UKMT October 2021 - It's the Great Sewage Pump, Clifton-Brown

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Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

MeinPanzer posted:

Moving chat:

There's a distinct possibility that my wife and I are going to have to move from Fife, Scotland to Exeter in January. Unfortunately, while my wife has her driver's license here, I don't yet (I'm Canadian and have to take a driving test to switch my license to a UK one, but COVID delays have meant that I can't any time soon). This pretty much rules out us renting a truck and then moving that way, so I'm considering pod or container delivery services.

Has anyone had experience with moving within the UK via pod or container delivery? Any advice, either in how to proceed or what companies are good/bad?

I don't have any advice but if you do wind up here hit me up in PMs, join the Exeter goon contingent

forkboy84 posted:

The best things about the Craig films was the Adam & Joe Quantum of Solace themes from their radio show way back in the distant past.

Quoted for truth, with evidence and bonus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8hAMhLoQUc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6CoNUE5Zho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN86LixkkrU

Pistol_Pete posted:

I'd quite like it if regular small tornadoes were part of the English weather system. (The fun type, not the dangerous type.)

Like, you're out on the local high street and suddenly a tornado materialises and moves down the street and everyone cringes back into the shop doorways and stuff and a couple of awnings get ripped from the store fronts and are dramatically flung hundreds of feet in the air and then the tornado dissipates as quickly as it began and everyone stands around for a bit brushing rainwater off themselves and going: "Ooh, did you see that, came straight out of nowhere, didn't it!" and then everyone goes back to getting on with their day again.

It'd be cosy

We'll see what the climate change fairy brings I guess

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Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Deketh posted:

"I know they sell big bags of solace, but I don't want 'em" is such an amazing line, I think about it around once a month I reckon

lol same

Sanford posted:

I�m wondering if I should revisit a previous discussion with my painfully-centrist sister - she was absolutely furious when I told her to stop teaching my daughter that �you can always trust the police.�

Honestly I would, and not just to be a dick. Like someone said ITT, this does seem to be hitting differently than usual

# ¿ Oct 1, 2021 13:32

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Beefeater1980 posted:

It�s the same posters though, so unless there�s soul transference at work there�s something more to it.

It is normal and in fact common to use humour in bad or even intolerable situations? Like, depressed people are often very funny. Look at all good comedians, for example.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 17:21

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

His Divine Shadow posted:

Man I feel kinda bad. Three weeks ago I handed in an audio cassette and a Video tape, audio cassette has a recording from when my granddad turned 65 and the video tape is a bunch of home video shot in the 80s. Figured I should have them digitalized when I saw an ad for it.

I handed them in to the guy who did it and he was probably in his late 70s, said it'd take a week. Didn't hear from him for two weeks, sent a few mails to ask him about the status, then I also sent an old fashioned SMS and he said sorry he's been in hospital for over a week, but he was getting home this weekend and would finish the job. Last night I get another SMS from his wife who said her husband has died and his son would be finishing the job.

First of all it feels really weird to have been in communication with someone who sounded like they where getting better and going home, then hear a couple of days later they died. Then also I pestered him about work like days before he died.

You weren't to know, it's not like you hassled him once you found out. I get feeling guilty but you didn't do anything wrong.

e; f,b but yeah

# ¿ Oct 6, 2021 09:51

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

'nother liberal sex pest

https://twitter.com/lucysiegle/status/1445669192246566920

# ¿ Oct 6, 2021 11:05

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

sebzilla posted:

https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1445745336396382208?t=Llu5n7Tv14tpRviXFhW1vQ&s=19

lol

lmao delicious

# ¿ Oct 6, 2021 14:54

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Made it as far as the point where tories started talking, then had to turn it off

so about 59 seconds

# ¿ Oct 6, 2021 18:08

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

namesake posted:

Bodily autonomy is always a limited, socially mediated right. There are absolutely conditions and limitations put on a persons right to be and to do things with their body and that's not a bad thing inherently. Simply existing in a society means you have a impact on the collective and that should burden society with responsibility to the individual and the individual with responsibility to society. If a person is existing in a way to cause harm or risk to others then society at large is completely within its rights to force corrective action against the individual, the biological, unknowing nature of the threat doesn't change that.

There certainly can be other less intrusive methods to create safe collective areas and they should be considered first as well as the longer term view of uptake and attitudes to such measures (not to mention the obvious class dynamics of any such requirements) but i don't think mandatory vaccinations breach any sort of ethical line in principle.

Could this line of argument be used re: drug use?

Not really taking sides, just thinkin' out loud

# ¿ Oct 7, 2021 14:10

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Spangly A posted:

It is the main argument deployed against drug use, against harm reduction programs, and in favour of harsh penalties.

The important difference is that mandatory safe and effective vaccines is a policy with a public benefit, and all methods to discourage drug use are a public detriment. "You should be allowed to do w/e" would be a dreadful argument if prohibition actually worked

Yeah, makes sense

# ¿ Oct 7, 2021 14:22

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Gonzo McFee posted:

People should stop arguing and just agree with my marvellous posts.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2021 15:24

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Gonzo McFee posted:

You've made a powerful enemy today, my friend.

No I haven't :mad:

# ¿ Oct 7, 2021 15:32

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

goddamnedtwisto posted:

It's "--
"

The newline is important, and clients that got it wrong in either posting or reading would get laughed out of the cool kids club on Usenet. You'll *never* know my opinions about whether Kirk or Picard is better with that sort of scrub newsreader. Next you'll be telling me you don't even know how to sacrifice the goat to post in the monastery.

Picard

# ¿ Oct 8, 2021 13:00

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Failed Imagineer posted:

Sisko

Fair

# ¿ Oct 8, 2021 13:07

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

keep punching joe posted:

More starmer news

https://twitter.com/itssophiemorris/status/1446450178437914626?t=CsRUuNf5hH7Nyj5uCfx8PA

Fuckin' liar, everyone knows he's a ketamine fiend

# ¿ Oct 8, 2021 13:52

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Wolfsbane posted:

My wife comes from Cornwall and claims to be able to understand the hot fuzz guy perfectly. On the other hand I had to translate for her when we went up to Newcastle to meet my relatives.

My folks are from bath and could understand him just fine.

I remember a video did the rounds on SA with a bunch of old Somerset lads chatting about the old days, it was blowing american posters' minds

# ¿ Oct 11, 2021 10:02

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Jakabite posted:

Jesus imagine winning a million and deciding to live on 20k a year for the rest of your life, I wonder about you lot sometimes I really do

I genuinely wouldn't know what to do with much more, if all the usual Big Costs of life were sorted.

A fancy car or fancy clothes or whatever hold absolutely no interest for me, I don't like cocaine and other good drugs are p.cheap, and I don't intend on travelling much anymore because of the environment. What else is there?

# ¿ Oct 11, 2021 10:04

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Big telly and banging speakers.

Failed Imagineer posted:

Nice food, expensive musical instruments and gear, buying toys for your dog. That's about it

Agreed on all counts (I'd maybe get a dog as well!) but all easily done on 20k without mortgage worries.

I would definitely make a home studio and a wanky home listening room (maybe in the same room), that'd be my one Rich Thing.

Also I'd probably develop a graphics card habit, that would be my other one

# ¿ Oct 11, 2021 10:24

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

OwlFancier posted:

This one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjTIFkWJctY

I struggle with it for sure.

That's the one!

I get 100% of the travelling dude, about 80% of the first two fellas, and about 60-70% of the other two.

They remind me of my ol grampy :unsmith:

I do find that accent very comforting. My folks intentionally and self-consciously speak "properly" so I don't get to hear it so much any more. Even down in Exeter most people speak boring old standard issue TV English (kinda estuary-esque)

Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Oct 11, 2021

# ¿ Oct 11, 2021 13:09

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

sebzilla posted:

I can imagine it because it nearly happened

If anything, that makes it worse.

It makes it much worse, yes

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 09:52

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

keep punching joe posted:

Imagine being Irish and also being somehow surprised that a British Prime Minister is a duplicitous piece of poo poo.

I get the impression that it's a performative thing, like you have to say "I am shocked and appalled, who could've believed such a thing would've happened?!" even though everyone knew it was coming, because you have to pretend like there was always basic good faith involved.

Like an Emperor's New Clothes thing, except the Emperor is the norms of international relations, or something?

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 11:21

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

His Divine Shadow posted:

"How's Starmer doing?"
"Well, badly."

I dunno why I found that funny, might be because I am not a native speaker, I guess we find certain things funny that native speakers don't.

Failed Imagineer posted:

Nah I had the same thought and I nominally speak English as a first language. I think the key is to have an appreciation of extremely dumb wordplay

Also if you're a 90s kid and from around London (and maybe elsewhere? I dunno, it was before the internet) then "well badly" as well

He got done wewl badly
I want to go to see that wewl badly
etc

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 13:36

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/CharlesCrossLPP/status/1447956442468732930

The Plymouth Herald article showed a photo of some of the intercepted packages.

It was nice to write this, especially considering that it was Charles Cross police officers who arrested me for cannabis crimes back in the day.

https://twitter.com/stuwyatt/status/1448267776272044033

lol lamentably poo poo stealth on those packages, shameful

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 14:52

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Guavanaut posted:

Otoh Britain's housing stock is poo poo, and combined with gas prices and utility interruptions a bunch of the people going "lol drive over insulate britain" today might be thinking "gently caress i wish someone had insulated britain" in a couple months' time.

Hahaha when has the great british pissblic ever changed their minds in light of new evidence?

lol drive over insulate britain, lol do a brexit, lol vote conservative, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 16:23

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Brendan Rodgers posted:

A few months ago when I tried the Audible trial, it made me start wondering if I have some kind of auditory processing issue, or something like ADD, based on what I've seen other people describe those things as.

I consider myself "decent at reading", I guess, I'm not smart, or some kind of Shakespeare elitist, but I can read things like House of Leaves or 19th century literature. I love reading books.

But when I was listening to audiobooks during that free month I would really struggle to "see" the scenes in my head, because my brain was struggling to process the audio fast enough. I had to keep rewinding. I tried quite a few genres.

I've noticed that I really struggle to take in information through my ear holes, whether it's podcasts or audiobooks or whatever, or even when people talk to me. But I suspect it's probably down to lack of practice in my case.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 18:43

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

goddamnedtwisto posted:

The most British headline:

https://twitter.com/MENnewsdesk/status/1448746002601680899

Brekkie and a show, noice

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 11:22

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Trickjaw posted:

I doubt you would be left with any appetite for a bap.

You don't know me :mrgw:

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 11:48

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

I've no sympathy at all, but yeah, not looking forward to the blowback on this.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 13:55

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Lol that's fired up an extremely long-ago memory of getting into a fight (a "proper" after-school-in-the-park-with-people-shouting-fight fight) with the kid who sat next to me in primary school. The teacher asked for examples of what might happen at a GP surgery and I said "surgery" because I wasn't actually sure what the word meant, just that it was something medical, but the teacher didn't hear me. So the kid next to me shouted it out as loud as he could at the next lull and the teacher chuckled and said that wasn't what the word meant (although to this day I *still* don't know why we use the same word for "place you go to talk to someone" and "someone cutting you up") but it was a good try, and the kid reckoned I'd done it deliberately to make him look stupid.

That kid is now a RtB landlord who funded his first purchases with the money he made as a Java developer in the dotcom boom.

lmao that punchline

fuctifino posted:

I wonder if we'll ever find out the true motives of the person who stabbed him?

If I had to guess, considering the timing, I'd put my money on someone who is becoming destitute due to the �20pw UC cut. There are a lot of very desperate and stressed people at the moment.

Seems most likely to me, yeah

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 14:28

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Bobby Deluxe posted:

The real reason almost doesn't matter at this point. Either way they'll somehow spin it to attack the left.

De verdad

EDIT welp

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 15:05

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Looke posted:

loving hate the discourse around poo poo like this with statements saying how kind and generous X was, despite them voting to royal shaft the poor and throw asylum seekers back out to sea

it's grotesque, yeah

but mawkish sentimentality about complete pieces of poo poo is basically the UK's raison d'etre

EDIT sorry REASON TO BE

I didnt mean to use FRENCH words from the CONTINANT

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 16:22

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

I suppose it's bad that when this all kicked off I wasn't surprised at all. If anything one of my first thoughts was "I'm surprised it's taken this long". poo poo is getting so bad in this country, and it's not going to be getting better any time soon (for anyone other than the wealthy and powerful, of course). Things are only going to get spicier as things deteriorate further.

Jo Cox was genuinely shocking and upsetting, in comparison. What a difference five years makes.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 16:36

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Spangly A posted:

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10009/david_amess/southend_west/votes

Thoughts and prayers xx

lol what an absolute piece of poo poo

Bobby Deluxe posted:

I was genuinely surprised Corbyn didn't get merced when things were at their worst.

Yeah same

E Oh yeah they did as well, I forgot about that

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 16:45

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Ginette Reno posted:

That's kinda crazy that the UK is like that. I don't think you would ever see a senator in the US without some form of security in a public forum.

There are very few guns in the UK.

WhatEvil posted:

Yeah and it wasn't just the thing with him getting egged either, somebody actually drove a van into someone and killed them, with the original aim of taking out Corbyn.

The fact that I, idiot politics junkie and Corbynista, managed to forget it shows just how effectively it was memory-holed.

Well, memory-holed implies it was noticed in the first place - IIRC it barely made headlines

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 16:50

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

namesake posted:

Getting mad at the Financial Times use of Socialism as explanation for the missing page, particularly aggrevating since they'd managed to do a neutral one for Marxism.

Yeah that jumped out at me too, the rest of them are pretty clever but then you get some fwd: fwd: fwd: bullshit, just for that one entry

# ¿ Oct 16, 2021 11:24

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

atal posted:

stuff like this is why only weirdos post in this thread anymore

Who the gently caress are you?

# ¿ Oct 16, 2021 13:19

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Shyrka posted:

loving incredible that the 'prime minister's dad' is given airtime like that.

He's such a character though! He's a larf!

# ¿ Oct 16, 2021 14:21

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JoylessJester posted:

At what point does 'antisemitism' just lose all meaning and historical context? Isn't this incredibly short sighted?

This is very antisemitic of you

# ¿ Oct 18, 2021 12:48

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keep punching joe posted:

Zoomers are redistributing wealth from their rich grandparents with one weird trick.

https://twitter.com/NewsForAllUK/status/1450169033756758023?t=aPopd1QDREykIdgYmPKI8A

Ah yeah great I was just thinking old people need to be more arrogant and belligerent and to never shut the gently caress up except even moreso

# ¿ Oct 19, 2021 12:29

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crispix posted:

nah i reckon rush or deep purple

I think that guy looks like a Jethro Tull guy, myself

I just got this feeling

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 10:16

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

peanut- posted:

This country is already running at an absolute fever pitch of insanity, I'm genuinely concerned about how unhinged things will get if she dies imminently.

Yeah honestly I'm not sure I can take it right now

# ¿ Oct 20, 2021 11:45

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