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Paladinus posted:Sure, but can I ask you about your 80,000 word Wallace and Gromit slash fiction? You can, of course, but I'm afraid you (and I, sadly) will remain disappointed as to its content.
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Is that really how Brits spell 'enters'?
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Mar 27, 2017 19:38
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It's part of the late drive to be more European. Just add extra vowels all over the place.
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Technowolf posted:Is that really how Brits spell 'enters'? No, just a typo. Apologies.
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Cloud Potato posted:No, just a typo. Apologies. I didn't know you worked for the Grauniad
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on May's meeting with Sturgeon – Prime minister holds talks with the Scottish first minister for the first time since Sturgeon demanded a second independence vote in the wake of the EU referendum"; Labour to oppose 'Henry VIII powers' being used to rewrite EU laws Telegraph:  Independent:   Times:  Opposition leader Alexei Navalny detained amid protests across Russia Guardian Sport:  (with apologies to Chris Brass, Jamie Pollock, Wayne Hatswell, Djimi Traoré, Lee Dixon, Tony Popovic and Peter Enckelman) EDIT: A link to the seven own goals in question. Cloud Potato fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Mar 28, 2017 |
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on the Daily Mail – The newspaper’s decision to objectify the legs of the country’s most prominent female politicians represents one of its many lows" Telegraph:  May triggers article 50 with warning of consequence for UK Independent:  Times:  Mail: Mac on... NHS prescriptions 
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Cloud Potato posted:Mail: bohohohohohoho those women pretending have headaches when we want rumpy pumpy eh?! Maybe we men should develop headaches when they want us to accompany them to the shops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! teehehehe Only one shouldn't wonder if one might then develop a headache as a result of a rather close encounter with a rolling pin perchance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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Wasn't one of the plot lines of Toy Story the fact that Buzz wasn't aware that he couldn't actually fly?
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Buzz Lightyear was deluded and believed he was a real space ranger instead of a toy. A good cartoon.
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Cloud Potato posted:Mail: That seems like an odd thing to otc given the number of people who would buy it for extramedical purposes, given the government's other attitudes on non-medical drugs.
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Mar 29, 2017 20:43
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Gum posted:Wasn't one of the plot lines of Toy Story the fact that Buzz wasn't aware that he couldn't actually fly? Lord of the Llamas posted:Buzz Lightyear was deluded and believed he was a real space ranger instead of a toy. A good cartoon.  , I think.
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Discendo Vox posted:
It's The Telegraph.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:It's The Telegraph. Good point, I stand corrected. I'm surprised she's not standing on the eviscerated corpse of a Mr. Corbyn Head.
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Guavanaut posted:Wait, what's this about otc Viagra? It's actually a thing that The Mail were talking about. Viagra is a drug that middle class ageing white men want to use. Therefore there should be no impediment to it's availability, regardless of the risks.
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Cloud Potato posted:Guardian Sport: Lol that Boris is playing for Liverpool (apologies for the self-playing video)
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on Theresa May triggering article 50 – Prime minister says she will fight for ‘liberal, democratic values of Europe’ as she formally begins Brexit process" Telegraph:  Independent:  Times:  Mail: Mac on... The triggering of Article 50  Guardian Australian Sport: 
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Cloud Potato posted:Mail: Those grasping women, eh, Mac? What are they like?!?
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Cloud Potato posted:Guardian Australian Sport:
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on the Tories' great repeal bill – Government plans to create temporary powers to let ministers amend thousands of laws after Brexit have been condemned as a an executive power grab" Independent:  The i paper:  Times: 
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Yep, still looks like 'BAN Jennings'.
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on the government and Brexit – From debt haggling to May’s push for an ‘ambitious’ free trade deal, British and EU negotiators are gearing up for two years of tense talks" Telegraph:  Independent:  Times:  Stephen Collins: 
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Cloud Potato posted:Stephen Collins: 
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The mystery of when you can buy cheap train tickets is probably the worst thing about Britain. Though I'm only saying that because I tried to buy a cheap ticket except they haven't gone on sale yet?
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The true secret to cheap train tickets is knowing exactly where and when you want to travel months in advance and buying them then.
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Dead Goon posted:The true secret to cheap train tickets is knowing exactly where and when you want to travel months in advance and buying them then. But apparently not too early in advance. Tickets go on sale 3 months in advance, I was going to be prepared for a trip to Glasgow but nope, full price ticket. And checking now, one week later, apparently either the Advance tickets are sold out or have gone on sale for some trains that day & not others. Fucksake, nationalise these cunts and have a rational ticketing system already.
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Those machines are also fiends for selling you the most expensive ticket they can, and I believe it's been proven in law that they're under no obligation to do otherwise.
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forkboy84 posted:But apparently not too early in advance. Tickets go on sale 3 months in advance, I was going to be prepared for a trip to Glasgow but nope, full price ticket. And checking now, one week later, apparently either the Advance tickets are sold out or have gone on sale for some trains that day & not others. Fucksake, nationalise these cunts and have a rational ticketing system already. I used to commute for a while so I had a season ticket, but looking at prices back then it also seemed to depend hugely on time, like ridiculously so. Want to travel from here to there at this time - that'll be ten quid, please. Oh, you want to go half hour later - 30 quid then! I would definitely agree with nationalisation and some sort of pricing scheme based on distance travelled that is set, like your journey to Glasgow will always cost the same.
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It's even more fun here in Victoria. Did you take a 1 hour trip into the city and immediately get back on the train for another 1 hour trip? That'll be $4. Did you have to wait 10 minutes for the return trip to go? That'll be $8. Did you take the same 2 hour and ten minute return trip into a regional city? That'll be $41.20. Yes I live exactly 1 hour and ten minutes by train into both Melbourne and Bendigo. How could you tell? WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Apr 2, 2017 |
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Turns out there's a secret 30-day return ticket that I can only get by specifically asking the people at the station for and also I have to get it to a few stations past where I'm going for some drat reason, I know this only because one of the staff told me about it. I don't know what I did to get access to this secret train knowledge but I assume in ten years he'll come to my door asking me to kill someone in return for the £4.75 per round trip I saved. Although at uni my (German) lecturer in multivariate analysis specifically used the price of rail travel between places as a helpful example of a measure that did not remotely obey the standard Euclidean axioms of distance between points, so at least the trains here are educational
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I can't dig out the old Private Eye that talked about it but Virgin have a few pricing things like that where a ticket to/from a large city costs more than the same journey from a small town further away from the destination. And they view buying the latter ticket as fraud, referring people to the police if they think they spot you.
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Observer: "Brexit: the castle in the air – Chris Riddell on the triggering of article 50" Sunday Telegraph:  UK’s support for Gibraltar will remain 'implacable and rock-like' during Brexit, Boris Johnson says Independent on Sunday:  Sunday Times: 
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Mr. Squishy posted:I can't dig out the old Private Eye that talked about it but Virgin have a few pricing things like that where a ticket to/from a large city costs more than the same journey from a small town further away from the destination. And they view buying the latter ticket as fraud, referring people to the police if they think they spot you. I think it was this story http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2017-02-03/virgin-trains-acting-like-gestapo-over-ticket-row/ The Private Eye coverage went into a bit more detail about the wider issue, but you have to get the print version for stories like that.
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Is it actually fraud if the ticket covers the journey that you undertake?
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Is it actually fraud if the ticket covers the journey that you undertake? There may be a contract clause on the ticket that binds you to a specific final destination. They would do things like that for capacity planning.
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I think you could stipulate the station that needs to be boarded at but not the destination, that feels like something akin to kidnapping if you want to leave early. Although previously I didn't know they could make an issue of it at either end!
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Guardian: "Martin Rowson on the British passport's post-Brexit redesign - The UK passport could turn dark blue again after Brexit under a £490m contract to redesign and produce a new version of the document." Independent:  Times:  Boat Races go ahead after WW2 bomb find Bonus! Prospect magazine: 
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Not wanting to steal Cloud Potato's thunder, but I saw this on Twitter & it made me smile. https://twitter.com/jonesycartoons/status/849238367745212417
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