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Jesus. What is wrong with us.

^^ 🤢

I can probably dig up mentalist stories from every country I lived in.

But honestly who wants to read and buy that, that's what I don't get.

Jesus. What is wrong with us.

Where else are you going to get access to quality headlines such as "Aliens turned my son into a fish finger!"?

Its such a weird publication. Its somewhere between satire and soft porn. I can't find readership figures for the Sunday Sport but about 50k people read the Daily Sport so I expect its much less than that.

I get the Sunday Sport as part of my Press Reader subscription. You might all be amazed to hear that the dog nonce story is only a minor headline on the front page.

Yesterday's front page headline was about a monument to Les Dennis being found on Mars.

EDIT: Yup, every single page has topless women on.

Without wishing to make light of objectifying women, I think it's fine, the Sunday Sport, all part of a balanced society innit? If everything we read was the top down narrative, things would be grimmer. Maybe. They'll stop printing it when people stop buying it, until then, great, put the thought of a man canoeing through slurry to escape an axe wielding Giles Brandreth in my head. I'll take it as a sort of creative gift, cheers!

Who the fuck knows what was going on there?

Well I mean you should really Mr ADS-B :P

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I love the story about Les Dennis and the plumber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w2FZzofrWs

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56261574

free trip to the moon ( and hopefully back ) anyone ?

Anyone else affected by the (allegedged) Chinese attach on Exchange servers?
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/03/tech/microsoft-exchange-server-hafnium-china-intl-hnk/index.html

I am not hugely inconvenienced myself, just experiencing a bit of intermittent downtime as the IT guys are scrambling to install patches.
For some reason though, it just pisses me off that they do this so brazenly. Really affecting my work concentration today.

For some reason though, it just pisses me off that they do this so brazenly.

I wouldn't let it bother you too much. The UK and US digitally attack infrastructure in other countries all the time. Its just not in the press here. We basically invented the supply chain style of cyber attack.

The same way that the Chinese attacks on the West aren't publicised much there. Don't underestimate how politicised the issue is too, particularly over the Huawei stuff. They haven't been a threat for years...its just politically beneficial to paint them as that at the moment. There's a quiet cyber war going on and our press like to paint us as the innocent victims.

Edit; Good read about the NSA hacking the shit out of Huawei before it was cool https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/nsa-breached-chinese-servers-seen-as-spy-peril.html?_r=1

We basically invented the supply chain style of cyber attack.

I presume all the backdoors the US have put into kit from vendors like Cisco over the years is why they are so concerned about Chinese control of Huawei.

I presume all the backdoors the US have put into kit from vendors like Cisco over the years is why they are so concerned about Chinese control of Huawei.

Pretty much. Thats definitely part of it. The US used to be a cyber superpower and now they're rattled because others have become better at it than them. Kind of like the cold war but with backdoors instead of bombs.

Am I the only loser watching the budget?

I was thinking there would be more to the housing stuff. A deposit is only half the problem - affordability is still fucked. And the fucking stamp duty holiday that has driven up prices by 7.5% in one year stays on a bit longer. Nice one, that'll do a fat lot of nothing for "generation rent"

You are not middle class and/or old. Tories hate you.

that'll do a fat lot of nothing for

people that don't vote Tory

I am definitely middle class. I'll be able to buy a flat sooner or later but anyone in SE England on median income is pretty much screwed until either the government gives FTBs money or prices collapse

or prices collapse

Much as people think they've lived through property price corrections, a proper one hasn't happened yet. Or arguably ever.

I don't think that is adjusted for inflation?

Would be interesting to see the average house price compared the salary of some occupations eg bin man/train driver/teacher/hospital doctor.

Just made one on data adjusted by Retail Price Index:

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I remember my dad asking me why I wasn't gearing up to buy a house when I was 25.

His first house was a townhouse in Lea, when he was getting paid under 3k a year... which he bought for 9 grand.

Never in my life will I be earning that wage to house ratio.

Similar story with my Dad although not jealous of the 17% interest he was paying on his first mortgage.

Can you do it against the CPIH too - that includes housing costs in it.

The data came from Nationwide. If you can source the quarterly CPI from 1975 to now, I can do the sums