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Reads like the current owners came up with a nice scheme to completely shaft the staff and other creditors, but are instead likely to get wiped out themselves (by another group who may also be scummy).
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Jaeluni Asjil posted: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 use Duck Duck Go and it mostly does the job, for more particular things like just checking train times or what have you I use Google. Searching for stuff does seem a little poo poo at the moment though, the first 3 pages of results are just copy and pasting each other and sometimes the informations wrong, or Google keeps trying to correct what it is I'm searching for. Also adding site:forums.somethingawful.com after a query is sometimes helpful. Sometimes.
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Angepain posted:i'm glad to see that bands can still rise from nothing, mere humble origins of all going to cambridge. Truly the worst university. Cambridge: not even once, imo.
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peanut- posted:Reads like the current owners came up with a nice scheme to completely shaft the staff and other creditors, but are instead likely to get wiped out themselves (by another group who may also be scummy). put the company into liquidation on the assumption that no-one else would be interested in buying it. they get the assets (the brand basically) cheap, and the liabilities are gone. creditors are shafted getting only pennies on the pound. staff laid off cheaply. a cosy stitch-up. but, now a rival bid has come in who are offering more cash and to pay the liabilities in full. so the independent liquidators, whose sole job is to find the best return for creditors, are obviously going to be taking that instead unless the current management can come up with something bigger to trump it. good! I hope they learn an expensive lesson, and it serves as a warning to anyone else who thinks they can use one weird trick to escape their liabilities at everyone else’s expense.
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Apr 17, 2020 15:03
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Pablo Bluth posted:Updated NHS Coronavirus stats  Looking at recent trends, I estimate all the red bars are on track to be 650-750 range so plateau stage.
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Apr 17, 2020 15:20
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justcola posted:I use Duck Duck Go and it mostly does the job, for more particular things like just checking train times or what have you I use Google. Searching for stuff does seem a little poo poo at the moment though, the first 3 pages of results are just copy and pasting each other and sometimes the informations wrong, or Google keeps trying to correct what it is I'm searching for. I feel like garbage information duplication sites have got really good at ranking highly on Google, so if you're looking for something a little obscure you end up with the same false hits or misinformation making up the majority of your results. Maybe it's time to bring back webrings.
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Apr 17, 2020 15:39
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big scary monsters posted:I feel like garbage information duplication sites have got really good at ranking highly on Google, so if you're looking for something a little obscure you end up with the same false hits or misinformation making up the majority of your results. Maybe it's time to bring back webrings. Erm excuse me it's called SEO and it's a vital and important part of contemporary marketing strategies, not a parasitic bullshit job at all Why yes, I did spend over a year sitting a few desks over from a bunch of PR people.
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Apr 17, 2020 15:46
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Webrings ruled. I remember when all websites were obsessively hand-crafted, amateurish labours of love, not the corporate blandness we have today  SA is a welcome hangover from that era 
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minema posted: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) Yeah I've been using Ecosia for a while too, it's fine! And if you ever need more specific results you can add #g or #gi to your query and it'll redirect to Google or Google images instead Google sucks these days anyway, especially if you're searching for anything specific or technical. Oh we didn't include that term, did you want us to search it? Click here if so! Oh here's a result with an antonym of one of your search terms, you wanted the opposite of what you typed right!! You can get around it to a point but it's a real pain and it used to be way better at this
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Friends a person came along to #ukgoons channel on IRC (link in OP) to ask for a bit of advice. quote:<#> Hey guys, I hope you are ok - I really need some advice - I been on a 12 month waiting list to get re-assessed for ADHD; I reached the end of the waiting list in Februrary but their has been a delay; I phoned up the team in [Northern English city] today; and been informed that it may be up to six months until i can been seen since the staff have been drafted into other areas. My advice was that atm I'm at home with a prolapsed disc and have been told to just keep on my very strong painkillers and other stuff until the Covids have been dealt with and services go back to normal. The specialists at the spine centre were redeployed last month and there's nothing they can do for me atm. I thought it was a safe enough bet that other GPs were doing much the same and just renewing prescriptions under the circumstances. If anyone knows anything more please let me know and I will pass it on. This was one of several other discussions going on at the time which I also think has enough value to be shared here. We solve many problems and have all sorts of very interesting discussions on many topics, really. Tackle issues as well, sometimes  quote:16:12 <~crispix> have a deep bath and lie down it such that your head goes under the water (but not your face, this could result in drowning) crispix fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Apr 17, 2020 |
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Apr 17, 2020 16:32
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Google being bad is a side-effect of the whole internet being bad. Anything you search for comes up with 5000 pages of adverts, listicles, Quora and Pinterest links only vaguely related to your query, but it’s not wrong. That’s just all there is now.
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Apr 17, 2020 16:36
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https://twitter.com/jewdas/status/1251095532061233152?s=19 The most tory looking man.
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Apr 17, 2020 16:52
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That's a sauwastika (the Buddhist one, not the Hindu/Hitler one), couldn't even get that right.  1866 Hale Hortler
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Apr 17, 2020 17:08
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:Google being bad is a side-effect of the whole internet being bad. Anything you search for comes up with 5000 pages of adverts, listicles, Quora and Pinterest links only vaguely related to your query, but it’s not wrong. That’s just all there is now. 
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Apr 17, 2020 17:09
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https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1251181235604467713?s=20 this can only be a good thing 
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crispix posted:This was one of several other discussions going on at the time which I also think has enough value to be shared here. We solve many problems and have all sorts of very interesting discussions on many topics, really. Tackle issues as well, sometimes We also talked about my dilz
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baka kaba posted:Yeah I've been using Ecosia for a while too, it's fine! And if you ever need more specific results you can add #g or #gi to your query and it'll redirect to Google or Google images instead I don't think there is a way to get around it. Worse, I can search for an exact query and get no results. Then change all the words to the spelling Google expects and get the result I wanted. I do not know what's going on with the fuzzy logic at Google but it's Bad.
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Apr 17, 2020 17:23
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Apr 17, 2020 17:25
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shame on all of you for not adding progressively worse jpeg compression
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Apr 17, 2020 17:40
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Can we get Trident subs to do donuts in support of BoJo
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feedmegin posted:We also talked about my dilz Willies are endlessly fascinating yes.
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crispix posted:Friends a person came along to #ukgoons channel on IRC (link in OP) to ask for a bit of advice. I don't know nothin' but yeah, at the very least I'd try the GP and make it clear this is important and needed, and that they just need the prescription to continue until things are normal enough that the review can go ahead. If they're saying there's nothing they can do, could always ask who you could get in touch with about it, maybe there's a better place to contact that can make these decisions in the circumstances Prism Mirror Lens posted:Google being bad is a side-effect of the whole internet being bad. Anything you search for comes up with 5000 pages of adverts, listicles, Quora and Pinterest links only vaguely related to your query, but it’s not wrong. That’s just all there is now. them sites aren't telling google what to look for though! If part of your query is the word "unavailable" you don't want pages with the word "available" because those probably aren't helpful - even worse if it's terminology because then you definitely want that specific word and not the opposite. So everytime you do a search you gotta go set it to Verbatim mode or put every single word in quotes like yes google I want you to look for all these words I typed in god scroogled again
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I think you'll find that TRUE is exactly the same as NOT(NOT()) so Google is providing quality alternative solutions to your search.
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Apr 17, 2020 18:21
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google philosophical search
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Apr 17, 2020 18:26
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How much is in the solidarity fund? Can we buy it?
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The 8pm clap is sacred and beyond reproach like the are boys poppy thankyouforyourservice bum tyvm
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baka kaba posted:google philosophical search https://youtu.be/QEzhxP-pdos
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crispix posted:The 8pm clap is sacred and beyond reproach like the are boys poppy thankyouforyourservice bum tyvm The virus wouldn't be that unfair. Surely the Sacred Clap counts as a sort of virus ceasefire.
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drat I hoped you'd gone next level with the joke btw if you're in the android app use Insert Video for them .be links and it'll fix the url for ya!
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I keep trying to thank our lads in uniform for their service but the more emphatically I do it the faster the Foodora guy pedals away.
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Apr 17, 2020 18:51
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Stop clapping for me it's getting embarrassing
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Apr 17, 2020 18:54
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Gonzo McFee posted:Stop clapping for me it's getting embarrassing It's not me it's my dummy thicc rear end cheeks and I can't help it
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Apr 17, 2020 19:02
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        Have a nature this ones for the nhs
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Apr 17, 2020 19:02
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Hrrngh your Maj I'm trying to isolate but my populace is dummy thicc and the clap from Westminster bridge keeps spreading the virus!
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crispix posted:The 8pm clap is sacred and beyond reproach like the are boys poppy thankyouforyourservice bum tyvm Last night a guy on Sky new called it weekly secular worship. It made my skin crawl a little. tbh the clap round here almost had a sarcastic tone to it.
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I haven't heard anybody clapping in my town and I love it tbh
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