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learnincurve posted:For every cast iron fire there are a million trampolines taken away for free. Give away... scrap?
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Speaking of trampolines it's kind of weird that those little backyard models became a pretty solid marker of the aspirational working class round where I lived. Rows upon rows of them behind every house. Seems weirdly niche, but they really caught on.
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Mar 24, 2021 12:41
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Scikar posted:Scotland can't hold a legally binding referendum, but afaik an advisory referendum is still legal. And we kind of have a precedent for advisory referenda now. Parliament (the UK one) is sovereign. Holding an 'advisory referendum' when said parliament opposes it ends up with the situation in Catalonia, which doesn't benefit anyone but definitely doesn't benefit a Scotland that would presumably like to rejoin the EU and would therefore want Spanish support for that.
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Mar 24, 2021 12:42
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OwlFancier posted:A shameful dad that does not relish the thought of building his own patio. We've just had a patio/driveway laid (patio at back, drive at front.) and half the crew were Irish. the (Irish) forman straight up appologised for the work being completed a day late, which was due to it being St Patricks Day, and that had caused a delay in the project. While it may not have been the most professional excuse, I can't fault him for his honesty, and they did the job in a week (and a day) we thought would take them two. His Divine Shadow posted:Give away... scrap? Sometimes it's easier than dealing with it yourself. Anything big and metal left on the front normally gets a polite knock on the door within a couple of hours. I have no idea how often the guys patrol the streets near us, but several things have been scrapped that would have cost us a lot of money or effort to move - includin an old range cooker.
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Mar 24, 2021 12:43
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Grey Hunter posted:
My parents had a knock on the door within 2 minutes of the John Lewis van leaving having delivered their cooker to see if they could take the old one away. They must have either followed the van or had a call from their mate in it when my parents didn't want to pay the £80 or so to have JL take the old one away. ThomasPaine posted:Speaking of trampolines it's kind of weird that those little backyard models became a pretty solid marker of the aspirational working class round where I lived. Rows upon rows of them behind every house. Seems weirdly niche, but they really caught on. I saw one of these do an absolute flyer down one of the estates in Bermondsey during the high winds last year. For the size and weight of them, when the wind gets under they can reach a remarkable height.
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Mar 24, 2021 12:48
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I had a trampoline as a kid and theyr great fun and an endless source of injury. There's something about bouncing on a trampoline that makes you talkative cause me and my friends would just jump for hours and chat about stuff we'd have never said if we weren't bouncing
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Mar 24, 2021 12:51
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ThomasPaine posted:Speaking of trampolines it's kind of weird that those little backyard models became a pretty solid marker of the aspirational working class round where I lived. Rows upon rows of them behind every house. Seems weirdly niche, but they really caught on. Same here. I think they're a good way to keep kids entertained outdoors and a slew of them came on the market dirt cheap at about the same time. They seem to last quite a while even if the ones in the gardens near me are beginning to get a bit manky. E: network rail hate the fuckers, every time there's a gust of wind they seem to end up on train tracks. https://www.networkrail.co.uk/news/plea-to-railway-neighbours-after-airborne-trampoline-disrupts-passengers/
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Mar 24, 2021 12:57
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ThomasPaine posted:Speaking of trampolines it's kind of weird that those little backyard models became a pretty solid marker of the aspirational working class round where I lived. Rows upon rows of them behind every house. Seems weirdly niche, but they really caught on. Both my kids (toddlers) will throw a goddamn tantrum every single day they are denied access to the neighbours' trampoline, which is every day in covid times. It's got to the point I actually dread taking them into the garden because they have a perfectly nice climbing frame here but within 5 minutes they will be craning over the fence demanding trampoline. So yeah I can understand why every family in a row of houses would end up with one.
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Mar 24, 2021 13:04
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Now Kieth is complaining he don't have enough loving sojers.
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Maugrim posted:Both my kids (toddlers) will throw a goddamn tantrum every single day they are denied access to the neighbours' trampoline, which is every day in covid times. It's got to the point I actually dread taking them into the garden because they have a perfectly nice climbing frame here but within 5 minutes they will be craning over the fence demanding trampoline. A trampoline is real nice to have. During the heatwave summer of 2018 I think it was it was so hot even during nights that we slept outside in it.
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Mar 24, 2021 13:10
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Maugrim posted:Both my kids (toddlers) will throw a goddamn tantrum every single day they are denied access to the neighbours' trampoline, which is every day in covid times. It's got to the point I actually dread taking them into the garden because they have a perfectly nice climbing frame here but within 5 minutes they will be craning over the fence demanding trampoline. We never had one  Despite growing up poor my parents entered the lower middle class during the Thatcher years and afterwards developed a very strange but palpable sense of ingrained classism that borders on self-punishment. I think they felt things like that might undermine their newfound sense of superiority over their neighbours.
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Conversation with mother just now. Me: police have gone in and roughed up a peaceful traveller camp. Mother: I don't blame them after Clapham Junction. Me: actually there are eye witness reports saying that was a peaceful event until the police came charging in with their batons. Mother: well the police didn't set fire to their own car did they Me: well what would you do if you were peacefully sitting and a police person came and cracked you over the head with a big stick Mother: but from different angles it didn't look like that Me: but you watch the BBC news which is straight out of Tory HQ Mother: I'd rather trust the BBC than North Korea.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Mother: I'd rather trust the BBC than North Korea. Is North Korean coverage an option?
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Communist Thoughts posted:Basically labour is the big amazonian temple prison they kept the evil cube (leftism) in and now containment has been breached and kier is the muscular woman with a sledgehammer trying to knock the supports down and plunge it into the sea I thought that was x-men age of apocalypse?
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Mar 24, 2021 13:26
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At least with DPRK news you might get some hilarious CGI . The Beeb is just the propaganda with none of the production quality
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IllusionistTrixie posted:I thought that was x-men age of apocalypse? There was a recent tweet to the effect of "all blockbusters are now just cgi men fighting for control of a cube" and it was deeply true
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Red Oktober posted:My parents had a knock on the door within 2 minutes of the John Lewis van leaving having delivered their cooker to see if they could take the old one away. They must have either followed the van or had a call from their mate in it when my parents didn't want to pay the £80 or so to have JL take the old one away. As someone who recently had an appliance delivered from JL; it's 20 quid to have your old one taken away so I don't know who told your parents 80.
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Mar 24, 2021 13:40
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And yet nobody is making another sequel to Cube.
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Cube³: 3 Cube 3 CuriousFailed Imagineer posted:There was a recent tweet to the effect of "all blockbusters are now just cgi men fighting for control of a cube" and it was deeply true
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Mar 24, 2021 13:47
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Guavanaut posted:Cube³: 3 Cube 3 Curious That is an especially puzzling rabbithole https://twitter.com/inar/status/1374583624549330952?s=19
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Mar 24, 2021 13:49
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I don't know who any of those people are. Or things. Other than the cereal I have heard of cinnamon toast crunch.
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OwlFancier posted:I don't know who any of those people are. Its an S-tier cereal though, shrimp or no shrimp 
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Mar 24, 2021 13:54
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Scikar posted:Scotland can't hold a legally binding referendum, but afaik an advisory referendum is still legal. And we kind of have a precedent for advisory referenda now. The problem with an advisory referendum is that if it's not with Westminster's blessing, the unionist parties will boycott it, and that will be all the excuse needed for Westminster to ignore it as illegitimate, even if it was legal. Then the nationalist side is faced with a choice of either doing a UDI or just complaining; the former will go completely unrecognised (no matter how much some of the nuttier factions of the SNP have convinced themselves otherwise), the latter will achieve nothing. The only thing I can reasonably see working is if the SNP force a vote that the unionists can't boycott. And the only way I can see to do that is to have the SNP MPs resign en masse (blah blah office of profit blah blah) and campaign for re-election on an abstentionist policy as an ersatz referendum. That, the unionists can't boycott, and if the SNP can win on an abstentionist policy (something it should be noted the party currently strongly opposes), that actually damages the legitimacy of Westminster and might be sufficient pressure to effect change. And if that doesn't work, well, my read of pro-indy sentiment is that basically nobody is willing to actually pick up a gun for it.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:As someone who recently had an appliance delivered from JL; it's 20 quid to have your old one taken away so I don't know who told your parents 80. I think it was JL. At any rate whoever it was because it wasn't pre-booked it was £40/appliance, and they had a double oven so it was two appliances.
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Mar 24, 2021 13:55
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I don't think that the SNP just handing votes to the tories actually damages the legitimacy of westminster at all tbh.
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Mar 24, 2021 13:56
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OwlFancier posted:And yet nobody is making another sequel to Cube. There's a western remake in production called Cubed, and a Japanese remake out in a few months called Cube.
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think that the SNP just handing votes to the tories actually damages the legitimacy of westminster at all tbh. Forcing 47 simultaneous by-elections on a UDI ticket sounds like fun, how long would there be for unionist parties to form a tactical voting strategy?
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Brendan Rodgers posted:There's a western remake in production called Cubed, and a Japanese remake out in a few months called Cube. Let's not forget The Cube/Celebrity Cube/Million Pound Cube with Philip Schofield, although at this point the Cinematic Cubeiverse is getting very convoluted
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Mar 24, 2021 14:04
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You have 6 months to make your film... you have 1 month... your film has been taken over and turned into a remake of Cube... you have 6 months to make your remake of Cube
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Mar 24, 2021 14:12
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think that the SNP just handing votes to the tories actually damages the legitimacy of westminster at all tbh. Well, in the current parliament it doesn't make much of a difference. I do think it would damage legitimacy, though. Westminster certainly would still have the power (in which case it's back to the "are you willing to pick up a gun?" question), but legitimacy is about prestige and public perception, and if nothing else, it would damage those things in Scotland I think, and I genuinely think it would do the same in England and abroad. I think the tories would want Johnson's head over it at least, regardless of how it affects their majority.
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Mar 24, 2021 14:13
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His Divine Shadow posted:Give away... scrap? Aluminium tube scrap value is like a 50p a kilo, tops, and there's what, 20 kilos in a trampoline frame? Maybe 5 kilos of spring steel which goes for about a quid a kilo. Maybe if you live right next to the scrappy and can just walk it across it's worth it and even then that doesn't account for the time spent dismantling it.
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Bobstar posted:You have 6 months to make your film... you have 1 month... your film has been taken over and turned into a remake of Cube... you have 6 months to make your remake of Cube Lol. This kind of combinatory value belongs in the simpsons meme thread
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Maugrim posted:Both my kids (toddlers) will throw a goddamn tantrum every single day they are denied access to the neighbours' trampoline, which is every day in covid times. It's got to the point I actually dread taking them into the garden because they have a perfectly nice climbing frame here but within 5 minutes they will be craning over the fence demanding trampoline. We live in a London terrace and a big chunk of our small garden is taken up with a 6ft trampoline. My son (now 9) loves it. He has had it for about 2.5 years now and he still loves it. Apart from the jumping (good for balance, exercise etc) we also just play on it (eg wrestling) quite a lot. In summer we will lie on it and read stories, etc. It's probably the best thing we ever bought and it's definitely the best present we ever got him.
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yeah I would have loved a decent sized trampoline as a kid we had a small fold away one when me and my brothers were young
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The large trampolines they have at... trampoline places, with the big nets that send you like 15 feet into the air look like fun, but I have never been on a trampoline so I would probably just die.
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The big safe ones are cool, but the only time I went on a garden one I twisted my ankle within 5 minutes. I also cut my head open on a doorjamb at that same party so it might have just been the fact that I was pissed
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keep punching joe posted:Forcing 47 simultaneous by-elections on a UDI ticket sounds like fun, how long would there be for unionist parties to form a tactical voting strategy? Labour would immediately roll over for the tories
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Failed Imagineer posted:At least with DPRK news you might get some hilarious CGI . The Beeb is just the propaganda with none of the production quality BBC news at one finished off introducing a Syrian refugee who charted their journey over the water to get to the UK with 'they have described themselves as a Labour supporter' for no reason i can see other than attempting to bias the audience against them.
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