davidagain
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- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 6 hours ago:
You are fantastic. Thank you.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 7 hours ago:
I suspect that men who have sex with men are more prone to STIs because they have a lot more sex with a much wider pool of partners, not because they’re less careful statistically.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 7 hours ago:
Wow, that’s some intense double standards there.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 7 hours ago:
Meme not written by a Brit.
Meme not censored by a Brit. - Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 7 hours ago:
(It has already come in the UK.)
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 7 hours ago:
True, but there’s no such thing as a knife licence.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 7 hours ago:
Do y’all brits actually pay for the license?
Licence. (Lisense is a verb in British English.)
Yes. It funds the BBC which is public service broadcasting, usually very high quality and has no advertisements. You aren’t allowed to watch BBC or any live television whatsoever in the UK without a TV licence.
Can you be arrested for not paying it?
Not any more. It’s now a civil rather than criminal offence. The conservatives didn’t like that they even today tend to report facts alongside opinions, so they threatened to remove the licence fee. Instead they made of civil rather than criminal, so non payment is only punishable by a fine, which of course means it’s only illegal for poor people who can’t gamble the fine.
They used to send detector vans round to addresses that don’t have a licence for enforcement. The ads said they could tell if you were watching telly. I suspect they detected aerials, but that was in the days of Cathode Ray Tubes, and maybe you can detect them being on, I don’t know.
How does it work exactly?
They just send a bill to everyone in the post, warning of the consequences of non payment. You can pay by direct debit for less paperwork. Compliance is pretty high. It used to be higher before the conservatives started meddling.
The conservatives would love to get rid of the BBC and the NHS but they know it would be an absolute disaster for them politically because the people love them, flawed as they are, so they just underfund them badly and then complain about how bad they are.
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That strategy initially worked with the trains, which the conservatives privatised in the 1980s on the grounds that the reliability was poor and the rolling stock was badly out of date, but after a few decades of privatised rail, the promise of competition driving up quality and driving down prices has proven very hollow indeed, and now nationalisation is popular in every demographic group including conservative voters.
The East Coast Main Line went bust so many times that no commercial operators would touch it and the government was forced to step in. The civil servants were told to look for efficiency savings and make it more commercially viable, but when they did that it became the most reliable and punctual line in the UK with the best customer satisfaction, and cost far less in subsidies than the privatised lines. Who knew that extracting the most money possible for shareholders would drive down quality whilst driving up prices and government costs?
The current labour government is nationalising rail on the cheap by simply not renewing the franchises when they expire. Manchester’s buses have come back under local authority regulatory control. Some things are getting better under labour, but some things are not and the prime minister seems to think that Biden is the best example to follow in many ways.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 day ago:
- Trump always stands like this in public to show that he is ready to take Putin’s dick.
- Putin’s dick makes Trump arch his back.
- Trump loves to sit on Putin’s dick.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 5 days ago:
américain/britannique
C’est compréhensible et logique, bien sûr, mais <<américain/britannique>> est douloureux à voir en tant que Britannique.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 5 days ago:
Nah, just block the ich_iel community. The rest is majority English
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 5 days ago:
It is.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 week ago:
Uhhh… Um? I don’t get it. Sorry.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 week ago:
No need. Australians learn to hold their phones upside down from when they’re young teenagers. They’re used to it. It’s better for beating off the dropbears in an emergency too.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 week ago:
I would like to thank you for this comment, which I enjoyed a great deal.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 week ago:
.ml is blocked in China? Wild.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 week ago:
Are you the legendary Poem for your sprog of yore?!
- Comment on Even mannequins have itchy butts 1 week ago:
Consent is key. And not at the shops, remember.
- Comment on Even mannequins have itchy butts 1 week ago:
No need to start a campaign, just remember mannequins have feelings too.
Be kind to your mannequins. Ask yourself "If it were me stood here all day and all night in public, how would I feel about that outfit?
- Comment on Anon is dehydrated 2 weeks ago:
My experience with pressure washers has always been splattery. I would not voluntarily choose a splattery bidet experience.
- Comment on Anon is dehydrated 2 weeks ago:
Internet comment of the day right there.
- Comment on Even mannequins have itchy butts 2 weeks ago:
Nope nope nope! Not like this!
Of course, educate your mannequin children sensibly and calmly and before they learn it in the playground or online, but absolutely no physical demonstrations whatsoever!
Can you not see how pissed off little mannequin kid is? -“Stupid horny big brother getting frisky in public again.” Poor mannequin kid is scarred for life.
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 2 weeks ago:
Mr Weasley is seen as a weird oddball for engaging in studying muggle technology. The wizarding world sees it all as a bunch of pointless nonsense that muggles have to go through just because they don’t have magic. Clever in its own way, but utterly futile.
Why spend hundreds of people’s effort, lots of money and enormous amounts of time using a vehicle to go somewhere when you can hop in a fireplace and think about where you want to go, or simply apparate there?
Why carry a complicated muggle weapon around and spend time and effort learning how to use it well, when you can kill someone with two words you’ve known since you were a child?
Voldemort isn’t just protected by being a powerful wizard, he’s also protected by the bully’s standard protections of surrounding themselves with sycophants who unquestioningly support them (by ruthlessly punishing people who question their authority), having no moral hesitancy whatsoever and avoiding like the plague fair fights wherever there’s a chance they’d not win.
So because of Voldemort’s followers who will turn up in an instant and his horcruxes, you have to be prepared to sacrifice your life to have a chance of opposing him openly, which is of course what Lily Potter did.
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but so are you.
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 2 weeks ago:
Also a bummer that she turned out as a raging anti trans hateful nutcase.
- Comment on Even mannequins have itchy butts 2 weeks ago:
I don’t care how horny you are for butt stuff with your stripey-clothed friend, not in public, not in the store and definitely NOT, in any circumstances, anywhere near mannequin children, FFS!
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 2 weeks ago:
You’re right of course, but rather than admit that, I want to claim that eventually your prostate, if you have one, will say no to sleeping through the morning.
More seriously, I think late teenagers have a well-documented hormonal predisposition to staying up late and getting up late. It’s hard for them them to have to live to the typical middle aged schedule.
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 2 weeks ago:
When you reach middle age, you lose the ability to regularly sleep beyond 8am. Schedules are not written by young people.
- Comment on What a fantastic deal 3 weeks ago:
The one on the bottom right hand corner of the picture is the ankle smasher.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t Toronto have the tram lines east west or trolley busses and buses with cheap flat price through ticketing for each journey?
The cables over and underground run from the cheap, green hydroelectric power?
If it’s cheap, regular, reliable with through ticketing, it’s good public transport, not bad.
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 4 weeks ago:
Wow. Sorry to hear that. That must be really tough to cope with.