UKMT Red October 2019: Lies, dem libs, and polling companies.

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Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

marktheando posted:

If there’s one thing more annoying than Weetman it’s people who complain about the people who complain about the people who complain about Weetman

And then there's the people who complain about the people who complain about Weetman...

It's weetles all the way down.

Tesseraction posted:

gaze upon this instead https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/1183408517518110720

Where can I get this? I need it.

E120 is carmine (or cochineal), a bright red food dye.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:07

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# ? May 26, 2024 08:28

marktheando: Nov 4, 2006

I don�t want to eat sonic

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:07

Dead Goon: Dec 13, 2002; No Obvious Flaws

Not before we ban polls.

Especially Britain Elects.

gently caress off.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:08

happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

marktheando posted:

I don�t want to eat sonic

More of a Tails fan, eh eh nudge nudge

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:10

Pesky Splinter: Feb 16, 2011; A worried pug.

Tesseraction posted:

gaze upon this instead https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/1183408517518110720

It's even more repulsive in video form. If you ever wondered what Sonic's colostomy bag would look like. (Also people should check out Mechagamezilla.)

marktheando posted:

I don�t want to eat sonic

eat the sanic. It's...fast food :smug:

Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Oct 13, 2019

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:10

thespaceinvader: Mar 30, 2011; The slightest touch from a Gol-Shogeg will result in Instant Death!

Steve2911 posted:

Maybe we should just ban tweets.

Maybe we should just burn twitter to the ground, salt the ashes, and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:12

Gonzo McFee: Jun 19, 2010

Steve2911 posted:

Maybe we should just ban tweets.

Never. Twitter is good.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:14

Beefeater1980: Sep 12, 2008; My God, it's full of Horatios!

Re: foodchat, the goal is to allow every citizen to feast on canap�s and Stilton, and drink port until consumed by gout, if they so choose. Sustainably.

Also I never cooked Paella before and it�s amazing (yes am middle class af).

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:14

Sanitary Naptime: May 29, 2006; MIWK!

Manchester goons, please help.

I was down with the missus about four years ago, and we went for breakfast in the northern quarter, and I can't remember the name of the drat place but would like to go again.

It was a very home like cafe type place, they did french toast where the slices were about a half loaf each and it was incredible. There were way more tables in the place than there had any right to be, and specifically one room of the place was nothing but small tables.

This is a poo poo description, but it's all i've got to go on. I will also accept other breakfast recommendations in lieu of the actual answer.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:27

Josef bugman: Nov 17, 2011; Pictured: Poster prepares to celebrate Holy Communion (probablY)

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Thanks for all the answers folks. It is interesting to see what other people think!

Decided to set myself some goals for the end of the year. So I will hopefully will have some luck with them.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:28

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Dead Goon posted:

Not before we ban polls.

Especially Britain Elects.

gently caress off.

The only good polling Twitter account is Brian Elects

https://twitter.com/BrianElects/status/1178694585343791104?s=20

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:31

Jippa: Feb 13, 2009

Tesseraction posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxpYW_w5pgo

I think posting this was my only worthwhile contribution to the UKMT.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:31

franco: Jan 3, 2003

Diet Crack posted:

So when are we going to do the Great Goon Poll for accurate data?

Ask 10 workplace people, randoms, anyone who you can confidently say you don't know their voting intention - and collate the data. I feel this is the only true way to know what the United Kingdom thinks. Then we can gently caress off YouGov and all other tainted sources.

From pages back, but I did this today as an experiment. Some colleagues, some family, some friends, but all ones I wouldn't have a clue as to how they'd vote. Youngest 18, oldest 86 from a decent-ish spread of backgrounds for only 10 people. I got:

Brexit Party: 1
Conservative: 2
Labour: 2
Not voting: 4
Spoiling ballot: 1

The not voting crew were very much "they're all as bad as each other so what's the point?!" which is always frustrating.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:38

AceClown: Sep 11, 2005

franco posted:

From pages back, but I did this today as an experiment. Some colleagues, some family, some friends, but all ones I wouldn't have a clue as to how they'd vote. Youngest 18, oldest 86 from a decent-ish spread of backgrounds for only 10 people. I got:

Brexit Party: 1
Conservative: 2
Labour: 2
Not voting: 4
Spoiling ballot: 1

The not voting crew were very much "they're all as bad as each other so what's the point?!" which is always frustrating.

Encouraging to see not a single Lib Dem

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:40

mehall: Aug 27, 2010

AceClown posted:

Encouraging to see not a single Lib Dem

Excuse me, it clearly stated "Spoiling ballot" right there.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:42

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

now I'm as tired of the weetman discourse as everyone else but I just noticed she does the thing where you put two spaces at the end of every sentence and I just can't handle it

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:42

Xeno: Sep 16, 2005; MAD TYTE DUBZ, YO.

Sanitary Naptime posted:

Manchester goons, please help.

I was down with the missus about four years ago, and we went for breakfast in the northern quarter, and I can't remember the name of the drat place but would like to go again.

It was a very home like cafe type place, they did french toast where the slices were about a half loaf each and it was incredible. There were way more tables in the place than there had any right to be, and specifically one room of the place was nothing but small tables.

This is a poo poo description, but it's all i've got to go on. I will also accept other breakfast recommendations in lieu of the actual answer.

Koffee Pot

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:46

Dead Goon: Dec 13, 2002; No Obvious Flaws

Angepain posted:

now I'm as tired of the weetman discourse as everyone else but I just noticed she does the thing where you put two spaces at the end of every sentence and I just can't handle it

Two sentences? Like this?

This is not something you should ever do. Ever.

[edit] It did not work.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:47

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Angepain posted:

now I'm as tired of the weetman discourse as everyone else but I just noticed she does the thing where you put two spaces at the end of every sentence and I just can't handle it

Someone mentioned that on twitter too. Is it like some weird style thing?

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:47

ThomasPaine: Feb 4, 2009; We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Weetman has a very distinct variation of the Ben Shapiro syndrome - got into gifted and talented class at school and that became her single personality trait and remains so as a grown woman.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:48

Dead Goon: Dec 13, 2002; No Obvious Flaws

Americans do it.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:48

Dead Goon: Dec 13, 2002; No Obvious Flaws

Dead Goon posted:

Americans do it.

Bees do it

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:49

Dead Goon: Dec 13, 2002; No Obvious Flaws

Dead Goon posted:

Bees do it

Even educated fleas do it

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:49

Dead Goon: Dec 13, 2002; No Obvious Flaws

Dead Goon posted:

Even educated fleas do it

Let's do it, let's fall in love.

You miserable cunts.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:50

marktheando: Nov 4, 2006

If I remember right double spacing at the end of the sentence is a thing that used to be needed for some reason in typewriter days

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:50

Sanitary Naptime: May 29, 2006; MIWK!

Xeno posted:

Koffee Pot

It's not the place I was thinking of, but the menu looks like a proper good curer, ty

e: just noticed it's trying to pass off fried bread as being the proper accompaniment to a scottish breakfast rather than the far superior tottie scone. Koffee Pot is cancelled.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:58

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

marktheando posted:

If I remember right double spacing at the end of the sentence is a thing that used to be needed for some reason in typewriter days

It's because letters of uniform width look cramped in a paragraph without double spacing after the full stop.

Compare

pre:

The apéritif was introduced in France in 1846 when a French
chemist, Joseph Dubonnet, created his eponymous wine-based drink
as a means of delivering malaria-fighting quinine. The medicine was
a bitter brew, so he developed a formula of herbs and spices to mask
quinine's sharp flavor, and it worked so well that the recipe has
remained well-guarded ever since. French Foreign Legion soldiers
made use of it in mosquito-infested Northern Africa.

And

pre:

The apéritif was introduced in France in 1846 when a French
chemist, Joseph Dubonnet, created his eponymous wine-based drink
as a means of delivering malaria-fighting quinine.  The medicine was
a bitter brew, so he developed a formula of herbs and spices to mask
quinine's sharp flavor, and it worked so well that the recipe has
remained well-guarded ever since.  French Foreign Legion soldiers
made use of it in mosquito-infested Northern Africa.

Now everyone uses variable width fonts it's no longer needed, but like correct whitespace use and programming, people love dumb nerd fights about it.

e: Preserve space looks bad lol, but try it out in a monospaced font in notepad

Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Oct 13, 2019

# ? Oct 13, 2019 17:58

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Pochoclo posted:

Hello yes I have come to vote, here is my government issued porn pass

Also when you all say Eudaimonia I think of Alpha Centauri

Where do y'all think I learned the word? :v:

All I know of philosophy comes from that game, same as all I know of faith comes from Morrowind.

Klepsie posted:

Those with long or obsessive memories may recall me sounding off about the NHS therapist who called me a liar to my face and then tried to gaslight me about it. I promised to keep you updated. Mea culpa.

In the last episode, our hero had been given an "urgent referral" to a different MH team and been told I should hear from them within a day or two.

A few weeks ago I got a letter telling me I would need to carry out an assessment via telephone and I would receive a call at 10.15am the day before I received the letter. I also got a letter the same day telling me that as I had failed to attend the assessment, I needed to telephone them immediately or I would be discharged.

Now, see, one of the issues I have (and it must be on my records) is that my anxiety makes me struggle desperately to use the telephone. So instead of calling them I emailed them to point this out. There was no email on the letter, of course, only the phone number, so I used the contact email shown on their webpage.

It bounced. Email box no longer operative.

I resorted to emailing the gaslighting therapist and asked what the correct email was. She gave me it. I used it.

No response until this week, when I got another letter saying that as they hadn't heard from me I had been discharged.

Emailed the therapist again. Her response: "Just telephone them."

I wonder what the hell they do when someone deaf presents with a mental health issue. Presumably they leave them to kill themself in the gutter.

I wish I could say that I was surprised, I wish I could say that it's the Tories' fault for taking all the NHS's money away, but I've been in the MH system for more than 45 of my 50 years and sadly I know well enough that this is entirely standard.

I don't have the spoons to fight them any more, so I'm pressing on solo yet again. The situation has become like Brexit -- you know it's massively, unfairly wrong, but you're so tired of fighting your corner that you just throw up your hands and say fine, you win, have it your way.

Sorry there's no happy ending to report.

I'm sorry to hear this, I've got the same telephone problem. I hope that you can find your way ahead alone. Thread's always here for you to vent or rant or distract yourself with completely different topics :glomp:

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:01

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

It's because letters of uniform width look cramped in a paragraph without double spacing after the full stop.

Compare

pre:

The apéritif was introduced in France in 1846 when a French chemist, Joseph Dubonnet, created his eponymous wine-based drink as a means of delivering malaria-fighting quinine. The medicine was a bitter brew, so he developed a formula of herbs and spices to mask quinine's sharp flavor, and it worked so well that the recipe has remained well-guarded ever since. French Foreign Legion soldiers made use of it in mosquito-infested Northern Africa.

And

pre:

The apéritif was introduced in France in 1846 when a French chemist, Joseph Dubonnet, created his eponymous wine-based drink as a means of delivering malaria-fighting quinine.  The medicine was a bitter brew, so he developed a formula of herbs and spices to mask quinine's sharp flavor, and it worked so well that the recipe has remained well-guarded ever since.  French Foreign Legion soldiers made use of it in mosquito-infested Northern Africa.

Now everyone uses variable width fonts it's no longer needed, but like correct whitespace use and programming, people love dumb nerd fights about it.

Fixed width fonts apparently just run off the edge of the forums table :v:

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:02

feedmegin: Jul 30, 2008

marktheando posted:

Don't shoot the messenger, I'm middle class too. It's just pretty funny when this thread becomes a self parody and starts talking about cheese and wine nights or burning �50 notes in front of homeless people or whatever it is you people get up to in your free time.

I dont think we actually do talk about that very much.

That said, 'everyone bring a bottle of wine and a couple of cheeses, maybe some fruit and bread too' is a good, reasonably cheap way to host a party with your mates and I recommend it. :chef:

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:02

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Sloth Life posted:

Exhibit A on "crimes against humanity". Hawaiian Pizza is Exhibit B.

I'll poison myself in the loving Hague before I concede this disrespect t :mad:

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:03

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

OwlFancier posted:

Fixed width fonts apparently just run off the edge of the forums table

I fixed it but it still looks bad on mobile.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:07

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Sanitary Naptime posted:

I have no idea what you're talking about, comrade

Regardless, you may be onto something:

(He was allowed the last one after sitting there drooling the whole time, then tried to steal the bag)

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:10

Sanitary Naptime: May 29, 2006; MIWK!

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Regardless, you may be onto something:

(He was allowed the last one after sitting there drooling the whole time, then tried to steal the bag)

That�s a face that says �I�ve just made a terrible mistake�

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:14

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

feedmegin posted:

I dont think we actually do talk about that very much.

That said, 'everyone bring a bottle of wine and a couple of cheeses, maybe some fruit and bread too' is a good, reasonably cheap way to host a party with your mates and I recommend it.

Me turning up with a bottle of blue nun and a packet of cheese slices.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:14

Sanitary Naptime: May 29, 2006; MIWK!

OwlFancier posted:

Me turning up with a bottle of blue nun and a packet of cheese slices.

Bottle of Bucky and some dairylea triangles

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:16

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
_{(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)}

Hello, dear

Box of supermarket white zinfandel, plastic pint glass and a bag of oven potato smiles.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:21

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

No joke I did actually buy a bag of potato smilies and a bag of turkey dinosaurs a while back.

E: this should be the theme of the next goonmeat by the way, competitive lovely booze/cheese bring your own.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:21

RabidWeasel: Aug 4, 2007; Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

I actually kind of like the idea of a "everyone bring your own dish & drink but it has to be trashy af" party. There's a certain kind of nostalgic comfort you only get from crap supermarket frozen pizza and paint stripper vodka mixers etc.

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:25

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# ? May 26, 2024 08:28

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Regardless, you may be onto something:

(He was allowed the last one after sitting there drooling the whole time, then tried to steal the bag)

Clearly a Pickled Onion bag that's been photoshopped to look like a Roast Beef

# ? Oct 13, 2019 18:26

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