Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

Bird box: don't let them be seen by you
A quiet place: don't let them hear you
every zombie film: don't let them taste you

Right, got 2 of the 5 classical senses left, touch and smell, get on it hollywood

@Jo if it was we could save so much money on guns and tanks and things!

keep the aircraft carriers though, turn 'em into big floating hospitals

@kev@fosstodon.org @sydneyfalk the humanitarian things are mostly "eh, we've got people about, might as well do something useful with them" and the protecting people and peacekeeping missions tend to still involve guns and bombs and stuff

@kev@fosstodon.org @sydneyfalk while the expression "kill them with kindness" might hold some water it's not really sound military strategy

@kev@fosstodon.org @sydneyfalk apart from the bits that involve killing people that is

which is kinda the army's job

might even be perfectly justified killing people, but compassion doesn't really help with that either

@kev@fosstodon.org I just see the adverts as "Oi you fucking waster, join the army", which I don't see working that well

@kev@fosstodon.org here's the BBC article about it https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46747862

the british army is currently doing a recruitment campaign where, to get more young people to sign up to be shot at, they're calling them "snowflakes", "selfie addicts", and "phone zombies"

certainly an interesting advertising decision, let's see how well that works out for them

I forsee "badly"

yeah, looking up food recipes on the internet might be annoying to USAians but over here, in addition to scrolling through someone's entire life story to get to the recipe, I have to:

- convert all the measurements from US imperial to UK imperial so my mum can understand it because she's usually the one who wants the recipe
- convert all measurements to metric so I can understand it
- translate the USAian to English

@sydneyfalk @Jo @maple I really want to watch this anime

reminder that scooter's back in the UK is just the miss marple theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWDhvIb7BQs

@Jo Miss Maple is @maple solving mysteries in old english country houses

@maple you're already the best one!

@maple

@lynnesbian welcome to home ec, sponsored by subway

i dunno, just go get a sandwich

@lynnesbian welcome to your sex education class, sponsored by Durex

welcome to history 101, sponsored by the history channel, we'll just be covering ww2, be very glad you didn't sign up for the egyptology module

@wigglytuffitout alternatively chewie is now a fish