Stevelkeys

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Composer and Musician.
Democratic Socialist.
Gooner.
I like seeing people do well but I don't like seeing people do well to the detriment of others.

[Normal Island News @NormalIslandNws]

When Margaret Thatcher made England and Wales the only countries in the world with fully privatised water, the naysayers argued it was a terrible idea. Today, everyone agrees privatisation has been a roaring success.

It has delivered an impressive rise in customer bills which has coincided with an equally impressive rise in shareholder profits. These improvements were delivered through efficiency savings, such as not building any reservoirs since 1992 and forgetting about silly ideas like sewage treatment. Thanks to neoliberalism, turds are now a common sight at our beaches and marine life is not.

If that wasn’t impressive enough, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has confirmed the UK is officially the world’s dampest desert. Three-quarters of the nation has been plunged into drought, despite the fact it constantly pisses down. You are therefore banned from gardening and bathing your children so that data centres don’t go without.

No one knows why countries that contain actual deserts don’t experience the same difficulties we do. For example, Saudi Arabia doesn’t have a hose pipe ban. Unfortunately, we live in a place where the weather breaks everything. Sunshine? Drought. Rain? Floods. An inch of snow? The whole country closes for some reason.

The only weather the UK can actually cope with is grey and miserable. Any deviation leads to immediate national collapse. If we didn’t have such a brilliant water system, we’d be in serious trouble. But thankfully, our system is built to protect corporate profits, no matter what. Everything is secondary to that, including your ability to drink.

Thankfully, Andy Burnham is showing leadership on the matter. He is taking the emergency step of doing absolutely nothing. When questioned about nationalisation, the Prime Minister calmly explained that his donors won’t allow it.

In a bizarre coincidence, the system that allows them to personally profit is the only one that could possibly work. Sure, we could end up with crop failures and food shortages, but I’m sure things would’ve been worse if Jeremy Corbyn had got his way.

Obviously, this is not a systemic problem, it’s a technological one. Virtually all our rainfall is lost because we can’t make pipes that don’t burst. Water companies have absolutely no incentive to stop leaks and every incentive not to, but I’m confident this has nothing whatsoever to do with the matter.

[Stevelkeys @stevelkeys]

@LizzieHogan @medoyia Can only be 110. 👍

[Stevelkeys @stevelkeys]

@chiamakaafc Segovia

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage just said the UK was better in the 1950's

In the 1950's the Government owned Gas, Oil, Rail, Power, Steel, Telecoms, Mail, Shipbuilding, Airports, Social Housing, Care Homes (Children and Adults), Schools, Hospitals...

And built 300,000 Council Houses a year.

[Stevelkeys @stevelkeys]

@Thinkk_Tank Easier to say 75% of 84= 63

[Stevelkeys @stevelkeys]

@realisticdad81 @therealmissjo @trish_putnam @FinancialXpress That's not very realistic. They ran riot over the world many hundreds of years ago and then got "smart" .

[Stevelkeys @stevelkeys]

@onlyskypace Triangle X has sides of 5m and 4m thus the M2 base is 5m2-4m2 = 9m2 so the base is 3m. The square would be 3m x 4m = 12. Half of this = x = 6m2

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

A standard deck of playing cards contains exactly 52 cards.

Those 52 cards are divided into four suits: Hearts and Diamonds in red, Clubs and Spades in black. Each suit contains 13 ranks: Ace, the numbers 2 through 10, followed by Jack, Queen, and King.

Multiply the four suits by the 13 cards in each suit, and you get 52.

This simple structure has remained virtually unchanged for centuries and forms the basis of some of the world's most popular card games, including poker, blackjack, bridge, solitaire, rummy, and countless others.

Interestingly, the deck has long been associated with symbolism. The 52 cards are often said to represent the 52 weeks in a year, the four suits symbolize the four seasons, and the 13 cards in each suit mirror the 13 lunar cycles in a year.

Whether intentional or not, it's a fascinating numerical coincidence that has helped make the standard deck one of the most recognizable objects in the world.

But why 52?

Because ladies and gentlemen...
It's been 52 days since Arsenal won the Premier League title.

[Gooner Eurychus 🏆 @GoonerEG]

Lessons were taught on this day

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Julian Assange in 2011 "There is no society anymore, there is just a transnational 'security elite' using your tax money to carve up the world for them."

It's truer than ever.

[Stevelkeys @stevelkeys]

@SeraEnergy2k That snake Adebayor!

[Stevelkeys @stevelkeys]

@SeraEnergy2k Santi Cazorla?

[Stevelkeys @stevelkeys]

@SeraEnergy2k Thierry Henry

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@Simi_2210_ Is that a "golf" jumper?...

[Stevelkeys @stevelkeys]

@Redbeeea

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If you are worried about

Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £219bn.

Immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn.

Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn.

You‘re buying their lies.

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

Jeremy Corbyn is the most smeared politician.

Under him the party was the largest socialist party in Western Europe with over 600,000 members.

[Roshan M Salih @RmSalih]

The great Israel Parliamentary debate stitch up

I've just totaled up the amount of time each side had to speak during the parliamentary debate yesterday on Israeli influence over UK politics.

The pro-Israel side had 1 hour and 9 minutes to put forward their pro-Israel views.

The anti-Israel side had 15 minutes only to put forward their anti-Israel views.

So in effect, the pro-Israel side had 82% of the speaking time during the debate, and the anti-Israel side had 18% speaking time.

This wasn't a debate, it was a forum for Israeli hasbara and propaganda.

And it proves exactly why 117,000 people signed a petition questioning Israel's influence over UK politicians.