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knox_harrington posted:It is also the divine right of the occupant of a seat to recline it as necessary. In fact, by not reclining it you're loving up the domino effect that allows everyone to lean back an extra 5 degrees. ^This is key. On some long-haul routes, they do not give a single gently caress about asking you if you mind terribly if you move back, they're moving back knees be damned. Either settle in and enjoy it, or make yourself miserable for rules that you've made up in your head. Domestic is worse for tall people, to be honest - the legroom even on tiny economy to let you get out from behind a reclined seat is far better than that for the fixed BA/Easyjet seats, you tend not to get peoples knees in your back/backs in your knees, and they don't mind if you go for a walk and stretch in the galley. The only thing I majorly dislike about long-haul is when they ask you to close the window/lean over and attempt to close it during the "dim the lights so noone bothers us for a G&T" arbitrary time. I booked a window seat, I'm enjoying it, people have sleep masks in the pack for a reason. Goldskull posted:
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NotJustANumber99 posted:My parents want to visit at xmas. They will be coming from abroad by car/ferry so have to quarantine. My dad is too tight to pay the 125quid each that the tests cost that get let you out after 5/6days. However Gatwick offer a 60quid test for passengers. My plan is to buy them the cheapest flights I can find, looks to be a single to Dublin which gets the tests all in for 77quid each and just chuck the flights. So your plan is to have them drive from the ferryport straight to Gatwick, which is minimum 2 hours after 2 hours on a ferry + waiting time + time to ferryport, to fake getting on a flight to get a test that can be done quickly for cheap rather than the longer, slightly more expensive one... so they can have a rough bit of certainty that they probably didn't have the virus in the time before they rocked up to an airport and walked through departures and arrivals on the same day, and then drive up to yours, as presumably staying in a hotel would start the whole chain again. Would it maybe be better to quarantine with them/have them quarantine at yours?
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I'm giving it ten posts before someone goes "No I don't think that about football fans, these guys are comrades" by posting a picture of the Green Brigade, Nicosia, or that one from Tel Aviv. Maybe some people might post in sequence the first, second and fourth one down on the top ten socialist ultras article that is the first google result for "antifa ultras", thinking it won't be obvious.
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Interesting timing for the BBC to put together a "stories" piece, effectively an opinion column with nothing indicating it wasn't news, of a contact tracer, and how very disappointed she is in public compliance, and how while contract tracing wasn't the best and the politicians weren't compliant it's the public who have been disgraceful. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-55280321 It's almost as if people act on leadership direction! But as a nurse, and absolutely not along with three of her anonymous friends an NHS comms piece, she knows it's just that we're all selfish. Nutapii fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Dec 14, 2020 |
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happyhippy posted:Infinitesimal.
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Grey Hunter posted:It might be the camera angle but has he put some weight on? He's actually always been a fat gently caress, he just wears oversized suit jackets for the optical illusion of being slim and tall, and thus eccentric as opposed to owner baron.  Note the straining button on the left.  Ain't none of that flowing freely from chest to waist, it's all filled, again straining button lower left.
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keep punching joe posted:Sad to see Wigtman is a TERF, was one of the better greens. The problem with the Scottish Parliament is "one of the better ones" is typically not that great, given that it's a disproportionately high second tier of government, the list system allows "oh he's sound though isn't he" to get an elected seat without a constituency, and the turnouts lower than the UK ones. If you're too ambitious to be on a council but not good enough at networking to get a safe seat with $party$ then it's a good spot. It's not that I'm against devolution or independence, but that the present conditions necessarily bias the parliament to good SNP MSPs and Tim Nice but Dim for every other party. OwlFancier posted:Perhaps steampunk could be relabeled simperialism. 
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I don't think we'll reach a point of calorie deficiency or mass price rises, but it'll be interesting to see a lot of basics that we don't have year-round or significant production of disappear from the shelves over February. Given cooking in Britain, most of the impact might be seen in frozen/ready meals eg pizzas changing to barbecue instead of tomato sauce, more casseroles than bolognese, that sort of thing.forkboy84 posted:This is bollocks though, as far as the Scottish Greens go. They aren't ever going to win a FPTP seat so their best can & do sit at Holyrood, people like Patrick Harvie & Ross Greer & Alison Johnstone & John Finnie, & at until today I'd have happily included Wightman in that category for his fantastic campaigning worth on issues as diverse as land ownership across Scotland & attacking short-term landlords (AirBnB type poo poo) in Edinburgh. Their best is 4 of their 5 MSPs, 5 of their 6 prior, and includes the school politician from a very privileged area, dropped into a free slot at 21 because they knew him from a separate campaign a few years prior, and immediately made their foreign affairs, education and cultural secretary? Which he achieves in the spare time between sick burns on twitter and lobbying in parliament for a Catholic charity's work in Africa despite multiple recent incidents of sexual abuse by their employees? They're all poo poo, but it is depressing that that's the best for the least worst party.
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I hope the current advert aesthetic "pop/rock song changed to piano and breathy woman singing" is done to the Coke Holidays are Coming advert. One lit-up lorry in a 20 mile tailback, flickering as the alternator slowly fails, the roadside just grey slush with the occasional yellow streak...
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^Someone's never eaten in a Little Chef "He's cancelling Christmas" with very specific details will be put on Twitter when the conference time is 3pm, then they'll see Twitter going apeshit and delay the conference to 4 pm, then a new policy will float out and they'll see how FB reacts... round about 8 Bojo will say "some difficult decisions had to be made to plead with you to go harder than we will actually implement- and now over to Chris Witty to outline all the bad things".
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That reward poster is very British. Oh someone who doesn't have actual power will visit, how exciting! The same way people talk about some middle manager from head office visiting a regional office. It's a person who has done a minor thing within your industry phoning/visiting with some pre-prepared lines, why give a toss? Also while it was impossible to sort out food, toilets, heat and electricity for the cabs, showers...we were able to print a couple of hundred multilingual copies of "No photography" for the latest used Scania showroom in Kent. https://twitter.com/jonworth/status/1341455195977490434 Thank gently caress for the Sikhs.
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There's about 5 lorries a minute, or one each way every 24 seconds, through Dover. It's right up against the cliff so we can't expand it. If we do inspections at Dover we slow the lorries getting off, slowing the ferries turnaround time, reducing the amount of ferries and lorries in a day which isn't ideal given it's where all our stuff comes through*. We'll do it after the port, and create a Kent Access Permit but Kent has 100s of roads out... Do we a) concrete over forests/fields/houses very early in the M20 and A2 to inspect everyone, probably about the size of say 6 ferry decks, with police to catch anyone driving by, so lorries can't just treat border control as optional? b) expand the juxtaposed controls in Calais ferry/Eurotunnel terminals into Ceuta and Melilla? c) rejoice at the new found unity in the UK as the inhabitants of Kent seek trade advice from our Northern Irish brethren? *even non-EU as everyone goes to Rotterdam instead of Felixstowe as I understand it.
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"The salmon is a source of unbelievable votes, it must be sold" "It will be I assure you, it's on its way to a new market" "But what markets?" "New. Markets."
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e:f;b, spent too long getting mad about libel law Don't worry guys, in between solving the Middle Easts problems and rewriting the Kama Sutra, Tony's here with his biochemistry lesson: Coronavirus: Vaccinate more people with one dose, urges Tony Blair quote:Ex-PM Tony Blair is urging the government to give as many people as possible an initial dose of a Covid vaccine - rather than preserving stocks so there is enough for second jabs. What happens when you multiply percentages might not be Tony's strong point, but luckily he's got ID CARDS to solve it! quote:Mr Blair's suggestion was part of a seven-point plan he has drawn up, which also includes a plea to the government to start preparing "health passports". He also said it was important to "have the best data systems in the world available to us". "Collecting this data in one place, with one patient record, is going to be absolutely vital - testing, vaccinations, every single thing to do with the development of this disease," he added. "You need to record every single piece of data you can lay your hands on because we will be adjusting our vaccination programme as we go - we may even have to adjust the vaccine itself." "leaders in the law" how on Earth could we lead in the rest of the worlds law? Two Russians disputing the ownership of a Siberian steel mine in a London high court isn't a demonstration of leadership or sensible jurisdiction, and if a High Court in a developing country had made an order against the entire world, about a TV personality's nude photos, it'd rightly be in the "and in other news" section. It does make me wonder, has anyone hosted a site overseas that lists the actual details of each injunction? How realistically would they get caught/sued if they just paid their tenner to a privacy oriented webhosting service?
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peanut- posted:This remains one of the most brain damaged things I’ve ever seen It could not more obviously be a pisstake.
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Weasling Weasel posted:gently caress me, sounds like it's not just London Hospitals turning people away now. It is possible to try anyone on twitter with that loving smily faced in their handle for murder yet. What smiley face?
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