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I live in a very bourgeois home counties village. We don't have charity shops, we have boutiques. The difference being its the same stuff you'd get in a charity shop but more expensive than if you bought it new. And I don't drive so basically I need to get summat delivered. IKEA seems like an easy choice. Also buying new means I don't have to wonder if it the last owner died on it.
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Darth Walrus posted:An interesting long read for the thread to chew through:
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https://twitter.com/LabourRichard/status/1304091009815465985?s=20 It rules that we've gotten to a point where I'm genuinely surprised & impressed to see Scottish Labour supporting striking workers.
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communism bitch posted:I'm about to spunk £400 up the wall on a sofa I'll never sit on and I loving hate it. This "being a normal, functional adult and having furniture so your guests don't think you live like a smack addict in an opium den" stuff is a load of poo poo. Alternatively, spunk £400 on smack? 
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Sep 10, 2020 22:16
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justcola posted:If I went into a house with no furniture it would cross my mind if I was being murdered or something. I had my own dental emergency in June - filling gave way, root got infected then the tooth cracked. Got charged £39 for the initial visit and x-rays, then £127 to have the fucker removed as opposed to almost double that to have it root canal'd
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/LabourRichard/status/1304091009815465985?s=20 Especially when every non-SCG Labour MP throw themselves into hedges to avoid commenting whenever the Tower Hamlets Council strikes come up. (TLDR because I covered it in the last thread - Labour Council and Mayor seek to insource a load of services (yay) but to do so attempt to force a load of staff onto inferior contracts, leading to the rather spiffy sight of the local politicians who are the direct political descendants of the Matchgirl and London Dockers strikers trying to explain how unions are bad, actually, backed up by everyone's favourite bootlicker union, the GMB - the fact that the situation in Scotland is almost the exact opposite is somehow fitting)
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Crusader Kings 3 is a fun game
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feedmegin posted:Alternatively, spunk £400 on smack?
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They really think that the EU is just France and Germany.
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communism bitch posted:Yes: Every woman I've tricked into coming to my flat has remarked on the fact that I don't have any furniture. Unused sofas are really useful for dumping your stuff on whenever you get in from work or wherever
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If you don't have a sofa what do your cats and/or dogs sleep on when they're not sleeping on the bed?
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forkboy84 posted:And the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis gave it back. Mission to manufacture claims status: failed. Edit: beaten. I didn't really get into CK2 but maybe I'll try 3. I wasted hours in Stellaris though despite it essentially being a spreadsheet. Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Namesake, I get your point, I just find that modern right wing comedy as a concept kind of baffles me when they have to preface it with "I'm not racist / sexist / transphobic" because then it just feels like such a gutted, empty ideology. Modern right wing comedy is a little baffling maybe but it does actually concretely exist, what I find more baffling is that modern left wing comedy apparently doesn't. Aside from like four regulars at The Angel, and I'm assuming other local scenes, left wing comedy just sort of stopped at the Stewart Lee level; very meta, entirely outflanked by literally anyone under 30 that voted for Corbyn and whisper it not actually that funny. Like you're correct that right wing comedy is just a dumb crude reaction to liberal SJW stuff but honestly I think the last 20 years odd of "left wing comedy" was just a dumb crude reaction to nationalistic Daily Mail stuff too. With hindsight it was all just New Labour cultural poo poo there's nothing that's actually lasted or been impactful. If you go to a protest that has a stage you might see Jo Brand do five minutes calling Farage a twat in a funny way but that's it that's the best "left wing comedy" does now it's just nothing. And it's wierd that you called Shane Gillis right wing earlier, for the US he's broadly left of centre and any random episode of Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast will 100% be funnier and more lovingly humanistic than loving SNL.
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*keeps tribal system well into the 1000's* Never. Stop. Raiding!
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Ms Adequate posted:If you don't have a sofa what do your cats and/or dogs sleep on when they're not sleeping on the bed? In my case, a suitcase. He loves that thing.
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Angrymog posted:Talking Traffic lights, in Ipswich there's a big junction that had some sort of vehicle detection going, and didn't detect motorbikes. Not a problem in the day when there's enough other traffic to work it, but if you hit it at night and the lights were against you the only legal way across it was to hit the pedestrian crossing button that would also turn the lights your way. I think there are a couple of cyclist-only lights like this on CS6 in London. Well, probably not during the day, but around 9-10 pm some of those things literally never turn green
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Ataxerxes posted:This is perhaps the most British expression of anything I have ever read. Thank you, I think. I self identify as an East Anglian rather than being British or English. I now have a beautiful son who will end up speaking Northern. This upsets me. When he is older and travels to East Anglia, his spiritual home, every time he opens his mouth and talks people will assume he is recovering from a serious head injury.
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Red Oktober posted:Crossing talk! If you feel under the box where you press the button there is a metal nob that rotates when when the green man is in operation. For disabled people.
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Vitamin P posted:Modern right wing comedy is a little baffling maybe but it does actually concretely exist, what I find more baffling is that modern left wing comedy apparently doesn't. Aside from like four regulars at The Angel, and I'm assuming other local scenes, left wing comedy just sort of stopped at the Stewart Lee level; very meta, entirely outflanked by literally anyone under 30 that voted for Corbyn and whisper it not actually that funny. Leftie comedy exists - or existed - on the live comedy circuit, especially at edinburgh and the like, but it's been dead on tv for years if not a decade, because commissioning editors aren't interested in commissioning it.
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Vitamin P posted:And it's wierd that you called Shane Gillis right wing earlier, for the US he's broadly left of centre and any random episode of Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast will 100% be funnier and more lovingly humanistic than loving SNL. I too believe in the inherently humanistic and left-wing comedy stylings of calling people chinks and faggots, thanks for that 
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Teeth talk: I’ve still got a tooth the dentist wanted to take out a couple of years ago, and I was finally getting around to investigating cheap Eastern Europe dental implants to replace it (and fill a couple of other gaps) when The Thing kicked off. Now I’m just in a perpetual fear the tooth will rebel against me in the meantime before I can get it out and replaced with some robo gnashers. Staying in the UK for implants is way too dear.
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The_Doctor posted:Teeth talk: I’ve still got a tooth the dentist wanted to take out a couple of years ago, and I was finally getting around to investigating cheap Eastern Europe dental implants to replace it (and fill a couple of other gaps) when The Thing kicked off. Now I’m just in a perpetual fear the tooth will rebel against me in the meantime before I can get it out and replaced with some robo gnashers. Staying in the UK for implants is way too dear. Ditto. Seriously wish I'd got round to getting my teeth sorted out in Cairo. There are some excellent dentists out there. Problem is if you don't live there, they're too unreliable in turning up to book a holiday and hope to get it all done plus the regular random power / water outages. Was thinking about Eastern Europe too. Comedy chat: There used to be some really good comedy clubs around London in the 80s/90s. I recall in the very early 80s going to see the comedians "The Comic Strip" - French & Saunders, Rik Mayall all those guys, before they became famous at one of the theatres inside Raymond's Revue Bar in Soho. For some reason, the bouncers took one look at me & my male friend and knew instantly we'd come for the comedy theatre not the strip show. I loved Chris Langham's impression of an owl and I thought French and Saunders were a bit boring (still do most of the time). "Comedy" with 'right wing themes' (ie 'be as offensive as possible' to women, minorities, disabled, etc) has always been a thing, Bernard Manning, Roy Chubby Brown, Jim Davidson. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Sep 11, 2020 |
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The_Doctor posted:Teeth talk: I’ve still got a tooth the dentist wanted to take out a couple of years ago, and I was finally getting around to investigating cheap Eastern Europe dental implants to replace it (and fill a couple of other gaps) when The Thing kicked off. Now I’m just in a perpetual fear the tooth will rebel against me in the meantime before I can get it out and replaced with some robo gnashers. Staying in the UK for implants is way too dear. Turkey is apparently good for dental care. I've met people who go in November just before everything closes for winter, so the flights and hotels are as cheap as they'll ever be. There's not much to do, but you'd have money to do it if there was.
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lol https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1304215652983603200?s=20
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Especially when every non-SCG Labour MP throw themselves into hedges to avoid commenting whenever the Tower Hamlets Council strikes come up. It's probably easier to support the strikers when it is an SNP council, but part of me suspects this is Leonard stretching his muscles to show he's still leader. He was also pretty high up in the Scottish GMB at one point so that's another point. But all that said it is still more than I expect. As you say, the national party leadership certainly wouldn't chat about it, never mind positively. What I'd like to see is this used for a launching point to a discussion about the mere concept of strike action being "illegal" being a particularly nasty Victorian concept that belongs in the dustbin of history with the 12 hour day and child labour. But that's probably wishful thinking
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forkboy84 posted:
children are working around the world right now and I have worked longer days than 12 hours It aint history..
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What I love about that poster is that it was never actually used because its distribution was intended to essentially be the final act of the UK government after a catastrophic defeat to the Nazis. It’s not a noble cry of fortitude against adversity, it’s an incredibly bleak cry for serenity in the face of imminent annihilation.
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Dogatron posted:children are working around the world right now and I have worked longer days than 12 hours Yes, I've worked 13 hour shifts too, but I was adequately compensated with time off, I wasn't doing it 6 days a week and I suspect you weren't either. Don't be a pedant. It's dull.
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Comrade Fakename posted:What I love about that poster is that it was never actually used because its distribution was intended to essentially be the final act of the UK government after a catastrophic defeat to the Nazis. It’s not a noble cry of fortitude against adversity, it’s an incredibly bleak cry for serenity in the face of imminent annihilation. Came to post this, yes, it was never even known about during the war, they found it in a cupboard somewhere I think in sometime in the 2010s. E: loving twitter taking all the fun out of things: 
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So what are the chances of another legal challange on the government? I know they were looking at some way of stopping them, as Boris doens't want to have to follow pesky laws.
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OwlFancier posted:E: loving twitter taking all the fun out of things: They'll have egg on their face if he really is dead.
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Grey Hunter posted:So what are the chances of another legal challange on the government? I know they were looking at some way of stopping them, as Boris doens't want to have to follow pesky laws. Sounds like saboteurs talk to me.
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OwlFancier posted:Came to post this, yes, it was never even known about during the war, they found it in a cupboard somewhere I think in sometime in the 2010s. This article implies that actually they decided it might be annoying, and anyway people didn’t seem to be panicking, so didn’t use it https://history.blog.gov.uk/2014/06/27/keep-calm-and-carry-on-the-compromise-behind-the-slogan/
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OwlFancier posted:The news seems to think it might struggle to get past the lords and the EU might also seek to challenge it internationally so you might get to become north korea by the end of the year lol. How can anything possibly "struggle to get past the lords"? Or do you mean they might cause another - shock, horror - week or two of delay, maybe, in theory, if they somehow grow a spine etc?
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CHEREMY CLORKSHON MAYDE A LORT OF MUNNEY FROM TORLKING LOIKE THISH
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jaete posted:How can anything possibly "struggle to get past the lords"? Or do you mean they might cause another - shock, horror - week or two of delay, maybe, in theory, if they somehow grow a spine etc? Apparently michael howard doesn't like it. And the tories supposedly do not have a large majority in the lords compared to the commons. Not that I'm sure it stops them using some mechanism to bypass the lords.
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Comrade Fakename posted:What I love about that poster is that it was never actually used because its distribution was intended to essentially be the final act of the UK government after a catastrophic defeat to the Nazis. It’s not a noble cry of fortitude against adversity, it’s an incredibly bleak cry for serenity in the face of imminent annihilation. I believe it was also rejected because it was deemed to be patronising bullshit, and that telling people to just chill out when they're having the poo poo bombed out of them probably won't cut it. The poster was one of three. The other two were actually produced and distributed. They read: "Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us victory" and "Freedom is in peril - defend it with all your might".
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