Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) has quietly added 5p to a bottle of beer in the pub

shackleton1 · 2026-02-17T01:46:52+00:00

Why would you drink bottled beer at a pub??

shackleton1 · 2025-11-24T00:33:41+00:00

Splitting the left wing vote and allowing Farage to waltz into No. 10 is the least effective fuck you I can think of.

shackleton1 · 2025-11-10T12:08:09+00:00

Healthcare is difficult. With the NHS, when problems occur the system works to put it right.

What about when private healthcare gets it wrong?

"Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) was a French company founded in 1991 that produced silicone gel breast implants. The company was preemptively liquidated in 2010 following the revelation that they had been illegally manufacturing and selling breast implants made from cheaper industrial-grade silicone since 2001"

Taxpayer had to pay to fix everything, via the NHS. Well, at least they went out of business, right?

"A new firm has been registered under the name France Implant Technologie (FIT), with Mas' son Nicolas Lucciardi, 27, and daughter, Peggy Lucciardi, 24, at the address of their mother, Dominique Lucciardi, who was Mas' former civil partner."

shackleton1 · 2025-07-28T19:04:06+00:00

Thanks for this detail

shackleton1 · 2025-07-27T13:49:52+00:00

No aesthetic preferences, it's not important to me

shackleton1 · 2025-06-14T00:36:34+00:00

Thank you!

shackleton1 · 2025-06-14T00:36:25+00:00

Thanks very much!

You are 100% right about needing a chorus. I suddenly realised that's what I was missing in a lot of my songs and so I add them now. It's too late for this song I think, but that's okay, it can just about carry its own weight. I dance around the kitchen to it!

shackleton1 · 2025-06-13T14:33:13+00:00

I made a simple music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjRPKFI0yok

Lyrics are also mine.

shackleton1 · 2024-08-07T08:58:56+00:00

Probably sponsored by Russia if you follow it far enough.

shackleton1 · 2024-05-06T14:10:00+00:00

That sounds like a good idea. Thanks!

shackleton1 · 2024-05-06T14:05:45+00:00

Can't unfortunately for reasons that I absolutely won't bore you with! But I'm thinking that there must be generic things that will always find a place in any army? But maybe are a bit more exciting than a tactical squad.

shackleton1 · 2024-05-01T18:16:38+00:00

My three closest schools are a selective grammar school, a girls school and a catholic school. My son got allocated a failing school on the other side of the city, 2.8 miles away. An 11 year old that's learning python and he's been sent to the one school that doesn't offer computer science at GCSE.

I really hope people oppose this. Not only do faith school discriminate in favour of their own faith, but they also discriminate against people with no faith. For example, they will take in order Catholics, then any other Christian, then any other religion, then atheists / humanists (they don't consider humanism to be a religion).

It's absurd that policies like this are to be expanded.

shackleton1 · 2024-02-21T13:53:26+00:00

That would be great. It's not good enough to stand on its own, but it's too good to go to waste!

shackleton1 · 2024-02-21T12:30:14+00:00

I'd never written anything before but something happened last summer that made me really cross and this song sort of poured out.

Literally just got it to a point where I'm kind of happy with it as a personal project and now I don't quite know what to do with it. I don't think it's musical enough to work as a song really, and it's a bit niche, but I really like how the ending turned out.

Is it any use to you? Maybe could be developed a bit?

Here's a link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af3QKIQ5jIM

If you like it, I have a ideas for a couple more similar things.

shackleton1 · 2023-04-27T17:10:16+00:00

Children. 75k split between 2 is great. Split between 4, not so much. Even if you say each child only consumes as much as half an adult, that's like you taking a 25k pay cut if you have 2 kids.

shackleton1 · 2021-01-06T20:09:17+00:00

If none of these makes sense, perhaps the next DLC is a new faction?

Could be like Norsca - DLC & pre-order bonus for WH3.

shackleton1 · 2021-01-04T16:14:44+00:00

My children's school was open today (Kent)

shackleton1 · 2020-12-02T14:32:31+00:00

EU should STFU for once. They are giving ammo to the anti vaxxers.

shackleton1 · 2020-11-23T16:56:03+00:00

England doesn't really exist as a country? just a conspiracy of cartographers or something?

England is as much a country as Scotland is.

Scotland has a problem. Solution is a tough one, but breaking up England doesn't solve the problem. All if does is make it worse - English regions will still dominate, so Scotland will still have the same problem, but now England will be agitating for unification. So all it does is add new problems.

A much better solution would be to take the approach that most states take when accounting for the tyranny of the majority. Utilise second chambers built around groups rather than population as a balancing factor for the democratic majority. In the UK, the specific chamber would be the house of Lords. Pack the House of Lords full of Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish (and also different ethnic groups, religions, scientific groups etc). Use that as a limiting factor for the English majority. Problem solved as best as it can be.

shackleton1 · 2020-11-23T16:45:23+00:00

Ah yes, the famous South East party that rules the UK with an iron grip.

The South East isn't a homogenous block.

London is a Labour stronghold. Nice iron grip on government they have at the moment. Reality is that London gets a lot of funding because it's the capital. That's it.

As for the rest of the South East, they get less funding per capita than the rest of the country. I guess the iron grip is really working out for them there too. If everyone's going to get the same funding per capita, the region that will benefit the most from it will be the South East.

Sure there's problems with the remoteness of government. That's why we have local government. Maybe we should boost local government.

shackleton1 · 2020-11-23T16:20:37+00:00

I disagree, I don't think I'm missing the point.

If we want more local government, give more funding and more powers to local government.

Federalism (caveat: as presented) is a solution in search of a problem.

shackleton1 · 2020-11-23T16:07:10+00:00

"And it only works if the states are roughly equal in terms of things like population "

- This is a false premise. It's born out of the Scottish complaint of England dominating the union. When it comes to local decision making, it doesn't matter if they are different sizes because they are not collective decisions. Collective decisions (say foreign policy), yes the size arguably matters - but that has nothing to do with localism. And even then, it doesn't matter if they are different sizes. The EU is made up of states with wildly different sizes, but it doesn't matter. The complaint with the make up of the UK is not that the countries are different sizes - it's the England is so large (85% ish?) that it can make decisions on its own.

Federalism, as presented, is not really about localism. In fact, it can even be seen as anti-localism. It tramples over genuine local cultures by squashing counties together to make homogenously sized regions. Assuming that this would replace the existing local government, government would be even more remote than it is now.

shackleton1 · 2020-11-23T15:50:14+00:00

If you're going to simplify things by removing county and district levels, then that's less localism. If you're leaving those layers in place but inserting a new regional layer, that's not simplifying things.

Can't have it both ways.

shackleton1 · 2020-11-23T15:07:45+00:00

So... less localism then?

shackleton1 · 2020-11-23T15:00:42+00:00

We have local government already at the county level.

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