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bessantj posted:Just seen the headline about the BBC possibly axing Left-wing comedy shows, I don't watch a lot of TV but what comedy shows are the BBC currently showing? I'm guessing HIGNFY is one of them. Mrs Brown's Boys, so if the Torygraph's attempt at a self-fulfilling prophecy of the BBC axing some comedy comes to pass and that awful show is removed I can live with the rest going too.
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Borrovan posted:e: ^^^ the new Director General that this comes from is a political appointment by and loyal to the Tory party, I think he's a former PPC or something, if that sheds any light on it Annoyingly (or happily depending on your POV) you can't bypass that paywall like you can with other newspapers.
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Sep 1, 2020 13:30
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Mega Comrade posted:For the vast majority of pensions, if you are under 55 the answer is a no. You could end up with as little as £0 of it as the companies that offer this "service" are often scammers and will take your cash and gently caress off leaving you with nothing plus the tax bill to pay.
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Sep 1, 2020 20:03
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Hold on to your pants (other underwear styles are available) for the incoming flood of bile, Strictly is having a same sex couple this year.
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Sep 2, 2020 11:58
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bessantj posted:Rule, Britannia! Back on the Menu! Amol was being interviewed on BBC lunchtime news and was saying that common sense has prevailed. Thanks BBC for such balanced reporting. I'm definitely reassessing my view on the licence fee, from "the BBC is a great institution with some poo poo people in and can be fixed" to "gently caress the BBC they deserve what they get".
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Sep 2, 2020 17:02
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/AndrewBowie_MP/status/1300889500395212800?s=19 Those replies weren't to that tweet as he's disabled comments from people he doesn't follow.
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Sep 2, 2020 22:02
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Gonzo McFee posted:Retweets with comments. My lack of Twitter understanding exposed for all to see!
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Sep 2, 2020 22:35
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The crest on the plate of that hugely disappointing fish supper suggests they were served in the palace of Westminster, which means we paid for that monstrosity.
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Sep 2, 2020 23:18
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crispix posted:Axing Jeremy Kyle God that sounds like a fun team-building away day activity.
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Sep 2, 2020 23:35
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https://twitter.com/KayBurley/status/1301406437458038784?s=19 The original tweet included the line "so the government admits Tony Abbot is a homophobe and misogynist it just doesn't care".
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Sep 3, 2020 09:22
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Doctor Spaceman posted:He's also not an expert on trade or diplomacy. According to Hancock simply being PM endows him with ultimate level trade negotiation skills, same as Blair becoming Middle East Saviour.
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Sep 3, 2020 10:05
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Anyone laughing out loud on the tube is a serial killer.
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Sep 3, 2020 11:10
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hemale in pain posted:Everyone hated school right? It was poo poo, everyone I know says it was poo poo and awful. I dunno wtf is up with all these aliens claiming its great and kids love it. I loved primary school and maybe the first year of secondary and then it became a bullying-filled shithole that i hate thinking about.
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Sep 3, 2020 11:41
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https://twitter.com/IrvineWelsh/status/1301451442599989249 Gladly. e: GMB institutionally sexist. Lungboy fucked around with this message at 12:19 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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Sep 3, 2020 12:12
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Don't Green policies do far better in blind surveys than when people know whose policies they are?
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Sep 3, 2020 19:00
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Jedit posted:Did he, though? Not at PMQs, no, it was noticeably absent in his reply.
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Sep 4, 2020 10:23
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stev posted:At least the replies gave my blocking finger some good exersize. Check out the replies to the initial tweet then. Or don't as they are horrible.
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Sep 4, 2020 14:02
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Borrovan posted:People in the comments pointing out that the place was spotless before "someone" broke a bunch of poo poo The big puddle of paint under the window is still wet.
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Sep 4, 2020 17:21
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BizarroAzrael posted:Is this a first time buy? Are you using Help to Buy or Shared Ownership? I've saved quite a big deposit but found my options are still quite limited in London (where my job and family are) because of my salary. I started toward a shared ownership place in Ilford late last year but I don't know if that's still the best option, I think I'd rather take the Help to Buy loan, but the Ilford place was ideal, if it were Help to Buy the price would be in my affordability. Feeling under pressure as I need to move out before my dad does, and hes expecting an offer on this place any day now. Shared ownership seems like the worst of all worlds, mortgage and rent to pay, you can't do anything to it without permission but if anything important needs doing like the block of flats it's in needs a new lift or roof you're on the hook for the entire bill.
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Sep 4, 2020 18:32
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BizarroAzrael posted:Pretty sure I can redecorate etc no problem according to what I've been told, and that the estate managers that I pay service charge are responsible for lift maintenance . Redecorating should be fine, but unlikely to be allowed to do anything structural if you wanted to. Maintenance may be covered on the lift, but what about a whole new lift? Or a new roof to the block, or new cladding if it has the bonfire-y kind? On top of that it can be harder and more expensive to sell again in the future. e: not trying to put you or anyone else off here, just airing some of the issues that get overlooked. Have a read on moneysavingexpert for tons of examples of shared ownership gone wrong. Of course there will be just as many where it's gone right and the owner hasn't posted on a forum about it. Lungboy fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Sep 4, 2020 |
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Nothing touches my hangovers now which generally last well over 24 hours so I'm finding I'm drinking less and less. Last beer was 6 weeks ago and last whisky a couple of weeks back.
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Sep 5, 2020 12:39
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Camrath posted:Legally I’m told there is no ‘ownership’ of cats except as defined by a microchip- which she didn’t have until it was installed on our say-so. Any legal types think this to be accurate? As I understand it, dogs belong to an owner whereas cats are essentially considered wild and don't belong to anyone. It's why if you hit a dog in your car there's a legal responsibility to report it to the owner, whereas with a cat there's no such requirement. I've not heard the microchip bit, but I think they'd find it hard to prove they owned the kitten as I'd bet they hadn't registered her with a vet. Jakabite posted:That’s the reaction I tend to get with the Mars thing but honestly I’m surprised I’ve never found anyone who made the same mistake. I guess I’ve just never had sufficient nougat in my life to realise the stuff in mars bars isn’t unique to mars bars. Milky Ways used to have the same nougat in as Mars Bars, but no caramel, but then they changed them to that awful white fluffy crap and ruined them.
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Sep 5, 2020 17:08
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Borrovan posted:I am 99% sure that this is definitely not true (but, as per my previous post, it doesn't make a lot of difference in practice) You can now be 100% sure, I was entirely wrong. One of those urban myths I must have picked up along the way.
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Sep 5, 2020 19:40
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Lady Demelza posted:A pub that was more food than alcohol told me they couldn't do Irish coffee or boozy hot chocolate because they weren't on the menu. The student union at Bournemouth university wouldn't serve snakebite and black, but they'd sell a half of lager, half of cider and a pint glass with a dash of black in. They reckoned it was due to having no cocktail licence but God knows if that was true.
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Sep 6, 2020 19:32
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Plymouth University used to have a snakebite night with cheap pints and multiple variants, it was weird going from having to be all nefarious about it to having it celebrated.
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Julio Cruz posted:holy poo poo I completely forgot WKD blue was a thing Reef and x vodkas in a pint was named the Hifi Special in our student house after one of my housemates got drunk and smashed another housemate's hifi up. Hooch and double vodka was my usual back when lemon hooch was bitter as gently caress, before they changed the recipe and made it really sweet.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Everything you've heard about it is true. Everything? I worked in an off licence near a half-way house and the regular Buckfast buyers had some peculiar ideas on it. SpiritOfLenin posted:So the news were completely accurate. I knew deep in my heart the news had to be accurate, but I just had to check. It was reported just so dryly that I just thought "that can't be right, that sounds like its a bit", but no, of course its true. The EU said that we had until the end of October to sort a deal in time for it to be ratified and Boris has basically said "no YOU have until the 15th of October". Lungboy fucked around with this message at 10:30 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1302583276629037059 Good to know we're even a laughing stock in Australia.
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It makes me ill to say that I finally paid off my student loan today. Giving Erudio a penny feels absolutely wrong, but I still have 7 years to run on it and the deferment threshold drops £2k this month so when my current deferment expires I'll be over the limit, and they sent me an offer to pay 30% and write the rest off. I've been fighting these fuckers for 6 years, and it's a relief to finally have them off my back, but I can't help feeling I shouldn't have done it.
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fridge corn posted:Anyway, I have never known breath ray to be racist but he does perhaps word things strangely from time to time and I don't think we should hold that against him Using camel jockey as a description of a person isn't "wording things strangely".
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Sep 7, 2020 18:09
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Until the new wording is presented in the Commons on wednesday it's all guesswork and briefings. In other news, it's Ireland but this has had me laughing all day https://twitter.com/eirebhoy/status/1302876966375305216
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Why are journalists still using terms like "massive ructions" as though Parliament is still working normally and as though the last 4 years of illegally proroguing parliament, lying to the house and all the other poo poo hasn't happened?
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vaguely posted:drive-by meltdown skip this post Jenrick, this morning: "We have to keep hammering the message home. Of course the people in those age categories are unlikely to become extremely unwell as a result of having the virus. "But they are able to pass it on to others," he said. "There's a responsibility on younger people to not just stay at home, obviously to go out and go to work and to enjoy pubs and restaurants, but to do so in accordance with the guidelines."
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WhatEvil posted:Seconding these guys. They are excellent. We bought like 8x Humanscale Freedom high-back chairs with headrests from them for £150 each (absolute bargain, they go for like £600+ new) and they were all in really good shape - they buy old office furniture in job lots and reupholster/refurbish it. I tried a Zento Smart Chair at work once and it was incredible, but I can't even get my boss to sign off on a stapler, there's zero chance of £800 for a single chair.
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Convex posted:Fucks sake just realised they stopped making Ricicles back in 2017. I hate 2020 White chocolate Cocopops are your friend.
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thespaceinvader posted:I... assume they have a way of stopping you getting COVID from blood donated by someone who had it right? Or is it not transmissible that way? I'm so happy that Covid can distinguish between a social gathering and a business one. In other news, https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1303450343452422151?s=19
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Lord Sugar being a complete twunt. Again. https://twitter.com/tristandross/status/1303756865902456834?s=19
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forkboy84 posted:I like to push the button and then immediately cross at the first opportunity because drivers are selfish assholes and deserve it. I do this but my wife always tells me off for making cars stop unnecessarily and cause more polution. This kind of poo poo makes me so mad given how much ore you'd need to mine for 7 miles of copper wire.
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Guavanaut posted:24 SWG wire is 0.56mm diameter, so 0.25mm2 * 11.27km = 2817cm3 or 25.24kg of copper, which is about 40kg of ore, which is the amount that Chile produces in 0.37 seconds. That doesn't sound right, Sudbury is the highest grade underground copper deposit in the world at 8% copper. The highest grade open cast mine is 5%. It's still not a huge amount, but it's for a stupid coat. Multiply it up by how many stupid coats they use it in, then by how many other stupid garments or accessories they put it then, then by how many other stupid companies are making similar stupid items. VVVV Thankfully we're going to have a 10pm curfew so they can stay safely indoors. Lungboy fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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Mega Comrade posted:Also who is Laurence Fox? I've seen his tweets appear a few times now and I still have zero clue. Some youtuber? Actor in such blockbusters as The Hole and Lewis. Outed himself as a bit of a racist on Question Time some time ago. Guavanaut posted:I'm basing it on the processed ores that are sent for smelting, rather than the deposits that are mined. Either way, as long as they're recycled there's far more wasteful uses of copper wire, such as the tons of novelty electronics like waving cats and USB bananas and the Royal Yacht Britannia that end up in landfill. Fair point, except the world can never have enough waving cats 
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