[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 28 points 9 months ago

Not sure I’ve ever even met anyone who’d care if Northern Ireland split off. Maybe some Rangers fans?

There were literally decades of violence and terrorism over that, so clearly someone cares.

That being said, But then I'm Welsh and live in England, I do not have a horse in this race. If the people in NI want to unify with Ireland and regain all their EU citizenship benefits as well as removing the whole "Northern Ireland border issue", then I wouldn't blame them at all.

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 26 points 9 months ago

Maybe I should at least reserve my real name on it…

*gets asked for mobile number

Nope, don’t care that much.

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 24 points 9 months ago

Yes. The answer to this isn't to restrict what the NSA can do, the answer is to stop people's privacy being a legally tradable commodity.

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 20 points 10 months ago

I mean, anyone that agrees with statements like “poisoning the blood” will assume every brown person is an illegal immigrant (with very very few exceptions who will be described as ‘one of the good ones’).

Because they’re a racist shithead.

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago

I mean Star Trek is not much better

What was it like before Disco came out? I know not everyone loved Enterprise, but was there always such a degree of animosity? I always thought Trekkies were generally pretty chill, especially compared to some of the assholes in the Star Wars fandom...

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 30 points 10 months ago

The song goes “We wish you a merry Christmas”, so that’ll always be there for as long as the song is popular.

Plus (also because of the song, I assume), you say “merry Christmas and a happy new year”, not “happy Christmas and a happy new year”. Too much happy there.

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sainsbury’s and Tesco have also faced criticism for creating a two-tier pricing system, offering much lower prices to loyalty card holders.

“The vast majority of customers in supermarkets want to use Nectar because it saves them money. If you spend on average £80 this week and use Nectar Prices, you’ll save about £10 on your shop so customers really like that value.

Get in the fucking sea. Of course you'll 'save' money with a Nectar card if they have wildly inflated prices for non cardholders. The fact that this is happening in more and more supermarkets makes me want to start setting them on fire, and the bastards that come up with these plans.

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 19 points 11 months ago

In the Daily Mirror article, the journalist Brian Reade referred to the engineer as “the vacuum-cleaner tycoon who championed Vote Leave due to the economic opportunities it would bring to British industry before moving his global head office to Singapore”.

I feel unclean for agreeing with the Mirror, but I'm so glad Dyson lost this case.

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 26 points 11 months ago

I was going to tell you a time travel joke, but you didn't like it.

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

My only regret is that because I cancelled over the password sharing thing, I can't cancel again over the excessive prices...

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

WHAT! Is your name?

WHAT! Is your quest?

WHERE! Is my breakfast, Karen? I jumped on your bed an hour ago.

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

If Starfleet had the ability to duplicate that freak transporter accident at will, do you honestly think Section 31 wouldn't do that to their agents before sending them on a dangerous mission and put the original in stasis until they knew whether the duplicate had died or not?

Also, someone's already asked that here. If you duplicated Tuvix, you have exactly the same ethical dilemma as to whether to murder the new Tuvix (I can't in good conscience call that one the Twovix thanks to the brilliant LD episode, but maybe I could get away grammatically with Toovix?).

In fact, that would be even worse. "Sorry guy, we created you in a transporter specifically so we could murder you and bring back the originals...". At least the original Tuvix was an accident. Creating a sentient being specifically to murder it is... well, it's something Archer would do, come to think about it. RIP Sim.

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