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Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Perhaps controversial, but I prefer vegemite to marmite. Not a fan of his runny marmite is.

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Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Quote tweeting to become illegal

https://twitter.com/politicsforali/status/1455106670774923271?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Flayer posted:

It's completely unenforceable rubbish put forward by someone to show willing.

Unenforceable over the entirety of Twitter, but don’t be surprised to see it used against specific individuals that are, say, critical of the government

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Red Oktober posted:

I wonder how they initially got access to the house. Broke in, changed front door locks and then called a glazier or whatever to replace the window?

Indeed - I was out of my flat for months in a row last year while I was at my parents over the whole lockdown period.

If they’ve got a driving licence with that address on it then surely easy enough to just get a locksmith to let you in

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Guavanaut posted:

Don't they have to as part of some of the existing food agreements?

Like "non-EU salt and pepper" isn't a marketing thing, it's saying "this can't be sold in the EU without further checks" rather than "100% guaranteed that a Dutchman hasn't touched this salt and pepper with his disgusting Euro hands"

Yeah the news story I read earlier that that is mandatory for minced meat but not whole chickens and Morrison’s had just been a bit overzealous in adding it

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

This is the woman who was interviewed in that horrible BBC article that just today they’ve been all out defending. Content warning for some genuinely violent transphobia

https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1455574098717913096?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Very normal stuff

https://twitter.com/bbcnews/status/1455891272154157065?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Lol

https://twitter.com/adambienkov/status/1455924023934738435?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

serious gaylord posted:

Thats a good point actually. His stuff is gone for good though.

On the plus side he got some building work done for free.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Seems to be a yougov poll but whether it was a private poll for Times Readers or a poll that the Times commissioned or a general poll that the Times made a chart from, I'm not sure.
However, I think there are still a lot of labour voters prepared to vote labour and even some members who approve of Starmer (judging from people I know). We are a bit of a bubble in here.

A lot of people just don’t follow politics closely. Though tbh I’d still say that less than two-thirds of their voters from the last election committing to vote for them again is really quite bad. And a third of those specifically going Green is worse than any number saying ‘don’t know’ because most of those will still be back when push comes to shove

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Read the room, Keith

https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1456957113381629955?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

https://twitter.com/corruptukgovt/status/1457383697091551232?s=21

^
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Winning here!

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Deketh posted:

Still seeing plenty of people at the supermarkets round here doing the old mask down under the nose move

Envious that you see people wearing masks in supermarkets at all

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Guavanaut posted:

Yup, Lorraine took the the stance that trans men are men, trans women are women, this is the exact same poo poo that happened to gay people for a new crowd of bigots, and you can't call yourself 'canceled' if you keep getting all these extra podiums (podia?)

Lmao had to reread this a couple of times

quote:

Kelly, known for her ongoing role as Lorraine Kelly on the British morning talk show Lorraine, starring Lorraine Kelly as Lorraine Kelly

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/1457809003380105218?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003


And he should be bloody thankful from the looks of things

https://twitter.com/bp_cena/status/1458150994555162630?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003


Alternately, maybe they just though she was an idiot, was a founder member of CUKTIG after all

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

https://twitter.com/bareleft/status/1458358909685612544?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Does anyone here know much about legal stuff, or where I can ask? Having some pretty severe anxiety around contracting a builder and not sure I can think straight because of it.

Essentially, we're having our basement waterproofed so a couple of months ago my wife got in touch with a few places, had a few quotations and agreed work with someone about three weeks ago to start this coming Monday. He was over on Wednesday doing a final look around for stuff like where he could park his van etc. and we had a few questions for him, one of which was about payment - he wanted 75% up front and the rest on completion. That's the point where I start to panic having I guess finally considered the fact that we're going to be sending literally tens of thousands of a loan we've drawn down to a guy we've met about three times (basement conversions are expensive), and 75% seems like a very steep deposit.

Looking into his company now I find all kinds of dodgy stuff - the company claims to be established in 1985, but I can find no trace of it earlier than July this year, all 6 of the reviews on Yell were created over 2 days, his other company (a plumber) has pictures on it's Facebook ostensibly of it's work that a reverse GIS reveals to be jacked from another company a year ago. So no way do I want to go forward with this work, especially since he only takes BACS for money so I have absolutely no protection. But now I'm worried about pulling out at the last minute, whether this counts as breaking a contract and whether he could take us to a small claims court? We haven't had anything resembling a real contract (and again, heard nothing of payment terms until yesterday) but does just agreeing to the work count as a contract?

Kicking myself for not looking into it earlier, the anxiety feels like it's eating a hole in my stomache, it's causing tension with my wife since I think she thinks I'm blaming her for it and I have no idea what to do. :smith:

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

DesperateDan posted:

a verbal agreement like that is worth the paper it's written on- because there's gently caress all chance he wants to be within a loving mile of a court

claim financial problems are stopping you going ahead so he thinks you are no longer a good mark, bail the gently caress out and walk away

Not quite a verbal contract, it was in an email, but yeah before any payment terms had even been mentioned

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Lol

https://twitter.com/aidanctweets/status/1459070794206789655?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Beginning to think that vote to save Owen Paterson was a very big miscalculation now the papers want to take through everything

https://twitter.com/pippacrerar/status/1460211348739137545?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I can't imagine a q-anon nut job being able to build a bomb without (a) being incredibly obvious about it (b) blowing themselves up

Like Al Quaida improvised bomb makers are pretty well trained and even they're missing a few fingers

I mean it didn’t seem a particularly impressive bomb given the cabbie was in the front when it went off and was basically unharmed

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

https://twitter.com/respectisvital/status/1460296850758684672?s=21

Clarified in later there’s that this is a former minister but yikes. Looking forward to Labour studiously ignoring this

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003


Methodology need to be in enormous quotation marks

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003


Lol

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1460633045225070601?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Wonder what the ‘support Labour no matter what’ lot think of this

https://twitter.com/adambienkov/status/1461614700265885698?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Glad we let this guy decide what is and isn’t anti Semitic speech

https://twitter.com/baddiel/status/1462038883559002126?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Guavanaut posted:

It's interesting for all the various jurisprudential waffling about "an unenforced law may as well not be law" and other commentary about the English having a special liberty bone that means they can never be governed like East Asians and so on, a barely enforced mask mandate raised mask wearing from 20% to over 80%, comparative to places where mask wearing is more culturally common, and it only seemed to slip after lifting the mandate and through confused and deliberately contrarian messaging from government.

It’s hilarious how much we like following them when they’re rules but don’t care when it’s just guidance

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003


Ha that's amazing, I'm glad Twitter exists to let Getfiscal slot into exactly the same niche outside of SA

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Also I'm pretty sure he got doxx and :toxx: mixed up. It was an interesting ep, but there were plenty of bits where I felt like it wasn't the vibe I remembered.

Yeah that really stood out for me too, since I very much remember Toxx clauses and also have recently looked up where ‘doc’ comes from since my wife asked. Another thing I think he didn’t really get into was the tension between different parts of SA’s user base- yeah it was a lot to awkward nerds, and yeah there was some ‘epic bacon’ and fedoras and ‘I can has cheeseburger’ but there was probably a greater set of users who would just mercilessly rip the piss out of those guys. I remember old SA as being hugely anti-meme.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Ah for gods sake she’s still on this. Diane I thought you knew your stuff :/

https://twitter.com/hackneyabbott/status/1463812353238130688?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

josh04 posted:

I am duty-bound at this point to recommend "Encounter at Farpost: thread for posting whenever you watch a TNG episode" which is mostly me expressing surprise at how racist the first season is.

Ha last time I saw a random TNG episode on telly and put it on, it turned out to be the season 1 episode where they visit a planet of African stereotypes

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Lol

https://twitter.com/timesradio/status/1465289627510747143?s=21

https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1465282225403015169?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

did y'all put lead back into gasoline after Brexit


How the gently caress can the Tories be up in the polls with a scandal every like 6 hours?

Did y'all lose the ability to have a loving drama on tv after so the PM had to take up the craft? Like what the gently caress

Sadly there’s no opposition party at the moment so nobody else for anyone to vote for

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003


Heard the audio and Christ, it’s all about her. Talking about the boy like he’s a puppy they gave to a friend

https://twitter.com/bbcwomanshour/status/1465577334585450498?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

So that woman discussed earlier who gave back her adopted kid after nearly 8 years is, uh, the CEO of Adoption UK?

https://twitter.com/adoptionuk/status/1465293739203739649?s=21

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Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

NotJustANumber99 posted:

No theyre different people, the lady that gave back the adopted child is Eleanor Bradford, the CEO of Adoption UK is Sue Armstrong Brown.

Maybe that tweet is badly worded then but she’s still a trustee at least

https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/1465724553158668293?s=21

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