Canadian teams just seem to not want to win. With Toronto more concerned with shooting themselves in the foot the moment they reach the playoffs every year; Winnipeg, Vancouver, Calgary and Ottawa more concerned with cycles of more or less mediocrity; Edmonton who have to rely on 2 players to get them through you're left with the Habs who can't seem to get it together for long enough to make a real impact though I really hope this time around is the one that sticks and I have hope!
Canucks (my team) seem to be preoccupied with one more trade or one more overpaid free agent and we'll squeak in but when that doesn't work out they shit the bed again, just like this year and it's looking worse the next with absolutely nothing in the cupboards (though the Calder cup win makes things look a little better). But we're about to sabotage the career of the greatest player we've ever had because ownership refuses to have a genuine rebuild.
1 - England is not an island, you mean Great Britain.
2 - Almost half the food eaten in the UK has been imported from overseas.
3 - A large proportion (it's difficult to get exact figures and it fluctuates) of energy is imported from abroad in the forms of oil and gas.
Great Britain, and the wider UK, has not been self sufficient for ~600 years relying on colonialism and a maritime empire to meet its needs and trade since it collapsed. If it had to rely on resources available within the island it would collapse in days.
I'm all in for crazy hockey. Boosters, bumpers, multipuck, moving goals, tilting ice, pucks made of different materials, sticks made of different materials, boxing gloves appear at centre ice giving the player who grabs them 30 second free pass for roughing.
Any sport, doesn't really matter. Periodically during the game more balls start getting added into the playing field to spice things up, a la pinball tables.
2 nights in a hotel in Sydney. Arrived at about 10pm straight from the airport. Unmanned entry to had to call someone from reception to come and give me the key despite arranging all this in advance.
Got in the room and the AC was broken so as a Brit arriving in Australia for the first time it was unbearably hot and the room stank of damp.
About the worst way to start jetlag recovery and I got out after the first night despite paying in advance.
I was working in a house this week that had a ~4 year kid in another room. They were on the mums phone watching YouTube shorts and I think I had an aneurysm listening to it. It was godawful and the attention span was so low they constantly flicked through so most didn't even play for more than a second or two of incomprehensible gibberish before they'd flicked onto the next one.
I feel really sorry for anyone who has to grow up surrounded by this bombardment of shite.
Nationalise it long enough that our tax money has to pay off the debts that were illegally accrued, none of the scumbags in charge will have any repercussions and they'll buy it back for pennies on the pound in a decade and start the whole cycle again.
The recent furore around grooming gangs has nothing to do with the victims. There has already been a review and an enquiry and all the results are there to be analysed.
None of the recommendations Baroness Casey put forward have been implemented.
It's political point scoring by Farage, Badenoch, and for some reason, Elon Musk. Any talking point that can be twisted into "Brown people bad" will be exploited for cheap points and forgotten about 5 minutes later.
You are right. The pilot was drunk and had cocaine in their blood and also wasn't qualified to fly the plane which was itself dangerously overloaded.
Catalogue of errors that caused the deaths of all 8 passengers.