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I have a cheap watch because most low end workplaces ban mobile phones but turn a blind eye to cheap watches. I have one purely so I can set an alarm for 10 minutes before my work end time. That is my watch story thank you for listening. E: here is my cat. 
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I like to think the "try it on" button just prints the page out with a little - - 8<- - - - - - - line around the watch
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All I really want from an analogue timepiece is a 24 hour face with 12 noon at the top and midnight at the bottom where it makes sense for them to be.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I like to think the "try it on" button just prints the page out with a little - - 8<- - - - - - - line around the watch You remind me. A few years ago, a friend and I decided to visit the Chanel shop in Bond St. Expecting the sneers of the usual Bond St shop assistants, slim, trim and who look 12 years old, we were very pleasantly surprised that they were warm and welcoming. At first we tried to pretend we were genuine shoppers (hah! £1300 for a cardigan!) then one assistant whispered to us that actually they went up to size 20 and then she asked us if we would like to try something on - accompanied with a large wink indicating that she knew darn well we weren't going to be buying anything. Anyway, if I were filthy rich and in the mood to spend £1300 on a cardigan, I would definitely go back. I know... wall....
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Renaissance Robot posted:All I really want from an analogue timepiece is a 24 hour face with 12 noon at the top and midnight at the bottom where it makes sense for them to be. Just get the cockpit clock from a WW2 Corsair naval fighter, like I did...easy to acquire so long as (like me) your grandfather pinched one from stores before he was demobbed in 1946. 
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That would basically be me in a Ferarri dealership  (except I dont expect the salesmen would be so friendly).My brother in law took me to collect his Boxster S from a service once, and while that was happeneing he went out in a test drive in a 911. The sales staff there treated me like a piece of dirt while I was waiting for them to come back. No potential sale, no courtesy. I would never have been able to buy one of those cars, but as an enthusiast I would love to have been shown round one.
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Azza Bamboo posted:I have a cheap watch because most low end workplaces ban mobile phones but turn a blind eye to cheap watches. I have one purely so I can set an alarm for 10 minutes before my work end time. That is my watch story thank you for listening.  A superlative tortie, much trouble attends her.
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Ms Adequate posted:much trouble attends her. she seems to be missing a front leg ffs!
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Alertrelic posted:Why have trans issues become such a divisive topic in the last few years? With the bbc I think it’s simple. The issue is being used by them as a wedge. They’re reporting on a divide that they themselves are actively causing. And they’re free to cause it because, to society, it’s still acceptable to harass trans people. Regarde Aduck fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Jan 26, 2020 |
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I keep thinking I'd like a nice watch but also don't see how anyone justifies thousands for one. Like, I could see hundreds maybe, but I've seen pretty plain things for over a grand. I see companies advertised online promising flash watches at more reasonable cost, but could well be those aren't going to meet expectations. Reminds me of this I saw a few days back; https://twitter.com/Al_Laflare/status/1218926720264200193?s=19
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New PiP podcast is out! It's a boozy affair on my side this time but why not listen to it on yer Sunday! https://twitter.com/PraxisCast/status/1221147896860618752?s=19
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Well, the Tories are loving around and not supporting this as much as they should, but; https://news.sky.com/story/hiv-transmissions-drop-73-among-gay-and-bisexual-men-thanks-to-prep-pill-11909920 Some good news for once! HIV transmission rates have dropped massively since 2012 thanks to PrEP.
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There is no natural alliance between the women's vote and the party of the center-left: until Blair in 1997, British women predominantly voted Tory, and not just by a little bit. The usual analysis is to highlight the triple effect of issues where women as a demographic tend to hold more conservative opinions, i.e., - trade union strikes/generic opposition to violent revolutionary activity - crime - immigration The same was broadly true in many parts of the West: notably France, West Germany... in general if one says "women traditionally vote conservative" it would be correct as a rule of thumb The US - where women swung Democratic as early as Kennedy - is unusual in that regard, I don't think there is a clear answer why. But why is TERFism so relatively popular amongst older women, in left-leaning orgs, in the UK? It doesn't seem to be an eruption from the fading conservative women's groups (to whom sex-positive feminism remains something of an alien species). Here I think we can suggest two factors. One is the anti-Thatcher big tent; women's roles in that tent tended to emphasize gendered roles as mothers and wives (mineworker's wives, Greenham Common peace camp, the Wapping printer's strikes). The radical women's groups - already reeling from the loss of GLC politics as a platform - were relegated to the sidelines. This period was especially long and formative in the UK, so an entire generation of left-wing women built reputations and connections in a different environment; other countries which saw exchanges of power in that period, or center-left governments, would instead see a less intense effect, I would guess The other is that Whitehouseism was enormously effective at asserting its role as moral guardian of the BBC and ITV, to an extent not seen in other countries. Joint conservative/feminist (CARE/WAVAW) activist raids on newsagents to seize page-three magazines and on rental stores to seize video nasties, with full bipartisan support (esp Clare Short on the Labour side) were a phenomenon across the late 1980s. The "feminist sex wars" had a decidedly different outcome in the UK than in the US, where Dworkinism was denied a victory at the highest court and then struggled to pivot thereafter
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BalloonFish posted:Just get the cockpit clock from a WW2 Corsair naval fighter, like I did...easy to acquire so long as (like me) your grandfather pinched one from stores before he was demobbed in 1946. That has midnight at the top! I can't deny it's rad though, congrats on your baller time-tell
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Step 1: Go to south east asian markets Step 2: Buy 'genuine fake' Rolex watches Step 3: Sell to rich cunts using Twitter as the selling platform Step 4: Profit
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BalloonFish posted:Just get the cockpit clock from a WW2 Corsair naval fighter, like I did...easy to acquire so long as (like me) your grandfather pinched one from stores before he was demobbed in 1946. you can get Soviet fighter and tank clocks pretty cheaply too
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maybe if people weren't living until they're 85 this wouldn't be a problem. makes u think https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1220696092532187136?s=20
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Jose posted:maybe if people weren't living until they're 85 this wouldn't be a problem. makes u think rich old people going "drat these poor people consume so many resources with their rags and scraps of what we throw away" is a british tradition going back to malthus himself
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"there are too many people on the planet and it's bad for the environment" I say having flown to switzerland to hobnob with the nobs after my lifetime of flying around the place loving with gorillas for money.
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Jose posted:maybe if people weren't living until they're 85 this wouldn't be a problem. makes u think Weird how the people harping on about how we need eugenics to reduce population numbers are so rarely willing to take the personal step of reducing the population. Dude's 71. She's 85. Be the change you want to see, don't expect poor people to die for you.
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Jose posted:maybe if people weren't living until they're 85 this wouldn't be a problem. makes u think This dumb take always makes me think of this:  Nobody ever remembers to bring the inexhaustible labour force of robots.
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https://twitter.com/CLPNominations/status/1221408219102359552?s=20 Weird, them people supporting Keir Starmer seem to have really terrible taste?
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https://twitter.com/observeruk/status/1221350448113713159?s=21 Magnificent.
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Immediately eclipsed, I am afraid: https://twitter.com/Bennett_C_/status/1221396802546622467
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/CLPNominations/status/1221408219102359552?s=20 you could click through and see the slate of nominations https://twitter.com/CLPNominations/status/1220453190338076683 anyway, it is a certainty that both Starmer and RLB will be able to swing 5% of CLPs, so the vote itself is meaningless
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Overpopulation is an big environmental issue, one that should - in theory (and at current rate) - sort itself out over the next century with increased woman's rights, education and contraceptive access, a slow process. The richest consuming so much is the massive factor causing that, and one that can be addressed right now. In order to allow a large population to exist we need to make sure the planet can sustain us, which is where the issues lie. We're losing huge areas of arable land to climate change, we're losing the habitats that provide services essential to life, we're overusing finite sources essential to food sources, etc, etc.
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IMHO as an environmental scientist, the Earth should ideally have a population of 100,000 caretakers providing ecological-management with everyone else living on orbital ring havens.
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Ratjaculation posted:IMHO as an environmental scientist, the Earth should ideally have a population of 100,000 caretakers providing ecological-management with everyone else living on orbital ring havens. Disputes between these havens, or 'space colonies' if you will, can be resolved through the noble art of national stereotype mecha duels.
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I think kessler syndrome might mean space is actually even more ecologically fragile than the planet, alas. I mean sure nothing lives in it but if anything did you could render whole bands of space around the earth into lethal micrometeorite hellfields by throwing your monster munch packet out the airlock.
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ronya posted:The other is that Whitehouseism was enormously effective at asserting its role as moral guardian of the BBC and ITV, to an extent not seen in other countries. Joint conservative/feminist (CARE/WAVAW) activist raids on newsagents to seize page-three magazines and on rental stores to seize video nasties, with full bipartisan support (esp Clare Short on the Labour side) were a phenomenon across the late 1980s. The "feminist sex wars" had a decidedly different outcome in the UK than in the US, where Dworkinism was denied a victory at the highest court and then struggled to pivot thereafter I recall that the 'extreme porn' bills and various substance and weapon bans were all pushed by small loud groups with tenuous connection to reality, but also next to no organized opposition. A large chunk of society seems to have accepted the fallacious prior that if you oppose legislative action against such things then you must support all of the assumed immoral effects of them. Canada's WAVAW has issued a formal apology for their SWERF rhetoric though, so perhaps there's a tide slowly shifting due to internet connected groups.
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In the case of the 'extreme porn' bill it was literally one small church group that spearheaded the whole thing, but it was able to snowball into a matter of Parliamentary urgency because nobody was willing to take a stand for the opposite side of the debate, because they'd successfully managed to turn "I don't think banning this will have the effect you think it will" into "I watch extreme porn all the time and should be disregarded" in the media gaze. Dworkin and Schlafly lost in the USA because they were never able to take down the 'freedom of expression' side of the debate, but was that different here because of an early success against Liberty and other human rights groups or because of a larger base of people who are by default suspicious of liberty and human rights?
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Speaking of religious moralism, the knockoff Lidl antipope squad has weighed in on mixed sex civil partnerships to confirm that sex is for married heterosexuals only and hetero civil partners are as bad as the gays, leading to the obvious question of why we continue paying for this clownshow and allowing its episcopi privileged access to our political system. ronya posted:e: you would be right, I think, if by 'small loud groups' one means those engineering such an apparent Labour consensus, but in that case it is not some sui generis exceptionalist UKpol vulnerability to moral panics but instead Labour's structural vulnerability to political machinery
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https://twitter.com/DrRobertZands/status/1221390353590358016 Reality has become satire on a five day delay. Also lol it took me five seconds to find an article where she's "Elated" that Theresa May became Prime Minister, worried that she appointed Boris and then puts it down to political genius. Bonus points for taking a swipe at Labour for not electing a woman and suggesting Emily Thornberry as a possible candidate. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/16/theresa-may-prime-minister-feminism-rightwing-politics Gonzo McFee fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Jan 26, 2020 |
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OwlFancier posted:I think kessler syndrome might mean space is actually even more ecologically fragile than the planet, alas. That and always being one big solar flare away from getting fried by radiation.
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OwlFancier posted:Immediately eclipsed, I am afraid: What did she tweet before she nuked her account?
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Sure but that's not a manmade problem. Not yet, at least, until elon musk decides to recreate Sunshine to make mars warmer.Comrade Fakename posted:What did she tweet before she nuked her account? It was her telling Bobby Sands PHD that she didn't like being accused of plagiarism.
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