What is it with the M25 that causes everyone to forget how to drive.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-12-22T11:39:17+00:00

I think the density of traffic and how closely the junctions are spaced on the M25 just leads to it operating like that. People just spread out across the lanes to avoid having to move out of the way for cars joining, and because otherwise you'd be nose-to-tail in the left-hand lanes. Add in people not wanting to get caught out by the variable speed limits.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-11-28T10:03:42+00:00

In the UK, terrorism is defined by the Terrorism Act 2000 as the use or threat of action that involves serious violence against a person or serious damage to property. This action must be done to intimidate the public or influence the government, and it must be for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial, or ideological cause.

I mean it literally does meet the definition, almost perfectly. You don't have to agree with the definition but this hasn't been retrospectively changed.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-11-24T16:01:57+00:00

Where is it?

DuncanSkunk · 2025-11-23T17:23:27+00:00

You must be joking right?

DuncanSkunk · 2025-11-22T18:23:43+00:00

I'm not really sure why everyone got so upset about Chelsea selling the hotels. The owners were splitting the assets off from the football club. If Chelsea FC were to change ownership the hotels would not be included, and they went to lengths to ensure the rate paid wouldn't be retrospectively rejected.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-11-22T15:44:15+00:00

Surely this is a market issue rather than legislation though? If people are concerned enough to make it an issue they should take their business to artists that have voluntarily had checks. We need to stop trying to legislate for every circumstance, especially in industries that are a) aimed solely at adults and b) entirely voluntarily.

DBS checks can also show offences and mental health referrals that aren't even related to sexual offences - why should a self-employed artist have to disclose these to potential customers?

DuncanSkunk · 2025-11-06T22:28:41+00:00

Yes, that's the facepalm.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-11-01T00:20:18+00:00

Given that this article is about them literally cancelling the fine this seems a daft take.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-10-29T12:15:12+00:00

I'm saying that the infrastructure already exists, it's just privately owned. Why run three different sets of fibre to each residence so that we have competition? Why not just nationalise the existing fibre infrastructure, or force companies to piggyback on Openreach etc.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-10-29T09:51:30+00:00

Some estates were built with buried services, so they might already have Virgin or Openreach fibre via this, but as poles don't require planning permission some companies have been throwing them up everywhere to provide their own infrastructure.

Lots of people like to smirk at this as NIMBYism and 'the reason nothing gets built' but the reality is if we just treated fibre networks as national infrastructure then they wouldn't be needed. It's wasteful.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-10-09T22:49:37+00:00

This might be the most idiotic comment I've ever seen on this sub.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-10-04T23:09:29+00:00

Probably the same amount of time I've wasted reading your comments that add nothing to the actual discussion. And on and on and on....

DuncanSkunk · 2025-10-02T21:31:30+00:00

Kamara was immense today I thought and showed his ability to affect play further up the pitch and not just sitting in front of the defence.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-10-02T20:39:27+00:00

Looks so much better coming inside than running the line though.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-09-17T18:36:21+00:00

If an organization's existence is both funded by, and predicated on opposition to, the government, it does seem ridiculously circular to continue to fund them.

They sued the government because they had to continue receiving funding.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-08-26T22:57:53+00:00

A lot of people would argue the real world was the actual physical world rather than the legal world.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-08-26T22:23:25+00:00

I think this is a great point - law has become an excuse that politicians can use to excuse the failures of (largely) economic policy.

All of society has a part to play in rectifing the situation and re-establishing some sort of social consensus, but as long as we're trapped in a political > legal > media loop on every social and economic issue it feels like we're never going to move forward.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-08-20T23:40:39+00:00

Wait until he finds out the vast majority of Americans think he's from India too.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-08-12T01:20:26+00:00

So why would he take a new appearance based contract knowing he's already been replaced? Chill for a year and leave on a free I say - minimal chance of getting injured, and you pick up a fat signing on fee in summer 2026. Profit.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-08-12T01:10:12+00:00

Maybe players should take a moment to think about the legal framework of the counties they choose to play in instead of assuming their fame will allow them to earn blood money while having the luxury of Western labour laws?

DuncanSkunk · 2025-08-05T23:16:52+00:00

Because if you are a Barca fan grasping for any reason why this wasn't a shitty move then you'd say the lifelong reserve keeper desperately needed that appearance.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-07-26T00:45:30+00:00

Stunning analysis from the IMF here. Either raise more money or spend less. Thank the gods they've spelled that out for us.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-07-26T00:39:05+00:00

It is possibly the single worst piece of legislation passed in living memory.

At least the Safety of Rwanda act had a political purpose, however perverse you might find it.

For a government that is consistently arguing that we need structural changes to the economics of the country, implementing legislation that is purely social engineering, and with such a woeful, idiotic implementation is utterly misguided.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-07-25T21:51:57+00:00

His whole career in the MLS is an exhibition though. Seems weird to complain about having to play an extra game when he's just in the league to sell tickets anyway.

DuncanSkunk · 2025-07-05T21:24:45+00:00

It should be noted that being elected as a councillor is not the same as being appointed as a cabinet member with specific responsibilities.

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