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Skeletome posted:god all this trans news is just absolutely grim isn't it My sister transitioned at 31 and two years into it looks great and has literally never been happier.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I am irrationally prejudiced against big tvs and have to watch my mouth when staying with friends with ginormous plasma screen tvs. ... what are you frightened of saying...?
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I wrote the rules to conduct virtual court hearings during COVID lockdown pt 1 and was promised a "substantial" bonus over the summer by my happy managers. Got a £50 Amazon voucher in the end. oh well, The Last of Us 2 was quite fun
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multijoe posted:I'm friends with a guy who has voted UKIP or Tory his entire life and he's one of the most gentle and good natured people I've ever known to you at least
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Random question. I've just noticed that I'm not paying anything for broadband. I'm on Three and on a rolling monthly contract. It was all fixed payments until September when they paid me £30, and from then they've been billing me for £0.00 a month. Service hasn't been interrupted in any way and I've had no correspondence saying anything's up. You reckon just sit on it and wait for them to realise something's up?
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Thanks all. I've been doing some research and apparently this isn't that uncommon with Three as their billing department is all hosed up right now. Going to wait for them to figure it out.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/11/no-deal-brexit-likeliest-ursula-von-der-leyen-eu-leaders this, combined with the post-Xmas COVID surge, is going to make for a wild January
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Borrovan posted:Burchill deleted her Twitter account lmao that post about her publicist being all "Hey Julie stir some poo poo up on social media to get some eyes on your book..... NO NOT LIKE THAT WHAT THE gently caress" was on the money.
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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.
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As far as I can see the only way to make this Zoom call work is to not take it seriously and turn it into a live-action pantomime in which you have an OTT Scrooge-like conversion to the concept of Christmas. If it's a performance your niece will be entertained, you're not really lying if you're obviously playing a character and it's difficult for your sister to push back against silly ridiculousness.
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Just do this verbatim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueVPUsyrT0s&t=6s
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Aeble posted:What a mess. cool cool just hop on an international flight no biggie you dick
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bessantj posted:Had a shift last night and while we had some downtime one of the lads was flashing his headlamp at nearby house windows. One of the older lads told him not to do that which I thought was pretty good, but then he turned to me and said "you can get into trouble for doing that now. Women have all sorts of rights these days." Oh yeah, how terrible that you may face consequences for sexually humiliating a woman. how does flashing a headlamp at random windows sexually humiliate anyone? genuine question - I've never heard of this before
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DesperateDan posted:But we’re here, chained to a same vibes quote:Turning and turning in the widening gyre
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Dec 21, 2020 10:39
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Hodges has said he actually bought a replica pistol to scare raiders off with.
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Just got given the Barack Obama book as my work Secret Santa.
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I can't believe that after JUST five banks my local MP will attend.
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The DPRK posted:Gonna stock up tonight, what are we expecting shortages of? Dignity.
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Oh man an old friend just called saying she's going be homeless over Christmas and can she stay in my shared house (we're currently strictly isolating in central London). Eeeeesh. I think I'm just going to try and put her in a hotel.
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multijoe posted:I'm genuinely surprised by how Boris has continually hosed it in exactly the same way this many times seemingly without learning a single thing. For the love of christ just try to get ahead of at least one Covid development, rather than waiting for your hand to be forced by a crisis to turning into a catastrophe nobody ever gets credit for stopping a catastrophe before it happens, because the end result of that is nothing happening you've just got to seen to mitigate things and hey, maybe it couldn't ever have been prevented who knows?
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Got up early before the shops opened and met a friend behind the supermarket who furtively gave me a paper bag full of limes. Gotta make these last.
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It really is true that a lot of politicians are, when you're interacting with them directly, apparently very nice people. Blair, Boris and - weirdly - Gove are all people I loving despise but have also met in person and had to constantly remind myself that they were hateful, evil pricks.
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crispix posted::/ time was you'd get ahead in society by knowing a bank manager or lawyer now it's having the number of the guy that stocks the citrus aisle in Asda
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Self isolating is right. If you're in London I wouldn't mind doing you some shopping and cycling it over to you.
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Jakabite posted:Charisma chat: I’ve only met one MP and that was Angela Smith when she was briefly a CUK. She was doing some weird publicity thing with a board you stuck stickers on indicating whether you liked Brexit or not. I went and had a conversation with her and she was actually one the most charmless, bland, easily annoyed people I’d ever met. Gentle ribbing about CUK was met with poorly concealed grimacing fury, so I decided to prod a bit further and give her poo poo for all kinds of issues and she basically got into a huff and walked off lol. Her husband was much better at it and maintained a calm good humour through it all. please go into more details about the gentle ribbing
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Is there a way to create a new high-speed rail service in the UK that doesn't destroy irreplaceable ancient forests?
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MonkeyLibFront posted:So it seems my little sister who is a rabid anti masker and been on all the marches has decided to go home from tier four London to tier one cornwall where my 83 old grandad is in a support bubble with my mother. I'm being told not to rock the boat, literally pulling my hair out now. What does the grandad think of this?
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MonkeyLibFront posted:He knows she skeptical of it all but I don't think he knows about her mixing with the Phil Shiner crowd. Call him and tell him. I mean it could be literally his life on the line. He should know what's going on.
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A weird random question, but I'm writing a review of an Animal Farm game that's basically a choose your own adventure with light farm management aspects. I've always thought the tragedy of the book is that the animals' revolutionary ideals were correct but the tragedy is how they were perverted. The point of the game is that you can try other plots like ditching Napoleon early on and try other methods of animalism/socialism. Problem is there is no happy ending in the game - every outcome of socialism in it is bad. I want to say in my review that this feels really cynical and something a committed socialist like Orwell wouldn't have agreed with. Does that make sense?
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Desiderata posted:Given the history of the Animal Farm animated film, you may want to look into where the funding for the game development / publishing came from. It's a tiny indie game, I think the CIA probably have better things to do rn
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Guavanaut posted:Is there an option where you can carry on with being run by the farmers and that's also terrible/even worse? Orwell would probably be down with "every option bad but some worse" more than "every socialist option has some ills". So far the endings I've gotten are: - crops fail, animals go feral and eat each other - surrender and let humans take over, who slaughter all revolutionary animals - all animals die in battle, farm abandoned - authoritarian tyranny under Napoleon (basically the book ending) There are other endings, but from what I've seen online none are particularly happy.
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It's actually been a really nice Christmas here too. Was sad about missing my family but my house pulled together and we all contributed something from our countries to the day so we had a British/Bulgarian/Palestinian Christmas.
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Jakabite posted:This sounds good! What does Bulgarian/Palestinian Christmas feature? I’m mostly asking about the culinary aspects Unleavened bread with a coin in it and cauliflower soup to start., Baba ganoush, hummus, pickled cabbage leaves and stuffed peppers combined with the nice bits of a regular roast dinner. It was pretty rad.
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man I just had a depressing call with my Mum - she's a geriatric palliative care nurse and all her patients are dying. I mean, she's palliative care so that's expected, but everything is so stretched right now that they're dying a hell of a lot faster as there's no hospital beds or facilities available. At least she's vaccinated herself now.
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jacksbrat posted:Oh that's grim. I hope the patients can still be made as comfortable as possible. Yeah - also I guess it's just going to be the kind of deaths that aren't going to be reported. Sure a lot of these people were going to die within the next year covid or no covid but there's this tension around that if you take a turn for the worse now there's no coming back from it.
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it is incredibly frustrating that the right can invent a vague story about a left figure being a bit sus and everyone leaps to believe it and abandons their comrade. Meanwhile you can have concrete evidence that a right wing politician is a serial sexual harasser, corrupt as gently caress and explicitly a racist piece of poo poo and they just shrug and go "who gives a poo poo".
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