frazorth
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- Comment on Newbury: Firearms seized from suspected gun factory - BBC News 2 days ago:
Seizing firearms does not make it a factory
- Comment on 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3' To Best 'Mufasa' at U.S. Box Office, But Disney Pic Eyes $180M Global Opening 2 days ago:
TIL they made another Lion King knock off…
- Comment on Ed Miliband pledges ‘most ambitious reforms to UK energy system in generations’ 3 days ago:
The plans come as low wind and solar power generation forced Britain to rely heavily on burning gas and wood pellets. As of Thursday, about 65% of Britain’s electricity was being generated from gas and biomass, with only 5.3% coming from wind.
Is that because although we have built “a lot” its still not much, or has wind just generally been down and we should be over-provisioning to make up for these times?
I tried to follow the link but it was shit on mobile.
- Submitted 3 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
- Comment on Advice ignored by ministers could have blocked Prince Andrew ‘spy’: Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general, says he advised Tories to criminalise foreign agents in 2019 4 days ago:
If only he hadn’t done this, he would have been universally loved!
- Comment on Advice ignored by ministers could have blocked Prince Andrew ‘spy’: Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general, says he advised Tories to criminalise foreign agents in 2019 4 days ago:
Ffs Andrew…
- Comment on Guardian signs controversial deal to sell The Observer to Tortoise Media 1 week ago:
These things can be confusing to understand and seems like a reasonable question, I don’t pretend to fully understand everyone’s complaints.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise_Media
Doing basic research shows it as “a British news website”, founded by a British journalist (who Murdoch didn’t like so already sounds like a nice guy) and former head of the BBC, and an American who spent 4 years here as Ambassador under Obama.
Not exactly sounding like Bezos or Murdoch levels of evil here.
The main issue is that its all been dealt with in secret, consultations with Observer employees such as the editor haven’t taken place so its just leaving a sour taste, along with a lot of questions as to how they reached contradictory positions on why they should sell the paper.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Fucking hypocrite tells people to use something he is hostile towards.
Fuck Epic, they are destroying PC gaming.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 2 weeks ago:
The fact that you can’t use the Epic games launcher on Linux should be telling you what you need to know.
How is their 12 foot interface these days?
How is their position on running things via wine? Tim the bellend has generally been telling Linux users to use wine, but at the same time been generally hostile to it.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on Why Simon Pegg thinks Star Trek is forever tainted 3 weeks ago:
Only if we’re Mark Twain.
- Comment on Why Simon Pegg thinks Star Trek is forever tainted 3 weeks ago:
Probably for the best. Derivative nonsense.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 3 weeks ago:
Spotify is the labels and the middlemen.
- Comment on Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test 5 weeks ago:
The statements were
Buy local
or don’t buy honey
If you are buying local then you’ve already satisfied the first half of the OR. It’s an option, if you aren’t prepared to buy local then don’t buy but also not buying honey at all is an option instead of buying honey.
Buying non-local mass produced honey is not an option, and won’t help you with a sore throat any more than sucking on a sweet will, and you aren’t likely to be buying honey anyway.
- Comment on Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test 5 weeks ago:
From TFA, if you aren’t buying local then you aren’t buying honey anyway.
Might as well buy a sweet to suck on.
- Comment on Well, that escalated quickly. 1 month ago:
Why do I have to convince anyone? I’m not American.
They heard a bunch of batshit insane things and went
That sounds sensible
Nothing a Democrat could have done would have stopped them voting for fucking insanity. They could have literally done anything else, but chose to vote for that thing.
The rioting has already started with the Trump supporters, so I don’t know why you’re trying to tell Democrats to not riot. They weren’t going to anyway.
- Comment on Well, that escalated quickly. 1 month ago:
Why do Democrats have to spread the message that Trump literally said these things?
If folks are voting for a turd in a suit and not listening to the things that he is broadcasting on Fox news then this not really the Dems fault it just sums up what the average American is like.
- Comment on Well, that escalated quickly. 1 month ago:
They guy openly gets advice from Vlad “throw them from the window” Putin.
He has stacked the Supreme Court to give him immunity to murder.
He has already stated that he is planning on throwing his opposition in jail.
He has already announced that he is planning a police state from day one.
I’m only repeating what he has said, how the fuck can you say “its not as bad as all that?”.
What a fucking idiot.
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 1 month ago:
I had this issue with Reddit. You need a lot of houses, making some available doesn’t fix the issue with the vast majority.
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 1 month ago:
And thats fine. I’m just letting you know how I feel about this.
Banning short term rentals is one thing, but can we please at least request that hotels fill the gap that this creates?
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 12 comments
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t visit.
I have two children, and the number of hotels where I can get joining rooms so I dont have to actually share with them is basically zero.
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 1 month ago:
We can, but very few people own a second, let along a third or fourth.
Either they are landlords and running it through a business, and how do you prevent a business from owning two locations?
Sorry Londis, you can only have one store because you have a flat upstairs?
Or they own them privately, and in this country its massively overstated. Presumably to try and start a bit of class warfare, but folks see US news and think it applies here.
Fucking Tories, making the crabs pull everyone back into the bucket when there really aren’t that many. Even Shelter doesn’t call it out as a problem, compared to the many other things we could do to help.
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 1 month ago:
We’re only short by about a million. That’ll fix the problem!
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 1 month ago:
So these could be houses that people don’t actually want to live in? Maybe because work isn’t there, or the cost of repair too high?
I remember some of those houses, as I was in Wavertree near the Botanic Gardens, Matalan and the burnt down pubs around 2000 and you couldn’t give away some homes just a bit further down Picton.
- Comment on Why did Joker 2 lose so much money? And how on earth did it cost so much in the first place? 2 months ago:
Thats interesting, as I had a vague awareness they were making a sequel, and also only really heard more once it had hit cinemas and they were already declaring it a loss.
I don’t remember seeing a lot of posts here on the run up to the release. But perhaps I just ignored it because I couldnt see how a sequel was going to do the story justice and not just be a blatant cash grab.
- Comment on Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut | Sport 2 months ago:
Horse chestnut.
- Comment on Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut | Sport 2 months ago:
“Allegations of foul play have been received that somehow King Conker swapped his real conker for the metal one later found in his pocket. … There are also suggestions that King Conker had marked the strings of harder nuts. We can confirm he was involved in drilling and lacing the nuts before the event.
The metal conker is suspicious, however to them start going around and making other random claims makes you sound like a sore loser.
- Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut | Sportwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 14 comments
- Comment on There you go little guy 2 months ago:
people cruising in the left
This is a camera on a single lane road in the UK. They should be driving on the left.