1 - England is not an island, you mean Great Britain.

2 - Almost half the food eaten in the UK has been imported from overseas.

3 - A large proportion (it’s difficult to get exact figures and it fluctuates) of energy is imported from abroad in the forms of oil and gas.

Great Britain, and the wider UK, has not been self sufficient for ~600 years relying on colonialism and a maritime empire to meet its needs and trade since it collapsed. If it had to rely on resources available within the island it would collapse in days.

If there is ever a high speed train that runs from London to Leeds I’ll buy you a first class ticket.

I’m all in for crazy hockey. Boosters, bumpers, multipuck, moving goals, tilting ice, pucks made of different materials, sticks made of different materials, boxing gloves appear at centre ice giving the player who grabs them 30 second free pass for roughing.

Let them fight to the death.

MMMMMMMULTIBALLLLLLL

Any sport, doesn’t really matter. Periodically during the game more balls start getting added into the playing field to spice things up, a la pinball tables.

Tennis, Football, Volleyball, Baseball, Basketball etc etc

Get down to 6 Bags Cinema in Victorville. The aircon isn’t great but shows nothing but popcorn classics.

Who’d have thought a business named after a Bond villain would have turned out to be horrible

2 nights in a hotel in Sydney. Arrived at about 10pm straight from the airport. Unmanned entry to had to call someone from reception to come and give me the key despite arranging all this in advance.

Got in the room and the AC was broken so as a Brit arriving in Australia for the first time it was unbearably hot and the room stank of damp.

About the worst way to start jetlag recovery and I got out after the first night despite paying in advance.

Edit, oh and the fire alarm went off at 3AM!

Socialise the losses, privatise the profits.

Nationalise it long enough that our tax money has to pay off the debts that were illegally accrued, none of the scumbags in charge will have any repercussions and they’ll buy it back for pennies on the pound in a decade and start the whole cycle again.

Blast Corps

So now that the project is abandoned, they’ve spent the most money and caused the biggest disruption for the smallest benefit.

If they started at the other end, the stated goal of the project, they wouldn’t have the get out clause they have by starting in London.

They should have started in Leeds. Not start in London and give themselves a convenient way out.

The recent furore around grooming gangs has nothing to do with the victims. There has already been a review and an enquiry and all the results are there to be analysed.

None of the recommendations Baroness Casey put forward have been implemented.

It’s political point scoring by Farage, Badenoch, and for some reason, Elon Musk. Any talking point that can be twisted into “Brown people bad” will be exploited for cheap points and forgotten about 5 minutes later.

It’s a jungle out there and I oughta know!

Thinkin Things

And Sammy’s Science House

What if you’re on the bus?

25 millipounds?

How do you get your shirt so clean then cleanshirt?

VPN into the UK, then watch on iPlayer.

Or watch it online here: https://thoughtmaybe.com/shifty/

Being a slimy weasel seems to come naturally to him