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- Comment on I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it. 4 days ago:
I can confirm they exist, as one of the places I sometimes work has one - the base unit has a button for 70°/80°/90°/100°.
However, despite probably drinking in excess of 50,000 cups of tea in my life, I’ve only ever seen one of these kettles. The others have all been either “normal electric kettles” as you described, those always-on-water-boiler things you get in offices, or very occasionally, a traditional “put it on the hob or camping stove” kettle.
- Comment on I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it. 4 days ago:
I think it’s 50% this, and 50% “boiling water repeatedly all day is simply less important to them”.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 4 days ago:
Yeah, the Steam Deck is actually pretty good for this on most games.
On a computer, you can, I suppose, set up a keyboard shortcut to pause the process, but you still think “this should just be part of the game in the first place”.
- Comment on Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West 5 days ago:
I feel like if you approach a mosque on behalf of a far-right, white supremacist cult, to “investigate them” for your far-right, white supremacist friends, your intentions are not likely to be peaceful and honourable.
That sounds like the correct call from the police.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 days ago:
Not being able to pause or save at any point.
I’m a “grown-up” these days, but I grew up with games and they’re part of my life, and I love them - but in the larger scale of things, they’re still toys. The requirements of a pet/partner/child/phone call/doorbell will
alwaysnearly always outrank them.“We don’t let you pause because it’s a simulation and and you can’t pause real life so it means the game is more realistic” = piss off
- Comment on UK hospitals bracing for once-in-a-decade flu surge this winter 1 week ago:
I don’t think the rules have changed, so more likely an admin issue than a change in eligibility - I’d probably contact them.
- Comment on "I hope we have an LGBTQ+ president" 1 week ago:
Wes Fucking Streeting? He’s even more right-wing than Starmer!
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 1 week ago:
Aww, go on. Just a teensy bit of genocide, as a treat.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was just having a little joke - I actually have quite a lot of respect for his various environmental/social/other projects… but it’s still quite funny to get a medal from your mum :)
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 weeks ago:
Could go either way. We don’t always have to repeat history.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 2 weeks ago:
Is the “Queen’s service order” (presumably from his mam) basically just like when my mum gave me a sticker for helping do the washing up?
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 weeks ago:
It could be moved onto a special “reservation” where it could continue to live in its own way, with its ancient customs and traditions.
- Comment on ‘Andrew Tate is dead’: inside the minds of 16-year-olds 2 weeks ago:
In a way, I think them saying he’s dead as in ‘irrelevant’ and ‘just a meme’ is probably better than him being dead as in ‘not alive any more’, at least for the time being.
Nobody’s going to try and make him a martyr of anything, just sort of ignore him and occasionally laugh at him.
That said, I feel I wouldn’t be too upset if he expired in prison.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 2 weeks ago:
No. He needs to take more. The amount he’s currently taking is a measly “woke-trans-vegan-lib-radical-left amount for girls”.
If he was a real man and a genius, he’d double the amount of ketamine and cocaine he takes every day.
So twice as much today, 4x as much tomorrow, 8x as much the day after…
- Comment on Temu: British artist's anger at finding work on site without permission 3 weeks ago:
Just a few small questions, out of interest - would you buy art if it was significantly cheaper, or free? Or would it just be so low on your priority list that it would never be important enough?
If it was very cheap, or free, would you take “whatever was on offer”, or would you still have very particular tastes in what you liked?
- Comment on We will not follow legal requirements, faith school tells Ofsted 3 weeks ago:
Another way of saying “We will not follow legal requirements” is “We will break the law”.
- Comment on Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK? 4 weeks ago:
Working fine from mobile phone, Yorkshire. 4G Talkmobile (using Vodaphone’s network). Loaded immediately.
- Comment on Wrecked 'em 💀 4 weeks ago:
Attempt to set the new world record!
- Comment on Wrecked 'em 💀 4 weeks ago:
9 Cadbury’s Cream Eggs
- Comment on CNC 4 weeks ago:
There’s openra.net which is an open source “all the Command and Conquer games” engine, which may be of interest?
- Comment on transformations 4 weeks ago:
Okay, that was actually pretty cool.
Thank you :)
- Comment on transformations 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know what that is, so I’m going to try and deliberately avoid it unless recommended otherwise.
- Comment on transformations 4 weeks ago:
Now I’ve got that “Grace Kelly” song by Mika stuck in my head for the next few days.
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 4 weeks ago:
Couldn’t they just… have some (more) public toilets, or have any existing public toilets open for more hours?
- Comment on Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK 5 weeks ago:
Sadly it’s not just inflexibility of Universal Credit - the base rate of Universal Credit isn’t high enough anyway, but you’ve also particularly got elderly people on state pension only, people with disabilities and people with children.
Surprisingly, the majority of food bank food apparently goes to households with at least one person in work - though this might not be “old style” work where you have set hours and wages and rights, but instead “zero hours” or “flexi hours” or “our company considers you self employed” etc.
Huge increases in gas costs are one of the biggest contributors - children, the elderly and the ill couldn’t manage to just switch the heating off all winter. Ridiculous house price/rent increases are also a massive factor.
I’m also a little unsure about a nationalised supermarket - but there are probably some solutions in this direction that would work.
- Comment on Most of Great Britain’s major rail operators are back in public hands – is it working? 1 month ago:
It’s not the fairest assessment - It has delays as “trains more than three minutes late”. Not ideal, especially when you’re changing trains, but 3 minutes rarely makes a difference, compared to the 10/20/30/40 minutes late ones.
A few years back, when working in places “two trains away”, I was getting trains 10-20 minutes late every day, which normally meant missing the connection.
By my own experience, Northern and Transpennine have had fewer cancellations and fewer noticeably latest.
However, Northern are still shit at sending a two-carriage Sprinter as a commuter train that needs 3-4 carriages for everyone waiting to actually get on.
- Comment on Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email 1 month ago:
That can’t be true because he’s medically unable to sweat.
Not, as he likes to say, because of something something Falklands or whatever.
It’s because he’s a lizard-man in a human suit.
Prince Andrew is a lizard nonce.
- Comment on Parents and students fight against anti-racist book banning 1 month ago:
It’s the good way round.
A Tory had pressured a local school to ban a few books because they showed white-on-black racism as a negative thing, and this fact hurt his racist Tory feelings.
A comparatively large group of anti-racist parents complained, and got the anti-racist book unbanned.
- Comment on wax on 1 month ago:
🇬🇧 - It means it costs 25 pence, or £0.25.
- Comment on Landmark study shows 1.4m Britons have a gambling problem 1 month ago:
Cool. Put controls and regulation on the stock exchange, investment banking “venture capitalism”.
Oh, you didn’t mean that? Do you just mean “poor people gambling”, where people gamble with their own money?