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Hentai Jihadist posted:I've only been visiting but I thought inverness was the least highlandsy bit of the highlands, its pretty much just like any small city. I thought a good compromise would be Fort William which is a small town thats extremely highlandsy and beautiful but still has shops and modern comforts. If i were going to live anywhere up there, I'd pick there, but like I say I've only visited, I think theres some highlands goons who could tell you better and probably tell me I'm wrong. Yeah I figured it'd be pretty similar to your average town/small city. But would have the advantage of being my best option for work, while still being close to the highlandsy highlands that I actually want. I'm not really sure yet what the best way to actually approach the move/job situation would be. Fort William looks amazing and even better located for my reasons for moving, and only a bit smaller than the town I live in now. I'd just worry about finding work cos I'm a worrier e: dangit
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Deketh posted:Do we have anyone from Inverness here? I'm thinking of making a significant change in my life and following my dreams of living in the Highlands, curious if any goons can recommend living there. Work would be a concern obviously. Are the English generally welcome up there? I ask that cos my mum lived in North Wales for a bit and wasn't terribly welcome. I used to own this on vinyl (Earcom1) - this was one of the tracks. Surprisingly, I have remembered the lyrics for 40 years. Never visited though so no idea how true they are! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMm28uJSgSQ Yes North Wales can be not particularly welcoming for incomers. Met a woman in the summer from Liverpool working in a tiny retail outlet attached to an out of the way Cadwr place (and obviously desperate for conversation - not somewhere that gets a lot of visitors!) and she was saying how for 15 years she had been told 'go back to where you came from stealing our jobs and houses'. (Indication of why Wales has a UKIP MEP and voted brexit).
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ThomasPaine posted:What's a 'nation'? "Language, faith, and custom" used to be the best definition that wasn't based on some kind of race science or something, but 1.5bn people speak English, over half the country has no religion or doesn't attend any form of worship, and what even is British/English/Mercian/whatever custom? Oranges with sweets on? RockyB posted:Sincerely, I think federalisation of smaller units of population is definitely the way to go. Our monkey brain mindset just isn't equipped for caring about populations in blocks of 50 million at a time, and modern telecommunication systems allowing ever more centralised and rapid control really don't help.
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CyberPingu posted:I think the big problem is though is that you are never going to get a Westminster gov thats going to act in the best interest of Scotland (or at least highly unlikely). I think you underestimate the power of nationalist parties to hold sway over people. I think the SNP would continue for a long time. I have a bit of a quandary about local government. So the smaller the scale of the governance the more open to complete corruption it is. Our local council is more corrupt than the Scottish Government who still operate with relatively little oversight compared to the UK government. So whilst making decisions closer to the people it affects does feel like a good idea I'm not sure how well it actually works in practice.
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Deketh posted:Yeah I figured it'd be pretty similar to your average town/small city. But would have the advantage of being my best option for work, while still being close to the highlandsy highlands that I actually want. I'm not really sure yet what the best way to actually approach the move/job situation would be. I get not wanting to live in Inverness, I sure loving don't want to, but you're really not far from "proper Highlands". Especially if you drive you're looking at 15 minutes and your down the less visited eastern side of Loch Ness. Even if you don't drive you can jump on a train or bus and be in Aviemore sharpish.
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RockyB posted:
That article has so many postnatal depression red flags its insane. She needs to see someone asap.
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Bundy posted:The best new Trek series is The Orville I've heard similar before but I can't get my head around the idea that it's a cynical dig at Star Trek, which is incredibly goofy but is something I've always loved. YMMV on an episode by episode basis but Trek's heart is in the right place. Never actually seen The Orville since it seems to be only available on Sky.
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Plank Sanction posted:I've heard similar before but I can't get my head around the idea that it's a cynical dig at Star Trek, which is incredibly goofy but is something I've always loved. YMMV on an episode by episode basis but Trek's heart is in the right place. It’s Galaxy Quest level digs and has sympathetic and actually good plots and representation. Best sci-fi at the moment- Hard scifi-noir - The Expanse Optimist space fables - The Orville Goofy sci-fi western - Outlaws Total Meatlove fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Oct 22, 2019 |
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Bundy posted:The best new Trek series is The Orville isn't that by, and starring, Seth MacFarlane?
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Aramoro posted:I think you underestimate the power of nationalist parties to hold sway over people. I think the SNP would continue for a long time. well it's true that every local council i've lived under was corrupt as hell, but i'd say westminster is more corrupt than holyrood (though i haven't paid much attention to scottish politics recently so might have missed some scandals) i do think that if the scottish parliament was the top level of government people would pay more attention, I think smaller states with international cooperation on big projects is the way to go. Bundy posted:The best new Trek series is The Orville i can't handle seth macfarlane's smug face and blinding white teeth, sorry
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Plank Sanction posted:I've heard similar before but I can't get my head around the idea that it's a cynical dig at Star Trek, which is incredibly goofy but is something I've always loved. YMMV on an episode by episode basis but Trek's heart is in the right place. Yeah, it's not a cynical dig at all. McFarlane loves Trek, unlike whoever wrote Discovery.
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Total Meatlove posted:It’s Galaxy Quest level digs and has sympathetic and actually good plots and representation. I might actually have to check it out then. Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek by a country mile.
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Mega Comrade posted:That article has so many postnatal depression red flags its insane. She needs to see someone asap. ""Jack is four months old. He's absolutely lovely. He's a dream baby, really," she says. "I can look at him and just burst into tears because I want him to have a nice life. I could definitely cry all the time but I've kind of made peace with the fact that if we carry on the way we are, he will die because of the effects of climate change. "That's absolutely horrific but I have made peace with the fact that that is what will happen."" Yikes.
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Aphex- posted:Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek by a country mile. This is the correct opinion
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Mega Comrade posted:Yeah, if Seth MacFarlane hadn't been attached I probably would have given the show a go ages ago, but my brain refuses to believe anything he created could actually be good. Don't know if he's less involved in the writing, but American Dad is legit good. They made the characters MacFarlane doesn't voice actual characters, it doesn't rely on cutaways and crucially it never crossed over with The Simpsons. It's just a better premise. Also Patrick Stewart and Kevin Michael Richardson are great in it.
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https://twitter.com/dcakraemer/status/1186588474603921410 This is a good look 
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gh0stpinballa posted:why are so many mushrooms so poisonous, thats hosed up man Guavanaut posted:That's a strange way of spelling lorne sausage. Plants in general tend to be horribly poisonous a lot of the time as well - making sure that anything that tries to eat you dies horribly is a great defence mechanism when you can't move at all. What's unusual is that fungi tend to have some very interesting mechanisms of action when it comes to being poisonous as because they're a different kingdom of life, they have some very different biochemistry. (For instance, the amatoxins destroy the ability of RNA polymerase to work - EXCEPT for fungal an bacterial RNA polymerase.) Nothing beats paxillus involutus for sheer horror though - it can suddenly make you allergic to your own blood.
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Johnson just told Dodds that there will be no checks between GB and NI, just some "light touch measures" to stop the trading of... endangered species and illegal firearms
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Johnson is banging the 'undercutting good British workers by bringing in workers from the EU' drum that Corbyn spent some time banging too. The Lexiters and Kinnock's mob will be lapping this up.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Don't know if he's less involved in the writing, but American Dad is legit good. They made the characters MacFarlane doesn't voice actual characters, it doesn't rely on cutaways and crucially it never crossed over with The Simpsons. It's just a better premise. Also Patrick Stewart and Kevin Michael Richardson are great in it. Yeah, he's got nothing to with it these days bar co-creating the concept and doing some of the voices. Which not coincidentally makes it a genuinely smart and funny animated sitcom and not absolute bottom tier lazy hateful dog poo poo like Family Guy
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forkboy84 posted:I get not wanting to live in Inverness, I sure loving don't want to, but you're really not far from "proper Highlands". Especially if you drive you're looking at 15 minutes and your down the less visited eastern side of Loch Ness. Even if you don't drive you can jump on a train or bus and be in Aviemore sharpish. I read that Inverness gets near the top of those happiest places to live polls, no idea if those are really worth anything. Regardless though it'd be the sensible choice for me if I went through with the move. Thanks for the input people
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Olpainless posted:Nothing beats paxillus involutus for sheer horror though - it can suddenly make you allergic to your own blood. looked this up and lol that is was until quite recently a very common food, as the deadly reaction is relatively rare
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Ugh, what would a winter GE do for turnout? Still, hoping to see the tories eat poo poo on this again
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xtothez posted:https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1186622068965687302 ALL ACCORDING TO KEIKAKU.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Don't know if he's less involved in the writing, but American Dad is legit good. They made the characters MacFarlane doesn't voice actual characters, it doesn't rely on cutaways and crucially it never crossed over with The Simpsons. It's just a better premise. Also Patrick Stewart and Kevin Michael Richardson are great in it. Olpainless posted:Plants in general tend to be horribly poisonous a lot of the time as well - making sure that anything that tries to eat you dies horribly is a great defence mechanism when you can't move at all. What's unusual is that fungi tend to have some very interesting mechanisms of action when it comes to being poisonous as because they're a different kingdom of life, they have some very different biochemistry. (For instance, the amatoxins destroy the ability of RNA polymerase to work - EXCEPT for fungal an bacterial RNA polymerase.) baka kaba posted:Johnson just told Dodds that there will be no checks between GB and NI, just some "light touch measures" to stop the trading of... endangered species and illegal firearms
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Olpainless posted:Ugh, what would a winter GE do for turnout? Loads of tories have postal votes. Labour really does need to boost the number of postal voters, I know our locals take a hit on turnout if it's raining!
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seizure later posted:isn't that by, and starring, Seth MacFarlane? It is, I was surprised too. It takes a couple of episodes to get the Family Guy/Ted out of his system and while it's always "there" that it's a MacFarlane creation, it''s got some genuinely good stories and characters in its own right and it handles some politically sensitive topics surprisingly well. I forget when it happened but at some point it stopped trying to be funny and did more with stories that happened to have comedic elements with genuine laugh out loud moments. I'm sure it helps that people like Brannon Braga are on board and there are a number of decent cameos scattered through.
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xtothez posted:https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1186622068965687302 So that's supposed to be, uhh, persuasive to the rebels? Maybe the threat of electioning them out but then he'd have to get them to vote themselves out of their jobs first. And with the way the polling is right now I can't see Labour rushing to vote for an election when there's a crippled minority government that only managed to pass a single bill so far.
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Man Johnson is bad at this, particularly when he gets caught out lying about the NI customs declarations.
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Also love random English MPs telling the PM how people on the border between Ireland and NI feel about things with utmost certainty.
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Yeah he's totally pushing responsibility for this whole issue onto NI "ok yeah there'll be problems and imbalances but it's a transitory arrangement [for 4 years minimum] and the NI government can vote not to continue with that"
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Bill is pulled, EU doesn't agree to extension by Oct 31. This bullshit is finally over.
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caps on caps on caps posted:Bill is pulled, EU doesn't agree to extension by Oct 31. This bullshit is finally over. Source your Sun quotes please Then dont quote from the Sun
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