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Miftan posted:Aren't you in Finland? I'm guessing it's 20c. +26C today, +30C tomorrow. Global warming, eh.
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Trickjaw posted:Fucks sake. Give me strength. Oi! Coles! You have far too many pictures of a bloke who knocked up your missus! The gap between us and China grows ever larger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbqmX8zqXIk
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Jul 2, 2021 19:13
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Jul 2, 2021 19:14
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stev posted:I've always found town houses ugly and off putting. Most of them just look like the posh equivalent of cramming loads of people into a small space. I don't believe for a second that you can't spot which the nice one is
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Jul 2, 2021 19:21
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endlessmonotony posted:
Is this a jab at Canada
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Jul 2, 2021 19:25
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stev posted:I've always found town houses ugly and off putting. Most of them just look like the posh equivalent of cramming loads of people into a small space. Oh definitely, and the fact that they're almost all HMOs or subdivided into flats - with people having to pay serious money to live in the former servants quarters - only makes things worse. Fun fact, cos I know you all love them - the switch from the servants quarters in London housing being at the top of the house, with poky little dormer windows, to being in the basement with even less light, coincides exactly with the opening up of the slate industry in Wales at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Why? Because after 1666 all the roofs were of clay tile, which couldn't be made fully waterproof, so you put things you didn't care about - like servants - directly under them so that nothing important would get too badly waterlogged. Slate roofs are fully waterproof (and the coming of the railways to Wales also dropped the cost of lead to the point that lead flashing to keep them waterproof was cheap enough for conventional housing), so you could safely use the attic space for storage and move your servants to the next least-hospitable space in the building, down in the basement with the leaky septic tank and the coal. Of course in Scotland and much of northern England they somehow managed to crack the strange devilry of roofs that kept the rain out much, much earlier (roof tiles mounted to tarred boards, although that does have the startling side-effect of being considerably more flammable than a thatched roof) and in Wales of course they just used slate, so attics and garrets didn't have quite as bad a reputation as they do down south, but then they mostly kept the servants in the basement without even the little light well they got in London houses. (Also my brain has completely blanked on the actual name of that little light well)
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Jul 2, 2021 19:27
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fuctifino posted:The issue with Gove isn't that his alleged affair is/was with a man, it's supposedly a poweful ex spad who now works in Downing Street, and who is now best mates with Carrie. He's yet another powerful unelected person with huge influence at the centre of our government. The last time the papers called gove gay it was Gavin Williamson alleging an affair between him and Cummings, so I'd definitely hold the "with a spad" bit as a very seperate claim at this point
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Jul 2, 2021 19:28
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How insufferable would the tories be if they managed to claim both "first female prime minister" and "first gay prime minister"?
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Jul 2, 2021 19:32
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Spangly A posted:The last time the papers called gove gay it was Gavin Williamson alleging an affair between him and Cummings, so I'd definitely hold the "with a spad" bit as a very seperate claim at this point I'm just going by the twitter chatter. It seems like an open secret about the spad.
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Jul 2, 2021 19:33
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Umbra Dubium posted:How insufferable would the tories be if they managed to claim both "first female prime minister" and "first gay prime minister"? Not as insufferable as if they could claim first minority ethnic prime minister *looks at The Saj*
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Jul 2, 2021 19:34
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His Divine Shadow posted:I just wanted to say it's time for ice cream. Holy hell I'm sweating. This makes me sad because there is nowhere near me selling ice creams like this. There's ice cream vans with their Mr Whippy fake ice cream and the shops with the freezer burnt offerings, but nowhere can sells a proper, pick-your-own-flavour massive scoop of ice cream in a cone.
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Jul 2, 2021 19:36
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The Tories have the first American PM too.
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Jul 2, 2021 19:36
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Of course in Scotland and much of northern England they somehow managed to crack the strange devilry of roofs that kept the rain out much, much earlier After living in various top floor tenement flats, I can assure you from leaky ceiling experience (and dealing with lovely factors) that this isn't strictly true
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Jul 2, 2021 19:37
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Miftan posted:Aren't you in Finland? I'm guessing it's 20c. 24C actually and I've shifted several cubic meters of gravel by shovel and wheel barrow. Probably colder right now though, just finished for the night.
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Jul 2, 2021 19:46
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Pablo Bluth posted:As someone both with a weakness for ice-cream and currently trying to go a month without eating sweet junk, please stop. Trying not to eat sweet junk is basically my life since diabetes, but I've done such a phenomenal amount of physical labour today (by my standards anyway) that I could eat it without my sugar spiking.
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Jul 2, 2021 19:50
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Pablo Bluth posted:As someone both with a weakness for ice-cream and currently trying to go a month without eating sweet junk, please stop. I'm also an ice-cream junkie. I've been doing 'no sugar' for 7 weeks now. I made some unsweetened chocolate icecream using a can of light evaporated milk and cocoa (NOT drinking chocolate) 44g of cocoa to a 410g can of evaporated milk. It's delicious but has no sugar or sweetener. Just mix it up and stick in freezer. I don't have any special gadgets.
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Jul 2, 2021 19:57
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https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1411012538704203783?s=21 Adonis is the funniest running gag in British politics.
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Jul 2, 2021 19:57
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 fuctifino posted:The Tories have the first American PM too. Spangly A posted:the papers called gove gay
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Jul 2, 2021 20:03
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Is this a jab at Canada It is not. If it was, I'd mention the churches.
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Jul 2, 2021 20:09
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Not as insufferable as if they could claim first minority ethnic prime minister *looks at The Saj* *laughs in D'Israeli*
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Jul 2, 2021 20:09
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Guavanaut posted:I'm imagining them doing this in the manner of dickhead schoolchildren, because that's what I imagine the British press doing everything as.  Guavanaut posted:Bonar Law Now there's a Round the Horne joke that went over my head when my parents used to play that in the car.
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Jul 2, 2021 20:10
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So it looks like Rayner was maneuvering late last night when it looked like Labour had lost Batley & Spen. As such Kier Starmer is going for her again after squeaking through it. https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1411025170429583368
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Jul 2, 2021 20:12
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Fair play to Keith, he's in a position of overwhelming strength so now is the time to exercise his command and reshape the party to his liking.
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Jul 2, 2021 20:23
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Bobstar posted:
Its a double joke 1) Anthony Bonar Law was PM 2) Bonar means good or beautiful in Polari (gay slang)
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Jul 2, 2021 20:24
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It's weird to see FBPE Twitter and the Labour right put all of its energy into going after Owen Jones today because he interviewed Galloway. Surely there are better things they could be focusing on.
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Jul 2, 2021 20:57
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Coldwar Steve ❤ https://twitter.com/Coldwar_Steve/status/1411041763880583170?s=19
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Jul 2, 2021 21:02
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https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1410960556358569984 That's MY leader!!!!
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Jul 2, 2021 21:08
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Doesn't even make sense rly.
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Jul 2, 2021 21:14
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It means Labour's going back to perpetual longing for the mid-90s and losing at the semi-finals.
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Jul 2, 2021 21:18
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I haven't stopped laughing for a good couple of minutes. CWS is probably the best political satirist of our generation.
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Jul 2, 2021 21:26
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The Perfect Element posted:Doesn't even make sense rly. It doesn't make sense at all, but nothing about this does. It's a huge victory for Starmer, despite being a significantly worst result than 2019, the year Corbyn Destroyed The Labour Party. Listening to the coverage, you'd think this was like that lib dem victory the other day
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Jul 2, 2021 21:34
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Feels weird to post another goons work but this had me howling so mad props to Sanitary Naptime: https://twitter.com/SanitaryNaptime/status/1411055084390293505
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Jul 2, 2021 21:36
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/02/slough-goes-bankrupt-after-discovery-of-100m-black-hole-in-budgetquote:A third English local authority has declared itself effectively bankrupt after the discovery of a “catastrophic” £100m black hole in its budget – the result of what it admitted had been years of poor financial management and mishandling of commercial investments. How do you miss £100m?
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Jul 2, 2021 21:43
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fuctifino posted:https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/02/slough-goes-bankrupt-after-discovery-of-100m-black-hole-in-budget By being dumb enough to think the government are bluffing about making extreme cuts that are guaranteed to kill and impoverish people, and decide against enacting them after the funding goes Also embezzlement
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Jul 2, 2021 22:20
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My experience of council investment is when the local government buy out beloved local businesses, rebuild them from the budget, carry them for several years, then sell the land to property developers the second you might actually make a profit Looking at you, dreamland
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Jul 2, 2021 22:23
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fuctifino posted:https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/02/slough-goes-bankrupt-after-discovery-of-100m-black-hole-in-budget Down the back of the sofa
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Jul 2, 2021 22:25
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fuctifino posted:https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/02/slough-goes-bankrupt-after-discovery-of-100m-black-hole-in-budget You set long term projects which cost 100M with money you are projected to get, then the government says you're not getting it any more, but you can't cancel the projects.
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Jul 2, 2021 22:28
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The hole was only £10m yesterday. https://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/19412988.cash-strapped-slough-councils-accounts-investigated-government/ At this rate, it'll billions by Monday.
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Jul 2, 2021 22:31
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Apparently my mother is spraying her dog with colloidal silver. Really wish I wasn't related to such a loving moron.
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Jul 2, 2021 22:56
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Warn her that if she keeps doing that they might end up voting for Keir Starmer.fuctifino posted:At this rate, it'll billions by Monday.
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