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https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1413454152160608270?s=21 lol, capitalism is going to murder us all
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Jul 9, 2021 15:07
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Problem with enforcement is that in most cases it would be left to some lowly shop assistant to have to do it and anti-maskers are not known for their polite and considerate behaviour. Telling some gammon to put their mask on is possibly risking life and limb or at least a broken nose. Same for bus driver etc. Thing is we have a bunch of prick cops and litter wardens who love nothing more than hassling people, should have actually put these idiots to use for a change.
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Jul 9, 2021 15:11
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I'm all for calling people out for littering tbh but I don't think I've ever come across someone, like, actively employed to do that? Cops and parking attendants can get in the bin though
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Jul 9, 2021 15:15
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keep punching joe posted:Thing is we have a bunch of prick cops and litter wardens who love nothing more than hassling people, should have actually put these idiots to use for a change. Oh some towns did and my god they were the same all over. Imagine if you will, a person willing to be a narc for Boris. Fat bastards of all ages sat on a little desk outside the public toilets or entrances to supermarkets wearing the daisy lanyards gleefully screaming at little old ladies who had the mask slightly out of position and holding competitions to see who could get people to wet themselves in the queue.
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Jul 9, 2021 15:16
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in china if you don't follow the rules, they catch you in a big net and bundle you into a van and give you a hiding and lock you up for a few days and you only get like bovril and the stalk bits of cauliflowers
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Jul 9, 2021 15:16
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See most gammon would be all for that until they realised that the rules applied to them too and they would be first in the back of the van
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Jul 9, 2021 15:17
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crispix posted:in china if you don't follow the rules, they catch you in a big net and bundle you into a van and give you a hiding and lock you up for a few days and you only get like bovril and the stalk bits of cauliflowers I bet the recipe is loving delicious, though.
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Jul 9, 2021 15:17
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The Chinese had the right idea with just welding people inside their houses.
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Jul 9, 2021 15:18
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Barry Foster posted:I'm all for calling people out for littering tbh but I don't think I've ever come across someone, like, actively employed to do that? Co-workers got caught by them here (Edinburgh). Littering enforcers (I assume working for the council) used to lurk around big office parks where lots of companies had buildings, near the common places where people would go off-premises for a quick smoke (since the companies never had large smoke shelters in place outside). They'd sting people dropping their cigarette butts with fines.
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Jul 9, 2021 15:19
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Laugh at China being authoritarian all you want but they're straight up vibing over in Wuhan right now
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Jul 9, 2021 15:20
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Who's old enough to remember 'parkies' who used to chase little kids through the 'rec' (recreation ground) for some minor misdemeanour? They had uniforms with peaked caps and a prodding stick of some sort.
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Jul 9, 2021 15:20
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If we're going to crib ideas from asia you could just give all the shop staff the big wrangling poles they have over there to fight knife maniacs and let us push people out of the shop with them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4z-gzkb6s4 Social distance this, fuckers.
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Jul 9, 2021 15:22
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Co-workers got caught by them here (Edinburgh). Littering enforcers (I assume working for the council) used to lurk around big office parks where lots of companies had buildings, near the common places where people would go off-premises for a quick smoke (since the companies never had large smoke shelters in place outside). They'd sting people dropping their cigarette butts with fines. Huh, crazy. Literally never come across nor heard of em before
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Jul 9, 2021 15:22
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Barry Foster posted:Huh, crazy. Literally never come across nor heard of em before Maybe its just a Scotland thing, you get them in both Glasgow and Edinburgh. They have a sort of cosplay cop uniform, and you do not have to show them ID or give them your name (but do act like they have authority).
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Jul 9, 2021 15:24
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i lived in edinburgh for just over 5 years and i swear you'd be hard pressed to find another place so chock-full of busybodies i'll never forget a woman telling off some lad who quite obviously had a learning difficulty of some sort for pressing the traffic light button too many times i don't know why but it really played on my mind and was a factor in my decision to move back here :/ place was just full of cunts
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Jul 9, 2021 15:31
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Barry Foster posted:Yes they're slightly differently worded. They have an entirely different meaning dude. If you say ‘x is going to happen’, don’t get bent out of shape when someone says ‘erm how on earth do you know.’ E: anyway, dumb argument, let’s drop it
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Jul 9, 2021 15:33
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A colleague let her 6yr old daughter sit on her lap and have a go at steering the car in a deserted supermarket car park. Three different dickheads reported her to the cops. (not UK. Cuuuuuunts though)
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Jul 9, 2021 15:38
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crispix posted:i lived in edinburgh for just over 5 years and i swear you'd be hard pressed to find another place so chock-full of busybodies I'd like to disagree but nah, there are a whole bunch of entitled and/or officious tossers here. Much as I love it otherwise. I reckon the privately owned 'public' spaces that have their own mall cops (so like that big space behind Kings Cross station in London, just because that's an obvious one) are other places you might get hit up with littering fines maybe.
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Jul 9, 2021 15:39
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Perhaps the child could have grown extremely long legs and seized control of the vehicle.
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Jul 9, 2021 15:40
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glasgow was much more my vibe will never forget being on the coach from cairnryan and being sat in those facing-each-other seats with a big clan who had been to belfast to watch football. they were all hammered and kept offering me tinnies and sangwiches and crisps and they had a big sectarian sing-song and i was just sat there like 
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Jul 9, 2021 15:43
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crispix posted:in china if you don't follow the rules, they catch you in a big net and bundle you into a van and give you a hiding and lock you up for a few days Joke's on them, that's my kink
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Jul 9, 2021 15:44
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LOARA, LOARA!!!!!!!! HA YE ANY CHEESE SANGWICHES LEFT, HE DISNAE EAT MEAT
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Jul 9, 2021 15:44
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I had a cheese triple meal deal today and it went very nicely with a bag of skips.
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Jul 9, 2021 15:49
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https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1413460529557905411
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Jul 9, 2021 16:00
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Best fans in the world, grace in victory https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jul/09/danish-woman-claims-assault-by-england-fans-after-semi-final
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Jul 9, 2021 16:03
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crispix posted:LOARA, LOARA!!!!!!!! HA YE ANY CHEESE SANGWICHES LEFT, HE DISNAE EAT MEAT NO! DO YOU TAKE CHICKEN? YOU EAT CHICKEN DON'T YOU!
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Jul 9, 2021 16:16
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knox_harrington posted:A colleague let her 6yr old daughter sit on her lap and have a go at steering the car in a deserted supermarket car park. Three different dickheads reported her to the cops. calling the cops is going too far but, uh, letting a small child control a moving vehicle is incredibly irresponsible
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Jul 9, 2021 16:21
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I'd be surprised if they just let them do it without their hands hovering near by. My old man did this with me when I was a kid and it was great fun
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Jul 9, 2021 16:23
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Failed Imagineer posted:Best fans in the world, grace in victory https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/england-euro-2020-denmark-fan-hit-b944865.html?amp
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Jul 9, 2021 16:30
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Who's old enough to remember 'parkies' who used to chase little kids through the 'rec' (recreation ground) for some minor misdemeanour? http://viz.co.uk/category/parkie/
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Jul 9, 2021 16:32
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haakman posted:Yah forgive me for being cautious after watching my old man literally rot from the inside out whilst having to wear full PPE and looking at him through a screen. Same for my dad, he pulled through but at one point it was <50% chance of survival. Still can't say a complete sentence without being out of breath months later.
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Jul 9, 2021 16:38
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TheRat posted:https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/england-euro-2020-denmark-fan-hit-b944865.html?amp Shouldn't have been forrin, simple as
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Jul 9, 2021 16:45
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Julio Cruz posted:calling the cops is going too far but, uh, letting a small child control a moving vehicle is incredibly irresponsible 
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Jul 9, 2021 16:51
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Julio Cruz posted:calling the cops is going too far but, uh, letting a small child control a moving vehicle is incredibly irresponsible ...what do you think is the worst-case scenario here? The parent is still in charge of the throttle and brakes and their hands are at worst half a second from the steering wheel, the kid's not gonna be doing a burnout into a bus queue. Also you are going to lose your *poo poo* when you find out about what the minimum age for competitive go-kart racing is.
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Jul 9, 2021 16:57
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goddamnedtwisto posted:...what do you think is the worst-case scenario here? 
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Jul 9, 2021 16:59
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Julio Cruz posted:calling the cops is going too far but, uh, letting a small child control a moving vehicle is incredibly irresponsible It's an empty carpark, not the M25 at rush hour. If the kid does anything potentially daft a) you're controlling the throttle & brakes b) you're able to take control from them anyway. Just a bit of harmless fun. I got to steer a tractor when I was 5 or 6. poo poo ruled. Literally a memory I'll never forget, even went to the funeral of the guy who took me even though it'd been a decade since my family moved away from there because he ruled. (This was also where I learned that Free Church of Scotland funerals were an order of magnitude more bleak & miserable than Church of Scotland or Catholic Church funerals. Cried more at this guy who was our neighbour until I was 6's funeral than I did at any of my grandparents, aunt or uncle's funerals I've been to since) forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Jul 9, 2021 |
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Jul 9, 2021 17:03
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When I learned to drive and it was snowing one day my instructor told me to do skids at the back of the supermarket car park so I would know what to watch out for.
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Jul 9, 2021 17:08
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You go at like 10mph tops, you'd have to be paying no attention at all for the kid to hit anything.
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Jul 9, 2021 17:16
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OwlFancier posted:When I learned to drive and it was snowing one day my instructor told me to do skids at the back of the supermarket car park so I would know what to watch out for. Remember folks, "pump the brakes during a skid" is old deprecated advice from before ABS was in most cars, the current advice is to just steer toward the skid and, if you're in a manual, depress the clutch 
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Jul 9, 2021 17:22
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One of my earliest memories is being allowed to use the steering wheel to navigate the car down our driveway when I was about 4 years old. I remember asking if I could have a go on the pedals too (as if I’d be able to reach) and being sad to be told ‘no’
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