De Gaulle vetoed the British application to join the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1963, famously uttering the single word 'non' into the television cameras at the critical moment, a statement used to sum up French opposition towards Britain for many years afterwards.[41] Macmillan said afterwards that he always believed that de Gaulle would prevent Britain joining, but thought he would do it quietly, behind the scenes. He later complained privately that "all our plans are in tatters".[35]
American President John F. Kennedy urged de Gaulle to accept the United Kingdom in the EEC, stating that a Europe without Great Britain would create a situation in which the United States were bearing the enormous costs of Europe's protection without any voice. Kennedy applied pressure to de Gaulle by threatening to withdraw American troops from European soil, but de Gaulle believed that the United States would lose the Cold War if they were to leave Europe.[42] It encouraged de Gaulle to see Great Britain as America's "Trojan Horse".[43]
An indoor refrigerator in the winter is essentially a resistive heater. It's not nearly as good as a heat pump, but may be better for the environment that burning gas, depending on the local electricity mix.
That is an excellent point that I had not considered—it might actually be more efficient to make use of the heat in your food to heat your home than to pump it outside!
That's not my main point as I don't think the heat capacity of food is so important over the long term.
I mean, that the inevitable inefficiency of the fridge in a closed system, is no different, that any other device consuming the same amount of energy, as it all ends as waste heat.
It depends on where you live, but generally you leave stuff out the front if you want to get rid of it (fridges, freezers, ovens, mattresses, sofas etc) - either officially, by arranging a "bulky goods" collection from the council, or waiting for someone who wants/needs it to take it. Large appliances generally get picked up by "rag and bone" men who weigh the metal in for scrap.
Remember that a large chunk of urban population don't drive at all, and the majority that do drive small vehicles for short journeys - so not many people can take stuff like that to a recycling centre themselves.
We put our old furniture/appliances out, and when the scrap man passes they take it away for free (or you can call the council and they'll take it away for free also).
I've got a couch out in my garden at the moment, council's taking it to the tip on Monday.
...Where are we supposed to leave it for pickup, on the roof?
also I feel like this area would be soo cozy without the fence and with a big tree to give some shade to rest under. maybe a hammock tied to the house or something too
The front garden is not space to get cozy in the UK, especially if you live somewhere where neighbours pose for compo face for the local paper, have a triple head crease at the head neck neutral zone, keep white goods or sofas in the front garden etc. I expect if you explore the area where this photo was taken, there is a pub with a flat roof and no other amenities than a chip shop, bookies, vape shop.
For the record, I absolutely love places like this
Jesus christ if you image search it there is a slop avalanche with like a dozen variants with him wearing different clothes and slightly different houses etc. All reposted woth slightly different wording.
I get that vibe. I've seen a different photo with an extremely similar background that was definitely AI. This is kind of the most average looking UK houses, no house numbers, no logo on the security decide. Definitely suspicious.
After one snowy night, next morning I saw neighbours had crafted a meticulous Totoro (from Ghibli) from the snow. With all his fur dimples or whatever they're called.
the bricks on the house are of inconsistent sizes. Sometimes they are too long, sometimes too short. If you zoom in it becomes apparent (easiest to see on the right half of the house)
Yeah that's a dick move, it's so rare that we get snow, I enjoy looking out of the window and seeing it.
Not to mention that it's taboo over here to enter someone else's garden without good reason, this bloke's asking for it though, where's his hedge? Not even a fence? Come on. But I digress.
Thing is, if they'd just asked I bet he'd have said sure, and been happy to help, but it's people stepping over the line and going outside of the basic social contact we have in our communities, that's what pisses ya off.
63 Comments
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 89 pts · 186d
Moy land moy snow simple as
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 29 pts · 186d
U fookin wut, mate?
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 7 pts · 186d
You wanna take this outside?
Agent641@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 185d
U wot bruv?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 186d
Says the man with appliances on his front lawn. The British really are the ‘mericuhns of Europe aren’t they?
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 186d
I mean, the British helped to make us
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 186d
They also helped to make Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and they turned out better than we did.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 186d
British: “You’re weak!”
Americans: “I’m you!”
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 186d
i thought that was some sort of weird British mailbox but you're right that is just a refrigerator on their lawn lol
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 186d
In the snow - the perfect example of pointlessly redundant
Zombie@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 186d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_Charles_de_Gaulle
totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 186d
In his defense, he is doing his best to save the climate by keeping his refrigerator outside in the Winter!
deHaga@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 186d
Power companies hate this one trick
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 186d
An indoor refrigerator in the winter is essentially a resistive heater. It's not nearly as good as a heat pump, but may be better for the environment that burning gas, depending on the local electricity mix.
totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 186d
That is an excellent point that I had not considered—it might actually be more efficient to make use of the heat in your food to heat your home than to pump it outside!
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 186d
That's not my main point as I don't think the heat capacity of food is so important over the long term.
I mean, that the inevitable inefficiency of the fridge in a closed system, is no different, that any other device consuming the same amount of energy, as it all ends as waste heat.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 185d
It depends on where you live, but generally you leave stuff out the front if you want to get rid of it (fridges, freezers, ovens, mattresses, sofas etc) - either officially, by arranging a "bulky goods" collection from the council, or waiting for someone who wants/needs it to take it. Large appliances generally get picked up by "rag and bone" men who weigh the metal in for scrap.
Remember that a large chunk of urban population don't drive at all, and the majority that do drive small vehicles for short journeys - so not many people can take stuff like that to a recycling centre themselves.
Marthirial@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 186d
Hey, don't talk shit about his snowman.
obinice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
We put our old furniture/appliances out, and when the scrap man passes they take it away for free (or you can call the council and they'll take it away for free also).
I've got a couch out in my garden at the moment, council's taking it to the tip on Monday.
...Where are we supposed to leave it for pickup, on the roof?
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 186d
We don't really have those imo. AFAIC the Bri'ish are our bro'as.
J92@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 186d
This is a whole sub-genre in British tabloids. Absolute melts pointing at things with a sad or annoyed face.
Cannot for the life of me remember the collective term for them.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 23 pts · 186d
compo face
J92@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 186d
Yes! Exactly this. Hahahaaaaaa. Whadda buncha shites.
icelimit@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 186d
What's that short for?
bobzer@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 186d
Compensation. Specifically talking about idiots looking for money for petty reasons.
sundray@lemmus.org · 28 pts · 186d
The court granted him 33% custody of the resulting man.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 186d
Wow, he really has that neighbour by the balls
ogliver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 186d
It's only one ball, actually.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 186d
also I feel like this area would be soo cozy without the fence and with a big tree to give some shade to rest under. maybe a hammock tied to the house or something too
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 186d
But then who's fuckin tree is it? Who's leaves when comes time to rake? Who's shade? This doesn't end.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 186d
Will the real tree shady please stand up
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 186d
Depends which angle the sun hits it at.
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 186d
The front garden is not space to get cozy in the UK, especially if you live somewhere where neighbours pose for compo face for the local paper, have a triple head crease at the head neck neutral zone, keep white goods or sofas in the front garden etc. I expect if you explore the area where this photo was taken, there is a pub with a flat roof and no other amenities than a chip shop, bookies, vape shop.
For the record, I absolutely love places like this
SeventySeven@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 186d
In a perfect world they could remove the fence and plant a tree in the middle to mark the property line. Everybody wins!
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 186d
I think you're overestimating the amount of nice, sunny days available in British weather :)
ABasilPlant@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 186d
Is this image AI? the reflections in the window, the perfect snowman, that film grain filter... it looks too perfect to me.
FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 185d
Jesus christ if you image search it there is a slop avalanche with like a dozen variants with him wearing different clothes and slightly different houses etc. All reposted woth slightly different wording.
jpeps@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 185d
I get that vibe. I've seen a different photo with an extremely similar background that was definitely AI. This is kind of the most average looking UK houses, no house numbers, no logo on the security decide. Definitely suspicious.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 185d
Yeah absolutely
cepelinas@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 185d
The image search shows nothing on tineye and google lens.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 185d
unnamed1@feddit.org · 8 pts · 186d
Is this Snowman real? It looks so pretty
icelimit@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 186d
After one snowy night, next morning I saw neighbours had crafted a meticulous Totoro (from Ghibli) from the snow. With all his fur dimples or whatever they're called.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 186d
Don't be daft. His bins were there.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 186d
*dishwasher
Denjin@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 186d
I wan'ed that fackin snow foh me fackin frig you cant.
bibbasa@piefed.social · 6 pts · 186d
oi, you got a loicense for that snow?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 185d
Why does he have a fridge in his front garden?
myotheraccount@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 185d
To make more snow
biggeoff@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 185d
It's Southampton
thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 185d
Because it's an AI generated photo
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 183d
how?
thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 181d
A few tells
But the biggest giveaway
HowAbt2day@futurology.today · 5 pts · 186d
Keeping a fridge outside in the winter is brilliant. Saving on electricity is good for the environment.
CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 186d
They're minerals, Marie!
X@piefed.world · 5 pts · 186d
oi u got a loicense fer that groipe mate
clav64@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
"me eh-aye slop is bitter thun your eh-aye slop"
obinice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 185d
Yeah that's a dick move, it's so rare that we get snow, I enjoy looking out of the window and seeing it.
Not to mention that it's taboo over here to enter someone else's garden without good reason, this bloke's asking for it though, where's his hedge? Not even a fence? Come on. But I digress.
Thing is, if they'd just asked I bet he'd have said sure, and been happy to help, but it's people stepping over the line and going outside of the basic social contact we have in our communities, that's what pisses ya off.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 186d
Can he prove it? Has he done a DNA test?
Yeah, that's what I thought. Fridge Wanker.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 186d
They've just made a cuboid one nearer the house
Phoeniqz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 185d
c/rentnerzeigenaufdinge
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 185d
He's robbing from his sneighnors to feed his snow hungery snoman.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 186d
his neighbor? Colin Furze.
pseudo@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 186d
How dare he? To each there snow and no trespassing!