Making the news today....

[GarethM]

Remind me again, do they have a space program and nuclear weapons ?.

[Johnsond]

37 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Remind me again, do they have a space program and nuclear weapons ?.

Honestly I genuinely think some of these left leaning politicians are borderline insane or are so used to living in publicly funded socialist bubbles they are literally out of touch with reality. 

[GarethM]

Probably the socialist bubble and a lack of reality, I remember watching something ages ago that highlighted the first use of the world trillion in USA debt.

 

Before it was a number you could understand as billions are scary, but when you're in trillion all concept of how much it actually is disappears.

 

I could probably buy everything within the M25 for a trillion and turn it into a scene from 28 days later.

Edited November 7, 2022 by GarethM

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

39 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Probably the socialist bubble and a lack of reality, I remember watching something ages ago that highlighted the first use of the world trillion in USA debt.

 

Before it was a number you could understand as billions are scary, but when you're in trillion all concept of how much it actually is disappears.

 

I could probably buy everything within the M25 for a trillion and turn it into a scene from 28 days later.

Be worth a punt as a crowdfunder....

[Mick Dempsey]

It’s starting to look like Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter could be one of the greatest acts of hubris, the biggest loss of money and bringer of some of the biggest laughs of all time.

Edited November 7, 2022 by Mick Dempsey

[Johnsond]

Parts of M25 closed causing five hour tailbacks after protesters climb gantries

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Just Stop Oil confirmed they are behind this morning's protests on the M25.

Keep driving and leave the fools to crack on and hopefully the cold and the rain will do what the police haven’t got the balls for. 

[eggsarascal]

https://www.ft.com/content/2c0e474d-5a7f-4874-a16f-377ac6955242

 

[Johnsond]

Couple paid £7k a month in benefits left children living in filth with 36 dogs

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Officers, unable to breathe due to the stench, found a young girl asleep near a dead dog and...

7K a month on benefits  🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️No wonder people won’t bother working. Pure insanity. 

[Sutton]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

It’s starting to look like Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter could be one of the greatest acts of hubris, the biggest loss of money and bringer of some of the biggest laughs of all time.

Why's that?

 

I used to follow Frankie Boyle on Twitter but he's gone over to Instagrammy now which I've not tried.

 

Twitter will get its advertising back wont it?

 

Someone tell me why de-bluebirding the celebs should matter?

[Sutton]

6 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

Am I reading it right that now he couldn't take it down even if he wanted to due to structural issues or a need to repair the property?

I'm sure a pathetic few in the planning offices had a chuckle about that. Creating a burden on the current owner isn't it? I doubt it was built to last this long!

But it's still there. That's the point I was making. In some ways thats a victory in itself for the guy who installed it. I wasn't aware it had been listed.

also shows how weak the planners actually are. They obviously failed in any way to actually remove it. just managed to shuffle some paper furiously and get paid every month until one of them eventually had an idea which meant they could claim the upper hand, after all, that's all they are about. Control. Control of how you live, where you live and how much it costs you to live there.

Obviously some level of control is required to stop unsuitable developments or absurdly oversized private dwellings, but there is scope for fundamental change for the better and to bring it back to the tree house, I prefer to see things like that without permission than another block of crappy boxes with it. 

A customer was telling me a while ago that woodlands.co.uk sold some amenity woodland off in strips about 20 meters wide and 500 meters long down in south Wiltshire. Apparently thats their business model - buy in bulk and sell off in piecemeal!

 

Each "allotment" had one or two veterans, a few hazel coppice and the rest was rubbishy scrub. Apparently one keen new woodland owner carried in a 5ftx4ft garden shed up into his bit, panel by panel, so he could keep his tools in the dry and and have a place out of the wind and rain for a cuppa. You know the kind of thing. Anyway, his neighbours weren't having it. Someone reported him and he had to dismantle his shed and take it away.

 

Some of us english do like rules is rules!🤣