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peanut- posted:It wouldn't shock any Londoners that aren't dribbling morons. Guavanaut posted:"Was in Number 10 and ran comms at two big UK gov depts." Imagine Leicester to London train tickets for £4.40 each way though. I'd go and do that walk of the Hawksmoor churches this weekend. People could go all over the place and see new things.
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Guavanaut posted:I see someone has made a collectable minifig of Glinner That can't be a very collectible figure. Nobody owns one.
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I like how the BBC trumpets a below-inflation increase in NI allowance as "saving workers £330". Make it at least £800 you cunts.
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I might, might mind you, be willing to cast my eyes upon london if you made it cost a tenner and threw in a sandwich on the trip.
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Apropos of nothing, why did nobody tell me about The Repair Shop (the BBC show, not an actual place)? I've been binging it while on my little covid holiday and it's like it's been made specifically for me. The setup is pretty simple, people bring in old stuff that's broken, a team of specialists fix it. What makes it amazing is that it's almost all just normal consumer goods - a 70s Dalek toy, a clockwork musical box Menorah, a mass-market Chesterfield armchair from the 80s - or even just homemade stuff, that has massive sentimental value for the people involved. They give you a couple of minutes of the history of the thing (both commercial and personal) then craftspeople doing their thing, explaining what they're doing and the mechanics of the object, then of course the big emotional reveal of the repaired object. It's all also beautifully shot and edited, just perfect, gentle television that tickles both the nerd and the schmaltz centres of my brain. I'm starting to think about the Beeb the way libs do just because of this one show.
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I'm going to visit a friend for a few days in Sunny Slough. 1 hour by bus to Newport. Bus only goes twice in the morning. Impossible to know what time because the timetables in the bus station are all wrong (at least 2 years out of date), pdf bus timetables on the travel cymru site are advised not to follow and you have to find the 'emergency' pages to see if there's half a chance a bus might go. Off peak return fare WITH my old lady railcard over £50. Cannot risk getting one of the cheap advance off-peak jobbies because (a) my friend is in the 'extremely vulnerable' health category and I have said she can cancel me right up to the morning of travel (or I will cancel if my LFT shows positive) and (b) no guarantee that a bus will be available to get me to the train station for the right train so I have to get my rear end to Newport first and then see what train I can get. We've been looking in to train fares for a colleague who doesn't drive to visit our office (he's WFH from north of oop north) and we're looking at over £200 return! Pretty steep for a small charity! (Boss highly reluctant to consider air travel which would cost half that and take a total of around 10 hours less travelling time because of environmental concerns).
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Apropos of nothing, why did nobody tell me about The Repair Shop (the BBC show, not an actual place)? I've been binging it while on my little covid holiday and it's like it's been made specifically for me. The setup is pretty simple, people bring in old stuff that's broken, a team of specialists fix it. As with everything, personally I find the various restoration channels on youtube more enjoyable, I like the more exhaustive documentation of the function of the object and the process of repairing it. But the process of restoring the function of an item is quite pleasing yes. You also get to see some utterly bizzare inventions from the time when they had seemingly an unlimited supply of cast iron and people with machine tools, and a commitment to making something that can perform every task with terrifying efficiency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrZiY3_HC5k
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OwlFancier posted:As with everything, personally I find the various restoration channels on youtube more enjoyable, I like the more exhaustive documentation of the function of the object and the process of repairing it. But the process of restoring the function of an item is quite pleasing yes. Oh don't get me wrong, I love those channels too, but it's the added emotional dimension of them being part of someone's life that makes it so appealing to me. The Chesterfield really stuck in my mind because it belonged to a lady from Lewisham who bought it in a clearance sale in the 80s when she was pregnant with her first kid, and the story really did sound like it could have come from my family or any of my mates, the thrill of getting that little slice of how the other half lives. She talked about how all of her family photos were taken in that chair, because it was The Special Chair, and you could tell it was part of her life in a way that it never would have been if it had just ended up in some retired Major's home in Brighton. The Menorah, too - it was really just a little cheap bit of tin plate tat, probably bought off a market stall in Finchley, but the centre of an entire family's life in a very real way. Just turning a rusty thing shiny is fun to watch, but giving someone back something missing from their life gives it that emotional dimension that makes it so much more satisfying to watch.
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Tesseraction posted:HEY. HEY GABRIEL. MAYBE IF PUBLIC TRANSPORT WASN'T DOGSHIT ELSEWHERE THINGS WOULD BE IN EQUILIBRIUM. LOL at the regions. Can't even compare London to eg Birmingham or the central belt.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:If I ever do explode you'll all be sorry  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPmkILhKXi4
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I really want to like Jam and Blue Jam but mostly what I see is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0Ocau-CUg
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WhatEvil posted:I really want to like Jam and Blue Jam but mostly what I see is this: I mean that is a good parody to some extent but Jam really is exquisite television. It's gross & weird yes but that's no bad thing
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Where will be the last place with the Saxo-Covid Gophers as monarchs? Australia? Kent as a separate sovereignty? Obvious answer is Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno. Jedit posted:That can't be a very collectible figure. Nobody owns one. 
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A month or so ago I booked a train ticket via one of the split ticketing websites. I got an email last week saying that the first train (0908 from Hengoed to Cardiff Central) has been cancelled or no longer exists. My journey is to Hull (and back, arf). I have a ticket booked on the 0956 from Cardiff to Manchester. My question is, can I take the earlier 0855 train from Hengoed to Cardiff, despite my ticket being for the 0908, which no longer exists? Transport from Wales haven't answered my email which I sent over a week ago. I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account. There is nothing on the Transport for Wales website that is helpful. This is the sort of thing I hate ringing up about, as it will take ages to sort out, involve repeatedly mishearing a booking reference number, and multiple attempts to spell my name. Also, using phone for something that should be done by email winds me right up when people do it to me in work. Although if I haven't heard anything by lunchtime tomorrow, I'll give them a ring. I figure someone here will probably know though. Thanks.
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Guavanaut posted:Where will be the last place with the Saxo-Covid Gophers as monarchs? Little St. James is up for sale.
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OwlFancier posted:Looks at good public transit driving car ownership down to 24% All the bus services are poo poo and underfunded, run every other hour (except at school in/out times) and regularly just do not bother going to certain towns and villages. We have a train station nearby that could put us 10 minutes away from Oxford by train but has been closed for years. And nobody thinks it's important to fix this because everyone has a car. Even though everyone is forced to get a car mostly because the transport is so poo poo. The uni town I used to live in, Winchester, has an arcane and nightmarish one-way system running through the middle of it, so it's quicker to walk everywhere. It's also technically a city to most major retailers want a presence there, or at least they did before all the high streets started dying. Consequently, most of the people round there don't drive. There are all sorts of ordnances & stuff that give the buses right of way and the local train system is (apart from the cost) pretty robust. It's like a little London, the transport is really really good because there's no other option - the only way to unfuck the roads would be to knock down a bunch of historic buildings, which nobody is going to do because some seriously rich people live there. My point is that having lived in both, I honestly think that driving changes people's brains in terms of how they percieve distances and how they percieve the hassle involved in getting to a place. For example if someone sees a trip to homebase as get in car > drive 30 mins > park > put stuff in boot > come home, then of course getting the stuff for DIY is easy. If however it's a case of finding a backpack capable of carrying all the poo poo you need > walk to the bus > change buses > get to the shop > make sure you get the correct stuff AND it fits in your backpack > lug it back to the bus > change buses and pray you don't miss your connection (or that it's a minibus that refuses to let you on because minibuses are for schoolkids and old people only) > collapse at home too exhausted to do anything with the supplies you now realise are the wrong type, then yeah, it's going to seem like a less preferable option. I honestly don't think this is going to change unless cars become unaffordable, but even then there is going to be a ton of chaos and displacement in that rearrangement because the government (local and national) absolutely refuses to do its loving job and bolster these services because 'everyone has a car.'
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Little St. James is up for sale.
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“Jamaica is as you would see a country that is very proud of our history and very proud of what we have achieved. We are moving on and we intend to attain in short order … our goals and fulfil our true ambitions as an independent, developed, prosperous country.” hopefully we can be next
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Gambrinus posted:A month or so ago I booked a train ticket via one of the split ticketing websites. Transport for Wales. It says you can use a later train but that is no use to you. I would print out the email you received, take the earlier train, the guard or 'Revenue Protection Officer' will most likely be sympathetic (if they even notice). That said, the cost of Hengoed to Cardiff is £5 so if they do charge you, it should only be that much anyway and you can claim compo later. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Guavanaut posted:Having a petrol car for the days when your Tesla has decided to drive itself back to the authorized Tesla service center makes sense. wtf Guavanaut posted:center wtaf
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Guav is American, you're driving a Ford Focus with a Tesla symbol painted on it, idk what's real anymore
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God knows, Johnson is a foul and disgusting creature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEmr7gZksUI
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peanut- posted:funniest part of raising the NI rate while lowering the income tax rate is it means that basically the only people that will ultimately get any benefit are pensioners What a coincidence, wonder who they vote for.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:who was he pulling the face to though? Whoever it was, he is aware it is televised and he's supposed to be leader of the country not a cnut and should control his face better.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Whoever it was, he is aware it is televised and he's supposed to be leader of the country not a cnut and should control his face better. not excusing him. just the thought that he thinks/knows the opposition bench are just there for pantomine
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Failed Imagineer posted:Guav is American, you're driving a Ford Focus with a Tesla symbol painted on it, idk what's real anymore I actually live in a thatched cottage in Norfolk and consider Swaffham to be dangerously overcrowded and cosmopolitan.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:wymondham tho... That's not a real place, that's just a drunk Womble trying to explain to the cabbie where he wants to go.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Guav is American, you're driving a Ford Focus with a Tesla symbol painted on it, idk what's real anymore goddamnedtwisto posted:I actually live in a thatched cottage in Norfolk
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Guavanaut posted:Going to need an effortpost about the wrong squirrels to prove this. I was actually going to make a  "I've never even *been* under a thatched roof" point about how thatched roofs have been banned in civilisation since 1666, then remembered that I have actually been under the only thatched roof in London (Shakespeare's Globe - and yes, they had to go through a *lot* of poo poo to get it built). The tour didn't mention anything about squirrels though, and the single thing I do know about squirrels is the ones in Green Park once mugged the CFO of a company I was working for.
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Also the first draft of my shocking reveal post was actually going to be copying a story my old boss used to love telling about the place he lived in but I couldn't get the phrasing right, and Alan Partridge was playing on my telly so I went with that instead. In the interests of completeness and just because I like the story, here it is anyway. So although London-born he wanted to move away somewhere quiet. He found a little place in Barlby, in Yorkshire, and when he asked him about local amenities the estate agent, perhaps worried this fancy Londoner would be worried about being so far from the bright lights, told him - with lowered voice and furtive lean in - that he could get "anything he wanted" in "the shop in town". It took him a few attempts to unravel that "town" is what everyone in Barlby called Selby, because why would they need to use its name when this throbbing metropolis of 20k people could be the only possible destination for all your urban needs. Likewise "the shop" was what they all called the retail jewel in the crown of this great Gotham, Wetherell's Department Store. I'm actually overjoyed that it apparently still exists, and am still genuinely charmed at the idea that there are places in this country where people would explode like an angler fish bought to the surface if they were even to experience Trago Mills, let alone an actual modern shopping environment.
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Crankit posted:I've got a week off work coming up real soon and I'm stupid so I have no idea what I'm gonna do with myself, I can get free transport to brighton and london, can anyone recommend some kinda tourist days out that are pretty cheap? Thanks! Walk on 27th March in London if you're interested. quote:This Sunday (27 March) I am wandering around radical and revolutionary Bloomsbury £8 or £5 unwaged. Limited places. https://www.eastendwalks.com/?page_id=82
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Rowntree Foundation report on what destitution in the UK looks like: https://www.jrf.org.uk/blog/what-destitution I'll just quote the top line. quote:With the launch of our Destitution in the UK 2020 research, Emma Wincup explains what it means to be swept away by this rising tide. (The first comment under the article says it is 4 years old so not sure if there was a previous article that this has replaced or whether it is a comment on the site as a whole not specifically this article.)
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Sorry for all the posts in a row - just finding these bits and pieces now in my night-owlness! https://travel2palestine.org/applicants-for-richard-green-palestine-visit/ If you're under 30 and a Labour party member (there are still a few I think!) opportunity to join a trip to Palestine and Israel. But get your skates on because applications are open until Monday 28th. quote:Are you a young, politically active Labour party member who wants to see the Palestine-Israel conflict first-hand and understand the issues involved? If so, this opportunity for a fully-funded visit to East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank with Travel2Palestine could be for you. There are two opportunities available.
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