Agree. I also think an innocent until proven guilty attitude wouldn’t go amiss. Honestly, he’s an absolute cunt and I have a strong dislike for him and his manosphere bullshit. I think grifters like him are harmful and absolutely worthy of our collective disdain and derision. But punishment needs to happen after trial and a proven verdict.

No idea what’s happening. Permanently banned after 14 years of contribution due to some inconsequential mod-gripe, and a subsequent “ban evasion” (using another old account on a different, un-related sub).

Yeah, never do it on actual social media, but around these part it’s occasionally useful.

Love a pint, personally. Drinking with friends trumps most other activities. Currently on my way to see The Prodigy with some old friends I’m meeting in Edinburgh. Looking forward to the pubs and merry laughs as much as the gig, in fact more so.

Haha

Doubtful, I’m 49!

Eh… What?! Certainly remember pre-optical mice, but replacing the balls with eggs was surely not a thing?

Wild how they made a dino look weirdly handsome.

One of the tiresome elements of Reddit was always this childrfree tribalism that seemed to span thousands of subs. Have kids, don’t have kids. Entirely your own business and nobody else’s. Neither decision should be worn as some sort of badge of honour.

That makes sense. However, as we’re exposed to American media arguably as much as our own—and it’s the same language—my contention is that I can easily hear extremely distinct differences between, say, Birmingham, Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, and Cornwall, so just calling it a “British accent” and attaching connotations of pretension and upper class to it makes no sense in my mind. For example, does the character Daphne in Frasier sound the same to an American as James Bond? Does Harry Potter’s accent sound the same as Tommy Shelby’s? To me absolutely not, but perhaps it is because im more attuned through living here.

Tell me about it - i live in Shetland, which is wildy different from our closest neighbours in Orkney, which to my ears sounds like Welsh!

I take your point, which was why I added the next sentence acknowledging the variety of US accents. I’d argue that the Mid-Atlantic accent that most (but certainly not all) movie stars use is the closest thing to said generic accent.

So we should abolish all laws because some people don’t follow them?

Funny thing is, there are thousands of UK accents that are as different from each other as they are from the generic American accent. Granted, there’s variety in the US as well, but the concentration is higher in the UK, as we’ve had towns and villages for thousands of years within 20 miles of each other that had their own unique way of speaking that often only locals can understand without effort.

So yeah, when you say ‘British accent’ that means basically nothing to anyone in the UK.

The billionaires have really done a number on you guys. I live in the UK, and this dystopian view of my country being pushed by Musk etc and swallowed by people in the US is absolutely wild. Yes, there’s problems with immigration, but this idea that we’re some sort of Islamic state, overrun by knife-weilding jihadist peados is laughable. Source: I’VE FUCKING LIVED HERE FOR 48 YEARS.

I used to use VPN location settings and ad blockers, but I’ve got them on quite a few devices and that became a bit of a hit-and-miss ballache. So instead, I subscribed. Of course, they believe I live in India, so I pay about £2 per month. I do not live in India.

I’m happy mate, and I enjoyed the world cup. There are positive people here as well - and this is from a Scotland fan :-)

I enjoyed it, and usually I don’t follow league football closely at home. There are plenty of sports I don’t particularly enjoy watching, but I’ve dialed down my Edgelord ‘What’s going on with the Sports Ball?!’ schtick as I don’t think it was doing me any favors.

I kind of hate it. I’m interested in other people’s opinions and like to learn new perspectives, but some people, especially here, tend to aggressively misinterpret comments and go hard with angry emotional responses. It happened to me recently, and I just responded and blocked the guy outright. You can usually tell from the outset when someone is immediately insulting. I used to push back, but block them before they can get their claws into me.

Sure—folks sometimes share their lived experience, and sometimes they’re insensitive. I tried not to be and had shared a genuine opinion, based on my own life.

But remember, I also had no desire or interest in having children until I did. I’ve been on that side of the fence, and therefore felt comfortable sharing my experience of the other.

To some folks, it certainly stings when they face clumsy (but likely not malicious) questions about having a family.

For what it’s worth, I think it’s a foolish question to ask, as you never know someone’s circumstances. But if it’s a decision you’ve got agency over, then is being asked about your choice really such a big deal?

After all, everyone is just trying to figure out their own lives, and being curious about other people’s choices is only natural. How we interpret and perceive the question is key.

Personally, I’ve always been interested in people, how we form opinions, and if someone shares a viewpoint I once held that my lived experience changed, I don’t really see the harm in mentioning my own perspective.

On the flip side, I make an effort not to get irritated by people who by definition do not have that lived experience and make sweeping, negative generalizations about having kids.

In a funny way, it reminds me of the folk who go out of their way to comment on the EV I drive and tell me why they would never, ever get one, despite having never driven one. I have experienced both, and feel I can comment honestly on the pros and cons. If the person opining how bad they are doesn’t like my answers or finds them condescending, that’s a shame, but it’s not intentional.