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[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

Underrated Movie Villain:

Hendrix Polar Bear

This creep walked up to the Ducks tutor Michele MacKay and asked,

"Hello there, missy, how about a bear hug?"

Surprised she didn’t call the police

[CSPAN @cspan]

President Trump on Israel and Iran: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing."

[Stand Up For Barry @StandUpForBarry]

Nine years since the #EU advisory referendum... here's a reminder of things we were promised.

What a con #Brexit was and is.

[Improving Scottish Football @Improving_Scot]

Clubs playing each other 4 times a season is repetitive and boring. We can make Scottish football more exciting than it currently is.

We need league reconstruction - and this is how we do it 👇

[mv_28_ @mv_28_]

@thegarybrecka Waking up

[John Lennon @johnlennon]

Before Elvis, there was nothing.

[Dylan Jardon 🌈 @DylanJardon]

"Perfection is impossible.

In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches.

But what percentage of points did I win?

54%

In other words, even top ranked tennis players win barely more than half the points they play.

When you lose ever second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot.

You teach yourself to think:
'Okay, I double faulted...it's only a point.'
'Okay, I came to the net and I got passed again...it's only a point.'

Even a great shot, an overhead backhand smash that ends up on ESPN's top 10 playlist – that too is just a point.

Here's why I'm telling you this.

When you're playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world. And it is.

But when it's behind you, it's behind you.

This mindset is crucial – because it frees you to fully commit to the next point with intensity, clarity, and focus."

–@rogerfederer

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

After all the sacrifices of lockdown, the Conservative party believes the way to repay Britain’s young people is to ramp up taxes, enlist them into mandatory service in care homes, and use their hard-earned income to fund a "quadruple lock" for pensioners.

The one common thread through British policy of the last 14 years has been destroying the future of the young to pay for the consumption of the old. Investment projects have been scrapped, immigration has run at unprecedented levels to staff care homes and hospitals on the cheap, housebuilding has been slowed to a crawl, ensuring in the process that the property assets of retirees continue to appreciate in value.

The idea that Britain owes anything to its young people is dead in the water. The Conservatives are more or less explicitly rebranding as the Pensioners Party, but Labour won’t be that far behind; the party was making the most of its commitment to the triple lock just yesterday.

Neither party is going to change course. Britain is an increasingly old country. People living longer is obviously a good thing. The problem is that, combined with decades of low birth rates, these improved life expectancies have flipped the population pyramid on its head. The proportion of the population aged over 65 has crept up from 15 per cent in 2000 to 19 per cent in 2022, and is set to reach nearly 30 per cent by 2070.

Between turnout, eligibility, and generational size, the over 55s now form a majority of the voting public. Britain is less a democracy than a Boomerocracy. The results are clear wherever you look.

People now in their 30s are the first generation to earn less than those born ten years before them since the 1930s. Record numbers of young people live with their parents, trapped by a dysfunctional housing market and unstable employment. Millennials spend a far higher proportion of their income on housing costs than the Boomers did at their age, with spiralling rental costs largely to blame. The typical family headed by a thirty year old today would take 19 years to save a deposit for a home. In the 1980s, it would have taken three years. Young people are finding things previous generations took for granted to be effectively out of reach.

Even if a party did want to do something about this, it would struggle to win votes for the size of change that’s needed. The record tax burden in 2027/28 could easily be passed in the 2030s, and the 2040s too. The spending pressures are there to do it; the cost of the state pension and old age benefits is set to rise to nearly 10 per cent of GDP by 2070, while health and social care budgets will take up nearly 18 per cent of output.

Growing our way out would be very difficult. Older countries tend to invest less in public assets, build less, and grow less (why put off consumption or tolerate disruption for a project you’ll never see?). And if we try to resolve that with higher immigration, it puts more pressure on house prices. It feels increasingly like the easiest way out is emigration.

[Celtic Football Club @CelticFC]

🏆 2021/22
🏆 2022/23
🆕 2023/24

#CelticFC are crowned Champions of Scotland AGAIN! 🍀🏆

Three-In-A-Row for Glasgow's Green & White - Congratulations to Brendan and the Bhoys! 👏

[Netflix @netflix]

Happy Gilmore is back! Adam Sandler will reprise his iconic role in a brand new movie coming to Netflix.

[Pie & Bovril 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @pieandbov]

It’s saying something that Kenny Miller has had a more embarrassing first half than John Lundstrum

[mv_28_ @mv_28_]

@craig_killie Having a shocker isn't he

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Al Jazeera has acquired leaked IDF drone footage showing the IDF killing 4 unarmed Palestinians in Khan Yunis using drone strikes. The footage clearly shows to terrorize and instill fear in Palestinians, as a means to coerce them into leaving Gaza permanently.

[Wes Crosby @OtherNHLCrosby]

Jaromir Jagr is on the ice with the Pittsburgh Penguins. #Pens

[mv_28_ @mv_28_]

@IsleB67 @AKH_2001 I mean we could play any formation ultimately all the speed and ruthlessness has been removed from the team

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Voldemort laughing in different languages might be my new favorite video

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Today Energy prices increased to £1,928 they were £1,050 before the very temporary 'Energy Crisis' and costs are below that level now.

They were making about £200 per customer before, now it is £1,100, more than they were taking in total before.

Renationalise like France.

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

More important and courageous reporting from @clarissaward

[Football Archive @FootballArch_]

From 1960 to 2023, full match replays of all Champions League Finals in one thread

Take a seat and enjoy the show 🍿