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James Bond is the Sonic the Hedgehog of films - cracking theme tunes, occasionally great moments, has enough fun elements that make you wish it was better than it frequently is, somehow doesn't stop you looking back on it wistfully in a way that's hard to actually justify.
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Goldeneye and Casino Royale are easily the best Bond films and were the only two films directed by Martin Campbell, why they didn't get the hint and keep him on I don't know.
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Oct 1, 2021 10:16
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Don't forget the spy cops ruling as well, which demonstrates that the police might not arrest you, they might instead use public funds to deceive you into a sexual relationship because they don't like your politics.
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Oct 1, 2021 14:47
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What does a rice cooker do that a pan doesn't? Measure rice/water, gently cook until done doesn't seem like it needs specialist equipment.
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Oct 2, 2021 21:24
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I read a couple of articles this year and last about efforts to create milk grown in a lab without the involvement of animals, I hope that works out in an affordable way. I could probably go vegetarian and I've been trying to find the time to explore some more recipes, but giving up dairy would be seriously difficult. It's just so god drat delicious.
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Oct 4, 2021 00:53
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And now my feckin broadband is down.  Everything sucks and is stupid.
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Oct 4, 2021 23:06
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So, what's happening with covid these days? Cases are still really high, but no-one around me seems to be acknowledging its existence anymore. I took a bus into Manchester today and maybe ten people total were masked. Most of my local friends are just out doing whatever, and if they said to me "the pandemic? What pandemic?"  like it had been plucked from their memory then it wouldn't surprise me.Should I not still be avoiding social events? I'm just about holding things together on my own, but I don't trust that anyone I go and see is taking even a single precaution to prevent its spread, despite a few catching covid and one currently being in isolation.
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Oct 7, 2021 09:32
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blunt posted:1 in 20 secondary school kids currently has covid. See this is where I'm torn. Hospitalisations and deaths post-vaccination are way down, but it's still ridiculously transmittable, and it seems foolish to just let it spread when we could be doing a lot more to prevent it. But then I guess the same could be said of the flu, which is why I'm actually getting a flu vaccine this year when previously I never have. Pfizer at least has pretty much completed their vaccine for children, at which point, yeah, we're going to have fully switched from pandemic to endemic. Assuming they haven't all just caught the loving thing first.
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Oct 7, 2021 11:05
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Quoting myself from theGBS Covid thread: That's good to know, thanks. I never browse the forums, so that's yet another covid thread I've now stumbled across. I was always planning to wait until after my second jab + two week wait (so end of August for me) before looking into going anywhere. I'm still taking the view right now that I should act like I have covid, as the advice went, so masking up where needed, leaving time between social events and taking tests, basically just not being a total dickhead and going "time to not take any precautions whatsoever I guess!"  But the one thing the UK did right was getting a really strong start on the vaccine rollout, so if it's having the intended effect despite the Tories' insatiable lust to keep the pandemic rolling through the schools then that definitely makes it easier to start working on semi-regular socialising again. Note that I have trouble socialising per say, I actually really enjoy it. But it can often take me a bit of a run-up to get into the right mindset for it, and 18-odd months requires one hell of a run-up.
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Oct 7, 2021 11:45
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Is there a good summary anywhere of the Labour shadow cabinet being more right wing than the Tories? I really need some proper ammunition for people saying that obviously you have to vote Labour because the Tories are worse.
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Oct 7, 2021 12:37
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Absolutely do not sleep on 2FA, it's quick, easy and standardised, and it adds an important layer of security that's difficult to circumvent. That's proper 2FA through an app though, SMS based 2FA is way too vulnerable.
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Oct 7, 2021 14:00
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Some good news on the schools at least: https://twitter.com/pfizer/status/1446082946335715334?t=TwMF5iCnY771OG7E5slGWQ&s=19 Not for right this second of course, but going forward that's another major, major vector of transmission covered. E: the risk with children is less to do with them getting covid symptoms, it's that they're as capable of transmitting it as anyone else, and crushing covid necessarily means vaccinating them.
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Oct 7, 2021 14:35
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67%. Not everyone has had their second shot yet, and we aren't yet vaccinating everyone who can transmit covid.
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Oct 7, 2021 16:11
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It's still 67% of people who can transmit covid. Obviously I'm not expecting a 100% vaccination rate or anything close, but I'm sure with effort we can push it to 80%, around where they decided herd immunity would take effect (and as such is presumably where we ideally want the vaccination rate to be).
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Oct 7, 2021 16:42
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Sorry for your loss, but in a country of millions, with 10000 deaths a week in normal times, stories of individuals are not important, no matter how strongly they make you feel How to get threadbanned in one easy step.
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Oct 7, 2021 18:10
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I'm a hob-thrush, cuz that's what I give all the ladies. 
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I don't even have words: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/10/rishi-sunak-to-save-billions-by-counting-imf-cash-as-aid-for-poor Doctor_Fruitbat fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Oct 10, 2021 |
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Oct 10, 2021 18:06
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ThomasPaine posted:Absolutely wild to me that there are people in this world who instead of calling the official number like a normal human would take a winning lottery ticket worth upwards of a million quid to their local spar and hand it over to the guy at the till, as if he's going to pay out the lot in rolls of twenties. Payndz posted:Jesus. If £27m suddenly came my way I'd be in Monaco the next day. Literally the plot of S4 of The Syndicate.
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Oct 10, 2021 19:19
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Yeah, I'm fine staying in Manchester, there's plenty of things to do on any given day, and otherwise I really enjoy traveling and seeing places, so I'd be quite happy to just hop on a train with an electric bike and trundle around different parts of the country for a few days at a time when I don't have anything to do with my friends in the city, even without putting any more thought into how I'd spend the money. If I had enough to do something really significant then that's just icing on the cake.
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Oct 11, 2021 11:51
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NotJustANumber99 posted:What would happen if you won a 100 million quid and tried to spend all of it at once on bitcoin? You'll have no problem turning 100 million quid into bitcoin, and changing it back will surely be just as simple!
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Oct 11, 2021 19:32
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Lol, this is shaping up to be an even shitter Christmas than last year. Everyone gets to huddle together for warmth because the heating is too expensive, pick over whatever scraps are left in the cupboard and repackage old tat from around the house in lieu of actual presents.
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Oct 12, 2021 23:26
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Just bring this country down already, stop edging me like this.
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Oct 13, 2021 11:00
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I think the honeymoon period ended with the tube strike. People could work around street protests, but sitting on tube trains (which are already electrified and greener than buses or cars) on a busy work day was a spectacularly cretinous idea.
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Oct 13, 2021 15:41
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Miftan posted:If you're double vaxxed and someone in your house tests positive you don't need to isolate anymore. Lol, incredible. Because breakthrough cases just don't exist apparently. And there's not going to be any GPs left fit for work by the end of the year either, judging by this: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/13/englands-gps-to-be-told-to-scrap-2-metre-rule-say-reports
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Oct 13, 2021 16:21
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The gently caress are either of those things?
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Oct 13, 2021 22:40
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There's still plenty of time to hit that 2024 reunification date, don't you worry.
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Oct 14, 2021 12:30
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Really emphasising "temporary basis" there, which I know visas are anyway, but just really emphasising that they aren't actually welcome and will be told to gently caress off in short order anyway.
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Oct 14, 2021 19:06
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Ooh, new pod, excellent. I enjoy it greatly.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:26
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I for one am shocked that someone has completely snapped in modern Britain, the country of the future where nothing can possiblie go wrong.
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Oct 15, 2021 14:59
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Do they still post about student politics as though anyone else knows who literally any of the people involved are?
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Oct 16, 2021 18:34
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And it also doesn't explain why we then have to be polite and conciliatory about his life. It's bad that he was murdered, but gently caress pretending to care that he's dead.
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Oct 17, 2021 15:08
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Loonytoad Quack posted:My wife's school is closed as of today, back to remote learning only, because so many of the staff and kids are off either tested positive or symptomatic - seems like we're slowly walking into another lockdown by default as things are getting so bad everything is starting to shut down regardless of whether the government says it should or not. We're going to have the exact same situation as last year, where the government brings in some hasty restrictions so that everyone can have a lovely half Christmas instead of either it being completely cancelled or everyone's gran dropping dead before new year's day.
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Oct 20, 2021 18:59
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Lol, apparently "philosophical beliefs" are a protected characteristic. Nice try you loving terfs.
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Oct 21, 2021 18:37
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90% unmasked is extremely generous for Manchester, I'd put it at <5% easily.
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Oct 21, 2021 21:24
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Cashier at our local co-op was hacking her lungs out while scanning my groceries. Waved her hand and said "Don't worry, it's not covid." Well it's something, and now I have to spray all my food when I get in. I don't blame her though, I blame the system that doesn't let people take time off when sick. Definitely could have masked up though. That people apparently aren't even doing that much when very obviously ill is phenomenal. We are a nation of total cunts whose only response to anything is to just blindly keep going without a moment's thought for anyone else or even ourselves. No wonder the Tories are bulletproof.
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Oct 21, 2021 21:32
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kecske posted:is there some kind of secret free port then where an enterprising cargo stealer can fence a hijacked trailer full of gardeners compost or whatever Free ports are on the cards, so probably yes!
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Oct 23, 2021 13:47
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Gonna need a  on this one champ.
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Oct 24, 2021 18:26
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Pistol_Pete posted:Is the long-established Boomer dream of relocating to the Spanish coast and leisurely drinking yourself to death while surrounded by other immigrants (sorry, ex-pats) finally dying?? Cold War Steve never misses, does he?
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Oct 25, 2021 10:10
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Out of interest, how does the vegan fudge differ in ingredients and taste/texture etc?
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fuctifino posted:I just wanted to give people the heads up that this current wave seems to be quite violent and is knocking out double vaxxed people, and to also remind people to get an SpO2 monitor and to record their baseline prior to catching covid. Lol, this is just after I had an evening out with friends because I was frankly going to have a breakdown if I didn't go and socialise in person. Hopefully I'm just swimming in other diseases that'll give my immune system a gentle workout. Never mind though, it's now back to a relatively hermit-y life for a bit.
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