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I think there are elements of that but I also think that there is a lot of institutional inability to think long term. As in, these positions encourage short term thinking and attract fundamentally myopic people and once you hit critical mass of that sort of person, anyone who disagrees gets excluded from the decision making process and you end up with a support group of people huffing their own farts, and when things do go tits up they all console one another and decide that nobody really could be to blame because we all thought it was such a good idea. It is possible to be entirely assured that you are doing the right thing even as you repeatedly gently caress up. What you would probably identify as a phenomenon associated with social media, of the echo chamber of like minded people drifting further away from reality as their mooring to it is detached and their social group is replaced by curated people who think the same, I do not think is restricted to that environment. That sort of micro-society can be created without the need for technology, especially in closed organizations which curate their membership, such as the leadership of political parties or companies.
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Aug 8, 2021 18:50
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This marshmallow flavoured cider I bought tastes like fuckin jelly babies. Just because I'm an infant baby and want sweet things I am being *punished*. Who taste tested this? How is this marshmallow flavour? I'm going to have to learn to enjoy beer at this rate.
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Aug 8, 2021 18:52
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HopperUK posted:This marshmallow flavoured cider I bought tastes like fuckin jelly babies. Just because I'm an infant baby and want sweet things I am being *punished*. Who taste tested this? How is this marshmallow flavour? Try a Kriek
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Aug 8, 2021 18:55
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HopperUK posted:This marshmallow flavoured cider I bought tastes like fuckin jelly babies. Just because I'm an infant baby and want sweet things I am being *punished*. Who taste tested this? How is this marshmallow flavour? Sounds like someone needs to get into fruit liquers
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Aug 8, 2021 18:55
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HopperUK posted:This marshmallow flavoured cider I bought tastes like fuckin jelly babies. Just because I'm an infant baby and want sweet things I am being *punished*. Who taste tested this? How is this marshmallow flavour? quite honestly you deserve everything you get for even considering buying it
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Aug 8, 2021 18:55
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The brother's toffee apple stuff is... weird, don't think it tastes like toffee but it's certainly sweet.
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Aug 8, 2021 18:55
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OwlFancier posted:The brother's toffee apple stuff is... weird, don't think it tastes like toffee but it's certainly sweet. It is Brothers, yeah. Listen I don't really drink and I have no tolerance for bitterness. It had a nice bottle. I don't hate it, I'm just cross it isn't what I wanted.
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Aug 8, 2021 18:59
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knox_harrington posted:Try a Kriek You know what, I think I will, that looks nice
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Aug 8, 2021 19:00
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HopperUK posted:It is Brothers, yeah. Huh I didn't know they did a marshmallow one. Honestly I would probably just go for like, a bubblegum milkshake or something. Or if you do want something alcoholic I would probably recommend like a kaluha and coke or something, very sweet.
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Aug 8, 2021 19:02
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Yeah, I'll go back to the Archers and lemonade, probably. Cheers though.
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Aug 8, 2021 19:13
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HopperUK posted:You know what, I think I will, that looks nice Can't go wrong with Kriek's in my opinion - if you want a great starter one (both from an ease of drinking and an ease of finding in the shops) then Bacchus make a lovely cherry one. It's wrapped in paper, you can get it in Tesco/Sainsburys/whatever.
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Aug 8, 2021 19:13
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Archers is a good choice too! I could swear that they used to do a strawberry version when I was younger but I have only ever seen peach for a long time.
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Aug 8, 2021 19:14
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HopperUK posted:You know what, I think I will, that looks nice It's a perfectly fine gateway drug to Delirium Red. Which is a gateway drug to the other Deliriums.
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Aug 8, 2021 19:18
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All this talk of weird flavours, I can't wait for my weird fudge to arrive.
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Aug 8, 2021 19:18
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I wonder this about businesses as well. So many apparently weird, short-term thinking disasters waiting to happen make so much more sense when you think of them as one CEO kicking the can down the road, not giving any kind of poo poo about how the next guy is going to have to deal with it. And to think that a century ago sufficiently severe failure was grounds enough to have a self-imposed lead plated pension.
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Aug 8, 2021 19:23
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OwlFancier posted:I think there are elements of that but I also think that there is a lot of institutional inability to think long term. I'm always reminded, when I think about this, of a story i saw in one of the papers when I first started noticing politics, probably in my early teens, when they were contracting for the replacement of British Rail - apparently someone tendered who had recently fixed I think the Swiss national system, and said that with a twenty year contract, they could completely fix the bulk of the problems, sort out many of the bridges and stations that are the wrong size, etc, and it would work out surprisingly cheap per year. And got rejected because the contracts were five years. No government wants to put in play twenty or fifty or a hundred year long large infrastructure (social or physical) projects because the initial costs are usually huge and cost you the next election, and the next government just kills the project anyway. None of our resource distribution methods are designed for long term thinking. Even when there;s a desire to, unlike the current government whose only desire is to wring as much cash out of the country as possible before and while it collapses.
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Aug 8, 2021 19:45
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Corbyn really was the only time in my life where any major politician has talked of actually constructing something that might last. Or even constructing anything rather than just PFIing poo poo.
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Aug 8, 2021 19:47
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The killer trick would be a) convincing a critical mass of people that the national credit card thing is nonsense b) convincing a critical mass of people that the country deserves nice things Until that happens, you just have a smug plurality sitting around feeling very grown up for realising that better things aren't possible
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Aug 8, 2021 20:06
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OwlFancier posted:The brother's toffee apple stuff is... weird, don't think it tastes like toffee but it's certainly sweet. It's nice. Stivy's Kola Fruits cider is worth checking out as well.
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Aug 8, 2021 21:09
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58140752quote:Tobacco giant Philip Morris has raised its bid to buy respiratory drugmaker Vectura to more than £1bn. Come on now, if this was in a Verhoeven movie it would be a bit overblown.
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Aug 8, 2021 21:29
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They're also supporting a ban on cigarettes in Europe within the decade, so they're obviously planning* something. Imperial has been making a big move into medicine developed using GM tobacco too, based on their long history of virology research (because the tobacco mosaic virus was costing them money). *thus making tobacco giants better at >5yr planned projects than liberal democracies lol
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Aug 8, 2021 21:32
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I mean I suppose it makes sense, if your industry is being pushed to extinction you gotta adapt.
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Aug 8, 2021 21:34
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Jakabite posted:The people still defending him need throwing into the sun. I believe that is a threat to kill.
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Aug 8, 2021 21:37
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OwlFancier posted:I mean I suppose it makes sense, if your industry is being pushed to extinction you gotta adapt.
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Aug 8, 2021 21:39
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A decade from now everyone everywhere will be vaping legal weed and smoking tobacco will be like doing snuff or something
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Aug 8, 2021 21:43
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I believe that is a threat to kill. If you get in the sea before being thrown in the sun you'll be wet tho and therefore be fine
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Aug 8, 2021 21:43
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Spotted in Cornwall: New neighbours from 'up country' 
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Aug 8, 2021 21:46
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Dear Environment Agency, some things on farms smell like poo and I did not move out here for there to be all animals and poo smells. I am old and white and English and rich enough to move out here and so expect the world to bend to my expectations. Please teach the cows to wipe themselves properly and flush and speak the Queens English instead of Halal.
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Aug 8, 2021 21:51
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fuctifino posted:Spotted in Cornwall: Bloody grockles (Is that the correct Cornish idiom for "cunts from somewhere other than here?")
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Aug 8, 2021 21:53
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smh if you don't associate the smell of farm poo poo with dinner.
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Aug 8, 2021 21:53
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fuctifino posted:Spotted in Cornwall: Lucky her with her 60th birthday party. My 60th 'party' was a 45 minute zoom call with family during the first lockdown. My town stank of poo poo for a couple of weeks during muck-spreading season. We're surrounded by farmland. It's as bad as people buying houses near ancient churches and complaining about the bell ringing on Sunday mornings as has been happening for centuries.
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Aug 8, 2021 21:54
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OwlFancier posted:smh if you don't associate the smell of farm poo poo with dinner. Not me, I eat pieces of poo poo for breakfast
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Aug 8, 2021 21:55
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loving hell this town stinks like poo poo whenever they spray the surrounding farmland and we just deal with it. And I live right on the M25. Where do these idiots live?
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Aug 8, 2021 22:02
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sebzilla posted:Bloody grockles Grockles are Devon, you want emmetts I think.
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Aug 8, 2021 22:03
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I am genuinely wondering where in the UK you could go where it doesn't smell either like animal poo poo or human poo poo.
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Aug 8, 2021 22:07
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OwlFancier posted:I am genuinely wondering where in the UK you could go where it doesn't smell either like animal poo poo or human poo poo. Large parts of Belfast are often on fire so probably just smell like bonfire (with maybe a background note of human and dog poo poo)
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Aug 8, 2021 22:09
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fuctifino posted:Spotted in Cornwall: Retired emmet passive-aggressively ordering a working person to cater to them? That's bait Also everyone should watch Bait
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Aug 8, 2021 22:15
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In the same thread with that letter to the farmer, there are other stories about people who had kept chickens for 40 years being hit with council noise complaint orders from new neighbours, and a beekeeper that got hit with with a barrage of complaints. These people are a loving cancer. It's now too expensive for many Cornish people to live in Cornwall. Many picturesque towns and villages are now devoid of the shops and services needed to sustain an all year round population, as in some places over 95% of the properties are 2nd homes or airbnb's. The councils take a hit with the reduced council tax revenues, and local businesses can't sustain themselves off of a tourist only trade. Bus services are also now heavily reduced/scrapped in remote areas. Devon is faring only slightly better. I remember an article from the other week where a Devon MP pointed out that there were only 50 odd rental properties advertised in his constituency on Rightmove, but nearly 500 airbnb listings. Many landlords are evicting AST tenants so that they can list their properties on airbnb. It's a pretty poo poo situation to be honest....
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Aug 8, 2021 22:18
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London has been sporadically stinking of poo poo all weekend, I'm fairly sure because the rain has been heavy enough across the whole city that all of the CSOs have just dumped into the river directly. I demand everyone in London stop making GBS threads for at least 72 hours to solve this problem.
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 Happy Birthday
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