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im not bald! im not bald!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a retired wc here to fight online antisemitism e: On this day 50 years ago the Attica Prison riot ended when Governor Nelson Rockefeller did a David Blunkett. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Sep 13, 2021 |
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StarkingBarfish posted:
The most entertaining barrister since the freemen of the land guy who said he was a lord and went into court wearing a load of medals.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Yeah this country is bad for rents but I have literally no idea how people can afford to live anywhere near Dublin. You just gotta be like me and buy a crapola ex-council house and waste your life renovating it Guavanaut posted:a retired wc You should still blast him with piss tho
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a pipe smoking dog posted:The most entertaining barrister since the freemen of the land guy who said he was a lord and went into court wearing a load of medals. I dunno, was that one before or after windmill-qc-that-cricket-bat-murdered-a-fox-while-wearing-a-kimono? It seems like they're all as bonkers as old copies of punch would have you believe. lol, I forgot it was on boxing day and all: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/26/prominent-lawyer-jolyon-maugham-tweets-about-clubbing-a-fox-to-death e: issuing a correction to get ahead of the pending slander allegation. Happy to correct the record that it was a baseball bat. StarkingBarfish fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Sep 13, 2021 |
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Wait are you a servant to skulls or a skull that is also a servant? E: or a servant OF skulls, for whenever someone needs a skull
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Skull Savant but misspelled. Very good at skulls. Also accepting Skull Cervid.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Wait are you a servant to skulls or a skull that is also a servant? It's from a YGO card! The Skull Servant is a servant to the King of the Skull Servants, who is also just a regular Skull Servant.
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Skull Servant posted:It's from a YGO card! The Skull Servant is a servant to the King of the Skull Servants, who is also just a regular Skull Servant. So the Skull Kingdom is more of a worker co-op? 
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Sounds gay, I'm in.
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Failed Imagineer posted:So the Skull Kingdom is more of a worker co-op? We need more so we can use the smilie more. I don't remember seeing that one before and it's not like I just got here.
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https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1437458724487057413?s=19 Lmao how low can he go. Like, I know Corbyn was lower, but at least he had an ideology that people could hate
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Skull Servant posted:It's from a YGO card! The Skull Servant is a servant to the King of the Skull Servants, who is also just a regular Skull Servant. How can the king of the skull servants be a regular skull servant. If he was regular he wouldn't be king! None of this is adding up
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Skeletons are syndicalists.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:How can the king of the skull servants be a regular skull servant. If he was regular he wouldn't be king! Look at his flavour text! 
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:How can the king of the skull servants be a regular skull servant. If he was regular he wouldn't be king! The worms are their money. So are their bones
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Guavanaut posted:Sounds gay, I'm in. StarkingBarfish posted:Manchester is great. It is definitely cheaper than Dublin by a long shot. Failed Imagineer posted:Lol dude have you checked COL/rent in Dublin lately. OP is probably making the right move, even though anti-Irish racism will probably drive him out within a few years Profiteering from essential services like housing should be a capital offence. It's like Death Grips yelled, "It goes, it goes, it goes, it goes Guillotine"
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Failed Imagineer posted:The worms are their money. So are their bones These skull servants… do they spawn from the eggs of bone mamas? E: FREAKIN BONIES!!!!
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Skull Servant posted:I keep hearing how bad rents are in the UK but every time I check out a few potential places I just get legitimately mad at how dire the situation is here in Ireland. There are places within the city centre of Manchester that are billed as fancy new-builds and they're *still* €300 less than anything you can get around here. I lived in a new build in Manchester that was used as the site for filming some dystopian prison film. On the other hand you can buy a proper mansion in the nicer bits of Manchester with the same amount of money as a shed conversion with a bucket toilet in London.
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Skull Servant posted:I keep hearing how bad rents are in the UK but every time I check out a few potential places I just get legitimately mad at how dire the situation is here in Ireland. There are places within the city centre of Manchester that are billed as fancy new-builds and they're *still* €300 less than anything you can get around here. I can assure you the "fancy" new builds in Manchester (and any other postcode above the magic number on some spreadsheet in Panama) will be worse than anything built prior to 2000 either side of the Irish Sea as long as it still has a roof on. "Luxury" flats - no other kind have been built since the World Trade Centre fell - are all the exact same 3-box construction, with a combined living room/kitchen to make them look bigger but also guaranteeing your furniture always stinks of cooking, bedroom(s) exactly 60cms larger than a double bed, and an unaccountably huge but poorly laid-out bathroom (huge because of laudable accessibility requirements, poorly laid-out because they wanted to spend as little as possible on plumbing. The built-in storage will be a single awkwardly-shaped cupboard next to the utility riser. They will have a balcony which is large enough for a table and two chairs and nothing else (and normally an appearance covenant banning you from having anything but a table and two chairs, meaning you can risk eviction for wanting to air out your towels (which you can never get fully dry because the bathroom will be underventilated), and if you're very lucky you'll be in a building where the architect had a ~vision~ so at least one of your windows will be off-centre and of such a weird shape you'll have to have curtains or blinds custom-made for it and there will be at least one non-square room making replacing the flooring from the cheapest poo poo laminate they installed will be an expensive pain in the arse. Most of all though it will have two sheets of gyprock between you and the next dwelling, meaning you will be able to hear your neighbours blink, and will be over-insulated and under-ventilated so it'll never, ever be a comfortable temperature and humidity and completely overrun by mold the moment you take your eyes off it - and that's all assuming it isn't wrapped in flash paper that you have to replace out of your own pocket but using a company chosen by the freeholder who put the flash paper on in the first place, all while paying a service charge that is somehow almost as big an expense as your rent/mortgage. It's an amazing testament to capitalism that they've somehow managed to make something worse than Ronan Point but also make a single flat in there cost more than three floors of the shittiest LPS tower block.
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Z the IVth posted:I lived in a new build in Manchester that was used as the site for filming some dystopian prison film. I lived in Toronto for two years and right before I moved in they were using the downstairs of the apartmentsbto shoot an episode of Alias or something? Then right after I left they used it to shoot some stuff for Umbrella Academy. Stuff like that is why I actually like living in cities/larger towns. Stuff actually happens! Much rather deal with urban issues than the boredom and isolation that comes with rural life.
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Toronto especially I think gets used because it has a very fancy building in the middle that was in the second resident evil movie I think and also it is easy to get to from yankeeland. (it has been in a lot of movies but yet again my extremely weird list of movies I have actually seen is causing me to re-enact the "boss baby vibes" tweet)
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I can assure you the "fancy" new builds in Manchester (and any other postcode above the magic number on some spreadsheet in Panama) will be worse than anything built prior to 2000 either side of the Irish Sea as long as it still has a roof on. I hardly expect it to be good, and absolutely believe you. I'm just always shocked that, compared to Irish rent rates, living in the city is actually affordable. We are probably going to end up slightly outside the city itself. Still a bit cheaper. Anything is better than my last place, where I would routinely have to go up into the attic at 4am because it started raining and the landlord refused to fix the holes in the roof. All while living in a box room which, as I noticed after I left, was building carbon monoxide for the pleasure of €1,150. (The house was immediately relisted for €1,250 with no changes.) I know I haven't experienced the rental market in the UK yet but I absolutely assure you the situation in Ireland is the stuff of nightmares.
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OwlFancier posted:Toronto especially I think gets used because it has a very fancy building in the middle that was in the second resident evil movie I think and also it is easy to get to from yankeeland. They also have a bunch of subways that aren't in use anymore so studios shoot in them as a generic NYC-like subway. Cheaper than NYC and they also probably get tax breaks from the provincial government.
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Skull Servant posted:I hardly expect it to be good, and absolutely believe you. I'm just always shocked that, compared to Irish rent rates, living in the city is actually affordable. Just as a matter of interest I looked up one of the few places in Manchester I know quite well[1] and there's 2-bedroom terraces going for under a grand a month, for a place 5 minutes from a tram stop and 20 minutes walk to Media City. Pop the other side of the road into the M5 postcode and the price doubles. Insanity. [1] I have - to the surprise of nobody - a very limited but very deep knowledge of the Outer Darkness, in that I intimately know at least one dodgy industrial estate near a canal in every decent-sized city south of the border, from a prior life spent visiting dodgy little internet Points of Presence for a company that used canal towpaths for their fibre infrastructure.
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If you had said you just had the ability to go down an alley somewhere in london and come out in any other sufficiently large urban center in the UK I would also have believed that. I do sometimes think I would like to visit london just so that I can have the same reaction I had when I went to edinburgh only moreso, but I object to spending the absurd train fare to go there.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Just as a matter of interest I looked up one of the few places in Manchester I know quite well[1] and there's 2-bedroom terraces going for under a grand a month, for a place 5 minutes from a tram stop and 20 minutes walk to Media City. Pop the other side of the road into the M5 postcode and the price doubles. Insanity. That's one thing I have to get used to, more stark class divides based on area. Not saying it doesn't exist in Ireland, because obviously it does, but it's less pronounced due to how society was restructured in the decades immediately before and after Independence. The place I was living in Canada became super gentrified apparently after I left with rent prices doubling in the last six years which is ridiculous. It was an old industrial area that suddenly got a massive facelift and specialized apartments. Hilariously, one of the early ones that went up on my commute when I was there was called "The Kip".
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Just as a matter of interest I looked up one of the few places in Manchester I know quite well[1] and there's 2-bedroom terraces going for under a grand a month, for a place 5 minutes from a tram stop and 20 minutes walk to Media City. Pop the other side of the road into the M5 postcode and the price doubles. Insanity. A likely story. All those murdered hookers don't just show up by, or in canals on their own.
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Trickjaw posted:A likely story. All those murdered hookers don't just show up by, or in canals on their own. We've already established I can't drive an HGV, hooker-murdering is even further outside of my skillset.
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Skull Servant posted:They also have a bunch of subways that aren't in use anymore so studios shoot in them as a generic NYC-like subway. Cheaper than NYC and they also probably get tax breaks from the provincial government. Toronto plays NYC in loads of films. It got to play itself in Scott Pilgrim.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:We've already established I can't drive an HGV, hooker-murdering is even further outside of my skillset. Listen, you're bound to get rusty if you don't practice for a few hundred years. Personally I'm glad you've rebranded into less murdery London based specialities
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Party Boat posted:Toronto plays NYC in loads of films. It got to play itself in Scott Pilgrim. [whispering to date while watching TTC station when subway pretending to be in NYC appears on the screen] That's TTC My partner loves Scott Pilgrim and all Edgar Wright movies in general so when I brought them to Toronto pre-covid we were required to go to all the locations and bars. Sadly they knocked down Honest Ed's outside a Pizza Pizza used for a scene by the time I came back. Place was a complete maze filled with the most ridiculous stuff you would never want. 
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The comics had a scene inside Honest Eds (the fight with Todd) and apparently they explored filming in there but the sheer number of reflective surfaces made it an unworkable nightmare.
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BBC news just had a woman on arguing that 12-15 year olds shouldn't be able to choose to get vaccinated and that the child's parents should get the final say. She said she doesn't trust her daughter to make that decision because 'thats why we have the age of consent'.
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Party Boat posted:Toronto plays NYC in loads of films. It got to play itself in Scott Pilgrim. I had a bit of this feeling when I watched Detective Pikachu on a bored evening and found that the fantastical and slightly cyberpunk Ryme City was incredibly obviously, and a bit hilariously, Just London.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Dishi Rishi has made a powerful enemy in the Irish people today I mean this was never going to happen but hilarious that this happens as the DUP are imploding in polls.
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Polly Pickpocket posted:BBC news just had a woman on arguing that 12-15 year olds shouldn't be able to choose to get vaccinated and that the child's parents should get the final say. She said she doesn't trust her daughter to make that decision because 'thats why we have the age of consent'. Well, she's correct in that as children grow up they gain more and more autonomy over their lives and bodies, and it's because we consider them to be able to grasp what's going on whether it's medical procedures, contracts, liability or, well, sex. Though why she didn't point to the already existing rules on children's medical autonomy (afaik 16 in UK) is a mystery to me.
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Antigravitas posted:Though why she didn't point to the already existing rules on children's medical autonomy (afaik 16 in UK) is a mystery to me.
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