Oooooh, oobidoo!
I wanna be like you-oo-oo!
I wanna walk like you!
Talk like you!
Scoo-doo-bidoo!

Not sure, but I was once (un?)fortunate enough to witness what happens when a bear was faced with an orangutan.

Well, let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.

I don’t disagree, but I wasn’t really talking about care homes, I was talking about treatment, operations, maternity care, etc.

All fair points - but the fundamental point about people getting access to free healthcare has remained so far.

Just on the free healthcare thing - in the UK, the NHS is hugely iconic national institution, and politically it’s almost a no-go area in terms of its founding principles.

Which is not to say that privatisation hasn’t been creeping into the NHS for some time - it has, starting in earnest with the Thatcher governments on the 80s.

However, no matter how right wing a party is, it would be almost political suicide to make an all out effort to remove the basic tenet of the NHS - universal care, free at the point of delivery.

Unfortunately, what’s tended to happen since the 80s is (IMO) a managed decline of the NHS, with layers of management brought in and services allowed to decline in quality and availability.

The result is that the public do start to question the model, see the NHS as second rate, and start to lose some of that loyalty towards it.

However, it will take some time to ever get to the point where a government or any stripe is safe to even talk openly about moving away from the NHS model.

And hopefully that point will never come, and instead the NHS will be given renewed commitment and support both from government and the wider public.

It really is one of the very best things about the UK, and were we ever to lose it, it would be a criminal dereliction of duty by those into whose care it has been passed.

Oh baby, do you know what’s that’s worth?

Yeah, likewise, it’s a beautiful piece of work, genuinely inspiring.

And yeah, it was a fabulous experience to see it on the big screen. It was part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and I’m so glad I caught it 😁

Yay, I was going to say The Farthest too! Amazing doc, that I was lucky enough to see at the cinema, with the director present to talk about it afterwards.

Highly recommend.

I’m not ‘admitting’ anything, I’m confirming it though. And again an anecdote is fine, when you’ve said that something “never” happens.

Anecdote is valid when someone has employed the term “never”.

Yeah that’s pretty much spot on.

The caravans in this case are a type known as static caravans - basically the same sort of accommodation as a mobile, towed caravan, but usually bigger and more or less permanently positioned somewhere. They even sometimes have additional casings that hide the wheels underneath to make them look more like houses.

EDIT, as I didn’t answer your main question. A caravan park is a term used both for something like a trailer park, where customers tow in their own caravan, but also, as in this case, for a holiday park with these static caravans spread around, similar to small lodges.

Behind the bar - yeah, that’s what they mean here too, the people who serve at the bar. As it’s in a holiday park, it’s likely that it’s a family friendly bar where kids are allowed to be as long as their parents are with them, and can even probably go up and order snacks or soft drinks by themselves. It’s not a bar bar in the usual adults only sense.

Tragic story :-(

The other thing about this price point is that it’s a headline grabber - and then once people find out more, they will spot that if you buy a Switch with MK preinstalled, the game costs half that.

So suddenly it feels like, “oh hey, that’s a great deal, and I was obviously going to buy a Switch 2 anyway” - and Nintendo get the sales and the decreased cost of manufacturing the physical game.

Similar, I think I paid £65 for Street Fighter II: Champion Edition on MegaDrive. That’s US$84 - and that was in 1992.

I must have been mad. Although, I probably played that game more than any other, at least until some of the huge open world games of recent decades.

There are certain 12" records which despite only having one it two songs in them go for ludicrous prices, in the hundreds. I’d quite like to have those please.

It would be subjectively new to them, yes. But objectively it’s still an old game. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, irrelevant or whatever, it’s just old. And that’s fine.

Old doesn’t mean irrelevant though.

I absolutely would consider a book from the 19th century an old book, just as I’d consider the movies you mentioned as old movies. But a great movie is a great movie regardless of age.

Fair point, and yeah, I’m in the UK.

Counterpoint. I once found about £80, handed it in to the police, got a receipt, a few weeks later got a call, no-one had claimed it, was allowed to come and claim it.