Your neighbor is a terrorist!

[Eldezar]

Really, Britain. WTF?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIAFHjL3ZMg&feature=player_embedded

Anyone know how to embed videos?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

To be fair I'm the neighbour of quite a few people in Britain.
But this is totally balls out stupid.

[Viridis]

It's great that they actually include an example of a totally normal guy getting hassled and called a terrorist for no reason.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

I'm a rather quiet man who prefers to use cash over plastic. Or bank transfers In case it's some online thing. I don't have curtains, though. But sometimes in Summer I put a cardboard box in front of my window to have a bit more precious shadow. The only bus-route in shitville (where I live) happens to go past my house.

Fuck, people who pay with their shitty bank cards piss me off. They always slow down the line. Motherfuckers. And those people who think you need to know everything about their lives, gosh. I mean, if your child just did his first steps I can understand why you'd want to let people know, but I don't give a damn about garden work. I just wanted to get that off my chest.

[Seil]

Anyone know how to embed videos?

There's some interesting stuff in here. I believe the Embed command is something like "Fuck Fenris." (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/misc.php?do=bbcode)

[Meister]

Haha what the hell is that still doing there. I thought I'd deleted that ages ago. Sorry, but it actually only displays one certain youtube video no matter what you put in it. Throwing that out for real now.

Gonna look into maybe making an embedding tag but that one took a pretty large chunk of code to work so don't hold your breath.

Fuck, people who pay with their shitty bank cards piss me off. They always slow down the line.
Surely not more so than old people who count out €43.78 in exact change coin by coin, apparently checking each one if it isn't a valuable rarity.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Whoa, did that happen while you were in line somewhere?
I've never seen that happen, except in comedy. Sadly life isn't a comedy.

Also: That post up there is just my usual exaggeration. You'll get used to it once I magically start to post more. I'm not actually that much opposed to bank cards, neighbors, drunks or fun.

[bluestarultor]

Haha what the hell is that still doing there. I thought I'd deleted that ages ago. Sorry, but it actually only displays one certain youtube video no matter what you put in it. Throwing that out for real now.

Gonna look into maybe making an embedding tag but that one took a pretty large chunk of code to work so don't hold your breath.


Surely not more so than old people who count out €43.78 in exact change coin by coin, apparently checking each one if it isn't a valuable rarity.

If you really want an embed tag, I can probably whip up some code for you.

For example, if you could find a way to change something like:
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6AeokMsdMlM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385"></embed>

to a BBCode tag like

http://www.youtube.com/v/6AeokMsdMlM&hl=en_US&fs=1&

it SHOULD allow a video to be plopped right onto the page. Or if you want it to be hidden like the FUCKFENRIS tags used to be, you could always pull the code left over from the old SPOILER2 tags if there's any of it left. Otherwise, I can probably figure out how to re-create it.

[Green Spanner]

Sadly life isn't a comedy

I would dispute that. Especially in regard to the link in the OP.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Fuck, people who pay with their shitty bank cards piss me off. They always slow down the line. Motherfuckers.

I'm surprised you buying your food and not out hunting mammoth for your supper.

[Hanuman]

Add not having a FB account to that.

[Azisien]

I'm surprised you buying your food and not out hunting mammoth for your supper.

You heard the man, he doesn't post that often. He's busy sharpening his spears!

[bluestarultor]

You heard the man, he doesn't post that often. He's busy sharpening his spears!

Don't be silly. Haven't you ever heard of McMammoth's? Maybe it's just a Wisconsin thing, since we have snow 3/4 of the year, but The Mammoth is the best meal to feed a whole village. If you just want something smaller for the extended family, try The Giant Sloth, or maybe just The Smilodon for you and your cousins.

[krogothwolf]

Don't be silly. Haven't you ever heard of McMammoth's? Maybe it's just a Wisconsin thing, since we have snow 3/4 of the year, but The Mammoth is the best meal to feed a whole village. If you just want something smaller for the extended family, try The Giant Sloth, or maybe just The Smilodon for you and your cousins.

Pssha, real hunters get pterodactyl meat, The legs are to die for.

[Krylo]

Fuck, people who pay with their shitty bank cards piss me off. They always slow down the line. Motherfuckers.

Man, I don't know what kind of magical super wallet you have, but it sure as hell takes me longer to pull out five tens, make sure it's five tens, hand it to the teller, wait for the machine to display I get 6 dollars and 22 cents back, and then fumble about for the change from their drawer and hand it to me than it does for me to swipe a card, the cashier to hit a button, and me to sign my name.

Crazy bastard.

Checks, though. Checks are the bane of my existence. When someone doesn't bother making anything out until they get up to the line so they have to fumble about the date, write out the full name of the establishment, write the money owed twice, and then sign, and then flip over to the back of their book and record the transaction before handing the damn check.

Fuck people that do that.

If you want to use a check, you fill out everything but the amount owed before you get up there, and you record the transaction after you leave the line.

[Loyal]

You use tens? Like regularly, and in preference to fives and twenties?

[Krylo]

You use tens? Like regularly, and in preference to fives and twenties?

The same stands if I'm digging out two twenties and and a five, man.

Actually that takes longer, because now I'm not just grabbing a predefined number of bills from my wallet--which I usually keep ordered when I have cash so that all the twenties, tens, fives, and ones (and I guess we have twos now?) are all together. Instead I have to flip through all my money to find my five and my two twenties.

[Seil]

I regularly pay by debit/credit - I hate carrying change, and I have too much in my wallet as is.

[McTahr]

As a cashier, I just have one thing to say:

Fuck check writers in their stupid f-

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cocksmuggling shithole paper-pushing motherf-

Etcetera! :D

[Azisien]

The same stands if I'm digging out two twenties and and a five, man.

Actually that takes longer, because now I'm not just grabbing a predefined number of bills from my wallet--which I usually keep ordered when I have cash so that all the twenties, tens, fives, and ones (and I guess we have twos now?) are all together. Instead I have to flip through all my money to find my five and my two twenties.

Hahaha, you people and your non-Monopoly money. I know what bills someone has from 500 feet away!

[Eldezar]

My experience in whether or not it is faster or slower varies upon the vendor. Personally, from working fast food, as long as you weren't using exact change, I could get your money out way faster than the credit card machine.

However, grocery stores seem to have a higher quality card machine than fast food so I generally get through much faster than with cash. Just varies. And of course sometimes you have an idiot cashier.

[Krylo]

As a cashier, I just have one thing to say:

Fuck check writers in their stupid f-

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cocksmuggling shithole paper-pushing motherf-

Etcetera! :DI covered for cashiers a few times, and I fully support this.

Still found people who pay with cash more annoying though. As a person who wasn't ACTUALLY a cashier, my sliding money in and out of slots skills never really got all that advanced so I wasn't very quick with it.

Debit cards were just easy as hell, though. Even for a newbie like me. Push a button. Done.

My experience in whether or not it is faster or slower varies upon the vendor. Personally, from working fast food, as long as you weren't using exact change, I could get your money out way faster than the credit card machine.

However, grocery stores seem to have a higher quality card machine than fast food so I generally get through much faster than with cash. Just varies. And of course sometimes you have an idiot cashier.

Fast food card machines suck. Subway seems to have an OK one, but Walmart/Super One/wherever that isn't a restaurant I pay by credit I slide my card, they hit the 'pay by credit button' and I sign something, and it is done.

At restaurants there seems to be a significant lag and they almost always have to type some stuff into their machine and wait for the ticker tape parade. It's vaguely annoying, really.

[Magus]

The reason debit cards can take a longer time than they should is older people who don't know how to work them learning how to use them, which they never really do. I drove my mother to the store today and she got confused by the fact that this particular store requires you to type in your pin for debit as opposed to letting you sign your name for credit, so rather than let her stand there for five minutes in a daze I just typed it in for her. Another time I remember prompting her to sign her name, etc.

To be sure, it isn't necessarily helped by those ones that automatically go into debit mode, so you have to hit cancel and then hit credit, then sign your name and hit OK (and they put OK over on the left instead of the right for some idiotic reason so half the time people accidentally cancel out of it instead of hitting OK, can anyone explain why they all do that? Was it to make left-handed people not feel put out or something in our greater right-handed society?), which also confuses old people no matter how many times they do it.

Thus it isn't that debit cards take longer it's just old people again...but seriously they are still a million times faster than an old person signing a check.

And don't any of you go "that's ageist, there are some young people who don't know how to use debit cards", because no, there aren't any, really. The worst thing young people do is overdraw their bank accounts, they are all caught up on how to work the card reader, though.

EDIT: Also that poster is about as Orwellian as you can get and the combination of the ad exhorting you to report your neighbors for suspicious activity is just about as spot-on as you can get.

[pochercoaster]

As a cashier at a fast food restaurant I greatly prefer cash to the debit/card machine because it's extremely, extremely slow. Customers always look confused when they use it too and it takes them 5 minutes to enter their pin. (Not really, but yeah...) At my old job I served literally hundreds of customers a day so I can count change at lightning speed.

But you know what bugs me? People who count out their change and put it on the counter and then leave it there instead of handing it to me. The way my till is set up makes it extremely awkward to grab any change that's in front of my gigantic cash register. My usual solution to this is to put the customer's change (in which I deliberately include as many dimes and pennies as possible) on the counter and then let them pick it up. They learn pretty fast.

Edit: Also the United States is weird; here we don't combine our debit and credit cards- the machine just knows what prompt to display when you swipe the card. And all our debit cards require you to enter your PIN, and many newer credit cards require a PIN now too. So entering your PIN isn't standard in the States for debit? :S

Edit 2: Oh yeah, and I don't like American money. I can tell our bills apart just by their colour; American money you have to actually read. It's also very easy to spot fake Canadian bills.

[Magus]

If I put it on the counter I try to slide it over to where the cashier can reach it. We aren't animals. People need to learn to slide cash into reasonable vectors of attainment. In fact you should put a sign up requesting customers do that using those exact words.

EDIT: Some bank cards have credit or debit options, if you want debit you put in a pin, if you want credit you cancel and hit credit and sign it electronically on the touch screen thingy (which is actually more like a check in a way, so it actually makes more sense for a check card to sign, but yeah, they also have the pin option). Although I've noticed at gas stations if you want credit you type in your zip code as opposed to signing with a touch screen.

I'm actually not sure of the difference between the two since it's all coming out of your bank account, although with at least one of my bank cards if you choose credit you get cash back but if you just do debit you don't, and I have no idea how it's "credit" because it's debited from your bank account just like with debit. Maybe there is a delay of sorts if you just sign, kind of like with a check or something...

[pochercoaster]

Indeed- if they slide it over to me that's fine, but the counter at my current job literally has no space and you can't really slide the change into an ergonomic spot. At my old job at Tim Hortons I had a nice big counter, so I never minded when customers put their change down then because I could easily just slide it into the palm of my hand.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Yeah, if you seperate your credit/debit cards it is also much easier.
Colouring your money also makes that shit much faster.

[Geminex]

Only coloring doesn't work unless you're using primitive paper-bills.

Australia: Because we have plastic money.

[Meister]

And another government ploy to create a totalitarian, fear-based society goes all but unnoticed because people prefer to care about petty everyday annoyances.

This is a subtle hint to get back on the original topic

[Krylo]

But there's not much to say about the original topic.

I mean it's like... the poster looks like the cover of 1984. Where do you go from that?

[Green Spanner]

But there's not much to say about the original topic.

I mean it's like... the poster looks like the cover of 1984. Where do you go from that?

I once saw a similar poster by the police.

It consisted of a pair of sinister eyes, and basically said "We're watching you".

[Krylo]

I once saw a similar poster by the police.

It consisted of a pair of sinister eyes, and basically said "We're watching you".

Every move you make, every breath you take?

Or the other police?


But for serious--if you were to put that poster in a newspaper under the 'political cartoons' section, no one would think it was anything other than satire comparing the government to an oppressive big brother state.

That it's not is terrible... but it's hard to say anything about it that the poster doesn't already say.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

And another government ploy to create a totalitarian, fear-based society goes all but unnoticed because people prefer to care about petty everyday annoyances.

This is a subtle hint to get back on the original topic

Ironic really then, that that's what happened with regards to the OPs link in Britain too. Seriously there's probably like 10 people in the whole country that have seen this. It's not a big deal.

[DFM]

Most people don't notice the totalitarian eye of Orwellian government rearing up around them, therefore it's not important.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I'm thinking about ringing the number and reporting the government as a terrorist.

[Krylo]

I'm thinking about ringing the number and reporting the government as a terrorist.

Do it.

Tell them they're watching you all the time, and always seem to be on the verge of doing... something, you don't know what, and it terrifies you. Tell them you think they might have some kind of bombs or something.

[POS Industries]

ITT: A faceless internet community convinces a bearded foreign scientist to attract the attention of an Orwellian police state's anti-terrorism wing.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

[Krylo]

...It's smarty.

So... nothing?

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Yeah the problem is if they raid me house, there is enough copies of radical jourals and revolutionary texts to get me put away for a long long time. Or at least blacklisted.

[Osterbaum]

Face it, you're propably already blacklisted.

[BitVyper]

Yeah the problem is if they raid me house, there is enough copies of radical jourals and revolutionary texts to get me put away for a long long time. Or at least blacklisted.

I'm liking this plan better with every post.

This all kind of reminds me of Hideo Kojima's Snatcher, with the modern-day witch hunts.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I'd get minimum security probably so I'd still be able to harass you guys.
People in my office reckon it's a good plan.

[Loyal]

I once saw a similar poster by the police.

It consisted of a pair of sinister eyes, and basically said "We're watching you".The popping machines at the theatre where I used to work were made by "Big Eye", with the simple yet effective slogan of "Big Eye is watching your popper performance." I kid you not.

Then someone decided to scribble Big Eye all over the place, making it something of a patron saint/in-joke of the theatre. Did not help.

[Wigmund]

Someone in Britain needs to make parodies of these ads warning people that their neighbors might be any number of ethic/national stereotypes and get it broadcast on the internet and their local radio stations.

[Krylo]

Yeah the problem is if they raid me house, there is enough copies of radical jourals and revolutionary texts to get me put away for a long long time. Or at least blacklisted.
Like I said, nothing could possibly go wro...
I'd get minimum security probably so I'd still be able to harass you guys.

Oh, son of a bitch.

[BitVyper]

Wait, didn't Christ say "love thy neighbour?" Is The Saviour a terrorist?

[Marc v4.0]

Wait, didn't Christ say "love thy neighbour?" Is The Saviour a terrorist?

And a communist.

I also hear he might not have been white skinned! Can you imagine!

[bluestarultor]

Someone needs to take this to the next logical step and warn people about the dangers of terrorism that might be present in their family. Like how teenagers are all angry and hole up in their rooms and how that's suspicious, or how your grandparents might have war experience and could turn assassin. Or how your mild-mannered parents might be just a little TOO mild-mannered to compensate for the fact that they're really just playing a tape when you think they're having sex to mask them drawing up plans to bomb Parliament.

[Geminex]

And not to mention your pets. We must be on the lookout for vicious Muslim budgies!
And dogs? Don't they just seem a little too friendly? They're up to something, I guarantee it.

[Aerozord]

Do not worry, long as we have our duct tape we are safe from the terrorists that lurk in every shadow. But just to be safe I think we should include manditory flag saluting for every citizen

[Eldezar]

How about this? What can honestly be done to stop this? How do we get people to realize their governments are full of shit* and to get people to take some action?

*aside from the obvious, smelly shit. I'm talking the lumpy, odorless shit that sinks to the bottom of the commode.