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Guavanaut posted:Water wet, grass green, private enterprise most efficient method of allocating money to pockets. Instead of fining and renationalising our massively indebted privately run essential service, what if you let us raise prices 40% so we can pay dividends to shareholders?  Thames Water has been lobbying the government and regulators to let it increase bills by 40%, pay lower fines for breaches and keep paying out dividends as part of efforts to avert a taxpayer bailout, according to a report.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:15
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Pretty sure a 40% increase in my water bills is still actually 'a taxpayer bailout', there.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:20
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If there's one thing that's an issue with water management in this country it has to be that the fines for polluting the environment are too high. That is a sentence that makes perfect sense. To someone.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:20
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J. S. Mill, 1848: Natural monopolies, such as water basins, when privately owned, will always lead to price gouging. V. I. Lenin, 1917: Large industries, such as mines and construction, when privately owned, will always form cartels and attempt to influence state policy. Media Brainlets, 2024: Wow, who could have seen this coming? Speaking of media brainlets, they all just keep doubling down holy poo poo lol https://twitter.com/SpillerOfTea/status/1762861378476388582
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Feb 28, 2024 17:26
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I think you need the number for that and the daughters don't even have that. The daughters are now old ladies (as in older than me) so it was pushing it to get any info at all! Ah, in the Scottish one you can just search by other information like name, year of death, town etc.
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Feb 28, 2024 18:12
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https://twitter.com/shockproofbeats/status/1762857353462915245?t=tguT1JKJBftgYdr7nIMlcQ&s=19 I'm so glad that AI has empowered people to reach ever greater levels of horseshit.
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Feb 28, 2024 18:30
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wonkaland is a gift that keeps on giving https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1762871070661472596
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Feb 28, 2024 18:38
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I can't wait for the 3 hour Youtube video essay on this
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Feb 28, 2024 18:43
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah, from the parents perspective losing £40 quid for nothing is going to be a kick in the teeth, especially with the current cost of living crisis, and from the actors perspective having a scammy oval office commit wage theft is going to be poo poo, but from the child's perspective just going out and seeing something new is going to be a day out.
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Feb 28, 2024 18:46
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Rarity posted:I can't wait for the 10-episode Netflix documentary series on this
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Feb 28, 2024 18:57
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Kids are just as capable of being underwhelmed and disappointed as anybody, no kid old enough to be able to remember going to this event would have been thrilled about what they saw.
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Feb 28, 2024 18:59
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Good comedian pretending to be the tour good instagram reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C342MXtsLCP/
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Feb 28, 2024 19:02
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It sounds like the Maybe with everything being as soaked in irony as it is, it'll become a tradition like the haunted houses in America.  house.
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Feb 28, 2024 19:17
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This truly was Scotland's own Fyre Festival.
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Feb 28, 2024 19:31
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Glasgae's Kintyre Festival
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Feb 28, 2024 19:46
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Thank you, I knew there was a pun in there somewhere but really didn't have it in me to find it.
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Feb 28, 2024 19:54
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Ah, in the Scottish one you can just search by other information like name, year of death, town etc. OK I take it back, I found out how to do it on the register! (And now I've wasted 15 minutes looking up various relatives!) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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Feb 28, 2024 20:01
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Rarity posted:I can't wait for the Behind the Bastards on the guy behind this
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Feb 28, 2024 20:17
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He definitely deserves one if the fake foodbank/medical hub poo poo is true. Also a criminal record.
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Feb 28, 2024 20:27
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Feb 28, 2024 20:48
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Can you get sued for calling something willy wonka?
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Feb 28, 2024 20:52
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His name was Willy McDuff! Please ignore everything else.
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Feb 28, 2024 20:53
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Guavanaut posted:Holy poo poo, goon project. nah just hand them a zimmer frame and tell them to get started on their laps
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Feb 28, 2024 21:02
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The Captain Tom Experience should have a "Barbados Holiday" ride right at the end: one of those 50p shopping precinct plastic airplanes that wobbles about a bit for 2 minutes. During the ride one of the attendants repeatedly coughs in your face
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Feb 28, 2024 21:07
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The Wonka experience reminds me of this classic Grinch experience post (cracks me up every time I see it). Seems like the Wonka guy could have used some of the Grinch guy's dedication
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Feb 28, 2024 21:18
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His Divine Shadow posted:Don't you ever question Mrs. Norman again nooooooo i'm being surpassed by my own creation 
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Feb 28, 2024 21:22
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except my creation is a domineering, shouty old bag assembled from some of the worst human behaviour and thinking i've observed in my time not a murderous cyber genius created from a strapping gardener with learning diffulties by pierce brosnan, using early 1990s virtual reality
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Feb 28, 2024 21:25
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I was this years old when I discovered that 'Suella Braverman' is an anagram of 'Smaller Eva Braun'
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Feb 28, 2024 21:31
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Tesseraction posted:still getting gems from Glasgow https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1762739767471714379 i appreciate the thespian spirit of these two trying to make this absolute insanity work. the show must go on!
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Feb 28, 2024 21:35
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fuctifino posted:I was this years old when I discovered that 'Suella Braverman' is an anagram of 'Smaller Eva Braun' You haven't posted a tweet... You ok? How goes the battle with dickhead brother and son?
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Feb 28, 2024 21:36
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bit early on a Wednesday to be getting booze lairy njan99
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Feb 28, 2024 21:37
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I thought that was friendly?
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Feb 28, 2024 21:40
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i don't have the same kneejerk shut the gently caress up response to you as everyone else but it did read a tad pass-agg
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Feb 28, 2024 21:41
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Captain Tom speaks out on Wonkagate https://x.com/chai_ste/status/1762932609674269130?s=46
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Feb 28, 2024 21:43
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Nuclear Spoon posted:i don't have the same kneejerk shut the gently caress up response to you as everyone else but it did read a tad pass-agg OK soz. Obviously it was intended to be a bit cheeky. But yeah I'd like to hold off on being lairy for another couple of hours ideally.
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Feb 28, 2024 22:09
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WaffleACAB posted:The Wonka experience reminds me of this classic Grinch experience post (cracks me up every time I see it). Seems like the Wonka guy could have used some of the Grinch guy's dedication
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Feb 28, 2024 22:21
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Feb 28, 2024 22:46
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah, from the parents perspective losing £40 quid for nothing is going to be a kick in the teeth, especially with the current cost of living crisis, and from the actors perspective having a scammy oval office commit wage theft is going to be poo poo, but from the child's perspective just going out and seeing something new is going to be a day out. Yeah, I grew up in a house where it was made very clear to me if something I got or went to was a "waste of money". It didn't exactly make me feel good about wanting to do or get excited for things incase it turned out to be a "waste". I'm talking no birthday cakes, no fireworks or bonfire nights, levels of "waste" because neither of my parents were a kid so didn't see value in taking part in any of that. Hell, one of my most vivid childhood memories was from when I was 11. I'd saved up pocket money for months to buy Sonic 3, but I finished it in just a few hours after getting it home. I really liked that game but was terrified of what my parents would say and hid it from them by pretending to play it for the next few weeks so I wouldn't get into trouble. Never let your kids hear you say that something they did or wanted was a loving waste.
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Feb 28, 2024 22:51
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NotJustANumber99 posted:OK soz. Obviously it was intended to be a bit cheeky. I thought it was fine
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Feb 28, 2024 22:57
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I thought that was friendly? NotJustANumber99 posted:How goes the battle with dickhead brother and son? I demanded with the solicitor that everything be professionally valued - which happened, and the total contents are only worth an estimated ~£2500 at auction. My parents apparently liked cheap shite that looked expensive and had bad taste. It cost more than the contents worth to get everything valued. I don't actually want any of it bar a few worthless sentimental bits, so most of it will simply go to auction/landfill. I did start to get super-petty by demanding things like 1/3rd of a dinner service that my nephew wanted, but it just didn't sit right, so I changed my mind after a few days. I proved my point. It's the little victories that count
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