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big scary monsters posted:Finally Pissflaps is free to spend more time with their family. Family, lol. Good one. Someone check if he's jumped ship to Glinner's racket.
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E: drat you! Have this as a chaser: https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ndroidApp_Other
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So is negative interest a good or bad time to buy a house, if you can?
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Feb 4, 2021 17:29
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sebzilla posted:If you're buying a house to live in you should do it when you can and not worry about gaming the system. I'll assume that was a general statement aimed at everyone. 
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Antigravitas posted:On HDDs, one overwrite with zeroes is enough. The last time anyone credibly described an approach for restoring from a single pass of zeroes was when hard drives were gigantic. In the 80s or 90s. Zeroes work fine for SSDs as well, but it's slow. I was meaning to ask about that, because it seemed counterintuitive that you could recover data once it had been overwritten, let alone needing to do it hundreds of times.
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therattle posted:Just ordered. My attempt at a voucher saying roastlambisbest didn’t work. Don't worry kiddo, you'll understand after the next round of crispchat.
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Feb 5, 2021 15:08
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"Bedwetters and luvvies?". That's all I have to say. My brain can't even formulate a response. It's like trying to bang a square peg into a round hole. It's a level of desperate, pathetic infantilism that I have no ability to truly parse. You know how in Discworld nobody sees Death because their brains are compelled to ignore anything they can't grasp on an existential level? It feels like that. I can't comprehend the minds of these people.
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Feb 5, 2021 16:30
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Fudge ordered, and I eagerly await the day I can reorder Irish Cream and Whiskey & Ginger, which were so delicious that I did that thing they do in adverts where they put a piece of food in their mouth and just close their eyes and drift into a semi-orgasmic trance.
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Feb 5, 2021 22:03
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I bought extra, sorry not sorry.
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Isomermaid posted:I especially like how he takes a swing at people not letting JK Rowling off for being a "mostly good person with one blind spot" after all the poo poo she pulled and yet SOMEHOW that doesn't translate to judging Corbyn against his record. I guess "that doesn't count". Not least because her writing still has her lovely politics written all over them. Even the HP books are super obviously written by a white-rear end middle class liberal, with the absolute garbage perspective on everything that comes with that.
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Feb 7, 2021 16:23
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Camrath posted:I will be restocked with Toblerone on Friday, plus several other flavours Like the PS5 scalpers of yore, I will mysteriously have excess Toblerone fudge for just 2.5x RRP come Monday.
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Feb 9, 2021 14:18
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Hot pie van in winter actually sounds pretty amazing. Ice cream in summer, hot drinks in spring/autumn, pukka pies and bovril in winter.
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The Perfect Element posted:So I have a childhood friend who is now a hospital doctor, working in the UK. Throughout all of lockdown(s) he has not given a poo poo about covid restrictions, and in a group call last night he mentioned that a) he had friends over to his house the previous evening (to experience his VR headset, which I imagine is pretty unsanitary in and of itself) and b) that he and his wife are going on a sneaky UK AirBnB break in the next couple of weeks. Engage him in polite and enthusiastic conversation about it until you get all of the details, then shop him in. Grassing to the cops is bad, except when it's really funny and the person on the receiving end is a massive prick.
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Feb 11, 2021 13:58
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I think the AZ one was approved later than the others, so we got in a big order of the others that needs using up, even if we do end up switching exclusively to AZ.
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Feb 11, 2021 16:34
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My midweek shitpost wasn't a particularly serious comment so much as driven by boredom from work, so I'm sorry for the dumb comment and sparking this all off. I can 100% guarantee I wouldn't go snitching on him in the same situation anyway (because I'm a massive coward).
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Feb 11, 2021 21:54
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crispix posted:what bit are they off? The Quest 2 is amazing value for what you get, and a massive step up above PSVR, no regrets whatsoever. If you don't want to give Facebook money you can buy them second hand, then any USB 3 cable will let you use it on PC with SteamVR. You can also use it wirelessly if your router has the 5Ghz band, which is an absolute game changer and lets you spin around to your heart's content, but requires the paid Virtual Desktop app off the store, plus a half hour or so to patch it (it's pretty easy). The VR thread is really active as well, if you need recommendations: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3901021&pagenumber=515&perpage=40
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The Perfect Element posted:The Facebook VR headset sounds creepy as gently caress - it demands your accurate personal details, and they'll brick your device if you use false ones, and it also maps and remembers every room you use it in, including the contents of that room. Yeah, no. You can still use an Oculus account for now, or you can use a burner Facebook account if you fancy. If you close that account then you also lose any apps you bought for that account, but that's how all online accounts work. They definitely don't brick your device. The room thing also isn't true. It uses 3D cameras to track the layout of the room, because it doesn't use external sensors placed around the room like other headsets, so if you have space to move about then you can draw a boundary around yourself and jump about to your heart's content without worrying about bashing into a wall. It generally remembers the last room you were in until you change the playspace, at which point it forgets and you have to set everything again. The 3D camera output is ultra grainy black and white VHS quality and occasionally fails to register where the floor even is until you put down a controller to calibrate it, so I'm not sure what useful data they could even get out of it. Facebook is bad, but they aren't quite at that level yet.
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Yeah, I'm still waiting on my fudge, but poo poo happens, I can wait. May have to put in another order to snaffle all the Irish Cream though.
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Covid is not the first deadly, infectious disease that humanity has had to deal with through strict, well funded long-term measures. Hell, we have to apply the same line of thinking to invasive plants and animals too. "The government won't do anything, so at what point do we shrug our shoulders and accept some people will get infected" is not and will never be an acceptable line of thinking, and applied to other diseases and invasive organisms would have seen ecosystems destroyed and communities wiped out. I have learned a lot in the past year about how, despite being an introvert who really needs his alone time, I am also desperately in need of some face to face socialization, but we're in this for the long haul, and the answer cannot be to accept that the government is just going to gently caress it, because the end result is a lot of needless death and long term illness. Admittedly I don't have an answer to getting out of it in the face of overwhelming apathy and incompetence, but the old standby of throwing every MP and journalist into a wheat thresher is as strong a contender as always.
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Dakha posted:To everyone else here getting heated up - do you have school aged kids? No, but to be honest I think we should be vaccinating children, their parents and teachers as a priority once we get to working age people; they're in relatively less danger (or were, until new variants started cropping up), but they're one of the primary transmission vectors (through no fault of their own, kids are just like that, the sticky little angels), are at a really formative age for socializing, and it's been a real challenge for parents to have their kids around 24/7; most societies throughout history that haven't needed their kids to work have found a way of getting them out of their hair for a portion of the day, even if it's just "go play with each other outside somewhere". It's putting me even further down the list for a vaccine, but if we're serious about crushing transmission rates then it's probably a good idea. crispix posted:lol i'm happy to help, i maintain that people pining to go to magaluf and ibiza or whatever the gently caress in the middle of this are utter cretins with poo poo for brains It's okay for people to pine for it, we all need a light at the end of the tunnel. I assume you mean the people actually planning to go. It'll be three years since I saw any of my LARP buddies in person by the time events run again, assuming we're vaccinated, but lord knows I'm already buying stupidly expensive kit that I absolutely cannot use yet; I guess I could wear it around the house like a crazy person though.
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Thread moving fast this morning. Like a lot of people, I saw a second ref as the only real route to maybe getting more liberal people on board, but I don't think any of us predicted how deliberately, pathetically, performatively dimwitted they would pretend to be, acting like monkeys staring at the monolith. That, along with them sinking the customs union plan, is what made me give up forever on the idea of the left being nice.
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Scikar posted:there was never any serious challenge possible because Remain didn't even know what Remain meant. Unfortunately what Remain meant was shut up and don't change anything, which was not particularly convincing to people who DID think that things needed to change. There are of course some real perks to being able to freely travel, work and ship stuff easily across many different countries, but when your entire world is the town you grew up in and you're constantly told that the reason everything is getting shitter is easy access to your country by foreigners, being smugly told that the pound has dropped against the euro by 3.2% after May's latest speech might as well be loving moonspeak for all that it will convince you of your folly.
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Surprise T Rex posted:Also not even reversing UC cuts. Reversing "planned" cuts. So just leaving it as it is instead of making it *even worse*? That's the visionary attitude I've long said this country needs. Universal Credit, famously generous before this latest round of proposed cuts. Apparently minimum wage is only planned to go up 20p this year for 25+ as well.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lmao currently trending Restart Brexit On the one hand, even the Tories are realising that we've totally hosed it. On the other hand, the boomers are still in control and would eat their own children if someone told them it was a source of proper British roughage.
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Guavanaut posted:
I'm going to be the massive Vista contrarian and say that it was basically no worse than 7 with a few rough corners, but it was the first Windows that required 1GB RAM (like every version since), and OEMs bitched about it so hard that Microsoft lowered the minimum spec to 512MB and guess what, it ran like loving trash! Also it marked the period of everything on planet earth triggering UAC prompts, because everyone was playing fast and loose with admin access and MS took the scorched earth approach to making them fix it.
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Communist Thoughts posted:also the rain is cum, the clouds are eggs and mist is ... why isnt there a good word in english for...vaginal fluid Beef dripping.
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Sweet chilli sauce is the pro tier cheese dip. I like a spoonful of honey in a stir fry though.
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All it needs now is for Labour to get loving annihilated in an election and the Corbyn years are going to look like absolute paradise compared to this trainwreck.
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Feb 21, 2021 11:57
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I don't know why anyone bothered making another shooter after TF2. I was absolutely killer as Pyro, which has the advantage of being one of those roles that everyone insists is an unskilled newbie role because they don't know how to counter having their rockets shoved back in their face, so they get really mad when you get a decent kill streak. Re: nostalgia, I went and revisited the places I used to live in Street View VR (the absolute pro way to street view things), and my childhood road hasn't been updated since my parents moved out 13 years ago - it literally has the For Sale sign in the garden and the same cars on the driveway; the plates are blurred, but it's the exact same photos from when the Google car first went by all those years ago.
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Darth Walrus posted:Doom 2016 came out after TF2. You've played that, right? I have, it was good! But lord, there was no feeling on earth like playing TF2 between 2007 and 2012. The community was just firing on all cylinders in those days.
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Here's the end-of-lockdown plans. Notice how first children and then young, healthy adults get to mingle en masse, long before those groups will be vaccinated, just like the last time we had to reverse course and do another lockdown. loving Christ. Still on course to remain in my house as much as possible until after I've had my second jab.
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Feb 22, 2021 16:54
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I mean, this was me yesterday:Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Woke up this morning and thought "oh good, it's Sunday" followed by "no wait, it's a workday, can't believe it's only Tuesday". Not really sure what to do about it, but hey, at least we're in it together, or something. E: I've discovered the joys of red wine at least, as I briefly got bored of rum and decided to root around and see what else was in the house.
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Oh dear me posted:Oh gently caress off. The amount of money I give the party won't buy a single shiny poster but does buy me a vote in leadership and candidate elections which are currently the only available way of fighting the melts. We've had this argument a dozen times so there is no use having it again, but that also means not making lovely snipes at each other like yours above. How do you square this with the Liverpool mayoral fiasco, where Labour are one step removed from just outright saying that leftists don't get to be candidates? Genuine question.
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Any improvement to society is going to be associated with Britain as a sociopolitical entity, and you can't prevent that from happening so long as the state exists and is the one rubber-stamping these improvements. There is going to be at least some amount of flag-shagging involved whether the government of the day directly engages with it or not.
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Introducing the needle-threading slogan of the socialist future: There's No Need to Brag About It.
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You don't have chips with a full English, wtf. Hash browns have a particular texture that goes well with everything else, but not chips.
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When I do weekend long larp events, a full English is the only way to get the day started. Same for a day of hiking. Your body just chews through the calories as the day goes on, so if you're planning to keep a constant low level of effort throughout the day then there's nothing like a full English to power you through.
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MikeCrotch posted:Au contraire, Profound Decisions gives me the opportunity to eat my body weight in flapjacks the moment I'm awake and you bet I'm going to exercise that option Flapjack is the mid-morning/afternoon snack to keep you going until the next oversized meal. Then you wash down some nice, empty alcoholic calories from 8 til late, more flapjack as a pre-bed snack, then get in your sleeping bag when the birds start singing and wake up fresh as a daisy after 4 hours sleep. God I miss it.
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There is a genuine possibility of events running by the end of August, pretty soon after I am likely to have had a second shot, and I am in this weird place where I have completely adjusted to the solitary life of lockdown and the mere thought of going from no socialising to all of it all at once is making me anxious. Christ knows what it'll feel like to actually do it. Assuming events run/it is halfway sensible to do them.
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