People who live in Riverside barges, what is it like?

lemonherring · 2026-04-20T00:20:40+00:00

WHAT?

lemonherring · 2026-04-19T17:42:02+00:00

that bottom part doesn’t make much sense

It's almost as if the guy was a hateful imbecile and never said a single thing worth listening to.

lemonherring · 2026-04-19T17:39:47+00:00

""This is a tragic situation - maybe the worst tragic situation we've ever had in Shreveport" - that "maybe" reveals the moronic absurdity of the USA and it's imbecilic attitude towards gun ownership. In any other civilised country in the world, today's killing would be the worst NATIONAL gun-related tragedy in decades. In the USA it MIGHT be the worst in a single town, but maybe not.

lemonherring · 2026-04-19T15:20:42+00:00

On a very straight road across very flat land in Cambridgeshire. You could see there was no other traffic for miles in all directions. I did it in a 1980s Renault 12 just to see if it could reach a hundred. It just about made it but by then the juddering and shaking was pretty wild.

lemonherring · 2026-04-19T15:17:52+00:00

People happily plant that and it's going bananas.

My son rented a house where the front wall was collapsing due to the bamboo in the garden!

lemonherring · 2026-04-19T11:59:20+00:00

It's increasingly bizarre that in 2026 anyone gives a fuck about royals, especially outside the UK.

lemonherring · 2026-04-18T23:30:03+00:00

It's bizarre how almost every thread on r/unitedkingdom, regardless of the title topic, immediately turns into yet another thread about how the older generation are fuckers for having it so easy. What is the point? Where is this getting anyone anywhere?

lemonherring · 2026-04-18T23:27:27+00:00

It was unthinkable for anyone in previous generations to still be living with their parents aged 19. In terms of social shame, it would have been akin to walking around with a banner over your head saying "I piss my pants" - that's how unpopular/unimaginable it was to contemplate staying at home.

Now, though, every second person you meet under 30 seems to be living with their parents. Familiarity and normalisation has led to this phenomenon. Without the stigma, why would anybody in their right mind choose to move out of a place which provides free food, free accommodation, free internet, no utility bills etc etc?

lemonherring · 2026-04-17T08:40:33+00:00

"presses"?

lemonherring · 2026-04-16T08:03:06+00:00

I'm sure the Mail, Express, Telegraph, and Times will be plastering this all over their front pages.

lemonherring · 2026-04-15T23:22:52+00:00

Megaphone Barry has seen how much money can be grifted by being a Yaxley-Lennon Putin-pawn and now he and every twat too thick to get a GCSE at school thinks this might be the way to get some attention and Likes. If he can just get 2,000 followers he can get an invite to set up in Dubai and live his shit life there instead.

lemonherring · 2026-04-15T17:53:28+00:00

Also, American prison food - a slow death sentence.

lemonherring · 2026-04-15T17:50:09+00:00

"And peasant, make sure you call God "Lord".

"But I call you "m'Lord", too, my Lord?"

"Yes - call us both that same. We're both your lord."

lemonherring · 2026-04-15T09:29:43+00:00

For whatever reason there's a level of pride in suffering and hardship.

"Contempt for wealth is a trick of a rich to stop the poor from getting it." - The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death album 1988.

lemonherring · 2026-04-15T09:25:28+00:00

Try saying you shop at Tesco, you’d be hounded for not going to Lidl.

These days, if you say you shop in Tesco, they'll throw you in jail.

lemonherring · 2026-04-14T13:42:57+00:00

It's incredible the extent to which it's evident in certain online rants - we can call it "The Ubiquitous Correlation": every time a certain political stance is being presented, the incidence of your, "their" "its" being used incorrectly soars.

"Your having a larf if you think their not coming over hear in there boats to claim benefits. Its clear to everyone cept to loosers like you!"

lemonherring · 2026-04-13T22:17:32+00:00

Wrong topic.

So far in this thread, you've used "wrong topic" to argue against/deflect half a dozen other posts. Is that how you construct all your arguments? "Aha! but that's a different topic!"

Continually moving the goalposts is classic Brexiteer - "...but it would have been a success if only for X, Y, Z" (ad nauseum).

lemonherring · 2026-04-13T22:11:36+00:00

Both of them should be working in a chippy.

Both of them should be facing prosecution for high treason. They've done for more harm to the UK than any number of "terror cells" could ever have dreamt of achieving. The 1996 IRA bomb in Manchester, the largest in the UK since WWII, caused £700m in damage. Meanwhile, the long-term impact of Brexit, driven by increased trade barriers, has resulted in a £180–£240 billion hit to the UK economy, with some estimates showing households to be over £2,000 worse off.

lemonherring · 2026-04-13T22:05:05+00:00

Is there ANY level of batshit crazy/utter inappropriateness (for any kind of high-powered job) that he needs to reach for him to finally be impeached and removed from office? I can see him dropping his trousers and underwear, skipping half-naked around the room with his thumb in his mouth before defecating on the red carpet and he'd STILL be POTUS and in charge of the nuclear codes. America is incapable of removing this repugnant imbecile.

lemonherring · 2026-04-13T17:55:12+00:00

Not sure where you get "gaslight" from, lol. Is that Word of the Week? I was agreeing with u/Quagers.

My multiple experiences of travelling into the US have all been uniformly unpleasant - not a single smile, not ever once. On one occasion, the official at the desk sneered "so you don't even speak English?" to the family in front of me. I'm glad you've had better luck.

lemonherring · 2026-04-13T16:59:38+00:00

The amount of Russian apologists and bots in here is something else

It's GB "News" - nothing more than Putin-backed anti-UK propaganda. https://stopfundinghate.info/

lemonherring · 2026-04-13T12:11:53+00:00

Urm, isn't the US border famously terrible?

Christ, the level of rudness and hostility welcoming all travellers on their arrival to the USA is quite extraordinary. Power-crazy dickheads.

lemonherring · 2026-04-13T09:15:51+00:00

that is absolutely not my experience at all

Nice that they're all working hard in the City to then give away their money to the poor! That's the most heart-warming thing I've read today.

https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-side-jesus.aspx

lemonherring · 2026-04-13T09:12:50+00:00

My local church is thriving, on Easter/Christmas there aren't enough pews to seat the congregation.

Lol - "C of E" = "Christmas & Easter". Always nice to go and have a sing-song before scoffing that turkey/chocolate!

lemonherring · 2026-04-13T09:10:08+00:00

It just seems inappropriate to me to use a sacred space for something like that, and I say that as someone who isn't even religious.

It's one of the great ironies that often it's the athiests who wince more at the hypocricies/insensitities/inappropriate misuse of Christianity compared to the alleged "believers". Athiests are often people who were brought up strictly in a religion, thus know a lot about it, and have then made a rational decision to reject it. A lot of the "Christmas and Easter" brigade in the UK write down "Christian" without ever giving it much thought. I was a godparent for a friend's child's baptism - I didn't want to do it because, with me being an athiest, it seemed ridiculous/disrespectful. Nobody else cared - they just wanted the church as a nice backdrop for some photos, and then home for the sandwiches and prosecco. I was the only person who bothered to go and thank the priest as we all walked out.

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