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Noxville posted:https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1507333553448800309?s=21&t=nankQspBUURiUPDwjEuJ9g Hahaha yesssss, come out as a JKR ally, you absolute weapon. I wonder if this will trigger some self-reflection in some people? Between this and Glinner this week it's a ray of sunshine that the worst people on earth are sorting themselves into the same house and eating poo poo in the process.
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Julio Cruz posted:I wish JKR actually had been loving cancelled Going on prime time TV to rant about how I've been silenced.
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Julio Cruz posted:I wish JKR actually had been loving cancelled Cancelled out of a rocket and into the sun
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People related to someone photographed standing near Putin: Russian asset, sanctioned and pariahed. People directly referenced and praised in a speech by Putin: well look, this is complicated; clearly Vlad the Bad is playing some kind of 12 dimensional chess to drive a wedge between us. The answer is clearly for Jeremy Corbyn to apologise for his... (Cont. p94) E: people who complained about Rowling's cancellation 2 days before putin did: moy woife Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Mar 25, 2022 |
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Wait has Russia invaded Ukraine because of the noisy presence of anime catgirls on Twitter?
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The Worst Person in The World is an immensely good movie but even the lead actress pointed out that its title would lead to comedy. She pictured ex-boyfriends seeing her face on the poster and that title and feeling a sense of satisfaction.
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Mar 25, 2022 16:00
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I was fully expecting it to be terves making the onion joke, but it seems to be a nordic version of fleabag that just got released. And then a bunch of people jumping on the virality to plug graphics about Boris.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I'm sure you're all aware, but I had the good fortune once of getting the train through the steelworks in the brief interval where they were operational under I think tata steel? And it drives right past the big casting frames or whatever they are, great big metal gantries full of glowing orange metal, very cool.
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Gorn Myson posted:The Worst Person in The World is an immensely good movie but even the lead actress pointed out that its title would lead to comedy. She pictured ex-boyfriends seeing her face on the poster and that title and feeling a sense of satisfaction. This guy breathing a sigh of relief for a day 
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OwlFancier posted:I had the good fortune once of getting the train through the steelworks in the brief interval where they were operational under I think tata steel? And it drives right past the big casting frames or whatever they are, great big metal gantries full of glowing orange metal, very cool. Not to self-doxx but Fatha was a a manager at British Steel way back when I was a kid, I went with him to the office at Skinningrove a few time late evening to pick up some work stuff, I always remember going out to the rolling yards (this was probably pre-any Health & Safety that would stop you from just going where you fancied on-site) and standing on kennedy grating walkways while the long rolled sections of fresh red-hot steel would pass by underneath, under-lighting everything devilishly and putting out a throb of heat. Also whoever posted the least-used train station upthread, it stops off just next to Steel House, which when it was built was a marvel of future engineering (and it still looks the part, being a conjunction of five big hexagons, the most futuristic shape) - I visited once I think, late evenings again, and it was full of greenscreen terminal PCs waiting at their prompts. 
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Ah yeah the big hexagon building is cool, you get a decent view of it from the big trunk road that runs along there. That whole place is quite neat generally cos it has a bunch of big embankments for the road and the rail lines which also form a sort of perimeter wall for the site. Makes it look like it was partially designed by a mad french military engineer from the 1700s. I remember once going on a tour of hartlepool nuclear plant back when that was a thing they just let you do. I remember they had this awesome star trek room with all these glowy diagrams of the reactor or something, and a lot of very loud machinery. Was only a kid at the time so no clear memory alas. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Mar 25, 2022 |
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I went to Sellafield when you could do that, it was cool. People should be able to do that more, because obsessive nuclear secrecy just breeds stupid anti-nuclear conspiracy poo poo where the government (the hypercompetent secret rulers, not the shower of cunts getting contracts for their sister's dog) must be Up To Something.
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Guavanaut posted:I went to Sellafield when you could do that, it was cool. People should be able to do that more, because obsessive nuclear secrecy just breeds stupid anti-nuclear conspiracy poo poo where the government (the hypercompetent secret rulers, not the shower of cunts getting contracts for their sister's dog) must be Up To Something. Speaking of: https://twitter.com/maxshanly/status/1507147650860298245?s=21&t=DurqxSp3nz67BVteJg3hTA
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Darth Walrus posted:Speaking of: Renting plants is pretty common, although it's the maintenance you are really paying for otherwise an office drone would need to spend time watering and pruning the thing
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Gorn Myson posted:The Worst Person in The World is an immensely good movie but even the lead actress pointed out that its title would lead to comedy. She pictured ex-boyfriends seeing her face on the poster and that title and feeling a sense of satisfaction. It's a very dumb name for a very good film. Maybe it rings better in the original Nørsk, I dunno. Worth checking out for the great performances and writing
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My favourite Blade Runner story is the bit with the big columns, and they’d been doing weeks of night shoots in loving grim weather in Teesside and all the cast and crew were loving sick of it. Then Scott decided he preferred the columns the other way up and made them do it all again.
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OrthoTrot posted:Like, a lot of lines will have level crossings on, which you wouldn't build now because they just aren't as safe as bridges or tunnels. But let's say you want to reopen a station with a level crossing on it - the various regulations would now require the construction project to probably either drastically upgrade the crossing or close it entirely. Then there's the fact that antiquated signalling doesn't pass modern muster for all sorts of reasons. You mess with it and you're, rightly, required to bring it up to code. e.g, near me in Peterborough they've just spent four years and £200 million building a brand new 'dive under' junction to separate freight and passenger traffic, because the main freight path required the trains to cross all the tracks, up and down, on the ECML and thus caused nightmare capacity and pathing issues. The alternative was to reopen the March-Spalding section of the old GE&GN Joint Railway (originally built to bypass Peterborough to avoid causing congestion on the ECML...) to provide entirely different routes for passenger and freight traffic. As re-openings go it should be pretty simple: it only closed in the early 1980s, the formation is virtually intact throughout and the terrain is billiard-table flat. BUT because the terrain is so flat the original line had loads and loads of level crossings, which could not be reinstated. So instead of 'just' relaying the tracks, you'd have to put under- or overbridges in. Putting in overbridges in such flat countryside would require approach berms that would stand out for miles and cost a fortune, while the water table is so high (more accurately, the ground is so low...) that making underbridges would also be hugely costly. In the end the brand new junction with two miles of new line, the UK's first first curved box tunnel (500 feet long) and physically re-siting several miles of existing track was more cost-effective than reopening one that had already existed for 125 years.
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Level crossings are a loving pain in the arse though. One of the worst things about redcar is that the rail line runs at grade through half the town, and even with its relatively light use it backs the traffic up a lot. They should build some kind of insane bridge off the top deck of morrisons car park and have it terminate at the mcdonalds drive through.
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OwlFancier posted:Level crossings are a loving pain in the arse though. One of the worst things about redcar is that the rail line runs at grade through half the town, and even with its relatively light use it backs the traffic up a lot. I can’t help but feel that making the Morrisons car park a throughway would result in a million percentage increase in old biddies being flung about by modded Corsas
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OwlFancier posted:Level crossings are a loving pain in the arse though. One of the worst things about redcar is that the rail line runs at grade through half the town, and even with its relatively light use it backs the traffic up a lot. I absolutely agree. There are some around here which can cause gridlock, or at least very long queues if you get seven or eight trains passing in quick succession. Including one still operated by a guy who has to walk across all five lines of the ECML to open and close the gates. Although I've often thought that could be quite a nice job when I've driven past - the crossing keeper has a cabin on one side and they've got a little garden with sunflowers, tomato plants and hanging baskets that they tend to between trains. Although, nice as it could be in this weather, it would be different setting out across the tracks on a desk winter night with the rain blowing horizontally into your face...
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's a very dumb name for a very good film. Maybe it rings better in the original Nørsk, I dunno. Worth checking out for the great performances and writing Yeah, it’s really, really good. (Joachim Trier is best Trier)
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Can't be doing with all this talk of not-London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iYlBiGMJyU so have a level crossing that is basically in some back gardens and that you have to walk up stairs to get to rather than just walking along the parallel street that goes under the same tracks. Also runs to what I *believe* is the only permanent unloading wharf left on the Thames upstream of Tilbury (there are three permanent loading wharves for taking rubbish out, and a load of temporary ones for getting stuff in and out of the Thames Tideway and Crossrail)
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You’ve got that little street GAME (is, was?) on as the runway too. Think we’re onto something here.
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I remember seeing one of those at longbeck, similar situation in that it's literally off someone's back garden, near the aptly named cat flatt lane. So if every you felt like speedrunning getting out of bed to getting hit by a train that's definitely a competitor. Every other crossing is either over or under but there is one that's just "eh, just avoid the train"
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loving hell it looks like Ukraine's resistance might actually have spooked the Russians something bad, they're apparently saying the 'first phase' of the conflict is over, and they're going to reorient to focus on occupying the disputed territories in Donbass + Lukhansk. Why that wasn't the strategy from the beginning is incomprehensible to me. I'm not a military strategist but it would almost certainly have gone like Crimea did - a bit of token Western protests followed by shrugs. The wholesale invasion makes no sense whatsoever and never has, and I can only conclude it's mostly the result of Putin believing his own gonzo. In any case, I think that's good news, and maybe signals the beginning of a de-escalation? At the moment, Russian withdrawal to the eastern fringes, even if they do occupy them, seems far from the worst case endgame. e: sorry if this has been mentioned before, haven't been keeping up with the thread much.
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I think that would be the reason for focusing on occupying their currently held ground, it is much harder to go on the offense than to bog down the enemy advance.
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OwlFancier posted:I remember seeing one of those at longbeck, similar situation in that it's literally off someone's back garden, near the aptly named cat flatt lane. So if every you felt like speedrunning getting out of bed to getting hit by a train that's definitely a competitor. Every other crossing is either over or under but there is one that's just "eh, just avoid the train" gently caress me, that’s my nan’s street. I used to walk over that and up the path to smoke spliffs when I was staying with her
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Are there any threads elsewhere on the forum about UK jobhunting (for permanent jobs, not contractor type stuff)? Basically in a position where I've been working for the same financial firm for 15 years, so my experience of applying for jobs is very out of date and back then I didn't really have much in the way of useful skills to be honest so was just applying for anything I could find. Now I'm in a pretty specialised role so I have a bunch of transferable skills but would like to look elsewhere and have zero idea how the current job market works for people who've got a bunch of experience. Like, I have no idea even where to look in terms of which websites are or aren't poo poo, if agencies are worthwhile for folk with transferable skills rather than qualifications/specialist skills. Most of my friends these days are contracting, at companies for the long haul, or at a way more senior level than I am where they just get headhunted to a new firm every few years, so aren't really much help when it comes to advice.
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Jakabite posted:gently caress me, that’s my nan’s street. I used to walk over that and up the path to smoke spliffs when I was staying with her Rude of you not to pass it over to your nan imo
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I think general jobhunting is just... well it's loving poo poo tbh, they expect a pile of free work out of you for the application process and most of it is utterly wasted. If you have specialist skills and are looking to move to a new job it definitely seems like your best bet is to try and use connections in your industry to see if you can bypass the line, basically. Because trying to get employed by figuring out the right keywords to type into the right box to make the computer pass you to a human who might give a poo poo is just miserable.
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