MrPoletki
@MrPoletki@feddit.uk
- Comment on Chinese firm a leading contender to buy Thames Water, reports say 1 week ago:
Only interested if the gov takes on all the debt.
And forgive the outstanding fines.
So we’re paying a private company to buy our water utility, so that they can ‘have another go’ and ‘promise to do better than the last lot’.
Great…
- Comment on Chinese firm a leading contender to buy Thames Water, reports say 1 week ago:
Yes, you get thrown into the pit they threw Nicolas III into. Death by Tzar Chasm.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 1 week ago:
or is some kind of schizoid aesthetic rejection where they just want bike-riding sissies to stop being a thing?
I am slightly depressed at how much it looks exactly like this.
Only thing I’d say is shopkeeps have a point about their footfall being affected by the lack of parking outside their shops now. Literally every other way to address that, besides nuking the site from orbit (the only way to be sure), is a better way to address that than just tearing up the bike lane.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 1 week ago:
They can’t now, they’ll get a ticket.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 1 week ago:
I mean, there are loads of other solutions to a lack of parking ffs. Look at all that green field, I wonder how many parking spaces they need. A car park would spoil their view would it? if that’s the issue, they could block their view of the car park by parking cars along the roadside in front of it. Oh no wait, they’d get a ticket for that.
But no no no, lets just jump at the opportunity to hate on cyclists because that’s the fun popular thing to do amongst meatheads, pick a group that’s already getting picked on and pick on them harder. Sounds like we have our own Alabama.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 1 week ago:
looks at cycle lane the fuck is wrong with that?
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments 1 week ago:
Oh shit, did she sell of his allotment?
- Comment on Revealed: Oligarchs spied on UK lawyers who ran Serious Fraud Office cases 1 week ago:
This should be it’s own criminal offence, a special form of perverting the course of justice that gets applied to the individuals concerned, not the company.
- Comment on Third of UK teenagers who vape will go on to start smoking, research shows 3 weeks ago:
a quick google tells me 9% of school goers vape, and about 3% smoke. That’s down from 0 vapers in the 90’s and 50% of them having had a smoke (not necessarily smokers).
also, amongst the whole of the UK, vapers have just met smokers at 11% each.
- Comment on Third of UK teenagers who vape will go on to start smoking, research shows 3 weeks ago:
Well at least that’s down from the 100% of teenasgers who smoked cigarettes that go on to start smoking.
- Comment on Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester 3 weeks ago:
The Guardian’s photographer had an absolute whale of a time with this article.
Look at those dreamy vegetable garden scenes.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 4 weeks ago:
this is only going to get solved by mass lawsuits for wrongful arrests and not a single guilty plea.
- Comment on Thames Water refuses to claw back executive bonuses paid using £3bn emergency loan 1 month ago:
Stop bailing out Thames Water!
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 month ago:
Fuck that law. Isn’t that the law Putin used against Navalgny?
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
actually, while it doesn’t change the conclusion hardly, we have all forgotten that 395k wage is a combined income.
I mean these are still silly high wages… Having said that though, both the combined income, and that it’s very conceivable a good portion of that income is from capital gains, not work… they probably get more take home out of that 395k income than we’d expect too…
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
hey shoutout to fark.com I used to love that place hung out there from about 1999 onwards,
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
I’m not sure there is actually a proper definition of ‘rich’ that would allow you to accurately classify a group of incomes into rich and not rich.
But if you were to think of it in terms of the ‘feeling’ I’d say I’d feel rich if I never had to choose a cheaper option for anything at all, ever, could eat out and check into a hotel for the night any time I liked, all whilst currently putting away a handsome investment of some kind - but still have more disposable income than I could possible waste between income periods with nothing but my own debauchery (barring expensive drug habits).
That’s what I call rich, thing is, some people can achieve this on much less than others due to their tastes and circumstances. I’d feel rich if I worked 9-5 and took home upwards of £300k for sure. Others might not though.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 months ago:
one day I might earn that much in a year.
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 2 months ago:
and some goddam alimony, not from the state either, from the cop.
- Comment on 'Criminal' : Elton John condemns AI copyright plans. The UK is considering a bill allowing AI Companies to use copyrighted work without permission 2 months ago:
Yanno I had to double take the headline, at first it read like 'The criminal named elton john condemns…"
- Comment on What is the government trying to hide about British American Tobacco? 2 months ago:
Is the CEO of British American Tobacco technically BATman?
- Comment on Harvard cut-price Magna Carta 'copy' now believed genuine 2 months ago:
Hmmm, I’m thinking the UK should ask for it back.
- Comment on Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM 3 months ago:
No, an attack on a member of our government, particularly the prime minister, is an attack on our entire nation.
(by ‘the’ reaction, I assume you mean mine)
That said, such an attack is never acceptable.
- Comment on Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM 3 months ago:
This makes me really angry.
We’ve lost 2 MP’s in recent memory, I don’t care their leaning, they were murdered while in service to the people as a member of parliament. You wanna go for the prime minister? again, don’t care his political leaning, fuck you. Make an example of them.
- Comment on Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK, study finds 3 months ago:
Might have got a few more months/years out of my dad if they’d actually taken him seriously instead of fobbing him off for two weeks before discovering his pancreatic cancer at an ultrasound to prove it was actually kidney stones causing his textbook pancreatic cancer symptoms.
- Comment on Sycamore Gap tree destroyed in 'moronic mission', court told 3 months ago:
It’s starting to sound plausible that not even they know why they did it.
- Comment on Sycamore Gap tree destroyed in 'moronic mission', court told 3 months ago:
so… why? why did they cut it down?
- Comment on Reeves suggests UK-EU trade more important than US deal ahead of Washington talks 3 months ago:
I suspect the main reason for her saying that is because it’s true.
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 3 months ago:
I, for one, am looking forward to trans men waltzing into the ladies saying ‘I gotta pee here, its the LAW’.
- Comment on Vets tell BBC they are under 'consistent pressure' to make money 4 months ago:
This is what privatising the NHS will create for humans.