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Living wage going up to £11.44 apparently, and being expanded to 22- and 21-year-olds. Also NI being cut but I've not seen the details on that one.
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sebzilla posted:Also NI being cut but I've not seen the details on that one. Unification happening sooner than expected.
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Nov 21, 2023 21:52
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sebzilla posted:.. We ain't getting poo poo over here because the Stormont Assembly has been shut down by the DUP... good excuse for the Tories not to waste money on us here if i'm honest, but it's killing our services here. 
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Nov 21, 2023 21:54
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Just Another Lurker posted:We ain't getting poo poo over here because the Stormont Assembly has been shut down by the DUP... good excuse for the Tories not to waste money on us here if i'm honest, but it's killing our services here. Which is pushing the case for Irish unity closer every day. Jeffrey and his gang are pissing on their own chips
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Nov 21, 2023 22:01
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:It makes me think of this road in Scotland which is known as The Mad Wee Road. One time I drove along it there was not one, but two lorries that had run off the side into ditches. There's a road like in NI, the Torr Head scenic route, which is a single lane road with a straight drop into the ocean a few feet away for large parts of it. For oncoming traffic someone needs to back up to one of the few laybys, often around several corners. When my best friend who was a year older got his driving license we used to tear round roads like that in his 12-year old Austin Maestro. We would regularly do things like remote wild camping, climbing mountains during blizzards, camping without tents trying to build our own shelters and going into abandoned coal mines. Looking back it terrifies me how stupid and reckless we were and how lucky nothing too serious happened to us, but some teenage boys given that first bit of freedom will absolutely do dumb poo poo through over-confidence and bravado. I'm deeply sad for those four lads.
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Nov 21, 2023 22:02
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Diet Crack posted:lol it comes full circle because none other than NJAN99 got me this av Lmao. Beautiful
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Nov 21, 2023 22:03
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smellmycheese posted:Which is pushing the case for Irish unity closer every day. Jeffrey and his gang are pissing on their own chips Considering how salty the DUP are on most issues this probably makes their chips taste better.
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Nov 21, 2023 22:04
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smellmycheese posted:Which is pushing the case for Irish unity closer every day. Jeffrey and his gang are pissing on their own chips That does appear to be the end result in the long term, the process will be painful no matter the path taken.
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Nov 21, 2023 22:06
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:
Yeah, the amount of daft dangerous poo poo I did as a teen is mind boggling in retrospect. Most of us get away with it and learn our lessons, I guess. These poor sods didn't get a second chance. Just loving horrible.
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Nov 21, 2023 22:12
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very sad. rip the lads.
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Nov 21, 2023 22:20
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OwlFancier posted:Another bit of BBC doublespeak today stood out to me re: I/P, when hamas kidnaps civilians that's "taking hostages" and when the IDF does it it's "prisoners" Well it's a war. So depends who those people are. If it's Hamas fighters then it's prisoners of war, if it's just random Palestinians then it should be hostages. The IDF probably claim everyone is a Hamas fighter though so it's probably a moot point.
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Nov 21, 2023 22:42
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NotJustANumber99 posted:very sad. rip the lads. I remember a story from after I'd left home, but my parents got a very early morning knock on the door from the police to say their car had been found destroyed upside down in a field. It was their car but, you know my 17 year old youngest brother's. So that was apparently the most pain my mum has ever felt and it was all fine they were all fine. But not for these parents. Young lads.
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Nov 21, 2023 23:03
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Unexpected Brexit bonus: Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act We to keep all of that eat poo poo remainalures 
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We had a couple of bad crashes where I think 2-5 teens were killed within a few years. Wasn't that the roads were particularly dangerous, they were just driving like bellends. First one killed 4 teens - my brother was friends with at least one of them and was pretty cut up about it at the time. Second one killed I think 2 or 3 kids - one of which was a guy I went to primary school with, though I hadn't seen him in a long time. I knew the driver a little bit and I always thought he was a prick. Apparently he was racing or trying to impress his mates by going fast in some lovely little hatchback, clipped a traffic island and flipped it. Happens a lot even on good roads.
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Nov 21, 2023 23:06
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We never had no ad blockers in my day. Bonzi Buddy, Quicktime, Norton Antivirus: we installed the lot and we never complained. Desktops today have gone soft. I remember when this was all the default Windows XP wallpaper
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WhatEvil posted:We had a couple of bad crashes where I think 2-5 teens were killed within a few years. Wasn't that the roads were particularly dangerous, they were just driving like bellends. We have a lot of windy** roads round here bordering on woodlands (a stag jumped out of the hedges on to my dad's car late one evening - lucky he didn't plunge into the river) and so many boys within a week or two of passing their driving tests total their cars driving like lunatics. Just because national speed limit is 60 doesn't mean you have to drive at it especially at night on wet windy* windy** roads without street lights surrounded by dark woods. Oh and no mobile phone signal for miles. * windy pron win-dee as in weather ** windy pron wine-dee as in bendy
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Nov 21, 2023 23:21
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sebzilla posted:Living wage going up to £11.44 apparently, and being expanded to 22- and 21-year-olds. hang on I thought we couldn’t afford to give anyone a pay rise because it would raise inflation
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Nov 21, 2023 23:26
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Just out of seeing Billy Bragg in concert, was one of the more UKMT experiences. He's kind of visually morphing a bit into Jermaine Cromblyn, and it was 2 hours of amazing solidly leftie songs and banter. He went on a 5 min ",gently caress the TERFs" rant and then immediately came back to it after the next song telling "geezers his age" to get with the times and be allies  . A Lad for all seasons.
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Nov 21, 2023 23:49
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did he say anything about ai?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:did he say anything about ai? He wasn't actually there in person obviously, it was just a Billy Bragg holo who danced and ate hotdogs when we texted Bitcoin to a QR code suspended above the stage
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Nov 21, 2023 23:53
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Levi Stubbs Tears so good. Yum yum
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OwlFancier posted:You can describe things as ante-semetic if they happened before the invention of yaoi. The avatar issue distracted from the actual content of this post and that's a crying shame because it's fantastic.
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Nov 21, 2023 23:59
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sinky posted:Unexpected Brexit bonus: Wonder if they will do the same for Windows 12? And we all thought Win 10 was meant to be the final one, Microsoft said so! 
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:It makes me think of this road in Scotland which is known as The Mad Wee Road. One time I drove along it there was not one, but two lorries that had run off the side into ditches. Achiltibuie is one of the most fun place names to say
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bless you
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smellmycheese posted:Levi Stubbs Tears so good. Yum yum
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Wonder if they were wearing seatbelts. I've been in a few cars with younger folks recently and it continuously astonishes me how few people actually belt up. Some Romanian friends got mildly arsy, saying it was an insult to their driving. Which is just insane.
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Yeah, you can go with the "[it's not you], it's the [other] cunts on the road I'm worried about" argument, but some people just don't seem interested. I remember on my foreign exchange trip when I was 14, the father of the family I was staying with looking with contempt at me as I buckled up. Shortly before he proudly showed that he was driving so fast on the motorway that the needle couldn't go any higher.
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Sucks to hear about the 4 kids, their BBC pics make them look like LotR Hobbits. As for kid car stories, back in the early 60s my dad was working in a factory. He was the eldest of seven, and the only one with a car at the time. One night a brother asked for the car to go out to a dance in another town. Dad needed the car the next day for work so said no. Skip jump to next morning, Dad wakes up, sees the car is gone, and freaks out. Brother who asked for car is in bed, so wtf happened. Turns out brother (who was about 17) decided to take the car anyway, goes off to the dance, meets some girl, offers her a drive around to impress her. There was a private airstrip of a few flat fields combined together, had no security fencing or such, and cars would go there to speed up and down. Another thing to note is that it wasn't lit, no street lamps or any illumination nearby. So complete dark. So he takes the girl there, them both drunk, races a bit around, hits a mound of gravel, gets the car stuck on it half overturned. Both thankfully ok, get out, and just flee from the scene. Somehow he got a way home and collapsed into bed drunk not telling anyone . Dad is trying to get alternate transport to work when the cops arrive at the door, saying the car is hosed, on a mound of gravel 20 mile away on private land. Dad hasn't a clue what the gently caress happened, and his dad (my grandad) beats him for going out when he shouldn't have and wrecking the car. Dad swears up and down he hasn't a clue what the gently caress happened, and goes off to work. Hours later the brother sobers up and comes down hungover and covered in dirt and whatnot, and the penny drops. Even stranger, when they went to collect the car, the gravel mound was in a spot where it was vast tracts of safe drivable land all around. It would be harder to hit the mound if you were trying to in the dark, than to hit it at random speeding around this massive open area like what happened.
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Wachter posted:We never had no ad blockers in my day. Bonzi Buddy, Quicktime, Norton Antivirus: we installed the lot and we never complained. Desktops today have gone soft. I remember when this was all the default Windows XP wallpaper It was a rite of passage to open an email and blare to everyone in the office HEY EVERYONE IM LOOKING AT GAY PORN! until you shut it down. Kids these days don't know the meaning of sweat flop panic.
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Ms Adequate posted:The avatar issue distracted from the actual content of this post and that's a crying shame because it's fantastic. I'm glad somebody got it at least  E: <<< what on earth is this?
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Lol, the Guardian's doing it again:The Guardian posted:Israeli cabinet approves deal with Hamas that will see 50 Israeli women and children released over four days, in exchange for 150 jailed Palestinians and a lull in fighting. Follow our live updates The 150 Palestinians... are also women and children, held without charge.
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forkboy84 posted:Achiltibuie is one of the most fun place names to say We stay there each year, my gran lives in Coigach. It took my wife a while to be able to say it, used to be a-kilty-booty. Having driven past Loch Baddie Girl (Bad a Ghaill).
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Pistol_Pete posted:Lol, the Guardian's doing it again: It says this further down "Israel will release 150 Palestinian prisoners, all women and children"
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Mega Comrade posted:It says this further down Those are also hostages, not prisoners. Either they're all prisoners or they're all hostages. MeinPanzer fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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I remember when I lived in Greece that taxi drivers would often work out various ways of preventing the beeping sound from going off when they were driving without a seatbelt on. Mostly they would connect the seatbelt to the receptacle and then just cut the belt right above it. Sometime, though, they would create carefully-crafted wedges from cigarette packs and other crap that could fit perfectly into the receptacle. Greece unsurprisingly has one of the higher rates of road accident deaths in the EU.
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A reverse of the "bad customer service due to AI" subject: I'm in the middle of a real life Pratchett Boot analogy and it's great. Treated myself to a pair of Barbour boots a couple years back, way more than I'd usually spend on shoes, about £150. The ones with no laces, basically these but brown:  Anyway: wore the piss out of them, every time I left the house every day for a year. After that, noticed a hole in the heel that was collecting stones in it, and one of the pulltabs to get them on came loose. Just to chance it, took a photo, wrote to Barbour, said I loved the boots and was sorry to see them coming apart like this. Email the next day, possibly automated but not sure, saying "sorry about that, mail them back to us free of charge with the attached label, give us the code from the courier, select a new pair on our website up to the original price, and we'll ship them out to you." Did it all, no fuss. New pair, same thing, wore the heck out of them, this time after a year the edge of the tread cracked loose. Wrote them again: got essentially the exact same response even though these were a replacement, and am now on my third pair of fancy boots for the price of one. So yeah, super chuffed! Anyone else have a rare example like this, of a company who actually treats it's customers well?
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MeinPanzer posted:Those are also hostages, not prisoners. Either they're all prisoners or they're all hostages. Hamas took those people as bargaining chips, they weren't intended to charge then with anything. Just use as a tool in negotiations. The IDF never intended to let their prisoners go. They would have eventually been charged with such crimes as "looking at a IDF officer funny" and "holding an octopus plushie". I think many if not all of those prisoners are detained illegally but they aren't hostages.
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