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Pistol_Pete posted:I worked for TW a few years back and even then, looking at the balance sheet, it was extremely obvious that their financial trajectory was unsustainable and was going to end badly. If the regulators noticed things like that, then they wouldn't be able to just waltz into a cushy new job at Thames Water then, would they?
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"Water coming out of taps in every home?! Nice idea, but how would we pay for it?"
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When I was young we didn't have water. We went and drank straight from the rivers that were flowing with out own piss and poo poo. Did we complain? No. We just got on with it.
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when I was a wee lad, in ww1, the only taps we had in our homes were the ones our dads would beat us to death with every night, and it never did us any harm
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sometimes when I think about the political situation my head just starts spinning with  those are the more optimistic days, today I'm probably going to go with inchoate screaming, shapeless words of hatred, a nice little fried egg sandwich around 11, then probably some seething to carry me into the afternoon
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The youth of today just doesn't understand hardship. They will never understand the sheer terror of witnessing society completely collapsing, like in the 70s when the bins didn't get collected for a short period. That was like the apocalypse.
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Thames Debt-Funded Dividends and poo poo is just focusing on the core business and scaling down the water sideshow
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UKMT: Dividends and poo poo
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DesperateDan posted:a nice little fried egg sandwich around 11 In this economy?
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domhal posted:In this economy? I am friends with some chickens irl, they hook me up sometimes prefer them to most humans imo
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1965917 posted:This just gets worse and worse. No, it's real. Liz Jones is an example of a kind of British Tory that has little to no interaction with the real world and is simultaneously a figure that you hate and take pity on.
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Gonzo McFee posted:No, it's real. Liz Jones is an example of a kind of British Tory that has little to no interaction with the real world and is simultaneously a figure that you hate and take pity on. Taking pity on Tories now? You're getting soft in your old age.
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Oh, liz jones, the daily mail poo poo who was going to spend an entire week, one whole week! on benefits to prove that it's a luxurious amount of money and the first thing she did was buy like twice the monthly allowance on groceries and then hundreds on shoes and then gave up on day one because it was too hard. Oh right and the same shithead who moved into the country to get away from all inner cities browns and leftists only to almost instantly wake up one day to find someone had shotgunned her mailbox into scrap metal.
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Labour are apparently much more radical than I realised
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It owns that you can say the most unhinged insane poo poo and rather than being gently led to the asylum you get published in national papers.
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They're just copying the same John Birch Society bullshit that the US has been subjected to for the past 70 years. "The state will replace the family!" Which is just a development of the Protocols of Zion "The Jews will replace religion with science and hereditary offices with elected positions!" Which in turn was just a bunch of belle epoque aristos screaming "reject social accountability! return to noncey!" 
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I'm the unnecessary truncated y-axis on the bottom-right graph.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-revolution-iron-method-taken-from-jamaica-britonquote:Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’ A nice juicy fact to share with gammon nationalists
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One thing I'll miss when Twitter dies is Steven Hogarty's gimmick on Climate Change. https://twitter.com/misterbrilliant/status/1676525843076505600?t=HtuqKWlZXAN1m81df0xW3Q&s=19
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fuctifino posted:A nice juicy fact to share with gammon nationalists quote:Bulstrode hopes to challenge existing narratives of innovation. “If you ask people about the model of an innovator, they think of Elon Musk or some old white guy in a lab coat,” she said.
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"live with it" Turns out they couldn't
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okay here's the platonic perfect mediocre egg sandwich, because I haven't got garlic chilli chutney in at the moment bastard kids ate the good eggs but these are fine, note the shitey white bread must be at least a day old or it will fail structurally, also you need spread and I used clover  fry em on extra low (you need oil too I guess) until nearly cooked through, then add pepper and flip em just long enough to divide them for easy arrangement   they go face down on the spread bread, so you can stab holes in the backs of the yolk for soy sauce- just a drop in each to bring out the flavour, and some salt too  and thus elevenses were had, I would say back to the madness but I'm gonna gently caress it off, get high and watch trek instead
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pff, I used to beat my friends at Tekken 3 using the broken controller, they just needed to git gud
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"Right is forward," Starmer said. "Great! Live with it."
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Put the auto fire on to make the submarine go faster.
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keep punching joe posted:Not ukpol but still funny The whole article is really worth reading, available here https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen And here if you've run out of free articles https://archive.fo/KjYkd This is the part that made me rather mad: quote:Although it is illegal to transport passengers in an unclassed, experimental submersible, “under U.S. regulations, you can kill crew,” McCallum told me. “You do get in a little bit of trouble, in the eyes of the law. But, if you kill a passenger, you’re in big trouble. And so everyone was classified as a ‘mission specialist.’ There were no passengers—the word ‘passenger’ was never used.” No one bought tickets; they contributed an amount of money set by Rush to one of OceanGate’s entities, to fund their own missions.
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Can't believe people forgot how insane Liz "Jizz Loans" Jones is. Absolute goldmine, though she's been quiet for a while. Back with a vengeance though.
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Classifying all my murder victims as surgical patients so they get covered under my medical malpractice insurance.
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I thought you were dead Harold.
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keep punching joe posted:Not ukpol but still funny Is this real or fanfic?  (OK just seen the link to the actual). Real. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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OwlFancier posted:Put the auto fire on to make the submarine go faster. Ocelot will find out and turn up in Metal Gear Ray to stop you
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Is this real or fanfic? My reaction when I read that was to laugh at this brilliantly written satire. Then I discovered it's a real article. Guavanaut posted:I guess that depends on what sector specific echo chamber you're in, because I can remember Norbert Rillieux being lauded as the father of industrial process innovation way back, whereas I doubt Elon Musk will be remembered as an innovator of anything other than poo poo jokes and loving things up except among a dozen techbro winfluencer dickheads. You jest and yet up until recently (and probably still now with a shrinking number of people) people were sure that Elon Musk was a genius. People bought the PR spin that he was a modern-day Tony Stark who invented the electric car. They didn't get that he was a huckster who made his rockets explode because he was tired of hearing about safety concerns about a lack of a blast pitt, he created a drilling company that could never dig a proper tunnel but would help kill public transport projects in a state and instead of making a left hand drive car for the UK, just gave people the Reacher The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Jul 5, 2023 |
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Zing https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1676555538543280131?s=20
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Comrade Fakename posted:Can't believe people forgot how insane Liz "Jizz Loans" Jones is. Absolute goldmine, though she's been quiet for a while. Back with a vengeance though. I used to write a weekly parody version of Liz Jones column for Holy Moly, if anyone is old enough to remember that
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smellmycheese posted:I used to write a weekly parody version of Liz Jones column for Holy Moly, if anyone is old enough to remember that Wow, it's a late-2000s nostalgia fest in here! A weird time that is mostly memory holed.
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keep punching joe posted:Not ukpol but still funny Oh good Lord it's real
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