tom h

@tomharris
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Show threadtom hMar 16
lol it's the same company that ran the test and trace call centres during covid
Show threadtom hMar 16
company in question is a subsidiary of a french multinational business process outsourcing company. bad as uk govt delivery is, imagine thinking "aha you know who does bureaucracy well? the french"
tom hMar 16
the compnay that handles visa applications for the british state just charged my girlfirend £50 to scan some printouts that she had to pay to have printed after they refused to answer her question about whether she could send the files digitally. joke country
Show threadtom hMar 5
incidentally i spent three weeks in Hong Kong in january
tom hMar 5
thinking about starting a magazine for people who think making food and eating a big part of your culture is bad. sort of like an anti-woke vittles. would only run to one issue of course
Show threadtom hFeb 21
@Noneeeed i hadn’t realised they had a different narrator for each strand in the main line series. that’s fun, I expect I’ll be listening to a lot more this year
Show threadtom hFeb 21
@jk zadie smith says this is more or less the foundation of british comedy after the second world war and that seems right to me.
Show threadtom hFeb 21
@jk yeah exactly. and the dreariness or brokenness of everything is in turn a feature of the universe that characters comment on. it's the joke underlying all the other jokes
Show threadtom hFeb 21
@jk pratchett is like the ur-signifier for the 90s edition of a very specific type of british man we've talked about before (other signifiers: bill bailey, hitchhikers, hobgoblin beer). like all nerds their worst vice is flogging a horse to death but i find them charming in small doses, probably because I was one, or at least adjacent. as nerds go it seems a much better way to be than the american kind who are high on self-congratulatory paul graham essays
Show threadtom hFeb 21
@jk nigel planer did voices for the discworld point & click computer games so they might have gotten him for some nostalgia