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"The kids are identifying as pasta" is Birbalsingh's "you can grow concrete".
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May 17, 2024 11:52
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Good news https://x.com/BBCNews/status/1791344265513034047
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May 17, 2024 11:59
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Potable water No parasites lionel hutz meme
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May 17, 2024 12:00
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I did this but nobody makes a good post to reply it to
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May 17, 2024 12:02
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Water boss 'truly parasite' for sorry outbreak.
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May 17, 2024 12:06
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Guavanaut posted:Water boss 'truly parasite' for sorry outbreak. Water boss apologizes on behalf of all parasites
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May 17, 2024 12:09
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isn't a water boss a pokemon villain or something
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May 17, 2024 12:10
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Wachter posted:"The kids are identifying as pasta" is Birbalsingh's "you can grow concrete". Oh no, that’s legit or rather legit but passed through a few parts of misunderstanding https://www.spaghettimonster.org
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May 17, 2024 12:48
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The best part of Enter the Ninja is the bad guy's Veruca Salt-like "well if they've got a ninja I want one now now now!" Also why has twitter stopped working for me entirely on Edge - doesn't seem to be Ublock Origins or Privacy Badger. Works fine on other browsers
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May 17, 2024 12:58
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Epic Divorce Guy made it so only x dot com works now.
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May 17, 2024 13:13
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Currently experience the joys (non sarcasm) of the Dutch unemployment system. Even their "more harsh" system is just so much more realistic –
It's not perfect, but it's a world away from UK – and I'm not even a citizen. 75% is a good level where there is an incentive to get back to your old salary, but still ensures the hit (factoring in that healthcare and rent can be covered if it takes you below that level) is manageable. There's no rush to instantly be back in the first job you see. Really been eye opening.
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May 17, 2024 13:19
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It's always pretty eye opening to go from a shithole to a civilised society, even one with a comical attachment to shoe polish.
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May 17, 2024 13:22
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Tesseraction posted:It's always pretty eye opening to go from a shithole to a civilised society, even one with a comical attachment to shoe polish. The Zwarte Piet thing is basically at the same popularity level as Golliwog lovers at this point tbh Edit: but to add to that, Dutch have a very strong streak of racism that's very different to the UK. Catches you off guard. They take their 'liberal' society to mean they can do stuff like pulling their eyes bag as a gag because they don't "actively discriminate". Quite strange to encounter, given for all its faults the UK doesn't accept that sort of casual racism as completely fine anymore.
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May 17, 2024 13:23
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Tesseraction posted:Pretty childish but regardless of how the person looked I'd probably reply with "if I looked like you I'd also be wearing a mask."
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May 17, 2024 13:35
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just wait until you find out how much you get paid when you're ill, and for how long it lasts
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May 17, 2024 13:36
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https://twitter.com/BRYN_BORANGA/status/1791199710478209049?t=tApL1dPFTbtxSR9jKNR-Sg&s=19 This woman has a truly impressive internal locus of self-esteem and serenity
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May 17, 2024 13:55
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I can’t imagine being so monstrously miserable as to go and hassle someone for playing the harp nicely for free while offering people the opportunity to tip if they like. Like, it sounds a bit horrible but at that level of joylessness why even be alive any more? What are you getting out of it that the void wouldn’t improve upon?
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May 17, 2024 14:05
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No being happy in public, need a license for that.
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May 17, 2024 14:07
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Jakabite posted:I can’t imagine being so monstrously miserable as to go and hassle someone for playing the harp nicely for free while offering people the opportunity to tip if they like. If you died then who would hassle people on the street? The world would collapse if nobody had the council arrest people for playing music. The world needs you to be a miserable twat.
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May 17, 2024 14:08
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Who's the manager at Karen Council, I want to speak to them
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May 17, 2024 14:11
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I wouldn't underestimate the amount of people whose entire reason to go on living is just pure spite and resentment
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May 17, 2024 14:19
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You can establish a floor by just looking at Tory voters
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May 17, 2024 14:21
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Failed Imagineer posted:I wouldn't underestimate the amount of people whose entire reason to go on living is just pure spite and resentment It will help them exist, but i wouldn't call that living. 
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May 17, 2024 14:22
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I'm just looking at my dad's tenancy agreement (he rents) and it contains a paragraph about the rent increasing in line with inflation every year, except the landlord actually forgot to do that so he's still paying the same rent as in 2015 I looked it up and it should be £1600 but is actually still £1200. Inflation has eroded a landlord's income by 25% and i couldn't be more delighted  
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May 17, 2024 14:27
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Jakabite posted:I can’t imagine being so monstrously miserable as to go and hassle someone for playing the harp nicely for free while offering people the opportunity to tip if they like. After my sister died, I used to help her young daughter raise enough money for her school bus pass by hair braiding in coastal village which makes most of its money from tourism and where tourists go to get their hair braided. The residents of the village uniformly hate the hair braiders and, incredibly, regard them as scroungers even though they visibly spend all day working for a pittance, apparently because they do it outside instead of in a shop.
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May 17, 2024 14:32
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Microplastics posted:I'm just looking at my dad's tenancy agreement (he rents) and it contains a paragraph about the rent increasing in line with inflation every year, except the landlord actually forgot to do that so he's still paying the same rent as in 2015 jfc both those prices are nuts
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May 17, 2024 14:39
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Tis London, and the rent is for a whole flat with a garden and parking. Yes it is a nuts rent but it's a nuts rent in a nuts city
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May 17, 2024 14:41
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Mesopotamia posted:The Zwarte Piet thing is basically at the same popularity level as Golliwog lovers at this point tbh Oh I know, but Europe wouldn't be Europe without our stereotypes. The French are haughty, the Germans sticklers, the Dutch more racist than even us, the Nordics depressed, the Iberians nudists, the Slavs drunk, etc.
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May 17, 2024 14:42
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I feel like the UK is all of those things.
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May 17, 2024 14:44
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OwlFancier posted:No being happy in public, need a license for that. Bill Bryson said that it was a shame that Britain has never had a chance to properly try communism because we'd probably make a good stick at it, what with our love of queuing, our humour in the face of adversity, our ability to poke fun at superiors without really challenging them and an ability to pull together for an identified common cause. But he also said that we have all the characteristics that would make it turn into the usual authoritarian nightmare - the love of curtain-twitching, the spineless following of the pettiest of rules for their own sake, the ability to slot our fellow citizens into ranks and boxes for the slightest quirk of accent, dress, thought or deed. Of which "do you have permission to play that harp in public?" has to be a stand-out example. Just a brilliant example of how joyless, spiteful and gleefully authoritarian a good chunk of the population is. Real 'this place is a shithole...and I'll be damned if I'll see it changed!' energy.
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May 17, 2024 14:45
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/BRYN_BORANGA/status/1791199710478209049?t=tApL1dPFTbtxSR9jKNR-Sg&s=19 OI MATE YOU GOT A LOICENCE FOR THA HARP?
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May 17, 2024 14:48
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Pistol_Pete posted:I guess there's a secondary objective, to conflate the protestors with terrorist groups in the public mind, through constant repetition of the question. you can just tell a person asking you a stupid question to get hosed 
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May 17, 2024 14:51
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OwlFancier posted:I feel like the UK is all of those things. are you accusing me of projection?! that sounds like something someone with a guilty conscience would do
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May 17, 2024 14:51
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Jakabite posted:I can’t imagine being so monstrously miserable as to go and hassle someone for playing the harp nicely for free while offering people the opportunity to tip if they like. you do encounter people who only seem to be able to function on this mortal coil if they're able to make others around them as utterly devoid of anything good about being human as they are energy vampires is what some call them these days and i think that's a good name for them
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May 17, 2024 15:03
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I always assume those sort of social media videos are most likely scripted tbh.
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May 17, 2024 15:22
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New reality show The Harp, where contestants have to keep placidly plucking a melody while being berated by a Mrs Norman who's getting increasingly close
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May 17, 2024 15:27
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BalloonFish posted:Bill Bryson said that it was a shame that Britain has never had a chance to properly try communism because we'd probably make a good stick at it, what with our love of queuing, our humour in the face of adversity, our ability to poke fun at superiors without really challenging them and an ability to pull together for an identified common cause. Like I said during Covid, when Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan all had different but very impressive responses, whereas Boris Johnson thought he was Princess Diana and shook hands with all the Covid patients, and told everyone to take it on the chin until he got it. There were claims that those East Asian countries just had a different outlook on things at a population level, but I don't think so. If they'd come out with track and trace (even of the pencil and clipboard type at first), internal ventilation rules, and limited restrictions on movement from day one, i think people would have gotten on with it for the reasons you say. It was only when the pubs closed that people started losing it, and Taiwan didn't even have to close the pubs.
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May 17, 2024 15:33
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Guavanaut posted:We seem to have got all that and yet still useless shithouse governments of the "doing things is socialism" stripe. As TrashFuture routinely says, modern Britain is just recreating the Soviet Union but shittier and more expensive.
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May 17, 2024 15:37
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Failed Imagineer posted:New reality show The Harp, where contestants have to keep placidly plucking a melody while being berated by a Mrs Norman who's getting increasingly close Imagine coming up with this idea but not giving it the name Harping On About It
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May 17, 2024 15:37
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Pistol_Pete posted:I always assume those sort of social media videos are most likely scripted tbh. A lot of them are but I've known people who did that kind of petty, vindictive poo poo so it's not a big reach.
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May 17, 2024 15:43
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