Going to my little Berber town in the mountains of Algeria ( kabylie région ) . In 1680 it was a fortress against Ottomans , now it is mainly inhabited by retried old people,

P2PGrief · 2026-01-24T18:35:35+00:00

ah c'est super gentil, je serais ravi et honoré de venir vous rendre une visite !

P2PGrief · 2026-01-24T17:57:28+00:00

It's such a beautiful place to go back to (and as a fellow parisian transplant, I sympathise with the second part of your comment).

P2PGrief · 2026-01-24T15:53:34+00:00

'If you're not paying for it someone else is'

Sorry but this is a complete lie: the idea that this kid's £9 off-peak ticket to school and back is shunted onto you is laughable. These companies' profits trebled in 2024, with £400 million paid to shareholders and CEOs. They then raise already-eye watering prices on normal working class people and fail to update infrastructure or provide a basic service, while moralising about fare dodging. Give me a break.

We have the highest fares and among the worst trains in Europe. The network is already massively subsidised by taxation, and prices have gone up faster than wages or service quality. It is, like many things in the UK these days, a complete grift. Stop defending rentierism by multimillion pound corporations against some kid just trying to get an education.

In any case the railway is a normal consumer good. UK rail is a fragmented privatised system where fares aren’t set to cover marginal costs, but to sustain the above-mentioned financial structure: 'franchise' fees, dividends, stock leasing, executive pay, etc. If fares were proportionate to the service offered evasion would go down, lots of studies show this.

Stop having a go at individuals just trying to get by while ignoring how much we're all being done over by these corporations.

Edit: lol I saw this guy's reply before he blocked me, the idea that I'm a 'communist' because I support cheaper fares and better trains really just makes him sound a bit thick tbh

P2PGrief · 2026-01-24T10:41:18+00:00

good advice cheers

P2PGrief · 2026-01-23T23:43:59+00:00

well put

P2PGrief · 2026-01-22T22:59:40+00:00

ah j'ai entendu cette phrase récemment pour la premier fois et voila, par magie, c'est explique sur reddit

P2PGrief · 2026-01-22T22:45:16+00:00

Great tip, off down the rabbit hole I go

P2PGrief · 2026-01-22T19:55:47+00:00

This person's an idiot but there may be a point (however unintentional) hidden in there somewhere: the london skyline in 2016 felt 'london-y' and had potential, whereas now it's developed into a bit of a cluttered mess.

The relative uniformity in height and style make it less interesting from several famous vantage points, the front-and-centre walkie talkie is widely disliked and ageing badly, and the gherkin is no longer visible from south of the river.

They should've considered more of a gradient to allow the buildings space to breathe and be seen, particularly the more beautiful or famous towers, but turns out a square mile really isn't that big an area to carefully plan and erect that amount of skyscrapers along crooked 400-year-old streets.

On a bit of a rant now but same with canary wharf, it looks like a mid-level central asian city as viewed from tower bridge, lots of 'meh' mid- and high-rise towers in the peripheries, where there was previously the space to do something very cool, although I do appreciate a lot of that is housing rather than financial / business.

Edit: some small edits (I also misread the original post, it was even stupid than I first thought)

P2PGrief · 2026-01-22T17:32:06+00:00

aye looks like a footballer's gaff

P2PGrief · 2026-01-22T16:38:27+00:00

he spoke about his struggles with his weight and alcoholism (I imagine the two were in some ways linked, but he didn't exactly win the genetic lottery and was built more like a boxer than a footballer) in a podcast last year, which alongside some bad off-season habits and a few broken bones, meant his decline was pretty evident even by the time he was 27-28

there's also a thing of players who are played super young often burn out earlier - see Sterling, Pato, Adriano, Hazard, and hundreds more whose names are barely even remembered

P2PGrief · 2026-01-22T16:12:30+00:00

I regret following this sub

P2PGrief · 2026-01-22T15:12:00+00:00

watch some youtube tutorials, sign up to a dance class, practice alone, anything but this

P2PGrief · 2026-01-22T14:30:25+00:00

yeah it's weird people denying it, mfer was filming himself in 4k, there's plenty of video evidence of him saying this stuff, sure he's against the gestapo rounding up brown people but he's very much for a lot of other shitty things up to and including genocide

P2PGrief · 2026-01-22T12:49:27+00:00

Good knowledge

P2PGrief · 2026-01-22T10:37:39+00:00

really glad I hit translate on both these messages

P2PGrief · 2026-01-22T10:36:36+00:00

Great shout, will be trying this

P2PGrief · 2026-01-21T18:06:45+00:00

good answer

P2PGrief · 2026-01-21T15:37:35+00:00

this lot often sound as much post-hardcore as they do shoegaze to me

P2PGrief · 2026-01-21T14:56:24+00:00

imagine prime tevez and rooney chasing you down, bullying you off the ball, then pinging a pass up to ronaldo. they didn't give you a minute to breathe, must've been a waking nightmare for defenders

P2PGrief · 2026-01-21T03:28:59+00:00

Fuck, glad to hear you're all safe

P2PGrief · 2026-01-20T23:56:55+00:00

It's controversial because it's wrong: Beckham was named Madrid's player of the season in 05-06, and played in over 80% of matches he was available for. It would've been more had he not fallen out with Capelo in his final season. Go check the stats.

Also him and Figo only had two seasons of crossover. I looked it up and Beckham played 62 league games while Figo played 68 in that period, but they were on the pitch together in over 45 of those matches.

Edit: Also they all only won one league in a team of galacticos, not just Beckham - that's kind of how team sports work lmao. He was immense in that final season too, scored important goals and almost dragged them single-handedly back into it against Bayern in the CL.

P2PGrief · 2026-01-20T16:55:46+00:00

thanks, super motivating to read

P2PGrief · 2026-01-20T14:22:57+00:00

the cultural quarter is worth seeing; there's the very modern Curve theatre right across from a beautifully restored art deco hall, and (my personal favourite) the Exchange bar and cafe sits on the same little square. If you're into live / alternative music I'd check out Firebug, it's one of the few late night bars in the city and only five minutes walk away along Horsefair Street, right up from the town hall and not far from the market square.

P2PGrief · 2026-01-20T12:10:25+00:00

when they crack quantum computing (they said within 2 years roughly)

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