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Oh dear me posted:They will never bring back workhouses. That would involve the state housing people. Have you considered Serco workhouses?
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Barry Foster posted:Ulysses is really loving good  The letters to his wife are also very sweet in an odd, pervy way. Dude just really loved his wife. And her farts .
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Jun 4, 2021 16:57
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Well, I tried rebooking my second appointment and it's now five days later than the original booking, so that worked out well.
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Jun 4, 2021 17:01
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Seeing as we are discussing malfunctioning body parts just now: A good thing about facemasks - a postcrown near the front of my mouth fell out just now. Too late to get to either of the shops that might sell 'temporary bonding cement'. I bit on something hard a couple of weeks ago and it's been getting wobblier. But I have to wait another couple of months or so before I can get on the NHS dentist's list. Off to see if Home Bargains or Waitrose sell any such stuff! I shall refrain from trying the Gorilla Glue. Selfie: 
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Jun 4, 2021 17:25
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OwlFancier posted:I have a specific pain tolerance, in that I am fine with things I know for a fact aren't actually dangerous. Anything I can't see or I don't know where the pain is coming from freaks me the absolute gently caress out. Conversely I have had an on/off icepick headache the last few days, and there is a part of my rear end in a top hat brain that is going 'It's a blood clot. It's a tumor. It's a big cancerous tumour, and also one of them twins you absorbed in the womb and it's eating your brain.'
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Jun 4, 2021 18:41
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pfizer vaccine gave me a special headache that felt like a spike going down the top of my head i'm not really fussed about dying suddenly from a blod clot or w/e, mind think i have most of my affairs in order
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Jun 4, 2021 18:57
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i won't be around to be embarrassed about people e.g. having to clear out my dildo drawer probably going in the skip bag rather than charity shop
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Jun 4, 2021 18:58
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crispix posted:i won't be around to be embarrassed about people e.g. having to clear out my dildo drawer You should bequeath them to the thread in some sort of horrific Brewster's Millions-esque scenario.
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Jun 4, 2021 19:01
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crispix posted:i won't be around to be embarrassed about people e.g. having to clear out my dildo drawer Share the wealth. Bundle them with Camrath's fudge.
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Jun 4, 2021 19:23
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crispix posted:pfizer vaccine gave me a special headache that felt like a spike going down the top of my head I've had a recurring headache like that for most of my adult life (or rather it's recurred throughout my adult life but only once every couple of months for a couple of hours at the time) - in fact it feels *specifically* like a pick going in the top of my head and curving around to come out under my right eye. With a long and undistinguished family history of strokes and aneurysms, and the "entry wound" being very close to a nice big divot in my skull courtesy of a knee to the head in a rugby match, it's always terrified me but nothing ever showed up on the MRIs I had. Now thanks to Covid, or rather regular Covid testing and a slightly misplaced swab causing that *exact* pain, I now know it's just one of my sinuses being annoying. Apparently it's a pretty common thing, at least according to a nurse I was chatting to about it.
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Jun 4, 2021 19:24
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My oldest childhood friend lost her father today after a long, non-Covid related illness. This last year she has hardly seen him. And Twitter is full of people who are double vaccinated whining that they are still not allowed to travel to see their vaccinated families. My friend was double vaccinated and so were her parents. They still stuck to the rules. And she won't be able to see her dad in a few months when all this is over.
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Jun 4, 2021 19:28
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I've had a recurring headache like that for most of my adult life (or rather it's recurred throughout my adult life but only once every couple of months for a couple of hours at the time) - in fact it feels *specifically* like a pick going in the top of my head and curving around to come out under my right eye. With a long and undistinguished family history of strokes and aneurysms, and the "entry wound" being very close to a nice big divot in my skull courtesy of a knee to the head in a rugby match, it's always terrified me but nothing ever showed up on the MRIs I had. Now thanks to Covid, or rather regular Covid testing and a slightly misplaced swab causing that *exact* pain, I now know it's just one of my sinuses being annoying. Apparently it's a pretty common thing, at least according to a nurse I was chatting to about it. Yeah as soon as you described the path of the pain I knew it was a sinus thing. Probably correlates with barometric pressure to some extent. I wonder if there's exploratory surgery you can get to unblock some poo poo in there E: brief googling indicates yeah , you can get endoscopic sinus surgery on the NHS Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Jun 4, 2021 |
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Jun 4, 2021 19:53
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Sinuses were a terrible idea.
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Jun 4, 2021 19:59
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah as soon as you described the path of the pain I knew it was a sinus thing. Probably correlates with barometric pressure to some extent. I wonder if there's exploratory surgery you can get to unblock some poo poo in there Funny you should mention pressure because it does sometimes come on when a thunderstorm is on the way (although that's probably selection bias, particularly as it's never been an issue with flying or even going up in tall buildings which give a much quicker drop to a much lower pressure). As it is, it's only a minor annoyance that goes away with a couple of paracetamol, but thanks for the advice.
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Jun 4, 2021 20:09
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Apparently it's a pretty common thing, at least according to a nurse I was chatting to about it.
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Jun 4, 2021 20:10
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Guavanaut posted:Sinuses were a terrible idea. They get right up my nose.
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Jun 4, 2021 22:40
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smellmycheese posted:It’s impossible to take Joyce seriously once you’ve read his pervy sex letters about sniffing Nora Barnacle’s farts Personally I don't know if I would ever want to read anything else he's written because I don't see how he can possibly top those.
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Jun 4, 2021 22:43
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I first learned that a sinus was reason to be concerned in my first year of uni when I woke up to find my left eye was swollen and unable to open. Specifically it was talking to a GP who had medical knowledge that allowed me to learn, rather than intrinsically responding to the issue by gaining knowledge from the ether.
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Jun 4, 2021 22:43
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lol top story on the mail website losing its poo poo because apparently our border forces went into french waters to pickup migrants rather than I dunno torpedo them or something. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9653583/Home-Office-launches-probe-Border-Force-entered-French-waters-collect-asylum-seekers.html
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Jun 4, 2021 22:57
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NotJustANumber99 posted:lol top story on the mail website losing its poo poo because apparently our border forces went into french waters to pickup migrants rather than I dunno torpedo them or something. They'll be working in Wetherspoons by monday.
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Jun 4, 2021 23:33
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Illegally though, because Blair banned people working while they're processing an asylum claim. That's some impressive naval maneuvering. 
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Jun 4, 2021 23:37
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keith smells like school dinners
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Jun 5, 2021 00:27
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presumably the Mail is most annoyed that our glorious British boat doesn't have guns which she can turn on those pesky migrants and solve the problem on the spot
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Jun 5, 2021 00:33
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crispix posted:keith smells like school dinners
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Jun 5, 2021 00:34
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the dinner hall always smelt like cabbage, even when no cabbage was being served in there
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Jun 5, 2021 00:47
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crispix posted:the dinner hall always smelt like cabbage, even when no cabbage was being served in there It's embedded into the paint they use "Institutional Green with Added Cabbage Odour" in schools, hospitals and probably prisons.
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Jun 5, 2021 00:58
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i've had to go into prisons with work, they smell like men i've only been in men's prisons though
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Jun 5, 2021 01:02
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I did have a maths teacher who achieved the smell of eternal boiled cabbage, but he was a teetotaler and so presumably smelled of his sustenance brassicas while solving systems of multivariate quadratic equations. Kieth's smell must incorporate the scent of disdain that Auld John Jameson planted in those copper pots that he so likes to sup from.
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Jun 5, 2021 01:05
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Julio Cruz posted:presumably the Mail is most annoyed that our glorious British boat doesn't have guns which she can turn on those pesky migrants and solve the problem on the spot Well the comments are full of Alf Garnett's angry they didn't get an orgasm hearing about immigrant death or 'beating' the frogs.
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Jun 5, 2021 01:15
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Guavanaut posted:Illegally though, because Blair banned people working while they're processing an asylum claim. I've been reading a lot of books about history recently. It strikes me that the Sun has chosen to illustrate this using the visual language of a battle diagram.
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Jun 5, 2021 01:42
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A battle diagram that they copied from elsewhere, I think.
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Jun 5, 2021 01:48
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I watched the episode of Alan Partridge tonight and was reminded of Noel’s HQ. Jesus Christ it’s one of the most prescient things I’ve ever seen. We’re living in Noel’s world now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XShH--nZ-Yw
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Jun 5, 2021 02:55
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Comrade Fakename posted:I watched the episode of Alan Partridge tonight and was reminded of Noel’s HQ. Jesus Christ it’s one of the most prescient things I’ve ever seen. We’re living in Noel’s world now. What the fuuuuuuuck. This is the first I'm seeing of this. Completely loving insane and deeply sinister.
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Jun 5, 2021 07:12
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Oh my god the woman's accent at the start "waeah are the powlees going after beeagpaipers? the YOBS" It's like someone put the home counties in a blender.
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Jun 5, 2021 07:22
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Two minutes hate
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Jun 5, 2021 10:24
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That "Bonkers Britain" segment is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Jun 5, 2021 10:29
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I like how you can carbon date it to a specific point in the late 00s just by the unholy collision of 80s Mary Whitehouse and 90s David Icke that gets you "Are you tired of the entire structure of law and order, but specifically because of health and safety, security, and the environment? Do you want a more respectful society by stringing up the yobs?"
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Jun 5, 2021 10:41
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Guavanaut posted:A battle diagram that they copied from elsewhere, I think. We really do live in the stupidest country don't we
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Jun 5, 2021 11:48
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ThomasPaine posted:We really do live in the stupidest country don't we Yeah, the Remain fleet showed a complete lack of discipline, failed to form a proper line of battle, let their main formation get alee of the UKIP fleet, and failed to use the Momentum squadron as either distraction or a boarding/pell-mell force to break up the UKIP line. It's no wonder the country is in the state it's in, poor Nelson must be turning in his grave.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Yeah, the Remain fleet showed a complete lack of discipline, failed to form a proper line of battle, let their main formation get alee of the UKIP fleet, and failed to use the Momentum squadron as either distraction or a boarding/pell-mell force to break up the UKIP line. It's no wonder the country is in the state it's in, poor Nelson must be turning in his grave. But isn't that how we defeated the Spanish Main with whatsizface Drake? - can't be assed to google - playing bowls on Plymouth Ho or whatever it was, by having speedy little boats nipping in and out in a seemingly disorganized manner instead of the more disciplined Spanish galleons?
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