UKMT August 2019 - we (UK) should simply invade Ireland peacefully

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Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

Ratjaculation posted:

The only poll I trust is your dads

What, a poll of all of our dads?

# ¿ Aug 3, 2019 09:19

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 02:53

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

My wife likes to eat crumble cold.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2019 15:48

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Darth Walrus posted:

https://twitter.com/oliver_wright/status/1158340332356034561?s=21

lol

Can't even shake the magic money tree right

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 14:34

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forkboy84 posted:

As an unrelated aside, power went out which sucks because I'd not saved my game. Booooo electricity.

Which game

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 16:50

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big scary monsters posted:

Ah good, I'm sure more surveillance and more panic about violent media will work this time around. No further examination of motivation or introspection on societal problems required.

Weird how the same videogames are in the UK but we don't get mass shootings, i wonder what the difference is

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 16:54

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CGI Stardust posted:

Lmao if you think the leaks are coming from anyone other than Cummings himself

The leaks are Cummings from inside the house

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 19:23

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Junior G-man posted:

Cummings has such a bizarre head.

Do you think it's the source of the leaks?

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 19:27

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Junior G-man posted:

What the gently caress are Two Child Policy and Military Covenant?

Tory two child policy: two is old enough

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 22:17

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radmonger posted:

Can we compromise and store all the nuclear waste in golf course bunkers?

Maybe it would even become worth watching on tv if a missed drive ended up in a radiation hazard, leading r\to having to play the next shot within 60 seconds before their skin melts off?

Post/username combo

# ¿ Aug 5, 2019 22:18

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Guavanaut posted:

Can't wait for the first airline to render passengers down into a slurry for optimum packing density and then reassemble them at the other end for a non-included fee.

Upgrade to our Not From Concentrate option for just £6

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 11:59

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(((Esq.)))

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 13:56

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Ratjaculation posted:

English oak.

Say goodbye to the labour vote in Scotland, Wales and northern Ireland then

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 14:38

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Guavanaut posted:

lmao

Can't believe stop-and-search has a retroactive effect, let's do it more and get those past numbers even lower!

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 18:21

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ronya posted:

it's McDonnell, he's a favourite vehicle to trot out test balloons, wait 24h to see if it turns out to be another misspeaking

I'd say he's more likely to mao them out

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 18:23

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That neck

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 18:41

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Guavanaut posted:

How does he account for crime being much lower than during the heyday of public corporal punishment in the 18th and 19th centuries?

THEY'RE LAZY INNIT, AND BENEFITS

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 20:15

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Pistol_Pete posted:

The creator of 8chan has had a real hard life: He was born with some rare genetic condition that left him stunted, wheelchair-bound and forever breaking bones. He's spent most of his life filled with rage and self-loathing, with the online world his only source of escape. You might not think it from that interview but he's actually mellowed considerably compared to what he used to be like.

Wasn't he also a hero of the incel community until he got sum fuk and was then immediately run out of it?

# ¿ Aug 7, 2019 09:14

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Tesseraction posted:

You do remember Brexit voters think immigration is ruining all those things and Brexit would stop that, right?

Bloody foreigners coming over here and using our inside toilets

# ¿ Aug 7, 2019 10:47

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

more pics of the kittens

# ¿ Aug 7, 2019 15:20

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Jedit posted:

Certain people will be at the wall after Brexit, but they won't have time to eat.

Joke's on you I'm going to nibble the end of my cigarette

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 15:40

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Post-Brexit food source coming along nicely for some, i see.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 16:51

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Coohoolin posted:

The family of one of my students keeps stick insects as pets. They're really cool but they breed like crazy and pretty drat big so you gotta watch out not to squash a loving living stick chilling out in the doorway or something

What they just wander the house?

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 17:06

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Sloth Life posted:

I had to drop a dictionary on a hawk moth once. It was loving huge and in my flat so death was the only possible outcome.

I do NOT like moths.

Mods change this goon's username to Moth Life

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 17:46

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Jose posted:

only multiple breakdowns eh? clearly able to work most of the time: capable of work

https://twitter.com/ToxicTikToks/status/1159487161655332864?s=20

Thanks to you I saw this and now you all have to see it too

https://twitter.com/ToxicTikToks/status/1148023454685380608

That whole twitter feed is horrible

# ¿ Aug 9, 2019 12:59

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RDevz posted:

Ah, the joy of the electricity system going wrong.

It looks like there was a sudden drop in the National Grid system frequency just before 17:00, which coincided with RWE's 660MW Little Barford combined-cycle gas station going unexpectedly and suddenly offline. Drops in frequency are caused by demand exceeding supply, and the usual control mechanisms of part-loaded power stations weren't enough to absorb the drop. I don't think that the entire drop in frequency was caused just by Little Barford, but from a sheer engineering point of view, the large amount of wind and solar generation we've got running during summer daytimes doesn't help, as these don't contribute inertia to the electricity grid that gives time for it to react to changes to load.

The frequency dropped to about 48.8 Hz, which is well outside of the usual 49.5 Hz to 50.5 Hz range. Once you get down below that level, automatic low frequency demand disconnection happens. This is to stop the frequency falling further, as power stations start to trip at about 48 Hz, which leads to a cascade failure of the grid and a total blackout. This is widely regarded as a bad thing.

The disconnections are random and widespread, depending on the exact settings of the relays in the Grid Supply Points, so there's no rhyme or reason to which areas of the country are disconnected - ideally, you want an even distribution across the country to stop surges. It looks like the system's recovering right now - when I left work, National Grid had turned on an extra 3 GW of generation to give them headroom to play with while they reconnect the load that was shed.

No doubt, we're going to see an long and intensive investigation from National Grid that's going to be wonderfully misinterpreted by the media. That said, the grid is designed to do exactly what happened today when there's a major mismatch between supply and demand.

I always know that whenever Something Happens, the UKMT has a relevant expert on standby to give a detailed report that far surpasses anything on the news

The only surprised here is that you weren't pipped to the post by resident expert-in-everything goddamnedtwisto

# ¿ Aug 9, 2019 20:01

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Diet Crack posted:

Accuweather is alright too, but Earth is king.

https://earth.nullschool.net/

Woefully unreliable. :colbert:

# ¿ Aug 9, 2019 21:28

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xtothez posted:

3.7 roentgen

Not great, not terrible

# ¿ Aug 9, 2019 21:45

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

There were tornados in amsterdam and in luxembourg yesterday, totally normal weather everything is fine fine i said

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 09:08

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Jippa posted:

my landline

lol

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 10:47

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goddamnedtwisto posted:

My camping essentials:

- comfortable bed
- internet connection
- television
- heating
- flush toilet
- shower
- walls
- roof

I think I've just invented something, can I get a billion dollars in venture capital please?

Didn't know you could tow a caravan with a motorbike

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 10:51

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thespaceinvader posted:

Sadly it's my 5th wedding anniversary next week so you can expect poo poo weather. Sorry bout that.

Ah, the Wood anniversary :grin:

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 11:16

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Barry Foster posted:

I'm trying to figure out the consequences and so far my reaction is either 'lol' or 'oh poo poo'

Thought I was in the CSPAM climate change thread for a moment there

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 13:01

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baka kaba posted:

I guess wasn't available (that would be a good coin though)

THIS IS FINE SILVER 1 OZ

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 20:01

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CGI Stardust posted:

On the subject of peace and friendship, I found out something really cool the other day. You know the 1977 Voyager probes? On board, each has a Golden Record, with a bunch of music, songs, speech etc. The first track is a greeting from Earth, you know the stuff, we come in peace and friendship and so on; it was spoken by a dude called Kurt Waldheim, the then-secretary-general of the UN.

It was discovered in the 1980s that Waldheim had lied about his military service during World War 2 - he'd actually been part of the bureaucracy managing "population shipments" in Eastern Europe, had been awarded a medal by the fascist Croatian government during the Second World War for services in "resettling" parts of the Serbian population, and almost certainly knew about the Jasenovac camp. America then put him on a no-entry list as federal statute prohibited anyone who participated in Nazi war crimes from entering the country.

So, in millions of years, when the sun expands and burns all trace of our species from this blighted planet, our last testament and legacy will be an unprosecuted Nazi war criminal saying "We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship". Sweet dreams!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Ngqhe3y-Y

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 20:11

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Dick Brainespiders

# ¿ Aug 10, 2019 21:26

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Jose posted:

my legs are pretty stiff from doing squats yesterday someone motivate me to go do some cardio at the gym instead of getting pissed

Sounds like a nice refreshing pint is just what you might be looking for though? Just one. Just to wet the whistle

edit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcky5mhZcYs&t=95s

# ¿ Aug 11, 2019 19:30

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a lovely king posted:

Can anyone help with some landlord specific questions? My landlord just served us a 60 day notice to quit the property, but we only have around 10 days left on the tenancy agreement before it was up for renewal (which he is not doing).

Should we be signing a new agreement for the period beyond the end of the tenancy? As it seems to me once the tenancy agreement is ended then we're not tied to the house legally. I don't want to accidentally end up a squatter or anything.

My cursory googling suggests you might have a fixed term agreement in which case you'd be rolling over to a periodic tenancy in 10 days time, in which case you're covered: https://www.thetenantsvoice.co.uk/advice_from_us/renewing-a-tenancy-agreement/

# ¿ Aug 11, 2019 21:55

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

Good news!!!

https://www.channel4.com/news/government-profits-double-in-four-years-as-immigration-laws-tighten-and-visa-fees-rise &%23160;

quote:

Government profits double in four years as immigration laws tighten and visa fees rise

Year after year, to pay to live in the UK, whatever the status, has gone up and up. Immigration costs are indiscriminate. It's like a game of snakes and ladders: a failed application for technical reasons sends the individual back to the beginning to start all over again, and to pay all over again.

The figures show that profits from immigration fees in 2014 totalled £260m. Last year those profits doubled, to £500m.

Take Child Citizenship for example. In 2014 the fee was £669, the cost of processing just £144. By the end of last year the fee was £1012, while the actual cost to the Home Office was only £372. Last year's profits were £24m.

In some areas of immigration, the costs to the applicant have soared, while the Home Office costs have actually fallen.

Take Indefinite Leave to Remain. In 2014 the fee was £1093, while processing costs were £248. Four years on, that fee had more than double to £2389, while Home Office costs had actually dropped, to £243.

Sorry i meant bad news

# ¿ Aug 12, 2019 12:58

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Regarde Aduck posted:

champing

Eh, it just means the same thing, for all intensive purposes

# ¿ Aug 12, 2019 14:12

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 02:53

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What is the crack ping joke? Do i want to know?

# ¿ Aug 12, 2019 14:35

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