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Very minor thing compared to all the fun news recently, but got a question about the August discount eating thing. Is there any reason for somewhere not to take advantage of the scheme? I asked the lady running my work canteen if they'd be doing it, and she scoffed that they're not a restaurant... but canteens are included in the scheme, so why would you not do it? It's basically free money...
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Marmaduke! posted:Very minor thing compared to all the fun news recently, but got a question about the August discount eating thing. Is there any reason for somewhere not to take advantage of the scheme? I asked the lady running my work canteen if they'd be doing it, and she scoffed that they're not a restaurant... but canteens are included in the scheme, so why would you not do it? It's basically free money... Probably believes she's not eligible since the news said restaurants and that's how it's been presented.
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Jul 21, 2020 17:59
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This man actually said "pweaaaase". I'm gonna lose it.
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Jul 21, 2020 17:59
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Marmaduke! posted:Is there any reason for somewhere not to take advantage of the scheme? Because there is a global pandemic, and its still prevalent in this country, and we shouldn't be crowding people into food venues where you can't even cover your face Obviously, not many places are using that excuse. Also im aware my rant is not really relevant to your work-based example.
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Jul 21, 2020 18:00
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Guavanaut posted:#6 can I can't find the article I read the other day setting it all out in detail, but basically fiction in general is selling loads more than usual because (a)lockdown, and (b)it's July, whereas HP is selling very slightly more and so massively underperforming relative to the rest of the market Graun straight-up lying to make people look more TERFy than they actually are, basically
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Jul 21, 2020 18:01
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Marmaduke! posted:Very minor thing compared to all the fun news recently, but got a question about the August discount eating thing. Is there any reason for somewhere not to take advantage of the scheme? I asked the lady running my work canteen if they'd be doing it, and she scoffed that they're not a restaurant... but canteens are included in the scheme, so why would you not do it? It's basically free money... (hell, I would)
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Jul 21, 2020 18:01
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Is there a reason why fiction sales increase during july?
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Jul 21, 2020 18:04
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I'm literally reading a book rn whilst I wait for the barbecue to calm down if that answers your question It's about warhamms
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Jul 21, 2020 18:05
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OwlFancier posted:Is there a reason why fiction sales increase during july? Fiction simply makes for better vacation reading, if I had to hazard a guess. Nobody wants to read The Wicked and the Vile while taking a load off at the beach.
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Jul 21, 2020 18:08
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Borrovan posted:I'm literally reading a book rn whilst I wait for the barbecue to calm down if that answers your question Saturnine? I’m about 2/3 of the way through it myself. Good hamms.
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Jul 21, 2020 18:09
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Borrovan posted:I'm literally reading a book rn whilst I wait for the barbecue to calm down if that answers your question Yes, and you call them warhamms despite the fact they're obviously peaceful
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Jul 21, 2020 18:09
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OwlFancier posted:Statistically we are only a scant few years away from a government sex pest saying UwU in a sext. thank you for this thought, follow up question: remove all memory of a forum post from brain how
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Jul 21, 2020 18:10
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justcola posted:It can be both. Having a pretty lovely everything tbh.
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Jul 21, 2020 18:11
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Ratjaculation posted:Also your work canteen is probably taking advantage of it, but also doubling their prices Monday-Wednesday so you won't notice, but they'll still get the it doubled. Nah I mean they're definitely not (yet) , but they absolutely should. Even if it's replacing the £2.50 burger and chips with a max-£5.00 "gourmet" equivalent (add a slice of lettuce) I don't see why they wouldn't want to. And no, it's not going to make people crowd into my workplace because of a deal at the canteen (we never stopped during the lockdown, and we have pretty good measures in place. I missed out on free greggs yesterday, on an unrelated note).
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Jul 21, 2020 18:19
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You are now entering Free Greggs.
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Jul 21, 2020 18:24
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Guavanaut posted:You are now entering Free Greggs. Chucky steakybake
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Jul 21, 2020 18:27
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Guavanaut posted:You are now entering Free Greggs. Iain Paisley voice: LONDONGREGGS
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Jul 21, 2020 18:39
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Borrovan posted:It's about warhamms
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Jul 21, 2020 18:45
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Latest pod is fresh from the rendering oven! It's genuinely a cool one as we (well, Miftan) managed to snag Josh Sawyer, Lead Designer for cool games like NWN2, Fallout New Vegas, and Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 for a good chat about colonialism, empire, and politics in video games. Plus it has the added advantage of releasing your brain from UK politics, and who doesn't want that right now? https://twitter.com/PraxisCast/status/1285630943399747586?s=20
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Jul 21, 2020 18:52
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Quite a decent article in the Torygraph (!shock, probe, riddle!!) on re-imagining the High St for affordable housing. torygraph/news/2020/07/21/coronavirus-has-accelerated-demise-high-streets-should-just/ quote:Coronavirus has accelerated the demise of our high streets - here's why we should just let them die Author belongs to this organisation: https://www.smf.co.uk/ (Social Market Foundation) which I never heard of before and I just know someone is going to tell me some reason they're terrible 
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Jul 21, 2020 19:16
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Quite a decent article in the Torygraph (!shock, probe, riddle!!) on re-imagining the High St for affordable housing. £500k to live in a repurposed Ann Summers dressing room and you don’t get to be a Conservative MP.
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Jul 21, 2020 19:42
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I feel like they already invented the livable high street and it was when it was full of small useful shops with people living above them. Which I have no idea how you wrangle that out of purpose build shopping centers.
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Jul 21, 2020 19:44
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Or we could just tax internet giants their fair share and allow independent shops to compete. Non-charity high street chains can die though
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Jul 21, 2020 19:48
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High streets died because they were stolen by private companies (sometimes literally) and redesigned to be horrible and uncomfortable places to be unless you're spending lots of money. Turning them into housing is not the worst idea but it'd be better to turn them back into public spaces through making them nice places to idle in - more green open spaces with comfortable group spaces free to access, more arts and musics venues run by local authorities to display local talent and run youth and education services from with accessible transport to and from it to all parts of the city. If we're going to have urban centres rather than micro-districts then all parts of the urban society, all communities in it, need to be able to access them easily and want to go there.
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Jul 21, 2020 19:50
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I give redcar poo poo but its pedestrianized high street is quite nice on market day.
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Jul 21, 2020 19:53
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Yeah, the thing high streets need to be is spaces where it is important to have communality. Because the city planning still puts them at the centre of all the transport routes (despite out of town shops actually being the centre of most shopping), so repurposing them as communal spaces seems ideal. Need them out of the hands of capital, though. Just like everything else I guess.
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Jul 21, 2020 19:54
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I feel like parking contributes a lot to the downfall as well. Along with a lot of the aforementioned 'rush along unless you're spending' designs, the high street is just not a pleasant place as a destination any more. Internet ordering is just so much more convenient and now that lockdown has forced most people to investigate it, I don't see that going away once lockdown fully ends.
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Jul 21, 2020 19:57
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Pedestrianise all of the satellite high streets and increase the number of small owner-occupier spaces.
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It's weird because I don't think I've ever been to a large urban area that actually has a high street. Because by the nature of large urban areas is that they don't, they're just a sprawl of shopping centers and offices. Whereas I live near a bunch of places that actually have a literal high street, as in a single street through the main part of town with a lot of shops on it, but go even to the other side of those shops and it's often just housing. I don't think these two are comparable because one already is housing, you could put some stud walls up in the commercial bits and it would literally just be the ground floor of a house, and the upper floor is likely residential anyway. But god only knows how you get something out of what built up areas call a "high street" because it's a fundamentally inhuman design. They're just US style megamalls except usually unroofed.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I feel like parking contributes a lot to the downfall as well. Along with a lot of the aforementioned 'rush along unless you're spending' designs, the high street is just not a pleasant place as a destination any more. I always park in the malls main court and slap a Prize sticker on my windscreen
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Borrovan posted:I'm literally reading a book rn whilst I wait for the barbecue to calm down if that answers your question Funny you mention Warhammer. Earlier today I had one of those strange bits where you mind focuses on a previously useless bit of knowledge. Namely how in Warhammer armies had Allies, so certain armies could buy troops from other armies. (Like Empire could take some Elves as allies.) And there was a Vampire Count list which was a special Undead army which was all about being led by a Vampire. One of their special troops was the Black Coach, which was a magical chariot that got more powerful the more troops it killed. It was so good that you could only have 1 in your army. So in the Allies section one group that the Vampire Counts could ally with was another Vampire Counts army on account that there were four different factions of vampires. Which meant under the rules you could have an army with Four Black Couches, if you took them as allies from other Vampire armies. Warhammer was a gloriously silly place.
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OwlFancier posted:It's weird because I don't think I've ever been to a large urban area that actually has a high street. Because by the nature of large urban areas is that they don't, they're just a sprawl of shopping centers and offices.  )  And there's a bunch of other streets like the cheerily named Gallowtree Gate with modernized high street layouts, radiating off of the old clock tower.  But if you step off the map in the wrong place you can end up in dehumanize yourself and face to food courts  which, yeah, you're not going to make that a livable housing area for anyone.
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Marmaduke! posted:Very minor thing compared to all the fun news recently, but got a question about the August discount eating thing. Is there any reason for somewhere not to take advantage of the scheme? I asked the lady running my work canteen if they'd be doing it, and she scoffed that they're not a restaurant... but canteens are included in the scheme, so why would you not do it? It's basically free money... You have to send weekly turnover figures to the HMRC which isn't an issue if you're 100% VAT compliant but well *cough* a good few restaurants arent kustomkarkommando fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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OwlFancier posted:It's weird because I don't think I've ever been to a large urban area that actually has a high street. Because by the nature of large urban areas is that they don't, they're just a sprawl of shopping centers and offices. Once a city gets big enough and old enough to become a metropolitan area and starts absorbing the surrounding settlements, the metropolis often becomes a series of old-fashioned high streets all linked together, with housing/offices/industry filling in the bits in the middle. London's like this, there's a few more along the M62 corridor.
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The Question IRL posted:Which meant under the rules you could have an army with Four Black Couches, if you took them as allies from other Vampire armies. just four massive vampire settees roaming the battlefield growing stronger as they kill
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Jul 21, 2020 21:34
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Guavanaut posted:Leicester's in that mid-sized weird zone where you get both. There's a literal High Street high street which I guess still has pubs and shops (I've not been in months because of With the exception of some council areas, there's no seating in the centres. I know it's the hostile architecture that's been done to death, but it also means if you're meeting someone or just wandering about you basically have to go in to the shops/cafes. Or standing about on the pavement, presumably in a mid-90s leather trenchcoat scaring folk, idk.
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Jul 21, 2020 21:38
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Angepain posted:just four massive vampire settees roaming the battlefield growing stronger as they kill feeding on the blood of their enemies and all the small change that gets stuck behind their cushions
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Angepain posted:just four massive vampire settees roaming the battlefield growing stronger as they kill Plot twist the black couch is the casting couch and vlad and isabella are dtf.
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The DTF sale ends today!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Quite a decent article in the Torygraph (!shock, probe, riddle!!) on re-imagining the High St for affordable housing. I don't really get the decency? Surrender to Amazon and turn every single space that has any gentle communal value into identikit rentier private housing flats is garden variety Telegraph stuff. For the record I hate it, the high street is where the olds go to get semi-social interaction, local retail shops proportionally employ more people than warehouse retail does and in less dehumanising roles, and literally anything remaining that provides any local social cohesion should be protected tbh everyone is already alienated and lonely. forkboy84 posted:Just to be clear, we're using the same definition of "social liberalism" right? Not just "woke on social issues" but a specific form of liberalism as characterised by the likes of FDR, Asquith, Beveridge & Keynes, yes? Because I'm a socialist, yeah, and think that social liberalism is just entirely about taking the wind out of the sails of a potential revolutionary movement by making conditions for the working class just good enough to stave off that threat while still allowing wealth to accumulate in the hands of the elites. It's bad. Being less bad than neoliberals is, as I already said, such a low bar to pass that it's barely worth acknowledging. Any political movement that doesn't have the abolition of capitalism as a major goal is worthless. Yes this is the entire point, there are liberals who are woke on social issues but aren't orange bookers, that's why the LD vote collapsed, and those liberals that are socially woke and also rejected austerity are a perfectly reasonable demographic to target. If you're a socialist, yeah, and think social liberalism is just entirely about taking the wind out of the sails of a potential revolutionary moment then even within your logic it still makes sense to try and bring those liberals onside. If you consider 'woke and rejects austerity' as fertile ground for support, and you're a goshdarn moron if you don't, then arguing 'it's a low bar they haven't impressed me actually' is just being a larping tosspot, if there's absolutely no logical contradiction to working with someone then make it easy for them to join you. Sawyers a hell of a get well done.
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