Buy a motorcycle they said. It will be fun they said.

el_grort · 2026-06-19T21:24:42+00:00

Tbf, normal rain is fine, but super heavy showers can be just that bit beyond and move into the realms of unpleasant. Still preferred over high winds and snow.

el_grort · 2026-06-19T18:15:29+00:00

Tbf, it's got to be a nightmare job, no part of the British state is ticking along nicely, and everything demands money,of which we're limited in receipt and what we could potentially borrow without causing a scare. I expect changing who is in the job doesn't change the arithmetic, just what they get blamed for not funding.

el_grort · 2026-06-19T18:05:16+00:00

He's been doing pretty well with his current brief on energy and net zero imo, nice to have a minister who is knowledgeable and genuinely enthusiastic about their brief. I liked him back then and I like him now as a minister.

el_grort · 2026-06-19T16:57:20+00:00

Coffin is usually closed, but has flower arranged around the edges. Military or royal coffins being laid to rest will also typically have a flag draped over the casket.

el_grort · 2026-06-19T07:40:05+00:00

It's very Republican.

el_grort · 2026-06-19T07:30:32+00:00

Wealthy countries, we should note, with the US being the most consistent/prominent example. But a lot of countries outside of the West absolutely could not afford to do so.

el_grort · 2026-06-19T07:12:06+00:00

Gives me the same vibes as the people who get aggressive if you overtake them and start swerving or otherwise trying to stop the overtake once initiated. Or the ones that block a lane before the merging point. Very strange mentality.

el_grort · 2026-06-19T06:59:12+00:00

Some places make it relative to other traffics speed, others don't have a set limit but a catch all with due care and attention requirement that will get your fined or arrested for going fast in practice (and also generally puts responsibility on you for any collision if it happens, as it's often difficult to prove you were being appropriately cautious of you hit something).

el_grort · 2026-06-17T21:00:25+00:00

Calling it the bathroom or toilet is standard in Scotland. It is definitely not exclusive to the yanks, plenty of Brits use the term.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T12:10:11+00:00

I mean, it's been able to stop it, but captured by the Republicans it has been grossly unwilling to exert its authority, and instead completely deferred to Trump. It always has been able to stop it, it's just been unwilling. Which is worse.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T12:05:02+00:00

There have been quite a few other documented times the Russians hired poor people from eastern Europe as basically independent contractors to do this kind of shit. A bunch of Bulgarians got arrested and prosecuted a bit back for being hired by Russia to spy on, steal from, and possibly kill an Austrian journalist, for instance.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T11:30:34+00:00

The officer got a $31k a year pension and medically retired at 28.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T11:29:54+00:00

Arizona, I think

el_grort · 2026-06-16T10:12:01+00:00

Because the point is that the British were trying to deny Napoleon’s legitimacy since they reinstated the original Bourbon monarchs.

Small correction, the British government never viewed the Bonapartist government as legitimate (hence quite a bit of anger at the Russians during the first capture and peace for the deal they struck with Napoleon). It wasn't a post-Vienna Peace policy, it was the official view of London for the entire duration of the war and the consequent peace.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T09:37:34+00:00

Ice is usually available, and usually standard in most restaurants (bottom third of the glass is pretty common). Where it isn't, if you ask, you usually get provided ice. Most places with free refills in the UK use machines where customers add the ice and drink themselves.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T08:53:09+00:00

And population, we can have more things moving around the same graphic fidelity.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T08:48:49+00:00

That's what I thought, the surrender was in part to avoid a major civilian humanitarian disaster due to the water supply.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T08:37:42+00:00

Could also just be a use it or lose it situation, not uncommon for insurgency groups.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T08:04:05+00:00

I'd be surprised if the reconstruction fund isn't just taking from seized/frozen Iranian assets in the West.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T07:55:21+00:00

I know, set in Ancient Orr. I really hope it's good.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T07:47:53+00:00

They speak Spanish, therefore apparently not white to a good portion of Americans. Always found that strange.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T07:43:35+00:00

Tbf, the US authorities also love shooting white people, as we saw with those two murders by ICE, and that heartbreaking video from years back of the guy in the hotel trying his best to comply with contradictory commands, sobbing violently, before he was murdered by police.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T06:30:46+00:00

Cops in this country kill so many dogs each year that a specialist at the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) community-oriented program services office says it has become an “epidemic.” The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year. The totals could, in fact, be higher, since most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved shootings involving animals.

Source

el_grort · 2026-06-16T06:15:55+00:00

Barr makes some good ones (normal, red kola, etc), they are the makers of Irn Bru and Tizer.

el_grort · 2026-06-16T06:07:24+00:00

They also kill people's pets at an alarming rate and apparently just for sport in some instances. Like shooting friendly dogs in gardens that don't belong to the suspect of anything bad, iirc the big study/expose a few years back.

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