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Guavanaut posted:These days... The fix is in. Urgh wife has COVID for a second time, perhaps this will be the second Xmas running where we're both totally COVID'ed up  . At least I'm negative so far, which means I'm banished into the phantom zone of the spare room.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Ugh, this morning. That's too warm indoors too, have to adjust my heating curve downwards or I'll go broke. Still it was nice to feel a warm floor for once. I wear carpet slippers in winter, the ''floor'' is always warm. 
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Oh yeah I wear several layers of socks for the same reason., Got two new pairs from my mom, but the floor felt warm & toasty this morning when barefoot. Such a nice feeling.
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Hiding in a biomedical freezer.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Where the hell are you that it's -20.5c? Workshop of Santa Claus in Finland. One part of that might even be true.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Good to see I really think the media have misjudged the public mood about these strikes. The reporting is still all "UNION BARONS HOLDING US HOSTAGE" and even the BBC seems completely ignorant of how unions work. But its easy to marginalise, e.g. train drivers, because hardly anyone knows a train driver or even spoken to one ever. There's about 20k train drivers in the UK, but there are over 500k nurses. Most people will know a nurse, and everyone has met a nurse in hospital or getting a vaccine etc. They're a lot more real in the minds of the public.
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I wear old man slippers, have done since I was 20.
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Lady Demelza posted:Cats are not solitary creatures. They also aren't dogs, and at the cat rescue where I volunteer there are multiple stories of people who are baffled because they constantly misread cat behaviour (no your cat was not happily wagging her tail then bit you out of the blue, please take 2 minutes to learn what cat tail twitching means). A cat that has bonded with you will sit with its back to you, because they trust you not to attack from behind. Literally just looked at my cat and he's snoozing with his back to me. He's standoffish compared to some cats I've had - but he still always wants to be within about 6' of me, and I do mean me, not my wife. So yeah, no, agreed, an actual solitary creature wouldn't be doing that. Edit: cat tax  feedmegin fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:even the BBC seems completely ignorant of how unions work. feedmegin posted:Edit: cat tax 
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feedmegin posted:Literally just looked at my cat and he's snoozing with his back to me. He's standoffish compared to some cats I've had - but he still always wants to be within about 6' of me, and I do mean me, not my wife. So yeah, no, agreed, an actual solitary creature wouldn't be doing that. My Dad's cat, sadly no longer around, was very stand-offish but also very similar. It wouldn't sit on him or his wife, wouldn't curl up on your bed with them - but it would sleep on their bed during the day when they were elsewhere or would sit on a chair in the corner of the room that they were in - and outside it would follow them around the garden and hang out nearby but always remaining about two metres away. It was like a grumpy teenager being taken shopping by parents and always staying a few paces away to try and look like they're on their own. It was very cute because it clearly liked being around people, but I liked to imagine it just wanted to pretend it was a cool loner and apex predator (it could barely hunt a piece of cheese, tbh)
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I get about 15 minutes of him snuggling next to me on my bed a week, roughly. As a treat. I have also seen him try and fail to hunt an ant.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:I really think the media have misjudged the public mood about these strikes. The reporting is still all "UNION BARONS HOLDING US HOSTAGE" and even the BBC seems completely ignorant of how unions work. But its easy to marginalise, e.g. train drivers, because hardly anyone knows a train driver or even spoken to one ever. There's about 20k train drivers in the UK, but there are over 500k nurses. Most people will know a nurse, and everyone has met a nurse in hospital or getting a vaccine etc. They're a lot more real in the minds of the public. Agreed - almost everybody over 30 will have had a visit to a GP or hospital in the last year or so I would think, not to mention having family members in the hospital.
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It is loving bonkers that nurse pay went down during a once-in-a-century pandemic
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Dead Goon posted:How are Anaal Nathrakh these days? It was only one of them, the vocalist, the other one is focusing on producing music right now. They had musicians from Akercocke and Voices to fill in. So he was claiming it might have been the last Anaal Nathrakh gig. Seems unlikely. Was an excellent show, non-stop bangers.
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Dead Goon posted:How are Anaal Nathrakh these days? Or throw something for it to chase before it decides to attack your hoodie hood strings and sticks a claw up your nose in its enthusiasm. Speaking from experience here.
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killerwhat posted:It was only one of them, the vocalist, the other one is focusing on producing music right now. They had musicians from Akercocke and Voices to fill in. So he was claiming it might have been the last Anaal Nathrakh gig. Seems unlikely. Was an excellent show, non-stop bangers. Yeah, Mick hosed off to live in California a decade ago & at this point can't be bothered coming back to Blighty for a couple live shows, can't really blame him either. I'm still glad I got to see them with Shane Embury from Napalm Death & I think Nick Barker, drummer for about 50% of extreme metal bands from Europe, that was a cool lineup. Even if I'm still sad that Axis of Perdition pulled out of the gig, I'd love to have been able to see them
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https://twitter.com/SimonFosterLAB/status/1603341698620325888 So Labour are openly briefing MPs to support scabbing.
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fuctifino posted:To try and find out I did a bit of googling, and here he is on stage at an event for the trilateral commission with Gove and Lord Maude at the end of 2017. He was 'Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union' at the time, and Gove was 'Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs'  By August 2022, he's mysteriously absent, as if he were never there:  There's also no trace of him amongst the TC's 'Leadership, Members & Fellows'. But as so often happens, removing a link to a page doesn't mean that the page itself has also been deleted... https://www.trilateral.org/people/sir-keir-starmer/ Kind of weird how the leader of the Labour Party would also be a member of an organisation dedicated to promoting the interests of global capital over working people, and which also once proclaimed that the problem with western society was that there was too much democracy. But I'm sure it's just a coincidence and has no deeper suspicious meaning.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Ugh, this morning. That's too warm indoors too, have to adjust my heating curve downwards or I'll go broke. Still it was nice to feel a warm floor for once. open the door and i bet the house decompresses like you opened the door on an airplane
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Jel Shaker posted:open the door and i bet the house decompresses like you opened the door on an airplane That or its a matter/anti-matter style explosion.
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Guavanaut posted:These days... Well it is hard to stick flares up your bum sober.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:I really think the media have misjudged the public mood about these strikes. The reporting is still all "UNION BARONS HOLDING US HOSTAGE" and even the BBC seems completely ignorant of how unions work. * Presumably a survey of one old australian billionaire.
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https://twitter.com/aaronbastani/status/1603362240924622851?s=46&t=Y58C1B4c2bNJWl-DUHtIWg
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Gort posted:How is a warm room a "bank" A food bank is where you go to get food when you can't afford it. A warm bank is where you go to get warm when you can't afford it. A bank is just a storage facility anyway, in this context. Same as those external batteries for your phone or laptop are power banks.
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Gort posted:How is a warm room a "bank" Rich assholes hoarding all the warmth
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:So Labour are openly briefing MPs to support scabbing.
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The cat tail thing becomes very obvious if you have ever seen two cats together, even friendly ones. They twitch their tails like a novelty clock, and soon you are about to witness some hilarious cat agro. Anyway pictured bellow is Lara T. Catt, in one of the rare times when she is not wailing about being hungry/wanting to go outside/complaining that the dog or baby are looking at her funny. 
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Jedit posted:A warm bank is where you go to get warm when you can't afford it. It's a miracle the nurses are just striking and not running for the hills.
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"warmhub" was right there too. Or building a society where people don't have to huddle together to not freeze to death, but incremental progress.
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Starmer was absolutely brilliant at the delaying implementing brexit stuff, it's the one thing we can say he did well at and it's how he got to be labour leader in the first place. We can say now that's he's a damp teabag but at the time he spent hours and hours fending off the worst of the tory ERG lunatics. I t could be argued that anyone else who was in his position arguing against the screeching sounds coming out of Leadsom's horrific jackets would have ended up leader instead.
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Why don't they send poor people to somewhere where it's never cold, like Qatar? Maybe they could also do some work there for the expenses.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The front page of the scum and the BBC are misrepresenting to the point of lying about the RMT losing support. I don't know which survey they're looking at*, but the extent to which support is falling is that support for the strikers has fallen from the vast majority of the public to a slightly less vast majority of the public. It's ipsos Mori and the figures in support have fallen from 43% to 30%. You can look at their website for more in-depth numbers.
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Base rate up again. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-63985437
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learnincurve posted:Starmer was absolutely brilliant at the delaying implementing brexit stuff, it's the one thing we can say he did well at and it's how he got to be labour leader in the first place. We can say now that's he's a damp teabag but at the time he spent hours and hours fending off the worst of the tory ERG lunatics. I t could be argued that anyone else who was in his position arguing against the screeching sounds coming out of Leadsom's horrific jackets would have ended up leader instead. Sort of, but a) it happened anyway and b) all the delaying absolutely tanked Labour's chances of winning the 2019 election so overall it was a load of bollocks.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It is definitely a good idea to cram all of the poor people together in one place all day while there are several highly infectious and randomly lethal viruses ripping their way through the population. If they get a fever their bodies will be warmer
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