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Saints and Sarries are nailed on for 1 and 2, could be that they swap depending on how today goes, but that's fairly immaterial. Exeter or Quins for the fourth spot seems most likely. Leaning Quins since Exeter are away at Welford Road. This aged well..... The league has done a good job of making i...

Wade was good, shame he didn't get more caps. Varndell had the potential but was shit for England This always bugs me and similar with Tait. The England teams for these players were appallingly shite. Tait getting mashed after hospital balls from noon or tindall et al and varndell being given the b...

Water supply and sewage management is and always will be a pubic health issue that should never be placed in the hands of the private sector! Ever since John Snow in the 1850's and his work on cholera outbreaks in London it has been crystal clear that water and sewage are essential to public health...

As soon as you look even slightly in to the classified documents thing and there are differences in intent, relevance, quantity and classification with regard to Biden and Trump. David in Gwent as we know views things in a black and white manner. At least tedmauls daughter will grow beyond it. Which...

Tigers are embarrassingly slow and bad these days

Even if that were to continue between now and the last possible moment they can call an election, surely it wouldn't fix anything with voters? What would be the lead time on growth actually making people feel better off? Wealth inequality and public services are the worst they've been in aeons to s...

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 5:50 am No surprise here. USA always fucks up in the Middle East.

No one can win. Middle East is full of religious dictatorships ran by arseholes. Netanyahu is very nearly conforming to that norm. Without the USA they will quite happily be killing each other at anyrate.

holy crap... holeee crap. Grab that by the handle end and whang it around the head of anyone trying to convince you of the benefits of small government, market self regulation. Airbus are doing fine in that environment. So are Embraer. And every other small jet manufacturer. Boeing decided to choos...

epwc wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 10:04 pm Jam making is easy, chilli sauce too if you have a pasteuriser

I do red currant and black currant jams already as the garden had them when we bought the house. Do blackberry jam as loads about near where I live (though blackberry's are usually combined with Rhubarb to make a crumble).

I went on a week long cheese making course. It was brilliant. I've been making mozzarella, feta, cream cheese and ricotta at home so far. I am building a cheese cave out of an old fridge. When that's done I plan to start doing the hard cheeses and moldy cheeses etc. I’d always thought about learnin...

They're clinging on to try and push as much stuff like this through as possible https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/02/sunak-to-allow-oil-and-gas-exploration-at-sites-intended-for-offshore-wind It's not an unreasonable expectation that they'll be sitting on the sidelines for at...

Holy shit, the mad btch decided to not go out gracefully https://twitter.com/gbnews/status/1786796497712849284?s=46 :lol: :lol: :lol: That was horrible. I hate when politicians start going on about poor “motorists” as if this is some protected part of society They kind of are in the UK and USA. Peo...

Both finals are at Tottenham stadium. Oh shite ja. Suppose Gloucester will get huge support at Tottenham Stadium It is a quality stadium even if does resemble a toilet bowl from certain angles. https://res.cloudinary.com/trends-publishing/image/upload/s--DxGFI0ja--/c_scale,dpr_1.0,g_center,w_2560/e...

Yes it would be the biggest story of the day if labour lose London. Khan has had two terms as mayor, the Tories haven't even tried to compete in this. The fact it's close shows how poor of a mayor Khan has been. This is what happens when politicians don't deliver, the voter base stops showing out o...

Most newer EVs can also be plugged in to your domestic supply to balance out loads in the way you're describing. Obviously regs should reflect the reality of our future, any new house built that has off road parking should be required to have at least one charging port and also Vehicle To Load capa...

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/iea-report-claims-batteries-are-changing-the-game As the grid gets smarter, EVs get more common, and home batteries too, it'll smoothen out the grid really well. The batteries and inverter I have for my solar, could easily fit in a small cupboard. Very eas...

Absolutely disgraceful that they are holding the tournament there in the first place. As others have said, money trumps everything. The sportswashing for oil rich Arab states is getting out of control and people seem to be happy just going along with it. Seems a bit "I'm alright, Jack" fo...

This is what happens when you put the Tories in charge of protecting the environment. The same cunts will claim to be patriots, & love Englands green & pleasant land ! https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/6c8a/live/fa58ea10-0548-11ef-b9d8-4f52aebe147d.jpg.webp https://ichef.bbci.co....

If you lads actually truly believe that going Net Zero in Western Europe will help us avoid "Climate Change" then I can only applaud your gullibility It's an unstoppable force but it's going to be used to control every single facet of your lives. On the one hand you're going to get your k...

Global Warming can't be avoided, it's a natural process. Fair enough, you sound like you know what you're talking about I've imagined him as alexander the meerkat in compare the market adverts wandering around pointing at things going simples. In this case he has pointed at declining birthrates and...

Argentina declare a budget surplus for the first time in almost 2 decades :clap: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240423-milei-announces-argentina-s-first-budget-surplus-in-16-years Who would have thought that running your country like a business, instead of some kind of nanny state would ac...

I don't like the focus on trying to get back into the EU over moving away from fucked past the post.

I've drawn to the conclusion that politicians main skillsets are bullshitting and sucking up to people (particularly senior politicians). This is made worse by a political structure that leads to two main parties. People who are good at making things work probably have the polar opposite personaliti...

Blasted Tories destroyed the NHS with lack of funding https://i.ibb.co/cCN0kw6/IMG-1504.jpg Ageing population and a lot of the cuts have come elsewhere but leading to greater nhs healthcare demand with issues that would have been cheaper to solve earlier (being reactive rather than proactive). Cumu...

Folk like Andy Cato hopefully have the potential to bring this into the mainstream. Not heard of him, who's he? I have a friend in Sheffield who over decades has been guerilla planting trees on all sorts of untended bits of land, you don't even need to own any land to do something useful. One half ...

A lot is made (truthfully) of Harry Cole et al being client journalists of the Tories. As we’re on the cusp of a change of government it is worth remembering that their Labour counterparts exist too. Goodall being one of them Goodall, James O' Brien, etc. The interesting point will be how they beha...

You are correct, but I still think your point is a daft one. It's relevant to Petej's point re Israel's siege mentality. Israel are able to keep death by Hamas under the level of death by road traffic accident over the course of a decade, therefore Has threat is under control and Petej's point does...

If people following the URC like the URC that's great, but an African teams have no business in a European event, and worse it's not even a North African set of sides so the travel is way too much (even before one considers climate change and that flights should be discouraged) It used to be a Euro...

Reining in rampant consumerism of shit we don't need which has been made in sweatshops on the other side of the world and shipped here in huge container ships and then carried to us daily, sometimes two or three times a day in vans and cars, whilst deliveroo scooters zub around delivering breakfast...

Trying to get my house towards EnerPHIT but the next step is the big one of MVHR and haven't got around to CAD modelling the house properly (though done all the measurements). The incidental benefits of passivhaus aren’t even recognised, the apartments we’ve just built are in an urban location on s...

Lots is happening. A lot people do give a flying fuck. We have had decreasing meat consumption and energy consumption for 20+ years. People buy more 2nd hand clothes and goods than I can remember. Our electricity is increasingly renewables based. Reporting can be very negative and make it feel poin...

This is just a single article from todays papers: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/fields-underwater-uk-farmers-navigate-record-rainfall-food-production-crisis-wet-weather There are still plenty of farmers who are deniers, my mate Richard for example who blames it all on uncleare...

But we have a huge amount more impact per capita than the average Indian or African, we're creating the problem, surely it can't be that hard to modify our behaviour? The sad fact is that very few people here give a flying fuck. Just look at people heading out of supermarkets with trolleys full of ...

Maybe the sustained level of collective punishment caused him to review his opinion? When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir? I'm still mostly of the opinion that Israel is interested in sending a message to countries/dictatorships/kingdoms in the surrounding region of don't m...

The met police are an utter disgrace https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1781386330724843945?s=46 Original https://i.postimg.cc/02W9LyQM/IMG-1482.jpg Edit: fixed img size https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news-footage-reveals-new-details-of-exchange-between-police-and-antisemitism-campaigner-called...

Flockwitt wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:08 pm And Biden's already said he'll sign, so thankfully that's an important hurdle dealt with.

Considering European support has continued to increase does this mean there is enough for the Ukrainians to go on the attack.

He sold the Czechs down the river ! “How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been sett...

New Coach has his work cut out for him in Ulster; the lack of basic skills is incredible, WTF did they do in training before ? They squeaked a win tonight, but they shouldn't have been within a country mile of Cardiff Hope the TMO had more angles than the broadcast did. As none of them were conclus...

He joined Angela Rayner's team as a volunteer in 2013, helping her win the Ashton-under-Lyne seat at the 2015 General Election, before subsequently joining her staff. As her SpAd, he was responsible for all media liaison, speech writing, op-eds and providing strategic communications advice. It's no...

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