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Gort posted:Also, furries as a group are loving loaded. What I’m saying is, should I start watching furry porn as an investment strategy?
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TACD posted:How does this happen? What’s the causation here? This is as unsubtle as the one guy who always has to praise the journalism published by Playboy.
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Jan 7, 2022 13:26
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Well off people in good jobs with a disposable income tend to be confident enough to wear the nice expensive fur suits in public and not give a drat about what is on display in their home.
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Also bear in mind the ridiculous percentage of furries that work in highly paid tech-related jobs. There’s also quite a few in the more traditional professions- I’ve known furry doctors, lawyers, architects, high level academics.. hell, I used to be in a band with one of the foremost professors in equine science in the country. He would wear a horse head while playing the drums, and the fact that his CV described him as an ‘expert in equine semen collection’ always made me raise my eyebrows..
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Jan 7, 2022 13:31
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TACD posted:How does this happen? What’s the causation here? Much like crypto, it's actually just an insular group constantly trading jpegs of monkeys and lions with each other for the same pool of money.
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Jan 7, 2022 13:32
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This thing cost £6m and the architect was paid £220k pa by Westminster City Council. https://twitter.com/snb19692/status/1424674934207492096?s=20 Article: https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/marble-arch-mound-boss-paid-22650038
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Fuckin ps1 graphics lookin Hill.
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It'll be lovely in a year or two, I assume.
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Looks fine, looks like a mound? Apparently it's gonna be deconstructed in a couple months anyway, which makes this even less of anything
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Failed Imagineer posted:Apparently it's gonna be deconstructed in a couple months anyway, Doctor_Fruitbat posted:It'll be lovely in a year or two, I assume. Confirmed
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Flayer posted:While tennis obviously rewards endurance and strength it is still ultimately a sport that is decided on skill with the racket. Nadal and Djokovic are both supremely talented tennis players and no amount of doping affects that. I suppose the one person who could be aggrieved if all the doping allegations are true is Andy Murray, who in his prime was just as good as Federer/Djokovic/Nadal. Murray's prime was a lot shorter however and that could well be explained if he was the only one not doping. Tennis is a sport that for the last 20 years has been decided by who can run the fastest for the longest. Yes, skill with the racket is important, but in the modern game of Baseline thumping being able to get around the court faster than your opponent, while getting less tired wins the matches. You could have the best racket skill in the world but if by the third set can barely get out of a jog due to exhaustion it simply doesn't matter. If you watch any of the big 4 players in grand slams from the 2010-2016 era you see this regularly in the early matches, especially if they're playing poorly and it goes to 5 sets in like the 2nd round. They just keep running and running and running while their opponent is ground into the floor. Yours is a defence I see trotted out for tennis quite regularly, in that doping doesn't matter because its skill with the racket that makes the difference when actually its the other way round.
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It closes at the weekend, that's why it's back on the radar.
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An apparently good (Ianal) article on the Colsten judgement https://thesecretbarrister.com/2022...ou-should-know/
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This thing cost £6m and the architect was paid £220k pa by Westminster City Council. It depends what you mean by architect, he wasn't really the architect, just the project manager I guess. The architects were MVRDV - https://www.mvrdv.nl/projects/456/marble-arch-hill
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Wait, why did they even build it if it was going to be taken down again? The public reason I mean, not the real reason of Tory money laundering.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Wait, why did they even build it if it was going to be taken down again? The public reason I mean, not the real reason of Tory money laundering. As Europe’s busiest shopping street, Oxford Street has been hit particularly hard by Covid-19 measures. Plans are underway to diversify the street’s spaces, but these changes will take a number of years. In the short term, Westminster City Council sought to use a temporary installation to create renewed interest in the area as London could be emerging from the conditions imposed by the pandemic.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/Leon_Sverdlov/status/1479160458707976196 i mean people in NI very good at dissent start blocking roads at the drop of a bowler hat here, they do
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Just wanted to make a little post about my painfully-centrist sister because I think the thread will enjoy it. My little girl was talking about the differences between boys and girls, children and grown ups. She was talking about beards and willies (I have both and she needed to make sure everyone knew) and asked if she can have a beard when she’s older. My sister said no, I said yes, my dad said “you can probably have a willy as well if you like.” Now my sister isn’t talking to us.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This thing cost £6m and the architect was paid £220k pa by Westminster City Council. A fitting burial mound for Boris, preferably while he is still alive. 
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Lungboy posted:An apparently good (Ianal) article on the Colsten judgement https://thesecretbarrister.com/2022...ou-should-know/ That is a very good article that sums up the Colsten verdict. One part I do find amusing is how the author says this verdict supports his belief that jurors should be allowed explain how and why they came to their conclusions. The exact same week that two jurors in America doing so will most likely lead to Madam Maxwell's convictions being overturned.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:As Europe’s busiest shopping street, Oxford Street has been hit particularly hard by Covid-19 measures. Plans are underway to diversify the street’s spaces, but these changes will take a number of years. In the short term, Westminster City Council sought to use a temporary installation to create renewed interest in the area as London could be emerging from the conditions imposed by the pandemic. Well, they certainly renewed interest. Maybe just not the kind of interest they were looking for.
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OwlFancier posted:Unfortunately he is sort of on hiatus due to something stupid like "getting an education" or whatever, but yes the backlog is a lot of fun if you ever wished that someone combined dangerous chemistry and top tier shitposting. Mostly appreciate that he doesn't sound like a Youtuber. God that's great. But yeah, he's very entertaining & reminds me that I enjoyed chemistry a lot in school despite endless balancing equations. Failed Imagineer posted:*guy on my team falls on the ground, writhing in pretend agony*: that's some good gamesmanship there, state of the modern game innit Yes, the only bad cheating is the cheating against my team. See the University of Florida American football player who threw his opponents shoe 20 yards down field. Against the rules? Yes! Incredibly funny & good? Also yes!
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Tsietisin posted:"Oh" says he, "but noone would have believed you because you're public sector." therattle posted:Totally agree. 15 days at 8 hours a day is 120 hours. For a skilled artist you are talking about an hourly rate of £100, so closer to £12k would be my opening. The argument for most artists having such a seemingly high rate is that you're not just paying for the time spend physically creating, but the hours beforehand thinking about it, the materials and supplies, compensation for fair living costs etc. It's also there to spread the cost because artists will not generally have guaranteed work, so it's to last them between jobs as well if art is their only job. I can't quite put it into words but the £100 hourly rate seems like it should be used by people who spend days researching and planning, and then the dickhead commissioning it says "But it only took you an hour to draw!" If you're billing someone for 15 hours a day at 8 hours a day then there's no need to hide the labour in such a high hourly rate. I mean I don't work in computer touching or art and have never worked a higher salary than general admin, but £100 an hour seems kind of excessive when there are people barely making £10 an hour. Don't get me wrong, the people at the bottom should be making more. Everyone should be compensated fairly for their labour. And I guess in this specific case it sounds like a huge company that can afford it. But as a general rule, I'm not sure about £100 an hour if you're billing someone for 15 hours at 8 hours a day.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I mean I don't work in computer touching or art and have never worked a higher salary than general admin, but £100 an hour seems kind of excessive when there are people barely making £10 an hour. 250 pounds an hour would be what we charged for a DBA's service or one of our prosrv architects, and every second thinking about the work would be billable. 100 would be my baseline so I might start by offering 130+. Full disclosure, I am utterly poo poo at negotiating.
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Sanford posted:Just wanted to make a little post about my painfully-centrist sister because I think the thread will enjoy it. My little girl was talking about the differences between boys and girls, children and grown ups. She was talking about beards and willies (I have both and she needed to make sure everyone knew) and asked if she can have a beard when she’s older. My sister said no, I said yes, my dad said “you can probably have a willy as well if you like.” Your dad seems fun, at least. Sorry about your sister being a terf?
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I think I paid $225 for a full body portrait of my D&D Character, and since the guy was streaming the process I know it took him about 7 hours, so that's a little over $32 an hour. That to me felt like a fair wage for skilled work.
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NORMAN NORMAN!!!!!!!!!!! THE WOKE BRIGADE WERE ON THE JURY, THEY LET THOSE SNOWFLAKE PUNK-ROCKER TYPES OFF FOR DUMPING THAT STATUE IN THE DOCK, NORMAN NO NORMAN IT WASN'T A HARBOUR IT WAS A DOCK NORMAN, WE DIDN'T WIN THE WAR FOR THIS WOKE BRIGADE TO SWAN AROUND ON JURIES LETTING PEOPLE OFF LIKE THAT, NORMAN WE SHOULD DO AWAY WITH JURIES AND JUST GIVE PEOPLE LIKE THAT A GOOD BEATING, NORMAN 
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Miftan posted:Your dad seems fun, at least. Sorry about your sister being a terf? She really wouldn’t be if she stopped and loving thought about it for a moment. She just gets her news from the bbc and guardian and, well, we know what that does. Thinks things might be “confusing” for very small children while my dad maintains nothing is confusing if you always know about it. Last time I posted about my sister she was in a temper because I was pointing at that murderous rapist and saying “remember when you said you can always trust the police?” The centrism really is painful, she’s not a bad person - she just sometimes says and thinks bad things (he finished, weakly).
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Sanford posted:The centrism really is painful, she’s not a bad person - she just sometimes says and thinks bad things (he finished, weakly). What's the missing piece that moves from "not bad person" to "bad person"?
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:It'll be lovely in a year or two, I assume.
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Bel Shazar posted:What's the missing piece that moves from "not bad person" to "bad person"? "I know him/her personally" usually (and I am as guilty of this as anyone else, for the record)
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Here's a summary of the article in case you don't want to squint: - senior judges might look at this verdict - they might agree to have future juries given advice to disregard "woke" defenses - ERROR: definition of "woke" not found - a jury gave a verdict we didn't like - ex justice secretary says "yeah well sometimes that happens, tough poo poo" - but Boris Johnson says you can't rewrite British history - ERROR: relevance of bojo's waffle not found ~fin~
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Yeah you also get to see the majority of things that make them a good person, and you rationalise the minority of bad things as not directly hurting anyone, and you try and live with it. Don’t we all?
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Sanford posted:Yeah you also get to see the majority of things that make them a good person, and you rationalise the minority of bad things as not directly hurting anyone, and you try and live with it. Don’t we all? I went with general misanthropy, myself... e: this post is not an endorsement of misanthropy
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