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Toadbald
@doctoad.bsky.social
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A foul stench permeates the air. You may remember me from such performances as Mr Onion and Mr Nimbus from the other place, or Rocky Robben from the days of AHFC.
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · Jun 13
Football fans rejoice!
We can cure baldness, claim scientists
Spanish researchers say hopes are high after using stem cell cocktail to reverse hair loss in mice
www.telegraph.co.uk
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 10h
Terrible game anyway. So dull. The NPCs are all morons
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 11h
You've got to hand it to the resident doctors. No other group is so far up their own arse as to demand another(!) 20+% pay rise while the rest of the country (excluding bankers) see year-on-year real terms pay cuts
Resident doctors in England to go on strike for five days next month
Hospital bosses warn 14-19 November stoppage will make it harder to manage winter viruses and tackle waiting lists
www.theguardian.com
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 1d
Tell em to siddaaahn!
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe they bloody love sushi?
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 1d
Mugs
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe they're inside eating sushi sticks
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 1d
Buon, Gittens, Guiu, is this a carabao cup game?
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 1d
Good luck with the replies. The "paid in my whole life" mindset is deeply embedded. The entitled generation who think of tax/NI as their own personal savings pot to be drawn down at retirement. They vote en mass and have been pandered to for a very long time. They won't give it up easily.
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 1d
life expectacy is in the 80s. When the state pension came in life expectancy was ~5 years beyond retirement age.
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 1d
is one of the songs me shouting at pedestrians as I try to cycle home via seven dials?
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 1d
an article about how wonderful we're doing now, what an attractive proposition we are, so many bidders. And yet, no real FOS in the entire BlueCo era.
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 2d
everything is far too structured now, we've lost some of the blood and guts 100 mile an hour stuff that made PL entertaining. If anything we're heading back in the right direction. Even when they were winning back-to-back titles, City fans were bored stiff watching that control-ball.
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 2d
not sure I'd call it quiet, always packed before kick off, a very nice pub. It used to be my pre-game watering hole.
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 2d
Shared room?
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 3d
Maybe it's the prospect of yearly below inflation wage increases that attracts them?
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 3d
Indeed, but if I had to guess, I'd say it will come off in the most harmful way possible
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 3d
It's accounted for in that they never expect to get the money. Written off before it's due
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 3d
The write offs are modelled in the system. Only about 50% of all student debt is ever expected to be repaid. Ridiculous system. As I've been saying over and over, the UK's current motto might as well be 'can't someone else pay for it'. So much shit to sort out, no plans, and no one wants to pay.
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 3d
Joking, of course. Or am I? 😀
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 3d
We're enemies now, thems the rules.
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 3d
4/10 unis are in big financial trouble. Gvnmt doesn't want to know. Key funding stream is fees, largely overseas fees as each home student is loss making. They're also about to introduce a tax on overseas students making it worse. Either fees go up, gvnmt put more money in, or many unis go bust.
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 3d
Worse than that, government is introducing a tax on overseas students. Further crippling the sector's finances.
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 3d
How would you fix the financial black hole University's currently face?
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 3d
I know not all pensioners are loaded, but the single focus on one group because they vote in numbers has got to stop. We can't keep bribing pensioners at the ballot box at everyone else's expense. We have an aging population, it's only getting worse.
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Toadbald @doctoad.bsky.social · 3d
Amen
newstatesman1913.bsky.social The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 6d
Tax the old

Britain cannot afford to bribe well-off pensioners any longer. Rachel Reeves must invest in the young

🖊️ Andrew Marr
Tax the old
Britain cannot afford to bribe well-off pensioners any longer. Rachel Reeves must invest in the young
www.newstatesman.com
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