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goddamnedtwisto posted:We still measure fuel economy in MPG but sell fuel in litres/liters, measure small distances in metric but long ones in imperial, and measure drugs and other injectables in mg/ml but blood in pints. What I'm saying is Britain is a dumb country that fully deserves to crash into Mars because of a conversion error. Or at the very least, glide into a disused airfield full of terrified children.
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Oodles posted:I was very excited to spent all my weekends tidying up the garden. Then my council stopped the garden waste collection. Right on schedule! quote:More than a third of English councils have suspended collections of garden waste as they struggle to pick up rubbish amid staff shortages, analysis by the PA news agency has found.
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Azza Bamboo posted:Is it okay to leave your home if your house is on fire? This is fine
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What was the name of the thing where you read about your own subject in the newspaper, laugh at how wrong it is, then read the other things?
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Guavanaut posted:The Economist?  No, we talked about it in the last thread, the phenomenon of seeing something you know about being discussed in a shallow and mostly incorrect way, but then not thinking the same may be true of the rest of the articles you know less about.
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pumpinglemma posted:Gell-Mann amnesia. Perfect, thanks!
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Oh boy, electricity chat. That's where I'm a viking.Guavanaut posted:Also once you've labelled all your breakers, if you need to change a socket or something always plug in a desk lamp, switch it on, and turn off the breaker that you think turns that socket off, you may be surprised (but it's a better surprise than the other kind). Or get a cheap multimeter. I mean, get an expensive Fluke multimeter like mine, but a £12 one will do the job for checking stuff is off, and testing continuity/resistance. I also love the volt sticks (light up and/or beep when near voltage) but I only trust them one way - when they light up, there are volts, but not enough that if they don't light up, there are no volts. Fun though, and useful when something stops working, you can wave a stick at the power cord to figure out which end to investigate. Edit: here is a badger kitty we saw on our walk today. He wanted tummy rubs but we did not oblige.  vvvv Virus concerns. But it was very hard to resist Bobstar fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Apr 1, 2020 |
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Qwertycoatl posted:It's great as an opening ceremony but not so great as a political philosophy It showed that there are lots of talented people in the "putting on complicated shows" sector - which is true. It didn't show that the UK was a happy undivided Lionel Hutz imagination land in 2012. It's ok to wish for it to be the 2012 Olympics again, but only in order to provide jobs for the entertainment sector 
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Apr 2, 2020 12:09
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ThomasPaine posted:I recently fell asleep at 10.30am and woke up at 5pm so that was fun Yesterday I was annoyed that it was Monday and therefore not the weekend anymore. Now it's Thursday.
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Completely unrelated to anything, I have just figured out that Alex Jones and Arron Banks are in fact two separate people, and not the same person. I am feeling confused.
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OwlFancier posted:.... Honestly I think my mental image of both of them was Lewis Prothero from well known documentary film V for Vendetta. That combined with never watching videos and only reading headlines in passing and going "ah, the bad dude who starts with A is at it again"
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Apr 2, 2020 17:10
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zentigeist posted:I'm just hoping something will crack through that really obnoxious arrogance people get in the developed world that "no mass tragedies can happen here" before climate change eats us alive. "Well, we've had one now, so we're not due another one for about so years. Everyone relax now"
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Dog Pipes posted:Local Tesco express has 2 metre squares marked out on the floor and the security guard told me that you have to wait until the other person has finished in their square before moving. Ok, cool. And then a member of staff brushed straight past me from behind! Then there was some bloke rummaging through the sale items for about five mins before I got fed up and walked past him - about a metre away from him - to get milk. I appreciate that people need to shop, but a 'no loving about' rule needs to be enforced with death by fire punishments. And not just during this crisis either. Yeah I just got back from the shops, and was even more aware than usual of not dawdling and leaving my (compulsory) trolley blocking things that others might want to get to. In fairness most other people were good too, but there were a few oblivious wanderers.
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Wachter posted:I wonder if this is because for a lot of people the word "criticism" has been corrupted to include only negative criticism, when it should actually be an analysis of both merits and fault. But then it's also because a lot of people are so insanely thin-skinned about the things they like that if you pause to think about, e.g, games for a second, then you can't just be viscerally enjoying them at the basest level like they are, which is... bad somehow? This last bit is something I've never understood - why and how someone's personal enjoyment of something is diminished by the lack of it in the next person I think it's a projected feeling of being called a bad person. E.g. "Friends has several problematic elements, which we should be aware of rather than blindly consuming it. People should do this, then make up their own mind if they want to keep (re)watching it, or bin it" "Ohhh so you're saying Friends is irredeemable and anyone who watches it is a terrible person??! How dare you!" Either a) Because they heard the word "problematic" and switched off, mentally categorising the first person as a feminist SJW or b) Because they would feel bad if they were watching a show with potentially sexist/homophobic/transphobic elements without noticing, and they don't feel bad, therefore ERROR
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Well that was a fun (checks calendar) 3 months in the Labour party but I think my money might be better spent rejoining the union instead.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Quitting the union to join Labour is a pretty interesting move in the first place Sorry, not very clear, I left the union a few years ago when I left the country and (sort of) the industry, but being reminded of the importance of unions when we were being Covid shut down made me think I should still be supporting them, if only financially.
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Guavanaut posted:That's a waste of food vinegar. Do they sell cleaning vinegar in the UK? Over here you can buy 5l things of it, cheaper than the food stuff. Great for wrapping taps in.
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Good to see Appman is using the tried and tested responses when challenged on giving the NHS what it needs. Old days: Journo: "The NHS is underfunded (some ingrates say)" Appman: "We gave the NHS [large number] money" Journo: "Wow. That's a large number" Now days: Journo: "The NHS hasn't got enough PPE (some nurses say)" Appman: "We gave the NHS [large number] PPE" Journo: "Wow. That's a large number" E: also slightly more logically than my Alex Jones/Arron Banks confusion, I still do a double take when I see Professor Neil Ferguson Bobstar fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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OwlFancier posted:Oh like dug it all up, that is weird. I'm with you, I pictured "bulldozing a tennis court" as a needlessly violent alternative to "taking the net down"
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Prince John posted:Hahaha, Lisa Nandy as foreign secretary. I guess there's not much focus on international politics at the moment at least. It's ok, they have towns in other countries too
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Prince John posted:
I also ended up on her dad's Wiki page (described on hers as a Marxist academic), and was amused by this in his personal life section 'Their youngest daughter, Lisa Nandy, was born in 1979. She became a Labour member of parliament in 2010, and has stated that her father considers her right wing' E: and from the Guardian live blog, a picture of 2 policemen, somehow both being played by Nick Frost 
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Do we have a "licking my lips" emoji 
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Bardeh posted:Haven't had anything for quite a few days now. I imagine it's a really lovely time to be a postman to be honest. It's hard to complete most rounds at the best of times, let alone when every fucker in the country is buying literally everything online and half the delivery office is off sick and/or self-isolating. That, plus the fact that they're not allowed to van-share at the moment means that I would imagine there is a quite frankly ridiculous backlog in every delivery office. Is this the beginning of the chain of events that set the scene for the beginning of Going Postal? Because if so I'm looking forward to post golems in a few decades
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Julio Cruz posted:"how dare you make [political thing] political" has been a rallying cry of the right for years now, they were using it after Grenfell too My "favourite" response to that went like this: [mass shooting happens] "We should talk about gun control" "How dare you, now is not the time to be politicising this tragedy!" "Oh no I'm talking about last week's mass shooting"
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What's the sound of one gammon clapping?
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pumpinglemma posted:Yeah, fees are a bad joke for universities that don’t put any effort in. I think well-presented slides with audio* and maybe a facecam give you 95% of the value of even the best lecture, and MOOCs can do that a hell of a lot cheaper and better than conventional universities. The only academic reason to favour conventional universities over MOOCs is stuff that can’t be done just as well virtually, which in STEM means labs, problem sessions and office hours. Well, that plus the fact that you need a piece of paper to get a job anywhere, even at the supermarket, and no-one trusts the MOOCs to give out the right sort of paper. (But relying on that to stay true forever would make us both assholes and idiots.) I think that many people misunderstand the situation, due to deliberate muddying by Tories, like this: - In the before time when fees were zero, universities received X income/year from I dunno, somewhere - Now, universities receive X income plus £9000/student, so they're raking it in and we demand amazing service! While the reality as I understand it is they still receive roughly X, but the Tories have ideologically shifted the burden onto the "consumers". See also the railways.
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Guavanaut posted:Also even the most Evangelical church I know of here has gone the "Jesus has given us so many new ways to spread the good news, let's do our sermons over YouTube" whereas churches in the South are going the "God won't let the truly righteous die of Latter type of person, having just recovered with extreme medical intervention: "Oh it was awful. I thought I was headed for the eternal bliss of paradise"
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Thanks to whoever recommended those 10 free ebooks the other week! I read a nice short one called "Socialism... Seriously" which had lots of other books in the footnotes, so now I'm reading "Black Liberation and Socialism" which is heavier but good so far.
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OwlFancier posted:Grow your hair out and stop shaving, it's appropriate. 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...
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Sunak: "That has actually influenced some of the design choices we’ve made. That means some people might fall between through the cracks, it means people are saying, ‘Can you not do it this way, can you include us?’, and the reason we’ve not been able to do that is to protect against exactly that, exactly the risk of fraud or spurious claims that we won’t be able to verify. So I’m confident the decisions we’ve made will minimise the risk of fraud." Rage. No words. Just rage. Edit for words: I don't think this is even saying the quiet part loud anymore. Literally "no we're not helping you in case someone gets away with something" 
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Sulphagnist posted:I have probably gone off the deep end because my theory is that he never was ill and the whole thing has been staged to make him more popular and to immunize him against any criticism over his coronavirus response. Because that was my first thought when he was said to have tested positive. It's not like his carers can go to the press and say he doesn't have coronavirus, that would be illegal. I agree this is the sort of thing they would do, but I'm not sure they'd be able to keep it from leaking. Like if he's just sitting in Downing Street, then surely it's not illegal for someone at St Thomas' to say "nope, no PM here". And if he is sitting in the hospital playing his gameboy, it would still get out.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That's a level of forward planning that he's not demonstrated anywhere else. After all we have an indeterminate amount of walking, talking proofs that he both doesn't take sensible precautions and doesn't give a poo poo about consequences scattered around the country. Boris 3 weeks ago: [guzzles Coronavirus samples] .... "Come on, come on, this is taking forever, why am I not ill yet? Ugh this stuff doesn't work" Boris 1 week ago: 
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All these manufacturing companies (including mine) seem to have started making medical visors. I guess because they're fairly simple. Presumably these are only really useful in combination with the good sort of mask? E: Incidentally, without too much detail as my sector is small and I'm quite easy to doxx, my company's always been very confident in being recession-proof, and proud of not laying anyone off in 2008 - it's been both amusing and unsettling watching the executive go "oh poo poo, this wasn't part of the plan!" Bobstar fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Apr 9, 2020 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:The chocolate orange police: Every single one of these sort of tweets has someone in the replies saying "when are they going to close the mosques??"
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crispix posted:Has anyone been reported to the police yet for not clapping Arrested for putting insufficient clap in your shopping trolley E: government walk cat  Bobstar fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Apr 9, 2020 |
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Pesky Splinter posted:
My theory for my own confusion is a numerical one - the 90s were well defined numbers, but now my brain keeps telling me it's "about the year 2000". Which is millennium terms is pretty much true, in century terms is kind of not really, and in decade terms hasn't been true for like 16 years. But the roundness of the number just broke something in my brain, and now I can't compute how someone born in the early 1940s isn't "about 60".
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Dead Goon posted:Haircut Boris looks like a typical non-descript US Politician. Made me think of this 
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Working ventilators from Holby City set donated to NHS Nightingale Weirdly snarky line in this article quote:It was not immediately clear how many ventilators had been donated, or why working medical equipment was used on set. In times when ventilators are plentiful, why wouldn't you just buy one from the manufacturer, rather than spending loads more time and money creating a prop from scratch? 
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