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But enough about Elon Musk, there are dedicated threads for that! "Pop Song 89" is the opening track and third single released from R.E.M.'s sixth studio album Green. It peaked at number 86 on the Hot 100, and in the UK "Stand" was re-released instead.
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Dec 31, 2023 11:45
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I now have my first cold since before Covid, knew it was a high chance when visiting relatives over xmas.   today
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Dec 31, 2023 11:46
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Just Another Lurker posted:I now have my first cold since before Covid, knew it was a high chance when visiting relatives over xmas. Me too and I’m hosting an NYE party. Good thing I got some Bucky for Christmas.
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Dec 31, 2023 12:46
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Mebh posted:Ps. Adopt a cat. Then your bed can look like this too Way ahead of you. 
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Dec 31, 2023 12:47
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Runcible Cat posted:Way ahead of you. Well, your username checks out.
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Dec 31, 2023 13:00
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Runcible Cat posted:Way ahead of you. 
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Dec 31, 2023 13:09
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Miftan posted:Well, your username checks out. Neither of them's me,for the record. No crimson whiskers.
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Dec 31, 2023 13:43
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Every pub has an app now, they got there first but it ain't a reason to go anymore. Wetherspoons is the only app that understands it's purpose is to deliver booze and carbs to your table asap and delivers on it. All other pub apps are useless and want you to set accounts up with passwords and poo poo and then the WiFi is too rubbish to download the menu without crashing.
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Dec 31, 2023 14:34
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I worked for the company that made the Spoons app and they were a horrible client. Cheap and demanding.
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Dec 31, 2023 14:44
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Hmm yes the word 'serve' has only one meaning and it's a good thing that when the bible was written (in english, of course) that they had in mind the meaning that includes blowing up kids and shooting unruly Irishmen. That's definitely what Jesus meant.
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Dec 31, 2023 14:49
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I tried using one of the apps (not spoons), and it added a 10% service charge, and then the drinks took 15 minutes to arrive when I could have walked up to the bar, ordered and picked them up in 5. Just crap.
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Dec 31, 2023 14:50
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There's a lot of multi restaurant places in Sheffield that encourage you use their app. Places where you get like 10 food truck style places under one roof with a bar in the middle. E.g. Cutlery Works https://cutleryworks.co.uk/table-menus/ I've had mixed results. Sometimes it's extremely smooth, sometimes the bar loses your order and you have to go poke them. Either way it's always horrifically overpriced for the bar, however the food is usually decent. E: for a decent grub night in Sheffield try one of the (6?) Brewery/smash burger places. They all seem to be competing with each other. I don't know if London is the same but the quality and deals, especially the happy hour stuff have really gone up since they're all competing. Twisted is my current favourite. Also no apps! Mebh fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Dec 31, 2023 |
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Dec 31, 2023 15:07
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Chas McGill posted:I worked for the company that made the Spoons app and they were a horrible client. Cheap and demanding. Shocking to learn that it's miserly cunts making insulting crap all the way down
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Dec 31, 2023 15:15
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happyhippy posted:Friend did his uni years in Sheffield. What the gently caress? Did the dude at least pay it back? How did he get access to your friends account?
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Dec 31, 2023 15:54
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Pistol_Pete posted:Wetherspoons is the only app that understands it's purpose is to deliver booze and carbs to your table asap and delivers on it. My favourite are the ones that don't have live data, so you order only for someone to walk over to your table 10 minutes later and tell you they don't have what you ordered.
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Dec 31, 2023 15:56
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kingturnip posted:There's nothing wrong with having friendships that are very circumstantial. there are disagreements and disagreements though like my friends can’t agree on whether BG3 or Elden Ring is a better game and that’s fine, but to be a Tory in 2023 you’ve got to believe that immigrants and trans people don’t deserve human rights and that’s a bit much to just say “agree to disagree” on imo
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Dec 31, 2023 16:04
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when they do polls, you get stuff like a percentage of snp voters who dont want independence. Like people can be politcally aligned, whatever that means, with a party and still think some pretty unexpected things.
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Dec 31, 2023 16:14
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I could be friends with someone who's a naieve Tory voter. My Dad voted for them a few times but if you actually asked him what their policies were, he wouldn't know. His reasoning would have just been "I'm sick of Blair" or something and he hasn't voted for them recently because "I don't trust Boris". But someone who's actually engaged with politics and still votes Tory? Nah.
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Dec 31, 2023 16:15
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Josef bugman posted:What the gently caress? Did the dude at least pay it back? How did he get access to your friends account? Oh yeah got it back. And he skimmed the card while talking to my friend in the shop, had one behind the counter of Forbidden Planet. It was a good 20 years ago.
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Dec 31, 2023 16:52
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happyhippy posted:Oh yeah got it back. And he skimmed the card while talking to my friend in the shop, had one behind the counter of Forbidden Planet. Glad i never bought their B5 figures when i was last there (decades ago), a poor selection and overpriced. 
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Dec 31, 2023 16:59
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Josef bugman posted:What the gently caress? Did the dude at least pay it back? How did he get access to your friends account? 
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Dec 31, 2023 17:04
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Bobby Deluxe posted:poo poo was wild in the early days of credit / debit theft. Before you had the cvv codes on the back, you basically just needed to glance in the direction of someone's card and you could do what you liked with it. Had my card emptied in university by a worker at Domino's as to pay over the phone back then you had to read out your card to them.It was weird. They just spent my entire student loan on license plate checks.
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Dec 31, 2023 17:07
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Bobby Deluxe posted:poo poo was wild in the early days of credit / debit theft. Before you had the cvv codes on the back, you basically just needed to glance in the direction of someone's card and you could do what you liked with it. Yeah, you used to hear about ATMs having skimming keypads put on them all the time. Nowadays its poo poo rare.
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Dec 31, 2023 17:08
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happyhippy posted:Yeah, you used to hear about ATMs having skimming keypads put on them all the time.
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Dec 31, 2023 17:14
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Mega Comrade posted:I could be friends with someone who's a naieve Tory voter. My Dad voted for them a few times but if you actually asked him what their policies were, he wouldn't know. His reasoning would have just been "I'm sick of Blair" or something and he hasn't voted for them recently because "I don't trust Boris". I can't stand Janet Daley, but I can sort of buy her opinion of Starmer, that he'll never be PM, simply 'cos he's a very unlikeable person: quote:If he gets the disappointing result that I expect, it will not be because he failed to offer convincing (or any) policies that could be remedies for the country’s problems but because he has only one facial expression - the blank, startled gaze of a badger in the headlights - and no perceptible sense of humour.
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Dec 31, 2023 17:17
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So, another Kinnock or Miliband: ultimately people will look at him and just go: "nah".
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Dec 31, 2023 17:18
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It is kind of hilarious how when he first appeared everyone said how sensible and prime ministerial he looked (mostly as a dig at how much corbyn didn't), and then he completely blew that out the water simply by opening his mouth and saying things.
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Dec 31, 2023 17:21
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Being fair the things he says are dogshit.
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Dec 31, 2023 17:24
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It wasn't actually opening his mouth that blew it, it was just the look of terror in his eyes
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Dec 31, 2023 17:35
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Mega Comrade posted:I could be friends with someone who's a naieve Tory voter. My Dad voted for them a few times but if you actually asked him what their policies were, he wouldn't know. His reasoning would have just been "I'm sick of Blair" or something and he hasn't voted for them recently because "I don't trust Boris". We get a lot of this centrist broadsheet valorisation about 'reaching across the divide' and how the younger generation needs to start building social relationships with people who disagree with us politically in order to challenge our preconceptions and heal our broken society, and none of it really takes into account just how loving tedious young Tories have been rendered by anti-PC culture and comedy. I understand that to a Guardian columnist, reaching across the political divide involves some gentle Rory Stewart type who you sit down with over a bottle of Chablis to debate the free market, as opposed to 'noisy tosser who won't stop going on about pronouns, immigrants, blue hair, how shallow women are today on Hinge, or showing off his hilarious Team America impressions at you'
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Dec 31, 2023 17:37
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NotJustANumber99 posted:It wasn't actually opening his mouth that blew it, it was just the look of terror in his eyes An apt summation of his approach to politics.
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Dec 31, 2023 18:06
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grobbo posted:I understand that to a Guardian columnist, reaching across the political divide involves some gentle Rory Stewart type who you sit down with over a bottle of Chablis to debate the free market, as opposed to 'noisy tosser who won't stop going on about pronouns, immigrants, blue hair, how shallow women are today on Hinge, or showing off his hilarious Team America impressions at you' That's the entire premise of their "Dining Across the Divide" column, isn't it? Except that most of the ones I've bothered reading are like "Yeah, it turns out they were an insufferable arsehole with opinions I could never tolerate".
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Dec 31, 2023 18:51
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Just go to the drat bar and get your beer like a normal person goons, your friendly bar staff ain't getting paid more to walk for you
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Dec 31, 2023 18:54
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It's good if you're on your own cos you don't lose your seat getting up
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Dec 31, 2023 19:22
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kingturnip posted:That's the entire premise of their "Dining Across the Divide" column, isn't it? it's hilarious because it's always like "we found a pink haired genderfluid '''male''' and paired him with a perfectly nice woman from Raciston" and it always comes down to the designated SJW being nuanced and thoughtful and the other one being like "not being racist like but black people keep dancing on the bus and it ruins my morning commute, only genocide will fix this"
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Dec 31, 2023 20:08
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Jakabite posted:Me too and I’m hosting an NYE party. Good thing I got some Bucky for Christmas. I've got noro from visiting relatives over Christmas, even better. The idea of even seeing a bottle of alcohol is almost enough to send me to another bout of vomiting and diarrhea (possibly both at once).
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Dec 31, 2023 20:35
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grobbo posted:We get a lot of this centrist broadsheet valorisation about 'reaching across the divide' and how the younger generation needs to start building social relationships with people who disagree with us politically in order to challenge our preconceptions and heal our broken society, and none of it really takes into account just how loving tedious young Tories have been rendered by anti-PC culture and comedy. Funnily enough it's always the young and left-wing who need to reach out, change themselves and moderate their beliefs, never the reverse. 🤔it's almost like the children are wrong.
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Dec 31, 2023 20:36
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people i disagree with about politics generally are ignorant of keynesian economics and have poo poo for brains there is no compromise to be had 
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Dec 31, 2023 20:39
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Celebrated NYE Sydney time with Aussie friends on account of having a 9month old. Getting ready for bed and looking forward to lurking a bit less in 24 and hoping all tories (incl Keith) eat poo poo next year. Be well, UKMT.
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Dec 31, 2023 20:42
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Flux Wildly posted:Celebrated NYE Sydney time with Aussie friends on account of having a 9month old. Getting ready for bed and looking forward to lurking a bit less in 24 and hoping all tories (incl Keith) eat poo poo next year. Heck yeah, maybe 2024 be the year of more lurkers coming and posting with us, the UK Manga Thread.
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Dec 31, 2023 20:43
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