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Also we've spent centuries exploiting Africa and the sub continent. Bit harsh to turn them away now

We had open borders with Europe and that helped raise the living standards in the less well of states. Surely that's the best evidence available that open borders is a good thing An influx of healthy young workers who send money home then return when they've made some money is what happens in the majority of cases. Not to conflate economic refugees with asylum seekers whom I assume you wouldn't turn away

Perhaps the low ball offers were based on the hope of PSR bargains.

So, my great uncle (who I've talked about on here before) who was missing/KIA in 1915 will be laid to rest, with full military honours etc. In September on the 110th anniversary of the battle/his death. I will be there. Just been on the phone with BBC Scotland who are looking at covering the discovery, identification and ceremony as a documentary and they want to film with me and the artefacts (letters) we have. Yikes Toonpack on TV 😂

Honestly, watch it. He does a test dive and it's like pop................... pop...........pop..pop.pop.pop.popppppp. This is after the test model only reached half it's intended depth before being crushed like one of Homer's Duff cans. Stupid twat had built these sonic sensors which he just ignored. But you could physically hear the hull breaking. Really tense viewing even knowing g the end.

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We live as nation states though. If you're arguing open borders then nah, I don't agree. We had the best arrangement with the EU with FoM. But the EU and UK needs to have external borders with the rest of the world and not allow unfettered economic migration from the developing world. It's not good for those countries either, us cream skimming their most educated people. Surely the best thing to do would be to pull up living standards in India and Africa? That will also decrease their own birth rate which is needed because of climate change etc.

The best way to beat reform is to have some policies designed to help the worse off rather than benefit the corperations and protect the rich The world's population is expanding repaidly, its a mistake to think in narrow nationalist terms

I read a good longread about it a while back so don't feel the need to necessarily watch the documentary, but if it contains more pearls like him treating a submarine hull like it's a wok, I might be tempted...

Yeah, another rich, middle aged, white, narcissistic psychopath. Great film though. Didn't get what he deserved as he wouldn't even know it had happened. Feel sorry for the kid robbed of his life who, iirc, didn't even want to do it. Also, fucking leave the Titanic alone now you morbid grave diggers.

Has anyone watched the documentary about the Titan submersible that went bye-bye with 5 people on board? It's on Netflix. Fuck me, the bloke running the show. What a cunt. Hired people with the know-how to actually do what he was wanting to do and then sacked them one by one as they raised red flags about his plans. Then tried to bankrupt and ruin the life of a whistleblower that tried to put a stop to it all. There's bits where he's going deeper and deeper and you can hear the carbon fibre hull making these terrifying popping noises, which people on the doc are explaining is the carbon fibre strands snapping - in other words, the hull is failing. Daft lad calls it "seasoning the hull". He deserved what he got, it's just a shame he took others with him. A proper narcissistic psycho.

I'm fairly agnostic to whether it's a good thing or not tbh, but clearly a lot of people don't think it is which is leading to Reform etc. And I'm unsure how sustainable it is, surely a population should be approximately self replacing? Surely it's wrong young adults can't experience the joys (and misery) of parenthood due to barriers imposed so we just have immigration to fill the gaps? Of course the impact of AI remains to be seen. Fuck knows what the future holds tbh.

I'll be at an ADULTS ONLY hotel in Kos next month. 📢 BRING ON THE FANNYYYYYYY!

Correct. On a serious note though, I don't know why anyone would have kids here these days. The country is dropping to bits, the climate is upside down, most people are complete fucking wankers, and it's all getting worse every year.

This would be a good thing in my opinion There also plenty of Eurooeans who could be "imported" My kids are both in their 30's. I'd be astonished if either of them became parents

If that is genuinely the reason this doesn't happen then we deserve the hellscape we're heading towards.

aren't you aware that this is the '70s thread?

The initial signings took the club forward at a ridiculous rate. But they’ve also left us in the predicament we are in re: PSR. To just heap praise on Staveley doesn’t really look at the whole picture. Obviously PSR is designed to stymie us interlopers. And we’ve all got to give fanks to Mike for the lack of revenue streams which have also been a massive factor. I do think she was a good link between the footballing management side of things and the (real) ownership however. But I don’t think it was a particularly sustainable transfer policy. Unless you’d be happy to see some of our best players leave to go to the sides we’re trying to chase down

A lot of vested interests there tbh. Labour MPs don't want the value of their homes and property portfolios to go down, and no floating voter is going to vote for it either. I fully agree though, house prices are one of the big issues crippling this country (and the west generally, it's not just a UK thing obviously).

I honestly feel like if they just made homes affordable it would make things a lot better on this front. Labour seem to be doing absolutely nothing on that front and I've no clue why in all honesty. As for hating the country, that followed Brexit specifically so I'm not exactly too worked up otherwise, but there are no solutions to any of this in the current administration. Treating symptoms and not causes.

Currently at a family hotel in the Algarve so apart from the odd yummy mummy the blart is very disappointing. It will be noted in my Tripadvisor review.

I'm starting to think that the club is now totally clueless and useless in the transfer market since Amanda Staveley moved on. F*ckin' this window up will confirm it!

Aye.

I pay the price of a mortgage every month for two kids’ childcare. If I added a third then it wouldn’t be worth the wife going to work. It’s a massive problem. And of course we don’t get the 30 hours free childcare that you lot get in England, although even that only kicks in over a certain age.

You can’t knock his choice of best man.