waz
@waz@feddit.uk
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I watched the 1984version of the film 1984 today. It was slightly worrying that the state of the world today feels so similar. The U.K. really has been airstrip one of late and it’s disgusting.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Article Updated 12:50 PM BST, August 10, 2026. The news itself is weeks old, what’s the point?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Cheers!
- Comment on Public wary of UK government ‘backdoor’ surveillance following Apple row, poll reveals 1 week ago:
I already know that my current iPhone will be the last one I purchase because of Apple’s implementation of the age verification. Linux phone next time
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What is chutzpah?
- Comment on you know what's mildly infuriating? a reposter bot 1 week ago:
Ha. And still more pop up, it’s like a weird game of whack a mole
- Comment on Minister tells social media firms to remove posts that ‘celebrate’ dangerous driving after A66 crash 2 weeks ago:
The real way to prevent the socials showing dangerous driving, is to prohibit all clips of driving unless approved by a moderator who takes responsibility for the content being legal. This means all dangerous driving in registered vehicles and the illegal e-motorbikes and e-scooters (which could never be posted legally)
- Comment on Thames Water creditors accused of ‘shuffling deckchairs’ with plan for new board 2 weeks ago:
Nationalise now!
- Comment on The word Chav is still being used by British people, when it's derogatory shorthand for working class lads and it's not even subtle... 2 weeks ago:
Last word sounds like “track suity-i “ in my head, I was only exposed for 3 years, but I absorbed something too.
- Comment on Opinion: I’ve cycled through red lights. But Britain’s traffic laws are to blame, not me 2 weeks ago:
The article says absolutely nothing, it’s a vacuous drivel talk around the subjects. Pointless
- Comment on Llaneli man reached 140mph to 'get to gym after argument' and hit taxi 3 weeks ago:
On the German autobahns there is no speed limit, but there is a convention between car makers that the electronic limiter is set at usually 255kph ~= 155mph. It’s quite common for real fast car owners to have the limiter removed or raised, so getting passed by a Porsche doing 300kph is a real possibility. And amusingly, the winter tyres maximum speed is 210kph. As a UK driver, we have 70mph as max, so it’s mental the first time you drive there.
- Comment on Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought 3 weeks ago:
What about surge discounts during leaks?
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 4 weeks ago:
In the middle of Covid, this happened
Which when I went to the door, I found this on the mat exactly as it looks here, except I moved it to the sink because it was making a mess.
I never found out which of my neighbours missed their order, because it wasn’t any service I’d ever use, even if ordering a completely non-essential item like this was a waste of resources.
But fuck that guy who ‘delivered’ it by obviously dropping it before in his car and then throwing it on my doorstep!!
- Comment on Number of children injured in e-scooter crashes in England surges 4 weeks ago:
When enforcement for traffic offences is only speed cameras/cctv /average speed cameras, you can only catch registered vehicles. I see so many illegal e-bikes (don’t need pedalling to power) and e-scooters driven by adults and kids alike, utterly no cops stopping people anywhere.
- Comment on Number of children injured in e-scooter crashes in England surges 4 weeks ago:
Illegal e-scooters no less. I’m surprised there’s not more stats on pedestrian injured by riders of e-scooters
- Comment on This shit's stupid as hell 5 weeks ago:
A buddy of mine had one of these years ago, I really liked it and you’ve reminded me I need to get one from aliexpress. ;)
- Comment on Magic circle: Stonehenge offers lucky visitors 20 minutes alone in monument 1 month ago:
To mark the initiative, said to be the first of its kind since admission charges were introduced 125 years ago, the Guardian was granted 20 minutes in the circle on Tuesday morning to sample the solitude.
Maybe 25years ago?
When I was a kid, you could pull over in a layby on the road adjacent the stones and just step onto a path straight to the stones, later there was a small National Trust car park added with a parking fee. Then years later they blocked the road off to protect the stones from traffic exhaust damage, and built up the visitor centre you see today.
- Comment on Birmingham man fined over £140 for stealing sandwich and cookies from Greggs 1 month ago:
The defendant had 21 previous convictions for 40 offences
- Comment on RAF Chinook crash victims’ families ask Andy Burnham for review of disaster 1 month ago:
5/7
- Comment on US airman accused of ‘spree’ of rapes on sleeping women avoided UK courts 1 month ago:
No, he was handed to US forces, they court-martialled, acquitted, gave an honourable discharge, he went home to the US. Then only later did the FBI investigate with some additional evidence, and after that was given 5 years and a tracking condition for 20years on release - because of the risk he posed to women!
- Comment on Police officer calls trans protestor ‘pink-haired thing’ in accidental bodycam recording 1 month ago:
“who had been protesting outside the station after a pigeon was killedin the town by a man on a mobility scooter.”
- Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code 1 month ago:
The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textileworkers who were against the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns relating to worker pay, child labour, working conditions and output quality. They often destroyed the machines in organised raids.[1][2] Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of “Ned Ludd”, a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials.[3]
- Comment on Reform councillor claims protesters 'abused our flagpoles' by hanging Pride flags 1 month ago:
I’m sure he’s fine with the racists bringing the English flag into disrepute by tying them up on lampposts here the and everywhere.
- Comment on Fuck IMDB and fuck Amazon 1 month ago:
I’m sure it won’t take long to infect everything.
- Comment on Fuck IMDB and fuck Amazon 1 month ago:
Which region?
I haven’t seen this apart from an account pop up that can be dismissed so far in UK.
- Comment on Meghan will not appear at public events during Harry UK trip 1 month ago:
And nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on The Old Car Summertime Struggle 2 months ago:
I had a mk1 mx5 (actually a JDM import eunos) and it was a 1.8L variant and it absolutely could overtake things effectively with the AC on. It was a manual and I absolutely thrashed it. Big grins.
- Comment on I bought a schuko plug adapter. They didn't read specs or even tried it: the diameter of the hole is too small! 2 months ago:
Checks notes: so TIL that euro plugs and sockets are not standard‽
- Comment on Police criticise decision to let pubs stay open until 5am for England match 2 months ago:
I’m looking forward on my 6am commute to having to deal with pissed up staggering fans wandering home and probably drink drivers to avoid too.
- Comment on Asylum seekers to be billed £10k to cover own support once they start earning money 2 months ago:
Wait till you hear that their wages come out of our taxes