bickster

Worthy of this I think

Lettuce, tomato or any salad prouct. A burger is a sandwich and salad ruins any sandwich For the sake of doubt, onions are fine At home my current preference is Brioche Bun, quality burger done in the air fryer (absolutely the best way to cook burgers), BBQ sauce, slice of Ementhal. Job done

There's an app for bird identifying, even does it from a sound recording as well as a photo Not got my phone to hand but its done by some US university, Cornell manybe

Hmmm, that would actually leave cities like Liverpool abandoned to Express trains to the capital. It wouldn't be as useful as he thinks

Yeah that'll go well considering they've been slagging them off for months and Shiougu has his own PMC gig going too

actually like paying off a credit card with another credit card. The first price is paid for with bonds usually

Definitely the Eurovision of biscuits

It saves money temporarily on a year by year basis from the Govt budget, it increases the cost of the project overall

Yep

If Wales has lost £5bil a year from its transport budget, over the last 12 years it's more than paid for phase 1 of HS2 on it's own. (£44bil cost)

Coconut is the gravy of biscuits. Evil shit guaranteed to ruin a biscuit

That is always part of the justification for large capital building projects and it's very true and relevant but this isn't an either or thing. There's no point in having a large scale infrastructure project like this if it isn't going to improve transport links, if it wasn't worthwhile it would be a white elephant, a pointless project. So yes, its about envigorating the economy but its also massively about improving transport infrastructure

Yes you can, is anyone under the impression that Gary Lineker's views are the views of the BBC? If anyone thinks that they need help Even the BBC staff code of conduct allows it, because Lineker isn't involved in politics / economics programming. When you are involved in those its a slightly different story, that blurs the lines of impartiality Ignoring the Andrew Neil comparison for now, no-one ever complains about Deborah Meaden's tweets and she's very critical of the Government, yet she's on a very popular BBC TV Show. No-one complains about Carol Vorderman's tweets either and she presents on the BBC network too, she's also very critical of the Govt. But suddenly Lineker gets criticism because... what he said resonates with vast swathes of the population and its shockingly true. WHy shouldn't he be allowed to say it? He's a football pundit, he has opinions, he shouldn't be silenced. If your workplace discriminated against you because of your views, you'd at best feel hard done to, why should Lineker be treated differently

No there isn't

Far cheaper that what?

There you go again, not reading what others have posted before you (more than once). You will find upthread comments from historians and Germans that explain why the Government rhetoric is exactly like that used by the Nazis in the early 30s. This isn’t so much an opinion, it’s demonstrably true. So in your humble opinion, you can’t compare things to the Nazis even when they are just like the Nazis

Newsflash: They don’t

XTC because they actually were from Swindon

I think Meg was proficient in both forms of bullshit

Wordle 628 4/6

Apples and pears I agree with you but conflating pricing of fares with building and improving the infrastructure are two entirely different issues. Conflating those issues is a bad idea. Making that connection is what people opposed to such schemes want you to do. The "trains are expensive enough as it is without having to pay for this on top of it." The rail structure needs massive improvement and investment that is a good for everyone The fare structure needs decreasing and yes Nationalisation would massively help that but the two are not connected. The sooner this country wakes up to the fact that we are the only country in Europe that generally runs trains as a for profit business the better. The rest of Europe views the railways as crucial infrastructure, not just for people but for business too, they go hand in hand.

The point wasn't about wrongs and rights. It was about the relative costs of stuff. People quote numbers in billions and think they are huge sums of money HS2 (phase 1) started in 2017 and will complete in 2029, The cost is £44bil across 12 years that is less than £4bil per year. It isn't huge sums of money being spaffed up a wall

You haven't defended "them" saying "they broke no rules". You quite clearly have said that crossing the channel is illegal. No-one I'm aware of has said they defend crossing the channel in small boats. Plenty of people have defended asylum seekers right to be asylum seekers, quite rightly, pretty much everyone minus 1

Test and Trace - £37bil and it ran from an excel spreadsheet.