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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Tories min-maxing the economy to get an absurdly high GDP, and finding all sorts of batshit insane exploits that society was never designed for like "whip the poor" and "stand like the colossus of rhodes" Tories have managed to stack it so that it's entirely based on selling overpriced houses and sandwiches to each other, and now half of that has fallen through. e: 25CE - The Han Dynasty is restored in China as Liu Xiu proclaims himself Emperor Guangwu of Han, and whips a few poors. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Sep 6, 2020 |
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The sandwiches aren't sold to each other, it's yet more wealth extraction from the worker, the only places that can afford premises where a bunch of large offices are are overpriced poor quality chains like loving Pret Want money? Go to work. Wanna go to work? loving pay It baffles me that the political media class think that "won't somebody think of the price gougers" is the way to get people back into the office/prop up the real estate market, the food's much better at home frankly
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Sep 6, 2020 14:05
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How else will they get their six chips.
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Sep 6, 2020 14:14
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I've been meaning to get a Co-op membership for years. There's one right on the corner and if I'm going to pay more for my laziness, I should at least sign up to get points or whatever it is they offer. That, and the Spectator apparently got 550 more subscriptions out of the spat.
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Lady Demelza posted:I've been meaning to get a Co-op membership for years. There's one right on the corner and if I'm going to pay more for my laziness, I should at least sign up to get points or whatever it is they offer. The points are worth a few quid a year if you shop there regularly, and free, so it's worth doing, and you get a say in how the org runs too which is nice.
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thespaceinvader posted:The points are worth a few quid a year if you shop there regularly, and free, so it's worth doing, and you get a say in how the org runs too which is nice. Co-op tinned food is pretty horrifying though. Their canned spaghetti rings were amongst the worst things I ever ate in the history of the world. (In fact I ended chucking the bowl away after a couple of spoonfuls.) Someone suggested donating the other cans to the food bank but I think they deserve something better. I am slowly circulating my apocalypse stash and will not be replacing tinned veg etc with their products.
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I'm frantically eating way too many beans from mine because they all went out of date and whilst they're still broadly fine, I'd prefer to keep stuff that's in date.
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Sep 6, 2020 15:03
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Lady Demelza posted:That, and the Spectator apparently got 550 more subscriptions out of the spat. They could end hunger
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CoolCab posted:in the UK there's an absolute ton more exposure to europe - amsterdam is literally cheaper to get to than london. *looks out the window* Not for all of us it isn't! ;p
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Sep 6, 2020 15:06
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I have personal beef with co-op because both of the convenient shops between work & home are co-ops, sometimes you're working late & just want to grab something easy to bung in the oven, but both of them stock the exact same stuff day in day out & none of it is much good for that Quite like the vegan pizza but you get bored of it pretty quick
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Borrovan posted:Imagine if every penny the gammonfolk spent out of pure spite went to a good cause instead Given that gammonfolk includes several 10+billionaires, they absolutely could end hunger.
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Lady Demelza posted:That, and the Spectator apparently got 550 more subscriptions out of the spat. I wonder what Andrew Neil is going to do with all those extra copies
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Borrovan posted:Imagine if every penny the gammonfolk spent out of pure spite went to a good cause instead 
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Urgh I just saw the trailer for Amazon's remake of C4's Utopia, and it looks terrible - no beautiful colour palette, no wonderful sound track, just bland looking - and you really have to question the ethics of releasing a show in 2020 where the virus is just a cover for a dark conspiracy to give everyone a vaccine intended to sterilise most of the human race. If you haven't watched the original, and are somehow still in the mood for something dark while living in the hell year, go watch the original - as a reminder British TV is occasionally able to produce something wonderful and weird.
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Sep 6, 2020 15:21
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Ending private property.
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Guavanaut posted:Ending private property. Looks at China: maybe not just private property (as in real estate) ownership though.
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Just witnessed someone be delivered a pint of Guinness and blackcurrant at the pub I was just at and what the gently caress
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Jose posted:Just witnessed someone be delivered a pint of Guinness and blackcurrant at the pub I was just at and what the gently caress An Irish bartender told me
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Jose posted:Just witnessed someone be delivered a pint of Guinness and blackcurrant at the pub I was just at and what the gently caress Apparently it’s an Irish hangover preventative?
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Lady Demelza posted:I've been meaning to get a Co-op membership for years. There's one right on the corner and if I'm going to pay more for my laziness, I should at least sign up to get points or whatever it is they offer. One, which the petrol station round the corner runs, seems like it gives you useless vouchers every once in a while like Tesco and doesn't really seem to bear any relation to how much you spend. The other one, which the shop in town runs, is more like the nectar points thing where you get money back on your purchases at a really good rate. So see which one your local co-op does. Also co-op chicken always smells funny. The wife looked it up and apparently it's because it's treated with sulphur dioxide to stop it going off. I doubt it because it's also yellowing and rubbery and I'm pretty sure it's because the local dickheads pick it up, wander off round the shop with it, leave it on a random shelf and then when the staff find it an hour later they just chuck it back in the fridge.
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Jose posted:Just witnessed someone be delivered a pint of Guinness and blackcurrant at the pub I was just at and what the gently caress I have witnessed in person someone ordering a Guinness shandy
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Desiderata posted:Urgh I just saw the trailer for Amazon's remake of C4's Utopia, and it looks terrible - no beautiful colour palette, no wonderful sound track, just bland looking - and you really have to question the ethics of releasing a show in 2020 where the virus is just a cover for a dark conspiracy to give everyone a vaccine intended to sterilise most of the human race. If you haven't watched the original, and are somehow still in the mood for something dark while living in the hell year, go watch the original - as a reminder British TV is occasionally able to produce something wonderful and weird. Wait reamking Utopia? The original was amazing, why the heck would it need remaking. But yeah, it's worth a watch, even though it is deeply, deeply weird and disturbing, and doubly so now.
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Jose posted:Just witnessed someone be delivered a pint of Guinness and blackcurrant at the pub I was just at and what the gently caress Guinness and black is the first thing I drink in the clubhouse after a rugby game, it's nectar.
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thespaceinvader posted:Wait reamking Utopia? American networks loving love remaking British shows for some reason
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I like my local Co-op because it's the only shop where the I've seen the staff get into a fight with a "customer". The man had been banned, the member of staff told him to get out, and I was accidentally hit on the foot with a packet of McVitie's Caramel Digestives during the small biscuit fight which erupted. Quality entertainment like that is worth £1 membership.
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Sep 6, 2020 16:26
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Utopia had easily the best soundtrack of any TV show I've watched
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Julio Cruz posted:I have witnessed in person someone ordering a Guinness shandy Someone ordered that when I was working in a pub. It’s a joke drink because it just foams up.
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Sep 6, 2020 16:52
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I'm at a new level of decadence here - two cups of tea, one for drinking, one for dunking shortbread in. No king or emperor ever approached this level of luxury.
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Sep 6, 2020 17:05
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A Guinness and black is a pretty popular drink. At least, I always assumed it was.
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thespaceinvader posted:Wait reamking Utopia? NBC/Universal remade it for their new streaming network, Amazon bought the UK rights to most of their new content. Hopefully it means Amazon are getting the rights to the new Macgruber series though.
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I was talking to someone today and started talking about the song 'Hitler's only got one ball' - she was German and hadn't heard it, but I assumed most people in Britain were familiar with it. Is this still the case or has it faded from schools by now?Bobby Deluxe posted:Apparently there are two different schemes. You get extra points for buying co-op own brand stuff, the wine is a good way to rack the points up. Sometimes vouchers for stuff too. The co-op card I have is the first time I've bothered with any of this stuff. I save all the points up til Christmas then get all that for free. Shame it's all a bit expensive to anywhere else, but most places I've rented have had a co-op within walking distance rather than needing a car for a big shop.
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I asked the Irish girlfriend “have you ever heard of Guinness and blackcurrant” and she looked at me as if I’d asked had she ever heard of chips, so I guess it’s pretty popular over
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Christ, if these are the cases now then what the hell are they going to look like in a month when they've had time to percolate around the schools?
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eye-BUPP-ro-fen
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Julio Cruz posted:I have witnessed in person someone ordering a Guinness shandy How did that work out for them? It'd just turn into riot foam, especially if the lemonades from a mixers gun. I had some woman ask me for a mixture of Guinness & coke in a half glass and I just told her to order something else. Her answer was 'but I drink it all the time in my local!' I somehow doubt that. 'JD & coke?' There you go! Other stupid drink orders from throughout the years: 'Double Jagermeisters!' 'Red wine & coke', although I've met a few people who'll drink that now, back in the 90s I thought they were taking the piss. 'A shot of Angostura bitters'. No mixer, no chaser. Nope. 'What soft drinks do you have?' (a list of standard soft drinks is reeled off) '2 pints Raspberry juice!' 'A baby Guinness' (gets served a half Guinness) 'What is this?' What did you actually want? 'It's a cocktail shot you prick!' Get out. Don't start me on people in Yorkshire asking for a pint of 'Mickey Mouse'. This could be anything from a bitter/mild mix, a mix of 2 different bitters, half bitter/half Guinness to half lager/half bitter and it was stupid.
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Jose posted:Utopia had easily the best soundtrack of any TV show I've watched Cristobal Tapia De Veer, he does a lot of C4 soundtracks I think. Did some excellent work for black mirrors Black Museum episode too. My favourite fact about the utopia soundtrack is that the percussion is done with real bones and it's just so fitting.
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I somehow missed this at the time https://twitter.com/LBC/status/717460847585574913?s=19
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Tbh if I tended bar I would give the punters whatever extremely stupid and nasty poo poo they asked for.
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justcola posted:I was talking to someone today and started talking about the song 'Hitler's only got one ball' - she was German and hadn't heard it, but I assumed most people in Britain were familiar with it. Is this still the case or has it faded from schools by now? It definitely hadn't faded into the 1980s, but then there were still plenty of kids who had learned it from their grandfathers. And I read a book written some time in the 90s about myths and stories of the Second World War which devoted the better part of two pages to it, including an interview with Hitler's personal driver. I couldn't tell you about any more recent usage.
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