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crispix posted:Channel 4 News had old Krishnan on some street with a bunch of pubs and there was a big crowd of people just bumping into each other willy nilly I was driving through Wakefield earlier and there were literally people huddled together talking in groups outside one of the pubs, another one was packed with full groups sitting at every table. i'm just happy to have a few ciders in the fridge and chilling on discord with some friends that way, it's nuts how busy it is. Even the traffic was way busier than usual.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:As the debate raged on over ownership, it sort of turned into a weird FRP annexe to the George - the old men drunk in the pub, the club got a load of pool tables (which were covered with planks and a tablecloth when it was used for wedding receptions) and was colonised by the neck-tattooed. But neither part gave off quite the same negative vibes as that concrete FRP. It looks like a nuclear test bunker but for a device made of dog poo poo and fireworks and put outside a mosque. So yeah goddamnedtwisto posted:there's definitely something psychically wrong with the FRP
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if your pub doesn't have a flat roof then where are you gonna put your rottweilers?thespaceinvader posted:My secretary has been secretary since well before I joined, and my MP is the in the shadow cabinet, FWIW. it's a good letter, in case you haven't sent it yet you've got "beast" instead of "best to" and "Oborne" instead of "Osborne"
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 The trotters van is long gone now, but this is still the worst pub I know.
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I’m in a pub waiting for my girlfriend so we can go to the park. I know it’s naughty but I love pints and I’m depressed. Anyway, social distancing isn’t happening, like at all, everyone’s loving leathered, and were gonna have a MASSIVE spike in cases in two weeks. Thread forgive me for my hypocrisy. It was for research.
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mehall posted:
I'm guessing this isn't the electric six gay bar
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Jakabite posted:I’m in a pub waiting for my girlfriend so we can go to the park. I know it’s naughty but I love pints and I’m depressed. Anyway, social distancing isn’t happening, like at all, everyone’s loving leathered, and were gonna have a MASSIVE spike in cases in two weeks. Hope you are wearing a mask at least between sups.
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Please tell us that the van was stolen. That would not have lasted a night around here. It would be joyridden around the place and burned in a field with all the other cars.
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baka kaba posted:if your pub doesn't have a flat roof then where are you gonna put your rottweilers? I'm letting it settle til tomorrow, and thanks. Our local flat roof pub got closed down after some huge fight and/or fire, I think. It defintely had a rough-rear end reputation. It was a few years ago.
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happyhippy posted:Please tell us that the van was stolen. I'm pretty certain it was non-functional to avoid just that issue.
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mehall posted:I'm pretty certain it was non-functional to avoid just that issue. THEN HOW DID IT DRIVE UP THERE? Checkmate. /troll
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Jakabite posted:everyone’s loving leathered, Just how i like it. Actually, no Jakabite posted:everyone’s loving; leathered, Just how i like it.
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forkboy84 posted:I dunno, I think she was basically right. What possible reason would someone under the age of 35 have to even know that Robert Maxwell existed? He died when I was 7, that I know he was is mostly a product of my environment than anything else, which is to say my lefty mother explained who he was & why he was a oval office because the idea of robbing from a pension fund was so abhorrent to her. If I didn't have that he'd almost certainly be a name I've seen in books & Wikipedia article I've read but nothing that would really be memorable. It's pretty easy to see why someone wouldn't instantly link a woman most notable for hanging around with wealthy paedophiles in American & the Caribbean with a London based guy long since dead. As a counter point to this, Robert Maxwell did run a number of newspapers and embezzled from their Pension fund. Any journalist in the last twenty or so years would have almost certainly worked with someone who would curse his name. If for no other reason than because they had to work for another 20 years on account of having no pension fund. The idea of a journalist not knowing someone who was certainly infamous in journalist circles is....incredible. It would be like meeting someone who works in the stock market who says "Nick Leeson? Never heard of him."
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The Question IRL posted:As a counter point to this, Robert Maxwell did run a number of newspapers and embezzled from their Pension fund. Yeah I loved him in Taken. What's he got to do with the stock market though? Modern journalism doesn't investigate or discover things, that's why it's such a big deal when they actually ever report on anything that isn't after some sort of official announcement or major event. I'd imagine most of them don't even know what Fleet Street was.
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Failed Imagineer posted:What a loving slob, it's a boat why not just piss off the side. There was a great book I  as a Teen called the big book of Conspiracy (or maybe it was the big book of Death.)It had a great section all about Robert Maxwell. It talked about his life and death. Supposedly at the investigation into his death there was medical evidence called about the phenomenon of men stepping out of warm rooms to go for pisses off the side of boats and suddenly falling unconscious as a result of the cold winds and drowning. Amazingly enough, their is a medical term for it. I can't remember it off the top of my head, but I'll see if I can dig up my copy of the book.
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namesake posted:Yeah I loved him in Taken. What's he got to do with the stock market though? You are thinking of Leslie Nelson.
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Glad to live in Leicester which will end up having the lowest rates in the country 2 weeks from now
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Just how i like it. Actually, no 
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The Question IRL posted:There was a great book I Found this thread on another forum (doesn't mention unconsciousness though). https://forums.ybw.com/index.php?threads/peeing-over-the-side.280688/ One comment: quote:my bro in the RNLI said they have an acronym for the majority of men found drowned. Another comment: quote:
Lord, there's another thread on peeing off yachts: https://forums.ybw.com/index.php?threads/technical-question-about-peeing.208564/ I'm not googling anymore. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Jul 4, 2020 |
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The Question IRL posted:You are thinking of Leslie Nelson. No he was in "The Unbelievable Journey in a Crazy Aircraft", as I assume the film is known in English, having seen the German title 
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Welp I went in a pub. Saw some people and it was basically all they wanted to do. It was at least dead inside and well spaced out. Meanwhile Stratford Station had a good 200 people huddled outside of it for a dance off.
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The Question IRL posted:There was a great book I I think you may mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micturition_syncope, also known for bringing drunk tourists to a watery end in Amsterdam canals.
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No that was all the guy off pointless.
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OwlFancier posted:No that was all the guy off pointless. Egg Heads: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/home-cj-de-mooi-homelessness-16771145 quote:... ChairmanGoesWoof posted:I think you may mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micturition_syncope, also known for bringing drunk tourists to a watery end in Amsterdam canals. Truly, I saw unto you, SA is a font of knowledge. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Jul 4, 2020 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Egg Heads: I knew it wasn't pointless but I actually thought it was chaser so you got me anyway
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I checked in for Starmer's Zoom call to the Labour party after he got elected: from what I saw, I don't think he's some sinister MI5 plant; I do think that he's utterly, utterly Establishment. He's internalised that the existing way of doing things is substantially the only way of doing things and has neutered his imagination to exclude any possibility of considering that anything could be done differently. In short, he's a dull psychic drain but not actively malicious and that's the nicest thing I can say about him at this point.
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Pistol_Pete posted:a dull psychic drain but not actively malicious pretty sure this was his leadership campaign slogan
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Pistol_Pete posted:I checked in for Starmer's Zoom call to the Labour party after he got elected: from what I saw, I don't think he's some sinister MI5 plant; I do think that he's utterly, utterly Establishment. He's internalised that the existing way of doing things is substantially the only way of doing things and has neutered his imagination to exclude any possibility of considering that anything could be done differently. all it takes for evil to triumph is for not actively malicious psychic drains to do nothing.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:one of those weird coincidences that always attach to planning disputes the club suddenly caught fire Glasgow has had a spate of buildings, many of them listed, mysteriously catch fire over the last few years, the school of art being the most well known. You'll not convince me these are all accidents, no matter how conspiratorial it sounds. GSA went on fire, everyone was sad, they spent ages fundraising and restoring it, and then it went on fire again a few days before it was due to reopen even worse than the first time. They blame an electrical fault but... nah. Not to mention they're often in primo development locations. There's absolutely something fishy going on there. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jul 4, 2020 |
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A lot of people in government aren't actively malicious -they just don't care what the consequences of their actions or inactions are, or just refuse to accept them which is its own kind of malice really. At least people being actively hostile are attaching some weight to their actions, they know what they're doing and why it hurts people
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ThomasPaine posted:Glasgow has had a spate of buildings, many of them listed, mysteriously catch fire over the last few years, the school of art being the most well known. You'll not convince me these are all accidents, no matter how conspiratorial it sounds. GSA went on fire, everyone was sad, they spent ages fundraising and restoring it, and then it went on fire again a few days before it was due to reopen even worse than the first time. They blame an electrical fault but... nah. Not to mention they're often in primo development locations. There's absolutely something fishy going on there. Oh, it was well known that there was the building down by the river on Clyde Street, the plot next to where the Barfly was if you ever went there, that was burnt down because it was listed & someone decided what Glasgow really needed was more flats. Think they've finally done something with it but I've not been down that way in 3 years
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What drives me nuts about Starmer is my various BBC and old media consuming relatives were always yelling about Corbyn being an ineffective opposition. Saying he does nothing and how useless Labour are. Now we have an ineffective psychic drain in charge they are either dead silent or totally on the forensic, showing that Boris what's what in PMQ's train. They are bending over backwards to justify everything he's said as perfectly reasonable and are convinced him one upping Boris with factual minutiae will lead to a landslide of change in their favour. Its absolutely maddening. Gah.
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If that were true then you nitpicking with the material facts about corbyn's effectiveness as opposition leader would change their minds, and yet it does not, curious. Then again feels over reals people believing wholeheartedly that they are big brain rational people and everyone else is too, is hardly a new concept.
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Mebh posted:What drives me nuts about Starmer is my various BBC and old media consuming relatives were always yelling about Corbyn being an ineffective opposition. Saying he does nothing and how useless Labour are. The one time I got into politics on FB recently it was over exaclty this assertion, that Corbyn was an ineffective leader, and it made me spit. Just... what would an effective leader loving look like.
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Today I found out that 'cottagecore' is a thing. Does this mean Nigel Farage in a flatcap is fashionable now? Also, jesus christ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/04/police-smash-car-window-ryan-colaco-tv-interview-racism quote:Police smash car window of man on way home from C4 interview about police racism
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RockyB posted:Today I found out that 'cottagecore' is a thing. yeah here's the video in case people don't click through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJIVX-osBuU quote:Officers hauled him from his car and forced him to the ground, hitting his head against the ground before he was thrown face-first against a wall, Colaço said, causing him severe headaches. He was handcuffed, drug-tested, taken to the station and strip-searched before spending hours in a cell before being released about 12 hours later, with nothing having been found.
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