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- Comment on 2 days ago:
Walking with dinosaurs is like 20 years old it’s not recent.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Yes that was the retcon explanation. The actual explanation is that they wanted to have Velociraptors in the movie and weren’t really bothered about the fact that they aren’t actually that big, there are species of raptor that are that large, but they didn’t want to use their names because they were less well-known. Velociraptor was one of the few dinosaurs people knew. T-Rex didn’t become famous until after Jurassic Park.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I was think it’s funny how people go on about majestic horses. They’re not majestic, they are uncoordinated panicky idiots.
My aunt has a horse and I’ve seen him run into a tree, there’s one single tree in his paddock and it’s a giant oak, and he’s running into it at least three times. He panics if he can’t see his friend, often because his friend is behind him, and then runs madly around until he crashes into something, or stumbles into the pond.
This is the horse and had a panic attack because the farmer had bought a new wheelbarrow and it looked different to the one he was used to.
- Comment on Trump: 'I am not happy with the UK' 2 days ago:
I was saying this the other day. The best way Zack can get elected is to stand on a platform of pissing off Trump. Even reformer voters aren’t hugely in favour of Trump.
- Comment on Trump: 'I am not happy with the UK' 2 days ago:
Churchill would have also told Trump to do one. He was not known for his lack of candour. The UK was at war with Germany before the Americans got involved so I don’t know what trump’s talking about. The US joined the UK on that one.
Why would Churchill get the UK involved in a war that didn’t already affect the UK?
Of course knowing any of this would require Trump to have actually read a history book which is probably where the issue starts.
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 2 days ago:
Which is more believable anyway, so I’m not really sure why it changed.
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 2 days ago:
Yes the boiling frog approach. Now basically going to do it one at a time so they don’t get too much pushback.
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 2 days ago:
A new role for Neil Parish I think
- Comment on UK Royal Airforce in Cyprus hit by drone strike 3 days ago:
There’s a UK military base there that was attacked. His decision to allow the US to launch attacks from the island is stupid in my opinion, but the attack against the instant military installation happened anyway so it’s not actually his fault.
- Comment on Sovcit is mad he was called a sovcit by the judge. 3 days ago:
Yeah about 95% of what they say is utterly incomprehensible to anyone other than themselves. A lot of these people are not mentally put together. Trying to make any sort of sense out of the things they say is a waste of time.
In as much as they have any sort of point, their point is they didn’t agree to be part of society, and I kind of know what they mean sometimes I feel like that, but the problem is they want all the benefits but don’t want to pay any of the dues. So they think they should be able to drive around without a licence and that the cops shouldn’t be allowed to pull them over, but they also think they should be allowed to drive on public highways. They’re unable to see the hypocrisy in that.
It is idiots had any brains at all they would buy some land somewhere and go back to nature, but of course none of them actually do this because that would be difficult and they don’t want to put the effort in.
- Comment on UK Royal Airforce in Cyprus hit by drone strike 3 days ago:
Cyprus isn’t controlled by the British government so I’m not quite sure what you’re talking about.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Damn that’s GTA levels of delay.
- Comment on big facts 4 days ago:
I don’t need to believe in Wi-Fi I just need to see that my phone is connected to the internet. The existence of Wi-Fi can be inferred by me having access to YouTube.
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 4 days ago:
My mother is like that. She can’t actually see her phone because she never wears her glasses so she can’t tell if it makes sense or not. So she doesn’t even bother anymore she just presses send. So I get messages like:
CBB you pour the cars bowl out if the dishewast
And there’s no point me asking for clarification because the clarification will be just as bizarrely broken.
- Comment on Coherent distractions 4 days ago:
I don’t think it’s a direct quote. I’ve refused to believe that the president of the United States knows what the word plural means.
However he definitely has a bragged in the past about taking a cognitive test that you only give to suspected dementia sufferers, personally I feel like bragging about having taken a dementia test itself, should result in a fail of the test.
- Comment on Ariana Grande: The Last Racebender 5 days ago:
But Spaniards are white.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 5 days ago:
I think you can turn it off in settings
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 6 days ago:
I think everyone had that model at one point.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 6 days ago:
Nope I also don’t understand the appeal of streamers, even if they are content creators I actually like. The simultaneously huge long pauses while they’re doing something in the background, because no streamer ever seems to be able to get the setup working, and at the same time constant interaction with the comments. I get why it’s like that, but they are always them going on about subs and gifted subs, just get on with whatever it is that you’re streaming.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 6 days ago:
It’s been a standard feature for a very long time I’m kind of surprised they’ve only just started making use of it but this kind of thing.
A lot of sites that play sounds will stop when you tap out of them otherwise they’re just plain sounds in the background and that’s kind of annoying.
- Comment on ‘How can I start again at 68?’ Maria has spent 50 years in the UK – and is fighting deportation 6 days ago:
The US showed that you can just straight up lie and commit crimes and still be allowed in power. So now everyone’s trying it.
Results vary because it depends on the power of that particular country’s equivalent to a constitution. You couldn’t get away with Trump levels of draconianism in the UK but that still leaves a lot of wiggle room.
This whole story is very confusing, there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of a crime having been committed and yet it still went to court and she was told to plead guilty? That really doesn’t sound right. I suspect there’s more detail to the story that we haven’t been told.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 6 days ago:
Yeah the colours are opposite to the US.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 6 days ago:
This result actually indicates that it’s not. The Greens won, they beat out reform by so much that even if you add the conservative vote to the reform vote, they still lose. They kicked labor down into third place. That’s not splitting the vote.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 6 days ago:
It’s actually quite reassuring that Labour are third and not second because as you say it indicates that the vote isn’t being split or at least not all that much. I suspect at least some of those Labour votes will have been concerns over splitting the vote and not wanting to do that, so going with the more traditional option. I suspect that subsequent elections (there’s one coming up in my constituency soon) will look at this result and see that it is in fact safe to vote green.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 6 days ago:
The conservatives are pulling in monster raving loony party numbers that’s going to be embarrassing.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 6 days ago:
What is reassuring is that the vote was nowhere near as close as the polls were suggesting it would be. Most of the polls were having the result being won by only a couple of hundred votes, but the greens won by thousands and thousands of votes.
That’s what all the whining is about. They didn’t get anywhere near the votes they were expecting and I’m sure their backers are starting to wonder if there’s really enough appetite in the UK for them to have any chance of winning. Because if they’re not going to win what’s the point in funding them? That and the fact that Goodwin is a sore loser.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 6 days ago:
Also on top of the other comment, the other major thing is that this happened in Manchester. A labour stronghold, and a seat that was supposed to be represented by Andy Burnham but then Starmer decided he was a threat so wouldn’t allow him in the party. This result is the first clear evidence that the left are sick of labour and they’re ridiculousness.
If labour had come in second it would have actually been a bad thing because it would mean that the Greens were split in the left-wing vote, but the fact that they were pushed down into third place indicates that they are not splitting the vote they are replacing it. That’s huge.
And it’s a win-win for liberal voters because either the greens will replace labour or this vote will give labour the kick up the arse that they need. Either way it demonstrates a desire for far more left left-wing policy than is currently being offered.
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 week ago:
Oh yeah I’d forgotten he was in independent day. That’s not a slight against him, I’ve just not seen it in ages.
The only reason I didn’t include things like I robot as sci-fi is it’s only surface level sci-fi. You could easily have made it be about Orcs and demons and it would have fitted.
I was trying to think if he had been in any hard sci-fi and the only thing I can think of is that film with his kid in it. No idea what it was called.
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 week ago:
You get that we want to dialogue right? We can all imagine Will Smith in a leather jacket with slow motion bullets moving around him.
Every time someone who is pro AI tries to advocate for it it always comes off as their brain having turned to porridge. You get we can see that image in our minds, we don’t need it visualised for us at the expense of half an olympic swimming pool worth of water and at least six trees.
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 week ago:
Didn’t you do a sci-fi with his kid? I’ve never seen it and I have no idea what it was about or what it was called but I’m sure it was a sci-fi.