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Yeah I kinda get it elsewhere, it's specifically supermarkets I'm talking about Multistory Car Parks and the like, I'll absolutely reverse in because there's a 9/10 change when I get back some knob in a big Audi will have parked leaving his front end sticking out over the front of his bay reducing my scope to reverse out

Or a fat goalkeeper who dives to make a save and can't get back up again

"How to cope with a full week at work"

I feel a bid for the annual @Xela VT Skivers Award is in play

Substitutions and stock levels EDIT: Even worse now they've taken the sell by date of fresh produce

Well you could say we have it on good authority that Joan Collins is a word removed

***refrains from reciting the parrot sketch***

Well they keep posting it in multiple topics if that helps

Yeah but most people only know that one painting.

I don’t car which topic you want to discuss todays affairs in Brazil in but can we just make it the one please. It’s already been posted in three threads to my knowledge. This one does seem the most appropriate

And Clare Daly is the exact same beast, she's Independents4Change other MEP

That falls into pride and idiocy

Yes, obviously he knew of their existence but I doubt he knows all the entrances and exits like the Ukrainians do. It's also very clear he forgot to tell his men

Well of course they know about them now If you actually believe that is the reason they've spend months on end trying to attack Bakhmut, I feel for you The reason they were attacking Bakhmut was that it was logistically important (but no longer is due to the advanced front), since the need for Bakhmut has changed, it's anyone's guess why but it will probably boil down to pride and idiocy. It certainly isn't to play hide the nonexistent tank or wacky racers 100ft underground

Yeah, I get that, so are you saying that Davkaus is your Gran? I assumed that if it was an optional thing Davkaus would have opted into electronic vounchers rather than choosing to scan them himself, which just seems insane in this day and age. I don't shop in Tesco if I can help it, certainly not enough to warrant a clubcard but all my supermarket vouchers come in app or by email.

For fact fans. In the 70s this river won the title of Dirtiest River in Europe. The sewage works that empties into in was just across the fields at the back of our house. The river literally ran grey and nothing grew on it's banks. It obviously stunk to high heaven and no fish lived in it. That was my playground as a kid. Then we joined the EU and eventually it was much improved. I'm so glad we've left the EU again because soon I'll be able to visit and be able to experience that smell and utter greyness again. I can feel a wave of nostalgia sweeping over me as I think about it Other almost facts, where the river runs through Sandwell Valley and it's surrounds always for me marks the boundary between Yam Yam and Yam Not

This may have already been done. Why do people reverse into parking spaces at supermarkets? I just don't get it It takes much more effort to reverse in than it does to reverse out and you've just put the boot of your car at the back where its least accessible when you come to put your shopping in the car. It's most likely you won't get your trolley between the cars either side of you which will mean leaving it possibly unattended and having to walk the bags to the boot. It just makes no sense to me, it will cost you time and effort. It's not something that pisses me off but I just wonder why people do it. What advantage does it give them?

The Brexit question has pretty much the same demographic profile as the Tory Party. They couldn't have hit that sweet spot better with the referendum.

So the speakers list reads as Putin Shill, Useful Idiot, two nutty Irish MEPs (also likely Putinistas), two people who run a nutty website, a rapper of no consequence and I think a Vice-president of ASLEF 4 hours of that should be a punishment for something

I get what you are saying Dem but there is a fundamental difference in the dem(soz)ographics. Tory voters are largely camped in the high end of the age bands and the point where the age band equally splits between Labour and Tory has generally been shifting to an older and older age for some time. The last election was an outlier in that data as the crossover point was aged 40, the previous election in 2017, the crossover point was 47. Sticking my neck out here but if things stay as they are the crossover point will be around 50 or higher and that is really bad news for the Tories because to put it quite bluntly, their policies are killing their own voters, for the first time in a very long time, life expectancy in this country is reducing There is another factor at play here too and that is education, those older voters are now starting to be of the age when higher education opened up and there is another correlation at play, the more educated a person is, the higher the likelihood that they will vote Labour. So the people reaching the 50-55 age band in the next few elections will be much more educated than their previous cohorts, so the trend of older Labour voters is likely to continue for some time to come. (There's a reason why The Tories always attack education)

Right I'm listening to this. An early Angel Olsen album, Burn Your Fire For No Witness (I think it's her second album proper.) Why I'm listening to it is another story from yesterday. I was in Jacaranda Records, just having a mooch through the racks of interest. I'm in the 2nd hand alternative second and I quickly flick past this as it's instantly recognisable and I know I have it but I have a quick thought of oh thats odd, thats the exact same version as mine, a Rough Trade exclusive repress from a few years back, wait hold on, how much? £55 are they taking the piss with that price? So I get my Discogs app out and, no they really aren't taking the piss. It has been selling quite steadily above £35 since 2020 and recently has fetched above £50 twice (£66 in one case). The price sticker tells me I paid £18.99 for it in 2019. So the next question is, how much is a bog standard black first press worth? Median price is about £12 and there are f***tons of them out there. The first press coloured variants are in the same ball park as my copy. I'll never understand this. I buy records for the music and couldn't give a crap about the colour, in fact there is an argument that black is better anyway because black is the colour of the hardening agent. My only conclusion is the cool kid record collectors are idiots Anyway, thanks to all that, I'm revisiting this album and I think it is much better than my recollection of it, so it'll be being played a little more often from now on

Only if you let them

Have you heard the stories about the Russian advance to Soledar yesterday? (more on thread)