The Kraken

I heard on the radio this morning, hotels around the country have already ratcheted their prices way way up for nights around the tour dates. Some international chain hotels in Cardiff and I believe Glasgow charging around £500 a night, the worst was Edinburgh Holiday Inn Express who are apparently charging £1299 for 2 nights.

First saw Oasis at Bournemouth, 5 days after what’s the story was released. Absolutely brilliant. I loved their earlier albums. Next saw them at City of Manchester Stadium quite a few years later. Loads of scrapping going off with pissed up dickheads in the crowd, just a terrible concert atmosphere with even Liam giving it verbals from the stage for them to pack it in. Def won’t bother with these, apparently Liam’s reviews for his latest concerts have been scathing. And as Noel said: “Timing is everything. Even if we were to come back now, it would be just like a heritage kind of thing. It could never be the same.”

I just hope Sue bought her keyring and I trust it really wound up as many people as she expected it would. Sue plays football. Drinks beer too. She doesn’t mention it very often though.

His missus has got a couple of good things about her. https://www.instagram.com/elliejenas/?hl=en-gb

That part I definitely agree with him. 100%. I’m probably a rare Saints fan who thinks he was good for us and the stick he took was massively unjustified for the player he was, for us, for other clubs, and for England. Other parts, he’s a fucking loon.

The ramblings of a mad man tbf.

😆 I don’t know. They taste of eggs! You can’t help what you don’t like.

Thats usually Christmas morning breakfast.

It sounds like the EU are open to it. The Tories rejected a blanket EU arrangement out of hand earlier this year, and Labour said they weren’t onboard with the idea either. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68848046

On the face it, this is a valid concern to raise. Where I’d question voting leave because of it is, how many people could point to actual individual EU laws passed that they have problems with? Otherwise it’s just a “it seems bad” feeling. Provide a list of EU laws that got through that are bad and got through solely because we didn’t have enough power to hold Brussels to account. Then it becomes a proper debate.

You poor man. Poached or scrambled eggs on toast is a banging breakfast, have that at least once a week.

That’s just a moronic response.

We have to consider the differing perceptions though. While I have demonstrated my contempt for loss of freedom of movement and quoted just one minor nature of my first hand experience , others may see it as a genuine Brexit benefit as it means that we’re not at the mercy of those foreigners coming over here ever summer and picking our strawberries. The fruit picking job market for UK nationals is at an all time high.

It’s not actually £7 a trip, it’s £7 for ETIAS which lasts for 3 years. But nonetheless it’s another Brexit benefit to add to the list. EES coming in this November.

I was reading the other day about how catered chalet ski holidays have demised so much since Brexit. Previously thousands of young adults did a ski season by working for a major tour operator. I myself did a couple of winter seasons, not in a chalet but definitely one of my better life experiences. These days most of the tour operators stipulate they’ll only employ EU passport holders. The working window is less than 6 months and the costs/risks to get visas sorted just doesn’t stack up. As such the catered chalet has become a rarity, and getting other jobs in the mountains has become much trickier. It was an industry dominated by Brit holiday makers but has become so much more difficult to staff it with Brit youngsters, so they’re recruiting from around Europe instead. Such a shame. The hope was always that a simple temporary visa scheme would be set up to replicate the previous arrangement but of course that didn’t happen.

Just use scan as you go ffs. Then you're all bagged up by the time you get to checkouts, just have to pay. Besides, the Sainos near me only ever has about 1 or 2 checkouts that are staffed and the queues for it are enough to put you off.

I know they're planning for a 'soft-launch' of this over 6 months from November, but I can only see it causing utter chaos at the borders. It's failed time and time again throughout the testing period and timescales have just gone back and back. Dover is going to be a lot of fun throughout the school holiday periods.

Ah well. It was a nice week off.

Man up you absolute snowflake. "Marxist unions" 🤣 what an absolute helmet.

He’s all but gone from what was going round today, left out of the squad in advance of a move away. Rumours he may go to Saudi ffs.

To be fair, you’ve built up a reputation for it. On another note, I don’t know who the ‘pundit’ was on telly but he was obviously from the north east and couldn’t hide his bias. It was a cringeworthy performance at times from someone who couldn’t even pretend at neutrality. No doubt that Chilean Ben had a spectacular tumble of the ‘headbutt’ but it was utterly stupid by the Newcastle defender. Said pundit was outraged, saying BBD had conned the ref, he’d conned VAR, and it was just staggering that common sense hadn’t prevailed. He then spent much of the second half praising the barcodes for being ‘clever’, taking time off the clock, going down to ease down a few seconds, and basically hat tipping some of the downright shittery that was going on.

1 shot on target, 1 goal. Sounds familiar.

I’m choosing to focus on everything up to the sending off. We looked controlled, got at Newcastle but kept it tight, looked like we could cause 5hem problems and snatch something. A really good first 30 minutes. I really didn’t like the change RM made at half time, I think it made us more limited and predictable. Will be interesting seeing us 11 v 11 against Forest. I found Newcastle underwhelming throughout but as I say, very encouraged by us for the first 30 all things considered. Still think we’re limited up top though.

At least once, yes, he was snapped in the clinic for one of them. And he’s still got a bald spot.