Noel_Skum
@Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on WACK 16 hours ago:
Great. Now I know that spooning might lead to a different type of spooning.
- Comment on What's the difference between the UK justice system and the U.S. justice system? 1 week ago:
There are magistrate and crown courts. Magistrates will deal with “lesser” crimes themselves but will forward the “big ones” onto the Crown Court.
For more serious crimes you still (mostly) have the right to a jury trial.
We also differentiate between solicitors and barristers. Both are lawyers. Solicitors are everywhere and it’s super easy to have a meeting with one. Barristers tend to be retained on your behalf via your solicitor. It’s possible to not even see your barrister until you’re in court and they are defending you.
- Comment on PAWG P-A-W-G 1 week ago:
Lovely answer - but you’re in a shitposting community…
What kind of content did you expect here?
Low quality? Low effort? Offensive?
tick ✅ tick ✅ tick ✅
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I doubt whether the vast majority of British readers would’ve been jolted by it - at the time of first publication. It was a word that had been in everyday parlance that got attached to dark “things” as a describer.
Here’s the thing though, go forward maybe 15 years again and you have the 1964 Smethwick constituency election. The winner had a, uhh, memorable slogan: “If you want a n***** for a neighbour, vote Labour.”
It’s worth noting that the “n*****s” in question were, most likely, gonna be from the Punjab. Go figure.
So, yeah, in less than a generation the word in question went from everyday speech with no overt pejorative meaning to the explicitly racist word it is today. It morphed.
- Comment on What is a DNS address ? 1 week ago:
Very roughly speaking: Every device connected to the Internet is identified and communicated with using a unique number - just like the telephone system.
DNS keeps track of the correlation between the device number vs how that device is identified in language.
Very much like a telephone directory.
- Comment on Why do you post here or other social media? 2 weeks ago:
Ideally I’d just lurk but I chip in every now and again to help the place keep ticking over. Without interaction these places would be wastelands.
Thanks for asking the question.
- Comment on You can only joke about things that don't bother MMEEEEEE 3 weeks ago:
On places like 9gag any old straightforward racism / sexism / genderism etc is always tagged as dark humour.
It’s mainly asocial little boys who want to be edgy and controversial but are too scared to just straight up admit they have no social exposure to people different to themselves; and are terrified of everything that is.
- Comment on We're so back 3 weeks ago:
There’s kind of two varieties. The Americas one is different to the other and was discovered more recently.
- Comment on Why would a drug dealer kill their rich "client"? 3 weeks ago:
Balance an equation between what you are owed, how difficult it’ll be to recover the debt, the chances of them implicating you in supply, and what message the killing will send to others… if you think it’s worth it then go ahead. Personally though I’d try to extract (at least some of) what I’m owed - but if all else fails and you’re criminal standing / ego is damaged then you may well go ahead anyway.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 1 month ago:
Most of them do, yeah. You may hear a bit of a “tongue click” or something with others first before the “s”. A lot of first-language English speakers seem to really struggle when they see two consonants together that they haven’t previously encountered.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 1 month ago:
I always thought it was “G for Gnome” - huh, never too late to learn.
- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 1 month ago:
Not all colleges and not all degrees are equal. Some people can excel in a single field but struggle in everything else. Some people have excellent memory function but precious little ability to reason. Some people change dramatically from their late teens to their late twenties. The list goes on…
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 1 month ago:
Yeah - it’s “fluid ounces” but due to a much memed question that someone once posted the internet sometimes refers to them as “Florida ounces” purely for the lulz.
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 2 months ago:
Never kill someone who owes you money - that’s terrible business. Kill for revenge or to send a message…
- Comment on What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next? 2 months ago:
That’s a pretty solid answer - well done.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 3 months ago:
Regardless of the whole big c / little c argument I’d still be hard pressed to find one person that was alarmed with falling crime figures…
I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that the poster meant a “knee-jerky, xenophobic, Reform / BNP / UKIP / English Alliance etc. voting Londoner” because, yeah, that headline would be counter to their narrative.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 3 months ago:
Be careful using the word “conservative” if you’re discussing UK politics - it’s literally the name of a (mainstream) political party.
- Comment on Anyone? 3 months ago:
Yeah, on reflection, I suppose… and the men; and everyone else inbetween.
- Comment on Anyone? 3 months ago:
They immediately sent my first one back and said: “Please stop. We’re gonna make an exception for you.”
Kinda knocked my confidence a little bit, to be honest.
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London 8 months ago:
*destabilise
/s
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Ignore what randos on the web say - the opinions of only two people matter. You and her. Good luck; however it works out.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 11 months ago:
You’re familiar with market towns in the UK? A bit like one of those but with hours and hours of agricultural land all around it. A solitary high street in the middle of nowhere.
N.B. I’m not USian so don’t know what I’m on about…
- Comment on Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online? 1 year ago:
Yeah - back in the day A/S/L was asked so you had a rough idea of the type of person you were talking (typing) with…
37/M/India v 15/F/US would give you a very rough idea of the demographic the other person belonged to - and might shape your conversation differently.
- Comment on quick health tip 1 year ago:
I see people add milk, I see people add cream - is butter that different?
- Comment on Anon needs to spend less time on 4chan 1 year ago:
I was talking to a black guy from the US one day at a sailing club. He said that a lot of his ancestors had had a bad experience the first time they’d been on a boat; so water based activities weren’t that popular… I thought about it for a second or two and then we both started laughing. History is brutal.
- Comment on Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight 1 year ago:
One possible answer is that there is only one country on this planet that equates gun ownership with politics - from a global point of view it wouldn’t make sense to have an algorithm that connects fire arms to a particular political slant.
- Comment on BACK OFF FELLAS, SHE'S MINE 1 year ago:
If she is in Toronto then smoking weed from a bong is no more illegal than drinking a beer from a glass - if that was your worry about the visible paraphernalia.
- Comment on my dreams in colour 1 year ago:
For their personalities?
- Comment on Old photos in real life 1 year ago:
Yeah, this is
cringea shitpost - Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 1 year ago:
Mainly it’s because not a single human being in Mesoamérica spoke any form of Spanish before, uh, the Spaniards turned-up. (And began committing their genocide)
The question was asking why Castilian was taught, as opposed to any other dialect/form of Spanish that is spoken in geographically proximous states to the US.