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Welcome to the April thread. You all know what goes on here by now. This is the thread where we talk about what foods we like or are currently eating, what is the best biscuit, what crisps are preferred, and other culinary delights. Occasionally politics creeps its ugly head in too, but such things are rather crass for the dinner table, so let's try to keep that to a minimum. UK Meal Talk  Suitable Topics of Conversation Entertaining a party. Making and keeping a list. Conservative selection of starters and canapes. Place setting. Correct party dress code. The best way to cut sandwiches. Light lunches for boating. The correct name for a bread roll. Which condiments will be banned under the Psychoactive Substances Act. Swiss eggs.     Set Menu UKMT March 2016 UKMT February 2016 UKMT January 2016 - Not The Best Month UKMT December 2015 - Happy Xmas (War Is Over (lolno)) UKMT November 2015 Kinder Surprise Paedogeddon/Press Corruption Thread Battered Promises Scotpol Thread Egg Whites EDL/Fash Thread Continental Wankfest Europol Thread Complimentary Cuppa (£1.95) Trainchat Thread McMurtry's Quarter Scrounger Political Cartoons Thread Illinois Roast Chicken #ukgoons on synIRC. It's mostly active during Question Time, but there's always some people around (thanks crispix). Enjoy your meal everyone! 
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Thanks  I was trying to quote it in as a doublepost.It seems pretty  but is it actually better or worse than the previous proposed contract? (Not that both weren't sacks of poo poo)
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Apr 1, 2016 00:15
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Red is normally preferred with red meat, but since the closest that roast beef monster munch has come to a cow is that the packaging designer saw one once, I think Irn Bru. What's even the point of having an Equality Assessment if it's just going to be "yeah this will gently caress over single mothers but yolo" and then moving on?
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Apr 1, 2016 00:20
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Hydrazine and hydrogen peroxide were also famously used as the bipropellant rocket fuel-oxidizer mix in the Messerschmitt Me 163b Komet WWII interceptor. Famous because they were hypergolic, they'd explode from simple contact inside or outside of the rocket chamber, to the extent that the two fueling teams would wear different colored protective suits to avoid contact. I'm not sure what measures were taken by the silo crews to make that safer than kerosene and liquid oxygen, but that mixture has always red flagged to me as a 'step away' sign.
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Apr 1, 2016 01:25
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Oberleutnant posted:I don't like monster munch because you only get about 7 of them in a bag these days. Thanks.  
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Apr 1, 2016 09:51
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Junior G-man posted:The Guardian's April Fool's article is well worth it:
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Apr 1, 2016 10:20
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Could have had me up until "major state building programme". I can believe that Osborne would relax planning regs, use eminent domain, and 'invest' millions in private housebuilding as long as it stayed there. Jumped the shark at For too long, politicians of all parties have prioritised the needs of elderly homeowners over those of their children." tho.
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Apr 1, 2016 11:18
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OwlFancier posted:I just noticed the thread tag, how long has that been a thread tag?
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Apr 1, 2016 16:56
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namesake posted:There's not even a Falklands moment to cause a legacy, they're going to be the worst government we've had, possibly ever. Top 10 maybe.
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Apr 1, 2016 21:12
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Oh I'm sure they would have implemented different tactics if it was happening to people they cared about, but the paperwork of the time definitely promoted a laissez-faire economic approach as the best resolution to the crisis with some unfortunate human cost can't make an egg without eating a few omelettes &c. &c.
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Apr 1, 2016 21:26
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OwlFancier posted:Ah yes, Ireland, reknowned for its fine Vodka. Mister Adequate posted:Just had some drunk teens outside TJs try and start with me, but I've never seen someone go from thinking he's hard to being at a complete loss so fast as when this kid threw several insults at me, and was met with my calm gaze, total agreement, and then me leaning forward and asking "What are you going to do about any of that?" After a few minutes when my food was ready he was making to follow me home but I blanked him and then heard his mate pleading with him not to.  (or was it one of the smaller ones?)
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Apr 1, 2016 22:22
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UKIP will be lumbered with a bad leader due to being a mishmash of people from all over the political spectrum whose only uniting features are being anti-establishment, then chasing a good part of the left half away by making public statements that the gays cause flooding. Allowing online voting on policies won't make their leader any worse. It will probably make them the party that wants to bring back hanging and allow shops to put up 'no coloureds' signs again though. Even though Farage is anti death penalty he has said that he'd bow to democratic pressure from his membership on it if they said so.
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Apr 2, 2016 12:14
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Isn't that better than the opposite case, where Google was accused of keeping people in a filter bubble based on their demographic? I remember them doing a test where people from one demographic searching for abortion were shown clinics in their area and people from another were shown Catholic Encyclopedia articles on the sanctity of life.
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Apr 2, 2016 16:18
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otoh the Remain logo is like a shitter version of the ITN logo with the T removed, and looks more like a font for a chip shop sign at some godforsaken seaside town. Of course it looks a lot better as part of it's full logo, BRITAIN STRONGER IN EUROPE, where it just looks like boilerplate pseudo-fascism. I can only imagine what was going on in that meeting. "Hey, should we address some of the key good things about the EU? How about 'Britain Fairer In Europe'?" "Why don't we look at the human rights angle? Put 'right' in there or something. 'Remain: It's the Right Way'" "It's nearly lunch, why don't we just reuse the last one? 'Europe: Better Together'" *murmurs of agreement begin around the table, but are interrupted by Osborne railing a massive line of coke off a place card and slamming both fists on the table* "BRITANE STRONG! BRITANE SMASH!" "Yeah, gently caress it, let's go with that."
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Apr 3, 2016 09:59
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thespaceinvader posted:Which is why, despite it probably being overall less effective, I'm glad Labour has its own in campaign. It might piss off the SNP, but I'm not sure if that's a plus or a minus. 
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Apr 3, 2016 11:04
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They could bring a beloved British former EU leader out of retirement at the last minute for a rousing speech. The only heads of government during a British presidency of the CoE still alive are Tony Blair and John Major though  There's probably someone working hard behind the scenes to resurrect Jim Callaghan using Keith Richards technology.
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Apr 3, 2016 11:21
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BRIT.  PREVENT STRIVE.  How long until the government goes full US and starts introducing bills with 'clever' acronym names?
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Apr 3, 2016 12:08
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thespaceinvader posted:Is there any meaning in this or is it just word vomit? The first letter is interesting though, at it reminded me that the UK is still one of the few countries in Europe without abortion on demand. And that Ireland is even worse.
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Apr 3, 2016 12:38
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Yeah, it's de facto legal by applying very broad definitions of mental health and wellbeing, but there is a general reluctance to make termination of a pregnancy (within a certain timeframe) an absolute legal right like the rest of Europe that isn't Ireland or Poland.
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Apr 3, 2016 12:58
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I mean from the political circles. Doctors being fine with it for the most part is the reason why it's de facto legal, but there's seemingly no political will to legalize it in line with Europe. It's certainly a preferable situation to parts of the US, where it is de jure legal but some states go out of their way to be fuckers about it, like having one certified clinic in the most remote part of the state, but it is strange that it has still not been done on paper.
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Apr 3, 2016 13:15
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I guess that's the sticky problem when you start framing women's rights issues as mental health issues though, and why most of Europe opted to go a slightly different path.
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Apr 3, 2016 15:54
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Peter Hitchens posted:Someone usually pops up at this stage and says that we still manufacture a lot. If you say so, but then why are the drug-dealers so busy in our new factory-free industrial areas, and why can I never buy anything that was made here, except from absurdly expensive luxury shops? Specifically the second wave, where a hall full of machinists on lathes got replaced with a CNC machining center and a couple of machinists who know G-code. Also a lot of the factories in inner cities are garbage tier or have been rendered uninhabitable by mid 20th century industrial practices like 'throwing poison around everywhere'. The new industrial areas still have factories though. Now, there are probably plenty of factory jobs that still require people, just look at an assembly line process in China. But also look at the working conditions. We could probably get some of those jobs back without getting those working conditions back if businesses were willing to cut some of the fat at the top, but they'll either offshore or automate and pocket the difference instead if allowed to.  As for things that are made locally but aren't absurdly expensive luxury products, these are made down the road from me:  But the profits go to PepsiCo or someone now.
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Apr 3, 2016 18:51
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It's the International Permanent Revolution vs. Socialism in One Country debate. Bring your own ice pick.
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Apr 3, 2016 21:43
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Jedit posted:If the Blairites get sufficiently uppity, is there a chance that the Tory left might break away and join the Labour right? Which actually might be a good thing in the long run because they might raise hell to get a different voting system when they inevitably get a ton of votes and 3 seats.
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Apr 3, 2016 21:48
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Spangly A posted:this worked really well for the liberals, SDP-Lib alliance, greens, Lib Dems, and UKIP I don't actually want the Tory left or the Blairites in power though, but additional voices against FPTP is always good, so it works for me. e: 9 is the only positive perfect power that is one more than another positive perfect power. It is also the number of tenths of the law that possession is, apparently. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Apr 3, 2016 21:54
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Angepain posted:Here, I made a handy flowchart of how this will pan out:
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Apr 3, 2016 23:00
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Cerv posted:Would have thought he'd be too busy that weekend. With the aftermath of the EU referendum to deal with.
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Apr 4, 2016 09:14
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Cerv posted:If we're leaving I'd rather not have the unopposed Tory right setting the terms of the exit negotiations etc Pissflaps posted:Yeah just leaving the EU. No biggy.
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Apr 4, 2016 09:47
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Zephro posted:I think it's a little idiosyncratic to argue that leaving the EU would be no big deal, whether you're for it or against it Either way, Corbyn maintaining distance rather than poking his dick into the running poo poo-covered lawn strimmer of the Tory EU debate seems like a wise idea. Like Fans said, stay will probably win and he can carry on in a stronger position from the fallout.
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Apr 4, 2016 10:13
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Lord of the Llamas posted:This doesn't make any sense whatsoever? Sovereign Citizens are people who, having correctly identified that something they don't like is a social construct, and having figured that you can change social constructs just by changing minds, resolve to combat it using One Weird Trick. These Tricks are usually really loving Weird.
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Apr 4, 2016 10:36
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Fans posted:It actually makes less sense when explained.
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Apr 4, 2016 10:47
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awesome-express posted:Is this some freeman of the land type poo poo?  On the surface, that's some freeman on the land level poo poo, but because nearly everything in politics and law is a social construct, sometimes stunts like that can work, not in the immediate term, but in the long term because they make people think. That's the most charitable reading that I can give to a lot of that stuff. On the other end of the scale, some of it is just a cynical scam perpetuated on people who are genuinely being hosed over by the system by selling them a 900 page 'legal' pack filled with a lot of boat references that will claim to rid them of fines or unpayable debt.
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Apr 4, 2016 11:00
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I think the idea is that if enough people stop being a part of that behemoth then it would lose that ability. It's the civil version of "what if they had a war but nobody showed up?" in that it might be a nice idea but it'd probably lead to something worse.
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Apr 4, 2016 11:06
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CeX does. Although I imagine they immediately sell them and do their accounts in sterling because lol otherwise.
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Apr 4, 2016 12:28
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I thought you were able to trade things in for bitcoin there instead of cash or store credit too, if you wanted to do such a thing. Or does Coinbase allow you to do that?
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Apr 4, 2016 12:44
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Spangly A posted:wouldn't that be money laundering? I could run a market stall and decide that I'm only going to accept gold bullion in exact weights as barter (as long as all negotiation is before the sale, it's different for settling a tab after purchase), but I'd need to keep a ledger of transactions and their equivalent value in pounds sterling, and if I've made over a certain amount per tax year I'd have to pay taxes in pounds sterling, and if someone wanted to make a transaction over a certain value I'd need to verify their identity and keep a copy for a period of time, like cash for gold places do.
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Apr 4, 2016 13:22
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Til;dr version: For decades we were told spies knew what they were doing. But this was a fantasy. In reality, spies are all poo poo. This is a story of my ongoing task of digging up every piece of footage of people dancing in black & white.  Where is this 'socialist cancer consuming the country' and how can I find out more? e: It's us, isn't it?
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Apr 4, 2016 14:14
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I would vote for a law that any speech containing the words 'cyber' or 'radical' also has to contain an equal number of uses of 'tubular' or 'gnarly' to ensure the equal use of words that should have been humanely euthanized in the 90s.
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Apr 4, 2016 15:16
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Fans posted:So it's the London Mayoral tomorrow and I live in Wales and have thus heard pretty much gently caress all about it beyond Sadiq Khan is a Muslim and Goldsmith is very keen to point that out, but he's not saying anything in particular he's just saying.
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Apr 4, 2016 18:14
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Gonzo McFee posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-35958871
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Apr 4, 2016 21:21
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