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Jaeluni Asjil posted:We used cardboard boxes to move stuff at home so dad could have a bed downstairs before he died, and I swore 'never again'. Wish I'd known this before my last move! Cardboard boxes are the devil's spawn and we were constantly terrified the bottom was going to come out of them even if they were only half full.
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Mar 13, 2021 12:12
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My partner works at a box factory so when we moved she just went in and picked up like 50 heavy-duty potato boxes for free 😎 The boxes they sell you at self-storage places or whatever are all shite and way below spec for anything slightly heavy, that’s why everybody is having an awful time with them
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Mar 13, 2021 12:28
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I have absorbed a lot of information about cardboard by osmosis over the past few years
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Mar 13, 2021 12:30
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Noxville posted:https://twitter.com/steven_swinford/status/1370658726580006913?s=21 I'll believe the tories when I see it but huge lol that the predictions they might outflank Labour from the left are proving so prescient
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Mar 13, 2021 12:40
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But what about the business rate holiday extension.
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Mar 13, 2021 12:47
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New pod's out for your weekend enjoyment: https://twitter.com/PraxisCast/status/1370702247219331073?s=20
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Junior G-man posted:New pod's out for your weekend enjoyment: NFTs? Neo Feudal Technocracy mate
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Mar 13, 2021 13:01
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peanut- posted:This is the angle that our national newspaper of record decided is the most important part of the vaccination story. For a second I was like "wait a minute, there aren't that many people on the world, did they confuse millions with billions" and then I remembered it was a British newspaper, so they probably meant money
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Mar 13, 2021 13:07
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Junior G-man posted:New pod's out for your weekend enjoyment: I've barely stopped laughing at the Elizabeth class carrier and the F35s from your last pod, hopefully this one is as funny. Fascist gets thrown around a lot these days, but the government banning all protests that cause disruption to business feels like an actual precursor to fascism. 
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Mar 13, 2021 13:15
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Mar 13, 2021 13:21
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bump_fn posted:it’s too windy I live in a Victorian house built in 1908 and the windows have never been updated. It's windy inside. 
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Gonzo McFee posted:That's a terrible name for them. Just awful. It's in Shakespeare though.
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Mar 13, 2021 13:31
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Surprise T Rex posted:I live in a Victorian house built in 1908 and the windows have never been updated. It's windy inside. lol yeah i don’t miss my old flat that did this on the other hand apparently the apartment buildings roof had a build flaw and the wood in the roof is rotting through and they had to put up scaffolding with a tarp to fully cover the roof to repair it so sleeping sounds like you’re in a plastic bad taped to a jet engine but the landlord is the one who has to shell out tens of thousands in repair costs so at least my rent isn’t paying his mortgage
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Mar 13, 2021 13:46
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bump_fn posted:but the landlord is the one who has to shell out tens of thousands in repair costs so at least my rent isn’t paying his mortgage Sorry about next years 500% rent increase.
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Mar 13, 2021 13:51
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Lungboy posted:I've barely stopped laughing at the Elizabeth class carrier and the F35s from your last pod, hopefully this one is as funny. This is just making the legal excuse easier. Police can and have been doing this for ages. "oops you assaulted a cop we all saw it, break it up!"
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Mar 13, 2021 13:54
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sinky posted:Sorry about next years 500% rent increase. lol v  v
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Mar 13, 2021 13:55
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We are going all in on far right anti civil rights stuff, good thing we have a forensic lawyer as head of the opposition who can defend them Oh
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Mar 13, 2021 13:56
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Surprise T Rex posted:I live in a Victorian house built in 1908 and the windows have never been updated. It's windy inside. Lots you can do with that cling film stuff that you apply to window panes, or a lil bit of silicone to fill gaps or the lil foam runners you can put into the frame. All stuff that costs a couple quid for much more cosiness, and requires almost zero DIY skill
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Mar 13, 2021 13:56
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Surprise T Rex posted:I live in a Victorian house built in 1908 and the windows have never been updated. It's windy inside. We have nothing but single glazed sash windows but luckily being thoroughly middle class the Scottish Government is giving us a massive loan to pay for us to have them all made into double glazing. Though not as much as they're lending us to update out heating, we can get a £10,000 loan to cover the work, which they give us back £7,500 back as a grant so effectively we're borrowing £2,500. The quirk is you get the loan 'after' the work in completed so if you don't have £10,000 in the first place you can go gently caress yourself.
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Yeah we're borrowing money from my mum to have it done (and trying to plan a wedding at the same time, lol help me my money is disappearing). Scheduled in for May, cannot loving wait. This is after having to replace the roof last year because even though we had done a survey when we bought the house the roofer clearly just never had a look, and went "yeah it's fine, normal wear and tear" on a slate roof with holes in it that had never been replaced since the house was built either.
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https://twitter.com/Mr_Considerate/status/1370713754959183876?s=20 This is hilarious. The Indy has found someone claiming to be a Marquess of Annaville, a title that doesn't exist, & they clearly couldn't even be arsed checking.
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crispix posted:dugs where i'm from is an unfortunate name for boobs  crispix posted:the idea of paying for cardboard boxes is just offensive to me tbh  Am thinking of getting some nice sized plastic baskets for under the sink though, just replaced some of the pipework recently and its reminded me how much shite there is under there. Aramoro posted:We have nothing but single glazed sash windows but luckily being thoroughly middle class the Scottish Government is giving us a massive loan to pay for us to have them all made into double glazing.
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Mar 13, 2021 14:09
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To me, dugs (Dougs) are shits. Cockney Rhyming Slang innit
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We suggested to our landlord that he might want to take advantage of the free £3000 from the Mayor of London's warmer homes scheme to improve the house he rents to us. He came round and ranted at us about how "tenants don't do that" and we were probably plotting to steal his house from him It's been another chilly winter of astronomical heating bills
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Anyone who's paid actual cash money for a cardboard box has been had. I dread to think how much the cardboard box inspector fees were on top of the purchase price.
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Mar 13, 2021 14:45
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It's fine as long as you can sell it to someone else for 20% more in 5 years time. London works the same way.
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/Mr_Considerate/status/1370713754959183876?s=20 The story is utterly convincing, but also utter madness.
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Maugrim posted:We suggested to our landlord that he might want to take advantage of the free £3000 from the Mayor of London's warmer homes scheme to improve the house he rents to us. He came round and ranted at us about how "tenants don't do that" and we were probably plotting to steal his house from him You can apply for that yourself but you'll need the landlord to ok it unfortunately.
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Guavanaut posted:London works the same way. I believe I already said cardboard box
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willie_dee posted:The story is utterly convincing, but also utter madness. I think they've taken it down, you can still see the headline on their website but when you click through the story isn't there. It's cached for anyone else who wants to read it, though: https://webcache.googleusercontent....n&ct=clnk&gl=no
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Where was all this very useful information and links about renting moving boxes a week ago?! Related: London tap water sucks
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Lungboy posted:You can apply for that yourself but you'll need the landlord to ok it unfortunately. Sounds more like Maugrim's landlord has that bizarre emotional attachment that small-scale landlords seem to develop, where they get very upset at the idea of you doing anything to "their" property, don't like you thinking of it as "your home" because it's not yours, it's theirs. Give me a cartoon landlord who's only motivated by money over one of them.
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Niric posted:Where was all this very useful information and links about renting moving boxes a week ago?! it took me a while to get used to it, a brita jug worked in the meantime
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big scary monsters posted:I think they've taken it down, you can still see the headline on their website but when you click through the story isn't there. It's cached for anyone else who wants to read it, though: [url]https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Le-GTDyJutAJ:https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/meghan-markle-black-british-harry-oprah-b1816497.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=no[/url] I’ve tried to see if I can follow it in any way, but the guy is claiming to be married to one of the many children of a king in Swaziland, and has then given himself a random title to link him to uk royalty?!
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willie_dee posted:I’ve tried to see if I can follow it in any way, but the guy is claiming to be married to one of the many children of a king in Swaziland, and has then given himself a random title to link him to uk royalty?! Worked for Idi Amin. Last time I checked, there were, Meghan aside, literally zero people who could credibly be described as both ‘black’ and ‘British aristocracy’. A couple of Dukes with one black great-great-grandparent, and a couple of other people who just bought, or outright claimed, titles. I don’t want to risk jumping to any rash conclusions based on that, but it is possible there is a bit of structural racism going on.
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Lungboy posted:You can apply for that yourself but you'll need the landlord to ok it unfortunately. That's exactly what we were hoping to do, we were literally just giving him a heads up and asking for his permission to go ahead with it.
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Bobstar posted:Sounds more like Maugrim's landlord has that bizarre emotional attachment that small-scale landlords seem to develop, where they get very upset at the idea of you doing anything to "their" property, don't like you thinking of it as "your home" because it's not yours, it's theirs. Yes, a classic landlord convo from when I was a student, over a bit of collapsed masonry: "Why on earth would we kick our own front doorstep in?" "It's not your front doorstep, it's MY front doorstep!"
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willie_dee posted:I’ve tried to see if I can follow it in any way, but the guy is claiming to be married to one of the many children of a king in Swaziland, and has then given himself a random title to link him to uk royalty?! I think he's claiming to be an aristocrat in his own right, who happens to be married to a prince. If you look up the name of his supposed royal husband you won't find much except some social media stuff belonging to someone who almost certainly is not a prince, and an extremely dubious wiki page whose author's only other contribution is to the page on Alexander Maier-Dlamini.
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