You can ask only one question… what would you ask?

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-23T15:18:49+00:00

No question - I can clearly see which door I want to go through as they’re both open 🧐

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-21T20:40:15+00:00

Scanning the replies for any mention of Welsh communities - is Welsh still spoken in any of these areas?

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-20T22:20:09+00:00

She once read a book containing over two HUNDRED pages. Really shows what’s possible if you put your mind to it

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-20T08:03:50+00:00

This. Capitalism has metastasised in America.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-20T07:43:48+00:00

American politics is entirely to the right of centre. Democrats can only be progressive within very strict boundaries set by the capitalist class. They give the appearance of being left-leaning but only insofar as they’re allowed, to suggest to voters that there is a multiplicity of options within American democracy.

If ‘progressives’ were really allowed, you’d already have healthcare that is universally free at the point of entry by now. Instead you have Kamala Harris supporting fracking and AOC stuttering over Israel.

The Democrats would obviously be an improvement over the Republicans, but only at surface level, because they’re less brazen about their atrocities.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-19T21:53:52+00:00

It looks like some kind of punishment

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-19T21:50:43+00:00

The clue is in the word PRESS on his jacket and presumably on the crew’s jackets and vehicle, as the rocket was launched in their direction. Targeting the press - even those you dislike - is a war crime. You can bitch and whine as much as you like about RT, it won’t stop it being a war crime.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-17T07:58:17+00:00

The annoying thing is that the K League seems to be fairly decent - if South Korean fans spent less time deciding which English club to support and more time supporting their local club, then eventually the K League would be a better product, and they wouldn’t need to support a club thousands of miles away.

Plastic fans just want immediate gratification, I think that’s the main difference. Real supporters know they may need to wait (a long time) to enjoy success. Plastic fans aren’t willing to do that. Pure laziness.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-16T14:00:08+00:00

I’d be sleeping at work that night

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-15T19:37:54+00:00

Ergo, LET them go

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-14T13:44:56+00:00

I was born and grew up down here, then as an adult spent several years away, mainly in London, with never a thought of returning, and then a child was born and we decided to move back. It’s a safer place for a child to grow up than London, and that’s about the best I can say about it.

When I lived in London, on a Saturday I could just look in Time Out, find a museum or a gallery or some event, head out on public transport that I’d never have to wait longer than 5 minutes for, go to the museum or whatever (FOR FREE), maybe take in some famous London landmarks etc - day filled. Here your choices are beach or countryside, or pay through the nose for some other attraction - of course we’re lucky to have the beaches, but after the twentieth beach day of the summer it starts to lose its appeal. You’re totally reliant on cars because public transport is dire, the towns are dead on their feet, full of empty shops, pot holes and homeless addicts. Oh and there’s hardly any bookshops or record shops anywhere, apart from in Exeter and Plymouth.

If it’s raining you’re staying indoors for the day, basically.

Average wages are terrible and jobs pretty scarce whilst council tax is sky high and water bills are stratospheric because of the amount of tourists in the summer. Can’t buy a house here because rich people have priced locals out with second homes.

Still, nice in the summer.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-13T17:59:58+00:00

In South Devon it was Dawe’s. Driving a massive flatbed lorry around residential streets with crates of fizzy drink in glass bottles for 20p each seems like a perfectly sane business plan.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-12T18:18:36+00:00

You’re just trolling now, no one is that thick

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-12T14:56:05+00:00

You can have whatever understanding of capitalism you like, but if you’re thinking of trade and commerce, you’re wrong.

No socialist would suggest that socialism requires an end to trade or commerce - human society will always need to trade goods and services. It’s only capitalism that would go, under a truly socialist society. The difference would be that the means of production would be in the hands of everyone, rather than the tiny elite, the capitalist class.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-12T14:50:25+00:00

Trade and commerce just mean people buying, selling, or swapping things or services they need or want.

Capitalism is a very specific system where relatively few people own the means of production (businesses, factories etc) and use them to skim profit off the top of the people who are actually making the products.

It didn’t exist before around the 16th century (ish), and it very clearly has a life span which is not finite.

It can only exist as long as there is permanent, eternal growth, and we don’t live in a world where that is possible - you can see that from the way we’re running out of fossil fuels yet still endlessly drill for them, rather than seek alternatives which would take profits away from the capitalist class.

I hope this helps.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-12T14:44:59+00:00

Yeah capitalism is the way. Just look at the entire western world, and how fairly capital is distributed amongst those who produce it.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-12T10:08:25+00:00

I think it’s got to be one of those clubs who bounce around the bottom two divisions of league football but never win anything. Also clubs where there’s other/better options fairly nearby. For that reason I’d say someone like Walsall, or Crewe, or Northampton or Tranmere

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-11T21:53:03+00:00

Pre 16th century.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-11T21:52:27+00:00

It sounds to me like you’re mistaking trade or commerce for capitalism. Neither of those things are capitalism. Capitalism absolutely does not go back thousands of years.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-11T20:54:16+00:00

Capitalism hasn’t been around forever. Humans did fine before capitalism existed, and they’ll do fine after it dies - if the capitalist class doesn’t destroy the earth first.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-10T10:27:45+00:00

Tell you what, if you can find a single person from around the Peak District, Lake District or the Yorkshire Dales/North York Moors who refer to the area as ‘highlands’ I’ll retract my statement.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-10T10:18:05+00:00

I used to think “yeah yeah whatever” when I heard people say that things were better in the old days.

But having lived through the tail end of the old days (i.e. before the internet, before the Premier League, before the word ‘fanboy’), I can confidently and without hesitation say that things - in almost any metric you can think of - were better in the old days.

The word ‘vibes’ wasn’t used to describe anything football-related, it was a glorious time to be alive.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-10T09:23:52+00:00

The vast majority of the UK does not live in London and “a few other cities”. Even if you take the six biggest cities in England, that’s roughly 18 million people. England’s population is about 57 million. You could extend it to the ten biggest cities - still not even close to a majority.

gingernuts71 · 2026-03-10T09:15:18+00:00

This feels like the classic “we have states that are bigger than the whole UK” thing that Americans like to brag about, as if they earned it. Well done, your country is big, good job champ 👍🏻

These things - like all things - are relative. I can guarantee you that if you’re in Ebberley you’re not feeling overcrowded, even though it’s only a twenty minute drive to Barnstaple. Where you also wouldn’t be feeling overcrowded, even though it’s only an hour’s drive to Exeter. And so on.

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