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blunt posted:Kier's busy talking less, smiling more. During the BLM protests didn't Stammer say that "this is not a movement, just a moment." So obviously he watched Hamilton, but took all the wrong lessons from it. 
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Barry Foster posted:Problem is that statistically unless an awful lot of those idiots get jabbed we aren't going to manage herd immunity and the vulnerable will still be at risk Correct me if I am wrong, but even if you have gotten the vaccine, all it does is means that if you contract the virus you are almost certain not to die from the disease and unlikely to get sick. But that you can still spread the virus to others. So if that was the case that even after you got the jab, you should still wear a mask when outside to prevent you spreading the virus to someone who isn't vaccinated.
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Feb 1, 2021 18:26
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MikeCrotch posted:Also (along with Ian Fleming) really into railing Senators wives Hopefully, not the same wife. Or at least, not at the same time.
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Feb 1, 2021 21:34
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/northern-ireland-ports-brexit-eu-loyalists-b1796317.html So yeah this isn't good news. But hey, spirit that is the envy of the world, right?
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Feb 2, 2021 23:33
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His Divine Shadow posted:Most people everywhere are patriotic or nationalistic to some degree, it's innate to the human species. But the UK and the US seems to take it further than others. Patriotism and nationalisim is a huge component to the UK. Look at how people were going nuts over the signing of “Rule Britannia.” Last year. Hell if you even take this thread as a microcosm of it think back to the debates about big N, Nationalism visa vie Scotland. Or even the Podcast with it’s opening theme tune(s). I don’t know what pieces of music are used but I recognise that they are designed to appeal to a part of the brain reserved for national anthems. (I really could feel a difference when they put the Deus Ex theme in it’s place on one of the more recent podcasts.) Speaking of good socialist media, season 2 of Snow Piercer is on Netflix. Andre mused the idea of naming his potential son Trotsky, which I found funny. (Should have gone with Lenin.)
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Feb 3, 2021 10:42
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Guavanaut posted:I've not listened in too long, but isn't it The Internationale, which does that on purpose? Maybe? I figured one was the Internationale and one was God Save the Queen? But honestly I wouldn't know what those tunes sound like well enough to recognise them. I just feel like a Host from Westworld who when presented with concrete evidence of nationalistic just goes "That doesn't mean much of anything to me."
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Feb 3, 2021 11:32
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Failed Imagineer posted:I try to not correct people when the meaning is unambiguous, but you're a solicitor so you should probably know: Actually I’m a barrister. So I’m most likely to use vis-à-vis* when I’m on my feet in court. So the phonetic use is more important to me than writing it down, because largely I leave written drafting to solicitors. That being said I am grateful for the overall correction. *= I am also grateful for now knowing how to spell it. You learn something new every day.
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Feb 3, 2021 12:14
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Guavanaut posted:He should go on Twitter as The Question SC and get in arguments with Joanna Cherry. OR....and hear me out on this. We pay someone to make a Twitter bot call Len "Leonard" Ian QC who trolls her constantly. And I stay on my couch playing Spider-Man on my PS5.
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Feb 3, 2021 14:49
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Failed Imagineer posted:Thread, I need virtual pub quiz round ideas. We've been doing this over Zoom for nearly a year now and I'm out of juice. We've done endless movie trivia, Guess the Next Line, mashups, name the flag, general knowledge, identify the city from the aerial view, name this weird fruit, name this spaceship, name these songs from this Weird Al polka medley, name these Scooby Doo celebrity guest stars, and a million other rounds... Help My wife and I came up with the ultimate music round to a table quiz. It’s just snippets of songs where the singer is saying the word “Hello” You’d be amazed how many songs have a “Hello” in them. Also have your last question in the table quiz be “What was the first question in this table quiz.” Either make it a pedantic trick question (like the answer was “Are you all ready?”) or a completely fair test of people’s short term memories. (The answer being what was question 1 in round 1.) One of my favourite ones (even if it is incredibly specialised) was General Knowledge. All the questions were about famous military generals.
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Feb 3, 2021 15:12
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Vitamin P posted:This misuse of Captain Britain imagery must not stand, OG Cap Brit rejected Excalibur and that's why he became a hero The ironic thing is, at the moment Brian Braddock (the on-again/off-again Captain Britain) has a beard and looks more like a younger, swoller Jeremy Corbyn than he does Sir Keir Ktammer*.  Source: Avengers (2018) # 11. * = In the tradition of Stan Lee I did the double Initial thing for Keir.
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Feb 4, 2021 11:12
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/04/oxford-trial-to-test-efficacy-of-mix-of-covid-vaccines-for-individuals So is this a thing that is a potential good idea, or is it potentially a very bad idea being done to deal with low supplies of vaccines by chopping and changing them?
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Feb 4, 2021 19:17
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Vitamin P posted:The most recent Cap Brit book I read had Faiza take on the role It's not that it doesn't last, just that if there is no ongoing book featuring Captain Britain or Excalibur, then comic inertia is likely to kick in. So that when someone decides to use Captain Britain, it's likely to be the most familiar one. Heck, those Avengers pannels were from 2018. Since then I think Brian Braddock ended up showing up in an X-Men book as the new Merlin role. And his sister Betsy* was the new Captain Britain. Since then a ton of stuff happened that I hadn't followed like Rogue became a lighthouse, mostly because Excalibre is the X-Men magic book now and not about the UK's superhero team. *= Psylock is a deeply problematic character, but one who also is too popular to ever go away.
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Feb 5, 2021 00:41
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forkboy84 posted:Alex Salmond is having a 'mare Alex Salmond: Don't these people understand? I was aquited for Rape, by admitting to being a sex pest! That means nothing bad happened and I should go back to being popular! That's how politics work! Edit: My cats, Amy and Lara, have never been charged with any sex crimes. 
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Feb 5, 2021 13:56
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Josef bugman posted:I suppose the operative question is "why is he her fav"? Is there a reason beyond "Charles will eventually replace me" or whatever? It's old fashioned but some parents really do have a golden child. A kid who they love unconditionally no matter what. Even if they have more children, the golden child still get's the preferential treatment.
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Feb 6, 2021 17:24
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Guavanaut posted:Do not let Andrew near children, golden or otherwise. What if the child is golden because it has the Midas touch, due to exposure to Cosmic Rays, and everything they touch turns into solid gold?
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Feb 6, 2021 17:28
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justcola posted:I had a long conversation with my girlfriend about the word ‘oval office’ as she doesn’t like me using it. The short answer is "Yes and No." It's about a logical argument as against one that has an emotive response. If your girlfriend finds the word offensive, no amount of arguing about what your intent is will make her less offended by it. The best solution is to not call people cunts when she is in ear-shout. But when you are alone, absolutely use it as a descriptor. Comedian Reginald D. Hunter has a great skit on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r1BmhMs13M The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Feb 7, 2021 |
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Feb 7, 2021 12:32
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Bobby Deluxe posted:This is going to be one of those things where they're going to claim he threatened to burn him, isn't it? From what you are describing, it's probably an Adult Caution. (Assuming that you have those things over in Tanland.) It basically is supposed to involve the police giving you a Stern Talking To, but nothing further happens. (Apart from maybe a note on a file saying that you received an Adult Caution) Occasionally even after a case has been entered into the system, a judge can recommend that an accused be offered an Adult Caution, they adjourn the case to allow the accused to go to a police station receive said caution then the case get's thrown out. Often they happen in situations where the reason the person refused the Adult Caution was because they were so drunk at the time that they refused to accept it. My advice whenever it comes up is always take this if offered. Yes, they may have some of the facts wrong and you might have been totally in the right. But you are left without a criminal conviction, but with a file. If you want to fight the case, even if you win (and sometimes that can be a big if) the best case is you are left without a criminal conviction but there will be even more of a file on you. Consider what the end goal you want is, and how best to get to it.
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Feb 8, 2021 21:16
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ThomasPaine posted:I would have some degree of sympathy if this was a new talent who'd lucked into being given a shot at the big leagues, but Frankie Boyle is an established cultural figure who's done the circuit a hundred times over, was a regular on mock the week for years, has had multiple articles published in the national press and a couple of book deals in the mix. Short of him being outed as a nonce, I don't see his career evaporating. He could absolutely get away with annoying a few bbc bigwigs, or at the very least refusing to pander to them. Frankie Boyle has made jokes about Olympic Swimmers, the Queen, the Israeli army, people with Downs Syndrome and Jordan's son Harvey without being black balled from the industry. I don't think he can say anything that would get him kicked into comedian relegation.
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Feb 9, 2021 11:46
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Failed Imagineer posted:In Dublin (Minecraft server) it was Brazilian lads pedalling rickshaws for the last few years. God knows what's been happening since lockdown I represented enough Brazilian lads (from Minecraft servers, I guess) to confirm that a lot of them who were working Rickshaws were also selling drugs. Basically they would arrive in Ireland and there was a least one Brazilian person acting as a Kingpin who recruited Brazilian's who had newly arrived in the country using the Brazilian social networks setup in Ireland.* I think now it has moved onto Deliveroo Drivers. * = Other fun things I learned are it is very easy and legal to get a Brazilian drivers licence converted to an Irish drivers licence and that so many Brazilian men found Ireland an easier place to be Out in than in conservative Brazil. So much so that back in Brazil , the conservatives there are using Ireland as an example of a gay country that turns Brazilian men gay.
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Feb 10, 2021 19:56
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Bobstar posted:Is this to avoid a mysterious man named Carteira de Habilitação becoming Ireland's most wanted road criminal? Is this a Breaking Bad reference? For those wondering about the One Weird Trick with drivers licences, basically under Brazilian law there is a procedure for transferring your Brazilian drivers licence to a Portuguese licence. Once you do that, you have a valid EU drivers licence and can exchange that for the National Licence of the country you are in.
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Feb 10, 2021 21:09
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This is also the case in the UK (I think there's some shenanigans with Portuguese citizenship that means they can easily get an EU drivers license) While it was the case, post-Brexit I don't think you can trade an EU drivers licence in for a UK drivers licence. In the last few months of 2020 the Irish Government were running an advertising campaign about how if you had a British Drivers licence you had to trade it in for an Irish one before the 31st as you couldn't afterwards. Private Speech posted:Note that that doesn't work anymore on account of Brexit. Yes as far as I can tell it still works in all the EU, just not in the UK. It was the sacrifice needed for Blue passports. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Feb 10, 2021 |
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Feb 10, 2021 21:58
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Brazil > Portugal > Ireland > UK ? So looking into this this still works....sort of. Basically a UK drivers licence is recognised in Ireland if you are here for a holiday for the duration of the holiday. And it is valid if you live in NI with a NI/UK licence but travel to the ROI for work. However if you live in the ROI and have a UK licence it isn't valid, but you are allowed exchange it for an Irish licence even now (provided it has one or more years left on it.) If you get an Irish licence it counts as an EU licence (as would a Portuguese licence) which is currently still valid in the UK. At least until the UK government collapses and the In-Ger-Land F1ST political party takes over.
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Feb 11, 2021 13:21
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Lord of the Llamas posted:My thinking is that Ireland will still observe EU exchangeability and there are also separate agreements that allow you to go from Ireland to NI license. Yes, with a few exceptions as I gave a summary of earlier. Here is more information. https://www.ndls.ie/help/faq.html#i...nd-after-brexit
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Feb 11, 2021 15:27
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MikeCrotch posted:This is a dogshit derail It's all about the Honey Mustard flavoured ones. They make a great snack to share at a weekly RPG game. (RIP playing Pathfinder in person with my peeps. Playing it with them online with SourceForge is good, but I miss that part of it.) You need to have a drink of water or something with them as they are too tough/salty to eat them without one. They also suffer the problem that the name (Synder) brings to mind the problematic film director's fans.
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Feb 12, 2021 11:30
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Just to Circle back to this, these guys are playing a terrible game of Monopoly. Clustered around one half of the board like that, as soon as someone gets near Go, someone will have to stand up to move their piece any further. Hell, with the dice over there, someone will have to stand up just to pick them back up and roll them around all that useless junk in the middle.
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Feb 13, 2021 13:49
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Bobby Deluxe posted:
I dunno. There was this one time I bet the NHS staying publicly funded on a coin toss? Does that count?* *= No Country for Old Men is not a bad movie. But the entire last fifth of the film made me hate that movie for being excellent UP until that point. I hated the film more than if the film had just been bad the entire time. The Question IRL fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 14, 2021 23:22
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I don't really know where else to post this, but in the latest 'bastards justifying their own existence news: Scalpers probably wouldn't be so hated* if they weren't also gloating about how many extra PS5's they were able to buy and how easier it was to do. https://www.gamingbible.co.uk/news/games-playstation-playstation-5-scalper-group-gloats-its-getting-easier-every-time-20210119 *= I mean they would still be hated for artificially driving up the prices and lowering the supplies on a thing that many people have been waiting for years to get. But the gloating really aids no-one.
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Feb 15, 2021 22:27
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TACD posted:I was under the impression that a key difference between UK and US law is that not talking to the police after you’ve been arrested can be actively used against you over here? Yes and No. Going "No Comment" throughout your entire interview is not something that they can bring up against you What they can do is if you rely on a defence (like "Yes I did kill Craig Staircase. But only because he said he'd kill me first.") And the first time thus comes out is in court, the prosecution will ask "if that's true why is this the first time we are hearing of it?" The position of Irish Law (and I imagine it's the same in the UK) is that if you want to rely on the defence of an Alibi you have to do that well in advance of a criminal trial. That doesn't mean it has to be said in the police station when you are arrested but just be done within 14 days of you being remanded to the Circuit or Criminal court. (So the police are afforded the opportunity to see if that could be true.) Also (again Irish Law) certain Terrorism offences (mostly organized crime or IRA membership) have provisions where if you do not answer, they can be used as evidence against you.* But they have to individually warn you for each question that caries this risk. There are also certain offences for failing to provide details (if a guard makes a specific demand for your name or address under specific legislation. Or failing to provide a breath/blood/urine specimen in drink/drug driving cases.) But generally silence is the best policy until you talk to a lawyer. *= With the provision that you cannot be convicted on inference evidence alone.
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The thing is Dirge has three meanings. There is the informal but common meaning of it (a slow, miserable or boring speech.) And the literal meaning which is a sad song of mourning. I suspect the first tweet about Keith's speech was using the Lieteral meaning of Dirge while the reply tweet used the informal meaning. The third meaning of Dirge is of course the best Jet based Decepticon. https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dirge_%28G1%29
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Feb 19, 2021 14:56
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Failed Imagineer posted:I feel like it needs to be constantly said, but "classic" burger buns taste like absolute bland poo poo and fall apart the instant they make contact with burg. Brioche actually tastes nice and has structural integrity to survive the whole burg experience. (Makes notes.) Didn't refer to it as a Blah. Failed Imagineer is not from Waterford. There are thin sandwhich buns (called Sandwhich Thins) which can work for burgers, but suffer all the downsides of buns. You can use lettuce leaves if you want to eat your burger paleo. And there is one other way to eat a burger.  It's called the Luthor burger, no doubt named after Lex Luthor. And yes I did order it when I was in Bread Meats Bread Glasgow in the before time. It was a hell of a thing.
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Feb 20, 2021 18:00
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Just a question. Even if the over 65's get vaccinated, if Covid is let run rampant with the rest of the British population, what is to stop the virus from just mutating into a newer and more deadly Tory Variant of Covid?
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Is that red warning about the materials may have been obtained through hacking supposed to make it seem less authentic or double super authentic because it was essentially stolen?
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Feb 23, 2021 23:26
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