✧✦Catherine✦✧why do i need to know this for settlement
who gives a fuck
Ryan Finnie@whitequark Is this, like, something every Brit knows as a piece of useless trivia? Like how San Francisco is 49 square miles and they made that into the geo-cultural identity of the city?
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@ryan @whitequark absolutely not. I have lived here all my life, I'm 38, and I could not have answered any of these. the tests are such bullshit designed to reject as many people as possible through bizarre trivia.
Ben Tasker@gsuberland @ryan @whitequark Same here - I didn't know a single one.
It's not even as though they're particularly interesting as a bit of trivia
@ben @ryan @whitequark I reckon they should just have a single question: "have you ever stepped on a plug?"
then they leave a freeform box, and if you reply with words to the effect of "yes and it fucking hurt, but british plugs are still the best" then you get citizenship
@gsuberland @ben @ryan if I wrote down how I feel about BS1363 plugs (though to me they're the HK plugs, not the UK plugs, because that's where I first had the misfortune of encountering them) they'd cancel my visa
@whitequark @gsuberland @ryan You might be able to avoid that cancellation by then going on to complain about the current state of the weather
anyMouse@whitequark @gsuberland @ben @ryan Multiparagraph rant over how British plugs are just the point of a really popular circlejerk and actually suck from both design and user perspective was the only comment I ever got gold for on Reddit (back when that was a thing).