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Reply | YESSSSSSSSSS (n/t)
at 20:21 12 Apr 2024
Was just about to post, only a matter of time for the first goal.
Blimey!!! |
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Reply | Favourite Suffolk spot
at 18:28 12 Apr 2024
My dad used to have a little boat there, we’d sail up to Butley Creek and other places. Used to swim at Iken, there was a cliff with a great rope swing and a kind of beach there when I was a kid.
Born in Blaxhall, so love all that area - Snape Maltings a bit too popular now but it’s all stunning.
The coast from Southwold down to Felixstowe - so many childhood memories and the best fish and chips. |
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Reply | Tesco £2.3BILLION Profit
at 10:42 10 Apr 2024
On a personal note it does feel a bit sour.
In lock down Rishi Sunak said he’d do anything it takes for the hospitality industry. There were even
mentions of the obvious increased tax burden being loaded onto those businesses benefitting from the lockdowns - supermarkets and online. This never happened.
Our industry is being absolutely decimated, the highest duty raise in 50 years (so well masked by the freezing of the duty on the pint of beer that a number of my customers were confused that we weren’t putting beer prices down.) Increase in minimum wage, whilst I’m all for as a small business with margins shredded by 30% supplier price rises, paying energy bills more than we pay ourselves as owners, the aforementioned duty increase, return of business rates I’m not sure where we fund the rise.
Suoermarket business rates equate to about 2.5p in the price of a pint, pubs it’s 23.5p. Supermarkets don’t pay VAT on food sales, pubs do, at 20%. This was all our industry were asking - to match that VAT, would have saved thousands of pubs and restaurants, now closing in bloodbath in the industry.
Yes it’s a massive business, so small margin of profit and yes there are other supermarkets. The issue is that’s what going to be left, bland mass produced packaged products in a soulless warehouse. Companies able to tell producers what they’ll charge for their product.
It’s not badly run pubs and restaurants closing now it’s people at the top of their game and it’s not because there isn’t customer demand it’s because costs have been driven up by huge energy companies also being allowed to make eye watering profits. There’s been no help, no wherever it takes - there’s clearly a benefit for some people for our industry to die. |
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Reply | Knudsen interview
at 20:59 5 Apr 2024
In the toilet too, practising his long wee in the urinals, apparently just a disappointing looping arc. |
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Reply | Jack Taylor
at 20:03 1 Apr 2024
McKenna made a big thing about the sub pre- match. Obviously history points to them contributing but that was another big impact. |
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Reply | Nooooooooyesssssssssssssss (n/t)
at 12:54 1 Apr 2024
22nd in the 6 game form table before this game.
Don’t want Norwich getting too cocky though, maybe a red card or two at the end. |
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Reply | Sky still at it..
at 18:48 31 Mar 2024
Someone left the Times sport in the pub from Saturday. It had a quarter page article for both Leicester and Leeds games, with a paragraph for Ipswich in the remainder of the Championship section. Happy to remain outsiders in the race in a lot of people’s eyes, despite being top. |
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Thread | Well done Lee Evans.
at 21:39 30 Mar 2024
Hope he gets a good run now, all the best to him.
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