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Isomermaid posted:This page is talking about Tolkein and what Starmer meant by rebuilding the economy from the middle out and all I can think is that hobbits are involved somehow. Benn "CAST IT INTO THE FIRE" Blair "no" E: 
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keep punching joe posted:I always took him as being some creation of Saruman, like the Uruk Hai who were (maybe I'm misremembering) a half breed of orcs and men. Orcs of course already being Morgoths corrupted Elves. It's pretty up in the air what Saruman actually did to make them sunproof, IIRC. Could be interbreeding, could be inventing factor 50 and sunglasses. I don't think it was ever made any clearer in the mighty tomes of notes.
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May 20, 2021 13:39
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Bobby Deluxe posted:A lot of it comes from the bible and Methuselah etc, the idea that the 'original' humans were taller, lived longer and things were better in them days. They were the extra terrestrials sent to teach humans - barely evolved from monkeys at that stage - how to do stuff like use cutlery. Dear lord, do you not keep up with Ancient Aliens?
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May 20, 2021 13:40
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The pyramids are ancient crypto mining rigs
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May 20, 2021 13:42
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The Watchers came to watch us while we were naked, so we invented clothes. Perverts.
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May 20, 2021 13:42
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Gats Akimbo posted:It's pretty up in the air what Saruman actually did to make them sunproof, IIRC. Could be interbreeding, could be inventing factor 50 and sunglasses. I don't think it was ever made any clearer in the mighty tomes of notes. Mandatory wearing of big floppy hats.
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May 20, 2021 13:46
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Lunar Suite posted:Same in Germany - relatively-equally spaced in your community, you'd have big bins for glass (one for white plain, one brown, one for coloured glass iirc) and paper. Building would have big wheelie trolleys for paper, biological waste, and then black sacks for non-recyclables. It's the same system in the Czech Republic too. And as for some random fucker not filling it up it's almost never an issue, the things are massive (think supermarket bin size). Possibly not the case when the time comes to get rid of christmas trees and decorations. e: Though I have to admit it's much more comfortable walking 15m to take out the rubbish than 150. e2: Also also, I think the paucity of bin space helps force recycling on people who'd otherwise not give a gently caress. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:06 on May 20, 2021 |
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May 20, 2021 13:52
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jaete posted:Ah yeah that's right, the Numenoreans "descended from superior stock" or some such bollocks and as a result would live to 300-400 years old. But over time their blood was mingled with lesser men and blah blah, Aragorn was still in good middle-aged shape at 85 or so (during the books/films) but would rapidly get old already at like 120 or something and die Not so much superior human stock but the first Numenorean king was half-Elvish.
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May 20, 2021 14:00
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Bobby Deluxe posted:A lot of it comes from the bible and Methuselah etc, the idea that the 'original' humans were taller, lived longer and things were better in them days. This also comes from Ancient Greece, where the idea was there had been a Golden/Silver/Bronze Age of humans. I'm sure other myths also had similar stories, which if you subscribe to the idea of similar myths all over the world being a part of older human culture that might pre-exist life on Earth (real "Chariots of the Gods" stuff) it becomes really interesting.
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May 20, 2021 14:08
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Landlords. A lot make sense when you realise landlords are the lowest class that the ruling classes are willing to consider people
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May 20, 2021 14:16
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Barry Foster posted:They very nearly turned me away because of my peanut allergy - they basically said 'no pfizer cos peanuts, no az cos under 40, go away until we have moderna' Sounds good, thanks.
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Isomermaid posted:This page is talking about Tolkein and what Starmer meant by rebuilding the economy from the middle out and all I can think is that hobbits are involved somehow. Starmer's key voter demographic is Sackville-Baggins man.
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Azza Bamboo posted:You can't trust Terry not to fill the whole fucker with old carpets and bits of scrap wood. Best we all get our own share.
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May 20, 2021 15:05
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:That's me had the second AZ shot. So far just a bit of a sore arm. Everyone I know who got the second AZ jab myself included all said they felt the second going in and not the first. Very odd
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May 20, 2021 15:15
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You're not meant to feel it going in? I always do, it's grim.
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May 20, 2021 15:20
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Aidan_702 posted:Everyone I know who got the second AZ jab myself included all said they felt the second going in and not the first. Very odd Told my dad they were using bigger needles because of a potential supply issue on thinner ones, then said "whoops, we're not meant to tell you that." Could well be bullshit. Don't we have someone who works at a vacc centre, who might know?
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May 20, 2021 15:30
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The Question IRL posted:This also comes from Ancient Greece, where the idea was there had been a Golden/Silver/Bronze Age of humans. Weren't hunter-gatherers taller and healthier on average, with more leisure time, than the agrarian civilisations that started writing? That could have formed a shared cultural memory of an idealised and romanticised golden age that was now unattainable. I'm probably talking out of my arse here.
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May 20, 2021 15:31
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Barry Foster posted:They very nearly turned me away because of my peanut allergy - they basically said 'no pfizer cos peanuts, no az cos under 40, go away until we have moderna' I believe some flu vaccines are raised in egg cells, and thus can't be guaranteed to be free of egg allergens? https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/egg-allergies.htm posted:
Also, the CDC states people can be allergic to PEG or polysorbate, which are filler sort-of-plastics in vaccines to make 'em gloopy.
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May 20, 2021 15:32
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Weren't hunter-gatherers taller and healthier on average, with more leisure time, than the agrarian civilisations that started writing? That could have formed a shared cultural memory of an idealised and romanticised golden age that was now unattainable. I'm probably talking out of my arse here. Yeah, I think it's just generic human "everything was cooler when I was younger and my grandad said things were WAY more cool when HE was young and young people today are all lazy shiftless and useless"-ism.
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May 20, 2021 15:35
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Grain:_A_Deep_History_of_the_Earliest_States Haven't read it but the thesis seems interesting (that humans were essentially domesticated by their emperors and made to pay tribute in grain because unlike most other crops that were farmed at the time it keeps well)
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Weren't hunter-gatherers taller and healthier on average, with more leisure time, than the agrarian civilisations that started writing? That could have formed a shared cultural memory of an idealised and romanticised golden age that was now unattainable. I'm probably talking out of my arse here.
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May 20, 2021 15:36
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Here's my hot take, belief in elfs and goblins comes from racial memory of interactions with other extinct human species, I have nothing to back this up and no research.
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May 20, 2021 15:37
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Lunar Suite posted:I believe some flu vaccines are raised in egg cells, and thus can't be guaranteed to be free of egg allergens? I got Pfizered in spite of telling the nice lady that I'm allergic to morphine and bananas. She just wanted to know what morphine does to me (dizziness and nausea) then stuck me anyway.
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hello im injected now, please add me to the top secret bill gates 5G nanomachine discord channel
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Fun story. I went in to have my second jab ages ago (I'm not an old but I volunteer at a vaccination centre  ). Incidentally I was my vaccinator's first 'repeat customer', which isn't relevant but it meant we had a good chat.Anyway, he puts the needle in and then drops the cotton swab on the floor. Obviously he can't use that, he needs a new one, but the box is on his desk too far away - oops! So while holding the needle he comically stretches over and tries to grab the box, which is impossible. Eventually he decides to just leave the needle hanging out of my arm while he goes to grab a new swab. Good job nobody was watching because I'm sure he'd probably have got a bollocking for that. I had a laugh about it but he seemed a bit embarrassed. His normal job is a neurosurgeon.
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May 20, 2021 15:40
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The epic of gilgamesh has bits about how good it was when they first made bread and settled cities rather than these days.
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Sanford posted:Told my dad they were using bigger needles because of a potential supply issue on thinner ones, then said "whoops, we're not meant to tell you that." Could well be bullshit. Don't we have someone who works at a vacc centre, who might know? I'm not getting it if they're using jumbo needles 
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keep punching joe posted:Here's my hot take, belief in elfs and goblins comes from racial memory of interactions with other extinct human species, I have nothing to back this up and no research. Didn't know naomi wolf had a forums account.
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https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1395383523297607681 too good for this world
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Angepain posted:https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1395383523297607681 https://twitter.com/michaelrosenyes/status/1395386587597377541?s=21
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OwlFancier posted:The epic of gilgamesh has bits about how good it was when they first made bread and settled cities rather than these days. They may be philosophical works, or guidance for how to think about law in general, but a suggestion by Finkel is that they were more like rants about whatever this particular powerful person was annoyed about at a particular point in time. A big stone "they're buggering the pigs again Henry, I just know it, it's disgusting, they want stringing up". OwlFancier posted:Didn't know naomi wolf had a forums account.
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Guavanaut posted:There is/was a real hypothesis that the uncanny valley effect might be something of a instinctive holdover from being around other types of hominids, but I don't know if that ever went anywhere. I always find that one a bit difficult to buy when corpses exist, which are a far more obvious and available thing to be unnerved by than neandertals.
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May 20, 2021 16:05
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OwlFancier posted:I always find that one a bit difficult to buy when corpses exist, which are a far more obvious and available thing to be unnerved by than neandertals. Maybe it was a racial memory of being afraid of Cylons from before we fled the 12 Colonies to Earth.
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May 20, 2021 16:21
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Got Moderna in the chillingly efficient local vaccination centre.
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May 20, 2021 16:23
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keep punching joe posted:Here's my hot take, belief in elfs and goblins comes from racial memory of interactions with other extinct human species, I have nothing to back this up and no research. I've always liked how people would go 'there's a fairy ring up there on that hill' not realizing that was where their great-great-great-grandparents probably lived and its the remains of their house overgrown. Every few hundred a new set of people going 'That strange shape of land nearby? Thats where the loving magic beasties and poo poo live!' to where they themselves used to be.
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What's this racial memory stuff? I said shared cultural memory, something like the big flood that is mentioned in many cultures, at first orally.
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May 20, 2021 16:23
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Lunar Suite posted:I believe some flu vaccines are raised in egg cells, and thus can't be guaranteed to be free of egg allergens? It was the latter, definitely, that sounds right to me
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May 20, 2021 16:24
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Whe.. where is this going. I'm concerned
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May 20, 2021 16:25
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Angepain posted:https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1395383523297607681 I’m so loving sad we didn’t get him as PM.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/ImIncorrigible/status/1394419207354429445 Finally, what I’ve been most looking forward to. Cheaper meat from countries with much shittier agricultural standards. Oh also murdering U.K. farming whilst being completely aware that you’re doing so. Interesting to see whether MP’s vote with the party line or their constituents, since this benefits no-one’s constituents.
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