TIL that a subreddit exists for Europe's favourite drinking game - /r/eurovision

bibs · 2012-05-25T12:56:16.236917+00:00

German piss for the rest of your life.

captainsampickard · 2012-05-25T12:24:53.713300+00:00

Sorry, by way of correction I meant MPs in the British parliament can vote in favour, then local MSPs can reject it.

I'm not complaining to Scotland about the amount of power and influence that is there, more power to Scotland for pulling it off, but without English representation on English issues there is no way the English will be anything other than a non-people in the union.

kickingNscreaming · 2012-05-25T09:54:34.933033+00:00

If you really want to post before and after pics I'm sure you'll be met with nothing but seals of approval here.

I'll let you in on a big secret amongst heterosexual males at least:

We like boobs. We like your boobs.

There, now you must never tell anyone you know!

No-Shit-Sherlock · 2012-05-25T08:24:44.026919+00:00

One to avoid - Titus - Politics is not a game. Got that yesterday, dreadful mini game collection disguised as an electoral simulator with shocking ui choices.

captainsampickard · 1 day

I had a lovely one the other day at Ferrell's on Fore street in St. Ives. It was lush.

captainsampickard · 1 day

Only after years of struggle against Parliament and the jaded views of English people did they get their own parliament and even then England has a huge influence over Scotland. Same with Wales & Northern Ireland.

I think you'll find that it's Scotland that has a huge influence over England. Scottish politicians get to vote on English issues, there is no English parliament. This allows Scottish MPs to vote in favour of cuts to the English, then reject them in the Scottish parliament. To some extent this also exists for the other constituent kingdoms, but Scotland has the most influence of the rest.

captainsampickard · 1 day

Well there is the Cornish People's Front (splitters!) who have the chant:

What do we want? An independent Cornwall!

When do we want it? Dreckly!

Clayburn · 1 day

China, India and Africa. Kill them all. Why? Because with China and India that's over 2 Billion out, Africa has another billion. If you're not able to come up with 3 billion to kill in a few seconds, you're going to really suck at this job compared to the pros like Stalin. Stalin wouldn't even care who lives or dies. If we're still short a few hundred million, we can take out Russia, the USA and the UK. The world might even be a better place afterwards.

If you try and apply criteria you won't hit the target number.

Clayburn · 1 day

Be careful what you wish for, it really didn't work out for this guy as expected.

rzw · 1 day

It's common knowledge that the name Bikini for a two piece swimming garment comes from the Bikini atoll where atomic bomb testing was taking place. What's less commonly known is that the name Macintosh used in Apple products comes from Heinrich Macintosh, who famously conducted double-helix vectoral phase cantabulation with Professor Heinz Bean and Ronald McDonald. Both Mcdonald and Bean are referenced in popular culture with products named after them, but Macintosh gets little love. It was well known that Jef Raskin, the original Macintosh architect was big on VX in the 1970s.

Of course, Mcdonald and Bean went on to conduct many experiments (indeed, Bean is more well known in VX circles for his Heinz 57 different varieties experiments in the 1960s) but my favourite one is the McDonald - Bean ovo-lacto grain plate insulation tachyogram fusion experiment, sometimes referred to as the big mac or quarter pounder (or royale with cheese in some french publications).

syuk · 1 day

You're right, it does sound conspiracy theorist-ish, but that's the thing, it's an institution so anything that would oppose it would come across that way. Having said that, the education system in this country does not teach people how to think, it teaches them how to act. It teaches them that passing an arbitrary test is more important than learning something new, that authority is something to obey rather than question and that it's more important that you spend time rote learning politically defined material than material that would help you become a better person (at least until you reach higher level academia).

syuk · 3 days

The whole educational system is designed to indoctrinate you into being a model citizen. There's no teaching of things like critical thinking, how debt and credit really works, how the media and political systems work, how to evaluate two choices in life, how adverts use half truths to sell you shit you don't need and so on. University is often the first opportunity people get to do some actual thinking instead of rote learning, but if we taught people to think we'd have a lot of people realising that working for themselves is less risky and more rewarding than 4 years of debt to take a wage slave job. It's this that would rebuild the economy, not going to uni.

bibs · 3 days

It's a private shop. The owner has their own house rules. If you don't like them, go outside. To be honest I struggle to understand why a republican would want to sit in a royalist tat filled tea room, but then again these people went to a tea room to drink coffee, which is equally mind boggling.

bibs · 3 days

I'm anti-pasti and I think what the owner of the tea room did was perfectly acceptable. She's clearly set her tea room to not only serve tea but celebrate what she thinks is important and can choose to serve whoever she wishes to.

Feels_Goodman · 3 days

As a former employer, I can honestly say that disability should not mean that you can't work. You might need some support, but there's no reason why by default, being disabled shouldn't mean anything. I had a fantastic programmer once who used to do amazing feats with tiny microcontrollers. Blind from birth, deaf in one ear and partially deaf in another. We had to get him a Braille terminal and be careful where he sat at work but other than that he was as good as anyone else, had a wicked sense of humour and could run rings around most people on a pdp.

On the other hand I have people in my family claiming dla who clearly shouldn't receive it and are just milking the system.

clea · 3 days

Your post is completely understandable. I've had family members with Alzheimer's and ms, it's horrible to see what happens to these people and even worse for those going through and closest to it.

LS69 · 3 days

Phones? Texts? Snake? Luxury! Not like when I was a lad, small boys, jumpers for goal posts, raps on the knuckles with rulers and the occasional caning. The only snake in my day was what you got from detention with mr dawlish, fiddler that he was.

RepostsForKarma · 9 days

You're right, with 32% of the entire tablet market across nearly every single other device a Google tablet will be a real threat to the iPad's mere 68% of the market.

BroughtToUByCarlsJr · 10 days

I always love this video. For me this is our generation's walking on the moon moment.

RepostsForKarma · 10 days

Your reference to the iPhone and iPod is a poor one. At the time of launch in 2007 an 8Gb iPhone cost $599 ($499 for 4Gb). By comparison the closed iPod (iPod touch) was $199 for 8Gb ($149 for 4Gb). That's not quite cannibalising the iPod market. The iPhone was more expensive than all other iPods. By comparison a 7" iPad's price expectation would be lower than that of an iPad 2 or 3 unless there was something remarkable about it making it better than an iPad 2 or 3 (other than the screen).

Bear in mind that when the iPhone came out no-one knew what would happen, how well it would do. The last device remotely similar to a then iPhone was the newton.

RepostsForKarma · 10 days

Don't forget, iBooks is one part of how Apple makes money from iPad users. Yes you could add iTunes and movies from iTunes, but how far do you go before you get to a smaller iPad 2? Would you go for a lower CPU (A5, possibly as underpowered in 12 months as an A4 about a year from now), perhaps less or the same amount of memory (each major iOS release has used more RAM, so this is probably not so good)?

My point is that Apple's pitching itself at top end products with a good solid experience, not at the low price market. How does apple make a 7 inch tablet cheaper than an iPad 2 without cannibalising sales, while providing an 'amazing, incredible revolutionary etc.' experience? That's what I don't think is possible (although I'll be pleasantly surprised if it is)

thisisbray · 10 days

I would find 100 people, offer to give them the money to buy the ticket and tell them the numbers to get, on condition that we split it 50/50 if they win.

thisisbray · 10 days

I can assure you that despite many attempts for science, the facts are that it doesn't.

widyakumara · 10 days

Any idea how this compares to say, moom?

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