoy said:

How would you define what jobs are middle class? 

British middle class I reckon is those who are professionals and can notarise, teacher, doctor, lawyer, accountant, MP etc. Not in an unskilled job with no entry level requirements. 

American middle class is prob how much money you earn regardless of the skill level of what you do. At least my experience of when I worked there.

Before you sh1t yourselves I could not care less about class or those who are desperate to prove they are part of some archaic system.

Jeremy Clarkson interview on climate change. Wonder if the happy clappers will now cancel him for joining the liberal elite

Big group of us going to the t20 in Hove this Friday. For me Brighton away was the best day out in the prem so this is a good replacement, get to drink at the JHT in Lewes again.

Very fun sport and nowhere near as demanding or technique heavy as squash and racketball.

Problem is it's being conquered by estate agent/insurance broker/recruitment consultant types as another way for them to desperately prove they belong in the middle class.

2 hours ago, The Bear said:

I genuinely don't understand. Just tow the offending cars away and make them pay the fine + costs. That will stop it instantly. 

At my old street in London the fire brigade smashed through a car that was causing a blockage to a house that had dialled 999. And I mean smashed through remembering the pics. They left leaflets scattered around the street saying they are legally bound to get to an emergency and you park on the street at your own risk of that. It was an acute problem on this street because it was the nearest free parking street to the station.

2 hours ago, whoareyaaa said:

Need to live near the coast would be much more bearable 

I live on a coastal island in the English Channel. Trust me for the 360 days of sideways rain and force 6-8 winds, the cool breeze of these days doesn’t mean you should live here for the weather.

1 hour ago, Zear0 said:

Yeah for the festival. We go every year as it’s good for the family and there’s something for everyone. Craft stuff for the 3 y/o, pizza workshops for the 6 y/o and history lectures for boring twats like me.

 

Went to a few talks from James Holland, Ben Macintyre and David Olusoga yesterday and some more events on Thursday and Friday.

 

It is a book festival in name and that is a big part of it, but it’s such a chill place to visit and lots of things for anyone to do. You only pay for the events you attend too so you can attend for nothing if you wanted to. Defo encourage people to give it a bash at least once.

Great tip - will have a look at this

On 26/05/2026 at 08:07, VLC86 said:

Santorini isnt huge but i enjoyed my time there, incredible views from so many places.

 

Ola and Fira are the 2 main towns, they’ll be the ones you see on the pictures with the white buildings and blue roofs. 
 

I went to a village called Purgos which was really nice. I stayed on the southern tip which has got a lighthouse with great sunset views. There is a museum down that was of a buried city.

 

Nice place, hasn’t got the best beaches mind.

I think for 10 days you will get very bored in Santorini. Yeh the views etc are nice but after 10 days I think that will wear thin. Also ofc it is a place overrun by Western tourists and all authenticness is gone, hence overwhlemigly overpriced, bring a sturdy credit card if you're gonna be there for 10 days 

2 hours ago, CL Fox said:

Just because it makes loads of money doesn't make it good - im not sure how in any way thats an effective counter argument 

Yeh true, it's one metric of 'good' - actually probably the main metric of good if you live in the first/western world and you've signed up to a society where money is the most important thing in the world ever.

The Premier League generates around £10bn a year in gross value added to the UK, including from ticket sales, merchandise and tourism. That represents a 14-fold increase since the 1998/99 season, according to Ernst & Young, and is broadly comparable to England’s entire agricultural output. Clubs and players — who earn on average over £4mn per year — contribute £4.4bn in tax revenue, equivalent to the salaries of more than 100,000 NHS nurses. Altogether, the league supports an estimated 104,500 jobs. Since the launch of the top tier in 1992, when English football was recovering from a 1980s nadir of hooliganism and crumbling facilities, its quality and spectacle have fuelled a renaissance and attracted billions of viewers worldwide. In 2023/24, the league generated £1.7bn in international broadcast revenue alone, nearly equalling the rest of the UK television sector combined.

Good counter argument to the happy clappers who hate modern football. Hopefully this position of dominance is not thrown away, and owners realise a big part of the 'product' and revenue generation is the local fanbase

52 minutes ago, Bert said:

Why is this weather too hot In the UK but in another country it’s class. 

Humidity and everything being built to conserve heat. 

15 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

@bovril not sure if you've seen mate but soft launch of The Whippet near Liverpool St the week just gone, same group as the Holborn Whippet / Euston Tap etc, they've taken a few bits and pieces from the Holborn Whippet to put up n all

Nice tip thanks, location ensures all the recruiters, insurance brokers and product control dudes stay in the railway tavern whilst the good lads can enjoy this place and still be in spitting distance of McDonalds and train home