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History Comes Inside! posted:... it was more about the feeling that using language that gives bigots an inch would lead to them taking a mile and hollering about the future generations being made out of glass and why don’t you care about the increased costs to the NHS of all those x-rays and plaster casts and trips to A&E etc. I found myself doing this before, thinking about how puberty blockers prevent suicide and how a terf could use that to argue it's a mental health problem and should be treat as such (knowing that mental health care is also dogshit, and what they mean by mental health care is conversion therapy); and at that point I realised I was letting them into my head, spending mental energy making up arguments for them, and more importantly arguing with people I made up in my head instead of taking my dog out and enjoying the nice weather. The one good thing 99 did for me as a contrarian was point out that I do this to myself a lot, so I warn you: down that road lies madness.
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Apr 12, 2024 14:13
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Bobby Deluxe posted:oral thrush if you don't use expensive non-prescription mouthwash afterwards whenever i see a reference to oral thrush i just assume it's your mouth being full of small brown birds
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Apr 12, 2024 14:25
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That sounds like a much better way to clean your teeth than expensive mouthwashes, if you happened to be a giant or an alligator.
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Apr 12, 2024 14:27
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Apr 12, 2024 14:32
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richard you wally
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Apr 12, 2024 14:39
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Just wanted to thank everyone in this thread who has put energy into unpicking all the flaws in the Cass review (double-blinds, etc) and how it's being portrayed in the media. I don't post here much but seeing the even larger than normal bombardment of TERF poo poo in the news this week is upsetting and enraging, and I want to be prepared if anyone around me tries to regurgitate it. Solidarity with trans posters and lurkers. You are loved and I am sorry that you have to put up with so much constant bullshit
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Apr 12, 2024 14:42
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He probably gave it to her with his unwashed willy
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Apr 12, 2024 14:59
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if she murdered him no jury would convict her
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Apr 12, 2024 15:03
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killerwhat posted:I dated someone from Swindon for a while. Everything he said made it sound like an irredeemable shithole. In this case, haha gently caress you Mr Lister, hope you're miserable I grew up there and can confirm that it's an irredeemable shithole. I left at 18 and basically only go back to see family. It's a soulless commuter town.
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Apr 12, 2024 15:03
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Train museum is quite good though.
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Apr 12, 2024 15:04
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sebzilla posted:Train museum is quite good though. That's true, one redeeming factor. Couple of nice parks too but that's true of a lot of places.
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Apr 12, 2024 15:05
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I've heard there's a decent little community/district with some good restaurants there? Old Town I think? Person who told me about it did a decent job of selling it for a visit at some point at least.
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Apr 12, 2024 15:09
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thebardyspoon posted:I've heard there's a decent little community/district with some good restaurants there? Old Town I think? Person who told me about it did a decent job of selling it for a visit at some point at least. Old Town is fine and the best option if you’re actually going out in Swindon but it’s nothing special
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Apr 12, 2024 15:33
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the biggest problem with Swindon is the ever presence of that shithead Carl
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Apr 12, 2024 15:44
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I had occasion just now to look up something in the Labour manifesto of 2019. It's no longer on their website - but.... the clowns forgot to remove the large-print version mwahahahaha. Anyone know where I can upload a copy for the interwebs (anonymously!) before they zap it from the labour site. (I have googled but don't see a copy anywhere else.) Oh found a copy in the web archive - didn't know it did pdfs before (this is the non-large-print version)! https://web.archive.org/web/20200212025456/https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Real-Change-Labour-Manifesto-2019.pdf Large print version: https://web.archive.org/web/20200724175630/https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Large-Print-Manifesto-2019-pdf.pdf Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Apr 12, 2024 15:51
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https://web.archive.org/ Will it let you archive the page? E: I see we had the same idea.
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Apr 12, 2024 15:54
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I keep meaning to donate to the web archive as I do use it a fair amount. It throws up some interesting volte-faces! Eg IIRC Theresa May as MP for Maidenhead was dead set against Heathrow new runway for several years then changed completely once she became PM & overhauled her website! (been a few years since I looked that one up so I might be misremembering which way round she changed it).
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Apr 12, 2024 15:58
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Huh, I always thought of this thread like a basement with about 20 people in, but it’s actually an ampitheatre with thousands watching, baying for blood. My posting is about to evolve
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Apr 12, 2024 16:23
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I think more like a basement with a cage fight happening and maybe 40 or 50 watching 
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Apr 12, 2024 16:24
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God I’ve had dreams like that
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Apr 12, 2024 16:26
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Tesla was right posted:I found out years later that I used to work with feedmegin. 
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Apr 12, 2024 16:27
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Jakabite posted:God I’ve had dreams like that If it's your first time in Posting Club, you have to Post
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Apr 12, 2024 16:30
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Stop posting about the Post Club! *taps rules sign* 
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Apr 12, 2024 16:33
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The giant Post Club sign makes me question the effectiveness of a couple of the rules on said sign.
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Apr 12, 2024 16:34
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I did actually have a dream last night that I got up this morning to find myself made the the IK of "the wrong" UK thread and having already been pre-emptively probated by the other thread IK for trying to sully their thread
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Apr 12, 2024 16:35
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Chas McGill posted:Hope the ombudsman is actually useful. I have some bad news. Scottish power once started sending me bills for a different account and when I complained they decided to solve the problem by merging this supposed other account with my own. I live on the 8th floor and they were chasing me for months with bills for a loving restaurant. It took about 8 months of screaming at people to get it sorted and to this day the door guy for our building tells me every so often they get power guys appearing “for the restaurant on the premises”. Scottish power HQ is a couple streets over from me and I should’ve burnt the place down.
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Apr 12, 2024 16:36
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Nenonen posted:Stop posting about the Post Club! *taps rules sign* The first rule of Post Office is DO NOT try to mail your own faeces to Westminster
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Apr 12, 2024 16:40
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Mr Teatime posted:I have some bad news. Cool sounds great
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Apr 12, 2024 16:47
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OwlFancier posted:I think more like a basement with a cage fight happening and maybe 40 or 50 watching 
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Apr 12, 2024 16:58
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I had a car insurer - 1stCentral - somehow manage to open 2 separate policies for me on the same car, with wildly different start dates. I spoke to them a load of times wasting literally hours on hold, was assured that it would be closed, that they would stop asking for money, that it was definitely dealt with this time... until I got a letter from them saying that if I did not pay it would be sent to bailiffs. Made a complaint to the ombudsman and it got sorted really quickly, plus they paid me some money (think it was like £1-200) as compensation for loving me about. So sometimes they work.
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Apr 12, 2024 17:01
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Tesseraction posted:I did actually have a dream last night that I got up this morning to find myself made the the IK of "the wrong" UK thread and having already been pre-emptively probated by the other thread IK for trying to sully their thread I can make half of this come true 
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Apr 12, 2024 17:07
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Probation doesn't make my posts less lovely overall they just increase the per-post crappiness.
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Apr 12, 2024 17:22
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WhatEvil posted:I had a car insurer - 1stCentral - somehow manage to open 2 separate policies for me on the same car, with wildly different start dates. I spoke to them a load of times wasting literally hours on hold, was assured that it would be closed, that they would stop asking for money, that it was definitely dealt with this time... until I got a letter from them saying that if I did not pay it would be sent to bailiffs. How long ago was that though? As an organisation that can hold shifty businesses to account, it's unsurprisingly been pretty neutered in recent years
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Apr 12, 2024 17:46
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Jakabite posted:Huh, I always thought of this thread like a basement with about 20 people in, but it’s actually an ampitheatre with thousands watching, baying for blood. Christ, now i feel exposed. 
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Apr 12, 2024 17:59
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Rayners hosed then. Just put out a statement saying she'll step down if shes found to have broken the rules.
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Apr 12, 2024 18:13
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Is that about the SNP motion thing with Hoyle?
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Apr 12, 2024 18:16
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Imagine earning 80k a year and still avoiding £1500 capital gains tax, in Minecraft.
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Apr 12, 2024 18:16
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OwlFancier posted:Is that about the SNP motion thing with Hoyle? Shes being investigated for election fraud over her house. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68801671
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Apr 12, 2024 18:19
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I also mostly lurk unless the conversation turns to things I know stuff about (linguistics, history, insurance), but I just want to say I've considered the thread an invaluable resource ever since the coalition days (when I posted more frequently) and I really appreciate reading the thoughts of the regular posters.
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Apr 12, 2024 18:19
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serious gaylord posted:Shes being investigated for election fraud over her house. lmao, thats even funnier.
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Apr 12, 2024 18:24
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