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Bobstar posted:Ok, it's a line he made up, but I recognise the sentiment. What's the point of being the best country in the world, if we don't have the best of everything? And these hypothetical Rotterdammers are right, the roads here are very good - but under this worldview, that's not enough, they've got to be better than the Belgians' roads, and the Germans'. In fairness if every country was competing to have the best public services the world would be a pretty tolerable place even if it did stem from wanting to be better than the Belgians.
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Bobstar posted:Yeah it's easy to slip into that expat bubble and assume it's all wonderful, especially if you don't/can't take in the local news (as I'm sure you know. Are you in Scandinavia now?) Yeah I've been in Norway a few years now. Not paying attention to the media does mean you miss a lot of what goes on - honestly not being able to understand the news to begin with made me a lot happier than constantly following it in the UK. And there is definitely a temptation to ignore the problems in your new society because you're so well acquainted with the flaws of the one you've left, I think that only goes away with time and experience. I like living here and I'm personally a fair bit happier and better off in general now than I was when I first arrived, but some of the problems in Norway are a lot more obvious to me now than they were back then too. "Geen paradijs" is probably a good thing to keep in mind in any place you move to. Happily for me easier fake German also applies to the language here - they're close enough together that my Dutch is absolutely horrible now because when I try to speak it all these Norwegian words come out instead. I know you also speak a bunch of very similar Germanic languages, do you manage to keep them all separate or will you accidentally slip into German when you're meant to be speaking Luxembourgish? Endjinneer posted:It's not unusual to be hooning through some empty corner of the highlands on perfect blacktop and pass a sign with "Part funded by the European Union Regional Development Fund" on it. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Feb 28, 2021 |
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Here's a question: Why all the facebook pages suddenly giving away million pound houses? I'm not talking about scam pages, I'm talking about legit pages like charities, that post the sponsored post and then go back to posting normal stuff, so it's not a hack either. I was just reminded of it on a youtube video with the host saying it was sponsored by Omaze giving away a chance at a fancy looking house. And quickly googling "why is everyone giving away million pound houses" it seems like Omaze are usually involved. I'm assuming the technicalities of the scam revolve around this: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8175132/three-million-house-raffle-mark-beresford/ (Apologies for the Sun link but it's the only link I could find that wasn't actually advertising the house). E: quote:Chintzy Frou-Frou said: “There’s nothing on the website saying how the money is to be divided up if the target is not reached. I feel conned." Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Feb 28, 2021 |
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Closing the borders is impractical and pointless oh no https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1366108050285883491?s=20
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sinky posted:Closing the borders is impractical and pointless lol I think it was Sunak this morning who was asked about the uptick in case numbers being reported and if it had anything to do with a new variant and he said he wasn't aware of any.
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Doesn't whatever omaze is have a gimmick where they do really fancy giveaways? I don't know what it is or what it does but I assume it's some sort of insane advertising gimmick.
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#cancelmarch is trending, don't know why but I'm a fan of this idea https://twitter.com/honkkarl/status/1366076584206163972 World Calendar was a great idea that died too soon. 
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I'd prefer 12 months of 28 days - nice and neat, you can easily tell the day from the date for a given year - and then a 13th holiday month of 30/31 days, a little bit longer to enjoy the time off and ring in the new year. Those last 3 days of the year could even be called something different so that the year can always restart on Monday. Mmm
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Failed Imagineer posted:I'd prefer 12 months of 28 days - nice and neat, you can easily tell the day from the date for a given year - and then a 13th holiday month of 30/31 days, a little bit longer to enjoy the time off and ring in the new year. Those last 3 days of the year could even be called something different so that the year can always restart on Monday. Mmm Never going to happen because it'll mean some peoples birthdays are on Monday or Tuesday for their entire lives while others have Fridays or Saturdays. There's got to be some juggling of the days.
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I'm a proponent of the Boolean calendar
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It's Stardate 98762.28
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https://twitter.com/ABridgen/status/1365973245158187010?s=19 Completely deranged.
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I mean, he's not wrong about bottled water being stupid.
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Bring back Dasani, we won't need to import that. Or bromate.
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Ban bottled water and make domestic potable water free at the point of use, or make all piped water non-potable and have free publicly owned refill stations for your glass water carboys and heavily subsidized filter installation for anywhere that's not practical. Either is less loving stupid than a free market in plastic bottled name-branded water. Also a public-private enterprise where lemurs are paid to piss in your face is less stupid than a free market in plastic bottled name-branded water, so there's a lot of leeway for ideas.
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No deal, sausages and beans both need to go
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Grilled tomato, easily?
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I think only one of these is currently protected under Brexit, as in allowed to be traded freely. Can you guess which one? You sling them up your backside. Could be wrong.
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Feb 28, 2021 23:05
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The plate, because it'll be all that's left in a solid 5 minutes of scarfing. (and the mushrooms and tomatoes)
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Tip those beans right in the bin. I'm not sure why there are two different types of bacon but I'm willing to roll with it.
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Scorching hot take - cooked breakfasts are bad, continental is 100% superior
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OwlFancier posted:Grilled tomato, easily? Mental, the tomato counteracts the saltiness of the other items you need that little burst of deep-flavour sweet. If the meal were presented with toast then the hash brown can gettaway, if not then the mushrooms but would be extremely sad to see them go.
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MikeCrotch posted:Scorching hot take - cooked breakfasts are bad, continental is 100% superior your heart is shrivelled and cold, your mind barren and your soul bereft of light and love. you have never known joy, and your barbed talon hands claw and rend at your tattered clothing at those who savour the delights of cooked breakfast foods
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stev posted:Tip those beans right in the bin. I'm not sure why there are two different types of bacon but I'm willing to roll with it. They did the thing where the body of the rasher is cut off after it's cooked but then the streaky bit sits in the pan for a few more seconds to crisp up a little, it's god-tier cafe stuff. Edit: I'll grant you that the lack of definite toast absolutely reduces the relative value of the beans but under no circumstances does that mean put them in the bin, behave.
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Anyone that's not Jeff Wode doesn't need to have 15 different items in their cooked breakfast, and doing more than 2 or 3 means you'll inevitably gently caress up at least one of them (eg the overcooked eggs in that pic). This is breakfast: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PUP7U5vTMM0
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kecske posted:your heart is shrivelled and cold, your mind barren and your soul bereft of light and love. you have never known joy, and your barbed talon hands claw and rend at your tattered clothing at those who savour the delights of cooked breakfast foods yeah basically but that doesn't mean I'm wrong
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The toast is under the egg. A savvy move, as toast typically takes up an insane amount of valuable plate real estate.kecske posted:your heart is shrivelled and cold, your mind barren and your soul bereft of light and love. you have never known joy, and your barbed talon hands claw and rend at your tattered clothing at those who savour the delights of cooked breakfast foods Really nice bread with preserved meats can sometimes edge out a cooked breakfast if you're in the right mood.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:I remember the first time I visited Belgium we were driving to Brussels, and literally the second the motorway crossed from France into Belgium it was like driving on the goddamn moon. Roadchat: Germany's main roads have been deteriorating for years now and Belgium had actually made decent improvements. One issue that is affecting Germany in particular but other countries as well is that a great many bridges were rebuilt in the 10-20 years after WW2, and these are now all in need of replacement which is putting huge pressure on the infrastructure budget. The Netherlands is also hit by this and several large bridges have had to be closed in recent years for emergency repairs after inspections found them unsuitable for heavy traffic.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Best roads though hands down has to go to the Swiss. Everyone thinks it’s the Germans and theirs are very good overall, but Swiss roads are just crazy. So is their phone service, we were half way up a mountain in the middle of buttfuck nowhere and still had full 4G reception. The other side to this is that they're constantly resurfacing the autoroutes. Also the Swiss are loving terrible drivers.
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