PhobosAnomaly

Large coffees in a coffee shop are about the same price as a pint these days so you might as well.

Unless you’ve got the motor of course, then don’t be a dafty.

Maybe I’m just showing my age but I felt a bit of a gut punch when I asked for two large coffees at the till, and a tenner wasn’t enough to cover them. Fuck me.

It*lians in shambles

meme tax!

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This is like one of those two-line horror stories.

The economy is coming from inside the building!

Problem is, asking “don’t well all know” and “I have assumed” don’t meet the evidential threshold for prosecution - and “It just fits” isn’t a compelling legal argument.

I’m no fan of his, but due process should be applied to all - whether it’s a sitting or former president; someone swept up in an ICE raid; or someone contesting a traffic ticket.

A friend of mine got a phone call at daft o’clock one evening from his son who hadn’t turned up home.

“Dad, can you pick me up from the city centre please?”

Bear in mind that he lived in a smaller town 40 miles or so from the city; on a bus route that spanned two cities about 90 miles apart.

Turns out that he had been taught how to board a bus; ask for a ticket; pay; and take a seat… but never learned how to leave a bus.

His dad was understandably pissed off, having been kicked out of bed at midnight to do a near two-hour round trip drive to pick his lad up. He asking him why he hadn’t pushed the bell to signal the driver to stop.

“I thought they were just emergency stop buttons, and because I told the driver where I was going when I got the ticket, I thought he would stop for me… and when he didn’t, I just sat and waited until the end of the line”.

Poor soul.

Like Wreckfest, but with wings and maps.

Sounds like a laugh.

Yeah but the weather’s nice isn’t it. Suns oot, taps aff, might as well go and join a radgey outside a golf course.

edit: this sounds like I’m being flippant, I’m not. Crack on boys and girls, go wild

I get it, it’s still jarring though. I get that an LGBTQI+ mag would want to promote his sexuality to prove visibility of senior civil servants or G-men or whatever the US calls them, but it just feels like a qualifier that shouldn’t be necessary.

Happy to learn otherwise though, I’m open to opinions.

😂 we’re in agreement on the subs!

Brilliant game.

Worth playing with the PS1 Descent soundtrack too for a different experience (or Descent Maximum as it was across the pond), it got me in to Type O-Negative too.

I mean, she does suck but isn’t that the norm?

I can’t eat popcorn anywhere without needing to hoover up around me afterwards, and I ain’t untidy by any means!

Unpopular opinion: burgers without cheese are fuckin’ awesome.

Specifically the McDonalds rubbery type cheese. Big Macs, Arch Burgers, whatever - all much tastier without the cheese.

Hell, even asking for a “triple cheeseburger with no cheese” sounds like it defeats the point but awwww yeeeaaahhh it’s just a triple decker beef sandwich.

If you like cheese then crack on, go wild. But it’s worth trying something without cheese for a different experience.

You crack me up, little buddy.

I still buy the odd paper if I’m working away from home.

These paywalls or “pay for no tracking” wankers make it easy to decide what papers not to buy.

Not that it really matters a flying fuck when print membership is sinking faster than the Oceangate grain of sub. It’s satisfying though.

There’s nothing worse when an appliance fails and you’re flicking through the future purchases like a rolodex in your head, figuring out which ones to push back a month to squeeze in a repair or new appliance.

It’s basically this but with future purchases:

The Fairphone XL.

Not that I’m ragging on the Fairphone, I love the concept.

My understanding is that it’s the Rickroll of the guitar-playing world.

It’s fairly straightforward for the novice to play, and is associated with the hipster who lugs a guitar everywhere as a fashion accessory rather than to develop any musical talent, where their repertoire is limited to two or three four-chord wonder songs.

In this instance, the guitarist has given the audience member the chance of a lifetime to shred in front of a crowd that most amateur band members will never see in a lifetime… and instead threw out the “so anyway here’s Wonderwall” meme and dropped a simple meme song.

Happy to be corrected.

yeah nah absolutely happy for the correction!

Fuck me, two tonnes? I bought myself an EV a few months back in an estate shape to replace my diesel estate, and honestly I hadn’t noticed much of a difference. I assume the drivetrains are a bit lighter but the batteries are a lot heavier than a tank full of dino juice.

The driver, George McGee, was sued separately by the plaintiffs. That case was settled.

Good. Fuck that driver. Unless the “flashing red lights”; “a stop sign”; and a “T-intersection” were all on the same junction (or even if they weren’t), scrambling for a poxy phone while you’re propelling a tonne of metal at 70mph is a fucking disgraceful excuse.

That said, as much as I hate Musk, I can’t really see if this case has any legs to be fair. FSD is always “coming next year” so it’s little more than a driver aid rather than a driver substitute.

But yeah, fuck that guy.