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Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race? This poll is closed. |
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| R. Allin-Khan |
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6 | 1.60% |
| R. Burgon |
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80 | 21.33% |
| D. Butler |
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72 | 19.20% |
| A. Rayner |
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| I. Murray |
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5 | 1.33% |
| P. Flaps |
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177 | 47.20% |
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https://twitter.com/pickardje/status/1242178169370746881?s=21 Got a serious time-bomb coming in three months.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:02
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Waitrose trip report: Our Waitrose doing one in one out. Queue outside, only one door open. Not sure how many they're letting in at once, but it's not many. They had bog roll for the first time in over a week! Cashiers all wearing gloves (didn't Waitrose officialdom say not to?)
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Mar 24, 2020 16:06
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I live next to the cemetery, which is actually quite nice because it's effectively a bit of quiet parkland and if I have my window open I can hear owls, woodpeckers, badgers (and/or foxes?) that live in there today I can hear two guys turning people away because the cemetery is closed to visitors for three weeks, but burials are still going ahead according to my dad they've started digging a whole bunch of graves at the far end, will verify this on my government sanctioned exercise slot this afternoon
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Mar 24, 2020 16:08
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Yeah the missus and I nipped out to Waitrose on our break (NOT our government sanctioned exercise time tyvm!) And they were only allowing up to 36 people in the store. Had kitchen roll but no loo roll. Meat was still very low, freezers mostly empty. We felt bad since we really just wanted to check on the situation and grab some milk so we were out in less than five minutes.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:09
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namesake posted:https://twitter.com/john3ners/status/1242384465546096641?s=20 She's not actually happy to die, she's just a toddler saying whatever to win an argument and convinced it will never happen. A lot of people are so scared of things like this they just can't think about it and end up overcompensating as they try to convince themselves. First hint of a cough and she'll be screaming murder to get seen by a doctor.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:11
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namesake posted:https://twitter.com/john3ners/status/1242384465546096641?s=20 Well, she's quite possibly going to die, but I'd say her elderly husband who recently had a stroke is odds-on. Shame.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:11
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crispix posted:Absolutely full of poo poo. She's a child. Reality will bite when the symptoms set in and she'll be screaming bloody murder down the phone to an emergency services operator That'd separate those that actually think it should be a case of liberty or death from those that just want to shout about it.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:11
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XMNN posted:I live next to the cemetery, which is actually quite nice because it's effectively a bit of quiet parkland and if I have my window open I can hear owls, woodpeckers, badgers (and/or foxes?) that live in there Did you ever see that Foyles War episode where they suspected something fishy was going on in a factory and it turned out they were making thousands of coffins?
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Mar 24, 2020 16:12
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To be fair I would also be willing to risk death for a day at the beach like the one I had last year, was one of the nicest days out I've ever had. Also seeing as I'm stuck indoors for a while I decided to try doing push ups to verses of the internationale and gently caress me they're tiring and I am out of shape. I got as far as tyrants before I lost feeling in my arms and I'm now painfully aware that I have pectoral muscles.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:13
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Algol Star posted:She's not actually happy to die, she's just a toddler saying whatever to win an argument and convinced it will never happen. A lot of people are so scared of things like this they just can't think about it and end up overcompensating as they try to convince themselves. First hint of a cough and she'll be screaming murder to get seen by a doctor. I feel you struck on something her. Boomers are toddlers. It makes so much sense.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:22
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OwlFancier posted:I decided to try doing push ups to verses of the internationale This is genius.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:24
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So presumably everyone whose posted in here today about going to the supermarket won't be doing so again until next tuesday?
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Mar 24, 2020 16:25
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NotJustANumber99 posted:So presumably everyone whose posted in here today about going to the supermarket won't be doing so again until next tuesday? lol no they'll be out again tomorrow to have a look at the crowds and empty shelves and maybe pick up a few things to learn to bake bread or something.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:27
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NotJustANumber99 posted:So presumably everyone whose posted in here today about going to the supermarket won't be doing so again until next tuesday? yes, that’s the plan. or weds even unless there’s a power cut and the fridge goes or something like that
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Mar 24, 2020 16:27
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StarkingBarfish posted:This is genius. Presumably as you get better at it you can do more of them per-verse too. Plus it's an excuse to learn the song if you don't already know it.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:31
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I looked at the ASDA delivery slots and there is zero... ever. Their calendar runs out mid april and everything is taken already. I'm sufficiently stocked with staples but I'm going to run out of fresh veg within a week or two.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:32
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StarkingBarfish posted:I looked at the ASDA delivery slots and there is zero... ever. Their calendar runs out mid april and everything is taken already. Are you good for paper clips, also?!?!? 
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Mar 24, 2020 16:36
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learnincurve posted:Few days ago I started drinking Thornton’s chocolate liqueur, saw the sell by date, checked amazon and the chuffing thing was 7 years old. Tried it yesterday when I could taste again and it can only be described as “liquid death” At this point I think there probably a reasonable maket for bottles of liquid death tbh
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Mar 24, 2020 16:36
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good to know i'm going to be working until i catch this lol
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Mar 24, 2020 16:41
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NotJustANumber99 posted:So presumably everyone whose posted in here today about going to the supermarket won't be doing so again until next tuesday? I'm going to write a meal plan later this evening, I should have enough now for a total lockdown of a month. Though if I can get some more frozen veg and yoghurts and stuff next week that would be good. So the only reason I will be going to the supermarkets in the next week will be if I'm shopping for someone else.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:46
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Jose posted:good to know i'm going to be working until i catch this lol I thought you were a computer toucher, not working from home?
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Mar 24, 2020 16:46
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I've got a tesco delivery booked for this evening that was done a few weeks ago before all the major panicking so I'm very curious to see how many substitutions I get.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:47
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The radio boomer sounds exactly like my gran, who, for as long as can remember (so about 30-odd years), has been saying that her and my granddad's time is up, and that they'll be dead soon, with flippant fondness. And then, when my granddad died of cancer, it absolutely broke her. I expected her to handle it much better because, well, hadn't she mentally prepared for this for decades? Since then I've come to realise that that type of pessimism is the most strenuous kind of denial: when someone says something fatalistic, the custom is to roll your eyes and tell them not to be so silly, which assuages their fear. When that woman says "we've had our lives", it's not a glib acknowledgement of the inevitable, it's a desperate cry to be assured that everything is OK. Unfortunately, this probably isn't going to be OK, and without her usual coping mechanism, she's become angry and defiant and is putting herself and others at serious risk.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:49
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I've got enough food in my tiny freezer to last two weeks, so may need to pop out towards the end of next week to top up if necessary. I'm also still at work, but at home and basically ready to rush out of the flat at a moment's notice if any office that's open has a printer breakdown (none so far)
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Mar 24, 2020 16:51
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feedmegin posted:You know...I'm actually glad (sort of) we lost the election, now. Can you imagine the shitstorm we'd have right now, and for years to come, from all the usual suspects if this was happening under a Labour government? Just like 'Gordon Brown spent all the poonds' after the global financial crisis but times a million. People would associate socialism with mass deaths for a generation. On the other hand, all of these policies implemented will have a lasting effect. Working from home will now be more commonplace. Being able to pay people more benefits is possible. Government intervening instead of letting private companies sort it out (ish) is more achievable. Of course, it'll all be framed as emergency measures, but I think it will have shifted some opinion that things don't necessarily need to be terrible. It all looks fine and dandy at the moment, but when we start getting into the tens of thousands of deaths and everyone knows someone who's died, I think people will be a touch more critical of the government rather than the current bootlicking
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Mar 24, 2020 16:53
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Jose posted:good to know i'm going to be working until i catch this lol loving same
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Mar 24, 2020 16:56
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MrNemo posted:Apparently like 50% of cases of novel coronavirus have anosmia as a symptom and it persists for around 3 weeks after you've recovered. It is bloody distressing not being able to smell or taste anything. I can't enjoy coffee and tried a beer yesterday, all I could taste was some back back of the mouth bitterness. Hell the other day I had a couple of spoonfuls of Colman's English mustard with 0 effect. I know it's too early for it to have been coronavirus, but I've never had a total loss of smell and taste for anything like as long as I did then - it was notably weird and I commented about it to a lot of people at the time. Between that and one of our project coordinators having the worst hacking cough I've ever heard in my life, which lasted about 8 weeks (she's in her early 20s) at the same sort of time, it's hard not to wonder if this has been around longer than we think. Roll on the antibody test. Loonytoad Quack fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Mar 24, 2020 |
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Mar 24, 2020 16:56
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justcola posted:On the other hand, all of these policies implemented will have a lasting effect. Working from home will now be more commonplace. Being able to pay people more benefits is possible. Government intervening instead of letting private companies sort it out (ish) is more achievable. Of course, it'll all be framed as emergency measures, but I think it will have shifted some opinion that things don't necessarily need to be terrible. People will just get blamed for not obeying the lockdown. Goverment wriggles out of it effortlessly.
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Surely that is the ideal printer technician's world. A thousand offices, devoid of people in them to break the printers. The machines silent, unmoving, the toner calcifying in its cartridge, the displays devoid of error codes, the paper feed unjammed by delving hands, no more the whirr of reports in those drop-ceilinged halls of drudgery, no more the light of the scanner arcing radiance across the copy of a copy of a copy because somebody wrote on the master, shaving a little more clarity from the image of an image with each pass, no more reflecting the steady entropic advance of the world. A perfect, timeless moment, a printer unused, still, free from want of servicing. Slowly gathering dust as the technician dreams unburdened.
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Mar 24, 2020 16:59
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Kinda assuming that the inconsiderate behaviour of my boomer aunt is going to end up croaking grandma. RIP but hey my family has reached the age where deaths in the family are getting a regular affair so I guess boomer aunt wants to try a speedrun.
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justcola posted:It all looks fine and dandy at the moment, but when we start getting into the tens of thousands of deaths and everyone knows someone who's died, I think people will be a touch more critical of the government rather than the current bootlicking I'm not so sure about this. When all the olds start piling up in ICUs they'll be replaying the footage of youngsters pissing around on beaches.
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OwlFancier posted:Surely that is the ideal printer technician's world. A thousand offices, devoid of people in them to break the printers. The machines silent, unmoving, the toner calcifying in its cartridge, the displays devoid of error codes, the paper feed unjammed by delving hands, no more the whirr of reports in those drop-ceilinged halls of drudgery, no more the light of the scanner arcing radiance across the copy of a copy of a copy because somebody wrote on the master, shaving a little more clarity from the image of an image with each pass, no more reflecting the steady entropic advance of the world. A perfect, timeless moment, a printer unused, still, free from want of servicing. Slowly gathering dust as the technician dreams unburdened. except, when they eventually roar back into life having not been turned on or stuck in sleep for a month or more, chances are they won't work first time, if at all
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https://twitter.com/CommonsTreasury/status/1242436415708938245?s=20
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Mar 24, 2020 17:06
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OwlFancier posted:Surely that is the ideal printer technician's world. A thousand offices, devoid of people in them to break the printers. The machines silent, unmoving, the toner calcifying in its cartridge, the displays devoid of error codes, the paper feed unjammed by delving hands, no more the whirr of reports in those drop-ceilinged halls of drudgery, no more the light of the scanner arcing radiance across the copy of a copy of a copy because somebody wrote on the master, shaving a little more clarity from the image of an image with each pass, no more reflecting the steady entropic advance of the world. A perfect, timeless moment, a printer unused, still, free from want of servicing. Slowly gathering dust as the technician dreams unburdened. Very poetic. Have you thought of writing a novel?
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Mar 24, 2020 17:07
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Yes but I'd be poo poo at it I'm sure  Mostly I reread the dwarf poem from lord of the rings recently so it's been sort of on my mind. http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Song_of_Durin There's also a very good sung version on youtube.
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Mar 24, 2020 17:09
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Latest 24hr death toll is 87. That's a significant leap up.
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OwlFancier posted:Surely that is the ideal printer technician's world. A thousand offices, devoid of people in them to break the printers. The machines silent, unmoving, the toner calcifying in its cartridge, the displays devoid of error codes, the paper feed unjammed by delving hands, no more the whirr of reports in those drop-ceilinged halls of drudgery, no more the light of the scanner arcing radiance across the copy of a copy of a copy because somebody wrote on the master, shaving a little more clarity from the image of an image with each pass, no more reflecting the steady entropic advance of the world. A perfect, timeless moment, a printer unused, still, free from want of servicing. Slowly gathering dust as the technician dreams unburdened. Jaeluni Asjil posted:Very poetic. Have you thought of writing a novel?
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Algol Star posted:She's not actually happy to die, she's just a toddler saying whatever to win an argument and convinced it will never happen. A lot of people are so scared of things like this they just can't think about it and end up overcompensating as they try to convince themselves. First hint of a cough and she'll be screaming murder to get seen by a doctor. Please don't exaggerate. She'll be in no condition to scream anything by then.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Latest 24hr death toll is 87. That's a significant leap up. Ohhhhhhhh so the lockdown isn't working then. Back on to the streets everyone. That wetherspoon's guy was right after all. (sarcasm btw) Wondering where to go for my daily exercise? Down to the river or round the peoples' fields? Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Mar 24, 2020 |
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