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goddamnedtwisto posted:Pet food prices on Amazon have been insane for a while now - I get my cat's stuff from https://www.petdrugsonline.co.uk/, and the price has stayed constant (and almost 20% cheaper than Amazon) for two years now. They didn't have the one I needed in stock. It was also out of stock at my local vets.
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Aug 11, 2021 11:24
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Barry Foster posted:Thanks for letting me splurge. ed: bird tax 
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Aug 11, 2021 11:43
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Great, now I want to go to Little Chef.
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Aug 11, 2021 12:11
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Fear is the Little Chef that brings total obliteration.CGI Stardust posted:ed: bird tax   brid was the right spelling all along loving bord, what
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Aug 11, 2021 12:14
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The Berenstein Bords
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Aug 11, 2021 12:48
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This is hurting my head, I'm going outside to look at the breds
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Aug 11, 2021 12:57
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20 points ahead! (of the Lib Dems) https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1425427936337928196?s=19
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Aug 11, 2021 13:06
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I know what'll help Labour pull back against the Tories, TURN THAT RACISM DIAL BABY https://twitter.com/JSkeaping/status/1425428923983269891?s=20 That said, I'm also fed up of people like the person who tweeted this acting shocked that Labour councillors are loving garbage.
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Aug 11, 2021 13:18
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Guavanaut posted:Fear is the Little Chef that brings total obliteration. Horse also used to be hros, and third and thirteen used to be thrid and thriteen (both closer in pronunciation to "three", you'll notice). Iron also used to be pronounced eye-ron; the pronunciation changed but not the spelling.
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Aug 11, 2021 13:18
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Reveilled posted:Horse also used to be hros, and third and thirteen used to be thrid and thriteen (both closer in pronunciation to "three", you'll notice). Iron also used to be pronounced eye-ron; the pronunciation changed but not the spelling. How eyrnic.
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Aug 11, 2021 13:19
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English is borken, scrap it and start again.
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Aug 11, 2021 13:27
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Guavanaut posted:English is borken,
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Aug 11, 2021 13:31
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forkboy84 posted:I know what'll help Labour pull back against the Tories, TURN THAT RACISM DIAL BABY It's a joke format mocking Rentoul's libellious tweet about Trickett.
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Aug 11, 2021 13:39
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Reveilled posted:Horse also used to be hros, And ros still means steed in Dutch. Connecting languages together is fun. I've also been re-reading the Lord of the Rings with a reader's companion that explains how various names and words used were taken from specific, now-archaic English words, can recommend. E.g. the Shire village of Hardbottle using middle-English botl which means to build.
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Aug 11, 2021 13:45
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Darth Walrus posted:It's a joke format mocking Rentoul's libellious tweet about Trickett. lmao no it isn't, it's a meme making fun of Neil Kinnock's speech when he left Liverpool council to rot.
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Aug 11, 2021 13:46
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forkboy84 posted:I know what'll help Labour pull back against the Tories, TURN THAT RACISM DIAL BABY I checked his feed. He appears on this: https://twitter.com/Iromg/status/1420668544430321667
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Aug 11, 2021 13:52
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Brendan Rodgers posted:That's exactly why the NHS needs more resources, so they can shove a 5 foot tube up every bum. I'm pretty sure Marx would agree with me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndaF_Xj_sVk the laughing and retching cracks me up every time
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Aug 11, 2021 13:55
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fuctifino posted:I checked his feed. He appears on this: I thought the mic was a golliwog.
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Aug 11, 2021 13:56
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lmao it looks like a racist minion.
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Aug 11, 2021 14:01
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yes but what about the microphone
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Aug 11, 2021 14:07
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Reveilled posted:Horse also used to be hros, and third and thirteen used to be thrid and thriteen (both closer in pronunciation to "three", you'll notice). Iron also used to be pronounced eye-ron; the pronunciation changed but not the spelling. You can also use these to out-grammar-Nazi anyone complaining about peoples pronunciation,like expresso or pecifically.
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Aug 11, 2021 14:29
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Lol. GBeebies is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1425127094946877444
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Aug 11, 2021 14:35
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I forget if he is pound shop darren grimes or the other way around. The briefing am with tom harwood is how they would have said it in middle english.
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Aug 11, 2021 14:38
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Reveilled posted:Iron also used to be pronounced eye-ron; the pronunciation changed but not the spelling. hang on, i might be misunderstanding something but isnt iron still kind of pronounced as eye-ron? 
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Aug 11, 2021 14:39
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nurmie posted:hang on, i might be misunderstanding something but isnt iron still kind of pronounced as eye-ron? ei-un? As in the difference between iron and ironic. I think americans sometime still say it eye-run but in all the UK dialects I know, the R is silent.
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Aug 11, 2021 14:40
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NoneMoreNegative posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndaF_Xj_sVk What did they think was going to happen?
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Aug 11, 2021 14:40
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OwlFancier posted:in all the UK dialects I know, the R is silent. holy poo poo, in my 11 years of living in the uk and many more years of speaking english i've never realised that as in, i just went on youtube and watched a uk person-narrated video about irons, and lo and behold, the R is silent. my mind is blown
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Aug 11, 2021 14:46
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It's still there in the word "ironic" and also "irony" but not in the word referring to the metal and/or thing you bügle your hosen with.
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Aug 11, 2021 14:49
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OwlFancier posted:ei-un?
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Aug 11, 2021 14:53
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OwlFancier posted:ei-un? In parts of Northern Ireland the 'o' in iron would be silent. 
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Aug 11, 2021 14:59
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pronunciation chat: Having studied arabic where every consonant is 'honoured' and hearing Egyptians pronouncing English words in that manner, eg cry would be pronounced c-a-r-eye. I can see how IF olde Englishe folkes 'honoured every consonant', brid would be pronounced b-r-i-d which if transliterated to modern English would become b-i-r-d to separate the b and the r (which in olde Englishe would have been pronounced separately). One Egyptian teacher of English I was talking to asked me how to get his students to sound 'more English' and my response was to say they need to learn to mash their consonants together. So many of our words (whitdz in English, w-u-r-d-s in Egyptian English) have mashed consonants. thinking of a response 24 hours after the conversation chat: I was talking to someone yesterday on the subject of Jiminy Crobins and she said everything she had read about him made her dislike him (What I should have asked is what had she read and where, what I did say was blah blah in 1995 Jiminy Crobins and my work blah blah). Then she went on to moan about her labour-supporting friends who because they earned 40k each (total household income 80k) they could coin it in various allowances whereas she and her husband (he on £60k and she on £20k - total household income 80k) couldn't. And 'all those friends who support labour are in that position (the 2x40k position). What I SHOULD have said was "Tories have been in power for nearly 12 years so this is THEIR policy because if they wanted to, they could have changed it." What I did say was something along the lines of "The benefit system is a mess and we have to think more holistically because I could let myself get bitter and twisted over the fact that having paid into the system for 40 years I'm not entitled to anything out of it but this person I know gets ££ for doing SFA but I don't let myself' waffle waffle. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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Aug 11, 2021 15:17
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I definitely say eye-urn rather than ion to talk about iron, as a Teuchter.
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Aug 11, 2021 15:26
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Then she went on to moan about her labour-supporting friends who because they earned 40k each (total household income 80k) they could coin it in various allowances whereas she and her husband (he on £60k and she on £20k - total household income 80k) couldn't. And 'all those friends who support labour are in that position (the 2x40k position).
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Aug 11, 2021 15:34
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fuctifino posted:Lol. GBeebies is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Is it just me or are they now deliberately aping Sky News branding? I'm sure they were using a different typeface when they first launched, that one looks really, *really* like the one Sky uses
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Aug 11, 2021 15:48
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CGI Stardust posted:Glad your dad's been given a clean bill of health Barry, is he still muttering darkly about vaccines causing his problems or has that stopped for a while? Hope he'll be a bit more manageable now. Ha, well remembered! When it was just blood in his poo poo he was convinced it had caused his bowel lining to dissolve. But I think even he stops short at blaming what must've been a multiyear tumour on a vaccine he had four months ago
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Aug 11, 2021 15:53
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Perhaps the vaccine can time travel. Though in that instance it still seems odd to blame it given that he was apparently predestined to have it.
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Aug 11, 2021 15:56
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fuctifino posted:Lol. GBeebies is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. there is absolutely 0% chance that this bloke doesn't craftywank, fuckin lookit him lol
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Aug 11, 2021 15:58
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Is it just me or are they now deliberately aping Sky News branding? I'm sure they were using a different typeface when they first launched, that one looks really, *really* like the one Sky uses I still have no idea how I would even watch GB news. Is it on normal TV? Internet stream? A series of TikToks? Flipbooks through the post??? Please nobody actually tell me. I prefer it this way.
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Aug 11, 2021 16:00
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You have to assemble a crystal radio set from a beard hair of a hate preacher who can't be deported because of the EU, a Tiffany diamond earring from a single mum on benefits, the wire that Black youths use to steal cars, and the wireless earbuds of a 20 year old Millennial. Only then can you receive the dark broadcast.
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You need framed photographs of the queen, charles, andrew, and diana. Place them at the four cardinal directions and inscribe a circle of the national anthem to ward off outside forces during the ritual. Intone the mantra of the dread Da'li Xpr'ez, He Who Grumbles In The Pub, and you will receive the visions each night. E: ^ 
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