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sinky posted:The ducks have also been sold off. Also the council has sold the pavement outside your house to a developer. You can't legally leave your property other than by balloon or drone.
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Jan 7, 2024 14:22
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Scientastic posted:I’m sure that wood burning stoves contribute to horrible particulates in the air and significantly impact air quality, but I’m not convinced they massively impact climate change or hasten the end of the world: for the same reason that planting trees as offsetting for burning coal doesn’t materially make a difference, because it is short term carbon storage (turning CO2 into trees) vs. the transformation of long term carbon storage (fossil fuels turning into CO2). We can affect the length of that cycle, though. And it sure makes sense to stretch that cycle as much as we can right now. Not saying that wood burning needs to end full stop, but we should use that energy as efficiently as possible. The same goes with peat. Using wood for construction, furniture etc. is very recommendable for this reason, as long as the wood comes from a sustainable source.
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Jan 7, 2024 14:26
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Nuclear Spoon posted:can't wait to pay five quid to look at ducks in the park sinky posted:The ducks have also been sold off. They will be bought by EU councils. You paying £5 to see the single duck they maintain (slice of bread to feed duck £7.50), the EU council's park is free and provides free bread to feed the flock of ducks they have. The media will then attack the duck when it migrates, calling it ungrateful that it won't 'work' during winter months. Gbeebies questions ducks nationality. that its not truly British
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Jan 7, 2024 14:33
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don't feed bread to ducks it makes them ill!
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Jan 7, 2024 14:37
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cat botherer posted:A modern wood stove should dump very little smoke back into the room. I think it's not just the emissions, though, but the result of sweeping out the ashes? At any rate I used to get a sore throat really quickly when visiting my mother (ten years ago, wood burner was pretty new).
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Jan 7, 2024 14:53
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Ron was definitely wanking while typing this 
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Jan 7, 2024 15:04
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Mail is a weird name for a woman
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Jan 7, 2024 15:05
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Microplastics posted:Mail is a weird name for a woman It's short for Fe-Mail
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Jan 7, 2024 15:09
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smellmycheese posted:Ron was definitely wanking while typing this The man whose entire year can be redeemed by seeing a photograph of a stranger without her hand on her stomach should get together with the woman whose Christmas is ruined by non-shiny Quality Street wrappers, I feel like they'd have something there
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Jan 7, 2024 15:26
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smellmycheese posted:Ron was definitely wanking while typing this It's that old wives' tale: "if the mother in January be sensibly dressed, the year to unfold will turn out for the best"
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Jan 7, 2024 15:40
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  Millie was a very good girl. Would have bitten a Tory any day.
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Jan 7, 2024 15:48
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Wachter posted:It's that old wives' tale: "if the mother in January be sensibly dressed, the year to unfold will turn out for the best"
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Jan 7, 2024 15:50
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/Tweet_Dec/status/1743763526479474844?t=EjEwJEOhZLU2K1E1peNLtQ&s=19
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Jan 7, 2024 16:41
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Editors Note: Helen Harrison is the girlfriend of Peter Bone who just resigned this seat due to allegations of sexual misconduct. https://twitter.com/richolden/status/1743999637147488549?s=46
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Jan 7, 2024 17:36
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Lol, literal bird brain - the shiny objects are not shiny enough, and therefore not pleasing to me. Eagerly awaiting part two of this video where Quality Street have caught the woke because there's a rainbow on the tin
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Jan 7, 2024 17:40
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xtothez posted:Eagerly awaiting part two of this video where Quality Street have caught the woke because there's a rainbow on the tin https://twitter.com/DonaldClarke63/status/1739390689496953044
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Jan 7, 2024 18:00
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Guavanaut posted:I don't think that Johnson cares enough to be one of these "90% of the country is immigrants now" nationalists, it's not his style. It's more that he believes in a blasé way that there's maybe 100,000 actual people in the country, and as long as only they were doing whatever they want and the help stuck to tidying things up after then it'd be fine, wouldn't it? 
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Jan 7, 2024 18:03
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HopperUK posted:
So sorry  well done for making the decision, it’s so hard. She was clearly a good and adorable girl, a Good Dog
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Jan 7, 2024 18:28
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Nenonen posted:We can affect the length of that cycle, though. And it sure makes sense to stretch that cycle as much as we can right now. Not saying that wood burning needs to end full stop, but we should use that energy as efficiently as possible. The same goes with peat. I couldn’t agree more, this is the justification I use for having enormous shelves full of books instead of getting a kindle
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Jan 7, 2024 18:44
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Donald Clarke is the (admittedly crap) movie critic for The Irish Times, don't think he's got brainworms like that so assuming this a jest ...
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Jan 7, 2024 18:51
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It is that, but I think also "I fancy burning the Christmas tree tonight Jeeves, a log fire always adds some cheer." "Very good sir, I shall call two groundsmen with axes and fire extinguishers and have Luke Irwin on retainer for when the rug catches fire." Boris can chuck his tree on the fire in the sure knowledge that there's a dozen people to help when he fucks up. If you can't, that's not in the Borisphere of his problems. Take it on the chin and all that.
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Jan 7, 2024 18:52
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killerwhat posted:So sorry Thank you <3
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Jan 7, 2024 19:05
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One less dog in the world is horrible, the decision to have to do so even moreso. I know when the boy goes it'll destroy me for a bit, going to go give him a hug even though he kind of hates it.
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Jan 7, 2024 19:13
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HopperUK posted:
Sending all my love. Awful thing to have to make the decision on and go through, but when it's time, it's the right thing to do for them.  Remember that she had a life her wild ancestors couldn't even conceive of, they would have thought it was Heaven itself.
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Jan 7, 2024 19:15
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HopperUK posted:
Sending care Hopper. She looks to have been a very good girl. Look after yourself as well!
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Jan 7, 2024 19:25
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I have a log burner that heats the hot water for the house too. I either pay 15p a kW for oil, which mainly goes to rich people, or I can pay about the same to the bloke down the road who chops trees for the local farmers and will spend the money mostly in the village pub. The prevailing wind blows the smoke in the general direction of our shithead tory MPs house in the next village over. Burning wood is praxis.
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Jan 7, 2024 19:25
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Failed Imagineer posted:Starmer also.has no plan to address the real issues confronting Britain lol someone at work got me a tin and i thought it was a good improvement to have degradable wrappers terrible mix of chocolates though what's really more pressing however is that nestlé is an organisation that would boil babies alive if it made them an extra few quid
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Jan 7, 2024 19:28
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fuctifino posted:I finally watched that ITV series about the Post Office scandal last night, and I knew the story was bad, but I had no idea how corrupt, malicious and criminal it all was. I'm still experiencing incredible waves of anger. it very much chimed with my experience of working for a health trust and ending up having to whistle blow on a software system developed by a third party (it could have been done competently in-house at a fraction of the final cost) that in operation was disappearing data that it was a legal requirement to keep securely. The thing was also eating up the time of healthcare professionals because it was unusable and a task that used to take them 1-3 minutes a time - using a paper form sent to a team of people with decades of experience in processing that paper form - was now taking them 10-15 minutes each go at one point i had people at the highest levels of management trying to hound me out of my job before they'd admit to the existence of a problem of their and their mates' making, but their incompetence was to my benefit at that point. It was very much a case of incompetent people abusing the power of positions they were neither intellectually nor behaviourally equipped to occupy: a very senior manager reported me to HR for hurting her feelings because I explained to her in a meeting why she wasn't qualified to be in the role she occupied and i was even contacted by a former employer at one point to tip me off that their HR people been in touch, trying to dig up dirt on me it really is not at all a surprise to me how little healthcare is delivered for the money put into it crispix fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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Jan 7, 2024 19:31
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I'm sorry for your loss Hopper. It's never loving easy. RIP Millie x
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Jan 7, 2024 19:33
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Rip to the tiny doggy xx
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Jan 7, 2024 19:50
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I'm so sorry, Hopper x
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Jan 7, 2024 19:54
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HopperUK posted:
RIP <3 it's not easy, but it will get better
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Jan 7, 2024 19:56
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Thank you everyone <3<3 She was spectacular. 
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Jan 7, 2024 19:56
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RIP dog
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Jan 7, 2024 19:59
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The tube strike getting called off is handy, although I was basically prepared to cycle in to work anyway. So now the question is: frostbite and exercise, or indolence and relative comfort?
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Jan 7, 2024 20:15
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crispix posted:it very much chimed with my experience of working for a health trust and ending up having to whistle blow on a software system developed by a third party (it could have been done competently in-house at a fraction of the final cost) that in operation was disappearing data that it was a legal requirement to keep securely. The thing was also eating up the time of healthcare professionals because it was unusable and a task that used to take them 1-3 minutes a time - using a paper form sent to a team of people with decades of experience in processing that paper form - was now taking them 10-15 minutes each go Ah would that be Epic by any chance. Spend £11 million on a top shelf Yankee healthcare software and staff the support side with overworked and underpaid computer toucher rejects.
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Jan 7, 2024 20:39
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OzyMandrill posted:I have a log burner that heats the hot water for the house too. I either pay 15p a kW for oil, which mainly goes to rich people, or I can pay about the same to the bloke down the road who chops trees for the local farmers and will spend the money mostly in the village pub. The prevailing wind blows the smoke in the general direction of our shithead tory MPs house in the next village over. Burning wood is praxis. My dad's got a wood burner... He bought an electric chainsaw so he can go to the local woods & cut the deadfall without being heard for miles.
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Jan 7, 2024 20:53
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Log poacher
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Jan 7, 2024 21:02
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Sorry about your Good Girl, Hopper x Re Post Office, NHS etc Too many senior management types are easily swayed by a slimy git in a smart suit and a flawless powerpoint presentation and often both the company rep and the senior management person tasked with procuring the software or whatever - are clueless about the actual nature of the work that needs doing. The 'doers of the work' are normally kept well away from the 'writers of the software'.
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Jan 7, 2024 21:06
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Log poacher It's only recently he got the electric one, he used to be up there with a petrol one screaming away. Nobody has ever moaned & he lives in the arse end of nowhere, being nearly 80 probably helps too lol
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Jan 7, 2024 21:14
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