GiveOver
@GiveOver@feddit.uk
- Comment on Man gave girls cash after raping them in car 5 days ago:
You see phrasing like that in the news quite a lot, where they squeeze their occupation into a sentence. Here’s another random example: www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw62y04r563po
Former fish and chip shop owner John Dutton suffered a severe stroke…
Maybe it looks a bit off because you’d usually write “painter and decorator”? It’s normal to say “painter decorator” for short though.
- Comment on Chris Brown sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for a year, over London nightclub attack 1 week ago:
And somebody in this comment chain has been literally misled
- Comment on How cocaine conquered the UK: in pubs, festivals and workplaces the drug has become an everyday habit 2 weeks ago:
At least people on coke are fun. Can’t be doing with the guy that smokes weed and ignores everyone for the rest of the night. I’ve never tried cocaine but I’ve always hated the messiness of it. People do lines off dirty surfaces or snort it from a key. They must lose like 20% of it, and it’s spenny too. Just get a tiny spoon or something you useless cokeheads.
- Comment on Chris Brown sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for a year, over London nightclub attack 2 weeks ago:
I hate suspended sentences for being so misleading in headlines
- Comment on Half of adults would not go to war for the UK, poll suggests 3 weeks ago:
First they came for the rabbit owners. And I did not speak up. Because I was in the mood for some stew.
- Comment on Half of adults would not go to war for the UK, poll suggests 3 weeks ago:
“No circumstances” is a bit extreme. What if we were under active invasion by super nazis that wanted to force us to eat our pets and outlaw pubs?
- Comment on Fork found in kitchen 3 weeks ago:
Now THAT would be news. Undercover investigation reveals Reform are treating minorities well.
- Comment on [Video] The entire british right wing condensed into 10 seconds 1 month ago:
“Not Israel?” “Well… <exasperated sigh>”
- Comment on Yesnt. 2 months ago:
We need to remove some of the links from the fediverse logo to show all the defederations
- Comment on Alcoholic billionaire says he wants to shove a camera up every workers ass. 2 months ago:
This highlights a major flaw with the idea, because that’s not nearly long enough
- Comment on ‘It’s absolutely criminal’: US tipping culture has reached the UK – and is causing chaos 2 months ago:
He’s probably the stingiest bastard of all
- Comment on ‘It’s absolutely criminal’: US tipping culture has reached the UK – and is causing chaos 2 months ago:
I’ve had beggars try to give me their stuff instead of asking for anything
- Comment on ‘It’s absolutely criminal’: US tipping culture has reached the UK – and is causing chaos 2 months ago:
Yes but when they see me sat with my stained shirt and 10 year old phone, they know there’s no hope for a tip so they hit the 0.
- Comment on ‘It’s absolutely criminal’: US tipping culture has reached the UK – and is causing chaos 2 months ago:
Maybe you just look like a cheapskate
- Comment on Anon visits IHOP 2 months ago:
UK here, I’d say cringeworthy is a pretty normal word. Or at least it was before kids dropped the second half of the word.
- Comment on Classic rock 2 months ago:
A child
- Comment on Sainsbury's pauses AI cameras after shopper ousted 2 months ago:
A mate of mine is a manager at Lidl and he says they’ve had AI cameras installed recently. From looking around online it looks like they trialled it in London a year ago. My friend’s store is up North so I guess they’re rolling it out everywhere else.
Apparently they can detect people putting objects in their pocket and there’s an overhead message telling them to take it out. I’m looking forward to going and experimenting to see how shit it is.
- Comment on School pupils to be taught strangling during sex is illegal in new lessons 3 months ago:
Well no but I guess sometimes they get lucky
- Comment on School pupils to be taught strangling during sex is illegal in new lessons 3 months ago:
Makes it more fun. The lawmakers know what they’re doing
- Comment on 4 months ago:
If Schrödinger knew that he was the modern day face of the Copenhagen interpretation, he’d be in a state of both rolling and not-rolling in his grave.
- Comment on UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. 4 months ago:
Where is your hard evidence?
I’m sure you scrolled past plenty of studies that agreed with me when searching for your cherry picked example.
- Comment on UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. 4 months ago:
Extremely happy with this one. I understand everyone’s worries about surveillance and all that, and I agree with a lot of it, but I think in this case it’s worth it. Social media is just that bad.
From my own point of view, I hate hate hate Instagram/Facebook/Tiktok. When my kids get to that age I’d be facing a binary choice of either letting them use it or turning them into the “one weird kid in the class who isn’t allowed insta”. Even if this law is only 25% effective, that’s good enough for me. My kids will be in that 25% not using it, and I don’t have to worry about them being social pariahs.
From a wider point of view, social media is severely fucking up the entire world. I think it’s too much for most adults, let alone kids. No way should kids be on there.
- Comment on ‘You can be made a laughing stock to millions’: can gen Z escape the fear of being cringe? 5 months ago:
Kids have always been scared of being awkward and not fitting in, but I can understand why the internet has sent it into overdrive for gen Z. I’ve had younger people use “cringe” as an insult at me, but I’m too old for that to affect me. I just feel pity that they’re so scared of being themselves.
On a more positive note, I know a secondary school teacher who got good results out of saying “Well that’s embarrassing” whenever her pupils were being twats.
- Comment on wat 5 months ago:
There actually are things keeping that from happening but I don’t want to get into it
- Comment on Mint 5 months ago:
Well I know what to do if my gardener buddy ever pisses me off
- Comment on Think Bold 6 months ago:
Why are you posting this here. I’m a Burnley fan. I thought this was a safe space.
- Comment on Why is stack overflow so horrible? 7 months ago:
Sure you’re not thinking of this classic?
- Comment on Anon is bored of it all 7 months ago:
It’s a shame reading comments like this. The harms that you mention are absolutely miniscule compared to the negative effects of staying inside every day.
- Comment on Tastes like lyme 7 months ago:
!abroad
- Comment on Osk‽ Pfffft 7 months ago:
Non-millennial detected!