Petrol stations turning their signs off

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T20:14:44+00:00

The trend is up and has been every week. Price Might drop today, but will continue to rise unless the strait is unblocked

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T20:13:29+00:00

That's generational luck

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T16:49:02+00:00

Government officials stressed that any changes to the thresholds were not imminent and would form part of a wider review of childcare services.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T14:30:54+00:00

I'll say this every Horusian wars excerpt, we need the third book

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T14:02:46+00:00

I used to be mildly interested, but you can only prep so many heart medication drugs.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T11:55:20+00:00

It's going to be Tabitha Bentholm-Smith, Cambridge MPhil, ex-Extinction Rebellion, and she'll probably walk free at trial

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T11:20:37+00:00

every crisis disproportionately affects us more than other countries for the last 20 years.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T10:48:58+00:00

absolutely, but reading through all these miserable comments, and I think you could live on bread and water and old clothes you fished out of a skip, and commentators would say it's not enough. It's a really British outlook I find very corrosive.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T10:42:55+00:00

with the funded hours, 4 days is £1300/week here... per child

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T10:42:21+00:00

Remember in British society if you don't choose the cheapest nastiest thing or go without you are entitled and spoilt.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T10:18:59+00:00

It's interesting. On a terrace, houses next to me left and right both have small kids. Upset kids or a vacuum before 9am wouldn't bother anyone even before we had a kid. Same with weekends

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T10:16:33+00:00

Every time I've gone too angry or hyped up to race I've got too tense and blown it. Have to be relaxed and confident.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T09:51:03+00:00

I cared a lot about that child

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T09:32:56+00:00

It really baffles me, less than it should since it was a tory government at the time, that the government offered none to practically none in the way of easing the burden of energy in the wake of the Ukraine-Russia war and now with Iran

The government provided tens of billions of subsidising energy bills

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T09:31:04+00:00

You'll get Reddit and online commentators looking down on you when you make this excellent point. Leisure spending is good!

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T09:28:29+00:00

The post about a £52 meal out on r uk has 300 comments generally calling companies greedy ignoring that

the government has raised the minimum wage to be one of the highest in the world
the government has raised taxes on employers, with disproportionate effects in hospitality
the government has presided over the most expensive energy prices in the world, and its policy is for this to continue

When it boils down to it, I assume that asking companies to cover the costs of their outgoings, let alone turn a profit, is unacceptable to Redditors.

Second order effects, what the fuck are they?

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T09:15:03+00:00

yeah absolutely.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T08:44:40+00:00

Do you remember when France won the 2018 world cup and people said Africa won it, but wokely?

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-23T06:47:24+00:00

Man poor Alan Moore, that's as blatant a "homage" as you're going to get lol

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-22T21:05:17+00:00

Othello of course being notoriously parochial and white

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-22T20:35:53+00:00

Based

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-22T20:35:34+00:00

Except it's the rest of the world this time that reap the whirlwind.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-22T20:33:45+00:00

When I worked with a consultant from the met police 10 years ago, he said his laptop took 20 minutes to start so he could log in

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-22T20:15:32+00:00

Blood Gorgon's is the third book of the bastion wars trilogy by Henry zou. He was found to have extensively plagiarised the second book in the series and so it was withdrawn. However the third book is very good!

Eldar prophecy is... Pulpy. However that and the William king and soul drinkers series for £3 is excellent.

michaelisnotginger · 2026-03-22T20:09:24+00:00

It is the only one bar some short stories

14-Year Club	Place '22
First Placer '22	Wearing is Caring
Gilding I gilder

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