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smellmycheese posted:Any chance we could stop the racist stereotyping of Northern Irish people as angry, violent simpletons? lol i'm from NI and i'm afraid i can't help any of those things  
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Pistol_Pete posted:I just read this, so now I'm going to make you all read it too: thanks for the psyop
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Jun 1, 2021 21:33
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The Question IRL posted:If you do that, the method recorded for their death will be Wind*. God, yes. The most unpleasant target so far (I'm rationing the levels because exploring a new one is the most fun bit, so I've only just got to Mumbai).
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Jun 1, 2021 21:39
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Can't believe channel 4 is stealing hbomberguy's video ideas.
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Jun 1, 2021 21:39
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yeah i'm watching it
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Jun 1, 2021 21:42
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What on earth went wrong for them not to offer you the job?! Couple of factors, the main one being my own arrogance in assuming I'd get the job so at the interview stupidly I gave honest answers instead of the ones they wanted to hear. I have to admit, with a few more years of wisdom on me, that *I* wouldn't have given me the job on my showing in that interview. It's a fairly responsible role and I went in with a bit too much attitude - and given that, for me, the most important thing I can do is shield my staff from the bullshit of upper management* then I *have* to be able to play upper management at their own game, rather than trying to pretend they don't exist. * It is quite hilarious that I occasionally get complaints from my guys about how I don't appear to do any actual work which is... reasonable, but then if I go on holiday and they have to sit in on strategy and project meetings I don't hear any more complaints for another few months.
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Jun 1, 2021 21:47
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I always assumed you didn't have a day job and just robbed banks on a motorcycle to fund your purchase of esoteric texts on london history or something.
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Jun 1, 2021 21:49
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OwlFancier posted:Can't believe channel 4 is stealing hbomberguy's video ideas. Oh, what are they doing?
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Jun 1, 2021 21:54
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happyhippy posted:Oh, what are they doing? Documentary about antivaccination apparently, featuring wakefield. Not watching it because it's hard to imagine it's better than his video. And also I don't have anything to watch it on anyway.
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Jun 1, 2021 21:55
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My next door neighbours just put their cardboard recycling in my recycling bin which is quite rude! Going to ask them to come around and ask me in the future, I'll probably say yes but it's just polite to ask before stuffing another man's bins.
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Jun 1, 2021 21:57
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OwlFancier posted:I always assumed you didn't have a day job and just robbed banks on a motorcycle to fund your purchase of esoteric texts on london history or something. No money in bank jobs any more. Like literally, banks keep so little cash on hand these days thanks to plastic that you'd never be able to even make back the money on the stockings over your head, let alone the shootah. No, the bank job has gone the way of the payroll blag and the cash-in-transit robbery, victims of modern society, leaving the traditional Cockney way of life untenable and forcing us down the Trail of Tears that is the District Line to the reservations at Upminster. (Actaully I do remember reading once that even in their heyday, bank robbers didn't actually make *that* much money unless they happened to get particularly lucky - like turning over a bank might get you a ten or twenty grand but of course you had to then launder that or at least spend it slowly and inconspicuously so you ended up really no better off than you would have been actually working behind the counter in the bank)
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Jun 1, 2021 22:01
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goddamnedtwisto posted:No money in bank jobs any more. Like literally, banks keep so little cash on hand these days thanks to plastic that you'd never be able to even make back the money on the stockings over your head, let alone the shootah. No, the bank job has gone the way of the payroll blag and the cash-in-transit robbery, victims of modern society, leaving the traditional Cockney way of life untenable and forcing us down the Trail of Tears that is the District Line to the reservations at Upminster. One of my brothers put so much effort into avoiding work that he would have been better off taking any kind of job. My sister who thinks all employers are stupid and refused to do anything they asked, no matter how innocuous and in line with the job spec, managed to pull a (comparatively) rich bloke and marry him. (Getting fired was part of her strategy for working 'the system' and getting the state to pay for her existence.)
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Jun 1, 2021 22:08
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Some people just aren't cut out for work. I'm not in a lot of respects, I just managed to get a job that lets me work around most of the issues. I think I would literally rather die than do 9 to 5 in an office though.
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Jun 1, 2021 22:12
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goddamnedtwisto posted:No, the bank job has gone the way of the payroll blag and the cash-in-transit robbery, victims of modern society, leaving the traditional Cockney way of life untenable and forcing us down the Trail of Tears that is the District Line to the reservations at Upminster.
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Jun 1, 2021 22:29
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OwlFancier posted:Some people just aren't cut out for work. I'm not in a lot of respects, I just managed to get a job that lets me work around most of the issues. I think I would literally rather die than do 9 to 5 in an office though. Go work with GW and spend all your earnings buying even more toys.
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Jun 1, 2021 22:30
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Z the IVth posted:Go work with GW and spend all your earnings buying even more toys. I have never bought a miniature in my life, I know when to Just Say No.
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Jun 1, 2021 22:33
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I've been faffing about with some javascript graph libraries and I built this quick and dirty breakdown of vote share in UK elections 1918-2019 as a test. I thought this place might find it interesting. I remember somebody here mentioning that they'd like to see the numbers if 'non-voter' was included in the numbers so I added that. Data is from here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8647/. If anyone has any requests of how to break it down further let me know and if I have time I'll try to update it. https://ollyollyollyltd.github.io/electiongraphs/ 
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Jun 1, 2021 22:34
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Gruffalo Soldier posted:I've been faffing about with some javascript graph libraries and I built this quick and dirty breakdown of vote share in UK elections 1918-2019 as a test. Nice graphs Any idea whether the number of eligible electors stayed roughly constant over the last few years? I wonder how much the change in electoral registation requirements might have affected the number of those eligible to vote. Is the figure of actual numbers rather than % available?
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Jun 1, 2021 22:53
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goddamnedtwisto posted:No money in bank jobs any more. My three street town used to have 3 banks, and 2 ATM machines. All three banks shut down to save costs, removed their ATM machines, next ATM 10 miles away. Now there is still no banks, and the ATM is the local shop is one of those private scammer ones.
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Jun 1, 2021 23:00
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happyhippy posted:My three street town used to have 3 banks, and 2 ATM machines. Apparently Link are starting to provide free to use ATM machines in local towns if there is local demand. Maybe you can post in a local facebook group to get people to campaign for it? https://www.accesstopaymentsystems.co.uk/what-payment-scheme/link-atm-scheme
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Jun 1, 2021 23:02
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Cool  Guess that makes me part of the generation that came of age when everyone gave up though.Going back to for profit prisons and death camp chat in the last thread, something really loving bad may be going down in Arizona according to recently leaked invoices, but details are light on exactly what.   
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Jun 1, 2021 23:08
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Isn't this basically Zyklon-B?
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Jun 1, 2021 23:12
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was jim mcdonald off corrie a racist sturreatype 
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Jun 1, 2021 23:18
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goddamnedtwisto posted:No money in bank jobs any more. Like literally, banks keep so little cash on hand these days thanks to plastic that you'd never be able to even make back the money on the stockings over your head, let alone the shootah. No, the bank job has gone the way of the payroll blag and the cash-in-transit robbery, victims of modern society, leaving the traditional Cockney way of life untenable and forcing us down the Trail of Tears that is the District Line to the reservations at Upminster. The other half of this is it's so ludicrously easy to make shitloads of money dealing drugs, why would you bother doing anything else?
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Jun 1, 2021 23:20
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they tested the rubber seals by holding up a candle and seeing if the flame flickered lol
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Jun 1, 2021 23:21
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crispix posted:was jim mcdonald off corrie a racist sturreatype Aye he was, so he was.
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Jun 1, 2021 23:22
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Necrothatcher posted:Isn't this basically Zyklon-B? And specifically this comes within the context of a prison that's apparently been decided to be shut down but has over 100 death row inmates and nowhere well thought out to put them. So best case scenario they decided to do a last round of empty tests, said no, and now the whole thing is loving off forever. Worst case is they're actually going to try to run down the death row in their last months of operations in the midst of an epicenter for Q lunacy. Trin Tragula posted:The other half of this is it's so ludicrously easy to make shitloads of money dealing drugs, why would you bother doing anything else? kecske posted:they tested the rubber seals by holding up a candle and seeing if the flame flickered lol Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Jun 1, 2021 23:22
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Necrothatcher posted:Isn't this basically Zyklon-B? In a way (in that it produces hydrogen cyanide), yes, but Zyklon-B was basically just cyanide locked up in diatomaceous earth (cat litter), while American prison gas chambers work by dropping potassium cyanide (which can be safely handled, if kept dry) down a chute into a bowl of sulphuric acid, generating hydrogen cyanide. The caustic soda is used to neutralise the acid so it can be removed, not sure what the other ingredient is for (hydrogen cyanide gas can be safely neutralised with a bleach spray). Guavanaut posted:I've know people try that one with natural gas. Someone doing that is apparently part of tort law (and also the surrounding landscape).
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Jun 1, 2021 23:37
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The phenolphthalein is to prepare an indicator that's placed in a bowl and chamber exhaust bubbled through to indicate when it's safe to enter, because the whole thing is still running off of 1940s tech.
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Jun 1, 2021 23:46
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goddamnedtwisto posted:In a way (in that it produces hydrogen cyanide), yes, but Zyklon-B was basically just cyanide locked up in diatomaceous earth (cat litter), while American prison gas chambers work by dropping potassium cyanide (which can be safely handled, if kept dry) down a chute into a bowl of sulphuric acid, generating hydrogen cyanide. The caustic soda is used to neutralise the acid so it can be removed, not sure what the other ingredient is for (hydrogen cyanide gas can be safely neutralised with a bleach spray). Phenolphthalein can be used as a pH indicator so it might be to check that the acid has been successfully neutralised in this scenario. e-beaten OwlFancier posted:My kingdom for a very precise meteor strike, or possibly a big hailstone.
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Jun 1, 2021 23:54
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goddamnedtwisto posted:assisting a semi-famous pornographer were you a stuntcock? because this really sounds like you were a stuntcock
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Jun 2, 2021 00:14
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frig i forgot to do it yesterday NO ONE DIED 
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Jun 2, 2021 00:42
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crispix posted:was jim mcdonald off corrie a racist sturreatype Its a national disgrace there isn't even one mural for Big Jim here.
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Jun 2, 2021 00:45
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Julio Cruz posted:were you a stuntcock? because this really sounds like you were a stuntcock Lol no, this was 90s print porn in the UK. There were no cocks - in fact anything even vaguely phallic - had to be below the horizontal and maintain a clear distance from lady bits*. That below the horizontal isn't a joke, by the way - the Sunday Sport had to pay a fine for publishing an advert for dildos that showed them pointing upwards. This was enough, under the extremely weird standards of the time, to qualify as an obscene publication, something that Graham Norton used to have a lot of fun with in his early standup - IIRC he was the first person in British television history to show a dildo pointing upwards a few years later. Footnotes spoilered for rather  content but only text. * Okay there were cocks of course, gay porn existed, but they had to be flaccid. Weirdly there were a couple of magazines - Whitehouse in particular - that specialised in "straight" scenes showing men and women in all of the positions that porn could imagine but with determinedly flaccid cocks (and dry vaginas for that matter**). I have absolutely no idea to whom this was supposed to appeal, but I do remember, when I first encountered them as a spotty youth, being *astonished* by the idea that it was possible not to have an erection when even being in the same room as a naked woman, let alone while three of them kneeled in front of you. ** So the rules were slightly different for print and video because they were handled by different laws, but basically the interpretation of "obscene" used for print from about the mid 70s up to the early 00s was anything that showed "visible sexual stimulation", which could be interpreted as either a verb or an adjective - i.e. you couldn't show either someone who was notably stimulated *or* doing something - or having something done to them - that was sexually stimulating. Obviously this completely excluded all penetration straight away*** but also erections - or even mild tumescence - was gone too, and even suggesting such a thing - by, say, holding a flaccid member upright, or like I say showing a dildo (realistic or not) above horizontal was out of the question too (there was a rumour this particular rule came about because of strap-ons, no idea if that's true or not). Of course being Britain the ways this was enforced got weird really, really quickly. A woman touching a flaccid cock? Fine. A man touching his own flaccid cock? FORBIDDEN. A woman touching her own vulva? Permitted. A man touching it? FORBIDDEN. A woman holding her vulva open? FORBIDDEN. A woman using her hands on her inner thighs to open her vulva? Permitted *but only if her arms crossed*, so her left hand was on her right thigh and vice versa. This was the weirdest of them all (and actually became known as "The British Pose" around the world - seriously like the FedEx arrow once you notice it in vintage porn you'll never stop noticing it). There was also stuff like if there *was* a dildo in the scene, regardless of angle, it couldn't be pointed directly at the vagina (and in those Big Muff Days that could be a tricky target to miss). Strangely they were absolutely fine with erect nipples being touched by either party and even showing stimulation. To be honest it's a miracle we as a nation aren't way, way more hosed up than we are. *** Weirdly penetration *was* allowed in R18 videos from the mid 90s, but it's still not officially allowed in print porn in the UK unless it's sold from a licensed sex shop. Sex shops could sell imported hardcore porn mags from the late 80s, but had to censor them with stickers to cover anything described above - and yes, some did try selling them with low-tack adhesive so they could be uncensored easily and promptly got prosecuted. Bill Hicks does an amazing bit about this particularly strange era in British porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzjr2Dfa8lg
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Jun 2, 2021 00:56
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Jun 2, 2021 01:00
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Ms Adequate posted:it's gettin too 'ot like Assuming this isn't a reaction to my porn-free-porn post, Screwfix have got that portable air conditioner I've been telling you all about back in stock: https://www.screwfix.com/p/goodhome-takoma-mobile-air-conditioner/551hv#_=p although the price has gone up since last year.
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Jun 2, 2021 01:18
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Bobstar posted:I'm in Mumbai right now about to blow somebody off Look some of us are still under lockdown so this bragging is unnecessary.
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Jun 2, 2021 01:18
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Oh good this insane vaxx documentary thing has interviewed Piers Corbyn and he mentioned Nazi Germany so Twitter is now a cuntocalypse.
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My boiler’s on its last legs and really needs to be replaced. Because of you know, the whole thing, I was thinking of changing to an electric boiler from a gas one. Anyone know the logistics of that, or if it’s a terrible idea or anything?
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Comrade Fakename posted:My boiler’s on its last legs and really needs to be replaced. Because of you know, the whole thing, I was thinking of changing to an electric boiler from a gas one. Anyone know the logistics of that, or if it’s a terrible idea or anything? Gas boilers are going to be banned - in new builds from 2025 and I seem to remember it's 2035 for all gas boilers? (I might be wrong about that though!) So if you live in your own home, you may as well go electric now if you have to change it anyway. I've no idea about how easy that is to do though.
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