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- Comment on UK Government to be Sued in Arbitration Court by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP 17 hours ago:
I’m siding with the government on this one.
It’s sad that it’s so rare to see them on the correct side of a disagreement.
- Comment on Increase in vapes found on Britain’s coastline by beach clean volunteers 6 days ago:
In the common day-to-day shops, they seemed to phase out the earlier refillable/repairable/replaceable ones for “disposable” tops. Even the e-cig shops near us stopped selling the cotton wadding and pre-coiled wires for rebuildables.
With a rebuildable one, I was using a 5x50mm strip of cotton wadding and an 8cm length of very thin wire every month or so. These pod things seem to use a coil, wadding, heating element, metal case, plastic case, spring, screw etc every few days.
- Comment on High street banks lose £100bn in deposits as UK savers shift to online rivals 1 week ago:
Yeah, I think they do still have some of them in most city centres, which kind of makes sense (if you were closing 95% of your branches, those are the ones you’d keep) - though it’s a long way from when there used to be a few different branches in every town centre, and amongst the small local rows of shops in housing areas i.e. the local high street.
- Comment on High street banks lose £100bn in deposits as UK savers shift to online rivals 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how well the term “High Street Bank” works these days. Does anyone’s town/city still have any accessible physical branches on an actual high street?
Perhaps they could start opening “high street banks” in old, disused former Wetherspoonses.
- Comment on Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm 1 week ago:
That wouldn’t be “growing up”. That would be giving in and accepting it.
People destroying other people’s lives and the world around them, for their own personal benefit and greed, should never be acceptable.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
NugganMastercard has decided the following things are abominations, and are therefore unacceptable to sell:Cats, the colour blue, oysters, mushrooms, chocolate, garlic, cheese, the smell of beets, jigsaw puzzles, and rocks
- Comment on Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast 1 week ago:
Despite the illegality, these people manage to sneak into the country with tonnes of coke, then distribute it to tens of sub-distributers, who in turn distribute it to hundreds of large dealers, who in turn pass that on to thousands of local dealers, in time to supply tens of thousands of parties, to supply the coke requirements of every doctor, solicitor, TV executive and regular weekend coke fan in the country, every Friday evening.
These people need hunting down and capturing.
Then we need to make them run our railways.
- Comment on Got emotional thinking about this 2 weeks ago:
On Google Earth (rather than Google maps), you can view all the previous streetview photos from any location that has them - so the 2012 one won’t be the default one, but you can switch back to it with a few clicks.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Nobody’s asking you to kiss guys. They’re asking you to kiss comrades.
- Comment on The stairway to nope 2 weeks ago:
Because those cars are too big and don’t fit in the parking spaces any more.
- Comment on Panama Proxima 3 weeks ago:
It’s good to know Brexit is only temporary.
- Comment on Starmer and Macron to announce ‘one in, one out’ migration deal 4 weeks ago:
What if we let one Reform supporter out for each immigrant we let in?
“It’s a controversial way of doing it, but it looks like complaints about immigration are down”
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 5 weeks ago:
All fair points for a motorway/highway/freeway/whatever. I’d mistakenly thought the previous post was referring to a smaller local road with a 55mph limit.
I don’t really care so much about what speed people do on motorways, but I have a massive problem with people doing 40-60mph in a 20-30mph limit residential area. Bear in mind where I live in the UK, the cars are driving 2 metres from the front door of everyone’s houses.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 5 weeks ago:
Not personally, no - but the police would only need to catch a handful each day to get things moving a little more safely in the area.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 5 weeks ago:
Why don’t they confiscate driving licences and imprison all the criminals who are driving 20-25mph dangerously over the limit?
- Comment on I understand what Trump cares about, says Starmer 5 weeks ago:
“Of course, when we say ‘family’, we include the lesser-known definitions of the word, such as ‘supporting Israel’s far right government in their genocide’, ‘trying to make trans people illegal’ and ‘starving the poor’”
- Comment on Tough new driving rules could land Brits with a ban for ‘minor’ mistakes 5 weeks ago:
It’s not really that tough, is it?
“People driving vehicles expected to pay attention to their surroundings and take responsibility for their actions”
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 1 month ago:
Yes, he’s had pretty much a constant stream of chances for over a decade.
For people who actually weren’t given a chance, we need to look at people like Ed Milliband, who once ate a sandwich wrong, or Jeremy Corbyn, who thought we should increase taxes on rich people (which was, according to the news at the time, apparently antisemetic).
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 1 month ago:
I’m hoping it’s not one of those sudden lurches to the far right which seem to occur when someone suddenly needs access to the “special lawyers who make historical allegations disappear”.
🎵 “You’ve got too much money and now you are a Nazi
Tell me Rod it isn’t so. Is it for defending, sexual offending? Tell me Rod it isn’t so.” 🎵 - Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 1 month ago:
Sadly, it’s been reported in numerous newspapers, from an interview between him and The Times.
Here’s one from The Independent, but it’s pretty much in all the papers.
“Rod Stewart tells UK to ‘give Farage a chance’” - The Independent
- Comment on Glastonbury 2025 live: Festival says it is 'appalled' by Bob Vylan comments after controversy 1 month ago:
I’m more appalled by Rod Stewart saying:
“We’ve got to give Nigel Farage a chance”.
and
“It’s hard for me because I’m extremely wealthy, and I deserve to be, so a lot of it doesn’t really touch me. But that doesn’t mean I’m out of touch.”
- Comment on UK to host Donald Trump for full state visit this year, says Buckingham Palace 1 month ago:
I hope the “Donald Trump Baby Blimp” makes an appearance at every place he visits :)
- Comment on Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now 1 month ago:
or a selection of CEOs, perhaps?
- Comment on Oink 1 month ago:
And rightly so. We just call them “serial ports” these days.
- Comment on *fliiiinnnnnggg*. 2 months ago:
It depends where it was in the country. Even now, after fast travel, radio, television etc, you can still get completely different vowels within 100 miles.
If I took the word “road” and travelled 100 miles either North/South/East/West, I could find it pronounced (as it would sound to me) as reud, raad, rird or roud.
- Comment on The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield 2 months ago:
We don’t quite know what you mean. Do it on Prince Andrew first, as an example.
- Comment on gotta be sure... 2 months ago:
Yes, a good reasonable name like draft-final-final-final-final_v2_to_print_THIS_ONE_b
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 2 months ago:
Sorry, I’m not American, and I’ve likely only seen it on Lemmy, and likely in satirical forms.
Anyway, I’ve read the other linked info and a bit more, so at least feel I do know now :)
I’m also not a youth, but I’ll absolutely take that as a compliment, thank you very much :D
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 2 months ago:
What what what?!? The “Tread harder, daddy” snake is based on a real thing?!?
- Comment on I can't believe this is a real article. Just wow. 2 months ago:
The American Right-Wing Christians don’t seem to care for Jesus - they appear to pretty much ignore everything in the New Testament because it’s “lefty and woke”. They do seem to like the Old Testament bits where you kill/enslave/rape/rob people who are weaker or slightly different from you.