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[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

Not too smart. Russia will see them as incarcerating a Russian hero for just doing his duty and use it as a pretext to invade.

A better idea would be to deport him to Russia (maybe toss him over the fence into Bellendrus). And being Ukrainian Russia will be torn between celebrating him as a hero and introducing him to an open window.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

Well given that broccoli hair is just another word for the perms from the 80s, just give it 20 years and it'll be back in again. You could even be ahead of the curve, just give it some new name, christmas cake hair for example if it's all about frosted tips, and start wearing it in 15 years time. You'll become famous for "starting" a "new" trend!

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Broccoli hair? (quick duckduckgo) oh, you mean an 80s perm?

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 23 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

A bicycle gives you freedom of lightweight activities within a few miles of your home. You want to play baritone sax in the band 25 miles away? It's not happening with a bike.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago

Only the other bots in the farm I inhabit.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 29 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Makes sense. If "Russians live there" is poo-tin's justification for starting a war then complete derussification is the only logical response.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

They're taking the Russkies to Donaldgard gard gard g-gard!

 
[–] letsgo@lemm.ee -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hadn't realised before that it's an anagram of "ELON MUSK TESLA".

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago

But why would I want a bunch of ads and SEO shit that doesn't answer my question?

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That would be those who voted Dem.

Those that voted for Fart are getting their just desserts and did this to their own kids, and those who didn't vote are finding out the hard way why not voting is a stupid idea especially when one of the choices is an orange clown.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago

I'd dig out the Clarkson "Oh no. Anyway" meme if I could be bothered.

 
 

This relates to the BBC article [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66596790] which states "the UK should pay $24tn (£18.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries".

The UK abolished slavery in 1833. That's 190 years ago. So nobody alive today has a slave, and nobody alive today was a slave.

Dividing £18tn by the number of UK taxpayers (31.6m) gives £569 each. Why do I, who have never owned a slave, have to give £569 to someone who similarly is not a slave?

When I've paid my £569 is that the end of the matter forever or will it just open the floodgates of other similar claims?

Isn't this just a country that isn't doing too well, looking at the UK doing reasonably well (cost of living crisis excluded of course), and saying "oh there's this historical thing that affects nobody alive today but you still have to give us trillions of Sterling"?

Shouldn't payment of reparations be limited to those who still benefit from the slave trade today, and paid to those who still suffer from it?

(Please don't flame me. This is NSQ. I genuinely don't know why this is something I should have to pay. I agree slavery is terrible and condemn it in all its forms, and we were right to abolish it.)

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