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happyhippy posted:Fun fact, the sun is actually farther away right now than it is during winter.  e: 295 years ago, on August 13th 1727, the Moravian Church community at Herrnhut undergoes a Pentecostalist experience involving an orange. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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If Liz promises to lock up the sun so it can no longer terrorise hard-working honest British folk then I'm on the truss bus
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Aug 13, 2022 15:36
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Margaret Hodge sowing / Margaret Hodge reaping
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Aug 13, 2022 15:39
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Had an outdoors fire near us an hour or so ago. Couldn't see exactly where it was - neighbours were suggesting a back garden, possibly verging on some [retired] playing fields just behind the block. Fire crew came and dealt with it relatively quickly. The playing fields in particular are a concern. They haven't been used in at least a decade and when I had a quick walk down the surrounding alleys, the grass/weeds are shoulder high behind the metal railings and as dry as you'd expect. Won't take much for that to all go up and then you'll need a lot more than one fire engine and two hoses to deal with it.
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Aug 13, 2022 16:23
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I am suffering today. I had my windows open all night but my place is roasting today. I think the overall air temps just aren't going down enough. Got a proper headache. 
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Aug 13, 2022 16:31
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OwlFancier posted:Never tried, is it expensive? I hoped it would generally be cheaper than lamb and I like the gameyness of lamb so I figured that would be more pronounced in mutton. You're paying a little more for the 'halal' part probably but yeah it's not terribly expensive, and v good in curries. Finding a fatty bit is generally not a problem 
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Aug 13, 2022 16:33
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Jippa posted:I am suffering today. I had my windows open all night but my place is roasting today. I think the overall air temps just aren't going down enough. Got a proper headache. Same. The only windows I have that are safe to leave open are small toplights and the place is practically the same temp as when I went to bed. Had some good results sticking a big fan in one of the larger windows while I was still up last night though, just wish I could leave it going overnight
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Aug 13, 2022 16:49
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Whimsicalfuckery posted:Absolutely stunning to see my wee home town get the recognition it deserves, for all the right reasons. Wait wait wait, there's a Nairn goon now? My mind is blown.
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Aug 13, 2022 16:51
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Jippa posted:I am suffering today. I had my windows open all night but my place is roasting today. I think the overall air temps just aren't going down enough. Got a proper headache. Time for you to take a shower... or several, throughout the day and definitely one before bed.
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Aug 13, 2022 17:06
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Just Another Lurker posted:Time for you to take a shower... or several, throughout the day and definitely one before bed. Unless you live in a place with a drought warning, in which case please don't waste water & consider only showering every second day (actual advice I've read lol)
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Aug 13, 2022 17:11
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Drink lots and lots of water! Headaches from heat are usually a big with of dehydration. Drink like 4 litres of water. (I think this is a US gallon but not sure of conversion so if I'm telling you to drink a swimming pool I don't mean that!)
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Aug 13, 2022 17:13
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A litre of water's a pint and three quarters
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Drink lots and lots of water! Headaches from heat are usually a big with of dehydration. Careful though, careful especially if you're not eating very much. It is very possible to drink too much water in one go. Pace yourselves.
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Aug 13, 2022 17:18
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4l of water is too much unless you're out in the desert mid summer. Look up hyponatremia ( phone posting so sorry no link) Too much water can wash salt out of your body.
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Aug 13, 2022 17:20
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:4l of water is too much unless you're out in the desert mid summer. Look up hyponatremia ( phone posting so sorry no link) Yeah, this. Hyponatremia is what actually killed Leah Betts, for olds like me who remember when the media tried to tell us it was the ecstasy she took. She drank 7L in 90 minutes. Admittedly MDMA makes it harder to excrete water and did not help but that's still way too much water to be safe.
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Aug 13, 2022 17:25
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A wet towel or something over your head will generally help i find, or just run your head under the tap for a bit if you have a lot of hair. Either way the water will evaporate off your head and take heat with it.
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Aug 13, 2022 17:28
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Not to mention that poor lady who died doing that radio show's "hold your wee for a Wii" contest.
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Aug 13, 2022 17:28
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MeinPanzer posted:In vague sauce chat, can anyone explain to me why so many chippies in this country will offer you a nice big piece of fish but give you the tiniest thimbleful of tartar sauce to go with it, and usually charge you like 3 quid extra for the privilege? They treat it like truffle oil or something, some precious luxury that should be applied to your meal one delicate drop at a time. bring your own in with you imo
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Aug 13, 2022 17:35
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:4l of water is too much unless you're out in the desert mid summer. Look up hyponatremia ( phone posting so sorry no link) Every other pint tastes like (metaphorical) piss but it's better than life threatening brain injuries.
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HopperUK posted:Yeah, this. Hyponatremia is what actually killed Leah Betts, for olds like me who remember when the media tried to tell us it was the ecstasy she took. She drank 7L in 90 minutes. Admittedly MDMA makes it harder to excrete water and did not help but that's still way too much water to be safe. I remember watching the video about her death in PSHE and the teacher wearily turning round, asking the question "So what did you learn from this?" and being met with a class full of 13 year olds saying "Don't drink 7 litres of water in one go, lol"
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happyhippy posted:Been in Cork for 15 years here, and its still an alien language. i find it p easy to tune into accents. i work at the OU with an older man from Cork and i can understand him fine but it surprises me how often people from the other side of the irish sea don't pick up what he's saying
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Aug 13, 2022 17:46
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even in glasgow it only takes me 20 mins or so to tune back into the accent
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I've been wearing a wet baseball cap for a couple of days now and sitting next to a fan. It's not bad until you have to move
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forkboy84 posted:Wait wait wait, there's a Nairn goon now? My mind is blown. I stay in inverness now but yeah! To contribute, looks like the heat has broken here, hopefully get a couple of rumbles of thunder heading south soon.
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Aug 13, 2022 18:19
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If it could hold off until monday that would be nice as I have a day out tomorrow.
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Mega Comrade posted:I've got to say my personal experience is opposite to yours . Oh, I didn't recommend a HP printer. And HP's Intel side is fine for drivers, AMD... not so much. Now, anyway, back in the day the networking bits were more than a little difficult. And I get hives when I even think about installing Linux on something using Broadcom wireless. ThinkPads meanwhile have fallen off a cliff as far as build quality goes.
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Aug 13, 2022 18:33
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has liz given any examples of the anti-semitism in the civil service or are we just at the point where we call things we want to destroy anti-semitic
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As someone who grew up in the Shneck it perturbs me how many goons seems to be in and around it
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crispix posted:has liz given any examples of the anti-semitism in the civil service or are we just at the point where we call things we want to destroy anti-semitic
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kingturnip posted:I remember watching the video about her death in PSHE and the teacher wearily turning round, asking the question "So what did you learn from this?" and being met with a class full of 13 year olds saying "Don't drink 7 litres of water in one go, lol"
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Dabir posted:Not to mention that poor lady who died doing that radio show's "hold your wee for a Wii" contest. She died because she was drinking distilled water, which rapidly upset her electrolyte balance, leading to fatal water retention which caused her brain to swell and send her into a coma, along with multiple organ failure. She'd likely have lived drinking plain water out of the tap.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Dorset is on fire atm Almost hosed with my ferry ride home this Driving from the south coast to Lancashire, it's really clear just how parched most of the country is. We didn't see any green fields before Blackburn, admittedly not getting the best views from the motorways.
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Guavanaut posted:This is exactly what David Graeber warned us about. Getting uncomfortably close to "[Karl] Lueger's anti-Semitism was of a homespun, flexible variety—one might almost say gemütlich. Asked to explain the fact that many of his friends were Jews, Lueger famously replied, 'I decide who is a Jew.'" I'm sad I didn't know who he was until he died. Now I'm going to re-read "Debt" in light of the things I've picked up about money while learning how stupid cryptocurrency is. Especially in light of the current situation, I think actually understanding how money works is more important than ever - if only to explain to loved ones why Ann Widdecombe is wrong --- Unrelated, some medium-good news https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/13/sarah-everard-met-forced-to-halt-absurd-convictions-over-vigil WTF is this though? quote:The six were accused of breaking Covid lockdown rules by attending the vigil. Some were previously convicted behind closed doors under the Single Justice Procedure (SJP), including Al-Obeid, who had been unaware she had received a criminal record until contacted by media.
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life atm sort of feels like the bit near the end of a civ game when your grassland starts turning into desert and you get pollution tiles and your big cities start to starve
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Aug 13, 2022 20:11
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and you just want it to be BC again when you were having fun harassing your neighbours with your one elephant you got as a prize from a village and looking forward to getting a chair to sit on in your throne room instead of a pile of rocks
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Aug 13, 2022 20:13
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crispix posted:and you just want it to be BC again when you were having fun harassing your neighbours with your one elephant you got as a prize from a village and looking forward to getting a chair to sit on in your throne room instead of a pile of rocks Man, the Civ II throne room was a great mechanic. I used to keep the fancy leaves behind my throne for as long as possible. The penultimate throne looked better than the final one too I think.
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I always feel like the operative question in civ is "ok now what" like you launch the rocket, sell everyone your blue jeans and burgers, convert everyone to the church of dank memes, or conquer the world. And then the game ends, and tells you you won. What it should do is like the end of soma, the victory happens to someone else, you're just... there. And the world is on fire, and radioactive. E: actually soma is good because it is basically what if someone made a game out of a guy who cannot even comprehend how wrong he is.
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I liked Civ Rev and am bad at normal Civ, I think this tells you all you need to know about me.
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I don’t want to alarm anyone but it appears Kieth may have actually released a policy https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/13/keir-starmer-demands-ban-on-raising-energy-prices?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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