I'll always remember an episode of Look North when the reporter asked a Grimsby fisherman why he was so confident Brexit would be a "sea of opportunities", reply.. "I would trust Boris with my life". He's never been heard of since.
10.10.2025 19:34 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
To be wholly fair it's a bit ambiguous here as well, the flu jab is free and the COVID jab is free on request apparently, I'll know on Tuesday. But Β£90 really.
10.10.2025 19:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Dot com bubble?
10.10.2025 19:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Β£90? How do they justify that? Here in France it is free for vulnerable people, diabetics, the immunosuppressed the over 65s and for the rest it's between 7 and ten euros. Surely, it's in all our interests that as many people as possible get vaccinated.
God help us when the next pandemic hits.
10.10.2025 19:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Gestures vaguely at 2025 , we're all that sheep now.
10.10.2025 18:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
ofcom has rules now?
10.10.2025 18:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yes but Trump isn't... Yet.
10.10.2025 17:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yesterday, the US Ambassador in Oslo sought assurance that I would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sadly, the US has received no such assurance from the Nobel committee.
It is my solemn duty to inform you that we are now at war with Norway.
10.10.2025 09:16 β π 88 π 17 π¬ 4 π 1
Surely this is not real, but then again it's not the looniest thing I've seen this year.
10.10.2025 17:34 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'll bet most of the candidates are hiding under a table muttering 'please don't pick me, please not me'.
10.10.2025 17:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In a world of toadies and sycophants, at least the Nobel committee can hold their heads up. The test of the world seems to have totally capitulated.
10.10.2025 17:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
He probably thinks Norway is a Democrat state.
10.10.2025 17:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Beaten by a Venezuelan woman! I'm sure he'll take the news with calm and good grace.
10.10.2025 09:10 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
*Nobel obv
10.10.2025 07:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Surely a man of peace will accept the decision of the independent Noble committee with good grace and congratulate the winner. Trump, on the other hand.
10.10.2025 07:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
He's using the military to invade US cities, sumeraly executing people in international waters, pressured Ukraine to capitulate whilst kowtowing to Putin and threatened to invade NATO allies, on the other hand Netanyahou might stop bombing what's left of Gaza, so, swings and roundabouts I suppose.
10.10.2025 07:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"no provision for expulsion"...yet. Anyway, all Orban cares about is the money that flows from the EU is greater than the money that flows from the Kremlin and Kremlin money looks like it's drying up.
09.10.2025 18:41 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Yes and when we leave the ECHR there will be no problem with NI because we have alternative arrangements and Malthouse Compromises, both A and B, so there!
09.10.2025 18:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I would think it's highly likely if Farage's MAGA(UK) ever gets into power. Everything he says and does is copied from his orange hero.
09.10.2025 17:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Rudyard Kipling
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!".
08.10.2025 22:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
As my old dad used to say "I've rarely met a churchgoer with an ounce of Christianity in them", note the rarely, not never.
08.10.2025 19:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Oh and by "Old git" I mean over 65, not 75.
08.10.2025 19:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
WOT? I live in France, next week I will have my sixth COVID vaccination, it will cost 0 Euros, yes I'm an old git, but if I wasn't it would be between 7.50β¬ and 9.60β¬.
08.10.2025 19:13 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Who wrote those notes?
08.10.2025 18:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Poor Britian, doomed to plough his narrow furrow alone because English is WOKE.
08.10.2025 18:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Having followed Farage to the depths of his rabbit hole which has destroyed our party we'll start following Trump into his world of fascist insanity.
08.10.2025 18:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I used to think Idiocracy was an amusing, if silly, film. Turns out it was an amazingly prescient documentary.
08.10.2025 09:40 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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