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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of Great Britain’s major rail operators are back in public hands – is it working?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  🇬🇧 - It means it costs 25 pence, or £0.25.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landmark study shows 1.4m Britons have a gambling problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously, they’d be in danger of learning something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What role has Britain played in the history of Israel and Palestine?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “The baddies”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even think there’d be that much disagreement.

  “Oh, do you hate libs and love Putin too?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or “Minors always granted access”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost none of these abbreviation based etymologies are true - they’re made up years later, normally as a joke, and somehow you end up with people spreading them about as facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Stargate UK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To anyone skimming through /all and nust noticing the headline, this may save you a click:

  It’s just an AI thing. The UK is not, I repeat not, building a Stargate.

  • Just some AI thing ✅️
  • Gateway to desert planet Abydos ❌️
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like everything is these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stop Trump coalition published this video⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out it’s the Welsh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss Mock the Week :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that all went out the window during the Tory era, with things such as replacing the head of the BBC with a Tory, threatening to pull all funding unless they started promoting the government’s right-wing perspective and caving into Rupert Murdoch’s pressure that he is poor and starving because the evil BBC is taking all his rightful TV money and viewers.

  BBC comedy show and dramas are still on the whole centrist or a bit left leaning, but the news skewed heavily to the right about 10-15 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨University Mergers - not the best sign!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything less than “Grent” will be disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically, though they’re traditionally considered to be left wing, and people were expecting them to be slightly-right-wing, they’ve enacted all the Tory (very right wing) policies that were in the pipeline, and in an attempt to appeal to the far right, have jumped from “a little right of centre” into a government more right wing than David Cameron’s Tories were. They’re probably still to the left of where we’d be if we’d actually got Tories or UKIP.

  For example (I have paraphrased and sensationalised the descriptions, because I am sad and angry):

  • Starving the elderly and disabled
  • Banning trans people from being allowed to use I public toilets
  • Implemented a ban on any website which could ever potentially contain a picture of a boob, or offer things like “quitting smoking support”, unless you upload your name/passport/3d scan of your face, postal address and email address to a dodgy company in Cypress or the USA
  • Come out in complete support of a genocide
  • Banned peace protesting and arrested hundreds of innocent people
  • Come out in complete support of the other year’s Tory/UKIP rioting
  • Come out in support of far-right nationalist flag-shagging
  • Come out in support of killing refugees
  • Various other atrocities. I’m sure you get the idea

  I’ve used slightly loaded language and twisted a few specifics, but I’m sure you get the general idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think most of the people disagreeing with the post are from the USA, which has completely different costs/taxes/prices etc.

  In the UK (as the original post is), it depends where you live - our mortgage is about £350 per month (5 bed terrace), but if would have been almost £500 a month without the deposit. Rent in the area is about £600 - £1500 per month, for similar or smaller properties.

  Note that this is in Northern UK, in the sort of town sometimes described as “a bit of a shithole”. I could get a train to a town an hour away and the prices would literally double - but the ratio between mortgage and rent would be pretty much the same.

  Even with the cost of repairs, and a tiny bit on insurance etc, it’s a significant saving. Also, the repairs actually get done, which was not the experience I had in rented accommodation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you live in a “less desirable area” you can still get a house for less than £100,000 in some places in the UK. You might find yourself with limited job opportunities or a long commute, or poor local facilities though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Budgie the Little Helicopter” and “Jimbo of the Jet Set” are both terrified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  (Sorry if this sounds like I’m whinging at you - I’m really whinging about them)

  a & b) I get that peak times exist. I didn’t argue against it. I regularly experience ~400 people squashing onto a 200 capacity commuter train - so yes, dissuading other people from thinking “that’s a good time to go for a day out” is fine. Regarding telling you when it is, maybe some operators do, but I’ve not been able to find this for any of the routes I use. The ticket buying website knows when peak is, as if you select a time, it either does or doesn’t show you an off-peak return amongst the tickets offered, but nowhere actually tells you exactly when and where. In some places they have some peak in the morning and afternoon, others morning only. If you’re working away for a week, and head over on the Sunday night and get an off-peak return, which return trains are peak or off-peak? You finish an hour earlier then expected - peak or off-peak? You don’t know until it rejects your ticket and they fine you. Really, if they’d just show on the ticket buying websites/apps “this one is peak” “this one is off-peak”, that would do me fine.

  c) Yes - I’m looking forward to it :)

  d) It might say that, but that’s not what seems to happen. Even if the person in the station says “yes, don’t worry, this will be valid on that train”, the person on the train can still decide it isn’t and fine you (you can appeal it when you get home, assuming you’re rich enough to buy another full ticket plus £100 fine).

  Maybe I’m just travelling on the routes with the shittest train companies? :)

  Anyway, as you say, half of these problems should hopefully disappear when the separate privatised companies’ contracts run out :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer's new director of comms is swimming balls deep in controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is awful. He should go back to doing “Tim the Toolman Taylor” and “Buzz Lightyear”. Giving up his acting work to become a far-right piece-of-shit bigot cunt was a poor career choice.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bag of cocks. Simplify the ticketing system by: a) make all the tickets generally cheaper, so you don’t need to make special advance super saver restricted use tickets b) actually tell us when peak time is, and keep it consistent c) no more “you can only use it on this train company” tickets d) no more “you can only use it on this exact train” tickets. If you cancel my train, I’m getting on the next train that goes there and you’re accepting my ticket. e) there are three main tickets - single, day return, period return f) you can buy discounted tickets for a week, month, year of the same journey g) you can buy a ticket online, from a website to email, from an app, in a ticket office with a person or from a machine

  Basically, just get rid of the stupid shit with all the “special” conditions on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polymer P0rn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheers, mate (!) I looked at these erotic polymers from the UK, without uploading my passport, driver’s licence, name and address and video of my face, and now I’m in violation of the “Online Safety Act” and I’m going to go to prison.

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

  Like my knees :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.