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Guavanaut posted:Yes we're Global Britane now That *edit* person.. has totally ruined the thumbs up gesture for me. I look back at old photo's where I'm doing it & cringe... *edit* because I forgot which thread I'm in. Trainee PornStar fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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Mar 20, 2024 20:43
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Trainee PornStar posted:That oval office has totally ruined the thumbs up gesture for me. Try not to define yourself based on that oval office, follow the way of The Fonz. 
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Mar 20, 2024 20:45
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el dingo posted:Huh? Don't you just show up at the border and get stamped for 90 days? I've been to France 4 times since brexit and all I needed was my passport When did you last go? I went in 2022 and didn't need anything. But this is on the gov.uk site quote:Proof of accommodation and funds https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/france/entry-requirements
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Mar 20, 2024 20:49
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Just Another Lurker posted:Try not to define yourself based on that oval office, follow the way of The Fonz. I'm slowly training myself to throw the horns instead of thumbs up... It's equally wanky but at least Boris doesn't do it.
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Mar 20, 2024 20:55
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The Question IRL posted:Why is it called "the 1922 Commission "? The 1922 election was the first that the Conservatives won a parliamentary majority after the WW1 years in coalition and before that the spell of Liberal governments in the 1900s. After 1922 the Conservatives suddenly had a huge number of seats in the Commons, which meant loads of backbenchers, most of which were new to parliament. A group of newcomers did the very Tory thing of forming a dining club to coordinate and campaign and after a few years it became the voice of the back bench, seen as a safeguard of Conservative views against the more progressive policies of Stanley Baldwin. Now the 1922 Committee is basically the 'voice' of the parliamentary Conservatives that hold the leadership to account - yes, it is ironically a sort of workplace democracy committee for Tory MPs. The leadership has to appear before the committee at regular intervals to gain support for their policies and action from the back bench, and it's the head of the 1922 Committee to whom Tory MPs send letters of no confidence when they want to ditch the leader.
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Mar 20, 2024 20:57
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room full of tories banging on the tables. they're probably all going "eeeeaaaahhhhh" and "aaaaaaaayyyyyy" and whatever. at least 70% of the people in this room have been blind drunk since 9am. this is where the democracy happens
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Mar 20, 2024 21:20
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:When did you last go? I went in 2022 and didn't need anything. A few weeks ago but granted that was for work. I've only been once for leisure and I think that was Jan 2022, shortly after they reopened the border to Brits post COVID. That stuff you posted from the website does seem vaguely familiar but I think I ignored it all, they only wanted to see vaccines and stuff
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Mar 20, 2024 21:21
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Good news. Top Gear is back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6igJRJSJ9o
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Mar 20, 2024 21:24
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stupid loving country lol. what a waste of time https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/20/rwanda-bill-likely-to-be-stalled-at-least-till-april-after-seven-defeats-in-the-lords quote:Rwanda bill likely to be stalled at least till April after seven defeats in the Lords
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Mar 20, 2024 21:25
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Nuclear Spoon posted:stupid loving country lol. what a waste of time If I were Rwanda and wanted to gain international brownie points, I would reject the entire UK effort here and return the money which I think they already said they would do if exporting asylum seekers was against international law.
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Mar 20, 2024 21:29
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Trainee PornStar posted:That *edit* person.. has totally ruined the thumbs up gesture for me. This may be D&D but this is a commonwealth thread, you can call noted oval office Boris "The oval office" Johnson a oval office.
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Mar 20, 2024 21:38
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Mega Comrade posted:I just objected to a local building application for 250 homes. I'm officially a nimby Why are you objecting to them?
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Mar 20, 2024 21:52
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Affect my house price Local services at breaking point Anecdote about a traffic jam Not in keeping with the village aesthetic Set a precedent Evil developers Crested Newts
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Mar 20, 2024 21:57
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Tesseraction posted:This may be D&D but this is a commonwealth thread, you can call noted oval office Boris "The oval office" Johnson a oval office. Thank you... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP5-KpgGO3o
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Mar 20, 2024 22:04
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Affect my house price Gonna flood my back yard.
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Mar 20, 2024 22:16
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There was a great one in my village where there was planning in for a pair of semi detached houses. They have been built and are for sale for half a million a pop. But the redacted person's complaint is that they live across the road and they do not want to look at semi detached houses.
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Mar 20, 2024 22:25
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Josef bugman posted:Why are you objecting to them? 250 more homes. No new shops. No changes to public transport routes which already suck. No changes to the main road and it's got one entrance. Already takes about 3 weeks to see the GP round here. To complete it off, it's on a greenfield site that's home to an abundance of wildlife.
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Mar 20, 2024 22:32
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NotJustANumber99 posted:There was a great one in my village where there was planning in for a pair of semi detached houses. They have been built and are for sale for half a million a pop. The snobby ones are the best, people complaining about social housing like it's going to turn the area into 1970s era Bronx from their right to buy house but in the same paragraph moaning that the hospital is hosed (yeah it's hosed because the jobs don't pay enough for people to live there, well and decades worth of underfunding).
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Mar 20, 2024 22:37
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Affect my house price Mega Comrade posted:250 more homes. Lol
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Mar 20, 2024 22:38
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NotJustANumber99 posted:
Houses too L-shaped, pilings have disrupted the Earth's crust and released Morlocks
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Mar 20, 2024 22:56
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Mega Comrade posted:250 more homes. They are the same objections that many in my rural town are using in an attempt to block a few proposed developments. I was asked to get involved with the objections here, but I didn't feel as though my increased inconvenience was justification to deny 200+ families a home.
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Mar 20, 2024 23:10
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I feel like ideally it should be sent back to the developers saying "build it properly or it doesn't get built" and it does seem odd to say that badly built estates of badly built houses are good because at least it's a house? Like the lovely houses on lovely estates are just putting more burden on the place they're built that everyone then has to foot the bill to fix later down the line while the developers pocket millions. You wouldn't be in favour of deregulating any other aspect of the public space so why would it be different for urban planning?
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Mar 20, 2024 23:14
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what if we built houses so people could live in them
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Mar 20, 2024 23:15
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loving communist
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Mar 20, 2024 23:18
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Nuclear Spoon posted:what if we built houses so people could live in them Yes but I already have a house, so any additional houses are obviously unnecessary and an affront to me personally.
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Mar 20, 2024 23:19
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I went to Paris in November for leisure and they just check your passport and wave you through. Anyway, it takes ages to build 250 homes so that's plenty of time to get some extra shops and buses sorted
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Mar 20, 2024 23:23
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As someone in a new build on the edge of a village and nice countryside: lol
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Mar 20, 2024 23:23
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oh speaking of travel - i have booked myself a short trip to napoli in may on the cheapest ryanair flight available. how stringent do they tend to be about bag sizes
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Mar 20, 2024 23:26
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Put all your clothes in a pillowcase and use it as a pillow on the flight
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Mar 20, 2024 23:29
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Just wear 3 pairs of trousers and 6 shirts onto the plane: nobody can stop you doing that.
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Mar 20, 2024 23:33
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Nuclear Spoon posted:oh speaking of travel - i have booked myself a short trip to napoli in may on the cheapest ryanair flight available. how stringent do they tend to be about bag sizes On the whole pretty strict. Slightly more leeway on a non-full flight but not much. I have an exact ryanair-sized 20l bag. My backpack which I would prefer to use (as the ryanair-sized one doesn't have back straps & hurts my shoulder to carry) is also 20l but is the wrong shape to fit in their gauge at the airport. I have seen people take 20l backpacks on though. I guess I'm just not willing to risk an additional cost more than the price of the ticket if they decide to be fussy one day. (I do try to travel with just 20L now though! The days of the 18kg suitcase - most of the contents of which are never used - are gone. Holidays get planned round laundrettes! The only place I couldn't find a laundrette was Luxembourg.).
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Mar 20, 2024 23:47
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:On the whole pretty strict. Slightly more leeway on a non-full flight but not much. Think it was mentioned on the BBC site that Ryanair was reducing the size of the carry on baggage... i didn't pay any attention to it but you may want to check.
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Mar 20, 2024 23:50
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Just Another Lurker posted:Think it was mentioned on the BBC site that Ryanair was reducing the size of the carry on baggage... i didn't pay any attention to it but you may want to check. Thanks for the heads up - just checked, it's still showing the same dimensions for the 20l bag 40cm x 25cm x 20cm Otherwise I might have to invest in a vest https://ayegear.com/products/ayegear-v26-vest
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Mar 21, 2024 00:22
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I feel like that's a good way to get murdered by the transport cops for wearing a bomb vest if you go with that thing loaded up.
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Mar 21, 2024 00:24
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OwlFancier posted:I feel like that's a good way to get murdered by the transport cops for wearing a bomb vest if you go with that thing loaded up. It's ok, I'm white.
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Mar 21, 2024 00:26
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Nuclear Spoon posted:oh speaking of travel - i have booked myself a short trip to napoli in may on the cheapest ryanair flight available. how stringent do they tend to be about bag sizes I was on a Ryanair flight on Sunday from Birmingham and at no point did anyone check to see if my backpack was within the size limit (it is)
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Mar 21, 2024 01:13
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fuctifino posted:They are the same objections that many in my rural town are using in an attempt to block a few proposed developments. I was asked to get involved with the objections here, but I didn't feel as though my increased inconvenience was justification to deny 200+ families a home. I mean sure, but developers really should have a legal responsibility to upgrade infrastructure when building a sizeable number of new houses. Subsidise bus services for X years, fund improvements to sewers and power infrastructure, bare minimum stuff, and then ideally over a certain size there should be a pharmacy, shop, a GP surgery, at some point a primary school. Not to mention a much higher proportion of actually affordable property.
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Mar 21, 2024 01:16
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Angepain posted:room full of tories banging on the tables. they're probably all going "eeeeaaaahhhhh" and "aaaaaaaayyyyyy" and whatever. at least 70% of the people in this room have been blind drunk since 9am. this is where the democracy happens I very specifically remember that my first serious engagement with this thread was during the phone hacking hearings, and one of my first questions was "so uh what's up with the zombie groans, is this normal parliamentary operation"
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Mar 21, 2024 01:19
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Turns out a lot of legislatures in the Anglosphere have an average age of "loving hell we need Ash Williams here on the double"
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Mar 21, 2024 01:22
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forkboy84 posted:I mean sure, but developers really should have a legal responsibility to upgrade infrastructure when building a sizeable number of new houses. Subsidise bus services for X years, fund improvements to sewers and power infrastructure, bare minimum stuff, and then ideally over a certain size there should be a pharmacy, shop, a GP surgery, at some point a primary school. Not to mention a much higher proportion of actually affordable property. I agree to a point, but those developers will simply lump any extra costs onto the homebuyer, so it'll just be another tax and cost lumped onto what is already an unaffordable purchase for many. I don't know whether the blame for the already saturated infrastructure should lie solely with new people wanting to also have a home, or for the currently saturated services to be used as an excuse to deny people a home. Housing should be top priority in any society.
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