Fluke
@Fluke@feddit.uk
- Comment on BBC to force more to pay licence fee with ‘YouTube tax’ 4 days ago:
Uh huh.
Mate, I can hear the squealing whine of a flyback transformer through brick walls with my own ears. I DO NOT miss the days when everyone had two or three of the fucking things screaming away all day.
Detecting the magnetic flux those things produce isn’t magic, tricky, or a cover-up. It just requires a sensitive antenna array tuned to the right frequency.
Now, since the shift to flat panel displays a TV doesn’t announce it’s presence in such an obvious fashion. This makes detecting a TV a much more difficult prospect, arguably not impossible, but not likely within their budget nowadays.
- Comment on Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists 6 days ago:
Don’t legitimise his invented alter ego designed to make him come across as “one of our lads”, to appeal to racist old people.
His name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. He’s a double barrelled, public schoolboy playing a character for money, the same ilk as Johnson and Farage.
- Comment on Lobbying, lawyers and a media blitz: the fight to kill the Church of England’s £100m slavery compensation fund 6 days ago:
Oh no, one of the paedophilic population control organisations is struggling… I’ve got a tiny violin round here somewhere for occasions such as this.
- Comment on Man dies after tiger attack at wildlife park 1 week ago:
Nature produces some absolutely terrifying and ruthless creatures. As awesome and capable as tigers are, you have to at least credit them with honesty and integrity. They are tigers and will act as such, you are prey and you will be hunted, maybe for the food, maybe just for the practice. With that, one can treat them with respect and care they deserve, and everyone involved can benefit. (We’re generally a long way from that, and animals like the tiger are being royally fucking shafted and exploited, but I digress.)
People however… People fucking scare me. Capable of such great things, but so easily led by their fickle and unstable emotions. Conniving and dishonest, and as likely to shiv you (metaphorically or literally) as help you, depending on their preconceived notions of who you are. Tribal, shortsighted, small-minded and fucking angry about it.
Give me tigers any day of the week.
- Comment on Sixteen English councils spend more than 80% of core funding on social care 2 weeks ago:
What the fuck? We can’t be actually helping these disabled, benefit scrounging, lazy scumbags FFS. If we do that, everyone with a disability will expect similar humane treatment, and frankly, that’s just not what Britain is about.
(Huge /s, for those that probably should be registered with a learning disability.)
- Comment on 'Criminal' flag-raising causing alarm and distress, court told 2 weeks ago:
A shitty flag made in China and cable tied to a lamppost suggests there is at least one racist piece of shit nearby.
To anyone non-white, that is a cause for alarm and distress. The fact you can’t conceive that notion speaks volumes about you.
- Comment on Anon was a cub scout 2 weeks ago:
What the actual fuck is wrong with your “mother”?
I am aware that is no way to speak about someone’s family, but my dude… What the fuck?!
- Comment on Couple jailed for at least 21 years for murder of vulnerable man in their care 3 weeks ago:
I’m not one to advocate for the death penalty, usually.
Using these two to make a case for it would have me seriously considering it though. I’m not talking injection or even hanging here, I mean a public fucking stoning.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The Argentinian moron is being strung along by Trump, who’s doing it because he sees it as him getting even for our staying away from his Iranian Self Own as best we could.
The US won’t seriously back Argentina on account of the Israeli interests operating in Falklands Territory, and when push comes to shove, the US loves chugging Israeli meat more than it gives a fuck about Argentina.
- Comment on Terrorist arrested over video of dinghy slashing 3 weeks ago:
Not on the whole, no.
In short, there are groups of ignorant, useful idiots that are easily led by their prejudice, being led by right wing grifters who think they’re clever, who are in turn being led by rich grifters looking to cash in on selling off what’s left of the UK’s government services to private interests.
- Comment on Horrified children look on as lollipop man in his 70s struck by car on school crossing 4 weeks ago:
Well done Watson.
- Comment on Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action 4 weeks ago:
Wait until someone dies because there wasn’t a lifeboat to rescue them.
That blood will be on their hands, for the sake of intentionally trying to let overloaded small boats sink with all aboard.
Personally, I think the answer is to float the New Blackshirts on unseaworthy vessels out in the North Sea to fend for themselves. Let them learn just how vicious open water can get, and see if they think that fate is deserved by anyone.
- Comment on Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers 5 weeks ago:
The country the we and the US bombed back to the stone age, paid and armed various warlords (who hate each other, natch) to “help” us then left to their own devices while the Taliban took over when we rugpulled and abandoned everyone who was “on our side”?
That country?
- Comment on Poole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteers 5 weeks ago:
Are you really dense enough to believe that this country’s problems are migrants’ fault, and not the privatisation of everything, and the inevitable myriad tax loopholes/“strategies” exploited by the companies that run the aforementioned everything?
Before you reply, consider how much the toad lookalike figurehead of the right wing party (that’s up to their ears in dodgy grifting before they even have any power) has invested in certain US based “private healthcare providers”. He’s not even sly about it, his full throated calls for the UK healthcare system to resemble the US model leave no room for misconstruing his intentions.
This is basic level stuff, but so many allow themselves to be led along by their prejudices, which history has shown, leads nowhere good.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
I am helpless to do anything other than offer my well wishes and suggest you arm yourself, as is your country’s custom. I fear it’s going to get a lot worse yet.
- Comment on Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads 1 month ago:
Doing exactly what
FoxGB News tells them to do.Knuckle dragging troglodytes being lead around proudly by their prejudice.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 month ago:
… Who keep voting in people who make no secret of actively wanting to make their lives worse because they promise to hurt the outsiders of constantly varying form.
Stupid does as stupid is.
- Comment on How hard/fast would a baseball have to go to completely pass through a pitcher? Like leave a hole through flesh? 1 month ago:
I’m ok with this.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
I bet you can imagine Russian soldiers in that position. Why not Americans?
There are plenty of places in the US where abject poverty reigns supreme, same as Russia. Factor in the ever present propaganda, and their fate was never their own, sadly.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Moscow can accuse all they fucking want. Fucking troglodytes.
I’m categorically not a fan of how most of this world functions, but I also know for fucking sure that Russia’s current system of “oligarchy lead by sociopathic ex-KGB scumbag” is not an improvement.
- Comment on Extra Milky 1 month ago:
They don’t actually skim milk anymore. They haven’t for years. They literally dilute milk with water at some part of the homogenisation process IIRC. Gonna have to go look it up now… 😂
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
I would say none, but the closest to desperation I’ve personally been was scrounging for coal that fell off the train to the docks when we as a family couldn’t afford to buy it. (No coal, no heat, no hot water, etc.)
I can imagine though, that watching my own children cry from the cold and hunger. Watching my own flesh and blood get thinner and weaker and being otherwise powerless to help them might make me consider rather strongly the paycheck offered by anyone at all.
That you apparently can’t imagine any scenario that would give you personally (and therefore by extension anyone else), cause to consider doing heinous things for money is bizarre.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
Would that choice have been as easy if you had your own children to consider? Would it have been so easy to make your own children and spouse homeless too?
The point is everyone is susceptible given the right circumstances. The system is literally designed to create desperation, and to keep ratcheting that up until people relent.
By all means try and convince people not to give in. Support them and help them, try to ensure they don’t reach their breaking point. But don’t try and pretend that desperation to escape their given shitshow isn’t what drives a lot of recruitment.
- Comment on Extra Milky 1 month ago:
I do.
Also, random shower thought… since they charge the same for whole milk as they do for semi or fully skimmed, why aren’t people just buying whole milk and watering it down?
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
No, I’m pointing out the hypocrisy in you pretending to know what it is to be desperate, that you can judge others in such a position.
I ain’t justifying diddly squat.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
Spoken like someone who’s never truly known desperation or genuine hunger. ie. One of the bourgeoisie who’d be first against the wall.
- Comment on Just posting the dinner I made 1 month ago:
You know of Mr. Blobby, right?
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 1 month ago:
The word would be “envenomed” 💛
- Comment on Where Are the Climate Protests? Human Rights Group Warns Government Crackdown Is Silencing the Green Movement 1 month ago:
And risk getting twatted with a terrorism sentence despite not being tried for terrorism?
The Govt knows exactly what they’re doing and unless we collectively do something about it, the UK depicted in V for Vendetta is closer to reality than people think.
The UK’s own version of Fox News continues it’s work in misinforming and winding up the gormless berks that take it’s every word as gospel truth. A Reform led Government is very possible in a couple of years if Burnham doesn’t get everyone on-side with actual results, which is a big fucking ask given the circumstances.
- Comment on Llaneli man reached 140mph to 'get to gym after argument' and hit taxi 1 month ago:
At 19 you are incapable of properly assessing risk. Medically, clinically, not capable. The brain structures required haven’t finished being built yet.
The realistic answer to the problem is that children shouldn’t be given responsibility for multi-ton vehicles capable of such destruction when misused.