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Pistol_Pete posted:I always assume those sort of social media videos are most likely scripted tbh. The ones where a person is unreasonably mad at builders to the point of having a tantrum usually come from a channel that presents itself as a skit show aimed at people in construction, but then people reupload them and strip out all the stuff that makes it clear it’s a sketch. Mind you, the “lady reporting you to the council” didn’t sound beyond the realm of plausibility to me so I’m willing to believe that one.
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May 17, 2024 15:57
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Round here we've got a man that "busks" by shouting Robbie Williams' Angels at the top of his lungs. Would kill (him, probably) to get a nice young lady playing the harp instead.
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May 17, 2024 15:57
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crispix posted:you can just tell a person asking you a stupid question to get hosed that's Rude and shows these Terrorist Sympathisers are Violent and Aggressive and need to be Dealt With also then they have video of you getting mad and angry they can clip out of context
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May 17, 2024 16:03
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Umbra Dubium posted:Round here we've got a man that "busks" by shouting Robbie Williams' Angels at the top of his lungs. Have you tried offering him protection? Or indeed, a lot of love and affection?
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May 17, 2024 16:06
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Umbra Dubium posted:Round here we've got a man that "busks" by shouting Robbie Williams' Angels at the top of his lungs. Get him a sign that says "For £100 I will Stop"
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May 17, 2024 16:08
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I used to know a transient homeless busker who played ear piercing high pitched tin whistle, badly, and only stopped when he'd raised enough money to get a bottle of something strong from the off license. He never had to busk for long. I was in awe of his marketing approach 
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May 17, 2024 17:04
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fuctifino posted:I used to know a transient homeless busker who played ear piercing high pitched tin whistle, badly, and only stopped when he'd raised enough money to get a bottle of something strong from the off license. He never had to busk for long. We have one of these guys outside the local shops as well, solid strategy.
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May 17, 2024 17:32
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We've got one in our town centre who, despite appearing to be extremely upbeat, emits a mournful sort of foghorn noise instead of any discernible lyrics. He's always there and you can't stop him
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May 17, 2024 17:36
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Gladly trade any number of pipers tunelessly shrieking in Glasgow city centre, or the one guy with the violin who only knows the chorus of Despacito and just plays it over and over, for a nice harpist instead.
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May 17, 2024 17:36
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50 year anniversary today of British paramilitaries setting off bombs in Dublin and Monaghan with the support of British intelligence. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_and_Monaghan_bombings British government has never cooperated with any investigation. President Higgins today took the opportunity at a memorial today to make that clear https://www.thejournal.ie/50th-anniversary-memorial-events-dublin-and-monaghn-bombings-6382160-May2024/
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May 17, 2024 17:40
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Gladly trade any number of pipers tunelessly shrieking in Glasgow city centre, or the one guy with the violin who only knows the chorus of Despacito and just plays it over and over, for a nice harpist instead. I miss when a bunch of the various buskers of Glasgow City Centre would sometimes get together & just jam on Buchanan Street. That was cool.
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May 17, 2024 18:09
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Umbra Dubium posted:Round here we've got a man that "busks" by shouting Robbie Williams' Angels at the top of his lungs. We had a guy who would only play the Pink Panther theme tune on a flute. He was threatened at first by the local shop owners for the same song over and over, but he grew on the place. My town loves buskers, we had a semi-famous one called 'ArtyG' who used to play professionally until the drugs and drink got him.
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May 17, 2024 18:29
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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. We soooort of did during WW2 (because a command economy is actually how you want to run a total war). Right down to government-established subsidised canteens so people didn't have to cook between working in the arms factories.
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May 17, 2024 18:41
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I think I'd appreciate buskers more if the ones in Manchester didn't all have sound systems attempting to drown each other out, Market Street is loving insufferable to walk down.
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May 17, 2024 19:09
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feedmegin posted:We soooort of did during WW2 (because a command economy is actually how you want to run a total war). Right down to government-established subsidised canteens so people didn't have to cook between working in the arms factories. Indeed, and that's a period of history which a lot of people in this country have secondary nostalgia for, often precisely because of the sense of common purpose and all-level cooperation - y'know, all that 'society' stuff. Can't ever consider any actual politics that might resemble that stuff though. Oh no, because it's communism or something.
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May 17, 2024 19:22
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https://x.com/premnsikka/status/1790998642515402957 lmao. Labour abstained  e: In related news, SWW still haven't found where the poop is entering the drinking water supply. It can take up to 10 days for the symptoms to first appear once infected, so South Devon is in for an interesting fortnight https://x.com/SouthWestWater/status/1791512893269176736 
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May 17, 2024 19:40
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If I don't do my job properly I can be held criminally liable, feel like that should probably be the case for people paid many times my salary.
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May 17, 2024 19:51
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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. This really isnt unique to Britain though. Somebody sent me a youtube link recently about a guy in Germany checking parked cars for the slightest infraction and reporting them to the council or cops. He wasn't paid to do this, he just wanted to be a good little stasi snitch.
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May 17, 2024 19:57
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fuctifino posted:https://x.com/premnsikka/status/1790998642515402957 i knew a few families planning on going down there for a quick break who ain’t planning to now, can’t go into the sea and can’t even drink the water lol
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May 17, 2024 19:57
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OwlFancier posted:If I don't do my job properly I can be held criminally liable, feel like that should probably be the case for people paid many times my salary. Maybe if you bootstrapped your way into literal sacks of cash, you'd be able to pay the government to legislate your own criminal immunity, you lazy paup.
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May 17, 2024 20:17
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Jel Shaker posted:i knew a few families planning on going down there for a quick break who ain’t planning to now, can’t go into the sea and can’t even drink the water lol Good. I'm glad they value their health. I was having a look at a few Brixham facebook groups, and there are a lot of people who have been hit hard by this who are unable to get GP appointments, and are only able to get ambulances to attend if they lose consciousness. Cryptosporidiosis is nasty at the best of times, but can really gently caress up those with pre-existing health conditions as well as randomly gently caress over completely healthy people. The BBC is now reporting 'over 100' infected (up from 'up to 100' that they reported yesterday) with 46 confirmed new cases today, which is up from 24 yesterday. I guess those 46 cases are those who were 'lucky' enough to make it to Torbay hospital. There's also probably a daily test capacity limit too. e: From my facebook perusing, quite a lot of people in Paignton and Torquay are also reporting symptoms, despite them being outside of the contaminated area fuctifino fucked around with this message at 20:59 on May 17, 2024 |
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May 17, 2024 20:18
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forkboy84 posted:I miss when a bunch of the various buskers of Glasgow City Centre would sometimes get together & just jam on Buchanan Street. That was cool. I was out early one sunny morning in Glasgow (during a science fiction convention) and heard this amazingly beautiful flute music which I tracked down to a busker known as Frei Zinger and I bought his CD "Floyd's Dream" This is a track from the album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUQGa5nHAOk
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May 17, 2024 20:25
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There used to be a flautist at Birmingham New Street who'd go from platform to platform lovingly serenading the trains as they pulled into the station (completely ignoring the actual commuters, who in turn ignored him) and it remains to this day one of the most beautifully, quixotically human things I've ever seen. I've no idea if he was actually any good, of course. The trains were too loud. But still.
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May 17, 2024 20:45
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love to watch footy to take my mind off the ills of the world then have the camera repeatedly cut to our dipshit prime minister
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May 17, 2024 21:20
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Nuclear Spoon posted:love to watch footy to take my mind off the ills of the world then have the camera repeatedly cut to our dipshit prime minister I normally hate my home town like the next UKMT poster, but that dickhead being associated with here makes it even worse.
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May 17, 2024 21:49
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Gladly trade any number of pipers tunelessly shrieking in Glasgow city centre, or the one guy with the violin who only knows the chorus of Despacito and just plays it over and over, for a nice harpist instead. There’s a new guy on sauchiehall street near the art school who just blares the same couple of notes on a trumpet over and over. Think someone might take it off him.
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May 17, 2024 22:21
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EvilHawk posted:I normally hate my home town like the next UKMT poster, but that dickhead being associated with here makes it even worse. He's not even local, from Winchester and just dragged in the nearest local club. Not like anyone would be into football at Winchester College.
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May 17, 2024 22:22
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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 ... Close to what Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I think I'd appreciate buskers more if the ones in Manchester didn't all have sound systems attempting to drown each other out, Market Street is loving insufferable to walk down. Yeah well Birmingham high street has that but for religious freaks. Only the Muslim tents have anything close to a tune to broadcast, the rest are either ranting Christian nutters or the Black Hebrew Israelites
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May 18, 2024 00:04
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if you want to watch suella get owned even further https://x.com/I_amMukhtar/status/1791464979402514871
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May 18, 2024 01:29
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When students have better comms strategies and spokespeople than the Ruling Class’s political machine.
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May 18, 2024 09:25
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May 18, 2024 09:33
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Angepain posted:if you want to watch suella get owned even further yeah really belies the importance of a trained media speaker, just thinking to the more anarchistic occupy movement where the media could just find any lunatic to “represent” the movement
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May 18, 2024 09:39
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Well guys & dolls, seems I may have the big C in the colo-rectal area. After the good news about the diabetes, I suddenly felt very unwell in a non-specific way and went over to my GP who saw me without an appointment! Packed me off to The Grange (dreaded new hospital with horrendous waiting times in Cwmbran serving practically the whole of South Wales). After a seriously uncomfortable overnight in a chair (40 people I guess sat bolt upright all night - one guy said it was worse than the 12 years he'd spent in the army) & assorted X-rays, CT scans, the Oncology specialist came to talk to me. So they're extremely sure but got to have biopsies (can't do on weekends) to confirm 100% before appropriate treatment plan can be sorted. Mysterious symptoms such as extreme bloating, pain in right side which easy to put down to RSI from laptop use etc, all tie together. I know a few on here are having cancer treatment - if anyone wants to share thoughts on PM about the relative merits of radio/chemo/immuno/surgery would be glad to So don't put off things til retirement or until life gets easier! Just Do It! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 10:55 on May 18, 2024 |
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May 18, 2024 09:43
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Well guys & dolls, seems I may have the big C in the colo-rectal area. I'm really sorry to hear that, Jaeluni. You're a good poster and good people and I hope you make a swift and painless recovery!
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May 18, 2024 09:50
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that's awful to hear jaeluni, hoping for the best outcome for you
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May 18, 2024 10:08
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Swift recovery and good health afterwards Jaeluni!
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May 18, 2024 10:10
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poo poo, genuinely sorry to hear that - hopefully they caught it early enough it'll be another anecdote about the one part of the NHS that still seems to be working.
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May 18, 2024 10:11
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Hope the treatment goes speedily for you.  And gently caress cancer.
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May 18, 2024 10:40
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Really hope they can get you sorted quickly Jaeluni.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Well guys & dolls, seems I may have the big C in the colo-rectal area. poo poo I'm sorry. Hope it's one that's easy to deal with. Thankfully cancer treatment is something the NHS is still good and fast at. I had the easy mode colorectal cancer - growth on stoma and lump in lymph node, so feel free to ask me stuff about surgery and chemo. Can't really advise on radio- or immunotherapy, but the cancer megathread has people who've been through anything you can imagine - it's https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3529607 if you haven't found it yet.
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