snaprails
@snaprails@feddit.uk
Retired #Telecommunications Engineer. #Travels about. Takes #photos. Likes #railways. Likes #history. Likes old #buildings. Likes old #tech. Likes #beer. Doesn’t like Tories.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media 5 days ago:
Lettuce Connect, so I’m told 🙂
- Comment on Royal Mail trials postbox with parcel hatch, solar panels and barcode scanner 1 week ago:
The solar panels are a bad idea - they’re never going to work underneath the crocheted Easter bunny and fluffy chicks.
- Comment on Ill and disabled people will be made ‘invisible’ by UK benefit cuts, say experts 1 week ago:
Terrible idea. No one wants to be tripping over the buggers because they can’t see them. Someone could get hurt…
- Comment on Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, says she has days to live after car crash 2 weeks ago:
Four days? The Royal Family used to be much more efficient at using car crashes to get rid of problems…
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 2 weeks ago:
Yes, this can’t fail. Now when asked for the purpose of their visit they’ll have to write “spying” rather than “to see the historic cathedral”. That’ll put an end to their shenanigans.
- Comment on Laurence Fox charged with sexual offence over photo of TV presenter 3 weeks ago:
Good grief is that cunt still consuming oxygen? And the media ensures he’s kept well supplied with it 🙄
- Comment on Prospect of £5 pint leaves bitter taste for some pubgoers 3 weeks ago:
A sizeable chunk of the price of a pint in a pub is taxes. Excise Duty + VAT - the VAT being applied after the Excise Duty, effectively taxing the tax. In addition many pubs are owned by “pub cos”, who force the tenants to buy from prescribed suppliers at inflated prices. The pub cos are really property companies, they care not if this means the pub business fails, they’ll just close and redevelop the building/site as something else. Like many other 🇬🇧 problems this has its roots in Thatcherism.
- Comment on UK couple fined £1,500 after reporting Channel stowaway found in motorhome 5 weeks ago:
Enquiring minds need to know, was the stowaway called Gary?
- Comment on The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot 1 month ago:
No one dares to ask? Or just no one needs to ask since the answer is obviously “we’re fucked”.
- Comment on Carole Cadwalladr dropped by Tortoise ahead of Observer takeover 1 month ago:
I saw that headline and just wondered if she landed on the head of an eagle 🙂
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 5 months ago:
🙄
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 5 months ago:
Hear that noise? That’s the sound of organized criminal smuggling gangs celebrating being given their new market.
- Comment on Train crash Wales: Man dies, 15 in hospital, after collision 5 months ago:
Would that be the antiquated new digital system to stop trains? Or the antiquated leaves on the line? Or the antiquated steep incline at the location of the crash? Maybe we’ll wait for the RAIB investigation report rather than your wild guess.
- Comment on Kids a genius 6 months ago:
They have laws that explode now?
- Comment on Smart meter figures: Nearly four million not working properly 1 year ago:
The UK government set a target for numbers of smart meters to be installed. It didn’t say that they needed to be working as smart meters. Nobody should be surprised by this.
- Comment on Russia pulls out of fishing deal and tells Britons to 'lose weight' 1 year ago:
We should be fine, after all since Brexit we’ve plenty of happy contented British fish, right?
- Comment on Ex-PM David Cameron appointed foreign secretary in Cabinet reshuffle 1 year ago:
Diplomats across the world currently polishing up their “pig poking” jokes.
- Comment on 'Tinder box of hatred': How online extremism is spiraling and spilling onto UK streets 1 year ago:
s/UK streets/Tory front bench