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kecske posted:it needs a helpful mnemonic, like the Going Metric ones from the sixties: Two and a quarter pounds of Jam - I blame the Metrics on that Jermy Cromblyn bloke. I wish twitter hadn't made it so hard to read tweets without signing in. My blood pressure is about 500 right now after reading about Corbyn's £multi-million house that probably cost £2.50 when he bought it and the vile Hodge woman not quite saying but definitely allowing the reader to infer that Naomi is anti-semitic. And as for the pillock commonly known as Crafty Wank.... I must sign out and only read embedded tweets on here.
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Yeah I would definitely just advise not using twitter twitter directly, getting you mad enough that you keep scrolling is literally the business model.
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OwlFancier posted:If I wanted to fall down a hill at high speed we have those at home. Obviously function and safety has to come before aesthetics in that use case, but they did some actual architecture with Battersea, and the construction methods are so much cheaper now that you could make a nuclear Taj Mahal or something. They do it with the oil wells in California, and people will go out of their way to say "hey did you know there's an oil well in there, how cool is that?" even though living next to an oil well isn't great for VOC, but a little style goes a long way.  About the closest new thing to that we have here is Shoreham Power Station, where the chimney is far taller than it needs to be to act as a coastal landmark (and even then the owners piss and moan about the increased maintenance cost of tall pipe).  The only thing that has to do with your post is that Copenhagen has a combination waste incinerator/power plant/district heater/ski slope and people love it and fight to keep it open, it seems to work.  Giant gothic BWR and zipline adventure park when?
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nitter.net is the place to be. https://nitter.net/about
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kecske posted:A litre of water's a pint and three quarters. that doesn't rhyme if you pronounce all your Rs 
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neither does kappa slapper MEBH
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Guavanaut posted:The only thing that has to do with your post is that Copenhagen has a combination waste incinerator/power plant/district heater/ski slope and people love it and fight to keep it open, it seems to work. i wonder if you took a dug up that and it went toilet at the top how far down it it would go to wipe its bum in that very funny crawling, sliding motion that they do, there
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No pets allowed up there, so you'd have to try for yourself I think.
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the only ski slopes in the UK are the powderous peaks of the toilets in the Palace of Westminster
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I've skied in scotland. it was rubbish though
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There's the Sheffield ski center that burnt down. Every so often a news report comes out about how someone's going to really, honestly, reopen it soon and they always mention the fire but are careful not to say the word "insurance".
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That's why Copenhagen put the fire inside first.
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Isomermaid posted:There's the Sheffield ski center that burnt down. Every so often a news report comes out about how someone's going to really, honestly, reopen it soon and they always mention the fire but are careful not to say the word "insurance". That is very weird. I've skied there, and the Edinburgh one. But I went to the ipswich one... and it had burnt down? Like I never really understood how that could happen... but now more than one?
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You would think it would be quite hard to set fire to a large pile of frozen water but seemingly not.
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You can ski indoors on real snow in the UK in glorious Milton Keynes. It's actually quite good. Plenty good enough for learning. I did a "learn to ski in a day" thing before my first France trip and it was really good. I couldn't walk for 2 days afterwards though. OwlFancier posted:You would think it would be quite hard to set fire to a large pile of frozen water but seemingly not. The best swimming pool in Milton Keynes, "Dolphin Splashdown" burnt down years ago and was never rebuilt. I was always a bit confused by that.
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theyre just mounds with rough white carpet upside down on them really
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Re folk music, Magpie Lane is pretty good (and how I learned that the Monkey Island music I remembered was actually a folk song, “Oh Brown Ale”). There’s a lot of good filk on youtube even if it appears to have all been recorded in the 1970s by the same like 3 people. Dawson’s Christian was my entry to the rabbit hole. If you like Mongolian throat singing, The Hu are very fun: link. The other one that YT keeps pushing into my playlist is Hrdza.
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OwlFancier posted:You would think it would be quite hard to set fire to a large pile of frozen water but seemingly not. That one at Potters got hot enough to melt the steel beams, so I hope someone checked where Jeb Bush was.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Re folk music, Magpie Lane is pretty good (and how I learned that the Monkey Island music I remembered was actually a folk song, “Oh Brown Ale”). I just google this out of interest, it's "Oh good ale": https://www.reddit.com/r/MonkeyIsland/comments/vjwv6n/til_that_the_scumm_bar_theme_from_monkey_island_1/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49EaPxu_FTo&t=36s
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crispix posted:neither does kappa slapper MEBH Ka'ah sla'ah! See! Its language! Also i think parliament should be chosen by mandatory cheese rolling competition on that steep loving hill. The lords too. I'd watch that show.
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Extremely crunchy selection process if any of the current crop were to try, I feel. Like putting a sushi mat in a blender. If you're first to the bottom you should get a life peerage.
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The most amusing thing about the Potters fire (which was apparently started deliberately, but caused no human casualties) is that the collapsed parts of the factory/warehouse complex got fairly quickly turned into brownfield social housing, with the formerly private access road named as Ned Ludd Close. Mebh posted:Also i think parliament should be chosen by mandatory cheese rolling competition on that steep loving hill. The lords too.
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Went to the Liverpool EiE rally just now. It was pretty good I guess. Molly McCann is a good egg.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I've skied in scotland. it was rubbish though If you learn to ski in Scotland you'll have the fortitude and skills to ski in the worst conditions anywhere else has to offer. It's character building.
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I feel like there is room for a tourist attraction called Isle of Ski
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I've got a penguin book of English Folk Songs and they are all on three main themes, sometimes combined: 1) Let's gently caress 2) Everyone I know is dead 3) Eat the rich solid stuff
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Only Kindness posted:nitter.net is the place to be. Thanks - just took a look at that.
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HopperUK posted:I've got a penguin book of English Folk Songs and they are all on three main themes, sometimes combined: This is fascinating. Here in China the themes are: 1) Let’s gently caress 2) I’ve been conscripted* and I hate it 3) I love my parents * For the military or corvee labour E: book of songs, a 2,000+ year old collection of folk songs, is here: you can translate into English from the classical Chinese by clicking on the double arrows to the left of each stanza. Don’t use google translate, that’s for modern chinese only. Beefeater1980 fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Sep 3, 2022 |
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Solefald posted:Went to the Liverpool EiE rally just now. It was pretty good I guess. Molly McCann is a good egg. My favourite part is how she came to get the nickname "Meatball". She worked at Subway to pay for her training.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:My favourite part is how she came to get the nickname "Meatball". Hahaha gently caress off I didn't know that 😂 that's beautiful. She was fantastic on stage, proper got the whole place buzzing and it was absolutely heart wretching when she began to cry. I've got so much love for that woman ♥️ Another matter though that I figure you goons can help me. What has Eddie Dempsey done and why am I supposed to hate him?
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Somebody (I think it was that Supertanskiii who is a massive Keith outrider and lib who just recently said "Corbyn made me say that Israel did 9/11") dug up some thing where he did a speech in 2019 where he said, essentially "Say what you will about Tommy Robinson supporters, but they're right to hate the liberal left". Which, you know, yeah, he's right. Then there are other people saying that he's transphobic? I don't know, I haven't been able to find any transphobic things he's said, though I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. E: https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1565293148577882117?s=20&t=4hOyyQdfdXvdVfwhDon7Kw https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1565590326944964608?s=20&t=4hOyyQdfdXvdVfwhDon7Kw
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The really dark stuff seems to be that he worked to ruin the reputation of a woman one of his friends committed domestic violence against, and that he has a dire rep within his own union on handling matters of internal racism. Seems to be Chardine Taylor Stone on Twitter who has most of the goods. Yes, it's being weaponised by a bunch of awful centrist melts, but I was hearing fairly dire things on social media about him well before they started paying attention to him. In particular, his 2015 speech went down like a cup of cold sick in the more marginalised sections of the left precisely because the RMT under his leadership was doing such an awful job of representing them: https://twitter.com/chardinetaylor/status/1565374218962931712?s=21&t=QxKi4TjM4YXdrA5fT0ybbA Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Sep 3, 2022 |
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Yeah I don't want to defend him exactly 'cause I don't know enough about his history and it seems there's some dodgy poo poo there... but it's clear that many of those criticising him the loudest (obviously not the person whose tweets you quoted there) are simply seeking to delegitimise the whole worker movement, which is obviously just loving standard at this point. Sensible centrists supporting fascism over socialism as always.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I wish twitter hadn't made it so hard to read tweets without signing in. I don't have a twitter account, but a pro tip (that I might have learned from this thread?) if you get the "LOG IN TO SEE THIS YOU BELLEND" is to click/tap the login option then you get an X top left of the box and go to town.
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franco posted:I don't have a twitter account, but a pro tip (that I might have learned from this thread?) if you get the "LOG IN TO SEE THIS YOU BELLEND" is to click/tap the login option then you get an X top left of the box and go to town. Exactly this, iv'e never had/needed Twitter access till the Ukraine War kicked off and only recently learned that one simple trick.  Click Login, don't try to login, just click little x that appears on top left of box.
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Ah are we going to watch 'concerns' be used as the thin end of the wedge to smash the left's support again. Let he who is without sin, lead the first strike.
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Desiderata posted:Ah are we going to watch 'concerns' be used as the thin end of the wedge to smash the left's support again. Only if we let it.
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HopperUK posted:I've got a penguin book of English Folk Songs and they are all on three main themes, sometimes combined: And Irish folk songs are: a) I got too drunk but I'm fine, honest b) I will never ever stop fighting the English c) I met a beautiful woman d) I left Ireland and will now be sad forever e) I got tricked by a fairy Or a combination of the above
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I have concerns too but I know I'd have an easier job convincing someone to listen to those concerns if they've got an active sense of empathy. Supporting socialists while bringing up their lovely takes isn't splitting, it's how things improve.
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