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Jul 23, 2021 19:58
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Miftan you fucker, if it wasn't for this response I wouldn't have fallen into the trap either 
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Jul 23, 2021 21:53
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Chubby Henparty posted:I miss having too much Thai. Back home you could go for a meal at a place with the Thai royal family's seal of approval, or a place offering a $5 bucket of peanut sauce chicken that would last three days. Tried to get The Lads into it here but it was apparently too weird can we just get a ('what? that's what they're called') Had a Thai van outside at my house a few years ago that did about 3 meals worth of food for a fiver. Man, I really miss them.
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Jul 24, 2021 15:45
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Dabir posted:Unironically Megaman Battle Network 6 is a really sick esport. This is amazing, I had no idea this existed. MMBN is one of my favourite game series of all time. Thanks for posting it!
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Jul 26, 2021 15:50
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goddamnedtwisto posted:See one advantage of growing up in the middle of London was we avoided most of these terrifying PIFs and talks (although I too was one of those kids who watched them at silly o'clock waiting for the Wide Awake Club to start) - no pylons, no level crossings, and I guess they assumed as we were all far too filthy to have cleaning products under the sink we never even got warned about The Forbidden Lemonade. Bold of you to assume there was a plan beyond "tick the box about the flood talk" twice a year.
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Jul 27, 2021 20:02
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Barry Foster posted:I wish I learned this fifteen or so years ago, because now I'm pretty worried it's the only genuine emotion I still have left Personally I'd rollover and try to do something fun with my partner instead so it's not a total disappointment. Plan a picnic or a fun movie night (or both, hell stretch it to the full weekend the festival was supposed to be!), but most importantly don't sit around bummed that you couldn't go.
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Jul 28, 2021 16:00
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happyhippy posted:It was real, I remember it too. To be fair asking someone to take something with you to give to someone on the other side has been used to great effect A LOT of times to get drugs and/or bombs through airport security and/or customs.
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Jul 29, 2021 20:19
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happyhippy posted:Oh yeah, it used to be the thing. Wasn't it some Australia woman that got tricked into this and got jailed. Was big news back then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_affair is the big one, I think.
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Jul 29, 2021 22:33
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I've never read the Dirk Gently books but I did absolutely love the show.
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Aug 1, 2021 15:21
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I was talking about the BBC one with the two blokes from Green Wing (Guy and the holistic healing bloke), I wasn't aware there even was another one. With Elijah Wood. That's the only one I've seen and I really enjoyed it.
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Aug 2, 2021 00:26
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radmonger posted:or the social constructs which lead to them making the decision to compete (and lose)as men remain. The 'social construct' stopping them from doing that is the existence of gender, so I don't think that's going away any time soon. If by some stroke of luck we make it to a future that has absolutely no gender norms, we'll probably start separating sports into classes instead of segregating them by gender? I dunno, it's so far out of the sphere of possibility that I can't even imagine it.
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Aug 4, 2021 10:57
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BizarroAzrael posted:Is it like a vegan sausage roll in that it's about the same or better but lower calorie and without an egg wash? We've got vegan cheese coming into it so not sure about that. There are much better vegan cheeses available now, especially for melting, but usually not in the high end stuff. Morrison's own brand cheddar is very good for this, the only thing they've not replicated 100% is the stringy mess you sometimes get, but other than that it's really close. We use it for lasagnas.
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Aug 5, 2021 13:14
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Angrymog posted:From a health perspective vegan cheese seems to be Only seems to be delicious tbh, it's just fine most of the time.
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Aug 5, 2021 14:04
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Angrymog posted:I'm sorry, I really don't understand the point you're trying to make with the edit. Carbs are delicious.
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Aug 5, 2021 15:08
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Electrics sorted, الحمد لله Glad to hear it got sorted quickly, these situations always stress me the gently caress out. OwlFancier posted:Hello thread please have this video from my lunch break. 10/10 content gently caress's sake. On this day in 1902 (yeah gently caress you I'm doing on this day, not numbers) Edward VII was crowned king of the UK. I've not done any research, but I think it's fair to assume he was a dickhead. Miftan fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Aug 9, 2021 |
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Aug 9, 2021 15:34
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House chat: the sellers were rushing us after the survey and something smelled a bit off so we dropped the offer by 10k. Turns out the bit in the survey that says "wall ties show evidence of rust and pointing needs redoing" was 3 weeks of work and about 8k pounds so the walls wouldn't collapse and stop letting rain inside (the walls were literally dripping inwards every time it rained beyond a light drizzle)
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Aug 13, 2021 20:09
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Depends on what way the blue tick battalions go, IMO - if they're as coordinated as I believe they'll keep shtum apart from TAO and the more true believer mob, but they've all spent all weekend decrying Loach as basically Leni Riefenstahl and it's gonna be a bit jarring if they don't meet this with the same reaction. Only for people who pay attention. If nobody talks about the statement, nobody knows other than the left, so it won't be jarring because nobody will know about it.
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Aug 16, 2021 13:50
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Shyrka posted:Update on my leaky roof woes, apparently it's down to the chimney pointing being all hosed. Probably a much easier and cheaper fix than big roof issues though! We had ours redone for the same reason, make sure you get them to check the blocking on top of it as well, since ours was cracked and even if the pointing is 100% it'll still get through a cracked top.
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Aug 16, 2021 16:37
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OwlFancier posted:Refusing to recognize them as the government when they are materially governing the place seems like perfect angry dad energy. Not recognising someone as the legitimate government despite them governing is just a liberal excuse to justify military interventions in the future. "oh no, we'd never interfere in another countrys internal affairs and install a puppet government on our behalf - we're actually re-instating the ACTUAL (friendly to us) government!"
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Aug 17, 2021 15:33
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Anti-Derivative posted:okay this is just stupid, and I'm pretty sure even the other people disagreeing with me would even recognise this as a massive false equivalency. There are two tests for voting for someone: 1) do they have good policies (Labour under keith does not) and 2) do I believe they will actually follow through? (They will not, even if they had good policies, as evidenced by Starmer's 10 pledges during his leadership election). Starmer's policies are the same as the tories' but with a really stupid smile. Some small things might improve, or might not, because who knows if starmer will want to appear tough on benefits or some poo poo like that. Anti-Derivative posted:People felt the same about Donald Trump. "Clinton is a weak centrist and will poison the people to the left for generations!" "Trump will be so bad as to turn the people to REAL CHANGE". Joe Biden's only substantial difference from Trump is that he's not a grotesque caricature of american excess - their international policies (kids in cages, america first, healthcare, economy etc.) are essentially the same with the only difference being the american culture war stuff (abortions, trans rights, etc.) and even then Biden's democrats love paying lip service, and don't make things substantially worse, but they sure as hell aren't improving them either. This isn't as big an issue in the UK atm because the culture war isn't as pronounced as in the US. I don't believe that starmer's labour will be substantially better for trans people, for example, but their policies on the economy/healthcare/foreign affairs is still basically the same.
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Aug 17, 2021 20:35
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Failed Imagineer posted:Think outside of the box Big Cracker has trapped you in - the answer is one giant cracker. I will never pardon any Sorkinisms. Hand in your card. Anti-Derivative posted:Especially in a landscape where those with money and power are increasingly obtaining more levers to retain and ensure that power is never lost, even if a future third option one day becomes viable (Cambridge Analytica, Protest Bill). lol and you think a right wing labour government will change that in any way???
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Aug 17, 2021 22:12
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Failed Imagineer posted:I've transcended the point where I have to deny my history as a young lib-brained moron who liked Sorkin stuff. Mate I willingly joined the IDF when I was 18, so glass houses and all that 
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Aug 17, 2021 22:18
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Anti-Derivative posted:who knows. They opposed both those things though, whilst the other party actually used/tabled them. If you think they opposed those things on some sort of principal and not because 'it's not fair when the tories do it, but we totally would if we could get away with it' then I've got a bridge to NI to sell you
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Aug 17, 2021 22:23
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Anti-Derivative posted:I definitely think there are lots in the party who would oppose those things on principle. There will also be machiavellians who would argue that they should be used, of course, but the difference is that nearly all the Tories would fall into the latter group. and i think you're severely underestimating how many people in labour are on the good side of that equation. If nothing else, the "machiavellians" are definitely the people in charge and are doing their best to purge anyone who doesn't agree with them. Also thanks for the principle correction, english isn't my first language and despite living here for almost a decade at this point I still get stuff like that mixed up sometimes. Now I'm just terrible at 2 languages instead of being good at either
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Aug 17, 2021 22:48
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Borrovan posted:I remember knocking on a door in 2015 & the bloke saying he'd definitely be voting for Corbyn because Theresa May won't even bring back hanging for treason something something Brexit. Quickly noted him down as "for" and backed slowly away. Pretty impressive of that bloke to name drop both Corbyn and May before they were leaders of their party
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Aug 18, 2021 13:34
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Borrovan posted:What all of youse weren't pre-emptively canvassing people on the hypothetical assumption of what might happen 2 years later?? I suppose technically Corbyn got elected in 2015 and you didn't specify you were doing it for the GE so half your story checks out. e: ON THIS DAY in 1904 Australia gets its first ever labour government. Miftan fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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Aug 18, 2021 14:05
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Dabir posted:Hypothetical situation 1: You're walking down the street when two demons with stupid haircuts materialise in front of you. These Paglicacci memes are getting out of hand.
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Aug 18, 2021 17:20
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ThomasPaine posted:Thinking out loud here but Afghanistan has got me thinking about some of the limitations of anti-imperialist thinking. What do you do when a group like the Taliban takes over a country? or ISIS? Or whatever other fundamentalist religious/ethno-nationalist group that, when in power, is going to do a huge amount of harm to the people in that country? You can argue that Western intervention directly led to support for these organisations, sure, but once you're down to brass tacks how do you respond? Invading Afghanistan was poo poo and caused a whole heap of suffering, but then leaving it alone would have left the Taliban in charge, which may have made for a more stable country but still one governed according to rules that could see you beheaded or stoned for minor infringements of religious law, and therefore also a lot of suffering. I'm aware that the reasons for the occupation of Afghanistan were political, not ideological, because in practice the Taliban probably, once the irons have cooled, aren't meaningfully going to be any more lovely in government than the Saudis - who play ball - are today, and like the Saudis will learn to make small compromises towards Westerners and put a shiny veneer over their brutality. Nonetheless, the occupation itself was undoubtedly a bad thing, and the violence employed towards civilians during it was horrific, but unseating the Taliban - as an isolated thing in itself - was surely a good thing? I don't think the projection of power to regime change these kinds of essentially fascistic governments is a bad thing, though is it possible to do that without doing an imperialism? Would it be imperialism if the occupation had been used to materially benefit, rather than exploit, the Afghan population? A lot has been covered upthread, but since there are no communist/anarchist nations that are capable of projecting force like this, I will say that if liberal democracies want to intervene in other countrys' business because they're ruled by insanely brutal rules you have to do 2 things: 1) make sure there is an actual resistance. If people think that's the only/correct way to live (for example due to religious indoctrination) then you just can't fix it. You need local support 2) commit to investing at least double what you put into tanks/guns/etc. into reconstruction. A lot of recent invasions just blew up entire countries and then left them to fend for themselves. You need to rebuild them and put some locals in charge asap so it's a legitimate rule and not an occupying force running everything (and rebuild not in the corrupt bullshit way they did in Iraq by painting the same hospital 50 times to justify their 'reconstruction spending', though I have no idea how/if liberal democracies are even capable of infrastructure spending without corruption at this point, let alone abroad!)
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Aug 19, 2021 20:00
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learnincurve posted:Ama: air fryers. Air fryers suck for oven chips, but every time I've chopped up a potato and put it in there it's come out better than any oven chip I've ever had. Editor's note: this only work for chunky chips, please do not attempt skinny fries in this or any other way.
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Aug 20, 2021 20:13
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sebzilla posted:Pretty sure vegetarianism is <40% so that raises some further questions It's a stupid question, since those dogs are unlikely to be murdered by their Taliban along with their families, so even if you think animals lives are equivalent to human lives in abstract, the correct course of action there was to get the people out first. The other part is lots of people care about animals until it comes to food, basically Bobstar posted:Well obviously that question was asking about animals (cute) not animals (food)
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Aug 29, 2021 09:52
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sebzilla posted:Bees are definitely exploited in commercial honey production, the poor fuckers work all summer and then the product of their labour is taken and replaced with inferior sugar water to keep a bare minimum of them alive through the winter. And there's a bunch of weird poo poo around clipping queen's wings to stop her flying off to start a new colony etc. It's definitely not "we just take the excess honey that bees don't need or want, we're doing them a favour really!" as it's portrayed, but it's nowhere near as awful as basically every meat/dairy production bullshit.
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Aug 29, 2021 13:50
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OwlFancier posted:They are going to make the cats do prayers I've seen photographs. You just position the prayer mat so that it's in sunlight and the cats will do the rest themselves.
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Aug 30, 2021 10:28
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Angrymog posted:What I saw when on holiday is Jordan is that you'd only see dogs minding the herds of goats. In Petra there were cats all over the place - they didn't seem to be anyone's cats, but they weren't being mistreated either - the locals seemed quite happy to have the cats just wandering around their stalls, and the cats knew the gig with chatting up tourists for snacks. Stray cats are just a fact of life in a lot of places in the middle east. They're everywhere.
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Aug 30, 2021 13:39
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Mega Comrade posted:On the subject of money though. I'm in the very privileged position of having increased income while still living like the cheap bum I have for the past 20 odd years. So I'd like to put some of that excess towards some charitable causes. Doctors without borders, Syrian American Medical Society are both good ones as far as I know. You can also use this website if you're a Numbers Fuckstein kinda person. The UKMT solidarity fund is always a good shout, and really help some really nice goons. Last, I would always recommend finding something local. Depending on where you are, try seeing if there are any animal rescue farms or anything of the sort near you.
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Aug 31, 2021 17:13
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