Yeah councils tend to block it all too often, extremely annoying

Bet people try it, or at least pushing off a chunk of it

Where do you park normally? I would expect them to force on street parking and chargers fitted to shared spaces if they were serious about adoption, obviously this charge proves they aren’t.

First three years you don’t have an mot. I would expect you to have to upload a photo of the odometer, which sounds absolutely awful.

When is he ever properly challenged by the media? Same problem with Boris before his fall

Hes walking a tight rope with his denials as he cant completely deny being a racist* as that undermines the fundamental plank to many of Reforms policies, but he cant be linked to being openly racist as that puts off the quiet racists who are quite happy with his policies as long as he doesn’t get caught using slurs as that risks them being ostracized by society.

*The truth or providing actual evidence of claims has never been anything that has bothered either Farage or Reform, see their bullshit council savings numbers just this week.

So they don’t pay a penny towards those costs? For the median? As thats a lot of people.

As its entirely wrapped in the tax already accounted for in that net income with the UK tax payer.

I wasn’t expecting it to be the whole difference but I do know those that have to pay in the US pay a significant chunk of change.

Are you accounting for everything that’s included in UK taxation such as health care and state pension?

So the costs for children with special provision via SEND in mainstream schools has massively increased in the number of children increasing massively without a real increase in funding to match, and a multiple decade long reduction in specialist schools.

You sometimes see utter garbage peddled that specialist schools shouldn’t exist and that children should be moved into mainstream schooling, often from parents of non verbal or otherwise potentially violent (due to SEND needs) children. Try teaching a mainstream school class with half with what should be specialist school needs and half not with at most one single classroom assistant despite each SEND child having “funding” for one each, its impossible. Its also a significant cause of teachers leaving state schooling, so its actually costing us signifcant money to replace.

Until significantly more money is found and invested in more specialist schools and parents forced to send their children there were appropriate, we have no hope in hell in improving state school results.

But sure, Reform just want to cut the funding, it would be a total collapse on a system thats already headed that way.

Except if young people get considerably cheaper then firms will switch older minimum wage staff to younger ones where they can. I also doubt he’ll be capping this at 18, more like 21 when it shakes out.

Older minimum wage people who think this won’t impact them and still plan on voting for Farage are deluding themselves as they are the actual target of this policy.

Except in the UK you can’t as they don’t sell them. They also ended UK support for their smoke detectors as well.

I switched to opentherm hardware and its now on my HA properly rather than via the cloud.

I did get a good ten years out the Nest hardware, I consider that reasonable for what it cost. Sure old fashioned controllers last longer, but i want the smart features

The fact that’s its pre-watershed for sporting events that are popular with kids makes it even worse

Quality of the system is such a massive dependency here, I can well believe that someone watching old reruns from a shitty streaming service that is upscaled to 1080p or 4k by their TV they purchased from the supermarket with coupons collected from their breakfast cereal is going to struggle to tell the difference.

Likewise if you fed the TVs with a high end 4k blu ray player and any blu ray considered reference such as Interstellar, you are still going to struggle to tell the difference, even with a more midrange TV unless the TVs get comically large for the viewing distance so that the 1080p screen starts to look pixelated.

I think very few people would expect their old wired apple earphones they got free with their iphone 4 would expect amazing sound from them, yet people seem to be ignoring the same for cheap TVs. I am not advocating for ultra high end audio/videophile nonsense with systems costing 10s of thousands, just that quite large and noticeable gains are available much lower down the scale.

Depending what you watch and how you watch it, good quality HDR for the right content is an absolute home run for difference between standard 1080p and 4k HDR if your TV can do true black. Shit TVs do HDR shitterly, its just not comparable to a decent TV and source. Its like playing high rez loss less audio on those old apple wired earphones vs. playing low bitrate MP3s.

Currently use a Brita filter as its enough to take the chemically smell from my tap water. Espresso machine has a built in water softener that I change every six months or so. It isnt the most efficient way to do it but the machine does not have any build up when I have checked, my water tastes neutral and nice to drink if not amazing.

Long term I want to build in a proper water purification, strip, and remineralization solution into my mains supply when I get around to redoing the kitchen. UK is low risk for water contamination but we do have recent incidents of it happening so its not zero risk and I would rather not take the risk with the way our water companies are ran.

Wow, I just have never had that, it does make some sense as its cheaper not to have to offer them.

I know people piss in them thats for sure, and at the very least water is allowed to stand in them far longer than I would allow with my own kettle, I cannot stand stale tasting water residue.

I don’t think I have ever been in a hotel that doesn’t have a kettle, just seems weird to not offer one.

I cant help with the kettle part, but I can help with the pourover part. I use a Hario V60 drip kettle air (its not a kettle, despite its misleading name) for pouring while traveling as its resin so unlikely to break or dent, its extremely light weight, and can give a reasonably fine pour to a gush, if that’s what you need. It does take a little while to get good with it due to it being so light weight.

I use a food safe thermometer to track the temperature, that way I do not care what kettle I use, plenty of reasonably cheap folding ones on amazon and the like.

The reason the Premier League was created was for the teams in the Premier League to keep more of the money by sharing less with the lower leagues.

The Premier League earns so much more money than the lower leagues its impossible to get into and stay in without a rich sugar daddy.

Even if you do get up with money to spend as Forest found when they got promoted, the cap on your spending is greatly reduced for that first year so you struggle to compete without a points reduction for overspending.

The rules exist to pull up the ladder as much as possible. One of the main goals for any European super league is to remove relegation and promotion. Its about locking in that revenue stream.

Having said all that, the punishment is there to stop the club being pillaged or mismanaged as in this case. The threat of a points deduction stops anybody sensible from just borrowing their way up the league without being able to pay for it. We had clubs getting in all sorts of messes and far more often as they tried to buy titles.

This owner is far from rational, best case was his plan was to sell it to a friend for a pound and wipe off the debt, and thats me being very generous to his ability to plan ahead.

Strong “wasn’t coming to your party anyway” vibes.

Interesting they only took this stance once UK police said they would be investigating the rioting this weekend and not before.

What I really do not understand is what Starmer expected to happen if their fans did come over, absolutely zero chance that everybody behaves, some mild shenanigans from the Maccabi fans like chanting death to arabs, burning flags, and setting upon taxis, terrorism from Villa fans with their free Palestine chants?

They were banned because they are persistent, violent hoolies, they even hoolie at home pretty hard: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/19/tel-aviv-football-derby-between-hapoel-and-maccabi-called-off-after-rioting

I would be extremely surprised if Starmer and Miliband haven’t been told this by West Mids, its a shit attempt to curry favor with Bibi.