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Not to ignore the relevant points some people have made on other topics, I will probably return to them in due course, but I feel a burning need to address the events of yesterday. As a resident of Middlesbrough until recently and someone with the dubious distinction of having the place on my...

Perhaps it's a difference in attitudes from one person to the next, but I imagine seeing someone who deprived a person I love of their life (particularly if they did so in a horrible, violent way) deprived of their own would prove fairly satisfying and conclusive to me personally, and I suspect...

Boomers with paid off mortgages on houses they bought for tuppence ha'penny in 1970 and are now worth half a million quid absolutely deserve to have their winter fuel payments means tested in just the same way younger people aren't allowed benefits if they have more than 6k in the bank and have...

The mass of unelected civil servants who remain in place regardless of who is elected (including, in America, officials the President simply appoints and do not even have to be elected) plus the corporations and interests who support and influence elected officials via lobbying and campaign...

I've said before that despite all these dire warnings about him being a threat to his country and democracy the major thing which makes me believe Trump is in fact no threat at all to the establishment is the fact he still continues to breathe. Generally, if the powers that be decide you are a...

It's actually harder for me to bring to mind a single '80s anime I haven't enjoyed. Genuinely good or hilariously bad, you're usually guaranteed a good time either way.

Edition of Friday the 1st of March, 2024, in which Rishi feels the need to make an impromptu speech warning of the impending destruction of polite society and democracy, race wars in our streets, murdered politicians and ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes, coveting the highest of the...

I'm afraid I cannot say I have had a positive experience of WorldofBooks. Even if they do return your money easily, the fact their descriptions of the condition of their books were, in my experience, (and there's really no other way of putting this) outright lies put me off ordering from them...

So in these trying times MPs have voted for an extra £31m to protect vulnerable… MPs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68429902 Does the thought ever occur to them that maybe, just maybe, the reason they increasingly require such protection from harm is because they increasingly behave...

It'll happen eventually whether people like it or not. When in human history has the human cost of people's livelihoods ever been valued over cost cutting with technology? RIP to translators, but you're only going the way of those displaced by the power loom, the industrial robot, the automated...

Removed off topic discussion turns into an on-topic thread about anime and manga licensing That’s gotta be a first.

Congrats @Vashdaman I’m pretty bad at being sincere about such things due to my horrendous cynicism which has only plummeted since the first page of this thread 12 years ago, but if there’s anyone who deserves some happiness in this sphere after all the heartache of the past, you do. And I do...

It’s this. I bought the tin that came complete with all the volumes back in the day and they don’t have slipcases.

That’s it, isn’t it, that one word? The final nail in the Tory coffin. And what an incredible portmanteau it is.

If that’s the case then that’s definitely bad and there’s no way people should be having to pay these charges, but I can’t help but think that any customs regime that charges €22 to import something declared at a value of 1p is even worse. I remember when certain retailers who shall remain...

Baffling. I can’t claim to know all the ins and outs of UK export law (especially not since Brexit or as it applies to corporate entities) but I suspect the reason it was declared with a value of 1p is that it’s likely not possible to declare something as having zero value. Even if it’s being...

Wat. Why is something marked as being worth a penny incurring any import charges at all? Surely that’s well below the import tax threshold (isn’t it around €150 in most eurozone countries?) and I presume Belgium’s VAT rate isn’t 2239%. Even the dreaded handling fee in the UK only applies to...

Damn Grav, save some mail order brides for the rest of us.

Late to the party, but this would be my suggestion as well. I know if I've ever had a problem with delivery (RM once sent a parcel without tracking back to Japan because I didn't collect it, I didn't collect it because the postman never left a card to say they had attempted to deliver it) I have...

I mean, at least AL are capable of treating their delay issues with good humour.