Hossenfeffer
@Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 5 hours ago:
There is no finer revenge than being happier than your bully.
- Comment on long live the queen 1 week ago:
I’m jeera?
- Comment on Memories of defragging your computer 1 week ago:
- Comment on UK Ranked Second-Worst Place in Western Europe for LGBTI+ Rights 1 week ago:
London is where almost all the jobs that pay enough to be abke to live in London are.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson tells tens of thousands at London rally to prepare for ‘battle of Britain’ 1 week ago:
Bunchacunts.
- Comment on Doomer 2 weeks ago:
And the Yellowstone super volcano.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 2 weeks ago:
About thirty of forty per shelf.
- Comment on Woman of my dreams 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I say, ding dong!
- Comment on Don't fuck them 2 weeks ago:
I have books.
- Comment on Waiting to get pulled over for not wearing a helmet 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bet 3 weeks ago:
“I would if I was a bird.”
- Comment on Fancy pants 3 weeks ago:
U wot, m8?
- Comment on 🥵🥵🥵 4 weeks ago:
Chosen the wrong knife to carve that. missing the point
- Comment on First the frogs turned gay and now this 5 weeks ago:
I mean, I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but usually the last thing they shot is dead by this point. I think they’d do ok.
- Comment on Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk. 5 weeks ago:
1 star: it failed to properly cleanse me when I used it for an enema.
- Comment on 877-CASH-NOW 5 weeks ago:
01 811 8055
If you know, you know.
- Comment on Open Carry Loophole 1 month ago:
My dog’s a fucking idiot. I wouldn’t trust him to carry a nerf bullet.
- Comment on Miss me 1 month ago:
Sure, no shade from me here. This was a game for 14-year olds who knew nothing. Given that I don’t think it’s too surprising we ended up with a deck of 200+ cards and… calculating… calculating… 50 wild cards. Or so. It was complete fucking chaos.
- Comment on Miss me 1 month ago:
The childish fun police are now en route to your location. Your crime: seriosity! Your punishment: 260 card pickup. Drop and give me 260!
- Comment on Miss me 1 month ago:
The kind of nonsense poker that 14-year olds play with a deck made of four or five different (and not necessarily complete) packs of cards. That’s what kind. It was mostly for pennies and therefore silly fun. This game was different.
- Comment on Miss me 1 month ago:
The people who can least afford it are the ones with the most ‘hope’. Gambling companies prey on hope.
- Comment on Miss me 1 month ago:
Early 1980s. LPs from Woolies, video games from Boots (and there were Mastertronic budget titles for £2).
More than once I swapped the £1.99 price sticker on a budget game for the £9.99 price sticker on a premium game, mostly in Boots or WH Smith’s in Dumfries. Fun bonus fact. This was in the days before EPOS systems and barcode readers at the checkout. Only a bored teenager on the till between me and illicit Commodore 64 glory.
I do still wonder if anyone ever bought any of the cheap games for the full ten quid though.
Note: not all Mastertronic games were bad. I loved Kikstart, Finders Keepers, KP Skips Action Biker with Clumsy Colin (I had to look that one up), and The Last V8 - though I think maybe the Last V8 was in their premium £2.99 range.
- Comment on Miss me 1 month ago:
I was in Chess Club at school (I know, I know, quite the jock!). We played chess. Then we got bored of chess and played backgammon. And backgammon without a bet is dull, so we started gambling. Then gambling became the point of playing. So we moved on to poker.
I remember one poker hand. The deck was made up of about five different packs of cards. Jokers, black twos, one-eyed jacks, bedside queens, and suicide kings were all wild. I ended up with a hand of five aces. Two were real aces, three were wild cards. I had to raise. I mean, how can you not raise with five aces? What is the point of playing poker if you don’t raise with five aces?
Sadly, two other people also had five aces and one of them had three real aces and only two wild cards so they won the hand.
I lost £20 on that single hand and absolutely hated every single moment of playing it because somehow I knew, deep down, that I was going to lose. That was a lot of money for me back then and there were other, far better things I could have dropped it on - LPs were about £5 back then, video games £10.
But, it was a great early lesson on the ‘gotta keep going’ mindset of the gambler combined with the certainty that I was going to lose my money. I’m glad it happened, despite the short term remorse I felt immediately afterwards. I’m just not a gambler. One of the other kids from that same game went on to owe someone else £300 by the time we left school.
I’ve been to casinos a couple of times but took some good advice with me. Think about how much you’d be happy to spend on a night out. If you were going to an arena concert, or the theatre, or a flash sit-down meal, how much would you pay for the night? Think about a casino in the same way. You take a set amount of money which you’re going to ‘spend’ on entertainment. Once you’ve lost all of that, you leave the casino. If you find youself up on the night, hurrah.
- Comment on Just try to show them that you care 1 month ago:
We’re posher. We ‘pop the kettle on’.
- Comment on People assume I can't speak Welsh because I'm not white 1 month ago:
I mean, sure, but I think it’s understandable that they assume that. Not many white Welsh people speak welsh, let alone POC. Surely you can just speak Welsh at them and surprise and delight them?
- Comment on Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK 1 month ago:
John Carpenter?
Ah, no, indeed. I meant John Christopher. Thanks for the spot!
Also like all of those people are dead.
A lot of them are also fictional. Besides, death isn’t the handicap it used to be. Oh, Red Dwarf! Plus Blake’s Seven, Black Mirror, Inside Number 9, The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner, Peep Show, Spaced, The Detectorists, The Thick of It, Happy Valley, Broadchurch, Luther.
Peaky Blinders. Derry Girls.
And Slow Horses, how could I have forgotten Slow Horses?
- Comment on Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK 1 month ago:
If that’s what attracts you from that list, that’s what attracts you, I guess.
- Comment on The Meatstorm 1 month ago:
‘The Big Rhodes Island burger’.
- Comment on Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK 1 month ago:
I mean, all of that would make for a heck of a festival.
- Comment on Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK 1 month ago:
Did you not spot Blandings (which I prefer to J&W) in there?
