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[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That's because the cat's name is "6 ice cold beers".

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

Another splendd Kapwng cartoon.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 69 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Quite right too. The most important factor for me when buying a computer is that the sales droid is in an office. All those CPU, RAM and disk numbers are secondary to that.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A friend persuaded me to go on a date with a girl I wasn't particularly into. We went for a meal, then she wanted to go clubbing. But I'm not into that either, so she broke down in tears. I was pretty sure I hadn't said anything that bad, but then the story came out: her ex-partner had the same first name and job as me, and the meal and clubbing were his favourite things, but he'd been found dead in another country with his common law wife and kids, and the similarity to me was effectively his coming back from the dead to be with her again.

No there wasn't a second date. I haven't seen her since either. Neither have I taken dating advice off that friend since, although we are still friends.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Too right. Ain't nobody needs that "the most important commandment is to love others as yourself" crap.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 31 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Reminds me of the time I had to explain to a friend that twat was not a synonym for twit.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes and no. Everywhere "Western" has an extradition treaty with the USA so there's no point fleeing to any of those. Russia isn't a great choice but if he values his freedom it's probably the least worst option.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

It's like one of those irregular verbs. I've got a cool fantasy, you're a pervert, he's in jail, etc.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds like it's not just me that goes "ok then, try arguing with this" when power cycling an unresponsive computer.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

Not everyone is immune to swearing; I don't see any point in causing unnecessary offence; and they contribute nothing to the meaning, except perhaps voicing a level of emotion which can be better expressed in other ways.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Old man yells at Swift: wait, are we talking about Trump or Putin here?

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, I'm not intentionally lying but I may have been misinformed. TIL, thanks.

 

This relates to the BBC article [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66596790] which states "the UK should pay $24tn (£18.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries".

The UK abolished slavery in 1833. That's 190 years ago. So nobody alive today has a slave, and nobody alive today was a slave.

Dividing £18tn by the number of UK taxpayers (31.6m) gives £569 each. Why do I, who have never owned a slave, have to give £569 to someone who similarly is not a slave?

When I've paid my £569 is that the end of the matter forever or will it just open the floodgates of other similar claims?

Isn't this just a country that isn't doing too well, looking at the UK doing reasonably well (cost of living crisis excluded of course), and saying "oh there's this historical thing that affects nobody alive today but you still have to give us trillions of Sterling"?

Shouldn't payment of reparations be limited to those who still benefit from the slave trade today, and paid to those who still suffer from it?

(Please don't flame me. This is NSQ. I genuinely don't know why this is something I should have to pay. I agree slavery is terrible and condemn it in all its forms, and we were right to abolish it.)

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