Fortunately, since cancel culture really doesn’t exist at all, this is a terrific own goal and Alexei Sayle’s Desert Island Discs is likely to have higher listener numbers now than any other. I didn’t know he was on. I’ll be tuning in on Sunday.
#IStandWithAlexeiSayle
@learnsicilian
I remember going to Poland and being warned that they think sauerkraut goes with everything. This was from British people. I’ve lived my whole life in the UK and even I’m amazed sometimes how much the The British seem to hate food. How determined they are to ruin it.
@art_pleb
@OwenBenjamin
You’re forgetting that they’re also all in on the existence of America too. America doesn’t exist. It’s just made up for TV and movies. No one has ever been there. You were lied to.
@AlexanderPayton
In America, they have to swipe a little magnetic strip on the card and then sign something to pay for the stuff in the supermarket which will then cost something different to what it says on the sticker.
@cheer_wine
I’ve been to America loads of times and the most flavourful food they have is Reese’s peanut butter cups which most Americans are scared to eat. Most of the food is boiled sausages and meatloaf.
@mrnutsobalzac
@learnsicilian
Yes. We all eat local game and the veg of the unique climate of the British isles. We’re definitely not eating overcooked fusilli in Dolmio with sweet corn in.
@acechhh
Lot of people here saying they don’t like Sheeran’s music. I mean, I’m a 45 year old man so I sort of reckon I’m not the target audience but my 9yo loves him and when I compare it to the music I liked at 9, he’s definitely way better. Got her interested in playing music too.
@S_Roy84
@Ossian414
I mean, that is how you explain it too. You just say “the Daily Mail intentionally lies to rile people up into a panic. It’s not true.” An 8 year old will get that straight away.
@avauntguard
Man that sucks. I was once in a small off-licence, chatting with the proprietor who recommended a beer called Jacobite Ale. I said I’d tried it before but ended up with a terrible Hannover. They just assumed I’d said hangover a bit weird and carried on. I was gutted.
@charlesbamford
@RichardJMurphy
Saying socialism and communism are based on grievance narratives makes the assumption that people’s politics are shaped only by their own self interests which is a pretty uncharitable view of humanity tbh. You could even call it nihilism verging on extremist.
@_celia_bedelia_
@maxsparber
Still current use in Scotland. At primary school, I remember someone in my class correcting a classmate on it for using ‘bad English’. The teacher intervened “It may be bad English but it’s perfectly good Scots.”
@WorldWearyWoman
@moefromcanada
@raerhi
Exactly -and that’s partly because they don’t test most of the athletes. Only the ones they don’t like the look of. My guess is that the venn diagram of women with high testosterone and women who become elite athletes has a very large area of overlap. Will they medicate them all?
It’s crazy the way that ‘being made to feel uncomfortable’ - usually by being confronted about one’s own actions - is just casually referred to as ‘being attacked’ or ‘abuse’ now.
@shinyandnew70
That only includes all the real people who watched it, were aware of it, or knew what a funeral was. The real figure could be as high as 10bn if you count all the people who don’t exist watching it too. And if you don’t count them, that’s the same as hating freedom.
@anon_opin
There is! You can buy special ‘cheese graters’ now. Just draw it across the surface of the cheese and hey presto! No more needing to smash it up with your fists or by shouting at it. It’s a modern labour saving miracle.
@Advil
Ha! I literally did this this morning when the new X logo app icon appeared on my phone. It was just too ‘strip-club’ and I couldn’t bring myself to to keep it on my phone’s homepage.
@MikeNextWorld
@spaceblazed
@crudeconcept
Agnostic is meaningless. Everyone is agnostic because no one knows. The question is what do you believe. What seems likely. An agnostic about that is just someone who doesn’t know what they think. I respect atheists and theists. At least they have the courage of their convictions
@fesshole
I’m Scottish, living in Ireland. Once a guy from England was visiting the office and asked about Tayto crisps having heard that they were great. ‘Ach they’re just cheese and onion crisps’ I replied, in front of everyone. Could’ve cut the following tension in the room with a knife
@janm18459
@JakeWSimons
That’s an islamophobic genocide to ethnically cleanse a region to make way for resettlement by a theocratic ethnostate. But it’s not antisemitism so Jake’s cool with it.
@esjesjesj
@Boi_die
I’m a Philosophy graduate who spent a lot of time reading both Marx and Neitzsche and I have no idea what point this meme is trying to make.
@robdelaney
The best bit of Miles Davis’ Tumpet Party is the bit where he shouts ‘Trumpet Party!’ And they all play trumpets including Miles Davis who loves to play trumpets.
Genuinely amuses me that people think they’ve got Cummings on this driving to Durham thing. They’re forgetting that the watchword of government since the Tories got in is impunity. They are literally allowed to do anything. There are never any repercussions. None.
@quendergeer
I flatter myself it’d be ‘inmate’ but in reality I’d probably be involved in some fairly mundane kind of office drudgery not dissimilar to now, but being very very careful about who I spoke to.
@_celia_bedelia_
My initial response was to feel attacked. ‘But I’ve always called them roasties’. I thought. ‘Sunday lunch: beef, yorkshires, carrots, greens, gravy, and roasties! What’s wrong with that!?’ Then I googled it. Now I feel sad.
I dunno. You spent 2019 insisting he was absolutely the sensible and competent choice so was this a one-off lapse of judgement or a deliberate strategy?
@Birch656
@AlexanderPayton
Yes. Why isn’t the tax included in the price!? Everywhere else manages it. If the price tag says $10, the amount I would expect to part with at the checkout is $10. Not $10+tax. If it costs $10+tax it should have that amount on the price tag to start with.
@terrychristian
Sean Connery as a Russian Submarine commander.
Sean Connery as an Irish police officer.
Sean Connery as an Immortal Egyptian/Spanish swordsman.
All with a Scottish accent.
@3YearLetterman
@NoContextBrits
Americans in 1773: *throwing tea into harbour* ‘WTF we supposed to do with this? The microwave hasn’t even been invented yet!’
@MattTwoTees
@fesshole
You can. You’re right it’s not true though. Hooking random kegs to taps isn’t difficult but the reason it isn’t true is Carling tastes like socks and no one would ever order anything else, get Carling and think,‘yes. This is what I wanted’. Liking Carling is a very specific kink
@LandsknechtGuy
@AlexanderPayton
America is so backwards. Heating water on the stove or in a microwave, the waiter having to take your card away at the restaurant and swiping little magnetic strips on them in shops. It’s like a permanent 1980s in the US.
@PaulGoldsmith73
@AaronBastani
Baddiel directed a movie about a Muslim man who discovers he’s actually Jewish. Did he cast a Muslim man in that role? No. Did he cast a Jewish man in that role? No. And you think he cares about hypocrisy?
@mrnutsobalzac
@learnsicilian
Yes but mostly the roast is made with neither technique nor ingredients. It’s cremated protein with soggy carrots mash and bisto granules. Not because that’s cheaper (though it might be) or less effort (though I’m sure it is) but because that’s what people want. They hate food.
@MForstater
How many female athletes have testosterone in the male range? We don’t know because we only test them if people think they don’t look ‘feminine’ enough and complain. It wouldn’t be that surprising if the kind of women who become elite athletes are mostly those with high levels.
@WorldByWolf
@jeremycorbyn
What communication are you having directly or indirectly with a therapist?
If you are having any, then you are clearly working on yourself and want to get well and be better and I think that’s beautiful. You could face seriously better times.
@otoboke
@Ankaman616
Three beers and you’re officially drinking. Has to be two beers. If you still need more, you could then have another two beers but not three.
@jackfaulkner
@VFreedoms
He’s not right though. Every decade since the 1950s, violent crime has dropped. You’re safer now than you ever have been before.
@LordIanAustin
@mattdooner486
I’ve come to the conclusion that you are not fit to know who is a fit person to be PM. That you thought Boris was more fit to be PM than anybody immediately excludes you from the range of opinions that ought to be taken seriously. You’re not just a Tory, but an extremist.
@flying_rodent
Yeah, I’ve said before, one might have assumed that robots would do all the manual Labour, allowing humans time for creativity. Instead, AI is generating endless crappy ‘art’ while we’re still all working ourselves to death. This is not the future that technology promised.
@cheer_wine
People marvel at Americans driving everywhere but they fail to understand, to Americans, these aren’t cars, they’re 280 horsepower mobility scooters.
@higgswboson
@davidschneider
It wasn’t an EU border then. RoI also joined in ‘73. We joined at the same time. We’re not leaving at the same time. This is a new scenario.
@3YearLetterman
@NoContextBrits
What do you mean “yet”? It’s not like it’s not been invented here. It is available but who’s paying to have that put in to use 1 week a year? And if we did all use it, would that be good? Just burning up power, making the world hotter to make the house colder?
@shaunasforestbb
@Advil
If you’ve an iPhone, open the app called shortcuts. Make a new shortcut called Twitter that opens X. Add it to your Home Screen. Select a screenshot of the old Twitter logo for the new shortcut’s icon. Ta-da!
@fidelisanumole
@rusukr22
@Intelligencefnt
I dunno. They were tested in Vietnam. Lost. They were tested in Afghanistan where the Taliban are still in charge. They went all in to democratise a country In a region where they still say ‘Israel is the only democracy’. They’ve been tested. The results are in. They’re rubbish.
@metaldeersolid_
Reminds me of a Rob Newman bit about his American neighbour:
Neighbour:“I swear sometimes I think the rest of the world is just gonna form one big country and declare war on us”
RN:“we already have. We even have a flag”
N:“what’s it look like?”
RN:“same as yours but on fire”
@flying_rodent
Such an odd admission. ‘I don’t understand one of the most prominent fault lines in the culture and politics of two of the four nations of the union. UK politics beyond England is actually unfathomable to me’ is quite take from a UK political pundit.