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Guavanaut posted:Southern and Eastern Africa has default lemonade as the clear fizzy stuff, which makes me think it looks more like: Funny thing in but in Finland "limonadi" also refers to a fizzy drink. Us swedish speakers call it "limonad" but if you go over to sweden and use that word to refer to soda people look at you like you're an alien. oh dear better pay some cat tax:  edit, have another 
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forkboy84 posted:Definitely. I haven't cut it out completely but after a spell of being very poor I went a long time without much, occasional glass of wine or whisky when I visited the folks. I was very much a binge drinker and it had gone hand in hand with my worse self-harm attempts. Lidl single malt is ~£18 and actually quite good.
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Filboid Studge posted:As someone from the Norn Iron diaspora I didn’t imagine 5 years ago that my local population not having access to weaponry would be what made me nervous If the state decides to shatter that then it'd take a generation to repair. Communist Thoughts posted:LOL I do find funny the American lefts attempt to embrace guns as if it helps anything. 
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Communist Thoughts posted:LOL I do find funny the American lefts attempt to embrace guns as if it helps anything. Historically, once it gets to a certain point (which is quite some distance from where we in the UK are now, to be clear) it’s fight back or be rounded up and killed. Again as someone from the North of Ireland I am aware that I have instinctive feelings about things like that which my British friends and loves ones often find upsetting.
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Important legal questions being asked on the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit: Shooting anti-social teens with an air rifle - theoretical (I hope)
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SpiritOfLenin posted:So the news were completely accurate. I knew deep in my heart the news had to be accurate, but I just had to check. It was reported just so dryly that I just thought "that can't be right, that sounds like its a bit", but no, of course its true. I mean I haven't actually checked whether he did that but it certainly sounds like something he would do, that's basically been the UK government's stance on the EU since the referendum, and also quite a lot of the time we were in it, which is no small part of why we aren't any more.
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Far distant, far distant, lies Foyers the brave, No tombstone memorial shall hallow his grave His bones they are scattered on the rude soil of Spain, For young Jamie Foyers in battle was slain. He's gane frae the shipyard that stands on the Clyde; His hammer is silent, his tools laid aside, To the wide Ebro river young Foyers has gane To fecht by the side o' the people of Spain. There wasna his equal at work or at play, He was strang in the union till his dying day; He was grand at the fitba', at the dance he was braw, O, young Jamie Foyers was the floo'er o' them a'. He came frae the shipyaird, took aff his working claes, O, I mind that time weel in the lang simmer days; He said, “Fare ye well, lassie, I'll come back again.” But young Jamie Foyers in battle was slain. In the ficht for Belchite he was aye to the fore, He focht at Gandesa till he couldna fecht more; He lay owre his machine-gun wi' a bullet in his brain And young Jamie Foyers in battle was slain. He lies by the Ebro in far away Spain, He died so that freedom and justice might reign; Remember young Foyers and others of worth And don't let one fascist be left on this earth. The last stanza is rarely sung these days. This is a mistake.
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Mebh posted:I remember going to my first bar aged 16 in 1998 and finding out that a red bull and vodka with 1 shot of red bull and 1 shot of lovely cheap kirov vodka was £7.50 I had only brought a tenner and man that was such poo poo. Jesus Christ that must be like 15 quid today, what was the bar, the American Bar at the Savoy?
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Communist Thoughts posted:LOL I do find funny the American lefts attempt to embrace guns as if it helps anything. The civil rights movement tooling up was historically pretty useful in repelling cops and fash/KKK militias. Read up on the Deacons for Defense and Justice.
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Camrath posted:September Fudge Orders Open! Okay, that name broke me. Now I have to have some.
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It makes me ill to say that I finally paid off my student loan today. Giving Erudio a penny feels absolutely wrong, but I still have 7 years to run on it and the deferment threshold drops £2k this month so when my current deferment expires I'll be over the limit, and they sent me an offer to pay 30% and write the rest off. I've been fighting these fuckers for 6 years, and it's a relief to finally have them off my back, but I can't help feeling I shouldn't have done it.
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Excluding fuel costs, how much do you reckon it costs to run a small car for a year? (No, I can't drive and looking at driving test sites is giving me mild panic attacks - I was just wondering how many taxis I could take for the same cost!)
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Insurance will likely be the biggest one, and that depends heavily on who you are and where you live. On top of that, ~£35-£55 MOT (assuming nothing needs fixing) and about £160 tax for a newish small engined used car.
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Communist Thoughts posted:LOL I do find funny the American lefts attempt to embrace guns as if it helps anything. Ask the fash in Madrid in 1936 how that went down for them. Obviously if the Army goes over to them en masse we're all hosed, but if part of it doesn't a bunch of socialists with guns can at least turn a coup into a civil war. Challenge is then winning it, of course.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Excluding fuel costs, how much do you reckon it costs to run a small car for a year? You could maybe try doing like a very old lady on our estate when I was wee who would just stop cars and get into them and tell whoever was driving to take her to a shop or wherever. In hindsight they were borderline hostage situations but she got away with it due to being probably over 100 years old and utterly fearsome in that way old people from Victorian times were My peugeot costs me £0 per year in tax because it has such low emissions. The downside is it can struggle with steep hills and I think there have been a few occasions where if I had had others in the car or been a fat man I'd have needed to abort and find a less step route
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Darth Walrus posted:The civil rights movement tooling up was historically pretty useful in repelling cops and fash/KKK militias. Read up on the Deacons for Defense and Justice. Or the british suffragettes.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Excluding fuel costs, how much do you reckon it costs to run a small car for a year? My own car a Yaris, 800€ ish in taxes and insurance. edit: 470€ of that is the very high tax on diesels in this country (upside is diesel is cheaper than gasoline). His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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feedmegin posted:Ask the fash in Madrid in 1936 how that went down for them. Obviously if the Army goes over to them en masse we're all hosed, but if part of it doesn't a bunch of socialists with guns can at least turn a coup into a civil war. Challenge is then winning it, of course. 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Excluding fuel costs, how much do you reckon it costs to run a small car for a year? My partner runs a 7-year old Mazda 2 - so a pretty standard modern supermini - and she estimates that it costs £1200 per year to run (when there's not a pandemic on and she's working from home): £300 insurance (kept on a street in an urban postcode in the East Midlands) £30 in road tax £55 for the MoT (it never needs any work to pass) £150 in maintenance (a service every other year costs £200, plus an occasional battery, bulb, tyres etc.) Edit: Just noticed the 'excluding fuel costs' bit, so the answer is £600
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Renfield posted:Universal Credit chat: Lol I might be hosed then
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BalloonFish posted:My partner runs a 7-year old Mazda 2 - so a pretty standard modern supermini - and she estimates that it costs £1200 per year to run (when there's not a pandemic on and she's working from home): This is one of the Nice Things we weren't allowed to have from the 2019 manifesto, a publicly-owned car sharing scheme - Zipcar meant i could abandon any idea of "needing" my own car*, the few times a year a car is essential it costs me between 7 and 12 quid an hour (depending on exact case). Obviously this is skewed by how good London public transport is, but of course I'd have trusted Corbyn Labour to sort that out for everyone else too. * Yes I know I don't technically "need" a motorbike either, certainly not the one I have compared to a smaller-capacity one, but we can start casting out the moto in my eye (geddit????) after we sort out the beam of private car ownership.
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We were paying 800 quid in insurance on our Yaris, but that's because my wife, being American, only had a year or so of driving experience in the UK so as far as the insurance companies were concerned she was some teenaged boy racer, despite having been driving for 20 years now. Then we moved to London and sold it, problem solved!
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OK so looks like 2-3 taxis a month (if I add fuel for particular journeys to the costs) to my nearest alternative towns with train stations (approx £50 each way). I have my old lady bus pass now. Shame about the nearest big town 1 hr bus ride with a really good train service (Newport, SW) which doesn't require me to lurk on bleak, station platforms with no loos or cafes for up to 45 mins for a connection now not running ANY buses from my town to it except one there at 730am and one back again at 6pm. Sometimes I wish I had taken up the 'driving lessons for my 17th birthday present' option from the folks but it seemed such an utterly boring present at the time and we had buses back then. Car sharing thing: https://www.blablacar.co.uk/ I've not used this but a friend living in Europe recommended the European site. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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SpaceCommie posted:Lidl single malt is ~£18 and actually quite good. Yeah, but then it's an effort question. I have a Morrisons & Tesco on the way home, I have to go walk 30 minutes from the town centre to get to Lidl. Does Lidl do just the one malt or do they have a Speyside, Highland, Islay etc? Coz I like them all but sometimes you're in the mood for something that tastes like an ashtray & sometimes you want something almost like water (hyperbole but Dalwhinnie is really smooth). Ok, i answered my own question, they have a malt from each of the major styles/regions, & their Islay is apparently a delight. So I guess maybe I should be less lazy & actually go to Lidl one of these days.
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Guavanaut posted:
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The Lidl Islay is Caol Ila product and it's genuinely good, I would say better than Laphroiag Select as its closest branded competitor. The Speyside is perfectly drinkable too.
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kecske posted:but replace the tree with the Conservatives one 
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forkboy84 posted:Yeah, but then it's an effort question. I have a Morrisons & Tesco on the way home, I have to go walk 30 minutes from the town centre to get to Lidl. Does Lidl do just the one malt or do they have a Speyside, Highland, Islay etc? Coz I like them all but sometimes you're in the mood for something that tastes like an ashtray & sometimes you want something almost like water (hyperbole but Dalwhinnie is really smooth). I just ask everyone for whiskey each Christmas and usually what I get lasts me until October or so. Doesn't stop me from drinking way too much very strong beer every week though.
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I still haven't finished the bottle of port I got about three or four years ago for xmas, and I haven't opened any of subsequent several bottles.
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peanut- posted:My company has been expanding into Germany over the last year or so and I've been shocked by how utterly closed-shop protectionist it is. Like, I'm sure it's extremely compliant with the letter of EU law, but every bureaucratic and regulatory thing has been set up to make sure absolutely nothing actually gets done outside of Germany, no business can be taken out of Germany without massive expense and headache, and German firms are advantaged in almost everything. I wonder about German 'compliance' with this sort of thing given the emissions scandal
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Guavanaut posted:Except India has their own thing going on. As they probably should, they invented it.
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Jedit posted:crack dot png would be an appropriate name as well.
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Guavanaut posted:Seems the protests against a second wave didn't work. They should have gone through Official Channels
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OwlFancier posted:I still haven't finished the bottle of port I got about three or four years ago for xmas, and I haven't opened any of subsequent several bottles. Good idea saving them to trade for food after no deal brexit
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Lungboy posted:The EU said that we had until the end of October to sort a deal in time for it to be ratified and Boris has basically said "no YOU have until the 15th of October". Still, just think how much worse this would be under Corb oh will you gently caress OFF Guavanaut posted:
Post-COVID syndrome severely damages children’s hearts; ‘immense inflammation’ causing cardiac blood vessel dilation Alright then.
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OwlFancier posted:I still haven't finished the bottle of port I got about three or four years ago for xmas, and I haven't opened any of subsequent several bottles. Port goes bad, you probably don't want to finish that.
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josh04 posted:Port goes bad  Bobby Deluxe posted:Oh good, just before the schools go back. Still, it's not like Covid affects kids, right?
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josh04 posted:Port goes bad, you probably don't want to finish that. No it's fine I actually cooked with it the other week. It's probably not up to like, posh people standards but I drink it with lemonade anyway so I likely wouldn't notice.
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