Jim Kyle

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves"
Wm Pitt, 1783

[Jim Kyle @jimkyle90]

@KirstieMAllsopp Thinking that the government should replace the job of parents - ALL parents, no matter who, is the weirdest take I have ever come across in MY life

But you also thought the explosion of barber shops was due to a huge increase in haircuts, so it's a close run thing

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@Ste15375723Mark @prodnose Hydration breaks have been routine in, for example, Spain during August & May for some time
It's a very sensible move in hot conditions considering the way the game is played now

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@Elche_Arg2 Affengruber sería un tonto si renovara su contrato

Tendrá muchas opciones de equipo. Es el mejor central del club desde Fernando Niño

Se arriesgó al venir de Austria y nos ha brindado dos años fantásticos

Tuvimos suerte de contar con él

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@antonioguterres Would you like to explain how "every fraction of a degree brings greater harm" if the hottest nations on earth have experienced c300% population growth in the last 50 years?

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@medialens Coningsby? "Rural" Coningsby? With the weather station sited at at the RAF base where there are 60,000 aircraft movements p.a.
That Coningsby?

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@JoseCarrasco_98 En Inglaterra, un delantero de segunda división con cierto éxito suele costar 20 millones. Según sus estándares, Álvaro vale el doble. Como mínimo.

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@MikeJ_A I don't follow your point? England (and other European) fan representation will be at its highest for 20 years at this WC

And FIFA have always overpriced it

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@IanDarke @MufcForerver How many matches do you pay to get into, Ian? Or subscribe to watch? Or have to PPV?

As a neutral myself Arsenal's peformance was shameful. No football and 0 shots on goal for the last 115 mins. Is that the best an elite team can come up with - Pulis Stoke but with £1bn spent?

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@robinmonotti Compared with the 1960s there are > 20% more sunshine hours now due to reduced cloud cover mostly due to cleaner air

Naturally, temperatures are therefore higher

This is never taken into consideration by warmists, least of all at the Met Office

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@latimeralder @theoceanblooms In 1970 the population of Khartoum was about 700,000, now its 6 million. So rather than merely survive it, it would seem they rather thrive

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@oscargomezd74 @bulldozerOVD Durante mi época como socio
Nino
David Fuster
Molina
Willy
Etxeita
Jonathas
Sergio Leon
Boye
Nico Fernandez
...y mas

Nuestros mejores jugadores se van. Surgen nuevos héroes

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@AaronBastani What's your explanation for the cooling that was recorded between 1940-1980?

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@BenRamanauskas It wasn't "cheaper" though was it?

A £20k mortgage in 1980 consumed 65% of net take home pay

You could get a £300k mortgage for 65% of nthp today

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@AkkadSecretary Your numbers are a complete invention so your post can't be taken seriously

In 1975 a basic house doctor received £2,500 pa (£37.5k today)

In 1975 they worked 80-120 hour weeks for that

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@JaneSim66 @DanielJHannan 1st - the total spent on pensions as a % of GDP is 4% & hasn't changed in 50 years

2nd - the one good idea John Major had in his entire life was never tried. There was your answer. But that's politics, eh?

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@NJM71 This is an odd argument. Current pensioners 'funded' previous generations' pensions with money they could have invested in their own

And total State Pensions paid as a % of GDP has not changed in 50 years

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@Cal_III @BazG51655 In 1980 a 20k mortgage would have cost around £250 per month (65% of median take home pay)
That £250 is worth £1410 today due to inflation (52% of median gross pay)
You could get a £300k mortgage today at 65% of take home pay
There are issues, but you need to apply some context

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@miriam_cates The net payment to those 3m pensioners will be about £20bn - so around 1.3% of total gov't expenditure

I'll suggest those pensioners will spend or save that £20bn in a far more helpful way to the economy than the government ever could

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@henrywinter The probable 15 point deduction is likely to happen because the current bidder won't pay an extra £15m to pay unsecured creditors 25% of what they're owed - he'd rather spend it elsewhere - to the detriment of other teams in the league which pay 100% of their creditors

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@prodnose Not as much as George Harrison's "Taxman" sounds like "Start", allegedly written by Paul Weller