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Apropos of nothing it's weird how all their branches are where bike and car dealers *still* like to congregate - I've never really thought about it before but they do always seem to crop up in little clusters, I assume because of some kind of planning permission thing.
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i had a boss once who grew up in cornwall and he said there was an old git who lived on his street and he and the other lads there used to perch his reliant robin up on top of his garden wall of a night hehehe
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Anyone in Northern Ireland know anything about Hyperfast NI (Fibrus)? Got a letter about them doing firbe broadband in my area but i know nothing about them other than a lot bloody depressing reviews that i read online.
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On the one hand, only people who've had really bad experiences bother posting reviews online. On the other hand, if you've already got reasonable broadband, why risk that by attempting to switch to some other company?
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Pistol_Pete posted:On the one hand, only people who've had really bad experiences bother posting reviews online. Thanks for the sanity check.  Still got 11 months left on Sky, not as good as BT but it's half the price.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1420439702923059201?s=19 And even if you point any of that out, you're still somehow a crazy commie doing an antisemitism.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Thinking a lot about Devon on the latest KJB episode saying that left wing conspiracy theories tend, on the whole, to be things that actually happened in publicly available documents. If you want your mates to think you're absolutely batshit insane talk about like three things the CIA openly admits to having done.
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Incoming: The Bins TM crisis https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-bin-collection-hgv-driver-shortage-b1913827.html quote:Bin collection within 24 local councils has been disrupted due to self-isolation rules and a lack of workers to drive the lorries. This is bad for Jermy Crobin
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This is bad for Jermy Crobin Jermy Crow-bin, wants to put the Corvids in the bin But we demand more Corvids! More Corvids!
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Is it technically scabbing if I rock up at the bins depot and offer to drive the dustcart for free, fulfilling a childhood dream?
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As long as you don't empty any bins I think you're good Is the bin-emptying bit part of the dream?
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Just find a nice quiet Private Road on the West side of the Isle of Dogs, early in the morning and slowly make your way down, braking every 20m and pointlessly raising the hydraulic lift at the back. Bonus points if you do it Tuesday or Wednesday AM when it'll be pretty warm and they'll all have their windows open.
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I like it when they do the recycling really early so one gets the harmonious sound of bottles being deposited into the lorry.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:As long as you don't empty any bins I think you're good No, but pushing the button that lifts the bins in was - I feel like we're going to get into one of those rabbinical arguments about what constitutes making fire on the sabbath.
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Ok well you're still good as long as you're happy to press the button and share the agony of the lift mechanism as it impotently grasps at thin air, a caricature of its former self reduced to performing a facsimile of its important job as a mere circus act for the amusement of a child
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How about a gritter lorry? Torfaen Council made this video a few years ago with a local Elvis impersonator. It's quite funny but to the point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6UerjFCLdI Here's another Depot song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNqrJIPxYpw A JCB is born to a Fitter who already has more Engines than he can Bleed in the depot near Middlesbrough. The Machine grows up hungry, steals a ton of stone. Learns how to dig, and rams a car, attempts to run, but in a dramatic twist the Young fitter shot and killed just as another JCB is born. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Sep 4, 2021 |
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I just found this interesting looking website with a mix of online and real life events to do with London: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2021/09/ quote:About the website I miss living in London and having things to do, though I'm glad I wasn't living there for the last 18 months! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Sep 4, 2021 |
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They sold models called Heinkel and Messerschmitt?
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Those were the manufacturers, I've always wanted a Messerschmitt, preferably the sporty 4 wheel variety.
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I used to fancy the isetta too, but I recently found out Jimmy savile was one of the more famous owners.
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I had no idea they made cars. Makes sense, I suppose.
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Just saw my first poppy-day advert (from RBL) in the wild on Facebook. Isn't it over 2 months away?
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It's beginning to look a lot like armistice everywhere you go take a look at the village church, the ancient stone has again been worked with soldiers' names that seldom few know.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Just saw my first poppy-day advert (from RBL) in the wild on Facebook. Isn't it over 2 months away? War Christmas comes earlier every year.
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I was in Morrison’s an hour ago and they had a big cadburys puds display.
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Hilary Mantel in a La Repubblica interview for a book tour duplexed in the Guardian posted:She added: “It is barbaric that a tiny minority should take command of public discourse and terrify those who disagree with them.” https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/04/hilary-mantel-i-am-ashamed-to-live-in-nation-that-elected-this-government
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goddamnedtwisto posted:War Christmas comes earlier every year. Explaining to Americans like in that film with bollocks vs dog's bollocks, except it's War Christmas vs War on Christmas
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domhal posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/04/hilary-mantel-i-am-ashamed-to-live-in-nation-that-elected-this-government She specifically states "Being a woman means a lot to me. I do not want my womanhood confiscated in print", so in that spirit: You're a oval office, Hilary Mantel.
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Azza Bamboo posted:I had no idea they made cars. Makes sense, I suppose. I mean not like the Bundesrepublik was in the market for strategic bombers ( and indeed looks like they were banned from producing aircraft postwar to make very sure of that). Mitsubishi also did and do make all sorts of stuff.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I miss living in London and having things to do, though I'm glad I wasn't living there for the last 18 months! I've just done exactly that and tbqh I'm glad I've been here with lots of food options and not the rear end end of Cambridge with one Tesco and 6 places on justeat. Especially when there were/are shortages because I can usually find whatever somewhere if I look around.
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feedmegin posted:I mean not like the Bundesrepublik was in the market for strategic bombers ( and indeed looks like they were banned from producing aircraft postwar to make very sure of that). Mitsubishi also did and do make all sorts of stuff. Yamaha is cool story. They made Hammond style organs. During the war the Japanese state said "nah we're going to give you some tools to make engine parts for fighter planes". Once the war was over the state didn't want its machine tools back so Yamaha went back to making Hammond organs, but also decided to use its engine making experience make a rip off version of the DKW 125 —a German motorcycle that had been imported during the war and was a huge hit in the postwar. Yamaha's YA-1 was a huge success and that's how you end up with this odd company that makes keyboards and motorbikes.
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feedmegin posted:I mean not like the Bundesrepublik was in the market for strategic bombers ( and indeed looks like they were banned from producing aircraft postwar to make very sure of that). Mitsubishi also did and do make all sorts of stuff. Yes, a lot of the (in)famous German aircraft makers had odd sidelines in the 1950s because they were explicitly prevented from building military aircraft and the market for civilian aircraft was both extremely limited and dominated (by both market forces and political pressure) by manufacturers from outside Germany. At the same time there was a massive demand for small hyper-economical cars in Germany and aircraft makers are good at making lightweight, aerodynamic machines. So BMW licensed the Isetta and Messerschmitt and Heinkel made their own bubble cars. Messerschmitt and Junkers also made pre-fab buildings (on aircraft principles of construction) to address another acute shortage in post-war Germany. These became very popular in the UK in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis, as did homegrown microcars like the Bond and Reliant. My grandmother graduated from a Lambretta scooter to a Heinkel Kabine in about 1956. The sudden popularity of these globular German oddities, putt-putting along at the front of traffic jams, was a major impetus for the creation of the Mini, which was required to offer the same footprint and economy as the German bubble cars but with more practicality and better performance.
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Mitsubishi makes good air conditioners. Or is that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.domhal posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/04/hilary-mantel-i-am-ashamed-to-live-in-nation-that-elected-this-government
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