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Guavanaut posted:That sounds interesting. I think the land would be the biggest cost, depending on how many like-minded primativetech people you could get on side. Use lands you can't otherwise get planning for limiting it's value.
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Guavanaut posted:That sounds interesting. I think the land would be the biggest cost, depending on how many like-minded primativetech people you could get on side. It'd be more like Ironbridge, a reconstruction but for people to walk round. I think it'd be nice, buy a plot, find out if there are any hill fort remains, set up a community. Maybe show how to go on a cattle raid. Josef bugman fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Sep 11, 2019 |
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Josef bugman posted:It'd be more like Ironbridge, a reconstruction but for people to walk round. Like West world with robots?
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Josef bugman posted:It'd be more like Ironbridge, a reconstruction but for people to walk round. So it’s Weald and Downland with an earlier start time?
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Between the courts this morning and Yellowhammer now this has been an absolute belter of a day, I can't believe I was worried things might quiet down after last week.RabidWeasel posted:Vaguely related, the way that people on these shows seem to fetishise the idea of "my own home which is perfect and exactly how I want it" is deeply disturbing to me and I've often wondered if I'm the only person who feels this way. It's grotesquely self centred and unnecessary and most of the time utterly meaningless. You think it's weird that people would want the place they spend most of their time to be as ideal as they can get it?
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There's ideal like "I can stand up in the bathroom" and there's ideal like "techbro automated kitchen" and I can even understand that, but then there's ideal like "HENRY McMansion" and ideal like "completely out there idea that architects are shaking their heads at". It's the modern equivalent of those regency lords that had follies built everywhere because they were bored.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Like West world with robots? Nahh, have actual real people living it. Or just working it dependent. Part of me has always liked the harsh aesthetic of brutalism reclaimed by nature, or those turf houses you get in Iceland, but I have a soft spot for proper old buildings. Buildings that aren't even buildings, they are just the outlines of them done on the floor. Total Meatlove posted:So it’s Weald and Downland with an earlier start time? I didn't know about this place, but yes.
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Josef bugman posted:Nahh, have actual real people living it. Or just working it dependent. Part of me has always liked the harsh aesthetic of brutalism reclaimed by nature, or those turf houses you get in Iceland, but I have a soft spot for proper old buildings. Buildings that aren't even buildings, they are just the outlines of them done on the floor. So your demanding other people live in the outdoor outlines of thousands of year old buildings for your amusement and the guy on grand designs who wants to live in a poo poo round house with a glow in the dark sink is the self centred unecessary one? Bit Marie Antoinette? Lol I know it wasn't you and I'm being silly.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:So your demanding other people live in the outdoor outlines of thousands of year old buildings for your amusement and the guy on grand designs who wants to live in a poo poo round house with a flow in the fall sink is the self centred unecessary one? Bit Marie Antoinette? What? No, as in like either as employment or me living out there with them as living history? Why the hell would I want people to do that for my amusement?
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I bet if you got a bunch of primitivetech fans in a communal profit-sharing venture (and still had access to the NHS etc) they'd want to live in Iron Age conditions for part of the year. Living history fans exist and can get pretty obsessive.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:I cannot loving WAIT to hear the red flag being sung through the streets. wht fantasy world do you live in where the powerful are held accountable
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At work I once fell into an ancient grave outside a bronze age roundhouse and damaged my anterior ligament. That's my story. Bye.
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"Returning politics to the pathways of convention will be one of the greatest post-Brexit challenges." - Financial Times Yeah I mean... just the diplomatic damage inflicted already, all that soft power gone, will take like a decade or two to heal. And that's assuming Santa Claus and Easter Bunny team up and cancel Brexit tomorrow, with ~magic~. If they somehow don't, expect worse
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Rarity posted:Hi I just read the last 250 pages of the UKMT ama Who's your favourite spice girl
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Paperhouse posted:Who's your favourite spice girl https://youtu.be/RbY4LPDYn30
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For a real post though, does the Scottish court ruling that the prorogation is unlawful have any effect whatsoever? Forgive me I have not read the 700 posts since I last read the thread My strong inkling is that it doesnt mean anything and probably looks bad for Corbyn
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Paperhouse posted:For a real post though, does the Scottish court ruling that the prorogation is unlawful have any effect whatsoever? Forgive me I have not read the 700 posts since I last read the thread who the gently caress knows. it looks like the establishment is pushing for the Supreme Court to call it, probably to kill time. some mps and people have said parliament is technically open but it’s more protest than reality, at least right this second.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:So now that bojo admitted to lying to the queen when will he be gallowed? Are rotten bananas applicable or is it tomatoes only? I've always wondered why we don't see more eggs raining down on people at events, it's like they're designed for hurling at long range
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Paperhouse posted:Who's your favourite spice girl Musically, Sporty cause her solo stuff had a neat little dance flair to it. Personality wise, Baby cause she always seemed the most chill and relaxed about things.
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quote:But in 1996, the Spice Girls were remarkably frank about their political views in an interview with the Spectator. Melanie Brown described herself as an “anarchist” who doesn’t vote. Melanie Chisolm said that, while she no longer votes, she has voted Labour previously and strongly criticised Margaret Thatcher. Geri described herself as a Tory, saying: “socialism is bad – you work for your living and you deserve to keep what you've earned”. But while she spoke of her love for “Maggie” she described her legacy as “mixed”. Gammon Spice keeping it real in 1996, zigazigah was blue passports all along
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The Mels were always the best.
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Mels B and C were ok, but the forbidden prototype Mel A is still chained and howling in Simon Cowell's basement.
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Ms Adequate posted:You think it's weird that people would want the place they spend most of their time to be as ideal as they can get it? I believe that not being able to accept imperfections in everyday life is a serious personality problem so yes. This doesn't mean that people should be living in houses with leaky roofs full of mold but equally if you spend 10 years designing and building a house because it has to be ~perfect~ that seems very unhealthy to me. To put this into context, and probably explaining why the whole thing pisses me off so much, my dad has nearly bankrupted himself twice (still working age 70 because of it) and spent thousands of hours of time working on a similar obsession, with very little evidence to suggest that what he's doing is bringing him any joy or happiness. I don't understand the mindset that produces this effect and I've only seen it hurt people. I can't see this sort of thing - and mega weddings etc - as anything but a super hosed up version of (often unconsciously) conspicuous consumption. People probably aren't actively thinking "this house / wedding / collection of bespoke dildoes needs to be the most expensive one around!" but that does seem to be the logical end result of the drive for perfection.
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Posh never smiled because she was always internally fuming over the Maastricht Treaty
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The Trainchat thread has been dead for a couple of years now, at least, so this is the best place to record this. A few years back, National Rail agreed to do some work to upgrade a stretch of line in one of the more miserable spots of North London. Angel Road was the least used rail station in London, a fetid, leaking abcess in the armpit of Edmonton that Enfield Council decided they would regenerate with a massive house-building project. They persuaded National Rail to build a new station and slap down some new track and, I guess, National Rail decided that while they were doing that, they'd upgrade a couple of other stations (and close a level-crossing) in the process. The whole project is rumoured to have cost in the region of £45m, with Enfield Council having put forward around £10m towards the bill. Well, the new and refurbished stations opened a couple of months ago and I finally noted this week that they've actually started running trains on the line between the new station - Meridian Water - and Stratford. All very exciting, if not for one crucial detail; that Enfield Council and the construction companies they contracted with, have failed to build a single new house/flat/squat on the land set aside for the development. The Council have terminated the initial contract they signed with a single developer, and the new Mayor+Councillors have split the project up, but aside from the occasional construction vehicle on the plot near the station, there's gently caress-all going on. Top marks all around, really.
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baka kaba posted:I've always wondered why we don't see more eggs raining down on people at events, it's like they're designed for hurling at long range Eggs will slice people up, no kidding. The shells shards tear into skin easily.
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So can you guys arrest Boris now? That sounds pretty neat
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I might have to post my phone-friendly recipe webpage here so I can share my recipes and you can all mock how I measure eggs in grams instead of # of eggs 6 pages ago, but yes please. My eating is as chaotic as the rest of my life, and meal planning might help with structure.
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RabidWeasel posted:I believe that not being able to accept imperfections in everyday life is a serious personality problem so yes. Sounds like your bringing some extra, personal stuff to the issue, maybe just acknowledge that some people want to create something for themselves, their families and friends and maybe even for i dunno posterity or whatever. Like Gauvanaut mentioned follies earlier and yeah lol theyre dumb, but thats great. Look at them! Also, trust me, any build is a great way to come to accept imperfections because you'll be loving drowning in them.
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Geri being a Thatcher fan makes her marrying the boss of the Red Bull F1 team make so much more sense .
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kingturnip posted:The Trainchat thread has been dead for a couple of years now, at least, so this is the best place to record this. I guess this was wot dun it: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-property-deals/barratt-pulls-out-of-8-billion-london-development-project-idUKKBN1CV2AG https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/meridian_water_and_barratt_homes (note that asking for something has no legal content; everyone is entitled to ask for the sky. The key point is that the Council could not accept the vendor's demand to be subject only to specified breaches and not unspecified losses, and so the vendor blinked first and pulled out)
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CrazySalamander posted:Eggs will slice people up, no kidding. The shells shards tear into skin easily. I was pelted with hundreds of eggs for about half an hour and I didn't get any cuts. 
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A few years ago for some reason I was talking to my mum about the Spice Girls - and just to be clear she was well aware of who they were from back when they first got big in the 90s - and I discovered that for decades my mother had believed that Posh Spice, Victoria Beckham, was black. Despite my repeated displays of clear photographic evidence, she would not believe she was white until I dug up a picture of her (very gammony) parents on the internet. She frequently had a weird blind spot in identifying race actually.
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casting sybil vimes this badly is shocking https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/richard-dormer-leads-watch-cast/
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Jose posted:casting sybil vimes this badly is shocking Yeah. Wow. She is way, way, waaaaaaaaaay too young and thin to be playing Sybil. EDIT: It's legitimately amazing how bad a choice that is. Was every black woman in Britain over 40 just suddenly unavailable or something? Captain Fargle fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Sep 12, 2019 |
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Captain Fargle posted:Yeah. Wow. Yikes, yeah this doesn't fit the character at all! I wonder if they're going for the 'older very practical and sturdy posh woman who stomps around in wellies and kindly but firmly tells people what to do' character at all or if they're making her totally different.
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Richard Dormer is a good choice tho. It's not my dream casting of Clive Owen as Vimes, but close enough. The big redheaded guy from GoT should be Carrot (based on the pics of him with no beard)
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Captain Fargle posted:Yeah. Wow. How old is she then?
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Whurrrrr's the podcast ya BASTARDS
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Jerry Cotton posted:How old is she then? Sybil is supposed to be a post 40 big sensible girl who you would probably find in the kitchen at parties consoling someone.
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