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If Burton and Topman close I'll have to find somewhere else to buy literally all of my clothes. 
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Private Speech posted:Yeah I'm kinda sad, I buy some stuff from Crew Clothing/Wills/Fat Face, but it's a fair bit pricier. It's genuinely crap, Burton is one of the few high street shops that actually has a decent range and stock of clothes for fat fuckers.
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Dec 1, 2020 11:14
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Skeletome posted:god all this trans news is just absolutely grim isn't it That boat's not going anywhere without you, you haven't missed it.
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Dec 1, 2020 15:26
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Genuinely have no idea how I managed with a sub-40 inch TV. My eyesight was either amazing or we must have sat really close. I can't really talk though, I'm the prick who starts messing with other people's TV settings to turn off motion smoothing. Most of the time they say they can't see any difference. 
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Dec 1, 2020 17:28
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Motion smoothing? I have never heard of that! It's the setting that simulates a high framerate on modern TVs, making everything look like it was filmed on a lovely cheap camera like Eastenders. Most new TVs have it turned on by default, and everyone who actually makes films and TV shows wants it abolished. Bobstar posted:I think it's the thing that makes everything look like a soap. Has something to do with high frame rates. 24 frames helps create the illusion - your mind fills in the missing frames with what it's supposed to see. When a film simulates 48+ frames you can't do that though, and suddenly that castle is very obviously a polystyrene set. stev fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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Dec 1, 2020 17:40
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OwlFancier posted:It took me a further ten minutes before I remembered the only reason I know the name was because of the last of us which I have not even played. He wasn't even in it! Naughty Dog were accused off copying his likeness and they tweaked the character model at some point before it came out so Ellie doesn't really look like him now. He was in that poo poo David Cage game though and he acted like they were close friends which clearly wasn't true - Cage is a creepy, creepy man.
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Dec 1, 2020 23:42
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I'm going to be a bit flippant because I dunno what else to do. Does it seem a bit like Elliott feels obliged to keep a very similar name to his former deadname for societal/professional reasons? Kae Tempest did the same a few months ago - literally just removed one letter (and lmao of course one of the first results when you search them is a Guardian article using their deadname). I suppose it makes sense when you have an established career under your deadname to choose something that people will recognize even if they don't know you've transitioned.
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Dec 2, 2020 00:35
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Is it generally considered to be A Good Thing™ that we're getting the vaccine so quickly? It's hard to pick apart genuine concerns from anti-vax dog whistles and  .
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Dec 2, 2020 09:38
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Borrovan posted:On the one hand, there could potentially be some adverse long term consequences that it isn't possible to test for in the short term If we end up in a war with hyper intelligent apes then I'm all for it.
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Dec 2, 2020 12:36
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We're supposed to be going back in March but it'll be ultra-flexible. A bunch of people where I work moved away from London at the start of the pandemic so they wouldn't be able to work in the office anymore anyway (and I guess are willing to gamble that they won't lose their jobs as a result). I do miss aspects of going into work. The social aspect of working is basically gone, and I know I wouldn't have made the friends I have at work if we'd always worked remotely. I'd ideally want to do no more than two days a week in the office now though - assuming it was safe. stev fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Dec 2, 2020 |
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Dec 2, 2020 22:47
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Julio Cruz posted:if people are working from home they might be having fun on company time and we simply cannot allow that Honestly the hardest thing about going back into the office is I won't be able to have a little lie down whenever I want.
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Dec 2, 2020 23:18
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Comrade Fakename posted:Hmmm, a “lie down”, is it? I think you could do better as a euphemism. It can mean two things!
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Dec 2, 2020 23:36
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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?
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Dec 3, 2020 10:52
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Dabir posted:The thing about hobbies for kids is that you can cheap out on them and they won't know the difference. Oh, they'll be able to tell something is off, but at that age they're grateful to have anything. They won't join the dots until years down the line, and by that point there's a million other reasons your relationship with them is strained, so the resentment will be left to fester unspoken. It's consequence free, if you think about it. Off-brand Lego. 
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Guavanaut posted:
Chernobyl too.
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Dec 3, 2020 13:51
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Got a Celebrations advent calendar and after a strong start (Maltesers) the following three days have all been Bounty. Someone is having a laugh at my expense and we need an inquest.
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Dec 4, 2020 23:28
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Oh gently caress oh poo poo https://twitter.com/DailyMirror/status/1334909832931885057?s=19
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Careful on this volume on this one, as it's stupidly loud but Oh god please kick the fans out again.
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Dec 5, 2020 17:42
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Communist Thoughts posted:JK has a real toilet thing huh Thinking about it, almost all of the books have at least one major scene/fight that takes place in a toilet. 
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Dec 5, 2020 18:47
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OwlFancier posted:A major plot point in the second book is everyone has to go to the girl's bathroom because the final boss made his evil lair under it. They also fight off a large, male invader in the girls' bathroom in the first one. The plot thickens.
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Dec 5, 2020 19:26
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:it's a mea culpa on me, I only associate the SS with the lightning SS logo because I don't look into that poo poo further than that Did you not see the Mitchell and Webb sketch?
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Dec 6, 2020 00:01
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Ednamamame posted:Sorry to have to reveal my Harry Potter knowledge (I was young!) but the viral post lied to you. The mistake turned her into a cat person, so Hermoine was freaking out about spending the rest of her life as a furry. To be fair I think it's conflating two different examples - in Chamber of Secrets she's upset about being stuck in a cat body, and in Deathly Hallows they get her pronouns correct when she's biologically male after becoming Harry.
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Dec 6, 2020 13:08
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On the one hand I'm glad my workplace doesn't have such a transparently cynical system in place to boost compliance. On the other hand I want free stuff. We very occasionally get small vouchers, but it's entirely at your manager's discretion and barely ever happens.
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Dec 7, 2020 09:51
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Comrade Fakename posted:Isn't "a voucher thingy you could spend anywhere" just money? I imagine "spend anywhere" means "spend at any sufficiently large chain" so it's still broken money.
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Dec 7, 2020 11:25
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You can buy a 4GB Walkman in 2020? 
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Dec 7, 2020 12:58
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I'm that guy who loves whiskey but not enough to be able to tell the difference between pretty much any of them other than JD. So I mostly just drink Glenfiddich because it does the job.
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Dec 7, 2020 18:32
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Scan while you shop is the way to go folks. You bag it all up as you go around the supermarket and there’s never any real queues, and it saves an absurd amount of time. 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. It's also all done via an app so you end up standing in the middle of the aisle going through the payment instead of going to a designated checkout which is awkward as hell.
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Dec 8, 2020 13:59
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big scary monsters posted:I feel like there was a year or two where Netflix and to a lesser extent Amazon Prime Video were pretty OK and worth the money (especially if you had a Prime subscription anyway). Then other players caught up, the licensing deals dried up and now you have one or two flagship shows you might actually want to see split across eight different platforms and endless crap that isn't worth your time or money. Yeah I really miss the two year period where every UK and US channel shoved their entire back catalogue onto Netflix along with most films. I'm currently on Prime, Netflix, Sky On Demand/Cinema and Disney+ and still find a lot of the stuff I actually want to watch isn't available without paying extra.
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Dec 9, 2020 14:25
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My flat barely has room for our regular food and supplies. The idea of being able to horde enough food and bog roll to make any noticeable difference is an impossibility, which I expect is true of the vast majority of people outside of very rural areas.
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Dec 10, 2020 11:43
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Cerv posted:Which looking at the calendar was exactly a year ago, but somehow doesn’t feel at all really like that. Christ, that's an upsetting thought. I can still remember my heart dropping through the floor when that exit poll came through.
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Dec 10, 2020 11:58
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Arzachel posted:This is very unsettling. The breast options are small, default and big. What the gently caress is a default breast.
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Dec 10, 2020 14:38
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Necrothatcher posted:to you at least It's the football hooligan Nazi conundrum all over again. 
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Comrade Fakename posted:Here's the call, btw: loving hell, there's not even a vague suggestion that it could have been unclear, misheard or misinterpreted. Can't win in 2024 if we don't have the white supremesist vote! 
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Dec 14, 2020 13:59
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Necrothatcher posted:This Zoom call is a no-win situation. Don't do it. Whatever you do will inevitably a) piss off your sister b) confuse your niece c) make you feel like poo poo. Yeah this seems like a trap. I'm guessing your sister wants it to happen so she has an easy to swallow answer and drops it there, whereas refusing to answer will just make her more curious. Like when my dad wouldn't let me watch Robocop.
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Turkey leg off the bone is great. Breast not so much.
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I wonder how late Johnson will leave reversing the Christmas rule. Really it's too late now to avoid a huge backlash but he does love half-heartedly doing what scientists tell him to do weeks after the fact. I'm betting we're told on the evening of the 22nd that Christmas is, in fact, cancelled - leaving no time for anyone to change their plans and get food in.
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Dec 15, 2020 12:29
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Payndz posted:Anyone come up with a Brexit gently caress-Up Apologist Bingo card yet? I can already imagine "Teething troubles", "We're in this for the long term", "If the EU had..." and "If the EU hadn't...", " But the pandemic!", "Nobody could have predicted..." and the centre square, "At least we have ARE SOVRINTY". I'm predicting a lot of "if Jiminy Crumbles hadn't blocked Theresa May's brilliant deal
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https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1338825623473680385?s=19 Curious. It's almost like this was her goal all along. 
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Dec 15, 2020 13:55
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Jakabite posted:Noooo not the case with the balsamic at all! You shouldn't use too much so you still get that nice earthy richness from the sprouts. Why you'd cover the taste of one of the best vegetables I have no idea. Scratch that, reverse it. Don't serve sprouts unless you can cover the taste.
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I hated brocoli growing up but generally like it these days. It's very versitile, unlike cauliflower which is only tolerable when baked in a puddle of cheese (and that dish ruins the cheese more than it enhances the cauliflower).
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