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OwlFancier posted:An Irish Divorce sounds like a euphemism for something, answers on a postcard. Is it like irish twins?
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Failed Imagineer posted:A quadruple whiskey I suppose. Okay so funny story. My wife's father was married to a woman. Sadly didn't work out. He meets my wife's mother who they decide they want to get married. Obviously they can't as Ireland has no divorce. So he (an airline pilot) flies to Haiti to get a divorce as they had fairly Liberal divorce laws. As in they let him get a divorce for his Irish marriage there. (And I don't think his wife was present or even aware of the divorce at the time.) But it was a legal divorce that was recognised by America at least as a family friend who was a Judge in the Bronx* was willing to marry my father-in-law and my mother-in-law. Now he didn't get a divorce from the first wife until well in the 2000's. Was he a bigamyst? That's not really for me to say. *= And apparently this was the Bronx back in the dangerous day that all those weirdos who want New York to go back to.
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OwlFancier posted:An Irish Divorce sounds like a euphemism for something, answers on a postcard. The cousin of the shotgun wedding?
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kustomkarkommando posted:The first season takes places in 94 so you know four years before the Omagh bombing if youre getting that pedantic. It's obvious it's meant to be "something like Omagh" that's fictionalized to generally jive with the way the troubles had dipped to become pretty low level in the late 90s with the occasional 'outrage'. The bit that is most like this is when the bus gets stopped by the soldiers in one of the episodes. Like to me it was clearly a 'whoah' moment but the kids don't seem to give a poo poo, it's absolutely normal to them. IIRC James is the only one freaking out.
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May 12, 2022 14:22
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An Irish divorce is the wife serving her husband heart attack food so he dies quicker, surely.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Twitter keeps showing me pics of Charles' fingers. Man's organs are not working right Goatses really let himself go
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May 12, 2022 14:45
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im bad at composting apparently, opened up one of our bins today and saw these creepy pale guys growing there: any gardengoons know what these are? i guess its because im very lazy and don't stir enough
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The bit that is most like this is when the bus gets stopped by the soldiers in one of the episodes. Like to me it was clearly a 'whoah' moment but the kids don't seem to give a poo poo, it's absolutely normal to them. IIRC James is the only one freaking out. Random check points were the norm, it was an unlucky day if they selected to do a full search of your car. If you were lucky they may put back the seats and what not back after. Otherwise just drive off or watch you do it yourself while they flag down the next car. I live in the rear end end of nowhere, been in no troubles, no relatives in them thankfully, but still got a few army rifles pointed in my face over the years. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 15:10 on May 12, 2022 |
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Communist Thoughts posted:im bad at composting apparently, opened up one of our bins today and saw these creepy pale guys growing there: They look a bit like potato sprouts to me. Have you put potato skins, bits of potato in there? They sprout out of the potato eyes.  Do NOT eat sprouting potatoes. Source: Me grateful for loo and sink being very close together in my flat in London. I was VERY poorly and if I had been a small person I may well not be here to this day. And do not say Hurrah else I will find you etc.
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May 12, 2022 15:16
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Yeah those are from spuds I think. Today's "they did surgery on a grape" is apparently "post boxes have a hidden bottom" 
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May 12, 2022 15:20
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Not yet but I've got somewhere between 6 weeks and 3 months left in me before I have a major meltdown and quit my job - Well if you end up burning your place down remember that they typically don't ask about criminal records when joining the rails.
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May 12, 2022 15:20
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah those are from spuds I think. To prevent ram raiding them open I assume.
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May 12, 2022 15:24
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah those are from spuds I think. Sprouting postboxes, very dangerous do not consume
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happyhippy posted:To prevent ram raiding them open I assume.
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happyhippy posted:To prevent ram raiding them open I assume. To prevent stealing them, but close enough.
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That's just the subterranean levels of danger mouse's secret base.
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Guavanaut posted:deep steel rods A sound assumption
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Guavanaut posted:I did wonder why I'd never seen one of them pulled over by a group of lads, and assumed deep steel rods of some sort. But enough about Ms Adequate's weekend plans.
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May 12, 2022 15:44
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I guess it also partially explains why the Irish government weren't arsed removing the Britboxes and just painted them green instead
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https://twitter.com/NewStatesman/status/1524632370049175554?t=reEHUIIpkXF-Ugx8xs8tlw&s=19 Ignore the first two rage inducing suggestions, the thread ends in an interesting place.  nice
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May 12, 2022 15:52
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah those are from spuds I think. How else would they survive the 'ra? 
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sinky posted:How else would they survive the 'ra? Failed Imagineer posted:just paint... them green Survival camouflage
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May 12, 2022 15:59
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Ignore the first two rage inducing suggestions, the thread ends in an interesting place. I was saying this the other day. He was very much shuffled out of the way of brexit to make a triumphant entry once Keir has set the whole party alight. I don't know too much, but what I've seen on TV has been OK, but my friends who live in manchester aren't convinced for some reason.
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May 12, 2022 16:02
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He's just another empty suit blairite
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Barry Foster posted:He's just another empty suit blairite He needs to be selected for and win a by-election before he is even eligible. And he has lost twice already. Can't see it personally.
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Barry Foster posted:He's just another empty suit blairite I don't know about that. I think Burnham is enough of a pragmatist to go for a few policies that appeal to the base, at least.
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May 12, 2022 16:15
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah those are from spuds I think. There is an old victorian urinal in the park at great ayton and it always makes me laugh when I go past because it looks like an extremely fat postbox, which makes me wonder how many people pissed in the postboxes when those were introduced.
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May 12, 2022 16:23
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I wonder why the Liz one is smaller than the George ones. Better quality steel or fabrication? Material shortage/price increases post WWII? Original was massively overdesigned in old British fashion? Queens have to be smaller than kings, say 50s engineers?
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Jedit posted:I don't know about that. I think Burnham is enough of a pragmatist to go for a few policies that appeal to the base, at least. I asked about Burnham ITT back when he was doing his whole 'king of the north' thing and shouting at the government about the COVID response and restrictions because I only remember his as an empty-suit technocrat from the back end of the Blair era...but he seemed to be saying (and trying to do) a lot of fairly decent things. The consensus of the responses was that he's probably much closer to how Starmer portrayed himself - soft left, but with at least something to back up the second word of that, and either pragmatic or unprincipled enough to have at least some good policies to try and woo the voters further out to the left. But the consensus was equally strong that he shouldn't be trusted and needs to actually demonstrate that he either has some lefty principles or is willing to play to those who do.
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It's always surprised me how loving about with postboxes doesn't seem to be a thing in the UK, as most things you leave unsecured outside tend to end up becoming someone's "fair game" in one way or another. A direct open slot with a bunch of stranger's personal and possibly valuable things inside just seems like a perfect target to have matches thrown in, beer poured into it, etc, but I've never heard of it happening.
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Guavanaut posted:Today's "they did surgery on a grape" is apparently "post boxes have a hidden bottom"
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Cookie Cutter posted:It's always surprised me how loving about with postboxes doesn't seem to be a thing in the UK, as most things you leave unsecured outside tend to end up becoming someone's "fair game" in one way or another. A direct open slot with a bunch of stranger's personal and possibly valuable things inside just seems like a perfect target to have matches thrown in, beer poured into it, etc, but I've never heard of it happening. Interfering with the mail is very illegal in ways that other random stuff in the street isn't.
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May 12, 2022 16:39
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Do they have to dig up all the postboxes when the monarch carks it and put new ones in?
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OwlFancier posted:Do they have to dig up all the postboxes when the monarch carks it and put new ones in? No that's why you still see ones from other eras
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Isomermaid posted:No that's why you still see ones from other eras I ask because I genuinely do not recall ever seeing one without ER on it other than in that picture. Not that I spend a lot of time looking, but it's not something I can say I've noticed.
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sinky posted:Interfering with the mail is very illegal in ways that other random stuff in the street isn't. theycan'tdothatit'sillegal.jpeg
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OwlFancier posted:I ask because I genuinely do not recall ever seeing one without ER on it other than in that picture. Not that I spend a lot of time looking, but it's not something I can say I've noticed. Well yeah but apparently you never travel outside of a 5 mile radius of your house so I imagine there's all kinds of stuff you've never seen. Unless my mental goon spreadsheet is misfiring and that's another poster.
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More like 40 miles but yes. We do have things that were built before the war, however. We didn't have a lot of things but I am fairly sure that you could send and receive letters.
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The oldest I've seen recently is an Edward VII box in the side of a corner shop, but yeah there's plenty of random George ones around.
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