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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I made chocolate crunch and pink custard, and for a while the world seemed right again. This toad did not subsist on a diet of chocolate crunch at high school 
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https://twitter.com/hannahrosewoods/status/1310684719932149760?s=20
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Sep 28, 2020 22:51
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Honestly living in 2020 the idea people went multiple centuries without having any new ideas about philosophy, politics, or science is not that hard to believe.
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Sep 28, 2020 22:53
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So trumps 2016 campaign manager tried to/threatened to kill himself last night and got taken into care as a result and tonight channel 4 aired a story about how the campaign used cambridge analytica to target black voters to stop them turning out to vote
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Sep 28, 2020 23:03
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Here's the C4 piece https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIf5ELaOjOk
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Sep 28, 2020 23:07
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Is the correct century when the Tories were first created? And stopped being a friend to someone due to uni catered halls. We met first day of starting uni, moved into a house with him and other friends after first year. We even did our year placement that was part of the course together in the same company. Then just before our last year, when catered halls on campus gave precedent to final year students, he announced he got a place there without telling us he applied. Or that there was any applications going. Didn't tell us as he didn't want more competition to get the limited places, leaving us one down on the rent and such. Politely told him to gently caress off and we hardly talked to him that full year, hope it was worth it to save that few hundred quid.
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Sep 28, 2020 23:07
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Anglos looking at this question:   
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Sep 28, 2020 23:08
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I don't hold anything against catered halls but the year I spent living off super noodles and Rustlers burgers made me the man I am today, and I wouldn't want to see any fresher robbed of that.
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Sep 28, 2020 23:09
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Endjinneer posted:My chemistry teacher said this in 1999 so it must be true: Washing powder is an illusion of a market. There are only two manufacturers- Unilever and Procter&Gamble. All the dozen or so brands are owned by these two and the powder is basically identical. As a consumer you might be captivated by one brand or another, but you're basically choosing between boxes of identical powder. All that's different is the scent and maybe some blue sprinkles. I'm sure we've had this conversation here before but the flakes are actually just filler for the detergent so you don't have to measure it with a syringe. There are *some* differences, mainly between bio and non-bio, which can have a pretty big effect on your cleaning (i.e. if your clothes get oily a lot bio is vastly better, but conversely bio powders don't really work at high temperatures so if you've got pets, kids, or other things that generate lots of non-hydrocarbon dirt that the enzymes in biological powders don't touch and so need a higher-temperature wash non-bio is the way to go), and some bio detergents are now heavily optimised for low temperatures - I use that Aerial gel stuff with cold water and it works perfectly for normal washing, saving me loads on electricity. Now fabric softener - that's the real con job. I ran out of it a while ago and literally can't tell the difference, apart from the fact my towels are a bit scratchier (and about a million times more useful as towels).
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What are you using your towels for if scratchiness is a desirable quality?
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Sep 28, 2020 23:16
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goddamnedtwisto posted:
I don't use fabric softener. And big soft fluffy towels look all very nice but don't seem to actually get me dry, but a threadbare old thing actually functions much better as an actual towel.
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Sep 28, 2020 23:17
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so he didn't attempt to kill hismelf he got drunk and hit his wife and threatened to shoot guns at people. anyway if you want to see cops tackle him out of nowhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjAqS35D8ZU
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Sep 28, 2020 23:19
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OwlFancier posted:What are you using your towels for if scratchiness is a desirable quality? Scratchiness is a side-effect of the desirable quality, which is absorbency. Also - as any cow can tell you - a good scratch is one of life's great pleasures, and a nice scratchy towel is just the biped equivalent of one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rlext8BDpE
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Sep 28, 2020 23:20
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If you're into that I'm sure you can just pay a couple of quid and streak through the car wash.
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Sep 28, 2020 23:22
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I don't use fabric softener. And big soft fluffy towels look all very nice but don't seem to actually get me dry, but a threadbare old thing actually functions much better as an actual towel. Yeah, fabric softener is basically oil - that's what makes the clothes feel soft and fluffy, because the fibres move a bit more freely, but it also makes them repel water which is sub-optimal for a towel.
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Sep 28, 2020 23:22
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just shake yourself dry like a dog
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Sep 28, 2020 23:25
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The citizenship test should have three questions. One: What is the correct way to make a cup of tea? Two: What is the correct condiment to put on fish and chips? Three: Explain the concept of the Four Candles sketch. 200 words max. (A's 1 & 2: "Whatever/However I bloody well want, it's a free country!")
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Sep 28, 2020 23:28
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Umbra Dubium posted:The citizenship test should have three questions. "Jam or cream first?"
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Umbra Dubium posted:The citizenship test should have three questions. everyone who doesn't say non-brewed condiment gets deported
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Sep 28, 2020 23:32
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To all three questions.
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Sep 28, 2020 23:33
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OwlFancier posted:"Jam or cream first?"
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Sep 28, 2020 23:33
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Or you can dry yourself like my ex, which is to say ignore the towel, drip your way along the landing to the bedroom, then leap into bed and roll around on my side yelling "I'm giving the sheets a rinse".
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Sep 28, 2020 23:44
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I've definitely heard "don't use fabric softener on your towels" as like, a general rule. also sportswear apparently?
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Sep 28, 2020 23:48
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The catered food at my uni was, everyday: unidentifiable Meat slop option or vegetarian option (meat eaters can't choose Vege, we know who you are) Chips or potatoes or rice Beans or carrots or sweetcorn Salad bar which is just a bowl of shredded lettuce. A yogurt. Everyday. Because the food was so crap you would think the portions would be decent but no, I lost weight during my first term and ended up spending a fortune on take aways, probably two a week not including kebabs on nights out. I found a screw in my potato once too.
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Sep 28, 2020 23:49
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ScOHne or the wrong way?
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Sep 28, 2020 23:50
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I worked tech support for a school in London a decade ago and for a while they had a problem with the fire alarm going off for no reason. An Ofsted inspection was due to happen while this issue was going on, and the school’s solution to avoid having the fire alarm falsely activate during the inspection was to persuade the site manager to quietly disable the fire alarm for the entire school that day.
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Sep 28, 2020 23:58
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Does anyone else find it weird if an adult woman in her early 30s claims her 4 year old daughter is her 'best friend in all the world'? (She's a relative of mine).
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lockdown innit? Also people say that about dogs and its fine I guess. NotJustANumber99 fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Sep 29, 2020 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Does anyone else find it weird if an adult woman in her early 30s claims her 4 year old daughter is her 'best friend in all the world'? Not really. I have a son who is just over a year old, and I consider him a good mate. We go down the pub and the park and do things together. It is not strange at all.
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OK maybe its dumb.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Does anyone else find it weird if an adult woman in her early 30s claims her 4 year old daughter is her 'best friend in all the world'? Not really, like I don't have kids but if people can feel that way about a pet it doesn't seem bizzare that they would feel that way about an infant? There's probably less projection going on in the latter case at the least?
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Being insufferable about how much you love your own children is definitely normal human behaviour.
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You should love your kids, regardless of British tradition.
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CancerCakes posted:The catered food at my uni was, everyday: Crowning achievement of my college was absolutely serving risotto for a main course, with boiled rice for the side. Absolutely sublime. 
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Gonzo McFee posted:You should love your kids, regardless of British tradition. And only your own kids, in spite of the British tradition.
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Red Oktober posted:Crowning achievement of my college was absolutely serving risotto for a main course, with boiled rice for the side. Absolutely sublime. One time, we had chicken vol-au-vents on a Tuesday and two days later fruit vol-au-vents for dessert. I found a piece of chicken in the bottom of the fruit filling in mine. We had no choice of food at all. Except if you were vegetarian. One night, there was no separate vegetarian food. When asked why, the chief caterer replied, "The main course is fish. Vegetarians eat fish." and that was that. And there was the glorious institution of 'packed tea'. If you had late lectures, you were allowed to ask for 'packed tea' and this consisted of two pieces of bread, a piece of cheese or meat, and small chocolate bar and an apple. My friend and I used to get those when the Water Margin was on tv because we would get in the big colour tv room early (no individual tvs in those days) to bag the telly and force all the Coronation St watchers into the small black and white tv room. (There was no Eastenders then either! That was still a few years away.) But I digress. (This was 40 years ago and we had no cooking facilities whatsoever available for student's use, and many students spent their first term sleeping on the floors of college gyms - this was London - because of no accommodation at all to be found, either in college or private rents.)
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All sounds a bit posh.
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stev posted:I don't hold anything against catered halls but the year I spent living off super noodles and Rustlers burgers made me the man I am today, and I wouldn't want to see any fresher robbed of that. I think they give you about a thousand pounds a month if you take the full maintenance loan. You can get a non dive where I live for 3-400 quid then utilities (no council tax) is another hundred odd, that leaves a solid chunk for eating OK so long as you're intelligent with your money.
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CoolCab posted:I think they give you about a thousand pounds a month if you take the full maintenance loan. You can get a non dive where I live for 3-400 quid then utilities (no council tax) is another hundred odd, that leaves a solid chunk for eating OK so long as you're intelligent with your money. Really a grand? Anyway youre missing the booze, drugs and graphics cards columns on your quicken setup.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:One night, there was no separate vegetarian food. When asked why, the chief caterer replied, "The main course is fish. Vegetarians eat fish." and that was that. Reminds me of when I went on a ski trip with my uni (not that posh - we got a coach over to Les Arcs and stayed in a hostel type place for a total of something like £350 including food for the week, and I was working at Homebase during my off days from uni)... There were I think 55 of us in all, about 4 of us were vegetarian. First night there we go to the canteen and tell them we're vegetarian, guy comes out with a plate stacked high with green beans (like, seriously if you filled an average cereal bowl with a heaped serving, that's how many), with a piece of fish on the top. Told him I didn't eat fish... he went away for a moment, and came back with the same plate of green beans without the fish on top. So I pretty much lived on cheese and bread that whole week. It was at least decent bread and cheese, because France.
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