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Lord Ludikrous posted:Lotta boomers about who have found out what the modern job market is like in a swift and brutal fashion after losing theirs during the pandemic. Most of them are retired these days.
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stev posted:Anecdotal but most of the early to mid 30s I know have had it. The wait after booking is a few days at most, at least in my area. This is definitely regional because over here in East London both my wife and I had a three week wait from booking.
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Jun 2, 2021 20:15
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jaete posted:Simultaneous equations are one of the most important things to learn for physics/statistics/math, i.e. for any "STEM with high earning potential" type of career As a quite highly paid person in the T part of STEM I have never used any maths more advanced than trigonometry. And that was for hobby robot poo poo not work.
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Jun 3, 2021 12:40
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forkboy84 posted:Fantastic. It worked so well with Ireland.
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Jun 3, 2021 20:56
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Ms Adequate posted:I would dearly like it to randomly clear up my verrucas because my feet are not pleasant for the fetishists atm Depends on their fetishism i imagine.
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Jun 4, 2021 10:19
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Jedit posted:It benefits them to the point that the Minister for the Opposition might lose his own seat. Less so than the previous review iirc between no longer cutting the House to 600 seats and the whole Tory Red Wall thing aka we already lost those seats.
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Jun 8, 2021 18:32
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Private Speech posted:Absolutely unbearable when working from my hothouse of a home. Gon' bust out my AC unit tonight that cost me all of a tenner because two works ago was refurbishing and selling poo poo off.
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Jun 9, 2021 16:12
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Guavanaut posted:Maybe it's time for Biden to take full advantage of the fact that the UK's nuclear deterrent is not independent. I mean, my understanding is that it is in the sense that if we wanted to glass Washington DC tomorrow we could do that. The lack of independence is more that we rely on the US for warhead maintenance, so if we wanted to glass DC 5 years from now that might be more difficult - but if it came down to it and we did ever go full Juche I suspect we could develop the ability.
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Jun 10, 2021 13:27
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Jel Shaker posted:i’m not even sure the U.K. could fire them independently either I mean, if you think there's a US officer on every one of our nuclear subs who needs to give the ok for us to launch, I think you're going to need to provide a cite for that. As for not being able to target the US, well, we did nearly accidentally bomb the place already - and given we were aiming for a missile range in the US there, I doubt there's some kind of absolute lockout. Maybe a Clippy-style 'It looks like you're trying to obliterate the capital of the United States, are you sure about this Y/N' thing? feedmegin fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Jun 10, 2021 |
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Jun 10, 2021 13:49
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a pipe smoking dog posted:When I moved to Manchester I lived with a bloke from Bridgend who had never seen a black person before. There was one (1) black person in my year of 120 people at school and I fancied the pants off of her. 10 or so Asian kids though.
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Jun 11, 2021 18:28
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JoylessJester posted:Not sure what your basing this on? Literally all of the papers? They might not like it, editorially, but thats what is being reported.
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Jun 12, 2021 12:53
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ThomasPaine posted:But it could have been so much worse. What would we have done if covid had that dreaded long incubation/high fatality combo? What if we were looking at a third or a quarter of everyone infected just dying, like in the black death? If whole towns were depopulated and it wasn't rare for an entire family to be wiped out? Mass graves all over the shop and the sight of corpses being collected from houses an everyday occurance? So, uh, India right now....?
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Jun 16, 2021 11:14
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bump_fn posted:no other europeans had them? when did this happen You're aware who invented the game right Its like how British stamps don't have the country on them or why The Times is just The Times (no not 'of London' yanks) feedmegin fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Jun 18, 2021 |
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Jun 18, 2021 21:08
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So uh who are these workers party geezers?
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Jun 19, 2021 11:48
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forkboy84 posted:It's George Galloway backed up by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) which is an explicitly "anti-revisionist" party & formed after some members of Socialist Labour Party were mad because Arthur Scargill wasn't pro-North Korea enough for them. Mostly they are notable for being absolute dogshit on trans rights as you sometimes find on the far left fringes where they mutter quietly to an audience of one about "bourgeoisie degeneracy" & for the stance that surge, the Great Purges happened but that was all Yezhov, Stalin knew nothing lol. So, uh, Not The Good Guys but lol if they lose Labour the seat anyway. Surprised they're on 6%!
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Jun 19, 2021 12:36
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Pablo Bluth posted:As a Linux Weirdo, I'd forgotten it was perl as it Just Works on Linux. Probably Just Works on WSL2 too  (Perl is uh a bit 90s retro by this point though) MP3 issue might be that MP3 encoding used to be patented. Not since 2017 mind you but given it's written in Perl it's probably, uh, a bit older than that. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Jun 20, 2021 |
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Jun 20, 2021 14:27
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Crankit posted:there's a thing called get_iplayer https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer I uh did you read the last page of the thread? A github link is possibly not useful to some random dad.
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Jun 20, 2021 14:52
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Pistol_Pete posted:I can't get over that muslim anti-semitism briefing to the Mail. It's just such a stunningly stupid thing to do, even by the standards of the current leadership. I live in Hodge's constituency. Having walked down the street of a Friday round here it would indeed be astoundingly stupid of her to accuse half of her own seat's voters of being anti-Semitic racists, so yeah, probably it was her. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Jun 20, 2021 |
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Jun 20, 2021 16:44
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StarkingBarfish posted:also is that Ethiopian they've gone out for? I've never seen injeera rolled like that but A+ choice. I've had it rolled in addition to it basically being the plate. poo poo I want Ethiopian food now its been years
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Jun 20, 2021 23:37
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goddamnedtwisto posted:In all cases though you're definitely breaking the law and all you need is one jobsworth deciding to check CCTV to find the person going through with an invalid ticket on the reg and you're hosed. I have literally seen TV shows about this happening. Smile and wave for the camera!
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Jun 20, 2021 23:42
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Lolll Graun commentator calling for the Lib Dems to literally disband now their guy is Labour leader I'm sure that'll go down well. 'they appeal to those who vaguely agree with Labour, but cannot quite vote that way.' I mean you aren't wrong, but funny how you didn't say that when Corbyn was leader, yeah?
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Jun 21, 2021 17:19
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Sanford posted:Is jab not a standard term for a vaccination? Flu jab, tetanus jab, TB jab? I've had lots of jabs in my time. It's what they're called. Most people I know have talked about being stabbed (No, this is not because I live in Barking, shurrup)
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Jun 22, 2021 12:59
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Lunar Suite posted:What's the deal with the UK and weirdly infantilising language? "Have your say", but also weirdly cutesy euphemism terms like "tory" or "nonce". I mean, uh, 'Tory' has been a thing since about the late 17th century and originally referred to outlaws. I'm not sure it's really 'infantilising' as such, any more than calling the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei 'Nazis' is infantilising.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:03
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goddamnedtwisto posted:My thinking is that limiting my scope in that way hopefully avoids the sprawl of my other projects which ends up demoralising me - it also removes what feels like the imposition on the reader/listener/viewer to actually go to the place or even to know they *might* be interested in it. Like if there's any actual lesson from the reception my random braindumps get is that - for the most part - most people don't even know they're interested in something until I start blathering on, and really all of my projects to this point have actually just been thinly-veiled excuses to dump this stuff rather than just saying "here's some poo poo I know". I would read it (and possibly go to the actual place once I'm double-5G'd)
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Jun 22, 2021 17:40
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ThomasPaine posted:'British food bad lol' is one of the dumbest very common takes, and I'm convinced it's entirely based on anecdotes from people who went to a chain pub in central London on their holidays and ordered some godawful plate of fish and chips or something for £14. When it comes to Americans at least dissing British food, they are dissing British food circa 1950 (which was pretty terrible tbf) while ignoring the fact that non-ethnic American food at the exact same time was just as bad. Same as how they think we all still ride horse carriages through the London smog while Jack the Ripper lurks the streets.
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Jun 22, 2021 17:42
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Back where I lived in Cambridge there was a chippy and a Chinese right next to each other and I'm pretty sure the same family owned both. Same energy. Combo chippy/doner places even better tho.
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Jun 22, 2021 23:12
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Guavanaut posted:We've opened our doors, and widened our island's shores Not technically Hitler Youth, that one. Maybe something more like 'Vorwärts! Vorwärts! schmettern die hellen Fanfaren'.
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Jun 23, 2021 11:09
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jaete posted:add karjalanpiirakka (Carelian pastry or whatever it's called in English) Karelia in English. I came across these when I moved to Michigan, where in the Upper Peninsula Finnish immigrants fused them in an unholy union with Cornish immigrants to make the UP version of a Cornish pasty. It has carrots. And you put gravy on it.
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Jun 23, 2021 11:12
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Oh dear me posted:Milton Road? There's been a chippy and Chinese there for well over 40 years I think. Milton itself, in the village. Edit: poo poo didn't mean to triple post.
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Jun 23, 2021 11:15
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Jel Shaker posted:seems that if he just renounced his US citizenship he wouldn’t have been stung for “tax evasion” and extradition , as all US citizens have to pay tax on everything they earn regardless of location There's no 'just' about it. Its intentionally hard to do, you need another citizenship first and you face an exit tax. You also still technically have to file even if you happen to live somewhere with a tax treaty with the US that keeps them off your earnings below about $90k. This is why I didn't take out US citizenship despite having lived there long enough to apply. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Jun 23, 2021 |
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Jun 23, 2021 23:33
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jaete posted:In Finnish this is desilitra, or in short desi, as in "two desis of sugar". I'm glad I don't do any baking (trying to eat less sugar) so I've never accidentally used that particular shorthand here in the UK I mean to me desi means Indian (diaspora), its not a slur as far as I know or anything.
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Jun 23, 2021 23:39
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jaete posted:Ah really? Well I'm glad to wrong on this then. You might be thinking of the similar sounding 4 letter word starting with p. That one will get you punched.
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Jun 24, 2021 00:24
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OwlFancier posted:Has anybody really "won" a war against irregulars in recent history? Malayan Emergency springs to mind.
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Jun 24, 2021 22:57
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Oh no. Not consequences for your actions. How tragic.
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Jun 26, 2021 13:52
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bump_fn posted:ok seriously what is goin on with british women that boris johnson and matt hancock are viable sexual partners??? is this becaus of brexit Power is an aphrodisiac. John Major got his end away and he was famously about the most boring man on earth.
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Jun 26, 2021 17:20
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I actually would unironically love to see Blair come back and then totally eat poo poo. He doesn't even have to be in the Commons, we've had PMs who weren't let alone leaders of the opposition.
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Jun 27, 2021 15:54
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ThomasPaine posted:This is funny but iirc rayner is a classic guardian centrist He's ethically Jewish and has bought into the 'Corbyn is Hitler 2.0' thing sadly.
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Jun 27, 2021 18:00
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Algol Star posted:Julius Caesar wasn't a king Got stabbed for trying it though!
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Jun 29, 2021 16:22
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fuctifino posted:It's always worth checking out local independent butchers and trying their black pudding offerings. That does rather depend on your locality. Aint nowhere independent that isn't halal round here.
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Jun 29, 2021 22:48
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sebzilla posted:We can grow peaches and then the millions of climate refugees can pick them for us. Win-win. Yeah we arent going to get warmer. We're going to get northern-Norway colder. And also half the country will be underwater. Better opportunities for fishing, new jobs in the igloo construction industry!
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