ALiteralCabbage
@ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 3 days ago:
Um, this is almost definitely the primary reason:
Heaven forbid you be unable to park on the pavement!
- Comment on A Belgian joke 1 week ago:
I doubt it - these will have the chocolate dropped over them rather than being dipped in. They’ll just run on a conveyor.
- Comment on Inconsiderate fucks who litter 2 weeks ago:
I mean I live in the UK so it’s not a massive risk (part of why it’s acceptable) but I have a farmer friend who almost lost a seasons worth of crop to a fire started by a fag end flicked from a car.
But yeah, smoking correlates with poor behaviour more broadly in various ways (in my experience). I feel like such a crank but I identify strongly with Costanza screaming “we live in a society” more than I’m comfortable with when I see people brazenly littering (esp. fag ends).
- Comment on Inconsiderate fucks who litter 2 weeks ago:
My neighbour’s douchebag boyfriend drops his cig butts all over the front of their (her) place.
I found one flicked onto my front windowsill literally this morning, on my doorstep nearly daily, and it turns out that he’s been chucking them out of a window and they have been ending up in our shared guttering for months. This affects about 4-5 other houses as well.
Smoking is an inherently selfish act - but at least have the good grace to keep your fucking plastic pollution to yourself - especially when you’re smoking outside your own goddamn residence!
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 3 weeks ago:
We have the benefit of a private education system whose primary output is financiers and politicians - give the septics time to figure it out.
- Comment on Where will it stop ? 3 weeks ago:
One of my go-to pizzas back in the day was sweetcorn, pineapple, and black olives.
I love traditional pizza, but sometimes, you want to get your freak on.
- Comment on Where will it stop ? 3 weeks ago:
It’s mildly infuriating that I don’t have this slce of pickle pizza in my mouth right now.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I don’t know enough about the way that it’s run to give a correct answer!
I mean even pre-privatisation the rail service was being reduced (Beeching’s cuts etc.) so there’s clearly a cultural element at a government level, but the actual running of the rail firms is pretty opaque; there’s a lot of subcontracting, and the profitability is high, with reinvestment in the railway services not being proportional to that. I suspect that the culture around rinsing public services for private gain isn’t quite so dominant in Japan, but again, I couldn’t comment on that really.
We also have relatively old infrastructure, comparably narrow gauge railways that we would struggle to update because the country was built up around it, but this might be a bit of an old-fashioned take. I’m sure some transport historians could set me right!
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
Wait until you hear about the UK! I own the freehold to my land, but technically it’s gramted by the crown, so I could in theory at any moment have my home taken from me.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
I think people forget that many of the highways in The West™ were created as part of glorified jobs programs too.
These projects run like utter shit now in places where work is tendered out to corporations now of course, because they’re being driven by private bodies whose sole motivation is profit, not the creation of useful infrastructure. In my own country HS2 is a beautiful example of this.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Huh, TIL.
Should probably get some therapy soon then - had a bunch of uncles top themselves.
- Comment on More than 150 farms in England caught using local water illegally 4 weeks ago:
It’s insane.
What gets my goat the most is that farmers take collectve action over the most insanely selfish shit, but are happy to be absolutely rinsed over things that are actively making their lives worse!
Imagine if they actually pooled their resources to make sure they got fair pay from supermarkets instead of shitting themselves over inheritance tax and hunting bans.
I say this as someone who lives and works alongside farmers. I have a huge degree of respect for the amount of work a lot of them do, but fuck me they’re a short slighted bunch.
- Comment on Resident doctors’ strikes would be gift to Nigel Farage, warns Wes Streeting 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely amazing take.
Maybe worry about the state of the NHS rather than your election prospects?
- Comment on Workers at Hinkley Point C nuclear plant stage wildcat strike over alleged bullying 4 weeks ago:
Imagine being such a shitty manager that your workforce walk out on you.
- Comment on More than 150 farms in England caught using local water illegally 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but remember! No farmers no food! They’re the unsung heroes who do no wrong and are the guardians of the countryside! /S
- Comment on Resident doctors accused of ‘greedy’ pay demands before Streeting talks 4 weeks ago:
It’s a difficult sell because it’s unreasonable.
Doctors get paid vastly more than most of the public (I’m both the private and public sectors), including the healthcare workers whose labour supports them in their work.
Has anyone seen a rise in wages which is equivalent to the increase in inflation?
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 4 weeks ago:
So she’s been caught speeding and got caught again, and again, and again, and again!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Can depression be genetic?
- Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? 4 weeks ago:
Or tubular!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Try 3 cats, it’s the shit.
My sloth demon wants me to play the new mario kart and eat curries. I have married her.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
What constitutes “more than a few” here?
- Comment on Who owns the press? 2 months ago:
They have a fairly short list of “bad takes” though, and they have an excellent track record in reporting broadly. Their impressive history of winning libel cases against them speaks volumes to that.
- Comment on Anon saved Portugal last month 2 months ago:
The only time the “crush” at a bar has been acceptable to me is in small pubs. Anything bigger than a neighbourhood/village scale battle and it’s oppressive.
Long live the queue.
- Comment on Netflix Director Arrested for $11 Million Fraud, Spent $2.4 million on five Rolls-Royces and one Ferrari 4 months ago:
People banging on about having “generational wealth” is a pet peeve of mine. If you have it you wouldn’t talk about it, and it’s fine to want to set you kids up but you mostly want to spaff it all on awful shit people told you was bougie.
I miss the days when people who got rich suddenly bought jetskis, a good toilet, and blew it all having an amazing time. There’s an honesty to that I can respect (as a poor).
- Comment on Online Wars Aside, 'Snow White' Simply Isn't Getting Moviegoers to Buy In 4 months ago:
The only one I enjoyed was Branagh’s Cinderella. Good visuals, no weird messing with the story, just a straight up retelling, just with good acting and direction.
- Comment on 1987 5 months ago:
Properly fired it’s pretty tough to get any meaningful amount of lead out of a glaze on ceramics.
I’d bet they did it because of pressure from customers.
- Comment on Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn 5 months ago:
What’s your point? The Private schooling/Oxbridge education is a marker of wealth.
What’s going unsaid here is that for a while it was possible, because of a functioning welfare state, that an approximation of the fallback that rich people had was available to the rest of us povvos; this is the issue. It also applies to business as well as art too, to be fair. Rupert can found a business selling bespoke cat earrings or whatever and if it fails he has a fall back. If I try to run a business that’s shit or doesn’t make money and it fails and I default on my mortgage.
It’s standard pearl clutching because the concentration of people who can afford to work in creative industries in the upper economic echelons of society is something worth complaining about because it matters and we’re culturally poorer as a result.
- Comment on UN calls out treatment of prisoners after attack on arms company 5 months ago:
“attack” is doing some very heavy lifting here.
- Comment on Godstone: Huge sinkhole swallows up more of Surrey street - BBC News 5 months ago:
- Comment on Revealed: The Tommy Robinson Supporters Network With Links to Neo-Nazi Groups and a Library of Terrorism Manuals 5 months ago:
