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Biden's going to be out there wishing <randomly selected name> a speedy recovery.

Deliverance: Kingdom Come (or that might have just been a deep discount before the sale) in which I'm 100% in character as Henry the village idiot. Universim, which I'm kind of unconvinced by but mostly think I'm just shit at. Shadows of Doubt, in which I appear to have got drunk on synthetic...

Well well well, it looks like a Labour government might win Euro 2024.

They already were, that's why they're Reform voters.

We did it lads, we achieved business as usual! I actually think this is the best realistic result, if we're honest about the state of the country and what could possibly have happened. A shit that Reform got a bunch of seats and that I'll have to continue my hypervigiliance of Ed Davey swinging...

I'm waiting for the common-man photoshoot when he hits the northern regions, Rishi Sunak in a yellow miner's hat with a pickaxe slung over his shoulder.

Kicking the can sixty years down the road sounds about right though.

To be fair, it's really just something they pretend to get worked up about when they don't like the guy who's made a faux pas; Sunak would've got a pass if he wasn't so clearly fucked in July anyway.

I've been playing Factorio a lot lately and it really kills your efficiency if you insist on making conveyor belts look like dicks.

Inflation is finally down to a more reasonable number (though still too high), driven mostly by reduced power prices. I have yet to see a winter when power prices did not increase, so maybe he needs to do this now before he's unable to go on about bringing inflation down.

Best of luck to you and your house projects!

If the moulding (assume this is what we would call skirting board) is painted you might be able to use a profile gauge (https://www.screwfix.com/p/faithfull-plastic-angle-duplicator-10-250mm-/792GC?tc=CT7) to copy the existing profile using a decent quality filler.

It isn't, but AFAIK they're both vanishing at the GE anyway. And let's not pretend her stance on immigration isn't popular with a big chunk of Labour voters.

They are, yes. It hadn't really been an issue for a long time, with interest rates being flat and low for a decade, but that just allowed house prices to get silly because borrowing was so easy, and then it all came home at once and we had a generation of borrowers who'd just never considered...

Full-length fixed-rate mortgages, there's one. I was surprised that Americans were surprised that we go through a remortgage every 2-5 years and roll the dice on whether we can still afford our houses. (I didn't know US mortgages were different.)