Count Binface is the only candidate to declare he will take on Mr Farage in Clacton so far.

Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and Restore Britain have all said they will not field candidates in the by-election.

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[–] [S] 10 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Its 'English rhyming slang'. Its supposed to look like that.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Was I wrong to comment something funny then?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Well ... no!
    Nobody said you were wrong ... right?
    The point here is that you now know a new form of joke, the Cockney Rhyming Slang.
    You can recognize it in the future. And you know, laugh. Or something.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Isn't it more of a "Spoonerism"?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah. From a character in a Dicken’s (?) book who swaps the beginning sounds of words. I think he’s called Captain Spoon in the book.

    Something along the lines of Berkeley Hunt (you absolute berk) is more rhyming slang.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Actually spoonerisms were named after Rev Spooner, who was a real person who did this a lot: "The Lord is a shoving leapard" etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the correction. TIL that I hallucinate incorrect answers just like a corrupted LLM.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    No, the LLMs aren't corrupted, they just don't know the difference between fact and fiction because they are 100% just guessing the next word in the conversation all the time.

    Also, if you correct an LLM it will agree with you but tomorrow reguess the answer, having learned nothing.

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