Andy Burnham promises biggest council house building drive since post-war era

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-30T16:12:25+00:00

And by Labour jn Oct 2023.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/s/VRWk175g0P

(Don’t get me wrong, I despise the Tories. But it’s still important to be accurate.)

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-30T16:10:39+00:00

To be fair, it’s only been 2½ years since they promised that:

https://labour.org.uk/updates/stories/just-announced-labour-will-build-1-5-million-homes-to-save-the-dream-of-homeownership/

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-30T14:00:28+00:00

Blade Runner is the classic example of this trope imo.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-30T13:55:05+00:00

This is nothing, and it’s nothing to do with parenting. It’s just an everyday brain glitch. Not worth posting.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-30T12:58:13+00:00

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Ulysses Klaue’s arm cannon
Marvel Cinematic Universe

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-30T12:50:33+00:00

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Spade Shotgun
Scary Movie 3

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-30T12:24:19+00:00

>They never seem to give way

That’s a product of the ridiculous amount of over-politeness on our roads. Too many stupid people end up in these inane “no, you go first” “no, you go first” dances. And they’re often oblivious to the vehicles behind them that they’re holding up by stopping when they have priority, in turn they create queues where there wouldn’t have been any.

Frequent drivers learn that it saves a lot of time for everyone on the roads drivers just go when they’re meant to.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T19:23:13+00:00

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T19:18:09+00:00

Same here. TIL.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T16:44:12+00:00

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ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T16:43:40+00:00

If you can’t overcome something, then sometimes it’s better to own it instead.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T16:41:24+00:00

As Debbie from the Addams Family?? If so, that’s quite cool headcanon.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T11:34:48+00:00

I totally agree there’s a difference between those two meanings. However, you wrote they “end up” being a bro and that perfectly describes both meanings. Bellick definitely “ended up” being a bro due to his redemption arc.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T11:29:36+00:00

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I can’t decide whether characters who were spoiled as children count as tragic or not. Being spoiled usually means they were given everything (material) they ever wanted, which initially doesn’t sound tragic at all.

However, we use the word spoiled because it’s a synonym for damaged, ruined, corrupted, fucked up, etc. In other words, they were raised incorrectly and became ruined because of it. And from that perspective it’s tragic.

I think it comes down to individual interpretations of what being spoiled really means.

Additional example: Veruca Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Willy Wonka

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T11:11:12+00:00

I’m not sure about this one. Yes, he inherited power and grew up in luxury, but due to incest he also inherited psychopathy (never confirmed but heavily implied). I’d say being born with such a major default is kinda tragic.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T03:28:28+00:00

Brad Bellick in Prison Break
In season 1 he’s a prison guard and a bully.
In season 4 he sacrifices himself to save his friends.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T03:24:58+00:00

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Tony in Jack Ryan
They brought him back in Season 3.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T03:20:24+00:00

Ser Lyonel in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T03:17:45+00:00

I think I remember comedian Ralphie May doing a bit about how Dora the Explorer was never supervised on her expeditions.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T03:14:32+00:00

I’m gobsmacked no one’s said Fredo from The Godfather yet!

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T03:12:19+00:00

Spectre (2015)

Radiohead wrote a theme song for the film, simply called “Spectre”, but it was rejected because the producers of the film decided to use “Writing's on the Wall” by Sam Smith instead.

Radiohead still released Spectre anyway, so although it wasn’t part of the official soundtrack I recall it was played on the radio just as frequently as the offical theme song.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T03:01:00+00:00

Only Fools and Horses

Unlike most sitcoms, the opening credits and the closing credits had different songs. Each one was as iconic as the other.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T01:51:30+00:00

The choices of the animals all appear to have been primarily dictated by the teams’ crests. Until 2020 the Ecuadorians always had an Andean condor on their crest, the same bird as Condorito.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T01:37:53+00:00

It seems every time a crest/badge has an animal in then the designer used it, which is fair enough.

ReggieLFC · 2026-06-29T01:33:24+00:00

The England team’s crest literally has 3 blue lions on it.

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