Nodrog's Ices

A Geordie living in Hampshire ENGLAND. Vanilla lover. Retro gamer. Gaslit by fannies.

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@MxVivianWulf Imagine pitching an article to a magazine in 2026. It's about dating and trying to find a partner, your struggles with the opposite sex etc.
Editor: "great, women will love to read it!"
You: "actually, I'm a man..."
Editor: "Ick. Sorry, we don't do manosphere content here."

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@MrJoeGooch That's our next Eurovision entry is it?

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Say what you like about the Telegraph but they still know how to bait and enrage people. I mean, look at this.

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@PolitlcsUK @thetimes BBFC guidance for "U" rating fwiw. This is content that's rated as suitable for anyone of any age. But we can't possibly have children seeing it on their phones

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@PolitlcsUK @thetimes Since when did the goalposts move from stopping children seeing porn, to "any nudity"?
This goes way beyond stopping children from seeing adult material. There are "U" certificate films with nudity in them. But now you're going to stop a 17 year old from seeing the Venus de Milo?

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@AvonandsomerRob Has to be Jurassic Park. The first one, obviously, not the 130 identical sequels.

I looked forward for months to seeing Avatar but I'd forgotten about it 5 minutes after I walked out of the cinema.

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@AumGensokyo The 360's lifetime was a period of transition between CRTs and LCDs. The 360 didn't even have HDMI to begin with.

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@The_Top_Loader Castle of Illusion and/or The Lucky Dime Caper.
Also some of the card based games. Teddy Boy and Ghost House maybe.

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@KernowNeg @johnbulpitt1 @liverbird17 Is that what you said to Tony Blair when he did it? Get a better job?

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@Avenger85438 @nazirafzal This is now completely backwards in 2026 though. We have police who care more about being seen as racist than about stopping rapists, murderers and violent criminals. An attitude which contributed in part to the police treatment of Henry Nowak.

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@1GamewithDave1 Me. But the flaw in your thinking is that nobody pays full price for anything, and most of my stuff came from Steam sales and such. I'm certainly not going to pay full price for a game on day 1 unless I intend to play it on day 1.

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If the same thing had happened with electric cars since 2000, they would now cost $1000 and you'd be able to do 5000 miles on one charge. I smell a conspiracy

[Mark Palmer @MarketPalmer_]

Average 42-inch TV cost by year:

2000: $15,000

2005: $3,500

2010: $1,000

2015: $500

2020: $400

Today: $250

Why aren't all industries like this?

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@SabreWuff Honestly, I would ban manufacturers from including cables. You should have to buy the cables you need or use one of the 10,000 cables you already have because they came free with other things.
I don't know anyone who doesn't already have a drawer full of USB and HDMI cables.

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@Lucius_Winslow I sort of understand this from song lyrics.
The Blondie song was "Call Me", not "Phone Me".
In fact I can only think of two songs with "phone me/you" in the lyrics, both very British: "A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours" by The Smiths, and "Ansaphone" by Pulp.

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@KateCornell LibreOffice is a free alternative, and if you really need Microsoft Office for home use, you can buy Office 2024 (or older versions) as a one-off purchase. There are tons of sites selling cheap activation keys for it.

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@BadFoxLab @BarryPierce What's missing is the joy of browsing and discovery. It's the reason bookshops have shelves of books you can look at, instead of just a counter where you have to ask for a specific book. Using your phone camera, and asking the robot to pick out a book for you, robs you of that.

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As a hardened meat eater I don't want to risk accidentally picking up plant based "meat" products either. I don't know who is meant to benefit by having these combined.
Ideally they should be in entirely separate sections with different coloured shelves.

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@LarryJones The only thing I can't lay claim to is "listened to music on a boombox outside" because that would've been anti-social and I was a nice boy.
Otherwise, 19. That was just called "life" if you grew up in the 80s. It's like asking someone now if they ever use a tablet or smartphone.

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@JohnHundeslit @BradfemlyWalsh Or a tin. Still with the lid on, in a cupboard, nowhere near a plate.

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@CentipedeMouse It breaks my Gen X brain that people will lap up endless boring Marvel and other cape shit but refuse to get excited for the first HE-MAN movie in nearly 40 years.