fakeman_pretendname
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- Comment on A blessing from the lord! 1 hour ago:
It’s probably made by the artist Jeff de Boer, rather than being a historical suit of armour.
hodgins auctions - artist Jeff de Boer
Some of it sold for about 6000 Canadian Dollars about ten years ago.
So though the price has likely gone up a bit by now, you still might get something for £6,000 or whatever - it just might be kitten armour or mouse armour.
- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 2 hours ago:
The BBC as a whole is great. The news programming though…
It’s admittedly still one of the better ones - and on non-political reporting is probably still fairly trustworthy, but it’s been shifting further and further right for the last 15 years, to the point where it’s just embarrassing to pretend they’re anywhere near balanced these days. It spends an awful lot of time promoting Nigel Farage for something which is pretending to be impartial.
- Comment on Co-op scraps policy allowing trans staff to use toilets they ‘feel safest’ 14 hours ago:
Well, it depends if they voted for or against the plans. Those who argued and voted against can carry on as normal.
For those who argued, lobbied or voted for: They can use a bucket in the middle of the room, or they can not go at all.
- Comment on Co-op scraps policy allowing trans staff to use toilets they ‘feel safest’ 1 day ago:
That’s one of the things that’s no longer allowed
- Comment on How switching your bank account could earn you up to £220 2 days ago:
£220 probably isn’t worth it, for the amount of buggering about changing banks causes, with all direct debits, standing orders, online banking, online shopping etc needing updating
- Comment on All aboard the Pythagorean Express 3 days ago:
Like triangles?
Like trains?
Come to West Yorkshire and visit Shipley’s Triangular Train Station!Shipley Train Station (wiki link)
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’ 5 days ago:
What was that, Ben? Did you say “I am Britain’s enemy - please nuke me”?
- Comment on How best to open a blueberry? 6 days ago:
You also get 6-lobed security Torx, so you’d need to specify a 5-lobe security Torx-plus bit.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Syndicate Series.
Syndicate (1993) - Groundbreaking isometric real-time tactics
Syndicate Wars (1996) - Award-winning 3D isometric real-time tactics
Syndicate (2012) - some sort of shitty first-person shooter
The “unofficial” “spiritual successor” Satellite Reign (2015) was also a pretty good 3D isometric real-time tactics game
- Comment on Jeremy Clarkson shares worrying Diddly Squat update after UK heatwave 1 week ago:
It’s just a joke, like they do on Top Gear.
There’s no need for the nasty attitude.
I don’t really see how your response really lines up with what I even said anyway. I made a single line silly comment about Jeremy Clarkson finally realising climate change exists, and from this you appear to have got:
- I am offending all people who have ever been wrong once?
- I have somehow offended farmers?
- I am dismissing everything Clarkson did/does or said/says?
- I don’t think people are allowed to change their opinion on a subject?
- I somewhere called Jeremy Clarkson a cunt?
- I am a cunt? (I do appreciate the clarification of “on this occasion” though, thank you)
I’m sorry if I’ve somehow offended you here, but I’m struggling to make sense of it, to be honest.
- Comment on Jeremy Clarkson shares worrying Diddly Squat update after UK heatwave 1 week ago:
Quite probably, but there’s a big gap between the two. I think sometimes we forget how much of a cunt Piers Morgan actually is.
- Comment on Jeremy Clarkson shares worrying Diddly Squat update after UK heatwave 1 week ago:
“Where did all these heatwaves come from?” Asks man who spent decades promoting polluting vehicles
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week ago:
I have enough unplayed and uncompleted games in my Steam account to last until the end of the universe.
I won’t be streaming games in three years.
- Comment on Good Morning 1 week ago:
I just looked at a picture of cocoa pebbles, and I have to say they look delicious - but yeah, likewise, I don’t think I could eat that for breakfast, but it probably makes a lovely dessert :)
- Comment on Good Morning 1 week ago:
I think that’s what American breakfast cereal looks like.
- Comment on ‘It is British life’: No 10 vows to stop councils trying to limit standing in pubs 1 week ago:
Historically, “bars” which had almost no seating or tables, and nowhere to even put your drink down for a second, meant that people kept their drink in hand all the time, which meant they’d finish a pint in 15 minutes instead of 30 minutes - so after 2 hours, 8 pints in, the bar had made a tidy profit, and the fully shitfaced customer would stagger down to the kebab shop, start a fight and then throw up on their own shoes.
By comparison, a pub, with chairs and tables, people would drink half as much in the same time period, and perhaps be less likely to engage in the kebab shop fight/vomit situation.
I think that’s what they’re getting at - which I can sort of see, but making it all “table service only” sounds silly though. Just give them some little shelves round the walls and columns to put their drinks down on.
- Comment on Man, this new human chatbot is great. Way better than the computer ones. 2 weeks ago:
“Have you ever noticed how the drains round here constantly get blocked and release sewer smells onto the street”?
“Ooh, there’s that weird smell again… I wonder where that came from?”
“That factory down the road needs to stop venting that stuff into the air”
“Eew, I hate that smell when the air conditioning’s filter breaks”
“*sniff* I guess the farmers are spraying fertiliser again”
“That’s odd - does this hammer smell like farts to you?”
- Comment on oak 2 weeks ago:
It says its an Oak Tree, but I think it’s actually just Michael Craig-Martin’s glass of water.
- Comment on Five Days Before STLV, Cosermart Started Selling a SFA Uniform 2 weeks ago:
Star Trek 55? Have they released a whole load of films without me realising?
- Comment on [Video] British granny in a wheelchair escorted by a gang of police officers for supporting Palestine Action, risking a 14 year prison sentence for supporting terrorism. 2 weeks ago:
It takes twelve of them to wheel a nana out does it? Fucking joke. What an absolute waste of resources. You can’t get one to turn up to a burglary or assault up here, but they’ve got twelve spare to piss around wheeling a nana about because she might have hurt poor ickle Israel’s feelings.
- Comment on No further action against Zack Polanski over guillotine re-post, police say 2 weeks ago:
‘he re-posted a photo of a man wearing a T-shirt with an image of a guillotine and the slogan “we’re only making plans for Nigel”.’‘he re-posted an album of photos from an event, of which one of the photos of a group of people included one person who was wearing a T-shirt with an image of a guillotine and the slogan “we’re only making plans for Nigel”.’
- Comment on Day 743 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
It was originally made with NPCs in it, which made it play better as a single player game - but they took them out and focused on multiplayer (amongst other stuff) for… 10-15 years…
As in your case, I think 10-15 years ago, I probably had enough game-playing friends and enough “lack of responsibilities” to play multiplayer things (before it had any multiplayer) but not nowadays.
There have been a few reasonable NPC mods over the years (and probably there still is?) - but we’re still waiting for NPCs to be put back in “properly”.
In theory, version 43 is the NPC one, which I’m looking forward to.
- Comment on Barclays spots a chance to profit from extreme weather crisis 3 weeks ago:
… but if you splash a bit of paint on their windows, you’re a terrorist, apparently.
- Comment on Why don’t Gen Z buy rounds in the pub? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re out with four people, if you’re doing rounds, you’ve got to have four pints if everyone’s putting in equally.
If you only want two or three pints, you can’t buy rounds.
The government (or was it the NHS or someone?) says we’re not allowed to have four pints, because that’s now binge drinking.
So we only have two or three nowadays. So we don’t buy rounds.
- Comment on Blow to NHS as Royal Mail raises prices for bulk users by a third 3 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, I’m sure the privatisation will bring costs down… any minute now. Vince Cable says so.
I’m sure their core of “high quality investors” will be along to sort it out any minute now, won’t they Mr Cable? You lying sack of shit.
- Comment on Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets 3 weeks ago:
You think that’s fancy? One of the stations I go past has a vending machine. Imagine that? Chocolate on demand!
- Comment on Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets 3 weeks ago:
Larger stations normally have toilets - but they’re not necessarily in working order, and the odds are they’re not on the “platform side” of the ticket barriers, so maybe a 5 or more minute walk to get to.
Quite often the train is only in these terminus stations for 5 minutes.
Smaller stations in-between are normally just two platforms and a bridge to get to the other side.
- Comment on Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets 3 weeks ago:
I fully support them on this. Nobody should be forced to piss in a bottle or shit in a carrier bag at work these days. I’m surprised this is the first we’ve heard of this.
- Comment on Labour overtakes Reform in voter poll for first time since March 2025 3 weeks ago:
It would be such a shame if they all fought each other and backstabbed over the leadership and either outed each others arrestable crimes or split off and formed a few more of their own splinter parties.
/s
- Comment on Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists over bank damage 3 weeks ago:
Why are the windows at Barclays so expensive? You’d think a bank would be good at managing money, but here they are buying windows for £50,000 each.