Michael Palin.

The man’s been everywhere and can still be incredibly intelligent & engaging while there’s always a disarming aura - and if that don’t work, his sense of humour will get you every time.

I’m a Monster…

after that I’m putting on “Crazy Frog” for 300 plays.

Exactly this.

Cant’ touch it for fear of exposing white phosphorous to water and causing an explosion.

There was a plan to put a concrete bund over it but that’s been kicked down the road for what now, at least 40 years and they probably don’t want to do that for fear of giving first time buyers hope that they’ve started building projects. 🤣

The blast wave alone would blow out windows for around a mile and the tidal wave caused by said explosion could do millions of pounds of improvements to the surrounding area. /s

Thanks for all the info.

Can I just check, do I need an EA account to play?

Cos if it does, I’m out.

Why?

Just have a public jukebox and people can pick songs that are played out into headphones around the offender.

[Cues up Cotton Eye Joe 300 times]

I mean…1100 really isn’t that many considering it’s London.

That’s like a hamlet’s worth of people, barely negligible considering the bridge spans two very rich and populous areas.

I was looking for a good skate game and I thought this might be a good.

…then I read the reviews. There seems to be some real mixed reviews of this game.

The reason I didn’t download was because it’s choc full of Microtransactions.

Is this sarcasm?

How does this make things better?

It hands a vital service over to an American company that can then strong-arm the UK/EU into other dubious decisions. This would absolutely be the worst solution due the US now controlling the EU satellite architecture.

It’s what currently got us here in the first place - the over reliance on the US.

You realise Bezos is just as equally culpable as Musk in Trump’s reign? He’s on his kneels and sucked that mushroom just as much as Elon.

It needs to if we’re going to have water. Unless we have a month of torrential downpours where some other villages in the Devon wash away, we’re going to be so low on water.

The summer was absolutely brutal, but what I don’t get is why they didn’t sound the alarm loudly at the start of the summer?

I didn’t hear anything about water shortages until about mid August and I swear that we’ve have less hot summers where we’ve had warning far in advance.

Do Uber drivers know they are protesting for the benefit of their own executioner?

I would not be surprised if Uber Corp have been feeding subtle links and info about Wayve to drivers in an attempt to stifle the competition so they can push their own later on.

The solution to problems with the internet is not a fucking surveillance state.

That ship, has sailed.

Set aside the complete obliteration of any online privacy, and the fact that these bans are completely ineffective (piracy streaming websites are already illegal in basically every western country. Still watched a movie on one yesterday), the internet is also a valuable and important resource for many things, including studying and finding support encouragement, nformation and safe spaces on issues particularly for children and teens growing up queer.

Nothing I disagree with there but I never said it would take it away from children. I suggest it would ringfence to acceptable sites so children can now find out about Homosexuality and Gender fluidity without being linked to a video on how to shoot up fentanyl with a knitting needle and a Maccie D’s straw (other straws are available and other restaurants).

You’re throwing out the baby entire god damn family with the bathwater.

I feel that ship has sailed. The government hasn’t listened yet, only to extremely old and sanctimonious other politicians.

All these bans do is push teens and children into LESS safe spaces on the deep web that don’t care about enforcing UK regulations, and banning those sites is literally just playing an infinite game of whack a mole.

That’s why it would be ringfenced.

Banning children and teens from everyday life activities has never worked and never been a solution, just how “abstinence only” doesn’t work to prevent teen pregnancy. The solution is to teach children early and comprehensively how to engage with these systems safely and responsibly, how to recognise warning signs of unsafe situations or fake information, and how to react appropriately to those.

100% completely agree with not banning teens and working with them, but the Internet is an actively and pervasively hostile place towards children. They are being groomed (not always sexually), and most social media is just predatory grooming. If they’re not being told what to think, they’re being told what to buy. It’s pretty disgusting.

Parents have their place in all of this too. Perhaps if more of them actually engaged with their children we wouldn’t be in this sorry state of affairs, but then the way things are now, Parents don’t even have the time because they’re working just to pay bills.

The big Kaiju of the internet likes it this way (FAANG), they have the control. How do you stop that? It doesn’t seem legislation against them is working.

We are currently now at the state where ID is required for certain access. It’s absolutely shitty, it’s terrible and shameful, but it seems the government and the zealots have built a brick wall around this issue about as much as talking honestly about the Israel / Palestine situation. They have shut down almost all dialogue with ordinary citizens - most likely because it serves more of a purpose of shutting out foreign actors and helps to combat terrorism.

It’s not an excuse, it’s just the way it is…and it’s all one big mess where you’re damned no matter what you do.

I cannot disagree with that.

Amen Sister/Brother

Well said on both comments.

I think there’s far too many religious zealots within government and too many religious groups advocating for such things to be banned.

I feel that we’re not far from banning homosexuality by proxy - as some people might find their acts offensive.

This one of the the dumbest fucking ideas I’ve ever heard.

Whilst your opinion is subjectively valid, following it up with such extreme’s doesn’t help make the case.

Very few books have been banned out of existence, for starters and secondly, aren’t under 18’s typically ID’d if they pick up an adult magazine, or even a packet of ciggies. Even in a pub now they have that ‘Challenge 25’ - which is ridiculously outlandish. This wouldn’t be much different.

I do believe the damage that social media and algorithms have done to society is astounding. I would effectively call what they do, including advertising, ‘Grooming’.

Read @Th4tGuyII@fedia.io’s comment - that would be the most sensible solution for everyone involved but noone wishes to take accountability.

I grew up in a conservative community and only got a broader world view from monitored internet access. I probably would have been more suicidal without it.

And I don’t think that would change if a system was implemented. That’s not to say the future and future governments might not change things for the worst.

Major child traffickers are adults AND the elites who were doing before the internet. Porn will always exist and pubescent kids will always seek it out. Annorexia is more the direct result of Hollywood beauty standards and predatory marketers targeting insecure girls, also existed before the internet.

While all true, the Internet as it stands puts this directly and en masse into childrens hands without a fuss and worse, grooms children via algorithms down dark paths.

I think Th4tGuyII’s comment in here is the most pragmatic response and something the government should have started out doing.

If there weren’t so many puritanical zealouts out there, especially in positions of power, I think we’d probably be in a better position now.

This is exactly the right answer.

Some parents can’t and won’t be arsed to take any responsibility for their kids at all, whether that’s parenting or teaching - it’s always the fault of the state. When the state acts, it’s an attack on the freedom of speech. It’s a hell of a situation and I don’t envy the governments choices in this matter.

Parental controls as standard on, on a router would absolutely be the easiest, cheapest and most effective way but puritans somehow managed to keep this alive.

Unfortunately, here is where we are and I wish that there was something we could do about it. Every single solution can and will be circumvented so it all seems like a colossal waste of money at this point.

At least if they implemented a child filter, I would hope they ban ads on a large scale and put social media behind the wall completely. It would do the world a massive favour.

‘…they’ve told their local government leaders where they are in collaboration with the Green party to reject and denounce this policy’

I don’t think it’s ‘all’ as in everyone.

Judging by the comments here its blatantly obvious that the police were clutching at straws here.

There’s absolutely no reason to bring up the knife at all. It’s such a moot point to make. In this age where police don’t even show up if you call them, you’re making a point about a knife being under the bed?

Cannabis cultivation kit? …seriously. Not even Cannabis plants…a kit.

BBC should have just left the story as being about the fake notes.

Ban under 18s from using the Internet, only allow portalling through a Government filter / blocker. It allows certain sites deemed informative and educational but no ads for children. Complaints can be made by the public about certain sites and a board can decide if they should be limited from children’s view.

If you wish access to the full internet, you get a government passcode when you turn 18 which can be used to allow you to leave the Government filter and back to normal internets. All of this is controlled by the Government, no 3rd party companies allowed access to your data.

Boom! Internets now back to normal. It solves your problem of Paedo’s, kids looking at porn, suicide, annorexia etc etc…

Just watch as Google, Facebook, X all would be absolutely up in arms claiming it’s banning ‘free speech’ when in fact they’re just watching their ad revenue tank thanks to nearly all of it being about suckering in children.