Emma (IPG)just remembered the time i managed to convince some of my american friends into thinking all british electronics and internet were disabled during the mourning period and i was only able to talk because i was using a VPN
i had to turn down the invitation to play fortnite because i had to keep the bit going. worth it
Steve Gisselbrecht
Austin Dern, Dean of Coatis
Luna Lacteathe screenshot still gets people to this day. wonderful
oink@ipg this is hilarious
hi@ipg this is why sky sucks and you should use something else
Vel -> akko.wtf@ipg this is hilarious
[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD 
@ipg but VPNs require Internet? (or at least a usuable network link to the server)
Petrichor ᚄᚔᚅᚐᚁᚆᚃᚒᚔᚂ@ipg They might well believe it! I remember seeing a news story of an Irish guy *jailed* in England for "stealing electricity" because he'd plugged in his phone on a train; here it was a normal part of the service, but the judge just put on the black cap and said "Do not pass Go, go straight to jail"
MichaelPhillips@sinabhfuil Right? It's only about a half step weirder than other things that I have had verified as true about England. And the Mourning was already a half-step weirder than all the other things I had had verified as true about England so it's no stranger than that on its own.
Rose, Skaven Mars PriestessWow. Wtf.
I wasn't sure other countries had the capability of being more shitty capitalists than the US.
Bruce Heerssen 
@ipg Wait, how did they think you were connecting to the VPN?
MARIMO APPRECIATION ACCOUNT 
@ipg The Prank to shadow all pranks.
ちゅぽ@ipg Speaking as an American, 
Enne is at 
kira :3@ipg listen when you folks tell us crazy shit about the uk we believe that ok. it'd be like if i said "yeah it's legal here to shoot fireworks at babies as long as at least one party is drunk" like you would probably not even search it
Siguza@ipg savage lol
brandon@ipg although, my local GP‘s website doesn’t accept electronic messages outside of work hours. I always wondered what was going on there.
Chloé Raccoon@brandon @ipg @patterfloof We had a client move into a building that was being renovated once. We sent in the details for the network cabling we needed. Didn't hear anything, as it was getting time for the floor to go down we asked about it. "You never asked." I checked the email I had sent.. "Oh, you sent that after 1700? We're shut then, we delete any emails that arrive outside out of our working hours with out reading them"
Saagar Jha@ipg I was there when it happened and my family couldn’t contact me for a week
Pippa 🌈@ipg this is god tier i am so proud of you
aaron@ipg
oh my god this is deliciously evil and i'm here for it
oh my god this is deliciously evil and i'm here for it
infinite „Real Life“ health@ipg this feels like it could be true and it would be considered normal
Kevin Karhan 
@ipg peak #Shitposting...
OFC everyone who knows @netblocks would've seen through it...
aismallard (relocated!)@ipg doing misinformation for the bit
Toad King
Michi@ipg Wait that didn't actually happen? Then why did my iPod lock up during that period?!
yaoi gagarin@ipg are you familiar with the concept of "quiet holidays" in Germany
on eg. Good Friday, Easter Sunday or Christmas day:
- a long list of films, mostly porn but also a bunch of slapstick comedy and notably eg. the Evil Dead, Mad Max and Conan films, cannot be publicly shown or broadcast (https://www.spio-fsk.de/media_Content/3224.pdf)
- no public sports events are allowed to run
- no public music events either
- music venues and dance clubs must remain closed (Footloose joke here)