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This is like scalpers getting all the PS5s. You'll make a mint.
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stev posted:This is like scalpers getting all the PS5s. You'll make a mint. I jokingly said that to the wife and she said "you're not using the goddamn beanie babie defense, I will stab you" It's her birthday and she's diabetic. She grumpily ate a pack and glowered at me. She's a good egg.
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peanut- posted:I thought 5 a year still seemed very high but then saw this reply Lol it includes deaths during the civil war and both world wars
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peanut- posted:https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/25/london-facing-lockdown-on-coronavirus-watch-list-after-surge-in-cases-13325373/ I'm fairly sure that large amounts of staggering was involved in the leaving times.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:2 tickets to Legoland nearly 100 quid bugger me. Also like what good is two tickets to most families? I've got 2 tickets and am going in a couple of weeks, £20, well, although it's probably not worth it. Can take the doggo at least. There's probably ten bogof offers for tickets at any one time as well, you'd have to be an idiot to pay full price
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Bobby Deluxe posted:"We only have 'til 10, better get munted quickly" is an entirely british outlook, in line with the previous "Better meet in a large group now, before they ban it for being incredibly unsafe." Surprised Ireland hasn't introduced this actually, we switched to 10pm off licence hours years ago, no pandemic required (just the weirdly powerful lobbying of the Vintners Federation of Ireland)
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Glad you're back from mod tyranny FI.
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OwlFancier posted:Open all the boxes and pour them into a bathtub and then get in the bathtub naked and roll around in the crisp packets. I thought we didn't kink shame ITT 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I thought we didn't kink shame ITT I am not shaming I'm telling you what I would do.
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reading about all the students in Glasgow forced to stay indoors after some covid outbreaks, who could possibly have forseen that telling students it was fine to move into a hall of residence for the rent money would lead to them being in close contact with others. it's not like there's famously an increase in infections in general at the start of uni even when there isn't a goddamn pandemic on. it'll be fine
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Communist Thoughts posted:There will presumably be a decent uptick in people just drinking outside after the pubs close at 10 If it's littering the streets of Oxford with bottles of Bollinger, that's just cameraderie, boys will be boys, future captains of industry etc.
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Angepain posted:reading about all the students in Glasgow forced to stay indoors after some covid outbreaks, who could possibly have forseen that telling students it was fine to move into a hall of residence for the rent money would lead to them being in close contact with others. it's not like there's famously an increase in infections in general at the start of uni even when there isn't a goddamn pandemic on. it'll be fine I feel bad for students at the moment, paying full whack for something that is being taught over Microsoft Teams and now they're locked into halls with people you wouldn't sit next to for a 5 minute bus journey. The Vitamin D deficiency alone is going to make everyone not massively chuffed with each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPghZ5cc_E
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Communist Thoughts posted:There will presumably be a decent uptick in people just drinking outside after the pubs close at 10
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justcola posted:The Vitamin D deficiency alone is going to make everyone not massively chuffed with each other.
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Communist Thoughts posted:Much as I like corbo and abbot I don't want them involved with whatever leftwing stuff happens next so in the extremely unlikely future of a left wing party actually emerging I'm more than happy for them to stay in labour. As much as I have conflicted opinions about that generation, they have a presence that others don't and for any prospective left party it's pissing into the wind without recognisable faces in Parliament so they can't just get ignored. Just don't let them be in charge.
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I'm genuinely envious of those of you worrying about the future of Labour, evidently expecting at some future date to head down to a local municipal building and cast a vote for your constituency MP to represent you at Westminister. The idea that any of those things will still exist in 2024 feels like a level of optimism I cannot muster. Maybe I spend too much time in the covid/economics/cool zone/climate collapse threads, but civic governance being basically the same as it is now in four years time seems frankly impossible to me. I'll be surprised if we make it to Spring what with the death toll to come, Brexit, and America going full fash. Also scrolling past fweetman posts is practice for scrolling past the inevitable Spitting Image posts to come
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kyojin posted:I'm genuinely envious of those of you worrying about the future of Labour, evidently expecting at some future date to head down to a local municipal building and cast a vote for your constituency MP to represent you at Westminister. The idea that any of those things will still exist in 2024 feels like a level of optimism I cannot muster. Maybe I spend too much time in the covid/economics/cool zone/climate collapse threads, but civic governance being basically the same as it is now in four years time seems frankly impossible to me. I'll be surprised if we make it to Spring what with the death toll to come, Brexit, and America going full fash. In an entirely unsarcy and friendly way - To me this feels like the optimism. I think that "normal" will extend a very long time into things going to complete poo poo and our state will carry on normalising everything for an unbelievably long time into the crisis. Not that I think one is necessarily more likely than the other, it's just for me that's the true nightmare scenario is climate change, fascism and megadeath but we're still having GEs and the queen's speech and big brother or whatever
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Communist Thoughts posted:In an entirely unsarcy and friendly way - To me this feels like the optimism. Agreed. The status quo is actively encouraging the coming holocausts (and climate apocalypse) while also actively impeding responses to them. The old war needs to die - fast - if there's going to be any future at all Edit of course what will probably happen is the liberal status quo will be replaced by a fascist one, worldwide lol Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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Generally if you look at the evidence base the world actually tends to be quite a bit better than people think it is. Education, equality, health etc. That doesn't mean the various events that people mention aren't big challenges, more that we do have the capacity to change the world. If you're focusing on the news your probably focusing on the wrong thing in my view. You can't change the news, go and give some time to something instead. In other news. New IDLES is out today. Is good. 'Do you hear that thunder? It's the sound of strength in numbers.' Zalakwe fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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Epic Store gave away Football Manager 2020 for free last week so I'm sinking back into my horrible addiction that has blighted me since first getting a PC in '97 or '98. And after 4 years clean as well. I blame the pandemic & not my lack of control
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forkboy84 posted:Epic Store gave away Football Manager 2020 for free last week so I'm sinking back into my horrible addiction that has blighted me since first getting a PC in '97 or '98. And after 4 years clean as well. I blame the pandemic & not my lack of control Cue gammons moaning about it now modelling a pandemic and Brexit.
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Communist Thoughts posted:In an entirely unsarcy and friendly way - To me this feels like the optimism. Yeah you're right, the idea of some big bang collapse is undeniably cathartic and offers at least the possibility of some sort of fresh start (plus at least some of the fuckers who deserve it will suffer), but a gradual worsening of everything is both more likely and more depressing. On the other hand, both Brexit & the US election (either Trump winning or Trump losing but not accepting it) both feel like there is the potential for rapid and unpredictable application of a lot of pressure onto a lot of people, maybe the whole rotten edifice breaks completely. I suppose either way I just cannot bring myself to give a gently caress about the NEC and whatever Ker Sturmer is up to today. No disrespect to those posters who do though.
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Zalakwe posted:Generally if you look at the evidence base the world actually tends to be quite a bit better than people think it is. Education, equality, health etc. That doesn't mean the various events that people mention aren't big challenges, more that we do have the capacity to change the world. think i agree with this. its what makes posting tweets so senseless
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kyojin posted:Yeah you're right, the idea of some big bang collapse is undeniably cathartic and offers at least the possibility of some sort of fresh start (plus at least some of the fuckers who deserve it will suffer), but a gradual worsening of everything is both more likely and more depressing. On the other hand, both Brexit & the US election (either Trump winning or Trump losing but not accepting it) both feel like there is the potential for rapid and unpredictable application of a lot of pressure onto a lot of people, maybe the whole rotten edifice breaks completely. Yeah, I don't deny it's a good possibility though. Historically every time right before some major upheaval you find lots of people going "yeah but things aren't gonna change just yet the status quo is too entrenched"
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Zalakwe posted:In other news. New IDLES is out today. Is good.  kyojin posted:Yeah you're right, the idea of some big bang collapse is undeniably cathartic and offers at least the possibility of some sort of fresh start (plus at least some of the fuckers who deserve it will suffer), but a gradual worsening of everything is both more likely and more depressing. On the other hand, both Brexit & the US election (either Trump winning or Trump losing but not accepting it) both feel like there is the potential for rapid and unpredictable application of a lot of pressure onto a lot of people, maybe the whole rotten edifice breaks completely.
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