UKMT Summer 2023 - Too fat and woke to fight

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Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Humour is subjective. I don't personally find friends very funny on the whole. Its very bland and formulaic, it has the classic 90s homophobia, the 'we're cool and progressive unhateful people, now get ready for a full episode of gay panic' kind.

It has some jokes though, the man put a turkey on his head for example.

Part of the problem is that it was just on all the time, before like actually watching tv really died. Overexposure made me very cynical about the show i think. Had the same thing happen with Big Bang, where you couldn't glance a a tv without seeing half an episode you'd seen 5 times already. Even tho i liked it a lot at first theres only so many times you can watch it before you notice the main guy is the most joyless fucker in the world and the guy who plays him increasingly thinks that the way to seem like a nerd is to tilt his head back and squint a bit and loving sheldon is awful too i hate him i hate him i hate him and i hate the designated sexual harasment nerd the most

# ¿ Jun 14, 2023 11:28

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 20:03

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

If they made rocky horror today they'd put all the male characters in dresses!

# ¿ Jun 20, 2023 14:19

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

The facinating thing about the billionaire death trap submarine is that its so clearly a really loving bad idea to get in it its amazing that people apparently clever and ruthless enough to be billionaires fell for it.

Like they just said 'yeah it's unsafe and untested, but boy is it disruptive to the maritime safety industry, now sign this waver that says we're not legaly liable if you die please and we'll bolt you in'

Nobody thought that maybe, just maybe following established safety practices and testing mught be more valuable than pushing the envelope on home made submarine design when you're going on a trip to the bottom of the sea.

Its breathtaking.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2023 20:59

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

The questions at around 14:30 made me think it was going to turn a bit hostile but no the lib dem candidate just kinda stops working.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2023 10:40

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Let kids be kids brigade setting up the imagination gestapo to ensure that kids remain kids only. no you aren't going to be a dionosaur when you grow up you stupid loving child >:^[

# ¿ Jun 22, 2023 13:17

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Jakabite posted:

I�m glad everyone enjoys CWS but I am quite happy to hear there are others who don�t. I get it, I just don�t think it�s funny past like, the first time you see it. I thought I was some broke brained freak

I fear like a lot of political cartoons its kinda developed its own internal logic and references to the point that most of the time while i get the general gist i feel like i don't understand half of it. Like when you check in on martin rowson and you gotta decode whats even being said because every person depicted is some exagerated pig/snake and half the panel is taken up by a fur lined teacup with eyes

Sometimes cws does just come out with a very striking and clear message, but they cant all be winners. It can be like that poo poo express cartoonist that did a weres wally with animals in every strip for a while too, like you're looking past the nude boris johnson to find the hidden ross kemp.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2023 13:33

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1675991389031612418?t=eRXns0h7VdYbZbIIEpOmdA&s=19

So the oxygen mask is just gone now he's jewish?

I hope he tries the identical twin gambit next.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2023 14:36

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

The combination of 'we don't need to verify the ships structual integrity, we have an alarm that goes off if it starts to fail' and 'please go to sleep for 24 hours while we wait for the sinking weights to disolve off' is really incredible.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2023 15:43

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Gizmodo just published their first LLM generated article

Just copying and pasting a wiki article would have been more worthwhile.

In the near future were going to start missing artisanal hand crafted clickbait. Maybe they'll have fun with it, just start posting AI articles about movies that don't exist. Why not nothing matters

# ¿ Jul 6, 2023 13:11

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

smellmycheese posted:

Endlessly reminding everyone of his toolmaking father will knock off another 5

Honestly its prety misogynistic how everyone seems to ignore Keith's mothers involvement, couldn't have made the tool without her.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2023 13:34

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

This all feels like a lot of crab bucket turn on each other poo poo tbh.

Yeah londons poo poo its in Britain. Your town loving sucks too. Everything you like about it is overshadowed by poo poo governance, underfunding, privatisation and the people there who voted for our current poo poo government.

London isn't overfunded everywhere else is underfunded and what small joy you gain by having a go at other people for living closer to the source of our problems isn't worth it in the long run. Solidarity with the people who live and work in the city is whats needed, not some dick waving contest about your area being more deprived than thou, and therefore morally superior or w/e.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2023 15:30

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

My nan always overboiled vegetables so that they had a very unpleasant mushy texture when you ate them. I always wondered if that was why a lot of my peers had a strong dislike of vegetables in general.

Boiled veg is fine, you dont need to be jamie oliver to have a little veg with your tea. Like a whole plate of unseasoned boiled potatoes is a grim prospect but all things in moderation sometimes its good to eat a little potato that hasn't been baked or fried in oil.

Jedit posted:

It looks like it's already been eaten as well. There's a reason why virtually every image advertising the muck only shows the packets.

The name is meant to be short for "human fuel". To which the initial response was "more like hipster gruel".

I cant remember if it was huel or soylent or any number of other tech bro food replacements inexplicably marketed like theres a dark secret behind their factory's proximity to a euthanasia clinic, but i do remember a lot of reviews comparing the slop to cum.

Mr Phillby fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Jul 27, 2023

# ¿ Jul 27, 2023 12:34

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

NotJustANumber99 posted:

I don't think you know what you're talking about. I've set my parents up with a starlink dish and its brilliant, absolutely revolutionised their internet from the 4g they were stuck with before. There was no better deal for comparable speed satellite internet available.

Theres a story that came out recenlty about Tesla, apparently they had a whole department who's job it was to cancel repair services for customers who reported that their cars weren't hitting anwhere near the driving range the dashboard was reporting, and tesla had promised, the car was supposed to hit.

they had purposefully programmed the cars to report wildly inaccurate and optimistic driving ranges to the point where a lot of customers thought their car was broken.

You can read about it here https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

The point is i wouldn't trust what starlink says about how good starlink is, because its run by a huge manbaby who habitually lies and has a history of coercing his employees into breaking the law to reinforce those lies. I would not buy anything the man was involved in making nor would i pay for any service he's offering.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2023 11:12

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

NotJustANumber99 posted:

There's no way a car company would exaggerate their products performances.

Yeah and theres no way a satelite internet company would exagerate how good their service is vs other ones available is the point?

But sure trust the company run by the pedo guy who literally asked for his cars to show ludicrous inflated numbers by design because 'it feels good to see a big number'. Also ignore that the thing being lied about was the one major downside of an EV vehicle, ie how far it can travel before charging. They even rigged the thing to show an actual realistic estimate when the charge was below 50%, so they knew what they were doing.

You shoulld probably read the article if you haven't its pretty funny how tesla regards its customers, cheering and celebrating as they cancel repairs for issues that were only raised because the cars are specifically designed to gaslight customers on a systems level.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2023 12:42

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

kecske posted:

I think it was joke op, given the recent coverage of manufacturers e.g - volkswagen having put their finger on the scales when publishing emissions data etc

Yeah i understood that? Thats just pure whataboutism tho, other companies being criminal doesnt excuse the poo poo tesla does.

Its also just occured to me that we now know that these cars would have shown drive estimates up to twice what they were actually capable of. Rather puts all those 'unfair biased in the pocket of big petrol' reviews from years ago into a new light doesnt it? Like they all said the cars didn't go nearly as far as advertised. The prevaling narrative at the time was that tesla released telemetry data proving that the reviewers lied, but why would they have been lying about something we know is true now? Did the data actually show what tesla said? Was the data in anyway trustworthy? They lost the top gear case becase it was classified as 'entertainment' but was the data they had ever actually given scrutiny?

Once again if any company run by this man says their product can do X or is better than the alternatives i would absolutely not trust it,

# ¿ Jul 29, 2023 13:17

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Ash Crimson posted:

I think the dude with an avatar of shrek stroking his beercan thick fuckmeat might be joking

I dont know why people think im unfamiliar with nan99?

Everything i post is a joke people still reply to me sometimes.

And to be serious, whatever level of irony he's operating on he's still a guy who actually owns a tesla and turns up here to parrot defenses of his favorite billionare and he's always going to be a springboard for people to poo poo on musk more because its fun and necessary for anyone not up on their forum characters.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2023 13:48

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Theres a phenomena i've noticed online where people with really bad political opinions assume that all of their posting enemies are uncritical fans of hillary clinton and its always realy funny.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2023 19:41

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

No you see my deportation plan isnt anything like the tory rowanda shite, thats clearly hosed up and bad and rooted in baseless hatespread by our racist media and lapped up by tory voting racists.

My deportation plan is good and progressive because the people i hate are subhuman scum who cheat our tax system. I am very offended to be lumped in with torys w/r/t deporting minorities.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2023 13:08

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

DreddyMatt posted:

The saddest thing is your inability to conceive that someone may have a different opinion to you.

Seems like a culture problem to me mate, have you considered assimilation?

# ¿ Aug 6, 2023 19:58

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Don't do this. Please for the love of god do not do this.

You will get the PD wrong because you can't measure it yourself, and most opticians won't give you it because it's not part of the prescription and they know what you're doing. Opticians (especially independants) lose money on eye tests and need to make it up on the frames, so if you get the eye test and don't get the glasses, you're not paying the shop staff for their labour (fine if speccers, a poo poo thing to do to an independant).

The sites constantly gently caress up astygmatism prescriptions and then make it difficult for you to get a refund on 'specialist lenses', the frames and lenses are both cheap and usually cast-offs that almost failed QC (like poundland stock), and you will give yourself headaches and likely worsen your eyesight and then have to go crawling back to specsavers in a year to fix it all.

Go to an independant in a rough area and be nice to the staff, they'll probably be able to do you something cheap and decent quality.

To clarify my initial response of 'um,' I had a worsening eye in my 20s and it wasn't until I went to an optician that during the lens fitting, they pointed out that they could gradually correct it by amending the prescription over time. If I'd just taken the prescription to the internet as-is, the astygmatism would have gotten worse, not better.

E: might have been the rotation which was worsening the astygmatism, but the point is it wouldn't have been sorted if I hadn't had the lens fitting.

On the other hand the heights/pd measurements are part of your test record and gently caress them for trying to withold that information.

Having worked for one of these chain brand opticians i would not trust them not to gently caress up your prescription anyway, quality checking was poo poo, my manager couldn't use a focimeter to save his life.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2023 16:11

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Skarsnik posted:

'how pubs work' (and licensing laws as an aside) is something the general public all seem to be experts on because they drink in them

'it doesn't affect the bar staff' is such rubbish, constantly running out of pint glasses on a busy shift is the worst

Goons: I can't believe beer prices are so high and the only pubs left are spoons

Also Goons: yeah just loving steal poo poo from them it's praxis

I understand why you find this frustrating but its kinda like someone in the cat herding business complaining about getting scratched, like wow your business where you sell a lot of alcohol to people has customers who act like bellends? Who could have predicted such a thing?

The more notices you put up about how whoever's stolen the cue ball has ruined it for everyone else the funnier the sloshed rear end in a top hat with the cueball in his pocket thinks he is.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2023 14:35

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Skarsnik posted:

If you enjoy drinking somewhere, just don't be a oval office

Im not saying people should be cunts, just that in the business of selling the juice that lowers peoples inhibitions at a certain point you basically have to treat many of your customers as if they were toddlers. Part of the bouncers job is to thwart drunk people nicking glasses right?

You're right its not good to tell each other how 'okay' it is to steal certain stuff based on half truths and vibes, but like these are like post glass nicking justifications for actions people took when they were drunk. Maybe they'll think better if it next time or maybe they'll just think its funny and do it anyway because they're drunk.

Idk i'm tee total because i really don't like the person i become when im drunk lol, i might have a specifically skewed view of things.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2023 14:51

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Explain comes from the latin for 'to make flat' and 'Explicate' from 'to unfold' so you should only use inexplicable to describe things that can be folded, and explain for thing that can be squashed down with the flat side of a shovel. This is why 'explicate' is used more in academic circles as books are made of folds.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2023 15:52

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Tesseraction posted:

Elon simp DIY building his own house trying to poo poo on the disabled goon for being privileged.

No you see he has a rude shrek avatar so its ironic or some poo poo

# ¿ Aug 16, 2023 10:04

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Thanks i think my avatar is pretty funny too :^)

# ¿ Aug 16, 2023 10:19

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Doom is fun as is but i get the frustration at the time that the state of the art was violent and flashy. Like doom opened a whole world of 3D landscapes and exploration, i used the cheats so i could just wander around and see it all.

I enjoyed it as it was 'meant to be played' on its final perfect platform the nintendo switch decades later.

Fortunately we have a lot of different types of games these days and it rules a lot. The last doom game even had some of the monsters talk. Turns out they weren't good conversationists though.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2023 14:05

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Reminds me of that tweet about how people who know tech only from the consumer side have houses kitted out with networked smart appliances so their toaster can tell the fridge to order more bread; and people who work in tech MAYBE have their printer connected to the wifi, but also keep a loaded gun next to it incase it makes an unexpected noise.

Last time a friend asked me to fix their printer it turned out nothing was wrong, they just owed 98p on their cancelled 'ink subscription' so the printer had locked the ability to print at all until payment was made. I havent really used a printer for decades i didnt realise things had gotten so dystopian. I thought the stuff theye were doing to prevent refilling the cartridges was bad enough but now they can charge you on a per page basis to print in your own home.

I wanted to throw the thing out the window lol

# ¿ Aug 31, 2023 19:22

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 20:03

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Bobby Deluxe posted:

drat, and you carried it all that way for her...

I dont know how this fits into goon printer lore but it was a him and i didn't carry it anywhere i just agreed to take a look at it after we had sex.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2023 21:56

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