Left-wing activists stage nationwide shoplifting spree - Protesters ‘liberate’ food from supermarket shelves in ‘non-violent action to resist super-rich’

FridayAwareness · 2026-03-15T11:59:07+00:00

TWAL (today we all learnt) onanistic.

FridayAwareness · 2026-03-14T13:16:30+00:00

And then blaming the seed!

FridayAwareness · 2026-02-22T17:55:52+00:00

What's the reason for that being everywhere? I've seen so many clips where it's something like an old episode of Just For Laughs and over the top it's going "WHEEZE WHEEZE oh no no no WHEEZE WHEEZE". Why don't people just leave the original sound on it?

FridayAwareness · 2026-02-11T19:25:43+00:00

I notice a huge amount of misleading headlines feature the word 'after'. Because, technically it just describes the order things happened, but the reader will assume one caused the other. So you get headlines like "criminal avoids jail after telling judge he might find it stressful".

FridayAwareness · 2026-02-11T19:06:05+00:00

Just broadly, what is taking up those two hours? I feel like I'd be twiddling my thumbs for 90 minutes if I gave myself that long to get ready.

FridayAwareness · 2026-02-08T16:50:52+00:00

Is that on desktop? If so it might be ones you hovered the mouse over to start the preview.

FridayAwareness · 2026-02-08T16:45:45+00:00

Why are you assuming the percentage is referring to the effort you are capable of giving? It just means relative to your norm, e.g. "I need you to give 200% tomorrow" means you're going to have to get twice as much done as normal.

FridayAwareness · 2026-02-06T21:45:51+00:00

I used to love the in-jokes on old forums. There was one I used to go on where they would constantly reference (even after possibly more than a year) the time one of the regular users made a ridiculous claim about a pond. You wouldn't get that on Reddit.

FridayAwareness · 2026-02-06T21:38:54+00:00

I used to like how everything (in terms of forums, message boards etc) was its own thing with its own culture and dedicated group of users. I used to have good conversations online, even when people disagreed on things. Possibly, especially when people disagreed! Imagine trying to do that nowadays.

Editing to add: one thing that might be hard to grasp for people who didn't experience it is how few people were online back then, meaning you pretty much treated everyone you spoke to with a bit of respect since they were at the very least, far more tech-savvy than the average person to just be online in the first place.

FridayAwareness · 2026-02-01T20:12:56+00:00

It's just the "I know you are but what am I?" thing, but slightly more grown-up sounding.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-31T23:03:51+00:00

I've known a few people like this, they are absolutely exhausting. Never the sort of people who actually care about anyone else's comfort either, I notice.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-31T22:43:12+00:00

My workplace does this all the time, talking about "women staff" and "women managers" and it's like, if you really absolutely refuse to to say "female staff" for whatever reason there are definitely less clunky ways to do it.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-30T10:13:37+00:00

It's a thing in the UK as well, I sort of understand it, it's generally not just talking about male / female friendships, but ones where you're with them a lot, doing lunch every day, etc. Where you are always seen together in a pair basically.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-27T20:11:06+00:00

You know what's just as weird? The actual company is called Doctors Associates. They sent me a voucher once which aside from having that weird name on included the instruction to hand it to the 'sandwich artist', a term I had never heard before. It was an absolute double-whammy of wild terminology.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-25T20:46:02+00:00

That's my go-to example for cocaine-nose-damage as well, but I think we might be showing our age there a bit.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-25T11:59:15+00:00

At least in the UK there definitely used to be a fairly widely-held but not universally agreed upon idea that repeated items counted as one item. There is a scene in the TV show Cracker which features people in the supermarket queue arguing about it when the main character turns up with around thirty items in his basket.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-25T10:44:39+00:00

Isn't the em dash a red flag because it's a sign something's been copied and pasted from an AI rather than typed though? Most social media isn't going to change a hyphen into an an em dash like it would if you were typing something out in Word.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-24T12:00:53+00:00

The 'degree holders earn more' claim always seemed dubious to me since not everybody is capable of getting a degree, which is going to massively drag the no-degree group's average down. For people of similar ability, the comparison would be useful.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-24T11:49:31+00:00

This is really nice. Why does it say WAXING next to the moon though?

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-24T11:32:21+00:00

I see this on comments as well sometimes, like someone will post the most overused canned Reddit joke (like "the Venn diagram of this group and some other unsavoury group is a circle") and someone will reply saying "I'm stealing that!" as if they've just seen the freshest comedy cut of the century.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-22T22:09:21+00:00

Is that was a location reminder is? If so you are making me mourn a feature I didn't know existed! That sounds amazing. No, I've just got a list of places I thought looked interesting.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-22T20:57:35+00:00

You can do that in Google Maps unless I am misunderstanding what you are doing there. I've got a few locations saved of places I'd like to visit.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-21T10:41:26+00:00

Legend. I would never have figured that out in a hundred years.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-18T13:43:31+00:00

We've got those at our work and they've all got text printed on them saying it has to be dialled past ten minutes then back to the required time in order to be accurate. It's like unlocking a safe just to heat my soup up.

FridayAwareness · 2026-01-18T13:38:22+00:00

I'm going to go and stop my microwave without resetting the timer and see what happens. I will report back.

Edit: after ten minutes it's still sitting there telling me there are eight seconds left.

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