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BalloonFish posted:"My local council is strictly non-political - they're all Conservative." Michael Flanders, 1957 When I was at school in the mid 70s in the town I currently live in, many of the girls were members of the Young Conservatives because (a) tories were the only ones with their own building and under 18s could go in there and play snooker or just hang out - there was nowhere else for those between 11 and pub-going age, (b) hoping to bag themselves a young farmer husband. For the record, I did not go. I had posters of Lenin on my bedroom walls and stayed in my bedroom listening to Led Zepp, Pink Floyd and King Crimson. stev posted:They still have Tory clubs? That seems... bizarre to me even if you factor in all the old men who want to cling on to the days where every other nice pub had a private membership. Yes, there's one in my town - boo hiss. My sister's husband (a staunch Labour voter) goes there because it's where a club he's in meet. We tease him and call him Tory Boy. (Not the same as one of my brothers who is also known as Tory Boy - but he IS a tory. Page snipe: 97 is 91+6. 91 is the number of days in the Apr-Jun quarter. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Apr 4, 2022 |
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Yes we all know that small and medium private companies without institutional support are best placed to compete against the likes of Amazon.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Welp in her defence, she is the government in question
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There's a Liberal Club and a Conservative Club within about 3 miles of my home, and I've never been to either. The ConClub is in a really lovely old building and they open it up to the public a few days each year. It's far, far safer to go into the Conservative Club than it is to either of the two very fash pubs, unless you've got a tattoo of the En-ger-land Flag and current EDL membership.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yes, there's one in my town - boo hiss. My sister's husband (a staunch Labour voter) goes there because it's where a club he's in meet. We tease him and call him Tory Boy. (Not the same as one of my brothers who is also known as Tory Boy - but he IS a tory. The games club I'm part of meets at the railwaymen's social club, opposite the local Labour HQ. I assume that makes me working class or something?
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Failed Imagineer posted:Welp The only conclusion she comes to is the last page of her novel
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I have come to the conclusion that government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against giants like Intel, Nestle and Walmart. Therefore,
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Wolfsbane posted:The games club I'm part of meets at the railwaymen's social club, opposite the local Labour HQ. I assume that makes me working class or something? Well you are sharing a platform (geddit?) with them so I guess that means you accept and believe everything they do and say. (We used to go to a pub in Croydon called Porter & Sorter which was by East Croydon station when I worked for the railways - frequented by rail workers and posties. So I guess I am now a postie.)
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My parents used to take me to events at the local Conservative club when I was a kid. I thought I was special. I used to boast to my schoolfriends that I used to go. I got bullied a lot.
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I used to drink at the British Legion all the time but I'm *fairly* sure that doesn't mean I'm responsible for Bloody Sunday (admittedly I didn't check the membership forms that closely).
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I had to read this tweet twice to parse it - urging a ban on trans conversion therapy as well as gay conversion therapy.quote:Excl: Some of the UK’s most senior religious leaders - including former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams - have written to the PM urging him to ban trans as well as gay conversion therapy. https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1510959904386859009?s=20&t=ZEUj4aN4dLip0Ka9j8gSog
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:When I was at school in the mid 70s in the town I currently live in, many of the girls were members of the Young Conservatives because (a) tories were the only ones with their own building and under 18s could go in there and play snooker or just hang out - there was nowhere else for those between 11 and pub-going age, (b) hoping to bag themselves a young farmer husband.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I had to read this tweet twice to parse it - urging a ban on trans conversion therapy as well as gay conversion therapy. Lol me too. In a few days we'll see the headline PM No Longer Advised Against Ban on Conversion Therapy Ban
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I see Jeremy Crombyn has worked the Liberals up into an apoplectic rage this morning simply by posting an utterly innocuous comment. https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1511000514292600833?t=6dWM5tyF9kVFuO8y6WPSLQ
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The local conservative club near me has redecorated to hide the fact that it’s a conservative club and it seems really full on weekends, but gently caress off if I’m setting foot in there to find out, it’s cursed ground as far as i’m concerned
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This is turning into a fun new game: Which Word In Jeremy Corbyn's Tweet Has Made People Unreasonably Angry Today? I clicked that all expecting it to be his call for a ceasefire, and loads of sensible centrist grownups insisting we give Ukraine all our Challenger 2s so they can drive to Moscow instead. But no.
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To be fair (and I'm being very charitable here, perhaps unreasonably so), he doesn't mention the war much at all in his timeline, so if you were already of the persuasion that he was a Russian stooge, that latest tweet doesn't help. However there's a good video a couple weeks back nicely showing how he never ever approved of putin, unlike certain Labour leaders.
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keep punching joe posted:I see Jeremy Crombyn has worked the Liberals up into an apoplectic rage this morning simply by posting an utterly innocuous comment. Lol, I'd just come across this on Twitter. David Gauke was all : "HOW DARE YOU CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE WE NEED MORE BLOOD"
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I had to read this tweet twice to parse it - urging a ban on trans conversion therapy as well as gay conversion therapy. Unrelated but I do like the use of "Very Revd" as a title, they should have a full scale of those from Slightly Revd to Super Very Ultra Total Revd
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Angepain posted:Unrelated but I do like the use of "Very Revd" as a title, they should have a full scale of those from Slightly Revd to Super Very Ultra Total Revd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Reverend There's already a Double-Double-Reverend-No-Takebacks title which the Archbishop of Canterbury gets.
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Infinity Plus One Reverend E: sounds like a philosophical sitcom
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I can’t imagine “Right Reverend” in anything other than a Nathan Barley-style exhortation
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Hecka Reverend
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Aleph-Aleph Reverend. Aleph Null  is the smallest infinite number. Followed by Aleph_1, Aleph_2 etc. So I'd say Aleph-Aleph is bigger than those. How about Aleph to the power of Aleph biggness of infinity. Instead of "I am the alpha and the omega" we could have "I am the Aleph and the omega". Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Apr 5, 2022 |
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Graham's Reverend
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Aleph Null You're working the front desk at the Infinite Hotel. Unfortunately, it's been overbooked! All of the infinite rooms are occupied, when another guest arrives. How do you make space for them? Just move every guest into the next room number (n+1), and put the new one into room 1. Easy. Then, a coach arrives, containing an infinite number of guests, all needing rooms. How do you get these ones in? Move every current guest into the room whose number is double the one they are in right now, you've freed up all infinity odd-numbered rooms, assign each of the new guests room number 2n-1 in the order they come off the coach. Finally, an infinite number of coaches arrive, each with infinite guests - same question? I actually can't remember the solution to this one, answers on a postcard *for some
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Borrovan posted:Finally, an infinite number of coaches arrive, each with infinite guests - same question? I actually can't remember the solution to this one, answers on a postcard Every number has a unique prime factorisation, so each guest in each coach should proceed to their room, which is room 2^c x 3^n where c is their coach number, and n is their seat number. So the guest in seat 420 on coach 69 is in room 2^69 x 3^420. Hotel guests should presume they were in coach 0 when moving to the new room. This solution does leave the vast majority of the rooms free though, there's others that occupy every room which I can't remember either. EDIT: made solution slightly simpler Reveilled fucked around with this message at 10:16 on Apr 5, 2022 |
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This is called the Hilbert Hotel if you wanna waste some Wikipedia time on it. Good episode of the Omnibus podcast about it as well
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Sweet Bro and Hella Rev
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Borrovan posted:Thinking about this puts me in mind of a fun* puzzle: In the first case, can't you just move the last guest into the next room rather than moving everyone?
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Angrymog posted:In the first case, can't you just move the last guest into the next room rather than moving everyone? If this worked you could just send the new guest to the next room and move nobody at all, but the problem is that the hotel is fully occupied. The "next" room is already occupied, so you need to move them, so you need to move their neighbour, and so on. So in order to create a free room, you need to have every guest in the hotel move at the same time according to some mathematical operation to create a free room. You could technically pick any arbitrary number and move everyone in a room number larger than that, though, it doesn't have to be room 1. You'd still be moving an infinite amount of people either way, though.
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Reveilled posted:Every number has a unique prime factorisation, so each guest in each coach should proceed to their room, which is room 2^c x 3^n where c is their coach number, and n is their seat number. So the guest in seat 420 on coach 69 is in room 2^69 x 3^420. Hotel guests should presume they were in coach 0 when moving to the new room. We could put up the asylum seekers and refugees in some of those free rooms and use others to house frothing gammon and padlock them in. Reveilled posted:If this worked you could just send the new guest to the next room and move nobody at all, but the problem is that the hotel is fully occupied. The "next" room is already occupied, so you need to move them, so you need to move their neighbour, and so on. So in order to create a free room, you need to have every guest in the hotel move at the same time according to some mathematical operation to create a free room. I think moving an infinite amount of people would require an infinite amount of energy and is therefore impractical. I vote to put the new coachload of people into sleeping bags on the ballroom floor and charge them £40 per night rent.
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The Virgin of Mercy and the The Chad Most Reverend https://twitter.com/lottelydia/status/1510947990898417674
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Borrovan posted:Thinking about this puts me in mind of a fun* puzzle: I'm not a fancy math person but surely if your infinite rooms are all full then you are already housing infinite people, and it would not be possible for more people to arrive?
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There's different infinities. Some of them are infinitely bigger than others. Some look like they should be bigger than others, like the set of all natural numbers {1, 2, 3, 4 ...} looks as through it should be bigger than the set of even natural numbers {2, 4 ...} and smaller than the set of integers {-2, -1, 0, 1, 2 ...} however Cantor says otherwise as each can be mapped to a distinct member of the others and there are infinite of them after all. But then there's other sets. However the real problem, as all people with a grounding in real rational free market economics rather than airy fairy pure maths would agree, is that a hotel with infinite rooms would ruin the housing market 
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Dublin is asymptotically approaching a state of infinite hotel rooms, and yes it's hosed the housing market
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Well you are sharing a platform (geddit?) with them so I guess that means you accept and believe everything they do and say. Our D&D club was in the King's Head which I'm pretty sure means I personally offed Charles I. (You're welcome, UKMT)
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