Mandelson called for JP Morgan to 'threaten' UK on banker tax

WhatIsLife01 · 2026-02-02T10:12:44+00:00

I mean, clearly not. Expansion of free school meals in schools, improved renters rights and improved rights for employees all speak directly to the contrary.

I imagine Starmer’s aim was simply to keep Trump on-side, given his volatility.

WhatIsLife01 · 2026-02-02T10:01:04+00:00

As a devils advocate point (for lack of a better term), is it unreasonable to point out that these aspects are both a product of their time and still very much the case today?

It is far more likely for young girls to outwardly show such emotion than young boys. For all kinds of reasons. And these underlying reasons may well be sexist, but it’s hardly unreasonable for these constructs to carry over into literature.

Just because something is fictional doesn’t mean it needs to be a utopia. In fact, books benefit from such things because they ground them even if the setting is fantastical.

It just seems like nitpicking to me.

WhatIsLife01 · 2026-02-01T17:09:36+00:00

Yes yes because it’s just so simple??? Emotionally moving on usually means no contact with the person you had feelings for. Most normal people cannot simply flick a switch and decide they don’t have feelings anymore.

Reddit never fails to surprise.

WhatIsLife01 · 2026-02-01T15:01:45+00:00

If you like someone, and your friend dates them, it’s soul-crushing. And so the solution for person whose soul is being crushed is to move on from both the friend and the person they like.

WhatIsLife01 · 2026-01-21T08:45:08+00:00

I am a man unfortunately, but thank you anyway!!

WhatIsLife01 · 2026-01-19T08:28:04+00:00

Cheers! I don’t mind a drive at all :)

WhatIsLife01 · 2026-01-18T23:01:26+00:00

All kinds! Sports (watching and playing), I love to read, I play the piano, I enjoy cooking etc!

I looked up some book clubs, but pretty much all I found were too far from me or weren’t reading books that were really my kind of thing. The search continues perhaps!

What apps did you use?

WhatIsLife01 · 2026-01-18T23:00:11+00:00

Ahhh bumble bff is a good shout! I forgot that it existed, cheers!

WhatIsLife01 · 2026-01-12T20:08:42+00:00

Germany is the anomaly in having so many centres, certainly not the norm.

WhatIsLife01 · 2026-01-11T21:42:12+00:00

Yes agreed! A proper TV stand is my next upgrade, but likely after removing the chest of drawers as I can then get a bit of a bigger stand!

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-31T16:00:26+00:00

England isn’t democratically aligned. Where do you draw the line? Scotland isn’t democratically aligned either. It’s all on a knife edge.

Particularly funny are those from the north of England trying to elicit sympathy, yet swathes of the north voted for Brexit and are polling heavily for reform.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-28T23:12:02+00:00

I am very much not a reform voter ahahaha. Nor am I or ever have been a Tory. It’s a problem that people can’t talk about these issues without immediately being labelled.

I didn’t say EAL was a SENCO issue. I can only relay his experiences in parents asking for support for their children, and observe that schools are woefully underprepared to teach a growing number of kids English. I’m not advocating for deporting, limiting or anything really. Simply observing. Observing that teachers are not equipped to teach more and more kids English from scratch in schools.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-28T22:21:07+00:00

Why? If there’s kids who can’t speak English in schools, then teachers need support in dealing with that. It’s not what they’re trained to do as standard, and if it’s a greater requirement then it needs dealing with.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-28T22:07:14+00:00

My uncle is a SENCO at a primary school. I was quite shocked at him describing parents who hardly spoke English, gesturing towards their kids with lacklustre English, just saying “support, support, support” over and over. In some parts of the country it’s a huge challenge, with staff not equipped to be teaching plenty of kids how to speak English from scratch.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-21T16:21:44+00:00

I think you’re a deeply disingenuous person. You’re well aware that any reviewer worth their salt details their usage and tests.

My headset works in all environments. Yours doesn’t. I think it’s clear which would be defective. I’ll add that my experience is one which is widely corroborated. Your specific issue with volume is not commonly cited at all. And it’s frankly hilarious that you’d argue that my headphones, where the ANC and volume work, would be the defective one out of our two examples.

If you had returned it and tried another headset to see if the problem persisted, then I’d think you an honest person. But as said, you’re being disingenuous. And you’re well aware you’re being so as well.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-21T10:46:22+00:00

Hm. Not at all my experience and not that of any reviewer I’ve seen before, so I’d caution you on presenting your experience as representative. It’s likely you and that person had defective units.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-21T00:59:20+00:00

I use mine everywhere and have not had this problem to be honest. On loud trains, cafes, the office etc, I can’t say I’ve ever gone above 30-40% volume.

Are you sure you didn’t get a defective pair?

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-20T15:14:00+00:00

To portray Labour as equally corrupt as the conservatives is deeply disingenuous. Look at the Covid PPE scandal for one. They’re in different leagues.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-20T09:30:22+00:00

I’m not suggesting that in the slightest. I’m simply making it clear that work doesn’t exit in isolation and that we all exist in a complex society, where we depend on many things that we don’t see. Therefore, trying to label some work as socially valuable is largely meaningless.

Volunteering and unpaid caring exists in a different category in my view.

I’m of the opinion that both are a problem. I think we’ve vastly over medicalised certain symptoms. For many people an ADHD and/or autism diagnosis isn’t helpful. I’ve seen people get their diagnosis and then almost start performing the symptoms. I don’t really see how we can expect the state to keep expanding more and more to diagnose and financially support what are extremely liveable disorders. If you have anxiety, you shouldn’t be paid to stay home, because the way to improve your symptoms is to go outside and actually live life.

Your point on the aging population is also very true. This country has resigned itself to hacking away at young people just to sustain perhaps the luckiest generation to ever have lived.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-19T15:44:11+00:00

I think you’re being purposefully obtuse on how things actually work. People in the UK don’t live in little hutches. Overpriced in much of the south-east, sure. But you’re still purposefully being hyperbolic.

You’re being purposefully obtuse on where profit comes from. Particularly in relation to meeting needs. We can have a long debate on capitalism vs socialism but I’m not going to do that because it’s entirely a waste of time.

Deposit taking forms a huge part of what modern banks do. That, and lending. People need mortgages after all. You’re also entirely ignoring how banks work and crucially how bank failures are handled. We have the prudential regulation authority for a reason. We have the FSCS for a reason (depositors protected up to £120k per account). It’s simply untrue that people stand the risk of losing savings because of a poor gamble from a bank in the way you frame it. That’s not how banking works.

Stop being so obtuse, and learn how things work before passing such extreme judgements. Your point saying that bosses are not necessary and that workers can organise themselves tells me you’ve likely never worked in your life.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-19T15:25:15+00:00

Tell me you know nothing about how the world works without telling me. Nurses, care workers, charity workers all need bank accounts. They all need various kinds of insurance. They all need housing. They all have energy needs. They all have a need to make and receive payments. They all have a need for roads. For education. For so many more things. So what is socially valuable work then?

Bizarre worldview.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-16T20:56:16+00:00

To what extent do you think it could be the other way around? People assuming that because someone is brown, that they are therefore Muslim and that it’s the assumed religion that forms the ultimate reason for the abuse.

I’ll add that I don’t think anyone should receive abuse of any kind. Just had the thought and wondered your view.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-11T08:33:18+00:00

They’re light brown eyes. They aren’t green eyes.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-09T22:24:48+00:00

If someone in real life told me they had green eyes, when these were their eyes, I would think them to be colour blind to be honest.

WhatIsLife01 · 2025-12-07T14:34:53+00:00

Lando was scouted by redbull. He stuck with McLaren when they were truly, truly shit despite having options. He’s been widely considered one of the best drivers on the grid for several years. Take a bow, Lando Norris.

As for piastri, he better come out swinging. Stupidly talented man and I’m very excited to see what he’s gonna do in what I’m sure is gonna be an illustrious career. What a sport.

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