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thespaceinvader posted:I looked and I couldn't work out where to find that information. Click the profile button underneath your or anyone else's posts.
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OwlFancier posted:Isn't he a sex pest? this isn't directed at you OwlFancier, but man I really hate the term 'sex pest'. I feel like it obfuscates and minimises sexual assault. It'd be much clearer to just call them abusers and rapists.
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Aug 26, 2020 16:22
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Beefeater1980 posted:Brexit is just us, though, and this is happening everywhere. WhatsApp is plausibly credited with inflaming religious tensions and enabling massacres in India because it enables instant spread of rumours at a time when the government has decided to eradicate Islam from a country of 1bn+ people that’s like 15% Muslim. Lack of trust in the mainstream media is a part of it, I'm not sure if that's because the internet made it easier to call out their bullshit, but they brought that on through lies. Still need to read Pale Horse Rider.
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Necrothatcher posted:this isn't directed at you OwlFancier, but man I really hate the term 'sex pest'. I feel like it obfuscates and minimises sexual assault. It'd be much clearer to just call them abusers and rapists. I specifically use it when I can't remember what kind of wrongun they are, as in whether they're flirting inappropriately or competing for the jeffrey epstein memorial award. I agree that if you know what they did you can probably just call them that, but there are that many people doing that many different kinds of sexwrong and facing no consequences that I can't keep track of who did what.
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OwlFancier posted:Isn't he a sex pest? I thought he was very bad based on my hazy recollection of his comments on gay marriage, but checking wiki it's more that while he's said some downright weird things in general he comes across as a standard rich centrist liberal luvvie. Even the weird stuff kinda strikes me as pretentiousness and intellectual self-importance from an insular position of privilege rather than being straight up terrible. I mean, he's almost certianly a bore and a bit of a prick, but given the low bar set by other Jeremies he's probably not in the top 3 by terribleness quote:At the 1991 Tony Awards, Irons was one of the few celebrities to wear the red ribbon to support the fight against AIDS. He was the first celebrity to wear it onscreen.[40][41]
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Whoops, had radio 2 on in the car earlier. A listener told Jeremy Vine that this government had killed however many old people in care homes and he lost his rag and shouted him down telling him he sounded silly. Not that he was wrong, that he sounded silly. The guy pretty calmly said ok then, they were told that this was going to kill however many people and they did it anyway and asked Vine to tell him what he would call that. Vine said nah I don't think I will and hung him up. I think thats the way they avoid feeling guilty for what they've brought down on millions of people in this country. They just flat out reject the whole concept the second they hear it so at no point do they ever have to interrogate it. Same with CV-19.
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OwlFancier posted:sexwrong
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So i take it the whole marrying my dad to avoid inheritance tax isnt a thing I can do?
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Guavanaut posted:This sounds like a village in the Home Counties. Twinned with sexhow, which is a village not far from me.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:So i take it the whole marrying my dad to avoid inheritance tax isnt a thing I can do? The threshold to even pay it is like half a million though, so most of the people who've been told to be mad about it by the Express will never be affected. e: ^^ You could call the company Incel Microprocessors and base it in Sexhow.
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Aug 26, 2020 16:51
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Comrade Fakename posted:Boris quitting after Brexit would be hilarious. His entire legacy would be a colossal disaster or an embarrassing climbdown, combined with mismanagement that killed tens of thousands of his own citizens. He would be almost inarguably Britain's worst prime minister, and probably the second most dangerous man to the UK after Hitler. Oh, believe me, there's a very good chance that he'll take the top spot from Hitler. Only around 430,000 British people died because of the Nazis; Brexit without a deal and without specific arrangements for medicines will easily beat that just on medical deaths. Add in Austerity 2: Judgement Day, the disruption to food supplies and the benefits and housing systems chewing up everyone who loses their job, and you're talking about a worst case of around a million dead in the next 15 months.
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I'm amazed that there's a discussion on oval office Jeremies and nobody has mentioned Gammon King Clarkson yet. Punching Piers Morgan doesn't remotely make up for all the other poo poo. e: I'm hoping to get on a new medicine in the next month or so but it gets shipped in from Ireland. I can see Brexit totally loving up the supply of it straight after I finally get my hands on it. VVVV put bucket under U bend, unscrew u bend, clean out blockage. Lungboy fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Aug 26, 2020 |
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Aug 26, 2020 17:01
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Help, I clogged my sink up good and proper with dirt/mud by washing the soil off some water plants in it and I don't know what to do I suspected it was a bad idea but of course it didn't stop me lmao
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Do you have a plunger? If so put it over the drain and plunge it, see if that dislodges the crap. Failing that you can try putting a cleaning rod down the drain, failing that you might have to take the pipes apart under the sink and clean it from there, failing that I think you need a plumber. E: Also yes put a bucket under it before you take the pipework apart. E2: also it might be obvious but don't put the crap you extract from the pipe back into the sink to get rid of it, or any other drain, put it in the bin. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Aug 26, 2020 |
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Aug 26, 2020 17:05
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OwlFancier posted:Do you have a plunger? If so put it over the drain and plunge it, see if that dislodges the crap. Wire coat hangers are the bodger's best friend. Unwind the twisty bit under the hook, straighten it out, and you have a flexible drill that with minimal swearing should be able to dislodge just about anything. If it's just mud, a bit of a prod with that should be all that's needed, then leave the hot tap running for a few minutes to make sure it's clear. e: If it's one of those low-profile traps (shaped like a T) then they clog more easily than a proper U-bend but they're also much easier to clear, put a bucket under it, undo the dead end (a belt wrapped around and tightened on it makes a serviceable strap wrench if it resists), enjoy a whole new world of wonderful new smells as you rinse the trap out in a bucket, screw it back together, done. If it's a u-bend then it's a bit more fiddly but the same basic principle applies, except now you have two things to undo, and you'll probably need that coat hanger to clear it out anyway. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Aug 26, 2020 |
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Paperhouse posted:Help, I clogged my sink up good and proper with dirt/mud by washing the soil off some water plants in it and I don't know what to do If that doesn't work, caustic soda is good on soil, but it's very corrosive. Lungboy posted:I'm amazed that there's a discussion on oval office Jeremies and nobody has mentioned Gammon King Clarkson yet. Punching Piers Morgan doesn't remotely make up for all the other poo poo.
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I always wondered about "pipe cleaners" because they don't seem stiff enough to clean plumbing with, are they for smoking pipes or something?
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OwlFancier posted:I always wondered about "pipe cleaners" because they don't seem stiff enough to clean plumbing with, are they for smoking pipes or something? Yep, exactly that. You can get stiffer, longer ones (fnarr) that are handy for clearing out blocks in overflows etc, but like I say a wire coat hanger is just as effective.
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The times when you will need a plunger and a drain snake are generally not good times to run down to the store to get one (e.g., 1am at night). Keep one around in the house. Probably the first course of action here is to just take a look first, though. Do you have a bottle trap under the sink? Just unscrew the bottle and pour the soil out.
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Paperhouse posted:Help, I clogged my sink up good and proper with dirt/mud by washing the soil off some water plants in it and I don't know what to do Put the plants back in the sink and admire your new indoor pond. Lungboy posted:I'm hoping to get on a new medicine in the next month or so but it gets shipped in from Ireland. I can see Brexit totally loving up the supply of it straight after I finally get my hands on it. Wasn't there some talk last year about how prescriptions could be sent to Schiphol to be filled and collected? I wonder if the same could be done for Ireland. I'm sure some enterprising person would be able to set up a business that specialised in picking them up on behalf of patients and then getting them over the Ireland/NI border.
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Aug 26, 2020 17:42
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Guavanaut posted:You can get your dad to establish a limited company in which you both have a share, transfer all his assets to the company, and then get a solicitor to structure it to qualify for Business Property Relief, because like everything in this country if you have a bunch of money you can just ignore the law. No marriage required. Wait, what the gently caress is this? What's the rationale for something like this to exist, I mean how is that supposed to work? Also what exactly would happen, dad passes away, company owns all the assets, so those assets can... just be enjoyed by the remaining owner? Wouldn't there be some corporation tax or dividend tax or something on that though?
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Guavanaut posted:It seems to be the case, but I wonder what's causing it. Social media is a likely culprit to point fingers at, but the Brexit referendum and the huge media circus around it seems a large part of it. Reducing international geopolitics to a two option ballot. We know the (macro) answer to this. Pretty much everything that Mark Blyth keeps saying : that several decades of neoliberalism, which is synonymous with the "centre", has resulted in massive inequality growth, exporting jobs and putting pressure on almost everyone's lives. This inequality growth has been noticed by the masses because they are not totally oblivious to their circumstances, and they are reacting to it seeking an explanation and a way out: blaming the EU and immigrants for the right (which are just proxies for the state abandoning its roles in their worldview), or blaming bankers and privatisation for the left (which are just proxies for the state abandoning its roles in their worldview). The comfortable liberals (who helpfully run much of our press) are the only group who were not feeling any pain in the current state of things, having made progress in the new neoliberal world as thought leaders, technical experts or international consultants in the service economy. Thus to them, suddenly a perfectly sensible world (one in which they are doing well, naturally) is being disrupted by a mad irrational rise in racism, antifa, russians, bots, social media... or any one of a hundred excuses. Since they cannot countenance the idea that the world in which they have found a way to happily swim may be painful for others, and those others may both be able to and have the right to express the desire for change. The only reason it is skewing right at the moment, is that these liberals are doing a better job of crushing any expression of that desire for change from the left, whereas the right are co-opting it... or at-least finding themselves co-opted by it. So both sides get further apart, and liberals have a breakdown in the centre (and in the press), about how wrong any change at all is, as each year the electorate move further and further to the edges. Desiderata fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Aug 26, 2020 |
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Just write that sink off and use a different one from now on.
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Pistol_Pete posted:My growing feeling is that US-UK politics is becoming more belligerently tribal than ever, to the extent that people deliberately turn a blind eye to their leader's failings to an extent that they wouldn't have done previously. Guavanaut posted:It seems to be the case, but I wonder what's causing it. Social media is a likely culprit to point fingers at, but the Brexit referendum and the huge media circus around it seems a large part of it. Reducing international geopolitics to a two option ballot. more belligerent but not more tribal, i think. more fickle if anything, if you think about the red wall turning blue. after two extremes like ERG v Corbyn, things are heading back to the centre
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Beefeater1980 posted:I see that the right wing dude who tweeted to complain about Coyle, one “Talisman of Tashkent” (@bigtrees 1973), has made 47,700 tweets. By comparison, dril has a mere 10k. I’m not sure if that screams “bot” or “mental disorder” tbh. My dog, I have 71,300 tweets apparently. Definitely mental disorder rather than bot in my case
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Lungboy posted:I'm amazed that there's a discussion on oval office Jeremies and nobody has mentioned Gammon King Clarkson yet. Punching Piers Morgan doesn't remotely make up for all the other poo poo. My favourite thing was him getting fired from the BBC*. It was over him calling his (Irish) producer a oval office and yelling at him for not reheating his steaks for dinner or something. Que lots of columns being written about how unacceptable this language is etc... The guy was taken to hospital because he had been physically assaulted. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32052736 But it was the language he used that everyone focused on. It is like the classic British entitlement to thrash the help when they do a bad job and you must discipline them is fine. But don't use rude words when you do it. *= Assuming that it wasn't a deliberate move on his part to get fired so he could go and do the much better paid Grand Tour on Amazon.
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Breath Ray posted:more belligerent but not more tribal, i think. more fickle if anything, if you think about the red wall turning blue. after two extremes like ERG v Corbyn, things are heading back to the centre I don't know if you noticed but we're getting no deal brexit, the ERG won.
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jaete posted:Wait, what the gently caress is this? What's the rationale for something like this to exist, I mean how is that supposed to work? But yeah it's also something that gets abused by wealthy people through solicitors restructuring shifty limited companies to not look like those things. Desiderata posted:several decades of neoliberalism The complete collapse in trust in the media among the left is an obvious thing with how they treated Corbyn but it'll be interesting to see what replaces it.
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George Galloway (or his Alliance 4 Unity party, I assume he's the one tweeting) is having a very normal one https://twitter.com/Alliance4Unity/status/1298582690011250688 https://twitter.com/Alliance4Unity/status/1298666260587327490 the whole twitter account is glorious. this is the high-minded uplifting discourse that scottish political debate needs
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Lol just as I start giving plumbing advice I finally find the real culprit of my circuit breakers blowing - bastard pinhole leak in a radiator that had slowly built up enough of a puddle to short out an extension cord hidden under a bed. Now just have to wait for Scerwfix to confirm they have my advanced bodging supplies ready because this one's beyond the reach of even Sugru (although thanks to the positioning a wire coat hanger will probably be involved)
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His tweets made me smile, but Coyle was one of the biggest leakers of poo poo to the press alongside being one of the publicly-gobbiest anti-Corbyn cunts the Labour Party has had over the last few years. So he's still absolutely on my poo poo-list.
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Can't wait for the george galloway/ben shapiro party where they run on the platform of "I have no sex and neither should anybody else"
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My best friend has over 90k tweets and she's no bot, I have another friend with over 150k, lots of friends with above 50k, y'all have some skewed ideas of what constitutes a lot of tweets imho
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jaete posted:Wait, what the gently caress is this? What's the rationale for something like this to exist, I mean how is that supposed to work? The idea is it's tied to the notion of the Corporate veil. That a business and a person's wealth and property are separate. In theory it's meant to be that a person doesn't run a business into the ground and then be chased for all their days until they end up a pauper. Amoung other reasons. Eventually it leads to people going "if I put all my assets into my company and fiddle with things, I can avoid paying tax." Funnily enough lawyers are wise to those tricks, so if Revenue pay us to go after said people, we know where the cracks in the argument are. A friend of mine was hired to go after a man who claimed that his dividends paid by the company (of which he was the sole occupant) was the exact same as his outgoings and thus he couldn't pay this €60,000 debt he owed. Que my friend cross examining this director about how the company seemed to be treating him very well if it gave him a 2019 SUV as a company car, but only paid him consistent wage that happened to be the same as the companies expenses divided by 12. He also got to cross examine him on why his expenses were always the same and why he didn't seem to spend any extra money on his birthday or Christmas. In the end said director was given a court order to pay the debt he owed.
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Ms Adequate posted:My best friend has over 90k tweets and she's no bot, I have another friend with over 150k, lots of friends with above 50k, y'all have some skewed ideas of what constitutes a lot of tweets imho 150k? Assuming they got an account the day Twitter went live that's *still* 30-odd a day, that's a lot.
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Ms Adequate posted:My best friend has over 90k tweets and she's no bot, I have another friend with over 150k, lots of friends with above 50k, y'all have some skewed ideas of what constitutes a lot of tweets imho Maybe twitter should be like the nokia 3310 and once you've got to 10 tweets, youve got to delete one if you want to do another.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Maybe twitter should be... once you...tweet...youve got to delete...i...t Yes
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I know the answer's racism, but what in the actual gently caress https://twitter.com/dontkillmyvybz/status/1298388924029644800?s=19
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