DakRalter
@DakRalter@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on Wildfire phone alert was 'entirely appropriate', government says 1 day ago:
This is what I’m thinking.
I wouldn’t have minded a push notification.
But a freaking klaxon just to tell me not to use a disposable barbecue that I have no intention of buying? Some of us are already of a nervous disposition, we don’t need blaring alarms coming out of nowhere to give words of advice. Naff off with that crap. Klaxon warnings should be for if a wildfire has actually reached my street.
I’ve turned off the warnings because this is how they choose to use it, so well done, uk gov.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 4 days ago:
Make the fossil fuel industry pay for solar panels.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 5 days ago:
Thanks, I didn’t realise there was an option to disable it.
You’d think they’d save this klaxon style alert for imminent danger, not “don’t use barbecues”. What the hell.
- Comment on Tonyrefail ice cream man hit with van chimes noise complaint 5 days ago:
What if they sold weed instead of ice cream?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I feel like a broken record saying this, but the bbc feels like the PR dept for Froggie.
I got into the habit of leaving the radio on for my budgie after his brother died so he wouldn’t get lonely. And in recent years, farridge only had to fart for 5 Live to dedicate a whole segment to him. He makes a speech and they air the whole thing. Then spend an hour talking about it. Lib Dems have more seats yet don’t even get a fraction of the attention that they lavish on Five Mil Frogface.
Polanski got a little bit of airtime when he became leader, then it was back to the Froggie simping.
- Comment on Thames Water’s £1m payout to finance chief is ‘unacceptable’, says government department 1 week ago:
Binface would make them swim in their sewage.
- Comment on Owner of Nottingham bicycle maker Raleigh files for insolvency 1 week ago:
The place I used to work sold Raleigh bikes. It wasn’t unusual for them to come out the box with parts missing and we’d have to use our stock to replace the missing pedals, etc.
The consensus was they’re crap now. Not as bad as Huffy though. Nothing beats Huffy for absolute crap tier.
- Comment on ‘The market is dead’: why aren’t flats in England selling? 1 week ago:
I still don’t get how leaseholds could ever be a thing. Isn’t it just “buying isn’t owning”?
- Comment on Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment 1 week ago:
Growing up undiagnosed autistic, I would have loved some intervention at school. I was a total nerd, so I was just pushed towards academic success. Go to uni, then get a PhD, great things await.
In reality, I burnt out by Year 13, my final grades only held up because I did well in Year 12. I ended up unemployed for a year. Struggled to even get minimum wage retail, until I got a job at a post office, £4.25 an hour, that no one else wanted because it was crap pay and only 2 days a week. Got taken hostage at gunpoint after 2 months, left, got offered a job at the charity shop I was volunteering at. Which my toxic ex then encouraged me to quit after a few months. Spent years unemployed again, got a retail job at 26, been working minimum wage ever since. Managed to blag a trainee bike mechanic job, only for the council to put my boss out of business after I was there less than a year. Currently living off my savings because I couldn’t take how toxic my last job was.
If someone had intervened in my school years and pushed me to towards learning a trade instead of pushing me to go for uni, and given me support with my social difficulties, I wonder how different my life would have turned out. Maybe I wouldn’t be the pathetic basket case I am now.
- Comment on Only 1 out of over 740,000 UK Parliament petitions has ever directly succeeded in changing government policy 1 week ago:
“It’s not just ‘no’ — it’s ‘NO’.”
- Comment on Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism 2 weeks ago:
… to the grave.
- Comment on Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets 3 weeks ago:
They sell all sorts of things in the women’s toilets at Bournemouth station.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson to quit YouTube channel, citing health concerns 3 weeks ago:
Agree. The channel Barry’s Economics is a good stand in if you’ve not seen it yet.
- Comment on No rent control for you 3 weeks ago:
I’m not a bloke, but thanks lol
- Comment on No rent control for you 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Thames Water announces hosepipe ban 4 weeks ago:
Was it tony Bliar who got round a hosepipe ban by using the hosepipe to fill his water butt? I’m sure it was some politician anyway.
- Comment on Record 128 people cross Channel in one small boat 4 weeks ago:
Deliberately disingenuous then.
- Comment on Record 128 people cross Channel in one small boat 5 weeks ago:
I can’t tell if you lack the ability to infer things or you’re just being deliberately disingenuous. Obviously in this fictional scenario, with mainland GB taken over by a hostile regime, the CTA will be suspended. And given the population disparity between the island of Ireland and mainland GB, it won’t be long before the number of refugees exceeds what Ireland/NI can accept. So no, you’re not going to get a legitimate way in anytime soon.
So the question again is, would you rat out your mate Barry because he’s, according to your logic, a bad person?
Would you happily live in a refugee camp in France indefinitely, when you have the chance to sneak into Ireland to live in a house with family, and you can speak the language?
- Comment on Record 128 people cross Channel in one small boat 5 weeks ago:
Lack of corruption! Have you been living under a rock?
Okay, how about this. You and your mates are on holiday in Australia. You see on the news that zomg! Britain has been taken over by the Shakiras! It’s now under Shakira law!!!
You try to get a flight home, but the flight terminates in France. The shakiras threaten to kill or imprison anyone who tries to get into Britain.
Your mate Barry pulls you aside and tells you a bunch of them are going to get on a dinghy tonight to Ireland. Ireland has already said no more refugees, but he knows a way to smuggle you in. You’ve got some cousins there, you can stay with them and maybe find a job.
You’ve got the choice. Stay in France where you don’t know anyone and can’t speak the language.
Or take a risk and get the dinghy to Ireland where you can speak the language and have family and have a greater chance at getting a job.
Would you stay in France because it’s “safe” and condemn any Brits trying to make it to their family in Ireland? Would you rat out your mate Barry because he must be a bad person for wanting to live somewhere he can adjust to more easily? For wanting to have family or friends to support him?
- Comment on Most popular baby names for boys and girls in 2025 revealed 5 weeks ago:
I really don’t understand why Olivia is so popular. It’s been topping the charts for years and yet I’ve never met a single Olivia in my life. None of my nieces or nephews have had an Olivia in their class.
Also, I’m surprised the Deform lot haven’t ranted about the boys chart yet.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 month ago:
The media won’t stop reporting on this guy every time he so much as farts. Radio 5 is his propaganda machine.
But maybe the tide is turning. In any case, he’s definitely getting tetchy. Hold his feet to the fire, he will melt like the greasy little frog he is.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 month ago:
Same, but it was Teletext, not Ceefax. My dad got me and my sister tickets to Barbados for £400 return. So first they shipped us off, then when we came back, they shipped the older two off. But they got to extend theirs to four weeks and they got to boat over to Trinidad and Tobago. Still bitter about it.
I got my message on Backchat once and that’s how I found out my friend in Year 12 also read it haha. She recognised me even with a pseudonym.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 month ago:
Five Mil Froggie is gonna claim they’re bullying him by not ganging up on him.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 month ago:
Finally, Earth will become great again, and hand dryers will be properly located.
- Comment on Political rivals vow to boycott byelection after Farage quits as MP 1 month ago:
Wow, so they actually did it. Bully for them.
Binface vs Frogface.
Worst case of Binface losing still means Five Mil Frogface having his finances investigated.
Who knows, if they find enough dirt, it might even turn into a criminal investigation, given the laundering accusations.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Always the ones you most expect 😅
- Comment on Halifax brand scrapped after 173 years due to Lloyds takeover 1 month ago:
o7
- Comment on Another UK heatwave could be on the way 1 month ago:
- Comment on Asylum seekers to be billed £10k to cover own support once they start earning money 1 month ago:
Say it ain’t so!
- Comment on Asylum seekers to be billed £10k to cover own support once they start earning money 1 month ago:
Can we bill the MPs to pay for their lunchtime drinks fully out of their own pockets, then, instead of having it subsidised by us?
