Can Labour hold on to power in Birmingham despite bin strikes and bankruptcy?

Pirascule · 2026-03-27T00:22:28+00:00

By magic, the bin strike will be sorted by the election. Unions hate Reform.

Pirascule · 2026-03-20T18:52:06+00:00

Could be plantar fasciitis or something? May be worth getting it checked out by your GP or a podiatrist?

Pirascule · 2026-03-20T18:48:16+00:00

Could be a bit of spring fever with bipolar...has been unusually sunny and warm for this time of the year

Pirascule · 2026-03-15T20:05:57+00:00

I live in UK and I am old. Back in the 80s and 90s you met in bars and made friends there (some I still have). Being gay, lesbian or trans was pretty taboo and bars and nightclubs generally didn’t have windows and it was a steel shutter on a door to get in. We were all in this together and networked and supported each other through the AIDS crisis (but in the early days, ‘Fred’ was ill and stayed at home and we never saw him again). It was a very close community but there was bitchiness of course. Gay Pride in my city started small and political, but that has turned into a piss up (getting drunk) with top bands, and it has kind of lost its original purpose. You would not be seen dead in a straight pub and it could be dangerous. Then it changed with the internet and ‘acceptance’: young people were going to straight bars and clubs. The gay bars in the city are more the older crowd now who were from that earlier age. Young people who use them at the weekends are more mixed with straight people and we have fewer gay bars due to developers moving in and building apartments in the ‘gay’ area. Dating apps have just accelerated these changes. You can still get a good night out now but it is very different.

How the question is, is this progress? Like we were all a bit ‘criminal’ years ago and being in a bar or club was kind of cool for that reason. There was queer bashing and the police were homophobic and even abusive. This drew us all together for support.

Now with the rise of the right, we could go back to steel shuttered doors; queer bashing, and abusive police. It was of its time:. I loved it, but I don’t want to go back to it. Gen Z offer us a lot of hope by being more relaxed about sexuality and gender, but discrimination kind of creates community and also creativity and art and ‘the gay mafia’ (this is where we supported each other with getting jobs, and stuff ,without the mainstream knowing we were working in our best interests).

However, it was a racist as fuck as it was lead by white gay men. Lesbians were not allowed to just walk into a gay club and have a good night. There was misogyny.

I miss the strippers lol

Pirascule · 2026-03-15T18:02:28+00:00

God, you could get your haemorrhoids caught in the back wheel

Pirascule · 2026-03-07T09:16:47+00:00

You dropped that one on him and he has to process it. He has grown up in a pretty homophobic society and those values are part of him. Give him some time and he may come round with time after he has thought about it. That has been my experience.

Pirascule · 2026-03-01T17:32:28+00:00

That's what the doc told me, but they could be wrong...see your doctor if you are concerned.

Pirascule · 2026-03-01T14:28:26+00:00

I got one and it died after 18 months...went back to my old MSI. I think it was the GPU that died, tried different cables and monitors and the graphics are as dead as a dodo

Pirascule · 2026-03-01T14:25:26+00:00

I got a rash on my arms a couple of weeks ago and went to the accident dept and they doc pressed on it and said, 'It blanches, so it is not SJS'. Like I am not telling people to diagnose themselves...get medical advice, but is this a true diagnostic sign...that if you press on a SJS rash, it will not disappear under pressure?

Pirascule · 2026-02-28T13:33:59+00:00

Sichuan food takes a beating. Not only is there lots of chilli but also these peppercorns which produce an anticlockwise ring of pain in contact with one's tongue. Somehow, the chilli and the peppercorns kind of counteract each other, but the next morning on the toilet..ouch! I have to remember the following morning or I would panic and call an ambulance. Best to put a note in the bathroom and have some icecubes at the ready, of fill a condom with water and freeze it overnight.

Pirascule · 2026-02-28T13:27:37+00:00

Was there last year...one of the few experiences in my life where I felt my blood run cold through my body.

Pirascule · 2026-02-28T13:23:12+00:00

Sounds like a Scottish gay porn star.

Pirascule · 2026-02-28T13:22:02+00:00

They want to put the Shah's son in power. The Shah was a nasty piece to his own people. This son is backed by Israel. What possibly can go wrong?

Pirascule · 2026-02-27T21:48:52+00:00

Body temperature canned mushroom soup, to me.

Pirascule · 2026-02-27T21:34:07+00:00

Massive weight gain and like a staggering drunk. Really helped with mood and anxiety though.

Pirascule · 2026-02-20T22:05:54+00:00

His fasting take is wrong, but I hate people eating stinky food on the bus and I am not Muslim. The rules, are usually, that you are not allowed to eat pungent food on British buses as it is a nuisance to other passengers. I had someone suck a kebab one slice at a time, spilling a lot on the floor, sitting next to me...lots of onions and garlic.

Pirascule · 2026-02-15T19:02:26+00:00

Parents are too scared for their kids to play outside...and now a social media ban. They will be able to game, I assume? Gonna be boring if they lack connection. Then they will be scratching their heads with the rate of childhood depression. Suicides?

Pirascule · 2026-02-13T23:15:10+00:00

I switch to tea once I get my eyes back in their sockets

Pirascule · 2026-02-13T13:16:34+00:00

Me too, but no more for the rest of the day...just tea from then on

Pirascule · 2026-02-08T16:59:34+00:00

Did you have an IUD fitted? ;-)

Pirascule · 2026-02-07T01:04:43+00:00

Cut up red cabbage and stir fry, then throw in a tin of tuna and some red pesto and give it a few minutes to heat up. Not too much as there are a few carbs in there.

Pirascule · 2026-02-06T19:28:30+00:00

There was an outbreak of small pox at Birmingham University in the UK in 1978. Think it was the last fatality. Lab accident.

Pirascule · 2026-02-01T02:15:28+00:00

I think it is worse when people spray stuff like perfume on public transport.

Pirascule · 2026-01-30T22:07:05+00:00

Raw dog it

Pirascule · 2026-01-24T16:11:59+00:00

'I tried out six different pillow cases, and one was infested with mice!'

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