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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 ❌️

Turns out it’s the Welsh.

I miss Mock the Week :(

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.

Anything less than “Grent” will be disappointing.

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 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.

Loud and surprising. I wasn’t expecting it.

[Edit] It was like someone set off a tiny fire alarm in my pocket.

Those are bellends.

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.

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

(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 :)

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

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.

This is brilliant and inspiring. I’m so thankful for people like this, using their skills for the benefit of everyone.

That’s proportionally so wrong, it looks more like a St Patrick’s Saltire (when viewed diagonally).

Do you have a UKIP local council or something?

[Edit] or are you anywhere near this town that was in the news Guardian article recently? (There was a thread on here the other day)

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.

I hope it bankrupts everyone involved.

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

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

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.