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 UKMT Solidarity Fund Monthly Update - April 2020 Thanks to donations from many generous goons and goonfriends, the fund is thriving! Here's the summary of income and outgoings since we started: 
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Miftan posted:I BEG YOUR PARDON??? He got perma'd remember
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Apr 1, 2020 09:09
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I guarantee once you point this out to the gammons they will start a campaign to change our spelling of it to meetr.
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Apr 1, 2020 10:19
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I've just updated my post on the first page with the April Solidarity Fund update. Details of how to donate to the fund or apply for assistance are at the end of the OP. Guavanaut, possibly worth adding the email address to the list of ways to apply?Maugrim posted:
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Apr 1, 2020 15:35
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Isomermaid posted:Don't take this as a claim to precarity, cos I know a lot of people have it harder and we'll do OK eventually I guess but I have to vent. Took a mortgage holiday and they've taken the bastard payment anyway. There goes a huge chunk of the budget, right there. So we're scrambling round to work out how to cover things and hoping they fix their fuckup. Apply to the Solidarity Fund. If you get the payment holiday in the end you can always donate back what you claimed!
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Apr 1, 2020 19:44
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Speaking as the partner of a stage manager, I like this fellow
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Apr 2, 2020 23:29
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Jedit posted:Just as well, nobody's that big a fan of you. I suspect that was  E: cat tax 
Maugrim fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Apr 3, 2020 |
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Apr 3, 2020 08:04
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ThomasPaine posted:It can also work but just be pretty poo poo at its job. One of my best pals told me a while back that she had to have heart surgery as a kid because she was born with some issue that meant there was a hole between two of the ventricles. Had to get something put in I think but she's as healthy as any other 30 year old afaik now. My daughter being under a year old and needing similar heart surgery is why we're on the vulnerable people list. I'm hoping the bcg injection she had at birth (plus being a kid in general) provides her with some defence as was briefly reported a while ago
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Apr 3, 2020 19:06
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Ms Adequate posted:Out of curiosity, would the people running the UKMT hardship fund consider something like seb's situation an appropriate thing to ask for help with? I think I must have missed a post while catching up as I don't know Seb's situation, but we will absolutely consider all requests. We've already helped a goon cover rent this month in fact! By way of a mini-update, we're currently making initial enquiries about setting up the final multi-signatory bank account, so that people who are waiting to set up standing orders can do so. That process is likely to take a few weeks though, especially right now. In the mean time we still have over 3k banked from the opening surge. E: just read back and see Seb's issue, which has reminded me: this probably isn't any use to a southerner like Seb, but a goon based in the south Manchester area has offered two PCs up to goons in need: Verizian posted:I've got two old PC's that I need to clear out for room. If interested I suggest pinging Verizian in the Solidarity Fund channel on the Discord (pm etc will also work, but this way would help us track what's been claimed, if anything) Maugrim fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Apr 8, 2020 |
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Apr 8, 2020 09:37
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Bobstar posted:I have stopped shaving for the Covid even though it looks worse (for now), and there's no reason because my face shaver is working just as well as pre-Covid... Lol same. Probably because nobody's gonna see anyway so why not indulge that lifelong curiosity and see how you look in a full grown beard
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Apr 8, 2020 16:44
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Took me a good 30 seconds of headscratching and pronouncing it in a thick accent to try and find a pun before I realised the thumbnail doesn't have the entire headline. Thank you for this. I was baffled.
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Apr 8, 2020 22:38
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The pandemic is definitely well tailored to get at least a few people asking questions like "what exactly is 'the economy' and why is it so important that it keeps growing"
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Apr 9, 2020 11:36
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I feel weird as gently caress about the clapping but it seems to cheer people up so I participate At least our road is *also* donating food and material and sewing scrubs so it's not just performative
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Apr 9, 2020 20:17
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Camrath posted:Thing and by then thoroughly embarrassed by the poo poo I used to read (Jennings books were my jam as a kid), so I turned against it by default. Fossilised fish-hooks, I can't believe you'd admit to that! OwlFancier posted:I have vague memories of reading a bunch of famous five stuff when I was very young but I can't remember any of the content. I did read a lot of Redwall too and that was a good series. Also has communist shrews. Best thing about Redwall was the food porn imo RockyB posted:I still have a soft spot for Swallows and Amazons. Ooh yes my dad made me read Swallows and Amazons as a kid and I devoured the entire series. Would still read today. I guess I just read whatever came within reach as a kid. Hardy Boys (my English teacher used to scowl when he caught me with this trash instead of Thomas Hardy). Duncton Wood! Amazing stuff. E: my mum gave me a copy of Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel. I found the sequels later in my grandmother's bookshelf and holy poo poo they're basically porn after a point. Maugrim fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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Apr 10, 2020 08:41
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1250008395878297600?s=19 Did you not watch the statement he released the day he got out of hospital? I guarantee most of the nation did and even as someone aware of the staggering hypocrisy of it I have to admit it was pretty powerful. Are brave NHS! You have to give things like these time to fade in the public consciousness before the bigger picture comes into view. That's why popular opinion typically starts to drop off sharply once these crises are actually over.
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Apr 14, 2020 13:44
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I'm drinking about the same as I did before lock down, i.e. maybe a double of something tasty with the wife once a month when the kids have given us a particularly rough day. Comfort eating is more my thing.
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Apr 19, 2020 18:14
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The Question IRL posted:And not to scare-monger, but hasn’t there been a spate of people walking into hospitals, picking up tubs of hand sanatizer/PPE that are lying around and leaving with it? Forget lying around, people were literally ripping them off the walls.
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Apr 20, 2020 07:46
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OwlFancier posted:And you don't have to clean the bloody garlic press afterwards. This. My wife sometimes uses a garlic press when she can't trust her hands with a knife, but I'd far rather chop the garlic manually than wash the sodding thing up.
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Apr 20, 2020 11:04
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Overminty posted:It's this, wanna live somewhere with a dishwasher so much. For those who have posted this - you can get little tabletop dishwashers and a lot of them can just be hooked up to the sink rather than plumbed in, if like me you live in a rental with a poky little kitchen and an arse of a landlord. It took me 5 years of handwashing everything to find this out (loving baby bottles nearly broke me). The space taken up by the dishwasher is more than made up for by not having dirty/just washed dishes cluttering the surfaces.
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Apr 20, 2020 19:47
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Coohoolin posted:Omg such a thing exists?? Please tell me more! How expensive are they? What model should I get? You're looking at £150-350 probably? This is the model we ended up getting and we're pretty pleased with it - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153660910002 Size ratings are by number of place settings - this one is 8 place settings which is about as big as tabletops go, but if you don't have kids (and/or don't have the space) you'll surely be fine with a 4 or 6 Obviously measure the area first and factor in a couple of inches at the back to run the pipe. Ours takes up the entire square of worktop next to the cooker and overlaps the draining board a bit but we reckoned it would just about work, and indeed it does. We also ended up springing quite a bit of cash to get it properly plumbed in because our taps are a stupid shape and really hard to attach the hose to.
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Apr 20, 2020 21:13
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goddamnedtwisto posted:As long as they have a detachable aerator (i.e. basically any sold in the last 20 years or so - check for a couple of flats on them that you can fit a spanner on to unscrew them) Yeahhh... So... behold our kitchen taps  This place has been let continuously for probably 25 years now and lol if you think our landlord has done any renovations he didn't absolutely have to in that time. E: you will notice the sink overflow has been blocked with sealant. We did this ourselves a few years ago, after discovering that it was not overflowing to anywhere; the water was pouring straight into the cupboard under the sink. This has been a typical experience in our house Maugrim fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Apr 20, 2020 |
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Apr 20, 2020 21:59
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Interesting. Another pet theory being posited repeatedly by this guy is that BAME populations may be more prone to vitamin D deficiency - which has apparently been demonstrated in various studies to make people more susceptible to complications from respiratory illness - as darker skin makes vitamin D less efficiently in sunlight.  E: but you'd think medical professionals of all people would know to take vitamin D supplements, so...
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Apr 21, 2020 17:27
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loving hell I knew it was worse than the official figures but I thought it'd be more like 50%, not 130% Maugrim fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Apr 22, 2020 |
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Apr 22, 2020 07:38
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justcola posted:At least most people would be indoors. One of these ratios is not like the others But they do give me a clearer picture than either concert or sports venues. Who attends those, pfft
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Apr 22, 2020 11:16
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