https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2026/october/appeal-after-man-stabbed-on-bus-in-birmingham/

I’d love to spend that time with Freddie Mercury.

so a friend and me were arguing about this the other day. we were talking about politics and I said that israel is more hated than Russia, and that I thought it was a bit weird.

he said that was BS and they are both hated the same/ both equally bad. so I said that i would gladly walk around the high street with a Russian flag t shirt while he wears an Israeli one and see who gets more shit.

he said that we would both get shit but I feel pretty confident that if I wore a Russian t shirt no one would even look twice. but if I wore an Israeli t shirt, I would worry I’d get stabbed.

who’s right?

The title seems generalized so I'll say that not all of them are like this but I've experienced aggression and pressing from teenagers quite a few often times, as a teenager myself i understand i could be a target for this but i even see adults getting harassed like that, the first time it happened to me i shrugged it off thinking it was just one of the bad apples, but i've have experienced this like atleast 4-5 times and it just seems a lot more than what i would've experienced if i was in the middle east. Maybe living in a shitty area is a cause, but its even happened when i was in well developed parts of the town.

I’m struggling with the logic here.

Say, when pay evaluations roll around, do you discuss how much money you are getting paid with co workers to see how you compare?

It gets no hype whatsoever despite being a massive city you would think being an hour from London would mean it would be booming

Unpopular opinion but I just don't see that much difference between Birmingham and Manchester but you would think the latter was paradise if you listened to media

Maybe it will change when HS2 is eventually built

As you can see on the picture, Heart radio "recommends" that you buy 150 entries for 40 quid.

That's a way to make people feel like they'll have a real chance at winning the prize if they literally gift Heart radio 40 pounds for absolutely nothing.

Lotteries are supposed to be a very small investment that it's done to dream and they're heavily regulated as far as I know.

Radio cash giveaways have way chiller regulations and from what I could find online, they don't disclose how many people purchase entries every week, making it impossible to know what the odds are.

Still, people are entitled to spend their money the way they want, I just feel like every week thousands of struggling people throw out the window 40 pounds hoping that they'll become rich.

Circumcision is rare in the UK compared to the USA and other countries, but it is still practiced by some cultures and religious group. What's your opinion?

Making our roads look like Yemen because of their weight.

Taking out wing mirrors and denting other people's cars while trying to get out of these girthy bastards at parking bays.

Launching pedestrians to Mars in collisions.

What do they do for work? How did you help? Did you get paid? How much if so?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8vgy7ww21rqo

A small rant and smaller observation , so a daft question really but what happened with kids/ teens, currently stuck in house for a few days as waiting for replacement parts for my wheelchair, I'm mobility impaired due to issues with cancer and long term illness. Was on my way to the shops and had an immature crotch spawn and his mates decide to drive by me with a horde e-bikes and scooters and kick the hell out of my chair and back, yelling Pedo, nonce, fatso and a wide variety of other insults and I'll admit I'm overweight but I've never worked for the church or BBC .

Just curious when kids got this brazen where I lived growing up was a rough area, Stanley in Durham then moved to Meadow Well in North Tyneside, congrats mum you could pick a hole next stop, Middlesbrough I reckon if she hadn't had a stroke.

But I digress, you acted like that, either your parents dealt with you, the person you harassed dealt with you or the local bruisers did.
Police have basically said can't do anything, and if I swing at them or cause them injury I know I'm the one that'd go to prison based on what I've been told.

It's not all of them but the bad are bad, first time they've been violent but not first time I've been yelled at or spat at although typically it's older generation due to being a scrounger.

So I'm curious what the heck happened? Is it the lack of consequences ? Or is it something more?

Edit: Seems I didn't realise how common this might be , now here's a bit of a follow on, is there anything we as people can do to work on this issue? When I was growing up we had seasonal work with the farms, few shops had delivery runs, is it cause kids are bored and don't have things to spend time on, or even if you gave them a rewarding outlet to keep em busy think it'd still happen in a ideal scenario?

hi all. i would never usually make a post like this but i am genuinely struggling. i (M21) currently “live” with my mum (F51) and i don’t know what to do.

i have been living in a car (which i lost recently due to a crash) since august, and my household is toxic and drives my mental state worse.

for context, i am an AuDHD person, and my mum is my “full time carer” yet every time i ask for help (which is within reason, due to tasks i require a carer with) she always sighs and screams at me for it, i have been choosing to sleep in the car because, frankly, being around her drives my (already “at risk”) mental state worse.

she completely disregards my disabilities and gets angry at me for things beyond my control, and if i disagree with her or upset her, she screams at me, saying i am a “vile abusive manipulative narcissistic cunt”

today, i have tried to have a civil, calm conversation with her, in a public setting, and she went straight to giving me the silent treatment and even went as far as to scream at me in public, and rant about me to the poor cashier in the shop who was purely trying to do her job.

she also screamed at me in regards to my partner (F20) and said one of the reasons she doesn’t want her staying over is due to my partners religious beliefs, bear in mind we are the same religion. i told her that was discrimination and she told me i was
using “satanic manipulation tactics”

for extra context, i am currently under watch due to suicidal and self harming behaviour, which she blames my partner for, even though i have been engaging in these behaviours since 12 years old.

every time i try to have a civilised and respectful conversation about my emotions and feelings to her, she tells me i am a manipulative narcissist who is trying to use emotional blackmail against her. she has also been on rambles about how the whole family is against her and talking about her behind her back, and the only proof or source she has is because “she just knows it”

she refuses to seek any kind of psychological or emotional help and ever since i was a child she has engaged in this behavior.

when i was a child she had said she “hates liars” and told me that if i ever lied she would cut my tongue out and make me chew on soap.

whenever i had told the truth about my upbringing during therapy sessions, she would get extremely angry and say i was “making up lies so that she would look bad”

she very obviously has some kind of paranoid delusion disorder yet she refuses to seek help for it.

anyway, context over, i am unable to save enough due to her taking over half of my PIP payment as “rent” which for some reason is gone within a few days.

for added context, when i was first awarded PIP, i got backpaid, and received £3K, which i wanted to put into savings for a house, however, on her terms, i had sent her £1.5K, which was all gone by the next day.

she has a delusion in which she believes she will “get a big win” on the lottery, and i feel that i am indirectly funding that.

i tried to talk to her earlier about the potential of me lowering my payments so i can save towards my own place, and she straight away started saying i was a “financially abusive manipulative narcissist”

the last time i tried having a conversation about moving out, she screamed at me, saying PIP would “stop my money” even though it is not means tested.

nevertheless, whether i move out or not, i require a carer. what can i do about this, and how can i move out as soon as possible?

i fear that i will be trapped this way forever.

Mine is Young Guns & Young Guns 2

Horrid henry is a british series thats been getting crapped on recently, particulary Henry’s parents.

What do you Brits think of Horrid Henry? Do you like it or does it deserve the scorn and antipathy it has been receiving?

As someone living in Florida, ive had my fair share of snorkeling trips, both in the Florida Keys and once in the Bahamas. I saw so much cool marine life on my snorkel trips to the Keys

That brings me to my question: what are some of the best places to snorkel in the UK? Places that have diverse marine ecosystems?

I was looking through the latest ONS figures comparing tax revenue and public expenditure across the four nations of the UK, and the differences are quite substantial.

Importantly, these figures INCLUDE North Sea oil and gas revenues, allocated geographically, meaning Scotland receives its estimated geographical share.

Revenue includes taxes and other public receipts, while spending includes expenditure attributed to each nation, including UK-wide costs.

Source: ONS – Country and Regional Public Sector Finances, 2024/25⁠

England raises considerably more revenue relative to its spending than Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

At a time when the UK faces enormous government debt, rising debt-interest payments, strained public services and a high tax burden, I find myself wondering:

Why isn’t English independence a more popular political idea?

Could an independent England, retaining more control over the revenue it generates, have greater scope to balance its finances, reduce taxation, invest in public services and ultimately improve living standards for its citizens?

Or would the economic disruption, division of national debt and costs of separating the four nations outweigh the potential financial benefits?

Of course, the deficits above aren’t simply transfers paid for by England, and they don’t tell us what independence would cost. Nevertheless, the underlying figures seem worth discussing.

I’m genuinely interested in people’s thoughts, particularly from an economic rather than nationalist perspective.