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NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Mebh posted:

E.on finally forced me to get a smart meter. They installed it on Friday. Now it's showing I've spent £130,000 (yes 6 figures) on electricity since then.

Why is everything in this country so relentlessly poo poo when it comes to utilities. From broadband being slower than the slowest deal in Spain, to my water company constantly trying to upsell me blocked drain insurance, to this poo poo.

Can I borrow some bitcoin please?

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NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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I guess he could veto it.

Also I think i disagree that a paneuropean tournament was a stupid idea before covid. Like thats the point of europe.

Its geographically no bigger than the us or russia or wherever and you could have had a summer of people doing crazy trips across europe to got to great games. I mean its bullshit unless youre rich but travelling across Europe is the least expensive bit of attending a big tournament football match.

NotJustANumber99 fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Mar 1, 2021

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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im not sure many boats have football pitches on them?

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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our carriers arent big enough

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Americans already did it lol I have no idea if this is real?

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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The same guy gave $386 to charity that year and is the largest individual donor to Extinction Rebellion.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Couldn't someone I dunno sue the government if it turns out they've got no intention of giving the second vaccine? Like wasnt it only approved by regulators or something for two doses?

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Necrothatcher posted:

what is this thread's problem with smart meters anyway?

Since I can see my power consumption on an LED screen I use a lot less and my bills have gone down.

They're old, vaccinated, fuddy duddies.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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To be fair that does suggest they need help.

I know its not fair and is infact bad but today I'm lolling at my discovery that rishi sunak is such a midget and so obviously cares about it.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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thebardyspoon posted:

I have a question for UKMT goons who work in games, I know there's a couple at least. I've asked my new job this question as my first day was ending but am curious so thought I'd ask. They've given me a PC to work from home on but it's absolutely massive, doesn't fit into the only area suitable as a workspace at all and is also worse than my actual PC performance wise. I'm not sure if it's mandatory which is what I've asked them. Is there a great reason why it would be? I guess like, security concerns and if they want to monitor me would be the main reasons. They only had it delivered today in the afternoon after I started and didn't give me any measurements or I'd have flagged it up beforehand obviously.

Either way I've already asked so hopefully I don't seem like a complete loving moron or massive whiney bastard to them. Mainly just curious.

Have you tried holding the PC up in front of you and running, not jumping on, running into a lizard or some other hazard. This will usually shrink the PC down to a more manageable size unless you have recently consumed a weird throbbing flower.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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he apparently also witnessed lady gaga's dognappings! crazy.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Just tell them yeah dont worry you've got it sorted but write everything down on post it notes and keep the plates spinning.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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It doesn't always work out great

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Borrovan posted:

tbf the literal reading of that FOI (~0.4% of patients seen within a year) is criminally low, I don't think anyone who isn't being transparently disingenuous would argue otherwise. Like the only argument to be made would be "it's not quite as criminally low as people said :smug:", which is why it's important to get the facts straight imo

I think the argument is that actually its too high, because everyone else is waiting years for an appointment so how did those 2 people jump the queue? Like in general its low and bad gut given the actual situation that number should be zero.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

It's Schrödinger's clinic, where they are so uncaring and incompetent they they barely get through anyone at all, but are also caring and competent enough to keep perfect records and make sure that those people who do get seen, are seen perfectly in order without exception.

Like it didn't seem remotely unbelievable to me that they would have seen people out of order, and while it isn't right, it also isn't a particularly cast iron argument against the FOI request or Necrothatcher's attempts to clarify it, since everyone is in agreement that they don't seem to particularly give a poo poo.

I can't tell if you're arguing with me but yeah I'm not arguing with you.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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My mum was an NHS physio and whenever I complained to her about my sporting injuries she never gave a poo poo.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Is it not just most likely that they were rich and well connected?

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Yeah me too. It was clever of them to paint the roof ventilation pipes the same as the flume. Makes you think there's lots more flume than there really is.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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It's why Rachel Riley didn't realise she was a baddie and had to scramble to it being anti Semitism to reconcile things for herself.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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It sounds like theyre going to get a judge to decide if its allowed or not. But they need money first maybe? Dunno, unclear.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Has a year of lockdowns resulted in an increase or decrease in murders? I guess it would be interesting to consider that against the old stats about how most women who are killed are victims of people they know. Like theres not much point in calling for a male 6pm curfew if you're just increasing the chances of people getting murdered. I assume to be honest lockdown hasn't increased the murder rate but probably has the incidence of domestic violence against women.

I agree theres a big difference between safety and perceived safety and its probably valuable to separate the two quite distinctly when forming strategies to combat them. The actions men might be asked to take to alter their behaviour would be very different in each instance. The curfew idea would not be to save womens lives (directly) but to increase their perceived safety. Actions which might reduce their likelihood of being murdered are obviously education, but more acutely could be things like altering consumption of media, from generally sexist things to outright pornography. Access to mental health care would surely be important.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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NotJustANumber99 posted:

altering consumption of media, from generally sexist things to outright pornography.

Lol when i said this I phrased it badly and did not mean men should just always be watching pornography.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Failed Imagineer posted:

I think you'd get better mileage out of holding a roll of coins or something similarly dense in your fist, if you weren't keen on bringing a knife with you everywhere. Most people couldn't open a knife in a shaky-hands adrenaline panic without hurting themselves, and i doubt a lot of ladies are going to carry Bowie knives around.

Guns for women then.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Failed Imagineer posted:

Ehhhh if I asked her to do this for my internet friends the response would just be a



Infinitely expanding...

That's just my pleb opinions and interpretation of her grumbling though, I'm sure she could be talk at length but she's in the middle of prep for a show that's shooting in April so I'm just not gonna mention work in any way unless prompted

Maybe if you could somehow run around in front of her and run at her from that direction she would be less likely to react badly to your request?

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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The Question IRL posted:

The last post I made was pretty bad. I was trying to make a point about how people don't really understand what's going through your head and your actions can sometimes be interpreted in a negative light.

Still, the way I phrased it was really lovely and I have upset some people. So sorry for that, I was wrong.


Failed Imagineer posted:

I'm not sure if this is an own or what. Let's just say I'm owned

Nah, I was just trying to make a funny joke to soften the awkwardness. Inevitably my joke transpired to be the posting equivalent of running up behind people at night and not helpful. Lol.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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I like to stand a long way off and send it from a distance with power, spin and curve to account for camber, slope and any wonky wheelage I will have spent the trip assessing.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Jakabite posted:

Launching the trolley back into the bay is great. Always puts me in mind of an astronaut jumping in zero G between two shuttles. Only the initial push to give direction and the float towards the destination fuelled by hope. The price of failure: disaster.

As if Waitrose don’t have the quid too. I might have to go to the one near me and see for myself. That might be my weekend activity.

Cmon tars

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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if you put the kart in the bed of your truck you can just drive off with it. Its above the magnetic lock ring.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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me- i dont think its right to get angry about this without thinking about it and the police aren't a gang and have a job to do and we should all be sensible.

The police - go completely crazy over the top and act exactly like a gang and etc

me- ahh

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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OwlFancier posted:

The world is full of people who will say anything for their own benefit.

your posts suggest not exclusively so lol

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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OwlFancier posted:

If it's a choice between living like the current lot and dying of something stupid I will take the dying stupid, seems preferable to being as much of an utter waste and detriment to the world as the people out there now.

The idea of just repeating the way they live is horrifying to be honest. I'd like to think that I wouldn't be able to live with myself knowing what I was taking from my successors but it seems like people are very good at living with that or ignoring it when it suits them.

What are you even talking about.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Protect Churchill at all costs!

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Lol

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Marmaduke! posted:

I wonder what happened to the Asian fella who was thrown to the ground by cops after not buying anything in Pret

He opened a sweet shop and got a ps5.

https://twitter.com/KashBaig2

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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I think it being during a lockdown adds to people's distaste for any kind of protest at present too.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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learnincurve posted:

Kind of missing the room size and cost of the houses in your “anti-ageist” rant there. Like my parents just sold a 4 bedroom house in the countryside and downsized to a flat, which cost 600k because it’s in a famous building where as a 3 bed in my street costs £100k.

She said the new house was 80% of the value of the current one and that she expected most of that to disappear in costs suggesting it wasn't a huge figure.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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I'm sick of hearing about vaccinations, I don't think I'll get one

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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Comrade Fakename posted:

gently caress off out of this thread.

relax on this I think. You look like a nutcase.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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therattle posted:

I am now wise enough to generally avoid comments sections. Very little good can come from them!

A forum is just a big comments section with no articles though.

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NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

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elbow bumps are covid safe dont worry

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