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Runcible Cat posted:For purposes of decision making is that (more exciting) policies or more (exciting policies)? bottle banks! schemes for the children where the children can learn to be good citizens and can play exciting games together such as hide-and-gan-seek and that! hooray, hooray, oh what happy day, the children will say  all cruise ships to be renamed "the diarrhea princess" all cars to be fitted with all-round rubber safety bumpers and several more! https://twitter.com/TranslatedCats/status/1419589223296999430
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Can't talk about PSAs without bringing up Staplerfahrer Klaus.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:01
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crispix posted:bottle banks! The Khajiit are many and varied. But all have wares if you have coin.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:05
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Final Destination has nothing on 1970s British public information films. The one I remember most vividly was the railway one with teams of kids hurling colour-coded stones at a passing train, and the driver with blood gushing from his eyes. Then all the kids march into a tunnel as a train comes in at the other end, and they're brought out on stretchers, dead.  Even the posters aimed at infants were terrifying. Frogbean, I'm looking at you.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:13
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https://twitter.com/bywirenews/status/1420046188863238156?s=19 PASOKificiation is at an advanced level.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:17
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Extremely happy to hear this. Now more unions should follow.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:17
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This has always been my favourite, sadly in poo poo quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lQQwSaRR_4 I never noticed that the guy from PhoneShop was in it though.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:18
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forkboy84 posted:Extremely happy to hear this. Now more unions should follow. Stick a fork in labour at this point.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:20
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StratGoatCom posted:https://twitter.com/bywirenews/status/1420046188863238156?s=19 I *think* that's just the London branch passing a motion to withdraw their funding from individual MPs and one off contributions to the party, not the whole union withdrawing financing and/or disaffiliating but I can't actually find a clear citation.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:23
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I *think* that's just the London branch passing a motion to withdraw their funding from individual MPs and one off contributions to the party, not the whole union withdrawing financing and/or disaffiliating but I can't actually find a clear citation. https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/gmb-pulls-funding-labour-party-london-after-grieving-caretaker-sacked has more details but still isn't actually clear on what funding is being removed.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:26
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Comrade Fakename posted:This has always been my favourite, sadly in poo poo quality: This definitely scared me off ever pretending that the table in the pub was a car. I used to like making the brum-brum-vroom-vroom noises after a few pints and all
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Jul 27, 2021 17:28
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Payndz posted:Even the posters aimed at infants were terrifying. Frogbean, I'm looking at you.  If you want to grow up, never go on chans.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:33
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isn't gmb a fairly melty union (however it's the one all the labour staff are in?)
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Jul 27, 2021 17:33
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It was the one that ended with a guy in a vegetative state being spoonfed green/yellow mush that got me.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:34
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Wasn't that just an Angel Delight advert?
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Jul 27, 2021 17:36
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/gmb-pulls-funding-labour-party-london-after-grieving-caretaker-sacked has more details but still isn't actually clear on what funding is being removed. Yeah it sounds like it's a very local thing. I also cannot understand what the cleaner was sacked for.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:49
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Payndz posted:Final Destination has nothing on 1970s British public information films. A lot of the scenes in Final Destination were like a Rube Goldberg Machine of death, but some of them would fit perfectly as one of those public info films. Like when the girl is distracted shouting at someone else and then a lorry hits her.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:57
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Party Boat posted:Yeah it sounds like it's a very local thing. I also cannot understand what the cleaner was sacked for. From my reading I think he shared a video which had accidentally caught a shot of an Islington Labour councillor in her home. He took it down immediately, but they still sacked him. I stand to be corrected though on this! Scary information videos: Network Rail did some scary ones about level crossings but that was bout 15-20 years ago now! (Can't believe how time has flown!) but anyway, I found this more recent one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTgoHMx9QYE
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Jul 27, 2021 18:13
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Can you be a member of two unions at once? I'm a member of the specific professional body for physiotherapy but politically they're pretty poo poo, can I join a bigger, more general union as well?
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Jul 27, 2021 18:19
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:From my reading I think he shared a video which had accidentally caught a shot of an Islington Labour councillor in her home. Ah okay, the sharing of it was what I missed, for some reason I thought he was just in the video
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Jul 27, 2021 18:20
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Some of those films were more terrifying than others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddNr7rebaQo EDIT - this was always a favourite of mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd6AW07TLpU That poor 1100
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Jul 27, 2021 18:29
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minema posted:Can you be a member of two unions at once? I'm a member of the specific professional body for physiotherapy but politically they're pretty poo poo, can I join a bigger, more general union as well? No reason at all you can't be a member of multiple unions - I think quite a few posters ITT are in both trade-specific unions and the IWW/IWGB.
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Jul 27, 2021 18:32
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Nothingtoseehere posted:isn't gmb a fairly melty union (however it's the one all the labour staff are in?) GMB is *extremely* melty in general but they spearheaded the Uber and Pimlico Plumbers cases so at least meet the very bare minimum level of what a union is supposed to do. They've also been the main force behind the anti fire-and-rehire stuff and I really wish they'd help Kieth And Ko find out now they've decided to gently caress around with that.
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Jul 27, 2021 18:36
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I don’t know if it was shown on TV but there was a safety film we got shown at school where some boy playing on the train tracks fell on the live rail and his leg set on fire (off-screen) with smoke pouring off it and screaming I was absolutely terrified of getting trains in general for years and years and wouldn’t go anywhere near the edge of the platform
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Jul 27, 2021 18:57
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The Spirit of The Dark and Lonely Water is real and cool, and he is my Friend
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Jul 27, 2021 19:05
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Were they the one person on 70s children's TV that didn't turn out to be a nonce?
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Jul 27, 2021 19:11
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Guavanaut posted:Were they the one person on 70s children's TV that didn't turn out to be a nonce? Hard to say what he does with the bodies (he does get lonely) Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jul 27, 2021 |
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Jul 27, 2021 19:12
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We had to cross some very crude level crossing down a footpath to cut about 20 mins and a massive hill out of our walk to school, and after those stupid videos the school banned everyone from walking that way - worst part was your parents couldn’t sneak you down because the deputy head lived overlooking it and would rat you out. Looking back this story is insane and I have no idea why every adult involved didn’t simply tell them to bugger off.
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Jul 27, 2021 19:20
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See one advantage of growing up in the middle of London was we avoided most of these terrifying PIFs and talks (although I too was one of those kids who watched them at silly o'clock waiting for the Wide Awake Club to start) - no pylons, no level crossings, and I guess they assumed as we were all far too filthy to have cleaning products under the sink we never even got warned about The Forbidden Lemonade. Conversely we *did* get PC Rainbow of Thames Division (weird how a name like that sticks in your head, innit?) in about every three months to tell us that yet another kid had died swimming in the docks or the river and that we should probably just make our peace with God if we ever got within a hundred metres of anything bigger than a puddle. Also until 1984 we had at least two assemblies a year about what to do if the flood warning sirens went off and we weren't at school or home (get in any building taller than 2 stories and head up - as our school was only one floor I always wondered what the plan was if we were there).
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Jul 27, 2021 19:34
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goddamnedtwisto posted:See one advantage of growing up in the middle of London was we avoided most of these terrifying PIFs and talks (although I too was one of those kids who watched them at silly o'clock waiting for the Wide Awake Club to start) - no pylons, no level crossings, and I guess they assumed as we were all far too filthy to have cleaning products under the sink we never even got warned about The Forbidden Lemonade. Bold of you to assume there was a plan beyond "tick the box about the flood talk" twice a year.
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Jul 27, 2021 20:02
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We saw the building site Apaches and it scared the poo poo out of me. At one point a huge machine runs over a kid and you see just his bloody shoe left and the strong implication was that even if the driver sees you, he won't care because 'Time is money to these machines'. Also a kid electrocutes himself while grabbing for a handhold and getting a wire. And a kid falls into a pit and leaves gore streaked on the edge. I think this kid chased his dog into the site.
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Jul 27, 2021 20:24
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I finally took the plunge and bought a bike! A Giant hybrid. Got the man in the shop to show me how to remove and then reattach the front wheel so I could drive it home. Now I've got it home, reattached the front wheel, and somehow now the front linear pull brake is super loose and it doesn't work and welp back to the shop for me. Being a complete amateur in anything is super embarrassing.
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Jul 27, 2021 20:25
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Forbidden Lemonade
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Jul 27, 2021 20:31
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The Perfect Element posted:I finally took the plunge and bought a bike! A Giant hybrid. Got the man in the shop to show me how to remove and then reattach the front wheel so I could drive it home. Now I've got it home, reattached the front wheel, and somehow now the front linear pull brake is super loose and it doesn't work and welp back to the shop for me. Being a complete amateur in anything is super embarrassing. Post a picture, my guess is you've unhooked the cable from one of the mounts and it just needs to hook back in.
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Jul 27, 2021 20:33
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Miftan posted:Bold of you to assume there was a plan beyond "tick the box about the flood talk" twice a year. Tower Hamlets are kind of an outlier in London councils because they actually take the civil defence and disaster planning bits of their remit fairly seriously, if only because thanks to continual unearthing of unopened presents from the Luftwaffe they got lots and lots of chances to rehearse them. It continues to this day - I think I mentioned it before but half of the camp beds that survivors of Grenfell Tower were sleeping on the night after the fire came from LBTH because they were the only council with enough in stock to lend them. Having said that, the flood control station for the Isle of Dogs, from which rescue efforts would be organised, was at George Green School which is at the actual lowest point in the borough and right next to the river, so maybe they weren't taking it *that* seriously. At least it had upper floors though which beat out the GLC, which had its flood control station in the Kingsway Tram Subway, a tunnel that literally runs to the river bank.
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Jul 27, 2021 20:51
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TACD posted:I don’t know if it was shown on TV but there was a safety film we got shown at school where some boy playing on the train tracks fell on the live rail and his leg set on fire (off-screen) with smoke pouring off it and screaming Yeah, you were wise. There was a horrifying incident involving someone slipping between the platform and a train as it moved (he had misstepped getting on) which fortunately I did not witness but which came over the incident logs.
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Jul 27, 2021 21:04
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serious gaylord posted:Post a picture, my guess is you've unhooked the cable from one of the mounts and it just needs to hook back in. That's really nice of you, serious gaylord, but I've packed it back into the car now to see if the shop can fix it! I'm worried that I've exacerbated whatever minor slip up I made in the first place, so figure it's best just to take it back to the pros and let them laugh at me and hopefully sort it out.
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Jul 27, 2021 21:12
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The Perfect Element posted:That's really nice of you, serious gaylord, but I've packed it back into the car now to see if the shop can fix it! I'm worried that I've exacerbated whatever minor slip up I made in the first place, so figure it's best just to take it back to the pros and let them laugh at me and hopefully sort it out. Aww, but we wanted to
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Jul 27, 2021 21:31
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The Perfect Element posted:That's really nice of you, serious gaylord, but I've packed it back into the car now to see if the shop can fix it! I'm worried that I've exacerbated whatever minor slip up I made in the first place, so figure it's best just to take it back to the pros and let them laugh at me and hopefully sort it out. My guess is you've got V brakes. You usually have to unhook the cable from the mount to get the brake to open up enough to release the front wheel. It won't work again until you pop it back in. Theres literally nothing you could have done to break it.
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