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They wouldn't charge me so I went and bought them a cake.
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
They wouldn't charge me so I went and bought them a cake.
If you find yourself an optical workshop it's like this on steroids. I had snapped both arms off a pair and wandered in to ask whether the could straighten the hinges so I could bodge something. They found two mismatched arms in a box, bent to shape and modified the hinges to fit. Still my spares.
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If you find yourself an optical workshop it's like this on steroids. I had snapped both arms off a pair and wandered in to ask whether the could straighten the hinges so I could bodge something. They found two mismatched arms in a box, bent to shape and modified the hinges to fit. Still my spares.
I want to squeeze that bag so bad.
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I want to squeeze that bag so bad.
or that, or that
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
or that, or that
scorpion kick for the winner IMO
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
scorpion kick for the winner IMO
But then the most generous red card to make up for it
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
But then the most generous red card to make up for it
Lovely Boxer though.
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Lovely Boxer though.
Used to live a few doors down and he never introduced me. Bastard.
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Used to live a few doors down and he never introduced me. Bastard.
Not considering this until it finds a way to put an international border in the middle of The Line, preferably two.
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not considering this until it finds a way to put an international border in the middle of The Line, preferably two.
Everyone is a muppet except for the villain who is always played by Tim Curry.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Everyone is a muppet except for the villain who is always played by Tim Curry.
That's for a ton of reasons obviously - for eg. in many ways luxury has become more luxurious - but it does feel that in a world where a consultant doctor (say) isn't the market for big houses, private school, yachts, fast cars etc. then our relationship to financial success is going to change.
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
That's for a ton of reasons obviously - for eg. in many ways luxury has become more luxurious - but it does feel that in a world where a consultant doctor (say) isn't the market for big houses, private school, yachts, fast cars etc. then our relationship to financial success is going to change.
Recently I've been thinking a lot about an aspiration gap that I feel emerged. In the past, being a top 5% earner opened up a range of possibilities not afforded to most of the population. Now it feels that aspirational luxury still feels a long way away. You avoid precarity but perhaps no more?
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Recently I've been thinking a lot about an aspiration gap that I feel emerged. In the past, being a top 5% earner opened up a range of possibilities not afforded to most of the population. Now it feels that aspirational luxury still feels a long way away. You avoid precarity but perhaps no more?
For me it's the part of the same question as the "why do you enjoy rock climbing/offshore sailing/motorsport/whatever, you could get killed?!". People's attitude to risk is a huge spectrum and we're really bad at reflecting on how that changes attitudes to societal problems (health, finance etc.).
November 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
For me it's the part of the same question as the "why do you enjoy rock climbing/offshore sailing/motorsport/whatever, you could get killed?!". People's attitude to risk is a huge spectrum and we're really bad at reflecting on how that changes attitudes to societal problems (health, finance etc.).
Read the fucking post you're being a twat about
November 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Read the fucking post you're being a twat about
The bulk of the price rises has been in the past ten years or so. As an example I know a doctor who bought a boat to celebrate their consultant role in ~2012, the equivalent of that boat now would be easily 400k+. I think that’s at least triple what he paid.
November 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The bulk of the price rises has been in the past ten years or so. As an example I know a doctor who bought a boat to celebrate their consultant role in ~2012, the equivalent of that boat now would be easily 400k+. I think that’s at least triple what he paid.
That's simply not true in the fairly recent past (90s even 00s) though which was exactly my point and the point of the quote. I know lots of sailors who bought boats then on middle incomes that that they'd never get within a million miles of now and I know 1%ers who will never afford anything new.
November 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
That's simply not true in the fairly recent past (90s even 00s) though which was exactly my point and the point of the quote. I know lots of sailors who bought boats then on middle incomes that that they'd never get within a million miles of now and I know 1%ers who will never afford anything new.
It's a shame this is so focused on the superyacht side because there's an interesting story about the lower end where the spending power of the middle classes is declining dramatically. As a sport, sailing is in a lot of trouble if costs continue to rise as quickly as they have.
November 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It's a shame this is so focused on the superyacht side because there's an interesting story about the lower end where the spending power of the middle classes is declining dramatically. As a sport, sailing is in a lot of trouble if costs continue to rise as quickly as they have.
There's a zip manufacturer somewhere who's sweating buckets, one belly laugh away from a firing squad.
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
There's a zip manufacturer somewhere who's sweating buckets, one belly laugh away from a firing squad.
I guess if you're accepting heaven and hell then you're probably also accepting a flavour of traditional christian morality so a party with a lot of LGBTQ+ etc. voters might fall foul of a vengeful god.
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I guess if you're accepting heaven and hell then you're probably also accepting a flavour of traditional christian morality so a party with a lot of LGBTQ+ etc. voters might fall foul of a vengeful god.
Trying to work out if it would be more annoying to do this in Ross, Skye and Lochaber or Islington North.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Trying to work out if it would be more annoying to do this in Ross, Skye and Lochaber or Islington North.
So I guess the obvious site is next to the giant sewage works at Esholt?
October 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
So I guess the obvious site is next to the giant sewage works at Esholt?
And now I realise that's over half my life ago...
October 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
And now I realise that's over half my life ago...
Ahh, Rilo Kiley and Bright Eyes at Leeds Met 2005. RK were all delightful and chatty and Connor was a grumpy arse. Exactly as it should be.
October 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Ahh, Rilo Kiley and Bright Eyes at Leeds Met 2005. RK were all delightful and chatty and Connor was a grumpy arse. Exactly as it should be.