them: yt shorts have brainrot on them

me: the uk government is forcing me to watch brainrot

@whitequark how many questions do you actually have to answer on the real test?
@zyd 24, 75% correct to pass (i failed once already)
@whitequark kids these days, always using Drupal
@whitequark Twitter doesn't exist anymore lol
@whitequark DRUPAL! *obi-wan name gif here*

@whitequark This is a question you need to be able to answer for immigration purposes, I take it?

That's an asinine question

@ra6bit yes and yes
@whitequark My condolences.
@whitequark I hate it.
@whitequark @ra6bit is the test full of confusing wording to make sure people are utterly confident in their english and in order to catch people off guard?

@artemist @ra6bit they also love adding traps like

"is it true or false that after 3 years of ownership you need a MOT test (think DMV) every 2 years"

(and it's every year)

@whitequark @ra6bit that's such an utterly irrelevant question to so many people, too. might as well ask for the exact value of the london underground penalty fare.
@artemist @ra6bit they ask how much you can be fined for not having a tv license

@artemist @ra6bit also like

"which country did the spanish armada come from"

@artemist @ra6bit this is testing attention
@whitequark @artemist @ra6bit I don't know a single British person who could answer these questions.
@whitequark @artemist @ra6bit why would anyone outside of policy making and planning know, or need to know census statistics?

@KitsuneVixi @artemist @ra6bit this is a part of a larger question block that i think is there to say "britain is multicultural". it's just very hamfisted

they also have questions about christmas, divali, eid al-fitr and hanukkah

@whitequark @artemist @ra6bit I've never heard of eid al-fitr and divali
@KitsuneVixi @artemist @ra6bit neither have i, but i guess that makes the questions valuable. now if only they cut the 80% of them that are pure hazing...
@whitequark @ra6bit “Radioactivity is not a British invention” is one of the silliest sentences I’ve read in a while, and not for good reasons

@whitequark @demize @ra6bit North Atlantic T(r)opical Organization?

(It's also partially susceptible to the "see which words are shared between multiple answers" trick, and presumably you can tell it's not "North American" because they've spelled it Organisation... though NATO seems to use both.)

@snowfox @whitequark @ra6bit correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think the tropics are in the North Atlantic :p
@demize That was just how my brain misread "topical" 😛
@a1ba @ra6bit @whitequark I feel like I'd fail my own country's culture quiz if I had to take one. 😶
@whitequark is this anki? I need to start studying this :(