Stuart Shrugged 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@A1an_M I was only joking…

The first cut is the deepest.

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Does anyone who grew up before social media still remember their parents’ landline number??

@DorsetGirl1 @VisionaryVoid … or they get a scholarship or an exhibition. In the good old days there were assisted places based on 11+ results. It’s not the same.

@StuartShrugged @VisionaryVoid Tbf it's similar to the reason our public schools are so named. Because ANYone can go there - providing they have the money.

The Man Who Went Shopping For Dining Chairs and Accidentally Bought Stonehenge. On September 21, 1915, a British barrister named Cecil Chubb was given a very simple task by his wife, Mary. She sent him to a local auction in Salisbury with strict instructions: buy a nice set of dining chairs for their home. But as Chubb sat in the auction house, he got distracted. "Lot 15" came up for sale, a 30-acre plot of land featuring a crumbling, dilapidated ring of ancient rocks. The bidding was incredibly sluggish, and on a complete whim, Chubb raised his hand. When the gavel fell, he had just purchased Stonehenge for £6,600 (roughly $800,000 today). He proudly presented the 5,000-year-old megalithic wonder to his wife as a surprise "birthday present." Mary was absolutely furious. She didn't want a pile of ancient rocks; she wanted her dining chairs. Three years later, tired of his wife’s complaints and realizing the immense historical weight of his impulse purchase, Chubb donated the entire monument to the British government. He attached one strict condition: the public must always have access to it. Today, it stands protected forever, all because a husband couldn't stick to a shopping list.

In Autumn 2022 even though the Bank of England announced the sale of £40bn gilts and kicked off the LDI crisis - the rates still weren't as high as this. Where are Britain's "financial journalists" now?

🇦🇺🇬🇷🧠 Ange Postecoglou was a UEFA Technical Observer in the Man City vs Real Madrid match... 👀 "City trying to be the protagonist and Real being prepared to just wait for their moment, with Vinícius always their outlet. It meant City had to be really precise in everything they did because with any lapse of concentration or technical error, the threat going the other way was enormous." "There was an arm wrestle in the first 18 minutes of contrasting styles. Valverde's early chance? That was an insight into what Madrid were looking for as a team. It's obviously something that they were aware of, in terms of making runs from deep. Vinícius gets the ball and Valverde goes before he's even had a look up." "Vinicius' directness when breaking the defensive lines makes him a constant threat – his first touch and arc of run invariably mean he takes the shortest route to goal."

@j_fishback Sometimes, it isn’t about money, it’s about morals.

Would you rather spend $200 billion to bomb Iran or…? A: give every teacher in America a $62,500 bonus B: provide downpayment assistance for 20 million young families C: build 1,300 rural hospitals

@NoToDigitalID Me too!

I’m up for a class action.

Wilberforce got the statue. This man got the mud. Thirty-five thousand miles of it. His name was Thomas Clarkson. Born in England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cambridgeshire. 1760. He was twenty-four years old when Cambridge set him an essay question. "Is it lawful to make slaves of others against their will?" He knew nothing about slavery. So he started reading. Two months later he couldn't stop. He won the prize and rode home to London with something nobody had given him. A conscience he couldn't put down. Halfway there, on a quiet country road, he stopped his horse. Sat in the silence of the English countryside. The trade was real. He had just proved it. And somebody had to stop it. So he gave up the church and got to work. Bristol. Liverpool. Every slave port in Britain. Into the taverns, the back rooms, the ships. Asking sailors what they had seen below decks. Men who had been there. Who knew what happened on the Middle Passage. Some refused. Some were threatened. Some were bought. Clarkson kept riding. Thirty-five thousand miles. Ten years. Every testimony written down in longhand on the road. All of it handed to a young MP named William Wilberforce. Wilberforce went to Parliament and gave the speeches. Clarkson saddled up and went back out. In 1792 they put a petition together. Not from London. Not from the powerful. From ordinary men and women. Market towns, village squares, chapel steps across England. Four hundred thousand signatures. The largest petition in British parliamentary history. Parliament voted it down. So they went again. And again. Eighteen years of going again. 25 March 1807. The Slave Trade Act passed. Britain outlawed the trade and turned the Royal Navy loose to hunt the ships. History gave Wilberforce the statue. Coleridge called Clarkson the moral steam engine of the abolition movement. Clarkson lived to see slavery abolished completely in 1833. An old man of seventy-three, who had started this at twenty-four. He died in 1846. The last surviving founder of the original committee. He never held office. Never gave the famous speeches. He just got back on the horse. For sixty years. Did they teach you his name? Together we keep our history alive. proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

@lfg_uk @NaturalEngland

Is this acceptable? Since 1990, Spain has built nearly 7,000 miles of motorway. So ... what about the UK? We have built 422 miles of motorway in 35 years. 35 years – 422 miles. Thats only twelve miles every year. Why have we stopped building?

"So you want the UK to join the EU?" "Yes" "So you want to give up the Pound and accept the Euro" "No" "So you want to join the Schengen area and allow completely open borders" "No" "So you want to be part of the EU Migration Pact, another 100k illegal migrants to the UK a year" "No" "So you want to re-introduce the testing of cosmetics onto animals, required by EU law" "No" "So you want to re-introduce live exports of animals for fattening or slaughter" "No" "So you want to give control of UK fishing waters and quotas back to the EU" "No" "So you want to reverse the protections of UK marine birds like puffins, who were endangered due to EU overfishing of the main food source" "No" "So you want to give up the better trade relationship the UK now has with the USA, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Singapore, and countless other countries" "No" "Well it sounds like you don't want to join the EU then"

And there you have it. Appeasement only works until they have enough power to attack the appeasers. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Muscles are being flexed now in many places; waters are being tested; and democratic weaknesses are being exposed as Western peoples begin to realise what treachery they have been subjected to by their own politicians. Australia is not immune to any of this, although I suggest that it is some years behind Europe, including the UK which awaits the next pandering move and capitulation by its weak, pathetic PM and government. Western democracies need to fully wake up or so many of them will simply cease to exist.

@Sean2562 @blaiklockBP It was a loose reference to The Hitchhikers Guide...

@StuartShrugged @blaiklockBP No, not infinitely improbable because there are a finite amount of combinations so the probability is tiny just not 0

Booking . com booked over 1 billion nights in 2024 but manages to have a simple 8-digit number for each booking. What idiot of a lazy civil servant designed the booking numbers for the NHS? How is someone old or on the phone or with an accent ever supposed to tell anyone else this mess of a number?

This is completely incorrect. The photograph is not AI generated, it is a holiday snap of Nigel J. Whiskerford, giant-hamster-at-law, taken by his wife, Nigelina.

@Sean2562 @blaiklockBP Infinitely improbable 👍🏼

@StuartShrugged @blaiklockBP Duplicates can exist but are very very rare, like winning the lottery x times, being attacked by a shark and struck by lightning in the same day. Not impossible just improbable.

@worstall Blocks his account. Enuf said.

Oh, well, that settles it then. Regional newsreader gives opinion upon economic policy and that's it. Pfft, who needs economists, right?

‼️BROKEN BRITAIN‼️ Hands off our loved ones David Lammy! David's Lammys law commission has decided to change the law to "repurpose graves" This is an unacceptable, ethically appalling and deeply offensive attack on our beliefs and heritage. We now have tiered death where only rich can afford proper burial which will now mean only private burial will be safe (perhaps). Its utterly appalling we are in this position. I fear only Christians will be at risk here. Again. Quote: "Our recommendations respond directly to contemporary challenges, including the shortage of burial space, the complexities created by Victorian-era legislation, and the need to recognise the diverse religious and cultural practices in modern Britain." Full story below 👇 share.google/rzcAQZWGOKdSBM…

@v3rsv0yddrr @DHuskytron Hey, I’m a boomer parent! 🤣

@DHuskytron everybody grab your boomer parents by the collar & give them that talk, right now!

Remember fake log in pop up pages that were meant to steal your passwords? Well, get ready for the same thing asking for your ID and face picture! This "age verification" scam gives them the ability to do it.

Andrew Gold rips Cenk Uygur into shreds, calling him out on bringing up Israel no matter what the topic is. “Can you address grooming gangs without mentioning Israel?”