Guavanaut posted:

There was a whole moral panic alleging that TikTok was teaching kids how to steal Kia Sportages, so it's good to know that the actual truth is that they're just annoying to unlock and not that today's youth can steal cars by twerking at them or whatever the tabloids were claiming.

The Question IRL posted:

This is what Maternity Pillows are for.

And best of all, you don't have to produce any Ultrasound scans to get a Maternity Pillow.
Anyone can buy one.

Failed Imagineer posted:

Finally, I know how to self-identify when the local candidates come door-knocking during election season

Guavanaut posted:

Failed Imagineer posted:

It's not like you need a special pillow. But as it happens I have a triangular one which I use for sitting up and watching screen and then it transfers between my legs very effectively, as long as my dog doesn't object to me moving an inch once she's settled

OwlFancier posted:

Think of all the horny theresa may cartoonists that AI have put out of a job.

Dr. Cool Aids posted:

Once upon a time I was in a crowded shopping mall and someone accidentally bumped into me. sighing to myself at the inevitability to come, I drew my katana and they were promptly slain.

Wikipedia posted:

A popular incident tells how a commoner bumped into Saiheiji Tomo, treasurer of the Owari-Tokugawa family, and ignored him further when Tomo demanded him to apologize. Feeling merciful, the samurai offered the peasant his wakizashi so he had a chance to defend himself, but instead, the commoner decided to run away with his wakizashi, causing further dishonor. The incident resulted in Tomo being disowned from the Owari-Tokugawa clan. He later regained his honor by seeking out the commoner, collecting the wakizashi and killing the whole family.[5]

Ms Adequate posted:

"What was the technicality?"

"He didn't eat all the food."

That's... not a technicality. That's the literal challenge. That's like saying you were denied an Olympic Gold in the 100m sprint because of the 'technicality' of only running 95 meters.

Also lmfao imagine being such a danger you go "I don't eat salad " fuckin hell mate it's not a point of principle you're just bald

OwlFancier posted:

Ehhh, I'm not sure I would call historical familial organizations exactly harmonious when half the members were legally property.

Guavanaut posted:

I heard that the remoaners never read it and only watch the subs

fuctifino posted:

e: Which seems to be partially stolen/inspired from this theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isdblo17THs

Failed Imagineer posted:

It's a bit of an internet cliché, but insanely accurate for my generation:

Plants are the new pets.
Pets are the new kids.
Kids are like the new exotic animals, where you need to be incredibly wealthy and slightly insane to have them.

Tsietisin posted:

There's a couple of options. You can pay funds into a government account which effectively adds 20% to the amount you pay in which can be used for childcare.

If you get Universal Credit, then you can get 85% of your childcare costs paid back to you. You also get 30 hours free childcare once they are 3 years old.

Strangely, because of childcare costs it means that some people may be able to claim UC that may otherwise have not been able to even though they earn a reasonable amount.

For example, me and my wife have a combined income of around £45k. Because we get UC it means the overall costs for our 4 year old spending 4 days a week at nursery are about £30 a month.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Apparently an inverted red triangle is now meant to mean you support hamas or something.

:rollyeyeballs:

OwlFancier posted:

I mean there is that old joke about a dog walking into a bar that nobody quite understands any more. Perhaps they already found The Ideal Joke and it just doesn't make sense to us.

Brendan Rodgers posted:

A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'. (c. 4500–1900 BC) Sumer

Just Another Lurker posted:

At least the dog wasn't selling substandard copper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir

Ms Adequate posted:

Someone offered a new translation and it was like "A dog walks into a bar. His eyes cannot see anything, I guess he needs to crack one open!"

Tesseraction posted:

I've hosed up at work before, but I know I'll never gently caress up so bad I scabbed and destroyed a train line in the same hour.

OwlFancier posted:

To be honest I didn't know the pantographs were like, controllable. I thought they were just kinda... the way they are.

Like how the train doesn't come with a track gauge selector.

OwlFancier posted:

Trains have arguably regressed since they stopped doing slip carriages.

kingturnip posted:

It's quite funny that the relative poverty of English political parties is directly related to how hateable the public seems to find them.
You'd think there'd be a lesson there, but I guess Gove forgot to add that to the curriculum.

Guavanaut posted:

We're in a future where we can print ornamentation that would have taken Michelangelo a decade in an hour and refuse to do so.

Pork Pie Hat posted:

I know what you’re asking and why you’re asking it, OwlFancier, and as you’re one of the posters I actually like and don’t find utterly contemptible, that’s a fair enough request.

Trainee PornStar posted:

I gotta admit that would have been awesome if I'd turned out to be that doc lol

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

Was that directly related to the colonoscopy? If so, what the gently caress, I've been shortchanged. All I got was a tiny bit of midazolam and the worst pain I've ever experienced.

fuctifino posted:

Labour: "Austerity, but we'll kill the poor more efficiently"

kecske posted:

the general election

Guavanaut posted:

The problem here is which is the 1% less bad out of the 'less competent tory racists (who also love some authoritarianism)' and the 'more competent labour authoritarians (who also love some racism)'.

Hell, that'd be the problem with the Hitler case too (as well as the problem of having two Hitlers, who the gently caress is making all these Hitlers?)

Hitler #1 wants to pogrom all the Jews (a requirement) and all of the Roma but is okay with Sorbs. Hitler #2 wants to pogrom all the Jews and all of the Sorbs but is okay with Roma. Do you have to do a census on that? Should Jews really spend time weighing up whether to vote for either?

This is basically just like the whole 'repugnant conclusion' objection to strictly qualitative utilitarian justifications but also is a sociological issue in that someone like Adorno would probably focus more importantly on why there's all these Hitlers running for office.