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I just went to the sauna for a cool down.

There's a target market for sure. So many people are sold on them, and they seem to take a "let's just give them a go" attitude. By all means do that with a takeaway or something, but not a government. As for seeing Farage (or Lowe) as the saviour of the average man. The mind boggles.

Spot on, and extra points for the last sentence.

Self

I thought it was a cracking game.

Yep. Really boring game. That said, Norway/Brazil, us/Mexico, are hard acts to follow.

I loved that. Great game, the Norwegians were brilliant. Their keeper was something else, and Haaland is a special player.

How many more unnecessary mins?

That's ridiculous. Game should be over.

Game. Set. Fucking lovely.

What a shit pen.

I don't like Haddock, Cod has a milder flavour. I've never seen a chippy with Coley, Pollock or other white fish, but wouldn't be against that. It's the £4 for a regular chips that's more offensive than the fish prices for me.

Good man. I hope you went heavy on the paper and got vfm.

I'm with you. We popped out last night, just us 2. Diego's, basically an indy version of Nandos in Bedford Place. 2 mains, nothing fancy, 1 side order of prawns (from the starters), 1 bottle of water for me, couple of ciders for my wife. No starters, desserts or nibbles on the table. With service, £90. In fairness, it was good for what it was, service and atmosphere were great, but for a single course meal, only 1 person having a couple of cheap drinks, almost a ton spent. Pleasingly they were busy in there, but many places weren't. Not long ago we'd have got a really good meal for that.

I'm an unashamed tight sod and take snacks and a drink with me. I'm not paying cinema prices. The cinema ticket is usually a freebie from the bank as well.

I find Indian is the best value. A tandoori chicken shashlik, with salad, yoghurt sauce, and fresh naan or rice is cheaper than fish and chips. Just nuts. Coffee is crazy. We had 2 iced latte's at an independent in Stockbridge yesterday. They cost me £10.80. No syrup or any of that, just coffee/cold milk/ice in a cup. For contrast, we were paying less than €6.00 for the same in Belgium last month, and Belgium isn't cheap.

That's cheap. That's £35 round here, and the Millbrook Chippy... Millbrook...will charge £35.50 for that order BEFORE you get to the kids fish and chips. Mental money for spuds and a bit of fish.

I don't think anyone has made that point. What's been said is that economic input has suggested that our GDP has dropped 6% re Brexit. I'm no better or worse placed than you to challenge that with any credibility, but it feels a bit odd that your best argument for debunking that is to make some kind of link to Germany's performance.

Are you saying that Brexit has or hasn't reduced our GDP?

Or anywhere. Properly annoying at a gig.

Agreed. On any assessment, we have minimal negotiating power alone in comparison to the EU. From the outset, we were weaker.

Yep, although I don't agree re the Judiciary. Recruitment is very difficult - a life at the bar, or solicitor partnership, makes a judicial salary of limited appeal. That means they often attract folk only capable of earning at a lower level, usually crap or young, or those who've done their time, banked a few quid, and want an easier life. Those people are normally less than youthful, and when appointed, will stick around for a while to accrue some pension. Give me experience on the bench every time. Sure, mistakes happen, but thankfully that's usually at a lower level and can be rectifiable.

I think both are true. Brexit has undoubtedly robbed us of trade and caused other issues. I also don't see that the opportunity was there to gain as you imply - what opportunities were lost by poor political decisions? However, it's also the case that we have regressed in many ways for non Brexit related reasons.

Agreed. Disgraceful crime, and an appalling sentence at first instance. On appeal it could have been much higher - those were 15 years ISH offences for adults, more if there was concurrent sentence for the 2 offences - so even with the 2/3 to 1/2 deduction for child perpetrators (ridiculously high imo), 4 years is still too light imo.

Nice to see that those lads who were given a slap on the wrists for those rapes of the two girls have been given custodial sentences on appeal. Horrible little bastards.