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In 2023, Police investigated images of a bizarre ‘death wall’ photographed by a tradesman before he painted over it at the home of Erin Patterson, the woman at the centre of the death cap mushroom case that has gripped Australia. A person who saw the images described them as ‘satanic’.

 

https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/04/new-twist-in-toxic-mushroom-case-after-death-wall-investigated-by-police-19441473/

 

Yesterday, Erin Patterson was found guilt of murdering three of her estranged husband's relatives by deliberately serving them poisonous death cap mushrooms.

 

 

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On 7/12/2025 at 8:15 AM, Mr H said:

How does one become an expert? 🤔

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/12/england-reservoirs-lowest-level-for-decade-hosepipe-bans

 

England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade as experts call for hosepipe bans


Climate change is always mentioned on this subject. But After a quick Google search I’m not convinced….

 

The fact is there have been no new reservoirs built for 30 years when the population of UK was 57 million. It’s now 70 million. 
Apparently there are 15% - 20% more houses now than there was when the last reservoir was built.

That’s a lot more water that’s needed to supply these houses and for the 17 million extra people to drink.

 

This is like most other problems in the UK. We build, build and build more homes and seemingly allow more people to enter the country without improving the infrastructure like reservoirs, schools, roads, NHS and so on. No wonder there is a shortage of everything.

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Quite a lot about measles being on the rise at the minute and a down take with the MMR vaccine.

A child has died today who contracted measles, and no disrespect to the child or their family, but I haven’t forgotten how covid deaths were reported. They tell you they contracted measles or covid and then died but forget to mention they were in hospital for other serious issues beforehand or even mention if they were vaccinated or not in the first place.

 

Scaremongering is best served with doom media reporting. Just like those random Chinese people having seizures and collapsing suddenly in the street as covid first appeared. 
 

 

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7 hours ago, Mazthehobo said:


Climate change is always mentioned on this subject. But After a quick Google search I’m not convinced….

 

The fact is there have been no new reservoirs built for 30 years when the population of UK was 57 million. It’s now 70 million. 
Apparently there are 15% - 20% more houses now than there was when the last reservoir was built.

That’s a lot more water that’s needed to supply these houses and for the 17 million extra people to drink.

 

This is like most other problems in the UK. We build, build and build more homes and seemingly allow more people to enter the country without improving the infrastructure like reservoirs, schools, roads, NHS and so on. No wonder there is a shortage of everything.

 

Not forgetting the failure of the water companies to maintain and upgrade the water mains infrastructure, which results in millions of litres of water being lost every year due to leaks. 

 

The thing is though, we could build more reservoirs, but they still need rainfall to fill them up. I don't believe it is because of 'climate change' but this year has been one of those where the position of the jet stream has meant that the UK has encountered less wet weather than it might usually do. Which is great for people who love long spells of dry and sunny weather to laze around and relax in, but not so great for farmers and plant growers. 

 

In my lifetime, there have been many hosepipe bans and 'drought warnings' in the UK, its not a 'new phenomenon'. In fact, I wrote about this three years ago on my website:

 

Dire warnings of water shortages on an island surrounded by seas

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Now yes it is true that de-salinisation plants are expensive to build and maintain, and the process itself uses a great deal of energy. But I’m surprised this has not been considered at all by our government, who are of course not averse to ‘finding money’ to spend on huge projects such as this.

We currently have a water supply which ‘banks’ on rainfall being collected in huge reservoirs and is then treated and pumped across the country.

There’s an incredible lack of foresight from our Government though, as this water supply system isn’t designed for the ever-growing population on our isles, and the Government also seems to be very keen on growing that population even further. More homes and more people = more demand for water as well as more sewage water waste that needs treating.

https://thegrumpyowl.co.uk/2022/07/31/dire-warnings-of-water-shortages-on-an-island-surrounded-by-seas/

 

 

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1 hour ago, Grumpy Owl said:

 

Not forgetting the failure of the water companies to maintain and upgrade the water mains infrastructure, which results in millions of litres of water being lost every year due to leaks. 

 

The thing is though, we could build more reservoirs, but they still need rainfall to fill them up. I don't believe it is because of 'climate change' but this year has been one of those where the position of the jet stream has meant that the UK has encountered less wet weather than it might usually do. Which is great for people who love long spells of dry and sunny weather to laze around and relax in, but not so great for farmers and plant growers. 

 

In my lifetime, there have been many hosepipe bans and 'drought warnings' in the UK, its not a 'new phenomenon'. In fact, I wrote about this three years ago on my website:

 

Dire warnings of water shortages on an island surrounded by seas

https://thegrumpyowl.co.uk/2022/07/31/dire-warnings-of-water-shortages-on-an-island-surrounded-by-seas/

 

 


didn’t know you had a website!! Nice article as well…

 

But yeah, agreed, there are lots of factors to take into account… but only one is mentioned by the media!

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1 hour ago, Mazthehobo said:


didn’t know you had a website!! Nice article as well…

 

But yeah, agreed, there are lots of factors to take into account… but only one is mentioned by the media!

 

Thanks, I should probably try and write more on my website, it's remarkable how many old articles I can refer back to now.

 

Yes, anything that is wrong in the world now is lazily attributed to 'climate change', and as I mentioned in another topic here, people believe this because they have such short memories now due to being dumbed down by social media.

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13 hours ago, Grumpy Owl said:

The thing is though, we could build more reservoirs, but they still need rainfall to fill them up. I don't believe it is because of 'climate change' but this year has been one of those where the position of the jet stream has meant that the UK has encountered less wet weather than it might usually do. Which is great for people who love long spells of dry and sunny weather to laze around and relax in, but not so great for farmers and plant growers. 

 

We don't necessarily need more rain to fill up new reservoirs.  Where I live the reservoirs have a catchment area to collect the rain, where they usually plant trees for an extra income, so the problem is finding more land for catchments.  Another issue is that, in the drive for continuous 'economic growth' we have been made ever more needy in the post-industrial consumer society. We have to be always consuming more stuff to keep up the economic vortex. So I think we've got beyond the maximum population and consumption per head which our natural environment can provide us - and we have to import ever more to make up the difference.  Add to that the economic model requires women to work full time to add to the workforce and drastically reduce our family size, means the system is in a death spiral which can only survive with mass immigration, mass imports and continually inflating the currency. 

  

But fresh water is something we can't afford to import, and the cost of desalination is also high (it tastes gross too) so water is at the forefront of the cracks appearing in the whole system. They dared not privatise it properly, as we can't even choose our supplier. 

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Shameful’ that black boys in London more likely to die by 18 than white boys, says Met chief

 

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The head of the Metropolitan police has said it is “shameful” that black boys in London are more likely to be dead by 18 than white boys.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/13/shameful-that-black-boys-london-more-likely-die-by-18-met-chief-mark-rowley

 

Shameful to who?

The other young black men who are murdering each other over drugs, minor disputes and retarded drill music?

 

Or should more young white men be dying for 'diversity'?

 

Why has this clown even got a job.

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11 hours ago, Campion said:

 

We don't necessarily need more rain to fill up new reservoirs.  Where I live the reservoirs have a catchment area to collect the rain, where they usually plant trees for an extra income, so the problem is finding more land for catchments.  Another issue is that, in the drive for continuous 'economic growth' we have been made ever more needy in the post-industrial consumer society. We have to be always consuming more stuff to keep up the economic vortex. So I think we've got beyond the maximum population and consumption per head which our natural environment can provide us - and we have to import ever more to make up the difference.  Add to that the economic model requires women to work full time to add to the workforce and drastically reduce our family size, means the system is in a death spiral which can only survive with mass immigration, mass imports and continually inflating the currency. 

  

But fresh water is something we can't afford to import, and the cost of desalination is also high (it tastes gross too) so water is at the forefront of the cracks appearing in the whole system. They dared not privatise it properly, as we can't even choose our supplier. 

 

You are absolutely right there and I do agree with you. But the water to fill up any new reservoir does have to come from somewhere, mainly from the sky. 🤭

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11 hours ago, cemeterycrow said:

Shameful’ that black boys in London more likely to die by 18 than white boys, says Met chief

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/13/shameful-that-black-boys-london-more-likely-die-by-18-met-chief-mark-rowley

 

Shameful to who?

The other young black men who are murdering each other over drugs, minor disputes and retarded drill music?

 

Or should more young white men be dying for 'diversity'?

 

Why has this clown even got a job.

 

It is indeed shameful that black boys are more likely to die by 18, because they are more likely to become involved with violent crime and gang warfare, due to the breakdown of the traditional family unit, and this 'perception' that black and ethnic minorities are all 'victims'.

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I was just going to write about John Turode being sacked .. and saw this on Greg Wallace, that I must have forgot to ‘post’ !

 

Greg Wallace

 

“The chair of the creative industries watchdog has criticised TV bosses for not acting earlier to address allegations of misconduct about the presenter Greg Wallace. It comes after 50 more people approached the BBC making fresh claims about him. Mr Wallace who is understood to have been sacked from Master Chef denies the claims against him”

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On 7/14/2025 at 9:31 AM, cemeterycrow said:

Shameful’ that black boys in London more likely to die by 18 than white boys, says Met chief

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/13/shameful-that-black-boys-london-more-likely-die-by-18-met-chief-mark-rowley

Shameful to who?

The other young black men who are murdering each other over drugs, minor disputes and retarded drill music?

Or should more young white men be dying for 'diversity'?

Why has this clown even got a job.

 

But why compare black boys to just white boys, who are just another ethnic minority in London now. In the 2021 census, white British were 36.8% and only 23.9% white British school children. (A bit more when non-British whites are included).  Surely a better comparison would be to compare both black and white children to the average figures?  But the article doesn't give any figures, just quotes him saying "far more likely".  

 

He does the same thing with school exclusions, just comparing black boys to white boys, and giving no statistic. But why?  He also wants to "give black boys growing up in London equal life chances to white boys" but doesn't mention equality for anyone else.  Is he trying to stir something up between blacks and whites here?  

 

Nor does he give reasons for it, apart from vague references to the history of policing and mistakes being made; and "racial disparity among suspects and victims of crime in the capital". Skirting round the issue of ethnic profiling - he can say that blacks boys are more victims but not say which race(s) are more perpetrators.  

 

He also says that " the criminal justice system was “close to broken” "   What's that saying, diversity is a strength?  

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3 hours ago, Observations said:

I was just going to write about John Turode being sacked .. and saw this on Greg Wallace, that I must have forgot to ‘post’ !

 

Greg Wallace

 

“The chair of the creative industries watchdog has criticised TV bosses for not acting earlier to address allegations of misconduct about the presenter Greg Wallace. It comes after 50 more people approached the BBC making fresh claims about him. Mr Wallace who is understood to have been sacked from Master Chef denies the claims against him”

All this fuss over a fucking cookery show that's long past its sell by date anyway.

 

Or is it just because these two blokes are "hideously white" as the saying goes.

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12 hours ago, Campion said:

 

But why compare black boys to just white boys, who are just another ethnic minority in London now. In the 2021 census, white British were 36.8% and only 23.9% white British school children. (A bit more when non-British whites are included).  Surely a better comparison would be to compare both black and white children to the average figures?  But the article doesn't give any figures, just quotes him saying "far more likely".  

 

He does the same thing with school exclusions, just comparing black boys to white boys, and giving no statistic. But why?  He also wants to "give black boys growing up in London equal life chances to white boys" but doesn't mention equality for anyone else.  Is he trying to stir something up between blacks and whites here?  

 

Nor does he give reasons for it, apart from vague references to the history of policing and mistakes being made; and "racial disparity among suspects and victims of crime in the capital". Skirting round the issue of ethnic profiling - he can say that blacks boys are more victims but not say which race(s) are more perpetrators.  

 

He also says that " the criminal justice system was “close to broken” "   What's that saying, diversity is a strength?  

Everything seems to be centred around stirring up divisions these days. Victimising different ethnic groups in a ridiculous and patronising manner and riling up the indigenous white British and constantly gaslighting them. Add in the recent obsession on social media with talking up a civil war and it's obvious what they are up to. 

 

Cretins like Rowley will never ask the most pertinent and obvious question which is what has gone so wrong among certain aspects of black youth culture that young black men are murdering each other and why is it so centred around glorifying violent crime, why is it so nihilistic and what's causing it.

 

All he can do is play it off that white people somehow have it better because they are not dying in similar numbers.

 

 

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Normally don't give a shit about the news, but the Epstein/ child trafficking is one thing I get suckered into as it gets my goat.

 

Excuse my language here, but no other way to say it. Trump is a disgusting kunt...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/16/donald-trump-dismisses-inquiry-into-jeffrey-epstein-as-boring

 

Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’

 

 

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