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Pistol_Pete posted:I'd also suggest stocking up on basic toiletries. You hear plenty of people worrying about having no pasta; rather fewer worrying about having no deoderant. if i'm not leaving my house i need lots of pasta and no deodorant (i only use brut anyway and that will never go out of stock anywhere)
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You'll regret that comment when you're bidding £50 for that last can of Brut on sale on Ebay.
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A Costco card is worth it, if only to be able to buy a really nice red velvet cake at a tenner for 2kg
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FYI, the arrangement the EU and UK came to last week for Northern Ireland that applies regardless of any comprehensive trade arrangement also included provisions for the transport of medicines, so whilst I think there might be *some* limitations on medicine availability immediately post Brexit, I think it should broadly be fine unless you're on something you can't get on NHS prescription
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Used to get a lot of meat (kirkland?) from costco and freeze it all in a big chest freezer. It was good in general for catering for big parties and events. The hot dogs from the instore cafe thing are a thing. It can be quite a gauntlet to run against everyone with their big trolleys and bargain hunting heads on. Also I used to get tyres from there. To be honest a lot of the stuff was not a great deal but there was always something that felt like a good deal. Bought a printer once and on the way home stopped in pc world or wherever and it was the same price.
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I have a bunch of tinned stuff. My pal criticised me for stocking up as he thought if everyone did that the shelves would be empty - but really all I've done is order a bit more food than I'd usually get for a week, I don't have a car either so its not as if I'm taking food from hungry mouths. I'm also tempted to stock up on tobacco and alcohol but would probably end up drinking it then eating my stockpile and be sat in my kitchen drunk, surrounded by empty tins of beans. But where did they go? 
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wrt to mental attitude to Brexit, you kind of have two choices: You can think about how insane, how unfair, just how loving ridiculous it is that we're on this course because 26% of the country voted for it, and that a huge number of those votes were based on believing outright lies by shamelessly corrupt politicians who now sit in the Cabinet, that in order to achieve it our democratic institutions and rule of law are being openly dismantled by a thick, adulterous, lying buffoon whose previous job was 'columnist' and no one seems to care, that we're speeding towards the worst possible outcome because a tiny majority of people want it, that this whole movement was backed by billionaires who vociferously spoke out in favour of it, and then promptly moved all their assets and businesses to the EU, that we're so utterly loving powerless to do anything about it, and it's just so loving UNFAIR.... Or you can just shrug and try not to think about it and get on with things and just worry about Covid instead. The second one's easier.
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justcola posted:be sat in my kitchen drunk, surrounded by empty tins of beans. But where did they go? 
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The Perfect Element posted:Or you can just shrug and try not to think about it and get on with things and just worry about Covid instead. Kinda sad but true that UKPOL is so hosed that it's easier to just focus on the raging, uncontrolled pandemic slaughtering the elderly and immiserating everyone. Same is probably true for me wrt capitalism vs climate catastrophe, and I guess st that point you're approaching Jameson's maxim about imagining the end of the world
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There is some crazy rain headed your way if you are in the east. It only just stopped here in the west. I would not want to drive in that. I managed to get completely soaked from being outside for a couple of mins. 
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Failed Imagineer posted:you're approaching Jameson's maxim 
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For real that gun looks like absolute poo poo and it's crazy you guys subdued several continents with it
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blunt posted:Going by this interview with the writers it seems like you got what they were going for then Christ that interview is illuminating. How can the writers of a show be so utterly wrong about it? That they think it is a show with a neutral moral stance is one of the most chef kiss things I have ever read.
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notaspy posted:Christ that interview is illuminating. Lack of ideology is itself an ideology etc etc *sniff*
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Failed Imagineer posted:For real that gun looks like absolute poo poo and it's crazy you guys subdued several continents with it Give it water and it keeps on firing. Forever. After WWI they did a test on a vickers (also water cooled) to see how long it would take to wear the barrel out. after 12 hours of constant firing they gave in....
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Love it, I write one article on how to make beer in a more sustainble way (water, CO2 capture etc) and link it on a brewing forum and get this: Oh honey, you think saving water is socialism? We have such sights (sites?) to show you...
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Darth Walrus posted:An article on some of the weird, suspect poo poo going on under the hood of the Canary. It having a pay-per-click model explains a lot about The Canary. Also doesn't seem very left-wing...
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justcola posted:sat in my kitchen drunk, surrounded by empty tins of beans. But where did they go? I mean you basically just described an average evening in my household from the last few months.
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Well I just ordered a package from the UK, I hope it survives brexit.
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Miftan posted:Lack of ideology is itself an ideology etc etc *sniff* Red Oktober posted:Oh honey, you think saving water is socialism? We have such sights (sites?) to show you...
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notaspy posted:Christ that interview is illuminating. I watched the first episode last night, scratched my itch for horrible corporate bullshit I haven't had since the early seasons of Mr. Robot. I like the inhumanity of it really, the first episode was directed by Lena Dunham who also did Girls, so it captures a lot of that 'none of these characters are likeable or relatable' atmosphere I miss from working in an office. Guavanaut posted:Heh heh... "I'll blow my brexit stockpile up your backside"
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justcola posted:I watched the first episode last night, scratched my itch for horrible corporate bullshit I haven't had since the early seasons of Mr. Robot. I like the inhumanity of it really, the first episode was directed by Lena Dunham who also did Girls, so it captures a lot of that 'none of these characters are likeable or relatable' atmosphere I miss from working in an office. I had the same but opposite experience, where I watched the first episode mind-blown by how poo poo and trite the whole thing was, and then "Directed by Lena Dunham" popped up and it all clicked into place
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Supreme Court says Heathrow can proceed to request planning permission for a new runway. Full judgement here if anybody wants to trawl through it: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2020-0042-judgment.pdf
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Failed Imagineer posted:Kinda sad but true that UKPOL is so hosed that it's easier to just focus on the raging, uncontrolled pandemic slaughtering the elderly and immiserating everyone. The smugness of the media and the onslaught of “this is normal” from the government and institutions are designed to make you feel this way. What leftists should really look at is building counter hegemony, and if necessary finding / building enclaves where “normality” is replaced by revolutionary praxis. Unfortunately this tends to result in abusive cults, like that one Maoist cell they found where the women were kept as slaves in the leader’s house. The real problem with the British culturally is that they’re so attached to getting on with life and not rocking the boat that they’d rather be humiliated and stepped on than risk disturbing whatever appears to be safe and normal. But as Sartre points out in Being and Nothingness, doing nothing is still a choice, and Brits are therefore complicit in their own impoverishment.
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Ah yes, another argument that the british are uniquely weak/servile/lovely/not capable of true socialism based of vague national sterotypes, lovely. Rather than just that accepting the truth that everything is hosed and you can't do anything about it is painful, and people all over the world don't like to do painful things.
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u brexit ukip it posted:Supreme Court says Heathrow can proceed to request planning permission for a new runway. Full judgement here if anybody wants to trawl through it: it's gonna be so fukken dumb when they build the thing and it goes unused because nobody loving wants to come here any more post brexit
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UK politics is operating at a very high level of discourse https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/1339162685938667520?s=19
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Failed Imagineer posted:UK politics is operating at a very high level of discourse That's far more detail than anyone wanted about the sex life of Currie and Major.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Ah yes, another argument that the british are uniquely weak/servile/lovely/not capable of true socialism based of vague national sterotypes, lovely. Rather than just that accepting the truth that everything is hosed and you can't do anything about it is painful, and people all over the world don't like to do painful things. I am British and - just for comparison - observe the riots in Paris over neoliberal tax reform. Observe also the massive protests in many cities over the government loving murdering people in the US. Now tell me what comparable popular expression of discontent there’s been in the UK since the London riots.
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Mainly anti lockdown protests.
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Lungboy posted:It sounds like Heathrow has all but canned it's 3rd runway team, so while they won the court case it might not go ahead anyway. Of course but you can't keep a large team around for a year doing nothing while your case winds through the courts. A lot of those people were also on secondment from consultancy companies. I imagine that if Heathrow can finance it they'll restart at least some preliminary work while they see what's going to happen with the pandemic.
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Mainly anti lockdown protests. Those were rather tiny, the anti-Brexit ones were considerably bigger (not that they achieved much in the end). Anyway yeah I do think it is a bit prejudiced at least.
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Mainly anti lockdown protests.
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Failed Imagineer posted:UK politics is operating at a very high level of discourse Good for her.
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Angrymog posted:That's far more detail than anyone wanted about the sex life of Currie and Major. forkboy84 posted:It having a pay-per-click model explains a lot about The Canary. Also doesn't seem very left-wing... Canary are full on conspiracy kooks, and I say that as an avid follower of the UKMT. They constantly make leaps of logic and assumptions when compiling 'exposees,' and end up reading like the rantings of madmen. Their articles being shared generally end up doing more harm than good to the left. Corbyn really should have known better than to engage with them just by reading their output.
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i did not need a mental image of John Major lying on his back, legs akimbo, asking for his man fanny to be punished
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19th century right wingers: We wear shirts and trousers and unnecessary decorative cravats, proving that we are superior to the unclad savage who, save for a loin cloth, spreads disease and decadence with his nudity. 21st century right wingers: A bloo bloo the face cloth.
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crispix posted:i did not need a mental image of John Major lying on his back, legs akimbo, asking for his man fanny to be punished excuse me the preferred term is bussy (beans pussy)
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FAO people who do the podcast: dunno if this is a glitch w castbox or something but i've noticed your newest 2 or 3 episodes will only display until i go to play one, then for some reason they disappear. they aren't in archived or anything either. then, after a couple of days, they will reappear. RSS glitch maybe?
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