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smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

fuctifino posted:

I find the whole "he doesn't look 16" to be really uncomfortable, just as I found it uncomfortable when racists were screaming the same at young male asylum seekers. Some people just age quickly, and I remember a few people at my school who looked in their 30's and 40's when they were 16. I'm an old out of touch hermit, but isn't this a form of body shaming?

(and that's not a dig at you forkboy84, but a dig at some of the poo poo I've seen on twitter and elsewhere)

e: I was a very late developer, so experienced this from the other end of the spectrum, and the relentless abuse left many marks.

The racists are way ahead of you on this one�

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# ? May 24, 2024 02:05

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

The challenge 25 protocol in every supermarket is a plot by Big Teenager I guess.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 10:45

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

OwlFancier posted:

Big Teenager

We need to stop body shaming this lad

# ? Jan 5, 2024 11:04

His Divine Shadow: Aug 7, 2000; I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

The 200,000 pound teenager

# ? Jan 5, 2024 11:19

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

https://i.imgur.com/sXZb4Gd.mp4

One of my cameras caught a flash at 12:35am yesterday which coincided with the peak of the 'Quadrantid Meteor Shower'. I'm pretty certain it was a meteor, as you can see the reflection of the lightsource moving before the final flash.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 11:19

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Hopefully it is a cute alien with a heartwarming moral story about environmentalism or something and not a triffid.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 11:22

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

It's just Michael Gove coming back from his home planet after attending his yearly spawn fertilising ritual

# ? Jan 5, 2024 11:24

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

Who knows anything about the correct way of measuring building height for the purposes of the 2022 Building Act?

I've seen two different ways which result in a difference of around 2m (probably critical for this building!)

First way:
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/30/section/118/enacted#:~:text=(2)The%20height%20of%20a,of%20machinery%20or%20plant%20rooms).

quote:

(2)The height of a building is to be measured from ground level to the finished surface of the floor of the top storey of the building (ignoring any storey which is a roof-top machinery or plant area or consists exclusively of machinery or plant rooms).

Ours is 3 storey in parts and I interpret this version to mean from the ground to the top of the carpet on the 2nd floor corridor.

Second way:
Source: https://www.ths-concepts.co.uk/buil...plant%20rooms).

quote:

What Is Considered Top Floor Height
The top floor in a building is defined as:

� the finished surface of the floor of the top storey of the building (ignoring any storey which is a roof-top machinery or plant area or consists exclusively of machinery or plant rooms).�

This is fairly simple in that, if the floor has someone living there, this will be considered an occupied floor. Conservatively, we think that measurements should be taken to the top part of the top most floor. It is unusual, but sometimes the levels change within a floor, so this must be considered.

(Apart from as a leaseholder-owned building we aren't a 'relevant building' anyway! source: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/definition-of-relevant-building)

# ? Jan 5, 2024 11:32

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1743219774635589951

lol

# ? Jan 5, 2024 11:50

kingturnip: Apr 18, 2008

Labour: pwease give us more money, we don't have enough

Also Labour: let's pay for a bunch of ads to run on the website of a group of people who are 100% guaranteed to not vote for us

I see the sensible politicians have arrived

[edit]
Actually, I'm pretty sure this is just them trying to score some media coverage by being "edgy and subversive" (or however the coke-fiend who had the idea phrased it)
I guess if you're too poor to afford policies, maybe lame gimmicks are cheaper?

kingturnip fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Jan 5, 2024

# ? Jan 5, 2024 11:55

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

What if we pay the tories to advertise about how rishi isn't cutting taxes enough?

Brilliant!

# ? Jan 5, 2024 12:11

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

I suppose it works as a "make the other voters stay at home" tactic.

A bit like the "Johnson [handshake meme] Corbyn: 50,000 more cops, 10 new detention centres" memes directed at the left in 2019.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 13:04

kingturnip: Apr 18, 2008

Guavanaut posted:

I suppose it works as a "make the other voters stay at home" tactic.

Yeah, but the limited numbers of regular people visiting Conservative Home seem like a fairly reliable bloc of voters.
I guess if your plan is for them to vote Reform UK instead, maybe that's worth it with PR, but we've seen how well "let them vote for this niche far-right group instead, lol" has worked for the UK in the past.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 13:59

serious gaylord: Sep 16, 2007; what.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Who knows anything about the correct way of measuring building height for the purposes of the 2022 Building Act?

I've seen two different ways which result in a difference of around 2m (probably critical for this building!)

First way:
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/30/section/118/enacted#:~:text=(2)The%20height%20of%20a,of%20machinery%20or%20plant%20rooms).

Ours is 3 storey in parts and I interpret this version to mean from the ground to the top of the carpet on the 2nd floor corridor.

Second way:
Source: https://www.ths-concepts.co.uk/buil...plant%20rooms).

(Apart from as a leaseholder-owned building we aren't a 'relevant building' anyway! source: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/definition-of-relevant-building)

The answer is unfortunately 'it depends on who comes out'

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Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

The people who visit Conservative Home regularly hate Sunak for the one wrong reason - he's brown.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 14:05

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

serious gaylord posted:

The answer is unfortunately 'it depends on who comes out'

I fear you are right.
One of the flats is for sale and I'm the muggins who has to answer the solicitor's queries. I've now told them if they want a building height (which I don't believe we have to provide anyway), then they'll have to pay for a professional measurement and say how they want it calculated. Don't see why I should have to do it. Noone's ever asked for it before & I'm not qualified.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 14:16

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
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Tesseraction posted:

The people who visit Conservative Home regularly hate Sunak for the one wrong reason - he's brown.

Uh actually I think you'll find he's a 'WEF shill' which means he's a 'globalist' which means he has 'loyalties outside of Britain' which means he's... ah, yeah.

kingturnip posted:

Yeah, but the limited numbers of regular people visiting Conservative Home seem like a fairly reliable bloc of voters.
I guess if your plan is for them to vote Reform UK instead, maybe that's worth it with PR, but we've seen how well "let them vote for this niche far-right group instead, lol" has worked for the UK in the past.

Unfortunately Starmer's focus groups seem like they'd be incredibly okay boosting Reform if it gets a Labour win, so I think this is exactly what it looks like.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 14:22

Clyde Radcliffe: Oct 19, 2014

30p Lee telling three schoolchildren he could make their lunches for less than a quid.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 14:26

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I would have assumed that the point was to spend 500k to get 5000k of publicity, because people are going to be talking about it and discussing if it was a good idea.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 14:26

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

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

30p Lee telling three schoolchildren he could make their lunches for less than a quid.

Look at the scared face on the kid.

And shouldn't it be 31 or 32p Lee now due to inflation?

# ? Jan 5, 2024 14:31

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

30p Lee telling three schoolchildren he could make their lunches for less than a quid.

Hahaha, I genuinely didn't see him for a good 10 seconds. He blends in so well :allears:

# ? Jan 5, 2024 14:32

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

fuctifino posted:

Hahaha, I genuinely didn't see him for a good 10 seconds. He blends in so well

Lol me neither until your post

# ? Jan 5, 2024 14:37

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Clyde Radcliffe posted:

30p Lee telling three schoolchildren he could make their lunches for less than a quid.

just workshopping a modest proposal for cost-effective school lunch food sourcing

# ? Jan 5, 2024 14:37

Dabir: Nov 10, 2012

fuctifino posted:

Hahaha, I genuinely didn't see him for a good 10 seconds. He blends in so well

Really? Lee's pretty obvi- waaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiit :aaaaa:

# ? Jan 5, 2024 14:40

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Good news for anyone worried Keith was sticking to too many policies, he's dropped another one:

https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1743250876175622364

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smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

lol and lmao

# ? Jan 5, 2024 15:30

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

incredible, literally the spitting image portrait of anthony blair sketch irl

# ? Jan 5, 2024 15:35

Gorn Myson: Aug 8, 2007

josh04 posted:

Good news for anyone worried Keith was sticking to too many policies, he's dropped another one:

https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1743250876175622364

They've done this twice now. They're so bereft of ideas that they're announcing policies they've dropped and then dropping them again.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 15:44

Jakabite: Jul 31, 2010

My beautiful old Labrador Lexi might be dying

she�s off to the vets this afternoon to find out what�s up with her. She�s still able to go on little walks but hasn�t been eating the last few days apparently, except rice pudding and some of her favourites. I hope I�m just being daft and she�s just sick as does happen from time to time but I am, nonetheless, sat crying in my car in the Sainsbury�s car park. Hold your beloved pets close.

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Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

Bit late for that in my case, but I hope your lab is fine.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 15:54

kingturnip: Apr 18, 2008

There's a rare flood alert for my local river, which extends a couple of hundred metres from my house, but apparently the river level's falling, so I'm just gonna sit here playing video games.

I'm sure it'll be fine.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 16:07

sinky: Feb 22, 2011; Slippery Tilde

kingturnip posted:

There's a rare flood alert for my local river, which extends a couple of hundred metres from my house, but apparently the river level's falling, so I'm just gonna sit here playing video games.

I'm sure it'll be fine.

You need to play Raft and get some practice in.
Although the only thing you'll reel in from a british river is poo poo.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 16:10

Sundayturks: May 31, 2011; You were expecting...Sandy Claws?; Fun Shoe

Jakabite posted:

My beautiful old Labrador Lexi might be dying she�s off to the vets this afternoon to find out what�s up with her. She�s still able to go on little walks but hasn�t been eating the last few days apparently, except rice pudding and some of her favourites. I hope I�m just being daft and she�s just sick as does happen from time to time but I am, nonetheless, sat crying in my car in the Sainsbury�s car park. Hold your beloved pets close.

Here's hoping that you find out what the issue is and it's treatable.
My old collie has given us a few scares over the last couple of years but so far it has been because he's snaffled something he shouldn't have from a hedge.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 16:49

cat botherer: Jan 6, 2022; I am interested in most phases of data processing.

Jakabite posted:

My beautiful old Labrador Lexi might be dying she�s off to the vets this afternoon to find out what�s up with her. She�s still able to go on little walks but hasn�t been eating the last few days apparently, except rice pudding and some of her favourites. I hope I�m just being daft and she�s just sick as does happen from time to time but I am, nonetheless, sat crying in my car in the Sainsbury�s car park. Hold your beloved pets close.

Give Lexi a belly rub for me.

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smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

MFW more of my dad�s flagrant noncery is revealed

# ? Jan 5, 2024 17:47

Trainee PornStar: Jul 20, 2006; I'm just an inbetweener

smellmycheese posted:

MFW more of my dad�s flagrant noncery is revealed

I'm not sure I'd let her near any kids either.

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Azza Bamboo: Apr 7, 2018; THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021

Will this be enough to make him sweat

# ? Jan 5, 2024 18:09

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Jakabite posted:

My beautiful old Labrador Lexi might be dying she�s off to the vets this afternoon to find out what�s up with her. She�s still able to go on little walks but hasn�t been eating the last few days apparently, except rice pudding and some of her favourites. I hope I�m just being daft and she�s just sick as does happen from time to time but I am, nonetheless, sat crying in my car in the Sainsbury�s car park. Hold your beloved pets close.

Sorry to hear that, hopefully it's treatable and not a big deal. Just gave my stupid noodle a hug.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 18:22

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smellmycheese posted:

MFW more of my dad�s flagrant noncery is revealed

i know inbred freaks get used alot to dis the posh, but gently caress.... its like when they use ai to bring the hasburgs to life.

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# ? May 24, 2024 02:05

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Fumble posted:

i know inbred freaks get used alot to dis the posh, but gently caress.... its like when they use ai to bring the hasburgs to life.

I've got some bad news about the Habsburgs, they don't need AI to bring them to life, Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen is a racing driver & heir to the dynasty.

# ? Jan 5, 2024 18:54

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