crapwittyname
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- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 3 weeks ago:
You stop at the R and change if to a Z. Barry = Baz, Darren = Daz, Carol = Caz etc etc. Because British English is non robotic, it doesn’t work if we stop at the R (like USAians can say “Gar” for Gary) so the z sound gets used instead, because it’s pretty close.
Then the A gets added if you’re being extra friendly or cute, a bit like Michael > Mike > Mikey. Gareth becomes Gary becomes Gaz becomes Gazza.
Make sense? - Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 3 weeks ago:
If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis that all things are made of atoms — little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.
Richard Feynman
So, if, during the apocalypse, you have access to a means of passing on a message to the poor bastards who have to live in the New World, it should be this:
“Everything is made of atoms”
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 3 weeks ago:
You are under informed
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 4 weeks ago:
Freedom. I am free to fall in love with someone else. My partner is free to fall in love with someone else. If she does, then I want her to be with that person if they make her happier than I do, because I love her and I want her to be happy and free. She has the freedom to meet with that person and date them without my knowledge, if that’s what she wants to do. I’m not afraid of that pain, because it’s right that she has that freedom.
Demanding that you “tell me if you’re having feelings for someone else” is handcuffs, because it essentially destroys any relationship that might otherwise blossom between two other people. The key is to work on your relationship and make sure you’re both getting what you need, not policing the other’s behaviour. - Comment on You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is 4 weeks ago:
Also my dad is a billionaire
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 4 weeks ago:
The only dogshit I see here is your over the top aggressive name calling.
- Comment on Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this? 4 weeks ago:
why is a Labour MP regurgitating industry lies?
Real head-scratcher, that one. Reeeeal brainteaser. An honest-to-goodness Labour MP? Shilling for think-tanks? In this economy? On Christmas Eve, in the rain?
Surely not. Because that would mean…We have no valid voting choice as people on the left who care about progress and compassion and social justice, and haven’t since the 1970’s, different flavours of Thatcherite neoliberalism is the only thing anyone under 50 has ever known, and the seemingly endless inertia of that failed ideology within the class-captured, self-reinforcing, closed system of government means it’s likely all we’ll ever knowProbably just a coincidence.
- Comment on UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door 4 weeks ago:
A lot of GB isn’t either, to be fair.
- Comment on UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door 4 weeks ago:
*brevity is the soul of wit"
~Shakespeare
“Um actually, wit is actually a subjective phenomenon, with everyone having a different idea of what it actually means. How could such a construct actually possess a ‘soul’? And that’s not even getting started on the assertion that souls actually exist in any real way”.
~Obinice
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 5 weeks ago:
She already had nine points on her licence, so she’s a repeat offender, hence the book getting thrown at her.
Conversely, this happened in Oxford, which is well known for being strict on drivers. She might have got away with it elsewhere. - Comment on i liek turdles 1 month ago:
They use computers, or so I’m told.
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 1 month ago:
Is that Northern Ireland? Could well be where “geg” comes from if so!
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 1 month ago:
This same site reports that Baby is dead: sportlines.co.uk/spice-girls-star-emma-bunton-die…
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 1 month ago:
The Scouse British dialect has a nice term for this: “Geg out”. As opposed to “Fred is gegging in”, used when someone is trying to implicate themselves or become part of the group/conversation.
Someone involving themselves when they shouldn’t be? Two syllables: Geg. Out.
No idea where it comes from but I heard it a lot in my youth. Forsomereason. - Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 month ago:
This is actually a big deal. They’ve been proscribed as terrorists in the same way as ISIS, Hezbollah, Atomwaffen etc.
They are a direct action protest group, and they are criminals (at least the members that vandalised property) but they aren’t terrorists. And now, under UK law, expressing support for them is an offence. This is a huge misuse of terrorism legislation. 27 people were arrested yesterday for recording their support for Palestine Action.