LemmyInThePub's comments

Welcome to humour. Spelt using the letter U.

The Daily Mail certainly isn't a reputable news source.

In fact, Wikipedia has banned its use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail#Reliability

> I'd prefer not to see horses used this way

What a truly, utterly bizarre thing to say!

Why on earth do you object to horses pulling carriages? Do you object to horse riding also? If so, why?

One can only suspect you are used to living in a city and somewhat divorced from nature, though I'd be interested to hear your response.

> Well, people either shit in the streets

Bollocks man!

In early Victorian London, like most cites of the time, ones shit was directed into a cesspool. These were regularly emptied by 'nightsoil' men who took the waste away as fertiliser. (The drains in the streets were only for rainwater).

What caused the Great Stink was, paradoxically, the invention of the water closet (the flushing bog to you and me) which massively increased the volume of liquid waste, which was then discharged into the Thames and caused the famous Great Stink.

I can assure you, our Victorian ancestors were not animals that regularly shat in the streets.

The expression used in Blighty is piss artist.

A piss artist isn't a drunk. They are somebody who elevates drinking to an art form.

> we were able to smuggle old, old artillery shells potato mashers (no wooden handle), and other types of grenades in our checked luggage (plane belly)

If you travel on the Eurostar train from Paris to London...... before boarding at Gare du Nord station you will pass a French bloke by the escalators employed to hold a placard with a sign in English saying not to take unexploded ordnance on the train.

This is because a few years back, some fuckwit did just that, shutting down the channel tunnel for several hours.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32690320

> tungsten ring

You do realise that in the (admittedly unlikely) event of that needing to be cut off, you won't stand a chance?

At this risk of offending American (?) sensibilities.....

In Blighty, sarcasm and piss taking are part of entry level conversation. I kindly suggest this is something you clearly missed when 'arguing with British people'.

(The American habit of writing "/s" to signal sarcasm looks distinctly odd to a Brit, as of course it is sarcasm, otherwise they would not have written something so obvious.)

> the track & trace system

Test & Trace.

Track & Trace is for parcels.

> Our ancestors didn’t abuse animals on the scale we do now.

It's sad this type of trolling is becoming tolerated on HN.

Would you like some fish to go with that chip on your shoulder?

> The reddit / HN format fixed this

God no!

On Reddit (and lately HN) cretins will up/downvote depending on whether or not they agree or disagree with a post, not because of the quality of the writing. This leads to groupthink and prevents popular ideas being challenged.

Allowing posts to be downvoted simply because somebody disagrees with them (rather than because the post detracts from the discussion) is both pathetic and eventually leads to stagnation.

> snarky "we don't give you enough work to do?"

No offense, but have you ever tried politely telling such people to fuck off?....

...something rather common in the UK, though part of me suspects this would offend American sensibilities.

>Never had a job where the answer was yes

I find this mind boggling.

Here in Blighty, I've never had a job where taking time to research and read up wasn't expected. Personally, every employer I've had has also allocated several days a year to staff training; either classroom training or self-study as needed.

Technically, he is already studying to be a drug dealer.

> It's unfathomable to me that people in the UK are skipping meals.

It is when you consider many people simply don't know how to cook simple, healthy food. Our schools no longer teach basic cookery (and many parents neglected to pass on the skills).

> So richer and more wasteful households got the MOST support.

I do agree the implementation of the scheme was very poor.....

....the reasons for which are down to our current governments unfortunate mix of poor competence and fruity ideology (thank $Deity Liss Truss wasn't around for too long!)

> in the UK, governments have stepped in to spend huge amounts subsidising energy (including gas), SPECIFICALLY AND EXPRESSLY to that people don't use any less

No.

The government stepped in because poor people (and many not so poor) could not afford to heat their homes over winter.

It is (was) an emergency measure. The transition to green energy is well under way in the UK, regardless of temporary subsidies.

Need I ask why the USA hasn't adopted a data protection law to prevent such shenanigans?

The only people objecting to the GDPR are scummy businesses who haven't yet understood that harvesting and/or selling personal data without consent is both not ethical and no longer a legal business model.

> I don't think they'd have learned much from the visuals of a balloon

I suggest a balloon payload would be better aimed at monitoring (and establishing patterns of) RF traffic rather than visual data.