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Fumble: Sep 4, 2006; Can't post for 16 days!

happyhippy posted:

Who the gently caress sells laughing gas?

iirc ali bongo's in norwich use to, but not been there in years.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 17:20

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# ? May 24, 2024 14:52

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Aphex- posted:

Also doing a canister while on mushrooms and seeing the universe collapse into a single point over and over fractally and realising that everything in the universe is everything else.

Now that I've learned this by reading your post I have no need to do N2O myself

# ? Mar 26, 2023 17:42

Jakabite: Jul 31, 2010

Failed Imagineer posted:

Now that I've learned this by reading your post I have no need to do N2O myself

Yeah spoiler that poo poo!!!

# ? Mar 26, 2023 17:48

1965917: Oct 4, 2005

Mebh posted:

I hear this argument so loving often. I can't deny its seductive. As someone who was an idiot liberal child the last time labour came to power, you go down the rabbit hole thinking what an actual competent left wing govt that plays the game to get into power then goes turbo socialism might look like.

If you squint really hard, I can see how a lot think that might be Starmer. It's certainly a lot more palatable fantasy than the actual reality.

Then it just devolves into looking at policy, and not being drawn into a "cult of personality" because that would be bad you see. Corbyn was a cult you see.

If you then point out how poo poo the policies are, so far its just been a "lalala" fingers in ears "labour are less poo poo what else you going to do" endless loop and I'm just tired of it.

Christ this is every conversation with my folks.

Followed by chanting "Corbyns not coming back!", as if you have to say it every time you mention politics, otherwise the man manifests in your house and tries to nationalize your sausages.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 17:54

Clyde Radcliffe: Oct 19, 2014

smellmycheese posted:

Is it me or does this thread have a high percentage of NI posters? (Of which I am one)

There do seem to be a fair few of us.

People can post NI political content here because nobody gives a poo poo about Northern Ireland, which is as it should be. Pretty much anywhere else on the internet where such content might be appropriate turns into a sectarian slanging match when anything political is posted.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 17:57

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

smellmycheese posted:

Is it me or does this thread have a high percentage of NI posters? (Of which I am one)

Representing. o7

I suppose i could post more often in the Irish thread but i don't follow their ''standard politician'' type corruption stuff & shenanigans too much to understand it really. :shrug:

# ? Mar 26, 2023 18:05

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Just Another Lurker posted:

Representing. o7

I suppose i could post more often in the Irish thread but i don't follow their ''standard politician'' type corruption stuff & shenanigans too much to understand it really.

I mean the reality is that NI is politically a part of the UK so it makes sense to post NI politics itt, and us Free Staters with a fraternal interest in what's going on up there can just read this thread and vice versa.

But also who cares :justpost:

# ? Mar 26, 2023 18:12

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Most of the NI politics stuff ITT is just the DUP being insane tories, which I admit does inspire a kind of unionist sentiment because we are obviously not so different.

Then again I also get that impression reading the ireland thread because apparently everything there is also tories and landlords.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 18:17

happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

I would say we gravitate here as NI culture has politics ingrained into everything.
And we get UK news more than Republic of Ireland news, so know more about the workings of Parliament than the Dail.

Edit: I am also here waiting for reparations for 800 years of english rule.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 18:24

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Just got an email from Octupus telling us they now own Bulb, and they're putting our direct debit up to about £180 a month. And unlike Bulb, we can't just go onto the website and manually lower it again.

So we moved here winter 2019, turned the thermostat down, turned the boiler down (way before that was a thing Martin Lewis was shouting about) and got our heating down to about £80 in the first winter, which we were eventually able to reduce down to £40 a month, which should have given us the credit to last over winter in a normal year.

This winter I added £350 credit from the DWP money we got, we had that £400 credit from the government, and we're still being told that the £120 a month we were paying isn't enough.

£40 to £180. Tell me this country isn't collapsing.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 18:24

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Tell me this country isn't collapsing.

The UK isn't collapsing.

It's disintegrating.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 18:28

Gorn Myson: Aug 8, 2007

Until we directly face down the Trans Lobby and Boat People we'll never be able to reduce the cost of living in this country.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 18:33

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Tell me this country isn't collapsing.

It's transforming into a tiny fascist utopia for the rich and landed gentry. :monocle:

# ? Mar 26, 2023 18:33

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Just got an email from Octupus telling us they now own Bulb, and they're putting our direct debit up to about £180 a month. And unlike Bulb, we can't just go onto the website and manually lower it again.

So we moved here winter 2019, turned the thermostat down, turned the boiler down (way before that was a thing Martin Lewis was shouting about) and got our heating down to about £80 in the first winter, which we were eventually able to reduce down to £40 a month, which should have given us the credit to last over winter in a normal year.

This winter I added £350 credit from the DWP money we got, we had that £400 credit from the government, and we're still being told that the £120 a month we were paying isn't enough.

£40 to £180. Tell me this country isn't collapsing.

In my experience Octopus tend to overevaluate if you don't have 2 kids living at home or something along those lines, but good luck. We're 2 people and electric+gas is at about �120 a month and we've got the heating on a decent amount since we work from home.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 18:34

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Wonder if we can get Kwarteng to fall for the Goku Cock

# ? Mar 26, 2023 18:44

happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

Gorn Myson posted:

Until we directly face down the Trans Lobby and Boat People we'll never be able to reduce the cost of living in this country.

and the ultimate evil, the EU who force us to obey laws to treat each other fairly and equally.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 18:50

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

WhatEvil posted:

Speaking of:

https://twitter.com/TabitaSurge/status/1639904156168093697?s=20

He's still a oval office, obviously, but maybe this is a sign of the tide turning on the "trans debate".

My thought it it might be more along the lines of
https://twitter.com/Chican3ry/status/1639337431752114213

Once it's out there that there's a prize to grab, and the 'those crazy people' might actually be the ones palling around with Nazis, and the Nazis are getting repeatedly humiliated and getting soup on them and running away from a man dressed as a cake, you want to make sure you're not on that side no matter how much of an old contrarian oval office you are, so it may be more of a battle lines being redrawn than a tide turning thing.

Either way I didn't have "Jeremy Clarkson writes in the Times that he wishes he'd rubbed some cocks in his youth" on my culture war bingo card.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 19:08

NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

I think I remember reading Clarkson has a daughter who has a twitter where she keeps telling him he's wrong and an idiot? I guess he's listening.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 19:14

xtothez: Jan 4, 2004; College Slice

WhatEvil posted:

He's still a oval office, obviously, but maybe this is a sign of the tide turning on the "trans debate".

Perhaps he's now just trying to appear like less of a oval office, after rumours of Amazon wanting to not renew his contract due to him being a oval office?

# ? Mar 26, 2023 19:43

Funka: Jan 4, 2006

wont making it illegal lead to more fly tipping? I aint gonna carry evidence of my crimes until I can dispose of it responsibly.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 19:44

smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

# ? Mar 26, 2023 19:51

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Just buy a loving dragon dick like everyone else jesus christ.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 19:57

NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Married man

# ? Mar 26, 2023 19:57

smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

He misunderstood when his friends said they were going out to get arseholed

# ? Mar 26, 2023 20:05

Isomermaid: Dec 3, 2019; Swish swish, like a fish

His name is Otto Clave

# ? Mar 26, 2023 20:09

Marmaduke!: May 19, 2009; Why would it do that!?

ItohRespectArmy posted:

wanting to stock up before the ban comes in? very wise.

I don't know if there was any warning about this*, but I got an email from a legal supplier 2 days ago saying they're having a closing down sale

*Maybe once the experts stated publicly that they shouldn't be banned, sellers realised that our moronic government would have no choice but to ban the stuff

# ? Mar 26, 2023 20:09

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
_{(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)}

Hello, dear

Just Another Lurker posted:

Representing. o7

I suppose i could post more often in the Irish thread but i don't follow their ''standard politician'' type corruption stuff & shenanigans too much to understand it really.

it says a lot about the state of things on this island that they never mention anything that's going on up here lol

# ? Mar 26, 2023 20:12

NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

I fancy trying some of this laughing gas.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 20:42

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

smellmycheese posted:

best one i�ve heard is a guy who managed to get an intact lightbulb up there

of course surgeons didn�t piss about with risking the thing popping as they tried to pull it out, guy had surgery and they got it out from above

# ? Mar 26, 2023 20:44

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

imagining the countless work hours that would be saved to the NHS by adding "a FLARED BASE for THE LOVE OF GOD" to the sex education curriculum and the associated daily mail outrage

# ? Mar 26, 2023 20:50

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
_{(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)}

Hello, dear

up bum no 'arm done doesn't apply to any old household object :nono:

# ? Mar 26, 2023 20:53

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

Jel Shaker posted:

best one i’ve heard is a guy who managed to get an intact lightbulb up there

of course surgeons didn’t piss about with risking the thing popping as they tried to pull it out, guy had surgery and they got it out from above

There was a copy pasta from one of the other subs (GiP?) about a bored Marine who managed a live 40mm grenade/mortar round.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 20:58

kecske: Feb 28, 2011; it's round, like always

Bobby Deluxe posted:

£40 to £180. Tell me this country isn't collapsing.

Following the concurrent interest hikes our mortgage is £600+ a month higher than where it was when we started, within a matter of weeks lol.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 20:58

smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

Lol

# ? Mar 26, 2023 21:33

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Just got an email from Octupus telling us they now own Bulb, and they're putting our direct debit up to about £180 a month. And unlike Bulb, we can't just go onto the website and manually lower it again.

So we moved here winter 2019, turned the thermostat down, turned the boiler down (way before that was a thing Martin Lewis was shouting about) and got our heating down to about £80 in the first winter, which we were eventually able to reduce down to £40 a month, which should have given us the credit to last over winter in a normal year.

This winter I added £350 credit from the DWP money we got, we had that £400 credit from the government, and we're still being told that the £120 a month we were paying isn't enough.

£40 to £180. Tell me this country isn't collapsing.

You must have a different interface as a Bulb person.

I'm on octopus but I signed up with them directly so I can do that (though I want to drop it by around £20pm for the next 6 months based on my weekly meter readings and the heating has been off completely for a couple of weeks and will be now through to at least October (nuclear winters or asteroids blocking out the sun excepting) and I expecting I'll have to call them to get it lowered that much. (My DD is currently £68 ignoring the govt discount and my fix ends in October 😭

# ? Mar 26, 2023 21:35

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

crispix posted:

up bum no 'arm done doesn't apply to any old household object

UP BUM NO BABIES still pretty accurate. Possibly no more babies ever if it all goes horribly wrong

# ? Mar 26, 2023 21:37

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Z the IVth posted:

There was a copy pasta from one of the other subs (GiP?) about a bored Marine who managed a live 40mm grenade/mortar round.

I wanted to imagine that this was achieved by pointing the mortar tube at the hole.

# ? Mar 26, 2023 21:58

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

crispix posted:

it says a lot about the state of things on this island that they never mention anything that's going on up here lol

Too busy hunting for affordable housing i guess. :stonklol:

Death to the landlords!

# ? Mar 26, 2023 22:13

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/chrismiller_uk/status/1640058782746025984

# ? Mar 26, 2023 22:49

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# ? May 24, 2024 14:52

NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

lol mate a bit of help? context? opinion?

# ? Mar 26, 2023 22:53

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