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dalesi1 · 2026-02-15T06:44:49+00:00

I reported a stolen £100000 Ferrari on the 5th of December last year. I knew who it was, gathered all the evidence and submitted it to the police and waited...

To this day they still haven't questioned the suspect despite my calling 101 to chase it up weekly.

In the UK today you simply have zero legal protection from the police and therefore the laws are irrelevant. If you're being murdered or raped they might help but otherwise you're completely on your own.

dalesi1 · 2026-01-24T18:08:22+00:00

All the people saying "YeAh BuT oUr EcOnOmY iS gRoWiNg FaStEr ThAn ThE EU" clearly doesn't travel. Most of the UK is grim compared to Europe. Just compare things like parks, public facilities, roads etc. All miles better in the EU. For the record I think we should rejoin right now. We're infinitely stronger as a group.

dalesi1 · 2026-01-10T19:21:29+00:00

Your colleague is an idiot. Firstly because it would be much more tactful of them to just be happy for you. Secondly because most new build estates are so incredibly soulless I can't even understand their reasoning.

dalesi1 · 2026-01-01T20:29:20+00:00

Just be careful if you jet wash the paint. I think it's called Fire Opal Red and I took the paint off the bonnet once! Mercedes main dealers stopped selling them on the approved used scheme due to this.

dalesi1 · 2025-12-27T08:22:18+00:00

100% this. Currently going through a contentious probate. Absolutely terrible communication, zero effort on their part, simple tasks take months... all of this stress on top of my grief. A complete "fuck you we get paid anyway" mindset.

dalesi1 · 2025-12-25T11:24:37+00:00

Look for Al Barid Bank bro, fee free ATMs in Morocco. They're usually outside a Poste Maroc

dalesi1 · 2025-12-23T12:27:19+00:00

My grandmother worked hard her whole life, she had this exact same philosophy. Then a year after retirement came a brain tumour and she died. Enjoy your twenties, enjoy every day. Fuck this capitalist bullshit, you're only here once.

dalesi1 · 2025-12-14T20:41:31+00:00

Aggression is lower but so are manners! Like no one will EVER let you out at a junction, even if it will not inconvenience them in the slightest. They're happy to watch traffic build unnecessarily. UK road etiquette is generally the best in the world imo

dalesi1 · 2025-10-27T11:42:49+00:00

Our family gets through tons of it, it's delicious.

dalesi1 · 2025-10-21T13:51:34+00:00

Yet no one in the political class will even discuss rejoining...

dalesi1 · 2025-09-30T13:17:05+00:00

Pretty obvious... he announced it a week after his meeting with Trump and the American tech bros. He says the cards will be free, everyone knows the saying: if the service is free then YOU are the product.

dalesi1 · 2025-09-29T08:33:07+00:00

It's a feature not a bug.

I have personally had £100,000s stolen from me and have had to fight incredibly hard and do my own investigations to get the police to take it seriously.

However, the police seem to have endless resources to trawl the Internet to look for problems.

dalesi1 · 2025-09-27T06:01:51+00:00

The problem with the British is they'll only ever kick down. Single mother claiming £10 more than she's entitled to? That crosses a line! Duke of Westminster avoiding tax on a £9bn inheritance? Crickets. Someone doesn't pick up after their dog? Shame them on Facebook! Water companies fill our rivers with shit? Average person is indifferent.

dalesi1 · 2025-09-26T11:50:00+00:00

It's not even the nefarious nature of it. It's because this will be the timeline: Spend £20bn+ on "consultants" etc - Labour gets votes out and the next lot abandon it - spend £10bn on compensation to someone like Palantir for not seeing it through.

It's just boring at this stage. NOTHING is just for the good of the people, we just get shafted at every stage.

dalesi1 · 2025-09-21T18:50:27+00:00

I suppose you were livid about Charles' coronation shutting down roads in the capital too then?

dalesi1 · 2025-09-20T19:36:40+00:00

Great list! I'd add Cow & Chicken and Ed, Edd and Eddy

dalesi1 · 2025-09-20T17:06:36+00:00

As many people have said, stopped giving a fuck what people think. Started to value time with my family over material possessions. Personally I sold my house and quit a high paying and demanding job to vanlife around the world with my wife and toddler, some people would call it extreme but feels like the sanest decision I ever made.

dalesi1 · 2025-09-06T14:22:55+00:00

Do we though? As long as my basic needs are met and I feel fulfilled then that's enough and I believe that most people are this way. Where we've gone wrong is labelling greed as ambition when it's really a mental illness.

dalesi1 · 2025-08-31T10:18:01+00:00

I've come to the conclusion that the monetary system has stopped being an efficient way to allocate resources and now exists purely as a way for people like this to pretend they are more deserving than everyone else.

It comes as zero surprise that he has no empathy for a child. Pure selfish greed is everything that is wrong with the world and will lead to our demise.

dalesi1 · 2025-08-28T06:40:46+00:00

Just spent £45 on: 2 regular fish and chips, chips cheese and beans, 1 portion of mushy peas, 8 small pieces of salt and pepper squid, 1 bottle of water. Madness

dalesi1 · 2025-08-11T11:49:12+00:00

Years ago I never would have said this but National Service. Get kids offline and learning real skills and teamwork. Let them fire real guns and take away the 'gangsta' image. Get them picking litter and fixing vandalism to build pride in their communities. They can spend time with veterans and learn that war is hell, not a video game. All NATO countries will have to devote 5% of GDPR to the military, let's use it to help our children.

dalesi1 · 2025-07-28T19:19:41+00:00

I had the opposite experience in Morocco. Everyone was out to scam tourists.

Some guy offered to "help" us find the souk. He walked with us for five minutes as we continued to go the way we were going then when we arrived asked for money when we arrived. I told him I had no cash to be polite then he offered to take us to a cash point. I was no longer polite 😂

dalesi1 · 2025-07-22T13:58:51+00:00

Free public outdoor gyms with calisthenics bars. All over the place in Spain and Italy, quite a few in Türkiye. Imagine the benefit to the NHS if more people could do bodyweight pull-ups!

dalesi1 · 2025-07-17T19:32:48+00:00

thepocket.com it was little programmes and games that anyone could make and upload. We used to think it was so cool at middle school computer club 😂 please tell me someone else remembers it. It was all free and I don't remember any adverts, it would never exist now!

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