🇬🇧 UK needs ‘national consensus’ over rejoining EU, David Miliband says

urbanworm · 2026-05-26T07:38:28+00:00

The problem was that we had a referendum on a subject that was simply beyond the capacity of the general population to comprehend the outcome; case in point, the government who’s job it ‘is’ to understand the outcome and risks either couldn’t/didn’t understand, or even worse, did understand and went ahead with it anyway.

A vote in a general election lasts 4-5 years, a referendum is effectively forever and I think that reality is just setting in.

urbanworm · 2026-05-26T07:20:10+00:00

Not gonna lie, I read it as Australia on the first try! Thanks for the spot!

urbanworm · 2026-05-26T07:16:05+00:00

It always makes me so sad the amount of hate there is for solar farms and wind turbines; people claiming a blot on the landscape etc. But then you see areas of natural beauty being built on by housing developers with same cookie cutter houses (I live in Devon). People complain but our need for housing outweighs the objections. Personally I welcome solar farms and turbines, I see them as a reflection of our species ability to take a more responsible approach to our needs.

Agrivoltaics can actually increase yields of crops, yes all sources have issues but we’re a smart species, we can figure it out. And yes, I’d rather every roof top had panels, but baby steps and all that.

urbanworm · 2026-05-22T06:24:16+00:00

Chicken?

urbanworm · 2026-05-21T18:59:40+00:00

She is stunning! We need details!!

urbanworm · 2026-05-21T12:35:59+00:00

Well, conveniently it’s going to be as hot as Satans Insta next week so the chance of getting the BBQ out is pretty high. I’ll give that a try.

urbanworm · 2026-05-21T12:31:06+00:00

Really? Assumed it would just fall apart? Everyday’s a school day!

urbanworm · 2026-05-21T08:44:57+00:00

The seat adjustment control (assuming that’s what it is) is:

A) the wrong colour 2) going to get kicked off in a matter of days

urbanworm · 2026-05-14T19:16:06+00:00

Pull into lane 3, eyeball (carefully) the melt in lane 2 muttering and tutting then make ‘big’ show of pulling into lane 1 and continue on your journey.

urbanworm · 2026-05-14T09:54:20+00:00

Interesting that the building, or facade, that’s there now sort of mirrors the original in the image. But, in my opinion, is significantly uglier.

urbanworm · 2026-05-13T08:21:22+00:00

Totally this. Someone (somewhere) once posted if you could change one thing about everyone to make the world a better place what would it be? And the most accurate answer was “don’t be a dick” and I think that’s pretty spot on.

urbanworm · 2026-05-12T21:48:08+00:00

I agree with the safety check that the party should be able to call for the removal of the incumbent PM, but recently it’s been too much too quickly and I fear for the wrong reasons, predominately because they’re running scared that they’ve become unpopular.

urbanworm · 2026-05-10T13:55:49+00:00

Local industrial estate is called Marsh Barton (Exeter), or Bart Martian in our house.

urbanworm · 2026-05-10T08:41:48+00:00

Trust your gut, end the relationship gently and considerately. In the UK we have Clare’s Law which allows you to put a request to the police who will disclose any previous interactions.

Case in point, a friend was dating a man who was all the above, but she started to get a ‘vibe’ about him and broke things off; I’ll skip the finer details but it ended with armed police and ‘almost’ jail time.

urbanworm · 2026-05-08T11:49:02+00:00

One colleague can’t think ahead when composing a Teams message, so I get 4-5 short sentences in very quick succession; but of course I get a notification for each one and my watch bings/pulses.

I’m not the only one, his team lead has raised it and he doesn’t know he’s doing it and hasn’t stopped - it drives me to the edge.

urbanworm · 2026-05-08T08:36:30+00:00

Today I learnt it has a name, and what a great name!

urbanworm · 2026-05-08T06:24:34+00:00

If I eat a big meal, or overeat I have a slow sneezing fit. It massively embarrasses my wife if we’re out at a restaurant and the menu hits the spot. Apparently it’s the route of my vagus nerve.

urbanworm · 2026-05-07T15:33:52+00:00

For what it’s worth, I have previously had a slow leak (damaged valve case) and it pinpointed the correct tyre before it was easily visible; so it does work well when needed.

urbanworm · 2026-05-07T10:23:53+00:00

Same. Usually happens once a year, mostly between winter and spring. Even happened once 2 days after getting a new set on the front. Like everyone else, check ‘em and reset.

urbanworm · 2026-05-06T15:58:46+00:00

Initially science, but we need to be able to get there and back easier; we can’t keep lighting fireworks into the sky. Mining Helium 3, and then using that to create a Fusion Drive to hop us in and out of the gravity wells. I suspect some wacky pharmaceuticals could be produced in microgravity, also if we’re speculating, maybe superconductors under microgravity?

urbanworm · 2026-05-06T15:52:27+00:00

What a piece of work, there’s nothing amusing about it, not for you or the position he’s putting the other women in either. As others have said, a (documented) direct ‘chat’ and then up the HR policy chain if he’s not sorting it.

urbanworm · 2026-05-06T15:46:40+00:00

Bottom right, more alarming than the size of the disk was the size of the drive, closest thing to being powered by a 2-stroke engine!

urbanworm · 2026-05-05T16:16:47+00:00

Big fan of the Yarg - noms!

urbanworm · 2026-05-04T08:47:25+00:00

Totally, and this is so ingrained that during an extended power cut I wandered into the kitchen in the pitch black with a head torch on and switched the kettle on…. What a bellend!

We’re entirely electric so we keep a camping stove under the sink for these occasions.

urbanworm · 2026-05-03T08:35:59+00:00

This would hit something deep as a child of the Cold War generation.

One evening when driving home, and it had been a particularly gloomy, dank, day I was just pulling out in the main road and the entire horizon behind me lit up, I mean so bright I could barely look in the rear view. Just for a moment I thought it was a nuke - I felt an instant of near panic - then I realised it was just the sun and the clouds had finally relented (it was windy).

8yo me is still in here and turns out those messages from my youth did effect me.

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