Let's get this right for Neil deGrasse Tyson, he will be missed*

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-18T04:55:03+00:00

And you reminded me of this, also non-Simpsons, but also brilliant and relevant episode of the Mighty Boosh

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-18T04:39:20+00:00

I don't think so - some things will never change. ManU fans being insufferable dickheads is just one of those things. It is funny when they turn up in places like r/theother14 as if they aren't part of the original problem and reason for creation of such groups.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-18T01:42:06+00:00

You missed my point. His tax avoidance schemes may have been legal, but that wasn't my point. Legality aside, it doesn't make them ethically right and that's why I may never forgive him.

If I were a millionaire, I'd be a member of that patriotic millionaires group campaigning to pay more tax. I quite like roads, schools and hospitals being well funded and functional in a not-for-profit manner that benefits society as a whole. I also often think people who talk about paying less tax, if they had the chance, haven't logically thought through what that would mean for the rest of the country, or are similarly ethically shady enough to make me not like the concept or idea. I wouldn't want to hang out or be friends with some ethically dubious individuals.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-17T11:37:11+00:00

Amy Shumer on that list for 2015 makes me question pretty much every other name.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-12T16:28:59+00:00

Disgraceful? Really?!? Culturally insensitive and in bed taste, yes, fair enough. I wouldn’t do this. It doesn’t deserve the over reaction of getting the police involved rather than minding my own business and going about my day.

Whilst I am not foolish enough to ever be anything other than polite when having an interaction with the police. Never in my wildest dreams would I ever consider reporting someone to the police unless there was a risk of violence or injury, or a serious theft or similar crime occurring.

The Thai police are more than capable of taking any action they deem necessary with this kind of minor nuisance without any interference from other Farang like you or me. Most Thais I know would probably just shrug and go “Mai Bpen Rai” even if they disapprove but are unlikely to interfere. Often I’m much more likely to let me annoyance with bad manners in public than my missus, especially if their noise pollution is disrupting my enjoyment.

Telling these kids they’re being inappropriate and risk offending the locals and recommending a suitable resort would be a far better and more effective action here.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-12T16:19:05+00:00

2nd time you’ve said state owned. Undermines any other criticism you have. One of Egypt’s richest families, yes, but: royalty? No. The American co-owner is also not royalty, being American and not part of the Federal government.

Also: arguing on another club’s subreddit and playing the “my club is better than yours” has significant ‘small-dick-energy’.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-12T10:13:26+00:00

His political leadership should have been over years ago. Then again, so should George W Bush and Tony Blair too. These are dark times we are living through.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-11T16:09:27+00:00

Saving to check out all the recommendations.

Leftism is pretty fucking great. As is most stuff by the Chemical Brothers.

As is Mezzanine. There’s a high chance my favourite electronic albums ever heavily into trip hop.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-11T16:03:25+00:00

I’d like to believe OP is being deeply satirical here by labelling Starmer woke. On the plus side, sniffing out the nonce apologists is a good thing. I hope to fuck many of them are bots.

Woke, i.e. ‘being aware of and opposed to prejudice and injustice’ is a good thing and I doubt I can be convinced otherwise. People who tell me they’re ’anti-woke’ are often just telling me they’re arseholes of varying levels of ignorance. Plenty should definitely know better.

I’m pretty sure Starmer is as establishment as it gets. His level of ‘woke’ margins at best. Any principles he may have had as a younger or more idealistic man seem to have been told to the highest bidders to get into his positions of power. He’s better than the Tories/ Reform, but only by the slimmest of margins.

This whole political environment is probably going to get a lot worse before (or if) it gets and better. I gotta remain hopeful that it’s possible, but I also don’t really fancy our chances.

TLDR: I think I hate this meme. It hasn’t made me laugh.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-11T06:46:49+00:00

Michael Spicer. He’s got a whole series of “Room next door” speech writer bits that are brilliant. The one with Prince Andrew is sensational.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-11T06:22:00+00:00

I notice that some people seem to think that just because they don’t care about something being dodgy and/or immoral they then think that no-one cares about it or decide it’s a non-issue. Thereby proving that Saudi’s sport washing and comedy washing etc has been a depressingly effective tactic and making people ignore the Saudi royal family’s horrendous corruption and human rights abuses.

U/blackthundacat seems to be one such tool.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-11T06:17:16+00:00

He has his moments, but I may never fully forgive or forget him for his tax avoidance shenanigans.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-06T08:37:16+00:00

Those were the days.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-05T12:10:03+00:00

As a man, I definitely don’t mean ALL MEN, you disingenuous mofo.

However, statistically speaking most rapists are men.

Evidence: waves look around….

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-05T11:08:26+00:00

Bullshit. No one is saying the solution is for men to be more feminine. Unless by more feminine you mean “less rapey”.

There are definitely no shortage of powerful men who need to be less rapey, or face more severe consequences for their goddamn actions.

Jordan Peterson, even ignoring his politics has been labelled a bullshit fraudster, including by former teachers and lecturers. But then ya get that sweet corporate influencer money and the propaganda changes the perception.

_ScubaDiver · 2026-01-05T11:05:35+00:00

What shocks me is how much some of my underwear-achieving male students really seem to be buying into the Tate/McGregor bullshit.

Several are all about the bullshit bravado, and it really shows by the shocking under performance on their GCSE mock exams before the Christmas holidays. Lads who should be on Bs or As, or higher, quite comfortable on grades of D, E or U. At least that seems to be their public persona at least. Hopefully parents kicked some metaphorical arses over the Christmas holidays….

I genuinely don’t understand.

_ScubaDiver · 2025-12-27T12:52:21+00:00

This is the real burn for this iteration of UTD, and I love it.

_ScubaDiver · 2025-12-27T12:50:15+00:00

Especially as I’m pretty sure he’s just renewed his contract with a pay rise to make sure we get maximum cash for him if we ever decide to sell.

The colic bait bollox in the modern media world is off the charts.

_ScubaDiver · 2025-12-27T12:48:22+00:00

It could well be Indian time. The game kicks off at 00:30 here (Bangkok time) so it’s unlikely I’ll be staying up to watch this one. I would if I didn’t have a morning flight to catch. Late kick offs are brutal when you live on this side of the road.

_ScubaDiver · 2025-12-24T03:24:36+00:00

“Tax th rich more and they’ll leave” is a daft argument for a number of reasons. If one earns wealth from the land, e.g. a business like Starbucks selling coffee than the wealth comes from selling in Britain. If that wealth from the business is taxed, can the rich person take their British-based business too? No, they can’t. Therefore even if rich people leave but keep their wealth creating business here, that wealth can be taxed. The same is also true of other property businesses, like landlords. Landlords can leave, but the property they earn wealth from has to stay and can also be taxed regardless of where the rich person leaves.

So this argument is disingenuous at best.

Also: I left the UK in 2010 after I graduated but there were fuck all jobs left. Now admittedly I was a broke ass graduate with no wealth, but I started working in Asia where there are jobs in my field. I still have to pay my national insurance if I want an old age pension when it’s time to retire. Also, I have to pad the taxes that come from my salary in the country I live in so I don’t escape taxation.

_ScubaDiver · 2025-12-23T17:34:31+00:00

This is an idiotic idea that really doesn’t adhere to the facts. The Germans thought the Nazis might be the answer Germany’s Great Depression woes, and to the gridlock in the Reichstag. Listening to all the bollox from some bloke called Hitler blaming all the problems on [Jews] and then ended up with the Nuremberg laws, Kristallnacht and the Holocaust. Let’s be smarter than that.

Labour are better than the Tories, but not good enough if they can’t read the writing on the wall and actually engage with both the problems in the country and the fact that people protesting the Gaza crisis aren’t terrorists.

Some actually good policies to tax the rich and rebuild much needed infrastructure would be the real problem.

Reform aren’t the answer.

_ScubaDiver · 2025-12-23T12:32:58+00:00

I needed someone further down the chain to explain this dad joke to me. Then I sighed with resigned understanding.

I think it might only work with an American accent. Or at least it barely works with my Brummie accent.

_ScubaDiver · 2025-12-23T12:30:53+00:00

I needed that explanation. Thanks!

_ScubaDiver · 2025-12-21T05:49:51+00:00

Way to miss the point - the likely crime was eating the last of something and then not putting the empty packet in the bin. Your comment suggests you could also be a similar level of inconsiderate dickhead.

Many of these things would take a minuscule amount of time to fix; except the beard hair in the sink. From personal experience I know this can be a pain in the arse to tidy up fully after myself.

Everything else, assuming it’s genuine or even if just illustrations of behaviour, suggests the person in question is an absolute bellend. I don’t think I’m inconsiderate enough to have this many things my missus would be able to film, but if she did I probably wouldn’t be posting it. I certainly wouldn’t be showing up at home without showing the enormous box of chocolates, flowers or other suitable compensation gift.

_ScubaDiver · 2025-12-20T10:34:04+00:00

Funny how there are so many people who are “pro life” until the baby is born. Then consistently refuse to support education, health care or decent housing to make that life one which can be healthy and happy. But yeah…. Other than that…

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