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Why are catheters so thick, then? Wouldn't a thinner version be less uncomfortable? Enquiring minds want to know
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TheHoodedClaw posted:It'd have to have a certain sturdiness to allow it to be rammed up your knob, I imagine  good point
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Feb 1, 2017 17:35
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T-shirts and jumpers are apparently produced with a standard sleeve length, and small/medium/large/extra large/xxxxxxxxxxx large (or whatever we're up to now) just means that they change the length of the torso slightly while keeping the arms the same standard length. What i'm saying is that every t-shirt or jumper or shirt smaller than a Large is made for people with extra-long gorilla arms and it's frustrating as gently caress
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Feb 1, 2017 20:13
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Pochoclo posted:I hope you guys bought dollars. The value of the pound is like a daily summary of who's winning the stupidity race between Britain and 'Murca
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Feb 1, 2017 20:19
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DesperateDan posted:Dickies workwear do a "tall" sizing across a lot of their stuff which is great for lanky people like me, long arms long legs and proper long torsos on everything, and it lasts quite well even on jobsites, let alone casual wear. The only upside is giving no fucks about seats on planes
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Feb 1, 2017 20:30
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Regarde Aduck posted:This is terrifying if there's any truth to it.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:41
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LemonDrizzle posted:Paul Nuttall may be going to pokey: 
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Feb 2, 2017 13:30
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learnincurve posted:I think that's what people living and working in London want. I live in the North and what people really want here, is the government to subsidise train ticket prices down to London so we can access all those lovely free museums and galleries, and most crucially, to build council houses. The brexit vote was used by a lot of people to send a message that we are unhappy with the housing situation, and with the full knowledge that Brexit will gently caress London but that it can't get any worse for people stuck living in high unemployment low wage areas with a high street full of charity shops and American owned coffee shops. If people wanted more houses built the way to do it was probably by lobbying local government and by supporting MPs or parties who support more houses being built. Voting to leave the EU, which has precisely nothing to do with how many houses get built, is like trying to fix a leaky tap by ordering a new television: utterly unrelated to the problem and therefore totally insane.
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Feb 2, 2017 13:37
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El Pollo Blanco posted:Unfortunately, the concept of government interfering in the housing market is terrifying to both the left and right political parties because the only people who vote are homeowners, apparently. - Banning local authorities from borrowing to build council houses, with the borrowing secured against future rents. This is how council house-building was financed for decades but it's been illegal since the 1980s - Failing to reform the planning system, which is a huge interferece in the housing market because it says there are large tracts of the country upon which you can't build houses no matter how severe the demand is - Things like Help to Buy and LISAs and shared-ownership schemes, all of which literally and directly spend tax revenue to prop up house prices. The trick is the government only inteferes if it will raise prices. It has no interest in lowering them, because homeowners vote.
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Feb 2, 2017 13:38
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How can the loving Northern Ireland Affairs Committee be so loving clueless about something that's utterly obvious to anyone with a brain cell and who's been paying attention to British history for the past few decades I mean gently caress me how is it news that there will need to be border controls between the EU and the UK when the UK leaves the EU.
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Feb 2, 2017 13:41
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El Pollo Blanco posted:I am not from the UK, and I didn't know this, but jesus christ that's depressing. Which I suppose is to be expected of Britain in the 80s.
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Feb 2, 2017 13:56
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jBrereton posted:The fuckin planning system is not a barrier to building houses, that is a MASSIVE lie the building firms love to perpetuate.
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Feb 2, 2017 13:58
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Anyone wondering about what a post-Brexit ROI/NI border might look like, something like the Swedish-Norwegian border is probably the best possible outcome: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04gw07s "Delays can be as little as half an hour" Norway, of course, is in the Single Market whereas Britain won't be, which is quite a big problem with copying that model. Zephro fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Feb 2, 2017 14:01
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Yeah, it's an interesting comparison, but since Norway and Sweden are both Schengen and also part of the Nordic Passport Union you probably can't extrapolate too much other than it will definitely be worse than that.
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Feb 2, 2017 14:19
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Jose posted:lol america
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Feb 2, 2017 23:37
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Ties should be opposed as vigorously as anime, they are terrible
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Feb 3, 2017 10:11
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Gum posted:I don't think there's been a party in history that's more consistently underperformed media expectations than ukip Ukip isn't the sole reason for Brexit but it's certainly part of it
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Feb 3, 2017 10:16
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HJB posted:Quote on the Victoria Derbyshire show: "Some parts of the UK are experiencing outbreaks of tuberculosis that are higher than much poorer countries like Yemen and Iraq." http://www.economist.com/node/10443168 As that article points out, rickets is the other Victorian disease making a comeback
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Feb 3, 2017 11:42
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spectralent posted:My grandma voted for remain on the exact opposite basis, actually; she thought that being tied together was what's stopped europe fighting. "We've never had it so good" basically.
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Feb 3, 2017 15:43
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icantfindaname posted:okay so i read the New Statesman instead of the guardian to keep the lib stuff to a minimum, but today i'm presented with this Zephro fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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Feb 3, 2017 20:34
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John Harris continues to be A Good Reporter https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/03/leavers-cheap-eu-labour-workers-brexiters It's a video hence no copy/paste but it's worth watching
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Feb 3, 2017 22:21
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Guavanaut posted:Everyone take out your copybooks, today's lesson is Liberals will always defend right wing populism over any kind of leftism. Write it 100 times. edit: 2032: Arnold Schwarzenegger is the president, to the annoyance of Sylvester Stallone. How he's still alive by then is unknown, but hey, at least it implies that Trump will leave him something to be president of Zephro fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Feb 5, 2017 |
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Feb 5, 2017 17:01
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Skinty McEdger posted:British animation for British people.
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Feb 6, 2017 10:26
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:British children's animation is so bad it makes me want to cry. It's not like they don't have access to the good stuff being pumped out of the US, it's just that they look at it, think "that's nice" then go back to writing garbage. the model UN episode is worth it all by itself Also the VA who does Daddy Pig also did the voice work in the original Dungeon Keeper, which pleases me greatly
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Feb 6, 2017 12:12
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Oh dear me posted:A timely Guardian article:
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Feb 7, 2017 13:30
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LemonDrizzle posted:The problem is that after the first guy points out that it would be a good idea, a second guy points out that it would cost a huge amount of political capital to make the change, with no short term payoff.
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Feb 7, 2017 13:36
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jabby posted:Sajid Javid also promising to protect green belt land but look 'more seriously at density' so that available land is used 'more efficiently'.
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Feb 7, 2017 15:02
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Private Speech posted:It's because not enough houses are being built. There's any number of articles stretching back decades showing >100k house building deficit per year. If you look at charts of housebuilding the main reason the numbers have plunged is that councils have almost completely stopped building houses (because they could no longer borrow the money to do so), and the private sector and housing associations have not taken up the slack. Unsurprisingly, the mid-1980s is when the current wave of house-price booms really took off.
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Feb 7, 2017 15:07
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Fake-edit-in-a-new-post: those booms have also created a new political reality. Back in the 60s Labour and the Tories used to compete on who could build more council houses every year. That's inconceivable now. Thirty years of booms have convinced everyone that "house prices will always rise" is like Newton's Fourth Law of Motion or something, just a fundamental physical constant of the universe. Lots of people have planned their lives around that supposed fact and so there's a huge amount of resistance to the idea of doing anything that can change it. All this talk in the press of the housing crisis as a new thing is at least a decade and a half behind the times - things have been bad for Joe Average Young Person since at least the mid-2000s. What's changed is that the twentysomethings who couldn't afford houses in 2005 still can't afford them now that they're late-thirtysomethings, and at the same time there's a rising tide of today's twentysomethings also building up behind them. So there's finally getting to be a large enough mass of people for whom houses are forever out of reach that the political calculus is slowly starting to shift in favour of taking their interests at least somewhat seriously.
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Feb 7, 2017 15:12
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Baron Corbyn posted:Having lived in Taiwan, massive high rises are actually cool and good and give you affordable housing in convenient central locations.
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Feb 7, 2017 15:20
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Paxman posted:
It's just not true that stupidly high house prices are only a problem in London and the South East.
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Feb 7, 2017 15:25
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Guavanaut posted:Better to reign in Hull, than serve in Devon. 
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Feb 7, 2017 15:31
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Oh dear me posted:No it doesn't. You are just quoting the part in my link where he outlines the BBC report I was pretty sure you got your figure from. Read on and you will see: If the criterion is "untouched by human activity" then there is virtually zero countryside anywhere in Britain. Almost every wood has been managed and coppiced, farms certainly don't count, the Highlands are not a natural landscape etc.
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Feb 8, 2017 08:54
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JFairfax posted:it doesn't help that buses + trains are expensive and poo poo. High density housing is one big reason. High population density = cheap and good public transport.
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Feb 8, 2017 10:23
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I mean it's always going to be expensive to send a bus tooling out ten miles to the middle of Ruralshire to pick up one or two people Basically as someone who lives in the countryside, the countryside is poo poo and you should try to live in a city instead It's too late for me, but you can still save yourselves
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Feb 8, 2017 10:48
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JFairfax posted:the problem comes when you have to make it profitable Services in the countryside are always going to be crap compared to services in the city, it's inevitable. It's part of the reality of living there.
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Feb 8, 2017 10:58
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LemonDrizzle posted:This is a good thing because people who live south of the river are unsettling web-footed abominations and must be kept away from normal people insofar as possible.
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Feb 8, 2017 12:39
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To be fair, when I think of someone I want in charge of the country I don't think of someone who's drunk on sleep deprivation while making all the important decisions because they bought Thatcher's macho bollocks about only needing 4 hours of sleep a night
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Feb 8, 2017 13:09
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i'm posting from one of the two 4.4 minute, CCTV-enforced toilet breaks i get during the day a literal shitpost (not really)
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm an EU citizen who only speaks English, my options are somewhat limited.
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