urban.spaceman

Best game of the season so far IMO

What the **** was that yellow for???!?!

Still it's nice to see he doesn't consider himself to be intelligent.

SHIT ON ITTTTTT

This Is Spinal Tap 2 Really, really enjoyed it. Very funny.

It's conservatism as an ideology, politically in this country at least, that has a fundamental problem with any sort of improvement of infrastructure whatsoever and that extends far, far beyond their love of fossil fuels. Everything you are paying through the nose for now, is down to either Tory short termism, humiliating failures, or downright destruction. Energy? Thatcher sold off our energy sector so we’re now at the mercy of private foreign companies and volatile markets. She also sold off our North Sea oil to private extractors to profit from instead of setting up a sovereign wealth fund like Norway did (who extract their own oil and now have a wealth fund worth $1.5 TRILLION dollars). Miliband just signed off on Sizewell C which was identified by.... Ed Miliband in 2009. The Tories did **** all. Tories repeatedly delayed investment in grid modernisation and storage, leaving us exposed to energy shocks. Rail? Beeching closed down thousands of miles of railway in the 60s, Major privatised them in the 90s. HS2 took 7 years to even start building and was only supposed to cost £33bn. Sunak cut the Northern leg to save £36bn. Brown's government set up High Speed Two Limited in 2009, Labour inherited a project that won't finish until way after 2033 and is budgeted to cost well over £100bn by the end of it. Water? Privatised in the late ’80s; sold off to private companies whose shareholders include foreign pension funds. Said companies starved the infrastructure of investment and loaded themselves with debt. Now we’ve got raw sewage pumping into rivers—partly because the companies chose to pay billions in dividends instead of upgrading treatment works, and partly because Brexit sent the cost of treatment chemicals through the roof. Infrastructure’s rotting, bills keep going up, and we’re literally swimming in the consequences. Not a single company was held accountable. Internet? In the early 90s BT wanted to spend billions wiring the country with fibre optics, which would’ve made the UK a world leader in digital infrastructure. But John Major’s Tory government blocked the plan — not because it wouldn’t work, but because they wanted to “protect competition” for the fledgling cable TV market. In other words, they deliberately kneecapped a national fibre network to give a short-term boost to private cable firms. The result? Britain fell decades behind countries like South Korea and Japan, and we’re still stuck patching together copper networks while other nations enjoy cheap, ultra-fast internet. Housing? Thatcher’s Right to Buy sold off millions of council homes without replacing them, gutting social housing and forcing people into expensive private rents. The 2010-24 Tories scrapped house building targets, allowed rents to soar, and crashed mortgages with Brexit and Trussonomics. A generation locked out of home ownership and record homelessness. And a planning system that is crippled with obstructions. RAAC? The Tories ignored warnings for years about crumbling buildings made with RAAC concrete, which was only ever meant as a cheap stopgap. They cut funding for repairs under austerity, then acted surprised when ceilings started collapsing. Now thousands of schools and hospitals need emergency fixes at far higher cost than if they’d just invested properly in the first place. 40 new hospitals? WHERE .....????? They don't care about improving the status quo because they profit from it. It's not incompetence, it's ideological. All they ever do is destroy.

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A year old update to a 20 year old song from Eric Idle, still very, very relevant (and funny) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tn1QNxEoF4

Leeds and Everton reached settlement over 2021-22 profit and sustainability rules breach Leeds United and Everton reached an out-of-court settlement in connection with the latter’s breach of profit and sustainability rules during the 2021-22 season earlier this year. In November 2023, a Premier League independent commission found Everton guilty of the breach and the club later admitted it exceeded the permitted three-year losses of £105m by around £19.5m. Everton were deducted 10 points in November 2023, although it was later reduced to six on appeal. This penalty allowed Everton’s rivals to assess the earnings they may have lost as a result of this rule breach. Burnley, who were relegated two places and four points behind Everton in 21-22, are in court with the Merseyside club to argue their case for lost earnings. Leeds, who were not relegated in 2022, but did finish one place and one point behind Everton in 17th, weighed up taking similar court action. Leicester City, Southampton and Nottingham Forest also initially indicated they would consider legal action. However, sources with knowledge of the case, who spoke anonymously to protect relationships, said the Leeds hierarchy did not believe their case was strong enough to go to court. Therefore, the two clubs reached an agreement earlier this year, which draws a line under the matter for good. The financial package remains undisclosed, but according to the Premier League’s official table of merit payments for 21-22, 17th-place Leeds received £2,057,220 less than 16th-place Everton. Everton also breached PSR rules in 2022-23, when Leeds were relegated. However, Leeds were two places back in 19th and could not argue they would have survived if Everton had either been punished (with a points deduction) or honoured the PSR rules. Leeds and Everton declined to comment. (Photo: Darren Staples/AFP via Getty Images)

We'd never be able to afford that.

This is the most unhinged UN speech. The man is insane. Completely unfit to be in public life let alone politics. He's ****ing evil.

Never been very crafty or arty but I CAN craft a sketch series based on Leicester's PSR troubles: Just need some more drama so work off

Liz Truss

Please be quiet his ACL might be listening.

Imagine the number of parents that were blamed/guilt-tripped over their child's autism because they gave their child the MMR vaccine; this will just make the conspiratorial delegitimisation of basic medications, even more mainstream. Deeply, deeply troubling. Those midterms and his impeachment can't happen soon enough.

These people should be spending the rest of their lives behind bars.

He is genuinely evil. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/21/trump-officials-tylenol-autism

That lasted long; anxiety's been sky high this weekend to the point of making me physically ill. Horrible.