fakeman_pretendname
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- Comment on Home renovations 6 hours ago:
- Comment on Home renovations 10 hours ago:
Excellent answer.
I suspected the same, but metrically.
- Comment on Home renovations 19 hours ago:
Technically true.
- Comment on Home renovations 1 day ago:
How thin would your floors and ceilings need to be for this to be real?
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 day ago:
Kent Wanker.
- Comment on Another Biscuit Island Banger 1 day ago:
Surprisingly, there is actually a wiki page on the matter:
Wikipedia.org - Taking the Piss
Roughly covers the following:
1- mocking someone
- making a joke at someone’s expense
2
- saying/doing something unbelievable
- doing something unfair
- taking more than your fair share
“Are you taking the piss?” is pretty similar to “You’ve got to be joking, mate!” or “are you fucking kidding me!?!”
- Comment on "It's going to be a very long goodbye" - Peter Molyneux's last game will be Masters of Albion, but that's not necessarily as simple as it sounds 3 days ago:
He genuinely did some quality stuff in the 1980s and 1990s. Populous (1989) and Powermonger (1990) were genre-defining, and in their era, were amongst the best games available on the Atari ST/Amiga.
He seemed to have a run of innovative classics - Theme Park and Dungeon Keeper were quality…
…and then at some point he just started promising things he couldn’t deliver. Black and White still turned out pretty good, despite the broken promises…
… then in the last handful of years, he’s worked hard to destroy his previous reputation by churning out overhyped shit.
- Comment on Former Daily Mail editor tells hacking trial allegations are 'preposterous' 3 days ago:
“Dacre admitted wanting to clear his name, but also said he cared about the “honest and dedicated” staff at the paper.”
Honest staff at the Daily Mail? Must mean the office cleaners.
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 4 days ago:
Yet we can still buy “Milk of Magnesia” for poorly tummies.
- Comment on bit rude, innit? 4 days ago:
It depends on where you live, but generally you leave stuff out the front if you want to get rid of it (fridges, freezers, ovens, mattresses, sofas etc) - either officially, by arranging a “bulky goods” collection from the council, or waiting for someone who wants/needs it to take it. Large appliances generally get picked up by “rag and bone” men who weigh the metal in for scrap.
Remember that a large chunk of urban population don’t drive at all, and the majority that do drive small vehicles for short journeys - so not many people can take stuff like that to a recycling centre themselves.
- Comment on bit rude, innit? 5 days ago:
I think you’re overestimating the amount of nice, sunny days available in British weather :)
- Comment on £700m ‘fish disco’ plan could save 90% of marine life, says Hinkley Point C study 5 days ago:
I want to know what this sounds like.
- Comment on Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streets, study finds 6 days ago:
Some of it is definitely connected to that - but the majority (at least in places I live and work) is the unit rents being kept artificially high by the landlords, which are often investment or pension companies.
They won’t drop the rent, and in fact keep increasing it - then of course small businesses close down and large businesses move to these out-of-town retail parks with cheaper rents and huge carparks, but they are generally only accessible to richer people with cars (which is good for their business, too - those people can buy trolley-loads to fill a car instead of basket-loads to fill a carrier bag).
The reasoning behind keeping the rents high and shops empty is roughly:
If a shop unit was once (in its heyday) worth £20,000 a year in rent, then if they dropped the rent to £10,000 they’d get someone using it, and there’d be a shop on the high street… but their “investment asset” is only “worth” £10,000 a year.
If they instead keep the rent at £20,000, then nobody uses it and there’s no shop on the high street, but their “investment asset” is still “worth” £20,000 a year. They can borrow money and spend against this theoretical value.
When every shop on the street is owned in this way, the shops are all empty and useless to people, but their theoretical rent value stays high, so the investment company can keep using it as an asset and doing cunty money stuff with it to make extra money. Meanwhile, there are no shops.
This isn’t a bad plan, but it’s a bit of “wallpapering over the cracks” - letting people use the empty shop units is good, but it would be better if they weren’t all squatted by these investment companies in the first place.
If they were to do something like “City centre compulsory purchase orders without compensation” for long-term absentee commercial landlords, then I think the problem would solve itself pretty quickly. That might be a little extreme, but moving a few steps in that direction would probably be worth looking at.
- Comment on Coventry's light rail technology a 'game-changer' 1 week ago:
I’m under the impression it’s more of a lightweight battery powered tram - but for some reason, the article didn’t bother to mention this!
- Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity 1 week ago:
Yes, I’ve done quite a few. From your link, it looks like they recently added “English” as a subsection of “white” in 2011 (it used to just say “British”). Anyway, as far as I would understand it, the ethnicity in the link above is “white”. I don’t think Sunak was saying he was ethnically white, but that his national identity was English - not that I’m defending him in any way - as mentioned above, he’s a bell-end.
- Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity 1 week ago:
That sounds like a question for mid-90s Hong Kong! :)
It’s an interesting question though, as “Chinese” can be used as both a Nationality and an Ethnicity (and a language and a style of food). I don’t think I’ve ever heard of “English” being used as an Ethnicity before, but it wouldn’t surprise me if people had started trying to do that.
- Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity 1 week ago:
He’s something of a bell-end, and I’m not 100% certain he’s human - but he was born in England, so whatever he actually is, he’s an English one of it.
- Comment on Price of average UK home passes £300,000 for first time, Halifax says 1 week ago:
You can still get 2 or 3 bed houses in some areas of the North for less than £100,000… though you may find the difficulty is in getting a decent job near there :)
- Comment on ‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10 2 weeks ago:
“We had a right-wing party supporting the billionaire class and things got worse.”
“Then we had an extreme right-wing party even more strongly supporting the billionaire class and things got even worse.”
“Then we had another right-wing party supporting the billionaire class and things carried on getting worse.”
“Basically, the more right-wing things got, and the more billionaire-supporting it got, the worse it got.”
“As long as this area is owned by billionaires and run by the right-wing, things are going to continue getting worse.”
???
“That’s why we’ve decided that the best solution would be to go with the extreme far right party, who are overwhelmingly in support of the billionaire class, but who are also racist.”
??? - Comment on Do people eat this? 2 weeks ago:
Good call. For a treat, you can take your part-cooked potato to your local library, then wedge the potato behind a radiator, to crisp up the edges a little :)
- Comment on Do people eat this? 2 weeks ago:
You have to cook the potatoes or they’re poisonous, and buying and running a hob or an oven is comparatively pretty expensive in the UK. I get your point though, if you’re a bit wealthier, of course you’d be looking at potatoes or other foods - and it can get really ingredient cheap if you buy a sack of potatoes and mostly just eat potatoes :)
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown | Exploration Deep Dive 2 weeks ago:
I would like to separate Tuvix by rescuing Tuvok and the alien orchid. The alien orchid is an important sample for study.
- Comment on Growing number of adults avoid booze, NHS survey suggests 2 weeks ago:
It’s a bit annoying isn’t it? They raised the price of all alcoholic drinks with “minimum price per unit of alchohol” rules, as a disincentive to supermarket special-offer binge-drinking, but then they charge this increased price for the alcohol free versions too…
- Comment on Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone disagrees with that, but the current “upload a video of your face, a copy of your passport and your full name and address to a criminal company based in Cypress” combined with “if you don’t implement it you must block the UK” is one of the most stupid, dangerous and incompetent things I’ve seen for weeks.
It’s not just porn being blocked. It’s Discord servers, Twitter, image hosters, other hosting websites, media websites, images on websites, international companies’ websites, tech support, equipment manufacturers, fucking paint suppliers.
It’s a sack of badly thought-out shit by bell-ends. An opt-in from a mobile phone provider or ISP, plus some parental controls was all we needed. Now we can’t order some fucking specialist paint for work, and the pictures in the online safety manual all say “not available in your region”.
At least we’ll soon be able to buy a pack of 1000 stolen uploaded British passports and photos for £50.
- Comment on National insurance hike and energy bills behind food price rise, say UK retailers 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, you see all these newspaper/online articles about “how to live for cheaper” etc, then you notice “but that’s how I’ve already been living for a decade”.
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 3 weeks ago:
I think “intersect” keeps only the shared sections, so it would give you “Rick Man”. We’d need an “exclusion” or an “XOR” to retain the non-shared sections.
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 3 weeks ago:
Alan Wake is a boolean operation between Alan Rickman and Rick Wakeman
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, they added a “modesty Norway” to cover up that filthy border.
- Comment on "It is out of the question to let a boss run rampant" - Ubisoft workers strike against "disastrous" cutbacks 3 weeks ago:
I wonder what the staff member who wrote this article had on their mind?
- Comment on What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out 3 weeks ago:
Oh great, now I have to start hoarding water, too.
