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Yeah, I do remember Luton banning away fans now. The chairman was seen as a bit of a nutter as I recall (showing my age now). QPR, Preston NE and Oldham Athletic all had astroturf at one time or another. (on a a side note, I was at the Oldham vs Nottingham Forest League Cup Final in 1990)

The airport's not quite the shithole it was a few years ago.

Failsworth.

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Luton

I spent a NYE in Preston; was pretty good actually.

Did a few days at one of those shopping channel contact centres completing purchases. Got an ear infection from an earpiece after pads weren't available because I joined the shift on the weekend. Doctor was sympathetic and wrote a solid note, so I kicked up a fuss and got paid a bit - nothing...

Remain and Leave are code for a lot more than your position on EU membership these days, but yes. Though tbf, the Torys have no real idea where they stand on quite a few issues thesedays. Brexit is, after all, the great Kinder Bueno of politics.

Shit gets real at 2:43

It's definitely problematic, but it a less vacuous form of ur-Fascism than that proffered by those in control of the UK.

Possibly, but for the most part in Britain you get called a cultural elitist if you dare suggest that binge-drinking down the pub isn't at least equal to anything else. The pub is the cathedral. Not that I'm against the pub, but it's somewhat transcendental place in the British culture (for...

Rishi Sunak (UK Chancellor) talked about 'the nobility of work' the other day, and I wondered 'how long do you expect to keep that up for?' I think the hidden question at the heart of UK politics is 'do you pay people to sit at home, or do you pay them to dig and fill holes?'.

Here in Budapest, things 'returned to normal' some time ago. Most shops require masks, though enforcement is variable. Public transport theoretically mandates masks, but again...... There's some tourists from Germany etc, but not really that many and the parts of the city that relied upon them...

But I asked for a Digestive.

Yes yes, nazi bodybuilders don't get COVID. I meant if they'd been any highlights in the last 100 pages or so.

http://abouthungary.hu/speeches-and-remarks/prime-minister-viktor-orbans-oration-at-the-funeral-of-gyorgy-fekete-president-of-the-hungarian-academy-of-arts/ One thing I will say about Orban is that he actually has a notion of high(ish) culture being central to the Hungarian way of being...

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Off-topic, I just read a blog post by a sometime poster who basically made the 'workaholic to counter the guilt of alcoholism' claim about themselves. But yeah, Starmer......what to say? He's a not-too-dangerous pair of hands for if/when the populus realise that they Torys have gone fucking...

I am reminded of a joke from The New Statesmen - some Frenchie points out 'The English do not have a cuisine. They have brown sauce'. The English breakfast is pretty much the only thing they can hang their hat on, and the people of Ireland and Scotland would snort at that. Budapest does have a...

To sound like a broken record, I'm not sure it's so different in the UK - the narratives are a little different, but the psychology is broadly the same; a rejection of Europe and some other things, but no real sense that reclaiming Britishness requires any more effort than being oneself - which...