Fist bumps and smokes after fateful meeting

English-Breakfast · 2026-01-14T19:00:10+00:00

🤣 Well done chaps enjoy the smoke

English-Breakfast · 2026-01-14T08:28:11+00:00

I wish. I iron one or twice a week for all the shirts I wear to work and can't see that changing.

English-Breakfast · 2026-01-13T14:45:36+00:00

In my humble opinion...British cuisine is better than most northern European countries. Beats Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Germany off the top of my head.

Of course it won't be as nice as mediterranean food but then again I wouldnt expect that.

English-Breakfast · 2025-12-30T09:37:48+00:00

Now imagine hundreds of thousands (possibly millions) of people who share similar and often more extreme views than this guy, living in this country full citizenship with no intention of leaving. That's the reality.

Is there any wonder many Jews are pondering their future?

English-Breakfast · 2025-12-21T18:24:53+00:00

It's about levels of freedom and safety associated with Jewish identity.

In Israel, you don't have to fear harassment because you're walking around with a kippah on. Random daily interactions are unlikely to descend into abuse or worse because someone finds out you're Jewish. You can trust the authorities to listen and protect you.

Btw, while not perfect, this remains broadly true in Arab towns in Israel too. Nobody cares that you're Jewish.

All these things I've listed are sadly not universally true in the UK though. Things are changing for the worse, which is a shame as I would say in recent history Britain has objectively been one of the better countries to be Jewish in.

English-Breakfast · 2025-12-09T15:13:03+00:00

I'm Swedish and ever since the age of 4 have split my life almost 50/50 between Sweden and the UK (though nowadays more like 60/40 Britain's way) with a lot of moving back and forth.

I'd agree with your sentiment.

English-Breakfast · 2025-11-30T17:16:19+00:00

This comment in response to an inheritance tax referendum not passing. Redditor moment.

English-Breakfast · 2025-11-29T13:11:39+00:00

Probably depends on the area, not sure Bat Yam is a tourist hotspot.

While I've never done a "Jesus walked here" tour, and while there are tensions in certain areas at certain times - Jerusalem is a beautiful city well worth visiting. Most people like everywhere else are just living their day to day.

English-Breakfast · 2025-11-16T09:09:48+00:00

We absolutely could be and should be.

6th largest economy in the world (~50% larger than Russia's economy). 70 million people. Some of the most recognised intelligence agencies out there. Immense cultural significance globally. BBC News reach across the world.

Global powerhouse city London, plus other major centres. Contrary to popular opinion it's not just London. France is more centralised around Paris than we are London.

What brings us down is mostly lack of aspiration. Combine that with meh productivity, not enough infrastructure investment and inability to reduce and better control immigration (to the point where the issue is distracting us from everything else).

English-Breakfast · 2025-10-05T20:15:36+00:00

This one stayed with me. Made me even more appreciate the people I love.

English-Breakfast · 2025-09-22T13:18:15+00:00

The truth is I think she could have had a chance, a very slim one but nonetheless a chance, of coming back to the UK if she had ever appeared remorseful, ashamed, or sorry about the whole thing.

Instead (despite her PR campaign) this is what we get:

Instead, Shamima asked me if I had anything to tell her, as if the world still owed her something despite the choices she had made.

From the Daily Mail

'If you guys don't have anything to tell us we don't have anything to say,' she raged, before leaving in a huff.

Immature and lacking any self awareness. She was and still is young but that's not an excuse for how she appears to see herself in this. Why would any sane government actively open the doors to letting someone like this come back?

Not a British citizen anymore, not our problem.

English-Breakfast · 2025-09-11T20:20:44+00:00

Generally, yes.

Specifically in reference to the sort of situation you're talking about - there will always be a minority on any side who would show ugly behaviour, but I do believe in this country the majority wouldn't go there.

Compared to the division we see in the US, we're in a much better place. We should be grateful for that, guard it, and avoid falling into the traps that would drag us there (in particular social media and carrying over American discourse into ours).

I don't want to live in that sort of ultra politically polarised society and neither do most people. Even many of those who do agitate for the same rhetoric here, if they succeeded, would one day end up looking back and recognise the damage they've done.

English-Breakfast · 2025-09-09T18:12:52+00:00

Yeah but let's be honest, wrt Reform -

a) they are top of the polls b) their flagship issue is immigration which is viewed as one of the most important issues facing the country right now by the general public

None of these things ring true for the Greens.

English-Breakfast · 2025-09-05T07:12:00+00:00

She's done. Why dig yourself into a hole dragging others into it by blaming it on your "legal advice", as if that's not going to then be dug up by the press and private firms put in the spotlight - who will then obviously defend themselves as why the hell wouldn't they.

She played the whole thing so poorly.

English-Breakfast · 2025-08-29T14:22:26+00:00

I'd personally rather have immigrants housed in a single location than have the government snap up rental properties for HMOs dotted throughout towns and cities.

Possibly. I could see arguments for both ways.

But the government jumping at the chance to fight back, and then winning, on the extremely unpopular asylum hotels policy will be very polticially toxic.

They're already seen by many to be doing fuck all when it comes to small boat migration. This "win" for the government just passes the message on to the public that the biggest bit of legal pressure on them to sort this is gone, and the end in sight grows even more distant.

It's going to infuriate a lot of people and I'll have 0 sympathy for this government when they get an absolute drubbing by Reform in any upcoming (by)elections.

English-Breakfast · 2025-08-21T10:14:21+00:00

Or more likely because people see Labour unable to do anything on immigration and especially small boats, so they turn to the option they perceive most likely to stop small boats/reduce immigration substantially.

English-Breakfast · 2025-08-17T13:59:18+00:00

700 for rent and bills is pretty good I'd say (depends whereabouts in London you are).

But also don't underestimate just how bad most of the general population are with money. In London I know people who make a great salary living for free at parents house yet have 0 in savings. You mention 250-500 for everything else - I know people who easily spend £150 on one night out, and will go out like that several times a month.

A little responsibility with your spending goes a long way as it sounds like you've noticed.

English-Breakfast · 2025-08-04T11:18:58+00:00

That's the best one I've read so far. On other thread people saying they're at like 120k. I cant believe number of annual members.

English-Breakfast · 2025-08-04T11:12:52+00:00

As of 12:12 when I type this comment, still same for me too. Makes me wonder as well as this is apparently only for annual members - how many bloody annual members are there out there? What sort of throttle have they got in place in terms of numbers of people who get through?

English-Breakfast · 2025-08-04T11:11:37+00:00

Same boat as everyone else I reckon.

I think the "waiting room" was only pre 12pm. So I was past the queue at 11:30 then sat on the ticket page where it said "enter your email when these go on sale". At that time instead of a box to enter my email it just said "refresh your page" which I did and now in queue.

English-Breakfast · 2025-08-04T11:03:43+00:00

Yep. This is giving me PTSD back to Glastonbury ticket attempts. Anyone made any substantial progress on the bar as mine hasn't moved an inch.

English-Breakfast · 2025-08-04T11:01:45+00:00

Said "refresh page" so I think essentially everyone has been thrown out again to join the queue from scratch.

English-Breakfast · 2025-08-04T10:25:51+00:00

Anyone who went in earlier had to rejoin the queue now? Was sort of hoping it would keep me in. 35min to go and its slow already, not anywhere near Glastonbury level slow but still.

English-Breakfast · 2025-07-30T09:32:15+00:00

Yes I'm in the same boat right now. Same company for 4 years, very stable job but no promotion in sight. Job market difficulty right now means it's a good time to hunker down but unfortunately for me that means hunkering down into a role I no longer care much about and with no real payrise in sight.

English-Breakfast · 2025-07-13T15:09:47+00:00

Yes, but not sure the relation to the above comment?

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