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sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Looks like I'm getting furloughed next week :toot:

My allotment isn't going to know what hit it.

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sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Guavanaut posted:

e: 3 pints is near enough exactly 1.7L, which is about as close as you can get to a nice conversion.

"A litre of water's a pint and three quarters" was the approximation I learned.

Along with "two and a quarter pounds of jam make about a kilogram."

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Guavanaut posted:

e: ^^^ will the covid beat IDS for national deaths to date?

IDS had a headstart of like 150,000

So maybe.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


563 today :smith:

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


https://twitter.com/chunkymark/status/1245370812615610370

10/10 great government response

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


BBC posted:

China has approved the use of bear bile to treat critically ill coronavirus patients.

The National Health Commission has recommended the use of Tan Re Qing - an injection that contains bear bile, goat horn and herbs - to treat patients with Covid-19.

But there is no evidence the mixture has any medicinal value.

Bear bile, which is produced in the liver and stored in the gall bladder, has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for hundreds of years and fetches a high price in the illegal international market.

The move to approve its use has angered animal rights activists and comes just weeks after the country banned the sale of wild animals for food.

Yep, that'll do it, good job guys.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Jose posted:

Think it's time to get some hair clippers and trim my hair but I cba trying to have the back and sides shorter than the top hmmm

Just grow your hair real long, also your beard. Channel Tom Hanks in Castaway.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Clearly the continual broadcast of the Olympic 2012 Opening Ceremony forever shows the Lib Dems actually won the argument

e: 14 was the number of points made by Woodrow Wilson before the Versailles Treaty which would probably have made the 20th century less lovely had they been followed more fully. Thanks, Clemenceau! #gcsehistorytakes

sebzilla fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Apr 2, 2020

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


pumpinglemma posted:

I'm pretty certain that if I let go of my schedule altogether then I'd be on a 28-hour day.

That's fine, you get six per week and it all works out nicely

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.




Holy poo poo lol

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Munin posted:

What about the black flag?

You got it!

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Jeremy Corbyn posted:

Dear Seb,


I hope you and your family are keeping safe and well. I would especially like to thank the thousands of you working in key jobs and professions and those organising in mutual aid groups to help your local community.


As I stand down as Leader, I also want to thank you for all the support you have given the party, and me personally, over the last four and a half years. It has been the honour of my life to lead this party. Our members are my inspiration, and I am so proud that we have become a party of nearly 600,000 strong. I have made it a priority to meet members in every part of our country, and I learned so much from you.


So many of the issues we have been campaigning on over the past few years have been thrown into even sharper relief by the Coronavirus crisis. It has highlighted the underfunding in our NHS and social care as a result of damaging and counter-productive austerity, the lack of employment rights at work, the scandalously low level of welfare benefits, as well as housing insecurity and homelessness.


It has also reminded everyone how the people who keep our society running are not the hedge fund billionaires, but the cleaners, nurses, care workers and supermarket staff - so often women and migrant workers on low pay. The strength of our party is that it is rooted in our workplaces and communities in all their diversity.


Over the past five years we have changed the agenda on austerity and how the economy is run. In 2015, opposing austerity was seen as radical; today it is the political mainstream. A majority of the public supports Labour on issues such as public ownership and higher taxes on the richest. We now look forward as a party of economic inclusion, climate justice, peace and human rights.


Of course, we could have achieved so much in government, and I am sorry that under my leadership we did not get there. In 2017 we came close, winning the biggest increase in the popular vote since 1945. Sadly, the 2019 election was a Brexit election and our attempt to bridge the gap between Leave and Remain voters was unsuccessful.


I firmly believe that together we have the ideas, policies, energy and organisation to win a Labour government next time. We can build a society based on social justice, equality, and care for our environment. But it will not come about unless we fight for it.


Our party grew out of local communities and that is where we must focus our efforts, just as we always have. I will continue to campaign on the issues and principles that have motivated me as Leader, as an MP, as a councillor and as a party member for more than 50 years. I can assure you my voice will not be stilled. I'll be out there campaigning for socialism, peace and justice, and I feel sure we'll be doing that together.


Best wishes,


Jeremy Corbyn

I'm not crying, you're crying!

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Miftan posted:

When is the Labour leadership announcement?

10:45 on Saturday

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Everyone excited for the Starmering in 15 minutes?

e: 34 is the percentage of the vote RLB will get

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


OwlFancier posted:

I'll give them a go sometime, cheers!

MacEwan's Champion might appeal too.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


OwlFancier posted:

If Jeremy goes on to use his platform to start a fruitful late career in shitposting it's certainly going to make the next few years a little brighter.

Get Him On The Pod

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Somaen posted:

It's a weapon by the bat-people against the lizard-people

...quiet bat-people?

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Made some bread for the first time, and it was actually pretty good!

Either I got lucky or I'm some kind of baking savant.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Relevant to the interests of this thread

https://www.facebook.com/1646454205484250/posts/2579213302208331/

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Today I learned the Liberal Democrats (who?) have suspended their leadership election until May 2021.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


OwlFancier posted:

So who's leader at the moment given Jo! lost her seat?

Ed Davey is acting leader, I believe

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Hey nerds, I need a new laptop and don't have much money (maybe £300 at a push.) Thinking probably a refurb rather than shiny new. Don't game much these days, when I do it's unlikely to be bleeding edge stuff anyway. Currently running a 7(?) year old Alienware M14 R2 so anything with better spec than that will blow my aged mind.

Any suggestions/insights?

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Nettle Soup posted:

Google says that's an i7? You're not gonna do hugely greater than that for under £300

Laptops are harder to find atm though because of everyone suddenly stuck at home.

Yeah, fair enough. It's not even an upgrade that I need especially, just that my current laptop has 1) a screen smashed beyond use 2) a dodgy charger and hosed battery that won't hold a charge anyway 3) a missing Enter key

It's been through some stuff! But rather than throwing money at fixing it, seems more sensible to just get something newer now and avoid spending twice.

e: Maybe £300 is too tight, I dunno. £500?

sebzilla fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Apr 7, 2020

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


I definitely don't need solidarity fund money to buy a new laptop, thanks though Ms A!

After a bit of searching about this one seems like a pretty solid deal: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-Thinkpad-T460-i5-6300U-2-4GHz-512GB-SSD-16GB-Ram-Windows-10-Laptop-HDMI-/153847380126

Any big red flags why I shouldn't get it at the price? Newish i5 (6300U), 16GB RAM, 512 GB SSD.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


DesperateDan posted:

maxxing out the ram, installing an ssd and doing a clean install can give laptops a whole new life if you haven't already done that

Would also need to replace the screen and battery and charger and source an enter key which last time I checked a couple of years ago was out of stock from the replacement keys people. Basically at that point I might as well just drop a few hundred on a new machine and save myself the bother, right?

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


We're definitely topping 1k in a day soon. Has anyone else done that yet?

Champions of Coronavirus 2020!

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


sassassin posted:

Turns out cutting hair is really easy, you don't have to be a busty girl too thick to do her A levels (but it must help somehow).

This feels like an uncomradely remark.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


winegums posted:

Do we have the highest daily covid deaths now? Another area in which Britain is leading the way.

USA, probably

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Obviously Ravenclaw. He's a nerd with no storylines.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Number go up

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


OwlFancier posted:

I was upset to learn that Gordon Bennet wasn't a cricket man that swore on television as my granny once told me.

Apparently it's from the same basic stuff as cor blimey and bloody and a load of other swears, just mild blasphemy that's been mangled through a few hundred years of english pronunciation.

Bring back "zounds!" imo

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


OwlFancier posted:

As I recall zounds is a quanity below legion but above horde.

(it is a heroes of might and magic 2 joke)

It's short for "God's wounds!" which is delightfully medieval

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


OwlFancier posted:

I wonder if there would be a leadership challenge at some point, and moreover whether he'd lose based on being an utter waste of skin.

There's no particularly compelling left candidate, though. It would be Owen Smith in reverse.

Bring on Ash Sarkar MP

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.



Gunning for a spot in the top three, Cum On Britane!!

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.



Shame this couldn't have all been published six months ago tbh. Might have finally given Corbyn the impetus to go full purge (even within the limiting party rules, given the strength of the evidence)

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


https://twitter.com/AndyBurnhamGM/status/1249424188454076421?s=19

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Tbh this bullshit is more likely to make me angry enough to get off my lazy rear end and go to some meetings and shout a bit than to tear up my membership, but that's me.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Another good egg among the current PLP:

https://twitter.com/charlotte2153/status/1249081834601877505?s=19

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.



A mealy-mouthed reply

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sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


ThomasPaine posted:

Bored as hell of this lockdown now lads

I'm loving it tbh. Getting paid, not having to work, nice weather to fart about in the garden.

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