fakeman_pretendname @ fakeman_pretendname @feddit.uk

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Is it worse that I still call them "telephones"?

p.s. I am British, which gives me some allowance for using strange, historical words.

Too late, I've already dipped me Hob-Nob in me mug o' Bisto.

If there's any form of argument or debate, everyone cares about the correct spelling and grammar of their opponents.

You can re-use this picture tomorrow for boxing day :)

(I like to imagine boxing day is the day when you let your cat sit in all the boxes left over from Christmas)

What a lovely, fun little game! Thanks for sharing :)

Yup, it's a pitcher of a man drinkin' ice cool water from a giant mug :D

When adults said things like "In this day and age, nobody says please and thankyou any more", I misinterpreted "this day and age" as "The Stayan Age", which was our current age, which obviously followed on from Bronze Age, Iron Age etc.

A lesser known UK option that may be worth checking is ebuyer.com for some of your A/V, networking and computer stuff. Nowhere near the full range of Maplin/Amazon etc, but they will deliver quickly from UK warehouses - and if you're trying to avoid using Amazon, always worth an extra option.

Actually, now I think about it, that only covers one section of the market.

You should also release exactly the same product with with different packaging a few times:

• One with an off-brand Mr T character mascot, called "I Pity The Gruel".
• One called "Bilk : Better than Milk".

That's a few shelves of supermarkets covered with selling the same thing. I'm sure you can cover some more with a few like "Barista Supreme: Oat-based Cream", "Oat Water", "Oat Juice" and simply "Oat-based Drink". Maybe even "Oat Blood", for Goths and "My dad was a gruelmaker" for Keir Starmer fans.

It just needs a bit of snazzy marketing.

Just call it Ultragruel or Oatfuel and write "PROTEIN" on it in big letters.

In the UK, at least, the beans thing is simply:

Will you give money to charity?
No

If someone sits in a bathtub full of cold baked beans for eight hours, will you give money to charity?
Yes

As for the suffering, it might sound ridiculous, but it appears to be a recognised tactic for fundraisers.
The Conversation: The Martyrdom Effect - Why your pain boosts a charity's gain

That's what they're saying... but... so what? Did the police waste hours and millions hunting for a lost mobile phone? Did she receive an ill-gotten temporary replacement mobile phone from work for a few weeks? I'm still struggling to see the scandal or crime.

I think there's a little difference between charity in general and "charity events" or "fundraisers".

One one hand, you've got people personally deciding to give some money towards something they chose to support, which is great.

But sponsored fundraisers are actually a bit weird.

Fundraiser: "Hi, would you like to donate £10 to help cure cancer?"

Potential donor: "I'm an incredibly wealthy man, so I can easily afford that... but... you just want me to give you some money in exchange for nothing?"

Fundraiser: "It's not nothing - you get to know you've helped a worthy cause, made the world a better place..."

Potential donor: "No... unless... no, sorry, that's ridiculous..."

Fundraiser: "No, wait! Tell me your idea!"

Potential donor: 'Well, I could probably give you some money... if someone suffered."

Fundraiser: "Suffered?!?"

Potential donor: "Yes, I want you to make a fat, asthmatic man run a marathon, dressed in a really awkward, incredibly warm costume that makes him look ridiculous. If he suffers enough, you can have your £10 for whatever it was you were on about."

Fundraiser: "Curing cancer is seen to be a good cause - are you sure you couldn't just donate the money?"

Potential donor: "Yes. I can only give away a tiny pittance of money if there is suffering. You could also make the man sit in a bathtub full of beans for a whole day. I imagine that's unpleasant enough to appease my hunger for suffering."

Surely we all agree this whole concept is a bit weird?

I must be missing something. What's actually the crime or scandal here?

Haigh: "Help, I've been mugged"
Police: "What did they take?"
Haigh: "I can't remember exactly what was in the bag, I guess my money, my bank cards, my keys, my work phone"
Police: "Ok"
Haigh: "Oh, wait a minute, my work phone was at home, they only threatened me, assaulted me and took the other stuff I mentioned"
Police: "Your list was wrong? Ha! Then it is YOU who is the criminal, not them!"
Government, ten years later: "Also, you're not allowed to fix our railways or have a job"
Tories: "Unlike all our politicians who merely do things like millions of £s of fraud, destroying the economy and endangering the lives of millions of people for their own personal profit - this horrific excuse for a human once put something in a list and then realised it shouldn't have been on the list, so a decade later, it's only correct that they shouldn't be allowed to have a job"

I assume I've missed something key here.

Unless they're already on the list, I would also like to add 1980s Rock Star Freddie Mercury, 1992 Formula One Driving Champion Nigel Mansell, and Liverpool FC's 1980s Midfielder & 1990s Manager Graeme Souness :)

The tasche isn't square enough for a Kitler. More of a Ron Mael from Sparks.

[Edit] just to note, I'm not mocking your cat - even with its 70s rock-star moustache, it's a beautiful cat.

Hahaha, yes, exactly this - and perhaps the same situation with "bum crack or inner-fold of a bent elbow?".

Fried Ian Slip

His main talent is "already having lots of money".

Maybe it's worth bearing in mind Lemmy's older, nerdier audience?

You remember those build-a-model magazines they used to rip off grandads with?

"Build your own model Lancaster Bomber! Only £1.99! You'll receive a large piece of the model with your first issue! Then the rest of it in pieces over future issues! (Future issues cost £9.99 a week, for 500 weeks)"

So you get your "special interest" photographs produced into jigsaws, then sell one jigsaw piece a week, eventually completing the full photograph at the end of the year.