|
Guavanaut posted:
Golly would you look at the time! Is it 2006 already?
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 12:52
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 23:08 |
|
|
ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Are these loving limp-dicked tosswipes badmouthing IDLES? I seem to remember the IDLES vocalist saying something about how he wanted to open conversations with people on the other side politically rather than just preach to the converted (I'm massively paraphrasing but it was something to that effect) which I have to admit doesn't sit that well with me, but like. I certainly wouldn't read that and go "whillikers! what militancy!" like these snotty cambridge wankers are doing. I'm Scum is a banger for all time though I can look past finding them mildly corny at times on the strength of that
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 12:52
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:
Poundland House of Lords up front right
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 12:56
|
|
|
From the Graun liveblogquote:The government should allow people resilient to the coronavirus – the young, fit, slim, and non-smokers – to return to work to build-up herd immunity, and save the economy, according to two leading vets. It is a cat analogy
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 12:57
|
|
|
Where the gently caress is a heroin dealer when you need one?
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 12:57
|
|
|
Bobstar posted:From the Graun liveblog As an old fat smoker I am absolutely 100% behind this plan.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 12:57
|
|
|
bionic vapour boy posted:I seem to remember the IDLES vocalist saying something about how he wanted to open conversations with people on the other side politically rather than just preach to the converted (I'm massively paraphrasing but it was something to that effect) which I have to admit doesn't sit that well with me I'm okay with reaching out to the misguided, like our Lord and Saviour Jesus did.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 12:57
|
|
|
Bobstar posted:From the Graun liveblog Does 'vets' mean veterans or veterinarians here? And which is more stupid?
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 12:59
|
|
|
Labour MP caught boxshaming https://twitter.com/angelaeagle/status/1251104249091690496?s=19 TIBFKS
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:00
|
|
|
kingturnip posted:The thing about all of this for me is that this should have been such an easy 'win' for the Govt, from a political perspective. I've been saying this for ages, but the tories are not even good at being the tories. Like if you read between the lines about their political aims, they are loving awful at achieving them considering what an advantage they have.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:00
|
|
|
namesake posted:Does 'vets' mean veterans or veterinarians here? The latter. Do we say vets for veterans in the UK? It's silly that they do in the US, surely they should shorten the one that's long and hard to say
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:02
|
|
|
big scary monsters posted:And if you read around it comes from the name given to some early Christian sect who were excommunicated and may or may not actually be related to the people the term now refers to. Someone I used to work with years ago called their child Tzigane after a piece of music and now I'm wondering if they ever googled it.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:04
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/socofcolour/status/1251115109293981696?s=21 Could be a group to watch for folks ITT looking for places to organise.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:06
|
|
|
Captain Tom is releasing a single.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:07
|
|
|
goddamnedtwisto posted:IIRC they're those weird horizontal helicopter drive things that tugs use so they're basically 100% maneuvering thrusters. The new Woolwich ferries use azimuth thrusters (basically conventional propellers that can be swivelled through 360 degrees), with diesel-electric hybrid drive. They also have a neat magnetic docking system where big magnetic clamps hold the ferry in place at the pier, instead of needing either deckhands to wrap warps around bollards or to use the engines to hold the ferry in place. I've only been on the Woolwich ferry once, and that was in the early 2000s so it was the old boats. The eerie thing was going down to the passenger saloon under the car deck - rows and rows of wooden bench seats, and all completely empty since most 'passengers' either stay in their vehicles or stay on deck. It had a strangely spooky feel to it. Turns out the ferries were designed with a 1000-person passenger capacity when they were drawn up in the early '60s to handle the massive movement of dockers, labourers and factory workers crossing the river each morning and evening. And within a decade virtually all that traffic had vanished. The modern ferries are designed for only 150 foot passengers at a time. Like a little time capsule of a past era. That is my Woolwich Ferry story.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:11
|
|
|
Darth Walrus posted:Could be a group to watch for folks ITT looking for places to organise. Don't leave, organise is another, despite their regrettable choice of spelling.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:22
|
|
|
Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/breeallegretti/status/1251103002703925248?s=21 Laffo, there's no restriction on discussing the report other than the existing COVID rules on meeting in person. Formby's statement literally said that "Executive Committees may organise informal meetings with members via telephone or video conferencing".
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:22
|
|
|
I was wondering why there would be an instruction not to talk about the report given that yeah, as far as I know we're all on corona hiatus anyway. Nobody's meeting anywhere.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:26
|
|
|
big scary monsters posted:And if you read around it comes from the name given to some early Christian sect who were excommunicated and may or may not actually be related to the people the term now refers to.  Euros loved associating random peoples with various biblical or early Christian sects as a simple post-hoc rationalization of why the peoples were good/bad (like with the Curse of Ham). I remember a non-Roma Romanian guy basically saying (paraphrasing), that as a non-native English speaker if he saw 'antiziganism' in the wild in English, because of the history/slur and it's uncommon nature in English, he would assume at first glance that person was some kind of fash making a "Roma go away" statement using weirdo fash slang, so going forward I always use anti-Traveller, because it covers all travelling peoples (or anti-Roma where it involves them) and because if our words of inclusivity make us sound like fash to ESL people then they're not very inclusive, ymmv though, I'm not sure where the current state of that debate is. Jewish people have definitely done a better job rehabilitating antisemitism from "a good idea actually" to what it actually means, but it seems Roma have lacked the opportunity to do that. goddamnedtwisto posted:Where the gently caress is a heroin dealer when you need one?
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:26
|
|
|
crispix posted:Captain Tom is releasing a single. Britain's Got Talent has much to answer for.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:27
|
|
|
Took a walk this morning and noticed a few houses who appear to be having a game of one-upmanship when it comes to pandemic gratefulness decorations. The current winner (imho) has gone for a rather fancy fabric "thank you" banner and some bunting. I hope it just keeps escalating and escalating.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:33
|
|
|
Powerful Two-Hander posted:Someone I used to work with years ago called their child Tzigane after a piece of music and now I'm wondering if they ever googled it. How old is the child now? Remember google wasn't really a thing til the early 2000s and many many people didn't have computers let alone internet back then.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:35
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/markdistef/status/1250846443121848320?s=21
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:36
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:the Curse of Ham 
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:37
|
|
|
how many of those cunts do you think died of rage when the 2017 result came in
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:40
|
|
|
Is it a hijacking if you just offer to buy the car and tell the driver to keep going wherever they were going? Like how would you even tell if john woodcock was writing it?
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:41
|
|
|
I liked Midsommar but Hereditary was better.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:44
|
|
|
Jaeluni Asjil posted:OK confess - who's in the whatsapp group for this band? It's Mumford and Sons for a new generation of boring cunts who don't actually like music
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:44
|
|
|
crispix posted:Captain Tom is releasing a single. If I were the praying type, I'd be praying that Vera Lynn doesn't die of COVID-19.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 13:57
|
|
|
Jaeluni Asjil posted:How old is the child now? Remember google wasn't really a thing til the early 2000s and many many people didn't have computers let alone internet back then. Altavista, Lycos etc go back further though. I remember Google coming out and liking the clean, no-ads interface, but web search is rather older than that.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 14:01
|
|
|
God drat it's an absurdly nice day. When I woke up and saw how great it was I said to myself "let's go to the beach in Nairn" and then remembered I can't. Virus is super boring
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 14:04
|
|
|
Is there a better search engine than Google or a way to make Google not suck? It just doesn't bother actually looking for the specific thing you ask for anymore
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 14:06
|
|
|
feedmegin posted:Altavista, Lycos etc go back further though. I remember Google coming out and liking the clean, no-ads interface, but web search is rather older than that. Oh yes I know. I mostly used yahoo for basic searching and excite for scientific searching back in the (very) late 90s when I was doing my PhD and before google. But my point is really that most people didn't have internet (or even computers) back then but as OP mentioned Google, I mentioned that too. To this day, it often doesn't occur to people to look things up, especially these days with everyone trying to do stuff on a pokey little phone screen. (This is why if I ask a question of my friends on FB 'does anyone know' - I normally remember to state 'I have googled' before everyone runs to google and does that exact thing). Communist Thoughts posted:Is there a better search engine than Google or a way to make Google not suck? Not just me then! For the last couple of years or so it just seems to bring up all kinds of irrelevant links no matter how many inverted commas I use or how far 'down the tail' I make the search query. I did try Duck Duck Go for 6 months but it drove me pots - reminded me of old yahoo in the limitations of its results. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Apr 17, 2020 |
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 14:06
|
|
|
Communist Thoughts posted:Is there a better search engine than Google or a way to make Google not suck? Bing is perfectly good, I'd go with that.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 14:10
|
|
|
Jedit posted:If I were the praying type, I'd be praying that Vera Lynn doesn't die of COVID-19.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 14:12
|
|
|
Looks like we've settled on a flat plane of about 800 deaths a day, give or take some weekend disruption and a spike later in the week when the backlog gets filled in.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 14:18
|
|
|
Oh hey, it's John Ware again, the Panorama documentary dude!
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 14:22
|
|
|
I wish I'd never left the CompuServe portal.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 14:24
|
|
|
I've been using Duck Duck Go, which is on the whole better than Google but has some shortcomings. As embarrassing as it is to admit, if I'm searching for an answer to a specific question and don't want to deal with trash sites like Quora or Yahoo answers, I usually add "Reddit" to the query. There's usually some ancient post on a dusty subforum that answers the query.
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 14:25
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 23:08 |
|
|
I use ecosia, it claims that 80% of revenue from ads goes to tree planting projects. I did a cursory check and it seems legit but I didn't look super deep so do some research if you're the suspicious type (and then let me know)
|
|
#
?
Apr 17, 2020 14:27
|
|
