While this is just a test so I don’t know if it’d be the same, actual nuclear ICBMs have absolutely no remote cancel or detonation options at all.

Introducing them would introduce the possibility of your enemy hacking them and detonating them to protect themselves, so they’re completely out of human control once launched.

Such a shame old, almost unique stuff like this needs to be destroyed. It belongs in a museum.

Sounds like some real UK government shit, that

I’m stuck at the “I don’t have £1500 to pay for ADHD treatment guess I’ll just die” level xD

Kid Starver, you say?

Yes, but the thing is, people just don’t fly it here for no reason.

Unlike the USA, where it was so ridiculous that I played a game with myself called “Turn around and there’ll always be a flag somewhere in front of me” (it really is that insane, their level of nationalism/exceptionalism disguised as patriotism is wild),

…here the flag may be flown for patriotic events (e.g. World Cup), or flown by official institutions, but 99.99% of regular people would never consider flying it for any other reason, and it’s very rarely seen overall. This is normal.

National flags are generally meant to indicate nationality outside of one’s own borders to others around you (e.g. an embassy in a foreign land, or ships at sea). They’re not at all useful on home soil, so why bother flying one?

So, yes, it’s our flag (though not the version people fly that says ENGLAND in big letters in the middle - that’s just stupid). But the people that fly it are almost always bigots and weirdos that you want to stay away from, especially these days.

A 10 minute walk? Without my car?!

Do people not still do this? People must still have towers, and they must have on buttons, right?

I’ve not built a tower in a good few years now so maybe I’m out of touch and they’re all voice activated now or use DNA scanners from Gattaca idk xD

Did the USA invade the UK last night and I didn’t notice?

Now, to be fair I got an early night, it was Halloween and the nutters were out in force so I popped the ol’ sleeping plugs in and nodded off, but I think I’d notice when I got up for brekkie and the yanks were marching down the road xD

I’ve never actually had a chance to celebrate Halloween, as a child in a poor but dignified household my parents didn’t want us going door to door to beg for food (Halloween wasn’t a big thing for them at all when they were young, especially my father who grew up in a rural Catholic village in the 50s so they had no affection for the event, plus we lived in a very dangerous neighborhood growing up).

As a teenager and adult, nobody ever invited me to anything Halloween related, and that continues to this day. I mostly forget Halloween is coming at all, except when the Americans start hammering on about it online for weeks on end haha.

Oh well :-(

USA Defaultism at work yet again.

I pick a country at random then try to imagine world domination scenarios branching from that country.

I barely finish annexing my neighbours before I’m fast asleep! ^_

I have the first Weebl and Bob DVD they released back in the day, AND the first 200 copies - including mine - were signed by Weebl and Skoo!

My best possession!

Fuckin good.

Oh my god I can still see the swear you tried to censor you satan worshipper! I’m so offended I dropped my body of christ into my tea!

The internet is for children ONLY, please take this FILTH back to your BBS, heathens!

“Content not viewable in your region”

I don’t understand recipes that are like “yo this will take 30 minutes to prepare”.

I’m not the Steve mcqueen of chopping things, haha. It might take me 10 minutes just to get all of the stuff I’ll need out and ready to begin - pull the onions and potatoes out of the shed, get the meat from the freezer, get the pressure cooker out and plug it in, make sure the workspace and knives are ready to go, grab a bowl for to collect the compost refuse, wash hands, etc.

Then there’s all the actual prep. Peel the onions and potatoes, wash the dirt off them, chop them, etc etc, maybe the garlic needs crushing in that little garlic press, maybe the ginger needs grating, maybe the spices need measuring out, etc etc, and while I don’t feel slow, my chopping and such isn’t at restaurant chef lightning speeds.

I also just generally don’t rush - rushing leads to mistakes which, when cooking, can lead to injury or wasted food. I go at a comfortable pace, not slow, but not rushing.

If a recipe says 30 minute prep I’ll assume it’ll take me more like a hour. If it’s a recipe I’ve made many times and I don’t have to check the recipe and try to follow it properly, then yeah, more like 45 minutes.

But I swear, all those recipe times are assuming you’ve got all your ingredients and tools and everything sat in front of you already washed, maybe even peeled, and ready to go, haha.

Countertop dishwashers exist, they’re great! Just got to run a hose for water and either hook up the drainage to your U-Bend or dangle it into the sink. Ezpz! :-D

You say that as if it’s not a big ongoing national issue though, hundreds upon hundreds of people have been arrested in the past week for protesting against this, supporting Palestine Action’s right to protest, we’re all very pissed off about this clear abuse of our terror laws.

Obligatory: I do not support this illegal peaceful protest, please do not arrest me British Government, I do not condone the evil terror actions of those who would seek to paint things as a form of civil protest.

We don’t use fax machines any more grandad! It’s all twoggles now! Twoggle me a nurp!