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ordered some clippers on amazon finally as they're only £20, have the range of guards up to a number 8 and will be in stock on the 18th so not too far away apparently not since amazon won't let me add it to my basket Jose fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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Apr 10, 2020 11:00
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Catzilla posted:My local coop will only sell lucky dip lottery tickets now. I think as a knock on effect, there maybe a huge shortfall in funding to the arts, culture and museums sector as lottery revenues plummet. I expect you’re right. unless most people just shift to buying their tickets online. bad timing when it’s exactly now that the Arts Council will need more money to bail out orgs hit by losing all ticket sales, that the AC would have less money not more.
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Apr 10, 2020 11:05
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Jose posted:ordered some clippers on amazon finally as they're only £20, have the range of guards up to a number 8 and will be in stock on the 18th so not too far away I had some weird messages from amazon that I hadn't seen before as well. Like my address wasn't authorised or something.
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Angrymog posted:Cambridge police tweet is gone now, guess they realised that it really wasn't a good look. lol, look at the apology. https://twitter.com/cambridgecops/status/1248546787394293760?s=21 The guy was just too delighted at the prospect of threatening people for their shopping choices.
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Apr 10, 2020 11:07
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Jippa posted:I had some weird messages from amazon that I hadn't seen before as well. Like my address wasn't authorised or something. my issue now is finding some that have a full range of guards instead of going only to a 4
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Apr 10, 2020 11:10
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Maugrim posted:Fossilised fish-hooks, I can't believe you'd admit to that! This made me smile. My best friend at age 8, who on reflection was doubtless as autistic and weird as I am (and ended up transitioning in their late teens) was just as obsessed as I was with those books. Let’s just say we both wore our school caps unironically, and argued for literally several years over which of us was Jennings and which was Derbyshire. Which actually raises a completely unrelated point in my mind- as mentioned, my friend transitioned (though after we had parted ways as friends and socially- I’ve never met her under her current identity). When referring to someone’s pre-transition life, is it correct to use their identity and pronouns as they presented at the time, or to refer to them as their present gender retroactively? In this case I’m talking about someone who I only knew as a curly haired prepubescent boy, so though I consciously know that they’ve transitioned I’ve never met them since.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I tried Harry Potter, I really did. I even tried listening to the Stephen Fry spoken word (back when it first came out). But just didn't get on with it. Watched about 10 mins of one of the films, didn't grab me at all. OwlFancier posted:And that the inventor of the crookes radiometer was an experimental theologian. And looked pretty much like you'd expect.  OwlFancier posted:It's strange in that it's religion shaped but it doesn't actually have much actual religion in it. Like they all live in an abbey but they don't appear to have any actual religion.
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Apr 10, 2020 11:17
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Is the RMT a decent union?
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Apr 10, 2020 11:18
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It was the union of Big Bob Crow when he was alive, and regularly pisses off the right type of people, so I'll say yes.
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Apr 10, 2020 11:20
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Cerv posted:coop this morning had a sign by the till asking “please consider if your lottery ticket / scratch card is really an essential purchase” Perhaps the shops can stop selling things that they think aren't essential? bessantj posted:Is the RMT a decent union? The RMT is about the only union in the country willing to flex its muscles. And they are considerable muscles. It is also, just coincedentally I'm sure, one of the fastest growing trade unions in the country. Also notable, they are one of the bigger unions not affiliated with Labour. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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Apr 10, 2020 11:20
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I've figured out what the problem with smoking is: it satisfies every craving. No matter what I've got an urge for, it can be satisfied with a ciggie. Unless the urge is to not have lung cancer, I guess.
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Apr 10, 2020 11:22
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Jose posted:my issue now is finding some that have a full range of guards instead of going only to a 4 I bought some thinning scissors as well because they seem idiot proof.
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Apr 10, 2020 11:24
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Thanks. I've yet to join a union and it sounds like the one I should be joining.
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Apr 10, 2020 11:27
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communism bitch posted:I've figured out what the problem with smoking is: it satisfies every craving. No matter what I've got an urge for, it can be satisfied with a ciggie. Unless the urge is to not have lung cancer, I guess. bad time to be smoking with a killer respiratory virus pandemic happening
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Apr 10, 2020 11:34
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Maugrim posted:
Our English teacher tried to make us read Thomas Hardy for O-level. After 2 tedious lessons of going round the class with people reading a paragraph each (nothing more guaranteed to turn people off reading than waiting for the slow reader to stumble through a paragraph you can read yourself in 2 seconds) of Return of the Native (is that the one with the 'red man'?) we rebelled. She found a great syllabus for us to follow which gave a wide range of authors and meant I could do Orwell and Huxley. I devoured the Clan of the Cave Bear series (in my early 30s when I found it) but I did get a bit fed up with Jondala discovering Ayla's 'wells' and Ayla essentially inventing everything from weaving baskets to riding horses!
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Apr 10, 2020 11:34
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Ya should all buy the ukmt fudge BTW it is excellent
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https://twitter.com/imraansiddiqi/status/1248445281454010368 this owns lol
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Apr 10, 2020 11:39
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forkboy84 posted:Perhaps the shops can stop selling things that they think aren't essential? with an attitude like that you’ll never get high in management I’m sure the cashiers would love to, and give over the space to something useful instead
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Apr 10, 2020 11:51
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Darth Walrus posted:lol, look at the apology. Just tweeting my police state fanfic on main  
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Cerv posted:with an attitude like that you’ll never get high in management Nicest thing you've ever said to me Cerv
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Apr 10, 2020 12:01
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Got a newsletter from Verso immediately after one from Argos and was a bit confused for a second.
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Cerv posted:with an attitude like that you’ll never get high in management What's "non-essential" though? Thinking of the stock of even those ridiculous Tesco Extra places you could certainly make a case for everything in there being essential to someone, somewhere. TVs? Well if you're on the Belmarsh Activity Plan, locked in 23.5 hours a day, and your telly breaks a new one is pretty loving essential. Ditto DVDs, consoles, and all other entertainment stuff. Toys and games? Millions of parents are now having to deal with kids who are well over the novelty of not being at school and not being allowed out to play. A couple of Lego sets and a paddling pool will make things a lot easier for parents and kids alike. Clothing? Well, there's more of a debate there, but the longer the lockdown goes on (and the warmer the weather gets) the more essential a new pair of shorts gets. Also kids aren't miraculously not growing because of the lockdown. The point isn't that we're all supposed to now live a life of Spartan self-denial, it's to slow down the spread of a disease. Someone picking up some new undies and a couple of packets of seeds along with their weekly shop isn't causing any extra harm.
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Some more breakfast birds. Today a blackbird with hot tongue action, a robin and the bullfinches love black sunflower seeds:   
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Apr 10, 2020 12:09
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I just feel bad that I can't have restaurant food atm. I generally leave a bit aside each month for one per week, just to have that little bit of food I like without having to cook. Now I don't feel able to because the only places that are open clearly don't care about their workers.
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Apr 10, 2020 12:10
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*Gambler rolls into the casino, put his life savings on black, and instantly loses everything* Newsguy: BUT WHY DID MY FRIEND DESERVE TO GET WIPED OUT 
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https://twitter.com/ComputerChick1/status/1248330647724347395?s=20
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big scary monsters posted:Corbyn failed at the ballot box, but the purpose of politics isn't to win elections, it's to win policies. I think Corbynism had plenty of success there - the current Tory government is cribbing from his manifesto. Counterpoint is that by not being competitive in the election, Corbyn allowed Boris to run further to the right than he would have been able to get away with otherwise. which you think is true will depend on how well you rate current Tory policies; they don’t seem that great to me.
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Apr 10, 2020 12:17
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Really glad now for the big hedge around our garden meaning no one can see me sat at the bottom of the garden reading This is so loving dumb. The police are so stupid.
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radmonger posted:Counterpoint is that by not being competitive in the election, Corbyn allowed Boris to run further to the right than he would have been able to get away with otherwise. Counter-counterpoint is that a competitive centrist Labour would have forced Boris further to the right to distinguish his manifesto from theirs. Or the Tories rely on their incumbant advantages like friendly press and institutional bias towards them to basically do whatever the hell they want and pretend that the Tories play by the rules rather than make them.
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Pretty poo poo police state. I would at least have stamped on that pink football at the end to demonstrate my authority.
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Apr 10, 2020 12:36
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What legislation has there been so far granting police additional powers and creating new crimes related to quarantine and infection. Or under what existing legislation are police harassing people out shopping and sitting in their gardens? Does someone have a good summary?
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Apr 10, 2020 12:42
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I'm signed off work sick atm but I ring my boss every week or so as a courtesy and the last time they said to make sure to wear my badge and lanyard from I leave the house if I'm coming into work. Like a lot of others in the NHS we don't wear a uniform. Didn't think much of it at the time but presumably someone has been on the receiving end of something like this and that's even more dangerous in NI where there are so many people well experienced in vigilantism Also doing circles for dots really doesn't contribute a threatening aura to a missive, imo goddamnedtwisto posted:The point isn't that we're all supposed to now live a life of Spartan self-denial, it's to slow down the spread of a disease. Someone picking up some new undies and a couple of packets of seeds along with their weekly shop isn't causing any extra harm. This is actually the life that many would assert people on benefits should be living because of the last couple of decades of government policy and messaging. There are reels of TV shows from the past decade that were pretty much just pointing the camera at the stuff people on benefits have in their houses. It'll be interesting to see if people change their minds having had a taste of the experience thems... lol no 
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So we're starting with vote leave constituencies, right? So rarely does an opportunity to literally reap what you sow appear...
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Apr 10, 2020 12:48
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It's funny that our cops are also just making it up as they go along like our gov Theyr just bored Even our police state is illusory
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forkboy84 posted:Really glad now for the big hedge around our garden meaning no one can see me sat at the bottom of the garden reading Hate the way they speak so patronisingly to him. As I've had it I'm now more worried about some over-eager police officer fining me for going outside for a cig (I have no garden or yard so have to go out back?)
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Apr 10, 2020 12:50
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I think you could get away with smoking as your once daily government authorised exercise.
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crispix posted:This is actually the life that many would assert people on benefits should be living because of the last couple of decades of government policy and messaging. There are reels of TV shows from the past decade that were pretty much just pointing the camera at the stuff people on benefits have in their houses. It'll be interesting to see if people change their minds having had a taste of the experience thems... lol no e: It's like Hogwarts but for teen pregnancy and immigrants.
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The pharmacy has already switched the tone to being able to tell people 'no it's not ready yet, please go away' and it's kind of glorious. No, you can't jump the queue. No, we can't do yours first. No, you can't come in if two people are already in here. gently caress off out of it. We're doing our best for everyone and it's kind of nice to not have to roll over constantly for the minority of selfish arseholes. Also I have to work today for three hours and I'm getting paid well over the odds for it, whee
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