NotJustANumber99 posted:

When is a chip just a roast potato? And vice versa.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Some (bad) people put gravy on chips

Failed Imagineer posted:

I hope you're paying for lunch cause he spent all the poonds

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I DON'T AGREE, HE'D GO TO LEGOLAND, BYE.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

Jesus loving christ the graun has some awful new clickbait

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jan/06/dining-across-the-divide-i-thought-she-was-going-to-be-an-over-the-top-liberal

Uhhh, nice electoral journey there James. I'm also shocked, I tell you, shocked, that a woman who voted UKIP once isn't an "over the top liberal".

The Question IRL posted:

I didn't say "get all three/four" streaming services per month. (I mean you can if you can afford it.)
What I was saying was if you want entertainment, just pick one streaming service and watch what you want on it. If you pick any of those services there is easily a few months worth of entertainment on it. You just signed up for Netflix? Try out the Witcher, Umbrella Accademy and Stranger Things.

If you want to watch specific shows and they are on different streaming platforms, just prioritize which one is easiest to get with the service you have and you can always watch the other shows when you switch providers a few months down the line. You want to watch the Boys and the Expanse? They'll be waiting for you on Prime Video whenever you sign up.

But if you really can't wait, sure go ahead and pirate it so you can have it now.

But it really doesn't seem that convenient to setup a personal media server, download a bunch of shows to have them ready. If it's a show that's not on any service, I get that. But going "A Netflix subscription is no longer the perfectly optimum return of money to entertainment. So now I'll just pirate everything I want from all of them" seems strange.

Between work and a new baby, the wife and I only have like an hour to two a day to watch stuff. So we just focus on one or two series at a time, which helps us to no longer have huge libraries of material to chose from and then spending half an hour trying to choose what to watch.
It's sort of a "want the stuff you have, not want more stuff that you then don't really use."

I also think the earlier post about computer touchers seeing all problems as requiring technical solutions that are simple (to them) rings very true.

Mega Comrade posted:

I think because streaming services provide a lot of conveniences that doing it all manually each night doesn't. It's a pain in the arse to do it every time you fancy watching something, or remembering to grab a new episode each week when it airs.

Put in the work though and a good media setup with plex/emby/jellyfin with radarr/sonarr to source the content is such a good system that I don't miss streaming at all. I even have a few family who stream content from my media server when they want stuff that the 1/2 streaming services they have don't offer it.

Borrovan posted:

I also enjoy strongman

Barry Foster posted:

"I know him/her personally" usually

(and I am as guilty of this as anyone else, for the record)

Jedit posted:

More anti-Semitism from the left?

jiggerypokery posted:

I said this before the other day but we, as a British people, really must stop using "nonce" literally. The comedy overtones are just too distracting when describing from one of the worst crimes. I guess in an isle that made pedophillia an institution, a funny word to describe someone who did it evolved as a coping mechanism.

Calling Andrew or whoever a nonce is just too funny for what he did. It's mocking, like kink shaming some kind of fetishist or whatever. The man is a literal [alleged] pedophile.

Prole posted:

Some are. Like talking to a brick wall... Others were only staying in the party on the off-chance so didn't really mind being kicked out. I know one of whom is itching to tell his MP in person to go gently caress himself.

Prole posted:

I'm no re-reg. Scout's honour.

Lungboy posted:

“cyber incident”

smellmycheese posted:

OwlFancier posted:

If you want I can do another attempt at writing jeremy corbyn/gilbert and sullivan crossovers.

Guavanaut posted:

Perhaps the truth-in-the-middle solution would be a BBC funded through general taxation (and international sales) and with part of the budget decided through participatory budgeting on a regional level that anyone can take part in.

That's the opposite of anything that Tories or NewLab would want, but about the best way possible to rebuild trust in an institution and create content that resonates with people.

OwlFancier posted:

That seems a lot like arriving at the idea that the left should know their place and serve the center because they can't possibly organize anything themselves.

Either there is something unique about the composition of the labour party or following its dissolution, a new party would form. I don't really think there can be another conclusion other than actually believing that the left cannot organize anything and only centrists can do politics.

OwlFancier posted:

Personally I would suggest that it probably has something to do with "working with people you disagree with and dislike but who tell you it's for the greater good, which then fails to manifest" being the entirety of the left experience.

Everybody will tell you that doing something you think is wrong is actually for your own good, and almost all the time it will not be.

OwlFancier posted:

I mean leninists and anarchists want absolutely fundamentally different things, and have fundamentally different views of the world. They might both dislike what they identify as capitalism but you can't expect them to work together because history has demonstrated what happens when they do that, there can only be one winner, and everyone else gets shot.

The right function because they all fundamentally believe in the sorting hierarchy of the dominant economic system, the ones at the bottom are fundamentally opposed to anything that would actually empower them, and are generally content to just vote for the assholes in charge when they don't occasionally get the idea to do their own fascism, with donald trump as emperor.

But even that seems odd to describe as unity when the tories are currently self destructing. They are all knifing each other internally all the time for power, it's just that they do it while having the inertia to always be in power.

I also take exception to the notion that you can just "do that to them instead" as if that is at all possible? Yes let me just magically make it so I get to dictate terms to whoever I feel like, what are power dynamics?

Guavanaut posted:

I had some of that along a silicone seam in my kitchen, I ended up getting that hypochlorite gel that you leave on for 4 hours and it works much better than anything else that I tried

forkboy84 posted:

Anarchists and MLists routinely do work together at protests and on pickets.

forkboy84 posted:

None of this really matters to contemporary politics except when daft gits ask why can't all just come together and another blames the anarchists for just not wanting to work with Leninists. Pet peeve

forkboy84 posted:

When you're gurning about those blasted anarchists just not wanting to work with Leninists, yes, the historical context of Marxist-Leninists actions towards anarchists from 1917 until 1991 is relevant my guy.

Miftan posted:

A friend is having trouble with a landlord being a piece of poo poo, lying all the time and not fixing necessary stuff in the flat like the toilet and oven. Is there anyone they can talk to about it apart from CAB?

ThomasPaine posted:

Well yeah I'd rather it happened to them than anyone else, but eh if feels like a pretty hollow win.