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15 minutes in and can confirm that watching 2 teams playing 3-4-3 is just as boring as we thought...
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This group of people, and their predecessors, have shaped cycling in the UK for decades.
Take a bow:
Ned Boulting
David Millar
Daniel Friebe
Gary Imlach
Matt Rendell
Pete Kennaugh
Alex Dowsett
Jacobo Guarnieri
+ anyone I've missed, the production team and everyone behind the scenes.
Thanks for getting so many people into this amazing sport. You'll be missed.
#TDFF2025
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Happy Heavenly Birthday to the great Jon Pertwee. Here's one of his greatest moments - dancing ,as Worzel Gummidge, with pop group The Beat on a Saturday morning kids TV show. Skankin'!
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To all the Supermarkets and big commercial stores that operate 'Self Check-outs'....... You are heading towards almost exclusively self-checkout now. Today I went shopping at one such store and the lady checking receipts at the exit was stopping everyone.
I didn't choose to participate in that nonsense, I had already filled my cart, emptied my cart and scanned the items, refilled my cart and so I just skipped the exit line and left.
I heard her saying "Umm - Excuse me “ as I kept walking and raised the receipt above my head, leaving the store.
You can either trust me to do self-checkout, or you can put your cashiers back in place like it used to be.
• I'm not interested in proving that I did your job for you.
• If you want me to be a cashier with no training then that's your problem not mine.
• Keep employing young people and give them job opportunities.
YOU DON'T PAY ME TO SCAN MY OWN SHOPPING.
YOU DON’T GIVE ME STAFF DISCOUNT FOR WORKING FOR YOU.
Signed ......All of us
People we need to share this statement its basically about PROFIT to the stores AND putting People out of a JOB....!!!
~ unknown author ~
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When the pub dies, more goes with it than just a pint.
I saw an interview with AJ Tracey the other day and it hit the nail on the head.
Pubs are part of British culture. They’re where people meet. Where ideas are shared. Where strangers debate politics, sport, life. Where worldviews get challenged, rightly so, all over a pint.
But now? £7 pints at a push. Hundreds of closures. Fewer places to gather. Less cross-generational conversation. More isolation. More echo chambers.
If people aren’t meeting, they’re not talking. If they’re not talking, they’re not listening. And that, long term, leads to narrower thinking and a more divided society.
Reviving the pub isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about rebuilding our social fabric.
