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My guess is that it's about Yanks tending to remove "u's" in places where Britons don't (like "colour" or "favour").

In a weird way, it's kind of "so left wing it curled round the back and ended up on the far right".

If you think of "left wing" as in "we support Pol Pot, Stalin, Putin etc" rather than "let's open a community-run vegan art cafe to promote understanding between diverse social groups".

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That demand is already there - hundreds of thousands of people already attempt to commute by rail between cities in the North every day - but we're cramming 400 people onto a train with capacity for 200, and it's taking an hour to travel 50 miles, and most days there'll be random cancellations scattered about, so it... umm... could do with a bit of work :)

It is, but they also keep reinventing and scrapping their long awaited, promised, guaranteed upgrades to the East-West routes across the North, which is frustrating a lot of people. We're still waiting to upgrade to the Victorian Network :)

That's a slight exaggeration, but round Selby/Doncaster/Hull/York/Leeds etc, we're still waiting for track electrification, and we only got rid of Pacers (1984) two years ago, and have now upgraded to "new, cool and futuristic" Sprinters (1984).

"Dad, what was commuting to work in the 80s like?"

"Exactly the same as this, but the chairs were a different colour and there was no disabled toilet"

I suppose it's easy to feel like "Get our 50mph trains up to 80mph (or better?) before you start worrying about making a fast train faster".

Where are you going to get the extra wards from, you massive pillock?

Unless anything magical has happened in the last few years, I still live in one of the "worst" inner city places to be in the UK for income, employment, crime and reputation etc (i.e. you can still buy a 3 bed terrace on my street for less than £100k) - but, yes, I'm probably only ten minutes walk away from a "nice bit", and the "worst bit" is over a mile away, in a direction I generally don't need to go in - but it's definitely no leafy village :)

Regardless, I do know what you mean - I think I just look at it more optimistically (or naively) and assume the best in everyone.

I used to do work with community groups round here (and in the "worst bit") so I was constantly meeting and working with desperate people trying their best, but being shat on by the world/benefits system - so obviously my view is skewed a bit in favour of those who'd turn up to such things - and I'm not going to meet any of those that truly don't care.

I'll accept my numbers are likely a bit off and biased, but I still feel The "scrounger" number is tiny compared to the genuinely struggling.

The difference between my time on the dole (_{18 years ago) and my partner's time on the dole (}7 years ago) is astonishing. I was respected and supported to set up my own business. She wanted to do the same but was treated like a criminal.

I'm sorry to hear that - and I don't doubt they exist, but i don't think it's in the numbers that sometimes get portrayed, more in "statistically irrelevant" sort of numbers - though it will depend vastly on where you live in the country. I'm sure it's a visible problem in some specific areas or communities.

However, I also think people (and the job centre) should be picky about the work people are applying for, at least for a while. This was also formerly part of the system, where they pretty much gave you a year of looking for relevant work, before enforcing other options.

When someone better qualified (like when a large employer in an area suddenly closes) is forced to do an entry level job, especially through one of those "supporting you back to work" scams, where you work 40 hours in exchange for your dole & landlord benefit (i.e. working for ~£3 an hour) - you're blocking all the entry level work from people who can currently only apply to it.

Personally, I'd rather let the handful of gleeful scroungers skip joyously down the road with their £70 in hand and do nothing, than punish millions of genuinely struggling people "just in case".

Plenty would happily work "a bit" or "in some way", but there's not a lot in the system to support assisted/flexible/partial working etc.

If you have injuries, ailments, illnesses, they're still asking you to work 40 hours or go fully on sick, rather than supporting a "however many hours you can manage" and a small topup to maintain a basic standard of living.

These used to be part of the system, in the earlier part of the "working tax credits" era.

Jeremy Hunt: "A "poor" asked me for some change or a warm drink the other day. Obviously I wanted to help him, so I punched him in the face and stole his rucksack and blanket, which will support and encourage him back into the world of work."

Ah sorry, my misunderstanding. Though, isn't that just built into Steam anyway?

You know what, I'm going to read up on it myself, so as to be less wrong in future!

Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy.

Never completed them, even with maps, POKE cheats for infinite lives etc.

I think the problem was you couldn't really save many games then, so you were always defeated by either dinnertime or bedtime.

I think the same probably applies to nearly every game I ever played on the ZX Spectrum, but those two I think I tried the most.

It's a Steam Deck. Connected to Steam. I don't think many people are suffering from a shortage of Steam games to play.

"Yes, Andrew Fear (great name by the way), when I finish playing the 500 games already in my library, and start playing the 200 I already own but haven't started yet... which all work on it... I mean, yeah, I'll definitely look at whatever it is you're on about"

[Edit] I have misunderstood it as a game rental/streaming service, rather than a computer rental/streaming service

I have actually threatened this before to some shitty scam company that kept phoning me during work hours - I never went through with it in the end though, because I'm a massive coward and I'm frightened of negative consequences.

But in a parallel universe, I stuck it to them bastards :)

Sadly you're probably right - same as shouting at a company over the phone, it's most likely some poor minimum wage worker actually dealing with it all.

So I guess the correct thing to do is to track down the personal home address of the boss.

Hahahaha. I fully laughed out loud. That's brilliant. Prawns is full on evil, but they deserve it. Your act of petty vengeance has probably made my day. Thanks! :)

Bear in mind that there's a whole series of Train Simulator games, so I can pretty much guarantee you're not the only fan of an in-game train ride :)

I don't know how well it would work in practice, but every time I see something like this, the darker, more childish part of my brain wants me to send a human shit to them in the post, with a note saying "Thank you for subscribing to Post-me-a-poo (Daily)! To cancel your subscription, please add a 'Cancel Subscription' button to your website!".

Is this real? I honestly can't tell any more.

This totally worked with our cats - a slightly over-the-top "ow!" and recoiling a bit - then balancing it with extra fussing for clawless kneading.

Well, every now and again, someone needs to post on the reddit one saying "look at them misidentifying a thing on Lemmy".

They'll either be genuinely helpful types, and join us to help out, or they'll be "someone is wrong on the internet" types, and join us to be correct.

Obviously I have no idea if this would work in practice.