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Not sure if this was discussed, but I had a good chuckle imagining the kind of person who would be piss-boiled about this from at least two different angles https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1726684514049569209?t=DZefW0nhUMN1hcRtTYurqQ&s=19 E: 312 AD Constantine I becomes a Christian, which led to a lot more dumb poo poo. Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:
Tesseraction posted:counterpoint: fuk u i'm in ur bed and i'm not leaving 
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happyhippy posted:Sucks to hear about the 4 kids, their BBC pics make them look like LotR Hobbits. fuckin hell what a dick lool 
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Pistol_Pete posted:I've never felt that the few hundred quid a month that I'd get from it would be worth the inconvenience of having a semi-stranger hanging out in your house full time but then, I'm not really a people person. Same here. I tend to not count having lodgers as landlordism though; you're sharing your house with them so it's not on a par with hoarding multiple houses and renting them out.
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Runcible Cat posted:Same here. I tend to not count having lodgers as landlordism though; you're sharing your house with them so it's not on a par with hoarding multiple houses and renting them out. Eh if you've got some poorer people paying your mortgage it's still not exactly great, but it's a sliding scale. If you're basically charging a lodger the bare minimum and not being a oval office then it's not so bad but then how often does that actually happen
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Cookie Cutter posted:The Dinner Party/Pricey Niche Board Game social scene seems to be a great echo chamber for this stuff in one's spare time, from the few times I've had the misfortune of encountering it. ime the general attendance at board game nights are pretty queer and extremely leftist
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OwlFancier posted:Is there some sort of brain gym you go to to keep your bad idea lobe engorged?
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Chubby Henparty posted:Mine get chucked out whenever they are declared too-full-of-gym-stank despite regular washing and love and that was my favourite novelty t-shirt from whatever I was into in 2014, damnit. I wear my clothes "to destruction". I have a few tidy bits for work etc but outside of that more than a few of my t-shirts look as if the moths have been having a feast. I did surrender and buy 2 new t-shirts last year from Tesco. Sadly, all my black beskulled t-shirts have long since bitten the dust. And my painted leather jacket lives on with the painted back patch displayed as an artwork while the rest has gone to the skips (it got mildew and no amount of cleaning would get the mildew off). My favourite fleece is at least 20 years old though I did have to get the zip replaced a couple of years ago. I hate clothes shopping much to the grief of female relations & friends. Sister had a good old rant about me to my mother sometime ago because I had wandered off when she and my niece spent an HOUR trying on fancy bras while I was just supposed to sit there and wait, bored out of my brains. Just grab a sports bra and go! Nobody's looking at the wretched things after the first couple of weeks with a new chap. Pistol_Pete posted:I've never felt that the few hundred quid a month that I'd get from it would be worth the inconvenience of having a semi-stranger hanging out in your house full time but then, I'm not really a people person. Apart from not having any space - yeah they always want to cook and I find the smell of food cooking very offputting - especially soup. Used to flat share with a girl who was always cooking absolutely rank fish. (Our cooker was in the living room so no avoiding the stench). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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Julio Cruz posted:ime the general attendance at board game nights are pretty queer and extremely leftist Then you have been fortunate my friend, the ones I've ended up at have been highly Centrist->Shy Tory affairs, queer attendees included.
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Nuclear Spoon posted:i actually have a bunch of long-sleeves from topman i bought like 15 years ago that are still in pretty good nick. honestly very surprising What's frustrating is that unless you are quite careful, places that used to be fair quality are now a lot worse as they're all chasing lower costs and fast fashion business models. So when you do end up needing to replace things, they last half the time. I've got three H&M jackets that I bought twenty years ago, all of which are still in pretty good condition - but the quality is far beyond current H&M (or similar types of store). Similarly some older trousers are still fine, but newer ones from a similar shop are crap quality. Need to buy from better companies (like the ones mentioned) to get stuff that lasts.
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The leftists have just forcefemmed an emperor Norman!
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Guavanaut posted:The mind palace, but it's palace as in gin palace rather than the method of loci technique.
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Message to the leaders of earth, you have three days to overturn capitalism or I shall utilize my forcefemming machine to turn one of you into a catgirl every hour.
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It is almost funny in a horrifying way how they carefully explain all the reasons that the emperor would have wanted female pronouns, but then agressively use he/him pronouns in the article.
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OwlFancier posted:Message to the leaders of earth, you have three days to overturn capitalism or I shall utilize my forcefemming machine to turn one of you into a catgirl every hour. I think traditionally there has to be a threat of undesired consequences in extortion for it to be really effective.
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Corbyn wanted to nationalise cat girls.
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smellmycheese posted:Pearson is on a roll Stopped clock imo
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In my house we put the decorations up no earlier than the 23rd, and they were down by the 5th of Jan.
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smellmycheese posted:Pearson is on a roll When precisely is the right time to start the gaudy winter festivities that isn't too early (depraved, degenerate) nor too late (woke war on Christendom) ? Flicking a big switch taht says "Xmas Lights" on and off and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
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She's not wrong there. It's insane that we spend 1/6th of the year edging until the big day. No El November.
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Wachter posted:It's insane that we spend 1/6th of the year edging Those are rookie numbers
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If you have a proper tree it's madness to try to keep it looking decent for 4/5 weeks. Go as late as possible imo and then enjoy it into January until it starts getting droopy
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UKMT Winter: Enjoy it into January until it starts getting droopy
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being a fellow possessed of a rotund jocularity I love christmas, but sustained enthusiasm for 6 weeks isnt possible
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Are we still talking about gooning?
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smellmycheese posted:Pearson is on a roll Maybe whatever cultus Pearson is part of is appalled at different things though.
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The estate down the road has a mish-mash of skeletons and santas, it's very mixed messaging I'm thinking people spend so much on these things that they keep them up as long as possible
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It's my first time in ten years not working the retail rush and it's very nice to have christmas just sort of sneak up on you.
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Depends if it's sneaking up on you to stab you in the kidney and steal your wallet or something. I've read the article and I still can't figure it out. She went to a Christmas illuminations event with a Christmas market and is appalled that they're doing Christmas things there. There must be more to it than that. Either that or her mind is entirely spiders.
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The cultural right wing is all over cancel culture and wokeness but they're the ones that demand a monopoly on opinion
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keep punching joe posted:In my house we put the decorations up no earlier than the 23rd, and they were down by the 5th of Jan. Same when we used to do decorations as a kid. Usually they'd go up Christmas Eve
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Guavanaut posted:Depends if it's sneaking up on you to stab you in the kidney and steal your wallet or something. It’s the latter. She is completely unhinged, like most of her fellow Telegraph columnists. There’s a whiff of “gotta crank out 1000 words about something by 4pm” about that Xmas one too
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Cookie Cutter posted:Then you have been fortunate my friend, the ones I've ended up at have been highly Centrist->Shy Tory affairs, queer attendees included. Wonder if it depends on the board game. Do tories play different types. What game do the communists play
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Her one last year was about how loading the dishwasher was her least favourite Christmas task. If metal box that go brr is the most difficult thing she has to do over the holidays then you'd think she'd have a lot of spare time to produce something less meandering than "the council did the thing they do every year at about the same time, moral degen" in between double gin and tonics.
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Putting up decorations 2 days before Christmas is insane. Hardly seems worth the time. Putting them up in November is gauche. Early December is the sweet spot
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Christmas starts when the first advent calendar chocolate gets eaten: you can start in November if you want but you'll run out of energy before the big day.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Not sure if this was discussed, but I had a good chuckle imagining the kind of person who would be piss-boiled about this from at least two different angles It's worth reading the few surviving Roman novels to get an idea of just how sexually weird the pre-Christian Romans were: The Satyricon and The Golden rear end (heh) etc. Also the random snippets of Roman life that come up: I loved the bit in the Satyricon where the protagonist ends up wandering around an art gallery like a modern tourist.
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