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Comrade Fakename posted:The Welsh Nude and Proud Party’s logo is absolutely incredible. They're not on the ballot here. Yet another Cardiff-centred party ignoring the true Wales. I can vote for the Communist party of Britain, a grab-bag of Plaid Cymru offshoots, covid-denier nutjobs, the Welsh Christian Party, but no Welsh nudists.
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Desiderata posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56955084 This happened relatively near to me. My bet would be on an irate fisherman. Some of them can get very aggressive when something else eats their fish, and are massively hostile to reintroduction projects. One of them heading out with a chainsaw to 'solve' the problem wouldn't be out of character for some, and would be quietly applauded by many more.
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May 2, 2021 12:08
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Voted Plaid in the local, Communist in the regional. If you're giving the middle finger to the establishment, you may as well go big or go home. Plus, it was childishly funny. Not many names crossed off the list by 6.30pm. I'm in a rural area where the result is a foregone conclusion. I've seen virtually no campaigning, and very few people seem bothered about the whole thing.
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May 6, 2021 18:51
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1965917 posted:There were quite a few hot takes on what we'd like to happen to Labour now. Probably not a lot straight away. With no general election due for a while, the official response will probably be a flurry of focus groups resulting in a slick new rebranding, while they carry on with business as usual in the background. Knives will be quietly sharpened, but I don't see them actually being used unless Labour gets demolished in a future by election.
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May 8, 2021 08:04
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/ShippersUnbound/status/1391131442235772928?s=20 Starmer's plan for electoral success is still to copy Boris at every opportunity, then.
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May 8, 2021 21:48
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Darth Walrus posted:I feel like we need a new thread title to fully capture the comedy of the past 48 hours, but I don't know what it should be. UKMT May 2021 - Schrodinger's Shadow Cabinet
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May 9, 2021 10:51
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blunt posted:Are you under 40? If so that might explain it.. I'm 38, and the local vaccination centres just started accepting bookings for under 40s this week. Got through easily enough, and now have an appointment booked for thursday. It's an 80 mile round trip, but that's relatively local for here. I'm assuming it's Pfizer, because that particular centre is set up for it. In other news, there's a covid outbreak at one of the local holiday ghetto caravan parks. The places are packed to capacity, and hundreds of people from them have packing into the local pubs, shoulder-to-shoulder in bars that are outdoor only through the technicality of being made from fabric. No way of telling where the infection came from, or to how many places across the UK it's been spread to.
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May 10, 2021 20:11
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Necrothatcher posted:Nope, I guess they'll ask at the vaccination centre? Where I live, it depends on the vaccination centre you're sent to. The big centres with the posh freezers get to give out all the Pfizer, while the Astrazeneca gets farmed out to the local doctor's surgeries. I had my first dose of Pfizer earlier today. So far, no noticeable side-effects, not even injection site soreness. Of course, this means I'll probably be bedridden tomorrow.
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May 13, 2021 19:05
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haakman posted:Yeah makes me sad. Pigs are awesome. Cops are not. Pigs can be vicious if you're not careful with them. I've known several people who've been seriously injured by pigs.
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May 13, 2021 19:10
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stev posted:They're banking on those younger people not dying or being hospitalized and just being mildly ill for a while with largely unknown long term respiratory damage. "Cough your lungs out to help out" would be pretty much on-message with most of the Covid response. I'm still convinced the early pre-lockdown herd immunity push was due to some of the more sociopathic government advisors thinking we could speedrun the infection through the entire population in six weeks back in march 2020 in order to reopen early and get the drop on the Eu economically.
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May 14, 2021 22:29
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If you are going to use poison, it's a good idea to secure it so that the mice and rats don't drag it away somewhere that non-target animals such as pets can get to it. Use blocks rather than grain, as mice will drag the grain away and hoard it. The wax blocks with a hole through the middle are great, as you can nail them to a block of wood, or tie them down with wire. Also, it might be worth keeping a bait station permanently stocked and checking on it regularly, even once the obvious infestation is gone.
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May 15, 2021 19:44
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The proper way to use a toaster is to turn it on it's side. Put a slice of bread with cheese on top in the toaster, and you get almost instant cheese on toast.
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May 16, 2021 14:23
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Anybody know anything about the prevalence of covid denial and anti-vax sentiment among the British Polish community? My brother's wife and mother-in-law are pretty heavily into covid denialism, and even subscribe to some of the more interesting 'vaccines and microchips' type conspiracy theories. My brother has going along with this out of fear of losing his bedroom priveledges, but I suspect he'll probably just go out and get vaccinated in secret. His theory is that it's due to a leftover mistrust of government authority figures from Soviet times, and that covid-denialism is more widespread amongst them as a result..
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May 17, 2021 20:13
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XMNN posted:did they have cocaine in the 18th century Not created until the 1860s. 18th century dissolute aristocrats had to make do with laudanum.
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May 23, 2021 19:53
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:
True, but this would be a type of beer called 'small beer', not what we would think of as beer or ale today. The alcohol content would be a lot lower, so more like drinking shandy than modern high alcohol beer.
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May 23, 2021 22:59
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Guavanaut posted:Poor dental health can result in a ton of wider health implications, which underlies the stupidity of having dentistry be a special sector of the NHS that you sometimes have to pay for, because to the surprise of nobody who understands that, you're just kicking the problem down to the cardiac ward or the neuropathic pain specialist or the emergency resus team when people can't/don't pay. Not to mention that toothache was historically (and probably still is) one of the leading causes of opioid addiction.
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May 24, 2021 22:53
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I spotted a Qanon cultist in the wild today. An idiot overtook me on a blind corner while I was driving home from work this afternoon. I spotted a large Q and WWG1WGA decal on the back of his car as he sped off, overtaking other cars wildly. Not something I expected to see in rural North Wales, considering 99% of the population probably have no idea what the decal means.
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May 28, 2021 18:13
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Lady Demelza posted:
They do. Anything that reduces convection and keeps the cold air in saves energy. An imperfect seal is still better than no seal whatsoever.
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OwlFancier posted:There is also the other version of shop brain where if something gets stolen you should just make it as hard as possible to buy it and then nobody will steal it. I used to work in a hardware shop. Head office would occasionally spend fortunes on anti-theft tags that could be strapped or pinned to high value items. Rather predictably, high value thefts wouldn't decrease, while thefts of the metal snips sold right next to them would soar (joke was on the thieves, as our security sensors hadn't worked for years, and head office was too cheap to replace them). If anything, putting a tag on something just hung a massive "steal me, I'm valuable" sign on it.
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