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Best take: https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/status/1436345516841967618 Worst take like seriously this just caused all the sewers to overflow again: https://twitter.com/ConspiracyBull1/status/1436396556471635996 e: 25 is the national card game of Ireland, the national board game of India (Pachisi, Hindi for 25), and how many points you get for a full house in Yahtzee Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Sep 11, 2021 |
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Ahaha yes I saw the brendan article yesterday, truly incredible brainworms.
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Sep 11, 2021 16:43
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DO YOU KNOW ANY POLICIES I CAN USE?
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Guavanaut posted:Best take: I suppose one could say he 'cancelled' america on this very day, brendan
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Sep 11, 2021 17:10
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happyhippy posted:DO YOU KNOW ANY POLICIES I CAN USE? He just looks like he's leering at birds, and has borrowed Rishi Sunak's legs.
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Sep 11, 2021 17:14
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Ravel posted:The American right loved it because the first two thirds of every season involved Sutherland shooting a million non-white terrorists under ticking clock scenarios that literally influenced policy. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia posted:Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles.... He saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so. So the question is really whether we believe in these absolutes. And ought we believe in these absolutes.
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Sep 11, 2021 17:19
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That is an impressively shittily tailored suit. Looks like he bought it off the peg without even trying it on and never had the trousers adjusted to fit his tiddly little legs.
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Sep 11, 2021 17:24
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 it's like poetry, it rhymes
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Sep 11, 2021 17:30
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Is the Lady in the photo Googling who he is?
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Sep 11, 2021 17:35
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Why does this photo exist? Cause if it's an official"man of the people" shot then lol on every level
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Dead Goon posted:Is the Lady in the photo Googling who he is? At a guess, neither of the women noticed him and are just looking at something else on their phones and the photographer has tried to make it look as if they wanted a selfie with Are Glorius Leader in Waiting. Meanwhile: HGV tests to have 'reversing' removed and car drivers will no longer need to take a test to tow a trailer or caravan. https://www.commercialfleet.org/news/latest-news/2021/09/10/hgv-driving-test-overhauled-to-tackle-driver-shortage quote:
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Party Boat posted:Good thing reversing a HGV is incredibly simple and straightforward And a really rare thing that HGVs do every day into loading bays.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Meanwhile: I was going to say "They're aware that the "Park it for me" button in Euro/American Truck Simulator isn't a real thing, right?", but it's Grant Shapps, who might actually be that stupid
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Party Boat posted:Good thing reversing a HGV is incredibly simple and straightforward It's okay, I'm sure the (presumably private sector) third party testing centre will be rigorous and fair in their testing.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:And a really rare thing that HGVs do every day into loading bays. The Govt is solving the problem of too few HGV drivers and causing the problem of too few not-smashed-up HGVs
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:And a really rare thing that HGVs do every day into loading bays. A mate of mine worked as an HGV driver for a while and he used to *dream* of loading bays - there was a particular shop he had to offload at in Bath (or Bristol, can't remember now) which required him to reverse from a main road into a side road on his right and then directly into an alleyway on his left, with the side road being exactly two lanes wide and the alley even narrower. Oh and this was on a steep hill too. I can just about parallel park a car, that sort of maneuver sounds like the kind of torture they'd give me in hell.
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Party Boat posted:Good thing reversing a HGV is incredibly simple and straightforward Also never necessary, as every delivery point is drive through. Actually trying to imagine how you would make a HGV loading system that never involves reversing, presumably you would just have to drive the entire thing onto a giant falkirk wheel and it tips the whole lorry over.
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OwlFancier posted:Also never necessary, as every delivery point is drive through. Not round here they're not! I see HGVs reversing into Waitrose & Home Bargains loading bays (my two nearest supermarkets) all the time, and blocking the road completely while they do. ed ^^^ ah I think maybe you were being ironic.
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I am being a bit sarcastic, round here you're lucky if you get a loading bay. But it's fine we can just build one of these outside ever conceivable location you would need to unload a HGV. 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's okay, I'm sure the (presumably private sector) third party testing centre will be rigorous and fair in their testing. I wonder if it will be run by Grant Schapp's aunty or Dido Harding's nephew?
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Sep 11, 2021 18:14
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This is a great montage off that woke bane tweet: https://twitter.com/jeevanrai/status/1436689696520867840
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goddamnedtwisto posted:A mate of mine worked as an HGV driver for a while and he used to *dream* of loading bays - there was a particular shop he had to offload at in Bath (or Bristol, can't remember now) which required him to reverse from a main road into a side road on his right and then directly into an alleyway on his left, with the side road being exactly two lanes wide and the alley even narrower. Oh and this was on a steep hill too. I can just about parallel park a car, that sort of maneuver sounds like the kind of torture they'd give me in hell. As someone that regularly has to tow a trailer as part of my job, I am wincing here. Honestly though I would much rather reverse a large trailer where you are close to the hitch point than one of them tiny car trailers where it wants to jack knife if you even look at it funny.
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uUUuuhghh hullo brutush puhple who do jobsjobsjobsjobsjobs can i huv a wut ugg pluhseru uraighgh
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aaahaaa maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeng graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyycccccccceeeeeeeee aaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee kkuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh dodododooooooooooooo dodoodoooooooooooooooo dodododoodoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i was playing video game when the planes hit, my ma told me it was happening but i wasn't fussed :/
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Sep 11, 2021 18:45
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sorry if i sound like a big stick in the mud but the news coverage is a bit too focused on the day and not the US's calamitous responses that resulted in millions of dead people in the middle east, a mess that is still unravelling right now, imo
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Sep 11, 2021 18:47
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I've still got some newspapers from September 12 2001, 'cos I could see straight away this was going to be a really big deal and wanted to keep a little bit of history. I must go back and read them cover to cover, will be one hell of a time capsule by now.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:A mate of mine worked as an HGV driver for a while and he used to *dream* of loading bays - there was a particular shop he had to offload at in Bath (or Bristol, can't remember now) which required him to reverse from a main road into a side road on his right and then directly into an alleyway on his left, with the side road being exactly two lanes wide and the alley even narrower. Oh and this was on a steep hill too. I can just about parallel park a car, that sort of maneuver sounds like the kind of torture they'd give me in hell. Outside my work is not as bad, but is it terrible for HGV drivers. Imagine two office blocks, 100m one length, 200m the other. Inbetween the two is the single loading bay for ALL the shops along that length, shipments has to be manually trolleyed the rest of the way. One is a major sportswear store, but there are restaurants, off licences, etc. The loading bay entrance is at a T junction, to a major car park, so there are cars constantly going most time of the day. There is a slow down ramp also, and metal bollards on the edge of the pavements the driver has to navigate. We used to have our smoke breaks out the front, just watching them. It was like the Kypton Factor assault course for trucks. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Sep 11, 2021 |
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crispix posted:sorry if i sound like a big stick in the mud but the news coverage is a bit too focused on the day and not the US's calamitous responses that resulted in millions of dead people in the middle east, a mess that is still unravelling right now, imo Yeah, it's all a bit self indulgent, isn't it. Reminds me of all the Vietnam war films that spend so much time on the poor traumatised war criminals and relegate the actual Vietnamese people to the background.
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If we're doing 9/11 memories, I was working technical support for a small ISP at the time and we started getting inundated with calls saying "the internet is down!" but everything looked fine apart from a massive surge of traffic to our private peering with the Beeb - a lot of our customers had the BBC News website as their homepage and so the slow/no response from it felt like downtime to them. We were all a bit mystified by this and mentioned it to one of my colleagues who was on holiday that day, to which he replied "Turn on a telly you daft oval office", which will be my own personal 9/11 forevermore. About an hour later we lost all but one of our transatlantic links, meaning we had to change the outgoing message on our support line to something along the lines of "Yeah we know you can't get to some websites, turn on your telly you daft cunts". Perhaps the best/worst call was from a fairly major financial company complaining they couldn't contact their US office... in building 7, something they knew but was still apparently our problem to fix. Also a lot of complaints over the next few days (it took almost a week to restore the transatlantic links because *so much* fibre went through/under the WTC) along the lines of "Well the internet was designed to withstand a nuclear war, why can't I get to newgrounds to play my Flash games?" to which the answer was "It can survive a nuclear war but can't survive capitalism, transatlantic fibre *not* going through MAE-EAST and hence under a million tons of rubble cost three times as much as fibre going through it and we won't even talk about how much it costs to send stuff the other way round the world" except of course much more diplomatically put.
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crispix posted:i was playing video game when the planes hit, my ma told me it was happening but i wasn't fussed :/ happyhippy posted:Imagine two office blocks
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StarkingBarfish posted:This is a great montage off that woke bane tweet: i'm not sure what "woke bane" refers to, but now i can't stop imagining a half-Keir Starmer, half-Bane from Dark Knight Rises hybrid creature, an amalgamation of flesh, steel and wet eggs
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Having ridden along with numerous HGV drivers in recent years it seems to me that being able to reverse the thing properly is the only serious test of skill required. The rest of the job largely consists of - fiddling your speed limiter so you can go a bit faster - having one of those little seatbelt buckles on your keyring that you put in the slot to stop the lorry beeping at you while you never wear a seatbelt - operating at least 2 phones,plus a GPS, plus a dispatch computer, none of them hands free, whilst hammering it down the motorway - knowing where the cheapest place for a bacon bap is in any given location.
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Oh, was there something on today other than Tyrone winning the All Ireland GAA final? Didn't notice. Edit: My 9/11 story is that I was in bed at the time, playing Quake 3 a poo poo load the night before, went downstairs into the kitchen, and we had a 14 inch small bubble TV showing the first tower going down. My mum was ironing at the time, just watching the news saying there was an attack in NY. First thing we thought of was our uncle who still lives there, but he was in Queens, no where close, so was fine. I think my father helped build one of the nearby buildings beside the twin towers, he went over laboring in the 80s as was the thing back then, and ended up putting up sheet rock or however its called on a few different buildings. He said one was near to the towers. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Sep 11, 2021 |
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I was on a bus that had left the Pentagon Shopping Center in Chatham 5 mins prior when people started talking about a plane hitting 'the Pentagon'.
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Oh 9/11 was my old life I was pregnant and in a building opposite Westminster Abby and the Palace of Westminster in a meeting about pensions with one of Prince William and Harry’s old nannies, and absolutely terrified because they weren’t doing anything to reassure or evacuate people who weren’t politicians in the area.
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I was in school, I seem to remember being on afternoon break when someone found out the news (2001 seems a bit early for everyone to have mobiles... so not quite sure how they found out), I went home and my mum was off so we watched the news until I went to play pokemon or something
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I don't think I remember where I was or what I was doing, I have a memory of being in the french classroom being taught something by my RE teacher and also there was a TV with it on, but I think that is sufficiently unlikely that it probably isn't a memory and is instead a dream I had at some point. rip terrorism I forgot I guess.
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Mr Phillby posted:I was on a bus that had left the Pentagon Shopping Center in Chatham 5 mins prior when people started talking about a plane hitting 'the Pentagon'. I lived a two minute walk from there at the time and was at home with the telly on when it happened. I did for a second feel a bit confused, seeing the big orange monolith (Mountbatten House) still standing atop the Pentagon, then realised "oh yeah the serious one in America".
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