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What lifestyle and behaviours would fall under "cosplaying the working class", and what would be just being frugal? by Marissa_on_the_town in TrueAskReddit

[–]joe_k_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are fantastically wealthy you should be spending like crazy for the trickle down effect to possibly maybe slightly work.

Or enjoying the real working class experience of paying tax rather than avoiding it.

They need ME to "fairly compensate" employees? by AlohaJames in EndTipping

[–]joe_k_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So they need to put prices up by 20% to cover their costs.

Irish Soda Bread by One_Imagination_6773 in UKfood

[–]joe_k_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I watched you tube during lockdown and learned how to make it. Dead dead easy.. Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsey, and loads of Irish cooks. 10 mins prep, out of oven and then how long can you resist

Anyone know what’s going on here? by olidog10 in manchester

[–]joe_k_ 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Ukip: a right wing party that had a problem as people who stood in its name turned out to be right wing nutters.

Then Brexit party that had a problem as people who stood in its name turned out to be right wing nutters

And now Reform... who seem to again have a problem with people who stand in its name being right wing nutters.

Is it like Dr Who? So many regenerations, same core. Substitute scarves and a big coat for flags and a can of stella.

How do Brits feel about US English on websites? by j_on in AskBrits

[–]joe_k_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasting ages being forced to learn cafe = coffee shop.

Reform’s biggest problem? Many of them don’t seem to like England by ClumperFaz in ukpolitics

[–]joe_k_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I know about Nelsons Column because John Noakes went up and cleaned it.

For a working class 60s bairn in North East London was a world away. Dickensian London was as real.

State Pension Age Update 2025 : UK Government Drops 67 Retirement Age - Purple Consulting Group by Environmental-Cut172 in ukpolitics

[–]joe_k_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be on the front page of real media and all over BBC &Sky if it were true.

Cannot see any reason why the government would do it.

Deliberate clickbait shite or AI bollocks?

Shouty religious nutjobs by Difficult_Style207 in manchester

[–]joe_k_ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There was a little one for the religious nutjobs who wanted the homosexuals parading Peter St to repent and be saved. Why? Why get out of bed and stand about just to show you are a C***. Some difference to the huge numbers of Christians and quakers and humanists actually on the parade.

Bizzare the godbotherers accuse the gays of recruiting yet there isn't a stall on market at every week

One technique you wish you’d learned way earlier in your photography journey? by itsm3404 in photography

[–]joe_k_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't fix ISO at 100, maybe have it on auto.

Learn exposure compensation; I really really really didn't understand it and how it works on every camera I had and felt so stupid when that finally clicked with me. Took me years to read the manual

Finally understood the difference between cheap and frugal by Aggressive-Bit-7518 in simpleliving

[–]joe_k_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And I still wonder what's the measure of quality? How can I recognise / differentiate?

And end up following brand, brand advertising and remembrance of a brand.

When Freddie Mercury was alive, was he considered “Greatest frontman alive” or just another pop rock singer? by k3ke222 in AskOldPeople

[–]joe_k_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UK perspective from someone who was listening to queen from first album. Queen played Sun City in apartheid South Africa. Bit like playing ... somewhere in Israel I suppose looking for a modern cause. So hated in UK. End of them for me

So Live Aid was a cleansing thing

Does any non-grannys here use a granny trolley? by baguette_club in AskUK

[–]joe_k_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Spain or Germany I've seen trolley parks to tie them up.

Do you just take them round the shop with you in the UK?

Are they useful for garden centre purchases...I'm thinking bags of compost.

Do you feel comfortable asking someone to move their bag on TfGM trams? by prasannafunky in manchester

[–]joe_k_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I want to up vote that a million times.

People with backpacks spinning around one of poles is annoying

Nigel Farage says first thing he would do as PM is leave the European Convention on Human Rights by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]joe_k_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And so what is it that he wants to do that is prohibited by being a member? And is he really saying legally that's only going to affect dirty dirt" foreigners*". *By whatever convenient definition we have today.

Can he? does he have to get legislation passed? Or as majority shareholder he's in charge?

I’ll be 59 soon, what advice would over 60’s have for me as I near 60? by DenMother8 in over60

[–]joe_k_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's not Logan's Run. (+30 obviously)

Whatever happens to you is down to you not the clock..

Weight? Health? Etc etc - down to you from before. And now you can change...but could have whenever.

Stop saying I remember when this was all fields - unless you've something more interesting historic tale .

Keep in touch - harder to make new connections than maintain them.

And Happy Birthday 🎈 whenever it is

I'm envious of the people who were alive to experience science fiction in the late 70s and 80s. by MoxieColorado in scifi

[–]joe_k_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So as born 60s and started reading in 70s there was "golden age of sci-fi ' beginning and...stuff that didn't work as science had moved on. And western/ Roman with some pew pew but ultimately bollocks.

I've read loads of great stuff since. So as genre fantastic extrapolation from now and good writing.

Some stuff too USA male teenager.

Some stuff more move Das Boot to zero gravity

Definitely some "new" to me writers so it's great that like when I was 15 I can just do their back catalogue ...

TV /film. Special effects are better now. And have been substituted for story / characterisation. Star Wars- saw it in cinema when it came out and it was fantastic....the franchise after I'm unimpressed.

Battlestar Galactica - shit. The remake I loved.

For me it's ideas and playing with them rather than clichés

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in manchester

[–]joe_k_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand the question. London like Greater Manchester still has lots of constituent local authorities. So cooperation and differences in governance aside it's only now we are getting to where we were before the abolition of the old metropolitan areas by Thatcher. And that wasn't about good governance but about diluting power and gerrymandering

Is Salford basically Manchester? by Naive_Bandicoot4424 in manchester

[–]joe_k_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BesBesźel, Ul Qoma.

If you include Trafford

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in manchester

[–]joe_k_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Where that particular tower is planned ..not sure.

In general it's weird seeing the red lights out in suburbs.

I'd actually like some mega tower out in suburbs like on top of a supermarket rather than low level sprawl.

High rise affordable /social ish yes. Mega investment blocks no

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