I’m gen-x and I am at the point where I don’t know if I say anything unironically any more.

(But you are spot on, slang is there, always, and it mutates as it is needed, but it isnt generational so much as sociopolitical and regional.)

Nah, its for “grizzled tanman”. You oldies just don’t get it.

Mate, it’s just one accent. A mono-accent across an entire country. People from Glasgow and Edinburgh sound exactly the same… Can’t tell them apart. And if you go to Wick, right at the top, same. It’s wild.

I don’t want to have to add a /s but I just know some fud is going to comment “well ackshurly”.

Love how this story grows arms and legs. It was actually a Jimmy Carr joke that folk pretend was real.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bono-of-contention/

Hey maybe we can have a clusterfuck of our very own!

If by us, you mean American christians, then sure.

Wait… The very notion of the seven deadly sins is a Christian construct… It only really applies to us anyway…

Ah. My bad. Carry on.

Pretent

Before you tent.

Foretent.

Right you are g’vnor

Rock it like a Brit. Most things in metric except for your height (feet and inches) and your car speed (miles per hour) and when you measure your manhood (inches… Or fractions thereof).

Also, milk is pints.

Land is acres.

And the ponies run furlongs.

John Wayne Gacy feels snubbed.

I get it. We can’t buy houses, we can’t afford groceries.

Admittedly my parents couldn’t afford a house and we often had to skip on groceries too.

But as a kid of the 80s, the thing that gets me is how these memes seem to ignore inflation entirely.

Yes those numbers are lower but so were wages.

And of course we can can talk about real terms wage stagnation, but poverty is timeless and the 80s were an awful and unaffordable time for a lot of people.

But yeah. Sure.

Yes.

Totally intentional.

Just like Marvin, my mind is blown.

Seconded. I keep trying others. I tried feedly for a while. I also tried readyou (which I still keep on my phone)… But nothing comes as close to inoreader for doing what I want.

Also, I’ve learnt how to aggregate other feeds into a single feed to pass them into it to get around the 150 limit. Not ideal, but I’m cheap.

We will return the bicycle when you hand over the fekkin potatoes.

Its a really lovely mix of science and literature. Signals a broad and interested mind. Besides, Once and future king is an absolute banger.

I’m second hand books all the way.

Great collection you have, I’m pretty sure you’d be seriously good chat down the pub.

Read mostly hardback books like a king.

I hate when people call it “Garlic 2” when it’s actually called, “Garlics”*

• Just because someone always thinks I’m being serious and totally doesn’t understand sarcasm, or perhaps feels like everyone else on the internet is a moron, or just needs to start every comment with the word “actually”, I’ll explain that this is a joke based on the title of the Alien franchise and is noted for being a pretty low effort one at that