Raja Clavata

Interesting perspective.

Cheers chaps and yes islandgun all mirrors from the same venue. Oh, as of 01:30 Saturday morning seven became eight 🙂 Been after this for a while…

Honest mistake Guv, lousy predictive text and an easily distracted mind 😉

I've seen various posts on the Ukraine conflict thread recently that clearly below in the jokes section.

There appears to be at least one person who doesn't understand that everyone understands that Russia is a mafia state...

Well I guess I’m currently obsessed. 63 carp since May 14th, here’s pics of the biggest, my magnificent seven (all over 30lbs). Back out tomorrow night 🤞 Anyone else?

I'm with Vodafone on pay monthly. France, Germany, Spain & Portugal at least are on their Euro Zone B group so there is not extra cost up to 25GB data allowance - calls and texts are covered. Not sure when this ends. Based on what you describe, I believe your assumptions are correct.

+1

It didn't all start with an invasion.

Great, looking forward to it 👍

Yep.

The site owner was a pretty chill guy, the rules were pretty clear and as mods we tried to uphold the values of the owner whilst acting within the bounds of the rules. In the majority of cases, us mods were wanting to zap people, no pun intended, but the owner was a bit more easy going - plus there was the issue of repeat offenders getting banned and returning. We ended up blocking IP addresses in some cases. I think there is a trade-off between poster bans and post removal. Unless the owner / mod team are a bunch of nut jobs, which I doubt is the case, then I suspect what you are experiencing is the result of some bad behaviour from posters in the past.

Saudi Arabia, good luck to them but it's a no from me...

I used to be a moderator on a barbel fishing website - not sure what you're asking specifically though?

I was reluctant to post this, but anyway, not crying over Brexit but simply asking - were we lied to or have the current government messed up? https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-immigration-conservative-mp-neil-o-brien-london-b1018568.html

Not good, fingers crossed.

Big concern for me right now. One of my syndicates is well managed on the oxygenation front, well all fronts really, the other is pretty much left to its own devices (64 members and I was the only one on there overnight).

Costco is the cheapest price around here by some margin. Reasonable queues though, understandably.

Spot on.

Ironic on several fronts. I don't think Germany has the monopoly on recession.

Just coming back to this after a busy weekend and another work trip. Err, OK Sorry, but that's rubbish, there was no such clause / condition. By the law of averages, Trump had to get something right during his term. I'm not denying he was right on the energy independence issue, but that was blindingly obvious. I'm questioning why, on balance, anyone need apologise to him on the point. Again, sorry, but it's nothing like the Police brutality topic, really random point. Kinda lost on the link between Trump and Remain too, but never mind.

OK but as I have suggested earlier, things need to be kept in balance. Workforce shortages leads to higher salaries which leads to higher prices which leads to higher inflation. I suspect inflation has outpaced salary increases for the majority of people, little, medium or large. Personally my salary went up 8% since last year but I'm definitely no better off, particularly given the tax increases and the implication the salary increase had on income tax thresholds.

1. Err, you yourself compared UK to EU. 2. You just contradicted yourself. 3. We were never shackled to a centralised Euro currency. 4. We left the EU to take back control and chart our own destiny - it was purported to be some kind of path to utopia, it clearly isn't - at least yet, but I do hope that changes. I agree you can't compare UK to Poland but I started the point on year on year growth based on the UK and comparison to other G7 nations. 5. Clearly a different one to you 😉 https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/economicoutputandproductivity/productivitymeasures/bulletins/internationalcomparisonsofproductivityfinalestimates/2020 6. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the frankly odious admiration of Trump but I guess it should come as no surprise as he's cut from the same cloth as Johnson, whom you seem to adore.

Apologies for the late retort, was on a biz trip to Paris 😛 I didn't miss that point. You appear to be, somewhat conveniently, overlooking the fact that based on those figures - from 2017 to 2023 (projected) - overall EU growth is 11.3% vs 8% for UK!? Also that the %age dip in 2020 for UK was nearly twice that of the EU - what might the reason(s) for that be? The point is that the situation on employment, I agree it's good by the way, is skewed by the workforce exodus as a result of Brexit, which isn't so good for those who are trying to resource businesses and drive growth. UK average earnings growth compared to other countries, year on year. Eh!? There appears to be a correlation between lower hours worked and greater productivity. The key point though is that the UK is significantly behind France and Germany. Nothing to do with moving to Ireland... That was a reply to another post from another contributor, do try to keep up...

Everything like - examples please? We have left, at the very least I was expecting the brave souls who voted for it would at least own the issues it has caused. But no, it's always somebody else's fault... If you voted for it, then at least be man enough to own the consequences of it. When!?