crapwittyname

@crapwittyname@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Epstein Scandal Finally Takes Down a Politician⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The beeb is already captured. Their reporting on Gaza is amongst the worst, and the chairman is Tory who uses “impartiality” as an excuse to suppress common sense and compassion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are tons of lines I wouldn’t cross at work, but those lines would be different in another job. If arresting people is generally part of your job description, then I would expect you to have different red lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems a bit daft. The answer then is to have either no police, or to have police who will mindlessly follow any order?
  No police would be great, but in the absence of that ideal, I’d rather have people who question the morality if what they’re doing in the role. Compare this response with ICE in the US who kidnap people off the streets and send them to concentration camps and don’t complain that they disagree with what they are doing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Principles can be in conflict though. The promise to provide stability for your family, for example, is often more urgent than more lofty political principles. In this situation, looking actively for another job whilst continuing to perform the tasks you disagree with at a level of bare minimum compliance might be an ethically acceptable compromise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is gold. I could see John Oliver or Jon Stewart saying this.

  Republican Health Minister and sixteen-preventable-illnesses-in-a-trenchcoat, promising he’s a real boy, RFK Jr. said this week…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You stop at the R and change if to a Z. Barry = Baz, Darren = Daz, Carol = Caz etc etc. Because British English is non robotic, it doesn’t work if we stop at the R (like USAians can say “Gar” for Gary) so the z sound gets used instead, because it’s pretty close.
  Then the A gets added if you’re being extra friendly or cute, a bit like Michael > Mike > Mikey. Gareth becomes Gary becomes Gaz becomes Gazza.
  Make sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also my dad is a billionaire

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only dogshit I see here is your over the top aggressive name calling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  why is a Labour MP regurgitating industry lies?

  Real head-scratcher, that one. Reeeeal brainteaser. An honest-to-goodness Labour MP? Shilling for think-tanks? In this economy? On Christmas Eve, in the rain?
  Surely not. Because that would mean…

  We have no valid voting choice as people on the left who care about progress and compassion and social justice, and haven’t since the 1970’s, different flavours of Thatcherite neoliberalism is the only thing anyone under 50 has ever known, and the seemingly endless inertia of that failed ideology within the class-captured, self-reinforcing, closed system of government means it’s likely all we’ll ever know

  Probably just a coincidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  She already had nine points on her licence, so she’s a repeat offender, hence the book getting thrown at her.
  Conversely, this happened in Oxford, which is well known for being strict on drivers. She might have got away with it elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i liek turdles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They use computers, or so I’m told.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a Russian pls confirm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that Northern Ireland? Could well be where “geg” comes from if so!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a Russian pls confirm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Scouse British dialect has a nice term for this: “Geg out”. As opposed to “Fred is gegging in”, used when someone is trying to implicate themselves or become part of the group/conversation.
  Someone involving themselves when they shouldn’t be? Two syllables: Geg. Out.
  No idea where it comes from but I heard it a lot in my youth. Forsomereason.