DJDarren @ DJDarren @thelemmy.club

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Until alarmingly recently there was a Burger King in my nearest general hospital.

I never could make sense of that.

I mean, we can’t even tax billionaires properly!

That’s not the spirit of the Free Internet!

Here in the UK there are a number of bigger chain shops that are effectively running their websites as a kind of Amazon, and it’s really frustrating.

Needed a specific chainring for my bike, so went to Halfords website. They had what I wanted, but not in stock. Meaning, when I bought it, they then ordered it from their supplier to collect a few days later.

I needed a cheap tool for a single job from B&Q. Looked on their website, saw they had one for £3, drove up there to get it. But that one is online only, and the cheapest they keep in store is £6.

It’s like the shittiest bits of in store and online all mashed together, and it sucks.

I ditched it entirely the day they admitted that killing third party apps was a feature not a bug.

I used Tweetbot for ten years, so the idea of having to raw dog a fascist’s plaything didn’t appeal to me.

We used to have media studies at school. I know my brother took it, but four years later, when I joined the same school, it wasn't available to me.

What did media studies actually involve?

Outbreak.

I had a similar experience with the TV show, Broadchurch.

I lived in one of the towns where it was filmed. The church, two of the main characters’ houses, the newspaper office, the high street, and the mechanic garage in the second season were all filmed in Clevedon, near Bristol. I lived about 100m from the church while they were filming it.

Watching the show, they’d walk down a familiar road, turn a corner, and suddenly they’d be on a beach in Dorset, 70 miles away. It was always jarring.

Great show though.

Huh, TIL.

It…it doesn’t?

No one will vote for me, I’ll take the throne with sheer bloody force.

But I appreciate the sentiment.

BBC is the best! I love their radio stations.

Burgers need to be wider, not taller.

When I'm the King I will mandate this.

Menu prices omit the $ sign/£ sign.

"Gourmet bacon and cheese burger - 15"

15 what? Pence?

Best burger I ever had was in this weird, kinda yellowing, almost dirty place in New York. They didn't have tables as much as seats with like a board that came across, like one of those school desks you see in movies.

If I'm ever in New York again I'm going to try and find it, though I'm fucked if I can remember where it was or what it was called.

A legendary teller of truths.

Does this include my boss? Because I’m not opposed to it as such, but he might be.

Pure deviancy.

I try not to engage with anything this shithead is involved in, but,

Blaming the left for unrest

As in a number of other towns and cities yesterday, the anti-fash here in Southampton MASSIVELY outnumbered the thugs who'd come to protest. The end result was...no unrest, no violence, nothing got smashed up.

'The Left' aren't the ones getting arrested over all this.

I often ponder how differently things might have gone if only that plane was going a shade faster.