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kingturnip posted:I guess I could try playing the old 'Sachin was the best Pakistani cricketer ever' card I have a friend from Canberra who got into a 45-minute argument with an Indian call-centre worker between Sachin or Donald Bradman being the best cricketer ever. I've seen holy wars with less passion.
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Zero Gravitas, you gotten on the snus wagon yet?
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My mum got one of those random calls from "Windows", who called her a "loving idiot" when she said that she didn't have a computer... I know that they are scamming wankers, but I didn't think that they'd be that blatant about it...
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Apr 26, 2014 00:56
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Coohoolin posted:Zero Gravitas, you gotten on the snus wagon yet? Nope. Dont smoke, dont chew. If I wanted foul norwegian crap in my mouth I'd eat some lutefisk or salted licorice.
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Zero Gravitas posted:Nope. Dont smoke, dont chew. If I wanted foul norwegian crap in my mouth I'd eat some lutefisk or salted licorice. You heathen. You don't deserve Norway. Return all the bottles of aquavit you've got stashed away.
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Apr 26, 2014 01:59
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Saki posted:Are the Greens still completely against nuclear power in all its forms? Because I have no idea how anyone can take them seriously if that's still the case. They are but mainly because they believe our power should be 100% renewable and Nuclear ain't renewable so spending money on Nuclear instead of Renewables isn't worth it. There's other reasons like "Our plan for Nuclear Waste isn't the greatest of plans" and "We think Nuclear power is dangerous even though we're wrong" but it's mainly down to Nuclear Power Stations being really expensive and you can't reasonably make a switch to Wind and Hydro if you've just built a bunch of nuclear power plants.
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Apr 26, 2014 04:05
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:I have a friend from Canberra who got into a 45-minute argument with an Indian call-centre worker between Sachin or Donald Bradman being the best cricketer ever.  .I mean if it had been best batsman...
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Apr 26, 2014 07:17
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Paul.Power posted:Best cricketer? Well that's Garry Sobers Well then the obvious answer is Ian "The Little Master" Bell.
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IceAgeComing posted:My mum got one of those random calls from "Windows", who called her a "loving idiot" when she said that she didn't have a computer... I know that they are scamming wankers, but I didn't think that they'd be that blatant about it... I had one once who I told I knew that he was scamming and working for a criminal organisation before hanging up on him. He actually rang back and said I was the criminal.
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Apr 26, 2014 10:21
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Fans posted:They are but mainly because they believe our power should be 100% renewable and Nuclear ain't renewable so spending money on Nuclear instead of Renewables isn't worth it. e: heh that actially sounds a bit like lax luther from superman
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Apr 26, 2014 11:45
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IceAgeComing posted:My mum got one of those random calls from "Windows", who called her a "loving idiot" when she said that she didn't have a computer... I know that they are scamming wankers, but I didn't think that they'd be that blatant about it... One got rude with me when i led him on and revealed i had a mac after his painstaking instructions on how to get the event viewer thing were in vain and he had a go at me for wasting his time
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Apr 26, 2014 11:53
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Cricketchat is making this place sound very Andy Zaltzman as of late. Are you sure none of you write for ESPNcricinfo and occasionally fall asleep during test matches?
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So apparantly now the Royal Mail has been privatized they're allowed to just straight up lie to you. Waited in for the past four days for a parcel, hasn't arrived. According to the sorting office, they've tried to deliver it five times. I'm unemployed so have plenty of time on my hands, but not a single person from the royal mail came within walking distance of my house for four days. Pretty hosed off with them.
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Apr 26, 2014 14:18
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Everybody occasionally falls asleep during test matches. 
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Renaissance Robot posted:Everybody occasionally falls asleep during test matches. 
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kingturnip posted:I guess I could try playing the old 'Sachin was the best Pakistani cricketer ever' card and see if whoever I'm talking to takes the bait. But that sort of assumes that that every Indian cricket fan is as horrifically racist as Youtube comments suggest. And even I'm not cynical enough to think that. Time to share a cricket thread favourite, I think... quote:in ur mom's pussy there is the all bats of sachin
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Ponce de Le0n posted:One got rude with me when i led him on and revealed i had a mac after his painstaking instructions on how to get the event viewer thing were in vain and he had a go at me for wasting his time I had one call me a liar when I accused her of being a scammer and told her my husband was a microsoft certified technician. This was after about three days of talking to her for a bit, getting so far then saying I had to go because the baby was crying then her calling back to carry on. They are remarkably persistent. They called back a few days after that in fact and it was my husband that answered. They said there was a problem with the windows on his comuter so he shouted 'is my porn okay, oh god what about my porn?!?' until they hung up.
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Apr 26, 2014 15:22
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Nuclear power owns, cricket owns
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Signed on yesterday. I mentioned the MoS article about foodbanks, and the advisor said people didn't need them, as Ronnie Corbett advertises those meals for shut ins that cost just £19.99 a week! Also Tesco value noodles are only 15p! This is the kind of thinking that made Britain great. You can also hold the meals on wheels person hostage to get yourself on the news.
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Apr 26, 2014 15:33
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Tesco value noodles are 15p because they're actually reprocessed cardboard.
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TinTower posted:Tesco value noodles are 15p because they're actually reprocessed cardboard. Yeah, but I should think myself lucky to get those
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TinTower posted:Tesco value noodles are 15p because they're actually reprocessed cardboard.
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Kegluneq posted:lol Putting corrugated cardboard into a shredder does count as 'reprocessing'
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Apr 26, 2014 16:14
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I like those cheap ramen noodles, if it's cardboard then I guess I like cardboard. Wouldn't want them every day though, I'm not a student anymore.
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I love them when I'm drunk and get back home at the end of a night out. Sitting on my couch slurping ramen from the 24 hour shop glaring angrily at netflix because there's only 2 seasons of Extras and Modern Family.
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Coohoolin posted:I love them when I'm drunk and get back home at the end of a night out. Sitting on my couch slurping ramen from the 24 hour shop glaring angrily at netflix because there's only 2 seasons of Extras and Modern Family. Modern Britain. 
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Coohoolin posted:I love them when I'm drunk and get back home at the end of a night out. Sitting on my couch slurping ramen from the 24 hour shop glaring angrily at netflix because there's only 2 seasons of Extras and Modern Family. Can you actually buy them as 'ramen' noodles as a mainstream thing in Britain now? I've only ever seen them marketed as 'instant' or 'pot' (outside of specialist Asian food shops), 'ramen' seems to be more of an American thing.
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Kegluneq posted:Can you actually buy them as 'ramen' noodles as a mainstream thing in Britain now? I've only ever seen them marketed as 'instant' or 'pot' (outside of specialist Asian food shops), 'ramen' seems to be more of an American thing. It's the same thing, I just call them ramen because I watch too many South Korean shows.
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Xachariah posted:It's the same thing, I just call them ramen because I watch too many South Korean shows. I know they're the same, I just haven't seen them sold as such.
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Ddraig posted:So apparantly now the Royal Mail has been privatized they're allowed to just straight up lie to you. Waited in for the past four days for a parcel, hasn't arrived. According to the sorting office, they've tried to deliver it five times. I'm unemployed so have plenty of time on my hands, but not a single person from the royal mail came within walking distance of my house for four days. Common practice in the Royal Mail even before privitisation, posties aren't supposed to do it but many do. It's not through laziness, it's just because of staff cut backs and delivery routes being massively extended. Rather than lug around a bunch of heavy parcels they'll just write out cards and leave stuff in the sorting office to be collected. If it was Parcel Force, the driver probably wrote out the cards and gave them to the guy on your round the next day. Then he probably drove to the bookies because Parcel Force drivers are pricks.
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Kegluneq posted:Can you actually buy them as 'ramen' noodles as a mainstream thing in Britain now? I've only ever seen them marketed as 'instant' or 'pot' (outside of specialist Asian food shops), 'ramen' seems to be more of an American thing. You can buy 'ramen noodles' from Morrisons here, and the corner shop over the road has them too, they are pretty much identical to the small blocks of compressed ramen I bought in california, except hideously more expensive (they were 9c/pack when I was there, they're like 80-some pence over the road, and a little less than that in morrisons)
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keep punching joe posted:If it was Parcel Force, the driver probably wrote out the cards and gave them to the guy on your round the next day. Then he probably drove to the bookies because Parcel Force drivers are pricks. I briefly worked at a Parcelforce loading depot, if it was them your package is probably several pancakes on the floor of the lorry, being gradually smeared into a thin layer of broken hopes and dreams
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SybilVimes posted:You can buy 'ramen noodles' from Morrisons here, and the corner shop over the road has them too, they are pretty much identical to the small blocks of compressed ramen I bought in california, except hideously more expensive (they were 9c/pack when I was there, they're like 80-some pence over the road, and a little less than that in morrisons) 
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Apr 26, 2014 19:35
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Instant noodles only get classy when you actually add stuff to them. It's a bit like buying some dried spaghetti and a stock cube and going gently caress yeahhhh
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Apr 26, 2014 20:00
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Some people have decided to abuse UKIP's Freepost address. Here we have a brick with a UKIP leaflet wrapped around it
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Apr 26, 2014 22:49
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I'm amazed that someone's managed to think of a better way of delivering house bricks to UKIP than chucking.
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Apr 26, 2014 23:02
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That's pointless. Part of the freepost agreement is that they'll look out for obvious pisstakes like that. So no UKIP are not getting charged the postage on a brick.
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Apr 26, 2014 23:14
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Just write "party donation (bullion)" on it, that'll do the trick.
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Apr 26, 2014 23:22
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There's no way anyone's getting that through a postbox slot so i hope they have a fun conversation at the post office counter.
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Cerv posted:That's pointless. Part of the freepost agreement is that they'll look out for obvious pisstakes like that. So no UKIP are not getting charged the postage on a brick. Is this agreement applied before or after the envelope is opened? I want to know this because of reasons.
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