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Twitter is abuzz today with this perfect London class divide microcosm. People who don't own the handful of multimillion pound penthouses (and merely rent or own 'affordable' units costing a mere £700k) in these blocks have to look out of their windows and watch the super rich splash about on a giant platform made of hubris. I hear it's unsinkable. https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1399678383727034369?s=19
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ANYTHING YOU SOW posted:https://twitter.com/HugoGye/status/1400079678635876352?s=19 This time around refusing the jab puts themselves at risk, rather than their children. e: Why is 16-29 one giant bracket when the rest are in four year intervals?
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Jun 2, 2021 14:35
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I feel like there has to be a huge number of over 70s who just have no contact with anyone and no way of getting to a vaccination centre even if they wanted to.
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Jun 2, 2021 16:03
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Szmitten posted:lol bollocks that half of 30-34s already got one in that brief window. Mine still isn't scheduled for two weeks. 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.
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Jun 2, 2021 17:19
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:(Mind you, I'm not totally sure what 'catching up' means - catching up with who or what?) They need to catch up to the arbitrary milestones that will determine the next 70 years of their lives for reasons.
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Jun 2, 2021 22:59
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Yeah I remember spending a lot of time learning simultaneous equations. It's on the pile of things I remember knowing about but don't actually remember, along with sin/cos/tan and differentials.
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Jun 3, 2021 08:48
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Guavanaut posted:You won't be carrying a calculator with you every day when you're older Even then a scientific calculator wasn't much bigger than a modern smartphone so a sufficiently nerdy person absolutely could carry a calculator around.
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Jun 3, 2021 09:26
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Financial literacy has been deliberately omitted from school curriculums. Along with British history outside the Tudors, Victorians and our stunning war victories.
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Jun 3, 2021 10:15
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blunt posted:Nobody "gets away" with this, it is noted The trick is to hold off until at least a few people have left or some people have had enough and everyone's drunk enough not to notice that you've got the cheapest round in.
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Jun 3, 2021 11:32
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Prosecco successfully replaced both champagne and white wine for a lot of people. I don't know how. It's fine for a glass or two.
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Jun 3, 2021 11:45
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Places that make you order via app post-Covid have done wonders for the group pub experience. More often than not people will just order a drink as and when they want one since it takes seconds to do. It's probably very bad for pub staff though since Tim Martin was doing it years ago.
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Jun 3, 2021 16:22
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Welp: poo poo like this really makes me feel like this isn't going to end, even if that's obviously not the case.
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Jun 3, 2021 19:33
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:If anything is going to finally negatively affect Johnson, I think if June 21st doesn't happen, this might be it. The man told everyone they could have a normal Christmas and yanked it away with less than a week's notice. Even that didn't dent the fucker.
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Jun 3, 2021 22:47
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Borrovan posted:Over a year since I had Covid, it was barely a nuisance but I still get out of breath walking to the shop despite exercising ~10 hours a week, no idea what the vaccine does about that Fwiw I'm 99% sure I'm in the exact same boat and the two doses of the vaccine haven't stopped it. namesake posted:Fair enough on the vaccine effectiveness, but the forecasts are still expecting thousands of deaths because the opening up is getting ahead of the vaccination program. Call me an ignorant hussy but who are these dying people? Everyone with a vaguely high mortality rate has been vaccinated now - obviously there'd be some deaths but I'd have thought no-where near as many as there were pre-vaccine.
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Jun 3, 2021 23:04
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crispix posted:i won't be around to be embarrassed about people e.g. having to clear out my dildo drawer Share the wealth. Bundle them with Camrath's fudge.
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Jun 4, 2021 19:23
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Yeah I'm getting major "if you can't handle our toxic workplace culture you can simply resign" vibes from that. Very much missing the point.
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Jun 10, 2021 11:01
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Leap year days should be bank holidays. What's the point otherwise?
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Jun 10, 2021 11:42
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Every day there's a different source leaking a different story. Johnson obviously hasn't decided yet and probably won't until 5.45pm on Monday.
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Jun 11, 2021 22:51
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ThomasPaine posted:As someone who was pretty anxious about it last year I really am beginning to get the point where I think the mental health outcomes of further lockdowns might well outweigh the damage done by another modest spike amongst a mostly vaccinated population. If we'd gone full strict shutdown with no exceptions for a bit like China did in wuhan, that would have been fair enough, and we'd have been through it and back to normal by now like they are. Our approach of intermittent confused, half arsed lockdowns with a million exceptions is basically pointless as long term strategy. You simply cannot put an entire country in house arrest for years on end without serious consequences, especially for people who live alone or in lovely situations, and that does need to be considered and weighed up. I'm kind of with this. I get the feeling that Johnson won't go backwards under any circumstances. We're mostly vaccinated now and he had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the last lockdown (when people were dying in the thousands). So pubs, restaurants and stadiums aren't likely to close their doors again unless things go spectacularly wrong, and even then it'll be too late like it has been every other time. So you start to wonder what the point of the rest of it is. From a purely selfish perspective my wedding was postponed for the third time and we picked a date very soon after the 21st not realising we'd lucked into the promised 'end of lockdown' date. The last month or so has been utterly poo poo, basically having no idea what we will or won't be allowed to do on our wedding day and not knowing which - if any - of the plans we've made will actually amount to anything. Walking past pubs full of hundreds of people while we may not be able to have more than 30 even if we moved it all outdoors is maddening.
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Jun 11, 2021 23:50
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Borrovan posted:I'm feeling very conflicted about gb news. On the one hand, I want to see them embarrass themselves. On the other, literally the entire point is to generate clickbaitey clips of right wingers embarrassing themselves so they can claim they're triggering snowflakes, the actual best result is just that nobody cares enough to even laugh. Yeah the best result would be if it was quietly closed because no one watched it. It was aggravating to see every single Twitter leftist giving it the oxygen of publicity yesterday.
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Jun 14, 2021 09:44
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I got my first dose of AZ a few weeks before they decided to stop giving it to the youngs. Wish I hadn't had it so early now. 
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Jun 14, 2021 17:44
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Lindsay Hoyle trying to muscle in on Bercow's legacy by telling Johnson off like a child on live TV.
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Jun 14, 2021 20:34
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NoneMoreNegative posted:On my doormat today; hey I tell you I'd not have been happy if I'd got all the way to the depot before realising. Does this work on anyone? If I feel like someone's trying to trick me in any way with their advertising (even if it's a cheeky joke) I tend to bin it and vow never to use the cunts.
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Jun 17, 2021 19:55
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I love a spreadsheet but I hate doing anything practical outside of the spreadsheet so reading the meter manually sounds like a bad time.
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Jun 18, 2021 14:28
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bump_fn posted:make bercow leader god knows he couldn’t be worse Honestly not a bad shout. He actually has a personality and is known for publicly dressing down the Tories. If nothing else he'd actually attempt to oppose them every now and then.
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Jun 19, 2021 19:30
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keep punching joe posted:Lol mcafee spent the last year telling everyone that US officials had been threatening him, and that he would never kill himself. Exactly what you'd say if you had a plan to top yourself and wanted to gently caress poo poo up. 
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Jun 23, 2021 22:18
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Don't be a curtain twitcher unless someone's in immediate danger or it's 3am.
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Jun 26, 2021 20:12
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kingturnip posted:Hancock going at least makes it less likely that Dido Harding will be front-and-centre to asset-strip the NHS. Is that less likely under Javid? Seems like it would be just as if not more likely.
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Jun 26, 2021 20:42
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Of all the bad things Starmer's Labour has done, the absolute ghoulishness of pushing a dead woman's sister into the limelight purely to guilt trip people into voting for them may be the worst, just for what it tells us of how nakedly uncaring they are of anything but their own greed. Does she have any political experience whatsoever? LinkedIn says she's been a personal trainer for the last 15 years. Not to say MP candidates need political experience but it really feels like they asked her to do it purely because of her name rather than her being the right person for the job or actually having any interest in doing it.
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Jun 27, 2021 23:27
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kingturnip posted:I think the loonies that frontbencher is talking about and the loonies the Tories are talking about are two very different groups of people I'm just amazed that ostensibly serious people still use the word 'loony' as an insult in TYOOL 2021.
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Jun 28, 2021 13:53
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forkboy84 posted:It's a pretty fun word to say It feels like one of those things that's not really on though, and should just be avoided altogether given that it was traditionally used to stigmatise mental health problems. If it was still in common use by anyone other than elderly tories I imagine it would be about as acceptable as the bad R and S. stev fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Jun 28, 2021 |
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Jun 28, 2021 14:27
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The Perfect Element posted:https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ndroidApp_Other quote:It said the valuation was “reasonable based on multiple factors – including the price we paid for its manufacture, the constituent metal and quality of the final product, the standard retail markup and the rarity and uniqueness of the cans.” So they literally just decided it was worth £15k because they guesstimated that that was the value of a collectible novelty can. ie "someone might conceivably pay that much for it". I feel like this should count as competition fraud but I'm sure there's a loophole to make them legally sound on Normal Island.
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Jun 29, 2021 00:13
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Borrovan posted:Saw someone whose name I can't remember (she's Indian I think?) on the telly last year who's normally really funny, but no, the telly got a full set of "my husband" jokes & it was bad. If you mean Sindhu Vee she seems likeable but I cannot find her funny for the life of me. I saw her at a comedy club night just before she broke onto the panel show circuit and she bombed horribly. There's loads of really good female comedians but as you say they're never allowed to get quite as famous as the men. I think Comedy Central and Dave have just started piloting panel shows presented by women, a few years ago that was unthinkable.
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Jun 29, 2021 11:39
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josh04 posted:You have to take a Tom Allen. The British public will continue to receive Tom Allen until morale improves. He makes Professional Bake Off nigh unwatchable for me. You can always tell that Bake Off contestants find the host banter irritating when they're trying to concentrate, but he just comes off as nails on chalkboard. If I were a baker I'd be kicked off the show for screaming in his face after a few hours. I wonder how Andy Parsons got picked up by Kerb in the first place. Were they just desperate for talent at the time or does he know someone who knows someone?
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Jun 29, 2021 12:11
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I like the honeymoon one and I'm going to tell my FIL that it's definitely true.
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Jun 29, 2021 12:50
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learnincurve posted:This is a separate episode in which they sing a song to their slum landlord in which they indicate he is the best, The gently caress is this.
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Jun 29, 2021 13:15
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What happened to Dylan Moran anyway? He was in basically every British film and sitcom made in the 2000s but I've not seen him in years.
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Jun 29, 2021 15:33
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm being a little edgy lol World's End is pretty widely acknowledged to be the worst one by far. I think it does some interesting stuff and some parts are really tragic, but it's not particularly funny or memorable. SotD and Hot Fuzz are both GOAT films though and I can't think of much at all that hasn't aged well with them.
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Jun 29, 2021 16:26
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Josef bugman posted:Also Worlds End isn't great. It's still great cinematography, but the story feels a touch thin on occasion. Could have done with more time to sand the edges off. I also think it suffers from spending too much time in the oven/development hell. SotD came three years after Spaced, and Hot Fuzz came another three years later. Then Pegg, Frost and Wright were all famous enough to be busy with more profitable, high profile gigs and it was six years before World's End got made. It just sort of felt like they'd lost the momentum that they'd spent a decade building up and the magic was sort of gone. I'd still like them to work together again one day though.
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Black pudding is nice. 
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