blackn1ght
@blackn1ght@feddit.uk
- Comment on UK’s last local currency axed due to rise of digital and card payments 5 days ago:
The Lewes Pound – the UK’s final surviving local currency – is being officially discontinued after 16 years of circulation
I didn’t even know you could get ultra localised currencies like this.
- Comment on Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn 1 week ago:
Change the vehicle tax to be based on height, width and length dimensions.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn on Britain’s New Left-Wing Party 2 weeks ago:
sign-up figures are insane, 650 k is huge! The last published Labour membership figures were about one third of that.
It’s 650k people subscribing to a list vs being a member. Not really the same thing.
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 2 weeks ago:
Just scrap school uniform entirely and don’t allow any obvious branding on clothes. It’s such a fucking waste of time.
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 1 month ago:
Blame the shitty UK legislation. Bluesky, Reddit etc are just complying with it.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 month ago:
I’d say 10 over on any 30mph zone is crazy. These are usually in built up areas so there’s no excuse for it.
but there are many roads where 20 over is still fine.
Can’t say I agree. National speed limit is either 60 or 70mph depending on the road and I wouldn’t want to do 20mph over on either.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 month ago:
In the UK you’re allowed 10% (and I think +2mph) due to car speedo’s not being 100% accurate.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 month ago:
If she was caught doing 38mph in a 30, then her car was probably displaying 40 or 41mph as the speedo’s always report you going a higher speed than you’re going. So I’d say that’s pretty bad, especially when you’ve been caught several times before in such a short space of time.
- Comment on Experiment finds yoghurt can lower house temperature 1 month ago:
The thick layer of wasps and flies on the yoghurty windows would also help.
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- Comment on Starmer and Macron to announce ‘one in, one out’ migration deal 1 month ago:
- Nigel Farage
- JK Rowling
- The twat of a passenger who gave me a wanker sign in another car that was doing about 50mph in a 20 after I pulled out of a junction on a corner where I couldn’t see them until I was already half way across the road
- Comment on Royal Mail given go-ahead to scrap second-class post on Saturdays 1 month ago:
It’s this. The company I work for will sign contracts with Royal Mail for 12+ months. It’ll also give their business customers time to potentially switch to alternatives, either pushing people to First Class or maybe the tracked options such as T48.
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- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 1 month ago:
I wonder why these parties don’t just merge to create a single socialist party. And now Corbyn is starting another one.
- Comment on This is the dumbest idea ever 1 month ago:
I’m not convinced. There’s probably a chunk of people who don’t drive because they kept showing that they weren’t safe enough to drive by failing their test. If the aim is to reduce the barrier to entry for driving because tests are expensive (they’re £62 in the UK, really not that expensive) then those costs will only be countered by way higher insurance premiums as there will be more drivers who can just jump in a car and drive on their own and crash. Also as a driver and pedestrian, I really don’t want to be on the same road as those people.
- Comment on Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’ 1 month ago:
It’s still just slowly trickling down. Any day now.
- Comment on This is the dumbest idea ever 1 month ago:
so the driving test proves nothing
The driving test proves you can competently drive to a safe standard. I agree that you learn more through experience, but first you need to be able to drive to a particular standard before being allowed to drive on your own.
What’s the alternative if there’s no test? You just allow anyone who reaches the driving age to get in a car and drive on their own?
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- Comment on Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section 2 months ago:
Paul Webb, Reform UK’s communities portfolio holder who oversees libraries, said the move came after a “concerned member of the public” contacted him.
Good money says the concerned member of the public was Paul himself.
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- Comment on Fixed speed camera toppled hours before switch-on 2 months ago:
It’s just another tax
Nobody is forcing people to drive over the speed limit. It’s a fine, not a tax.
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- Comment on Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. 2 months ago:
I’m not answering your question at all am I lmao
Have you considered a career in politics?
- Comment on Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. 2 months ago:
You might have mis-read my comment, what are their prices like, relative to ours?
old and “full of character” (read: uneven floors, crumbling paper-thin walls) due to lack of regulation.
Basically a bit like our old terrace houses that are full of damp and way too small for modern life.
- Comment on Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. 2 months ago:
What are house prices in France like?
- Comment on Why, just why? 2 months ago:
I’d have to guess it’s to disincentives illegal immigrants coming into the country.
I get the optics of it to be honest. We’re constantly being told there’s not enough money for essential services, there’s housing shortages and so on, but then people can come here and get housed, receive money etc. It’s probably also a tough pill to swallow when they’re coming from safe countries.
This is absolutely what’s driving the popularity of Reform, and will continue to do so.
- Comment on Fixed speed camera toppled hours before switch-on 2 months ago:
Yeah, it seems unbelievable, I was starting to question what it really meant by “fixed speed camera” as if it were something different to what we usually see. I wonder how they’ve managed to go so long without one?
- Comment on Fixed speed camera toppled hours before switch-on 2 months ago:
North Yorkshire’s first fixed-location speed camera
Am I misunderstanding or is this saying that North Yorkshire hasn’t had any traditional speed cameras up until now?