FridayNightTV

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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> Yes, Ukraine is a democracy, but also one that still contains some unsavory elements And you think getting rid of those 'unsavory elements', replacing them with an authoritarian, warmongering Putin led puppet government would
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
Oh dear. It would be laughably easy for the Russian command to disprove (and thoroughly discredit) the Ukrainian reporting if these reports are false. But the Russians can't.
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
The Mapatazi? An increasingly rare thing these days.
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> The artist shall utilise the bank notes to visually reproduce a specific artwork More amusing if the artist burnt the money and used the ashes to create an artwork. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> When I learned about that interior camera in my Model Y Wait, Tesla cars video their users? Seriously? I'm gobsmacked users tolerate and agree to this.
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> K Foundation's money-as-art works, "Money: A Major Body Of Cash" You cannot mention this without also mentioning "K Foundation Burn a Million Quid". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundati
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> The "don't be easily annoyed" rule is increasingly needed. Interestingly.... I recall a post on here where a bloke got very indignant about the innocent use of the term 'Chinaman'; something this Englishman (sh
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
As long as we hold onto the USENET tradition, that all posts pointing out a spelling or grammatical error must themselves contain such an error. Including punctuation. :-)
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> I live in the UK. It's bizarrely barely news. Seconded. I'm willing to bet only Private Eye readers (where to story broke and who continue to demand justice) are aware of this debacle and the shear scale of misery it has ca
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
+1 for Private Eye. Real investigative journalism, holding politicians to account, all whist taking the piss in classic British style. If Private Eye hadn't investigated this, who would have?
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> I suspect the modems will be around for a very long time. No they won't. 'Dial up' modems need a PSTN line to work. The roll out of full fibre networks means analogue PSTN is going the way of the dodo. You cannot get a n
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> spelled You have just outed yourself as American!
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
I'm surprised you think otherwise. "Ordinary" antennas are completely passive, just a bit of metal. It's the maths for data recovery and trilateration (not triangulation!) that is processor heavy.
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
Amusingly, Scottish Wildcats are rare, going extinct because they are interbreeding with feral domestic cats. Your very post (and Wikipedia link) undermines the argument you are tying to make.
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
Not really. We teach children how to cross the road and children don't generally take a dump in the neighbours flower beds.
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> In the UK, the life expectancy is not that different, there are no large predators No, but there is traffic and plenty of people who take objection to cats fouling their gardens and will happily leave out a saucer of antifreeze. If you
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> For those that want to follow, what are good online shopping alternatives? In Blighty, Argos. No counterfeit stuff (which frankly, should be a given), same day delivery and a good network of bricks'n'mortar shops (with pick-u
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> Gotta love the never ending hunt for things that are uniquely human. To be fair, I've never seen any other member of the animal kingdom drunkenly light their own farts. I suggest such actions (a combination of drug use, mastery of
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> In other words, calling a multi-million pound property a “cottage” would rankle an American ear To this British ear..... Plenty cottages sell for multi-millions (including many in my village, unfortunately). Please take your semantics
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
Along similar lines.... When presenting at a conference, our research group would always pick a word that everybody had to sneak into their talk, or else buy everyone a pint..... ....though, I was once at a conference where for a split se
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> The RSPB themselves have said.....there’s no evidence this is affecting decline The RSPB know which side their bread is buttered. They are a charity who get their donations from "animal lovers", inducing cat 'owners&#x27
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> I have been ranting and raving that surveillance capitalism is the worst thing to happen in the modern world Seconded. Our defence is the GDPR. It makes gathering personal data a liability, not an asset. It's amusing how many HN&#
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
No pleasures in life are worth exchanging for a few extra years in a nursing home in Clacton-On-Sea.
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> FOURTH GRADE What age(s) is this? (We don't have 'grades' in Blighty)
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by FridayNightTV 3y ago
> after a few years of Reddit, I started calling this kind of thing "internet advice" Reddit "kama" is a popularity contest and has nothing to do with factual accuracy or genuine advice.