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The Perfect Element posted:The micro USB port on my s7 is hosed (cables just fall out if I don't position the phone and cable to within a millionth of a millimetre of the right position , as the port I think has been eroded after years of sleepily trying to plug the jack in the wrong way. Micro USB sucks so much) . I've owned this phone for like... 6 years now, and other than the charging it still works perfectly. It’s a £20 fix if you go to the Indian lads on the market/your local equivalent run by Indian lads. Silver surfers at my group ham slam the charger into the port and need a new one every 6 months, while blaming me and hinting I should pay for it because I recommended they get a smart phone while ignoring the fact that they did the same thing to their Nokia’s.
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learnincurve posted:It’s a £20 fix if you go to the Indian lads on the market/your local equivalent run by Indian lads. Took me a minute pondering what a "group ham slam" was and where I could sign up
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Jun 22, 2021 08:55
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The Perfect Element posted:The micro USB port on my s7 is hosed (cables just fall out if I don't position the phone and cable to within a millionth of a millimetre of the right position , as the port I think has been eroded after years of sleepily trying to plug the jack in the wrong way. Micro USB sucks so much) . I've owned this phone for like... 6 years now, and other than the charging it still works perfectly. My DAB Radio Alarm Clock stopped working when they switched off the DAB frequency in Ireland this March. (The clock relied on getting a DAB station to set the time. It still worked perfectly as an FM radio, you just couldn't set the time.) So I got this new Radio Alarm Clock. But I mostly just use it as a Wireless Charge pad. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NGZ5K12/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_YR9M18EDFK177KCBMS27?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
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Jun 22, 2021 09:04
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goddamnedtwisto posted:See personally I'd like to see a return to the pre-WWI Municipal style, which is definitely one of those styles that's hard to describe but really easy to spot. The Poplar Town Hall before last* is a great example: This is a space battleship that used to be a pool hall/vape store that used to be a discount carpet warehouse that used to be a telephone exchange. OwlFancier posted:Clearly the best solution is everything needs to be built in queen anne revival. Everyone lives in a loving gingerbread house. Gyro Zeppeli posted:Since we can do basically any style now that our materials are so good, I've spun the wheel, and the UK will be rebuilt in the style of...gothic revival. Since we're already getting all the shite parts of living in Warhammer 40k, we might as well nail the aesthetic too. Azza Bamboo posted:IMO we should start tunnelling and shun sunlight altogether. Also means we don't have to worry about exterior design at all.
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Jun 22, 2021 09:29
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I think if I was on a council taking proposals for public projects I'd include in the brief to architects a requirement that proposals include an image which depicts how the building will look after not being cleaned for 30 years.
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Jun 22, 2021 09:47
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What's the deal with the UK and weirdly infantilising language? "Have your say", but also weirdly cutesy euphemism terms like "tory" or "nonce". Germany is probably just as bad, but I notice it here 'cos I'm an immigrant and didn't grow up with this as normal, and it's just... weird. Like a whole nation of Adult Boris Dialogue Lovers.
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Jun 22, 2021 09:48
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Stone building look better the dirtier they get. It’s the recently cleaned ones that look Wrong
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Jun 22, 2021 09:49
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Lunar Suite posted:What's the deal with the UK and weirdly infantilising language? "Have your say", but also weirdly cutesy euphemism terms like "tory" or "nonce". "Nonce" doesn't sound cutesy either imo, like it very definitely sounds offensive in a way that "paedo" just doesn't (e.g. "you loving nonce oval office" is way more emphatic than "you loving paedo", you can barely even coherently string the c-word after that one). I guess it sounds kind of faintly ridiculous, but lots of our insults do ("twat", "wanker") - imo that makes them more effective for ridiculing the person you're talking about. Words sound different to different cultures I guess is the moral here. Borrovan fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Jun 22, 2021 |
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Jun 22, 2021 10:03
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Lunar Suite posted:What's the deal with the UK and weirdly infantilising language? "Have your say", but also weirdly cutesy euphemism terms like "tory" or "nonce".
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Jun 22, 2021 10:08
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Borrovan posted:"Tory" isn't a cutesy euphemism, it's from an old Irish word for "thief" (first used derogatively but then became the name of the Tory party, the precursor to the Conservatives (e: & now used derogatively again)). My sisters have both recently given birth, and have somehow idependently arrived at the idea that "noncey" means "grouchy", and so will hapily describe their babies as "feeling noncey", and the mid-afternoon post-nap pre-feeding crying time as "the noncing hour"
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Jun 22, 2021 10:09
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Borrovan posted:"Tory" isn't a cutesy euphemism, it's from an old Irish word for "thief" (first used derogatively but then became the name of the Tory party, the precursor to the Conservatives (e: & now used derogatively again)). 
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Jun 22, 2021 10:10
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I wouldn't mind knowing whether it's true that "nonce" was a prison note meaning "not on normal courtyard exercise" used to show that paedos were separated from GP, or if it's just a backronym.
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Jun 22, 2021 10:11
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Jedit posted:I wouldn't mind knowing whether it's true that "nonce" was a prison note meaning "not on normal courtyard exercise" used to show that paedos were separated from GP, or if it's just a backronym. Strom Cuzewon posted:"the noncing hour"
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Jun 22, 2021 10:13
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it's always just a backronym
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Jun 22, 2021 10:15
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God loving drat we need to find out where all the phylacteries are being kept
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Jun 22, 2021 10:15
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OwlFancier posted:If I have a gripe about a lot of UK architecture it's that everything is made of bricks and it looks manky after a while. Like it can look nice but when you have to live with it all the time I find it a bit depressing. For public spaces I definitely prefer clean white concrete. In British weather (and air pollution) brick is about the longest-lasting (without looking poo poo) surface you can get apart from glass and metal, and as nobody ever reads my memos about the need for an International revival that means our choices are either brick, random surface dressing that looks like poo poo in 10 years, concrete that looks like poo poo in 5, or loving horrible market-knockoff-lego postmodernist poo poo. I actually like the fact that on the quiet a lot of architects have just gone back to "square building made out of brick with regularly-spaced and -shaped windows" as a default style. Not every building has to be a massive statement, it's fine to shoot for "nice" or even "okay" as long as the building itself is serviceable.
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Jun 22, 2021 10:16
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The Perfect Element posted:The micro USB port on my s7 is hosed (cables just fall out if I don't position the phone and cable to within a millionth of a millimetre of the right position , as the port I think has been eroded after years of sleepily trying to plug the jack in the wrong way. Micro USB sucks so much) . I've owned this phone for like... 6 years now, and other than the charging it still works perfectly. Counterpoint to all the above advice, is that thing still getting security updates? If not then you really shouldn't be using it, especially for banking or shopping
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Jun 22, 2021 10:18
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Skarsnik posted:Counterpoint to all the above advice, is that thing still getting security updates? If not then you really shouldn't be using it, especially for banking or shopping S7s are on quarterly updates now, but they're still being updated. As of next year they will only receive necessary updates, though, so it's time to upgrade.
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Jun 22, 2021 10:23
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Julio Cruz posted:it's always just a backronym The best rule of thumb when it comes to etymology is that the more interesting a proposed etymology sounds, the less likely it is to be true.
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Jun 22, 2021 10:26
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Jedit posted:S7s are on quarterly updates now, but they're still being updated. As of next year they will only receive necessary updates, though, so it's time to upgrade. That's alright then (for now). There was a dude in the anroid thread recently who got his dong pics distributed round his nearest and dearest using an ancient J7 after getting sent an infected file in a chat
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Jun 22, 2021 10:36
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Strom Cuzewon posted:"the noncing hour" Reveilled posted:The best rule of thumb when it comes to etymology is that the more interesting a proposed etymology sounds, the less likely it is to be true.
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Jun 22, 2021 10:41
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Can we have an actual bag of wet eggs as Labour leader instead please https://twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/1407266486104821761
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Jun 22, 2021 10:51
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I cycled past that Bow Business Centre for about 5 years daily and I have to say it's one hell of an ugly fucker, was always quietly interested in walking in to see what was inside but never did get round to it.
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Jun 22, 2021 10:56
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TACD posted:Can we have an actual bag of wet eggs as Labour leader instead please Retweet an Independent article by an actor? That's a resignation. Be found to have unlawfully funnelled money to your mates? Nah, just carry on working hard.
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Jun 22, 2021 11:10
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I'm getting inexplicably frustrated at the constant use of the word jab/jabbed/jabbing in the news for people being vaccinated, it feels too much like your weird 'tots/boffins' tabloid language and it rubs me up the wrong way
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Jun 22, 2021 11:10
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TACD posted:Can we have an actual bag of wet eggs as Labour leader instead please look he's learned to do a new hand thing, that's a good use of a year and a half
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Jun 22, 2021 11:12
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a kinder, gentler government opposition
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Jun 22, 2021 11:14
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm getting inexplicably frustrated at the constant use of the word jab/jabbed/jabbing in the news for people being vaccinated, it feels too much like your weird 'tots/boffins' tabloid language and it rubs me up the wrong way I like Jag as the original anyway.
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Jun 22, 2021 11:15
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in belfast it is called a jehg
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Jun 22, 2021 11:16
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm getting inexplicably frustrated at the constant use of the word jab/jabbed/jabbing in the news for people being vaccinated, it feels too much like your weird 'tots/boffins' tabloid language and it rubs me up the wrong way I know exactly what you mean. It’s infantile.
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Jun 22, 2021 11:17
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm getting inexplicably frustrated at the constant use of the word jab/jabbed/jabbing in the news for people being vaccinated, it feels too much like your weird 'tots/boffins' tabloid language and it rubs me up the wrong way Some regional sources report a 'donnybrook'.
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Jun 22, 2021 11:20
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm getting inexplicably frustrated at the constant use of the word jab/jabbed/jabbing in the news for people being vaccinated, it feels too much like your weird 'tots/boffins' tabloid language and it rubs me up the wrong way I heard all the kids love stabbing these days so we should call it that
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Jun 22, 2021 11:22
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm getting inexplicably frustrated at the constant use of the word jab/jabbed/jabbing in the news for people being vaccinated, it feels too much like your weird 'tots/boffins' tabloid language and it rubs me up the wrong way My partner commented on this the other day and I couldn’t agree more
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Jun 22, 2021 11:29
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm getting inexplicably frustrated at the constant use of the word jab/jabbed/jabbing in the news for people being vaccinated, it feels too much like your weird 'tots/boffins' tabloid language and it rubs me up the wrong way Nah, jab/jag is actually used by human beings in general conversation, where as boffins is not
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Jun 22, 2021 11:31
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I love bricks. Especially when they're old and weathered, they look great. Dirt on bricks is characterful, dirt on white concrete just looks filthy. Show me a white concrete outside wall that's gone a week without looking like it needs a wash.
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Jun 22, 2021 11:33
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forkboy84 posted:Nah, jab/jag is actually used by human beings in general conversation, where as boffins is not Jag is in Scotland I accept, but 'jab' is only used occasionally in England and very colloquially so it's weird seeing the entire mainstream press using it almost exclusively. It just feels patronising somehow, idk why.
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Jun 22, 2021 11:37
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ThomasPaine posted:Jag is in Scotland I accept, but 'jab' is only used occasionally in England and very colloquially so it's weird seeing the entire mainstream press using it almost exclusively. It just feels patronising somehow, idk why. I’ve already told you! It’s infantilising.
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Jun 22, 2021 11:45
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There has to be a way to quote tweets such that they survive deletion.
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Jun 22, 2021 11:54
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jiggerypokery posted:There has to be a way to quote tweets such that they survive deletion. Archaeoprogrammers have been trying to reverse engineer ancient screenshot technology, not sure how they're progressing.
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Jun 22, 2021 11:56
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Is jab not a standard term for a vaccination? Flu jab, tetanus jab, TB jab? I've had lots of jabs in my time. It's what they're called.
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