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Failed Imagineer posted:Destroy all cars, spend more money on tattoos FTFY Mebh posted:That's what my partner and i settled on. Mmm. Old Amsterdam. That’s good stuff.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They should do the American thing and just drive a lawnmower or other not-a-car that you can drive without a license. The French used to have the VSP (voiture sans permis - literally "car without license") which was basically a four-wheeled moped, limited to 30 mph and 300 kg, that filled the same niche too. Stupidly though they now require both a license and big-car safety levels which is really missing the point. Instead they should go back to the origins of the VSP and make a car that's basically guaranteed to injure the driver as much as any pedestrian they happen to hit, like this: Maybe our resident Finn can weigh in, but I was unreliably informed that scooters and wood-gas cars (suposedly by some legislative oversight not requiring a license) are the vehicles of choice for drunk rural Finns getting back home after a long night trying to drown their sorrows. It sounds to me too good to be true and I suspect they just drunk-drive like other backwoods tipplers the world over, but I do repeat it as fact at every opportunity. And it is true that I once overtook a guy hunched behind the tiny windshield of his scooter, weaving back and forth on the ice with one foot down for balance, late at night on a road somewhere in deepest, darkest Lapland.
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Moonwolf posted:You mean enough, right? True... Man now I want a calzone.
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Apr 18, 2022 00:49
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Today is my 4th anniversary of being a paid up member of SA and UKMT (I lurked a while before that). Do I get a badge or something? BOSP Brenda's Order of poo poo Posting medal perhaps?
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Apr 18, 2022 00:52
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I've been posting here for 20 years and no badges yet but I'd appreciate if somebody euthanised me with a bolt-gun for my own sake
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Apr 18, 2022 00:53
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I regret to inform you that you were already euthanized and this is hell, and you are posting through it.
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Apr 18, 2022 01:00
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OwlFancier posted:I regret to inform you that you were already euthanized and this is hell, and you are posting through it. 
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Apr 18, 2022 01:08
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OwlFancier posted:I regret to inform you that you were already euthanized and this is hell, and you are posting through it. The more you post the more hell points you generate. Hell points can be exchanged for goods and services in the after after life. We regret to inform you that the hell points store is closed until further notice.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Today is my 4th anniversary of being a paid up member of SA and UKMT (I lurked a while before that). Eyy happy anniversary. e: oh god 15 years very soon
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Apr 18, 2022 02:15
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They should do the American thing and just drive a lawnmower or other not-a-car that you can drive without a license. Whatever this is https://www.google.com/maps/@-30.9327342,-55.5473433,3a,19.3y,144.7h,77.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sz54q011W-gbYv7U4dAH38w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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big scary monsters posted:Maybe our resident Finn can weigh in, but I was unreliably informed that scooters and wood-gas cars (suposedly by some legislative oversight not requiring a license) are the vehicles of choice for drunk rural Finns getting back home after a long night trying to drown their sorrows. It sounds to me too good to be true and I suspect they just drunk-drive like other backwoods tipplers the world over, but I do repeat it as fact at every opportunity. And it is true that I once overtook a guy hunched behind the tiny windshield of his scooter, weaving back and forth on the ice with one foot down for balance, late at night on a road somewhere in deepest, darkest Lapland. Not been true for a very long time. People born before 1985 can still drive a moped if their license was taken away for driving drunk though. endlessmonotony fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Apr 18, 2022 |
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Mebh posted:Hey, I'm incredibly oblivious to many things so I need the obvious pointing out a lot. Yo this ink owns 
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Apr 18, 2022 06:04
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That is a rad tattoo
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Unkempt posted:Whatever this is It appears to come with both a fridge and a toilet so is in fact the perfect drink-driving vehicle.
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Apr 18, 2022 07:19
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Mebh posted:I asked the partner about a motorbike and she called them organ donation machines. I love my scooter tho =( Motorbikes are fine. You just need to be aware of what's going on around you.
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Angrymog posted:Motorbikes are fine. You just need to be aware of what's going on around you. The problem is that so does every other bugger on the road and that, to me at least, seems like a tall order. I want everyone to be safe, which is why there should be separate, but still fast, areas for bicycles and cars to go and motorbikes deserve more protective elements. Like a big cage that springs out, or a forcefield.
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Apr 18, 2022 09:18
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re: VSPs - there's a story I read about a guy in France who disguised a smart car as a VSP by swopping badges and panels. Evetually go caught by the gendarmes when they clocked him going way too fast. Having driven my parents Smart in France a bit, I did get the impression that people often think they're VSPs even without them having been disguised.
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Mega Comrade posted:Is so little it might as well not exist though Clearly the effects of danelaw. Denmark is the one Nordic country that has the least roaming freedom, thanks to powerful farmers. GeoWizard's Straight line across Wales videos are just bonkers, like who cares if some trekker walks through an empty pasture? (Now when he goes through people's yards...)
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Apr 18, 2022 10:04
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Mebh posted:Hey, I'm incredibly oblivious to many things so I need the obvious pointing out a lot. Holy poo poo, those colours. That's awesome. As for those little French 'I've been banned' cars, they horrify me. You know that feeling where you see someone about to get kicked in the balls? That's how I felt every time I saw one of them. Most of the time, they were ignoring basic traffic rules/lights/other people. Like a slow rolling accident generator.
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Apr 18, 2022 10:06
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No one did this, so I had to. Nice tat, Mebh.
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Dead Goon posted:No one did this, so I had to. Don't hammer hens, even if they're Tories.
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Apr 18, 2022 10:23
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It took me an embarrassingly long time to see the cat in that tattoo
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Apr 18, 2022 10:33
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Mebh posted:
Late to the party but this is an amazing tattoo. Love the colours in it, wow! Very cool
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Apr 18, 2022 10:34
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OwlFancier posted:I regret to inform you that you were already euthanized and this is hell, and you are posting through it. 
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https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/1515971212853268480
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Apr 18, 2022 11:40
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fuckin 'lethal aid' man
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quote:We were first country to administer a vaccine - first to offer lethal aid to Ukraine. 
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What is the phrase 'lethal aid' even supposed to be... for? It's a pretty lovely euphemism, it's straight-up calling it lethal! Or is it just that things like jeeps aren't technically weapons?
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Apr 18, 2022 11:57
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Things like anti-armor and anti-air missiles where the covering idea is that the wouldn't need to be used as weapons if someone hadn't decided to bring a bunch of tanks or aircraft. Different to sending a bunch of IRBMs to potentially mess with things the other side of the border. Also different to sending tanks and planes because of reasons. (Maintenance and technology reasons but also the political optics.)
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:What is the phrase 'lethal aid' even supposed to be... for? It's a pretty lovely euphemism, it's straight-up calling it lethal! Or is it just that things like jeeps aren't technically weapons? I *think* it originally came about because of previous confusion between "material support", which is basically any aid that isn't food or money, and the military term "materiel" which refers to everything from jeep tyres to nuclear weapons, and the distinction is obviously important diplomatically and legally. Lethal aid does - or at least can - include vehicles but normally it's just things that go bang and things that make those things go bang but *doesn't* include "advisors" and "trainers". I first heard the term around the withdrawal from Afghanistan - I assume like many of these things it was just wonk shorthand on internal documents that Very Big Brains latched onto because it sounds so cool.
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Mebh posted:
Try this stuff if you can find it https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/309199585
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Apr 18, 2022 12:14
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Isn't garlic sauce just mayo made with (some) garlic oil?
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:What is the phrase 'lethal aid' even supposed to be... for? It's a pretty lovely euphemism, it's straight-up calling it lethal! Or is it just that things like jeeps aren't technically weapons? Sorta sounds like euthanasia to me
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Isn't garlic sauce just mayo made with (some) garlic oil? and usually some lemon juice, maybe some pepper. But yeah many recipes are pretty much that.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:but *doesn't* include "advisors" and "trainers". So that tends to mean things bigger than you can just buy from a pharmacy in Montana but smaller than what would need a foreign support crew or might end up a thousand miles across a border, so single use pointybangs and some kinds of drones. Also huge drawn out arguments over Polish MiGs.
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Saw this in Richmond and immediately thought "if it sucks hit da bricks" and realised I'm perhaps a bit too online
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JUST WALK OUT also very good advice to the warehouse employees
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Saw this in Richmond and immediately thought "if it sucks hit da bricks" and realised I'm perhaps a bit too online It is very good that that phrase floats near the top of your consciousness. It's good to remember. It's good advice
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I used one of those places once and it's definitely a novel experience but gently caress me it's both stupidly expensive and has an incredibly limited selection (in particular basically only one thing of each type), presumably because otherwise the
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goddamnedtwisto posted:basically only one thing of each type
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