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DUPers furious that the President of Ireland didn't accept their invite to celebrate the partition of Ireland - plus the invite addressed him as the President of Republic of Ireland (a soccer team) https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1438754704360714241?s=19 Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Sep 17, 2021 |
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Banging head against wall: Convo with friend today who I have concluded is closet Tory: F: "You can't blame Boris for social care crisis it's all governments" (hello who have been in power for 12 years? Using 'Boris' as shorthand for Tories). F:"It's local authorities' fault because they choose where to spend the money." Me - depends if they've got the money in the first place. They can't spend what they don't have. F: "they shouldn't waste it - labour councils blah blah" F: "£500pw for a care worker sounds like good pay to me (she earns more than that pro rata as a part timer by choice) tell me where to sign up" (TV news last night had interview with care worker doing 12hr days) Ok they shouldn't waste what they have but when even Tory councils are on TV saying govt is not giving them sufficient funds, and no-one is saying council spending is 100% pure but FFS. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Sep 17, 2021 |
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Sep 17, 2021 14:10
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Yea your friend is a closet tory but don't feel bad most people on this wretched island are
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Failed Imagineer posted:DUPers furious that the President of Ireland didn't accept their invite to celebrate the partition of Ireland - plus the invite addressed him as the President of Republic of Ireland (a soccer team) DUP: Come on lads, come on up and reminisce on how our grandfathers hosed over your grandfathers for most of the century. The good old days with the random murders, house burnings, and gerrymandering to keep your lot in check.
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Sep 17, 2021 14:41
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stev posted:I was gaslit into believing it didn't get good until season 3/4 for most of my life. Rewatching recently season 1 was actually legit great and a lot more clever than it was later on. No no NO it's Seinfeld that sucks arse for the first few seasons then gets better.
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Tesseraction posted:No no NO it's Seinfeld that sucks arse for the first few seasons then gets better. I thought it was The Next Generation
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Tesseraction posted:No no NO it's Seinfeld that sucks arse for the first few seasons then gets better. Fortunately the start of Seinfeld was so loving pish that I doubt I'll ever bother seeing if this is true or not
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Sep 17, 2021 15:49
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Some rare actually good trans-related news in the UK? https://twitter.com/LaurakBuzz/status/1438855396752515078?s=19
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Sep 17, 2021 15:52
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Julio Cruz posted:the Simpsons peaked with the softball episode and it's been downhill ever since Watching the series back as an adult it was actually the soapbox derby episode which was just sort of an alright episode when I was a kid and now it makes complete sense and was one of the few times homer was a relatable sympathetic dad The line 'ill just sit here in lil lightning - the car that the simpsons built - and remember that for one brief moment I had a son' hits hard when you're a grown up and realise it's not Bart he's mad at
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First 2-3 seasons of the simpsons made them out as undeniably working class and struggling and there's a grittiness to things that works really well I haven't watched it much for years but the peak for me remains you only move twice which is a few seasons later and past about season 10 I don't think there's any episode that sticks out for good reasons Going back to camera chat a bit, phone cameras are pretty flipping good but often leave me wanting a big ol' lens for optical zoom           
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Sep 17, 2021 16:15
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stev posted:Some rare actually good trans-related news in the UK? Lots of idiots are upset about this because it also reaffirms that teens can get vaccinated/birth control/other medication against parental wishes.
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Sep 17, 2021 16:44
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I see there was oven chat a couple of pages ago. Let me tell you, Brits do not know how good they have it when it comes to ovens. You can get a decent, name-brand oven (Hotpoint for example) in the UK for ~£200, or something "fancy" like the most basic NEFF one (still very good quality) for £400. These will be well-designed, decent build quality and work well. You also have a pretty free choice of built-in or built-under, plus if you want you can get a "range" oven starting at a bit under £500. Then you can get a separate gas or electric hob for about £100 or an induction one for £200. I recently bought a new oven in Canada. Pretty much the only choice you have here is a "range" cooker, that is a cooker with the hob built-in. You can get wall ones (to be built-into cabinets) but they're inexplicably wildly more expensive. The cheapest by a mile have glass-topped electric hobs (which are loving terrible). To get one that isn't loving awful starts at £450, and to get a half-decent one you're looking at another couple of hundred. Woe-betide if you want a gas or induction hob. So I bought an induction one for the equivalent of £750. Frigidaire which is supposed to be a "premium" brand... and it's just poo poo. Build quality is awful, and the oven seems to work with its main heating element in the bottom, and then there's a fan at the back which circulates air. I'm used to having the actual heating element at the back where the fan is. Now, it seems to work, in that the oven gets hot and the air circulates... but the tiniest morsel of stuff dropping onto the bottom of the oven almost immediately starts spewing black smoke, because the bottom surface is the hottest part. Not only that, because it's where the heat is coming from it has big warnings on it saying "DO NOT COVER WITH FOIL" and stuff and it says in the manual that "irrepairable damage may occur" if you cover it with anything to catch spills. loving awful design. Bought one of their dishwashers too and again, just poo poo quality, poorly thought-out design and it doesn't actually get stuff clean unless you use the highest "power wash" setting which probably negates any supposed efficiency savings from upgrading from the 30-year old dishwasher that was here before. I think I'll look at trying to import appliances if I ever have to buy any again.
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Julio Cruz posted:the Simpsons peaked with the softball episode and it's been downhill ever since No, that was Deep Space Nine.
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Sep 17, 2021 17:48
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Spalec posted:Lots of idiots are upset about this because it also reaffirms that teens can get vaccinated/birth control/other medication against parental wishes. Another thing, it sets precedent that a fit note overrides anything the DWP and PIP want to say
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Sep 17, 2021 17:48
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Spalec posted:Lots of idiots are upset about this because it also reaffirms that teens can get vaccinated/birth control/other medication against parental wishes. There was a good quote from the judgement: quote:The appeal court judges said none of the expert evidence produced by the claimants complied with the relevant rules “and a good deal of it is argumentative and adversarial”.
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Sep 17, 2021 17:57
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crispix posted:hellooooo ay am breeteesh so ay am i wish for to purchase a hogshead of meadde and bushel of snuffe pray if ye please They had some lindisfarne mead in coop when I was there tother day and I kinda fancied having a go. I have a feeling I don't like it but I can't remember why.
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stev posted:Some rare actually good trans-related news in the UK? Ah gently caress yeah that's good news.
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Spalec posted:Lots of idiots are upset about this because it also reaffirms that teens can get vaccinated/birth control/other medication against parental wishes. going after Gillick competence more generally was always going to be the next step - iirc wasn't one of the lawyers bringing the original case an anti-abortion activist? Also this bit (via the grauniad) is interesting: quote:Referring to a Care Quality Commission report from January that was critical of GIDS, including in relation to aspects of obtaining consent before referral, the appeal court judges said: “The fact that the report concluded that Tavistock had, in certain respects, fallen short of the standard expected in its application of the service specification does not affect the lawfulness of that specification; and it would not entitle a court to take on the task of the clinician.” since it's a direct challenge to the "starve the beast approach" of undermining a service then using the problems that pop up as an excuse to wreck it. (to be clear not all the Tavi's problems are resource-related, and there's a broader issue with gender identity and psychiatry in this country anyway, but it certainly hasn't helped)
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OwlFancier posted:They had some lindisfarne mead in coop when I was there tother day and I kinda fancied having a go. Looking it up, it's more of a honey-flavoured wine than pure honey mead, which is apparently more traditional, but you might like other ones like Moniack or Lyme Bay more if you were in it for the pure honey goodness. I don't know why supermarkets are so desperate to not just stock actual mead, it's always a honey infused wine.
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Huh, I didn't know that, lindisfarne is quite well known up here cos, well, it's norvern innit. Would explain why I don't like it cos I don't like wine.
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Sep 17, 2021 18:39
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Gato posted:going after Gillick competence more generally was always going to be the next step - iirc wasn't one of the lawyers bringing the original case an anti-abortion activist? I'm pretty sure he was involved in the media operation to make Charlie Gard suffer as long and as much as possible too.
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Sep 17, 2021 18:44
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https://twitter.com/KateOsborneMP/status/1438926394701094913 Weird how all these "administrative errors" keep happening, innit?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/KateOsborneMP/status/1438926394701094913 The administrative error is clearly that she managed to avoid getting expelled despite the best efforts of the leadership compliance unit.
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I don't know anything about Kate Osborne MP. What's her record? (Though this is a disgrace regardless of where she is in the party spectrum).
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/KateOsborneMP/status/1438926394701094913 I don't understand how Keith hasn't just kicked every leftist MP out of the party on some bullshit excuse already. I mean, he certainly seems dumb enough to just do that and split the party etc; and that's what he wants isn't it? To get these people out, to get rid of them, right? Couldn't he just wait until Johnson's government brings out another "legalise rape by police" bill or similar, do a three-line whip to vote for it, and then actually, for real, sack everyone who votes against? He already had that chance didn't he! 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I don't know anything about Kate Osborne MP. what does your heart tell you Jaeluni real answer: she's in the Socialist Campaign Group
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jaete posted:what does your heart tell you Jaeluni Well I thought she must be 'one of us' but to be honest I never heard of her before this! According to skwak it's to do with her posting a message of solidarity re RLB: https://skwawkbox.org/2021/09/17/exclusive-labour-puts-left-mp-osborne-on-notice-of-investigation-then-rescinds-it-an-hour-later/  Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Sep 17, 2021 |
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Sep 17, 2021 20:12
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/KateOsborneMP/status/1438926394701094913 Lol at “I was told I could not discuss the matter with anyone - except the Samaritans”
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Starmer's Labour clearly using coded antisemitic language there.
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Guavanaut posted:Starmer's Labour clearly using coded antisemitic language there. Now now, he never specified if those Samaritans are good or bad.
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Failed Imagineer posted:DUPers furious that the President of Ireland didn't accept their invite to celebrate the partition of Ireland - plus the invite addressed him as the President of Republic of Ireland (a soccer team) Best Tweet about this https://twitter.com/RealPMurphy/status/1438768303758057473?s=19
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Tesseraction posted:Now now, he never specified if those Samaritans are good or bad. That bible story always bugged me. Jesus might not have been saying "Imagine that one of those filthy Samaritans was the only helpful person on the road!" but if you've called your modern organisation 'The Samaritans' and forgotten to include the "good" part somehow is like calling your organisation 'The [N-Words]'. Which wouldn't fly for obvious reasons, so why is is OK to discriminate against Samaria?
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Jakabite posted:Fahrenheit actually is quite a good system imo. I had it explained to me by an American once that 100 is hot, 0 is really cold. This explanation makes no sense. 100 °C is also hot, and 0 °C is also really cold.  At least if you use centigrades, you know water boils at 100, and freezes as soon as it dives below 0, which is both far more important in real life than just "feeling" something. In Fahrenheit you get really wonky numbers for both: Like oh yeah the water boils at 212! Also, it's freezing outside tomorrow , the temperature dropped below 32! Makes no sense, complete bollocks Whoever even invented Fahrenheit? Must have been a bad, bad man Edit: Regarde Aduck posted:good news gently caress, beaten like a red-headed stepchild
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What I want to know is why would miggledyhiggins reject the opportunity to snub the queen? Surely snubbing the queen should be one of his primary duties?
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OwlFancier posted:What I want to know is why would miggledyhiggins reject the opportunity to snub the queen? I guess the official line is Britain is just another country, so don't give them the satisfaction. OTOH, it's hard to resist that genetic queen hate
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Ornedan posted:Unknown on the maximum temperature thing, but yes on the atoms falling apart. There is quark-gluon plasma, where the tempereture is sufficient for protons and neutrons to fall apart into free quantum particles. I think that's what scientists try to find with stuff like super-symmetry and poo poo. Basically, the highest possible temperature would bring you back to the moment of the Big Bang, before matter existed. After the Big Bang, the young universe immediately started cooling while expanding, and as the temperature dropped, all those weird quarks and then normal particles started to show up until matter started forming, billions of years later, and here we are. So while there is infinite space for higher temperatures, after a certain energy level is reached you would have re-created a tiny version of the Big Bang. It's probably the same problem as with light speed: To get that far, you'd need infinite energy. And because of this, the highest possible temperature is infinity, similar like how light speed can't be reached either Disclaimer: I'm not a scientist
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0C isn't that cold, and 100C is a bit over double what you die at. People are bad at intuiting negative numbers too.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I guess the official line is Britain is just another country, so don't give them the satisfaction. OTOH, it's hard to resist that genetic queen hate Personally if I were to fight a war against britain I would put it in the constitution that every morning the president must wipe their arse with a picture of the queen and it must be recorded by a clerk who enters it into the official ledger.
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