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Cake day: December 22nd, 2023

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  • They likely believe they’re doing all this in God’s name even though it is entirely against the actual teachings of Jesus.

    He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

    Luke 14:12-14




  • What this article is failing to mention is these new sentencing guidelines apply to people who have caused an accident through their careless driving.

    I drive a commercial vehicle for work and while it would be a lie to say I’ve never been distracted behind the wheel (everyone is to varying degrees) but I see potentially serious accidents almost occur daily. From people cutting blind corners, driving in the middle of the road, phone in front of their face, phone glued to their ear, not looking or indicating at junctions and roundabouts.

    Theres an epidemic of bad driving and we need more of this sort of low level punishment to make people think before they take that call or queue up a new song on Spotify.


  • Median house price in France is €160,000 and in the UK it’s £297,000 ~ €350,000

    Median salary in France is €23,280 and in the UK it’s £37,400 ~ €43,000

    A house in France costs, on average, 6.87 times the average annual salary and in the UK it costs 8.14 times.

    Caveat: all these numbers come from 2 minutes of googling figures so I do not vouch for their accuracy. This also doesn’t take into account the rental market or the availability of social housing just owner-occupier purchase price.




  • Montserrat in the Caribbean. Visited multiple times as a kid after the volcano as I had family working there in regeneration projects. Beautiful place, beautiful people, wouldove to see it again as an adult and see how it’s changed now.

    We went on a highly illegal and potentially dangerous trip (if the volcano went off again, by the time we heard it, it would be too late to escape) to see the old airport from where you can see directly up the volcano and the path the pyroclastic flow took and covered the terminal building which was half buried in the dust.

    There were wild horses roaming and nature was already starting to reclaim the place so the intervening 30 years probably have accelerated that and I’d love to see it.




  • With the recent lurch to the right in this country, Labour sees becoming the conservatives as the key to election success, hence this current government essentially becoming David Camerons government. The tories have become reform and most bizzarely of all, with the exception of immigration, reform have pivoted so far round as to essentially have the same policy platform as the green party as a way to differentiate themselves from Badenoch and the tories.

    Cutting winter fuel and cutting welfare and increasing defence spending and now cutting foreign NHS staff are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to new tory Labour policy.