UKMT Summer 2023 - Too fat and woke to fight

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

crispix posted:

there was some old git on jeremy vine the other morning talking about how the state of the national finances are at their worse since the second world war and we have to tighten our belts in the national interest lol

we've been in this spiral since 2010 and there's no effective force in the country to push back against an endless austerity shitey-go-round, is there

Did nobody tell him you have to spend money to make money?

(Did nobody tell him what happened after the war?)

fuctifino posted:

I'm out of touch these days, but do people buy takeaway pints from pubs?

During the lockdown you could bring a plastic milk jug to many pubs (being one of the few other things measured in pints) and they'd fill it with draught bitter or so.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 17:07

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# ? May 20, 2024 19:50

Ebola Dog: Apr 3, 2011; Dinosaurs are directly related to turtles!

Guavanaut posted:

During the lockdown you could bring a plastic milk jug to many pubs (being one of the few other things measured in pints) and they'd fill it with draught bitter or so.

I get takeaway from my local sometimes because it's just down the road and having a small child isn't conducive to Friday nights at the pub anymore. It's nice to have some draught beer with dinner sometimes.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 17:15

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Perhaps there should be those old victorian water fountains but they dispense beer

# ? Aug 13, 2023 17:17

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
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Hello, dear

Guavanaut posted:

Did nobody tell him you have to spend money to make money?

(Did nobody tell him what happened after the war?)

no they didn't: the left wing woman on the panel didn't put that out as a rebuttal and of course jeremy - an unfathomably dim and gormless man - was in agreement because that's how finance works, it's the national credit card!!!!

# ? Aug 13, 2023 17:19

smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

Gullis hits the streets�

https://twitter.com/jasemonkey/status/1690487736208097280?s=20

# ? Aug 13, 2023 17:20

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
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Hello, dear

on the same day he was doing the preview to his show bit with vernon kay and he had a moment of epiphany "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH i thought it was SEE-AN ducrot!!! :sparkles:

# ? Aug 13, 2023 17:22

Lord Ludikrous: Jun 7, 2008; Enjoy your tea...

I�m really lucky that while I need glasses for long distance my eyes clinically haven�t changed significantly to be worth getting new lenses. So I�m still wearing my prescription sunglasses and regular glasses from 2016, and can still use my glasses from 2023 if I want.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 17:53

WhatEvil: Jun 6, 2004; Can't get no luck.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Don't do this. Please for the love of god do not do this.

You will get the PD wrong because you can't measure it yourself, and most opticians won't give you it because it's not part of the prescription and they know what you're doing. Opticians (especially independants) lose money on eye tests and need to make it up on the frames, so if you get the eye test and don't get the glasses, you're not paying the shop staff for their labour (fine if speccers, a poo poo thing to do to an independant).

The sites constantly gently caress up astygmatism prescriptions and then make it difficult for you to get a refund on 'specialist lenses', the frames and lenses are both cheap and usually cast-offs that almost failed QC (like poundland stock), and you will give yourself headaches and likely worsen your eyesight and then have to go crawling back to specsavers in a year to fix it all.

Go to an independant in a rough area and be nice to the staff, they'll probably be able to do you something cheap and decent quality.

To clarify my initial response of 'um,' I had a worsening eye in my 20s and it wasn't until I went to an optician that during the lens fitting, they pointed out that they could gradually correct it by amending the prescription over time. If I'd just taken the prescription to the internet as-is, the astygmatism would have gotten worse, not better.

E: might have been the rotation which was worsening the astygmatism, but the point is it wouldn't have been sorted if I hadn't had the lens fitting.

If your fear is that they'll gently caress the prescription up you can still order the frames online and then take the frames to Specsavers or whatever for the lenses. Will still likely save money because the frames you buy from any high street store are crazy expensive for what they are mostly due to the Luxottica monopoly on frame manufacture:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anaswa...sh=319be06f6b66

It's possible they'll gripe about glazing your own frames but I've had it done a couple of times before and it was fine.

Also if you do end up buying full frames and lenses at a high street store, know that the salespeople usually have some leeway to give discounts and deals and stuff, so you should try it on and don't be afraid to be cheeky. I've had Vision Express (who do more in the way of fancy designer frames etc.) do lenses for me for �69 instead of the �120ish they were going to charge me on top of the frame cost because I said "Ah I'll probably just buy the frames here and take them to SpecSavers, then, they do lenses for �69" - and of course if they refuse to give you a discount, actually doing that is a very real option. This was a while ago so SS may not do lenses for �69 anymore (I think that was also with anti-reflect/anti-scratch) but I've generally found they are usually cheaper than at least some of the other opticians - I would buy full frames from there but I usually have a harder time finding something that suits me there than other places.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 18:10

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

Monacles are usually half the price of a pair of glasses and much more stylish.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 18:57

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

You can protect yourself against all forms of sex with them too.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 19:00

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

Makes your knob look bigger too!

# ? Aug 13, 2023 19:07

Chubby Henparty: Aug 13, 2007

Heard good things about the opticians at the local Asda, booked in for Friday. Suspect at this stage all I need is reading glasses that just magnify? over a prescription, look forward to finding out!

# ? Aug 13, 2023 19:54

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

Just do the thing with your fingers and the writing will get bigger

# ? Aug 13, 2023 19:56

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Just do the thing with your fingers

That's why my vision is so bad in the first place

# ? Aug 13, 2023 19:59

Chubby Henparty: Aug 13, 2007

I was assured f I kept doing that I would go blind

^^ drawing back for a high five then thinking better of it

# ? Aug 13, 2023 19:59

HopperUK: Apr 29, 2007; Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

I wonder if that was ever a real hot air balloon. You know the hot air balloon you look at? Is that a photo? I should try to actually find out. I've looked at that drat thing more than most people I bet.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 19:59

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

More like the Wokeygraph!

Oh wait they're English it's fine.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 20:01

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

HopperUK posted:

I wonder if that was ever a real hot air balloon. You know the hot air balloon you look at? Is that a photo? I should try to actually find out. I've looked at that drat thing more than most people I bet.

I love that balloon at the end of the highway. It's a whole world of possibilities

# ? Aug 13, 2023 20:03

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

On a poo poo British highway
Cool jam on my toast
Warm smell of colitis
Rising up from the coast
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a hot air balloon
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I ended up in a dune

# ? Aug 13, 2023 20:11

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Guavanaut posted:

On a poo poo British highway
Cool jam on my toast
Warm smell of colitis
Rising up from the coast
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a hot air balloon
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I ended up in a dune

Lmao

# ? Aug 13, 2023 20:28

Bobstar: Feb 8, 2006; KartooshFace, you are not responding efficiently!

Guavanaut posted:

On a poo poo British highway
Cool jam on my toast
Warm smell of colitis
Rising up from the coast
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a hot air balloon
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I ended up in a dune

# ? Aug 13, 2023 20:34

Fumble: Sep 4, 2006; Can't post for 20 days!

Guavanaut posted:

More like the Wokeygraph!

Oh wait they're English it's fine.

I would watch a reality tv show about 2 blokes in a white van driving around sothern france rounding up illegal expats.
Get them cunts off that bailiffs show to do it.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 20:37

smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

Guavanaut posted:

On a poo poo British highway
Cool jam on my toast
Warm smell of colitis
Rising up from the coast
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a hot air balloon
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I ended up in a dune

WELCOME TO THE HOTEL BIBBY STOCKHOLM

# ? Aug 13, 2023 20:50

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1690809301328101376

quote:

Thomas, one of five children born to a civil servant and a teacher, was a pupil at the top public school Winchester college before reading religion, politics and ethics at King�s College London.

Thomas learned to read and write Arabic, studied in Egypt shortly after the Arab Spring, and was there while there was a coup against the Muslim Brotherhood.

After signing up to the military, he became the Royal Marines� light heavyweight boxing champion and was deployed to train in Arctic warfare and worked in nuclear security on Faslane naval base in Scotland.

He also served in combat missions before leaving the corps in February, he said, but remains tightlipped about the details. Asked if he served with special forces, as sources have claimed, Thomas declined to comment.

So we're going to be getting another spook as an MP

# ? Aug 13, 2023 21:27

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

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1690809301328101376

So we're going to be getting another spook as an MP

Thomas learned to read and write Arabic, studied in Egypt shortly after the Arab Spring, and was there while there was a coup against the Muslim Brotherhood.

It was NOT a coup, it was NOT a coup. Pay attention. It was an Ouster.

I did that can I be a Labour MP? (JOKING!!)? Except I was there right through the Arab Spring & the Notta Coup. (and a few years before and after).

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/when-is-a-military-coup-not-a-military-coup-when-it-happens-in-egypt-apparently-8688000.html

quote:

When is a military coup not a military coup? When it happens in Egypt, apparently
Those Western leaders who are telling us Egypt is still on the path to �democracy� have to remember that Morsi was indeed elected in a real, Western-approved election
Robert Fisk
Thursday 04 July 2013 20:26

People celebrate at Tahrir Square with a portrait of Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after a broadcast confirming that the army will temporarily be taking over from the country's first democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi

For the first time in the history of the world, a coup is not a coup. The army take over, depose and imprison the democratically elected president, suspend the constitution, arrest the usual suspects, close down television stations and mass their armour in the streets of the capital. But the word �coup� does not � and cannot � cross the lips of the Blessed Barack Obama. Nor does the hopeless UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon dare to utter such an offensive word. It�s not as if Obama doesn�t know what�s going on. Snipers in Cairo killed 15 Egyptians this week from a rooftop of the very university in which Obama made his �reach-out� speech to the Muslim world in 2009.

Is this reticence because millions of Egyptians demanded just such a coup � they didn�t call it that, of course � and thus became the first massed people in the world to demand a coup prior to the actual coup taking place? Is it because Obama fears that to acknowledge it�s a coup would force the US to impose sanctions on the most important Arab nation at peace with Israel? Or because the men who staged the coup might forever lose their 1.5 billion subvention from the US � rather than suffer a mere delay -- if they were told they�d actually carried out a coup.

etc

# ? Aug 13, 2023 21:41

HopperUK: Apr 29, 2007; Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Guavanaut posted:

On a poo poo British highway
Cool jam on my toast
Warm smell of colitis
Rising up from the coast
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a hot air balloon
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I ended up in a dune

# ? Aug 13, 2023 21:50

Sad Panda: Sep 22, 2004; I'm a Sad Panda.

I'm going to Northern Ireland in a couple of weeks to go hike Slieve Donard. I've been to Northern Ireland before briefly, but this time I'm thinking of taking a https://belfasttours.com/tours tour to hear a bit more about life during 'The Troubles' and the murals. Does anyone have any decent films/documentaries/podcasts to recommend before I go? 71 is on Netflix, and I've watched that.

I was a kid in the 80s and was in Manchester when the Arndale Centre got bombed. I'm not completely oblivious, but would no way call myself knowledgeable about the topic.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 22:00

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

fuctifino posted:

I'm out of touch these days, but do people buy takeaway pints from pubs?

https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1690747508283068416

Whenever I've gotten a take-away pint it's warm by the time i get home and I've spilled most of it on the way back

# ? Aug 13, 2023 22:05

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

RDevz posted:

What happened is that a bunch of customers were lucky enough to fix their energy tariffs with suppliers for a couple of years at low prices before everything went tits up. Many of these suppliers had an interesting approach to hedging and risk management, in that they didn't bother with it, and just bought the power and gas their customers were using just before it was supplied on the assumption that prices will fall as the risk premium drops out of the market. This is fine right up until the wholesale market spikes and the supplier collapses.

We then have a problem, because electricity generators and gas producers need to be paid or they go under and stop producing, so you need to be moved to a new supplier, through Ofgem's Supplier of Last Resort process. Because voiding customers' tariffs and putting them on a tariff at the marginal cost of supply would be a massive overnight spike in costs, which would lead to an even bigger cost of living crisis, Ofgem make the new supplier continue to honour those massively loss-making tariffs. The new supplier then makes a big loss on their new customers that they didn't expect to have and hadn't hedged the power and gas for. In order to stop this just turning into the entire industry collapsing domino-like thanks to one company offering an unsustainably low tariff, the new supplier is allowed to claim back the losses they make from these new customers. This money comes from the distribution networks, because they've got deep pockets and can finance a couple of billion pounds for a couple of years. The distribution networks are then allowed to increase the standing charges they charge to suppliers a year or so later, and the suppliers then pass on the increased standing charges to customers.

These failed suppliers also don't pay for their share of things like subsidies to wind farms and so on, which is then "mutualised", which is a fancy Ofgem term for "passed back onto suppliers that didn't fail and then passed onto consumers in the form of higher bills".

Thus, the reason the standing charge is going up is because a bunch of people fixed their energy tariffs with cheap suppliers which exploded and caused a lot of costs in the process of doing so. The blame for this lies at the door of those politicians who decided that the best way to score political points was to encourage switching and drive energy supplier margins negative, instead of investing and encouraging investment in zero/low carbon forms of energy that aren't vulnerable to gas prices going through the roof.

As a side note, one of my colleagues had to do the justification for a SoLR claim to Ofgem back when I used to work for a supplier. He was one of the smartest guys I know, it took about three months of fiddling with Excel and our risk management system, and the level of detail drat near drove him insane. I'm very glad that I dodged that particular bullet.

Fascinating. Thanks for this.

So to some extent, the extra-expensive standing charge I'm about to start paying for when I go onto a new tarriff, is somewhat off-set by the savings I made when I sought out the cheapest possible tariff ages ago. I feel a little better.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 22:06

smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

Sad Panda posted:

I'm going to Northern Ireland in a couple of weeks to go hike Slieve Donard. I've been to Northern Ireland before briefly, but this time I'm thinking of taking a https://belfasttours.com/tours tour to hear a bit more about life during 'The Troubles' and the murals. Does anyone have any decent films/documentaries/podcasts to recommend before I go? 71 is on Netflix, and I've watched that.

I was a kid in the 80s and was in Manchester when the Arndale Centre got bombed. I'm not completely oblivious, but would no way call myself knowledgeable about the topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(film)

# ? Aug 13, 2023 22:06

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

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1690809301328101376

So we're going to be getting another spook as an MP

good. he seems like a decent lad.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 22:11

Unkempt: May 24, 2003; ...perfect spiral, scientists are still figuring it out...

Microplastics posted:

Whenever I've gotten a take-away pint it's warm by the time i get home and I've spilled most of it on the way back

I believe spilling your own pint obliges you to punch yourself in the face.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 22:11

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

isn't a takeaway pint where you just brazen it up and walk out with the full pint in hand, glass and all and walk home with it, because that's a perfectly legal thrill and has been for years

# ? Aug 13, 2023 22:19

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

No that's just the origin story for half my glass cupboard in the early 00s.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 22:28

Desiderata: May 25, 2005; Go placidly amid the noise and haste...

Sad Panda posted:

I'm going to Northern Ireland in a couple of weeks to go hike Slieve Donard. I've been to Northern Ireland before briefly, but this time I'm thinking of taking a https://belfasttours.com/tours tour to hear a bit more about life during 'The Troubles' and the murals. Does anyone have any decent films/documentaries/podcasts to recommend before I go? 71 is on Netflix, and I've watched that.

I was a kid in the 80s and was in Manchester when the Arndale Centre got bombed. I'm not completely oblivious, but would no way call myself knowledgeable about the topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(film) - it's so well made it feels like you're there.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 22:33

Testro: May 2, 2009

Sad Panda posted:

I'm going to Northern Ireland in a couple of weeks to go hike Slieve Donard. I've been to Northern Ireland before briefly, but this time I'm thinking of taking a https://belfasttours.com/tours tour to hear a bit more about life during 'The Troubles' and the murals. Does anyone have any decent films/documentaries/podcasts to recommend before I go? 71 is on Netflix, and I've watched that.

I was a kid in the 80s and was in Manchester when the Arndale Centre got bombed. I'm not completely oblivious, but would no way call myself knowledgeable about the topic.

I thought this was interesting when I watched it in 2020; it's no longer on iPlayer but it's worth a watch if you can find it streaming: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008c4b

I also read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_Nothing_(book) - the author's writing style was very engaging.

# ? Aug 13, 2023 22:35

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

a takeaway pint is any one where you get home before having a wee

# ? Aug 14, 2023 03:01

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

A takeaway pint supped in the car on the way home is just one of the ways we have reclaimed our freedom with brexit.

# ? Aug 14, 2023 04:51

The Perfect Element: Dec 5, 2005; "This is a bit of a... a poof song"

DesperateDan posted:

isn't a takeaway pint where you just brazen it up and walk out with the full pint in hand, glass and all and walk home with it, because that's a perfectly legal thrill and has been for years

A mate and I got caught doing that years ago by the owner of a nice place in town, and he very politely explained how people doing what we were doing was modestly but demonstrably contributing to the decline of UK pubs. This made me feel very guilty and I haven't done it since.

# ? Aug 14, 2023 06:01

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# ? May 20, 2024 19:50

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

The Perfect Element posted:

A mate and I got caught doing that years ago by the owner of a nice place in town, and he very politely explained how people doing what we were doing was modestly but demonstrably contributing to the decline of UK pubs. This made me feel very guilty and I haven't done it since.

ignoring the obvious "lol you got caught, scrub"

my local ignored it entirely provided it was pint glasses as they never had to pay for them themselves

guinness one with the big gold harp?

# ? Aug 14, 2023 07:13

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