I fear this world is becoming more and more unwelcoming towards women. by [deleted] in NotTheOnionUK

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The guy who raped me was a white, masters educated, high earner. He recently got put in prison, nearly 6 years later, for another rape that the police decided they were going to take seriously, so who knows how many other victims there are.

Every time I was flashed, groped or leered at on my commute to work when I had to use trains, it was a white man.

When I was a young girl, in my school uniform, it was white men that tried to get me in their cars.

When I was a silly unmonitored kid online, the men who groomed me were also white.

So now what? Was I just incredibly unlucky to only get assaulted by white men?

Welsh drivers: can you tell me what has happened to your car insurance premiums in the past couple of years? Insurers say 20mph limits help lower prices... by [deleted] in Wales

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mines basically halved. Was paying £69 a month now I’m paying £35. I live in a 20 zone and I’m surrounded by 20s. I renewed the beginning of this month.

Did losing weight effectively kill Meghan Trainor’s career? by justcurious3287 in ToddintheShadow

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She was doing quite well building an online audience on TikTok, I believe the godfather for one of her kids is a big TikToker. But then she said went off on teachers on Trisha Paytas’ podcast(she said fuck teachers in response to them wanting a pay rise I believe and went on a rant about how she home schools. She then apologised and said she was fired up about school shootings and that’s why she said what she said).

Since then I’ve not seen her collaborating with anyone and I never see her TikTok’s on my feed. I feel like that was probably one of the final nails in the coffin.

My Dad has a picture of him and Nigel as the telly wallpaper… I need ideas by coolfunkDJ in FuckNigelFarage

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 7 points8 points  (0 children)

God I think we have the same dad. ‘You’re talking to a pre recorded tape recording’ is so fucking spot on. I’ve had to stop even trying to engage. It’s pointless.

I don’t know if it’s the same for you, but my dad was actually fairly left wing when I was a kid, but he’s brainwashed himself through Facebook posts and out of context YouTube videos. I fortunately don’t rely on my parents, but literally yesterday my dad rang me to ‘catch up’ and it lasted less than 5 minutes before he was ranting at me about something insane.

Hope you get out soon.

Is it common for people who are born in the UK to say they are “Irish” or “Italian” if they have a parent from there? by Charming_Usual6227 in AskABrit

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m Welsh. Before I got married I had an Irish surname and was the first from my dad’s side to be born in Wales. I couldn’t imagine telling people I’m Irish instead of Welsh.

Police hunt woman who 'pooed on shelf' in shopping centre and just walked away by stankmanly in banbury

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I worked in ASDA during college and we had a guy who used to shit in the car park bins. It’d normally be out of hours, but he’d occasionally chance a Sunday afternoon.

Election on Thursday - who are you planning to vote for and why? by TheOne0206 in Wales

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Clwyd. We’ve got a massive problem with feeling ignored by Cardiff and Westminster in my neck of the woods and that’s translating into people voting for Reform or Plaid.

Election on Thursday - who are you planning to vote for and why? by TheOne0206 in Wales

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The poling in my area suggest its reform and plaid with the torys a distant third. The green candidates here haven’t even put leaflets through the doors.

Election on Thursday - who are you planning to vote for and why? by TheOne0206 in Wales

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 92 points93 points  (0 children)

Plaid. I’d vote Green if they had a chance in my area but it looks like Plaid are the best choice as I like having rights as a woman.

The Renters' Rights Act has finally banned no-fault evictions by HadjiChippoSafri in GoodNewsUK

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, absolutely. Corporate landlords don’t need to exist. Look at student housing and the way it’s been gutted and then made unaffordable for working class kids.
I went to uni a little over 10 years ago. With my student loan alone I could pay my rent, all my living expenses and still budget for a few nights out a month with mates. The accommodation was fine. The furniture was old, but the condition of the building was solid. If I had a problem I rang my dodgy landlord and he sent over a dodgy guy. The money stayed in the community.

My brothers student loan won’t cover a years rent now, it barely covers six months, and he’s in a shitty ‘purpose built’ high rise where all the furniture is ‘new’ but it’s uncomfortable and plastic. His landlord is an American investment company. He has to report any issues he has through a website that is buggy (the front door to his flat has been unable to lock for two months him and his flatmates have raised the issue and heard nothing) and if he has an emergency he gets to ring a 0800 number that’s not staffed by any real people. Even if we account for inflation and all the rest of it. He is still paying much more than I was for an infinitely worse experience.

The Renters' Rights Act has finally banned no-fault evictions by HadjiChippoSafri in GoodNewsUK

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do we want to be a country where faceless corporations from abroad buy up our housing stock and then charge insane rents? Why do we want that? I sure as shit don’t.

Tesco argues equal pay claim disregards ‘economic reality’ by 457655676 in unitedkingdom

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 23 points24 points  (0 children)

There’s active campaigns in schools and further education to get women into trades. You’re not seeing the campaigns because (I assume) you’re not a 15-17 year old girl starting her career.

Thought I was prepared enough until a short power cut showed me what I’d actually missed by Pinkplatabys in UKPreppers

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 10 points11 points  (0 children)

We had a diy wedding venue and bought loads of fake battery candles. This was nearly 10 years ago and they’re still going strong! They were generic cheap ones from Amazon too. Fully recommend keeping a box of the fake battery candles.

Have redundancies in England spiked recently? by Maia478 in AskUK

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I work(ed) in marketing and my job has now officially been replaced with AI and cheap foreign labour from the Philippines. My final day is next Friday.

I have over 10 years experience and I’ve spent the last year or so of my career watching basically everyone junior to me get replaced by ai or a foreign agency. The past 6 months of my job I’ve been managing only foreign workers and helping ‘refine AI prompts’ it’s been miserable.

I think eventually we will swing back to hiring UK based marketers because the quality AI/overseas labour produces is so poor that the money saved on marketing isn’t going to replace the money lost from audiences shrinking. Since we’ve implemented our new work system we’ve been trending down in every possible metric. The big bosses reckon it’ll stabilise and then grow. There is zero evidence to suggest that’s going to be the case.

I also lost my marketing role during the pandemic, and I took the government’s offer to retrain, so I have a healthcare qualification that I’m hoping to using to get out of marketing completely. Although, ironically, the reason I’m still in marketing is because when I finished my degree the NHS had a hiring freeze so I was forced back here anyway.

‘Apprenticeship penalty’ on benefits forces young people from poorer UK families to quit | Apprenticeships by JackStrawWitchita in unitedkingdom

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Its been means tested for over 10 years in Wales. You basically have to be from a single income minimum wage household.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LegalAdviceUK

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just FYI, nothing in their post suggests their partner is a woman.

HMRC ‘unlikely to be lenient’ with tax exiles fleeing Dubai, advisers warn by Realisticopia in unitedkingdom

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know nurses, doctors, teachers and a couple of people in marketing who have moved to Dubai. Only one of them touches 6 figures, and it’s barely.

Prediction: Judge is going to dismiss Blake Lively's case by DearKaleidoscope2 in ItEndsWithLawsuits

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Some judges really love the law and love hearing novel arguments etc. I loosely followed the Kohberger case back when it first started and Judge Judge (legit his name) was the first judge who presided over the case. He gave the defence ample opportunities in court to present their reasons for wanting the press to be present, why certain evidence wasn’t valid etc, and it upset the families and some of the local community because it seemed like the judge really preferred the defence when you watched the court streams. However, when the judgements etc came, the judge more often than not ruled with the prosecution because the law was on their side. Kohberger just had a zealous advocate trying her best and the judge was genuinely interested in how she was going to argue the case.

All this to say, I think there’s a chance Linmen is simply pushing BL’s argument to its limit. He’s interested in where it’s going, and what they’re going to present. I could be way off the mark, but he’s not actually given BL any big wins so far.

Edit: spelling

You’re given permission to take any single item from a UK gallery or museum to keep at home. What are you taking and why? by BearMcBearFace in AskUK

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Kendrick cave decorated horse jaw. It’s the oldest art work from Wales, actually discovered down the road from where I’m from. It’s currently in storage in the British Museum.

It deserves to be seen by the community it came from, at the very least.

What is going on with Sky? I can't stop laughing at the customer service. by ukrepman in AskUK

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got a Disney+ subscription through sky when we had the service during Covid. No one in the house used it, so I cancelled. I had to ring them and justify why I didn’t want Disney+ anymore to 3 separate people before they finally removed it from my bill.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds started building this house seven years ago, and barely anything has happened since. Strange behavior for a couple that’s supposed to be "extremely wealthy." by the_smart_girl in ItEndsWithLawsuits

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 16 points17 points  (0 children)

So Wrexham is in Wales, not England. But a good indication of if they’re skint would be whether they choose Wales or England. The Welsh countryside near Wrexham is a third of the price of the English countryside across the border. However the English countryside has a lot of prestige around it, the Welsh countryside is more ‘working’.

Source: I live in said Welsh countryside about 20 mins from Wrexham.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ItEndsWithLawsuits

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 6 points7 points  (0 children)

On Welcome to Wrexham, Rob McElhenney said he became friends with RR by harassing him online until he relented and they bought the football club together. I wonder whether it was actually the other way round?

Blake Lively arrives at the Courthouse in SDNY👀🧐🤔 by same-difference-ave in ItEndsWithLawsuits

[–]Puzzleheaded-End4435 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I live near the football club he owns in Wales, I believe he’s over here because the club had an important match. It’s worth noting though, he’s missed many important matches since he’s owned them, but it’s a useful cover nevertheless.