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1961: Young Brits watch Sooty, Harry Corbett's glove puppet bear. 1979: Young Brits watch Nottingham Forest beat Southampton 3–2 at Wembley Stadium to win the Football League Cup for the second year running. Makes u think  e: 1927 - Young Brits watch the formal recognition of the Irish Free State.
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Jedit posted:Did you read Critchlow's Thrud comics from a few years back? They were great. I think I still have those somewhere!
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Jun 9, 2021 15:58
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Pistol_Pete posted:I can't believe we're seeing stories as preposterous as that picture of the Queen thing when Parliament hasn't even closed for the summer yet. the whole preposterous culture war from the right is an agenda set by the head of the no 10 policy unit Munira Mirza and her swinger party organiser husband Douglas Smith Radio 4 did a bit on it yesterday at the back end of Today (2h:49min in) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000wrjn along with nick robinson defending the government for the bbc Full podcast is available on Spotify
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Jun 9, 2021 16:01
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Now hold on, I got the 5G tracking beacon vaccine, do I need to go back again to get the Nazi one?
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Jun 9, 2021 16:01
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TACD posted:Now hold on, I got the 5G tracking beacon vaccine, do I need to go back again to get the Nazi one? It's a firmware update.
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Jun 9, 2021 16:06
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OwlFancier posted:It's a firmware update. I got (gently) told off at a vaccine site because in the briefing someone asked why Pfizer had an enforced 15-minute waiting period after injection while AZ didn't and I said it was because they wanted to make sure the updates were downloaded - something along the lines of "That's funny... please don't say that out in the hall".
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Jun 9, 2021 16:10
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Doccykins posted:along with nick robinson defending the government for the bbc He did a discussion yesterday with him & 2 cis male guests* about trans issues, guess which side of the "debate" he actually allowed to talk *the trans-positive guest pointed out right away that this wasn't appropriate, and Robinson jumps in saying "first of all you don't know anything about me", which, I mean... big if true.
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Jun 9, 2021 16:11
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Private Speech posted:Absolutely unbearable when working from my hothouse of a home. Gon' bust out my AC unit tonight that cost me all of a tenner because two works ago was refurbishing and selling poo poo off.
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Jun 9, 2021 16:12
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Borrovan posted:Nick Robinson is such a oval office lmao "it's she/her from now on you little poo poo but also pronouns are for triggered liberals"
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Borrovan posted:Nick Robinson is such a oval office Think that was Justin Webb actually. A ‘did you just assume my gender’ in the wild.
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Jun 9, 2021 16:21
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There is technically no rule that says you can't transition into specifically the sad dad form of masculinity.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
(And hey, both artists went on to draw Judge Dredd!)
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Noxville posted:Think that was Justin Webb actually. My comment on Nick Robinson still stands.
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academic twitter is currently having a meltdown about this loving dumbass (and rightfully so) https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1402114261229477889?s=20 the responses are mostly just people very reasonably saying 'we're not saying don't have a pint at a conference we're just saying if you're 53 year old senior professor please don't invite me, a 26 year old woman, alone to a private dinner, get blasted, and try to have sex with me, thanks' he seems completely unable to understand why this might be a poor take ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jun 9, 2021 |
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Jun 9, 2021 17:12
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What could a student and a teacher possibly have to talk about other than the subject matter? When I went to uni half the factulty were in the process of getting divorced.
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OwlFancier posted:What could a student and a teacher possibly have to talk about other than the subject matter? I went drinking with one of my lecturers once and our TAs came out with us a bunch of times, but it helps that I did philosophy and that's perfect getting drunk talk.
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OwlFancier posted:When I went to uni half the factulty were in the process of getting divorced. It's common, still.
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Jun 9, 2021 17:26
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Miftan posted:I went drinking with one of my lecturers once and our TAs came out with us a bunch of times, but it helps that I did philosophy and that's perfect getting drunk talk. It is kinda a tricky one because I absolutely see the value in being able to informally socialise and even get drunk with people of varying seniority, but then I am a dude and I can see why hanging out with a bunch of horny old possibly predatory dudes in positions of authority might be very much not how a young lady would want to spend her evening! I actually have no idea how you square the circle here between keeping the good things you get by allowing personal friendships and preventing harassment and abuse, from a policy perspective.
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Jun 9, 2021 17:27
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Take inspiration from Imperial China and have an elevated academic caste of eunuchs.
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Jun 9, 2021 17:30
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Miftan posted:I went drinking with one of my lecturers once and our TAs came out with us a bunch of times, but it helps that I did philosophy and that's perfect getting drunk talk.
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Guavanaut posted:Take inspiration from Imperial China and have an elevated academic caste of eunuchs. Not actually the worst idea
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Jun 9, 2021 17:33
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Regarde Aduck posted:They who breast boobily I'm reading some of the Conan stories, and Howard pretty much writes like this.
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Jun 9, 2021 17:34
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ThomasPaine posted:It is kinda a tricky one because I absolutely see the value in being able to informally socialise and even get drunk with people of varying seniority, but then I am a dude and I can see why hanging out with a bunch of horny old possibly predatory dudes in positions of authority might be very much not how a young lady would want to spend her evening! I actually have no idea how you square the circle here between keeping the good things you get by allowing personal friendships and preventing harassment and abuse, from a policy perspective. Yeah. When I was in Mexico City taking Spanish classes at the uni there, we went out drinking with our Mexican history teacher (late 30s). It was great. Then he got wasted and started hitting on the 20ish year-old Korean students and they found it incredibly awkward.
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Jun 9, 2021 17:43
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ThomasPaine posted:academic twitter is currently having a meltdown about this loving dumbass (and rightfully so) When I was at Art college one of the graphics tutors was brazenly screwing one of the 3rd year girls, despite never shutting the gently caress up about his newborn son. Come the third year we ended up drinking fairly regularly on the dinnertime sessions with one of the lecturers from the main Uni, until he became an endless sob story about how he was being threatened with suspension/fired for also screwing a student, that his wife was now divorcing him over. Didn't drink with him much after that, because A) you made a rod for your own back and B) we're out for a beer and a chuckle, not to here to listen to the lament of a man over twice our age.
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Jun 9, 2021 17:59
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Grey Hunter posted:I'm reading some of the Conan stories, and Howard pretty much writes like this. 
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Jun 9, 2021 18:01
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One of my lecturers went drinking with us one night and spent ages ranting at me for accomplishing nothing in my life while he has a loving PhD and the other elders around were like "jfc it's the first term of first year calm the gently caress down"
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Jun 9, 2021 18:02
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I like the ones that reverse that where it's like "chad thundercock rose from his bed, subconsciously adjusting his gait to offset the sway of his pendulous balls on his way to the bathroom"
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Jun 9, 2021 18:04
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Jokes on them I did accomplish nothing.
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Jun 9, 2021 18:05
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I don't think pubs were nationalised - at least on a large scale - in WW2. A few breweries were taken over (because surprisingly the kit needed to brew bear is really useful in the making of several different very exciting chemicals) and of course a lot of pubs were used as billets and for other military purposes, but I don't think pubs were taken into direct control *while remaining open as pubs*. there is apparently a three-volume detailed analysis 'HAMMOND, Richard, J. (1956), Food: Studies in Administration and Control' on the topic
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Jun 9, 2021 18:15
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Miftan posted:I went drinking with one of my lecturers once and our TAs came out with us a bunch of times, but it helps that I did philosophy and that's perfect getting drunk talk. A friend who lived with some philosophers in Uni told me they were blind drunk 90% of the time so this checks out.
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Tesseraction posted:One of my lecturers went drinking with us one night and spent ages ranting at me for accomplishing nothing in my life while he has a loving PhD and the other elders around were like "jfc it's the first term of first year calm the gently caress down" There weren't any psychologists about to diagnose the massive amounts of projection going on, then?
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Jun 9, 2021 18:30
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We had a senior philosophy lecturer who was a lecherous piece of poo poo and would turn up at student nights to pick up girls, and who knocked up more than one. He also had a terminally ill and severely disabled wife so... Well, a lot of dark poo poo going on there.
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Jun 9, 2021 18:30
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Feeling extremely glad I didn't socialize at all or have sex during university tbh. Whole thing sounds extremely creepy.
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Tbqh even as a PhD student I didn't really socialise much with faculty except maybe for a few pints at conferences. The idea of going out on the lash with them regularly as an undergrad seems very weird to me.
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The other great thing about drinking with philosophy phds is that they all warn you to never do a phd so I got out of academia early :vv: "I've literally never met a happy philosophy phd student and all my friends are philosophy phd students" was a sentence I heard more than once from different people.
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Jun 9, 2021 18:48
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ronya posted:there is apparently a three-volume detailed analysis 'HAMMOND, Richard, J. (1956), Food: Studies in Administration and Control' on the topic It was big poo poo at the time. Lyon's Corner Houses were running an astonishing logistics operation based on experience from the British Restaurants, including one of the first examples of just-in-time logistics, and to the point of being the first commercial user of a computer (in fact building their own) in the entire world. In fact is there *anything* more British than that? We made one of the biggest, most world-changing advances in the history of humanity not for riches or glory but to make sure that tea and buns were served at absolute optimum freshness.
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Jun 9, 2021 18:49
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When I was an undergrad in a physics dept there was a very predatory female lecturer who used to latch on to male undergrads - usually the extremely shy really nerdy geeky types. She was physically very attractive. It was weird. She would see them for a term before moving on to the next one. She broke geeky hearts by the dozen.
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More on yesterday's internet outage. Apparently triggered by one customer. (Phone posting so can't do quote) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/09/fastly-says-single-customer-triggered-bug-that-caused-mass-outage
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ronya posted:there is apparently a three-volume detailed analysis 'HAMMOND, Richard, J. (1956), Food: Studies in Administration and Control' on the topic those top gear guys are older than you think. and surprisingly varied in their endeavours. Jaeluni Asjil posted:More on yesterday's internet outage. Apparently triggered by one customer. Its an inside job! Their share price jumped up because everyone went "who?" and realised there was this little company sitting behind half the internet.
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