“Everytime I kidnap and assault an Uyghur woman, I do one push up.”

Those policital parties include the Monster Raving Loony party and the Pastafarians. We have Count Binface or is it Lord Buckethead running for seats. Minority parties rarely get more than a handful of votes, they don’t get any seats.

We have FPTP here too, traditionally it’s a race between Labour vs Conservative. A few areas tend to vote Lib Dem, and one consitutiency has been Green for a very long time. But generally it’s Labour vs Tories. Now with the UK MAGA (the grifter Nigel Farridge, yes I spelt his name like that on purpose) is gaining popularity on the back of the rise of the hard right. The Tories went full hard right in 2019 when Johnson purged the party of any moderates, so only the loons who worshipped at the altar of brexit were allowed to stay. They continued this trajectory which means they’re almost defunct, since anyone who’s hard/far right will move to Reform (bunch of racist thugs) and the more moderate Tory voters will switch to Lib Dem or just sit it out. Although Labour seems to still be stuck in 2016 and pandering to the Brexiteers, even though polls show a majority for rejoin or at least closer relations with the EU (eg single market/customs union). So it seems if things continue, it’ll be Labour vs Reform. They did well in the popular vote, as much as I hate FPTP, I’m glad it kept them from getting more than 4 seats. Interestingly enough, the media really really pushes Reform. They get tons of airtime, so much promotion. The libdems in comparison get barely any, despite having more seats. The Greens have 4 seats and barely get a look in in the media. The media (inc the BBC, Laura Kuensberg especially) is definitely favouring the hard right.

The current leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, is a joke. Just your daily reminder that this woman thinks asylum seekers shouldn’t be allowed here because they didn’t earn their right to live here.

She only has British citizenship at all because her parents came here from Nigeria just before her mum was due to give birth, booked a private hospital for the birth, then bogged off straight back to Nigeria. That’s how she got her British passport. That’s how she “earned” her right to be here. Hypocrite POS.

The TLDR channel on YouTube explains a lot of British politics in a quick way for anyone who wants to know more.

Drops is free if you get the kids version. No ads and you can reset your allowance for free just by pressing the timer. It has less vocab though. Also be careful because their translations aren’t always accurate (it gave the word for a stuffed animal, as in taxidermy, for cuddly toy in European Portuguese. I reported it several years ago and it’s still not fixed) and they translate “how much” differently in different languages (eg in Arabic it translates to how much quantity, but in Portuguese and French, how much price). So I had a lot of fun thinking I was asking how much I need to pay for a bag of potatoes and the man kept telling me 500g.

I haven’t used duolingo since they brought in that stupid crown system years ago. I got my 600 day streak and then stopped using it. I heard it’s even worse now. It was a good starting point, but you’ll quickly have to supplement. Pre-crowns, duolingo was pretty good. Memrise was much better, but they’ve overhauled that now too. Also I dislike that duolingo has time for fictional languages, but refuses to do real languages like European PT, British English, etc.

There’s a tariff on teachers today.

That’s where the English word comes from, but I was taught piss-en-lit for French: https://wordhistories.net/2016/07/21/dandelion-pissenlit/

Piss-en-lit in French.

Pick the loneliest looking one. Then ask, mitä kuuluu?

How is that any different from what I experience here then? If I’m dealing with all that crap anyway, then I’d rather do it with people NOT sitting next to me when there’s a whole empty deck on the bus.

As an autist, Finnish culture sounds perfect.

This was the first time I heard (saw) someone say it to a Finn and I was like wow what the heck just happened?

This user was pretty chill and then BAM! Insta-rage!

Second way to make friends in Finland: tell them how much you’re enjoying your visit to Scandinavia.

Tell me about it. Dude was in fear for his safety and YouTube are like, jacksfilms was bad too! Eff you, Google. He did nothing wrong.

His jjjacksfilms channel doesn’t show up in the search bar, which is really weird given it’s a big channel. It’s like YouTube doesn’t want you to find him criticising their little cash cows. Stalkerwolf is invincible.

YouTube is properly messed up. It’s basically a monopoly though. People won’t post elsewhere if they can’t monetise though 😞 a fedi YouTube alternative will never catch on. At this point I’d even welcome Microsoft or scamazon creating a rival service.

Don’t forget doxxing.

She also has a criminal record for armed robbery. So there’s that too. She’s always liked a bit of thievery.

https://www.news24.com/life/motoring/news/tired-of-car-badge-theft-heres-a-bloody-good-hack-to-keep-criminals-at-bay-20230524

Wowzers. If you did that there in the UK, you’d probably get sued by the thief.

You need to up to caffeine in your coffee shop! Get those customers buzzing!

I loved Theme Park. We would spend ages playing it. We had few games back then and Theme Park and Piranha were staples.

The rollercoaster was so buggy though and eventually made the map unplayable. I played it a few years ago on DOSbox with the same issue :( even the DS port glitched a lot.

Same! I still have the certificate!

(Although I would have got 129 if my sister, who couldn’t spell, kept insisting that “than” is spelt “then” and wouldn’t stop bugging me throughout the whole test until I changed it, even though I knew she was wrong. Yes I am still bitter about it today.)

I lack real world intelligence, so bog all use that test was.

After seeing this post, I was wondering what this was all about, spent a couple of minutes looking it up, only to get a PM from her.

Have you guys turned this into a summoning ritual?!

Does just viewing this thread trigger a message from her wth

Well, Cruise does like jumping on couches…

Some people can’t be happy unless they’re constantly angry about the people they were told to hate.

We call them gammons over here.