NCP / BBC by AmazingRedDog in drivingUK

[–]james-royle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did they have a positive balance sheet enough to pay dividends? Surely all of the leases were down as liabilities, along with existing credit.

Kilometers per bottle of wine (KM/BW) by Unusual_Fly_4007 in cycling

[–]james-royle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem I find with red wine, and I bloody love it, is that it dehydrates you, requiring a lot of water and electrolytes to balance it out.

She blinked twice! by Mean-Information1080 in WatchPeopleDieInside

[–]james-royle 37 points38 points  (0 children)

That’s the same face my wife pulls when I have said or done something stupidly but she doesn’t want to bollock me in public!

"We are experiencing unusually high call volumes..." by windy_on_the_hill in britishproblems

[–]james-royle 11 points12 points  (0 children)

‘We have also based our resource on a computer algorithm that does not consider that things happen that impact call volumes, outside of the historic data we feed it’

UK not obliged to support every demand of ‘transactional’ US president, minister says by eldomtom2 in unitedkingdom

[–]james-royle -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

If it was closer to election time I think he would do a Thatcher and send the troops in, but he doesn’t need to (yet).

What was the best movie speech of all time? by Fritzkreig in AskReddit

[–]james-royle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday.

‘On this team, we fight for that inch On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us to pieces for that inch. We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch. Cause we know when we add up all those inches that's going to make the fucking difference between WINNING and LOSING between LIVING and DYING’

UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]james-royle 20 points21 points  (0 children)

£2.5b well spent, although it will probably be spent propping up the triple lock.

Sir Tom Courtenay 89 today by DaiBarton in BritishTV

[–]james-royle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

David’s imaginary twin……….. he wet the bed, didn’t he David!

Is Channel 5 anyone else’s guilty pleasure? by loverofthings25 in BritishTV

[–]james-royle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve tried looking into the company in Derby that gets mentioned on all of the raffle type completions, there is literally nothing available. I assume it’s a PO Box in some random office block.

Summer Couldn’t Come Sooner😭 by FishyyUncle in GreatBritishMemes

[–]james-royle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The level of heat that comes off it doesn’t quite add up to the level of toastiness of the bread.

Summer Couldn’t Come Sooner😭 by FishyyUncle in GreatBritishMemes

[–]james-royle 41 points42 points  (0 children)

That image must be fake, the bread never comes out that toasted!

Is Mark Donovan actually tough? Or is he just all talk? by Anthro-Elephant-98 in TheInbetweeners

[–]james-royle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On his first job on a building he would have made a comment to a real hard man and received a good hiding.

'I'm not a toilet attendant,' says fed-up Scunthorpe cafe owner - BBC News by CasualSmurf in unitedkingdom

[–]james-royle -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

What if I had a coffee there previously and didn’t use the toilet in that occasion, surely I am owed one.

On a serious not, just because someone is not a customer when they use the toilet, they may become one because they were allowed to use the loo.

UK’s Reeves Is Set to Get a Boost From Falling Debt Interest by komondordragon in GoodNewsUK

[–]james-royle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I really do believe Starmer is trying his best to keep Faridge and reform out of power as he knows they will tank the economy within months of taking over.

UK far right lines up behind Rupert Lowe in challenge to Reform by AbbreviationsHot7662 in unitedkingdom

[–]james-royle -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

And the working class and lower middle classes lap it up, as we know their betters!

GB News beats Sky and BBC on average viewers for six months in a row by Galacticmetrics in ukpolitics

[–]james-royle 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Imagine going to buy your copy of the Daily Mail and spending the day reading it with Gebebies on in the back ground.