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OwlFancier posted:Live footage from the twisto household I've seen this so many times and I've only just now twigged it's Pete Donaldson singing. On the subject, he has a great podcast called WrestleMe, where Marc Haynes introduces Pete to the world of pro wrestling. It's one of the very few actually funny "comedy" podcasts, to the point where I've had to pause multiple episodes because I'm laughing so hard. (e): And for the page snipe, a bit of classic punk, Misfits' We Are 138. Gyro Zeppeli fucked around with this message at 23:39 on May 25, 2021 |
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Xemloth posted:My ex used to mention (with worrying frequency) that you can get in trouble for walking down the street with a baseball bat because it's a weapon, but if you have a ball in your back pocket then it's absolutely fine.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Interestingly, this variation in the understanding of 'until' comes up in Egyptians using English. Until usage: same in China and Malaysia.
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they would always start with breathy excitement: "We haven't been able to do X, until NOW!" (revealing gadget which does X).
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Anyone know what the situation with customs is right now with EU countries? If I buy some stuff from the EU to UK, and if the seller is dumb enough to mark the true value of the item on the declaration, will I have to pay a zillion quid extra in customs fees and handling and whatnot? Do they enforce that all the time, or some of the time, or probably not? Or only on expensive and/or large things? Gotta love Brexit, more bureaucracy and more cost, just as planned innit
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jaete posted:Anyone know what the situation with customs is right now with EU countries? If I buy some stuff from the EU to UK, and if the seller is dumb enough to mark the true value of the item on the declaration, will I have to pay a zillion quid extra in customs fees and handling and whatnot? Do they enforce that all the time, or some of the time, or probably not? Or only on expensive and/or large things? Depends on what you are buying, from who, and where. More info will help.
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This isn’t apropos of anything in particular, but it really bothers me that our default cultural output is sneering and that we whinge a lot. Other countries I’ve lived in are not like this. I currently live in China, it’s a pretty upbeat place. The US is suicidally optimistic. Saõ Paulistas are consistently sure that the thing that will make them happy is right around the corner. Take the 7 billion people on this planet and select a random one, and they will approach any given bit of news someone shares with them with a sunny disposition and generosity of spirit. Except in our corner. How did the UK get so messed up? Things aren’t actually worse than in other places; to be honest, in material terms, the UK does really well except at the top end. Our middle class are better off than other countries’; our poor are better off than China’s poor; our homeless have a better life expectancy than Brazil’s, wealth inequality is half of the global average. Why are we so loving miserable and downbeat? E: my working hypothesis is that it’s the curse of having been an important country in the relatively recent past and not being one any more. Beefeater1980 fucked around with this message at 07:52 on May 26, 2021 |
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Beefeater1980 posted:This isn’t apropos of anything in particular, but it really bothers me that our default cultural output is sneering and that we whinge a lot. *looks out window at rain pissing down and single digit temperatures at end of May*
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Beefeater1980 posted:This isn’t apropos of anything in particular, but it really bothers me that our default cultural output is sneering and that we whinge a lot. Thought this was endemic to western countries really. I figured it had to do with our best years being behind us. e: I mean since the post war period things looked differently, things constantly got better, the governments of the world kept finance and trade locked in and kept labour strong. Then all that stopped and we spent 40 years hollowing out our societies. And on top of that we're also old societies.
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Dommy Cummy starts his "It was all Boris' fault, nuffin' to do wiv me, guvnor" testimony at 9:30 this morning. I'm WFH today and... actually thinking about tuning in. I expect 90% of it to be very boring, but the 10% with interesting bits could be worth listening to.
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Just wanted to say that I appreciate getting some new perspecives and experiences, and wanted to thank Jaeluni Asjil for speaking about their life and times.
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His Divine Shadow posted:And on top of that we're also old societies. Miserable old bastards probably have a lot to do with it yeah. I mean they're the ones voting for Brexit and Toryism.
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We're raised to be technically correct, not happy. Misery is how we hedge our bets against the embarrassment of trying something positive and failing.
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Beefeater1980 posted:This isn’t apropos of anything in particular, but it really bothers me that our default cultural output is sneering and that we whinge a lot. It's not a matter of absolutes, it's a matter of trajectory. A middle- or skilled-working-class Brazilian or Chinese person almost certainly has a much better life than their parents did, who in turn had a better life than their parents, and so on. Going to have to disagree with you about the Yanks, who have the fake optimism and brightness of someone trying to get you to sign up to an MLM (it's called capitalism). In the UK though, the majority of people younger than around 40 are definitely materially *and* spiritually/psychologically worse-off than their parents, who had a range of opportunity from free university, through the possibility - likelihood, even - of a job for life with a decent pension, to the ability to buy a house that are insane dreams for someone in their 20s now.
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Lol, try to book a vaccine this morning now it’s open to 30+. Nearest appointment is in Hereford. I’m in Bristol!
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:Lol, try to book a vaccine this morning now it’s open to 30+. Nearest appointment is in Hereford. I’m in Bristol! Worth refreshing and trying again. I was told I had to go to Bristol from Stroud, then refreshed and found one a three minute walk away.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Its the weather It's a solid theory, but the weather is just as bad in Ireland and we're slightly less miserable and alcoholic
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kingturnip posted:Dommy Cummy starts his "It was all Boris' fault, nuffin' to do wiv me, guvnor" testimony at 9:30 this morning. I'm looking forward to more or less every columnist rolling their eyes and saying "we knew this already, this isn't news" and acting above it all, while totally ignoring that they consistently and uncritically repeated the various government lines that Cummings is saying were lies/stupid/stupid lies
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May 26, 2021 08:55
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Cardiff has a mass vaccination walk in centre running over the bank holiday weekend if anyone round here hasn't had one yet
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Lady Demelza posted:Years ago the subject of aluminium baseball/rounders bats came up in idle conversation and I was baffled for the moment it took me to realise that some people genuinely use them to play sport. Even golf has adopted hollow metal 'woods'.
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Guavanaut posted:Makes me wonder why the same has never happened with cricket bats. It has! There was an Aussie player that tried irl but it got taken off him right soon after! Just Google "ComBat"!
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"As this was happening, English captain Mike Brearley complained to umpires Max O'Connell and Don Weser that the metallic bat was damaging the soft, leather cricket ball." I think this goes a good way towards explaining Beefeater1980 posted:How did the UK get so messed up?
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Its the weather Oh the weather isn't so bad. A little overcast and grey, but not unpleasant.  Honestly the people I know who moan about bad weather then also moan its to hot in summer. So I'm not convinced it's that.
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My theory is a combination of the dampness, most people being crowded together, residual Puritanism making the mere idea of fun uncomfortable, and the post-imperial malaise of thinking we should be a lot more important and powerful than we are.
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Mega Comrade posted:Oh the weather isn't so bad. A little overcast and grey, but not unpleasant. TBH the counterargument to "British people aren't optimistic" is that in our climate, with 50% of days overcast, an average temperature firmly in the "take a jacket" range, and three distinct rainy seasons*, we invented two sports that can't be played in rain (lawn tennis, cricket), and buy more convertibles and sports bikes per capita than any other nation on Earth. * One of them - the North European Monsoon - we *didn't even notice until a few years ago*. We're so optimistic that the fact that Wimbledon gets rained out almost every year just got chalked up to sub-Morisette irony rather than an actual regular meteorological phenomenon. The other two are the Atlantic windstorm season from October to December and the late-spring rains that we've been sitting through all loving month.
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Julio Cruz posted:cricket bat, maybe Quick game of rounders with your mates. goddamnedtwisto posted:The actual answer (at least for England and Wales) is that carrying a lockpick set is "going equipped": Occurs to me as an IT bod that lockpicks are very useful timesavers to have around for the times a client's rack is locked and you can't find the keys, or the front panel of a server's locked and you need to swap in a new HD. Just putting that out there.
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https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1397275925859930112?s=19 A second time "I don't care let them all die" has come from Johnson, I can't wait for Starmer to make this about Clarke shoes or whatever.
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's a solid theory, but the weather is just as bad in Ireland and we're slightly less miserable and alcoholic Are you saying we are slightly less miserable AND Alcoholic? Or we are slightly less miserable AND slightly less alcoholic? I'm not sure I'd agree with the second. A friend of mine moved over to England a few years ago. He said one thing he noticed over there was how rarely people would make eye contact with each other when walking around outside. It was bad in Towns and non-existent in cities particularly in London. Where as even in Dublin, you are likely to run into someone you know and stop to talk to them. (At least in the pre-pandemic times.) Maybe Atomization and personal disconnection has hit England pretty hard. Also you can't get Breakfast Rolls, Chicken Fillet Rolls or Spice Bags in the UK (and I never could when I went looking for them in Glasgow) so maybe it's the lack of a stodgy breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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The weather in the west of Scotland is substantially worse than anywhere in England, yet our ratio of terminally miserable pricks to OK guys is far more balanced. The English are just genetically pre-disposed to being moany sods.
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The Question IRL posted:Are you saying we are slightly less miserable AND Alcoholic? Or we are slightly less miserable AND slightly less alcoholic? Honestly I was vaguely remembering some study that said UK had higher alcohol abuse rates, which I remembered because it was so counterintuitive. But looking it up it seems to be wrong or I'm misremembering some Irish propaganda or something - we are indeed slightly worse than the UK  , fulfilling the stereotype as always.Eastern Europe puts all of the inhabitants of this cursed archipelago in the ha'penny place though, those lads can drink
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Comic Dumminings Interesting stuff so far, worth a listen/watch along. If Labour had been ahead of the game at all ever this would be prime "we loving told you" time. Ah well, at least they weren't playing politics.
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