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Aesop Poprock posted:When my one cat was really old like 6 years ago she would eat everything. She ate potato chips when I was watching a movie with my mom out of a bowl and we were dying laughing as she crunched them and later she was eating bubbling hot spaghettios out of a pan on the stove that were meant for a child. The child was me in my 20s and i was pissed
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Yestermoment posted:If you want to bust a nut, read oglaf. If you want to point it out to people/share on facebook, read oatmeal.
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 04:54 |
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never gets old
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 05:01 |
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toanoradian posted:UK has some excellent titles for their government jobs. I know of terms like Shadow Cabinet, Law Lords, Lords Temporal, Shadow Lord Exchequer, and now I can add First Sea Lord to my list. Tooting is a borough in London, and the Shadow Minister is the member of the opposition standing for a given seat. Thus, the Shadow Minister of Tooting is the guy who lost the Tooting Seat but desperately wants to be in charge of Tooting.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:There's an official position in the British government called the Shadow Minister of Tooting. Shadow positions are, by definition, not part of the government and there is no Minister of Tooting. Ministers are the heads of government departments or sections of departments. There's a Member of Parliament for Tooting who currently happens to be the Minister for Sport, but you don't combine the titles like that. And Shadow Ministers aren't the people who lost, but are Members of Parliament from the opposition party who have been assigned to shadow the various ministers.
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quote:The BBC comedy series Citizen Smith (1977-80) was set in Tooting and popularised the cry “Freedom for Tooting!”. The lead character in the series, Wolfie Smith (Robert Lindsay), was the founder of a fictional revolutionary socialist political organization, the Tooting Popular Front.
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 08:19 |
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Tiggum posted:Shadow positions are, by definition, not part of the government and there is no Minister of Tooting. Ministers are the heads of government departments or sections of departments. There's a Member of Parliament for Tooting who currently happens to be the Minister for Sport, but you don't combine the titles like that. And Shadow Ministers aren't the people who lost, but are Members of Parliament from the opposition party who have been assigned to shadow the various ministers. So it's the Tooting Shadow Member? that's what you're saying here?
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 09:02 |
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Please. It’s 2017, she’s the Tooting Member of Color. Show some respect.
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 09:22 |
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In Australia, the Shadow Minister for Justice is from the electorate of Batman.
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 10:15 |
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Captain Rehab posted:In Australia, the Shadow Minister for Justice is from the electorate of Batman. Are you joking? I honestly can't tell.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Are you joking? I honestly can't tell. It is indeed a real thing.
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 12:48 |
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He's my MP, lol. There's actually a campaign to change the name from Batman to something else. Because the man it's named after, John Batman, participated in the genocide of indigenous Australians in Tasmania and the disowning of their land in Victoria
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 13:06 |
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Gluten Freeman posted:He's my MP, lol. There's actually a campaign to change the name from Batman to something else. he's not the hero they want
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 13:08 |
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sebmojo posted:he's not the hero they want This is Australia we're talking about, he absolutely is the hero they want.
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 13:20 |
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he is definitely the hero we deserve
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 13:30 |
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drat, we've come a long way since 2003. Mind you those quotes could have been said by most of the people I knew in school then and I wouldn't have batted an eye. That is some 90% pure strain monkey cheese poo poo Thread title still true I guess NLJP has a new favorite as of 16:16 on Nov 27, 2017 |
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Yeah a lot of them are really really bad
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 16:11 |
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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder, heh, that's what-that's what I heard. Heh
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 16:19 |
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So much goodness from a single photograph.`Nemesis posted:Jesus took the wheel, unfortunately he had been drinking wine all day Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Jesus built my hotrod. Solice Kirsk posted:It pains me to my core to say this, but it seems like a time where less Ministry would have been the solution. Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Odd how they put this on the back as an excuse instead of on the front as a warning. nael posted:
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# ? Nov 27, 2017 16:45 |
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Ehud posted:https://twitter.com/brdispatch/status/935189185367035904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw LeeMajors posted:If only he were an Elite Mandatory Reporter tactlessbastard has a new favorite as of 18:58 on Nov 27, 2017 |
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quote:are there any health hazards to eating a microsd card
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# ? Nov 28, 2017 02:37 |
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I seem to have been summoned
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# ? Nov 28, 2017 03:08 |
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:I seem to have been summoned lol
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# ? Nov 28, 2017 03:29 |
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:I seem to have been summoned How in the...
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# ? Nov 28, 2017 06:10 |
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Priapus Unbound posted:RE: The teenager brains being affected by phones thing, this graphic is from a larger article that is worth reading if you have the time. I'm a high school teacher and I can say this article definitely struck a chord with me because I had witnessed many of the patterns like reduced sleep and increased loneliness among my students. I've been pulling kids out of my classroom to do emotional check-ins far more this year than I can ever remember in the past. ozmunkeh posted:
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# ? Nov 28, 2017 06:24 |
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Peanut Butler posted:Q: Why did the chicken- a domesticated animal, whose evolution and persistence as a species is propagated by its masters, a cruel joke of success through failure and pain and so on and so forth, emblematic of the common person whose desires to live and persist serve those who benefit more from their existence than the self- why did this chicken decide to embark on the crossing of a simple country road? Peanut Butler posted:A Republican, a Democrat, and a so-named Independent enter the local neighborhood bar. For the purposes of joke, their respective ideological commitment is complete- they are the ideal, perhaps in the antiquated Platonian sense, if I am to sink to the primitive antecedent, as theoretical beings that cannot exist or eat or love and so on and so forth. In this commitment, the three men draw false distinctions based upon their nearly identical beliefs, seemingly only aware of differences- this is reflected in their drink order thusly:
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# ? Nov 28, 2017 12:39 |
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Btw, anyone remember when someone quoted "ibid" as if it was an author's name in some D&D or GBS 1.0 thread? Years & years ago
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Powaqoatse posted:Btw, anyone remember when someone quoted "ibid" as if it was an author's name in some D&D or GBS 1.0 thread? Years & years ago
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:When I was a kid I caught Lyme disease and my parents couldn't tell what it was or afford to have it diagnosed, so they just tried to convince me all my joints hurt because I was "walking wrong" until I got old enough to pay for medical checkups myself A Wizard of Goatse posted:In particular I have a distinct memory of my dad, in a very reasonable tone of voice, explaining at length how incorrect walking leads to hosed up elbows, because 'your knees connect to your whole body'
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# ? Nov 28, 2017 15:55 |
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Well I mean the knee bone is connected to the thigh bone Thigh bone connected to the hip bone Hip bone connected to the back bone Now hear the word of the Lord.
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Powaqoatse posted:Btw, anyone remember when someone quoted "ibid" as if it was an author's name in some D&D or GBS 1.0 thread? Years & years ago No, but it was a joke used in a Discworld novel. There's a philosopher called Ibid who thinks a lot of himself, and at one point someone says "bloody Ibid, has to be an authority on everything".
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# ? Nov 28, 2017 17:47 |
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There was definitely a goon who did it & it completely destroyed whatever (bad, as i recall) argument they was making
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# ? Nov 28, 2017 17:54 |
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Powaqoatse posted:There was definitely a goon who did it & it completely destroyed whatever (bad, as i recall) argument they was making Here's how the kids of today do it:
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# ? Nov 28, 2017 18:02 |
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That ibid thing is an extremely loving old university urban legend. So either this guy was trolling or the living incarnation of a pre-internet meme.
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# ? Nov 28, 2017 18:47 |
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H.P. Lovecraft did a whole story based on that joke, so it's at least that old.
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Twitch posted:H.P. Lovecraft did a whole story based on that joke, so it's at least that old. And that man's name was Albert Einstein.
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syscall girl posted:And that man's name was Albid Instein.
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Hello, it’s me. That guy who didn’t know what “Ibid” meant and then saw it in citiations for a book on dealing with trauma through art and also in a biography for Grant and thought it was weird that he got quoted so much.
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