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Gatts posted:So how’s Brexit going? Brexit means a sensible and balanced breakfast, E: with at least 258 baked beans
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Gatts posted:So how’s Brexit going? It's.... complicated?  England is going fascist, Scotland is going independent, Wales is being Labour when it's good and Northern Ireland is surreptitiously going for reunification with Éire and all of this is due to Boris being an idiot. The E.U. is currently chilling on holiday and isn't even interested in getting the popcorn out and watching this fustercluck as we are all now a 3rd country with limited relevance to them. 
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Jul 29, 2021 18:16
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Hmm, no bog roll in 2 of the shops I went in today (Bristol). Third one had very little stock. Is it 2020 again?
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Jul 29, 2021 18:20
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Just Another Lurker posted:
Eh, the EU just paused its two lawsuits over the implementation of the NI protocol as a "gesture of goodwill" so some things are happening. Judging by the past it's a prelude to a very humiliating climb down for Bojo where he quietly acquiesces and gets something small to play to the press, but actually agrees to getting hosed.
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Jul 29, 2021 18:33
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Cycled about 8k in my lunch break. I was a lot of fun but I forgot how much effort is required to go up even pretty small hills and secondly OH MY GOD MY ARSE. I seem to remember that not long ago someone recommended some kind of revolutionary bum-saving accessory you can get... Anyone care to make that recommendation again?
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Jul 29, 2021 18:49
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Ah, what you need is a sexarse.
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Jul 29, 2021 18:53
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namesake posted:Don't worry, that's not (just) due to Brexit, it's also to do with global mishandling of the pandemic, the UK governments mishandling of the pandemic and decades of undermining agricultural and industrial resilience. Don't think France and Germany have empty shelves though?
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Jul 29, 2021 18:55
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Isn't half the point of the EU agricultural program to keep France's farms working?
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Jul 29, 2021 18:56
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Ah, what you need is a sexarse. 6-8 week wait for a sex arse, cos of brexit.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:13
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The Perfect Element posted:Cycled about 8k in my lunch break. I was a lot of fun but I forgot how much effort is required to go up even pretty small hills and secondly OH MY GOD MY ARSE. I seem to remember that not long ago someone recommended some kind of revolutionary bum-saving accessory you can get... Anyone care to make that recommendation again? https://mantasaddle.co.uk/ is the greatest saddle most people have never seen. Looks ridiculous but removes any kind of some bum and you kinda feel like you're getting a massage instead. Also acts as a deterrent because most people would be too confused to sit on it and steal it.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:14
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Sad Panda posted:https://mantasaddle.co.uk/ is the greatest saddle most people have never seen. Looks ridiculous but removes any kind of some bum and you kinda feel like you're getting a massage instead. It looks great but the £150 price tag is almost as eye watering as my aching rump.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:20
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:Hmm, no bog roll in 2 of the shops I went in today (Bristol). Third one had very little stock. Is it 2020 again? So your saying that Bristol is now full of smelly bums.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:24
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happyhippy posted:So your saying that Bristol is now full of smelly bums. That's why they came up with that scale
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Jul 29, 2021 19:26
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The Perfect Element posted:6-8 week wait for a sex arse, cos of brexit. If you want immediate delivery you'll have to settle for a refurbished SEXARSE
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Jul 29, 2021 19:28
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forkboy84 posted:I remember for a while in the early 90s, when I was about 10 I'd wake up before 5am and watch the early morning news on ITV which felt like it covered more varied news than the prime time broadcasts: vividly remember the Siege of Sarajevo. Anyway, there'd always be loving public service ads and they'd always be horrifying, like one about a kid drinking bleach stored in a soda bottle or houses burning down coz someone fell asleep with a cigarette lit. Nightmare fodder for sure. I remember a weird late night advert in about 2000 with some guy at the airport getting drugs slipped into his bag when he wasn't looking, then it ended with him getting caught and sent to a weird foreign prison and him crying as they were shaving his head gently caress that advert. I don't even know if it was real or just an alcohol-induced hallucination
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Jul 29, 2021 19:29
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Convex posted:I remember a weird late night advert in about 2000 with some guy at the airport getting drugs slipped into his bag when he wasn't looking, then it ended with him getting caught and sent to a weird foreign prison and him crying as they were shaving his head was that just an ad for Banged Up Abroad? ...or Midnight Express?
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Jul 29, 2021 19:31
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FCO I think, "we can help you, but we can't get you out"
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Jul 29, 2021 19:36
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Convex posted:I remember a weird late night advert in about 2000 with some guy at the airport getting drugs slipped into his bag when he wasn't looking, then it ended with him getting caught and sent to a weird foreign prison and him crying as they were shaving his head It was real, I remember it too. But I think the drugs were in a teddy bear, that he was asked to take with him through customs.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:46
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happyhippy posted:It was real, I remember it too. To be fair asking someone to take something with you to give to someone on the other side has been used to great effect A LOT of times to get drugs and/or bombs through airport security and/or customs.
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Jul 29, 2021 20:19
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feedmegin posted:Don't think France and Germany have empty shelves though? Ports are hosed but it's not just because of Brexit customs, costs have exploded globally. Internal logistics are hosed because of pandemic and ports and Brexit. If you aren't so dependent on ports as the UK and Brexit is less of a thing then yes you're doing better.
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Jul 29, 2021 20:27
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Miftan posted:To be fair asking someone to take something with you to give to someone on the other side has been used to great effect A LOT of times to get drugs and/or bombs through airport security and/or customs. Oh yeah, it used to be the thing. Wasn't it some Australia woman that got tricked into this and got jailed. Was big news back then.
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Jul 29, 2021 20:39
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Sad Panda posted:Visiting ruins in Central America had that feeling at times. I had a Mexican student ID so got free/heavily discounted entry to ruins. This meant instead of just going to the big ones like Chichen Itza and Tulum I went to a few where there was a field with a couple of stones that had been excavated. Nothing else visible other than the display board that had an artist's rendition of a temple and a few paragraphs about it. Absolutely baffling. There are numerous ways you can determine the nature and extent of activity on a site. If we only relied on extant ruins we'd have basically 0 archaeological record for most of northern europe for iron age and earlier periods. And some places even up to the modern era. Artist's rendition can get a little fanciful tho. Source: I was an actual working archaeologist in Scotland until I realised it was ruining me physically and financially.
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Jul 29, 2021 20:52
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Speaking of Scotland, a cool power thing just switched on off of Orkney.
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Jul 29, 2021 20:59
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Also Farage and Darren Grimes's fundraising campaign went well  https://twitter.com/RNLI/status/1420743605115781121
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Jul 29, 2021 21:12
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The Marble arch thing has closed already lol. Extreme Car Park Chrismas festival energy from that.
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Jul 29, 2021 21:32
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The Met Police officer who kneeled on someone's neck during an arrest has been told to "go away and think about what you did, but you're not actually in trouble or anything" which I'm sure will be a real deterrent to other cunts like him in the future.
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Jul 29, 2021 21:41
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serious gaylord posted:The Marble arch thing has closed already lol. I saw the Twitter thread about it and was utterly baffled. I don't even understand the scam. at least with the Christmas car park you understand how some parents get tricked into thinking it would be nice for the kids, but who was going to buy a ticket to stand on some scaffolding covered in astro turf? Who was making money out of it and how?
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Jul 29, 2021 22:06
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Jul 29, 2021 22:13
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I saw the Twitter thread about it and was utterly baffled. I don't even understand the scam. at least with the Christmas car park you understand how some parents get tricked into thinking it would be nice for the kids, but who was going to buy a ticket to stand on some scaffolding covered in astro turf? Who was making money out of it and how?     I too enjoy Sim City 2000
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Jul 29, 2021 22:14
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happyhippy posted:Oh yeah, it used to be the thing. Wasn't it some Australia woman that got tricked into this and got jailed. Was big news back then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_affair is the big one, I think.
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Jul 29, 2021 22:33
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Thats literally just Populous.
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Jul 29, 2021 22:35
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Jul 29, 2021 22:37
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So does anyone have the ZOE app and been following them? They seem to be a super big alternative data source for covid data and they're saying the positive infections haven't dropped at all. It's plateaued. Had a friend at work who had all the symptoms of the delta variant (headache, sore throat) and was told he couldn't have a test as he didn't have covid. Yay.
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Jul 29, 2021 23:36
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Mebh posted:So does anyone have the ZOE app and been following them? They seem to be a super big alternative data source for covid data and they're saying the positive infections haven't dropped at all. It's plateaued. Given that the ONS are still doing random household sampling, I'd trust those numbers far beyond some bid data app that will have huge selection biases in it's user base.
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Jul 29, 2021 23:40
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The Perfect Element posted:Cycled about 8k in my lunch break. I was a lot of fun but I forgot how much effort is required to go up even pretty small hills and secondly OH MY GOD MY ARSE. I seem to remember that not long ago someone recommended some kind of revolutionary bum-saving accessory you can get... Anyone care to make that recommendation again? Honestly, padded shorts is all you want in my experience. Mebh posted:
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Jul 29, 2021 23:42
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Guavanaut posted:Speaking of Scotland, a cool power thing just switched on off of Orkney. That thing has a whiff of Project Azorian about it, but we're probably just trying to use up a couple of hundred military dirigibles that Dominic Cummings ordered after playing too much Red Alert.
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Jul 29, 2021 23:49
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Guavanaut posted:Speaking of Scotland, a cool power thing just switched on off of Orkney. quote:Mr Scott said: "We believe pioneering our vision in the UK can deliver on a broad spectrum of political initiatives across net zero, levelling up and building back better at the same time as demonstrating global leadership in the area of low-carbon innovation that is essential to creating a more sustainable future for the generations to come." Christ, what an rear end in a top hat.
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Red Oktober posted:By whom? He can pick up a free test kit (5 tests) from any pharmacy. Not sure. Apparently he rang the 119 number (isn't that automated?) . I'll poke him next time I see him about. I've got a pack of lateral flow tests here just incase. Nothingtoseehere posted:Given that the ONS are still doing random household sampling, I'd trust those numbers far beyond some bid data app that will have huge selection biases in it's user base. The ONS data seems to show higher prevalence than the ZOE data. https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/uk-cases-stop-rising
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Jul 30, 2021 00:03
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The Sterling King Size history of Cancer exhibit has a similar clause.
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Red Oktober posted:Honestly, padded shorts is all you want in my experience.
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