For years, the running joke was “Arsenal 4th”
Then the running joke was “Arsenal 2nd”
Now they’re making fun of Arsenal for winning the Premier League and losing in a Champions League final on pens to the reigning champs
Our rivals’ biggest games this year were watching us 😂
🚨 BREAKING: The Government has blocked Kanye West from entering the UK to perform at Wireless Festival because his presence would "not be conducive to the public good"
You have no idea how mental NIMBYs are until you live in one of these areas
They will protest and block someone building 10 homes because they have to take an alternative 5 minute walk to look at some butterflies
@DWPgovuk Are absolute scumbags. 2 years after mums death claiming she may owe them money for benefits she was receiving. She had severe scoliosis as well as cancer for 4 years. Even in death the government will claim you owe them money.
🚨🇬🇧 “One of the problems in the countryside is dogs - Muslims don’t like dogs”
Liberal Leftist commentator says the countryside is racist & people shouldn’t take their dogs because Muslims find dogs to be Haram.
These people are truly insane.
On a train in UK (was visiting for the holidays). Quiet car. Woman sitting behind me starts playing loud videos on her phone, no headphones. No one says anything. Goes on for ten minutes.
Eventually I ask her to stop bc it’s the quiet car and I was trying to work. She looks confused, loudly demands to know what “quiet car” means (English isn’t her first language), I point to a sign which has a clear picture of a mobile phone. Disgruntled, she grabs her bag and leaves.
People around me shoot me grateful looks. Car is quiet again.
Literally 10 mins later a guy walks in and starts conducting a loud phone conversation, also not in English. Nobody says anything. There’s the usual passive-aggressive Anglo routine from people around him — loud sighs, rolled eyes, etc. Eventually I walk over to him (I was trying to do something complicated, and random noise blaring makes this hard… which is why I picked the quiet car) and point at the “no phones” sign, luckily he says sorry and stops.
More grateful looks.
I’ll probably get killed for saying this, but I think people in the UK are far too nice for their own good. If you want people to obey social norms you have to be willing to call out antisocial behavior, or it all falls apart and you don’t have nice things anymore. This goes for many things, not just quiet cars on trains.
Anyway, the snow looked lovely on the countryside fields. Back home to NYC I go.
Suppose that once a week, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay £1.
The sixth would pay £3.
The seventh would pay £7.
The eighth would pay £12.
The ninth would pay £18.
And the tenth man (the richest) would pay £59.
So, that’s what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every week and seemed quite happy with the arrangement until, one day, the owner caused them a little problem.
“Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your weekly beer by £20.”
Drinks for the ten men would now cost just £80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes.
So the first four men were unaffected.
They would still drink for free but what about the other six men?
The paying customers? How could they divide the £20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?
They realized that £20 divided by six is £3.33, but if they subtracted that from everybody’s share then not only would the first four men still be drinking for free but the fifth and sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.
So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fairer to reduce each man’s bill by a higher percentage.
They decided to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay.
And so, the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (a 100% saving).
The sixth man now paid £2 instead of £3 (a 33% saving).
The seventh man now paid £5 instead of £7 (a 28% saving).
The eighth man now paid £9 instead of £12 (a 25% saving).
The ninth man now paid £14 instead of £18 (a 22% saving).
And the tenth man now paid £49 instead of £59 (a 16% saving).
Each of the last six was better off than before with the first four continuing to drink for free.
But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings. “I only got £1 out of the £20 saving,” declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, “but he got £10!“
“Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a £1 too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more benefit than me!”
“That’s true!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get £10 back, when I only got £2? The wealthy get all the breaks!”
“Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison, “we didn’t get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!”
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next week the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had their beers without him.
But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important – they didn’t have enough money between all of them to pay for even half of the bill!
And that’s how it works.
Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy and they just might not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
The UK and England flag cult must end immediately.
It creates division and intimidation towards minority groups.
We shouldn’t be made to feel fearful and intimidated in our own country.
The UK has fallen.
in poland women are systematically oppressed through their patriarchal culture, lack of representation in positions of power, and through harmful restrictions and inadequate education for our reproductive healthcare.
yet mr “protect women and girls” wants to be more like them?