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The forums are public so if you want them I would grab them before some rando reading does.
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OwlFancier posted:The forums are public so if you want them I would grab them before some rando reading does. Good advice. I just tried. I have a Mac and the game doesn't run on OS X. C'est la vie.
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Dec 27, 2020 13:23
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Wolfsbane posted:Depending on who you believe, Socrates may have been killed for teaching young people not to respect their elders. So when you think about it he was the original Jeremy Corbyn. The funny part was after Socrates was convicted, he was asked to set his own punishment. He suggested that he should be kept under house arrest, and given a State pension until the end of his days so he could keep doing talks. The State decided to substitute it with the death penalty in the hope that he would apologise. He didn't and thus willingly went to his death. I also love how people keep talking about Atlantis as if it was a real place when it was included in a Socratic dialogue. ( Well dialogue recorded by Plato about Socrates) Invented by a guy who was known for inventing people to prove points for him. It would be like people going on expeditions in 1,000 years time to find the fabled land of Fraggle Rock as chronicled by historian Jim Hension.
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Dec 27, 2020 13:56
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OwlFancier posted:What the absolute gently caress is "the cool brittania?" It was that 'magical' short period of time in the 90s when everything was looking good. The Tories were kicked out, UK music was amazing, fashion, arts, the economy was looking to be getting better. Then Blair turned out to be a fucker behind a fake smile, sold the country out to PFIs and 9/11 blew away any progress made.
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Dec 27, 2020 14:12
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Given what we know now about the collusion between Blair's crew and the tabloids, it's entirely possible that the phrase was invented by some oval office working for Blair.
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Dec 27, 2020 14:31
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The Question IRL posted:It would be like people going on expeditions in 1,000 years time to find the fabled land of Fraggle Rock as chronicled by historian Jim Hension. happyhippy posted:Then Blair turned out to be a fucker behind a fake smile, sold the country out to PFIs and 9/11 blew away any progress made.
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Dec 27, 2020 14:34
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https://twitter.com/deadtreesanddye/status/1342970001616232449?s=20
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Dec 27, 2020 14:58
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The world would be much better honestly if everyone just shot brits on sight the minute we tried to leave the island.
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Dec 27, 2020 15:01
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OwlFancier posted:The world would be much better honestly if everyone just shot brits on sight the minute we tried to leave the island. Macron wakes up from his sleep. Grabs his phone and rings his secretary of state. "Yes, zis is Emmanuel, I have an idea. Meet me at calais, and bring a rifle"
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Dec 27, 2020 15:09
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If the anglo sets foot upon your shores he will bring nothing but plague and racism.
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Dec 27, 2020 15:13
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OwlFancier posted:If the anglo sets foot upon your shores he will bring nothing but plague and racism. Not like anyone in France would be able to tell at this point. Kassad fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Dec 27, 2020 |
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Dec 27, 2020 15:20
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therattle posted:If nobody else claims this I would like it thanks. I used to play the original some 30 years ago... You can get the original Railroad Tycoon off archive.org and run it in Dosbox, I started playing it again recently. I didn't remember that the other, AI-run railroads were run by historical persons, so when I started a new game in Europe ca. 1900 I was competing with both Tsar Nicholas II and Lenin, who started a new railroad in Switzerland. Anyway my point is choo choo, motherfuckers
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Dec 27, 2020 15:33
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There's also open transport tycoon deluxe which is pretty neat, and free.
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so which of the loudest remainers will vote against the deal and get sacked from the labour front bench?
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Dec 27, 2020 15:58
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Jose posted:so which of the loudest remainers will vote against the deal and get sacked from the labour front bench? Lammy possibly?
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Dec 27, 2020 16:00
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Jose posted:so which of the loudest remainers will vote against the deal and get sacked from the labour front bench? My MP is holding a zoom meeting on Tuesday to discuss his vote, can't see him voting against the deal though.
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Dec 27, 2020 16:00
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Jose posted:I don't know what this was a reply to but it's a great clip A friend of mine is a total fan of George Michael (even though she's muslim and lives in a muslim country). Seems he did a lot of good work helping people without it being all over the news.
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Dec 27, 2020 16:15
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George Michael created a music video with him dressed as a cop in a public toilet with disco urinals and what's not to love really.
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Dec 27, 2020 16:25
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SpicePro posted:George Michael created a music video with him dressed as a cop in a public toilet with disco urinals and what's not to love really. "I'd service the community/But I already have, you see" is just an incredible flex
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Dec 27, 2020 16:29
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Kassad posted:Not like anyone in France would be able to tell at this point. You could spot the brit as they would have full body neon pink sunburn from being in a place two degrees above room temperature.
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Dec 27, 2020 16:57
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happyhippy posted:You could spot the brit as they would have full body neon pink sunburn from being in a place two degrees above room temperature. I meant the plague and the racism are already here.
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Dec 27, 2020 17:17
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SpicePro posted:George Michael created a music video with him dressed as a cop in a public toilet with disco urinals and what's not to love really. Fun fact. My sister did the costumes for that video!
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Dec 27, 2020 17:28
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The Question IRL posted:The funny part was after Socrates was convicted, he was asked to set his own punishment. “How do you want to die?” “Of old age at home after drinking and loving myself to death at your expense while still doing everything you’ve accused me of ha ha ha.” Like, it’s a dumb joke sure, but hell of a thing to say to people literally about to pass your death sentence. E: BBC had an interesting story today to the effect that the IRA tried to shut Sinn Fein out of the peace talks on the grounds they were too socialist, based on recently declassified Irish government docs. (Phone posting so: bbc.com/news/world-Europe-55453601). They quote the file reference (2020/17/34.260900 Dec 20) several times in the article so it looks genuine. Not all that surprising that military types trend right wing regardless of supposed ideology I guess. Beefeater1980 fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Dec 27, 2020 |
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Dec 27, 2020 17:58
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Socrates was basically the worlds first "Well actually" guy.
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Dec 27, 2020 18:22
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CyberPingu posted:Macron wakes up from his sleep. Grabs his phone and rings his secretary of state. The rest of the EU would actually stop France if they tried this. We like some Brits. ... not the rich ones though, which gives the EU an unifying thread for treating Britain.
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Dec 27, 2020 18:38
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Vaccine queue calculator. Seems there are about 20 million people ahead of me in the queue! https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queue-uk
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Dec 27, 2020 18:47
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Vaccine queue calculator. We're nowhere near 1 million vaccinations a week either so don't trust these dates at all.
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Dec 27, 2020 18:55
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Vaccine queue calculator. Cool, if I can get my weight up to morbidly obese I jump 10 million up the queue and get my vaccine in March rather than July, meaning I can get a holiday while everyone else is in lockdown (admittedly getting beach body ready in that time may then be even more challenging)
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Dec 27, 2020 18:58
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Cool, if I can get my weight up to morbidly obese I jump 10 million up the queue and get my vaccine in March rather than July, meaning I can get a holiday while everyone else is in lockdown (admittedly getting beach body ready in that time may then be even more challenging) 
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Dec 27, 2020 19:07
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namesake posted:We're nowhere near 1 million vaccinations a week either so don't trust these dates at all. You can edit the weekly rate and % uptake, but this early it seems pointless. Will be useful once things have been rolling along for another month or two, assuming they keep reporting figures
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Dec 27, 2020 19:08
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Cool, if I can get my weight up to morbidly obese I jump 10 million up the queue and get my vaccine in March rather than July, meaning I can get a holiday while everyone else is in lockdown (admittedly getting beach body ready in that time may then be even more challenging) What could be more ready for the beach than shaped like a walrus?
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Dec 27, 2020 19:13
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NHS definition of morbidly obese is a BMI > 40, which at my height would be 275 pounds, 25 less than Homer had to get to - I think I can make that without needing a muumuu. (Cheeringly, while looking that up, I realised I'd dropped from "obese" to "overweight" by the week before Christmas when I suspended my diet, be interesting to see if I'm back up to rag on a stick levels on New Years Day when I start back up)
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I don’t know if I should inform my doctor about my significant weight loss this year because I think it might have knocked me into a lower obesity level and therefore would put me lower on the vaccine list.
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Dec 27, 2020 19:27
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Comrade Fakename posted:I don’t know if I should inform my doctor about my significant weight loss this year because I think it might have knocked me into a lower obesity level and therefore would put me lower on the vaccine list. I'm still on the shielding list because of medication I haven't taken since March. I don't intend to question it if they say I get a vaccine sooner. 
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Dec 27, 2020 19:29
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Comrade Fakename posted:I don’t know if I should inform my doctor about my significant weight loss this year I am not a doctor, but I think it goes like this: if your weight loss is explicable by known factors, such as dieting, cutting out alcohol, or similar, maybe wait. If not, report it right now.
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Dec 27, 2020 19:52
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happyhippy posted:You could spot the brit as they would have full body neon pink sunburn from being in a place two degrees above room temperature.
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Dec 27, 2020 21:16
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that's an irish thing too you get a day in may or june when it's not raining and cold and there are all half nekit big pink and purple bodies everywhere
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Oh dear me posted:I am not a doctor, but I think it goes like this: if your weight loss is explicable by known factors, such as dieting, cutting out alcohol, or similar, maybe wait. If not, report it right now. Oh, my weight loss is very much explicable, and a good thing. But the question is whether or not I should let my doctor know so they can amend my status as high-risk for Covid.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Oh, my weight loss is very much explicable, and a good thing. But the question is whether or not I should let my doctor know so they can amend my status as high-risk for Covid. Don't worry about it. If you've rapidly lost weight then the other effects of obesity that put you at high risk may not have disappeared by now anyway.
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Today the breadroll aisle, milk aisle and premade sandwiches were decimated at ASDA. Christmas? Panic buying or stuff stuck at Calais? Who knows? Either way I got my wife's meds and gtfo after of course buying a discount pork loin for char sui this week. Why bread rolls though? Bread exit? Bredxit?
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