PhobosAnomaly
@PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
- Comment on "I love the round things!" - The Doctor 11 hours ago:
Maybe spend more than twelve dollars and a pizza for the poor intern that writes the intro sequence next time too!
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 1 day ago:
I mean, there’s a lot to unpack there and for the most part, it appears to me that your view of policing and mine are vastly different, but you’re entitled to your own view and I’m not arsed one way or the other.
Is it the terrifying, weapon wielding, hark back to the middle ages, violent attack it’s been portrayed by those it benefits to portray in that way? No.
This though? Absolutely not. You’re justifying life-changing violence to fit narrative you’re presenting. If smashing someone - anyone - in the back with a fucking sledgehammer isn’t a “middle ages, violent attack”, then swinging at them again certainly is.
It clearly wasn’t brought just to fuck people up, it clearly wasn’t used at its full potential or there would be officers dead.
I think this is where the disconnect in the logic lies. I’m quite sure it wasn’t brought for violence, but the issue is that the person turned their attention on the cop, and then used the sledgehammer as a weapon. They have made the conscious decision to change their intent from smashing up whatever they wanted to, to intentionally caution injury. Regardless of anyone’s experience using hammers, swinging a bit of heavy metal on the end of a big stick at someone is going to ruin someone’s day at the very least, or in this case, fracture someone’s spine. Anyone who claims that “oh I didn’t think that was going to happen” ought to lodge a special defence of insanity.
All this, and judging by journalists reports, there isn’t any clear evidence of state-sponsored violence to be seen.
Motive or otherwise, some clown has slammed a sledgehammer into someone’s back twice and is now hiding behind Palestine Action’s statement of purpose.
- Comment on 'Palestine Action activist struck officer with sledgehammer', court hears 1 day ago:
I’m not seeing your point here.
Are we supposed to be okay with them not having them? Then, expect them to attend violent incidents with nothing but witty banter to protect themselves with?
I’m not a huge fan of anyone having weaponry to hand but given some of the nastier incidents that the police service need to attend, having a tin of pepper spray and a aluminium stick with the training to use them (or not use them as a case may be) is considerably fewer options that most worldwide forces have.
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- Comment on Polling lead by age group, November 2025 5 days ago:
It never ceases to amaze me how useless Labour have been since Blair and Brown took over.
I’ve no issue with their policies - far from it for the most part - but how any party can be so completely ineffective at reflecting their voting base is really quite impressive.
They could have literally sat back after ten plus years of Tory pocket-lining and shithousery, and just road the coattails of “being less wank than the government before” but nah, that would be too easy.
It’s actually a masterclass.
- Comment on This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots 1 week ago:
I know it’s a cult classic, but I couldn’t get my head around the film, it didnt enjoy it at all. Perhaps it’s because I went in with the desire to see another J-horror in the vein of Ring or Ju-On or Dark Water etc.
I’m going to treat myself to an Ito box set after Christmas and read the visual novels instead I think, give it another bash.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 1 week ago:
Perhaps it’s because I grew up with adventure puzzle games and point’n’click games, but GameFAQs was always the nuclear option for me.
I much preferred the Universal Hint System - an approach more suited to nudging you towards figuring out the answer for yourself.
There’s no denying that it was (and is) a fantastic resource though. Hell, I’ve even written a guide myself. One of the last bastions of the 90s and 2000s WWW experience.
- Comment on Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it. 2 weeks ago:
I’m unlucky enough to be in junior management… and that sounds to me like the manager or supervisor has the breaking strength of a wet fucking KitKat.
Sure, they’ve made a problem go away, but they’ve emboldened the arsehole to pull this stunt in the future, and it has done until damage to the self esteem and mental health of the poor airport spud who was doing their job just fine.
From a personal perspective: if I was a passenger on that plane and we were delayed because some arsepiece threw a hissy fit at the gate, I’d be fuming that the airline caved too.
It’s gash. Fuck that guy, but fuck that supervisor too. They literally had the grounds to fuck that guy right off and enjoy every second of it, but they buckled and became part of the problem.
- Comment on Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it. 2 weeks ago:
I went to Tesco (a large (perhaps too large ((brackets)) grocery retailer in the UK) a while back with some raspberries that hadn’t even lasted until I got home before going mouldy.
Literally, all I wanted to do was show the customer service desk lass the issue, show them my receipt, get a replacement, and fuck off to make the interaction as easy as possible for them.
An honest appraisal of what the problem was; some witty banter; and a general understanding of the “don’t be a dickhead” principle to frontline staff meant that she kept hold of me for ten minutes, noted down details and times and whatnot, and it ended up with a £10 apology gift card in the post - which in turn purchased a rather nice bottle of wine.
Where I’m going with this: I cannot fathom how people cannot be polite about issues like this. I’ve never understood how being a wanker to someone whose job it is to sort issues out somehow nets you a better end result. Perhaps the best advice I’m going to give my kids is to spend six months or a year of their teenage starts to their careers in an inbound call centre in a field they’re interested in - yes the job can grind you down and yes the pay sucks, but the basic life skills and soft people skills it teaches you is fucking invaluable.
tl;dr: solid advice, ask nicely, don’t be a twat, and you’ll probably end up with a net result better than you started.
- Comment on Day 474 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I got into Poets of the Fall in a big way after Late Goodbye. Their work is fantastic and they’re brilliant live.
I’m glad Remedy have stuck with them over the years, the Herald of Darkness song from Alan Wake II was a banger.
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 2 weeks ago:
About 1500 of them apparently.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 3 weeks ago:
The first major story where I thought “oh noes” was the Canary Wharf bombing in 1996ish. It was the first time I’d ever seen a “we interrupt this broadcast…” moment and it was so out of the ordinary that it sticks in my mind.
9/11 was a wild ride too. Getting home from school and my old man - who never watched the news - had Sky News on. At that point, the replays seemed… incredible, in the most literal sense of the word.
- Comment on Slow ass apocalypse 3 weeks ago:
many
- Comment on Slow ass apocalypse 3 weeks ago:
That line break is unfortunate.
I’ve had many an “ass apocalypse” in slow time after a dodgy kebab.
- Comment on Remember using this little gadget as a kid to blow bubbles 4 weeks ago:
have you tried getting someone else to do it?
- Comment on To open, tear along the dotted line. What freaking dotted line? 5 weeks ago:
Oh that sucks. I bought a multi pack of bin bags (or trash liner or whatever they’re called across the pond). I’ve used the company for years because the bag material is fairly thick, and it doesn’t just perish away if any liquids sit at the bottom. Decent quality.
This match though must have been produced when the machine that seals the bottom and perforates it 5mm below the seal, must have been needing a service. The perforations looked like faint dents in the plasticy material, which meant that when you tried to tear a bag off the roll, it just stretched the plastic rather than tear off cleanly. It meant that rather than just fucking one bag up, it often pulled across the seam of the next one, making two bags useless.
The whole multipack was fucked and it was infuriating.
Little things.
- Comment on Sunlight special 5 weeks ago:
Chuck it in the oven for ten minutes, no drama at all.
Then pre-book the following day off work with a dodgy stomach.
- Comment on Get a load of this guy! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on TIL science has its own swifties 1 month ago:
Ah yes, that tracks with the very surface level overview that I picked up from it. It was only when I saw the magic “optional” tag that I was like noooope!
Maybe I’ll have a look at it in more detail when I get a free summer 😊
- Comment on TIL science has its own swifties 1 month ago:
I studied entry level maths at uni level - a prerequisite course for most STEM degrees to cover the relatively small amount of maths common to nearly all science fields.
Chapter 11 of 12 were Taylor polynomials and series, and it was listed as “optional”.
I looked at it once, read it aloud for my young son to fall asleep to, and never looked at it again.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There are no answers here, only more questions - and it is glorious.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
In the end, “this” doesn’t even matter
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 month ago:
Funnily enough, I got an email from MS plugging their Copilot shit.
I don’t give a fuck about what I’m subscribed to, I give a fuck about the link to unsubscribe from it.
- Comment on Anon becomes Snake 1 month ago:
Those are zombies?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Obviously fuck all on television after Christmas.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 2 months ago:
“hey look, the news has gotten around, the head of HR and my line manager want to see my elephant impression too!”
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 2 months ago:
Postcrete is the best invention since the barbeque tongs.
Soft to rock solid in next to no time at all… giggity.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 2 months ago:
I’m a “two on top, one on the sides” dude. I’m the same, the second my hair starts coming over my ears then I’m away to the barber. Two months is decent, though if I’m not able to get there through work or being away from home, I’ll stretch it to three months but I feel a bit like Noel Gallagher when my hair starts coming down to my lugholes.
That said, I treat it as a bit of a relaxation sesh. I’ll ask the barber for a “full service” and close my eyes for half hour or 45 mins and let the barber do his thing with the clippers and the hot shave and the massage and all that jazz. A guilty pleasure every other month or so.
- Comment on snack 2 months ago:
Is this still a thing?
I remember when drinks were topped off with liquid nitrogen to give off the smoky look and people were getting hospitalised with burns, but that when I had the time/money/interest/available friends to go out… so a good twenty years ago.
