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Reply | Glastonbury
at 09:45 27 Jun 2025
I class myself as quite the "muso" and I won't have a bad word said about Rick and the boys.
Saw them late last year at Norwich UEA and they played one hell of a show.
Instant Pleasures album from 2017 is a wonderful album. |
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Reply | U21's Player that has looked decent
at 14:19 26 Jun 2025
Gutted by this news as the pronunciation of his surname fits in superbly with the Joe Dolce classic "Shud Uppa Your Face" and would've worked nicely as a top tier Portman Rd Terrace song. |
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Reply | Dentist recommendation.
at 08:54 25 Jun 2025
Can't recommend this chap highly enough - he's blooming ace.
https://whiteenamel.me.uk/
Not that far into Ipswich from Hadleigh and he's got a fantastic "bedside manner".
Replaced a couple of crowns, sorted a bridge and even did a gum stitching repair to make good a previous repair. |
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Reply | Cricket
at 15:27 23 Jun 2025
I was factoring in the rain forecast tomorrow - 400 without interruption would be the aim, agreed. |
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Reply | Cricket
at 15:23 23 Jun 2025
Declaration and asking England to chase down circa 350 would be my guess. |
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Thread | Dan Hannan Day tomorrow then
at 15:09 23 Jun 2025
It just gets better with each read.
What Britain looks like after Brexit
Daniel Hannan
Jun 21, 2016
It’s 24 June, 2025, and Britain is marking its annual Independence Day celebration. As the fireworks stream through the summer sky, still not quite dark, we wonder why it took us so long to leave. The years that followed the 2016 referendum didn’t just reinvigorate our economy, our democracy and our liberty. They improved relations with our neighbours.
The United Kingdom is now the region’s foremost knowledge-based economy. We lead the world in biotech, law, education, the audio-visual sector, financial services and software. New industries, from 3D printing to driverless cars, have sprung up around the country. Older industries, too, have revived as energy prices have fallen back to global levels: steel, cement, paper, plastics and ceramics producers have become competitive again.
The last thing most EU leaders wanted, once the shock had worn off, was a protracted argument with the United Kingdom which, on the day it left, became their single biggest market. Terms were agreed easily enough. Britain withdrew from the EU’s political structures and institutions, but kept its tariff-free arrangements in place. The rights of EU nationals living in the UK were confirmed, and various reciprocal deals on healthcare and the like remained. For the sake of administrative convenience, Brexit took effect formally on 1 July 2019, to coincide with the mandates of a new European Parliament and Commission.
Financial services are booming – not only in London, but in Birmingham, Leeds and Edinburgh too. Eurocrats had never much liked the City, which they regarded as parasitical. Before Brexit, they targeted London with regulations that were not simply harmful but, in some cases, downright malicious: the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, the ban on short selling, the Financial Transactions Tax, the restrictions on insurance. After Britain left, the EU’s regulations became even more heavy-handed, driving more exiles from Paris, Frankfurt and Milan. No other European city could hope to compete: their high rates of personal and corporate taxation, restrictive employment practices and lack of support services left London unchallenged.
Other cities, too, have boomed, not least Liverpool and Glasgow, which had found themselves on the wrong side of the country when the EEC’s Common External Tariff was phased in in the 1970s.
Shale oil and gas came on tap, almost providentially, just as the North Sea reserves were depleting, with most of the infrastructure already in place. Outside the EU, we have been able to augment this bonanza by buying cheap Chinese solar panels. In consequence, our fuel bills have tumbled, boosting productivity, increasing household incomes and stimulating the entire economy.
During the first 12 months after the vote, Britain confirmed with the various countries that have trade deals with the EU that the same deals would continue. It also used that time to agree much more liberal terms with those states which had run up against EU protectionism, including India, China and Australia. These new treaties came into effect shortly after independence. Britain, like the EFTA countries, now combines global free trade with full participation in EU markets.
Our universities are flourishing, taking the world’s brightest students and, where appropriate, charging accordingly. Their revenues, in consequence, are rising, while they continue to collaborate with research centres in Europe and around the world.
Unsurprisingly, several other European countries have opted to copy Britain’s deal with the EU, based as it is upon a common market rather than a common government. Some of these countries were drawn from EFTA (Norway, Switzerland and Iceland are all bringing their arrangements into line with ours). Some came from further afield (Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine). Some followed us out of the EU (Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands).
The United Kingdom now leads a 22-state bloc that forms a free trade area with the EU, but remains outside its political structures. For their part, the EU 24 have continued to push ahead with economic, military and political amalgamation. They now have a common police force and army, a pan-European income tax and a harmonised system of social security. These developments have prompted referendums in three other EU states on whether to copy Britain. |
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Reply | Orwell Bridge down to 40mph in the variable zone....
at 10:44 19 Jun 2025
That's where I came onto the A14 on Tuesday night and it was 60mph towards Felixstowe at 5:30pm - the variable sign was def 60 at the bridge start.
On the way back, (7:15ish) the 40mph sign was in place on the other side at the bridge start. |
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Thread | Re-watching The Sopranos (again) - favourite characters
at 09:57 19 Jun 2025
Uncle Junior
Paulie Walnuts
Tony Sopranos
Anthony Soprano
Richie Aprile
AND, Long Term Parking is the best ever episode.
Pine Barrens is a whimsical, comedic offshoot and doesn't deserve the best episode tag. |
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Reply | Orwell Bridge down to 40mph in the variable zone....
at 09:41 19 Jun 2025
I don't think the sign is missable really, so I'd work on the basis that it wasn't 40mph when you crossed.
If you're heading towards Wherstead, the 40mph sign is just as you hit the bridge and the traffic slows anyways. Reckon you're fine. |
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Reply | Pre-Season Fixtures 2025/26
at 12:29 12 Jun 2025
Out of interest, anyone doing the Austria friendly?
I can't make it this year but couldn't get the logistics to work to avoid stupidly long train journeys from airports or a couple of days in a car when I seriously looked into it last year.
Just interested if anyone had found a decent route in/out, really. |
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Reply | There are a few on here who could apply
at 10:08 12 Jun 2025
In my youth coaching days, I got the nod from someone high up at Suffolk FA to apply for a role at NCFC delivering some training sessions to schools/spreading the NCFC word/handing out freebies etc
Thought I'd take a look at the online application form for it, which was extensive before dismissing it completely when I scrolled down to the salary bit, which was minimum wage levels but sold as a "foot in the door"..
Thanks but no thanks. |
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Reply | European train travel
at 11:03 9 Jun 2025
Yep, I did it a few years back and it was relatively simple and reasonably inexpensive and can be booked c/o Trainline, so you can add your railcard to your booking for discounts.
Journey time to Naples is circa 2.5hrs by train and then you can pick up a hop-on/hop-off bus to Pompeii (there might well be a nearer stop to Pompeii en-route but we were staying in Sorrento, so Naples was the easiest station for us).
We had a two/three nights in Rome, got the train to Naples and then had a few nights in Sorrento before getting a return train for a flight home from Rome. |
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Reply | Wouter Burger
at 15:39 3 Jun 2025
Does he sport a man bun? |
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