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'Sup wiggidy wieners. So I haven't seen my daughter in person since the start of the pandemic and I have finally bit the bullet and bought tickets to fly over to Glasgow to see her for her birthday. From the Scot's goons, what are the odds that a lockdown will be declared before the middle of September, or am I fairly likely to be allowed travel over to Scotland and actually spend time with her?
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Sep 8, 2021 14:08
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They're not *zero*, but I'd say they're extremely remote. One complexity might be that Scotgov have previously enacted travel and gathering restrictions completely independently, but generally they've been more or less in line with rUK restrictions, just with different timing. If UKGov aren't talking about it it's very unlikely to happen at least in the next two weeks, and so far the most has been said is a general rumbling about maybe looking at it by half term in October if numbers in children go vertical. Thanks, I sort of figured it. Like worst case the flights are cheap but non refundable (it would cost me more to upgrade my flights with Aer Lingus from non refundable tickets to refundable ones than it would to just write them off.) And the car hire and accommodation can all be cancelled if things change. Not that I'm hoping for this to happen, I really want to go over to see her. I even have a super sealed mask to wear for the flight, and PCVR testing booked for after I get home.
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Sep 8, 2021 14:56
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sinky posted:One weird trick for avoiding legal action, lawyers hate this So reading that link (and this article that goes into some additional hilarious details about how the Doorman basically said “you’re not getting in and we’re not bringing those papers up to his Lordship”) they seem to be trading on a “you can’t sue Prince Andrew, because you signed an agreement to take money from him in exchange for never talking about all the sex crimes he did.” Like I understand that it is potentially a legal defence to the Civil Action, but done in such a way that makes him look 100% guilty in the eyes of the court of popular opinion. Prince Andrew’s lawyer says documents will absolve him of liability in sex assault case https://jrnl.ie/5548535
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Sep 14, 2021 12:16
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Borrovan posted:Not sure myself. Legalistically, ime no civil litigant in the history of earth has every accepted that they ever did anything even a little bit wrong, settlements are always just entered into for pragmatic reasons with no admission of guilt. More practically, all anyone's really gonna pay attention to is the fact that he won, which means he can't have done anything because just world no I won't read the judgment fa lala lala. The "I didn't do anything wrong. It was just easier to write a cheque and reach a settlement" may be legally correct. And a bunch of times, it is the right tactical move to make (unless you have the unlimited resources to fight and defeat all spurious claims*.) But it always makes you look super skeevy. If you are explaining how settling doesn't make you guilty, you're losing. Borrovan posted:
Yeah but only at an innuendo level. This moves it to the stage where everyone can openly refer to Andrew as a man who paid a settlement to a women to close a civil case about sexual trafficking. *= Why one would need a fantastic amount of wealth to do this. Like it's a royal amount of wealth. Edit: This cat has paid a number of settlements to settle cases in civil animal court over the unlawful killing of a number of mice, rabbits, birds, water fowl and baby ducklings. He was caught on camera in his snipers nest. 
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Sep 14, 2021 14:50
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Borrovan posted:If he wins at trial owing to having already settled, and headline news isn't "BELOVED PRINCE VINDICATED OF ALL WRONGDOING", I'll buy you a coke I'll take that bet. Mostly because the foreign press (and especially the Irish press) will make him sound as guilty as possible. That's how they framed the article I linked last page.
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Sep 14, 2021 15:48
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the sex ghost posted:Mrs ghost works in a museum and they've had a visit from an unnamed former MP who now makes tv programmes about trains. She was going to get him to sign a Bradshaw's guide and give it to me for Christmas as a joke but he was such a knobhead she didn't bother You'll have to narrow that down. There is an Irish former TD (the Irish equivalent of an MP) who also makes programmes about trains. Though from what I heard, nobody thinks he is a knobhead in real life. (Politically is another story.)
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Sep 14, 2021 15:58
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Failed Imagineer posted:He was also Taoiseach, probably worth mentioning. And I think he's a dickhead I was more amazed that their was a Venn Diagram overlap between "former politician" and "wants to do a TV show about trains."
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Sep 14, 2021 18:45
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I admit that I would at least watch the pilot episode of FIVE MEN EATING CRISPS but I doubt I'd be in for a full season. I would love to watch a program where someone actually follows through on people's disproportionate threats of violence over minor etiquette infractions. Like a drama where this woman does brutally murder five men and explains that the reason she did it was because they were eating crisps on a train, as if it is the most blindingly obvious case of provocation ever. Or someone stabbing a person to death in am office because they didn't put their phone on silent. Maybe make it into an urban paranormal series.
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Sep 15, 2021 12:19
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The Perfect Element posted:You might want to watch classic Michael Douglas movie 'Falling Down'... Sort of. I more had the anime series, Paranoia Agent, in mind. The idea of taking a real world phenomenon (how social media seems to be making everyone angrier) and making it into a paranomal threat.
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Sep 15, 2021 12:34
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/17/prince-philip-duke-edinburgh-will-secret-90-years-queen-dignity I know the judge here is trying to sound above board and makes it clear he hasn't read the Will and it is not a comment on the contents. But it just makes it sound like Philip left all his stuff to his mistress in the Will and it's being sealed so it won't come out until after everyone is long dead. Also a bit of saltiness from the papers about how they don't get to attend the court proceedings on this so that's why they are focusing so much on what they can report.
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Sep 17, 2021 11:55
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Failed Imagineer posted:DUPers furious that the President of Ireland didn't accept their invite to celebrate the partition of Ireland - plus the invite addressed him as the President of Republic of Ireland (a soccer team) Best Tweet about this https://twitter.com/RealPMurphy/status/1438768303758057473?s=19
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Sep 17, 2021 23:06
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Failed Imagineer posted:Well, it's a woman, so you've all outed yourselves as massive chauvinists. So far her swiss rolls were shite, don't worry I'll keep the thread updated even if noone gives a poo poo Ha ha! Swiss Roll is slang for bum hole.
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Sep 21, 2021 21:20
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Anyone know anything about this? Reading the attached legislation, the wording is that the collar has to have the name/address tag on it. However, if you had proof that the harness the dog was in had their name and address on it, I'd imagine most judges would dismiss the case as no harm would have arisen. Could you just put a collar with a name tag on your dog but use a harness as well for the walks. That's what I do with my boarder collie.
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Sep 22, 2021 15:54
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Bobby Deluxe posted:we really do require more vespene gas Boris heard a voice in the mid 90's that said "Spawn More Overlords!" and that's why he has so many children.
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Sep 22, 2021 20:07
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So the new episode of Podcasting is Praxis dropped, and they have new artwork for the show. And the artwork shows Great Britain with the Hammer and Sickle over it. But as far as I can see it doesn't show Northern Ireland on the image. So the podcast image seems to be showing Great Britain as opposed to showing the United Kingdom.
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Sep 23, 2021 11:55
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OwlFancier posted:I just blocked a chimney today for a friend, weird loving chimney though, at one point it was retrofitted with a hilariously unsafe gas fire and presumably at the same time it was partially filled in, with only what looks like a hollowed out tin of beans in the middle as the actual escape. I remember going into a hardware store once to get fireplace cleaning equipment for when I was living in an apartment in the city. They sold special balloons which were designed to inflate and stick in your chimney to reduce the draft when you are not using it, and be easy to remove if you decide to light a fire.
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Sep 23, 2021 14:10
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OwlFancier posted:Yes that was what she had bought to block it, and which would presumably have been appropriate had not someone blasted a bean tin up the brickwork and left a gap no larger than my fist. So I just stuffed the bag up there, the fireplace isn't in use so frankly a novelty sized cork would have been fine. You should have traveled to large cork world where they make oversized corks for those oversized bottles of booze to use on the chimney. That or traveled to small balloon world and gotten a small balloon for the chimney.
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Sep 23, 2021 14:19
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They were talking about this over in the PoliticalToons thread but one of the cartoonist for the Telegraph (Bob Moran) has got suspended for calling on a doctor to be harassed. Or to use this Tweet to sum it up. https://twitter.com/christhebarker/status/1442872654747242497?s=19
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Sep 28, 2021 23:34
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Or they think he's lying to woo the gammony labour voters before he enacts his secret plan to rejoin Europe. As always, the Simpsons explains it best. 
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Sep 29, 2021 10:45
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There is a line in the story about him deleting the contents of his phone minutes before he was arrested. Which means either the cops came in sirens blazing and he did it then. Or he got a last minute tip off that he was about to be arrested and destroyed his phone then.
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Sep 29, 2021 12:07
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Failed Imagineer posted:I really enjoyed the new Bond film, but there's numerous moments where someone in MI6 says "I need to call the Prime Minister" and all I could do was imagine BSJ wibbling on the other end of the line. Actually the whole conceit of Britain exerting any kind of influence overseas seems more and more fanciful. Otherwise good stuff tho I haven't seen the new Bond film yet, but I dis see this headline on the Daily Mail which left me spitting bullets.  I've said it before but apart from Casino Royal, I hate the Craig Bond films. It's very obvious he doesn't like playing James Bond*, QoS is a mess of a film**, Skyfall explicitly hates the concept of Bond movies and itself*** and Spectre is just a bad film****. I'll probably end up watching NTTD at somepoint because I am very fond of Bond but I don't expect I'll like it. * = And I don't blame Daniel Craig for this. He's obviously getting a lot of money to do a job he doesn't like. I do blame the people who hired a man who doesn't like the role. **= Yes I knew the writers strike screwed things up. But man the film is the equivalent of a game that keeps crashing until it's been patched months later. Great opening theme, and Bond murdering Elon Musk in the desert is good to see. ***= Skyfall is like the epitome of mid 2010 centrist. All these previous things were stupid, not like our own ill-thought out ideas. No wonder they had Bond show up to the Olympic Ceremony. ****= Spectre doesn't even have the excuse of a writers strike. At least the Sony emails about it are funny.
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Sep 30, 2021 22:59
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