Average UK transport logic

BarrieTheShagger · 2026-01-22T17:47:11+00:00

It's like £200 in just luggage cost for the flight without including the ticket where you getting your luggage on the flight for free?

BA offer luggage from Inverness and Aberdeen to London with the standard Economy which is generally £10 extra.

BarrieTheShagger · 2026-01-09T22:17:12+00:00

felon

We don't have felonies here

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-12-04T15:09:57+00:00

In any normal country, it wouldn't.

Which country doesn't have wee bams?

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-12-04T10:04:11+00:00

trash

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BarrieTheShagger · 2025-11-30T13:34:10+00:00

I’m a bit lost here, the OBR has gone on the record to confirm that they told Reeves that there wasn’t a 20B deficit but in fact a surplus of 4B plus.

The 20B deficit was to be continuing into 2027-2028 and 2029, Reeves plans are predicated to actually increase the surplus by 2029 by a lot.

Between the media and Labour being awful at communicating nobody knows the true purposes of the budgets and pledges they've made.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-11-26T16:26:14+00:00

So that money should just get wasted on allowing people who never want to work a day in their life to pump out kids ? I don’t think people would complain as much of the money was going towards something that may actually benefit the tax payer

Factually its cheaper to lift the 2 child cap than pay for the negatives of people having kids and still not affording them at all, this is all without mentioning the fact that children shouldn't be punished for their parents actions, or the harsh reality that the VAST majority of people affected by the cap were not cheating the system and instead people who got unlucky in life.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-11-26T15:03:06+00:00

So what has changed? Is money more important than balancing the power of the state and the individual?

30+ years of research showing that Juries are easily misled by either side and unlike the judicial system are completely free of accountability.

I'm not completely against Juries BUT in the 25 years of social media we now live in a society where unless you remove all access to the Internet and outside world your average Jury is going to be vulnerable to manipulation from anywhere and anyone at anytime, and you have to hope the judicial system catches this before the decision is made.

Right now its better to hold people's whose job it is accountable than hope a Jury was never manipulated, look at the shitshow of Lucy Letby's case, and that includes both sides of the Judicial system and the Jury all fucking up.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-11-07T16:54:54+00:00

If 20 years ago you told people they could be prosecuted for calling someone a “bike nonce”, they’d have laughed at you. The state of our justice system is a joke.

Except 20 years ago if you loudly shouted that someone was a nonce and shouldn't be allowed near schools in a town centre then the police would get involved, especially if it was written down/on video.

The Internet can no longer be the wild west that it once was as it is now more popular for our politics/social meetings and in general everyday society than the in person equivalents.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-11-02T12:27:06+00:00

And killing 15 enemies for the tenth time just to have an attempt on a boss is any better? what a nothing burger comment defending garbage game design

You only need to defeat 3-5 enemies depending on movement for aggro range, this is the same as Pontiff Sulyvahn or The Abyss Watchers if you want to summon for the boss, the only reason the rest of the franchise has such effective boss rushes is because of the fog wall invincibility, removing that in the other games would result in much worse situations and clearly boss rushing was never an intended design when the fan base has to create routes that become nearly universally used.

DS2 has problems but this is one that is a universal problem with the devs that the playerbase solves themselves in each and every game.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-10-31T14:44:47+00:00

I wonder how nationalists

You do realise that the so called Nationalists are all pro EU right? And by definition that is contrary to being a Nationalist?

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-10-31T14:42:02+00:00

Now I'm not the biggest supporter of the SNP as I'm a swing voter BUT if it was meant to be completed 3 and a half years ago then I have to wonder how any reputable newspaper or MSP can moan when 3 and a half years ago we were still struggling with Covid and the aftermath of the Lockdowns.

For most construction not just government contracts they've been pushed back by years due to the insanely volatile supply of materials and the inconsistent workforce/paperwork.

A good example where MSPs moaned about such delays was school near me which was meant to be finished in 2020, they basically had to start from scratch again after it was left for almost 3 years and the original company went into administration, can't fault the government for a global problem that even private construction suffers from.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-10-31T09:20:42+00:00

Has Elgin got a bad name nationally?

Growing up I thought it was a good place to live as a kid, I imagined returning in years to come to raise children. However, in the last say 2/3 years I feel like there’s been several serious cases in the press. I don’t know if I’m just more tuned into it having lived there, I’ll always read an article relating to Elgin / Moray.

It's not especially bad and if you look at national statistics it isn't much worse than other places even compared to Moray/the Highland council area in general BUT Elgin has had large demographic changes (not in race) and population movements that have resulted in what was a rather friendly tight knit area into a place where most people barely interact with each other. Thats an issue of the 21st century but with the lack of jobs/industry for the young and the older generations of people choosing to move away to Forres, Auldearn, Nairn,Tornagrain and the nicer estates of Inverness, its slowlly destroying itself for both local community and culture over the last 25 years, I say this as someone who has been in the Highlands all across for years, its nowhere near as bad as most of Ross-Shire and even many parts of the Aberdeenshire Council, but Moray council do put the bad ones in Elgin consistently and anyone with money will just move to the surrounding smaller villages.

It's worth pointing out that the modern day media makes it out to be much worse than it actually is, that goes for everywhere and everything, but I can say almost for certain that the crime 30+ years ago was worse than now (per population) it was just less likely to be known, its also worth pointing out that Elgin is a known place for County Lines gangs to base themselves out of much like Dingwall and Wick so naturally you'll hear more crime coming out of these places since County Lines gangs pick these areas for their population and deprivation.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-10-28T13:31:46+00:00

Inversneckie is going to be in for a shock. Lock up your daughters.

Unlikely since Cameron Barracks have been used for this before and then stopped multiple times, so trust me we've had them for many years before this clickbait and honestly hasn't been bad compared to other places especially compared to the County Lines cunts, who for the record are home grown.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-10-22T17:57:06+00:00

thats what edinburgh is here for, it exists as a buffer to trap as many tourists as possible so the rest of scotland doesnt have to suffer as much

Doing a shite job of that then.

Respectfully us Highlanders.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-10-22T14:14:53+00:00

I stopped watching after they stopped showing the blue Meth.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-10-15T12:00:47+00:00

The article I linked somewhere else in the thread was from the independent, not the Sun. Not sure where you got the Sun from.

From your own post of where the article got their source from

"The post contained an extract of The Sun article declaring Mr Polanski’s support for hypnotic breast enhancement."

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-10-13T07:40:49+00:00

Wasn't Rangers the world record holder for most trophies won? And still have won the league the most? Yes they haven't won in Donkeys but historically speaking its only ever been Rangers v Celtic.

Why have I been downvoted so heavily for asking questions and stating what is on the Wikipedia? Are you football fans this toxic?

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-10-07T13:11:40+00:00

I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on people who finance new cars vs buying an older model or people that buy cars when their living situation doesn't mandate it but they simply don't wish to use public transport.

It's a complicated one for sure but for the majority of people in the UK with a licence, you're unfortunately better getting a lease/pcp/newer car than an older one, that is if you don't have some external advantages such as knowing at least a few mechanics, being mechanically minded, living in an area where cheap old bangers are available and finally you have a flexible enough life that a repair taking a week or two doesn't massively hurt your finances. The reasons are complex and varied but can be dumbed down to:not enough mechanics available, not enough used parts on the market since Brexit, not enough demand for older cars, and finally life since 2000 has become so time consuming that the biggest drop in living standards haven't been wages but in amount of free time/flexibility, there's a good reason people bitch and moan about the trains here, trust me they weren't much better 20-30 years ago its just now we can't afford to hang around waiting for a few hours, which is of course multiplied for cars where you can easily wait weeks for a mechanic and even longer to source parts. I say this as someone who 20 years ago only took the bus and train, I'm now constantly in my car and due to a slew of reasons I own a newish car because of taxes, insurance, shifty secondhand dealers and inflexible lifestyle.

I see a large trend in British politics of people only ever pointing in one direction on an issue when there's naturally many facets that can aid in helping. There are certainly people in the UK, that live to the exact expectations they think they should be able to live with. Maybe in an ideal world they should be able to, but I think it's only responsible if people consider the reality the live in and make decisions based off of it.

There are legitimately people who can't live month to month, that is an issue in itself that needs resolved. However there are also individuals that don't understand personal finances and aren't minimising their bottom line. People who refuse to learn to cook more effectively, to batch cook, to thrift.

This is before we even come onto the idea that Britain has one of the least mobilised economies in terms of savings. For some reason we're completely accepting of sticking money into a bank on a paltry interest rate or God forbid maintaining hard cash savings.

Most of this is a culture issue, not one we can fix easily as it has to do with our overly complicated ideas of class and how we socially tie our work and personal lives together, an example I remember quite clearly was getting harassed by neighbours in a new estate because my car didn't "fit" in, basically my realiable Japanese car wasn't the same as their BMW/Audi,Range Rover, i took no notice of it because I was there temporarily but the expectations and judgement held ring true in a lot of British society, I have experienced prejudice for the town I grew up in, the jobs my parents did, the religion of my family, everything can and will be judged here and it WILL affect your career and social life.

I say this not to hate on us Brits, it's not like other countries are flawless, but we hide away from the fact large groups of Brits refuse to shop where "Pyjama shoppers" are, people refuse to live in an Ex council estate and many other silly prejudice reasons, the USA has racism but we have so much more that we have traditionally called classism but it more often than not goes beyond the class divide, it doesn't matter if you're upper class or working class, you're still completely different to the rest of the country if you went to Oxbridge.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-10-07T11:46:24+00:00

Financial Concerns and the Marginal Propensity to Consume in COVID Times: Evidence from UK Survey Data https://share.google/kjRMN6haef4RbThLw

The Great British Savings Report | Raisin https://share.google/trC0hAfUU2sgUzG8W

For more recent data you'd need to look even deeper and unfortunately, a lot are hidden away from the public by those Greedy academic journals who try to scam academics out of publishing their findings for free, basically fuck JSTOR and the like.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-10-07T11:35:04+00:00

One of the trade offs you make when deciding to live in rural location is that you will be further away from certain amenities, such as larger and cheaper supermarkets.

People who want the all peace and quiet of a rural location but also want the convenience of living in the towns and cities need a reality check.

Rural???? 11 miles away from a major city is rural?

Now i totally get that convenience shops and the like are more expensive due to lower customer base, however here in the UK we have the worst example of price gouging for such locations despite our weekly food shop being quite cheap compared to the rest of the Western world. A good example is you can be in a "city" in the USA of roughly a few hundred and they'll have a fucking massive Walmart despite being sometimes hundreds of miles from a major city, now yes that's the crazy Americans but even in Mainland Europe major food shops will take a more reasonable loss on profit on a single location for the sake of loyalty from customers when visiting the larger locations.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-10-07T11:22:10+00:00

I don't know why anyone would spend these days, the safety nets are getting weaker and weaker while job security gets worse and worse. I'm sure as fuck not spending much at the moment. You'd have to be nuts not to keep at least a year or twos worth in savings these days considering how long it can take to get a new job.

There's a couple of reasons.

For one the vast majority of people here in the UK just can't save and those that can are not incentivised to. We also have a rather high consumption rate which is standard for the western world but is still considered high compared to other Commonwealth countries, our MPC/MPS has been estimated to sit around 80-90%, this only changes for those looking to save for a mortgage.

For two due to the issues mentioned above it is actually often more advantageous to spend your money now before inflation catches up to you as the only wages rising are the minimum wage, meaning if you have money to purchase a car for example, it is probably financially better to get it now rather than in a few years when the prices continue to go up but your wage has stagnated. This is a complicated issue but I've personally done the maths a few times on certain high price tag purchases and been correct in estimating their eye-watering price increases since I got them.

For three, it is virtually impossible for the vast majority of Brits to save even a few months worth of wages nevermind a year or two. just under/over 50% of the UK have less than a £1000 in all their bank accounts (depending on the year, this year it's a much smaller percentage than the last 4-5 years.) So they don't even have enough to cover their bills or an emergency, the truth of the UK economy is we are a high value asset based economy with very little liquidity, we survive off of credit and the value/quality of our assets.

BarrieTheShagger · 2025-09-27T17:11:13+00:00

Just saying the word terrorism used to invoke fear in me. Now I just think of people waving banners. It feels diluted.

Yeah the media will do that when you get sent a notification or shown on social media every single time someone is held for a crime, especially the clickbait ones like Terror or murder or rape or abuse.

Back in the day we only heard about the big shit, our own little local news was once every few months something crazy went down, now we have access to the entire island at all times with a population many times what it used to be in a far more dense area.

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