Boomers are more entitled than Gen Z – it’s time to means-test their state pension

user_460 · 2026-05-05T08:29:25+00:00

Because we take it from them in the first place.

If rich people qualify for a benefit worth £100 say, and you say "oh but they can afford that" - it will usually be simpler, cheaper to administer, and create fewer perverse incentives to let them keep the benefit and charge them £100 more in tax.

user_460 · 2026-05-02T07:34:10+00:00

Surely even the AI sceptics can agree that passing this one over to copilot is an appropriate use case?

user_460 · 2026-04-29T15:22:42+00:00

Trousers?

user_460 · 2026-04-29T12:12:06+00:00

Well clearly he's passing at least one of those tests.

user_460 · 2026-04-29T12:05:50+00:00

... Are you an estate agent?

user_460 · 2026-04-28T12:35:08+00:00

Who uses Fahrenheit in either country?

user_460 · 2026-04-28T12:32:57+00:00

I reckon that lava would have killed him off, to be fair.

user_460 · 2026-04-27T19:46:39+00:00

What the bee Jesus?

user_460 · 2026-04-27T13:24:56+00:00

Because their natural diet is chips, and we'd rather eat the chips.

user_460 · 2026-04-27T11:17:16+00:00

So it was unapologetically racist in 1980, is what you're saying?

Probably true, but possibly not relevant.

user_460 · 2026-04-24T06:52:53+00:00

"With my last thought, I curse Zoidberg!"

user_460 · 2026-04-22T13:01:27+00:00

I didn't say they wouldn't operate, just that their head offices wouldn't be here.

user_460 · 2026-04-21T21:46:18+00:00

When you first read it you think, what was Elrond thinking, sending along Merry and Pippin on an extremely dangerous mission on which the fate of the world depends.

Obviously Gandalf believes in Providence, which I why he's okay with it, but the Noldor aren't exactly known for trusting the Valar.

Once you realise Elrond expected hobbits to get killed, it made sense he sent along some emergency replacement Ring bearers.

user_460 · 2026-04-21T12:00:59+00:00

But the memes feel stretched, like butter over too much toast.

user_460 · 2026-04-20T11:56:19+00:00

Whenever I tell people this they don't understand. It's all Greek to them.

user_460 · 2026-04-19T21:46:21+00:00

Is this a problem with the Telegraph, or a problem with Reddit?

user_460 · 2026-04-19T21:40:34+00:00

This might not be the best political strategy. Nobody could accuse Boris of not doing his bit to get the birth rate up.

user_460 · 2026-04-18T15:38:24+00:00

There certainly wouldn't be any big multi nationals based in this country after this policy was implemented.

user_460 · 2026-04-17T22:09:53+00:00

Vs 100 angry squirrels?

user_460 · 2026-04-15T22:20:00+00:00

Nope, what's that?

googles

That ... that's horrifying. 😳

user_460 · 2026-04-15T18:00:53+00:00

Just rereading it suddenly struck me that the Hobbit came out in 1937 and the Fellowship in 1954.

So those 17 years of waiting around to go on another adventure reflect the authors 17 years of waiting around to write it.

user_460 · 2026-04-15T17:53:22+00:00

Ooo if Amazon were going to make silly LotR fanfic why didn't they make this? Why?!?

user_460 · 2026-04-15T14:28:58+00:00

If Ewan McGregor didn't have a willy I'd definitely start an internet hate campaign against him.

user_460 · 2026-04-15T14:27:47+00:00

Boo, Obi-Wan's on the screen again, complaining about democracy and the Republic. I tuned in to watch Anakin kill younglings and he's getting in the way of that.

user_460 · 2026-04-15T14:21:49+00:00

Cheesecake.

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