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Class solidarity but only for the bits of the country I personally like e: 
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MonkeyLibFront posted:One reason is standardised calibres of NATO weapons along with it not always great to use weapons that have the same accoustics as your enemies, I know the difference between an AK/PKM/DSSHK out & incoming Vs SA80, GPMG and 50.cal helps to aid in orientation and control measures. So you're saying the AK-47, the preferred weapon of our enemy, makes a very distinctive sound when fired at you? Suddenly Heartbreak Ridge is a cooler movie, so thanks for that.
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Oct 26, 2020 03:26
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WhatEvil posted:My Mum died yesterday morning.. Sorry to hear this. Good that you got to see her if only virtually but it still sucks. Mine was in hospital for a minor op last week and it brought things into focus suddenly.
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Oct 26, 2020 06:55
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jabby posted:So you're saying the AK-47, the preferred weapon of our enemy, makes a very distinctive sound when fired at you? I think this is a plot point of Rambo: First blood, part 2. John Rambo specifically asks for his American rifle to be replaced by an AK-47 so he can blend in.
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Oct 26, 2020 07:04
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I thought kalashnikovs were the go-to cheap, cheerful and extremely low maintenance rifles? they're the same thing 
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HopperUK posted:Class solidarity but only for the bits of the country I personally like Whats your problem man, whats your issue
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Oct 26, 2020 08:04
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Class solidarity for some, giant poppies for others
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Oct 26, 2020 08:29
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MonkeyLibFront posted:One reason is standardised calibres of NATO weapons along with it not always great to use weapons that have the same accoustics as your enemies, I know the difference between an AK/PKM/DSSHK out & incoming Vs SA80, GPMG and 50.cal helps to aid in orientation and control measures.
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Oct 26, 2020 09:02
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Condolences WhatEvil. There's no good time for that, but this is a worse one  Re speediness of funerals, what's the typical time between dying and funeral service in the UK? In the 2 EU countries where my parents and I live, respectively, it's strictly 3 days, with minimal exceptions (more for "the police still want to examine the body" than "how am I supposed to gather the family from all over the world in 3 days?") - my parents' CofE church has a handy handbook about dying in their country, and how it might be more rushed than you're used to. Also about how your loved ones' bodies don't really belong to you, but to the state, and it's illegal to take the ashes abroad to scatter if you're going to do it in a way not allowed under local law...
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Oct 26, 2020 09:14
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Guavanaut posted:Yes, the early versions of the SA80 make a very distinctive click click noise. Particularly when they jammed. ETA oh God, that was the joke)... Think my favourite thing about them is the safety plunger that was cunningly fashioned from plastic that turns into a sponge when it gets wet and eggshell when it gets cold. A2 is Good though and A3 looks Very Good, suitable for the post-revolution National Self-Defence Co-Operatives. Bobstar posted:Condolences WhatEvil. There's no good time for that, but this is a worse one Can take ages in GB. I’m part of the Irish diaspora and am viscerally uncomfortable with taking more than 3 days. Filboid Studge fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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I'm really sorry to hear that, WhatEvil. Don't think anyone itt or elsewhere would judge you if you feel like you should travel or w/e, just do whatever you feel you've got to do.Bobstar posted:my parents' CofE church has a handy handbook about dying in their country, and how it might be more rushed than you're used to.
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Oct 26, 2020 09:20
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WhatEvil posted:Horrible news Condolences WhatEvil, that's gut wrenching to hear
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Oct 26, 2020 09:25
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Add my condolences to WhatEvil. Definitely rough being on a different continent and unable to return because of this cursed plague.
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Bobstar posted:Re speediness of funerals, what's the typical time between dying and funeral service in the UK? 2-3 weeks, I think.
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https://twitter.com/MarcusRashford/status/1320648634480922626
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lol boris just wants to do a trump and just hide at the golf course but people just won’t leave him alone
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Oct 26, 2020 09:56
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Back in 2018, my mum died on August 20 and then we had the funeral on September 5. That kind of delay seems very sensible to me, especially since I had to organise it all myself and her sister had to fly in from America. When my grandmother died in late December, I wanted to delay the funeral for weeks until after Christmas so that travel would be easier and more of the family could come, though I was countermanded by the aforementioned aunt.
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Oct 26, 2020 10:31
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Failed Imagineer posted:The truck makes some good points 
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Oct 26, 2020 10:36
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I’ve really been noticing since the summer how much more we’re spending on groceries. For a family of three, we were in the very fortunate position of having an upper limit of £100 a week, doing a Big Shop and very rarely buying stuff otherwise. We’re buying the same things now, online because my partner works in a hospital that always contains Covid patients and is therefore Schroedinger’s disease vector, but it’s much harder to get for less that about £125. I’m hearing the same story from others. Are UKMTers seeing the same inflation on basics? Is the 0.8% claimed just lagging?
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Oct 26, 2020 10:39
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Filboid Studge posted:I’ve really been noticing since the summer how much more we’re spending on groceries. For a family of three, we were in the very fortunate position of having an upper limit of £100 a week, doing a Big Shop and very rarely buying stuff otherwise. We’re buying the same things now, online because my partner works in a hospital that always contains Covid patients and is therefore Schroedinger’s disease vector, but it’s much harder to get for less that about £125. I’m hearing the same story from others. I haven't tracked it but our online shop (Sainsburys) has definitely gotten pricier. For two of us we used to spend £80-120 most weeks depending on what's run out, but now we struggle to get it below £140. I don't think we're getting anything drastically different working from home either since we still have leftovers for lunch most days.
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Oct 26, 2020 10:42
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Mebh posted:I used to think I missed London. Then I realised I just missed being able to hop on the tube to go visit my older brother or sister for a free meal as I was a poor student. I've said it before but the best investment that could be made to make London public transport more usable would be to spend the money on giving every major city in the UK public transport to a roughly equivalent standard to London, and sorting out rural bus and train services. Part of the reason why London works at all is the (middling-to-poor by international standards, loving amazing by UK) public transport system, and giving someone in, say, Liverpool the same ability to never need a car and to be able to get to and from work and play cheaply and quickly would take more people off the Tube than Crossrail. Crossrail 2, just the latest patch on the catastrofuck that is Waterloo, is likely to cost upwards of £20bn. Imagine that money divvied up between every urban area of decent size in the UK could do? Obviously you won't get quite the same immediate bang for your buck because, say, the West Yorkshire conurbation is far less dense than London, mainly because it doesn't have London public transport; but a couple of billion buys a *lot* of buses, which then has knock-on effects on density, which makes better transport more affordable, and so on. Of course this is the big flaw with regionalism, at least as practiced by the Tories of both colours over the last few decades. It allows central government to play the cities off against each other, and makes this kind of cross-subsidy much more difficult. Ironically the only reason that TfL is half as good as it is, is Ken Livingstone's more-or-less final act at the GLC - by keeping the buses so heavily-regulated that they may as well have not been privatised (LRTB and now TfL set everything from routes and fares to the moquette on the seats) we ducked the worst of the 80s gutting of public transport.
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Oct 26, 2020 10:55
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Also just make public transport free at the point of use, like Luxembourg is doing.
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Oct 26, 2020 10:59
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Guavanaut posted:Also just make public transport free at the point of use, like Luxembourg is doing.
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Desiderata posted:I respect are clipart troops, boldly bearing the weight of that famous British army rifle, the M16. I'm reliably informed that those are modern low-altitude parachutes too.
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Oct 26, 2020 11:04
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There's infinite demand for a free good, people will just take six buses at the same time! 
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Oct 26, 2020 11:04
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People are trading free bus trips for cheap wine, smdh.
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Oct 26, 2020 11:05
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Lungboy posted:I'm reliably informed that those are modern low-altitude parachutes too. It's also an American battleship. A heartfelt Tribute to Are Boys made up of whatever was first in the Google Image search returns...
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Oct 26, 2020 11:15
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Guavanaut posted:Also just make public transport free at the point of use, like Luxembourg is doing. [runs into thread in response to Luxembourg signal] This is true, but "also" is the operative word there. The free public transport thing is great, but they also need to greatly expand provision in order to make a dent in Luxembourg's love affair with the car. Villages like the one I grew up in are poorly served by buses (I think it's improved though), and with the low low petrol prices, cars are just easier. I also think they'd meet resistance from Jos Klarkson and friends if they tried to inconvenientise driving to any great extent. See also this video from noted non-Luxembourger Tom Scott, which is very accurate and fair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feCQPD9DSOA
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Filboid Studge posted:I’ve really been noticing since the summer how much more we’re spending on groceries. For a family of three, we were in the very fortunate position of having an upper limit of £100 a week, doing a Big Shop and very rarely buying stuff otherwise. We’re buying the same things now, online because my partner works in a hospital that always contains Covid patients and is therefore Schroedinger’s disease vector, but it’s much harder to get for less that about £125. I’m hearing the same story from others. Remember to rob as much as you can get away with
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Oct 26, 2020 11:22
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Bobstar posted:Luxembourg signal
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crispix posted:Remember to rob as much as you can get away with Very little in an online shop. Though I am from Ards, it wouldn’t be the first time one of us held up a delivery van.
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Filboid Studge posted:I’ve really been noticing since the summer how much more we’re spending on groceries. For a family of three, we were in the very fortunate position of having an upper limit of £100 a week, doing a Big Shop and very rarely buying stuff otherwise. We’re buying the same things now, online because my partner works in a hospital that always contains Covid patients and is therefore Schroedinger’s disease vector, but it’s much harder to get for less that about £125. I’m hearing the same story from others. I've also noticed that orange juice has had a 20% price jump over the year (used to be £1, now £1.20 at both Tesco and Asda), quite a few things that used to offer multibuy savings no longer do so, smaller branches offer you name-brand or nothing on a lot of products so if you go there for convenience you have to pay more, etc etc. I'm from Yorkshire so I'm a natural tight-arse, but of late I've still realised how much I used to buy name-brand stuff out of sheer force of habit/programming. Which is ridiculous. Do you pay £1.30 or more for a branded loaf of bread, or 49p for the supermarket's own? £1.98 for a jar of pickled onions, or 27p? £1.50 for a multipack of crisps, or 77p? £2 for pasta sauce, or 57p? Most of the time the own-brand stuff is just as good - and quite possibly made by exactly the same people.
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Guavanaut posted:Their flag is a pale imitation of the Netherlands. Well maybe we just respect our flag enough to wash it regularly 
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Oct 26, 2020 11:40
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Condolences WhatEvil.
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Oct 26, 2020 11:41
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:(I didn't realize Mosely had been a Labour MP before joining the British Union of Fascists. (One of my nans was engaged to a guy and dumped him after 4 years when he joined the black shirts but that was 1930s not 1962). Tends to be a bit of a Thing for people to be far left radicals of some sort when young then swing right over to the hard right as they get older. See also the Revolutionary Communist Party lot for instance. Edit: for pickled onions specifically, may I suggest making your own  easy to do, tastes nicer, and if you want them strong enough to blow your head off that's easy to make happen.
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Filboid Studge posted:Very little in an online shop. Though I am from Ards, it wouldn’t be the first time one of us held up a delivery van. I'm in the small potato town close to there and in the summer a Tesco delivery man told me he had that day turned up at a house on a well known estate and a bloke sunbathing in the driveway wouldn't confirm the name on the delivery and got angry and abusive when the driver realised he was on the wrong street because he wasn't getting free other people's groceries 
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feedmegin posted:Tends to be a bit of a Thing for people to be far left radicals of some sort when young then swing right over to the hard right as they get older. See also the Revolutionary Communist Party lot for instance. feedmegin posted:Edit: for pickled onions specifically, may I suggest making your own
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Typical funeral time: First you have to register your death. Easy at least in a city. Not so in rural Gloucestershire. When my dad died 5 years ago, my mum phoned continually over several days the number she was given to book an appointment to do that. Eventually we realized she wasn't getting anywhere and looked online. The number she had been given was ringing into an office in one of the towns that was only staffed 1 hr a week and there was no ansaphone to say that and in any case appointments could only be booked online and in Gloucester itself. Fortunately she had internet-savvy kids and a car. Otherwise I don't know what she would have done. Getting to Gloucester and back in a day on public transport impossible. Return journey in a taxi approx £150. Imagine being a few years older (she was 78 at the time) and trying to negotiate that on your own when still many 80+ don't have internets. Took 10 days to register dad's death before we could even start planning the funeral. Total time death to funeral 5 weeks.
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Oct 26, 2020 11:50
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Guavanaut posted:I'm planning on doing some fermented vegetals over the winter. When I first moved to America, I wanted to make pickled onions because they're expensive and hard to find imports over there (and often a bit soft because they've been sitting round too long). I remembered my dad always made pickled onions for Christmas so I phoned him up to ask for the secret family recipe. This is what he handed down to me: 1. Buy Sarsons pre-spiced pickling vinegar 2. Add a few chilis to it 3. Add onions  (I had to learn to do it properly because good luck finding pickling vinegar in the US, but tbh a couple of cloves, bit of cinnamon stick, dash of nutmeg or allspice and you're most of the way there)
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Guavanaut posted:ITT half of all posters seemed to go from apolitical/libertarian/centrist to far left radical. Was gonna say, the inverse certainly seems to be true (eg my religiously Tory voting libertarian younger self)
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