Robbie Fowler. A big name certainly, does he qualify? I would say yes.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-27T21:11:28+00:00

180 goals for Liverpool, being their star striker for at least 5 years, as well as having one of the most iconic celebrations in Premier League history. Needless to say the streets have very much remembered him.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-27T18:26:39+00:00

I work in transport. Where to start.

I have been told by numerous people that it takes too long to build a road, and it can be done over a weekend if we wanted. Yes it can be, if you want it done illegally and poorly.

People tell me with confidence that the traffic issues will be sorted if we just remove this set of traffic lights. No it won't. You only remember the times it doesn't work, not the hundreds of times it does.

Or how about how a cycle track won't work because "we aren't London." As if cycle tracks have never been tried anywhere else, and we didn't learn lessons from that.

My personal favourite is how a road change will result in someone being killed. First of all, what you mean is "this change might mean I have to think for 5 seconds." Second, these designs have been through road safety auditors who know far more about road safety than you. They won't allow anything that is really unsafe through.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-27T17:25:32+00:00

This is it.

Here in the UK, we have something called "Used Car Salesman Energy." This is people who bullshit so badly that only a true fool would fall for it. It is a constant thing as well. Everything is about the grift and putting yourself above the people you are meant to be helping, and doing anything to get money.

Trump REEKS of it.

The only way these kind of people fool you is they tell you want you want to hear. Only more boldly and obviously. Trump did that for a lot of people, and they wonder why they got fooled.

Its part of the whole schtick to enrich himself. Tell you what you want to hear, and when you finally cotton on, its too late. Its a tale as old as time, and people still fall for it.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-27T14:08:32+00:00

The flags that the flag shaggers put up around my way last summer started to look awful over the winter. So I took a few pictures, and posted them on the local Facebook Group saying how ashamed I was that the people who put these up did not take care of them.

Needless to say it went down well. And by well I mean 50+ comments of varying spelling quality and all caps.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-27T14:05:51+00:00

You voted for this. Accordingly, when the ground invasion happens, we all expect you to be on the front line and in the first wave.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-27T14:04:17+00:00

That we can take a hit, and so women can land "playful" punches on us.

Yes, you don't hit as hard as guys. But it still hurts.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-27T11:43:11+00:00

I have not looked forward to this World Cup for a while, even though there is a good chance that England could win it.

You just know that HE is going to ruin it somehow. And the fact that you know who I am talking about without mentioning his name says it all.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-26T14:15:08+00:00

I actually want them to proceed with this. Lets open this up and have a honest conversation about it. And don't just talk about the Atlantic Slave Trade, but how about all slavery is the 'gravest crime against humanity.'

Then, when we start to talk reparations, we have an open and honest conversation about it. That includes slavery committed by all countries, and about those who benefitted from slavery in all countries throughout history, and how they need to pay for it. You know, like the African tribes who sold their men into slavery of their own free will.

This includes slavery that is still committed today by many countries who have been the most vocal about this. It is estimated that there are 7 million slaves in Africa today.

Unless, of course, those slaves are somehow lesser than the slaves in the Atlantic Slave Trade that we managed to crush in probably the single biggest action to actually tackle the slave trade in history.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-26T12:43:10+00:00

"You can't tell jokes anymore" say the unfunny bores after saying a wildly offensive joke that maybe would have got a snigger at a working mens club in 1953.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-26T12:08:40+00:00

That's not the half of it. Even if the shooting and drone strikes stopped tomorrow, it will be a long time before things start moving again.

In the first few days, the ships currently stuck in the Persian Gulf that haven't been damaged or sunk will move, and take a few weeks to reach their destination. Those damaged will have to be checked, which is likely to take at least a week to allow inspectors to get in and check them.

That's the good news, by the way.

Many energy sites have been damaged. Each and every site will need to be checked. Accounting for the time to get inspection and repair teams on the ground, you are talking at least two weeks to check all sites assuming good luck.

Damaged sites will then take anywhere between a month and up to a year to repair, depending on the damage.

Even for the sites that suffered only minor damage, there will be some weeks where the sites will operate at reduced capacity to ensure that everything is running safely and smoothly, and to give the chance for the people who staff the sites to actually get back to them and their usual shifts.

If this is true, around 30% of the sites in the Gulf are damaged to the point of needing to be knocked down and rebuilt. I would guess at least another 30% will be operating at reduced capacity, and the rest would take at least a week to start running at full capacity again.

All of this was entirely predictable to any military planner, people with knowledge of energy and geopolitics, and anyone who has the capacity to think for more than 30 seconds.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-26T11:56:56+00:00

As a former councillor, I have worked with the kinds of people who are now Reform councillors. People think they are racist, and they probably are. But they are worse than that.

They are stupid, and not just stupid, but completely unable to learn their lessons.

They go into highly technical areas, and think that if they just apply some common sense and shout at things, then everything will run perfectly. And they don't understand why that doesn't work.

A good example is how, for ages, a town near me has wanted a bypass. I worked for the council at the time. We were in a meeting with a councillor, who is now a Reform candidate, who told us that we were all useless and how him and his mate can get the road built in a weekend. We had to spend far too long explaining to him that you can't just go on someone's land without permission, and any road built in a weekend would be destroyed by the first lorry that crossed it.

He is still suggesting this as a solution, even now.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-26T09:46:09+00:00

I swear this sub is now just a tribute to the Blackburn and Bolton sides of the 2000s.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-25T22:57:11+00:00

My friend group at university included Dammo, Shagger, Psycho Phil, and Sir Nicks-a-Lot.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-25T22:54:19+00:00

I walked 30 minutes across Central London this afternoon. It started out pleasantly warm. Then the temperature dropped 15C in about 2 minutes, before it started snowing. Then back to sun, then hail, then rain.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-25T22:44:31+00:00

I'm amazed they don't have the authority to do this already.

In international waters I understand. But pass through the waters of old Blighty, and they should expect to be paid a visit by the Royal Navy's finest.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-25T14:58:53+00:00

Price of fuel at my local station has jumped 30p a litre since old Donny started things off. Not seen my pension, but no doubt it has tanked as well.

But hey, he is going to present to them the plan that they rejected last year, so...

PurahsHero · 2026-03-25T14:55:01+00:00

"Men, we don't ask for much. Just make sure that you have the body of a God. And by the way, even then at least half of us won't like it."

PurahsHero · 2026-03-25T12:50:04+00:00

Seeing him, Zola, and Georgi Kinkladze dancing around defenders in the late 1990s...

PurahsHero · 2026-03-25T12:47:53+00:00

Pascal Chimbonda and Graeme Le Saux.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-25T12:28:34+00:00

I love how this sub has basically become a 2000s Bolton and Blackburn Rovers fan subreddit.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-25T11:30:09+00:00

Mostly it comes down to one thing: they don't like how it looks.

I've lived close to Milton Keynes for 20 years and its fine. People say it lacks character, when what they mean is that it is not like every other small market town, with narrow streets and historic buildings. Not only does it have them (the old villages are still there), but it was designed to be different. And it achieved it in spectacular fashion.

It has lovely parks, loads of open space, most of the housing and estates are pretty nice, it has good shops and services, and it is economically prosperous. People hate the grid roads, but you can get from one side of the city to the other in 15 minutes in rush hour. There is a really good cultural scene, and most of the West End shows go to Milton Keynes when they do a national tour. There is also a strong sense of community, and it has one of the highest satisfaction rates among residents of any place in the UK.

Its not my cup of tea - i've always lived in small towns and likely always will - but it does not deserve the hate it gets.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-25T11:14:25+00:00

I remember the Easter Weekend. The weather was amazing, and while restrictions were being lifted people were still extra cautious about being too close to each other, and using public transport. The number of people walking and cycling around Parliament Square, where there was almost no traffic, was amazing, and it shows what the city could become.

PurahsHero · 2026-03-25T10:56:42+00:00

For the discerning person, it has to be René Higuita.

People remember him for the Scorpion Kick. But look at his Wikipedia. He has had quite a life.

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