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- Comment on Over £1 million for towns and cities to clean up chewing gum stains 2 days ago:
It’s nothing. 1.2m divided by 50 councils is 24000 each, i.e. will buy one high pressure hose and 1 near minimum-wage job per council. Comparably, I think the NHS costs £25m per day or something
- Comment on HS2 to be delayed again as costs spiral by £37bn after 'litany of failure' 2 days ago:
I swear, the amount of government swindles over the last decade are at a level we haven’t seen since the 18th century. So many billions lost to dodgy covid kit, nhs contracts, school and prison services…
- Comment on Why is someone always cheating?!? 3 days ago:
I don’t mind vagina talk, but I do always feel like I’m hearing something I’m not meant to hear, becoming automatically shameful like I’m some kind of eavesdropping creepy perv.
It’s been educational though.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 1 week ago:
Ok that is really useful context, thank you
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 1 week ago:
What’s Ukraine got to do with the UK though?
Obvs I’m against war in principle, but why are we even involved in something several thousand miles away that doesn’t border us or even the Commonwealth?
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 1 week ago:
Links, please
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 1 week ago:
Couldn’t we, the UK, just like… stop interfering with Russia? Call a truce of some sort? FWIW I admit I’m completely ignorant as to what’s going on, other than we’re supplying arms to Ukraine. Is it all about that?
- Comment on Who owns the press? 2 weeks ago:
It used to be better. But yeah, it feels very rare they oppose the state line. The book Newspeak cites a ton of very egregious lies and half-truths given in it
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’d recommend the video I posted. He gives some branches of feminism the drubbing they deserve, but also identifies some examples of intersectional feminism that do include men as victims of patriarchy, deserving of help from feminists.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Bell Hooks gets quoted in the video FWIW
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This YouTuber has created 4 astoundingly insightful videos about men. Patriarchal society fucks us up, either turning us into monsters or demanding a facade that runs so deep most of us forget it’s a facade. Even just articulating our feelings and mental health is a massive struggle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pm5gX_wgic
Worth a watch by men and anyone who cares about men. And if you don’t care about men… well, that’s pretty typical of society at large, so don’t feel too guilty, but maybe you should start caring.
- Comment on Revealed: UK military paid sexual misconduct victims £20m over past 10 years: Huge payouts are sign of “discrimination and misogyny” in British military, warns former Tory defence minister 3 weeks ago:
Well duh. You can’t have an army without patriarchy. If you don’t hack off empathy, guilt and a ton of regular human emotions from men, or condition them to see people as objects, then they won’t be willing to kill.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 weeks ago:
“Short” in universal terms, I guess
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 weeks ago:
The ability to turn lead into gold just by touching it and saying a short incantation.
- Comment on Yes, this is 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Oh god 5 weeks ago:
Same. Even with a LOT of lube I think this is going to sting
- Comment on Angery 5 weeks ago:
Zach de le Rocha’s lyrics are betraying his age a bit
- Comment on 'People have been eating chocolate digestives wrong for 100 years' 1 month ago:
Clever way to get a free advert on the beeb
- Comment on I see you 1 month ago:
Apparently about 70% as pleasurable and addictive as Cocaine.
- Comment on PUT. HIM. BACK. 2 months ago:
As humans in civil society, we’re kinda obligated to not do the bad things though. That’s the danger with becoming rich and/or famous… I don’t believe money corrupts, but reveals our darker impulses, once we feel we could get away with doing them.
- Comment on Whenever you feel inadequate, remember we all have at least one thing that we are really good at 2 months ago:
I mean, with that top I can let a bit of mystery slide
- Comment on Movie reviews that had me laughing 2 months ago:
Apparently it’s not all that bad. There was just a lot of talk about how it was going to be
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
For all that it’s a trope, I’ve never seen a Pizza Delivery Guy or a Plumber/Handyman themed porn clip.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 2 months ago:
Oh, is THAT where they’re from? Only they never seem to mention it in any of their songs
- Comment on cart 2 months ago:
Je ne comprend pas
What on earth is going on here? I know the game oblivion, and that is all
- Comment on Help 2 months ago:
My writing words and my speaking words are very different. Writing is much better. All but one of my girlfriends over the last 20 years were chatted up online/email/sms first. IRL, they’d probably have been put off by my verbal hesitation, and my glancing at their knockers ever 10 seconds (a habit I find it impossible to break without intense concentration on not doing it)
- Comment on M'Lady 3 months ago:
My fancy mechanical keyboard has USB ports in it, so not outside the realms of possibility. A 9-inch cable on the mouse less realistic though
- Comment on Looks legit, but can it actually be a real thing? 3 months ago:
Not everyone, but I’d bet the NSA and CIA keep copies
- Comment on Peak charisma 4 months ago:
Not sure if that’s ever happened, but Ive certainly read my own messages over and over again for a week.
- Comment on Pound falls further as UK borrowing costs soar 5 months ago:
I really wish these feckers would watch Richard J Murphy on YouTube. Very few of our ministers actually seem to understand taxation