them: yt shorts have brainrot on them

me: the uk government is forcing me to watch brainrot

@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 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...