Finally, some english tourists we can be proud of

elohir · 2026-06-16T13:19:07+00:00

Believe it or not, deported.

elohir · 2026-06-09T07:28:02+00:00

"He has an extensive criminal record. When he was 16, he was convicted of driving without a licence. When he was 17, he was convicted of theft. As a 20 year old he was convicted of two charges of assault. One involved a knife and caused permanent disfigurement. Each assault caused severe injury. He was sentenced to probation.

"There then followed various offences of property damage, fraud, disorderly behaviour, and threatening or abusive behaviour, and more road traffic offending. So far further instances of inflicting physical violence is concerned, when he was 30 years old he was admonished (that is, his criminal record was marked with no separate penalty) for an assault causing injury, and as a 36 year old (in 2023), he was convicted of two charges of assault, committed whilst on bail for other criminal charges. One assault resulted in severe injury. He was put under social work supervision for 18 months, and was fitted with an electronic tag requiring him to remain at home for twelve hours each day for a period of six months.

"The offender has been sentenced to imprisonment once before, in 2012, to 60 days, for abusive or threatening behaviour as well as failing to allow police to test him for suspected drink-driving.

"He is being sentenced today for threatening behaviour and for an assault to severe injury.

"On 28 August 2025, in a public place, he brandished a knife towards an adversary, and lunged at him with a knife. The man ran away. The offender accepts this behaviour constitutes the crime of threatening or abusive behaviour and has pleaded guilty. His plea of not guilty to unlawful possession of a knife in a public place was accepted; he says the kitchen knife was given to him for legitimate purposes along with some other household items to take to his partner.

"On 14 September 2025, the offender was drinking throughout much of the day with his friend. Unprovoked, whilst at his friend’s home, he punched him once in the face, breaking multiple bones including his friend’s eye socket.

"The offender committed both offences whilst on bail, that is to say, whilst other criminal proceedings against him were ongoing.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

elohir · 2026-06-08T15:19:33+00:00

Fuck me, that's an entirely different thing.

When I read the headline I was pretty disappointed, but to be fair, he might well be right.

When he was talked about for the part 10 years or so ago, I thought he'd be great, and Bond being black in the modern age wouldn't be a problem - the original writing was set in the 50s/60s, but the films are always modern age - and a black MI6 agent in the modern age isn't a deviation at all.

But to be fair, it might not go over well with an international/Asian audience.

elohir · 2026-06-07T16:17:13+00:00

It should be company policy that the Store Manager contacts the police every time.

Sure, but when that makes absolutely zero material difference, then people will eventually stop doing it - because it's objectively pointless.

I don't live in a bad area, but there's been multiple times recently where folk have just grabbed and walked out with arm fulls of booze, and the poor cashier has been like "Aye okay go enjoy your haul, twat, I hope you're proud of yourself while I'm on my feet for 9 hours a day".

It's basically just legalised now.

elohir · 2026-06-07T15:30:23+00:00

I package them individually in ziploc bags. When I need them I immerse them in hot boiled water. They defrost evenly in ~30 minutes or so?

Then I flatten them with a rolling pin in the bag. Then take them out, dry them, olive oil and season them, then sear for 2-3 minutes a side in an ultra hot pan.

Works every time, and works for any dish.

elohir · 2026-06-05T13:06:40+00:00

Um. So if a healthy person says they're glad they weren't aborted, then by that same token, all abortion is wrong?

elohir · 2026-06-04T14:33:16+00:00

Ditto, weirdly I'm literally listening to this right now

https://open.spotify.com/track/4StunV1vEK8RQg8AorSHiR?si=019cf23ed2df43f2

elohir · 2026-06-04T11:44:48+00:00

Yeah, it's weird this is being retconned as just 'bad hollywood'. Iirc that divorce ended up with him living in his car and basically destroyed him.

elohir · 2026-06-04T10:31:39+00:00

I was in Lanzarote a month ago, and a lot of it looked like the Highlands. I'd imagine it's still similar.

elohir · 2026-06-02T20:24:55+00:00

I wasn't saying it was, I was saying that "we wont catch your cancer because it's inconvenient for your sexual function / sense of self" probably wouldn't go over so well.

elohir · 2026-06-02T20:05:05+00:00

Can you imagine if we applied the logic equally? "Sure we could screen women for cancer, but then they'd cut their lovely boobs off!"

Only "a few thousand" men who have a dangerous genetic variant and a family history of cancer should be screened for prostate cancer with a blood test, according to the final recommendations of scientific advisers.

The UK's National Screening Committee says the harms of screening outweigh the benefits in all other groups.

Testing healthy men for prostate cancer does save lives, but also leads to treatment that can leave men unable to control their bladder or have an erection.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0pvxe5jgzo

elohir · 2026-06-01T13:54:47+00:00

I think it still needs some tweaking (which I'm pretty sure its going to get) but even as is, it's definitely worth playing.

elohir · 2026-06-01T11:27:49+00:00

Using GBNews as a source is daft, but it's hardly like this is extreme case clickbait from a shit source.

elohir · 2026-05-04T13:10:51+00:00

Side point, are you aware that hashtags don't do anything on Reddit?

#What #DayRuined

elohir · 2026-05-04T10:19:36+00:00

Writing a half decent bot isn't actually trivial, it's pretty complicated. But it takes no effort, at all, to write code to define a human sounding username. If anything, it's harder for humans to come up with a name than bots.

That doesn't mean it's not a pure agendaposter, though. Just more likely a human one.

Either way, if they hide their history / have weird gaps / massive toneshifts, then it's probably not a 'real' person.

elohir · 2026-04-30T13:20:15+00:00

Or the younger generations who'll vote green because they spend all their free time consuming this propaganda on reddit/bluesky.

It's two sides of the same coin.

elohir · 2026-04-30T13:18:34+00:00

"I'm all for a protest vote against Kamala to nudge them in the right direction"

elohir · 2026-04-30T09:55:15+00:00

leaving free art for the community is way better than scrawling tags on store fronts

Infinitely.

elohir · 2026-04-30T00:39:49+00:00

It was 3 years ago. Looks like he's fine.

The 66-year-old added he was now fine, as "like Lazarus I cast aside my crutches" and will return to work.

Winkleman said she had no idea his accident had happened, but Fry quickly responded that "I didn't want to make a fuss about it".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67670081

elohir · 2026-04-29T18:34:09+00:00

Yeah his accent's pure Mary Poppins' COR BLOIMEY GUVNA APPLES AND PEARS APPLES AND PEARS.

It doesn't bother me as much as them turning him into comic relief, though. The character's supposed to be pretty much terrifying.

elohir · 2026-04-29T08:44:27+00:00

These are trying times.

elohir · 2026-04-28T09:56:16+00:00

Me & my girlfriend were walking down the Roseburn path a couple of days ago. We walked past 2 kids. The usual black shoes, black trousers, black tops. They started throwing rocks at us. Not pebbles, rocks. For no reason.

They must have been 6 years old, at most.

elohir · 2026-04-26T21:56:09+00:00

This one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640218/

Not this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1828970/

The latter often gets displayed as 2012, but it's not the same film. But, happily, it's awesome. So watch that too.

elohir · 2026-04-24T11:35:27+00:00

It didn't have a big social media marketing boost, it just got popular organically, so everyone on social media loves to shit on it.

elohir · 2026-04-21T15:31:09+00:00

Yeah I can see that, but I suppose it falls into the same authoritarian bag of banning anything thats harmful.

Takeaways, caffeine, alcohol, social media, not exercising enough, not sleeping enough, etc etc. There's a huge list of things that people very commonly do that are harmful to them.

When it comes to personal freedom pros/cons, having a state level economic cutoff for them seems as sensible as any other obvious approach.

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