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feedmegin posted:Na, you could just claim he'd already fenced it. I mean, it's your word against someone literally caught burgling. He left a nice juicy big fingerprint on the bin he'd used to prop open a door. They caught him because he shot the couple in the next place he burgled. (Wounded not killed). French 79 No idea what this tune is like, listening for the first time. (well a minute in and seems okish for now) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAv5pLO37mE Ed: 2 mins in and it's not exactly my cup of tea. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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When I was a wee boy we were on a family holiday to Tenerife and I left the bag containing our game boys and games in a taxi that immediately hosed off. After we got home my dad submitted an insurance claim and told us to lie about what we had so we ended up with two brand new game boy colours and loads of games we didn't have. I've never quite recovered from that blatant fraud.
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Jan 12, 2021 11:29
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Spain will be claiming that back in the post Brexit negotiations. 2x Game Boy Color 3x Pokemons 1x Gibraltar
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EvilHawk posted:When I was a wee boy we were on a family holiday to Tenerife and I left the bag containing our game boys and games in a taxi that immediately hosed off. After we got home my dad submitted an insurance claim and told us to lie about what we had so we ended up with two brand new game boy colours and loads of games we didn't have. Well the Game Boy was notorious for causing eye strain due to the lack of backlighting. And while the Game Boy Colour didn't have backlighting either (that wouldn't come along until the Gameboy Advance) it was easier to make things out on screen due to the appearance of colour. So obviously your Dad was thinking about your eyes when he advised you to go for the GBC. That's some good parenting there.
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Lmao if you didn't have the Gameboy torch attachment that plugged into the headphone port and lit the screen.
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Problem with lying about stolen stuff which it seems 99%* of people are ok with is that it is then assumed that honest people are lying to. Rather like CVs. It is assumed that everyone lies on their CV so when you put in a totally honest CV and really do have qualifications stretching from Earth to the Moon and back, and more careers than normal people have hot dinners, everyone assumes you, too, are lying. *made up percentage based on just about everyone I've ever talked to about this - friends, enemies, colleagues, relatives....
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Jan 12, 2021 11:41
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The Question IRL posted:Well the Game Boy was notorious for causing eye strain due to the lack of backlighting. And while the Game Boy Colour didn't have backlighting either (that wouldn't come along until the Gameboy Advance) it was easier to make things out on screen due to the appearance of colour. I just found my old GBC in my mum's house over Xmas. I thought the screen was dying due to how dark it was, but nope poo poo really was that dark and we just found it acceptable I guess. Disgusting
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Sometimes it’s a case of not actually realising how much of value one owns. I had a bag stolen from the train when coming back from uni They didn’t believe me, but for once my superpower of being a massive packrat helped me out. The adjuster’s face when he saw an eight foot high pile of empty dvd cases, big old-fashioned pc game boxes and so on was a site to behold. Ended up getting the full amount back, which i then mostly blew on airsoft gear because I was a loving idiot.
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Guavanaut posted:1x Gibraltar
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Failed Imagineer posted:I just found my old GBC in my mum's house over Xmas. I thought the screen was dying due to how dark it was, but nope poo poo really was that dark and we just found it acceptable I guess. Disgusting Hah, I had the vastly superior - wait let me just change the batteries - Atari Lynx, with it's full colour - poo poo, one sec, let me try the Duracells - backlit screen as well as full 16-bit - fucks sake, anyone got any AAs? - performance.
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stev posted:Lmao if you didn't have the Gameboy torch attachment that plugged into the headphone port and lit the screen. I had donkey kong
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:French 79 I quite like Between the Buttons. It's slow, but nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbb316gp78A
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Hah, I had the vastly superior - wait let me just change the batteries - Atari Lynx, with it's full colour - poo poo, one sec, let me try the Duracells - backlit screen as well as full 16-bit - fucks sake, anyone got any AAs? - performance. I remember my dad gettinf a bag of 200 odd dirt cheap batteries for my Gameboy. They lasted less than an hour and most of the fun came from trying to get to a save point before the battery died. Then I swapped to a rechargeable battery that only worked when plugged in and ended up on using it when sat next to a plug socket.
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Guavanaut posted:Spain will be claiming that back in the post Brexit negotiations. I think this was pre-pokemon, but I definitely got Wario Land 3 out of the deal. stev posted:Lmao if you didn't have the Gameboy torch attachment that plugged into the headphone port and lit the screen. Oh I absolutely had the torch/magnifying glass attachment thing so I could play until the early hours of the morning. Camrath posted:Sometimes it’s a case of not actually realising how much of value one owns. Yeah and I think this was actually the source of the fraud. Once you total up the devices when purchased (I think they were second hand but I imagine we pretended they were new), the games, accessories etc. it comes to more than you think, and the insurance company (if I recall correctly) were just like "make a list up to that value".
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josh04 posted:It's just a particularly aspirational variant on "The real, liberal Boris Johnson appears to have gone forever... but what if?" I've always found it weird that people called Johnson a socially Liberal tory. The man has always been a racist, homophobic, sexist piece of poo poo but because he's so terrible at covering up that he can't keep his dick in his trousers they treat him as if he's only playing a character rather than just being a massive, obvious hypocrite.
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It's literally that he used to be all that but as a journalist peer, where they're accustomed to excusing it.
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Yeah but he's racist, homophobic, and sexist by writing funny* articles** about the watermelon people rather than dour authoritarian laws, which is what passes for liberal. *  ** 
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Gonzo McFee posted:I've always found it weird that people called Johnson a socially Liberal tory. The man has always been a racist, homophobic, sexist piece of poo poo That's liberalism.
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Jan 12, 2021 12:17
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forkboy84 posted:That's liberalism. I mean yeah but I was talking about the made up version they make for themselves that they're somehow moral and decent people who are beyond racism, sexism and homophobia.
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He's sexist, racist, homophobic etc but doesn't seem to actually hate any of those groups. He just holds ignorant views on them. That is essentially the Liberal baseline in Britain. Remember how traumatising it was for the British liberals to be confronted with an actual anti-racist. He was seen as anti-british.
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Gonzo McFee posted:I mean yeah but I was talking about the made up version they make for themselves that they're somehow moral and decent people who are beyond racism, sexism and homophobia. He's not actively bringing back Section 28 and that is the lowest of low bars for a liberal Tory. No don't ask about his attitudes or policies towards trans people. No don't ask about his attitudes or policies towards ethnic minorities.
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He's socially liberal because he doesn't think it should actually be illegal to be a [insert litany of homophobic slurs]Communist Thoughts posted:He was seen as anti-british. 
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Valuation when it comes to the law, is a funny thing. One of my first cases, I was representing a man charged with a burglary where over €30,000 worth of goods were stolen. The dispute arose (when it came to decide whether or not to keep it in the lowest of court, or punt it upwards to a higher court) around the valuation. Basically the jewellery was probably bought for 1/10th that price. But the owners said that the sentimental value was much higher and that’s where the value of €30,000 came from. Our argument was 1) The goods were all recovered, so the sentimental valuation is immaterial as you got the stuff back. 2) You are clearly inflating the valuation to suit yourself, and possibly as part of an insurance scam. On the flip side in another case one of my clients stole a woman’s bag that contained a (relatively) inexpensive amulet. But the amulet contained some of the ashes of the woman’s dead mother, so from a sentimental value the item was priceless. Where you really see a clash between “Cost Price” versus “Real Price” is mobile phones. If someone is charged with nicking someone’s iPhone or Galaxy, the price is put at between €800-€1,200. And that is what those phones cost brand new. But almost no-one buys their phone brand new*, they get them as part of a bill-pay service where the cost is deferred and factored into mobile phone service. Also if the phone is over a year old, or smashed then it’s value is certainly less. And if you received the listed cash value for said phone (Say an iPhone 8), you’d likely use it to just buy a newer phone. (An iPhone 10. Or X. Or whatever their dumb naming convention goes.) Basically gadget insurance has some formula for working out how to replace your smashed phone. Where as for the criminal justice system, it’s mostly used as a shorthand for “this person got his phone stolen. It was not a lemon. It’s inconvenient to lose a mobile phone. If the accused is going to put together a sum of money as a way of saying sorry, it should be around but not exactly this much. Please punish accordingly after taking into account the persons background and circumstances and if they brought a bunch of cash to court.” * = I mean I have. But I except what I do isn’t common. And when I have bought a phone wholesale I usually do it through Amazon.Italy and ended up paying way less than what the High Street would charge for said phone.
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Just lol if you haven't modded your gameboy with an IPS display and usbc battery pack.
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stev posted:That food parcel thing seems to be gaining traction. A lot of people are pointing out that the contents parcel that the taxpayer pays £30 for could be purchased for £5 in Asda. The company that provides them says it's not representative of what the parcel should include, but refuse to clarify what it should include and seem to be ignoring the fact that hundreds of examples have been posted. Option 2: disinterested intern /work placement dude fills the boxes from sainsburys instead of waitrose. Giving the contracts to meals on wheels companies wjo already have the infrastructure to provide food for kids would have been better, as was pointed out with the £30 for 5 meals option above. But again, these are people who had Thatcherism drilled into them at an early age, and giving people prepped meals instead of giving them mismatched ingredients to cobble together themselves runs completely counter to their ideology. Throw in a little swingeing profiteering and lazy dickheads doing the bare minimum effort, and you have your answer to why they're not doing better. Camrath posted:Sometimes it’s a case of not actually realising how much of value one owns.
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Jan 12, 2021 12:43
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Pretty sure Scottish government just directly send cash to parents of free school meal recipients. Seems more efficient than packing up a hamper of wilted veg and baked beans.
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The Question IRL posted:And that is what those phones cost brand new. But almost no-one buys their phone brand new*, they get them as part of a bill-pay service where the cost is deferred and factored into mobile phone service. There is no distinction here. Get a phone as part of a contract and you're still paying the full retail price of the handset just spread over 18 months. Some of the networks at least (o2) even show the monthly handset cost vs the monthly network service cost separately. If the phone is lost or stolen you've got no ability to escape the contract payments.
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I can't tell if it's gaining traction because people care about poor kids or if nobody gives a gently caress about the kids they just don't like to see their taxes spent so nakedly poorly.
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Not gonna lie, want one of those posh school meal boxes now. https://twitter.com/lordpasola/status/1348787897034551297
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Gonzo McFee posted:I can't tell if it's gaining traction because people care about poor kids or if nobody gives a gently caress about the kids they just don't like to see their taxes spent so nakedly poorly. I think it's easier to empathise with actual photos rather than a vague discussion about poor standards of food. Even priveledged people can look at that and know it's not enough to keep a small human alive for a week, even if they don't know or care about the true cost of food.
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Gonzo McFee posted:I can't tell if it's gaining traction because people care about poor kids or if nobody gives a gently caress about the kids they just don't like to see their taxes spent so nakedly poorly. Could be both? Some from 1, some from 2, sone from both? I’m in the both camp.
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keep punching joe posted:Not gonna lie, want one of those posh school meal boxes now. Not that you "gotta hand it to them" or whatever, but I'm sure the profiteering on those fancy boxes for lil Tarquin is just as usurious. The difference of course being that Tarquin has other, non-patisserie sources of nutrition. Also besides the point, but 4 desserts and 2 sandwiches is a good ratio for creating the next generation of bloated Tory oval office Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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keep punching joe posted:Pretty sure Scottish government just directly send cash to parents of free school meal recipients. Seems more efficient than packing up a hamper of wilted veg and baked beans. (see also:  parents will just spend it on drugs & lootboxes)
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The lovely food boxes is really infuriating because it’s not just naked profiteering, it’s naked profiteering at the expense of poor families. Same as it ever was, but it’s rarely so open and obvious.
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keep punching joe posted:Not gonna lie, want one of those posh school meal boxes now. Four treats for the posh boys and gorls. A milkshake cup full of room temperature tuna for the poor boys and girls.
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The executives of the Chinese company who were behind the baby milk formula scandal got dealt with extremely harshly and we should do the same here imo
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Failed Imagineer posted:Also besides the point, but 4 desserts and 2 sandwiches is a good ratio for creating the next generation of bloated Tory oval office They need their Big Dinners.
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The Question IRL posted:Valuation when it comes to the law, is a funny thing. Like I say, I have a small set of shelves full of CDs, and if I was to try and replace each of them* I'd be looking at 3 grand just for the CDs, and that's not including rare stuff I'd have to hunt down on eBay that you can't get on amazon / itunes. Pretty sure an insurer would try and say that's bullshit, except I have a high res photo of the shelves where you can see all the labels. Don't get me started on the books. * Assuming the whole lot was taken, or they were destroyed by fire.
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keep punching joe posted:Pretty sure Scottish government just directly send cash to parents of free school meal recipients. Seems more efficient than packing up a hamper of wilted veg and baked beans. Borrovan posted:That's much less efficient, if the money goes via the parents then it only trickles up to tory donors via their shareholdings in various retailers &c, far more efficient to just directly give it to the tory donors in the first place Was going to say this but Borrovan beat me to it.
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