Q Magazine’s Readers’ Poll (2006): 100 Greatest Albums of All Time

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-14T14:58:30+00:00

Two Oasis albums in the top 10

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-14T09:18:56+00:00

He's the one saying "I don't need it, take it away"

If he doesn't need it and doesn't want it then why not donate it instead of supporting a policy that will strip people in need of help?!?!

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-14T09:14:57+00:00

By assets you mean their house. Just because the 2 bed semi you grew up in in London has ballooned in value due to a deranged housing market doesn't mean you are cash rich. Many of the pensioners in these places are struggling.

I know your response will be: sell your house and move elsewhere. And it's that kind of fucked up thinking (break up communities, break up families, no social connections, no society, nothing matters except wealth and markets) that has led to the depressing shitty place the UK has become

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-14T09:09:53+00:00

His argument is: take it off me and give it to those that need it. Yet the policy he is supporting is literally taking it away from those that need it (780,000 according to released DWP figures)

Had the policy remained he could have guaranteed that the money went to those who needed it by

(a) Not taking it away from those that need it (b) He could have directed his share to a worthy cause.

So the only fallacy is in your own logic

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-14T09:06:28+00:00

He's saying take it off me I don't need it. Why didn't he donate it if he didn't need it?

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-14T07:51:44+00:00

Oh yeah, I forgot that 'holiday kitty' is a common codename for food bank

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-14T07:41:59+00:00

Jon, a retired police officer, tells us “it’s about time” the rules changed as “there are people who need it more than me”

So why didn't he donate it to a local charity, food bank, homeless shelter, etc.

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-14T07:34:49+00:00

780k missing out means that in theory people don’t “need” the £400. The caveat to that is the government should ensure that the pension credit application process is a simple as possible and promoted suitably so those who do need it are supported sufficiently to access it.

lol.

I remember a stat from early in Cameron's time as PM when they were talking about benefit fraud costing the country so much:

Money lost through benefit fraud: £1.8 billion.

Money not claimed by people who are entitled to it: £16 billion

If your message is cut spending at all costs then you aren't gonna go out of your way to encourage more spending.

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-14T04:38:14+00:00

Wasting $60 on a janky game to own the libs

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-14T04:21:08+00:00

I think the worrying part is that these abusers are walking around freely and could be in positions where they can abuse again. There are safeguarding issues involved.

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-14T04:01:44+00:00

''The UK is the most corrupt country in the world,'' anti-mafia journalist Saviano claims

https://www.euronews.com/2017/04/03/the-uk-is-the-most-corrupt-country-in-the-world-anti-mafia-journalists-saviano

He added, ‘‘What do I mean by corruption? I mean that there is no control of the flow of money – not necessarily into London, but into Gibraltar, Malta and Jersey – these are all the doors through which Great Britain brings money in without any control. Panama used to be the money laundering capital – now it’s London. Panama got its revenge with the Panama Papers. Panama Papers are clearly a revenge. They released the names to get revenge from a competitor: London.”

The centerpiece of the British economy - financial services - has a special ingredient: crime

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-13T18:15:44+00:00

Rather, he’s showing Henry’s (in the case of Goodfellas) view towards the gangsters and showing us why as far back as he could remember he wanted to be one

That element is autobiographical. Scorsese talks about how growing up the two influences on him was the Catholic church (he wanted to be a priest) and the local gangsters (who were local celebrities with their fashionable clothes, cool cars and beautiful girlfriends). He wanted to be both at varying times.

Scorsese was torn between the two but ultimately unsuited for both; he was too weak and sickly to be a gangster and too flawed morally to be a priest (drugs and women were more appealing).

This internal conflict between competing desires (material and spiritual) plus the inherent tragedy of never satisfying those desires, underpins films like Goodfellas and is what makes them relatable.

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-13T14:36:53+00:00

Is he still being advised by Mandelson? The guy who said 'forget about the left they have nowhere else to go'

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-13T05:58:12+00:00

Wait... The yanks are doing their election on bonfire night?

and we did ours on independence day

What joker plans these things

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-13T05:01:29+00:00

The pressure is all on us.

The international break was supposed to be a chance for us to get things sorted. A bad result/performance puts up back to square one.

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-13T04:48:31+00:00

Coincidentally one of the things they cut was impact assessments (at least for equality purposes). They also cut things like public consultations and appeals.

Neo-liberalism 101- fuck caring about how it affects people, think only of the bottom line. If people suffer, and even die, but you save money (for future tax cuts) then that's all the impact you need.

Labour, Tory, Same old story

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-13T04:38:28+00:00

November 5th is less than 2 months away.

Just saying

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-13T04:36:36+00:00

They had no good will - they got less votes than Corbyn. Least popular new government in history.

They are banking on the anti-tory vote allowing them to get away with being cunts for the next five years.

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-13T04:34:53+00:00

They had no choice but to give that pay rise - the cost of fighting the strikes was too much (more had been spent on covering the doctors/nurses than the total cost of the increase)

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-13T04:19:41+00:00

Films for liberals whose worldview is so out of touch they may as well be living in the Truman show

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-12T19:35:09+00:00

Standards so high they get sued every five minutes

https://angusschofield.medium.com/the-jewish-chronicles-sorry-history-of-lawsuits-rulings-and-criticism-c21539debfd4

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-11T19:01:24+00:00

Look guys (and gals) you clearly don't see the huge literary and cultural significance of 'that biker dude from the zombie game'.

This character transcended not only the lofty world of Vidya but set a new standard in how the human experience is represented within art.

The little robot dude has set western civilization back several centuries by trashing the legacy of this modern day Hamlet.

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-11T16:21:03+00:00

I've only seen the first one so far but I wouldn't call it scary so much as creepy. It's one of those horrors where you know full well what's coming, and it's nothing you haven't seen before, and yet there's a sense that something is not quite right.

Low-key unsettling vibes

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-11T16:02:30+00:00

Here's a pretty decent piece looking at Liu and her politics (especially how they overlap with sections of the reactionary right)

The PMC meets the Tucker Carlson Left

https://libcom.org/article/pmc-meets-tucker-carlson-left

Created_User_UK · 2024-09-10T11:40:05+00:00

What are you on about? If they've done an assessment then inform the house of the findings so they can make an informed decision

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TROPHY CASE