“oh you go to the gym? are you bulking or cutting?”
well I’m doing this third option which not a lot of fitness influencers talk about.
it’s called - wasting my fucking time.
it’s where you lift the same weights with no progress for 6-12 months, feel week some day or super strong another and just look the exact dame as you looked 3 years ago.
£35,000 a year in the UK in 2026 puts you in the lower class.
15 years ago it was a comfortable graduate salary that bought you a decent flat, a few holidays a year, a savings habit, and the realistic prospect of a house.
Today it gives you take-home of about £2,200 a month. Rent on a one-bed in any city worth living in starts at £1,200. Council tax £170. Energy and bills £300. Food £400. Travel £200. That's £2,270, before you've bought a single thing for pleasure.
You're behind on day one of every month.
The wage hasn't moved much in real terms in 15 years. The cost of everything around it has roughly doubled.
Every wage bracket has shifted up by one rung — the £35K that put you firmly in the middle class 15 years ago barely keeps you afloat now, and the salaries that used to count as struggling are quietly slipping into poverty.
The official conversation hasn't caught up.
Anyone calling this an 'economy that works for ordinary people' isn't talking to many ordinary people.
It’s acc so scary that there are children being brainwashed and groomed by their own parents, it’s just gonna keep the same kids in the same cycle as their parents