Oh dear me posted:

I've definitely seen one a few times, it would be late 60s/early 70s. Don't know what it was doing, but my parents seemed to think it was quite normal.

OwlFancier posted:

I don't know if barrage balloons will stop a nuke.

Possibly if you had a very large one.

Tesseraction posted:

We're an authoritarian parliamentary monarchy. They're an authoritarian absolute monarchy. Learn the difference idiot

OwlFancier posted:

They could be observation balloons, which were similar except you have a man on it with binoculars.

Diet Crack posted:

e: lol musk, I hope he's the only one left after this week:
'“Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade,” Musk wrote.'

fuctifino posted:

One of these costs £18



Mine's already paid for itself many times over, and it's much kinder for middle aged intimate sensitivities

I just use paper to dry

Z the IVth posted:

Out of professional interest what's this called? Portable bidet?

Guavanaut posted:

That is true. So despite having the highest per capita incarceration rate in Western Europe, and the highest absolute incarceration numbers throughout most of Europe in general

we're not actually too bad in terms of overcrowding

merely 'full and then a bit', rather than 'dangerously overcrowded', because we built so many prisons to keep all the bad people in

OwlFancier posted:

Do you shove it up there and really give it a good scrubbing?

Guavanaut posted:

Also this is the first result I found and I really hope that's referring to the colour otherwise it's going nowhere near.

sebzilla posted:

At least it's loud

Guavanaut posted:

HopperUK posted:

My aunt was a prison guard for many years and loved it, has many stories that sound as if she considers inmates to be actual people worth talking to and hearing from. Mind you my uncle also did the same job and it destroyed him physically and mentally.

Z the IVth posted:

What I'd like to know is why the inmate on terminal care for lung cancer, unable to breath and up to their eyeballs in morphine still needs to be cuffed to their deathbed with a 6 foot slab of muscle present at all hours.

Z the IVth posted:

What I'd like to know is why the inmate on terminal care for lung cancer, unable to breath and up to their eyeballs in morphine still needs to be cuffed to their deathbed with a 6 foot slab of muscle present at all hours.

quote:

The Metropolitan Police Service has agreed to overhaul its controversial Gangs Violence Matrix, admitting that it needs ‘wholesale change,’ after a landmark legal case brought by Liberty on behalf of Awate Suleiman and UNJUST UK forced them to concede that the operation of the Matrix was unlawful.

In a win for the human rights organisation and its clients, the Met has admitted that the Matrix breached the right to a private and family life. Personal data of those on the Matrix is shared broadly with third parties – putting them at risk of over-policing, school exclusion, eviction, and in some cases being stripped of welfare benefits, deportation or even children being taken into care.

The Met have also accepted that Black people are disproportionately represented on the Matrix and that efforts to address this have not worked, with the latest review of the Matrix showing that 80% of those named on the Matrix were Black.

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The case was due to be held at the Royal Courts of Justice next week. However, the Metropolitan Police Service has agreed to an overhaul of the list, with more than a thousand names to be removed as a result of the legal action.

As part of the settlement, the Met has also agreed that those removed from the database will be able to apply to find out what data was held on them. However, Liberty have warned that hundreds may never know that their data was held in the first place, and have encouraged those who have experienced repeated stop and search and any of the other ‘enforcement actions’ taken against people on the Matrix to submit a Subject Access Request to the Met to find out if they are or were ever on the Matrix.

...

“People have been added to this Matrix simply because of who their friends are, where they live, or because they have been a victim of crime. Once on the list, their data could be shared with third parties including the Home Office, local authorities, the DWP, housing providers, schools and the DVLA – leading to really serious and potentially life-changing consequences.

“As a result of this case, the majority of people have now been removed from the Matrix, and those people will be able to ask the Met what data was held about them. Many of those people won’t know that their data was held, so if you’ve been repeatedly stopped by the police, or have any reason to suspect that you might have been on the matrix, we would encourage you to submit a Subject Access Request to the Met to find out.

fuctifino posted:

One of these costs £18



Mine's already paid for itself many times over, and it's much kinder for middle aged intimate sensitivities

I just use paper to dry

Deketh posted:

Looks disturbingly similar to my water flosser. Which is arguably too high pressure to turn on my bum

Guavanaut posted:

Wait... did lowtax?

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

*ignores whatever this is*

Okay I have 100% proof the secret service thing happened - privately I thought it was kinda dumb that people concluded it was a lie so readily, but now I have documentation. I have emails to radium from lowtax saying they visited the office to drop off a federal subpoena that day, and making them the account. This is the account https://forums.somethingawful.com/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=170309 and it's complete with a secret service email address. It hasn't been logged into since 2010 which is the year this all went down.

roomtone posted:

just go to aldi they cost like £3-4 for 9 rolls depending on how thick you want them

Freudian posted:

Nah, that was just the standard response to any FOI request that wasn't perfectly formatted. Jeffrey confirmed a month or two ago that he'd found the emails talking about it, and an account from around the time registered to a Secret Service email.

EDIT: here's the quote

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Like I'm gonna trust a user called "Just kidding, Somethingawful" to be real. Jeffrey just added that fake user into the database.