cook_pass_babtridge

joined 2 years ago
[–] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

They're not round, they're square!

If my DCS experience is anything to go by, I'd probably get caught still on the ramp 10 minutes into a YouTube video explaining the startup procedure.

Like how I fixed my car by draining all the oil and coolant.

[–] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This guy is getting maybe 10 votes next election.

Those are bombings in a public area, and some people did die.

The placards were designed by Lil Jon

https://youtu.be/Z2QNLU9wV9U

[–] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It was sabotage, but to call it terrorism implies they were endangering human life. If they wanted to do that, they could have sabotaged the engines in a way that wasn't obvious, and would cause failures when the plane took off. This was clearly meant to be visible to everyone, they even filmed it. It'll cost money to fix, but it never endangered human life.

[–] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

These started popping up just after I started seeing a bunch of moths in my house. How did they get in my phone?!

So glad that Kier had time to give us his opinion on this. Pity he can't tell us whether he's willing to drag us into another war in the middle east, I guess there are only so many hours in the day.

[–] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This isn't entirely true - someone calculated that, on a good year, a peasant could only work 150 days a year towards the rent of their own farmland. Then they have to actually work that land, take care of their animals, and manually do basically every industrial process we take for granted to get food in their belly. They didn't work 150 days a year then go off with a cheque that will sort them out for the rest of the year.

Source: https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/regulation-industry/medieval-peasants-really-did-not-work-only-150-days-a-year/

Or, pretending that the food is delicious, then opening a restaurant and immediately getting shut down because people keep finding bits of glass and nails in their food.

[–] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I (in the UK) say "prize" if it's something you're winning, and "prise" if you're trying to open something with a crowbar.

 

I've been loving the Private Eye podcast, but they only seem to do about one episode a month. I sometimes listen to The Rest Is Politics but I find it quite hard not to hate Alastair Campbell and Rory Stuart.

Any other good UK politics podcasts out there?

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