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Yesterday morning I bought a new mower and put the old one out for scrap, and in the afternoon my tiny village held a pride event with a parade along the road. The culmination of these two events mean I’ve got a video of an angry drag queen banging my old mower about, declaring it “a loving piece of poo poo,” and throwing it in the hedge. I couldn’t be happier. Edit: here's a space dog from the future we met yesterday 
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I have a kid on the way and I'm fully expecting to just put up with it Agreed. Bit of an eye opener on posters firmly on the NIMBY track too.
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Jun 27, 2021 08:39
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Going to the police about noisy neighbours not not only leads to them doing absolutely nothing except pissing off your neighbours. But it so means you're legally required to inform any potential buyers of your property of those complaints (with hefty fines if you don't). Good luck selling your house when buyers can see you've made 12 noise complaints in the last year.
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Jun 27, 2021 09:10
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Mega Comrade posted:Good luck owning a house FTFY
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Jun 27, 2021 09:27
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Dabir posted:Is Giles Fraser the dangerous weirdo who wrote that revolting article about going on holiday with his three year old daughter and it being "the sexiest holiday ever" or was that some other Giles Giles Fraser got famous for resigning from St Paul's at their handling of the Occupy protests on their doorstep, which sounds cool and good, and then turned out to be a complete weirdo with terrible views on most things. I worked on a play about it, where he was portrayed as a very earnest, principled man going up against the stuffy cathedral hierarchy. This may have been...an oversimplification. -- Re houses, the solution is to raze all of Britain's housing stock and replace it with beautifully engineered Passivhäuser, with amazing soundproofing, and reversible heat pumps and ventilation systems so good you'll never need to open a window.
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Jun 27, 2021 09:33
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That would be lovely let's do that
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Jun 27, 2021 09:50
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ok https://twitter.com/Lafargue/status/1408715294420340740 is this real
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Jun 27, 2021 09:52
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OwlFancier posted:Buy a scythe and you can cut your lawn whenever you want, and you should definitely do it at night, with the scythe, in your dressing gown, and then sit outside and sharpen the scythe while staring at the house of your neighbour. pre:JUST LIVING MY BEST LIFE 
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Jun 27, 2021 10:01
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People cut lawns in the morning because it's loving hot in the afternoons.
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Jun 27, 2021 10:05
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It's really a lot easier to wait til the grass is a little less damp before mowing
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Jun 27, 2021 10:11
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Heya, does anyone remember which thread had my old avatar in it? Someone gave me this one and I would like to change it back. To pre-empt questions, I don't know what I said or did. Maybe it was because of the "chompsky" tagline? I really don't know.
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Jun 27, 2021 10:12
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learnincurve posted:Gove’s 53 which makes him a young Tory as section 28 was in full swing, most of the other tories mentioned were old enough to be “one rule for them one rule for me” tories during that time. Poor bastard. I was talking specifically about Portillo but Gove is sort of an interesting one because if he *is* closeted he's of the generation that would have grown up in the culture that led to Section 28 and as he definitely always seems to have wanted to be an establishment figure (he was in the Young Conservatives at Oxford with Johnson) would definitely have been under intense - if passive - pressure to keep himself in the closet, get married, and pump out some kids. Like you say, poor bastard, but also he can gently caress off for all the poo poo he's done and will continue to do that has nothing at all to do with his genitals.
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Jun 27, 2021 10:14
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according to the mail the footage came from a gammon security guard who was upset freedom day had been put back, he tried to shop it to them first via instagram lol
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Jun 27, 2021 10:18
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Josef bugman posted:Heya, does anyone remember which thread had my old avatar in it? Someone gave me this one and I would like to change it back. To pre-empt questions, I don't know what I said or did. Big robot guy or watch funny videos shark? e: I thought old avatars still showed on older posts but a quick dive a few weeks back in your post history and its not there. 
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Jun 27, 2021 10:19
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Just on a really picky point, Ministers aren't democratically elected. They're appointed by the PM and don't even have to be MPs. Also this wasn't a blackmail protection racket it was a security guard looking to make some money Also it wasn't just "having an affair" it was deliberately and repeatedly flaunting the rules you yourself have imposed on the entire loving country.
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Jun 27, 2021 10:19
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The whole cocaine situation is damning enough of Gove and his ilk. I've heard he was actually quite pleasant to work with as environment secretary though from a civil servant, which kind of makes him feel worse to me. He apparently actually listened and cared. It's like he has a genuinely decent inner child crushed by a loving odious, duplicitous self-serving ambition.
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Jun 27, 2021 10:21
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Doccykins posted:according to the mail the footage came from a gammon security guard who was upset freedom day had been put back, he tried to shop it to them first via instagram lol ok this is what i had heard and why i thought the whole sun protection racket seemed too much but then again it’s the sun so
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Jun 27, 2021 10:22
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:Big robot guy or watch funny videos shark? Big robot guy for preference.
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Jun 27, 2021 10:25
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bump_fn posted:ok this is what i had heard and why i thought the whole sun protection racket seemed too much Downing Street have said they know who leaked it but won't be having an investigation so you can read between the lines as to why not
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Jun 27, 2021 10:25
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jiggerypokery posted:The whole cocaine situation is damning enough of Gove and his ilk. This is something I have read about Gove a lot. That he was actually a very competent minister as Environment secretary in that he actually listened to people that know what they're talking about as he didn't have a clue about the subject and actively tried to implement their ideas. I believe this is in vast difference to his time as education minister where he went in with an agenda of what to do and ignored anything that went counter to that. Perhaps the outright hatred he got for that role lead to personal change?
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Jun 27, 2021 10:26
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I did have a CD by a really satanic black metal band, I can see the cover in my head, but can't remember the band name. Here, let me help
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Jun 27, 2021 10:28
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jiggerypokery posted:Downing Street have said they know who leaked it but won't be having an investigation so you can read between the lines as to why not It was a security guard who has been fired. They won't be investigating it because then they'd have to put on record how their security has so little oversight that a security guard can walk out with footage from Ministers offices, with the obvious questions of what else has been heard/seen on these cameras that has made it to other nations instead of just newspapers.
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Jun 27, 2021 10:30
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jiggerypokery posted:The whole cocaine situation is damning enough of Gove and his ilk. The Private Eye line on this is that unlike Education, which he'd spent years cooking up an idiotic masterplan for, he got the environment brief unexpectedly, and at least had the sense to recognise his own ignorance and listen to the advisers.
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Jun 27, 2021 10:31
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I did some work with Gove in MoJ and for a scumsucking Tory piece of poo poo he wasn't so bad. Then again he was coming straight after Grayling and spent most of his time undoing his many gently caress ups.
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Jun 27, 2021 10:40
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i would have lifted him up and squished him against a big window to see if his mouth stuck to it like a suction cup
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Jun 27, 2021 10:45
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Having worked work night shifts etc. you do just have to accept there will be noise in the day, and people with have bbqs and parties and things. If it's your immediate neighbour you can have a chat and say 'Do you mind keeping it down the next few mornings I'm coming off a run of night shifts' and they might be a decent sort. Getting into noise complaints and calling the police is a route destined for escalation and aggro. A lot of the issues with neighbourhood noise are made worse by the absolute cardboard rabbit hutches we call houses in the UK. serious gaylord posted:It was a security guard who has been fired. It's this. JoylessJester fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Jun 27, 2021 |
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Jun 27, 2021 10:49
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Worth remembering that Gove does have a reputation as one of the most insanely, rabidly racist government ministers, even if specific examples have been rare to surface in the news.
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Jun 27, 2021 10:57
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serious gaylord posted:It was a security guard who has been fired. The cameras wouldn't have sound for very obvious reasons, and are generally just pointed at doors and other entrance points. I suppose a determined attacker could employ lip readers and hope people discuss affairs of state (rather than just having them, arf arf) in front of their office door for some reason. Meanwhile every minister and civil servant in every government on earth seems to conduct all of their business through gmail and whatsapp.
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Jun 27, 2021 11:15
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crispix posted:i would have lifted him up and squished him against a big window to see if his mouth stuck to it like a suction cup I think if you throw him at a window he'd "walk" down it like one of those octopus things.
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Jun 27, 2021 11:16
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Necrothatcher posted:I did some work with Gove in MoJ and for a scumsucking Tory piece of poo poo he wasn't so bad. Then again he was coming straight after Grayling and spent most of his time undoing his many gently caress ups. Yeah my missus is a teacher so when he became justice I was bracing myself for him loving up my work as well and then he was... fine? Like he didn't resolve any of the issues that are crippling our legal system but he didn't actively make it any worse.
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Jun 27, 2021 11:20
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Josef bugman posted:Big robot guy for preference. I'm fairly certain the art was from the Lancer tabletop rpg. Was it this?
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Jun 27, 2021 11:20
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Should I attempt to tell my downstairs neighbour (very hot for you breeders) Chinese lass belting out 'Camp town races' on the old Joanne is not right? e: because I have the song in my head. doo dah. Trickjaw fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Jun 27, 2021 |
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Jun 27, 2021 11:21
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Did he actually get anything done in education or dis brexit corsair everything?
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Jun 27, 2021 11:22
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Everyone's been to school so everyone has an opinion on education (often "mine was best").
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Jun 27, 2021 11:32
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jiggerypokery posted:Did he actually get anything done in education or dis brexit corsair everything? He was education before Brexit, 2010-2014. He pushed for academisation and reform of qualifications. He was also a big believer in improving academic rigour. Wiki page about it
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Jun 27, 2021 11:33
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The only thing I remember gove for in education is writing a foreword to the Bible and sending one to every school in the country
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Jun 27, 2021 11:33
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serious gaylord posted:This is something I have read about Gove a lot. That he was actually a very competent minister as Environment secretary in that he actually listened to people that know what they're talking about as he didn't have a clue about the subject and actively tried to implement their ideas. I've always seen Gove as someone who wants to do what's best, but doesn't as a rule know what is best. In Education he had a lot of lovely ideas and pushed them through because he believed they were right. In Justice he undid a lot of the poo poo Grayling did because he believed it wasn't just. And in Environment he knew he didn't know, so he asked people who did. But it's all filtered through being a Tory. Also I see we've gone from COVID-19 straight into JAVID-21. We're all doomed.
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Jun 27, 2021 11:38
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I'm also enjoying finding out that classified MoD documents were found in a soggy heap behind a bus stop in Kent, for the sheer incongruity of it. - If they weren't stolen, why would you take 50 pages out of whatever bag you were carrying them in before you got home/to another office? And them dump them behind a bus stop? - If you're entitled to have access to them, why would you print them off in the first place, rather than just reading the secured PDF on your laptop? - If they were stolen, why would you dump them behind a bus stop? If you've stolen the bag they're in, surely you just take the whole bag and sort out what's inside later? - If this is just the MoD saying "We're vewy sowwy" to Russia, isn't there an easier way of doing it than some dogshit fake leak that also tests the water of public opinion on keeping troops in Afghanistan once the USA pulls out?
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Jun 27, 2021 11:39
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Doccykins posted:The only thing I remember gove for in education is writing a foreword to the Bible and sending one to every school in the country "All characters and events depicted in this book are entirely fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
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Paul.Power posted:Ah yes, the Q1 Class Leader would like a quiet word outside.
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