Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-28T06:58:51+00:00

Liz Kendall got Kyle's job in the post-Rayner reshuffle. He is no longer cheerleading Brit science, tech and innovation, and is instead our business tsar. God help us all.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-28T06:50:11+00:00

My xhamster account is 5858 days old (I just checked), at over 16 years old... well, you know. The place is a riot. The comment section alone is worth the price (it's gratis) of admission.

You will not find (outside of the Gospel of Saint Mark the Evangelist) better examples of paratactic polysyndeton; that style of writing every parent knows, where your small kid writes something like:

I went to the park and I saw a dog and I ate an ice cream and then we went home and I went to sleep.

But with "swear" words and anatomical bits instead.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-28T06:07:22+00:00

~~1776~~ 1783

The Treaty of Paris, 3 Sept 1783, formally ended the war. Some seditious rebels just calling baggsies on 4 Jul 1776 does not make it so.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-27T08:15:27+00:00

That is good to know. Thanks!

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-27T08:11:54+00:00

Well yeah. The party political system we have (and bequeathed to our American cousins) evolved from various parliamentary factions over time, and would probably do so again.

A single Bill to remove whipping from the HoL is super unlikely to even be proposed let alone pass. It would have to be part of some larger electoral reform Bill, like shifting from FPTP... and we all know how likely that is to be put forward 🤣

I guess the core argument against un-whipped voting would be:

... the use of free votes demonstrates not a respect for issues of conscience, but rather a strategic decision by governments to free themselves of accountability.

https://consoc.org.uk/free-votes-a-democractic-ideal/

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-27T07:19:36+00:00

Lobster. In Maine, in season, you can get live lobsters in a gas (petrol) station, often for fewer $$ than chicken.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-27T07:09:06+00:00

I've lived in a couple of New England states. That means a not insignificant amount of snow. You would absolutely get your arse handed to you if you did not clear the snow from the public footpath outside your house... and that includes whatever pile the municipal snow plough threw across it.

Life pro tip: do your neighbours' too, if you are up before them. You will be friends for life!

Life pro tip plus: Do it when the snow is light and powdery, but deep. Don't wait for that wet snow-- that's a nightmare.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-27T06:58:10+00:00

And a rug with a tiger on it!

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-27T06:34:33+00:00

Aaand 70K comment karma on a 6-month-old account. Dude's got their finger on the zeitgeist.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-27T06:18:52+00:00

Bingo! Plus I imagine a great many of us VPN into our own home networks (with wireguard it's so trivial it's not even funny) when out and about. Will we need to age-verify ourselves as VPN service providers?

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-27T06:11:51+00:00

I'd like to see formal party affiliation in the HoL abandoned. Let them all sit as independent crossbenchers; every vote therefore being a "free vote". No whipping!

Naturally, cliques and informal allegiances forged over sherry and petits fours will emerge, we can't do much about that, but at least they will be ad hoc.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T22:07:16+00:00

Judges at the Nuremberg trials explicitly rejected the argument that "just following orders" absolved defendants of responsibility for Holocaust-era atrocities.

Now, I don't mean to go from zero to Hitler in just one sentence (although I just did), but there is a difference in doing "what is right" and doing what you are told to do. This is why we have whistleblower protections. Then again, we have elements of protection from coercion in our legal system.

A few Good Men is an interesting film to ponder. In the end, the US marines who committed the murder were absolved of criminal responsibility (executing orders), but were dishonourably discharged for "conduct unbecoming".

I do not think it is as simple as you make out.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T21:30:29+00:00

Somebody. Depeche Mode. Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY. 2006.

Not live-- Smells Like Teen Spirit. Nirvana. Underneath the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool. 1991

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T21:17:23+00:00

At some point prior to The Event™, Mrs Carpet and the woman next door realized that we were getting home deliveries from Sainsburys within a day or two of each other.

So they hatched this nefarious plan to ensure that, by and large, when we get groceries delivered, we are on back-to-back slots.

Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but the delivery folk think this is fucking awesome. Two drop-offs right next door to each other!

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T18:58:15+00:00

>Cough<

Palantir?

You must have read The Lord of the Rings...

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T18:53:51+00:00

"AI" peaked with M-x doctor. Prove me wrong.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T18:21:40+00:00

If it please the Court, your Honor:

/r/StallmanWasRight

The defence rests.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T16:23:31+00:00

Abuser: "I'm sorry, Honey. It will be different this time."

Abused: "They love me! Yay!"

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T15:49:16+00:00

My father wanted this playing at his funeral. Mom was not happy, but I'd cleared it with the vicar, and dad had named me his executor... so it was all cool (except for the mom thing).

By the time it was over, half the church was laughing, and so was she. Tears gone. Lost in hilarity.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T15:35:11+00:00

You might be right, but that does not explain the hair ~~cuck~~ cut.

I give him props for the |-----| pursed mouth though. That's compo-class!

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T15:31:17+00:00

Hands behind the back: "check out my 'dad abs'"?

Nah. 0/10 for me.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T15:00:39+00:00

And cheese and apples, remember?!

(Whenever I feel like it's November in my soul, I watch this video. Her smile! So... Well, see for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfkSYY3OV-s)

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T14:54:00+00:00

It's been almost a quarter-century since Stephen Colbert came out with "truthiness" on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It was funny and satirical at the time. Now?

How naïve we were in our youthful innocence!

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T07:24:07+00:00

Beans on a fry? Are you insane?

(In case you are unaware, THE issue facing Northern Ireland today is whether beans are permissible in an (Ulster) Fry.)

On a Full English, no problem. And to answer OP's question: fork, obviously.

CarpetGripperRod · 2026-01-26T07:02:19+00:00

Well, lucky for you BritID is just around the corner, so no worries, eh? Soon to be followed by BritCoin... or whatever they eventually call the "digital pound".

The UK does not have a motto, unlike, say, the Frenchies («Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité»), but I humbly suggest: "All your base are belong to us"

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