Spotify can have one.
Not content with being the absolute lowest payer to artists, then stopping paying artists with low stream counts they’re now putting the price up again for the second time in less than a year.
Presumably Daniel Ek hasn’t quite got enough yachts.
They really are the poster-child for enshittification.
I’d like to change to Le Qobuz but the wife she say no. On principle, because I suggested it.
Arseholes. Cockpunch.
The email notifying me of the price increase offered no explanation so I decided to give them a chance and googled it.
Apparently it is so that they can “keep innovating” and “continue to deliver value to fans”.
So that’ll be pure greed then. Abusing a dominant market position.
They promised CD quality streaming years ago and have never actually fulfilled that promise.
Why I dropped them a long time ago now.
Bought a full-fat Qobuz Sublime subscription, with the intention of letting Spotify wither next month. Fuck you Daniel Ek.
That will work fine until you discover that Mrs G shares Spotify playlists with the rest of the NI coven, then you will be in trouble!
" mooching around while we rapidly debated our options and “politely declined 
” their offer to sell…FUUK!
Mahoosive cockpunch to my nephew to thinking that Fuckbook marketplace was reliable, and an even bigger 
to me for even contemplating the whole trip was a good idea! 
Lucky escape fella! Coulda clearly have gone down a helluva lot worse!
If it seems too good blah blah 
Cheers…Seriously, the more I think about it the less I believe myself and my memory of the events…It actually felt dodgy from the moment we arrived, up to the extent that I actually felt scared enough to send a random what3words coordinates message to one of our family WhatsApp chats, totally unexplained (and somewhat scarily not questioned until about 9.30 this morning when my niece asked if I was ok?.. 
)
tbh I’ve had my fair share of encounters with the darker side of society in the past, and am by no means naive to such things, but this was seriously next level and totally unexpected! 
Pretty much how I feel every time I drive north of Reading.
Not to be a cunt about it… but unfortunately that’s the only option open to me due to being a cunt - £395 for what appears to be a mint set plus stickered-new tyres, and you didn’t just laugh and move-on to a more plausible ad?!
Honestly glad you got out unscathed, and a lesson to us all I guess.
Sadly, now sober me, agrees wholeheartedly with you… At the time my only thought when invited along for the ride with half an hours notice was “Yeah, that seems like a reasonable thing to do on a boring Monday evening when telly was shit!”… Hindsight (along with sobriety and a required underwear change ) is a wonderful thing! 
You now know that your nephew (?) is incredibly naive and to check anything he suggests.
But, weren’t we all in our early 20s!
Cunts cunts cunts
Privatise it, load it with debt, syphon off massive dividends and leave the company with no reserves so when they get fined for being useless polluting cunts they have no financial resilience and default on the debts.
Then the taxpayer picks up a £15Bn debt
The only positive is that the shareholders will get rinsed
A friend of mine believes that we will come to see the privatisation of BT as a massive disaster. The reasoning being that the BT privatisation appeared to work well in that the service improved and costs came down. This missed the point that it happened at a time where the fundamental technologies underpinning the service were changing dramatically - the move to electronic exchanges, copper to fibre backbones etc which worked better, allowed circuits to be added easily and required less maintenance.
The political class convinced themselves that privatisation per-se delivered the benefits and proceeded to apply it to increasingly unlikely industries culminating in water which is inherently a regional monopoly with very limited opportunities for competition. Couple that with a preference for light touch regulatory regimes and a lack of understanding of just how predatory the companies buying into those utilities could be and you have the blueprint for the current shit show.
There’s a weird setup where Kemble Water owns it and this is used to give the dividends to shareholders but TW has to borrow money to fund those dividends. They’ve been cunts as TW owns the debt and Kemble Water gets the dividends.
Can’t see why they can’t let it fail and then seize it as CNI, dump all the debt and tell the shareholders to get fucked.
The govt will bleat on but it’s those useless cunts (OFWAT) who did fuck all when TW were taking out billions in loans and giving it out as dividends.
I fail to understand why the taxpayer should take on any debt. The lenders knew the risk they were taking, fuck em.
So despite all the safety groups telling them they need more or closer escape areas from the beginning. DfT said no and proceeded with smart motorways anyway.
Just had a notification through the door that the M27 is having more escape areas built so have months of roadworks and bullshit to look forward to again.
Figures released following Freedom of Information requests by Panorama show that between June 2022 and February 2024 there were 397 incidents when smart motorways lost power, making it difficult to detect when a vehicle has broken down. These outages sometimes lasted days:
hahaha round here that would be pikeys pinching the copper power cables
Looks like TW are trying to commit suicide and force nationalisation
I think / have heard that water bills nationally need to go up by that amount. Compared to everything else they are underpriced.
