UKMT Summer 2022 - The Pipes, The Pipes Are Empty

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Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Just did some quick maffs, pretty sure I calculated something wrong but I am tired of these bellends.

https://twitter.com/rantingauthor/status/1536457649188904969?t=v2oZUZ574LPmUvUuATFV4A&s=19

# ? Jun 13, 2022 22:19

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# ? May 24, 2024 11:51

sinky: Feb 22, 2011; Slippery Tilde

Millennials struggling to buy a home have some advice for baby boomers: loving die already so we can buy your house before it gets even more expensive.

# ? Jun 13, 2022 22:28

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/killianbyrne/status/1536398417659846656

Irish tea sock :allears:

She's going to be our next PM after Boris. Just let that sink in for a bit.

# ? Jun 13, 2022 22:32

Angrymog: Jan 30, 2012; Really Madcats

crispix posted:

cadbury's marble and fuse bar, both contributed significantly to my teenage obesity

The Fuse bar was great. I think that Cadbury's still make it in India?

# ? Jun 13, 2022 22:40

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

fuctifino posted:

Irish tea sock

Does it go in the fridge or the cupboard?

# ? Jun 13, 2022 22:40

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

As with all boomer advice it is bad and offered primarily for the benefit of the person giving it.

# ? Jun 13, 2022 22:45

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

Tarnop posted:

That sounds bad, I'm sorry. What's next, they sending you for scans?

It's a common symptom of alcoholism. Fuckers wouldn't give me sleeping pills for over a decade so if they complain I'm complaining back.

# ? Jun 13, 2022 22:53

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
_{(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)}

Hello, dear

i always think liz truss is like a little podling

# ? Jun 13, 2022 23:48

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

Everyone itt is a good bunch of lasses and lads and it'll all come out right in the end

And if it doesn't well it ended so it's fine anyway

And if doesn't end well there was no way for it to all come out anything so its also fine

# ? Jun 14, 2022 00:02

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

DesperateDan posted:

there used to be other competitors in the chocolate containing biscuit and raisins market too, cadburys had one and there was another one too I'm sure

just had a sudden uncomfortable flashback to that 90s ad with the sexy dancing fruit and nut bar

# ? Jun 14, 2022 00:22

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

I aim to force some sort of existence after I die purely so I can find the person responsible for things generally and make them unhappy about it.

Which will be very easy because I will also be unhappy about it.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 00:24

Comrade Fakename: Feb 13, 2012

The thing about the Yorkie bar �not for girls� visual is that it misses the context that at the time all other chocolate was relentlessly marketed to women. Yorkie were exploiting the gap in the market that men actually did like chocolate.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 00:24

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

OwlFancier posted:

I aim to force some sort of existence after I die purely so I can find the person responsible for things generally and make them unhappy about it.

Which will be very easy because I will also be unhappy about it.

I hope nobody spoils the somewhat obvious twist at the end

# ? Jun 14, 2022 00:29

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

I'm finally venturing out experiencing society for the first time since Feb 2020, which is weird and also nice,

Going out allows me to now do things like take my bong to Wetherspoons, which is something I've been wanting to do for over a year.

https://twitter.com/stuwyatt/status/1536317229687504896

# ? Jun 14, 2022 00:47

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Comrade Fakename posted:

The thing about the Yorkie bar �not for girls� visual is that it misses the context that at the time all other chocolate was relentlessly marketed to women. Yorkie were exploiting the gap in the market that men actually did like chocolate.

They could have targeted men without all the 'ladies can't handle this' bollocks.

But that was the actual point though to be controversal and tasteless and get people talikng about their chocolate bars. i don't think that men weren't buying chocolate because the ads had women in them. There wasn't really any gendered branding on the actual chocolate.

Maybe its just me but watching office ladies appear in malteasers adverts didn't make me think 'girl thing' when i saw a pack on the shelf at the newsagents. I can't imagine a man deciding to buy a diet pepsi instead of a diet coke because the coke ad made them feel emasculated.

Thats some richard hammond ice cream level of male fagility.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:26

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

fuctifino posted:

I'm finally venturing out experiencing society for the first time since Feb 2020, which is weird and also nice,

Going out allows me to now do things like take my bong to Wetherspoons, which is something I've been wanting to do for over a year.

https://twitter.com/stuwyatt/status/1536317229687504896

Is this a thing in Britain?? As in legally? I ask as an American Californian smoking in a restaraunt or even a sit-down area like this is a big no no.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:28

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

fuctifino is one of the few people with a medical exemption and takes a slightly perverse but understandable enjoyment in showing it off :v:

I would imagine they probably could tell you not to but may be cowed if you kick up enough of a fuss about it being prescription.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:30

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

It's literal prescribed medicine, and I'm aware of my protections and the pub's obligations under the Equalities Act 2010, and that discrimination is a crime. I was vaping (not smoking) in the beer garden where people are allowed to openly smoke cigarettes and vape e-cigs. The worst they could do is to ask me to vape elsewhere in private on the premises, but they would have to provide such a place.

:420:

# ? Jun 14, 2022 01:44

NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

you also need to buy a drink, they could legit kick you out for not doing that

sorry didnt see its a wetherspoons, not a real pub, so who cares. I'll buy you a drink and peas

# ? Jun 14, 2022 02:01

NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Tesseraction posted:

It's a common symptom of alcoholism. Fuckers wouldn't give me sleeping pills for over a decade so if they complain I'm complaining back.

oh the reply I intended to make, it looks like 50 times is bad? so like 5 times doesnt sound that bad? But also dont take that as reason to continue on this journey.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 02:04

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

I'm sure you'd have to patronize the business. That's pretty cool I'd love to be able to just rip a loving dab right before getting whatever pub food I've chosen instead of having to do it in my cab like a Tory

# ? Jun 14, 2022 02:08

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/13/civil-servants-go-home-paddington-revolt-rwanda-deportation

quote:

We are the civil servants who put up �Go home Paddington� notices in revolt
Secret Home Office staffer
The Rwanda deportation plan has pushed us over the edge. So we are resisting, and invite our colleagues to stand up for their principles

ike many civil servants, I joined because of the principles. We work here because we want to serve the public, to make vital services work well, and to help people. I work with dedicated, skilled and compassionate people. We understand that we aren�t the politicians; we just want to get on and make things work for the public.

But at the Home Office, it is unavoidably clear that the things we are now ordered to put into place � from borders to policing to immigration enforcement � are doing real harm to many people. As the report on the historical roots of the Windrush scandal showed, the Home Office has a long and ugly history of structural racism, with UK immigration policy shaped for decades to try to minimise the number of black and minority ethnic people in this country.

So it is little surprise that the barbaric Rwanda transportation plan � to forcibly fly people who have escaped trauma and horror to another continent � is presented to us by senior fellow civil servants as �humanitarian�. The laughably absurd idea that it has anything to do with preventing people smugglers is repeated with a straight face.

etc

# ? Jun 14, 2022 02:14

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

This is hilarious: (link to PDF called 'Benefits of Brexit') with forward by DePfeffel The Idiot. (Published in Jan 2022)

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1054643/benefits-of-brexit.pdf

This page is of note:

quote:

Our Achievements so far

Taking Back Control
The public voted to take back control. This Government has delivered it.

Our objective has been to restore the UK�s status as a sovereign, independent country so that we can once again determine our own future. That means changing our rules and regulations to best serve the people�s priorities and returning democratic accountability to our own institutions.

● Ended free movement and taken back control of our borders. In its place we have introduced a points -based immigration system, focused on skilled workers and the best global talent, with skills and salary thresholds and an English -language requirement. The UK has welcomed thousands of workers with the skills the country needs to support our domestic labour market as we build back better from the Covid pandemic, from doctors and scientists to butchers and bricklayers.
● Restored democratic control over our lawmaking. We gave the power to make and scrutinise the laws that apply to us back to our Parliament and the devolved Parliaments so that they are now made in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London, not Brussels.
● Restored the UK Supreme Court as the final arbiter of the law that applies in the UK. UK judges, sitting in UK courts, now determine the law of the land in the UK, with judgments issued in English, not French, and accessible to those who speak Welsh.
● Made it tougher for EU criminals to enter the UK. EU nationals sentenced to a year or more in jail will now be refused entry to the UK. Under EU free movement we had to allow some foreign criminals into the country who would otherwise have been stopped and turned away. We have now brought the rule s for EU criminals who are not protected by the Withdrawal Agreement in line with other foreign criminals.
● Ended the acceptance of ID cards for most EU nationals travelling to the UK. Some ID cards are among the least secure documents seen at the border a nd are, as a rule, not as secure as corresponding national passports. We have already seen a dramatic drop in encounters of fraudulent ID cards at the border.
● Taken back control of our waters. The deal we struck with the EU and our new Fisheries Act allow us to chart a course once again as an independent coastal...

I've only skimmed a few pages as I only just came across it and I have to be up again in 3.5 hours. But FFS it's just rainbow unicorns gambling in green fields watching cricket on the village green while quaffing warm beer.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 02:21

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Ah yes they've restored democracy to England. Long live the queen.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 02:28

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

The knives are definitely out for Keith.

https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1536474665056608256/

"Stop boring everyone to death, shadow cabinet tells Starmer"

This is on top of that 'dull and boring' word chart thing that went viral earlier.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 03:11

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

It's very hard to write das kapital when your name is Keith snorer

# ? Jun 14, 2022 03:13

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

I wonder what book he got paid �400 odd quid royalties for.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 03:14

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Everything's fine.

https://twitter.com/SocialistWest/status/1536391600552693761?t=KdDvwWvz9CQfMJCN-7xQSw&s=19

# ? Jun 14, 2022 03:42

Grey Hunter: Oct 17, 2007; Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Everything's fine.

https://twitter.com/SocialistWest/status/1536391600552693761?t=KdDvwWvz9CQfMJCN-7xQSw&s=19

Dont! Look! Up!

# ? Jun 14, 2022 04:35

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

OwlFancier posted:

I wonder what book he got paid �400 odd quid royalties for.

Was he selling 10 a penny?

# ? Jun 14, 2022 04:52

Nonsense: Jan 26, 2007

England should annex Ireland.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 05:42

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Nonsense posted:

England should annex Ireland.

If England can't handle six counties how well do you think the full thirtytwo will work? :confused:

# ? Jun 14, 2022 06:08

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Everything's fine.

https://twitter.com/SocialistWest/status/1536391600552693761?t=KdDvwWvz9CQfMJCN-7xQSw&s=19

bloody optimists

# ? Jun 14, 2022 07:05

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

Grey Hunter posted:

Dont! Look! Up!

THEY want you to look up so THEY can look down their noses at you

# ? Jun 14, 2022 07:29

domhal: Dec 30, 2008; 0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Just did some quick maffs, pretty sure I calculated something wrong but I am tired of these bellends.

Unfortunately these are the sorts of bellends that either believe this is good advice or find that these articles generate a lot more impressions and engagement than actual news, and they won't care about reality.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 07:48

Jippa: Feb 13, 2009

I think everything is on a bit of a lag down where I live vs what I read in the thread. I definitely now feel odd and in the minority wearing a mask (in shops etc). All the protective screens for the cashiers have been removed.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 08:27

stev: Jan 22, 2013; Please be excited.

In London at least masks are basically gone. You'll get maybe one in ten people wearing them on the tube if it's busy. They're barely even worn in medical settings anymore.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 08:29

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

We all still have to remove our shoes at the airport because of one guy who failed to bomb a flight over 20 years ago, but cloth masks in packed public transport is an imposition too far.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 08:39

Niric: Jul 23, 2008

Mr Phillby posted:

I can't imagine a man deciding to buy a diet pepsi instead of a diet coke because the coke ad made them feel emasculated.

Pepsi Max/coke zero seem like fairly obvious instances of this phenomenon in reality. I really don't think it's a controversial point that advertising is massively, massively gendered and that this has a big impact on consumption.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/08/gender-contamination-when-women-buy-a-product-men-flee.html posted:

men, apparently, don’t want to buy stuff strongly associated with women. This resistance has led to ads like one launched recently for Dr Pepper Ten, a diet soda that attempts to address the fact that male consumers think “diet’s kinda girly,” as one of Dr Pepper’s execs put it to me.

More broadly, the seeming thread general opinion that Yorkie marketing was uniquely terrible and more gendered than others is a pretty bad take imo.

# ? Jun 14, 2022 08:40

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# ? May 24, 2024 11:51

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Yorkie was just the opening salvo in the barrage of poo poo that led to

# ? Jun 14, 2022 08:42

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