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This one made me laugh. Reminds me of that one of him being completely ignored on a seafront somewhere by two girls doing selfies. Also, note that he is outside the 'impact zone' (marked on the gate). 
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Thanks for reminding me how terrible J. Michael Straczynski's run on Superman was.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:But he didn't even say anything? He basically just let Martin go off on one, supportively. I don’t think it’s very objectionable.
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Aug 26, 2022 17:28
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Enjoy posted: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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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This one made me laugh. are labour's policies kept behind that gate?  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Aug 26, 2022 17:38
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You know what, one upside of the skyrocketing energy prices is that when people have to turn off their heating, we will be one step closer to meeting our climate targets!
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smellmycheese posted:Is this Bunter Brexit Francois? I can’t keep up with all the Tory diddlers and fiddlers The name has been consistently redacted, but I thought it had been reasoned out that it must be Andrew Rosindell.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This one made me laugh. Needs some shops.
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crispix posted:are labour's policies kept behind that gate?
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His superpower appears to be looking awkward and out of place no matter where he is
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Just filled our heating oil tank. £540 for 500 litres. It’s currently going up by £20-30 a day.
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ThomasPaine posted: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 Does anyone know how this situation is affecting EU countries? I assume places like France with nationalised power are just eating the new cost without it affecting people too much. Is that accurate, or are they in trouble too?
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Aug 26, 2022 18:24
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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. Rationing continued for a decade after the end of the war.
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Aug 26, 2022 18:27
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Angepain posted:born too late for rationing, born just in time for ratioing I've had the phrase "ultima ratio regum" stuck in my head for a while with the vague image of louis XIV being described as "ratioing his opponents on the battlefield"
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OwlFancier posted:I've had the phrase "ultima ratio regum" stuck in my head for a while with the vague image of louis XIV being described as "ratioing his opponents on the battlefield" That is kind of like ratioing on Twitter, except there it's one person dying 500 times.
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Aug 26, 2022 18:36
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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 was conscripted in 1943, so actually did remember the war both at home and at the front. He was very keen on rationing and thought it greatly improved the diet of the poor.
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Aug 26, 2022 18:39
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Oh dear me posted:My dad was conscripted in 1943, so actually did remember the war both at home and at the front. He was very keen on rationing and thought it greatly improved the diet of the poor. Supposedly this is true, as red meat, fat, sugar etc were restricted and people were forced to mainly subsist off home grown veg.
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escapegoat posted:Supposedly this is true, as red meat, fat, sugar etc were restricted and people were forced to mainly subsist off home grown veg. The rations also just gave everyone enough to eat, whether or not they had gardens.
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Aug 26, 2022 18:57
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Beefeater1980 posted:He basically just let Martin go off on one, supportively. I don’t think it’s very objectionable. Yeah thats a really weird complaint given he was just letting Martin rant and supporting it in effect through his silence.
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Aug 26, 2022 19:00
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This one made me laugh. He’s got an almost satirical awkwardness to him in these things, it can’t all be by coincidence.
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Aug 26, 2022 19:15
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Oh dear me posted:The rations also just gave everyone enough to eat, whether or not they had gardens. I remember fats kids at school back in the day.... nowadays they would look skinny in comparison.
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Aug 26, 2022 19:20
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You know energy company board of directors just put their real names and faces on the website? Crazy.
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Aug 26, 2022 19:25
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I'm morbidly curious to see how else the Tories can gently caress this country up.
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OwlFancier posted:Rationing continued for a decade after the end of the war. Yes, though at 72 years old, he would have been just 4 when rationing ended and I suspect that is what OP meant. A 4-year old wouldn't really know it wasn't 'normal' because that is just 'the way things are' to such a young child. Also, rationing didn't end on a single date, it started to be phased out from around 1947 onwards.
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Aug 26, 2022 19:43
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People on average probably had better/more secure access to food during rationing than in 2022 in Britain anyway, and things are about to get much worse.
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WhatEvil posted:People on average probably had better/more secure access to food during rationing than in 2022 in Britain anyway, and things are about to get much worse. I've heard that the kids who grew up during rationing were the healthiest generation of children in Britain's history.
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xtothez posted:Does anyone know how this situation is affecting EU countries? Anecdotally, the Dutch government has cut taxes on energy and given some kind of rebate, which has taken around 25% off our bills... until our 3 year contract runs out in November. And I have no idea what variable tariff we'll end up on, because the website doesn't want to tell us! A quick google looks like 3-4x what we're paying now though  So it's as you'd expect from the liberal politics here - "market" energy, failing companies, random government injections but no structural solutions.
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famously most of the british recruits for the boer war were so emaciated and stunted that it seriously compromised the war effort and the boer troops were comparatively gigantic supermen thanks to their healthy meaty diet
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Oh dear me posted:The rations also just gave everyone enough to eat, whether or not they had gardens. And that's why the Labour government wanted to continue rationing indefinitely - it had a proven track record of improving health and guaranteeing a basic but healthy diet to all. The other motivation was it would allow the continued supply of 'excess' British food production to be exported to war-ravaged Europe. The Conservatives made ending rationing (and getting rid of other similar measures like export quotas for consumer goods and buyer's covenants for cars) a central policy in the 1951 election and so managed to win a parliamentary majority (but not the popular vote...). Jel Shaker posted:famously most of the british recruits for the boer war were so emaciated and stunted that it seriously compromised the war effort and the boer troops were comparatively gigantic supermen thanks to their healthy meaty diet And that was the main impetus for the Liberal welfare policies of the 1900s - particularly free school meals and national insurance - because the health of the average British worker was threatening to erode the state's military power.
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when's the first wave of food riots happening?
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you first
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xtothez posted:Does anyone know how this situation is affecting EU countries? The French government has regulated how much prices are allowed to increase and make EDF sell electricity at a discount in some areas of France. British energy consumers are effectively helping subsidise French ones. Not EU but also a country with a state owned energy producer who sells to the UK, Norway has instituted a 90% subsidy on consumer electricity costs in affected regions of the country, and a temporary increase in housing benefit. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Aug 26, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/GoodLawProject/status/1563146547834957824?t=L54GWgzTe0RygDVRnCKRKw&s=19 Jolyon polishing off the kimono to go after ofgem.
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Aug 26, 2022 21:43
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Would be quite happy if he also resolved that with a cricket bat tbh.
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While you were brexiting, I studied the biffer.
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just watching youtubes of judge rinder owning kier starmer
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Late-night quiet hour food shopping doubletake  Glad to see ALDI doing its bit for the war effort 
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Ah man I almost wish I had been given the job to resticker all of those from kiev to kyiv like we had to do when weight watchers sued asda for making "weight watchers compatible" meals.
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Thank you everyone for engaging my question this morning. To give you my thoughts (which the tread covered) I thought that truffles were primarily collected by pigs. As part of the process the pig would think it was about to get a face full of fancy fungi but then the bastard boss would swindle the poor swine out of a slap-up supper which would be beyond the pale (I can say that as I am Irish) for someone who is very vegan. However, now I am aware of the various methods of collection and harvesting I will leave it up to my vegan chums to make their own minds up when I tell them what notaspy is cooking.
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