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Mr Teatime posted:you really don’t need to hand it to the Houthis Counterpoint: Yes you do 
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Jan 12, 2024 09:43
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Josef bugman posted:Quick none war related question, but does anyone know if Admiral is a decent car insurer? I only ask because the one I'm with at the moment has put prices up £150 for no reason and was looking around to see what is best. Admiral targets itself at the budget market, and budget insurers tend to have a few features that keep the up-front costs down: offshore call centres; courtesy cars instead of hire cars; admin fees for amendments; extra charges for doing repairs out of network, and higher excesses for specific kinds of claims that don’t show up front and centre on the price comparison page. That said a lot of “premium” insurers are have been working this stuff into their services for years now, so going budget is no longer the massive downgrade in service it used to be. As long as you don’t want to insist on having any hypothetical repairs don’t by a specific garage and aren’t making constant changes to you policy (e.g. adding and removing drivers), the main things to watch out for are the hire vs courtesy car cover and variant excesses. So, with a policy that has courtesy car cover, generally the wording in the policy will be that if you have an accident the garage doing the repairs will provide you a courtesy car subject to availability. That means that if your car is getting repaired, you’re not necessarily guaranteed a replacement car in the meantime. But more to the point, if you have an accident that writes your car off, or your car gets stolen, because there’s no repairer, there is no courtesy car. Whereas a policy that has hire cover will give you a car in the event of a claim for those sorts of things. For the excesses, it’s sometimes ridiculously hard to spot if you’re starting from a price comparison website. Different companies will put them on different things—maybe company A has a higher glass excess than competitors, maybe company B has an extra £100 excess on theft claims, Company C has a higher excess if the car is written off, bullshit like that. Check the policy you’re thinking of taking out very carefully and when you do get one, make sure to read the schedule when the paperwork arrives to check the excesses are what you thought you agreed to, because there’s nothing worse than having a poo poo day where you crash your car made even more lovely by finding out it’s going to cost you £250 more than you expected. I know all that is kind of non-specific to admiral but it’s the sort of thing to consider when weighing things up.
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Jan 12, 2024 09:44
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Dabir posted:Have you considered that west bad Its the best of a bad bunch.
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Jan 12, 2024 09:44
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Pistol_Pete posted:Counterpoint: Yes you do To expand on this: the Houthis (or Ansar Allah, as they prefer to be called) are one of the very few entities that are standing up, taking real, effective action to defend the Palestinians and stop the Israeli genocide and are putting themselves in huge danger by doing so. I'm sure some people would prefer it if they were writing strongly-worded letters to the authorities instead, but whatever.
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Jan 12, 2024 09:47
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Josef bugman posted:Quick none war related question, but does anyone know if Admiral is a decent car insurer? I only ask because the one I'm with at the moment has put prices up £150 for no reason and was looking around to see what is best. I've got my home and car insurance with them and found them easy to deal with. Much better than Hastings who i was with before. Also they're happy to negotiate deals if you can find something cheaper.
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Jan 12, 2024 09:49
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i would suggest that responding to container loads of europe-bound sex arses and plastic gold coloured waving kitties by dropping bombs onto people from the air indiscriminately is a bad long-term strategy for good global relations
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Jan 12, 2024 10:03
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 ahahahhahahahahahahha! it was me all along, old madman jermany crowburns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jan 12, 2024 10:06
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Jeremy "bomb-hater" Corbyn
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Jan 12, 2024 10:12
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I hope the Houthis win, and furthermore I hope they conquer England.
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Jan 12, 2024 10:14
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Pistol_Pete posted:To expand on this: the Houthis (or Ansar Allah, as they prefer to be called) are one of the very few entities that are standing up, taking real, effective action to defend the Palestinians and stop the Israeli genocide and are putting themselves in huge danger by doing so. I'm sure some people would prefer it if they were writing strongly-worded letters to the authorities instead, but whatever. They’ve put a bunch of innocent workers in danger for no appreciable gain other than increasing the stock prices and profits of the shipping companies. Like I’m sorry but it’s fairly callous to suggest that a bunch of people who are mostly not even from the west need to get drone struck and shot at to sort of nebulously stick it to Israel somehow.
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Jan 12, 2024 10:19
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Pistol_Pete posted:To expand on this: the Houthis (or Ansar Allah, as they prefer to be called) are one of the very few entities that are standing up, taking real, effective action to defend the Palestinians and stop the Israeli genocide and are putting themselves in huge danger by doing so. I'm sure some people would prefer it if they were writing strongly-worded letters to the authorities instead, but whatever. a pipe smoking dog posted:I've got my home and car insurance with them and found them easy to deal with. Much better than Hastings who i was with before. Also they're happy to negotiate deals if you can find something cheaper. I read these two in succession and was very confused
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Jan 12, 2024 10:21
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Mr Teatime posted:They’ve put a bunch of innocent workers in danger for no appreciable gain other than increasing the stock prices and profits of the shipping companies. Who the gently caress let Paul Mason in the thread?
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Jan 12, 2024 10:22
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Mr Teatime posted:They’ve certainly tried to kill people on the ships because I don’t know what else you would call shooting them up and firing missiles at them. I’m not thrilled about this conflict getting worse but you really don’t need to hand it to the Houthis and maybe spare a thought for the people on the ships who are facing the sudden prospect of getting murdered at work. Of course the raids are traumatic for the people on the ships. It sucks. But some perspective. The state of Israel has in the past 3 months killed almost 25,000, with the west barely blinking an eye. The Houthi in these raids have, as far as I can tell, taken 2 ships, wounded 6 and taken captive 25. Tell me why this is worse than the indiscriminate destruction of the Gaza Strip. It sucks, conflict is bad. But the west defends these bombings as a proportional response. Is it more proportional than threatening the Red Sea trade route in response to what many call an attempted genocide?
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Jan 12, 2024 10:22
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The sex arses must flow.
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Jan 12, 2024 10:23
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forkboy84 posted:
It’s not and I’m not suggesting that. I’m just seeing a lot of discussion around attacking shipping being framed in terms of striking at big business or corporate profits or whatever and actually that means it’s good and fine because really, who would care about that? I just have a personal tie to this and wanted to remind people that it’s not faceless corporations that are being attacked, it’s people who have literally no say in any of this.
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Jan 12, 2024 10:30
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forkboy84 posted:Of course the raids are traumatic for the people on the ships. It sucks. It's definitely not worse than what the Israelis h be done but it's still targeting civilians. If the Houthis want to drone strike American military bases, sure, let them have it. But targeting civilians is not on, and never has been, and I'm surprised anyone in this thread is supporting it (well, I'm not that surprised about Pistol Pete)
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Jan 12, 2024 10:33
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Josef bugman posted:Quick none war related question, but does anyone know if Admiral is a decent car insurer? I only ask because the one I'm with at the moment has put prices up £150 for no reason and was looking around to see what is best. We just moved away from Admiral because they put up their price by £150 for no reason 
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Jan 12, 2024 10:37
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Moneysavingexpert has some good pages on car insurance in general, always worth checking those out.
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Jan 12, 2024 10:38
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Mr Teatime posted:to sort of nebulously stick it to Israel somehow. discouraging and preventing ships from entering or leaving Eilat to deny resupply to Israel seems like the opposite of nebulous to me?
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Jan 12, 2024 10:41
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Reading about the Houthis led me down this rabbit hole on Wikipedia:Wikipedia posted:As of 2022, 23% of enlistees to the British armed forces were aged under 18. Most child recruits were enlisted for the army, where 30% of the intake in the year 2021-2022 was aged under 18; more new soldiers were 16 than any other age. Like, can we actually not? Having child soldiers is not cool & good.
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Jan 12, 2024 10:43
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Teenagers: Don't carry a knife. Take life legitimately - enlist now!
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Jan 12, 2024 10:51
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Nenonen posted:The sex arses must flow. Many people are saying this
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Jan 12, 2024 10:54
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Half the kids that walk to school past my front door are dressed in camo fatigues some days.
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Jan 12, 2024 10:56
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Yeah it's been weird seeing all the 90s and 00s fashion coming back around
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Jan 12, 2024 10:58
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kecske posted:discouraging and preventing ships from entering or leaving Eilat to deny resupply to Israel seems like the opposite of nebulous to me? A Japanese operated ship taking cars from Turkey to India.
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Jan 12, 2024 10:58
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Pistol_Pete posted:To expand on this: the Houthis (or Ansar Allah, as they prefer to be called) are one of the very few entities that are standing up, taking real, effective action to defend the Palestinians and stop the Israeli genocide and are putting themselves in huge danger by doing so. I'm sure some people would prefer it if they were writing strongly-worded letters to the authorities instead, but whatever. On the other hand their treatment of women is up there with the Taliban's. Let's not pretend that they're happiness and flowers.
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Jan 12, 2024 11:07
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Mega Comrade posted:A Japanese operated ship taking cars from Turkey to India. Flags of convenience do complicate the issue but: is this the one you are talking about? quote:Ray Car Carriers is registered in the Isle of Man and is owned by Israel’s Abraham “Rami” Ungar. Angrymog posted:On the other hand their treatment of women is up there with the Taliban's. Let's not pretend that they're happiness and flowers. And our green lighting and material assistance in Israel's genociding of Gaza is up there with the Nazis. Let's not pretend that we are happiness and flowers either fuctifino fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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Jan 12, 2024 11:30
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If we're looking for a political entity in this who aren't shits then I have some bad news.
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Jan 12, 2024 11:56
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Azza Bamboo posted:We don't want this country to become a safe haven for hags across the globe. Opening the door for these criminals would be undoubtedly catastrophic. Our zero tolerance approach has allowed us to enjoy unsoured milk, has reduced the amount of facial warts, and has protected firstborn sons across the nation from abduction and damaging decades-long fraud. Some on the left may think our methods were uncalled for, but if you saw the havoc these terrorists wrought on our communities, you'd agree with me that we cannot afford to loosen our grip on this threat to our great nation. That is why I am backing the bonfire bill. But counterpoint: becoming a haven for Witches will be a boon to our Mobile Suit Industry.
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Jan 12, 2024 12:11
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"Sir Keith, do you think the women tried by drowning should have their convictions posthumously overturned?" "I think they should be looked at again"
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Jan 12, 2024 12:25
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Microplastics posted:Moneysavingexpert has some good pages on car insurance in general, always worth checking those out. Just a warning on this. One of their tips is that different job titles can result in lower premiums. However, if you keep putting in different quotes changing your job title, it can result in some companies refusing to quote you at all, as they don't like people trying to game the system. YMMV, but it's something I've seen people complain about in car forums
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Jan 12, 2024 12:30
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My job title is Extremely Safe Car Driving Technician
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Jan 12, 2024 12:33
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Wachter posted:"Sir Keith, do you think the women tried by drowning should have their convictions posthumously overturned?" The double dip, one might say.
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Jan 12, 2024 12:37
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Mega Comrade posted:A Japanese operated ship taking cars from Turkey to India. owned by israeli businessman abraham ungar, the guy who gets mossad to deal with his business rivals in exchange for donations
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Jan 12, 2024 12:38
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Microplastics posted:My job title is Extremely Safe Car Driving Technician You laugh but my dad's rates dropped when he became a road safety officer.
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Jan 12, 2024 12:38
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Does anyone have a "Freeview 101" link? I'm trying to get my head around the changes coming up - most of the oldsters here watch Freeview tv (we can only get 6 freeview channels but never mind) via an aerial on the roof and I'm trying to figure out whether aerial Freeview will remain available for the next few years otherwise I am going to be inundated with "my tv isn't working" complaints if it switches off in the summer let alone the fact that access to the aerial controller is in the ceiling of a flat that is (a) for sale (b) vacant (c) current owners uncontactable.
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Jan 12, 2024 12:44
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Does anyone have a "Freeview 101" link?
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Jan 12, 2024 12:49
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Wait no I support the Houthis now https://twitter.com/StockMKTNewz/status/1745542667440713840
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Jan 12, 2024 13:01
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Angrymog posted:On the other hand their treatment of women is up there with the Taliban's. Let's not pretend that they're happiness and flowers. Imo a 2000lb bomb treat women worse than hamas.
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Jan 12, 2024 13:10
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How do you like these disruptions Elon, you mug
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