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We had a heated discussion on a local FB group about the kid drivers racing around the streets who do that rev up really fast and noisily thing and race round the streets at dusk practically knocking over little old ladies trying to cross the zebra crossing thoughtfully positioned immediately around a corner that drivers can't see around and therefore, naturally, slow down to turn round - ahem - or waking up tiny kids who had just got to sleep and so on. There were about 300 replies with people posting photos of the licence plates of the kid drivers who think noisy engines make them look big (along with smoking) and comments along the lines of 'we know who you are'. Eventually one of the kids identified - an 18 year old - posted that the reason he did it was because he had a small penis and the noise was to make up for it. (So of course everyone pressed 'like' or 'haha'). It did die down for some months afterwards. A couple of them did apologize and say they didn't realize how upsetting it was for people. Page snipe: good one for this thread. http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_INSTRUMENT_ID:312232 quote:
Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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The absolute biggest concern in the village I live in at the moment is how fast cars drive along the main road, and how loud they are. I've spent the last two community meetings pointing out to people that the things aren't connected - everyone drives too fast up and down this road, you just notice the loud ones because they're loud. My office window looks out onto the road and it seems literally every van/lorry driver is using their phone as they speed along. And don't get me started on people using two hands to put their seatbelt on as they drive away from the shop! What I'm saying is, a lot of drivers deserve to be dragged to the side of the road and shot - not just those in loud or rented cars - but this will appeal to some people.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 09:24 |
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I live on a main road in the centre of London so I just got use to phenomenal amounts of noise. I haven’t got used to hayfever tho! Horrible this year but the normal pills seem to be working when they didn’t the last four or so years. It’s mostly affecting my eyes and chest rather than nose tho. I used to get the Kenalog injection for it and it seems to be pure bottled magic - would have a nose dripping like a tap and a head full of congealed snot and within 50 minutes of getting the shot it would be completely clear. But of course it’s a big immunosuppressant so it has been completely withdrawn until COVID is “over”
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 09:28 |
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Sanford posted:The absolute biggest concern in the village I live in at the moment is how fast cars drive along the main road, and how loud they are. I've spent the last two community meetings pointing out to people that the things aren't connected - everyone drives too fast up and down this road, you just notice the loud ones because they're loud. My office window looks out onto the road and it seems literally every van/lorry driver is using their phone as they speed along. And don't get me started on people using two hands to put their seatbelt on as they drive away from the shop! Someone was egging me on to stand for town council and I said noone will vote for me because I have a good solution to the dog poop and fast cars problems which occupy the minds of most of the denizens of our town: watchtowers manned by snipers every 200m to take out owners of dogs who don't pick up the dog poop or to take out drivers of cars with noisy engines or who drive at more than 20mph around the streets. He thought I was joking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT7Hj-ea0VE
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 09:31 |
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It is OBON day my dudes
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 09:34 |
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its the motorbikes that are arseholes in my village. every nice evening sitting out in the garden is just relentless motorbike racket.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 09:35 |
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Azza Bamboo posted:It is OBON day my dudes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T72TopWbXJg
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 09:37 |
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I have lovely broken down Stagecoach double deckers going through the estate and past my window because people are too bone idle to walk down through the cut through on the main road.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 09:38 |
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Necrothatcher posted:It's so obviously the result of asking a focus group of suburbanites what annoys them.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 09:51 |
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If Starmer wants to tackle noisy anti social behaviour round my bit he could start with the Orange Walks.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 09:55 |
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We live in a country where people will throw a tantrum over the existence of the Brønsted-Lowry theory of acids when some prick throws drain cleaner at someone, and yet will call being asked nicely to wear a simple cloth mask during a pandemic that has killed over 800x as many people as every single mass shooting in the past 50 years (including all the ones that were part of the Troubles or were done by professionals) an act of intolerable oppression. Maybe Kieth is replicating tapping into the rich seam of petty bullshit that Saint Tonty did.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 10:11 |
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I had nuclear hayfever this year for a week or so and I was in a country without a pollen problem. I thought it could have been the delta variant. Negative antibody test so there's something very interesting going on there.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 10:15 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Someone was egging me on to stand for town council and I said noone will vote for me because I have a good solution to the dog poop and fast cars problems which occupy the minds of most of the denizens of our town: watchtowers manned by snipers every 200m to take out owners of dogs who don't pick up the dog poop or to take out drivers of cars with noisy engines or who drive at more than 20mph around the streets. He thought I was joking. Forget the town council, you'll be in Starmer's shadow cabinet if he hears you saying stuff like that
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 10:18 |
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Forget the shadow cabinet, that kind of talk will get you banned from coming over for dinner
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 10:23 |
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To all you hayfever sufferers, if you sting yourself a bit on the arm with nettles once a week it will completely stop you getting hayfever. This is definitely true because an old lady told me it. It will also very quickly make you immune to nettle stings, and that bit I can verify. Edit: Fun text from our childminder. Our two year old is going through a phase of asking what's a girl and what's a boy. "Daddy are you a girl or a boy? Is Gaggy a girl or a boy? Is the shop a girl or a boy? Is the sky a girl or a boy?". We've had some interesting discussions. Another parent has "raised concerns" about our daughters repeated insistence that "not everything has to be a girl or a boy, not even people." Imagine hearing three toddlers talking and feeling the need to "raise concerns" over it! Sanford fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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Sanford posted:Is the shop a girl or a boy? Is the sky a girl or a boy?
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 10:48 |
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Der Laden, der Himmel Gender is so loving annoying. mrpwase fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 11:03 |
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French chairs and tables are female, arabic & german tables are female, but arabic & german chairs are male. A little girl (das Mädchen) in german is neuter. Figure that one out!
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 11:19 |
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Language is made up, pass it on. https://twitter.com/Aine3333/status/1408327725203525632
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 11:20 |
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Perfidity of English on full displayJaeluni Asjil posted:We had a heated discussion on a local FB group about the kid drivers racing around the streets who do that rev up really fast and noisily thing and race round the streets at dusk practically knocking over little old ladies trying to cross the zebra crossing thoughtfully positioned immediately around a corner that drivers can't see around and therefore, naturally, slow down to turn round - ahem - or waking up tiny kids who had just got to sleep and so on. You know as I was reading this I thought it was gonna end up with someone saying or doing something terrible but actually it sounds like a really positive interaction and outcome Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 11:40 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:French chairs and tables are female, arabic & german tables are female, but arabic & german chairs are male. If it's the same as Dutch, all diminutives are neutral. E.g. de meid (female), het meisje (neutral)
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 11:43 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:French chairs and tables are female, arabic & german tables are female, but arabic & german chairs are male. The Greek words for 'boy' and 'girl' are also not gendered (despite not being diminutives), I think this may be because small children generally weren't really gendered in a cultural sense in many cultures but others can probably say more on that subject.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 11:47 |
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Guavanaut posted:Language is made up, pass it on. /Says it out loud Jaw-Jaw well? ??? /says it out loud in a very stereotypical english accent Ohhh Honestly you did this to yourselves. Pictured in red: good bits of england
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 11:51 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's definitely A Thing in Muslim communities to celebrate various events like weddings, exam results, etc - the parents will rent the kids a Lamborghini or an AMG or similar flashy, fast car. Of course this gets right up the noses of a certain type of curtain twitching notaracistbut, who are Starmers apparent only target. Oh my god, it's definitely this. Dog whistle racism for white Batley and Spen voters. I suspect it's a bit too dog-whistley and not enough racisty though.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 11:53 |
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https://twitter.com/Simon_Vessey/status/1408363916644728837?s=19 Lmao
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 11:57 |
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Labour actually called for someone to resign?! https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1408380121464119300?s=19
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 12:10 |
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Pet-ASBOs anyone?
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 12:10 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:French chairs and tables are female, arabic & german tables are female, but arabic & german chairs are male. I don't want people to be thinking about sex and children at the same time, so I have no problem with them being neuter in speech. But if an adult wants to get jiggy with the furniture, who am I to tell them no? (As long as they're not trying to gently caress the chair while I'm sitting on it, anyway.)
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 12:11 |
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Reveilled posted:/Says it out loud Please check for fever, anosmia, and urge to sing Strong Britain Great Nation for the next 72 hours. You can do a lateral flow test by imagining an asylum seeker rubbing a sample of mucus on a small portrait of the queen and checking for the number of lines of comment you would write about that.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 12:12 |
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Noxville posted:Do people actually rent high powered cars just to drive them fast down residential streets at night? Is this a thing that actually happens? Yes it's very much a thing. I even remembered reading somewhere that the majority of high end sports cars you see are rental/lease. No idea if it's true but it's certainly very common.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 12:19 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:arabic & german tables are female, but arabic & german chairs are male. Der Tisch?
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 12:25 |
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Sanford posted:To all you hayfever sufferers, if you sting yourself a bit on the arm with nettles once a week it will completely stop you getting hayfever. This is definitely true because an old lady told me it. It will also very quickly make you immune to nettle stings, and that bit I can verify. Honestly, from a biologist perspective, this sounds pretty plausible.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 12:28 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:French chairs and tables are female, arabic & german tables are female, but arabic & german chairs are male. My Italian mate explained that tables are male or female depending on whether it's like an office-desk or the kitchen table
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 12:29 |
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Mano posted:Der Tisch? Oh yes you're right. I chose the wrong type of table! (Spreadsheet type table LOL)
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 12:31 |
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Not that I’m particularly invested in defending either party, but I think there’s a longstanding issue with The Sun refusing to share their front page with the BBC for reasons I can’t recall
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 12:34 |
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uuguurughgh all cars must be futtud wuth a bluck box and harsh suntunces for people who bruck the speed lumut whilst listening to zz-top or meatloaf!!!!!!!!!! urururuuruurghghghgh
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 13:06 |
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Keith's just worried people will muscle in on his cyclist flattening territory.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 13:08 |
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If you drive well the surveillance device awards you social credit points, let's call it Steer Karma
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 13:13 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 05:22 |
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After my sad post a whole bunch of thread regs shot me a pm. I think that’s really nice and I’d encourage anyone struggling to do your cry for help in the ukmt rather than through any more destructive means. I’m okay btw, just having a very hard time. P.S. crispix please do more Keith impressions they always make me giggle more than they should hehe
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