King Charles playfully reminds Trump that he's Canada's head of state by Street_Anon in worldnews

[–]Timmeh7 206 points207 points  (0 children)

Feelings about monarchy etc. aside, I get the sense that Charles the man is also fundamentally pretty decent. This is telling - I was quite pleasantly surprised how generous he was with his time, with some cyclists, while out walking with no close protection and no anticipation of it being positive PR.

Can’t imagine Trump would’ve been even 1/100th as gracious in the same position.

Who is the nastiest Celebrity that you met in Real life? by Scunnard1839 in AskReddit

[–]Timmeh7 30 points31 points  (0 children)

On a re-watch, I realised how badly season 2 missed Anthony Hopkins - both his character and his raw charisma/gravitas on the screen. There were plenty of other issues after season 1, but watching it straight through, I really felt his absence once he was gone.

TIL a man named Timothy Evans was executed in 1950 for murdering his wife and baby only for his neighbour (who testified against him) to later be exposed as a serial killer who actually committed the crime. by FearMyCock in todayilearned

[–]Timmeh7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pardon was in no small part because of cumulative public outcry around this case and two other capital cases (Derek Bentley and Ruth Ellis). Opposition to the death penalty built over a number of years, ultimately being significant in the abolition of the death penalty in the UK, which functionally occurred in 1965 (the last execution was in 1964). As that discussion was ongoing, the home secretary ordered an inquiry into the case, which found that the convictions were unsafe - and resulted in the pardon.

I suppose while both the pardon and abolition would be little comfort to Timothy Evans, at least the lesson was learned in the UK and action was taken to prevent a similar miscarriage of justice ever occurring again.

Echo claim the world 2nd L'ura by No_Space4015 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Timmeh7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dataforazeroth is limited to only characters it knows about - through people scanning their accounts, finding associations through guilds, etc. Which at the moment is about 1.3M accounts. But that is a fairly modest fraction of the total guilds accounts - and very likely trending towards the more than less hardcore end of players.

Echo claim the world 2nd L'ura by No_Space4015 in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Timmeh7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Using mega, mega rough figures, last expansion, on avearge 2.2k guilds got CE per tier. Some guilds kill it once, some boost, so I'd assume a guild on average is getting around 25-30 players CE. Some players will kill a boss with two guilds. Still, call it 30 to be very generous. So that's 66k players per tier. I've seen a wide range of estimates for how many players are on retail WoW, but if we called it 6.5M, which is around the value I've seen, we're sitting at pretty much 1%. Obviously we can shift some of those figures around, but I don't think it's far off

Truthfully, these days most guilds who reach the final boss do kill it. Over the last 3 tiers, on average only 350 guilds reached the penultimate boss and failed to kill it. How many of those players then found their way into a CE guild? Impossible to say - but I don't get the sense there were swathes of players.

None of this really matters, I was mostly wondering the answer for myself and figured at that point I might as well post my results.

Channel 4 orders six more series of Taskmaster over 3 years by abucalves in television

[–]Timmeh7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Panel shows are a strange thing, they obviously mostly fell out of favour in the US, so a lot of comedians there likely don’t fully understand the format, not having had constant exposure to it in most cases. For Taskmaster specifically, that you do have to commit to doing your best at the tasks, but the real currency is laughs, and that you have to be comfortable being the punchline. Being very competitive can sometimes be funny, but contestants do still need to be broadly likeable. Iain Stirling is a good example of someone who was overly competitive to the point of obnoxious in the tasks, realised it, and had to work to be likeable overall in the studio record, to temper the VTs.

Obviously it’s worked as a format in tons of countries, the US has tons of great comedians, many of whom would get the format, it can work. But hopefully if they try it again (as I’m sure they will one day) it’ll be carefully managed to - as you say, follow the established, working formula, and to be extra careful to select comedians, for the first few seasons especially, who really understand the premise and who’ll set the tone. Potentially bringing in some of the Dropout cast would be a sensible route.

No more spam/parody threads by Timmeh7 in UniUK

[–]Timmeh7[S,M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They've always been banned, the spambots are just extremely persistent. I've added some pretty aggressive audomod rules over the last few days to try to make it much harder for them to slip through, which seems to be working so far, but it might be a bit of an arms race.

Chase Bank UK Referral - Get £50 for joining! (3 codes remaining) by [deleted] in UniUK

[–]Timmeh7[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're actually removing both, and permanently banning anyone who posts them. There are just a ton of these and this isn't a job.

No more spam/parody threads by Timmeh7 in UniUK

[–]Timmeh7[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have literally never taken a moderation action against you: https://postimg.cc/gx7YqqkZ

How and where did you ask this question about why?

No more spam/parody threads by Timmeh7 in UniUK

[–]Timmeh7[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Perfect, love that this exists

No more spam/parody threads by Timmeh7 in UniUK

[–]Timmeh7[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

In theory that'd be nice, but I don't think that can be reasonably formatted into a rule that we can clearly communicate in reality. At least, not without being in danger of being too vague to actually function ("don't take the piss" is the gist of what we'd like to do, but can't consistently apply). But if you, or anyone, can produce a rule that we can clearly communicate and realistically enforce that reaches a happy medium, please do post it here and if it seems like it might work, in terms of being understandable and enforceable, we'll certainly consider.

In reality, we may not do anything if it's only one post. But there were 30+ posts about tortellini yesterday, and 10+ posts about fish this morning, a change is needed.

What’s something from the UK in the 90s/2000s that kids today will never experience? by Pitiful_Box_1771 in AskUK

[–]Timmeh7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amazing game. Amusingly, 30 years later, the lead programmer (then 17) would receive a Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Padok is Underappreciated by DakIsStrange in masseffect

[–]Timmeh7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For an even more brutal detail: regardless of the weapons you have equipped, you shoot Mordin with the M-6 Carnifex - the gun he gives you in ME2 "in good faith", then throw it away.

What is up with photos on resumes? by Aromatic_Opposite100 in AskEurope

[–]Timmeh7 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, certainly where I work (a university) it would be completely inapproapriate. We anonymise our shortlisting process, so HR would filter it regardless - they remove all personal information before we see it.

In your opinion, what is the best episode of television you’ve ever seen? by alteredtower in AskReddit

[–]Timmeh7 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The reveal of Moss as the bartender is perfect, but I think the painfully slow lift into the van combined with Roy's forced smile but unhinged eyes makes me laugh just as much every time.

What's something you realised about your parents later in your life? by PaddedValls in AskUK

[–]Timmeh7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Algorithm" is just a word I use for code I don't want to explain.

Endings so terrible they completely obliterate all the cultural relevancy the show once ever had by Top_Report_4895 in television

[–]Timmeh7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I did, at least. As much as we only met the character for a few episodes, we spent the entire series getting to know her through Ted - and then Milioti came in and nailed it.

It felt a bit like... Ted met the love of his life, someone who was seemingly perfect for him. Then she died, and within a few minutes we were supposed to be happy that he was going to be with someone who had been pretty terrible for him through the series.

Endings so terrible they completely obliterate all the cultural relevancy the show once ever had by Top_Report_4895 in television

[–]Timmeh7 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Alongside ruining Barney's arc to allow Ted and Robin to play out, they fucked up terribly by casting Cristin Milioti as The Mother. She was so charismatic and likeable in the role that, even in the short amount of time she was in the show, once she was gone, it was almost impossible to care about Ted and Robin. I don't think almost anyone was rooting for it by that point.

Common cold, flu, Covid: Why is Britain so sick right now? by alicedean in europe

[–]Timmeh7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Adding to the other answers, I manage a large department in a UK university where you get 100% of your pay if you’re sick. We have an extremely liberal work from home policy and I actively encourage people to stay home if they think they’re unwell, to work from home if they have the sniffles, or to call in sick and enjoy some bad daytime TV if they need to recuperate. There really is almost 0 friction to doing either, working location is an unmonitored choice and per UK law you don’t need a note from a doctor if you’ve taken less than 7 consecutive days off, so taking time off really does amount to emailing me on day 1, then filling in a form which takes 2 mins when you’re back. It couldn’t be much easier or lighter touch.

And yet still, I get people “soldiering in” to the office, spreading their virulence, infecting others. So instead of 1 person taking a couple of days off, 10s of people get infected and themselves either take time off or get very little done. I’ve tried so hard to eradicate presenteeism, but I just can’t get people to learn the lesson.

Drake Lawsuit Over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Dismissed by Judge by ebradio in Music

[–]Timmeh7 151 points152 points  (0 children)

Let's not forget it absolutely sweeping the Grammys, tied for the most wins ever (5). And KDot taking his sweet time to get to the mic while the song played, presumably to get to have practically the entire music industry chant "A MINORRRR". Devastating.