davidagain
@davidagain@lemmy.world
- Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism 6 days ago:
I remember when we elected a prime minister had literally fucked a (dead) pig, David, Cameron.
- Comment on PSA 1 week ago:
The only thing you should put in your anus is your elbow.
No, wait, that’s ears.
The only thing you should put in your anus is your ear.
No, no, that’s still not right.
The only think you should put in your anus is something with a flared base.*
*If you’re worrying about whether your boyfriend’s penis has a flared base and you can’t find a tape measure, recall that most penises are not readily detachable, and most boyfriends have hips wider than their penis, so you’re in the clear.
If you’re worried that this advice doesn’t apply simply because you don’t have a boyfriend, there’s an app for that.
- Comment on PSA 1 week ago:
Funniest meme of the day.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 week ago:
2016 also had Brexit and Trump winning at the ballot box
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 week ago:
You’ve got to be a little bit careful, surely, because then one squared is ten.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 week ago:
I think if it’s to scale, Jupiter is way offscreen, like in another room in your building far away.
- Comment on Climate Containers 2 weeks ago:
Really very beautiful indeed, but why would you put winter and spring the wrong way round?
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
This is exactly it, I think. Or maybe he’s just in it so much that there’s not a lot left without him.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Epstein “best friend” Trump chief among them, still working to help actual real life adults who have molested minors evade justice. Trump has always publicly lusted after under age girls, including famously his own daughter.
- Comment on We all had one 2 weeks ago:
The WHAT now?
- Comment on Uhm 2 weeks ago:
Does the omegaverse have sigma males and aren’t they fucktoys for the alphas? I can never remember and don’t want to Google that stuff.
- Comment on leading ai company 3 weeks ago:
git commit - m “put today’s ‘genius’ far right nonsense in the prompt to counteract any bias towards factual accuracy that was previously there”
- Comment on cum 2 mummy 3 weeks ago:
Foreplay.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for my favourite giggle of the day.
- Comment on This ancient tribe was able to master the technique 3 weeks ago:
That makes even less sense to me than what you wrote before!
- Comment on This ancient tribe was able to master the technique 3 weeks ago:
Look again: they’re still the wrong way round even if so.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 4 weeks ago:
You are fantastic. Thank you.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Wow, that’s some intense double standards there.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 4 weeks ago:
Meme not written by a Brit.
Meme not censored by a Brit. - Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 4 weeks ago:
(It has already come in the UK.)
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 4 weeks ago:
True, but there’s no such thing as a knife licence.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
It is.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 5 weeks ago:
Uhhh… Um? I don’t get it. Sorry.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
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