fakeman_pretendname @ fakeman_pretendname @feddit.uk

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This is people living in a week-to-week manner, who've had to borrow £300 off a pay-day lender to cover a shortfall (sometimes an emergency or unexpected outgoing, sometimes there were just fewer hours of work available) because they literally have no other money.

They've then found out the predatory, scummy lender's practices and interest rates mean that a few months later, despite paying back every spare penny they can afford, they now owe £2000 to that lender, pushing them deeper and deeper into a poverty they cannot ever escape from.

They didn't ask for the debt to be paid off, but it's definitely a need, not a want. There's no need to be spreading that sort of victim-blaming nonsense.

Anyway, they now owe those scum £0.

Ideally, most of this situation wouldn't even exist in the first place, and it's a shame this is the only process currently available to help these people, but this is literally saving people's lives and though perhaps not by itself lifting anyone out of poverty, it's certainly keeping people out of more severe poverty.

It's still in use in Yorkshire too, though pretty rare.

The original long-winded quote is from GK Chesterton, but the shorter, neater quotable one is from Terry Pratchett, or more recently Neil Gaiman.

I really appreciate you taking the time to show the step-by-step process of the construction. Very well written and informative :)

££££££££££££££££££££££££££ As long as you're drinking it black (no milk), when you're finished, you can just pour on more hot water, and get a free drink. Your free drink will be slightly weaker than the previous one. You can then repeat this until all flavour is gone. ££££££££££££££££££££££££££

Please just give us physical mouse buttons as an option.

Not exactly what you're asking for, perhaps, but I've used a "backpack cat carrier" for this (basically a black backpack with mesh bits to see/ breathe through). I sometimes wear it on my front, which looks weird to other humans, but the cats tend to seem happier if they can see my face.

Surely the child has a toy bear or glove puppet that outranks Trump in the chain of command?

One problem would be that he'd expire happy, because he was doing "cool exploration stuff".

Perhaps it would be more environmentally friendly (which would upset him) if he was "retired" in a more traditional, boring, normal manner (which would upset him), on Earth.

He could then be composted and used to grow flowers, in some kind of "All-Nations LGBTQ+ Peace Garden" (which would upset him).

For comparison, try "A Day Without Billionaires" next week, where billionaires don't turn up to work.

"Oh, hey, everything's still open and everything still works".

Looks like someone's been reading the Thesaurarse / Thesaurass.

Decapitate

That sounds amazing. I'd love to see a photo. I'd planned a similar project with an old radio, but it's one of those things that's been on my "I'll get round to it eventually" list for 5 years :)

I guess it's very much a matter of taste.

Ten years or so earlier, you could still get a TV where the sides of the case were made of wood. Wood, metal and black plastic throughout. Physical buttons that went 'clunk', a physical slider to adjust the volume, a metal dial for tuning.

To me, that was peak design.

The Day of the Triffids (Wiki link)

I suspect that whoever they sell it to is going to carry on doing exactly the same thing. I'm sure part of the appeal in the sale is all of those "captive audience" shops in train stations etc.

I've got quite a lot of racing games - though I tend to only use the Steam Deck for the 3rd person arcade-like fun ones. I prefer realistic sims on a wheel & pedals setup.

Anyway, there's probably some repeats on here, but these are all ones I have played on Steam Deck and felt worked well.

• RXC - Rally Cross Challenge (top down 3d Rally cross, arcadey but with semi-realistic handling)
• Horizon Chase Turbo (90s style rear-view arcade racer. Think "Outrun" or "Lotus Elite Turbo Challenge" etc)
• Art of Rally (already mentioned)
• Wreckfest (already mentioned)
• Descenders (downhill BMX bike racing)
• Rush Rally 3 (rear view 3d semi-realistic arcadey rally)
• Rush Rally Origins (3d top down semi-realistic arcadey rally)

I tend to use the traditional British methods of sighing, whingeing and moaning.

Moaning about the weather can be done communally at bus stops, to increase comradeship.

I believe it's an artist's rendering of close-up of a cartoon rabbit's bumhole.

For international readers, that's a size 2 in UK/Australia, and approximately a size 33.5 - 34 European.

Apparently it's also roughly a 210 - 215 mondopoint length.