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...

@whitequark @KitsuneVixi @ra6bit i expected that to be fairly common knowledge, but i guess that varies a lot by where one came from. the county i grew up in was around 10% jewish, 3% muslim, 3% hindu, and 3% buddhist. i would regularly have friends in school fasting and have to consider who would be available on which days depending on days of prayer.

not sure how common that knowledge would be in the uk outside parts of some cities though.