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- Comment on ard 6 days ago:
“What are we going to call this fish? It’s got… so much pilch… maybe a bit too much if I’m honest”
- Comment on nooo never undervalue yourself 1 week ago:
Those ones pacman has.
Those ghosts that have been following me about and harassing me?
Going to eat the haunty little bastards.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 week ago:
Yeah. That old lady spending £3000 a month on gems for “Royal Candy Blaster Treasure Blitz Origins” is the gaming industry now. :(
- Comment on Russell Brand latest: Comedian pleads not guilty to new charges 1 week ago:
I think the news media needs to stop pretending he’s still (or ever was?) a comedian.
- Comment on Would you reboot the router for a Scooby Snack? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a sort of white rectangular bag behind him. To the right of it is a large penile object on a string.
- Comment on Watch: Jeffrey Combs Returns As Weyoun In ‘Star Trek Fleet Command’ Animated Short 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was being silly :)
- Comment on Watch: Jeffrey Combs Returns As Weyoun In ‘Star Trek Fleet Command’ Animated Short 2 weeks ago:
Jeffrey Combs the actor.
- Comment on NHS waiting list at lowest level in three years 2 weeks ago:
That sounds awesome, but I think it’s a bit of a postcode lottery for this stuff - and some of it varies from GP to GP in the same area. Ours got rid of their useful online booking system and most of their website to revert back to “phone along with everyone else at any time between 08:00 and 08:01”.
- Comment on Home renovations 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Home renovations 3 weeks ago:
Excellent answer.
I suspected the same, but metrically.
- Comment on Home renovations 3 weeks ago:
Technically true.
- Comment on Home renovations 3 weeks ago:
How thin would your floors and ceilings need to be for this to be real?
- Comment on Another Biscuit Island Banger 3 weeks ago:
Surprisingly, there is actually a wiki page on the matter:
Wikipedia.org - Taking the Piss
Roughly covers the following:
1- mocking someone
- making a joke at someone’s expense
2
- saying/doing something unbelievable
- doing something unfair
- taking more than your fair share
“Are you taking the piss?” is pretty similar to “You’ve got to be joking, mate!” or “are you fucking kidding me!?!”
- Comment on "It's going to be a very long goodbye" - Peter Molyneux's last game will be Masters of Albion, but that's not necessarily as simple as it sounds 3 weeks ago:
He genuinely did some quality stuff in the 1980s and 1990s. Populous (1989) and Powermonger (1990) were genre-defining, and in their era, were amongst the best games available on the Atari ST/Amiga.
He seemed to have a run of innovative classics - Theme Park and Dungeon Keeper were quality…
…and then at some point he just started promising things he couldn’t deliver. Black and White still turned out pretty good, despite the broken promises…
… then in the last handful of years, he’s worked hard to destroy his previous reputation by churning out overhyped shit.
- Comment on Former Daily Mail editor tells hacking trial allegations are 'preposterous' 3 weeks ago:
“Dacre admitted wanting to clear his name, but also said he cared about the “honest and dedicated” staff at the paper.”
Honest staff at the Daily Mail? Must mean the office cleaners.
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 3 weeks ago:
Yet we can still buy “Milk of Magnesia” for poorly tummies.
- Comment on bit rude, innit? 3 weeks ago:
It depends on where you live, but generally you leave stuff out the front if you want to get rid of it (fridges, freezers, ovens, mattresses, sofas etc) - either officially, by arranging a “bulky goods” collection from the council, or waiting for someone who wants/needs it to take it. Large appliances generally get picked up by “rag and bone” men who weigh the metal in for scrap.
Remember that a large chunk of urban population don’t drive at all, and the majority that do drive small vehicles for short journeys - so not many people can take stuff like that to a recycling centre themselves.
- Comment on bit rude, innit? 3 weeks ago:
I think you’re overestimating the amount of nice, sunny days available in British weather :)
- Comment on £700m ‘fish disco’ plan could save 90% of marine life, says Hinkley Point C study 3 weeks ago:
I want to know what this sounds like.
- Comment on Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streets, study finds 4 weeks ago:
Some of it is definitely connected to that - but the majority (at least in places I live and work) is the unit rents being kept artificially high by the landlords, which are often investment or pension companies.
They won’t drop the rent, and in fact keep increasing it - then of course small businesses close down and large businesses move to these out-of-town retail parks with cheaper rents and huge carparks, but they are generally only accessible to richer people with cars (which is good for their business, too - those people can buy trolley-loads to fill a car instead of basket-loads to fill a carrier bag).
The reasoning behind keeping the rents high and shops empty is roughly:
If a shop unit was once (in its heyday) worth £20,000 a year in rent, then if they dropped the rent to £10,000 they’d get someone using it, and there’d be a shop on the high street… but their “investment asset” is only “worth” £10,000 a year.
If they instead keep the rent at £20,000, then nobody uses it and there’s no shop on the high street, but their “investment asset” is still “worth” £20,000 a year. They can borrow money and spend against this theoretical value.
When every shop on the street is owned in this way, the shops are all empty and useless to people, but their theoretical rent value stays high, so the investment company can keep using it as an asset and doing cunty money stuff with it to make extra money. Meanwhile, there are no shops.
This isn’t a bad plan, but it’s a bit of “wallpapering over the cracks” - letting people use the empty shop units is good, but it would be better if they weren’t all squatted by these investment companies in the first place.
If they were to do something like “City centre compulsory purchase orders without compensation” for long-term absentee commercial landlords, then I think the problem would solve itself pretty quickly. That might be a little extreme, but moving a few steps in that direction would probably be worth looking at.
- Comment on Coventry's light rail technology a 'game-changer' 4 weeks ago:
I’m under the impression it’s more of a lightweight battery powered tram - but for some reason, the article didn’t bother to mention this!
- Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity 4 weeks ago:
Yes, I’ve done quite a few. From your link, it looks like they recently added “English” as a subsection of “white” in 2011 (it used to just say “British”). Anyway, as far as I would understand it, the ethnicity in the link above is “white”. I don’t think Sunak was saying he was ethnically white, but that his national identity was English - not that I’m defending him in any way - as mentioned above, he’s a bell-end.
- Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity 4 weeks ago:
That sounds like a question for mid-90s Hong Kong! :)
It’s an interesting question though, as “Chinese” can be used as both a Nationality and an Ethnicity (and a language and a style of food). I don’t think I’ve ever heard of “English” being used as an Ethnicity before, but it wouldn’t surprise me if people had started trying to do that.
- Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity 4 weeks ago:
He’s something of a bell-end, and I’m not 100% certain he’s human - but he was born in England, so whatever he actually is, he’s an English one of it.
- Comment on Price of average UK home passes £300,000 for first time, Halifax says 4 weeks ago:
You can still get 2 or 3 bed houses in some areas of the North for less than £100,000… though you may find the difficulty is in getting a decent job near there :)
- Comment on ‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10 5 weeks ago:
“We had a right-wing party supporting the billionaire class and things got worse.”
“Then we had an extreme right-wing party even more strongly supporting the billionaire class and things got even worse.”
“Then we had another right-wing party supporting the billionaire class and things carried on getting worse.”
“Basically, the more right-wing things got, and the more billionaire-supporting it got, the worse it got.”
“As long as this area is owned by billionaires and run by the right-wing, things are going to continue getting worse.”
???
“That’s why we’ve decided that the best solution would be to go with the extreme far right party, who are overwhelmingly in support of the billionaire class, but who are also racist.”
??? - Comment on Do people eat this? 5 weeks ago:
Good call. For a treat, you can take your part-cooked potato to your local library, then wedge the potato behind a radiator, to crisp up the edges a little :)
- Comment on Do people eat this? 5 weeks ago:
You have to cook the potatoes or they’re poisonous, and buying and running a hob or an oven is comparatively pretty expensive in the UK. I get your point though, if you’re a bit wealthier, of course you’d be looking at potatoes or other foods - and it can get really ingredient cheap if you buy a sack of potatoes and mostly just eat potatoes :)
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown | Exploration Deep Dive 5 weeks ago:
I would like to separate Tuvix by rescuing Tuvok and the alien orchid. The alien orchid is an important sample for study.
- Comment on Growing number of adults avoid booze, NHS survey suggests 5 weeks ago:
It’s a bit annoying isn’t it? They raised the price of all alcoholic drinks with “minimum price per unit of alchohol” rules, as a disincentive to supermarket special-offer binge-drinking, but then they charge this increased price for the alcohol free versions too…
