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Camrath posted:Used Costco when I was in London, but since moving way out into the country the distance between here and my nearest cash and carry means that in the volume I currently buy in, there’s no benefit to economy. I work from home, so I don’t have (for example) large scale refrigerated storage for the dairy items I use, nor the space to store dry goods beyond a week-on-week basis. May your endeavour be fruitful(fudgefil?) and your taxes low. 
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Aug 26, 2022 13:27
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Lol gently caress me I suddenly had a moment of full-force realisation that it’s going to be up to Liz Truss to do the right thing and properly help people or society might actually collapse this winter, and now I’m feeling a bit dizzy
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Aug 26, 2022 13:32
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Chickens and eggs evolved independently and then became symbiotic.
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Aug 26, 2022 13:37
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Darth Walrus posted:IIRC, his previous work made it clear that he viewed mainstreaming child pornography as his real career anyway. Manchester University was just his latest vehicle. Yeah he previously edited some Swedish magazine that featured 'tasteful' nudes of 13 year old boys and wrote extensively about the eroticism of pedarest relationships, so I'm fairly sure him trying to argue that jerking it to noncy hentai is a valid methodological approach isn't just a catastrophically ill judged bit of academic wankery, for lack of a better term
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Aug 26, 2022 13:59
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TACD posted:Lol gently caress me I suddenly had a moment of full-force realisation that it’s going to be up to Liz Truss to do the right thing and properly help people or society might actually collapse this winter, and now I’m feeling a bit dizzy Kinda reminds me of the sinking dread when it occasionally re-sunk-in that Donald John Trump, failed business magnate and reality TV star, had access to the greatest nuclear arsenal on earth. Four years where reading a tweet in what is to be many peoples' last seconds alive.
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Aug 26, 2022 14:08
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Runcible Cat posted:Yeah, homeowners like me who don't give a poo poo about a fitted kitchen (since mine is like 8' by 8' and I have any number of things I'd rather spend my derisory wages on anyway) are apparently nonexistent these days. I do like that salamander though, but I need a standalone cooker so it's no good.  With the commercial ones there's the risk that they're like £800 because that's the one brand that the restaurant insurance companies (and nobody else on the planet) has heard of and then you're reliant on some tiny family company in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz for your kleineelektrischegrilltoaster ersatzteile, but there's probably going to be a whole bunch on the market for a fiver once the government collapses everyone's cafe and small restaurant because they can't be bothered to do anything.
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Aug 26, 2022 14:11
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Sanford posted:My dad is 72 and remembers a few things being rationed. Sweets, I think? Edit: he doesn’t remember the blitz and is not keen on rationing. My Dad turned 70 this year and when we were going through a bunch of old family photos and papers we found the Ministry of Food ration book for his newborn/baby self, covering sugar, confectionary (that one was scribbled through with a wax pencil) and meat. The Boomers may talk about Blitz Spirit, how great it was to sing songs around the piano by candlelight and how people need to learn to go without central heating and red meat...but they mean they want other people, especially millenials (I.e anyone aged 18-40) to experience it while they don't. We saw that in 2020 - remember that lady on the radio phone in who in the space of two minutes went from Blitz Spirit to saying that death from respiratory failure would be an acceptable risk to going for a walk on the beach because she'd 'had her time'? They're willing to die rather than face consequences or restrictions. Capital-B Boomerism has a lot of the hallmarks of a death cult. Hence their joyous applause when a politician says they're willing to push the nuclear button
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Aug 26, 2022 14:23
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By definition boomers didn't experience world war 2. The baby boom happened because the war finished.
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BalloonFish posted:My Dad turned 70 this year and when we were going through a bunch of old family photos and papers we found the Ministry of Food ration book for his newborn/baby self, covering sugar, confectionary (that one was scribbled through with a wax pencil) and meat. Rationing ended in 1954 so it's not like anyone of that age would remember it being a thing.
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Aug 26, 2022 14:30
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They also hate oat milk for being woke, whereas people in the actual war made oat milk using oats and hot water (and an old shirt) because milk was rationed and oats weren't. Culture warriors dumb as poo poo, GB News at 10.
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Aug 26, 2022 14:30
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Guavanaut posted:You can get salamanders that screw straight onto the wall, that's the more common use case for commercial kitchens. Is that what they call commercial grade for a Salamander these days? I'm +30 years out of the trade though.  
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Aug 26, 2022 14:32
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Nah that's a home one, they're still not cheap for what they are though, like £180 (I've seen them like that in cafes/vans though) The commercial ones that will start getting very cheap when the restaurants go bust are more boxier and stainless steelier.
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Aug 26, 2022 14:36
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As I recall those old enough to fight in WW2 were the "Greatest Generation" and spawned the Baby Boomers, and the people who were alive during the way but too young to take part were the Silent Generation, who then spawned Gen Xers and then Boomers spawned Gen Y aka Millennials.
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Aug 26, 2022 14:36
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Then there's Xoomers, Xennials, and Zoomers, then whoever makes this poo poo up got bored and went with generation Alpha, which is more suitably ominous.
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Aug 26, 2022 14:38
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Guavanaut posted:Nah that's a home one, they're still not cheap for what they are though, like £180 (I've seen them like that in cafes/vans though) The thin metal had me thinking; "that won't last six months in a hotel kitchen". 
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Tesseraction posted:As I recall those old enough to fight in WW2 were the "Greatest Generation" and spawned the Baby Boomers, and the people who were alive during the way but too young to take part were the Silent Generation, who then spawned Gen Xers and then Boomers spawned Gen Y aka Millennials. There's a generation between Boomer and Gen X that everyone forgets and I'm in that generation. Generation Jones. We were young kids in the 60s, through the 70s we had austerity, massive inflation, 'the bins', sky high unemployment, 3-day week, fuel crisis, housing crisis, all pretty much the same as now. Not the hippies, love & peace, etc of those in their teens & 20s in the 60s, nor the high graduate employment and salaries of the late 80s.
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Aug 26, 2022 14:46
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born too late for rationing, born just in time for ratioing
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Born to leaded gasoline, get to twilight in the climate fires.
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Too late for a full dose of leaded petrol, too early for a full dose of microplastics
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Angepain posted:born too late for rationing, born just in time for ratioing I'm not clear on ratioing. I know it's to do with the ratio of comments to retweets or likes on twitter. 
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Born too late for the age of rationality, but just in time for the age of rationing
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm not clear on ratioing. I know it's to do with the ratio of comments to retweets or likes on twitter. Ratioing used to be getting more responses than likes on a post yeah. Some people have now just made it about your post getting more likes/retweets than the person you're replying to.
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There's also the Coward's Ratio, no replies, no retweets, lots of likes.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:There's also the Coward's Ratio, no replies, no retweets, lots of likes. Is that when they block people other than their bezzie mate from replying?
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crispix posted:liz says start a business and make a profit you lazy layabout Conveniently forgetting that nobody can get a loan during a recession, the space will be filled by corporations registered abroad for tax, and nobody can get a mortage or afford to move. Guavanaut posted:but there's probably going to be a whole bunch on the market for a fiver once the government collapses everyone's cafe and small restaurant because they can't be bothered to do anything. If the suppliers are deprioritising our area and things are getting bad, i can honestly see local shops just closing up and having entire areas where there's just no point being there. I know it happened to a bunch of mining communities in Wales back in the 70s and 80s, it'll be interesting to see how any of this turns out.
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Aug 26, 2022 15:24
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Is that when they block people other than their bezzie mate from replying? no, that's when there's no replies and a zillion quote tweets, the coward's ratio is when the people liking something are too cowardly to retweet it to their own followers twitter is a very silly place
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Aug 26, 2022 15:24
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Always nice to see Martin Lewis completely lose it with dipshits failing to grasp the scale of the crisis: https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1563118241483931654?t=oTCpeDEnEDAmTHADl6rh6g&s=19
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Angepain posted:no, that's when there's no replies and a zillion quote tweets, the coward's ratio is when the people liking something are too cowardly to retweet it to their own followers That would be me then. I rarely post a tweet, just comment and like. Mind you I only have about 3 followers and that's the way I like it. I never read replies because I am a Cowardy Custard, sometimes I click on replies that come to email from my comments on Independent or whatever and pleasantly surprised to find people sometimes agree.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Always nice to see Martin Lewis completely lose it with dipshits failing to grasp the scale of the crisis: It's nice to be reminded how contemptible Galaxy O'Brain & the Sensibles are.
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forkboy84 posted:Galaxy O'Brain & the Sensibles 
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brutal https://twitter.com/jackh670/status/1562871466940452865
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Always nice to see Martin Lewis completely lose it with dipshits failing to grasp the scale of the crisis: Its going to be grim. I work for a mid-sized charity (for a condition that is significantly exacerbated by cold, unheated homes) that runs a helpline and provides grants to people struggling financially, so they can stay healthy. We ran a special support fund last winter (ie: pre-Ukraine war) and it was snapped up incredibly fast, so we knew there would be even greater need this time round, but it looks like our and other charities worst predictions were way too optimistic. The money available for support is absolute peanuts compared to the expected flood of demand. A colleague summed it up last week by saying something similar to Lewis - "The best we can do this winter is try and stop as many people from dying as possible."
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Aug 26, 2022 16:28
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Good to see the 'energy bills are a form of poll tax' argument gaining ground. poo poo to see everything else.
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forkboy84 posted:It's nice to be reminded how contemptible Galaxy O'Brain & the Sensibles are. But he didn't even say anything?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Always nice to see Martin Lewis completely lose it with dipshits failing to grasp the scale of the crisis: I'm wonder if this will finally be the thing that tips the scales tbh. If the govt doesn't backpedal and do something about it this is going to bite even the relatively well-off in a very real way - and a good portion of the tory base. There's only so much you can blame on the last labour govt
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There will be children who die over the winter because of the increased bills. Particularly those with long-term conditions or disabilities that leave them vulnerable to illness, but not exclusively. Most children who attend school have a level of protection from just being visible to staff, but children who are home educated (and the number of those has risen since the pandemic) are sometimes completely invisible to universal services, and no-one's done a loving thing to safeguard them in the last 20 years.
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Is this Bunter Brexit Francois? I can’t keep up with all the Tory diddlers and fiddlers https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-mp-arrested-rape-sex-27843322
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Kieth playing dress up Am thinking it might be fake - that long blade of grass in the front looks a bit suss. Nope - it seems to be real: https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/20775010.sir-kier-starmer-visits-army-personnel-salisbury-plain/ Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Aug 26, 2022 |
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Guavanaut posted:Then there's Xoomers, Xennials, and Zoomers, then whoever makes this poo poo up got bored and went with generation Alpha, which is more suitably ominous. Since a generation is 20 years, and there are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet, Generation Alpha implies that the last humans will be born to Generation Omega in the 2480s, with humanity becoming extinct in the 2560s
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