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@SimpGanassi
Economist. YIMBY. Trade Unionist. Giant bath enjoyer. Tweets mostly policy, F1, shitposts, cool data & Mushroom the cat
- Did they… did they add three decimal places to make £5k look like £5.2 million?
- 75 year olds today were born in 1949, they were teenagers in the 60s and the only war they’d have fought in would be the Falklands, if they’d chosen to enlist. Our perception of pensioners as Vera Lynn singing D-Day veterans is 20 years out of date
- What if, and hear me out here, we invented some sort of token that I could use to exchange for my carrots and then any other food I wanted, so I wasn’t limited to swapping just with people who want carrotsI think about this often
- Harry Hill’s TV Burp was 10/10 entertainment. Basically half an hour of memes we all collectively watched each week
- All the Outnumbered kids (including Jake who’s an IT consultant and a father) are renting, bit of a step down from the four bed Chiswick end terrace their parents could afford, I appreciated that bit of realism
- Want an ordinary middle class three bedroom house in south east London? That’ll be nine hundred thousand pounds please
- We have these at literally every station in London
- This ordinary suburban London 3 bed house in Zone 4 metroland was built in the 1930s for ordinary middle class families. Today it costs almost a million pounds and you’d need to be in the top 0.5% of earners to be able to buy it on a mortgage
- Very nice of the snow to respect the boundaries of the former Austro-Hungarian EmpireEurope hasn't seen a snow cover like this since 2010—60% is blanketed in white! ❄️
- For people who like to harp on about how they can’t take a single day off they sure seem to take a lot of days offNEW Some uninvited guests have just gatecrashed the Chancellor's big growth event
