TedZanzibar

@TedZanzibar@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the dialup days when brands were first coming online I used to have quite a thing for a Toffee Crisp. When I got a bar that was noticeably smaller than the last, I emailed them expecting a reply about market forces or cost of ingredients, but maybe they’d also send a voucher for a free bar or something.

  Instead they tried to gaslight me, telling me they’d always been that size and that I must be imagining it. I was so put out by it that, other than a very occasional multi-pack for picnics, I haven’t bought a single-serve Toffee Crisp, Mars Bar, Snickers etc since.

  When shrinkflation became a recognised term I felt so vindicated! I wish I still had that email so that I could shove it in their faces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friends.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah exactly this. A lot of the humour feels very dated today, even occasionally crossing the line into offensive, but at the time it was essential viewing. There’s a reason they were the most highly paid actors in TV comedy for a while (or TV in general?), later to be pipped by the cast of Frasier IIRC.

  Speaking of Frasier, unlike its star, that has aged pretty well IMO, and I would still recommend it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus passive smoking. While drinking is bad for the drinker’s health, it’s possible to be around people who are drinking without drinking yourself. The same can’t be said for smoking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space weather fans be like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  August 1999. The last total solar eclipse visible from the UK was 72 years ago, and the next one would be 91 years later. Young Ted woke up to a gloriously sunny day. This would be it!

  An hour before the event we drove out to a nice remote viewing spot with minimal obstructions for miles around. 30 minutes to go, the clouds rolled in. Thick, blanket cloud from horizon to horizon. The eclipse happened. From under the cloud it got a bit darker and the birds had a bit of a freak out but it was otherwise a non-event. We drove back home, disappointed.

  30 minutes later the clouds cleared and the rest of the day was as glorious as the morning had been. 27 years later I’m still bitter about it. Seattle’s got nothing on us!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit this has been a long time coming and it’s about bloody time!

  I’ve been getting proper fed up of seeing new builds with a token one or two panels, presumably a requirement for getting an A rating, only for them to be put slap-bang in the middle of the roof so that the owner is unable to add capacity without ripping the whole thing out and starting again. It reeks of malicious compliance and they’ve been allowed to get away with it for far too long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So why are Indian curries so popular in the UK? (interest in culinary perspectives).⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this. I think the classic tikka masala was invented in Glasgow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly this. We used to run Mattermost (essentially Slack but hosted on-prem) and Zoom, and everybody loved the combination. Then the bean counters got involved, saw that we were paying extra for something that was already included with our 365 subscription, and that was that.

  Now we’re stuck with shitty Teams and its shitty Electron app that seems to come up with new ways to not work on a near daily basis. So much so that “Teams be Teamsing” has become a defacto phrase for when something janky happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dammit, I was looking forward to SoT seeing as it plays pretty janky now compared to modern standards and I was hoping they’d fix up the combat a bit. That said, I only have the Xbox version to go off of. Is the PC version any good? Maybe someone will do a Black Mesa on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the main device to hammer in a nail?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes this! It was so obvious what was going on behind the scenes yet the contestants would merrily show their hand every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angela Rayner: I’ve taken all sorts — but we won’t legalise cannabis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not know that, though unless we’ve got a real dodgy doctor somewhere I doubt the entire town has a prescription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angela Rayner: I’ve taken all sorts — but we won’t legalise cannabis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes I forgot about Canada. I tried to be unambiguous but I am in the UK, and I just meant that the people in my town seem to believe that since the laws have largely changed over there then that somehow also applies to us. Everybody’s so blasé about using it and the cops don’t care so we should just tax the stuff already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angela Rayner: I’ve taken all sorts — but we won’t legalise cannabis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody in my town seems to think it’s legal ever since most of the US legalised it. The smell of weed is everywhere and I’ve seen numerous people casually smoke it in the street. The police don’t seem to care, so they may as well just make it official and start reaping the tax benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Had to scroll way too far to find this. For Karl!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite games for killing nazis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t mention what platform but all of the Sniper Elite games are on Gamepass including the literally just released Resistance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I always thought games should be accessible to everyone.

  In a ideal world absolutely, but there’s literally zero chance of Sony reciprocating, as shown by their behaviour during the Bethesda case. Exclusives for me, not for thee.

  I’m happy for PlayStation owners but, as someone heavily invested in the Xbox ecosystem since the OG, it feels like a kick in the teeth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If it doesn’t have an arrow then the correct side is denoted by whether the fuel icon itself has the hose on the left or right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nom nom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had no idea that people struggled with this so much and have come up with such crazy (to me) ways of figuring it out.

  Most of the world, if asked to write down numbers 1-100 on a line, would do so left to right. The < and > symbols are arrows pointing left and right. To the left the numbers decrease (less than) and to the right the numbers increase (greater than).

  All this stuff about crocodiles and ducks seems like such a bizarre way to remember it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pedant, but the pressure difference between 1 atmosphere and zero isn’t all that great, so explosive decompression wouldn’t happen even in the worst case scenario. Rapid yes, explosive no.

  To be explosive you need something like the Byford Dolphin diving bell incident, which was 9 atmospheres to 1 in a fraction of a second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are $70 AAA games slashing prices so drastically?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This shit winds me up so much. It used to be that a game would be full price for 6-12 months before moving onto a budget label at a vastly rexuced price.

  Nowadays games are full price forever, except for the few days a year when they go on “sale” and get reduced to what they should’ve been all along. During which time the publishers get to act like they’re being altruistic and doing us a massive favour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t use these things together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no.

  Two.

  Is down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This made me so angry, enjoy!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  4 dollars

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I feel sick every time I go out to eat with my gf?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, OP didn’t say how long they’d been together but if it’s a new relationship after 3 years of being friends, especially if they’re young and/or there’s been lingering feelings for some time before becoming “official”, then anxiety and nervous excitement is likely to be high!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redirect to prevent back button⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox. I’m fairly convinced it’s something to do with UBO or one of the blocklists but I’ve never taken the time to dig into it properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redirect to prevent back button⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve reminded me of a similar frustration that I’ve never found the answer to - though it may be adblock related - in that whenever I open a link to eBay it completely wipes the history for that tab. Or possibly it opens a new tab and kills the parent. Either way I always forget about it until the next time and then it drives me mad all over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religious people: The world is ending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this. Shortly before he left the church, a friend of mine’s pastor told him not to recycle because it delays the end times. These people want Armageddon and think they’re doing god’s work by hurrying it along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huw Edwards pleads guilty to making indecent images of children⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  According to the Crown Prosecution Service, making indecent images can have a wide definition in the law and can include receiving them via social media.

  Edwards’s barrister Philip Evans KC told the court: “There’s no suggestion in this case that Mr Edwards has… in the traditional sense of the word, created any image of any sort.”

  I suppose the facts that he a) retained some of the images, b) didn’t report having received them and c) continued talking to the man has some bearing on his charges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 1 (4K) | Coming 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah honestly Eternal should’ve been a Quake reboot using the new engine rather than a Doom sequel. Everything about it felt like Quake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 1 (4K) | Coming 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh. I was really hoping they’d go back to the sci-fi aesthetic of 2016 but instead they’ve doubled down on the weird high fantasy with guns thing.

  It’s like they actually wanted to reboot Heretic/Hexen but they couldn’t get the license for it so they’ve just shoehorned it into Doom instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thriving⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah na na na na na. Nah na na na na na. How’s your father? Alright.