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Hardly a surprise. Someone has to restock the house after a burglary

I don't *necessarily* have a problem with means testing some benefit either, but let's have ideological consistently and honesty.

There is a sliding scale between the full free market, every-man-for-himself ideology, and the full on rawlsian socialism which views income redistribution as an end in ...

I just don't get these changes at all. My understanding is that the cost to the taxpayer is no different depending on the cost of the car? So this becomes purely about the optics of someone knocking about in an Audi A4 rather than a Skoda Octavia. It's daft. And who decides what's "premium ...

I've just spent the weekend in Glasgow with some music types, and amongst various new musical discoveries, I found this gem. I think the performance can be safely described as "full weejie"

My MIG is the top Machine Mart (Clarke) one (240 amp IIRC). It's *just* good enough for my level of welding (i.e. powerful enough to do semi-structural stuff, but accurate enough to make an OK job of the thin stuff). It's not a patch on my mate's entry-level Kempe - that massively flatters my ...

On a related subject, back at uni, a friend wrote her thesis on subconscious misogyny in swearing in the English language.

Ever noticed how words relating to male genitalia tend to be milder than those relating to female genitalia? Dicks and cocks are fools, but there is little implication of ...

These very unscientific opinions are based on coffee from the very gentle vintage Russell Hobbs percolator.


I thought "all" percolators were now frowned upon due to boiling water reaching the grinds? :? (I will not be surprised however if you advise that you have modified yours.... )


Mine ...

When I cracked the base of my wet and dry grinder attachment for the Bamix, I bought a s/h replacement one of ebay for £14, but then subsequently repaired the original and designated it a dedicated coffee grinder. Using supermarket beans it makes a pretty damn good cup of coffee. Definitely ...

Both Kemi personally and the Tories in general are absolute political vandals. She is nothing more than a night Watchman and the party is disgraced and politically dead for the foreseeable.

But by using their rather impressive spin machine and media puppet mastery purely to repeatedly try to smear ...

If you’re going to spend 14 years slinging shit at the opposition every chance you get, don’t be surprised if you get it thrown back when positions are reversed.

Same bunch of cnuts in different colours.

Really wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if Farage was our next pm.


It is testament ...

This is yet another example of Labour being absolute rank amateurs at the PR game.

I hate to slip into whataboutism, but the hypocritical faux-pearl-clutching from some quarters is absolutely sickening. Cynically dish out billions of covid contracts to your mates, let party donors pay hundreds of ...

Sliced red onion in 2% saline with a slug of the wash from a sauerkraut ferment and left for 3 weeks (ish) make a fantastic burger topping

Not A levels, but seeing as we are singing the praises of our young proteges - the foster lad has just completed his first full week of school since he was 12 (16 now). Managed to engineer 5 NAT4s out of last year (everything that was possible on a remote coursework-only basis).

Considering that a ...

I read a military strategy thing saying that pretty much any land concession would be a complete disaster for Ukraine.
The current front line is a combination of natural defenses - rivers, forests, hills etc, and a tunnel/trench network build and refined over 12 years.
Any concession of land beyond ...

Active endorsee of Trump no? Fuck him.


I’m with Dave :geek:


Me three.


Apparently, it's even more than endorsement - in a roundabout sort of way, Trumps schtick is an evolution of Hulk Hogan's wrestling trash talk.

The story is slightly hazy in my mind, but HH and the old promoter ...

brough the whole "Travelling with gun" thing into the picture which was a whole other level of bureaucracy


Travelling isn't anything like the problem I thought it would be. I had assumed that going anywhere near an airport with a gun would be absolutely verboten. Another bizarre quirk of the ...

I genuinely thought you needed a legitimate reason to own any gun here.


That's absolutely right, Dinny. You not only need a legitimate reason, but also need to be able to sell that legitimate reason to your appointed firearms officer for each individual firearm.

Partaking in sport, and being a ...

I've handed them in to the polis. They came to collect and also said "you know, you could just have kept them, you never know when you might need them..."


Strictly you need a shotgun licence to possess, but they're generally a lot more laissez faire about shells that bullets.
Another example of ...

Here's your second thing for today - it's wednesday!

Yeah, you're allowed any calibre you like as long as you've got somewhere to shoot it - e.g. you can theoretically buy a .50cal, but nowhere will let you shoot because it tends to make rather large holes in things.
But you're not allowed semi-auto in full bore, apart, bizarrely from shotguns with ...