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Feb 17, 2024 22:39
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More of a serious post, I've been lurking this thread since about 2010 myself, when I was a wee egg about to go to uni being taken for a fool by the lib dems. That still stings tbh. But thanks to this thread I've become more knowledgeable about politics, more commie than ever before, it is in part one of the places that exposed me to trans people and in turn helped to crack my egg and understand myself more. Also I met my fiancé through here and he is amazing so when I think about it, ukmt has been a hugely impactful force on me
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Feb 17, 2024 22:43
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Miftan posted:This is antisemitism Haha, did I say they were scrumptious?? Must have been a typo, what I mean was: Phrakusca is an anti-racist poster. Antisemitism is racism. It is unacceptable in my posting and in wider society. To assist in understanding what constitutes antisemitism, my posting persona has endorsed the definition produced by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in 2016 and hates chocolate orange.
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Feb 17, 2024 22:48
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Kin posted:My wife's pretty much the same and it's got me worried that if anything happened to us we might have a situation like that one recently where a toddler curled up and died at his dad's feet after he had a heart attack or something.
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Feb 17, 2024 22:52
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I mostly lurk ever since I made a very sensible centrist post about the scourge of chavs many years ago under an old username that I rightly got hammered for, long before Dave introduced the concept of hugging a hoodie. Younger me had been indoctrinated in all kinds of shite, like believing the Telegraph to be the definitive source of news and my early experiences of the internet led me down some thought processes that now seem utterly unthinkable. Lurking in this thread and being on SA in general has probably helped me reshape my views and ability to consume media critically.
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Feb 17, 2024 22:52
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Kin posted:
Where I used to work if you didn't turn in or phone in within 3 hours of normal start time, they would book you AWOL. I said "I live alone, I am not in a relationship, and my family live several hundred miles away. If I do not turn up or phone in within 3 hours PLEASE send someone to check I'm still alive!" Had a bit of a disagreement with my current line manager - we were working on the top floor of a ropey old building with a single spiral staircase, low ceilings etc. Only 3 p/time employees. So easy to knock yourself out or if you had a health emergency noone would find you for days. I said if I'm working alone in the building, I will text when I arrive and text when I leave and if I don't text, try to contact me & if I don't respond, send someone to check I've not had a heart attack of whatever." She was really snappy with me and said I should "get over it" and it should be up to my family to check up on me - I don't live with my family, I have no idea where they are most of the time, and surely it should be work's responsibility if I'm being told to work alone in a dodgy building? She has about a bazillion kids (ie 3 of them) who if she didn't turn up would be screaming for their tea/ after school lifts or whatever. (Then has the nerve to say I wasn't empathetic when she pulled a muscle in her back - despite me offering to give her details of my masseuse I use when my various muscles 'go' - when she was pretending to be a teenager humping boxes of crap around).
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Feb 17, 2024 23:00
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posting deadman's switch
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Feb 17, 2024 23:00
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Just Another Lurker posted:Today i discovered that a warm tortilla wrap filled with a thin layer of Greek yogurt & raspberry jam tastes loving amazing... it's been a while since i've been that surprised by food. It's nicer if you fry the tortilla on the hob for a bit instead kf in the oven/microwave. Obviously the actual serving requires that you then roll up the tortilla. I also recommend cottage cheese and a small amount of Nutella mixed together. I know, I know, miftan has bad food opinions. Just try it.
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Feb 17, 2024 23:13
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Bozza posted:if you can't have fun in Glasgow you can't have fun anywhere  I can't swear it's the best on the planet but I reckon I've sampled enough of the UK's major cities to say it's the best in the country.
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Feb 17, 2024 23:18
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DiscoWitch posted:being taken for a fool by the lib dems.  But then I wanted chaos with Ed Miliband and we know how that went.
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Feb 17, 2024 23:22
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In 2010 I was a lib dem because the piss diamonds ran Bedford and so I assumed that things not being poo poo meant they would sort this poo poo out. Needless to say, I was a loving idiot. Thankfully I was voting at uni in Birmingham so my idiotic vote didn't mean a thing in a safe Labour district.
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Feb 18, 2024 00:11
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not your only idiotic vote thought was it.
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Feb 18, 2024 00:13
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feel that mocking me for bad decisions is a pretty glass house, mr tesla buyer
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Feb 18, 2024 00:17
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Any house would be nice
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Feb 18, 2024 00:19
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I lurk mostly, reply if I have anything relevant to say. It's a downer Twisto/Camrath are over the stars now, I thought it was awesome Cam hand delivered some fudge as we didn't live far from each other at the time, and I backed up Twisto with a load of photos of under Clapham Common tunnels when he was doing a deep dive on tube stuff you don't generally see.
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Feb 18, 2024 00:23
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Goldskull posted:I lurk mostly, reply if I have anything relevant to say. It's a downer Twisto/Camrath are over the stars now, I thought it was awesome Cam hand delivered some fudge as we didn't live far from each other at the time, and I backed up Twisto with a load of photos of under Clapham Common tunnels when he was doing a deep dive on tube stuff you don't generally see. Well thank you for posting! And it's neat to learn about the mostly-lurkers who nevertheless interacted with and contributed to posters ITT both sadly-passed and currently present!
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Feb 18, 2024 00:25
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Oh gently caress I didn't know about Camranth. That sucks
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Feb 18, 2024 00:40
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Oh Jesus, you missed it? Yeah that was a loving shock, just an awful situation.
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Feb 18, 2024 00:41
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Yeah, I had a full on 'oh poo poo, Camrath's dead' realisation the other day, you know how that stuff will sometimes just come back on you after a while? Bah.
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Feb 18, 2024 00:52
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Yeah finding out here on both situations was not fun, The pair of them I would've happily gone for a pint with.
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Feb 18, 2024 00:53
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Where I used to work if you didn't turn in or phone in within 3 hours of normal start time, they would book you AWOL. I'm kinda sceptical of my work solution too, to be honest. I work for a big corporation but their admin processes are a shambles. Like, the HR platform and HR itself have been outsourced to departments out in Europe/India and as a result, there's no actual HR person in any of the UK offices to speak to about issues with the system or situations like the one we're talking about. My personal contact details/next of kin, etc are all in my section of the HR system, but the only person who can supposedly get access to that is my line manager. Except, he can't because he needs a setting changed by his line manager who's out on maternity leave. However, she wasn't able to transfer that specific level of operational control to another person because it's not a feature of the system. As a result, a colleague of mine got in touch with me on WhatsApp last week for a work thing (i'm out on pat leave at the minute), but only after he went to my current line manager to get my number from my previous line manager. She only has it because of a WhatsApp group my old team were on for a temporary Christmas work thing a year or so back. It feels like i'm going to be asking my manager for a favour of "Please make getting in touch with me or my family a priority if I don't show up to work in case my children die", which feels like a big burden to put on someone rather than it being a default company process. The kids will each be in nursery 4 days a week from August so if they don't show up i'd hope someone from the nursery would try and pop round to the house as we're just 10 minutes up the road, but i don't know how doggedly they'd try to make sure the kids are ok. Something bad is unlikely to happen to both of us simultaneously, but i guess it's one of those things that aren't foolproof unless you've got relatives or neighbours popping round every day.
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Feb 18, 2024 00:54
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Where I used to work if you didn't turn in or phone in within 3 hours of normal start time, they would book you AWOL. We've got a policy for when we make those kind of phone calls, but still have to do it every couple of months. Usually because someone's changed their plan for the day and not told a manager. The most anxious I've been with it was someone who'd been off sick a couple of days (having told me they likely would be) and then wasn't answering their phone the next day. Were they dead at home? Did they even live with anyone who might know? No. They were fine (apparently it's cool to use WhatsApp's "last seen" comment to assume someone's still alive), so I gave them a bollocking for not keeping the relevant people informed of their change of plans.
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Feb 18, 2024 01:01
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HopperUK posted:Yeah, I had a full on 'oh poo poo, Camrath's dead' realisation the other day, you know how that stuff will sometimes just come back on you after a while? Bah. That happened to me last october. I agree also with the earlier post that it's hard to be able to talk to anyone about it. People think it's daft if you've never actually met someone. I dunno. I think Twisto and Camrath both affected me more than most other deaths I've gone through. Just seemed wronger somehow.
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Feb 18, 2024 01:32
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History Comes Inside! posted:You survived that one post in the tattoo thread you can survive anything This made me drop my toothbrush in the sink and possibly did psychic damage. Thanks! It wasn't even my actual penis!
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Feb 18, 2024 02:40
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Actually been meaning to make the effort to post in here, I've kind of been avoiding d&d/news related forums because I've been feeling way too negative recently. Just need to keep in mind this thread is 90% crisp chat anyway so it's fine. These have always been top tier for me 
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Feb 18, 2024 03:40
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Rookoo posted:Actually been meaning to make the effort to post in here, I've kind of been avoiding d&d/news related forums because I've been feeling way too negative recently. I *love* the plain salted McCoys and you can never find the fuckers around here
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Feb 18, 2024 04:17
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The sandwich man who used to come to our office pre-pandemic had Levi Roots coconut curry flavour crisps and they were lush.
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Feb 18, 2024 07:58
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Rookoo posted:These have always been top tier for me I am not big on crisps but if these are offered I will always have them. They're loving weird and I don't know why they're so good. I am always in the mood for them. Angrymog posted:The sandwich man who used to come to our office pre-pandemic had Levi Roots coconut curry flavour crisps and they were lush. Sounds like the M&S katsu curry ones. I have no idea why they put coconut in it, can't say I've ever noticed it in katsu curry. The crisps were good though.
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Feb 18, 2024 08:36
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OwlFancier posted:That happened to me last october. Same here. Camraths death had me weeping in my bed like a family member had died. Fortunately my wife was a fan of his fudge, so kinda had an idea of who he was.
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Feb 18, 2024 08:45
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Generally speaking have lurked the ukmt on and off for years now from a distance having left the UK over a decade ago now but I only found out about Camrath a couple of days ago when someone made a passing reference and I was thinking to buy some of his fudge to send to a family member back there as a present. Actually hit me quite hard. Terribly sad situation.
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Feb 18, 2024 09:02
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I'd like to know what happened to Camranth if someone could PM me 
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Feb 18, 2024 10:03
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Rarity posted:I'd like to know what happened to Camranth if someone could PM me https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4040936&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=35#post534532544
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Feb 18, 2024 10:08
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Well gently caress
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Feb 18, 2024 10:39
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I still have some Camrath fudge in the door of my fridge that is over a year old that I can't bring myself to eat or chuck out he was such a good guy.
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Feb 18, 2024 11:08
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You should probably eat it
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Feb 18, 2024 11:11
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I'm not sure I should. It's best before end 11/22... So actually it's been in there even longer. Ahh ADHD fridges.
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Feb 18, 2024 11:13
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OwlFancier posted:That happened to me last october. It's not quite the same, but earlier this year I found out that my first brief girlfriend at uni died 3 years ago. We only dated on and off for a few months (several years apart), and hadn't spoken in over a decade but it was still creating a bit of a weird feeling of disbelief and loss for a whole bunch of reasons. It's also a situation that there isn't really anyone to talk about it to. Our social circles have long since stopped overlapping, she died so long ago, and we were together for such little time that it would weird to go and bring it up with anyone we mutually knew. It's maybe a bit similar to here. I can't imagine there's many folk 30+ offline who would understand the feeling off loss when someone from the UKMT dies.
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Feb 18, 2024 11:13
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Pouring one (packet of fudge) out (and into my mouth) for camrath
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Feb 18, 2024 11:14
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Mebh posted:I'm not sure I should. It's best before end 11/22... So actually it's been in there even longer. Ahh ADHD fridges. It's just sugar, sniff test is fine
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Feb 18, 2024 11:22
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's just sugar, sniff test is fine Dunno is fudge not mainly milk and butter?
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