Flamekebab
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- Comment on Ofwat to be abolished as ministers look to create new water regulator 16 hours ago:
Why are Reform an inevitability? They couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
- Comment on Christian group wins legal battle over preaching ban in west London 1 day ago:
Ew. Street preachers of any religion are a fucking plague. If you want to help people there's plenty of work to be done that doesn't involve promoting your cult. No one wants to hear your useless ramblings about your preferred deity.
Those people trying to give out religious materials targeting children enrage me too. It's bad enough trying to target vulnerable adults but kids? Dreadful.
- Comment on High on snus in school: The hidden nicotine pouches shredding teens' gums 2 days ago:
I find it bizarre that snus is advertised. It's a fucking tobacco product!
- Comment on 'Climate change doesn't exist,' says Reform UK mayor despite third summer heatwave 4 days ago:
Fuck that party and the fossil fuels they rode in on.
- Comment on Protecting democracy from big money: Why the UK's new elections strategy doesn't go far enough 5 days ago:
I'll take some forward movement over sliding backwards like we usually do lately.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Nope, although that's an interestingly bleak take on it!
I find physical albums annoying because they spend the overwhelming majority of their time unseen in a drawer. They have to be protected and unless one has the negatives or an obsessive approach then they are a single point of failure. I want to see the photos and love things like collages. My bedroom wall used to be covered in pics!
I find digital photo frames annoying because they feel like a massive bottleneck. Like looking a the world through a straw.
I don't actually know which approach I feel is sensible for my tastes, just that I don't really like either option.
I'm currently (as in the processing is happening in another tab as I type) collecting my photos together, going back to Q1 2002 so that I'll at least have them in one place. From there I might generate collages or something. I'm not sure what'd be fun, but at least I'll have an API that I can access the data through to try cool shit. Fire up the colour laser printer!
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I'm going to upset everyone and say I dislike both!
- Comment on Labour backbench MPs push for tough, wholesale changes to gambling regulation 6 days ago:
The notion that companies can donate is fucked up. Bribing cunts.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 6 days ago:
Won't someone please think of the poor oppressed drivers!
- Comment on More than 150 farms in England caught using local water illegally 6 days ago:
I hate that godsdamned slogan.
- Comment on More than 150 farms in England caught using local water illegally 1 week ago:
Farmers doing something dodgy? That's so out of character!
- Comment on To hoard or not to hoard? UK consumers on the pros and cons of cash 1 week ago:
Why do all cash-fixated people say stuff like this:
Ty says: “Unlike card, cash is private and doesn’t leave data about the purchase, it doesn’t cost the merchant transaction fees, [...]
There are ABSOLUTELY processing fees associated with cash! When I was running my own business I hated having to deal with cash and customers always acted as if they were doing me a favour by using it. A card payment would drop into my account, job done. A cash payment had to be kept secure and then I'd have to find time to take a trip to the bank to pay it in, whereupon my bank would take a cut to handle the cash.
Overall it was about as expensive for me regardless, except cash also added hassle and security concerns for me. It also invariably ended up with me having to deal with tax-dodging weirdos who wanted to be pally about it.
No, mate, I don't cheat on my income tax like some sponging arsehole, and being proud of that sort of selfish behaviour is gross.
- Comment on Too Much: What film and TV get wrong about London 1 week ago:
I'm not really sure how to put this but... duh?
Media portrays a place in a way that isn't true to the reality of it, amazingly a subset of people are taken in by this trope as old as time. It's "The Big Rotton Apple", Paris Syndrome, and stuff like that and I'd assume has been around as long as we've had cities.
Why not just make the article "watch the show 'Too Much', please"?
- Comment on Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows 1 week ago:
I'm curious what the numbers look like for commercial properties standing empty because they're investment vehicles for legal financial shenanigans. I'm talking about how many offices we've built over the last twenty years when anyone with a lick of sense could see this was a waste of time.
I don't mean "why aren't we doing that instead" - the article just gets me wondering about how much space we've wasted on worthless concrete garbage that stands perpetually empty.
- Comment on Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’ 2 weeks ago:
I wondered what that smell was.
- Comment on Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’ 2 weeks ago:
I cannot imagine where all the money has gone. Perhaps if we lower taxes on the very rich a smidge they'll give some back out of the goodness of their hearts?
- Comment on Just how visible is your butthole to a gynecologist? 2 weeks ago:
Call me old and out of touch but I'll be damned if I'm just letting this censorship of posts be treated as normal. Fuck advertisers.
- Comment on Just how visible is your butthole to a gynecologist? 2 weeks ago:
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shitposting community, you say? - Comment on Just how visible is your butthole to a gynecologist? 2 weeks ago:
Again, FFS, do a quick search and post the uncensored version! It's not hard!
- Comment on I understand what Trump cares about, says Starmer 2 weeks ago:
Based on the headline: it's not exactly rocket science.
- Comment on “When the fun stops, stop.” Addiction experts consider the rise of gambling in the U.K. a test case 2 weeks ago:
Letting companies be pretty much as manipulative as possible and not caring about the harm being caused when individuals fall prey to them seems to be the order of the day. Encourage people to build neural pathways that are severely financially detrimental to them and then sit back while the cash rolls in.
Mmm, sounds great and should absolutely be legal. Boak.
- Comment on Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section 2 weeks ago:
Is there anything we can do about this bullshit?
- Comment on Can anyone do the maths? 2 weeks ago:
2000 feels like a very, very long time ago.
- Comment on Chief medical officer for England says culture-war coverage of cycling could harm nation’s health 2 weeks ago:
I really would like to see some significant stamping down on this culture war nonsense. We have serious problems to deal with and instead we've just got morons stirring the pot.
- Comment on Tough new driving rules could land Brits with a ban for ‘minor’ mistakes 2 weeks ago:
Excellent. A hell of a lot of people in this country need reminding that driving is a privilege. The amount of entitledness on the roads is flabbergasting. The country already falls over itself to prioritise them in terms of infrastructure but that's never enough. They don't want to have to obey any rules, speed limits, share, or otherwise behave. Be less shit.
- Comment on Members of public to be selected for ‘honest conversation’ about MPs’ pay 3 weeks ago:
Oh it used to make my blood boil to learn my MP hadn't even bothered to show up for a vote or debate. It still would but I don't keep track of it anymore. It's your godsdamned job, you over-entitled fucks. I don't give a shit if you think it's dull - you wanted it, you got it, now get your arse onto those benches and represent the interests of your constituents. If you don't want to do that, fucking resign.
- Comment on Britons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes 3 weeks ago:
Options for renters are sorely needed.
- Comment on Members of public to be selected for ‘honest conversation’ about MPs’ pay 3 weeks ago:
Making everything about money turns out to have been super bad for society.
As in we seem to treat money as the ultimate form of success. Sure, we pay lip service to other things, but in reality we don't really acknowledge other accomplishments on the same level.
You see it in the way the culture sector is expected to make a profit, rather than the goal being to make culture. Much like healthcare - you put money in and get a healthy population out. It's not supposed to make money!
I'm thinking that if a successful career as a politician was based more around improving our society, rather than being a great way to make pots of cash, then the goal would be to have a memorable (positive!) career in politics.
Putting money on a pedestal is such a fucking lie. It's essentially a boiled down version of the classic advertising lie - "Buy this thing and you will be happier" (perhaps not stated as such but that's the general pitch). Satisfaction and contentment isn't something that can be achieved by ticking a box - it's a journey and a learned way of framing one's life. There's plenty of ways to spend money to reduce negatives, and money can definitely lubricate the gears of life towards happiness, but ticking the boxes won't actually unlock those things.
You don't wake up one morning after achieving whatever tickbox and suddenly become a different person.
"I've got my PhD, now I'm satisfied with life!"Doesn't work like that! You can't flip a switch in your brain and change the way you've been interpreting your situation.
It'd be lovely if it did work like that, so I can see why it's so easy to get people to buy into it. It's an easy answer to a difficult question.
Instead I think we need people chasing after different needs. The need to make a positive difference (and be known for it), to make a contribution to our culture, etc.. There's a bit of ego about it but that's humans for you. Use that lever for good!
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 3 weeks ago:
What a soundtrack!
- Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. 3 weeks ago:
That's an interesting way of phrasing "has actively enabled corruption for decades".
