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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Don’t call this racist’: row grows over motives behind England flag campaign⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Put LGBT flags underneath every England flag.

  If they both stay up, the intention is probably positive, supportive, prideful and welcoming.

  If the LGBT ones get torn down… well, there’s a heavy overlap in the Venn diagram between the homophobes and the racists, so I think you can safely assume they’re racist flags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Like my knees :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be silly. Hah! A decade ago! Community didn’t exist as a TV programme in the 1990s!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for ‘deplatforming’ him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope it bankrupts everyone involved.

  (I realise that bankrupting Facebook is basically impossible, but we’re allowed to have dreams)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young chatty workers disturbing older colleagues ‘not age harassment’, tribunal rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, we don’t know what they were talking about, and how loudly, and for how long, and with what accents :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reform income tax: end the high marginal rate scandal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and joined with a few:
  “You don’t understand, I was offered some more paid hours at work, but with the extra taxes at that income threshold, I’d only be working for £35 an hour, which is probably below minimum wage, as far as I’m aware. My life is so hard”.

  Narrator: The minimum wage was actually £12.21 for people over 21 years of age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reform income tax: end the high marginal rate scandal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to say this reads a bit like:
  “I barely earn more than four normal households’ worth of income - and now the government is expecting me to pay for my own children! It’s a scandal!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can England possibly be running out of water?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It uses about 5 litres of water to flush a toilet, so people in the South of England could save a lot of water by pissing on Margaret Thatcher’s grave instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coal Company Sues UK After Environmentalists Win Major Climate Case in British Court⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Vampires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eli Lilly ramps up UK price of weight loss jab Mounjaro after Trump demands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not even sure that’s his boots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Government to be sued in Arbitration Court by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m siding with the government on this one.

  It’s sad that it’s so rare to see them on the correct side of a disagreement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question about driving some 80's CRTs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those look like CRT units without cases, which is slightly terrifying. Be careful.

  What’s on the back of it (i.e. connectors) and what country are you in? (i.e. PAL, SECAM, NTSC)

  Likely connectors are RF aerial, BNC, component, composite. Maybe s-video?

  Assuming they still work and power on safely, you may find the issue is in generating a signal that they accept, with modern equipment. This depends a little on what you’re planning on using them for, and therefore what you want to connect them to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In any foodstuff which says “average contents”, followed by a number, you will always get fewer than average.

  For example, your packet of chicken nuggets says “average contents : 24 nuggets”. You are the person who receives 23 nuggets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Increase in vapes found on Britain’s coastline by beach clean volunteers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the common day-to-day shops, they seemed to phase out the earlier refillable/repairable/replaceable ones for “disposable” tops. Even the e-cig shops near us stopped selling the cotton wadding and pre-coiled wires for rebuildables.

  With a rebuildable one, I was using a 5x50mm strip of cotton wadding and an 8cm length of very thin wire every month or so. These pod things seem to use a coil, wadding, heating element, metal case, plastic case, spring, screw etc every few days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good work, thank you :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High street banks lose £100bn in deposits as UK savers shift to online rivals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think they do still have some of them in most city centres, which kind of makes sense (if you were closing 95% of your branches, those are the ones you’d keep) - though it’s a long way from when there used to be a few different branches in every town centre, and amongst the small local rows of shops in housing areas i.e. the local high street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High street banks lose £100bn in deposits as UK savers shift to online rivals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how well the term “High Street Bank” works these days. Does anyone’s town/city still have any accessible physical branches on an actual high street?

  Perhaps they could start opening “high street banks” in old, disused former Wetherspoonses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Before games had full epic soundtracks, you still got quality “intro tracks”, occasionally with a few other songs for whilst you’re playing.

  Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe intro music (youtube link)

  From the same Atari ST/Amiga era: Chaos Engine, Frontier Elite 2, Xenon 2 Megablast, Syndicate Wars

  For newer stuff with “full soundtracks”, you can’t beat Stellaris OST (youtube link)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That wouldn’t be “growing up”. That would be giving in and accepting it.

  People destroying other people’s lives and the world around them, for their own personal benefit and greed, should never be acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuggan Mastercard has decided the following things are abominations, and are therefore unacceptable to sell:

  Cats, the colour blue, oysters, mushrooms, chocolate, garlic, cheese, the smell of beets, jigsaw puzzles, and rocks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite the illegality, these people manage to sneak into the country with tonnes of coke, then distribute it to tens of sub-distributers, who in turn distribute it to hundreds of large dealers, who in turn pass that on to thousands of local dealers, in time to supply tens of thousands of parties, to supply the coke requirements of every doctor, solicitor, TV executive and regular weekend coke fan in the country, every Friday evening.

  These people need hunting down and capturing.

  Then we need to make them run our railways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got emotional thinking about this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On Google Earth (rather than Google maps), you can view all the previous streetview photos from any location that has them - so the 2012 one won’t be the default one, but you can switch back to it with a few clicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👉👈⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody’s asking you to kiss guys. They’re asking you to kiss comrades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The stairway to nope⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because those cars are too big and don’t fit in the parking spaces any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panama Proxima⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good to know Brexit is only temporary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can the AI determine if I’m just uploading photos of Kier Starmer as my ID?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer and Macron to announce ‘one in, one out’ migration deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What if we let one Reform supporter out for each immigrant we let in?

  “It’s a controversial way of doing it, but it looks like complaints about immigration are down”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All fair points for a motorway/highway/freeway/whatever. I’d mistakenly thought the previous post was referring to a smaller local road with a 55mph limit.

  I don’t really care so much about what speed people do on motorways, but I have a massive problem with people doing 40-60mph in a 20-30mph limit residential area. Bear in mind where I live in the UK, the cars are driving 2 metres from the front door of everyone’s houses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not personally, no - but the police would only need to catch a handful each day to get things moving a little more safely in the area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why don’t they confiscate driving licences and imprison all the criminals who are driving 20-25mph dangerously over the limit?