Simon Bower

Formally from The Royal Hackenthorpe. SWFC WAWAW

[Patriotic 🇬🇧 Nation @HoodedClaw1974]

Morning all.

A little Mick Miller joke to start the day. 🤣🤣🤣

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@AlexJPMiller

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@isthatdavidp I don’t want to hear anything unless Roland Nilsson is in the conversation then I’m all aboard!

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@sirjohnj @storchyowl 🤣🤣🤣 no seriously, I’m on the Staten Island ferry as we speak. You couldn’t even get in the terminal for stetsons and cowboy boots! 🤣🤣🤣

[Huggy Bear @HebrideanYoon]

Nicola Sturgeon on Newsround in 2022 talking to school kids about the cost of living crisis

‘My husband does most of the shopping in my household but he notices the way things are going up in the supermarkets’

Yeah right 😆😅

[80s Kidz @80s_Kidz]

Facts👇🏻

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The funniest maths in modern environmentalism.

One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled.

The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy.

Meanwhile, in Cheshire.

A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain.

She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco.

To recap.

600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water.

Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food.

The shopper picks the almond.

She has been told this is the ethical position.

The aquifer would like a word.

[The Football Feed @TheFootballFeed]

Roy Keane on Jordan Henderson 6 years ago...

“I’ve heard people say they want him around the place - for what? Does he do card tricks? Does he have a sing song? Does he do quizzes in the evenings?”

We’re all thinking the same 😂😂😂

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@swfc @MrVegas_Casino Azerbaijan ‘ Land of fire’ making a comeback?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Higgy @higgyboson]

Last year I had 2 new tyres fitted to my van - £126.

Today I had two new tyres fitted to the same van, same garage, same make of tyre - £165.

30% increase in one year.

Diesel is up 35% since a couple of months ago.

My van insurers want an extra £120 this year.

I'm a Decorator and all the paint I use has had TWO price increases each year for the past few years.

Some now costs approximately TWICE what it cost 6 years ago.

Some trade paint is now over £100 for 5 litres. Yes it's better than cheap crap but that's a ridiculous price.

But I'm just one bloke trying to earn a living.

Millions are in the same boat as me.

They can give you stories about the price of timber, plasterboard, electrical fittings, roof tiles and everything else they have to buy.

Everything appears to be getting more difficult for everyone.

In years gone by we didn't all have to worry about the cost of putting the heating on or how much we paid for the water that came out of our taps. We do now.

We didn't have to search the shelves in the supermarkets for the cheapest (inferior) alternatives and we didn't get utterly ripped off when paying for parking in town centres.

Our Council Tax bills, (or Rates as it used to be called), were equal to a small proportion of our income. And we got the bins emptied every week.

We could actually buy rounds in the pub - Remember THAT?

Many millions of people who frequented pubs can't afford to go there any more. Their village pub is probably shut now anyway.

Our public services are overstretched.

The NHS is ALWAYS on it's knees.

Our roads are falling to bits.

Parents can't get their kids into their local schools.

Many people in villages, towns and cities are frightened to go out alone (or at all) due the numbers of undesirables roaming the streets and our parks.

But it's OK. We're the Worlds 5th largest economy apparently and therefore a "rich" country compared to many.

Perhaps that's why we can afford to give away ONE THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS every MONTH to countries who don't share our good fortune, or our wonderful public services or our national contentment in knowing we're nearly at the top of the tree.

Is it any wonder that hundreds of thousands of people are just saying "bollocks to this" and either stopping work or buggering off to live somewhere else?

My advice to any young person would be - Go! It might not work out for you but at least you've had a try, probably had some fun, learnt a lot about yourself and the World and maybe met someone you can share your life with.

You can always come back again and help the local council empty the bins every 3 weeks.

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@Owl79Oli @WTIDPOD Ugbo needs to be moved on regardless. You may as well pay me as pay him.

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@harvey_walters_ Well we may as well win that annorl. 🤣🤣🤣

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@Hank83416250473 They ruined golf with all this bollocks. If I was focused in a game the last the id want is some woke twat sticking a microphone in face. Just wait while they’ve done ffs.

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@TheStarOwls

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@Danfudge Not sure who the 4 bloke is but I’m completely on board with the rest. Any chance you can chuck Graham Norton on there? 👍🏻👏🏻

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@Hank83416250473 I’m not telling anyone, it’s a secret. 🤣

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@ijwits @swfc Don’t tell me what to do. 🤣🤣🤣

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Now the season tickets are sorted what do we think the bed wetters are going to start moaning about next? Kit or signings??? 🤣🤣🤣#swfc

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@JonathanDaley I’ve done that too. I always have done, I’ve always preferred having a real ticket instead of a digital one. I maybe showing my age but I don’t trust computers! 🤣🤣