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- Comment on Panama Proxima 1 week ago:
It’s good to know Brexit is only temporary.
- Comment on Starmer and Macron to announce ‘one in, one out’ migration deal 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 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 3 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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*. 1 month 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 1 month ago:
We don’t quite know what you mean. Do it on Prince Andrew first, as an example.
- Comment on gotta be sure... 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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.
- Comment on FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge—as long as they end DEI programs 2 months ago:
You say “best”, “highest performing” etc, but we asked a panel of immorally wealthy, elderly white male sex offenders who their ideal upper management employee was - and they unanimously suggested other immorally wealthy, elderly white male sex offenders. Employing anyone else is a DEI hire.
- Comment on Anyone? 2 months ago:
It’s a shame that every sink in every public toilets, workplace toilets or other people’s house still has soap with Sodium Laureth Sulphate in. Even the products that say “gentle on skin” tend to be full of the stuff.
I tried various moisturisers for years with not a lot of effect. Swapping my soap, shower gel and shampoo for ones without SLS in them really made such a difference, and so quickly.
- Comment on Anyone? 2 months ago:
Okay, but how do I trim and smooth out the skin irregularities near my fingers?
Also, where do I acquire the spare skin I need to eat?
- Comment on Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R? 2 months ago:
We kind of go “brur”.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 months ago:
My fork is the correct fork. None of these are my fork.
In the event of a fork loss, any of these forks could become my fork after a period of time, probably about a month or so until it felt right.
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 3 months ago:
Oddly it looks like the article is only referring to people coming back from holiday, bringing a bit of meat or cheese with them. It doesn’t seem to cover the cargo ships full of the stuff.
Obviously this makes sense, as whenever I go on holiday and bring back some delicious foreign cheese or meat, the first thing I always do is go down to my local farm and share it out with all the animals :)
- Comment on Michael Gove gets lifetime seat in UK’s House of Lords 3 months ago:
“Hi, is that Guy Fawkes? I’ve got a little job for you”
- Comment on Remember when she fucked up the economy 3 months ago:
I think others have pretty much covered her social and economic destruction of the UK, so I’ll add “Section 28”.
To “protect our children”, she introduced the policies to ban any books/songs/art/plays etc from schools which mentioned or suggested homosexuality in any way neutral or positive - obviously this led to an increase in the already fairly popular “gay bashing”.
Thankfully nothing like that would happen anywhere now, outside of the few countries Vladimir Putin runs.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 3 months ago:
I’m assuming you’ve already tried Scribus? scribus.net
If not, worth a pop (again?). You can export an existing indesign project as an idml file, and import that into Scribus and see what’s broken :)
How well it’ll work is a little dependent on how complicated your projects are, or how embedded you are in Indesign or the wider Adobe ecosystem. In truth, I don’t know the full extent of Indesign’s abilities - but you can absolutely use Scribus to produce professional large scale graphics and short run publications etc for print though - though that’s obviously a little dependent on what format/spec your printer wants off you.
If you’re just using it for single page posters/graphics etc, Inkscape covers a lot of the same ground too.
- Comment on Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault 3 months ago:
This is Russell Brand we’re talking about.
I think you meant:
“He always seemed a bit rapey-wapey”