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Borrovan posted:I was thinking the same thing, except "conveyancer" and "get a mild slap on the wrist and then carry on exactly as normal because lmao the SRA is poo poo" Can't believe she finally deleted that tweet.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:For ages before the first bankruptcy you could upgrade to first class for like a tenner on most services if you prebooked and you could make the money back on free tea and biscuits before you got to Peterborough. Wait wait wait, you've been north of Barnet? Way to destroy my image of you breaking out in hives when you pass Watford Gap Services.
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Nov 2, 2021 10:47
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I've never travelled first class. Hell, only times I've used the sleeper train I didn't even have a bed, was in the seating area. When I win the lottery I'm deffo going to go on some transcontinental flight in first class. Don't even really care where. Maybe Tokyo but also maybe somewhere where I can just sit on the beach (in some shade obviously) & catch up on some reading. Mostly I just like the idea of turning up for a flight that cost £7k in sweatpants & a ratty old hoodie.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I was the first tourist in the history of Aberdeen. It's a nice train line at least. Not Fort William to Mallaig or Dingwall to Kyle or Inverness to Perth but it is nice Jakabite posted:That is mental but I’d absolutely be ordering something loving ridiculous if I was in that position. Yes, but depends on the length of the flight. You aren't getting a bed from London to Barcelona but you are if it's to Asia or the Americas. Yes, sometimes I watch Youtube videos by people who seem to spend their lives flying around the world on airmiles. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 11:31 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I looked at a boat and some granite buildings, then wandered round a shopping centre, and I feel like I have supped as deeply from the cup of Aberdeen as is possible. Didn't get to go to Codona's? TBH probably the best part of Aberdeen is the ferry to the Northern Isles.
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Nov 2, 2021 11:40
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TACD posted:I have never, ever been able to fall asleep on a plane, and I once fell asleep in Corp in Sheffield I saw Marduk in the Corp. I also went to a club night there and mostly got mad it was the same as every rock night from Aberdeen to Penzance: why do rock night DJs still think nu-metal needs to be a thing? I swear they singlehandedly kept Drowning Pool from being forgotten like they deserve. Also my flatmate at the time had her drink spiked so that was awful.
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Love when people publish articles that make me want to listen to my favourite Death Grips song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orlbo9WkZ2E
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Nov 2, 2021 13:20
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ThomasPaine posted:Yeah, but iirc the bonuses are time-limited, so if you really want to get enough miles to realistically be able to afford a first class flight with them (and a long-haul one worth the time) you have to be spending at least something like 1.5k/month on the card for a few years. So it's doable if you're already pretty well off (or I guess on London salary/expenses) but not really doable for a lot of people, me included. At least that's what I remember but it was a few years ago I was looking into it. And this is why I watch the YouTube videos rather than try to replicate the lifestyle, it seems far too much effort never mind the cost.
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Angepain posted:I tried to do tourism in aberdeen once. After wandering around a bit i just gave up and went to the cinema. It was spy with melissa mccarthy, which was more entertaining than aberdeen Should have gone to the beach
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I had 2 bottles of Kopparberg Pear cider & I'm pretty sure I'm half-cut. Becoming a lightweight is great.
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I know this is UKMT & the most easily trolled thread in the world but the Tesla defender is clearly doing a bit, stop biting every loving time. Stick him on mute if you have no self-restraint
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peanut- posted:I don't understand what it's meant to depict.
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Mega Comrade posted:For me is just too much of a novelty. I just want to sit back, relax and play games, not stand up in the middle of the room. There just don't seem to be many actual games that aren't novelties. Until there is, it's hard to justify the cost. Plus if we're going to have expensive peripherals I'd rather the fake music instrument genre came back, loved Rock Band.
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Necrothatcher posted:aren't all video games novelties? I'd not have said so. I'd have regarded "novelty" as something new & possibly unusual & I don't think that's really applicable to a form of entertainment that's been around longer than I've been alive. I'd not say they are all disposable because that would be unfair but also a lot of VR games seem more like "experiences" & "showcases for the technology" or "proof of concepts" rather than something you can sink hours into. Something like Job Simulator seems very fun to whip out at a party & go "check this out" but once you rattle around in it for half an hour is there much more to get from it? Meanwhile, sure I'll play another few hundred hours of this loving Paradox game because I'm a mug.
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Pistol_Pete posted:They'd never have done this if there was a functioning opposition dominating the media narrative and keeping them off-balance. They know they'll only receive the most tepid, ineffective pushback from Labour, so why not do it? If Labour was capable of making the Tories bleed, the sharks of the media would have been all over them, just shows how useless they are right now. So you are saying it is Jeremy Corbyn's fault
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SixFigureSandwich posted:oh no, not a byelection in a Tory safe seat Neil Hamilton had a safe Tory seat when he got beaten by journalist Martin Bell. Tatton was later George Osborne's seat. People aren't wild about corruption. Well, explicitly open corruption, people don't really care about the general undercurrent if it
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keep punching joe posted:Probably misremembering but was dave grohl not accused of trying to nonce Kurt cobains kid? No, I don't think so? I liked when Dave Grohl did Probot which was just him playing music with his childhood heroes: Lemmy, Lee Dorrian, Cronos, Wino, Tom G Warrior, King Diamond etc. It's deffo better than Foo Fighters.
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fuctifino posted:"Pay us more, then we won't need to be corrupt." If I ever need to shoplift I'm sure he'll be first in the line to ensure I get off because the cause is that I don't get paid enough
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NotJustANumber99 posted:why is a russian separatist pro putin? what are they separating from? Probably from Ukraine given the context.
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blunt posted:Everything about this is poo poo. The Lib Dems are quoting the local elections from this year and then the reply tweeter is quoting the 2017 general election, which is stupid because Labour still beat the Lib Dems in 2019, just by a lower margin. To be fair, the full 2019 result is in that picture. You just have to click to embiggen the picture because Twitters algorithms are poo poo
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fuctifino posted:To the surprise of nobody, DWP deliberately conspired with Tory media to build a “hostile environment” against benefit claimants - at least there are people coming forward about this now. It works in fairness to them. My GP was like "hey we could apply for *whatever they call ESA now/whenever this was, I forget*" & I just noped out of it, could not face those cunts. It should be a much bigger outrage but it won't be. It'd be genuinely more humane to euthanise the long-term unemployed than this cruel demonization & sanctions regime until people kill themselves or starve to death.
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Guavanaut posted:What if the keys were stored in a wallet on the cloud, and then there was some kind of blockchain where by solving cryptographic hashes your phone could virtually turn the thing on the front of the meter that makes the coins drop in? When you get the key you get a free Lazy Lion picture "worth" $3,000. Well, technically it's a screenshot of the Lazy Lion but what's the difference?
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Tarnop posted:Pls don't euthanise me just yet but I guess leave the option on the table for if I run out of money for food I do not want to see anyone euthanised, i want a welfare system that doesn't leave anyone behind. I'm just saying euthanasia would be kinder than letting people starve to death after sanctioning them for "only" spending 30 hours a week job searching instead of 35
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Tarnop posted:I know you don't, it was just a depressed person attempting some gallows humour  keep punching joe posted:My dad was skilled working class and owned a big house and business. Going by that table I'm lower middle, but I own gently caress all and barely make the living wage. And that's why the traditional British conception of class is loving useless on the whole. What matters is do you make money for someone else or do you profit from other people's labour? Proletariat, bourgeoisie, and also a few smaller groups like petty-booj & nobility. And I suppose still the lumpenproletariat/underclass but I've always kind of hated the way that term has been used by Marxists, in a very judgemental and moralist way where the lumpenprole is bad.
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I like Harry Cole posts because I get to sit & smile at the knowledge that he's still got to write glowingly about the guy who cucked him. Very good & enjoyable.
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1458541727061577732?t=ggdxdXGbub60uk_uvyaAUg&s=19 Salute my local MP for disrespecting the troops
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Tarnop posted:This is 95% of journalism now, yes That's unfair, at least 50% of journalism is rewording press releases they get sent.
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ThomasPaine posted:How the gently caress did that moron manage to die at 45 Who, Lowtax? Isn't the chat that he offed himself after being told by a judge that spending almost all of your money doesn't actually mean you don't have to pay child support?
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suck my woke dick posted:Yo is socialist alternative any good or is it an org for idiots and terfs? Ran into some guys at a protest who tried to get me to sign up They are Trots. Do with this information what you will. Personally Trots dedication to Democratic Centralism just seems like an excuse to cover up sex crimes by their committee members & they seem more interested in covering those up & also splitting parties like atoms in a runaway fission reaction. But apparently they are connected to International Socialist Alternative which had a comically big splitup over "IdPol", the Socialist Alternative split off from the Socialist Party of England & Wales (which as Jaeluni says is a direct sequel to Militant) because...man, I don't loving know, reading this poo poo makes my eyes glaze over. It's 2 starving people fighting over who gets to try suck the nutrition out of the last pebble. I think SPEW are the faction that are mad about intersectionality but I'm sure they'd not paint it that way.
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Antigravitas posted:Congratulations for getting noticed by Ian Miles Cheong because of that Josh Sawyer episode btw. There's a name I haven't seen retweeted onto the timeline in a while. Him & Prison Paul both actually haven't been appearing much, guess they aren't funny enough, or at least the joke has worn thin.
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Total Meatlove posted:That’s always been a case of false advertising and none of those sanctions stick or are enforced. It's worth remembering that not everybody appeals sanctions, either out of fear of the stress or just not seeing the point because they assume its a rubber stamp rather than actually quite reasonable. But yeah, that's a problem with the DWP rather than sex work being legalised
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Tarnop posted:I know this question has been asked before but I couldn't remember the answer when my friend asked me tonight. She wants to join a union, her workplace isn't unionised. Is it IWW that this thread normally recommends under those circumstances? The advice is generally "IWW AND a more mainstream union who have the infrastructure to provide you support". It depends on her industry basically. https://www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union is a starting point. crispix posted:
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WhatEvil posted:Just got a Telegraph pop-up on my phone. "Liverpool bomber was of Middle Eastern background and not known to MI5". Really reassuring how shite at their job the security services are. Guess that means we need to give them more money & more restrictive laws
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Failed Imagineer posted:Funny how that works in the UK given that the vast majority of adults should have living memory of a campaign of terrorist bombing conducted by the whitest motherfuckers on the planet Tony Blair & GW Bush?
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Jedit posted:Nah, it's as simple as the thing about how the best music is the music from when you were 15. In the 70s they were young and could look forward to the future; why don't the ungrateful youth realise that if things were like the 70s again, they could look forward too? The best music happens all the time between I dunno, 1910 & now? Probably before that with all sorts of folk styles that influenced ragtime, blues & country & other stuff that would in turn influence rock & its offshoots. Most of the stuff 15 year old me liked was nu-metal which has aged about as gracefully as an orange left on the counter for a year Sadly not joking when I say that Significant Other by Limp Bizkit was the most important record in the world as far as 1999 was considered. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Nov 16, 2021 |
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Borrovan posted:I hated nu metal at the time because it wasn't Entirely the opposite here. If I never hear LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR again I'll still have heard it too often. I still have nights where I'll go down a nu-metal rabbit hole on YouTube but that's exclusively to listen to the absolute worst and dumbest poo poo like Coal Chamber - Loco & Machine Head - From This Day which will only stop making me laugh when I'm dead. If you've never seen the video it is such an exquisite summary of the time, terrible CGI, incredible hair choices, dumb simple music and a white bloke rapping who really shouldn't be: https://youtu.be/HJzeJiHHQOY
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Gambrinus posted:Hoggard being involved made me sad. I really liked him. I will continue to hope this finishes cricket & consigns it to the dustbin of history.
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Julio Cruz posted:lol if you think Keith is ever going to be PM, he’s going to get kicked long before the next GE Round of applause for our next Prime Minister, Wes Streeting
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peanut- posted:I don't think major political rivals will be his problem. They're careerists and will fall in line. Plus his biggest most obvious rival is stupidly rich and will have no issues with this. Just lol at the idea of Tory members electing Rishi Sunak. Have you seen the colour of his skin? The Tory membership are loving lunatics
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