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Failed Imagineer posted:Is this a Pterry rule? Seems like it should be Nah Soul Music posted:“She stared at a menu nailed to the wall. It was misspelled, of course, because the menu of the folkier kind of restaurant always has to have misspellings in it, so that customers can be lured into a false sense of superiority. She couldn’t recognize the names of most of the dishes, which included: I think CMOT Dibbler may have charged less for named meat...
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Z the IVth posted:Just have the sender mark it as a zero (or <£15) value gift. If they balk then you might have a problem. Yeah there are some things like big Lego sets and whatnot where "the value is £11, honest guv" might not work if it's a gigantic box of stuff. Most shops will also make it obvious from the forms they use that it's a commercial thing, it varies a lot by shop so you don't really know how they'll do it. It's annoyingly unpredictable. Another thing is, I don't like that the default will now be "lol of course you should try to cheat on your taxes, it's usually very easy". How about making normal-people small trade stuff seamless and costless, and instead collect the required tax money by properly taxing the giant multinationals like Amazon? Ah right, Brexit... the goal of that was obivously to do the opposite 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:There's talk among airlines (and other public venues and tourist attractions) about dropping distancing/masking requirements for fully-vaccinated people - it's apparently already happened at a couple of baseball grounds in the States. I suspect this is going to be the endgame here - governments won't *mandate* vaccines, but massively incentivise the private sector to do the job for them. It would also nicely pass responsibilities for checking vaccination status on the nhs app or foreign vaccination apps/forms/cards that they don't recognise to event door staff which for sure sounds like something the government would be keen on the private sector doing, then getting blamed for doing badly.
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May 27, 2021 11:58
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Kegluneq posted:Nah not sure i’d want to eat a porn cracker
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Jel Shaker posted:not sure i’d want to eat a porn cracker Don't be shy, cum on and have a cracker
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May 27, 2021 12:33
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Porn crackers sound like one of those things that you supposedly 'take' or 'use' rather than eating.
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May 27, 2021 12:34
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Guavanaut posted:Porn crackers sound like one of those things that you supposedly 'take' or 'use' rather than eating. They're popular at XXXmas
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Jel Shaker posted:not sure i’d want to eat a porn cracker Hey, as long as her tests were up to date...
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jaete posted:Yeah there are some things like big Lego sets and whatnot where "the value is £11, honest guv" might not work if it's a gigantic box of stuff. Most shops will also make it obvious from the forms they use that it's a commercial thing, it varies a lot by shop so you don't really know how they'll do it. Yeah, customs seems to be a completely random roll of the dice. Once in a while customs will randomly select your package to be the one they inspect, and you'll get a £10+ bill for the privilege. I've no idea why they store up the entire charge for this one, randomly-selected package, instead of just tacking a penny onto every package for customs charges, but it's a right pain in the arse when your five-pound item now costs fifteen quid.
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May 27, 2021 12:50
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Private Speech posted:To be fair it's significantly more faff and/or security risk than the PC version. Kiwi is a chrome fork for Android that lets you install normal chrome extensions like ublock origin.
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Gort posted:Yeah, customs seems to be a completely random roll of the dice. Once in a while customs will randomly select your package to be the one they inspect, and you'll get a £10+ bill for the privilege. I mentioned ages ago that a car part I ordered from France in mid-December (with a 4-week delivery estimate) finally turned up in mid-March. Now the same car has been at a garage since April 12 having other parts ordered and fitted - one of them is coming from Germany and was supposed to take no more than two weeks to arrive. My car's been there with the front end all stripped down for six weeks now! Fortunately I have access to another car and WFH so it's not vital, and all this work is only because I'd quite like to have working a/c again so if it comes to it they can just put it back together and it'll be in the same state it was when I dropped it off. But this is the sort of thing that took a matter of days to arrive this time last year. I know the pandemic will be screwing with the supply chains too, but if this going to be the norm it seriously puts a cramp on owning older foreign cars. Maybe that's the point - to encourage us to buy home-made British cars like....a Morgan Three-Wheeler
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BalloonFish posted:Maybe that's the point - to encourage us to buy home-made British cars like....a Morgan Three-Wheeler You can drive around in Wrightbus 
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knox_harrington posted:Kiwi is a chrome fork for Android that lets you install normal chrome extensions like ublock origin. Firefox on mobile also allows this.
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May 27, 2021 13:50
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Mega Comrade posted:Firefox on mobile also allows this. Firefox on mobile is also weirdly feature incomplete. I got used to pulling down from the address bar to get to my list of tabs and Firefox doesn't even seem to have that as an option.
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May 27, 2021 13:57
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What I really want is something that will tell all of those cookie consent screens to gently caress right off, especially the ones that have a couple of hundred 'partners' and make you uncheck each one manually. Noscript still does the job admirably on my PC, but you don't get the same thing on mobile.
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May 27, 2021 14:05
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Bobby Deluxe posted:What I really want is something that will tell all of those cookie consent screens to gently caress right off, especially the ones that have a couple of hundred 'partners' and make you uncheck each one manually. See also: "legitimate interest". There is no such thing, and that poo poo needs to be made 100% illegal immediately.
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May 27, 2021 14:17
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Bobby Deluxe posted:What I really want is something that will tell all of those cookie consent screens to gently caress right off, especially the ones that have a couple of hundred 'partners' and make you uncheck each one manually. Also how local US newspaper websites that block everything for 'GDPR' reasons, when that they are just doing it because they cant post you 30 ads per page.
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May 27, 2021 14:31
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Was doing some gardening this morning and saw a magpie chase down and just murder a smaller bird. Real "drat nature, you scary" energy.
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Jedit posted:See also: "legitimate interest". There is no such thing, and that poo poo needs to be made 100% illegal immediately.
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Global helium shortage seems to be trending  (unless it's some terf poo poo)https://twitter.com/Ridnarhtim/status/1397854669997740033 Also trending: https://twitter.com/timothyjforster/status/1397903239337725955 Bobby Deluxe posted:I'd love to read more about the process by which the internet went from sites embedding a few ads and storing your preferences online to these insane 'partnership' beasts harvesting info to sell to a couple of hundred other companies.  Like all these sites that are "top 30 fails of the week" and it's 30 screenshots from other social media platforms, that a teenager could have knocked up in HTML with some <img> tags 25 years ago, but to see that now you have to enable half a dozen different scripts because the whole thing is part of several different 'interest' harvesting networks.
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Dabir posted:Firefox on mobile is also weirdly feature incomplete. I got used to pulling down from the address bar to get to my list of tabs and Firefox doesn't even seem to have that as an option. You swipe left or right to switch and tap the number to bring up the list if tabs. That's not feature incomplete, that's just behaviour designed differently.
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Guavanaut posted:
I thought I'd taken down my first website from 1997 and hosted on AOL member space which was all hand-coded html How did you find it? (I still do have a hand-coded HTML site but not that one. Mostly mine are wordpress now.)
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So in No poo poo Sherlock news, Dacre was found unsuitable for the Ofcom job. Unfortunately Johnson has decided to rerun the whole process and have another go. I assume the interview board will be packed with lackies first.
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as always the blame lies with the system. If I was Johnson and I could just keep trying till it worked i'd do that to. What kind of idiot wouldn't? And what kind of idiot designed the system to be so abusable in the first place? When you think about how climate change may doom us all and we're at a super critical point just as the worst people the world over seem to be scoring flawless victories, the thing that may have killed us all was the idea that the people in charge wouldn't ever abuse the systems of government so we don't actually need rules or punishments. Oh no, what are you doing? You can't just do bad stuff and keep just being leader like nothing happened!? bessantj posted:Was doing some gardening this morning and saw a magpie chase down and just murder a smaller bird. Real "drat nature, you scary" energy. it was either very hungry, it caught a fledgling and it was being opportunist or it was gonna feed its young with the giblets. Possibly all three. Regarde Aduck fucked around with this message at 15:38 on May 27, 2021 |
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Pablo Bluth posted:So in No poo poo Sherlock news, Dacre was found unsuitable for the Ofcom job. Unfortunately Johnson has decided to rerun the whole process and have another go. I assume the interview board will be packed with lackies first. Look forward to your new head of Ofcom, Fred West!
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Pablo Bluth posted:So in No poo poo Sherlock news, Dacre was found unsuitable for the Ofcom job. Unfortunately Johnson has decided to rerun the whole process and have another go. I assume the interview board will be packed with lackies first. Tories just doing what they want with impunity. Regarde Aduck posted:it was either very hungry, it caught a fledgling and it was being opportunist or it was gonna feed its young with the giblets. Possibly all three. It did fly off with it in its beak so quite possibly going to feed the young uns.
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Mega Comrade posted:You swipe left or right to switch and tap the number to bring up the list if tabs. That's not feature incomplete, that's just behaviour designed differently. Chrome also has all these features.
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May 27, 2021 15:54
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keep punching joe posted:
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Regarde Aduck posted:When you think about how climate change may doom us all and we're at a super critical point just as the worst people the world over seem to be scoring flawless victories, the thing that may have killed us all was the idea that the people in charge wouldn't ever abuse the systems of government so we don't actually need rules or punishments. 'Ah well, nevertheless.'
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Bobby Deluxe posted:What I really want is something that will tell all of those cookie consent screens to gently caress right off, especially the ones that have a couple of hundred 'partners' and make you uncheck each one manually.
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I use the Blockada app on Android. It is a system-wide VPN thing that blocks ads everywhere. It's alright. You'll have to search for Blockada using your preferred internet search engine as it's not in the app store.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:See, the only thing that's good about those screens is that it's highlighted how much info is being shared around by these sites. I'd love to read more about the process by which the internet went from sites embedding a few ads and storing your preferences online to these insane 'partnership' beasts harvesting info to sell to a couple of hundred other companies. Data brokers are hosed up (linked mid-thread to the graphs, but the whole thread is worth a read): https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1288472637681926146?s=20
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Kernel Monsoon posted:we're so hosed Honestly a crushing defeat for Starmerite labour is the least bad long-term outcome for the British left at this point. If you read this optimistically it's a rejection of Blairite non-opposition, rather than an endorsement of the Tories as such.
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So after hitting a low of 1300 cases in a day, yesterday broke 3,000. Lets all look forward to outbreak number four....
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ThomasPaine posted:Honestly a crushing defeat for Starmerite labour is the least bad long-term outcome for the British left at this point. If you read this optimistically it's a rejection of Blairite non-opposition, rather than an endorsement of the Tories as such. Didn't we already get that with the electoral rejection of Miliband?
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Pablo Bluth posted:So after hitting a low of 1300 cases in a day, yesterday broke 3,000. Lets all look forward to outbreak number four.... We were always going to get a bump in cases when things reopened. I'd be extremely surprised if we had another huge wave like we did over winter. keep punching joe posted:Didn't we already get that with the electoral rejection of Miliband? Absolutely, which paved the way for Corbyn. I'm not sure what a rejection of Starmer would pave the way for, but it is a necessity if anything good is to happen in any of our lifetimes.
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