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@DrLukeWright @WG_RumblePants He ain’t there for a start

@WG_RumblePants You can't identify the chucker?

None of them, to be honest, but I love the fact that one has come dressed as a wicket.

@127J_H Chris Harris will be out of retirement

Out to both Brook and Labuschagne in the space of six months. New Zealand will be lining up their most annoying domestic cricketer to add to the squad.

@ryanmcnairn Good. Hope you feel that sacred one day in your place of work Sure your act the same

Hearts player next to Shankland (cant tell who it is) quite clearly trying to stamp on a celtic fans phone after knocking it out his hand 😂

@weymarplanet Don’t need all rounder Our best team of my life of watching cricket … since about 1992. Didn’t have one and won away in aus and then in India Our obsession with balancing a team needs to stop after stokes

Based on the replies, Ben Stokes is basically locked into the XI because of his bowling, past glory, and the fact that there's no one to replace him yet. But looking ahead, who is likely to be England's long-term all-rounder and captain? I'm just curious to know some names.

@Oxygen18_ Sombody needs to starve you of your name

🚨🚨CRICKET RULES NEED TO BE CHANGED The lbw rule needs to be wiped from cricket. You're trying to hit the ball and you failed to connect the ball and it hit your pads and just because your legs are in front of the stumps, you're given out. What an awkward and non sense rule. This doesn't make any sense. I don't count this as a valid way of getting out.

@TheCharismaVoid @gcraven10 Nah 😂😂 just one I remember

@ajbear85 @gcraven10 I remember that yeah, but is "Mazda" still said in that context now?

The odd thing about this sitcom is that it was so popular in the day but seems to have had no lasting cultural impact. Nobody ever quotes from it or remembers any particular episodes, it just sank without trace.

@TheCharismaVoid @gcraven10 Mazda

@gcraven10 I’d (controversially?) put Men Behaving Badly in that bracket too.

@lostcause_z @GoatedAdel Not tell anybody 😂

@GoatedAdel Genuinely curious what do you suggest someone born in north London who’s supported man utd since they were young and is now 24 years old do? should they they stick to United or support a London team now lol I’m genuinely interested isn’t it too late to change at that age

Anyone that disagrees with this, would you take someone who is born and bred in the UK with no attachment to Spain supporting Real Madrid seriously? I'm gonna guess you wouldn't.

@Darloww_TH @itfcrg Only issue if sponsorship…. Nobody would sponsor without the European qualifying big boys

@itfcrg Wrong. It should be given to the winner of the Carabao Cup. Also, teams that qualify for Europe should be ineligible to play in the Carabao Cup. New winner every year for a domestic competition and a new team in Europe each year.

unpopular opinion: the english conference league spot should be given to the team that finishes 1st in the championship the season before

@Darloww_TH @itfcrg This is a cracker

@Georgeward_97 @NatJPeters Pretty retarded comment

@NatJPeters Conservative? You fuckin tit can’t be a bluenose if that’s the case

I'd like to thank everybody who voted for Big Nat on Thursday night. I can't wait to start my new job as Prime Minister on Monday morning. HARRY THEM BLUES

@Liam_J20 How about leave the house and don’t use your phone till you actually need to? Not constant scrolling bollocks. You’d be fine and still have battery when you got in from the night club

Clubs cant simultaneously enforce digital tickets, digital apps etc and not allow power banks. Fucking daft.

@_WokeNonsenseFC Everybody forgets Freiburg has a football team

I actually can’t believe one of Brentford, Bournemouth or Brighton are gonna be in the UCL Like imagine someone like Real Madrid rocking up to the Vitality Stadium that holds just 11k fans in a seaside town in Dorset 😭 Just doesn’t feel real

@jen_moxon Not a need you moron. Just a fun tipple

Totally agree with him. If you need alcohol before 11am you've a fucking problem and should go to your nearest AA meeting

@MattWalshBlog I jus think his life should be made a living hell

I am challenging any death penalty opponent — there are millions of them, allegedly — to step up to the plate right now and explain why this guy should not be executed. His guilt is established beyond any doubt whatsoever. His crime is utterly savage and heinous. Tell us why he doesn’t deserve to die. Go ahead.

@LevettRoblev1 @tonymc39 @ifellonithonest Or the are not providing the quality of labour that the owner believes is required but the employee believes they “need” to live

@tonymc39 @ifellonithonest If they can't live on their wages, then they're not being paid the true cost of the labour; is that not obvious? No; I advocate policy that corrects the market - by shifting responsibility for paying living wages from the taxpayer to the employer.

Am actually astounded that so many people have no idea about the costs involved running a small business and seem to think that adding further wage and NI costs to it will somehow make it more profitable.

@MikeJ_A Jumps of the wrong leg. Get that sorted she be great

Coached kids for years and I’ve got to say that Princess Charlotte has an excellent bowling action for a girl her age.

@CallumLyon They aren’t. That’s the point. Minimum wage was never meant to support sombody living on there own with all the things that people work hard for years to achieve it was meant to stop people being exploited and basically used as slave labour. Being paid min wage is good for some

How the fk are people working full time on minimum wage in the UK meant to actually survive alone? The maths just doesn't add up: Take home pay after tax, national insurance and pension contributions for a 37.5 hour work week (because let's face it, all these employers who really care about you don't pay you for your breaks so you're not getting a full 40 hours) is around £1700 You're lucky to rent anywhere nowadays under £800. Council Tax is now around £220 a month. Utilities are at least another £350. Then there's the weekly food shop, you're looking at a minimum of £70 a week. Just with the basics in this scenario you're left with £50 to last you the whole month. And that's without even adding transport or anything going wrong. Minimum.wage in the UK does not cover minimum living requirements. Something really needs to change. No wonder nobody wants to work anymore.

@HWTL_1881 @jenstevens736 @KernowDamo The youth who have not Trained or are in training.

@ajbear85 @jenstevens736 @KernowDamo When everyone trains and gets better jobs, who does all the jobs left behind?

The most revealing thing in this post is that the worker’s need to live never appears as a real business cost. VAT is real. Business rates are real. Energy bills are real. National Insurance is real. Rent is real. Beans, milk, cups, insurance, accountants, card fees, compliance, all real. But the person making the coffee needing enough money to pay rent, eat, heat their home, travel to work and not rely on state top-ups? Suddenly that is “silly socialism”. No. That is the cost of labour. If your business model depends on paying people less than they need to live, then the state is not attacking your business by demanding higher wages. The state is currently propping your business up by letting taxpayers subsidise the gap between what you pay and what your staff need to survive. That is the bit you cannot grasp, or do not want to grasp. You say businesses fail because they are unprofitable. Fine. Businesses do fail. But “I can only make a profit if my workers stay poor” is not a serious moral defence of a business. It is a confession. You say a cup of coffee has to absorb lots of costs. Yes. Welcome to business. But you are treating wages as the flexible bit that must always be squeezed so your business model survives. Nobody says, “If you can’t afford coffee beans, just get the taxpayer to provide the beans.” Nobody says, “If you can’t afford electricity, tell the staff to sit in the dark and call it prosperity.” But when the unaffordable item is the person being doing the work, suddenly everyone is supposed to become very mature and economically literate about poverty pay. You also get VAT badly muddled. VAT-registered businesses can generally reclaim VAT on goods and services bought for business use, and the VAT registration threshold is turnover above £90,000. So this line about 20% VAT and inputs not being claimable is not the killer argument you think it is. The bigger point is simpler. Workers do not get to tell landlords, supermarkets, energy firms and train companies that their boss has “compounding costs” so everyone must please wait quietly while they are paid less than a living wage. The worker’s bills have compounded too. Their rent has gone up. Their food has gone up. Their energy has gone up. Their council tax has gone up. Their travel has gone up. Funny how “proper economics” always discovers pressure when it lands on the owner, but turns into a lecture on realism when it lands on the staff. The Green proposal is £15 an hour by April 2027. The real Living Wage is already £13.45 across the UK and £14.80 in London, calculated on what people need to live, not what a struggling employer would prefer to pay. And even before that, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that a single working-age adult on the National Living Wage was nearly £7,000 short of the gross income needed for a minimum acceptable standard of living in 2025. So spare us the sob story that £15 is some wild Bolshevik fantasy. It is much closer to the actual cost of surviving than poverty pay dressed up as realism. You say jobs will disappear. That is always the threat. Every time wages rise, the same people emerge to announce that civilisation will collapse because a cleaner, waiter, carer or barista might be able to pay a bill without choosing which meal to skip. Yet the Low Pay Commission’s latest judgement was that recent National Living Wage increases have not had a significant negative impact on employment. That does not mean every business has no pressure. Of course small businesses are under pressure. Business rates need reform. Energy costs are brutal. Rents are often obscene. Big chains can absorb shocks that small independents cannot. But none of that proves workers should be the shock absorber. It proves the economy has been built so badly that the smallest businesses and the lowest-paid workers are set against each other while landlords, energy firms, banks and large corporations walk away with the margin. Your welfare argument is even worse. Universal Credit is explicitly available to people who are working but on low incomes, and as earnings rise, Universal Credit is tapered down. That means low wages and public spending are already linked. The taxpayer is already helping cover the living costs that low-pay employers do not meet. So when you ask “where does the money come from?”, one answer is: from the business that uses the labour. That is not extremist. That is basic decency. Profit is not ugly. Profit made by selling a product people want, paying suppliers properly, paying workers enough to live, and still having something left over is perfectly defensible. Profit made by underpaying staff and then expecting the public to top them up through benefits is not heroic enterprise. It is a business model leaning on the state while pretending to despise the state. And this “read a book” routine is always funny from people whose entire economic theory seems to be: owners must be protected from hardship, workers must be exposed to it, and taxpayers must quietly make up the difference while being lectured about socialism. A liveable wage is not a luxury add-on. It is the price of employing a human being. If a business cannot pay rent, it cannot use the building. If it cannot pay suppliers, it cannot use the stock. If it cannot pay energy bills, it cannot keep the lights on. And if it cannot pay workers enough to live, it should not expect applause for creating jobs that keep people poor.

@Cammy260 It’s very cringe and the lads will look back on it when a bit older a say “what we’re thinking “ and laugh. That’s it. It’s cringe. It’s not really hurting anybody other than there chances of getting the love back 😂