UKMT Summer 2023 - Too fat and woke to fight

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

Failed Imagineer posted:

Miftan-tier opinion.

Glad to see that despite not posting as much, my name is still synonymous with good taste. :smuggo:

10/10 snipe, chocolate oranges are terrible.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:12

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# ? May 24, 2024 21:40

xtothez: Jan 4, 2004; College Slice

Lunar Suite posted:

Letting agency contacted us monday, declaring they were gonna come by wednesday to take photos and have a viewing.
I told them the apartment isn't in a great state for that, since we live there and weren't expecting the landlord to start viewings two months before the end of the tenancy. They just served notice, after asking for a �500 a month rent increase which we told them to gently caress off with.
Letting agency said okay we'll move to Friday, are you in?
We're not. I work full time, so does my partner.
Letting agency went "oh no problem we have a key"

So now I wrote a sternly worded email that access to the property without our consent is trespass (access clauses, according to Shelter and Various Websites do not automatically override that except for repairs or emergencies), that we do not want strangers in our home without us being there, and that we have a right to quiet enjoyment.
I'm arranging to WfH on Friday and consenting to the viewing then, because I bet they'd do it anyway. I also asked that in future they ask the current tenants what times are suitable before arranging viewings with third parties.

The goddamn cheek.

Meet them halfway and offer a remote video tour

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:13

Julio Cruz: May 19, 2006

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

I thought I didn't like Turkish delight until I tried something other than Fry's. Just like I thought I didn't like whisky until I tried something other than Bell's.

And ask the agent when they're going to make it so the toilets don't flush into the sink.

also ask them about the rent increase in front of the new tenants

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:14

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Miftan posted:

Glad to see that despite not posting as much, my name is still synonymous with good taste.

10/10 snipe, chocolate oranges are terrible.

What�s your opinion on Turkish Delight then? If you hate it I might have to give it another go

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:20

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

TACD posted:

What’s your opinion on Turkish Delight then? If you hate it I might have to give it another go

Never had one, so feel free to imagine I have the correct opinion :smuggo:

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:22

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Miftan posted:

Never had one, so feel free to imagine I have the correct opinion

You do that enough for all of us.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:27

Gonzo McFee: Jun 19, 2010

https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1675991389031612418?t=eRXns0h7VdYbZbIIEpOmdA&s=19

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:28

Mega Comrade: Apr 22, 2004; Listen buddy, we all got problems!

Well don't leave me hanging what is it?

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:32

xtothez: Jan 4, 2004; College Slice

Mega Comrade posted:

Well don't leave me hanging what is it?

According to the Twitter thread the gambit is: Something went wrong. Try reloading.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:36

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Mega Comrade posted:

Well don't leave me hanging what is it?

Ng5, usually.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:36

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

You can get lemon flavoured turkish delight if you don't fancy the whole "having brunch at Lush" thing.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:37

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Turkish Delight is good
Barfi is good
Gulab Jamun is :barf:

These are my views on the sweets of countries outside of Europe.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:39

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

We can all agree Parma Violets are arse though.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:42

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

Lunar Suite posted:

Landlord stuff

You can simply refuse ALL viewings, and you are within your legal rights to change the locks. If your landlord is being a oval office to you, then be a oval office back.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:50

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

Hello, dear

big nige is skint lool

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:50

Oh dear me: Aug 14, 2012; I have burned numerous saucepans, sometimes right through the metal

I like Parma violets

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:55

MeinPanzer: Dec 20, 2004; anyone who reads Cinema Discusso for anything more than slackjawed trolling will see the shittiness in my posts

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1675991389031612418?t=eRXns0h7VdYbZbIIEpOmdA&s=19

lmao that looks like Brace Belden playing an antisemitic character

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:56

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

Hello, dear

NORMAN!!!

NORMAN THAT BARBELL-SING WOMAN IS JUST RIGHT, NORMAN

...

THE GOVERNESS WOMAN NORMAN, RATHER DOUR AND FRIGID-SEEMING BUT SHE'S RIGHT THAT THE CHILDREN NEED DISCIPLINE, NORMAN

THEY DO SILLY DEGREES IN BASKET WEAVING NOWADAYS NORMAN, I READ IT IN THE NEWSPAPER

THAT'S WHY WE DON'T HAVE GREAT BRITISH ENGINEERS ANYMORE, LIKE ISIMBARD KINGDOM BREW KNELL, NORMAN

AND MORPHY RICHARDS

# ? Jul 4, 2023 13:58

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/nanny-advert-class-warriors/

quote:

We also rent out a few cottages to staycation holidaymakers, so that groups can enjoy �multi-gen� special occasions, or summer holidays with families (up to 20) coming together at the third of the price of renting a villa in Puglia or Provence (yes, we do have summer hols availability, if you�re interested). Without staff, and help from a part-time nanny in the summer months, our heritage tourism business would go bust.

Alas, our trolling saga is a cautionary tale about the depressing extent that Britain is still divided by class, and how many young British people don�t want to work, especially at weekends. For all the abuse, we have had several very positive replies, including the daughter of a local butcher saying it �sounds like a lovely job� and adding that such �pay trolls� are killing off local jobs and British high streets as people refuse to work for less than �20 an hour.

People seem particularly reluctant to work in the industry that used to be nostalgically known as �service�. Getting house staff today, let alone keeping them, has become a masochistic game of social eggshells, exasperation, begging and humiliation, as the old Remains of the Day-era rules are ripped up, butlers and cooks are shipped in for weekends, and some staff give the impression they are doing you a favour simply by showing up.

The truth is the staff drought is worse than you think. We gave a Jubilee lunch last year for 40 guests in the Dragon Hall. We ended up being eternally grateful that the following agreed to help us out: my son�s guitar teacher, a 17-year-old gap student; a former housekeeper, Sasha, whom we lured (begged) from retirement (thankfully, she is now running things brilliantly at Money Pit Manor) and a gardener, who arrived looking like an undertaker.

If you can find a good, willing employee, you�re then hit by ever-rising pay expectations. One housekeeper that we had walked out after five months, saying her �new employer� was paying her �45,000 a year, before bonuses and full healthcare.

etc. etc. etc.

e: He was briefly UKIP's heritage spokesperson

fuctifino fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Jul 4, 2023

# ? Jul 4, 2023 14:04

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Guavanaut posted:

I thought it was supposed to be a demsoc allegory.

It's mostly just a bit of fluffy demsoc 'the repressed underclass should sit down with their capitalist overlords and celebrate their common humanity', plus a light bit of Nazi flavouring from the secondary screenwriter (mainly around the suspiciously Jewish mad scientist divorcing the capitalist overlords from humanity) and a bit of 'I don't know what that Freud guy was talking about, the Madonna-whore dichotomy is obviously the most literal and accurate way to write women and we should clearly label it as such'.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 14:08

Tsietisin: Jul 2, 2004; Time passes quickly on the weekend.

Oh dear me posted:

I like Parma violets

Ban this sick filth!!

# ? Jul 4, 2023 14:10

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Bobby Deluxe posted:

We can all agree -

I'll have to stop you there

# ? Jul 4, 2023 14:11

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

fuctifino posted:

Free market not working out well?

Darth Walrus posted:

'the repressed underclass should sit down with their capitalist overlords and celebrate their common humanity'

Weimar version of

# ? Jul 4, 2023 14:12

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

MeinPanzer posted:

lmao that looks like Brace Belden playing an antisemitic character

# ? Jul 4, 2023 14:22

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1675991389031612418?t=eRXns0h7VdYbZbIIEpOmdA&s=19

So the oxygen mask is just gone now he's jewish?

I hope he tries the identical twin gambit next.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 14:36

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

Free market not working out well?

Weimar version of

A small element of this that I enjoy is that on the tandem bicycle, both people are ultimately providing power to the wheel of Capital while the wheel of Labour is left to spin but always under the direction of Capital.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 14:56

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

OwlFancier posted:

A small element of this that I enjoy is that on the tandem bicycle, both people are ultimately providing power to the wheel of Capital while the wheel of Labour is left to spin but always under the direction of Capital.

So, liberalism then?

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:00

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Jedit posted:

So, liberalism then?

Yeah literally. Textually it depicts a system whereby there is the illusion of equality but only one person is doing the steering and only one class gets anything out of it. A Good Comic.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:01

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

Well if you start with the premise that the only thing wrong with Toryism is that it's old and inefficient, whereas socialism is steering with your arse on purpose, you're hardly likely to end up more progressive than capitalism with a different hat and the workers at the back.

Jedit posted:

So, liberalism then?

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:04

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

On a tandem the person at the front does most of the work which I don't think is true of that image.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:12

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

It should actually be a rickshaw with capital sitting in the buggy, and probably eating a swan or something.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:14

domhal: Dec 30, 2008; 0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

crispix posted:

big nige is skint lool

No wonder, with this extravagant lifestyle.

https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/945348579195015168

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:18

Convex: Aug 19, 2010

fuctifino posted:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/nanny-advert-class-warriors/

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:24

smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

Turkish Delight chat. You can now get THESE. My wife is hooked on them like a filthy crack addict

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:24

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1676235167038316549

:allears:

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:29

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

There's only one mini-bar I'm interested in, Turkish or otherwise.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:31

Sir Sidney Poitier: Aug 14, 2006; My favourite actor

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1676235167038316549

Chris: When did you read the report?

Peter: The report was handed to me...

Chris: Have you read the report?

Peter: The report has been read.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:34

domhal: Dec 30, 2008; 0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1676235167038316549

If I was able to perform at that level in a parliamentary committee, I would definitely feel that the universe owed me something.

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:35

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1676235167038316549

I'd refuse to read anything co-authored by Chris Bryant too. Can't believe he's made Rishi more relatable

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:40

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# ? May 24, 2024 21:40

Lunar Suite: Jun 5, 2011; If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers.

My primary issue is the letting agency trying to enter without agreement / an appointment, and getting them to knock that off. Hopefully the threat of a trespassing charge will do that. Far as I can tell, they do have to ask us, and we can say no.

Shelter's a bit wooly on whether the agency has to listen to the no. They just have an email template to complain to the letting agency, with a threat of raising it with the council. Other (lawyer but not my lawyer) websites seem to state 24h notice access clauses are unenforceable as tenants' right to "quiet enjoyment" tops them.

I just don't want strangers in my apartment without me there, and I definitely don't want the letting agent just letting themselves in when it suits them.

Lunar Suite fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Jul 4, 2023

# ? Jul 4, 2023 15:46

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