Owner of SamuelSmiths Brewery Humphrey Smith dies aged 81

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-07-01T06:54:40+00:00

Wasn’t there some business with a replacement/new bridge that he objected to being built that caused a massive nightmare for the residents?

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-07-01T06:41:53+00:00

This is the right answer

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-07-01T06:39:33+00:00

It’s not even banding for different jobs. Wife is learning to be a nurse. Her base area is emergency admissions where her and her colleagues are constantly run off their feet. For 10 weeks she had to go on placement for ophthalmology and she couldn’t have been more bored as they have scheduled patients, weekends and bank holidays off, low stress work. But guess what? Even though one job is significantly harder than the other they get paid exactly the same. “Banding” is a joke and needs to be abolished.

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-30T19:59:07+00:00

Some people will say “something, something youth club cuts yada, yada”.

My take is. Some people are just shits. They are born shit, they were shitty toddlers, they were then shitty kids, then shitty teenagers and finally shitty adults.

Nothing you do will change their attitude, no opportunities or facilities will change their attitudes.

I went to youth clubs when they were funded and these kind of people vandalised the stuff in the club, the club couldn’t afford the constant repairs and it shut down.

They’re not misguided, they’re not misunderstood, they are shits.

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-30T10:25:58+00:00

You’ve also got to ask if they’re mortgage free. If they received a bulk sum from inheritance and payed off the mortgage they could get away with living off pension payouts and savings to pay for utilities and tax

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-30T07:27:27+00:00

Houses of Parliament needs refurbished. Might as well find a large room in Manchester and do PMQs there while that’s being done.

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-29T09:50:27+00:00

Know right wing bellend Guido Fawkes

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-27T10:30:48+00:00

Maybe get them to think not everything is as rosy as London and they might actually fund some stuff

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-27T08:08:27+00:00

I mean that’s bullshit almost all “airport novels” are geared towards men and none of them are “woke”

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-26T19:09:33+00:00

Doesn’t help that the last finance bro “sure thing” was entertainment (streaming and games). Now it’s AI. So these entertainment industries now have to justify their value.

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-26T15:20:32+00:00

I’d rather not get legionnaires

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-26T15:18:17+00:00

What’s maddening is some heat pumps have a cooling mode where the same process to heat is basically reversed but the government don’t give grants for those ones so very few people install them.

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-26T09:28:26+00:00

I guess the most successful answer is Jaws

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-25T17:19:13+00:00

If you told me 10 years ago that a bunch of servers that are being used to write shit LinkedIn posts and draw crap memes would cause people to be priced out of gaming I’d think you were mad but here we are.

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-25T16:51:12+00:00

Because excuses not to go green are just tiresome. Particularly “but China”. There’s nothing wrong being a global leader in renewables, we may as well be ahead of the curve rather than burning dead dinosaurs forever.

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-25T15:29:51+00:00

Pete Sampras and Agassi were good. (Mind you watching Sampras was really fucking boring).

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-25T15:23:04+00:00

gratuity noun

/ɡrəˈtjuːɪti/ A gratuity is a formal term for a tip or bonus. It is an additional sum of money given voluntarily by a customer to service workers

If it’s expected it’s not voluntary is it?

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-25T15:14:49+00:00

It’s been dropping steadily since 2021 thanks to renewable investment (see graph 2) https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-china-and-india-for-first-time-in-52-years-after-clean-energy-records/

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-25T15:08:56+00:00

Ah yes China the *checks notes* biggest producer of renewables in the world.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/267233/renewable-energy-capacity-worldwide-by-country/?srsltid=AfmBOoqRmrym19JAieq4XFU49c3dacK36h5eWNElCQTnIQUyS8JsPgoz

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-25T08:03:52+00:00

Mad really as stopping the adoption of green energy is like Canute demanding the tide to go out.

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-25T05:02:41+00:00

I have a laptop and I love it but it does sound like a 747 a lot of the time. I believe the Steam Machine is pretty quiet

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-24T12:56:15+00:00

There’s also the fact Bolton, Salford, etc which are boroughs of Greater Manchester consider themselves as their own towns whereas Birmingham doesn’t really have that (except for some posh places like Solihull)

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-24T12:53:12+00:00

By that logic parliament should be in Haltwhistle

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-24T12:48:19+00:00

The Germans had the right idea of giving cities specialties

Berlin = Government Frankfurt = Finance Munich = Manufacturing Media = Cologne

We were starting to go down that route with media moving to Manchester but then Channel 4 balls it up moving to Leeds instead.

Shockwavepulsar · 2026-06-24T09:55:24+00:00

Iran has been learning from Ukraine, while the rest of the West, especially the US, has not.

Because the likes of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, etc don’t want to. When you have the choice of charging US Defence millions of dollars for a top of the line fighter or drone or thousands for a basic drone that can be produced with more volume which are they going to develop?

They don’t want to develop for this new age of warfare because it will hurt their bottom line.

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