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To save time, everything is illegal except for: Working Shopping Talking About Strictly Eating Out to Help Out Voting Tory ☑️
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Actually, I found Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium album was like that. (Ed: Fk me this album is over 30 years old! Unbelievable, saw these guys live in 91 and I was too shy to speak to Lee Dorian but my friend did when we were all sitting together on the floor of the first floor at Astoria). Think my friend is friends with Lee now. Seen them exchanging messages on FB. Yeah that's the good poo poo. I always like things that lull you with a gentle start and then just blow your head off. One of my favourites being this beautiful bastard of a track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB3hFLB_jJE Also, Jesus Christ don't search for that title/band name combination - all but one of the first page of results were child abuse stories  Be pretty funny if that was your copy of Tubular Gong. Years ago I was going to buy an original vinyl of Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies' American Metaphysical Circus from a friend but he left it on the bus when coming over so nae luck. About 6 months later I found it in a second hand shop in London, got back home to Edinburgh with it only for him to recognise it as his copy from marks on the sleeve and a few scratches. It's a small world. Guavanaut posted:Everyone who says that alcohol is a drink, not a drug, is technically correct (the best kind of correct), but not for the reasons that they think. I'm almost always sober and straight at gigs these days cos I'm usually driving and refuse to take charge of my
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Jan 16, 2023 00:32
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crispix posted:as society and the basic infrastructure of the country fall apart i increasingly find myself wondering what would have happened if corbyn had come along just a bit later While this is usually just a recipe for pointless garment tearing or alt histories 2015-2019 is so politically fraught with so many things happening this is cool to puzzle out. My stab at it: Any time earlier than mid 2016 - no change, Corbyn is still cast as a joke by press and internally sabotaged, Cameron calls and loses Brexit referendum and May calls the 2017 general election with similar political events thereafter (maybe smaller result at GE as Momentum etc are not as developed but then larger but ultimately futile gains afterwards) 2017-2018: Corbyn opposes May as leader who retains tiny majority - vastly less chaos in Tories meaning fewer defeats and potentially even a Brexit compromise on the lines of the current arrangement (by the time Brexit looms and Corbyns popularity is derided enough it's close enough to the deadline to not want a GE). Corbyn potentially still Labour leader after not getting majority 2020 or 2021 general election running a fairly popular but publicly ridiculed leadership leading to CUK members defecting to other parties at/before GE. Probably did amazingly well during pandemic and is leading a unified union movement about cost of living but focused entirely around parliamentarism rather than anything good. 2019 onwards: Corbyn versus May without Brexit build up and pandemic - serious proposals at a time when massive state action is both obvious and necessary means major boost to credibility as the media are unable to coherently attack (or they do attack and there's massive internal strife as they end up with lots of friendly fire at the same time). Tories still in charge but probably forced into accepting positive structural change on health, no change on anything else. Really looking back at it Corbyns moment was 2017 and when that didn't come off the project was doomed.
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Jan 16, 2023 00:33
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Guavanaut posted:Everyone who says that alcohol is a drink, not a drug, is technically correct (the best kind of correct), but not for the reasons that they think. If drug comes from droog, the dutch for dry, then alcohol would be nut as the Dutch for wet is nat.
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Jan 16, 2023 00:34
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TACD posted:To save time, everything is illegal except for: Pretty sure they made face sitting illegal
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Jan 16, 2023 00:38
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Guavanaut posted:Alcohol is wet. Are all liquids wet? Is lava wet?
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Jan 16, 2023 00:41
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Hi friends, Keith has said another loving dumb thing: https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1614559429328011264 Right now the Tories are absolutely loving the NHS. Speaking as a doctor, he's literally in a position to walk in a free goal. He just needs to not utterly loving suck. And yet, here we are, with Keith and his loving lickspittle oval office sidekick Streeting, utterly loving BLOWING IT. GPs have a hard job. They have basically no equipment, and yet are able to fairly successfully assess, triage and manage a great deal of medical presentations. They deal with undifferentiated patients and manage to figure out who needs to go to hospital now, who needs to go soon, who needs to go eventually, and who doesn't need to go at all. A patient with "blood where there shouldn't be blood" may have multiple problems:- i) upper airways/nasal bleeding/epistaxis ii) Respiratory problems - Pulmonary haemorrhage, pneumonia, lung cancer iii) Heart failure/cardiac problems iv) Upper GI bleeding v) Lower GI bleeding - IBD, cancer, polyps vi) Vaginal bleeding - cancer, periods, etc. vii) External bleeding - haemorrhoids, fissures. viii) Urinary tract disease - urinary tract infection. Cancer. Non exhaustive list. GPs are great at figuring out which is which. Members of the public are loving awful at figuring out which is which. Especially if they're elderly with multiple confounding factors.
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Jan 16, 2023 00:50
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ix) babbling shite on tv news - could be subarachnoid haemorrhage, could just be day drinking againLungboy posted:If drug comes from droog, the dutch for dry, then alcohol would be nut  Microplastics posted:Are all liquids wet? Is lava wet?
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Jan 16, 2023 00:57
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winegums posted:Speaking as a doctor, Speaking as a trade unionist, how has your balloting gone - it's been open for a week right? Do you think there's been enough preparation for it? I'm UNISON Health so my branch completely hosed our ballot and I'm going to spend the next few months trying to get us into a organisation worthy of being called a union.
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Jan 16, 2023 00:58
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A subarachnoid haemorrhage sounds like the sort of thing Gavin Williamson would threaten impressionable interns with.
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Jan 16, 2023 00:59
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Is subarachnoid haemmorhaging caused by the brain spiders?
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Jan 16, 2023 00:59
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It's when they themselves are drunk.
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Jan 16, 2023 01:00
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namesake posted:Speaking as a trade unionist, how has your balloting gone - it's been open for a week right? Do you think there's been enough preparation for it? I'm UNISON Health so my branch completely hosed our ballot and I'm going to spend the next few months trying to get us into a organisation worthy of being called a union. Feels positive. We will definitively have positive results, just turnout would be the rate limiter. That said, everyone's so hosed off and burnt out that I'm positive.
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Jan 16, 2023 01:03
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Random internet rabbit-hole following just finally told me what the hell Skills Wallets were - via some LibDem local group that had to explain it via memes, because it was too dull to do any other way. Every adult gets £10,000 (in tediously age-banded tranches) to retrain for new work! Okay. I'm an Old literally in my dream job and the idea of having to retrain to do anything else to support my family fills me with dread. Could I have just had the £10 grand in cash? Of course not, I'm sure. Fake edit: UK politics is depressing as gently caress, because I don't want to kick out the Tories only to have something functionally indistinguishable take their place, but that's what we're gonna get. 
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Jan 16, 2023 01:06
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As I recall you were only allowed to spend the skills wallets on education, so basically a student loan.
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Jan 16, 2023 01:08
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winegums posted:Feels positive. We will definitively have positive results, just turnout would be the rate limiter. That said, everyone's so hosed off and burnt out that I'm positive. Excellent! Every vote counts, literally in terms of getting the 50%, so make sure that there's enough energy in the members to actually return the form rather than anger at the current situation. Ask them every day until they're giving you an unqualified 'Yes I have posted the form'. Point to the UNISON failures if they're even slightly waivering about their individual importance in the result.
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Jan 16, 2023 01:09
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Payndz posted:Okay. I'm an Old literally in my dream job and the idea of having to retrain to do anything else to support my family fills me with dread. Could I have just had the £10 grand in cash? It's the late-capitalist way.
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Jan 16, 2023 01:14
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Lungboy posted:If drug comes from droog, the dutch for dry, then alcohol would be nut as the Dutch for wet is nat. These are droogs.  (Clockwork Orange for those of you still in the first flush of youth).
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Jan 16, 2023 01:21
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:These are droogs. One of which is soon to be Nat.
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I've been thinking about this all day and I'm going with Wet Seeping. It incites the appropriate level of disgust.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:These are droogs. And do they have jobs, these droogs?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:These are droogs. Miftan being psychologically attacked by Terry's Clockwork Oranges.
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Jan 16, 2023 01:31
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josh04 posted:And do they have jobs, these droogs? They look like city bankers to me. Apparently droog (друг) is Russian for 'buddy' or 'friend'. So I guess they're tory donors. Is that a job?
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Jan 16, 2023 01:35
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I think that's an anti-job. If a job is where you get some fraction of the work you do as cash, then an anti-job is where you give a bunch of cash to never have to do anything.
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Jan 16, 2023 01:38
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While we're doing etymology, the best theory for the origins of "pussy" as in "pussycat", was that it just came from the noises you make to make a cat come to you. I just love that at some point in history someone was like "what the gently caress's *that*" "Iunno, but I want it to come here" 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:These are droogs. Films like this can't be made again. Absolute genius.
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happyhippy posted:Films like this can't be made again. I don't think I've ever actually seen it. But I just found out that I can watch it free on my Roku on Movieland.Tv channel, but I shan't watch it now as it's 2:15 and I do in fact have to go in to work tomorrow! There always used to be problems watching it, Stanley Kubrick would let it be shown for a short time then pull it (somehow don't ask me - in the days before recording was so easy). Meanwhile, what is the UK coming to: Members of the taliban being brought out as the voice of reason to counteract 'Arry Prince of Sussex or whatever he is, Hitler quotes to support Terfiness. Wondering what's next! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jan 16, 2023 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I don't think I've ever actually seen it. I read the book first, which I would recommend. I was mad into scifi as a kid, loved 2001, and saw this book in the library with Kubrick's name on it, some sort of 'Movie by' label on it. So thought it was some sci-fi stuff, glad I was wrong.
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happyhippy posted:I read the book first, which I would recommend. I would but I have a large book queue. Not had the mental energy for reading new books for the past 2-3 months. Too much work. Paid & unpaid.
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josh04 posted:And do they have jobs, these droogs? According to this they're "an internationally renowned design label", which might explain the clothing. Jaeluni Asjil posted:These are droogs. I'm guessing that you too can remember the paranoid fear that the papers tried to whip up about mascara wearing thugs lurking behind every hedge. These days they do the same but for toilets. plus ça change
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EmptyVessel posted:Yeah Gilli Smyth rocks, saw her at Glasto' 81. If you are into Gong at all I can solidly endorse the current post-Daevid Allen incarnation (officially appointed by him as successors pre-death) as well worth seeing. I was sceptical but got dragged to see them a few years ago and they deliver in spades. It's still loving weird that a band formed in 1967 is active with no members who were in it before 2007. Kavus Torabi is good though, he's in a band with Michael York from Coil and Steve Davis - yes, that one.
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Jedit posted:It's still loving weird that a band formed in 1967 is active with no members who were in it before 2007. Kavus Torabi is good though, he's in a band with Michael York from Coil and Steve Davis - yes, that one. I quite like the idea of legacy bands continuing down the ages for decades, hell centuries even, long after the originals are gone. Mick Farren's Texts Of Festival type idea. One of my regular gigs is lighting for a bunch of Madchester era tribute acts, some of whom are considerably tighter as performers than the originals, which is basically the same thing. I've even lit a Duran Duran tribute act - no shame. Kavus Torabi is indeed excellent, and always seems to be absolutely loving what he's doing. My youngest brother is friends with Michael York and he's going to blag me into a gig later this year where The Utopia Strong are supporting Steve Hillage.
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Gotta share this before I go to the land of Nod. https://twitter.com/OL1UR/status/1614630906815209473
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EmptyVessel posted:I quite like the idea of legacy bands continuing down the ages for decades, hell centuries even, long after the originals are gone. Mick Farren's Texts Of Festival type idea.
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EmptyVessel posted:I quite like the idea of legacy bands continuing down the ages for decades, hell centuries even, long after the originals are gone. Mick Farren's Texts Of Festival type idea. Jedit posted:It's still loving weird that a band formed in 1967 is active with no members who were in it before 2007. Kavus Torabi is good though, he's in a band with Michael York from Coil and Steve Davis - yes, that one. Did you guys or guyesses ever get into those Rock Family Trees? I used to spend hours pouring over those. Might treat myself to the book of those as I've got some Xmas money to spend. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Jan 16, 2023 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Gotta share this before I go to the land of Nod. I hope that's a joke. Though if it's not it might mean that the techbros all Darwin award themselves into extinction. So on reflection I'm in favour. Angrymog posted:Status Quo is a bit like that now - when I went to see them at Rochester Castle there was only one original member on stage. Who with the recent addition of Thighpaulsandra means that I get to see a band including members of my two favourite bands (HW and Coil).
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Angrymog posted:Status Quo is a bit like that now - when I went to see them at Rochester Castle there was only one original member on stage. That must be Francis Rossi because Rick Parfitt died (unless you were talking before then). They were the only two originals left in the band when I saw them several millennia ago. Just checked Rick Parfitt stopped touring with Quo in September 2016 given his health and died in December 2016. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Jan 16, 2023 |
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Going to start a band that changes at least one member every gig with a four-gig membership limit until it has featured every musician in the country
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happyhippy posted:I read the book first, which I would recommend. Coming from the movie, the final chapter of the book is such a brilliant punchline yeah ultraviolence is fine I guess but have you considered a few hands of motherfuckn' Bridge??
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:That must be Francis Rossi because Rick Parfitt died (unless you were talking before then). Yeah, it was Rossi. Parfit was still alive, but not on stage. The Quo have played Rochester Castle a suprising number of times.
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