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Any of the Ł100 million previously funded by the EU, or going to be?
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Jul 2, 2021 23:15
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I've heard it on good advice that any loss of EU funding is going to be matched by equivalent government expenditure directly to Tory donors and think tanks.
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Jul 2, 2021 23:16
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So, I see Neil Cole has been drinking again, and has joined the OJ dog pile with demonstrably false statements.
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Jul 2, 2021 23:32
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I wish Jones was half as radical and anti-Labour as these freaks pretend to think.
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Jul 2, 2021 23:35
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https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/athletics-namibia-contenders-withdrawn-olympic-400m-race-2021-07-02/quote:The Namibian teenagers have been in blistering form at various race meetings in Europe, and were considered among the medal contenders, but tests conducted at their training camp in Italy led to the withdrawal. So, not allowed to compete in certain races despite having naturally high testosterone levels unless they agree to take medication to lower them. Hm.
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Jul 2, 2021 23:52
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Surely the olympics would never change the rules just because they don't like the people winning the tournaments, surely.
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Jul 2, 2021 23:54
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OwlFancier posted:Surely the olympics would never change the rules just because they don't like the people winning the tournaments, surely. If your testo levels are acceptable then the weed levels will be the problem.
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Jul 2, 2021 23:59
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Fun fact: Target shooting at the Olympics became gender segregated specifically because one woman got too good at it.
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Jul 3, 2021 00:06
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fuctifino posted:I'm just going by the twitter chatter. It seems like an open secret about the spad. You are correct!
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Jul 3, 2021 00:08
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Fun fact: Target shooting at the Olympics became gender segregated specifically because one woman got too good at it. I'm less sure what would have happened if the Namibian 400m athletes had been white Westerners. Probably a Michael Phelps miracle of genetics rather than the racist terf pool with ideological roots that date back two centuries but which somehow keeps coming up increasingly often now. (e: Less sure only because they're still terfs and it's still women's sports, so there's still wide latitude for them to be terrible regardless of ethnicity or nationality, but there's definitely a strong bias there.) Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Jul 3, 2021 |
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Jul 3, 2021 00:27
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Guavanaut posted:Zhang Shan did it for Olympic skeet shooting in the 90s, but I'm certain that it's happened a number of times going back to at least the 30s with women who entered country club shoots before they suddenly decided that it wasn't ladylike to embarrass all the failsons at the one thing they get to enjoy. Where was that TERF thing about women over 5ft 5" not being allowed in the ladies' bogs because if you're taller than that, then obviously you're not really a woman. I was telling my boss who is just over 5ft 10 - a smidgeon taller than me - and she couldn't believe it.
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Jul 3, 2021 00:31
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That sounds like a Mumsnet thing. I'm sure that my mam would have strong opinions on that, being well over 5'6" when she was younger (and relevant to the other topic being a better clay shot than most posh men despite* growing up far away from the country estates on the council type of estate). *Or maybe because, no idea what they were up to there with shotguns in the 60s 
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Jul 3, 2021 00:47
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Guavanaut posted:That sounds like a Mumsnet thing. Me and every other kid who grew up around here in the 70s and 80s are a crack shot with not just (air) rifles and pistols but also catapults and even well-aimed stones because of the ridiculous rat infestations that descended on the council estates of the east end when they closed the docks. I'm a pretty good shot with a shotgun too, even though I kept forgetting that I got a second shot.
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Jul 3, 2021 00:55
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Meanwhile, back in 'making the labour party a safe place for Jews so long as they are not left wing Jews' land: https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/co-founder-of-jvl-ousted-from-local-labour-partys-executive-committee/ (Lee Harpin piece) quote:
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Jul 3, 2021 01:23
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Guavanaut posted:That sounds like a Mumsnet thing. The average Czech woman is over 5'6'', and I imagine e.g. the Germans and the Dutch are even taller. As 5'8'' guy I've literally been the single shortest guy at school and the 2 workplaces I worked in in the Czech Republic. I said it before but I appreciate that brits are so short, I can fit right in.
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Jul 3, 2021 01:39
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I am 5'3 without shoes and thats the kinda short where you look up to children.
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Jul 3, 2021 06:57
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Guavanaut posted:That sounds like a Mumsnet thing. A bit like Knuckles McGinty’s knife skills.
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Jul 3, 2021 08:03
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Not So Fast posted:The gap between us and China grows ever larger. Ah yes, the people's republic of China, founded in 1921, high quality journalism from the telegraph as ever
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Jul 3, 2021 10:11
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https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1411103763432198148 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a43T6xfAjI
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Jul 3, 2021 10:20
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Ah yeah, teabags are just too much effort It rules that there are people who make me look less lazy
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Jul 3, 2021 10:22
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How does that even work? Does it squirt a tea-like paste to mix with water?
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Jul 3, 2021 10:33
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I assume it must be just tea concentrate. Perhaps tea foam
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Jul 3, 2021 10:35
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stev posted:How does that even work? Does it squirt a tea-like paste to mix with water? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Y3B_3zADY
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Jul 3, 2021 10:35
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OwlFancier posted:I assume it must be just tea concentrate. Teapuccino E: Dutch way of making tea: - Take Lipton or Pickwick brand tea bag - Touch gently on surface of hot water for 2 seconds - THROW IT AWAY BEFORE IT IMPARTS TOO MUCH FLAVOUR! (I'm only exaggerating slightly) Bobstar fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Jul 3, 2021 |
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Jul 3, 2021 10:37
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That’s quite a fun video. The environmental impact of that stupid loving can alone is enough to enrage me. The only possible advantage is speed in that you don’t have to wait wile the tea is steeping, but a bottle of concentrated tea would do that too, and better.
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Jul 3, 2021 10:48
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Bobstar posted:Teapuccino That's the way to do it! Save the teabag though, you can get 4 mugs out of it
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Jul 3, 2021 11:00
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Sloth Life posted:That's the way to do it! Save the teabag though, you can get 4 mugs out of it I know it sounds like a joke about tight northerners but a friend of mine from East Yorks literally used to dry out his teabags on a line above the sink and reuse them. He claimed that Yorkshire Tea is made extra strong with that very thing in mind. e: I did try it myself one time and you can get an adequate cup on second use if you steep it long enough, so maybe he was right. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Jul 3, 2021 |
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Jul 3, 2021 11:05
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Sloth Life posted:That's the way to do it! Save the teabag though, you can get 4 mugs out of it And I thought DuckTales was making a joke about Scrooge using the same bag for the whole week.
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Jul 3, 2021 11:07
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Ms Adequate posted: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. The way things are going, I wonder if he realizes a party which no-one wants to vote for is kind of pointless OwlFancier posted:Apparently my mother is spraying her dog with colloidal silver. Tell her dogs aren't werewolves, so this isn't going to work. She can't defeat her dog with silver Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/athletics-namibia-contenders-withdrawn-olympic-400m-race-2021-07-02/ Have the Levellers taken over the Olympics? What's next, chopping feet off because an athlete is "too high"?
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Jul 3, 2021 11:08
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I could see maybe it being useful if you were like hiking or working outdoors in monsoon conditions and needed a supply of tea that couldn't get wet but then... Zip lock bags? It's so niche and pointless. Like most products under capitalism!
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Jul 3, 2021 11:09
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lol the tea talk reminds me of England Wicket-Keeper Jack Russell "Some of his more notable oddities included a diet to supplement his extreme fitness regime, which consisted largely of tea, biscuits, and baked beans. Like his mentor, Alan Knott, a heavy tea drinker, Russell would often get through 20 cups a day. He used to dip the tea bag in once, add plenty of milk, then hang it on a nail ready for subsequent use. In the final Test of the 1989 Ashes series (against Australia) at the Oval, Derek Pringle counted that he used the same bag for all five days, which roughly equates to 100 cups.[15] For lunch, Russell would eat two Weetabix, soaked for exactly fifteen minutes in cold milk. He was one of the first to eat bananas on the field of play at drinks break. For dinner, steak and chips or chicken without skin was a favourite meal – Russell once spent every night of a Test at a Chinese restaurant in Perth, ordering chicken and cashews: without the cashews.[14]"
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Jul 3, 2021 11:09
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JollyBoyJohn posted:lol the tea talk reminds me of England Wicket-Keeper Jack Russell What a queer fellow. Good player. If I recall correctly he partnered Atherton when they held off South Africa and a raging Alan Donald in 1997 at the Wanderers. It was frustrating but admirable.
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Jul 3, 2021 11:18
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Libluini posted:Tell her dogs aren't werewolves, so this isn't going to work. She can't defeat her dog with silver 
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Jul 3, 2021 11:19
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Incredible. The “Matt Hancock groping his squeeze set to the Alan Partridge soundtrack” video has been removed for “sexual content” lol 
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Jul 3, 2021 11:45
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Sloth Life posted:That's the way to do it! Save the teabag though, you can get 4 mugs out of it That's how I like my tea - say hello to the bag then out quick before it gets too tea-y. Definitely NOT a fan of 'builders' tea'. (Not really a tea fan at all but sometimes in really hot weather, it's refreshing.) Can't stand 'fruit' teas. I have a box in just for my mum who seems to like them for some bizarre reason.
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Jul 3, 2021 11:52
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i like earl grey which is weirdly divisive
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Jul 3, 2021 11:58
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JollyBoyJohn posted:i like earl grey which is weirdly divisive It's nice but I'd only really have it on a fancy occasion. Day to day I have a bag of Yorkshire in the water for 7-10 minutes which does the job.
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Jul 3, 2021 12:06
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stev posted:It's nice but I'd only really have it on a fancy occasion. Day to day I have a bag of Yorkshire in the water for 7-10 minutes which does the job. Earl Grey is nasty. Yorkshire tea steeped for that long gets bitter. I like Dorset tea. Strength without bitterness unless you leave it for like 20 minutes.
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Jul 3, 2021 12:08
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The British fascination with tea is actually amazing. It's fine at best. If I want flavoured water I'd flavour it with something that actually tastes good.
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