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[–] 32 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

the punishment should be a week in the stockade in the town square where people pelt you with rotten fruit, but this is a good start

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    Nah, people just come by one hour at a time and blast their favorite Playlist.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (6 children)

    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]

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I listen to Scottish bagpipes voluntarily. I would love to help others discover how wonderful the genre is. Holding them in the stockade until Stockholm Syndrome kicks in will help make converts.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    ... and up next, "The Birdie Song" 300 times

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  • [–] 23 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    Good news if it was actually enforced. I vote that bus drivers use the tannoys to say, "Hey, who's that plonker on the upper deck playing AI slop? Turn it off, you muppet!" I don't know what they should do when they get inevitably ignored.

    (It's nearly always AI slop revenge stories or bhangra (might not be bhangra exactly, I'm Indian but I don't actually know the different genres. Desi stuff anyway.))

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  • [–] 28 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    In my experience its constant scrolling tiktok. You get to hear the AI lady saying "watch what happ-" "when my br-" "pov you're-" "askin-" "im in love with my new set of-" "when the-" "going to-"

    I'm getting enraged thinking about it.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    There shouldn’t be a ticket. It should be that the bus doesn’t move until the sound is turned off. It will sort itself out.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    No, it won't. I've been on buses and trains where this has happened. "We will not be moving until the freeloaders depart or the British Transport Police arrive." Well, the people who don't care they're pissing off everyone around them already won't care if it's being pointed out, meanwhile all of the paying customers are being delayed, being made late for work, being made to miss the connections. You can't use shame on the shameless.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    I don’t mean shame. I mean irritation. There’s a difference between freeloaders, which isn’t even something you can identify or give a shit about, and an asshole playing loud music or tiktok. Eventually someone will break the silence and/or break their nose.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    They used to do this 10y+ ago on the buses in London, but they must have been trained to just ignore it now for safety reasons. The freeloaders just waltz on shamelessly and nothing happens. Last time I was on a bus and the driver stopped, the freeloader got up to the driver's cab and threatened to stab him.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago

    The right sentiment but without enough inspectors and transport police to enforce it it’s practically meaningless.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    And just like that, the cost-of-living crisis and rampant societal inequality was solved forever.

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  • [+] -8 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

    Wow. Sounds like Burnham is already running out of ideas.

    When they can’t fix the big problems, they focus on the small ones.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    "How dare we deal with minor problems while there major problems even if those major problems are also already being dealt with and we have the capacity to do both."

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    Ah yes, fix 14 years of Tory and EU austerity in 2 years.. totally doable

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    EU austerity

    Ah yes the EU, famously able to convince the UK to adopt the union's monetary system.

    Brits still delusionally blaming Europe for their own mistakes.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Lol, maybe you should learn about EU austerity policies that were enforced, while we in the EU

    And while you're at it, learn the difference between monetary systems and budgets.

    Tool.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    maybe you should learn about EU austerity policies that were enforced, while we in the EU

    Maybe you should present your own list of these imaginary policies. As they exist inside your head it would be pretty hard for me to learn about them otherwise. The UK were never subject to the Troika austerity policies.

    Or I guess you really believe you'll be seeing that £350 million any day now.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Fucking Google it

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4952125/

    The actual policies were called Six-Pack, Two-Pack, and the 2012 Fiscal Compact (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance),

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Nowhere in the paper you link does it imply that the EU imposed austerity policies on the UK.

    The Tories are the only ones responsible for the fiscal policies adopted after the recession.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago*

    The EU imposed policy on all EU members. I've listed them, perhaps you should acknowledge that there were EU wide policies?

    What do you think happens when you put austerity measures in a single market, more or less economic activity?

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