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crispix posted:just give up that last vestige of self respect and order yourself a set of mumus for christmas imo what even are clothes
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Bobstar posted:Things to drape on your visible top half, but only while the webcam is on. When the apocalypse started happening, I was very careful to get a headset instead of a webcam for just this reason 
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Moonwolf posted:I'm not in NIP, but given the Morecambe Bay Independents are reactionary little Englander shitheads they shouldn't want anything to do with them. I'm not surprised. My parents live up that way and it's Old People Central, very Leave supporting iirc. People round there are largely more likely to align with UKIP than anyone socialist.
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Dec 2, 2020 12:23
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Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, Morecambe is where the oldies who fancy a cottage in the Lake District but can't afford it move to. You gotta bear in mind that Northerners are a bit more lefty than Southerners on average but that's still trumped by the age divide (which ties in with the big city/small town & rural divide). Northern Boomers still big on being fash, Southern Millennials still big on socialism. You might actually have more luck with creating a Free Socialist Hanseatic League from like Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and London all getting together or something.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Thanks. I mean, technically a Raspberry Pi with CUPS and Samba, sure 
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Drone_Fragger posted:GW workshop is also likely mad overvalued by investors because their margins are absolutely eye watering. As basically the only miniature company of any note left I mean this is SUPER not true, but those companies are making historicals or other scifi or fantasy stuff. GW has the margins it does because it owns Warhammer and has the trademarks to prove it (hence all the incredibly daft names for poo poo in Age of Sigmar. Can't be an Elf, got be an Aelf Treeshagger or something)
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Dec 3, 2020 10:34
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stev posted:I know they licence books and games a lot more than they used to but it always amazes me how profitable the figures continue to be. Who are these adults who have the time, money and space to build and paint armies and landscapes in TYOOL 2020? I keep hoping to get to play Saga with someone IRL when things are more normal. It's a skirmish wargame so you only need a few dudez and historicals are dirt loving cheap compared to anything GW.
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:Even before the pandemic, there were 3 guys in my team at work who were really into it. They said it was because their kids liked it, but I think they enjoy the painting process (which the kids don’t) and they just leave the kids to the battling. It’s a pretty cheap hobby to have which gives them something to do with their kids, which is cool.  What, compared to their other hobby of luxury yachts, or...?
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Dec 3, 2020 12:01
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Sanford posted:If anyone wants to contact me about buying loads and loads of games workshop stuff that’s so cheap it’s almost as if it’s not mine but it’s been in my attic for ten years so I want it shifted then, y’know, please do so. Got any Squats? 
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Dec 3, 2020 14:00
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mediaphage posted:meanwhile americans think almost any british accent (south african, australian, welsh, it’s all british) makes you smarter. the idea that there regional accents within britain barely even registers. Either smarter or totally incomprehensible in my experience. Though my pointing my American friends at Rab C Nesbitt was possibly being a touch unfair.
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ThomasPaine posted:TIL that Americans can't send money directly bank to bank without paying fees for wire transfer and often still pay rent by literally handing the landlord a cheque. You get paid with them too. Every 2 weeks I got given an envelope with a piece of paper in it that I spent my lunchtime walking over to the credit union. Least I could stop by Wendys on the way back.
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Dec 3, 2020 17:19
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Bobstar posted:When they were deliberately breaking the US Post Office in the run-up to the election, I saw someone saying they were worried because they'd posted their rent check (sic) to their landlord in another state, and might get in trouble if it was late. I thought it was a joke, but then it wasn't. It isn't. I had my rent check delayed in the post once by a single day or so and got an instant nastygram in the mail threatening eviction. I wasn't impressed.
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Borrovan posted:Totally unrelated, I forgot to take almost all of my annual leave this year so I'm now done with work for over a month Our HR have been increasingly panickingly telling us all TAKE SOME LEAVE because they're worried the entire company will basically take a month off simultaneously at the end of the financial year and that doesn't work very well apparently 
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Ms Adequate posted:I don't think it's remarkable if the Tories are losing the Red Wall again, wasn't the thinking always that concerns of Brexit were a huge factor, and with that done and dusted one way or the other, most of those seats should be back in play (All else being equal)? Still full of Olds who are likely to vote Tory over any version of Labour we might want, unfortunately.
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Mines Quality Street because I'm classy  They made a poor start though, one of those purple ones 
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NotJustANumber99 posted:WTF is an analog tv? Opposite of a digital TV OP
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knox_harrington posted:Are we the baddies? Yes.
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thespaceinvader posted:So yeah, your mate, who if I've understood correctly is a member of the Chelsea Headhunters, a group whose logo is a literal copy of a nazi tank regiment's logo Division  - a lot more people than a regiment. Til 1945 when the Soviets had shot most of them anyway.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:So if you WFH guys who don't really have a suitable space had the option to go to a 'hub' space to work instead- if say going into the office is not an option, would you prefer that? (assuming the hub space was all done out covid-19 proof) I wouldn't trust it to be more COVID proof than my house with just me in it tbh
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stev posted:I did that in Co-Op and hated it. I'm conditioned to feel like a criminal if I can't physically show a person/machine that I haven't got anything in my bag that I haven't paid it. I did that for a while at Tesco and then they banned me from doing it for no obvious reason (like, pick up the handset and it told me to phone Tesco or something)  I'm often buying booze so someone's going to come over anyway so I might as well do it the normal way.
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Oh yeah technically I handle coins every time I go to ASDA for to like get the shopping trolley out with a pound and everything am I going to get the COVIDs 
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No London Commune, no deal
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goddamnedtwisto posted:One of the early DVD postal rental services did actually have a disposable DVD system, where the disk would stop working after a certain number of plays, worked out IIRC. Also DivX
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serious gaylord posted:Piracy is a tad harder now than the glory days of torrent sites but there will always be ways around it. No its still pretty easy tbh
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CSM posted:Are there any protests in the UK, is there any political opposition left? Because even Labour would now vote for brexit? I mean we had a massive anti-Brexit march some months back, and as usual with these marches (against tuition fees, against the Iraq war, yada yada) the result was the square root of gently caress all. The government doesn't care about protests. If you want an even here it would be the Lib Dems, Labour have always had to have a nuanced position on Brexit because half their potential voters lust for it (see: our election last year where said voters voted en masse for the Brexit party when Labour moved to a second referendum position, handing the Tories a massive majority). The Lib Dems have spent the last few years making their identity the 'Party of Remain', they too got rinsed in the election, and even they've thrown in the towel now. Edit: hmm. Just noticed I said 'their' not 'our'. Interesting, that. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Dec 10, 2020 |
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Josef bugman posted:13 pence for a sandwich? gently caress it if it doesn't come in a box I'll take 8. You'll need a time machine, that photo's from some time in the 60s or 70s iirc 
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Haramstufe Rot posted:When will Scotland join the EU? When that happens, wouldn't most issues with the fishing EEZ be resolved? Tomorrow, mate.
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Gatts posted:I actually have plans to visit London in July next year assuming I get the vaccine in time. Will get to see how Brexit is going in person. Make sure to lay in biking leathers and a variety of exciting studs and spikes.
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therattle posted:Australia is famed for its excellent cheeses. I mean if what you want is cheddar then yes, actually, it is.
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Aeble posted:It's interesting, I've never actually met anyone advocating for Brexit (since everybody at work hates it). I wonder how I would react to meeting one - probably with the same dumbstruck confusion as when you discover you're speaking to a young earth creationist. A friends mate was all for it a couple of years ago. He's a plumber and was very up front that he was voting for his own interest because he didn't want competition from the Poles.
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Payndz posted:Yep, this will work out well. Cod War 1 was against a country with literally no armed forces. Which we somehow still lost iirc. (Mind you Cold War concerns about the GIUK gap didnt exactly help diplomatically)
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Guavanaut posted:I wonder if 'separatist' will become the kind of slur again that 'separatista' is now (or that separatist was during Irish Home Rule). Or we could look across the Atlantic and call them the secesh
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Jedit posted:Lord North is far from the worst PM we ever had and definitely better than any of the last three. Losing the Colonies is his defining feature, but that was a historical inevitability. The real blame for it happening on his watch lies with Lord Howe, the commander of the British forces; he could easily have won the war close to the outset if he hadn't dithered, intentionally or otherwise. Outside of that North had some big successes both internationally and domestically, and he removed several laws discriminating against Catholics. Yeah. Bear in mind lots of historians are American so obviously losing America MUST have been the worst thing ever to happen to Britain. If you point out how many bits of the world we've lost, 'to us, it was Tuesday' etc they can get a bit miffed.
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forkboy84 posted:Nah, allowing America to become independent when it did, how it did, as a country obsessed with pissweak government and being terrified of taxes and obsessed with guns, was bad. Bad for them maybe. Not obviously bad for us.
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Guavanaut posted:Something would have had to have broken in the 1830s over slavery, plus there's no way that France sells Louisiana to a British North America, so is there even somewhere for cowboys to cow? ...how many cattle ranches do you think there are in Louisiana?
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Guavanaut posted:The core 'cowboy era' (as opposed to 'wild west') stuff happened in East Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas, which were all part of the purchase. But, crucially, not under French control and nor was France in a position to exert that control, Actual French territory was basically New Orleans which is what Jefferson was after. America would have kept expanding west and told France to swivel by the time they were actually ready to settle that land. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Dec 12, 2020 |
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Rumda posted:now you're moving the goal posts that land was still part of the purchase The context was 'Something would have had to have broken in the 1830s over slavery, plus there's no way that France sells Louisiana to a British North America, so is there even somewhere for cowboys to cow?' Yes. You don't stop manifest destiny that easily.
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Guavanaut posted:Would it have kept pushing west though? Independence not succeeding means that the Proclamation of 1763 is still in effect, which sets a western limit. There'd be grumbling about that at the various governors' mansions, but it still leaves Louisiana (both the state and the wider area) in nominal French and Native American hands. One of the causes of the war of independence was precisely the Americans insisting on pushing westward against the wishes of HMG (note poster above me, long before the Purchase). One way we might avoid the war is HMG saying 'fine go on then' from the get go and anyway we just have to look at Africa to see randos conquering various areas for the British Empire and presenting it as a fait accompli. Im not sure why the Victorian British Empire of all people would object to the same in the West particularly once we have the Maxim gun and they do not.
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Guavanaut posted:The Victorian Africa comparison is interesting, because suppose Arizona Cecil Rhodes does just decide to wander west across the Mississippi and it is still nominally French, what then? Do you end up with Fashoda syndrome, Americas Edition? France has no presence there and no interest in establishing one - think of the logistics. Thats why they sold those claims off for a few extra mil thrown in with New Orleans, without the Americans even asking for it even, irl. Probably we just get another quiet diplomatic deal with some compensation for France a little later instead. Edit: also, if British America is a thing and the Napoleonic Wars still happen then New Orleans is obviously not going to remain French for very long. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Dec 12, 2020 |
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