Ian Spencer 🐧
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Well, if it's in writing I'd accept receiving $50 a pill instead of paying $10.
December 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Well, if it's in writing I'd accept receiving $50 a pill instead of paying $10.
Try working "the criminal offence of being Dangerously out of control" into the discussion. When they scoff, also point out it is not their judgement but the people who may fear harm that are the judge.
www.cps.gov.uk/prosecution-...
www.cps.gov.uk/prosecution-...
Dangerous Dog Offences | The Crown Prosecution Service
www.cps.gov.uk
December 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Try working "the criminal offence of being Dangerously out of control" into the discussion. When they scoff, also point out it is not their judgement but the people who may fear harm that are the judge.
www.cps.gov.uk/prosecution-...
www.cps.gov.uk/prosecution-...
My hope is that unlike so many Hollywood stars and Mar-a-Lago inmates, he doesn't go for the full face hack porn star uglification.
And I hope he needs a knee op which stops him running The Tom Cruise Run.
And I hope he needs a knee op which stops him running The Tom Cruise Run.
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My hope is that unlike so many Hollywood stars and Mar-a-Lago inmates, he doesn't go for the full face hack porn star uglification.
And I hope he needs a knee op which stops him running The Tom Cruise Run.
And I hope he needs a knee op which stops him running The Tom Cruise Run.
Currently, the most cost-effective way to use streaming is to avoid getting sucked into watching at release. Cycle through the platforms once every 6 months or a year for a month, picking out the shows and movies you want to watch.
It's just too quick to drain any service.
It's just too quick to drain any service.
December 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Currently, the most cost-effective way to use streaming is to avoid getting sucked into watching at release. Cycle through the platforms once every 6 months or a year for a month, picking out the shows and movies you want to watch.
It's just too quick to drain any service.
It's just too quick to drain any service.
Quite. Yet how many greenbacks have found their way into the hands of MAGA supporters?
December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Quite. Yet how many greenbacks have found their way into the hands of MAGA supporters?
Unconvinced by intelligent TRVs. No payback, just too much per unit, £40-£50 per radiator, that's around £500 for a family home.
Adjustable heating sounds attractive, but most of the gains for gas are in properly setting up the heating system in the first place depending on profile.
Adjustable heating sounds attractive, but most of the gains for gas are in properly setting up the heating system in the first place depending on profile.
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Unconvinced by intelligent TRVs. No payback, just too much per unit, £40-£50 per radiator, that's around £500 for a family home.
Adjustable heating sounds attractive, but most of the gains for gas are in properly setting up the heating system in the first place depending on profile.
Adjustable heating sounds attractive, but most of the gains for gas are in properly setting up the heating system in the first place depending on profile.
I have an email address on the lock screen. As the spammers already have it, then one more stranger seeing it won't do any harm. The phone number wouldn't be much help!
December 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I have an email address on the lock screen. As the spammers already have it, then one more stranger seeing it won't do any harm. The phone number wouldn't be much help!
It's the transition from infamous to famous that is unfathomable.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
It's the transition from infamous to famous that is unfathomable.
If Orban is successfully sidelined, then Putin no longer has a reason to do favours for Hungary.
More tea? Sleep on the ground floor?
More tea? Sleep on the ground floor?
December 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If Orban is successfully sidelined, then Putin no longer has a reason to do favours for Hungary.
More tea? Sleep on the ground floor?
More tea? Sleep on the ground floor?
Would it have helped?
It was writing basics, like leaving the flailing plotline of what The Cheerleader's dad was up to without moving it forward and without ever deciding whether he was doing Good Things or Bad Things. Was he central or a sideshow? Just a mess.
It was writing basics, like leaving the flailing plotline of what The Cheerleader's dad was up to without moving it forward and without ever deciding whether he was doing Good Things or Bad Things. Was he central or a sideshow? Just a mess.
December 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Would it have helped?
It was writing basics, like leaving the flailing plotline of what The Cheerleader's dad was up to without moving it forward and without ever deciding whether he was doing Good Things or Bad Things. Was he central or a sideshow? Just a mess.
It was writing basics, like leaving the flailing plotline of what The Cheerleader's dad was up to without moving it forward and without ever deciding whether he was doing Good Things or Bad Things. Was he central or a sideshow? Just a mess.
Heroes it what happens when writers spend too much time thinking about reactions and not enough time working out a coherent plot.
Biggest mistake was not realising that having a popular anti-hero is a good thing rather than a problem to be fixed.
Biggest mistake was not realising that having a popular anti-hero is a good thing rather than a problem to be fixed.
December 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Heroes it what happens when writers spend too much time thinking about reactions and not enough time working out a coherent plot.
Biggest mistake was not realising that having a popular anti-hero is a good thing rather than a problem to be fixed.
Biggest mistake was not realising that having a popular anti-hero is a good thing rather than a problem to be fixed.
Same with minimum wages and living wages and social security.
If everyone has some money to spend, it gets spent.
If some people have no money, it can't be spent.
If some people have bigly too much money, it doesn't get spent.
If everyone has some money to spend, it gets spent.
If some people have no money, it can't be spent.
If some people have bigly too much money, it doesn't get spent.
December 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Same with minimum wages and living wages and social security.
If everyone has some money to spend, it gets spent.
If some people have no money, it can't be spent.
If some people have bigly too much money, it doesn't get spent.
If everyone has some money to spend, it gets spent.
If some people have no money, it can't be spent.
If some people have bigly too much money, it doesn't get spent.
This is Trumpland. That is a surprisingly reckless assumption, especially for you.
December 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This is Trumpland. That is a surprisingly reckless assumption, especially for you.
It's the Republican healthcare plan.
1. Designate Fentanyl.
2. Draw up a list of places that store or use Fentanyl in quantity using AI.
3. Bomb or nuke any place on the list in 2.
Result: No hospitals, no healthcare insurance required, ObamaCare solved.
Another bigly good MAGA plan.
1. Designate Fentanyl.
2. Draw up a list of places that store or use Fentanyl in quantity using AI.
3. Bomb or nuke any place on the list in 2.
Result: No hospitals, no healthcare insurance required, ObamaCare solved.
Another bigly good MAGA plan.
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
It's the Republican healthcare plan.
1. Designate Fentanyl.
2. Draw up a list of places that store or use Fentanyl in quantity using AI.
3. Bomb or nuke any place on the list in 2.
Result: No hospitals, no healthcare insurance required, ObamaCare solved.
Another bigly good MAGA plan.
1. Designate Fentanyl.
2. Draw up a list of places that store or use Fentanyl in quantity using AI.
3. Bomb or nuke any place on the list in 2.
Result: No hospitals, no healthcare insurance required, ObamaCare solved.
Another bigly good MAGA plan.
There's a lot of backhanders he forgot to include the first time around.
And the hitmen where backhanders didn't do the job.
And the hitmen where backhanders didn't do the job.
December 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
There's a lot of backhanders he forgot to include the first time around.
And the hitmen where backhanders didn't do the job.
And the hitmen where backhanders didn't do the job.
It'll be the guy in full weight lifting gear walking on the running machine for 15 minutes then going for coffee and donuts.
December 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It'll be the guy in full weight lifting gear walking on the running machine for 15 minutes then going for coffee and donuts.
Driving is viewed as a nuisance while having the car take them from A to B; at the same time these disengaged people believe themselves to be excellent drivers.
I remember driving down the freeway on a rainy day in Dallas/FW back in the 90s and being amazed at how many people had crashed.
I remember driving down the freeway on a rainy day in Dallas/FW back in the 90s and being amazed at how many people had crashed.
December 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Driving is viewed as a nuisance while having the car take them from A to B; at the same time these disengaged people believe themselves to be excellent drivers.
I remember driving down the freeway on a rainy day in Dallas/FW back in the 90s and being amazed at how many people had crashed.
I remember driving down the freeway on a rainy day in Dallas/FW back in the 90s and being amazed at how many people had crashed.
TBF, most of the world recognises that there must be plenty of sane Americans.
What is confusing is that having a legal system jump through hoops to be more than fair in dealing with the corruption and lawlessness & failing (but Canon, SCOTUS), why are the majority keeping their heads down.
Guns?
What is confusing is that having a legal system jump through hoops to be more than fair in dealing with the corruption and lawlessness & failing (but Canon, SCOTUS), why are the majority keeping their heads down.
Guns?
December 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
TBF, most of the world recognises that there must be plenty of sane Americans.
What is confusing is that having a legal system jump through hoops to be more than fair in dealing with the corruption and lawlessness & failing (but Canon, SCOTUS), why are the majority keeping their heads down.
Guns?
What is confusing is that having a legal system jump through hoops to be more than fair in dealing with the corruption and lawlessness & failing (but Canon, SCOTUS), why are the majority keeping their heads down.
Guns?
After the first few episodes, I suspect it pained them to put the jokes in as they realised that they'd out Star-Trekked Star Trek.
December 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
After the first few episodes, I suspect it pained them to put the jokes in as they realised that they'd out Star-Trekked Star Trek.
I'd go more for the "Yet that's only 2 days worth of serious injuries."
A lot yet so little in proportion to the daily road violence, so much of it being due to drivers being unable to moderate their impatience and aggression combined with being unqualified for the task yet licensed to do it.
A lot yet so little in proportion to the daily road violence, so much of it being due to drivers being unable to moderate their impatience and aggression combined with being unqualified for the task yet licensed to do it.
December 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I'd go more for the "Yet that's only 2 days worth of serious injuries."
A lot yet so little in proportion to the daily road violence, so much of it being due to drivers being unable to moderate their impatience and aggression combined with being unqualified for the task yet licensed to do it.
A lot yet so little in proportion to the daily road violence, so much of it being due to drivers being unable to moderate their impatience and aggression combined with being unqualified for the task yet licensed to do it.
It's our unwritten constitution that is at fault. Driving is perceived as a right. Indeed, if you don't drive, there is an implication that you aren't a fully signed up member of the human race.
It's why courts are unreasonably accepting of exceptional circumstances.
It's why courts are unreasonably accepting of exceptional circumstances.
December 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It's our unwritten constitution that is at fault. Driving is perceived as a right. Indeed, if you don't drive, there is an implication that you aren't a fully signed up member of the human race.
It's why courts are unreasonably accepting of exceptional circumstances.
It's why courts are unreasonably accepting of exceptional circumstances.
Today's episode was three cars in a row who were so incensed at 5 cyclists moving in single file that they HAD to overtake on a blind bend on a hill, each sounding their horn in complaint. Happy to risk serious injury for what turned out to be 100 metres of gain before we turned off *a mile* later.
December 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Today's episode was three cars in a row who were so incensed at 5 cyclists moving in single file that they HAD to overtake on a blind bend on a hill, each sounding their horn in complaint. Happy to risk serious injury for what turned out to be 100 metres of gain before we turned off *a mile* later.
I remember the joys of walking through the West End being able to see all four corners of a literal grid lock.
There's also how London taxis frequently break traffic rules, e.g. stopping in the carriageway because there is nowhere else to stop.
The American driving experience is different.
There's also how London taxis frequently break traffic rules, e.g. stopping in the carriageway because there is nowhere else to stop.
The American driving experience is different.
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I remember the joys of walking through the West End being able to see all four corners of a literal grid lock.
There's also how London taxis frequently break traffic rules, e.g. stopping in the carriageway because there is nowhere else to stop.
The American driving experience is different.
There's also how London taxis frequently break traffic rules, e.g. stopping in the carriageway because there is nowhere else to stop.
The American driving experience is different.
Second prize, two free all...
December 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Second prize, two free all...