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Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

OwlFancier posted:

I'm from where I live and that's it, IMO. Doesn't matter if some relative might statistically have probably lived somewhere else cos I haven't.

I'm from Earth and so are all of you.

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sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Jedit posted:

I'm from Earth and so are all of you.

Prove it :colbert:

Reveilled
Apr 19, 2007

Take up your rifles

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

How will they identify your body at the crime scene then? Or prove you weren't the one wot dunnit?

But seriously, yes, I had some qualms about it, but as someone who lives alone and the only way I could possibly provide an alibi that I wasn't somewhere else at a given time is by pointing the forces of Laura Norder at a dated and timed poo poo post on here (or facebook if it was within the last 3-4 weeks as I back zap and dereact everything off facebook routinely), having my DNA logged didn't seem so bad.

My name is Jaeluni and I'm a forensics / cops / detective show addict. (But only the fiction ones not 'reality' ones).

My parents are really into police procedurals and as a child I was very concerned about being accused of committing murders I didn't do, so I made a concerted effort to pick my nose and hide the bogeys anywhere I'd go so there would be a trail of DNA evidence to confirm my alibi.

Now that I'm an adult, I just do it cause I'm filthy I have lost all faith in the justice system so I don't bother.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Reveilled posted:

My parents are really into police procedurals and as a child I was very concerned about being accused of committing murders I didn't do, so I made a concerted effort to pick my nose and hide the bogeys anywhere I'd go so there would be a trail of DNA evidence to confirm my alibi.

Now that I'm an adult, I just do it cause I'm filthy I have lost all faith in the justice system so I don't bother.

You could just have stuck your chewing gum on the bedposts.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

he's probably right, i don't think the royal family have something awful accounts

Reveilled
Apr 19, 2007

Take up your rifles

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

You could just have stuck your chewing gum on the bedposts.

For unrelated reasons, I would have been concerned about this setting off a chain of events that would turn me into a blueberry.

Ash Crimson
Apr 4, 2010
someone once accused me and my family of being english but i'm not english, I'm a human being

Lungboy
Aug 23, 2002

NEED SQUAT FORM HELP
Aren't ancestry a Mormon data mining grift that charge for freely available data you can get from your library?

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

sinky posted:

I'm 100% "not paying to give a private company my DNA, are you loving insane"

I thought this too but then the more I looked into it, the more I realised it doesn't matter anyway. The amount of people who've already done it in the past means that you're most likely relatively closely related to someone who has sent it in already, so they effectively don't need your DNA to have a good genetic profile of you.

Ash Crimson
Apr 4, 2010
i can imagine iceland already is a hotbed of people selling they own dna data

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Aphex- posted:

Going back to the talk of ethnically British, I got one of those DNA ancestry kits for my birthday a couple of months back and I got the results back the other day.



I may be the most boringly British/Irish person ever. There are no other countries where my ancestors are from apparently.

This counts as saying you're English, please turn yourself in immediately

Ash Crimson
Apr 4, 2010

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

This counts as saying you're English, please turn yourself in immediately

these days if you're descended from english stock they arrest you and throw you in jail

peanut-
Feb 17, 2004
Fun Shoe
getting one of these is the only way to stay out of jail in this day and age

https://twitter.com/merrittk/status/1387584559756234753?s=20

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь

Ash Crimson posted:

someone once accused me and my family of being english but i'm not english, I'm a human being

hosed up that someone tried to get you arrested and thrown in prison

Algol Star
Sep 6, 2010

Jedit posted:

I'm from Earth and so are all of you.

Yes we're all fellow earthlings here, there's no need to get into wild conspiracy theories. No one should be required to prove their earthish ancestry or be tested imo.

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

Aphex- posted:

I thought this too but then the more I looked into it, the more I realised it doesn't matter anyway. The amount of people who've already done it in the past means that you're most likely relatively closely related to someone who has sent it in already, so they effectively don't need your DNA to have a good genetic profile of you.

Also, in about a decade there's going to be nanopore sequencers which passively sequence the DNA of any skin cells being shed by people walking past. Combine this with camera surveillance and machine learning and you have basically no hope of avoiding genetic profiling in any major tech urban area.

You could wonder why GCHQ/NSA would bother doing this, but the pattern has historically been violate privacy first, find a use-case later. You could also wonder how legal any of this will be, to which I say lol

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

peanut- posted:

getting one of these is the only way to stay out of jail in this day and age

https://twitter.com/merrittk/status/1387584559756234753?s=20

I imagine you could show this to get free pints in a lot of pubs around Ireland (Republic of)

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

This title contains sponsored content.

Wildly funny that Starmer et al have been handed an open goal on the Prime Minister taking a naked bribe for his own benefit, and instead they've got LOTO handling individual rolls of wallpaper and glancing back and forth at the press for approval.

Borrovan
Aug 15, 2013

IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY


Your WhatsApp & Outlook notifications are stressing me out

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

blunt posted:

I did an online STD test back when we were in the first lockdown and now I don't know who has my urine.

We need to cross-check the date of this with Brian Rose deciding to run for Mayor of London.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Borrovan posted:

Your WhatsApp & Outlook notifications are stressing me out

Yeah but just to the right is the calming bliss of 95% battery charge.

Raeg
Jul 7, 2008

The top 1% of ducks have control of 99.9% of the bread.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

We need to cross-check the date of this with Brian Rose deciding to run for Mayor of London.

Brian Rose breaks into the world piss supply, smashing and grabbing, using the delicate art of nunchaku

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

You could just have stuck your chewing gum on the bedposts.

Yeah but it loses its flavour.

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat

Raeg posted:

Brian Rose breaks into the world piss supply, smashing and grabbing, using the delicate art of nunchaku

Come on, guys, let’s be fair. I thought he only drank his own urine. He’s not some kind of weirdo freak who drinks other people’s.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Jedit posted:

I'm from Earth and so are all of you.

I question that. I definitely know a few people who fall into the "they walk among us" category.

il_cornuto
Oct 10, 2004

Sir Keir Starmer handled - and inspected - several rolls of wallpaper

I wish I could put into words exactly why that caption is so painful to read, but the "and inspected" part is morbidly hilarious. He's so forensic.

Niric
Jul 23, 2008

therattle posted:

Come on, guys, let’s be fair. I thought he only drank his own urine. He’s not some kind of weirdo freak who drinks other people’s.

Does anyone know what he was up to circa 2012? "Deep Inside the Chain Pub Piss Dungeon: A true story of sexual deviance in London that will turn you off of urinals forever"

No Dignity
Oct 15, 2007

il_cornuto posted:

Sir Keir Starmer handled - and inspected - several rolls of wallpaper

I wish I could put into words exactly why that caption is so painful to read, but the "and inspected" part is morbidly hilarious. He's so forensic.

They really haven't learnt a thing from the Miliband days, this is exactly the same type of cringe bullshit that marked latter-day Miliband

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

josh04 posted:

instead they've got LOTO handling individual rolls of wallpaper and glancing back and forth at the press for approval.

turning a big dial taht says "Laura Ashley" on it

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
Odd question but if I wanted to commission some artwork, where's a good place to go to find an artist? I tried artstation but have had little success. Trying to get something of a cartoony style.


Not trying to get some furry porn honest guv

Lungboy
Aug 23, 2002

NEED SQUAT FORM HELP

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Odd question but if I wanted to commission some artwork, where's a good place to go to find an artist? I tried artstation but have had little success. Trying to get something of a cartoony style.


Not trying to get some furry porn honest guv

Fiver maybe?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

You could just ask furry porn artists, ask to be a mega ripped wolf or something.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I'm sure it was someone ITT that mentioned police horses don't like protest banners, well apparently they also don't like other things:


Scratch Monkey posted:

https://i.imgur.com/mFfZwBQ.mp4

poor freckles, thought of rainbows and died

Gort
Aug 18, 2003

Good day what ho cup of tea
It takes a lot to overcome the years of training

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/danielmgmoylan/status/1388066714714316806

Sometimes I have my doubts about our country having an unelected Upper House, but then I'm reminded that it allows this kind of intellectual powerhouse to hold a legislator-for-life position.



(Screenshot, although I suspect if he had any kind of shame or even ability to comprehend he might be wrong he wouldn't be the man he is, so it's entirely possible it'll stay up until the day Twitter finally dies)

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Odd question but if I wanted to commission some artwork, where's a good place to go to find an artist? I tried artstation but have had little success. Trying to get something of a cartoony style.


Not trying to get some furry porn honest guv

Creative Convention here on SA? They deal with perverts all the time.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


goddamnedtwisto posted:

https://twitter.com/danielmgmoylan/status/1388066714714316806

Sometimes I have my doubts about our country having an unelected Upper House, but then I'm reminded that it allows this kind of intellectual powerhouse to hold a legislator-for-life position.



(Screenshot, although I suspect if he had any kind of shame or even ability to comprehend he might be wrong he wouldn't be the man he is, so it's entirely possible it'll stay up until the day Twitter finally dies)

This man used to work for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. loving howling.

Niric
Jul 23, 2008

goddamnedtwisto posted:

https://twitter.com/danielmgmoylan/status/1388066714714316806

Sometimes I have my doubts about our country having an unelected Upper House, but then I'm reminded that it allows this kind of intellectual powerhouse to hold a legislator-for-life position.



(Screenshot, although I suspect if he had any kind of shame or even ability to comprehend he might be wrong he wouldn't be the man he is, so it's entirely possible it'll stay up until the day Twitter finally dies)

:psyduck: Just...what?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Maybe he just hasn't noticed anything that has happened since 1970 just generally.

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Umbra Dubium
Nov 23, 2007

The British Empire was built on cups of tea, and if you think I'm going into battle without one, you're sorely mistaken!



OwlFancier posted:

I'm sure it was someone ITT that mentioned police horses don't like protest banners, well apparently they also don't like other things:

Horses aren't exactly colour-blind as we would understand it, but I think they perceive the adjacent blocks of colour as a shadow effect; it must look like a ravine in the road to them.

BRB, painting pride flags everywhere in case of cavalry incursions.

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