TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on David Lammy dismisses past criticism of Donald Trump as 'old news' 1 week ago:
As much as I’d love to munch some popcorn and see Lammy double down on calling Trump out for being a fascist dickhead, that obviously wouldn’t be in the interest of the UK and would probably be an unwise thing for the Foreign Secretary of all ministers to do.
Unfortunately, Trump did win an election and we do have to put up with him/navigate around him for the next four years.
I do hope, though, that the Republicans becoming more and more unhinged prompts us to be a bit less US-reliant, and to seek partnerships with other countries, and to make our own country a bit more self-reliant.
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 1 week ago:
You’re replying to a lemmy.ml user, they almost certainly think pulling out of NATO and allowing Putin to continue his genocide in Ukraine is a good thing.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
Typical nanny state
My house isn’t inside a school or a hospital, therefore I can’t even smoke in my own home. Absolutely raging.
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 2 weeks ago:
I’m so fucking sick of this discussion.
If your income is in the form of dividends, stock selling, or collecting rent money, that doesn’t mean you’re a worker.
If you work as an employee for a company, and are also a landlord on the side, then yes you are a worker. But you are a worker because of the working for a company part, not the landlord part.
End of discussion.
Now let’s look at a paragraph from this dog shit article, breaking it up into points…
I know investment bankers and corporate lawyers who work far more hours and under much greater pressure than me.
And? Nobody ever said investment bankers or lawyers weren’t workers. They work for companies and are paid.
They have no inherited income, come from ordinary backgrounds and their wealth is entirely down to their salary.
Ok? What does this have to do with assessing whether someone is a worker or not?
But that salary is simply too large for them to count as working people.
When did the government or anybody ever say that anyone with a decent salary isn’t a worker?
In any case, I’ve watched several episodes of Industry, and they are patently the wrong type of working people. And what’s more, they are having way too much sex, although Starmer has not quantified how much coupling working people are allowed.
I don’t even know what to say about this. Are they unrelatedly complaining about sex in a TV programme, or do they genuinely think Labour’s view on who counts as a worker comes down to how often that person has sex and how many people they have sex with?
It’s honestly embarrassing that FT even published this. Under a fucking paywall too.
- Comment on Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners 2 weeks ago:
It was certainly annoying. I contacted JustEat to try to find out who did it, but I couldn’t get any information from them
Thankfully I live in rural Northumberland and only occasionally travel down to Newcastle or up to Berwick or Edinburgh, so I don’t see them much.
I’m not even sure you can use any of the delivery apps here. Just old fashioned ringing up and asking for a delivery
- Comment on Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah he got away and wasn’t identified
I’m fine now, it was a few years ago. I just have an ugly scar I’m a bit self conscious about
- Comment on Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners 2 weeks ago:
If there’s a path with a lot of pedestrians on it, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that cyclists are expected to get off their bike and walk like everybody else.
I had my jaw fractured because some speeding JustEat delivery man came blasting through a pedestrian area of Newcastle on his bike, clearly not paying attention and going at far too high a speed.
It was very painful, I have a scar on my face, I couldn’t work or eat comfortably for a while.
- Comment on Pay boost for millions of workers next year. 2 weeks ago:
That’s a larger increase than I was expecting, what, like 3x inflation?
It’s certainly not a magic silver bullet that singlehandedly fixes our low wage economy like a lot of people on Reddit/Lemmy appear to expect, but it’s a positive step at least.
I just really hope there’s serious infrastructure and employment investment, particularly in the seriously impoverished areas like the North East of England. And I hope their planning permission changes will actually have a noticeable effect. Time will tell.
- Comment on Worcestershire brook pollution brings prosecution of 2 companies. 2 weeks ago:
Dump rubbish into rivers that killed a significant number of fish, along with other plants and animals, get fined £18k and £4k respectively.
What a joke. The bosses of these businesses should be in prison.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
No, that’s exactly what he said. You just chose to deliberately misinterpret him.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t hard to understand.
Owning stock doesn’t make you a worker. Being a landlord doesn’t make you a worker.
If you work on top of the above, you are a worker. If you do not, you aren’t.
There’s a big difference between “a landlord isn’t a worker” and “a landlord cannot be a worker.”
An absolutely based comment from Starmer.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 3 weeks ago:
No, it’s not how you do it in Germany.
Germany has restrictions on kids buying alcohol too:
Beer, wine, wine-like beverages or sparkling wine or mixtures of beer, wine, wine-like beverages or sparkling wine and soft drinks, must not be sold to Children and Adolescents below the age of 16 years,
other alcoholic drinks or food items that contain other alcoholic drinks in more than insignificant quantities must not be sold to Children and Adolescents,
nor must their consumption by said persons be tolerated.
- Jugendschutzgesetz (Protection of Young Persons Act)
Where is this massive black market for moonshine?
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
Based from Starmer there.
Landlords and shareholders aren’t working people.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 3 weeks ago:
Disposable vapes are already sketchy…
And what kind of logic is this? Should children be able to buy alcohol on the basis that if they don’t get served in pubs/shops they could theoretically instead be sold moonshine in an alleyway?
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 3 weeks ago:
Based.
- Comment on World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating | UK News 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t cheat, sir, honest. I merely had the answers to the test written on my arm as a joke.
- Comment on Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty? 4 weeks ago:
Stop building houses, everybody. We can just force the sale or rent of 260,000 homes, completely and permanently solving the housing crisis. I repeat, stop building new houses!
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
lol
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
I doubt it’s religion.
Theresa May was all about drug control because her husband is high up in a company that pretty much has a monopoly on medical cannabis export. Relaxing the rules would be bad for his business. Wouldn’t surprise me if that company was a donor to the Tory party.
New labour, in the early 2000s, made moves to be more lenient on cannabis, and they were absolutely hounded by the conservative press for it, which then prompted them to reverse track.
- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 1 month ago:
It basically is when you’re not the one who has to deal with that debt.
- Comment on Compulsory Meat In Schools Should Be Scrapped, Says Dale Vince 1 month ago:
No, it isn’t. Not having children is.
And are we still doing the “personal climate footprint” propaganda that BP was pushing?
- Comment on Compulsory Meat In Schools Should Be Scrapped, Says Dale Vince 1 month ago:
I’m not. I know it is. But there are many ways to campaign for a better environment, and he has specifically chosen to go for the one that will help his catering company.
I don’t think that was a coincidence.
- Comment on Compulsory Meat In Schools Should Be Scrapped, Says Dale Vince 1 month ago:
Yeah maybe. I’m certainly conflicted on this, because I don’t think he’s wrong, but him financially benefitting from this in a big way does leave a slight sour taste in my mouth.
- Comment on Compulsory Meat In Schools Should Be Scrapped, Says Dale Vince 1 month ago:
Lobbying for the world to remain habitable is very different to lobbying so your catering company can make some money.
And of course he can express his view. As am I allowed to express my distaste in people lobbying for their own private companies’ benefit.
And I absolutely cared about lobbying before I saw this news.
- Comment on Compulsory Meat In Schools Should Be Scrapped, Says Dale Vince 1 month ago:
Just because something is normal practice doesn’t mean we can’t complain. I don’t like people lobbying for personal gain.
- Comment on Only 3% of UK 12-year-olds don’t have a smartphone. Here is how four of them feel about it 1 month ago:
Honestly a big part of this is that the “dumb” phones are just as, if not more, expensive than a used or low end smartphone.
My daughter did use a dumb phone for a while, but then they started shutting down 2G and some 3G masts in the area and it was causing problems. There are some newer dumb phones that can use 4G, but given the prices and half of them still using micro usb for some damn reason (I’m a big fan of just carrying around one charger) it made more sense for me to give her an old smartphone and lock it down a little.
- Comment on Mars brings Marathon name back in UK as nostalgia rises for retro sweets 1 month ago:
“we have curly wurlys at home”
the curly wurlys at home:
- Comment on Fears for patient safety as GPs use ChatGPT to diagnose and treat illness 1 month ago:
You want anybody using LLMs in any capacity to lose their livelihoods. That’s very much a “AI bad” take with zero nuance.
- Comment on The rise of Britishcore: 100 experiences that define and unite modern Britons 1 month ago:
I said 25-35, not 25.
Mighty Boosh (2003-07)
Lots
Chicken Run (2000)
Lots
Who Shot Phil Mitchell (2001)
Not many
Caroline Quentin-era Jonathan Creek (1997-2000)
A reasonable amount
Or know people who were extras in the Harry Potter films (2001-11)
A similar amount to people that are 5 years older
remember the Animals of Farthing Wood TV programme (1993-97)
Not many
or spilled their drink on Miquita Oliver at a squat party in 2007 (2007)?
I don’t even know what that is and I’m 39
A lot of your comment seems to be based on the assumption that people only watch films/TV that’s just coming out now, and therefore no young adults will know anything that came from the 90s or early 2000s.