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What that also gives us some insight into the contempt in which the ‘Red Wall’ MPs are held within the Tory Party hierarchy. Basically useful idiots as long as they’re loyal. Ditto their constituents

Your next stop is Smiths Park

Also have the bonus of taking the Valley of Fear route to Tynemouth via said metro

Yeah, the Indy website is horrific. Not as bad as the Chronicle group of papers though. The Guardian is quite good for reviews and stuff too, I should donate but then I remember Owen Jones and dismiss it.

Palmersville station seems to collect an inordinate amount of little shitbags. Something about the brutalist concrete architecture and the complete lack of there ever being any staff there will do that. Along with it being a bit a dump. I was there once and about 15 of them jumped on the tracks, picked up several of the big lumps of gravel from the tracks and hurled them for about 30 seconds at the shelter on the other side of the station. Then they just stopped and climbed back onto the platform as though nowt had happened. A sort of charv flash mob, if you will

Privatisation technique: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. — Noam Chomsky

Before I start - I'm pro bbc and have no issue with the licence fee at all, I think its very undervalued and people who haven't spent considerable time resident in other countries haven't seen how its the best broadcaster in the world, bar none. But no one has said it will be without public money, they've said "we are freezing the licence fee and this is the last decision we will make until 2027". "The licence fee's existence is guaranteed until at LEAST 31st December 2027 by the BBC's royal charter and that's not likely to change without a massive push of public opinion. Now this is where I think the stealth and deliberate culture war is happening - during the period of the biggest inflation we've seen since the late 80's early 90s (5% or more) , we are saying the licence fee wont increase. So effectively its a net terms CUT year on year of 5% compounded at least . So I think their plan is, "The public wont back us, unless the quality drops remarkably, or the institution has to outsource, or fails" . See NHS strategy etc. (all my 2 cents)

Gemmill there, plainly with an advanced case of "seepage aboot the trews"

rising from the ashes of the money owed to the the sir bobby robson foundation

It's mint how much Man United's mediocrity is killing Roy Keane.

90% of the kids would be shouting “ Hello Daddy!”

and villa will line up with a team of every fucker we've been linked with.

And fortuitously, the Hereford 'Til I Die cameramen were there to capture the half-time team talk:

Ah fair enough, its difficult to tell when you're in constant hysterics the rest of the time

Aye, the Auf Wiedersehen theme was quality

The last time I went to the coast on the Metro we pulled into Shiremoor and two lads were getting a proper kicking on the platform. They spilled into our carriage just as the doors were closing, then tried their best to pretend like they were fine and they weren't grateful for the nurse who happened to be there to help get their faces patched up. The teenage machismo of it was almost quite endearing.

The gamut of charvers you run between Walkergate and North Shields on the Metro is truly something else. It's like being on one of the subway trains from The Warriors.

Along with one or two other superannuated old fuckers on here, I take a bit of pride in my 80s/90s musical knowledge. However it's still possible for something to make me drop my bacon sandwich as was the case earlier today...this belter appeared on the old playlist, from a time before Simple Mind were stadium cock rockers, more like weird jockinese synth-punks... Thing is, I mmediately thought it was this proto-trance stomper from the early 90s 🤪

Yeah I understand, I'm in a kind of denial myself, but I've been away for many years so not read the British media as much - but now I think this, I notice it more and more on subjects that I know something about. I think blaming "boomers and right wingers" for everything can make hate as much as blaming immigrants and lefties. I'd still read the Guardian, whilst waiting for a haircut, but I'd fucking bin the mail if I saw it ! And of course, who is the web to say what we can trust and cannot - but I do have a lot of faith in that website, as much as the fact checker site.

I wanted to push back with this link and say, nah its just as bad - https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ but it is 1 mark more credible I suppose. I was involved at a Principal level with a countries covid response (IT wise) and the Guardian was posting utter utter shite about it at the time. I used to be a loyal reader, but it was utter bullshit and the first time I'd seen how cleverly they twisted the "facts" to suit their narrative. But it was very similar, presenting something 1 person had "said" as a documented and proper thing, when it wasn't. A minister can say anything they want, but a policy has to be written, put forward and discussed and voted on in Parliament.. (*cough* usually, though the current gvt have been right bastards at skipping that with Covid policy). I trust these guys and they say its "Mixed" not "Low" so I shuddup a my face. But its not trustworthy, not by a long way. The Guardian - Media Bias/Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com) - Mixed Daily Mail - Media Bias/Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com) - Factual reporting Low Least biased and most factual, seems to be: Financial Times - Media Bias/Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com) I'd go with all the above , in my personal view. Who would have thought that FT would NOT be supportive of Neoliberalist governments , but they are not. (And I agree there too, final stage Capitalism is absolutely as horrific on a global scale as facism etc, just because the deaths and torture aren't in your country, doesnt really matter in a globalised world). OMG, I dont know what prompted this soapbox, but I'm getting down off it. Have we signed fookin lingard yet?

See, the way you're talking there makes it sound like you think I'm a child that doesn't understand what life is about. I am fully fucking aware what the deal with life is. The only possible meaning I have been able to discern for 'life' is that the journey/suffering is the entire point of it. I don't believe it's 'to love', I don't believe it's 'to be happy' - it's the fucking grind or it's nothing at all. I'm not looking for the government to take pity on me. I don't need it to. I'm trying to express my compassion and empathy for others, so that I can be part of a society that 'takes pity' on those who are struggling, which supports and helps them. I am trying to be part of a system that is less brutal and depressing than the one we live in. We don't need to make life worse than it already is by electing useless fucking governments that actively make things more difficult.

Everything O'Brien said was factually true. Some people can't or won't handle the truth though. I've always wondered throughout my life is it better to know the truth, even if it makes you sad, or better to remain blissfully ignorant. I came to the personal conclusion that life is meaningless without truth, so would always opt for the former. It's pretty much informed my entire career trajectory and as you can see my personality. Not sure I made the right decision.

Like a Pound Shop KLF

Tbf it’s still 1982 in Sunderland town centre

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So long ago essembee keeps forgetting he wasn’t there.

Whitley! How fucking dare you, again.

I’ll come down to Whitley and show him my feet- he’ll shit himself.

I take my Mum on that metro when she visits My mate calls it crack alley, cheeky cnut, his old place was on the wrong side of the river somewhere. Here's my old place (it's me swimming) : From there to Walkergate and it is worth it Steve Bruce's brother lives down the road man, what more could I want?

You’ve also got two of the best breweries in Newcastle on your doorstep- Almasty and Anarchy are next door to each other behind Walkergate Metro.

I've just bought a ticket for the villa game, if the line up even closely resembles the one that started against watford, I'm holding you personally responsible!

Aye, sign Eriksen too along with the entire Freeman cardiology unit.

Take the quick win with the publicity it brings, don't be arseholes and bicker about him joining despite being an obvious cunt but absolutely replace him when it's convenient do so.

Cases aren't even measured properly any more with PCR. You can triple that.

True.

Not sure anyone would disagree with this, but we need to enable people to give their best. At the moment, our 'best' tends to come from very well off circles who get in by default, and some particularly exceptional/lucky middle class ranked people. And a very, very few exceptional AND lucky lower-middle/working class groups. That's not the best we have to offer, it's just a combination of the ones who get all the opportunities by virtue of social status, and a few really exceptional people. I'd rather we were filtering out the trash from the upper echelons who aren't there for any merit and replacing them with far more capable, harder working people from further down the chain. Then we might be closer to 'giving our best'. Do you think Boris Johnson remotely represents 'our best'? Or Cameron. Or the Queen and her offspring? Why are these people dominating our society? It's not meritocracy, that's for fucking sure.

From where I'm standing, it looks very much like you're saying that the truth is doomed. I'll say again, not all opinions are equal. Not all ways of thinking are equal. There is a choice between getting as close as you can to the most honest interpretation of the truth, and there's deliberately avoiding inconvenient facts in order to preserve a worldview that you feel is now part of your identity. The latter can never, should never, be treated equally to the former. He's all doom and gloom because he's looking at the fucking truth. It's not even a Brexit rant this one, it's a statement about the utter ridiculousness of the Johnson/Cummings circus. None of which is wrong. It is shameful, beyond shameful in fact, that the UK has been reduced to these weasels.

Tbf to the lad, Asprilla comes across as a very sorted, content, zen type of chap

If the board was full of Tories he’d be telling us how terrible Johnson’s actions were and how well Labour are doing tbh