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Guavanaut posted:Stoves with DLC is a the future jabby warned us of. Need that roast in a hurry? For just a few pence, you can unlock your oven's TURBO MODE, for one hour only.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Cars aren't the only road users. Years ago an oncoming cyclist turned right (across a red light) in front of me and t-boned my bike, cracking the fairing and causing a fair amount of damage to one of my boots - total cost to repair would have been about 500 quid if I wasn't already waiting on replacements from an earlier incident with a minicab. Had the timing been slightly different and I hit him instead I'd have almost certainly come off at 30 mph, more than enough to need me to replace most of my protective gear and probably enough to cause a couple of grand damage to the bike. I've been hit a few times by cyclists on the pavement (coming fast round a corner) and whilst it's thankfully not caused me any damage if they had hit a child or elderly person they could have seriously hurt someone. That said I've nearly been hit (or rather had cars not stop and I've avoided them cause I was paying attention) on a pelican crossing way more times than I've had trouble with cyclists. I've literally been halfway across the road and had cars not stop for me, happens quite often because I se the crossing twice a day at least and there's no better place to cross. That said I've noticed cyclists are particularly bad at stopping for pedestrians using the crossing, if at least a little less scary.
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jabby posted:Need that roast in a hurry? For just a few pence, you can unlock your oven's TURBO MODE, for one hour only. Shhh you'll give them ideas! (Actual turbo mode is great though, route more than the usual max power to a ring to get the water boiling. Haven't had a bill for DLC yet...)
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big scary monsters posted:Tesla just rolled out the new version of their "Full Self Driving" package and Twitter has been full of videos of people filming their cars doing incredibly dangerous things. Musk is definitely using the public as unwilling beta-testers, I do wonder if he'll be challenged at some point on the legal principle that the driver remains in control at all times. Lane-keeping is one thing, but if autopilot is going to make turns or decide when to stop/go at lights there's a definite argument that if it fucks up an average driver wouldn't have time to prevent an accident.
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Mebh posted:Didn't you realise you were on a cycle lane all along? Here you go, have a gently caress you.  e: jabby posted:Need that roast in a hurry? For just a few pence, you can unlock your oven's TURBO MODE, for one hour only. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Comrade Fakename posted:lol I can't think about Thangam without remembering the time someone told her to get in the sea & she claimed it was a death threat rather than just something everyone ran into the ground at the time.
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The facts as reported about Kier Starmer's attempt on the life of that deliveroo cyclist make no sense. If he was travelling in the direction they say, the spaces on that road are on the other side and they say damage to his car was on the drivers door with the cyclist travelling in the opposite direction. Whether he was doing a U turn or parking I don't see how those facts add up. Only if he was already parked and pulled out to straighten up or something then the cyclist could have riden into the drivers door. But that doesnt really match the desciptions. NotJustANumber99 fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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thangam debonnaire is such a stupid villain name that i'm now convinced der starmer is gonna win thats a name with destiny e: so is Sir Starmer, Keir II, come to think of it Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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forkboy84 posted:I can't think about Thangam without remembering the time someone told her to get in the sea & she claimed it was a death threat rather than just something everyone ran into the ground at the time. And saying cancelling rent would be 'un-labour' while claiming £1600 per month rent on expenses.
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forkboy84 posted:I can't think about Thangam without remembering the time someone told her to get in the sea & she claimed it was a death threat rather than just something everyone ran into the ground at the time. I cant think about Thangam Debbonaire without singing the Bon Jovi song and I laugh to myself every time
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the sex ghost posted:I cant think about Thangam Debbonaire without singing the Bon Jovi song and I laugh to myself every time Can't see how that scans into Wanted Dead or Alive???
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goddamnedtwisto posted:We've have more than one pedestrian actually killed by cyclists in London if you think I'm being too dramatic about my own experience. Oh great Twisto, fount of London knowledge, do you have any idea what F.H.G.M.D.C might stand for? It's on a silver cross and the rest of the inscription says 2nd Prize Juniors 1910, which I realize was before your time, but I hoped maybe some of the initials were geographically recognizable. In case it helps, the prizewinner was my great-uncle whose Methodist umbrella-making family lived in Bethnal Green.
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hosed Hogs, Grandad Mount (David Cameron) e: Maybe it's the name of the prize, the For Helping Get Methodists Dry Cross, and not something originally given to William Mount by a time traveling pig touching David Cameron. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Oh dear me posted:Oh great Twisto, fount of London knowledge, do you have any idea what F.H.G.M.D.C might stand for? It's on a silver cross and the rest of the inscription says 2nd Prize Juniors 1910, which I realize was before your time, but I hoped maybe some of the initials were geographically recognizable. Google this: methodist medal junior and check out images. Does it look like any of those?
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Oh dear me posted:Oh great Twisto, fount of London knowledge, Oh this reminds me, I need to ask Twisto something about bikes (which I'm given to understand he has a passing knowledge of) The question is: what the gently caress is with those motorbikes that have a tiny rear wheel? I've seen them all over london starting a few months ago and they look ridiculous (so new they seem to be that I can't find an image of one on google)
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Google this: Thank you! It doesn't in detail, but the shape of the cross is similar enough to suggest this was a Methodist thing.
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Oh dear me posted:Thank you! It doesn't in detail, but the shape of the cross is similar enough to suggest this was a Methodist thing. MIght be worth contacting the Bethnal Green Methodist church directly if you want to research further?
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who was it said that the papers would give Starmer a pass for knocking down a cyclist because something something sensible centrist status quo because lol
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Julio Cruz posted:who was it said that the papers would give Starmer a pass for knocking down a cyclist because something something sensible centrist status quo If it were Corbyn it would've been the BBC's top story and every front page. Starmer is playing on easy mode and still can't pull ahead.
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 jabby posted:If it were Corbyn it would've been the BBC's top story and every front page.
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It's quite amazing honestly. A leader of a political party has physically injured a member of the public and it hasn't reached beyond Twitter and Guido Fawkes.
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Oh dear me posted:Oh great Twisto, fount of London knowledge, do you have any idea what F.H.G.M.D.C might stand for? It's on a silver cross and the rest of the inscription says 2nd Prize Juniors 1910, which I realize was before your time, but I hoped maybe some of the initials were geographically recognizable. How weird, I'm literally reading up on Methodists in Bethnal Green right now. First thought is MDC might be Middlesex District Championships - although the LCC stole Bethnal Green and environs from Middlesex in 1888, most sports and other activities continued to use the name for their London-area teams and contests (including cricket to this day of course) but I'm basing that on nothing other than a hunch. Let me have a think and ask a few people in the local history groups I'm in and see if anyone has anything better than my reckons.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Oh this reminds me, I need to ask Twisto something about bikes (which I'm given to understand he has a passing knowledge of) Not seen what you're talking about unless you mean the various Grom knockoffs which are generally tiny all over. What style of bike are we talking about? Bigger or smaller than regular bikes? Is the rider leaning forward, sitting up, or leaning back?
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Didn't Corbyn's car accidentally nudge someone and make front page news and top headlines for a decade or something?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Not seen what you're talking about unless you mean the various Grom knockoffs which are generally tiny all over. 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Didn't Corbyn's car accidentally nudge someone and make front page news and top headlines for a decade or something?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Let me have a think and ask a few people in the local history groups I'm in and see if anyone has anything better than my reckons. Awesome, thank you. And I'd be interested if you can recommend any reading on Bethnal Green Methodists as well.
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Oh dear me posted:Awesome, thank you. And I'd be interested if you can recommend any reading on Bethnal Green Methodists as well. It's a (short) history of the East End Mission I picked up at Brick Lane Bookshop - alas there doesn't seem to be a single book covering the era and subject which is a pity because there's loads of little tales, from Frederick Charrington giving up a comfortable inheritance from his brewery-owning family to spend his time picketing pubs and chasing sex worker's clients down the street screaming about where they'd just been, to the Sally Army forming brass band infantry squares to cope with the somewhat enthusiastic criticism of locals not interested in being saved, that are part of east end folklore but are almost impossible to actually track down to a definitive source.
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idk if this is the best place to ask but: does anyone have recommendations for english language news outlets that focus on european news and aren't fash rags? the indy is ok but it is of course very UK focused...
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bump_fn posted:idk if this is the best place to ask but: does anyone have recommendations for english language news outlets that focus on european news and aren't fash rags? the indy is ok but it is of course very UK focused... Politico is pretty good (for liberals)
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Anyone based round York sort of way? Up here for a few months and looking to do some political poo poo. Community organising, Acorn type stuff, nothing wild - living with family so not a chance I’m risking bringing anything down on them. Figured this might be a good place to ask. Drop me a pm if you don’t want to expose your location in thread.
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bump_fn posted:idk if this is the best place to ask but: does anyone have recommendations for english language news outlets that focus on european news and aren't fash rags? the indy is ok but it is of course very UK focused... Deutsche Welle is a rough equivalent of the BBC World Service that'll see you all right.
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Jakabite posted:Anyone based round York sort of way? Up here for a few months and looking to do some political poo poo. Community organising, Acorn type stuff, nothing wild - living with family so not a chance I’m risking bringing anything down on them. Figured this might be a good place to ask. Drop me a pm if you don’t want to expose your location in thread. There's a York food not bombs Facebook group that's a good bet for getting in touch with people
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I missed that the Government buried the publication of the Cygnus report during the Manchester brouhaha last week https://archive.vn/dKQyb Also it turns out that Hunt is such a soft twat he can't even turn off pretend ventilators in a pretend pandemic https://archive.vn/ZmSmq
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Can someone help me find some pictures. They are a series of drawings of how taxes would affect the average family. The average family being a single mother on $250k (as they were about obamas tax plans of i recall correctly). TIA
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Lungboy posted:I missed that the Government buried the publication of the Cygnus report during the Manchester brouhaha last week https://archive.vn/dKQyb The press dragged corbyn over the coals for not willingly murdering 50 million Russians in nuclear hellfire for no adequately explained reason but hunt is apparently given a free pass to kill hundreds of thousands of british people in a pandemic scenario by refusing to take his job seriously and accept the responsibilities that come with it. edit: as I recall the main thing that the NHS took from cygnus was that in a time of crisis the government may not actually have people willing to make the tough choices that need to be made to save lives, hilariously, because of this.
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notaspy posted:Can someone help me find some pictures.  I can't find the gif that recommends the guillotine for all of them though, sadly.
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I like this, I don't really understand the 'dependency on the state' argument, people like being able to feed their kids more than a staple diet. They're not feral cats, but people seem to think that if you feed one kid they'll tell the others and oh no suddenly they're all making GBS threads in your garden. Anyway, Sarah Vine is being mildly ratioed (just over 2:1) for this weird rear end tweet. https://twitter.com/WestminsterWAG/status/1321461513354387456
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