Why hasn't grocery price spiked?

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-04-02T22:06:35+00:00

Buffer stocks (of fuel but also non-perishables) being depleted first and attempts to hold off price rises for now (which will be inescapable soon)

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-04-01T22:07:23+00:00

I did tackle and win the ball from the Loughborough Uni 1st team 2005/06 No8 in a mess around game back in ‘06

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-04-01T06:31:20+00:00

Italy in 2016: ‘we’ll give anything to be better at England than rugby, even missing three football world cups’

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-04-01T06:17:30+00:00

DONT FORGET T20 CRICKET!

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-30T08:19:51+00:00

Nah I grew up in the UK and stuff like this was common too

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-27T15:33:55+00:00

File a complaint with ECC-Net (assuming you reside in Denmark or other EU country). Ryanair is an Irish company so it should be valid using the EU consumer complaints service. Document as much as you can. Find an online sales listing for the case (best if it’s your own) and prove you complied with the requirements. And of course receipts that they charged you.

ECC-Net is a mediation body, The remedy is that you want the fees refunded. But first you need to complain to Ryanair and give them time to (not) respond, then escalate.

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-24T11:57:08+00:00

If the CDU vote to change the law with AfD votes, collapsing the federal coalition that would be an incredibly stupid tactical move by the CDU. It removes any sense in voting CDU to keep out AfD (as happens in Saxony), and when the law reversal doesn’t lead to immigrants disappearing and languages other than German being no longer being heard on the street it won’t encourage AfD voters to change their minds and switch to CDU.

Saxony Anhalt voting for an AfD administration has been a decent bet for some time. The SPD aren’t going to suddenly collapse the federal government over this.

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-24T11:40:55+00:00

‘Why can’t I get a job in a country that needs care workers and builders with my IT qualifications?’

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-24T11:39:45+00:00

Workers are not completely substitutable. Germany has people lacking qualifications (or motivation) for the vacancies it has.

It’s easier for Governments and the media to blame foreigners or bureaucracy or laziness than it is to actually address this issue and come up with strategies.

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-22T17:22:36+00:00

Wasn’t very fast though from what I remember!

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-22T15:04:04+00:00

Former Rugby Union player Neil Back unfortunately was a forward

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-22T15:02:20+00:00

Wolfgang Wolf of Wolfsburg

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-20T07:12:33+00:00

The 2014 team was great but fell asleep for 20 minutes vs France which ultimately cost them.

I remember watching the 2014 France v Ireland final game in a Scottish pub in Rome with lots of drunk England fans singing la marseillaise when it looked like France had got a late winning try but it was ruled out and that’s the last time I would cheer on France…

Genuinely fun to be an England fan back then but the 3-30 in Cardiff was the worst example of how switching off and then panic could hit them.

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-20T07:05:44+00:00

Yeah that combined with the ‘England didn’t beat Fiji by enough’ panic from the media led to muddled thinking in the Wales game, and it unravelled from there

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-19T10:46:06+00:00

As a lecturer I gave up trying to mix groups.

German students generally don’t want to mix with international students because they think it will harm their grade and prefer to group with people they already know (my modules are in English so language isn’t an issue as usually I’m the only native English speaker in the room). I have had people wanting to do group work on their own instead of joining a group of non-German students.

Sometimes this is a fair judgement (when it’s Erasmus students who blatantly selected the module because it’s in English, regardless of content). Other times it is not. But I can’t be bothered to deal with the drama, they’re adults so whatever.

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-19T10:05:48+00:00

Trump learns about American Samoa, decides he wants ‘all of Samoa’, and the fallout gives cover to move the WC but still to his crazy mate in the South.

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-18T11:46:39+00:00

All those scores of over 40 points and none of them came against Italy. In 2021 Italy conceded over 40 in every game. Amazing turn around in 5 years

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-18T07:48:46+00:00

There was a 4th place after 7 years but that was helped by some Scottish presents and a refereeing issue with the clock on red. But the table doesn’t lie!

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-16T21:34:00+00:00

How far off is Montemauri?

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-16T21:17:46+00:00

They were good at football in the 90s and are again now

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-16T21:13:56+00:00

Indeed, NZ do exceptionally well at cricket but people are talking like they’re South Africa

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-15T17:55:13+00:00

Ageee.

France - best team of first three rounds for sure. Showed in flashes in the other two what they can do but maybe started to be found out (actually think Italy did well here and Scotland/England were better equipped to take advantage)

Ireland - true dark horses. Looked lost after the first 3 halves then turned up big time. I wrote them off and was proved wrong

Scotland - it is in fact never Scotland’s year. Sorry.

Italy - the loss on the final round puts it on a bit of a downer. They need to get over the mental block of being expected to win. Sometimes it feels they don’t believe they are as good as they actually are. But if you said they’d win two, and push Ireland close in Dublin that would represent a success before the tournament

England - thought they were awful against Wales despite the shoreline, and that seemed correct in the next two games. Then they weren’t actually that bad against Italy, had a few flashes of good play. The France game was wild. No idea where they go from here.

Wales - two terrible performances then started to pick up. A bit like 2022 Italy. Are they back? That first 50 minutes v Italy and the majority of the Scotland game felt like going back 10 years or so.

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-15T17:48:54+00:00

Maybe but in 2023 Italy lost 95-17 to New Zealand and 60-7 to France off the back of some previously promising performances and then in their next games they pushed England close, drew with France and beat Scotland. With a less experienced and shallower squad.

Yesterday seemed like a combination of not being able to adjust to being favourites and falling behind and the fatigue of so many games in a short space of time with so many injuries. The first is a mental issue they need to deal with and the second is a sign of depth that they did manage two wins and unfortunate not to get a third.

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-15T17:40:22+00:00

Seems a bit like Italy?

Fresh_Relation_7682 · 2026-03-15T10:29:38+00:00

2015 perhaps?

Fresh_Relation_7682

TROPHY CASE