MattBlackAlien

joined 2 years ago
[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Considering that pre-Brexit the UK was contributing around £10b per year to the EU, then (depending on what it actuslly buys, of course) it's a bargain.

[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The antidote - https://www.dualit.com/products/4-slice-newgen - Dualit Classic: clockwork timer, physical switches, manual pop-up, repairable.

[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Trebonianus is a much more challenging wank.

[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"The bats have left the bell tower,
The victims have been bled."

[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

How fucking old are you people ?
(About the same amount as me, I guess).

[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Also, if you wait until next time, the safe will cost #600.

[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

"You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again! Downloading films is stealing. If you do it, you will face the consequences."

[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Everyone is stealing The Verge.

[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Also Gareth Williams, an MI6 analyst, who allegedly died after padlocking himself into a holdall. From the outside.

[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

You can generally replace the word 'economy' with 'rich people's yachts' -

"Trump claims ‘a lot of people don’t see’ that America has ‘the greatest rich people's yachts right now’ .

Yep - still works.

[–] MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

You need to be as precise as your resolution, otherwise the precision is meaningless. I guess you could argue that your resolution is units of half-billion (since some things are measured like that), but the initial value of 0.1B, and your use of 0.5 rather than 'half' suggests a resolution of 0.1B.

This is different to the aphorism 'The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion', both because of the difference in scale, and the quoted resolution.

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