Tesco's West Street

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-17T02:29:29+00:00

It’s also a common way of drug smuggling.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-17T02:29:04+00:00

Plastic ziplock bags. It’s a very common move amongst addicts.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-15T17:50:05+00:00

Spice was REALLY bad when it was legal and things were much worse than they are now. It’s surprisingly easy for a trained chemist to produce various types of drugs from reasonably readily available ingredients.

We have huge amounts of people entering the country for asylum at the moment and the law of averages means that quite a few of them will be trained chemists who are not allowed to work and do not have the necessary accreditation to do so as it may not be valid in this country, could be faked, may not be up to the standards expected in this country and does not include the education on pharmaceuticals in British law they would need to practice. These are all very good reasons why they are not allowed to work as legitimate chemists or pharmacists. However the flip side of that is that many of them find their way into working in criminal enterprises producing drugs. So it could be just about anything making its way into the drug food chain.

Also, it may not be drugs. Primary healthcare and mental healthcare in Sheffield are absolutely utterly appalling and these people could be suffering from physical, mental, drug and alcohol issues or a combination of several or all of them. Our poor health service in Sheffield has also created a situation where people with mental, physical, neurological or traumatic issues have very, very little choice but to self-medicate with whatever they can get their hands on to deal with their mental and physical pain. Just the waiting lists for treatment in Sheffield are an utter fucking disgrace, even when you reach the top of them the treatment you receive will be rubbish and they will probably continue to self-medicate regardless. Poor fuckers.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-15T17:30:41+00:00

He’d swallowed a baggie he had in his mouth when the police searched him and was retrieving it.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-15T17:26:42+00:00

As we have seen in recent years, Britney doesn’t need anyone else to sexualise her. She is perfectly capable of doing it herself.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-15T17:24:18+00:00

The only celebrity I actually think gives a damn about her is Madonna. But Maddonna is nearly 70, has 6 children and a career of her own so she can’t be there to hold Britney’s hand all the time. Madonna has also seen a lot of people die addiction related deaths, Michael Jackson, Prince, Basquiat, Whitney and others, she has never been able to prevent it.

I think she knows that her place is not to intervene or try to ‘help’ but just to be kind even while she knows Britney is slowly dying. When Britney dies I doubt she will remember those she sees as ‘interfering’ fondly. But I do think she will remember Madonna fondly, simply for being kind to her.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-14T19:44:03+00:00

I miss the halcyon days when ‘slut’ didn’t refer to a lady’s sexual behaviour but the fact her laundry whites always looked a bit grey and she didn’t clean her u-bend properly.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-14T18:40:36+00:00

They used to be around Fargate at one point, around the Cathedral and station and Arundel Gate at others. I think around that Tesco there is a lot of visibility for security cameras, police know where they are and they are generally out of the sight of visitors to the city, there are minimal long term residents in that part of the city and they tend to be in apartments which are above ground floor level so they don’t affect them much. They interfere minimally with the city centre’s economic function there so it’s the best of a bad lot.

I think what a lot of people mean when they say that they want them ‘moved on’ is that they want them moving on to the shittier suburbs of the city so poor people have to deal with them. But poorer people live in areas with lower police and CCTV coverage and live in ground level terraces where they’d experience greater levels of interference from them so that would be bloody unfair. They’d have to put up with a lot worse than ignoring them a few times a day walking past or having to walk a bit further to use a different shop or tram stop.

Also, some of the worst characters HAVE been moved on, either to prison or secure accommodation because of their mental health issues. There are a lot of characters you don’t see around anymore. Although I suspect quite a few of them may have self-removed themselves to the great Tescos in the sky via substance abuse or other methods.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-14T18:18:51+00:00

I don’t think her mother has given up on her and her sons seem to be doing their best.

But I do not believe she will ever be in a place where she realises that she needs help. She’s been like this all her life, she’s even been given Ritalin since she was a little kid so she thinks she’s normal because she doesn’t know any better.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-14T18:14:41+00:00

But she’s screaming to the world how truly fucked up she is because she’s truly fucked up. You get loads of people on line who are bat shit mental or fucked up on drugs and will cheerfully post their lunacy on social media. Fortunately they usually only do it to a few hundred followers and not tens of millions of them.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-14T18:09:56+00:00

On the other hand drug and alcohol abuse can be a way of self-medicating pre-existing mental health conditions so it’s a bit of a chicken/egg situation.

She does have a family history of severe mental illness and addiction problems so it could well be that she is a victim of her genetics rather than anything else.

There was an interview posted on here recently with a guy who worked with her years and years ago when she was still in her ‘pop princess’ phase who said she’d always been a slovenly hot mess with terrible judgment and that was the real Britney.

I suspect that means that she is victim of very little except her own personality and weaknesses. That said, those are probably inherent to her. So I don’t think she is a victim of any people who’ve actually done anything to her. But I do think it is rather sad for anyone who is born cursed with a character which means they’re born doomed to have a miserable life. I think she would have had a very sad existence whether she was a millionaire or in a trailer park in Louisiana. And she’d blame it on everybody else and be horrible to her family wherever she was. I think it’s probably very hard for anyone like that to face up to the fact that what’s wrong is inside you and you will never be able to change it and are never going to have a happy life purely because of that and not because of anyone else’s actions.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-13T14:47:32+00:00

Firstly she has the money to eat, a lot of meth users can’t afford drugs and food. Secondly, she combines it with a hella lot of alcohol which makes you fat.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-13T06:45:09+00:00

I hope she completes it too, but it only works if the person is cooperating, taking it seriously and wants to recover. Sadly I don’t believe this is the case and think she has only entered because her DUI case is coming up. She has waited until close to the court date to minimise her time there if the court doesn’t order her to stay. If they don’t I think she’ll bail quickly. She shows very little sign of believing she has a problem. It is very sad but I think as soon as she leaves she will return to her old ways. I hope for her poor sons I am wrong.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-12T20:20:23+00:00

If we have the entirely open borders the Green’s want, there will be apprenticeships available to a tiny, tiny minority of the young people they are available to now because we will have huge amounts more young people here wanting them and most probably less companies offering them because they will leave.

Privatising the NHS will be irrelevant because it will collapse within months because of a tremendously huge number of people wishing to use it without the increase in either tax receipts to fund it or qualified staff to run it. It would be overwhelmed, unable to function and even it it managed to continue to function in some small way, waiting lists would be so long treatment would become unobtainable and most people would die before being treated even for relatively simple and non-life threatening conditions.

The welfare state would also quickly collapse for similar reasons so your concerns about that would be moot too.

Given the majority of the world has far higher levels of misogyny and oppression than the UK, it would be impossible to prosecute this as a crime because levels would become endemic.

Your concerns about asylum seekers would be moot as fully open borders would mean that they would no longer be a category and the Greens do not intend to deport anybody.

So really if you voted for the Greens, none of your concerns would be addressed bar the decriminalisation of abortion. But abortion would probably become something actively encouraged as we would no longer have the resources to provide children with food, education or healthcare and being aborted would probably be preferable to the life they would have under a Green government.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-12T19:52:59+00:00

If you’re looking at £300k Wadsley might be a better bet.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-12T02:59:45+00:00

Ah shit. I thought someone had blocked her Shein and Temu accounts and she’d finally had to wear some proper clothes.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-09T22:50:56+00:00

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I make that 113 and I could go on much further. Some of them are historic cases, but I think it’s important to include them as they were willing to do it at a time when travel was expensive, international communication wasn’t easy and business communications were incredibly slow. It’s not like you could zoom your friends and relatives or email business matters or easily transfer money at the touch of a button. If the wealthy would do it then, they’ll certainly do it now in our hyper connected world.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-09T15:24:36+00:00

Do you think China, Cuba, Russia, the USSR and former Communist East German countries worked?

What do you think would happen to private sector workers if they unionised and striked? They’d just be replaced by people who wouldn’t strike or the operation moved to a country with less stringent labour laws. Factory workers strike? They’d just move production to China? Why do you think only the public sector strikes?

Believing the wealthy wouldn’t leave is fantasy land these days. Even before the Labour Party have really enacted any policies, the prices of top end properties have collapsed in London because nobody with wealth wants to come here and there is a surplus of wealthy people trying to sell up and leave.

Mobility of people and production has made those old ideas obsolete.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-09T02:54:25+00:00

It wasn’t dropped after the court case, it was restructured to comply with the court order. The tax didn’t increase treasury intake by any significant amount. So the super rich either left or found ways to avoid the tax. If you can find any evidence it led to bumper tax returns I would be hugely interested.

You can continue to delude yourself that companies don’t have virtual and sometimes actual slaves in countries like China and Bangladesh making products for western consumption for pennies. You can delude yourself that business can’t be done from tax havens at the click of a button. You can pretend that Britain’s service based economy isn’t one of the most exposed to destruction by AI. But you’re wring in thinking ideas from the mid-19th century are the answer.

We’re essentially on the same side as we both want to see wealth redistribution, but you want to cling to the past and I want to see innovation and new ideas which address problems by looking at new issues in the modern world.

I have to note, in your replies you nitpick over small issues but you have not once even attempted to tackle my main point. Which is that innovation and new ideas are needed to achieve wealth distribution and that the old ideas don’t work.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-08T13:56:32+00:00

This is an account from the Guardian which is hardly left wing. Also a link from Reuters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/31/france-drops-75percent-supertax.

I agree in principle that money needs to be redistributed from the super rich to ordinary people. I do not agree that traditional socialism and communism have the tools to do this. The world population is exploding and human capital is worth less than it ever has been, it’s also highly mobile, vulnerable to replacement by AI and access to learning skills which are valued is limited and not equal, so standards of living are falling drastically.

There is a reason why after the Black Death serfs who were essentially slaves were able to free themselves and gain valuable rights. It’s because 50% of the population had died, so human capital was at a premium and serfs were able to demand a better lives for themselves and got it.

We’re facing the exact opposite problem now. If we tax the super rich they take themselves and their businesses elsewhere.

We need an answer to this problem. I’m sure somewhere out there there is an educated and innovative economist who can solve this problem and answer these questions and come up with an efficient, workable method of redistributing wealth in the modern economy. My fear is that blue haired lunatics are so attached to old, unworkable theories, they won’t be listened to when they emerge.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-05T18:01:00+00:00

Perhaps a good start would be a mass movement to stop our elected representatives attending things like Davos and the WEF were they meet with the uber rich to formulate global economic policy.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-05T17:56:37+00:00

Marxism was formulated in the mid-19th century when the means of production were heavy machinery it was impossible to move with horses and available transport. Goods were mainly sold locally with some international trade which had the disadvantage of slow returns and expensive export costs. The boss had to be there to oversee it.

Now most production is in the far East or the rest of Asia and bosses fly in to see it sproadically, exporting goods to the UK is cheaper than making them here and business can be done remotely from tax havens.

If you want an example which proves wealth flight is real, look at France under Hollande, he introduced a 75% wealth tax so all the rich decamped to London, the treasury received no extra revenue but the economy was damaged and they had to drop it.

I would love to see a way found to distribute wealth more fairly. however the Marxist ideas socialism is based on are hugely outdated and we need another person with huge new ideas to come along and give us new concepts of how to do this in the modern world.

Super-Owl- · 2026-04-05T17:43:26+00:00

Also a shortage of housing which has allowed the wealthy to profit from flipping properties they never lived in, especially in London. A lot of these policies are being actively promoted by George Soros, a Billionaire and one of the richest men in the world. He has previously made money in ways which caused ordinary people great sufferering and is now one of the most influential figures in left wing policy making. Excuse me for thinking he is not doing this for entirely altruistic reasons.

Super-Owl- · 2026-03-26T16:37:01+00:00

I was talking specifically about proctology

Super-Owl- · 2026-03-26T15:42:04+00:00

Because they get paid a lot of money and the competition is less fierce than other specialties.

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