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Which companies are getting the contracts for all of this? edit: 268 is the smallest number whose product of digits is 6 times the sum of its digits.... i have no idea what this means but it sounds cool. 
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Feb 20, 2024 16:12
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loving management consultant King. Change the logo, sack 30% of the workforce. Next up change the name of the country to something loving stupid.
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Feb 20, 2024 16:12
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keep punching joe posted:loving management consultant King. Change the logo, sack 30% of the workforce. Next up change the name of the country to something loving stupid. United King Charlesdom.
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Feb 20, 2024 16:14
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Police forces should send the bill to Charlie Boy. What an utter waste of public money. The crown change isn't a marketing thing or some idea cooked up by Charles himself. It's a typically (stupid) British semi-tradition that doesn't really exist but a few people really care about, that you have different heraldic crowns for Kings and Queens. And this ancient tradition started in...1952. The traditional heraldic symbol for 'the British Crown' was the flat-topped Tudor Crown. Queen Victoria had a new Imperial State Crown (with the arched top) made for her coronation and that was the one she wore for state/imperial occasions and which became the heraldic symbol of 'the crown' during her reign. Edward VII went back to the Tudor Crown, as did George, Edward and George after him. Liz 2 chose to adopt the Imperial State Crown as her heraldic symbol, because it was used by the last queen. Now it's become a thing among royalist/heraldry weirdos and so we're going back to a 'king's crown', although since the foreseeable future line of succession is all kings then if the changes are made they won't be redundant if Charles does shuffle off quickly. And yes, I was in the NHS when they slightly changed the shade of blue for the Trust logo and so we suddenly had piles and piles of stationery etc. that was officially unusable now...
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Feb 20, 2024 16:14
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keep punching joe posted:loving management consultant King. Change the logo, sack 30% of the workforce. Next up change the name of the country to something loving stupid. The UK is going to be rebranded as Excelsior Service Solutions, and will be offering dynamic AI driven solutions to other nation states. To stay change-ready and cost effective, a third of its citizens are to be made redundant (minced into a fine slurry and tipped into the north sea).
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Feb 20, 2024 16:16
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Am I just getting annoyed at this the same way people get annoyed at gaelic road signs. Like are the going to actually replace everything with the original heraldry or just replace stuff as and when required?
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Feb 20, 2024 16:17
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Sadsack posted:The UK is going to be rebranded as Excelsior Service Solutions, and will be offering dynamic AI driven solutions to other nation states. To stay change-ready and cost effective, a third of its citizens are to be made redundant (minced into a fine slurry and tipped into the north sea). At this point I'd volunteer to be part of the slurry-class.
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Feb 20, 2024 16:17
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Apparently it's the old queen's fault. She changed it, the king is just changing it back to what it was before. He's been seething about this for half a century, now he's finally got his chance.
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Feb 20, 2024 16:17
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keep punching joe posted:Am I just getting annoyed at this the same way people get annoyed at gaelic road signs. Like are the going to actually replace everything with the original heraldry or just replace stuff as and when required? I've said it before but this reminded me, we Irish didn't even bother replacing all the Royal branded postboxes, just painted 'em green. It's neat to spot ones from the Victorian era
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Feb 20, 2024 16:18
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Keith has u turned on the citizens assemblies in under 24 hours 
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Feb 20, 2024 16:19
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What's the fastest u-turn Labour have had yet under starmer? Are there any policies that have lasted less than an hour for example?
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Feb 20, 2024 16:21
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Failed Imagineer posted:He's been seething about this for half a century, now he's finally got his chance. The comedy option would be for William, once Charles has succumbed to turbo butt cancer, to change it back. But for some reason I can't picture Will having that sort of burning need to change things for change's sake. To be honest I cant imagine him having strong opinions about anything really, aside from prostate stimulation. He seems like a complete void of a human being.
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Feb 20, 2024 16:24
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Failed Imagineer posted:I've said it before but this reminded me, we Irish didn't even bother replacing all the Royal branded postboxes, just painted 'em green. It's neat to spot ones from the Victorian era Why waste a good box? A lick of paint and it's good to go.
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Feb 20, 2024 16:27
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Sadsack posted:The comedy option would be for William, once Charles has succumbed to turbo butt cancer, to change it back. But for some reason I can't picture Will having that sort of burning need to change things for change's sake. A bit of a tangent, but I've noticed in the year-or-so since Charles has been In Charge that the idea that he'll be the one to reform, modernise and slim-down the monarchy has completely vanished. You'd often hear stuff along the lines of "oh, Elizabeth is a product of the 1930s and carries the shock of the Abdication in her approach to the monarchy, and when she became queen we still had an empire and it was a very different world. You can't expect things to change under her. Charles will be the one to update the institution for the 21st century and make it more like the other European monarchies - less grand, fewer hangers-on and less gaudy ceremonial flim-flam." Now it's all "oh, he respects his Dear Ma-Ma too much to really change things and a lot of people feel that the monarchy is the only unchanging, traditional institution they've got to cling to in a chaotic and scary world, so we can't expect Charles to do much. Wait until William, the millenial prince, takes over and then we'll see the monarchy change..."
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Feb 20, 2024 16:31
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He got rid of Harry and Andrew.
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Feb 20, 2024 16:36
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NotJustANumber99 posted:He got rid of Harry and Andrew. He barely got rid of Andrew. He can't be too strict on him publicly because it'll make him look like a hypocrite when it's revealed he's a child fucker too.
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Feb 20, 2024 16:38
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PriorMarcus posted:He barely got rid of Andrew. He can't be too strict on him publicly because it'll make him look like a hypocrite when it's revealed he's a child fucker too. "I can support King Nonce, but not if he's a hypocrite!"
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Feb 20, 2024 16:40
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Just Another Lurker posted:
(2+6+8)*6=2*6*8
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Feb 20, 2024 16:42
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Failed Imagineer posted:"I can support King Nonce, but not if he's a hypocrite!" Polly Toynbee posted:Charles showed the nation how to respond to accusations like these with his delicate handling of Andrew, now it's time we repaid the generosity with our handling of the King himself.
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Feb 20, 2024 16:44
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BalloonFish posted:A bit of a tangent, but I've noticed in the year-or-so since Charles has been In Charge that the idea that he'll be the one to reform, modernise and slim-down the monarchy has completely vanished. You'd often hear stuff along the lines of "oh, Elizabeth is a product of the 1930s and carries the shock of the Abdication in her approach to the monarchy, and when she became queen we still had an empire and it was a very different world. You can't expect things to change under her. Charles will be the one to update the institution for the 21st century and make it more like the other European monarchies - less grand, fewer hangers-on and less gaudy ceremonial flim-flam." I don't think he was ever inclined to change things for the better or to slim things down. He payed lip service to environmentalism, but I think that's as far as his progressive streak went. I suspect he was always more interested in reinforcing or even increasing the 'dignity' of the institution. He wanted to be top dog for so bloody long. Now that he is he wants to make the most of it. The possibility of a slimmed down monarchy like the Netherlands or Denmark is dependent entirely on Charlie and Billy popping their clogs and Harry getting the job. And in that situation the tabloids would go thermonuclear and kick up a real poo poo storm.
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Feb 20, 2024 16:44
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Labour's playing silly buggers over genocide again: https://x.com/guardian/status/1759922626883907862?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q
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Feb 20, 2024 16:46
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Sadsack posted:The possibility of a slimmed down monarchy like the Netherlands or Denmark is dependent entirely on Charlie and Billy popping their clogs and Harry getting the job. And in that situation the tabloids would go thermonuclear and kick up a real poo poo storm. Wouldn't he have to kill Billy's kids to get the job tho? Is this Scotland Yard's official position?
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Feb 20, 2024 16:48
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keep punching joe posted:What's the fastest u-turn Labour have had yet under starmer? Are there any policies that have lasted less than an hour for example? It's still uncertain, but scientists are keeping a close eye as the Labour policy with a sufficiently short half-life will revolutionise the UK's energy industry.
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Feb 20, 2024 16:59
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I think if you look closely the new crown has one less dot on it, which will make it cheaper to reproduce on items and is therefore a positive change no I will not take any questions
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Feb 20, 2024 17:07
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Darth Walrus posted:Labour's playing silly buggers over genocide again: Wtf is the difference?
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Feb 20, 2024 17:07
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quote:While the amendment backs a “humanitarian ceasefire”, it clarifies that it does not want Israel to stop fighting as long as Hamas continues to threaten violence. I am still not entirely sure what that means exactly in practice, which might be the whole point
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Feb 20, 2024 17:08
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I think the primary difference might be "it was not written by the SNP, eww icky nat cooties"
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Feb 20, 2024 17:09
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An unconditional ceasefire denies Israel's right to do as it pleases to Hamas. Keith is asking Israel nothing more.
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Feb 20, 2024 17:14
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keep punching joe posted:Am I just getting annoyed at this the same way people get annoyed at gaelic road signs. Like are the going to actually replace everything with the original heraldry or just replace stuff as and when required? xtothez posted:It's still uncertain, but scientists are keeping a close eye as the Labour policy with a sufficiently short half-life will revolutionise the UK's energy industry.
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Feb 20, 2024 17:15
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PriorMarcus posted:I can't see anywhere discussing the cost of this poo poo, except for the .gov website assuring people the cost of updating it on that website came out of already budgeted running cost. To be fair, I updated the logo on our work's website yesterday and it took less than 5 mins (once someone sent me the proper image not a pdf file!) though I guess gov.uk doesn't use wordpress LOL
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Feb 20, 2024 17:15
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Runcible Cat posted:He's desperate to leave some kind of mark on the country before he carks it, isn't he. He can commission more post boxes like every other fucker.
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Feb 20, 2024 17:21
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Monstrous. Andrew Roberts, UK House of Lords, praises the IDF for how many Palestinians it has killed. Not a parody. https://x.com/mockgoose/status/1759728740840411412?s=20 Rebuttal (technically correct. Technically. Not morally.) https://x.com/peterrhague/status/1759926304156103028?s=20 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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Feb 20, 2024 17:22
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:To be fair, I updated the logo on our work's website yesterday and it took less than 5 mins (once someone sent me the proper image not a pdf file!) though I guess gov.uk doesn't use wordpress LOL It's probably normal to send a logo as a vector file rather than an image so it can be scaled accordingly.
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Feb 20, 2024 17:28
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NotJustANumber99 posted:It's probably normal to send a logo as a vector file rather than an image so it can be scaled accordingly. Yeah but I got sent it as a pdf. Had to explain I can't extract an image from a PDF file and use as our website logo without it looking like a piece of crap. Eventually managed to get a high res PNG (which was the best I could get).
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Feb 20, 2024 17:30
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Failed Imagineer posted:Wouldn't he have to kill Billy's kids to get the job tho? The Met's child killing policy only extends to black and Asian ones.
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Feb 20, 2024 17:38
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Angepain posted:I think the primary difference might be "it was not written by the SNP, eww icky nat cooties" According to anonymous X comments, it removes all references to 'collective punishment', as that's a war crime so it is antisemitic to suggest it, and also adds a clause so the Israeli government gets a veto on any decisions.
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Feb 20, 2024 17:40
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yeah but I got sent it as a pdf. Had to explain I can't extract an image from a PDF file and use as our website logo without it looking like a piece of crap. Eventually managed to get a high res PNG (which was the best I could get). If it comes up again and the PDF does contain a vector image you can use Illustrator, Inkscape or similar software to open the PDF and export a raster image at any resolution you like.
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Feb 20, 2024 17:42
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We need a ceasefire = 'stop killing people, it's bad' We need a humanitarian ceasefire = 'it would be kind of you to stop killing for a while, justified though you are'
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Feb 20, 2024 17:48
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big scary monsters posted:If it comes up again and the PDF does contain a vector image you can use Illustrator, Inkscape or similar software to open the PDF and export a raster image at any resolution you like. I was also thinking irfanview might do that but it's been a long time since I had to use it.
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Feb 20, 2024 17:51
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We would like to have voted for the ceasefire but the dastardly snp made it impossible with their legally problematic wording with such phrases as 'collective punishment' and 'crimes against humanity'  OzyMandrill posted:According to anonymous X comments, it removes all references to 'collective punishment', as that's a war crime so it is antisemitic to suggest it, and also adds a clause so the Israeli government gets a veto on any decisions. Lol, ceasefire unless Israel says nope. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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Feb 20, 2024 18:06
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