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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

This is not good ace representation.

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The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022
Probation
Can't post for 7 days!
https://twitter.com/willgeorgelloyd/status/1543232492613902342
https://twitter.com/YPacaud/status/1543265230041513985
https://twitter.com/willgeorgelloyd/status/1543259603999268865

this poo poo is hilarious honestly

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

When Corbyn went to pride it was virtue signalling, when Keith goes to pride it shows the true progress that Britain has achieved for the LGBTQ community.

Pay no attention to constant government attempts to make trans rights even worse than they already are.

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

Only Kindness
Oct 12, 2016

Bobby Deluxe posted:

nobody ever really questions why an old lady living on her own in a bungalow has or needs 50k kicking around spare in a current account.
Why would anyone "question" this in the first place? Mrs Brady's money management might well be terrible, but it ain't a crime.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Only Kindness posted:

Why would anyone "question" this in the first place? Mrs Brady's money management might well be terrible, but it ain't a crime.

And actually if all you live on is your state pension (£9620 p.a. at the moment as many pensioner women are) and your savings, then depending how old you are and how long you might live, that is all you can hope for the entire rest of your life to afford eg presents for the grandkids, a week away in Rhyl for your summer holiday, a pair of new shoes, a new fridge or whatever, drastic increases in your fuel bills etc, and £50k isn't going to last you long. Ed and until very recently the interest rate available in savings accounts was no better than having money just sat in a current account.

Employers won't give you jobs because they are foolish and think anyone over 50 can't learn to use new software and you may be physically incapable of doing most of the available work which involves standing on your feet all day in hospitality, retail or carework (and which also assumes you have your own car). So you are hardly likely to be able to get a job that pays - though you get snapped up with open arms for free babysitting, free staffing of charity shops, free running of local environment groups, amnesty groups, save the bees groups etc.

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Jul 2, 2022

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
Join a union folks if you are an 'independent':

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/02/food-delivery-drivers-fired-after-cut-price-gps-app-sent-them-on-impossible-routes

quote:

Food delivery drivers fired after ‘cut-price’ GPS app sent them on ‘impossible’ routes
Couriers who deliver for Just Eat were sacked by email and wrongly accused of taking ‘excessive detours’


I don't think these drivers would have got anywhere if they hadn't been with The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB)

Having had MapMyWalk add over 1km to my walking today by adding in a detour I did not take while in an area of limited open view of the sky, GPS is not perfect especially with cheapskate app such as these guys were having to use.

Maybe drivers could add a second location monitoring app to their phones as evidence of routes taken? Not sure if you can run two together?

Link to IWGB: https://iwgb.org.uk/en/

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
why don’t they learn to code

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

bump_fn posted:

why don’t they learn to code

Because they're not ballet dancers, duh!


Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Jul 2, 2022

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
I learnt to code and now I work with computers all day. Don't make my mistake.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


bump_fn posted:

why don’t they learn to code

Because it is boring poo poo

roomtone
Jul 1, 2021

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 7 days!)

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Because they're not ballet dancers, duh!



this is a hilariously depressing image

guess what, fatima! your passion is over!

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
There may be trouble ahead for BloJob - Mail's proprietor set to turn against him from today.


https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/theres-bad-news-in-the-mail-for-boris-johnson/

quote:

I am told tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday will make it abundantly clear it no longer has confidence in Johnson. The language will be strong and the change of tone and direction dramatic. It will send shock waves through Downing Street and the Conservative party and make a leadership challenge this year all the more likely.

“Jonathan [Rothermere] seldom intervenes when it comes to editorial matters, but enough is enough,” one senior executive on the paper tells me. “He is understandably incandescent he was given a speech to read at the 125th anniversary party for the Daily Mail about how his paper fearlessly exposed charlatans, and then, just a matter of weeks later, he learnt his paper had turned down a story disclosing what a charlatan Johnson is – the whole Carriegate scandal – and then how MailOnline accidentally lifted it from the Times’s first edition, only to drop it again.

“Of course he’s unsettled by the extent to which his newspapers are out of sync with the way their readers are thinking about Johnson. He sees his falling print sales and hears what people are saying. He’d be less than human if he didn’t suspect the reluctance to adjust to reality had at least something to do with Dacre’s personal ambition to get a peerage out of this particular prime minister.”



Even Hodge Podge has done an anti- Blo Job article!

https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/197937

quote:

Despite all Boris’s promises, the stench of decay is yet again wafting along Downing Street

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Jul 3, 2022

Shyrka
Feb 10, 2005

Small Boss likes to spin!
Isn't the Mail on Sunday completely different from the Daily Mail?

I'm sure I remember getting bamboozled by some 'Brexit... bad?' headlines from the Mail on Sunday in the past.

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

It's a completely seperate entity, which they make abundantly clear by giving it the same name, same branding, same journalists, same owner and the regular Mail doesn't print on that day.

The same as how the Mail Online is a completely seperate entity, it just happens to have the same articles, name, branding, font and columnists as the print edition of the Daily Mail.

Honestly how people keep getting them mixed up is incredible.

E: The real answer is it's part of the Mail when they want it to be, but when Jan Moir does a bigotry it's a completely different thing, obviously.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Shyrka posted:

Isn't the Mail on Sunday completely different from the Daily Mail?

I'm sure I remember getting bamboozled by some 'Brexit... bad?' headlines from the Mail on Sunday in the past.

Different editorial, same owner.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/AaronGBurnett/status/1543500459658313730?t=54Dt_MK3NKbNOKb4rpsh7A&s=19

I foresee the NI-loving to go very badly for the UK, while achieving its primary goal of distracting from any suckjobs and curtain-spaffing that may have happened in No.'s 10 or 11

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Failed Imagineer posted:

I foresee the NI-loving to go very badly for the UK, while achieving its primary goal of distracting from any suckjobs and curtain-spaffing that may have happened in No.'s 10 or 11

Its going to be hilarious though to watch Jeffery Donaldson try to pretend everything is going brilliantly when the EU sanctions hit and NI starts seeing its economy growth reverse.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Failed Imagineer posted:

https://twitter.com/AaronGBurnett/status/1543500459658313730?t=54Dt_MK3NKbNOKb4rpsh7A&s=19

I foresee the NI-loving to go very badly for the UK, while achieving its primary goal of distracting from any suckjobs and curtain-spaffing that may have happened in No.'s 10 or 11

It's an interesting shift in politics - in the Confucian sense, at least - that the government used to throw out corruption or a sex scandal as a dead cat to distract people from how they were loving the country, and now they're using loving the country as a dead cat to distract from the corruption and sex scandals.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
I can't find who posted it now but that kitboga channel is goddamn hilarious.

Imagine pretending to be a microsoft tech support person but getting so frustrated by your interminably idiotic 'customer' that you end up screaming obscenities at them and threatening to kill them :lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNziOoXDBeg&t=1135s

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I can't find who posted it now but that kitboga channel is goddamn hilarious.

That would be me. He regularly streams on twitch during weekday evenings, and I find myself watching many of them. He's an incredible improviser, and it's impossible not to laugh when listening to him winding up the scammers.

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I can't find who posted it now but that kitboga channel is goddamn hilarious.
There's one where he wastes 10 hours of the guy's time pretending to buy carwash tokens and applebees cards and it's amazing hearing the life drain out of the scammer's voice when he realises.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GINZXPqNUKI

Honestly gently caress scammers.

E: also sorry for being weird about the old lady having 50k to spare the other day. I am someone who's never personally had more than about £100 in savings, £50,000 seems like a LOT to just have saved up.

I am bad at socialism and forget the point is not to be mad at people who are doing alright but to be mad at the system which fails to adequately support the least of us.

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Jul 3, 2022

jaete
Jun 21, 2009


Nap Ghost

happyhippy posted:

Its going to be hilarious though to watch Jeffery Donaldson try to pretend everything is going brilliantly when the EU sanctions hit and NI starts seeing its economy growth reverse.

Sorry wait, what sanctions? By whom on whom?

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

jaete posted:

Sorry wait, what sanctions? By whom on whom?

If we decide to break international law, renege on the Brexit agreement with the EU, destroy the Good Friday Agreement and also flout WTO rules, then we are going to be eventually sanctioned.

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Imagine pretending to be a microsoft tech support person but getting so frustrated by your interminably idiotic 'customer' that you end up screaming obscenities at them and threatening to kill them :lol:

I'm sure anyone who's ever worked a support role has wanted to do this at least once

Z the IVth
Jan 28, 2009

The trouble with your "expendable machines"
Fun Shoe

fuctifino posted:

If we decide to break international law, renege on the Brexit agreement with the EU, destroy the Good Friday Agreement and also flout WTO rules, then we are going to be eventually sanctioned.

Johnson's probably looking at how well sanctions are working on Russia and thinking nbd we got this.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

What, that bit where the Russian economy is cratering and despite it Putin is still seemingly immovable? Yeah I can see what he'd focus on.

Tomberforce
May 30, 2006

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I can't find who posted it now but that kitboga channel is goddamn hilarious.

Imagine pretending to be a microsoft tech support person but getting so frustrated by your interminably idiotic 'customer' that you end up screaming obscenities at them and threatening to kill them :lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNziOoXDBeg&t=1135s

His ability to ad lib the vocal mannerisms of older people is absolutely amazing. I remember another great one where he played a ditzy younger girl and managed to get the scammer to fall in love with him. The guy is a treasure.

There is also a Northern Irish guy called Jim Browning who has done some fantastic scambaiting work - more technically oriented including gaining access to the scammers office cctv systems, screwing with them while they are on camera and bringing down their entire operation with the authorities. Quite spectacular.

There is a really good one where the scammer connects to Browning's virtual machine to find a photo of the himself and his family set as the desktop background image. Pretty brutal.

Tomberforce fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Jul 3, 2022

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


https://twitter.com/rhiannonlucyc/status/1543475834769522688

More gems in the thread. It’s from here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/should-we-tax-the-childless-j7h9c297r

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
So you'll still have to prove you've been raped to get benefits for a third child but then you get a royal telegram congratulating you?

Not a gently caress off large enough for that.

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1543411002850418688

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Get her and Edwin Poots to do a debate on the human timeline.

Tomberforce
May 30, 2006


Why are the precariat not having children?!

No Dignity
Oct 15, 2007


Thinking about Matt Christman's comment that social and economic conservatives complaining about a lack of family values inside a neoliberal society are some of the most deluded people of all. You can't hollow out every instituion in society that would support human flourishing and force the population into a rat race for ever diminishing returns and then turn around and complain that people aren't settling down and having kids, you got exactly what you wanted economically and these are the consequences! Enjoy the children of men shithole you helped build!

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
They don't want flourishing though, that's why they want to achieve population growth through family planning bans and sodomy laws, same as they did in the 19th century.

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Guavanaut posted:

The entire remnants of the Labour left all get arrested while Johnson is already three scandals ahead with "yes I did bugger a 16 year old girl in my office but both parents were watching so to my knowledge it was legal" "ah we're not sure about that but it's probably not in the public interest to investigate."

Err. That would actually be legal assuming the girl consented. This isn't New York, our age of consent is 16.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

feedmegin posted:

Err. That would actually be legal assuming the girl consented. This isn't New York, our age of consent is 16.

Apparently not for buggery.

quote:

18
Since November 1994 anal sex has been legal "provided that the act of buggery takes place in private and both parties have attained the age of 18" (Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, section 143).1 Aug 1998


(I stand to be corrected on this though!)

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Jul 3, 2022

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

Bobby Deluxe posted:


E: also sorry for being weird about the old lady having 50k to spare the other day. I am someone who's never personally had more than about £100 in savings, £50,000 seems like a LOT to just have saved up.


Savings:
Adding to my first world problems; the fifty & twenty pound notes that i have my physical savings in (it gave me great peace of mind to have some in physical form until this) are going out of circulation in September so i'm having to put them back into a bank account and i made the mistake of putting in more than 10k in one go.

Which means the HMRC gets a note of the transaction and here i am living without any income and not paying NI (already maxed out my pension contributions)... so now the little gerbil is spinning the little wheel in my brain worrying about having to prove that i'm not some criminal laundering money. :derp:

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NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Just Another Lurker posted:

(it gave me great peace of mind to have some in physical form until this)

more than 10k

blimey

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