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This song is a bop however I cannot relate, I have never regretted ordering the big breakfast.

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Same for bonfire night. Fireworks start from Halloween and continue until like 10th November

MYTH: Americans set off fireworks on the 4th of July, in honor of our Independence Day

FACT: Americans set off fireworks from approximately June 20th—July 20th, for no reason other than this is the time of year that you can literally buy them at any grocery store

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Yeah I’m getting these. Why does boiling bananas make you shit yourself?

anyone else’s tumblr ads trying desperately to get you to shit yourself using bananas or is that just mine

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There’s the episode where Thomas decides he doesn’t need a driver and goes out on his own and like immediately crashes into the stationmasters house at breakfast and they’re like, ‘Thomas we didn’t invite you to breakfast you shit!’ like the whole front wall of their gaff isn’t caved in by a fucking train.

So the drivers must do something, but I can’t fathom what.

having a 3yo brother means i get exposed to kids’ shows way more often than i thought i would at this point in my life, but man, binge watching thomas the tank engine as an adult is a wild fucking experience

all these trains (and there’s like 20 counting locomotives alone, don’t even get me started on the anthropomorphic train cabins) are MAD competitive the whole time and will constantly fuck up their own whole day by tring to prove they’re the biggest baddest train. and like, i understand that you gotta get you plot from somewhere and i imagine plotlines like this happen in cars etc. as well, but the other day i was watching and i noticed that all these goddamn locomotives have DRIVERS in them. that apparently have no control over their train’s actions at all whatsoever. so these trains wake up, pick up their drivers, go to work, get taunted by another train who’s like ���ha ha i see u there with your 4 cabins but did you know i can pull SIX cabins and still fucking book it at 80mph” and the 4 cabin train will be like “fuck it i gotta prove myself now, hook me up with 4 more cabins” and will inevitably derail themselves or some shit while the engine driver just shuts up and kicks back the whole time

i explained this to my brother and was like, is that fucked up or what, but he just pointed at the green train and went “that’s percy” so i guess that’s his take on the situation

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Unmute !

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my last game is actually overwatch haha… wbu?

#rimworld #shit

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Not disputing this but lenders & banks will also be lobbying government for the status quo too, and they’re powerful people. The last thing they want is for properties they have mortgaged to go into negative equity because of it happened on a wide scale, they’d lose billions.

Powerful people are very good at convincing non powerful people that their aims are aligned. In this case I suspect pushing the idea that anyone can and should own property making it seem that everyone is invested in the system. If a renter sees themselves as a potential property owner they’d not necessarily want to see any change because in the future it would be their home which would be affected by house price drops, even if owning a home is a pipe dream they’ll never see become reality.

Anything that decreases housing prices across the board will also necessarily decrease the net worth of “middle-class” homeowners, much of whose wealth consists of home equity. It’s that simple. This is the basic calculus - really, third-grade arithmetic - that gets liberal-run municipalities all across America tied up in useless Rube Goldberg bullshit like “affordable housing” quotas for new development. They’ll try anything to address the housing crisis except anything that would actually fix it, because their key political constituency (respectable, middle-class property owners) is the group that benefits most from the skyrocketing cost of housing and stands to lose the most if that trend is reversed.

The mid-century socioeconomic engineering project to create a broad-based property-owning middle class ultimately generated a policy inertia that has lasted for decades even after all the other aspects of that project were hollowed out. Even for people who saw the writing on the wall, basically the only option has been to wait for economic and demographic trends to progress to the point where America (and particularly urban America) becomes a nation of renters rather than a nation of homeowners, and the former constituency can finally outnumber and overpower the latter one to break their entrenched privileges. In fact, things need to progress well past the point of parity, since homeowners not only vote at relatively high rates but are both willing and able to pursue political activism outside the ballot box.

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Plenty of folks have lost their jobs in hospitality and we’re forced into job hunting for jobs which weren’t affected by covid. They’ve found that the sort of job you can do from home or a covid safe office is physically easier, often better paid and has better hours. Is it any wonder no one wants to go back?

But for real?

The number of restaurants I see that are stating “closed because of lack of emoloyees” - isn’t this what you all wanted?

Let’s ignore the whole unemployment debate for a minute even - we’ve been absolutely blasting fast food workers for not getting a better job if they wanted to be paid more. What is a whole crew of fast food workers decided “fuck it, I’m deciding to find a new job now that I have time to create resumes because of Covid.”

And now they just...won’t go back, because you argued that for having the audacity to work in fast food, they shouldn’t be able to make a living wage and be able to support themselves.

You don’t get to have it both ways.

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My kids keep telling me riddles and they are on par with MBMBAM’s riddle me piss riddles.

A dog is at a park and he finds a bone, then he sees a bigger bone and drops his other one. He leaves the park without a bone. Why? It was a reflection.

#mbmbam #riddle me piss

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It’s time to start thinking about Christmas lads!

I am very not joking btw. Today we got news from our freight forwarders that at one point this week, nearly half the container shipping capacity out of Asia was sat with their thumbs up their arses in the China sea.

The acute reason for this is ports in and around Shenzhen, China closing due to covid outbreaks, the bigger reason is that the shipping industry is absolutely stupid and constantly operating at max capacity so when anything goes wrong, it all goes to shit and this past 12 months has been a big one for things going wrong. Better get settled for an epic rant story time!

When covid hit China in early 2020, they closed down for lunar new year, which most factories close down for anyways but the length of time they were closed was increased to break the cycle of transmission. During a normal LNY, shipping lines essentially cancel sailings because no one is shipping out and seeing an early March slump in shipping demand they cancelled more sailings. Demand is always a bit high after this as you can imagine but it was increased by the LNY being extended and a sudden increase demand for goods in late March/April as people stayed home.

This demand started to really hit home in July when it became increasingly difficult to obtain space on a vessel. Also the increase in blank sailings (cancelled sailings) came back to bite them in the arse when months later in about November it transpired that as there had been a break in the normal ebb and flow of full containers out of China and empty ones into China, all the empties were sat in ports anywhere but China. This caused problems in not just for getting things out of China but getting things into container yards around the world as they became full of empty containers. In the UK this was a big problem for Felixstowe, which coupled with a few badly timed storms and a poor rollout of a new booking in system, meant that vessels just looked at Felixstowe and thought, ‘nah, I’ll come back later.’ Pressure increased on all UK ports as a result and goods were delayed by up to a month as the vessels offloaded at other ports in Europe before returning or even offloading UK bound containers on the continent to then be driven to the UK.

When all this was finally clearing up, it was LNY again so once again shipping lines operated at limited capacity. Then the Ever Given got stuck which not only had an impact on the vessels stuck behind it, but all the schedules went to shit so even if a vessel wasn’t directly impacted, it fucked the entire system.

Once the spectre of this latest shit storm was fading, there were cases of covid at Yantian port, one of the biggest in the world. The port was half closed, initially for four days but this dragged on throughout June. People started to look to nearby ports to ship goods but they too started to shut down due to covid outbreaks. So now we are here, with nothing moving, vessels sat waiting to berth in China and the prospect that the problems caused now will be causing further problems for at least the next six months.

Getting anything out of China is next to impossible at the moment and through all of this the shipping lines have hiked their prices to absurd levels. A container last year cost anywhere between $900-$2000 to ship China to Europe and people are now being quoted at least $17,000. Even then you aren’t guaranteed a spot, they’ll happily chuck you off the schedule if they can find someone willing to pay more for the space. They’re even fucking over their biggest customers as companies with massive contracts (think huge retailers) are having their booking cancelled because why give the space to a company that has a cheap deal when you can sell the space to someone else who doesn’t have that luxury of a good contract and is desperate enough to pay exorbitant fees. There’s like 12 shipping lines and if one hikes a price they all do and its all totally legal (legally they can’t discuss prices between themselves but informally they can see what their competitors are charging and independently choose to match it). It’s incredibly shortsighted because long term if the volatility continues, people will look closer to home for production, because if you landed costs are nearly nine times higher than they were a year ago, it’s no longer cheaper to produce goods half way round the world. This doesn’t even touch on the damage this does to small businesses which could go under because of this short sighted greed.

Anyway what this boils down to is that there are going to be shortages of consumer goods for at least another six to eight months. If getting the perfect gift for a loved one is important to you, get it now just in case because it will either not be available or it will be more expensive. Also good luck getting your hands on electronics even now, the chip shortage gets thrown in the mix for consumer electronics.

Tl;dr: the supply chain is utterly utterly fucked. Just… totally bollocksed. The shipping industry bounces from one catastrophe to another like a drunk man bouncing off parked cars and they’re not even attempting to sober up.

#shipping #not that kind of shipping #the sea freight kind #supply chain

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I believe they’re reopening a tungsten mine in Devon which will probably be used for circuitry as it’s a key component.

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I reckon they’re holding out for the summer holidays and hoping that stops it running rampant around schools cause they won’t do anything else to prevent it spreading to kids. They should have extended half term, but now we’ll just have to wait.

ppl talk abt the beginning of covid and the first lockdown alot but nobody talks abt how truly deeply evil september-december 2020 was like that was a desolate and twisted time actually

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Isn’t there a video of someone driving through a town late at night blaring this song and the crowd milling about reacts in exactly the same way?

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Change your last name u ain't even gay

I’ll get right on that.

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one day some of you will actually go outside and go to pride and you’re going to meet old black queens who refers to themselves as femme, you’ll meet people from small towns who still use the word transsexual, you’ll see that your local activist organization set up a stall about your local LGBT history that includes leather bar’s history, you’ll see lesbians in groups refer to themselves as “guys” and “boys”, you’ll see someone with breasts and pasties and little else have “he / him” painted on his chest, and you’ll be so caught up with your terminally online attitude that instead of appreciating the wide diversity of people who exist in the LGBT community who are brave enough to share themselves you’ll just be formulating posts and tweets in your head for when get home about how “problematic” it all was and it’s honestly tragic