Corporal_Punishment
@Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
- Comment on Why are prop, non functioning guns way more expensive than airsoft guns? 1 day ago:
As an airsofter the only two reasons I can think of are
1.airsoft weapons aren’t “perfect” replicas. Whilst I can’t tell the difference, a history or weapons nerd might be able to and it would ruin immersion.
2.airsoft weapons generally lack moving parts. When I fire my rifle, nothing happens except a pellet flies out. A replica might need to eject a pretend cartridge or have some form of recoil if its being used for a movie for instance?
Other than that, I have no idea.
Also, it seems insane to me that airsoft weapons need an orange tip in the USA, a country that famously makes it easy to own a real gun.
- Comment on Just leave it on the porch bro 2 days ago:
On what planet do doctors wear flowing white robes with red pashmenas/shawls?
Demented piece of shit
- Comment on OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms” like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage, if they published safety reports 5 days ago:
The news that they won’t be building a data centre in the UK was amazing to me.
Fucking hate AI
- Comment on Apple’s New iPhone Update Is Restricting Internet Freedom in the UK — Big Brother Watch 5 days ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Apple’s New iPhone Update Is Restricting Internet Freedom in the UK — Big Brother Watch 5 days ago:
I was told I needed to provide ID on Steam.
I’m 43 years old and my account is 21.
When i pointed out that my account was older than the legal age for someone to drink alcohol and that from their records they could see my debit card, name and address history meant I was obviously old enough to not be affected by the Online Safety Act they just shrugged and said “computer says no”
- Comment on UK says Russia ran submarine operation over cables and pipelines 6 days ago:
So if Russia deny having any subs in the area, does that mean if we sink one we can just shrug our shoulders and ask “what sub”?
- Comment on you ot' a bloody loisense for that bottle o watta innit? 1 week ago:
Fur youz lot, the war of independence was a definin minute in your historee.
For uz it was a fackin chewsday innit
- Comment on Katie Price banned from driving for seventh time 1 week ago:
Surprised she didn’t attend court and give another load of bullshit about having to care for Harvey
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 1 week ago:
Weird. So basically deleting a comment does nothing
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 1 week ago:
How did you see my comment? I realised someone else had written the same thing and deleted it
- Comment on Would it be silly of me to get a small dog if I am a little afraid of bigger ones? 1 week ago:
I recommend a cockapoo or cavapoo.
Ours is 5. She loves to snuggle. She loves to play. She’s particularly good with our 2 year old nephew who was afraid of dogs, she is very gentle and patient with him (obviously we need to sit poised and ready to intervene as he can be a bit clumsy).
They also make amazing proximity alarms. If anyone so much as dares walk by the house she’s up at the window barking her little head off (mainly because she sees a friend she hasn’t met yet).
- Comment on In this modern world of AI, with devices everywhere having microphones, is it even safe to satirically joke and banter with a friend anymore? 1 week ago:
COULDN’T care less.
Ffs.
By saying “could care less” you imply you still care, but there is room to reduce your level of caring.
Here is a video explainer
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 1 week ago:
An imperial pint is 568ml
- Comment on Is the UK falling out of love with social media? 1 week ago:
Nah, its mundane. Generally community notices and things for sale. Sometimes it’ll be a heads up about suspicious people checking door handles or something
- Comment on Is the UK falling out of love with social media? 1 week ago:
I never post anything on Facebook and haven’t for years. I only keep it for the local community page,otherwise I’d bin it off
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 1 week ago:
Ah right, I’m not good at maths so thank you.
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 1 week ago:
Then there’s some dodgy measurements going on the side of that can.
Also explains when I’ve been in America and asked for a pint of beer I’ve been given a child’s size glass compared to what I’m used to
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 1 week ago:
TIL that an American pint (500ml) is smaller than a British pint (568ml).
- Comment on Ex-Alex Jones employee reflects on job at Infowars: ‘It was nonsense. It was lies’ 2 weeks ago:
How is Jones still around?
Are the American courts so weak that they can’t enforce the multiple judgments against him?
- Comment on British cyclist refused £15k payout because thieves ‘weren’t violent enough’ 2 weeks ago:
So reading between the lines, they were left in an unlocked van, or a locked van that had a lock that wasn’t suitable for securing £15,000 of gear.
My wife has two very expensive road bikes. They are d-locked onto a fixed shelving unit in the garage as a condition of the insurance. I did this because when I insured the bikes as specific named items on the house insurance I asked them what steps I needed to take.
This doesn’t take away from the fact that this is entirely the fault of the criminals, but being morally right and the insurance company being morally wrong won’t lead to a payout if they can prove you didn’t secure your property in a manner consistent with the insurance policy. And I can guarantee with items this expensive there would have been explicit conditions of insurance
- Comment on How do trains save fuel when they literally park on the tracks and block multiple intersections, with over a hundred vehicles steady burning gas all around waiting for the train to fucking move? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure why people are down voting you so much.
This shit doesn’t happen anywhere else. If a train parked and blocked a crossing 3 times a day for half an hour at a time there would be an uproar.
Well I’m assuming there’d be an uproar, impossible to tell because all our tracks are double tracks to allow passing and trains don’t stop for no reason blocking crossings.
We also use bridges a lot.
- Comment on Warning food prices are set to spike in the UK due to Iran war 2 weeks ago:
Ffs. All because some orange cunt doesnt want people to see the proof of him diddling kids
- Comment on Hackney pub’s child‑free rule sparks debate online 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah. Our local pub had a pinball machine and pool table in a separate annex where all the kids had to hang out. Made lots of friends there
- Comment on Hackney pub’s child‑free rule sparks debate online 2 weeks ago:
Yes. I know.
I didn’t say they didn’t. What I said was when I was a kid, so over 30 years ago, children were not generally permitted in pubs except for family areas. If there was no family area then the kids had to play outside.
- Comment on Hackney pub’s child‑free rule sparks debate online 2 weeks ago:
I’m 43. When I was a kid not being allowed in a pub was the norm. We would be tucked away in the family room or sent to play outside with a panda-pop and a bowl of chips whilst the adults had a beer. I don’t see the issue with it, they don’t serve food, its a place to drink alcohol.
- Comment on Why does Finland have a lower recidivism rate than the US? 2 weeks ago:
You’ve already answered your own question.
But don’t forget culture. The USA was founded by the religious extremists we (the UK) booted out hundreds of years ago.
There is a very deep, biblical/puritanical streak running through the psyche of Americans (and to a lesser extent the English speaking world) that demands extreme punishment for wrongdoing. Rehabilitation is a dirty word, it doesn’t matter if someone commits a crime again, the whole point is that if they do they rot in prison.
- Comment on UK Politicians Continue to Miss the Point in Latest Social Media Ban Proposal 3 weeks ago:
All the online safety act has done has made it more difficult for adults like me to access LEGAL material.
I got asked for age verification on Steam ffs. A platform I’ve had an account on since 2003. My account is literally older than a significant proportion of the internet using population.
Didn’t wash with the support people. Dicks.
- Comment on Flying from the UK is about to get more expensive 3 weeks ago:
By £2.
- Comment on Gotta Philip soon? 3 weeks ago:
£1.40 a litre in the UK at the moment.
I think the difference here is that we aren’t fooled by right wing politicians who blame prices on their left wing counterparts.
Trump made petrol prices and inflation a key policy issue that he alone could fix. And now its worse.
Although the fact that he could be brought down by petrol prices and not him being a demented war-mongering kiddy fiddler is deeply saddening.
- Comment on As a Chinese American, if I wanna travel internationally, is it better to just say I'm American, or pretend to be a Chinese National (to hide from Anti-American sentinments)? 4 weeks ago:
Except to Ireland for St Patrick’s day