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His Divine Shadow posted:I understand brits like gardening. We planted more fruit trees: what's the little house?
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crispix posted:what's the little house? About £1200 a month in London.
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Jun 1, 2021 12:29
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Pistol_Pete posted:I just read this, so now I'm going to make you all read it too: Terrific. "We must be open to debate and the way to do that is to silence the left" Pure Blairite double speak.
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Jun 1, 2021 12:34
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crispix posted:what's the little house? Kid's playhouse. I say that knowing my fiance is the one who wanted it and the one who decorated it, painted it and spends most time in it.
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Jun 1, 2021 12:34
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Failed Imagineer posted:Too late I already flytipped an old mattress and a bunch of pro-EU propaganda leaflets on the hard shoulder of the M1 You were supposed to dump the leaflets in Larne ffs! 
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Jun 1, 2021 12:41
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Gonzo McFee posted:Terrific. "We must be open to debate and the way to do that is to silence the left" We must be open to debate from the right about whether we are right wing enough. (We're not)
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Jun 1, 2021 12:51
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Regarding that poo poo Times article, lol: https://twitter.com/SolHughesWriter/status/1399679093034164226
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Jun 1, 2021 12:54
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Crazy how I feel like I have a black hole where part of my life should be, basically zero memories for a year and a half. It's like I went to bed a relatively successful 29 year old and woke up an unemployed 31 year old layabout. Pandemics amirite.
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Jun 1, 2021 13:22
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You can do that with spirits too but it costs more.
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Jun 1, 2021 13:24
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<RANT> This ICO thing is a government scam to get £40 p.a. Just had a letter saying our residents' management co probably ought to register. Well I went through their 'tool' and no we don't. Thanks in main part because our 85 year old treasurer keeps individual info re service charge payments in a notebook not on computer, and she picks that up off a paper bank statement. If I did it and put them on a spreadsheet, we would be in for the £40. It might not seem a lot, but every bloody thing I do these days the ICO wants £40. In our block, all the lessees are ALSO members of the management co which is the freeholder. (Not a common situation! This was set up in 1986 or whenever the block was built.) We get service charges in, we pay the common parts electric, cleaning, garden, roof yadayada. We are our own customer. I have a letter from them saying that even if the ONLY thing you have on your website is an email address for potential clients to contact you and you don't do anything like mailshots, newsletters, 'download our free gift in exchange for giving me your email' etc), then you have to pay up. There must be thousands and thousands of freelancers, sole traders, small businesses, who are completely unaware that they have to fork out £40 a year for this government authorized scam. It might not sound much, but if you are a struggling business who has had f*k all customers in the past 18 months (the case round here where not only was there covid to cope with but in the 3 months preceding that extensive flooding blocking main access routes, and causing destruction of stock and property.) </RANT>
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Jun 1, 2021 13:26
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Guavanaut posted:You can do that with spirits too but it costs more. I did both!
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Jun 1, 2021 13:27
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Guavanaut posted:It's interesting how this changed from the Bill of Rights being viewed as a restriction on the Federal government and not on the States to a charter of individual liberties over the course of the 20th century. yes, there's a name for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights
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Jun 1, 2021 13:34
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:<RANT> I got this to my consultancy business as well, and you’re right, it’s totally unneeded, the thing you’ve outlined there absolutely doesn’t need a registration and fee. (My consultancy is a GDPR and data protection consultancy- that’s what I do when I’m not making beer) It’s so frustrating.
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Jun 1, 2021 13:39
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Away from current affairs, what's the rule on going to the doctors for non-vaccine related purposes? Coz for years now I've had a worthless sense of smell & problems breathing through my nose & sinus related headaches but it's mostly liveable with. But I've had a headache in the general area below/behind my right eye for a week now, Sudafed has done nothing to clear it up, & I'm suspicious I have a deviated septum related to dumb teenage poo poo (footballs in the face, a party trick of how far I could squash my nose against my cheek, very dumb) or whatever else is causing the sinus problems. Should I just endure until things get back to normal or is it entirely acceptable to go to the doctors for something which isn't urgent but is irritating?
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Deleted Sorry I'm an idiot Solefald fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Jun 1, 2021 13:56
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Crankit posted:I'm gonna get a sunburn, anyone else wanna gonna join burnt club this year? I invented this club, few years back I got sunburnt in March
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Jun 1, 2021 13:57
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forkboy84 posted:Away from current affairs, what's the rule on going to the doctors for non-vaccine related purposes? Coz for years now I've had a worthless sense of smell & problems breathing through my nose & sinus related headaches but it's mostly liveable with. But I've had a headache in the general area below/behind my right eye for a week now, Sudafed has done nothing to clear it up, & I'm suspicious I have a deviated septum related to dumb teenage poo poo (footballs in the face, a party trick of how far I could squash my nose against my cheek, very dumb) or whatever else is causing the sinus problems. Should I just endure until things get back to normal or is it entirely acceptable to go to the doctors for something which isn't urgent but is irritating? Contact your doc (or the clinic anyway!). I certainly have the impression from round here that the GPs are quite keen to get on with 'normal' problems. Maybe the GPs in this thread could confirm or deny if they read it! Things may never be normal again! I've been to do the doc with a couple of non-covid things that weren't urgent but might be cause for concern if unattended. (Photodamage from living in Cairo, swimming in the open air for 15-20 hours a week without sunscreen (sunscreen is for wimps haha), but dad and uncle both had skin cancers on their fizzogs so I thought it best to check.) I have a deviated nasal septum, I was born with it. Often get snuffles. I also had a headache where you said and problems in my eye and I finally realized it was from (a) wearing a face mask - it keeps getting in my eye so I have got a different shaped one now which is less of a problem and, also, (b) because wearing glasses irritates my face, when I'm alone and not on zoom, I shove a bit of tissue paper under the nose bridge and the fibres of the ripped edge also stick in my eye sometimes. ed: just realized what a lovely piccie of myself I am conjuring up here! You should see the portrait in my attic! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Jun 1, 2021 13:58
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forkboy84 posted:Away from current affairs, what's the rule on going to the doctors for non-vaccine related purposes? Coz for years now I've had a worthless sense of smell & problems breathing through my nose & sinus related headaches but it's mostly liveable with. But I've had a headache in the general area below/behind my right eye for a week now, Sudafed has done nothing to clear it up, & I'm suspicious I have a deviated septum related to dumb teenage poo poo (footballs in the face, a party trick of how far I could squash my nose against my cheek, very dumb) or whatever else is causing the sinus problems. Should I just endure until things get back to normal or is it entirely acceptable to go to the doctors for something which isn't urgent but is irritating? You should probably see a doctor I’ve been having to get onto blood pressure medications because it was real bad back in September and at the time it was a pain in the arse to get anything arranged to talk to anyone but it seems to be getting much better now. Not sure if it’s just my surgery but it’s pretty much all been phone consultations though, although I can still go in for BP readings and to have blood taken and there’s never been any issue getting seen
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Jun 1, 2021 14:05
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Guavanaut posted:Current variants of concern:
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Jun 1, 2021 14:07
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Solefald posted:Deleted You aren't an idiot, and while I don't know of any websites that will give you them answers or a one weird trick to feeling right about stuff, if you want to just post about what you're struggling with I am sure plenty of people will be willing to offer a view, if it would help to just talk about it. I would at least say if your job is giving you so much grief you're having to take sick leave then a change of career might be needed, but unfortunately the only art related thing I know of that is apparently reliable is drawing porn for suspiciously wealthy furries and that takes a particular brain and constitution to do and also some of them are creepy.
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Jun 1, 2021 14:13
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.nm Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Jun 1, 2021 14:21
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You both should have PMs.
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Jun 1, 2021 14:22
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OwlFancier posted:You both should have PMs. I wasn't clear sorry, I meant without doxxing to 3rd party. Also, I'll delete my post too!
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Jun 1, 2021 14:23
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ThomasPaine posted:Crazy how I feel like I have a black hole where part of my life should be, basically zero memories for a year and a half. It's like I went to bed a relatively successful 29 year old and woke up an unemployed 31 year old layabout. Pandemics amirite. Same here, though less on the successful.
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Jun 1, 2021 15:01
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Yeah, same. Normal life ground to a halt in March 2020 and it's just been the same repeating day ever since then. Getting up, doing my day's work from home, going on my government-approved walk around the neighbourhood, then dispiritedly browsing the forums until it's time to reset to the morning again. (Ok, it's not been quite as bad as that for me but you get the idea.) Having sociability, travel and the option to do stuff spontaneously removed from your life leaves an enormous and unfillable gap. I'm just starting to feel a bit more normal now.
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Jun 1, 2021 15:17
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Already had an old gammon who looked like latter day Shaun Ryder threaten to kick my dogs head in for barking at him, so I feel like my few hours in NI is delivering in spades
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Jun 1, 2021 15:17
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I haven't really noticed a difference tbh, I am the ultimate pandemic adapted lifeform.
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Jun 1, 2021 15:20
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Same here, though less on the successful. I genuinely feel so bad for people who were late teens/early twenties and had just gone to uni or whatever when this all hit. That's a huge chunk of some of the most important formative years of their life stolen from them. For some almost their entire uni experience has been from their bloody childhood bedrooms on Zoom. It's grim. Not to mention they've spent the whole time being gaslit by a bunch of a boomers who don't give a poo poo about them and wouldn't in a million years have made the same sacrifices had this been a disease that overwhelmingly killed young people and left the old alone. Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, same. Normal life ground to a halt in March 2020 and it's just been the same repeating day ever since then. Getting up, doing my day's work from home, going on my government-approved walk around the neighbourhood, then dispiritedly browsing the forums until it's time to reset to the morning again. I've been inside some pubs over the last few weeks and it is an incredibly weird thing to feel almost normal again ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Jun 1, 2021 15:20
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That was also my university experience but without the zoom and also it was like 10 years ago.
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Jun 1, 2021 15:23
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His Divine Shadow posted:Kid's playhouse. I say that knowing my fiance is the one who wanted it and the one who decorated it, painted it and spends most time in it. I would like a tour, pls  the perspective in the picture was just messing with me so much 
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Jun 1, 2021 15:31
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My fiance took a video of it when it was done, I think it's best to just watch it: https://streamable.com/t58r5n
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Jun 1, 2021 15:58
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It comes with a free cat I would live in that house.
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Jun 1, 2021 15:59
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OwlFancier posted:That was also my university experience but without the zoom and also it was like 10 years ago. My condolences!
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Jun 1, 2021 16:07
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ThomasPaine posted:I genuinely feel so bad for people who were late teens/early twenties and had just gone to uni or whatever when this all hit. That's a huge chunk of some of the most important formative years of their life stolen from them. For some almost their entire uni experience has been from their bloody childhood bedrooms on Zoom. It's grim. Not to mention they've spent the whole time being gaslit by a bunch of a boomers who don't give a poo poo about them and wouldn't in a million years have made the same sacrifices had this been a disease that overwhelmingly killed young people and left the old alone. Not just boomers giving them poo poo. When the students in - was it Manchester? - were protesting about being LOCKED IN to their halls of residence during one of the covid lockdowns, one of my FB contacts (I'm getting hesitant to use the word 'friend' re some people these days!) posted about how they were the 'entitled' generation and how 'entitled' young people today felt. I don't actually think that running up debts of over £30k to go to uni when you have to have uni degrees these days to get a foot in the doorway at entry level in industries which only took O-levels in maths, english and a bit of cap-doffing to get into 50 years ago makes you 'entitled'
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Jun 1, 2021 16:15
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The difference between ambition and entitlement is how rich you are.
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Jun 1, 2021 16:24
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I sometimes laugh when I remember discussing jobs with my parents because for so long they assumed the world was still like it was when they were my age in the late 70s/80s, where you could more or less turn up to a business with no qualifications and ask for a job and if they liked the look of you a good portion of the time they'd give you a shot. I still cringe remembering when they insisted I march around Newcastle as a 17 year old in the late 2000s with a stack of CVs handing them in to a bunch of very bemused people in their 20s/30s who clearly knew they were going straight in the bin, because obviously. I'm just glad they've seen the error of their ways and mellowed out a bit on the 'lazy millenials!!! ' poo poo now they're a bit older, but I guess having a kid with a PhD who can't find a job would probably do that. I for one love hearing about how I'd apparently have been able to walk into pretty much any uni and get a decent-paying position of some kind back in their day, it really does make me feel much better. e: My partner's dad is an engineer and has told me at length about how his skills were in such demand when he entered the job market he was able to go back and forth between prospective employers and essentially make them bid on him, so he started off on an absurdly good salary. He's significantly more wealthy than my own parents and still pulls a lot of completely out of touch bullshit and I wonder how connected these things are. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Jun 1, 2021 16:36
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ThomasPaine posted:I sometimes laugh when I remember discussing jobs with my parents because for so long they assumed the world was still like it was when they were my age in the late 70s/80s, where you could more or less turn up to a business with no qualifications and ask for a job and if they liked the look of you a good portion of the time they'd give you a shot. I still cringe remembering when they insisted I march around Newcastle as a 17 year old in the late 2000s with a stack of CVs handing them in to a bunch of very bemused people in their 20s/30s who clearly knew they were going straight in the bin, because obviously. I'm just glad they've seen the error of their ways and mellowed out a bit on the 'lazy millenials!!! They're old and watch the news and live in a nostalgia bubble and don't comprehend the environment unique to even their own under-40s children who still haven't been able to afford their own house yet. This is 100% everywhere. Regaling me stories of losing a job and walking down the street to start a new one in less than an hour doesn't help when you know for a fact I waited weeks for an interview, waited weeks for a reply, waited weeks for a start date, then waited weeks to actually reach that date.
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Pistol_Pete posted:I just read this, so now I'm going to make you all read it too: Whoa that was some arch tory poo poo, I was dazzled by the spoiler Protect the flags, protect Coulson, white power, terf poo poo. The politics poo poo was so vague but the culture war stuff was stark though hidden behind polite euphemism. I fully thought it was some lovely failson tory journalist They've gone fully off the deep end
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Jun 1, 2021 16:49
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Szmitten posted:They're old and watch the news and live in a nostalgia bubble and don't comprehend the environment unique to even their own under-40s children who still haven't been able to afford their own house yet. This is 100% everywhere. My parents paid like £25k (if that) for a three bed house lmao
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In some good news; today we finally hit the no-covid-deaths-to-report milestone, breaking a death run that goes back to March last year.
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