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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I thought you lived in London actually. Didn't you work at a big museum there? I did. Moved up north to be with the love of my life. And to try and own a house ofc. It's not going badly atm, got a car, trying to get more work, that sort of thing! It's why I've not been posting as much.
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peanut- posted:Your mortgage application will still be instantly rejected if you disclose that any of the money you're buying the house with was earned in crypto. The banks are inconsistent at best about how they treat proceeds. Hahaha can you blame them? "I made my deposit money by betting on a ponzi scheme. Sure you can trust me with hundreds of thousands more"
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jiggerypokery posted:Hahaha can you blame them? You might not get a mortgage but you'd get a job there
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the sex ghost posted:
lol that two candidates came out with hilariously ill fitting graphics https://twitter.com/PeteFranklin/status/1546535311538282496
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fuctifino posted:My public vaping stunts
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stev posted:Shame he didn't go with A New Start. He wouldn't get through the probationary period.
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Bacon Terrorist posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/12/mps-approve-controversial-plans-to-let-agency-workers-cover-for-striking-staff quote:Though agency workers can now replace strikers, questions remain over the numbers of spare teachers, nurses and train drivers who can step in as replacements. lmao ah yes, one oval office offering to scab, that'll solve the strike
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Z the IVth posted:Very slowly and with great difficulty. I'm sure if you have a fancy accountant you can offset those gains over the next 300 years or negate it by turning it into a shipping container full of art before turning in your spreadsheet; in the same way that I'm sure the average person losing 500k does not have access to those rules. Every time I think of finance guys talking about 'democratising investment,' the problem is that traditional investment is funny because the con is usually extracting wealth from people rich and dumb enough they don't notice (or use weird tax schemes to write it off), whereas as Imagineer pointed out, crypto is fleecing your average desperate working man just trying to escape the rat race. A lot of crypto bros were going on about how the superbowl ad was the beginning of the end and anyone 'sensible' cashed out before that, while still contributing to the public facing effort of telling the public to buy into a scam they knew was doomed (they'd have to, to cash out properly). Which then encourages the next generation of investors to be even more agressively scamstatic, since that's what they saw happen when they were onboarded, except they also know that conditions are tighter now. Even people like Lord Sugar who claims to have made his money selling Amsteads out of the back of a van - he's not smart, he just knew where he could find people he'd be able to sell the machines to and outsmart them into selling the machines with a large enough margin. Every single prick who found a way to get rich under capitalism did so by finding someone they could convince to part with their money. And like I say, when that's rich kids who can take the loss because it's less than their weekly coke budget, it's always morrally correct. When it's desperate people remortaging their house because reddit is telling them to buy the dip, it's substantially less funny.
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Tesseraction posted:lmao ah yes, one oval office offering to scab, that'll solve the strike Do not let Tory MPs in to a class full of children
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fuctifino posted:Just over a week ago, I noticed a promotional email from my cannabis clinic, and at the end it mentioned a competition where they were asking patients to upload videos of their experiences with the clinic to help break the stigma of cannabis use. My public vaping stunts, including the recently adopted open vaping in the pub beer garden, have been all about breaking the stigma, so it seemed right up my alley. I quickly pieced together a rambling video and managed to submit it before the deadline. It didn't really fit the competition brief, but brushed upon it. Congrats on winning. But I've got to say I'm not sure taking bongs and other large glass vaping devices out in public is the best way to fix the stigma. It makes it come across as something you're doing for fun rather than for medicinal purposes. If you're doing it more for getting rid the stigma of cannabis for recreational use I still think it's not the best way. Kinda of like the image differences between someone sitting on a park bench sipping with a can of cider compared to sipping from a bottle of vodka. It has different conatasions.
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peanut- posted:Your mortgage application will still be instantly rejected if you disclose that any of the money you're buying the house with was earned in crypto. The banks are inconsistent at best about how they treat proceeds. Mega Comrade posted:Congrats on winning. But I've got to say I'm not sure taking bongs and other large glass vaping devices out in public is the best way to fix the stigma. It makes it come across as something you're doing for fun rather than for medicinal purposes. If you're doing it more for getting rid the stigma of cannabis for recreational use I still think it's not the best way. TACD fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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Mega Comrade posted:Kinda of like the image differences between someone sitting on a park bench sipping with a can of cider compared to sipping from a bottle of vodka. It has different conatasions. 
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Mega Comrade posted:Congrats on winning. But I've got to say I'm not sure taking bongs and other large glass vaping devices out in public is the best way to fix the stigma. It makes it come across as something you're doing for fun rather than for medicinal purposes. If you're doing it more for getting rid the stigma of cannabis for recreational use I still think it's not the best way. It's all about the associations though isn't it. Imagine a man ripping a bong in a pub, but he's wearing a suit and is on the phone to his mum talking about what she's doing on her birthday. The connotations come from things that are not the delivery method
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:It's all about the associations though isn't it. Imagine a man ripping a bong in a pub, but he's wearing a suit and is on the phone to his mum talking about what she's doing on her birthday. If its something formal like a captain Tom memorial bong yea. If its a big gently caress off glowing green alien bong maybe not.
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Mega Comrade posted:Congrats on winning. But I've got to say I'm not sure taking bongs and other large glass vaping devices out in public is the best way to fix the stigma. It makes it come across as something you're doing for fun rather than for medicinal purposes. If you're doing it more for getting rid the stigma of cannabis for recreational use I still think it's not the best way. There's also the stigma against smoking in general which is actually very good and needs to be reinforced constantly.
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TACD posted:I think you’re rather proving his point here But if the goal is to normalise medical and recreational use you want to separate it from 'stoner culture' as much as possible. Getting people to be ok with ripping on a bong in the park is gonna be way way harder than doing the same with a vape pen.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Heat chat: I remember the tar on the road melted, that was a new one to 8yr old me. 
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Happy twelfth of July to all the Irish goons, top of the morning to you and tiocfaidh ár lá 
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I smoke weed all the time in public - I hate to do it but my levels of solidarity with fuctifino are so through the roof I barely leave the house for recreational reasons without lighting a fatty
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Mega Comrade posted:Congrats on winning. But I've got to say I'm not sure taking bongs and other large glass vaping devices out in public is the best way to fix the stigma. I'm in an electric wheelchair, in possession of a legal prescription from a private pain clinic, and I'm using the medicine in a way that has been discussed with and agreed upon with both the specialist and pharmacy. I often use ice cooling due to covid scarring on the lungs. I took the big ice bong out that one time to break my own PTSD from prior arrests etc, and it worked. I now only take the mini globe bubbler out with me. quote:Kinda of like the image differences between someone sitting on a park bench sipping with a can of cider compared to sipping from a bottle of vodka. It has different conatasions. And this comment highlights the stigma associated with cannabis use, and the stigma that I'm trying to break. Thanks. This is why I do what I do  Hint: People aren't normally prescribed cans of cider or bottles of vodka by licensed medical specialists Z the IVth posted:There's also the stigma against smoking in general which is actually very good and needs to be reinforced constantly. Just for the record, I don't smoke. I always vape. fuctifino fucked around with this message at 12:28 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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StarkingBarfish posted:If its something formal like a captain Tom memorial bong yea. If its a big gently caress off glowing green alien bong maybe not. Exactly! The fact it's a bong doesn't matter, it's the appearances. Relatedly, my wife and I went to Amsterdam a couple weeks ago and it was incredibly disappointing how every coffeeshop (i.e. cannabis dispensary) adopted this certain aesthetic: dark, grungy, green lighting, street art, general "hehehe weed" vibe. In portland, the vibe of weed dispensaries was more like an opticians. Clean, white, professional. It was a way better experience and definitely goes a long way to making cannabis seem more acceptable to the pearl clutching middle classes. Good luck finding that kinda place in Amsterdam though. If weed becomes legal here, I really hope the industry follows in Portland's style. Cannabis has an image problem and even if you think that shouldn't matter, it does.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Even people like Lord Sugar who claims to have made his money selling Amsteads out of the back of a van - he's not smart, he just knew where he could find people he'd be able to sell the machines to and outsmart them into selling the machines with a large enough margin. Every single prick who found a way to get rich under capitalism did so by finding someone they could convince to part with their money. This is broadly correct, but if you gave Alan Sugar your money, you at least got an Amstrad out of it. Crypto isn't a lovely scam because it's convincing people to part with their money, it's a lovely scam because it's not actually selling anything.
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keep punching joe posted:Happy twelfth of July to all the Irish goons, top of the morning to you and tiocfaidh ár lá Congrats on pissing off BOTH sides at once. lol  It's muggy with grey skies here in Northern Ireland, didn't hear a single Lambeg Drum last night and the local bonfire has been forbidden for some reason (probably fed up with them burning the trees, grass and the main road every year and it's a Loyalist council to boot). Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 11:29 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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Didn't someone die recently building one of the bonfires? That sounded funny. peanut- posted:Why are Labour pushing for this no confidence vote? Because Labour have the political instincts of a dead fish
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peanut- posted:Why are Labour pushing for this no confidence vote? Because they’re idiots who don’t know what they’re doing. Their current leader is the architect of the 2019 ‘second referendum’ strategy, remember.
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peanut- posted:Why are Labour pushing for this no confidence vote? Its purely for appearance. They know it wont pass.
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Mega Comrade posted:Its purely for appearance. They know it wont pass. Yeah but it's obviously poo poo appearance. No-one is going to think it's unreasonable for the Tories to vote down a GE when they have no leader. If they were going to do this it needed to be on like, the day Sunak and Javid resigned - doing it now just looks like petty games. Also, christ this country is mental https://twitter.com/camillahmturner/status/1546793200978911232
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forkboy84 posted:Do not let Tory MPs in to a class full of children This was the one thing we didn't want to happen
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Really hope one of the more insane candidates makes it to the members vote. The frothing base are not going to pick Sunak over anyone who is explictly promising to enrich the rich, murder the poor and make being trans illegal. Not that any of those things are good, obviously, it's just that PM Truss/Braverman/Patel/Badenoch would be so incompetent and widely hated that it would destroy the Tories for a generation. Hopefully. Probably not. Oh well. Chinese Gordon fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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