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I've never heard gang used in a professional setting 
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Jan 3, 2024 15:40
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Mega Comrade posted:I've never heard gang used in a professional setting I suppose you don't these days and it does feel like a very 18th century term.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:48
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bessantj posted:Yeah you're right he is a shockingly childish man on times. He once punched the side of the van because someone sat in the seat he wanted to sit in. Sounds like the lad has issues and is happy to spread the joy in everything he does. Swap Gove & Boris for Tories sitting in Parliament then you know my feelings regarding them... probably a few Labour ones as well but i wouldn't want mission creap. 
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Jan 3, 2024 15:51
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Bobby Deluxe posted:They seem to assume that anyone expressing mild dislke is in fact seething and scromiting themselves into insanity over the existence of a director who is at best passable and at worst overuses slowmo. why do you think I was talking about you?
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Jan 3, 2024 16:56
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Can we have a thread moratorium on loving dog poo poo vacuous action movies and the people who make them? It is so, so tedious (and even more off topic than the usual shite we talk about in here), and I can smell the cheesy stink of the posters getting all het up on either side of the debate from here (no it is not me thank you, I am wearing JOOP! which my mum bought me)
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Jan 3, 2024 17:11
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Have something political instead: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/03/farnborough-airports-biggest-critic-silenced-as-expansion-plans-continue
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Jan 3, 2024 17:21
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The Perfect Element posted:Can we have a thread moratorium on loving dog poo poo vacuous action movies and the people who make them? It is so, so tedious (and even more off topic than the usual shite we talk about in here), and I can smell the cheesy stink of the posters getting all het up on either side of the debate from here (no it is not me thank you, I am wearing JOOP! which my mum bought me) No, we may not. In fact now I'm going to watch all the Zach Snyder movies since Sucker Punch so I can have an actual opinion on them to share with you in this thread OK, no, I'm not actually going to do that. I'm not watching 5 movies just to be annoying, considering I didn't even watch 5 movies last year. That's time I could spend watching yesterday & today's All Japan shows, & today's DDT show & probably at least 1 other wrestling show.
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Jan 3, 2024 17:28
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The Perfect Element posted:Can we have a thread moratorium on loving dog poo poo vacuous action movies and the people who make them? It is so, so tedious (and even more off topic than the usual shite we talk about in here), and I can smell the cheesy stink of the posters getting all het up on either side of the debate from here (no it is not me thank you, I am wearing JOOP! which my mum bought me) Sure, I agree. Now we’ve agreed not to discuss dog shot action movies, how cool is 300? 
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Jan 3, 2024 17:38
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You're telling me a dog shot 300?
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Jan 3, 2024 17:40
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el dingo posted:You're telling me a dog shot 300? Dogs are pretty good at bowling
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Jan 3, 2024 17:42
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el dingo posted:You're telling me a dog shot 300? that many? must have been using an automastiff
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Jan 3, 2024 17:43
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Yeah, this thread should definitely move away from tedious and inane topics that have been done to death and that just highlight how broken brained we all are by modern consumer culture. It should instead focus on topics that are more dignified and meaningful, that don't get people all worked up at each-other. Like crisp flavours: https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1742497982467944666
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Jan 3, 2024 17:44
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She's right, they're good.
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Jan 3, 2024 17:45
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Pablo Bluth posted:Have something political instead: That's cheeky as gently caress.
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Jan 3, 2024 17:49
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I had traditional haggis for breakfast in Scotland once, and can report that it follows the great British tradition of stuffing minced unmentionable animal parts into a tube with enough salt/herbs/spices that it tastes really good. Lava bread* can get hosed tho. * It's thin, papery seaweed, a bit like Nori I guess, but served hot, wet, and inedible to non-whelk lifeforms.
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Jan 3, 2024 17:55
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Umbra Dubium posted:Voyager was the worst because they kept finding ways to get back home (Warp Ten!), discovering a problem (it turns you into a horny salamander?), fixing the problem, and then ignoring that they have a way to get home and a bugfix ready to go for the problems it causes. Haha yeah and coming across all these civilizations that had "ultra-warp" technology or whatever but never saying "Hey maybe you could hook us up with that poo poo?". The whole "Warp Ten" episode where they're like "Oh Tom just travelled through the entire universe instantaneously and now the shuttle's logs have 180 bajillion gigaquads of new data", then never being mentioned again, was one of the most egregious and definitely the worst episode of the whole run, and that's even WITHOUT Janeway and Paris turning into salamanders and loving, which I'll stress is a thing that actually happened in Voyager. Another one was "Blink of an eye" where they discovered a planet that was under the influence of extreme gravity from a black hole (I think) and it meant that time for them passed at several years per hour of time for voyager... and so they watched this whole planet go from like, pre-history, oral storytelling tradition, to developing antimatter cannons and tech to rival Voyager's. Presumably if they'd stuck around for another few days they could have waited until that civilization developed trans-warp technology etc., but hey-ho. Overall Voyager was really good though, you just have to be able to ignore a few plot holes like the above and pretend they were some sort of fever dream of one of the crew when they came down with space-dysentery. Star Trek, Voyager included, is at its best when it does the more small-stakes "character study" episodes where it's mainly about one character's particular emotional struggle with some aspect of their situation or broader existence, IMO. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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Jan 3, 2024 18:01
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Well, to post something that’s at least marginally on topic, I’m coming to the end of an ordeal which shattered what little faith I still had in NHS dentistry. Back in September I began experiencing massive, skull-splitting pain in one of my teeth. I tried to contact my NHS dentist, and nobody picked up. I left a message, nobody called back. I called multiple times over two days before finally getting through, only to be told the dentist had no appointments before the end of October! They referred me to their sister clinic who did see me that day, but they couldn’t see anything wrong. Ignored everything I had to say about the source of my pain, gave me some antibiotics and sent me on my way. Cue two long months of increasingly worse pain and run around from the dentists I saw until finally someone at the hospital said I’d probably need a wisdom tooth extraction. But I’d need a referral from my dentist (who now couldn’t see me until the end of November), and then I’d join a waiting list that was five months long! At that point I broke down. I did some DIY dentistry on myself with a lockpick physically forcing my teeth apart, then began looking for a private option. Private dentist arranged a wisdom tooth extraction and also diagnosed a root canal I needed (which I later checked and saw was visible on the first x-ray I got back in September that the first dentist missed). The two procedures together along with other appointments are going to end up costing me about £2000. More if I wanted a crown on the root canalled tooth. I’m incredibly fortunate that I can afford an expense like that and not have it change my life, but Jesus, what if I couldn’t? What about all the people who can’t? People kill themselves over toothaches, I don’t think I could have lasted five months.
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Jan 3, 2024 18:03
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Threshold review https://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/v832.php e: Ohh I this is ooold, some aughts era internet slurs. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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Jan 3, 2024 18:07
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Sad news to start 2024 for enjoyers of spas built with charity cash  Edit - lol 
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Jan 3, 2024 18:16
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OzyMandrill posted:Lava bread* can get hosed tho. When I was a kid I would eat that stuff cold. Just buy it in the market and walk around eating it.
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Jan 3, 2024 18:20
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Jan 3, 2024 18:24
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I just got a leaflet through the door from the local Tory MP. Looks like election season has begun! And me without my elephant gun!
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Jan 3, 2024 18:31
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Reveilled posted:Toothache Glad you're getting the tooth sorted. Has it stopped hurting? I had a big hole in a wisdom tooth a few years ago, which eventually got infected. It was excruciating. My boss sent me home (to the dentist) because I was nearly crying at work. God, it's so depressing what's happened to the NHS. Teeth are important! 
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Jan 3, 2024 18:49
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^^ No you see those are luxury bones, you don't need those except for eating and interacting with the rest of society without them going 'where the hell are your teeth?' My favourite thing about all of that was the family saying it was supposed to be for his rehab, and then it coming out that they didn't submit the plans until after he died. Lt. Danger posted:why do you think I was talking about you? Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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Jan 3, 2024 18:58
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Edit: Nevermind missed context Edit 2 I assume he means he was critisising the weirdo who's first instinct on seeing a snyder movie being critisied was to weaponise a child's death? The zach snyder discourse has been pretty sane otherwise honestly Mr Phillby fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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Jan 3, 2024 19:07
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Mr Phillby posted:Unfortunately its not possible to have a normal discussion about zach snyder films because as soon as anyone expresses anything negative about them you get his fans coming in making jokes about how bad they can poo poo up the thread then this weird passive agressive calm hittler poo poo. This is the second time in a row you've made this post. Although I guess the first time you didn't literally call people hitler about the movies you don't like.
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Jan 3, 2024 19:11
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'Wins' is doing some heavy lifting here, as opposed to the company offloading unsellable stock onto some hapless lady.
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Jan 3, 2024 19:12
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NotJustANumber99 posted:This is the second time in a row you've made this post. Although I guess the first time you didn't literally call people hitler about the movies you don't like.
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Jan 3, 2024 19:20
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Bobby Deluxe posted:^^ No you see those are luxury bones, you don't need those except for eating and interacting with the rest of society without them going 'where the hell are your teeth?' Why is it the greatest champions of Britain always turn out to dismantle the NHS? You! [addressing Tory, pointing to forums poster Reveilled] Where the gently caress are his teeth?
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Jan 3, 2024 19:31
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Mr Phillby posted:Yeah i misunderstood the context on that one i thought he was calling everyone who posted about zach snyder negatively as being frothing mad? I used calm hittler as a shorthand for that kind of passive agreessive 'youre all totally mad but i am calm and normal about things' lol sorry Anyway. Who’s watching The Darts tonight?
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Jan 3, 2024 19:55
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my twitter-addled brain can't handle the country talking about "luke the nuke"
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Jan 3, 2024 19:55
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Hmm this planned tube strike in London seems pretty spicy, monday to thursday next week Details in article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67868906 I'm hoping our TFL worker friends get some more money and whatnot, things have been hosed up re: inflation for decades Handy chart with details (assuming strike goes ahead): 
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Jan 3, 2024 19:59
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smellmycheese posted:Anyway. Who’s watching The Darts tonight?
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Jan 3, 2024 20:10
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Gorn Myson posted:Been reciting the lyrics to Chase the Sun all day. It’s a banger
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Jan 3, 2024 20:16
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killerwhat posted:Glad you're getting the tooth sorted. Has it stopped hurting? Yeah the pain mostly went away after I castawayed myself, still there but managable with painkillers, then the extraction did most of the rest of the job. The tooth needing root canal was just uncomfortable, but based on the x-ray they did today it had a huge infection underneath it that if left untreated could have seriously damaged one of the nerves in my jaw. One more treatment to go and my mouth should be mostly fixed!
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Jan 3, 2024 20:21
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WhatEvil posted:Haha yeah and coming across all these civilizations that had "ultra-warp" technology or whatever but never saying "Hey maybe you could hook us up with that poo poo?". The whole "Warp Ten" episode where they're like "Oh Tom just travelled through the entire universe instantaneously and now the shuttle's logs have 180 bajillion gigaquads of new data", then never being mentioned again, was one of the most egregious and definitely the worst episode of the whole run, and that's even WITHOUT Janeway and Paris turning into salamanders and loving, which I'll stress is a thing that actually happened in Voyager. In Blink of an Eye, their presence was tearing the planet apart both culturally and literally. The real egregious one was that time they got a quantum slipstream thing, and it worked for a short distance but then they had to stop because they miscalibrated slightly, and they immediately threw it into storage never to be used again.
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Jan 3, 2024 20:28
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Read through the last few pages, disappointed not to see any fans of the Tripods.
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Jan 3, 2024 20:29
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What, the Idirans?
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Jan 3, 2024 20:30
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biglads posted:Read through the last few pages, disappointed not to see any fans of the Tripods. Love them. This is mine 
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Jan 3, 2024 20:39
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Reveilled posted:
In 2021 I started a new part-time job, and within a couple of days had broken a tooth adjacent to a front tooth (unrelated to the job - I bit awkwardly on a cashew). No NHS dentist available (I now have one but was on the waiting list several years). Ended up forking out about £1600 for a bridge - essential as the front tooth next to the gap was beginning to distort & become loose (let alone aesthetics) which was almost 4 months of pay. Fortunately, I have savings and a credit card. This is the problem - if you need something out of the usual, simply not being able to afford it. People in various comments on reddit etc saying that the pension of £10600 (or whatever it is you get on UC) are enough to live on especially if you own your own place outright. All very well until you need dental treatment, replacement boiler or washing machine or whatever, or just to get your ears syringed - a real quality of life issue & the NHS waiting list for that round here is 6 months! Local GPs don't do it. Or to get taxis to hospitals for medical treatments (public transport being dire). When dad was getting chemo I looked into transport to hospital - he had to go 40 miles each way - no public transport available - and came across some really sad stories about people paying £150+ each way in a taxi to a hospital plus taxi waiting around time, with no financial help available. Basically my sister had to drive him there and back each time - which she didn't mind on the whole, but meant she couldn't do her own work, nor take my niece to/from work when she was on shifts (niece has a form of epilepsy and not allowed to drive) so niece had to give up her job.
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