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History Comes Inside!: Nov 20, 2004

Azza Bamboo posted:

Take it to CEX.

They�re obviously gonna have to go and buy a new phone at some point so this has a better chance of eventually finding its way back to the owner than handing it in to the police

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:13

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# ? May 25, 2024 05:01

domhal: Dec 30, 2008; 0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Possible to check the brand on the SIMM card and take it to the shop?

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:14

Paul.Power: Feb 7, 2009; The three roles of APCs:
Transports.
Supply trucks.
Distractions.

Private Speech posted:

Every day we stray further from Jupiter's light.

It did just leave our skies...

(Hi it's me, I'm the astronomy derailler)

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:16

fatelvis: Mar 21, 2010

domhal posted:

Possible to check the brand on the SIMM card and take it to the shop?

Its a Vodafone, and their support agent just said to take it to the cops. I'll give their local store a call and see if they say anything different.

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:19

smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

I honestly can�t take years of this tool running the country

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:19

smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:25

kecske: Feb 28, 2011; it's round, like always

smellmycheese posted:

I hate that red faced wanker.

and now to turn on my monitor

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:31

domhal: Dec 30, 2008; 0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Pictured: Someone who looks like they have literally never seen a football before.

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:32

Flux Wildly: Dec 20, 2004; Welkum t� Zanydu!

Nothing like a fee cheeky pints after the five a side and just a little crushed cyclist as a treat

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:42

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

smellmycheese posted:

I honestly can’t take years of this tool running the country

I fell in love with football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, foosball. That's why all I do is talk balls.

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:44

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

smellmycheese posted:

I honestly can�t take years of this tool running the country

Making sure all our kids can play football apart from y'know, the trans ones

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:44

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

smellmycheese posted:

I honestly can�t take years of this tool running the country

i like football, i�m working class, me

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:48

Private Speech: Mar 30, 2011; I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.

Re: Thames Water

BBC posted:

When the company was privatised in 1989, it had no debt. But over the years it borrowed heavily and is currently �14.7bn in debt, by one measure.

A large proportion of that was added when Macquarie, an Australian infrastructure bank, owned Thames Water, reaching over �10bn when the company was sold in 2017.

...

But critics argue that it took billions of pounds out of the company in loans and dividends - which is a share of a business's profits that is paid to shareholders.

I like how they frame it as "critics argue" as if it is not the objective and officially declared truth.

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:53

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Why do you need patriotism to play football? Surely civic pride gets more kids interested.

That's one thing that Andy Bumham and Sadiq Khan got right, and that we should replicate in other cities as part of a pattern of increasing urbanisation and annoying Tories.

Also as GDT (pbuh) once said the demographics around traditional club catchment areas and the cultural sports they're interested in (iirc it was white working class and West Ham going to Black British and West Ham going to British Bangladeshi and cricket in his example) have more to do with who is playing what for where than any amount of flag loving.

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:57

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

I hate that the football/flag nonce is going to be prime minister for 10 years at least.

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:59

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

Private Speech posted:

Re: Thames Water

I like how they frame it as "critics argue" as if it is not the objective and officially declared truth.

the framing of �critics� means people who can�t be trusted or should be doubted

they could have used �experts� or even boffins if they wanted to, but the whole structure of government sells offs relies on all the foreign investment funds coming in so i wouldn�t be surprised if the bbc nhs�s been told to keep it chill for now

# ? Apr 22, 2024 09:59

Nuclear Spoon: Aug 18, 2010; I want to cry out
but I don’t scream and I don’t shout
And I feel so proud
to be alive

keep punching joe posted:

I hate that the football/flag nonce is going to be prime minister for 10 years at least.

very optimistic of you to think the mail & telegraph won't be done with him in 5

# ? Apr 22, 2024 10:07

dadrips: Jan 8, 2010; everything you do is a balloon; College Slice

Guavanaut posted:

Why do you need patriotism to play football?

Patriotism is the refuge of the thicko, so it makes perfect sense that Keith and the Tories are cranking up the butcher's apron factories to eleven. Who needs to improve anything when you can watch some brightly coloured fabric move in the wind?

# ? Apr 22, 2024 10:08

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"
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Nuclear Spoon posted:

very optimistic of you to think the mail & telegraph won't be done with him in 2 or less

really the question is still whether someone tries to knife him ahead of the election

# ? Apr 22, 2024 10:26

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Nuclear Spoon posted:

very optimistic of you to think the mail & telegraph won't be done with him in 5

I don't see why they wouldn't, their hostility to him is all just kayfabe.

# ? Apr 22, 2024 10:31

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

Sunak's giving a speech to the nation. He's said that Parliament is going to sit tonight and will keep voting until the Rwanda bill is passed.

# ? Apr 22, 2024 10:38

Communist Bear: Oct 7, 2008

fuctifino posted:

Sunak's giving a speech to the nation. He's said that Parliament is going to sit tonight and will keep voting until the Rwanda bill is passed.

Rofl it's quite funny how desperate he is to see at least one plane (probably empty) fly before he calls the election.

# ? Apr 22, 2024 10:41

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

He's now taking questions, and refusing to give any details due to 'operational security'... lmao

# ? Apr 22, 2024 10:44

Nuclear Spoon: Aug 18, 2010; I want to cry out
but I don’t scream and I don’t shout
And I feel so proud
to be alive

is there a moment when the speaker says "you know what. gently caress off. not allowing this nonsense anymore i want to go home".

# ? Apr 22, 2024 10:46

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

I don't think sunak actually has any authority over how long parliament spends in the chamber

# ? Apr 22, 2024 11:12

Communist Bear: Oct 7, 2008

I can't remember but can filibusters happen in British politics? Could someone troll parliament and speak for 14 hours?

# ? Apr 22, 2024 11:18

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

I was under the impression that this bill couldn't pass during this Parliamentary session if it didn't make it through the Lords? If so, I'm struggling to see how he thinks he can force the vote through? My head feels like mash after listening to his voice drone on and on while saying relatively nothing

# ? Apr 22, 2024 11:18

Angrymog: Jan 30, 2012; Really Madcats

Communist Bear posted:

I can't remember but can filibusters happen in British politics? Could someone troll parliament and speak for 14 hours?

I think so. There was something about Labour talking about ferrets for hours which stopped something going through...

# ? Apr 22, 2024 11:22

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Liz Truss accidentally filibusters the whole thing just by talking.

https://twitter.com/thhamilton/status/806182426204573696

# ? Apr 22, 2024 11:28

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

Communist Bear posted:

I can't remember but can filibusters happen in British politics? Could someone troll parliament and speak for 14 hours?

People like Jacob Rees-Mogg has even boasted in the past about doing it.

An example of him filibustering the Sustainable Livestock Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXGP1GGLDe4

# ? Apr 22, 2024 11:29

sinky: Feb 22, 2011; Slippery Tilde

OwlFancier posted:

I don't think sunak actually has any authority

# ? Apr 22, 2024 11:31

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Communist Bear posted:

I can't remember but can filibusters happen in British politics? Could someone troll parliament and speak for 14 hours?

Yeah, this chode filibustered an anti-upskirting bill. I thought it was David Davi(e?)s when he was brought up recently and realised it was a different alliteratively-named prime dipshit when I looked it up.

E: on re-reading the article maybe this wasn�t the filibustering event after all, derp.

TACD fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Apr 22, 2024

# ? Apr 22, 2024 11:54

dadrips: Jan 8, 2010; everything you do is a balloon; College Slice

It's great how that wheezing corpse Chope pretends that he's actually concerned about following some archaic processes and procedures so it's "done properly" when it's evident that he only does it for one specific type of legislation. The fetid wee prick has clearly outlived his usefulness so uses his position to spite others and stymie any progressive change.

# ? Apr 22, 2024 11:58

Communist Bear: Oct 7, 2008

First flights to take off in 10-12 years. That's 3 months which is September. Fitting with a general election maybe?

# ? Apr 22, 2024 12:02

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Communist Bear posted:

First flights to take off in 10-12 years.

Sounds about right for Britain

# ? Apr 22, 2024 12:04

Grey Hunter: Oct 17, 2007; Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

Communist Bear posted:

First flights to take off in 10-12 years. That's 3 months which is September. Fitting with a general election maybe?

Wow, Time really does fly....

# ? Apr 22, 2024 12:04

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

Communist Bear posted:

First flights to take off in 10-12 years. That's 3 months which is September.

I have some questions

# ? Apr 22, 2024 12:07

domhal: Dec 30, 2008; 0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. It has, however, made him into a very, very smart boy with something like a university degree in Truth. Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.

Utterly baffling to hang a PM-ship and an election campaign off a policy that virtually nobody cares about or benefits from.

# ? Apr 22, 2024 12:13

Nuclear Spoon: Aug 18, 2010; I want to cry out
but I don’t scream and I don’t shout
And I feel so proud
to be alive

assume khan will walk the mayoral election but is there any reason i shouldn't vote green in the assembly

e:

domhal posted:

Utterly baffling to hang a PM-ship and an election campaign off a policy that virtually nobody cares about or benefits from.

probably because it detracts attention away from the things people do care about (which they absolutely have no answers for)

Nuclear Spoon fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Apr 22, 2024

# ? Apr 22, 2024 12:15

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# ? May 25, 2024 05:01

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Jel Shaker posted:

simple answer is just take it to the police station

Actually probably not! Most modern stations won't take them because they view the time spent inventorying, storing and having to deal with ascertaining if the owner is the right owner as 'a waste of resources' rather than 'one of the few ways they make themselves useful to the public.'

# ? Apr 22, 2024 12:18

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