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Do you currently have a prepaid utility meter?
This poll is closed.
Yes - both gas and electric 32 4.71%
Yes - gas only 4 0.59%
Yes - electric only 33 4.85%
Yes - plus prepaid water (this exists and is terrible) 0 0%
No - Direct Debit/Standing Order 336 49.41%
No - utilities are included as part of my tenancy/cohab/basement goonery 65 9.56%
No - I'm off-grid or still get a coal man 6 0.88%
No - my house is powered by Pressurized Boiling Hot Takes 67 9.85%
Pissflaps - via some sort of treadmill arrangement 137 20.15%
Total: 680 votes
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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Also joke's on the lot of you because antarctica is a myth it's actually the ice wall that holds the oceans in, hail sobek.

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Pochoclo
Feb 4, 2008

No...
Clapping Larry

OwlFancier posted:

From that far away? Impressive.


Jaeluni Asjil posted:

They don't have polar bears in Antarctica. Penguins yes, pbs no.

Penguin tax:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQquEh6zQ5c

Sorry but are you two loving kidding me. That was the goddamn joke. That was the whole point.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Did you ever go on the penguin tour?

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Is the Antarctic going to take longer to melt than the Arctic? If so, can we move some of the polar bears there?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Given that the antarctic is a landmass it will probably take a few billion years longer to melt, yes.

Lady Demelza
Dec 29, 2009



Lipstick Apathy
Had a nice visit from the police tonight. Looks like my fighty neighbours forgot the golden rule of not doing a crime in front of CCTV cameras (mine).

Forgive the naive question but the EU seem much more prepared for No Deal than us, so I'm assuming they have documentation for their border guards and customs agents about movement of goods and people in the event of No Deal. There must have been some training, a powerpoint, even an email that says what checks are to be carried out. Instead of endlessly debating what might happen with exports, why hasn't a journalist used their journalism skills and find out what the French and Dutch ports plan to do? Even if nobody is officially allowed to give out details, I can't believe that the thousands and thousands of employees are all incorruptable.

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

quote:

[...]14 MPs defied the Labour whip and refused to back a plan to delay Brexit, brought forward by ex-Labour minister Yvette Cooper, while seven backed the move to mandate Ms May to go back to Brussels and renegotiate her deal.

A handful of the party’s frontbenchers also failed to vote with the whip by abstaining, underlining the increasing difficulty of maintaining unity behind Mr Corbyn’s nuanced line on Brexit.

Downing Street denied that the government was offering “cash for votes” to Labour MPs from Leave-voting constituencies, but it did hint at additional financial support for former mining communities.

Labour’s Brexit-backing Bassetlaw MP John Mann, tweeted: “Show us the money.

“A fund of sufficient size to transform our communities. Our areas voted Leave and it is time that we had the investment we need.

But in a furious backlash, London MP David Lammy said of anyone thinking of doing a deal: “More fool them. Socialists, my arse. Cowards and facilitators. History will be brutal.”

The MP later compared them to servants in the ITV costume drama Downton Abbey, accepting a gift from the master of the house.

lmao it's taken this long for may to figure out that parts of the labour party's for sale. Finally a workable strategy to get parliamentary brexit approval has been found :allears:

Pochoclo
Feb 4, 2008

No...
Clapping Larry

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

lmao it's taken this long for may to figure out that parts of the labour party's for sale. Finally a workable strategy to get parliamentary brexit approval has been found :allears:

Should be around 100 million per vote, too, going by the DUP. Although that one didn’t go so well. Is there consumer protection for buying votes?

Surprise Giraffe
Apr 30, 2007
1 Lunar Road
Moon crater
The Moon
Jesus if bribery is ok now what the gently caress have labour been doing chasing the xenophobic vote in those constituencies in the first place?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

One could argue that MPs being able to demand concessions for their constituency in order to support a motion is the westminster system working exactly as designed.

Saith
Oct 10, 2010

Asahina...
Regular Penguins look just the same!
I've just moved in with my stoner grandparents and chatting about Brexit. My grandad is racist but also blames everything on capitalism and the 'rich tossers ripping us off' so I'm conflicted.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/2damntrans/status/1090594382305259520?s=19

Glinner is still having a normal one since H.Bomberguy did his stream but since he can't go after Harris without looking massively petty he's focused all his attack on one trans Muslim woman from Glasgow and seems to be trying to get her fired from Islam.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Definite catholic bias showing there I think.

Apraxin
Feb 22, 2006

General-Admiral

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/2damntrans/status/1090594382305259520?s=19

Glinner is still having a normal one since H.Bomberguy did his stream but since he can't go after Harris without looking massively petty he's focused all his attack on one trans Muslim woman from Glasgow and seems to be trying to get her fired from Islam.
I told myself I wouldn't look at Glinner anymore because any comment or engagement is just giving him oxygen, but oh my loving god:



'Look at this MINDBLOWING LUNACY, these crazy SHEEPLE think it's ok for someone to just CHANGE their RELIGION!'

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Where's the February thread? Things are already going downhill in Brexit Britain :colbert:

notaspy
Mar 22, 2009

Much like May we are kicking the February thread can down the road

Borrovan
Aug 15, 2013

IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY


Apraxin posted:

'Look at this MINDBLOWING LUNACY, these crazy SHEEPLE think it's ok for someone to just CHANGE their RELIGION!'
Muslim is actually a race.

Don't tell anyone.

mehall
Aug 27, 2010


Who else is jazzed as hell for this to be a short month. Just 4 weeks to the next payday!




Eat the rich

Qwertycoatl
Dec 31, 2008

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Presumably you get your 'keep' on top?. And there's not a lot you can spend it on out there!

You could probably spend a pretty huge chunk of it on alcohol.

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh

OwlFancier posted:

Really antarctica might be a nice place to be post brexit. They have really good food stockpiles.

One of the complains about working there is that yes the basic food that is there to keep you alive is transported in, but if you want any luxury item at all then it’s going to cost you a week’s wages - Scientists are going to be fairly pissed off if they find they couldn’t bring in that microscope because of your box of freddos.

Rust Martialis
May 8, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 8 hours!
Is the BAS base even *built* to handle the hurricanes that will hit it if Jose is there?

The Deleter
May 22, 2010
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47069414

Paging Twisto to the thread, paging Twisto

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

Can you even fathom what it must be like to live and work somewhere where everybody on the entire continent is smart, cares about their job, and welcomes workers from around the globe? Where there’s no police or politician for a thousand miles? In one of the least polluted and least spoiled areas of the entire planet?

I’d fuckin’ love to work in Antarctica.

superLINUS
Sep 28, 2005

"The real tragedy happened long before I came along"
Antarctica chat: you get to work and live in loving ANTARCTICA, who cares what the wages are?!?

Streatham chat: Northampton North currently doesn’t have a CLP. The North and the South voted the split (splitters!) last year and the South had its AGM last week. The North was supposed to have its AGM the week before that but the PPC (arch Blairite Sally Keeble) and her cronies want to impose a delegate system on the CLP and its members disagree so regional has kicked it into the long grass, leaving 500+ members with no party.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
I like how the person on the street has overnight gone from braying for brexit, it'll harden us all a bit spirit of the blitz that i imagine i lved through but saw in the films to aaaaaah an inch of snow we must immediately legalise cannibalism :bahgawd:

I should probably stop putting on the tv in the morning.

Strom Cuzewon
Jul 1, 2010

TACD posted:

Can you even fathom what it must be like to live and work somewhere where everybody on the entire continent is smart, cares about their job, and welcomes workers from around the globe? Where there’s no police or politician for a thousand miles? In one of the least polluted and least spoiled areas of the entire planet?

I’d fuckin’ love to work in Antarctica.


quote:

1959 - The Vostok Station (станция Восток), then a Soviet research station in Princess Elizabeth Land, was the scene of a fight between two scientists over a game of chess.When one of them lost the game, he became so enraged that he attacked the other with an ice axe. According to some sources, it was a murder,though other sources say that the attack was not fatal. Afterwards, chess games were banned at Soviet/Russian Antarctic stations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Antarctica

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

The Deleter posted:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47069414

Paging Twisto to the thread, paging Twisto

It was mentioned a couple of pages ago.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/vincentdonofrio...ingawful.com%2F

The Deleter
May 22, 2010

This is what happens when you scroll past all the old man chat about beer, arming themselves with toy crossbows and monster munch :doh:

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



Slippery Tilde

Strom Cuzewon posted:

1959 - The Vostok Station (станция Восток), then a Soviet research station in Princess Elizabeth Land, was the scene of a fight between two scientists over a game of chess.When one of them lost the game, he became so enraged that he attacked the other with an ice axe. According to some sources, it was a murder,though other sources say that the attack was not fatal. Afterwards, chess games were banned at Soviet/Russian Antarctic stations.

Bardeh
Dec 2, 2004

Fun Shoe
If I was single I would apply for that job Jose linked right this second. It would be loving awesome to go to Antarctica, and while the basic salary is pretty low it's not like you can spend any of it while you're there.

mehall
Aug 27, 2010


Has January not been long enough?
Why must we prolong it's suffering.

Bring on the February thread.

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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

The Deleter posted:

This is what happens when you scroll past all the old man chat about beer, arming themselves with toy crossbows and monster munch :doh:
I have been arming myself with monster munch since the 80s, fight me in a car park :colbert:

New thread here :drum:

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