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| Yes - both gas and electric |
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32 | 4.71% |
| Yes - gas only |
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4 | 0.59% |
| Yes - electric only |
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33 | 4.85% |
| Yes - plus prepaid water (this exists and is terrible) |
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0 | 0% |
| No - Direct Debit/Standing Order |
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336 | 49.41% |
| No - utilities are included as part of my tenancy/cohab/basement goonery |
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65 | 9.56% |
| No - I'm off-grid or still get a coal man |
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6 | 0.88% |
| No - my house is powered by Pressurized Boiling Hot Takes |
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67 | 9.85% |
| Pissflaps - via some sort of treadmill arrangement |
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137 | 20.15% |
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sudo rm -rf posted:what sizes? There's a certain collection of photos featuring a rather dispirited Tim Farron modelling one of the 2 pinters, I'm sure someone can post one of them. e: oh boy, page snipe. Uh..  also for dog tax, don't know how to embed this but https://gfycat.com/gregariousdevotedarachnid Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Jan 31, 2019 |
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Paul.Power posted:Typically 1 pint, 2 pints (or 1 litre), 4 pints (or 2 litres) and 6 pints (or 3 litres). Trouble with the litre sizes is that they're a bit smaller than their pint equivalents - and that may not be reflected in their prices. UK pints are 568ml US pints are 473ml btw also US and UK gallons re different sizes too.
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Jan 31, 2019 19:59
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I haven’t had milk in a long time but yeah it’s pints. Dunno why because I only know metric
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Jan 31, 2019 20:00
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Statue of Mags gonna get the Jebediah Springfield treatment in short order. (but the cutter feels no guilt and goes about their life)
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Jan 31, 2019 20:02
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JFairfax posted:UK pints are 568ml Beers are always so disappointingly sized in the States. But then the whiskey pours are loving huge, so swings and roundabouts
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Jan 31, 2019 20:03
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kustomkarkommando posted:Ah yes I'm sure Ireland would love to join a common commercial area with the UK considering almost half of Ireland's exports are pharmeticuals with a huge amount going to the EU, with total exports with the EU being almost 5 times higher than the UK. It's almost as bad as John Humphrys or an MP (one of the two anyway) the other day, trying to demand that Ireland should also come out of the EU to solve the backstop problem. It's such a "What the actual gently caress are you really that loving stupid!?"  These people still literally believe that Britain is the lord and master of loving everywhere, and that Ireland, "Oh well, it's part of the UK, and we let it pretend it's its own state, but now it's just being tiresome by not immediately helping us solve the problem we've created." [e]: Paul.Power posted:There's a certain collection of photos featuring a rather dispirited Tim Farron modelling one of the 2 pinters, I'm sure someone can post one of them.  Milk Pervert Tim Farron ~ Anon Photographer. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jan 31, 2019 |
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Jan 31, 2019 20:03
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in the states it's either gallon or half-gallon.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:05
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I always knew it as litres and got confused when someone asked if we had any six pint milks at work.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:08
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Failed Imagineer posted:Beers are always so disappointingly sized in the States. when you buy a draft beer in the uk is it always in pints? in the us it's usually in ounces, and sizes offered can vary by restaurant
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Jan 31, 2019 20:09
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like a 12oz or 16oz beer would be pretty standard, but then some places serve as high as 32oz beers.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:11
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sudo rm -rf posted:when you buy a draft beer in the uk is it always in pints? in the us it's usually in ounces, and sizes offered can vary by restaurant You can have a half pint. You could also ask for 568ml but they’ll look at you funny
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Jan 31, 2019 20:11
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Failed Imagineer posted:Beers are always so disappointingly sized in the States. You have the miwk taken from cows in the south, and taken from cows in the north, put together in the same factory, and then, it is mixed together with whiskey, and comes out as MIIIIWWWKKK
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Jan 31, 2019 20:11
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Pints and halves Some ale pubs do thirds and schooners (2/3rds)
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sudo rm -rf posted:when you buy a draft beer in the uk is it always in pints? in the us it's usually in ounces, and sizes offered can vary by restaurant Occasionally someone will risk social ostracism, and order a half-pint.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:12
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US drink sizes are weird cos y'all seem to start at pints and finish at buckets.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:14
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Soylent Yellow posted:Occasionally someone will risk social ostracism, and order a half-pint. Good bants with the lads, order a lady pint, they might call you bent, maybe delete you from the WhatsApp group, never invite you out again, chat poo poo about you. Good bants.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:14
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JFairfax posted:UK pints are 568ml But nobody calls the milk jugs pint, quart, half gallon in the UK even though those units exist.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:15
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My current favourite pub is a beer pub, that also brews on site. They have an "assumed" size, e.g. if you order Beer A, it'll be a pint unless you say otherwise, but Beer B will be a half or whatever, but they do 1/3, 1/2, 2/3 and a pint, so there's lots of variation. And because they do all those sizes already, it means i you only want 1/3 of something, you can even if it's not the default, you nust need to ask/specify when ordering.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:15
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Time to edit: lmao train
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Jan 31, 2019 20:16
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sudo rm -rf posted:when you buy a draft beer in the uk is it always in pints? in the us it's usually in ounces, and sizes offered can vary by restaurant yeah because US is full of loving wankers who serve you rip off shite beer full of hopps that tastes like potpourri
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Jan 31, 2019 20:17
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Borrovan posted:The actual best way of packaging milk is those thin disposable bags that you put in a reusable jug. The problem is, they're not economically viable to produce, because no fucker buys them. Turns out free market economics is actually not great for the environment?? (assuming you mean these)  This is something that absolutely puzzled me when I moved over here. In South America, sachets are THE main form people buy milk in - because it's generally cheaper, around 30% cheaper than the cardboard tetra paks I think, it's been a while. Here, they don't even exist, I haven't seen a single one. How is it that it's cheaper in South America, but not cheaper here? I'd think plastic costs are close to being the same everywhere in this day and age. Or are they cheaper, but no one wants to buy them because reasons?
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Jan 31, 2019 20:18
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I'm just jonesing for the eventual PS4 Sunless Skies release.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:18
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ok so sometimes you'll see british pints over here, then we just know it as a 20oz beer.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:19
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Pochoclo posted:(assuming you mean these) We have MPs calling for us to return to glass bottles and you're wondering why people won't buy something that's not even rigid itself to sit in the fridge.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:20
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sudo rm -rf posted:ok so sometimes you'll see british pints over here, then Love to be an Irish guy drinking a Guinness in NYC from a sad little 16oz glass, which tastes vaguely like meat. Bad times
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Jan 31, 2019 20:20
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Pochoclo posted:(assuming you mean these) Nobody here has a milk jug unless you're old. You would need to get people to buy the jugs before you can sell them the bags.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:21
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Pochoclo posted:(assuming you mean these) Coffee shops use these, but that's probably because of the sheer volume that an empty plastic milk bottle occupies (about a third of my recycle bin probably). I'd buy the poo poo out of them if they sold them here. Anything that means I don't fill up my bin daily.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:23
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OwlFancier posted:Nobody here has a milk jug unless you're old. You would need to get people to buy the jugs before you can sell them the bags. You don't need a jug, you just buy one of these  They'd be like 50p here at most and they last years.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:25
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a considerable portion of the british population wants to bring back imperial measurements and metal dustbins so getting them to give up on bottled milk just isn't gonna happen no matter how sensible it is
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Jan 31, 2019 20:33
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Pochoclo posted:You don't need a jug, you just buy one of these
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Jan 31, 2019 20:34
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yeah you’re missing a trick owl, you don’t pour it in to another container (which you’d have to constantly clean), it sits in a little caddy jug thing and you cut a corner. When your done you bin the plastic bag and it’s tiny. we had it in Canada it’s pretty flawless.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:34
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Pochoclo posted:You don't need a jug, you just buy one of these Even still, you need to sell them to people, and it'd be different so people would hate it.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:34
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CoolCab posted:yeah you’re missing a trick owl, you don’t pour it in to another container (which you’d have to constantly clean), it sits in a little caddy jug thing and you cut a corner. When your done you bin the plastic bag and it’s tiny. we had it in Canada it’s pretty flawless. Yeah I know you get the special ones that just poke a hole in the bag and then you chuck the bag out, point is you need to sell people the thingy to put the bags in which is DIFFERENT and WEIRD and MORE MONEY. It's like having them tupperwares for your cereal, nobody does that either.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:36
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OwlFancier posted:Even still, you need to sell them to people, and it'd be different so people would hate it.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:37
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Guavanaut posted:They could put gollywogs on them. okay now we're getting somewhere
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Jan 31, 2019 20:38
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Guavanaut posted:They could put gollywogs on them. This might actually work.
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Jan 31, 2019 20:38
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JFairfax posted:UK pints are 568ml Not that anything in america actually comes in a pint iirc. Beers are usually 12 fl oz (354ml) or 11.5 fl oz in the case of some chiselling microbreweries that thought i wouldn't notice 
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Jan 31, 2019 20:40
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Pochoclo posted:You don't need a jug, you just buy one of these Honestly, I've wondered about how the "Canada milk bag," thing worked for years, so this is edifying
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Jan 31, 2019 20:41
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They sold bag milk at my local Sainbury's for like 2 years but it was inexplicably more expensive than regular milk so nobody bought it and then it vanished again. Also anecdotal evidence (my mum) suggests that olds are totally incapable of using them
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Pochoclo posted:(assuming you mean these) British prices for anything are not connected to supply and demand. I think the rule is to just add 10% to the price of anything before vat. I'm not sure there's a single thing you can get cheaper here than other countries including things made here. RabidWeasel posted:They sold bag milk at my local Sainbury's for like 2 years but it was inexplicably more expensive than regular milk so nobody bought it and then it vanished again. There's no way they did anything other than stand in the middle of the kitchen and tear the bag open and then get furiously bamboozled.
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