Election 2024

[Star of David Bardsley]

Otherwise @Archers Road I'm sure there will be a pub or eatery near you that will be showing it, buy a lemonde for yourself and a shandy for the Mrs it'll be sorted for the night.

I remember going in a boozer one year to watch the Champions League, and when I got in there **** knows what channel the tv was on but it wasn't the match warm up. So I went to the bar and said before I buy a drink you putting the game on, which they agreed they were just about to put it on.

I remember some guy I got chatting to during the game, decided to light a cigarette up, so that kicked off a bit with the bar manager and people - stupid part was the guy was only about half dozen steps from the door where he could smoke and still see the tv through the window. I had a polite word with him to calm things down.

Probably a nice afternoon for a drink or two followed by a 5pm game but I know every pub around here will have at least one gimp in an Arsenal shirt who thinks Perry Groves is an artisan cider shrieking hysterically having been a diehard supporter since the beginning of the month.

 

[Archers Road]

You watch it on TV if it has the app for HBO Max, which is the same for TNT or what use to be BT Sport. So however you are watching those last two (if you do) it's the same.

If you don't have the app you can Chromecast it to your tv from your phone if you have the device that allows that to happen.

Like with all sports events these days, you do need a reasonably decent broadband connection. NOW TV works fire for me btw, but that's not what I'm using for the European finals.

Edit: Chromecast is not counted as a device in your two devices, your phone would be and it leaves one other device for a family member etc. To make that a bit clearer, when you Chromecast, that device, the phone and TV all count as one device, as it requires all three to work.

Great. So all I need is a Flux Capacitor, a 80s DeLorian, and some Dilithium Crystals from the Starship Enterprise? Thanks for that.

 

[Archers Road]

Otherwise @Archers Road I'm sure there will be a pub or eatery near you that will be showing it, buy a lemonde for yourself and a shandy for the Mrs it'll be sorted for the night.

I remember going in a boozer one year to watch the Champions League, and when I got in there **** knows what channel the tv was on but it wasn't the match warm up. So I went to the bar and said before I buy a drink you putting the game on, which they agreed they were just about to put it on.

I remember some guy I got chatting to during the game, decided to light a cigarette up, so that kicked off a bit with the bar manager and people - stupid part was the guy was only about half dozen steps from the door where he could smoke and still see the tv through the window. I had a polite word with him to calm things down.

Yeah, will be watching it a North London boozer, inevitably surrounded by annoying Gooners.

Maybe I’ll get the bus to N17 and watch it there…

 

[Archers Road]

Probably a nice afternoon for a drink or two followed by a 5pm game but I know every pub around here will have at least one gimp in an Arsenal shirt who thinks Perry Groves is an artisan cider shrieking hysterically having been a diehard supporter since the beginning of the month.

We all live in a Perry Groves world, A Perry Groves world, a Perry Groves world..

 

[brb]

Great. So all I need is a Flux Capacitor, a 80s DeLorian, and some Dilithium Crystals from the Starship Enterprise? Thanks for that.

No mate, you don't need none of that lol...I'm sure one of the boat people near you will happily let you watch their 50 inch TV all expenses paid Champions League game.

Yeah, will be watching it a North London boozer, inevitably surrounded by annoying Gooners.

Maybe I’ll get the bus to N17 and watch it there…

I forgot it's a 5pm kick off until Bwood said, so you'll even be home before dark mate.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Watching in a proper Spurs pub sounds a good win-win scenario. The country’s first women’s football pub and de facto lesbian pub is round the corner. Could give that a try.

 

[Gessa]

Thing was we use to keep the kids in school to further their education if they didn't have a job, however, we made further education unafforable for them, that would be the simplest solution for 16-18 year olds.

As for jobs for their age, we've destroyed the hospitality sector places constantly closing down.

We replaced the youngster on the tills with self check-outs, we replaced the kids in a picking warehouse with robots, Erith a good example of that where order picking now has been replaced by 2,300 bots.

Also Solid might know I don't think they are allowed to do voluntary work if claiming benefits.

It's always the get of jail card for politicians to blame the kids on benefits rather than what put them there. I'm sure most those kids would prefer working if given the right kind of support.

It will get worse for them when they bring the minimum wage for 18 year olds in line with everyone else, companies are going to employ a lets say a23 year old with a bit more experience than an 18 year old for the same wage. As you say the hospitality decline is having a big effect but also the NI changes last year did too, that had a massive impact on small businesses, many cutting their young staff numbers to keep their business going,

 

[Welshie]

Controversial opinion

I really like Reform UK Scotland...

They talk sense and they don't play along with any SNP bullshit

 

[brb]

So they are banging this political drum now that one million 16-24 year olds are now unemployed and not in education or training. Well you could stop kids leaving school at 16 unless they have a confirmed job to go to, well I thought that;s what we use to do, that would be a start. Although all it really does is massage the figures of the problem.

Then we've got AI on the way, what impact do they think that is going to have and are you going to do anything about it or like everything else today, you waited until automation took over then act surprised because kids and mums have had their jobs taken away, when education and training has become unaffordable for them at the same time.

They don't need beating up, they actually want you to do something about it. Keeping talking about it like a political weapon does not help. Future technology does not give kids opportunity, it just erodes their worth even more at a time when everyone is having to cut costs.

 

[PINKIE]

So they are banging this political drum now that one million 16-24 year olds are now unemployed and not in education or training. Well you could stop kids leaving school at 16 unless they have a confirmed job to go to, well I thought that;s what we use to do, that would be a start. Although all it really does is massage the figures of the problem.

Then we've got AI on the way, what impact do they think that is going to have and are you going to do anything about it or like everything else today, you waited until automation took over then act surprised because kids and mums have had their jobs taken away, when education and training has become unaffordable for them at the same time.

They don't need beating up, they actually want you to do something about it. Keeping talking about it like a political weapon does not help. Future technology does not give kids opportunity, it just erodes their worth even more at a time when everyone is having to cut costs.

Yep, I hate the way the media portray young people as lazy, lacking ambition, directionless etc.

They've never had it harder imo

**** wages, massive rent, cost of living sky high, jobs being replaced by AI

And the cost of going to University !!! Who wants to be saddled with a £100k debt before you've even started out.

I don't know what the answer is tbh. I've carved a business out for myself that my daughter could take over if she wanted at some point, so I suppose that's some kind of opportunity there for her, if she wants it.

 

[Solid Air]

Yep, I hate the way the media portray young people as lazy, lacking ambition, directionless etc.

They've never had it harder imo

**** wages, massive rent, cost of living sky high, jobs being replaced by AI

And the cost of going to University !!! Who wants to be saddled with a £100k debt before you've even started out.

I don't know what the answer is tbh. I've carved a business out for myself that my daughter could take over if she wanted at some point, so I suppose that's some kind of opportunity there for her, if she wants it.

well the expansion of 18 year olds going to university has and still is a disastrous policy for both them and the country . Sooner we stop financing so many the better as all we are doing is wasting 3 years of their lives to get a degree which often means very little while leaving future generations to pick up the tab as a large percentage of students will never repay their debt .

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

They’ve made it ridiculously expensive to hire someone for an entry-level job who isn’t going to be worth the money they’re being paid for a period time.

They could subsidise that by reducing/removing employer NI up to a certain age or subsidising a wage for a year or something if they aren’t going to reduce the minimum wage which they never will.

 

[brb]

They’ve made it ridiculously expensive to hire someone for an entry-level job who isn’t going to be worth the money they’re being paid for a period time.

They could subsidise that by reducing/removing employer NI up to a certain age or subsidising a wage for a year or something if they aren’t going to reduce the minimum wage which they never will.

I like the NI idea for a year or two, up to a certain age (16-18) or if someone slightly older (up to 24) has been out of work for a period of time.

 

[pieguts]

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Farage collected £5m for this to happen!!!

 

[brb]

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Farage collected £5m for this to happen!!!

****ing yes!

Although Broadstairs and Margate didn't look much more attractive, people were either hell bent on causing trouble or it was find a space on the beach if you can.

Even the hundreds of biker rode to the Gallery because it was probably less complicated.

We really have got more than our fair share of dickheads in this country, with all the dinghies you'd think we could cast a few of them off. Alcohol and Tiktok mostly involved again.

Sometimes it's quite nice not to join the rat race and just observe from a distance.

 

[FosseFilberto]

well the expansion of 18 year olds going to university has and still is a disastrous policy for both them and the country . Sooner we stop financing so many the better as all we are doing is wasting 3 years of their lives to get a degree which often means very little while leaving future generations to pick up the tab as a large percentage of students will never repay their debt .

You complete bastard ... my PhD in Media Studies has directly contributed to global cooling, 3 donkey sanctuaries and clean water for those unfortunate enough to live in, and around, Coventry ...

Some people!

 

[Archers Road]

When I left school, loads of my mates got apprenticeships. A chance to learn a trade, which quickly became obsolete, but there you go

 

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[Makemstine Roger]

poisoned evil dwarf she is

 

[Citizen Kane.]

The state of this.

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