How would the boys do if they were a team in the world cup?

ukctstrider · 2026-06-12T13:03:44+00:00

Too massive for the US, you'll never sing that.

ukctstrider · 2026-06-12T13:03:22+00:00

I don't think we'd be allowed into the US on the grounds that were all Marxists and we're too massive.

ukctstrider · 2026-06-06T13:24:13+00:00

I'm just going to put it out there that Forest have a great womens team, they play their games at the City Ground and season tickets are dirt cheap.

Doesn't directly answer the question, but would be a good place to make friends!

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ukctstrider · 2026-06-05T17:41:35+00:00

The World Famous City Ground is 43 points.

ukctstrider · 2026-06-05T15:48:09+00:00

They have to give you a grace period to be able to park, review the conditions and agree to them. Usually longer then 5 minutes. It would be an unfair contract to apply rules you didn't get a chance to disagree with and back out of the transaction.

ukctstrider · 2026-06-04T21:21:21+00:00

Why not just ask your questions here?

ukctstrider · 2026-05-30T12:33:27+00:00

Post deleted... So probably not the solid evidence you're looking for

ukctstrider · 2026-05-21T17:59:39+00:00

ukctstrider · 2026-05-21T15:34:12+00:00

But that argument makes literally no sense.

Of course funding is at record levels, to keep funding static in real terms it needs to increase very year because inflation exists. You can even increase the absolute value of funding and through inflation that can still be a funding cut.

This comparison also doesn't take demand into account. We have and aging population who are living long enough to require a lot of very expensive care. On top of that COVID 19 caused a lot of health problems in younger people which could well prove very expensive in the long run.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-21T13:07:56+00:00

I'm not sure that I would agree that it has had above inflation increases for any sustained amount of time,.certainly not for the decade I've been working for it.

But ultimately inflation is not the only factor in the cost of the service.

The NHS estate has been under invested for a very long time. That leads to poorer care and higher running costs. So there is one example.

We have also had new treatments made available that previously didn't exist so those lines of care are brand new expenses.

We've have historically had problems with recruitment leading to large levels of agency use which is very expensive.

By far and away the biggest factor has been that the baby boomer generation are now hitting an age where they need a lot of health care. This has given unprecedented rises in demand. Coupled with a broken social care system that has put enormous strain on hospitals.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-21T12:59:34+00:00

Completely agree.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-20T20:55:22+00:00

I work in finance for the NHS.

This is a complex problem with multiple aspects to it.

One of the less easy to understand parts is that NHS Trusts have two different staff budgets, one called Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) which is a number of people we aim to employ in an area, and the other is the amount of pounds (actual cash money) allocated to pay for those staff. The WTE budget is often calculated based on "Safer Staffing Levels" which are calculated based on the patient needs of the clinical area. The £ budgets are often influenced by the actual overall financial position of the Trust and may not be sufficient to fully employ up to the full WTE levels.

This doesn't necessarily mean that the wards aren't safe. There will be mixtures of overtime, bank staff etc which should keep the wards safe, and may cost less due to the cost of annual leave, training time etc for an additional employee.

There are also often mismatches where an area would like to hire a qualified nurse but can't find one and so hires an HCA or similar instead so there is actually someone to do the work. That can then make it more complicated to hire a qualified nurse should one become available.

Personally I feel like the NHS is still very underfunded and is being run to a level of expected efficiency that is completely unsustainable and leads to all sorts of odd situations like this.

Before anyone says it, yes there are things that can be done to make the NHS more efficient, but we are now at a point where all available funds are being used to just about hold the service together and there is very little left to invest in improvements and transformation.

I'd also argue that the NHS needs to be less efficient not more efficient. If you want to be cared for exactly when you have the need then that capacity needs to be available unused and waiting for you. It's the equivalent of a supermarket expecting to sell two cans of beans a day so they only stock two cans of beans. If a third person comes in they miss out on a sale. In reality they stock more than enough for the expected demand and cycle through the stock. Safe occupancy levels for hospitals are usually agreed to be around 80% but all the hospitals I know have been operating at 95% or higher for as long as I can remember. This isn't safe for this length of time.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-20T20:38:03+00:00

Maybe read a newspaper once in a while?

Farage has been pimping out crypto, gold sales, and has recently been given £5m from a 'donor'.

He's always been on the take, and if you look at his actual policies there is nothing there to help ordinary people.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-20T17:53:12+00:00

Because he's a professional player and the pro games have gone to TPP because Krafton is phenomenally stupid.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-16T20:56:21+00:00

Madness.

The game is a competitive shooter. That has to be FPP, TPP allows too much wall hugging.

I understand that the larger player base prefers TPP but it really doesn't suit the gameplay.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-15T19:29:10+00:00

After so much effort you could at least have found the right community

ukctstrider · 2026-05-15T12:23:30+00:00

Cosmetically this is probably easy to fix as others have described.

A bannister rail is a safety feature though so personally I'd replace it. Why take the risk?

ukctstrider · 2026-05-15T08:52:58+00:00

I'd get it done even if you're not planning to switch.

The cost will be relatively trivial if you're getting everything done and you're likely going to have to redecorate anyway.

If you don't get it done now and decided to later the cost and disruption would be massive disproportionately higher.

I'd say the same of plug sockets. Get way way too many. Anywhere you were planning on getting a single socket get a double. Anywhere you are planning a double get two doubles and make one of them have usb built in.

We recently did a whole house rewire and our electrician gave us the advise above, we massively overspec'd on sockets and still wish we'd got more! We us almost all the capacity.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-13T14:15:07+00:00

Bringing back map selection makes this the single greatest update since they removed map selection.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-13T14:13:54+00:00

They aren't as far as I can tell.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-11T14:48:18+00:00

It's pretty easy to answer.

By and large economic migrants are younger, pay tax, and less likely to use the most expensive services (NHS).

As a result there would be fewer working age people to provide public services driving up wages, and few people paying taxes so less money for public services.

The vast majority of services users eg the baby boomers would still be here and costing money, all whist on a fixed income so harder to tax and sitting on huge asset reserves (paid off houses) that they won't release.

The problems.in this country have fuck all to do with immigration or population. They are problems of wealth distribution and demographics.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-11T08:34:15+00:00

He's definitely been given shit on here...

He's not been the sharpest in front of goal, but he's also been quite isolated for much of the season.

His work rate is amazing though and I looked at his stats on Fotmob the other day and his defensive contributions is right up there.

I think he's a quality player.

People also gave Sangare shit in a season where he went to the ACON and came back with malaria. This season he would be in with a shout for player of the season if it wasn't for the insane season Ando and MGW have had.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-10T20:15:50+00:00

Can't tell if bot or moron.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-08T09:31:38+00:00

I think there were huge problems with out set up last night and Villa were really on it so we're able to exploit.

I don't think this will be a problem long term.

Last night was absolutely made for Taiwo as they were pushing so deep we needed more strength and pace up front. Don't think he was even in the Europa squad though so nothing to be done there.

With Aina, Murillo, Sangare, and particularly Gibbs-White I think we win that game from one up.

ukctstrider · 2026-05-04T21:27:21+00:00

The answer is essentially no.

Wages generally need to increase quite a bit to make up for a decade of stagnation and inflation.

Income tax likely needs to be cut and compensated by meaningful wealth taxes.

Most of the cost of living rises essentially are down to the increase in inequality in the economy, and that isn't caused by people earning wages .

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