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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Sometimes, if I have too much butter on the knife after spreading my toast, I put it back in the tub even if it has toast crumbs all in it. I'm struggling with the concept of "too much butter" on toast, at least while the toast maintains structural integrity.
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Flayer posted:All you need on toast is butter. Other toppings are luxury. Eating toast with jam as I type this, fight me.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:You didn't say as a topping. You might be eating the jam as a side dish. The funny thing is I don't normally like sweet stuff for breakfast, but I just had a sudden compulsion to add jam as I was buttering my toast, and I worry the hivemind might actually be real.
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Darth Walrus posted:Well, this is less than ideal: See, we warned you all that the Troubles would be back if you elected that terrorist Corbyn. Seriously it would be funny if it wasn't quite so horrifying that all of the outcomes of a JEMBLY NORBYC government that were so confidently predicted by our biggest brains are coming to pass - and of course there's literally no accountability for any of it because said big brains would rather crash the entire planet into the heart of the sun than admit they were wrong.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Just posting this as a baseline for the effect COP26 is definitely not going to have on Glasgow's COVID rate just like the G7 definitely didn't in Cornwall. Apart from the Septics, who definitely aren't going to be mixing much with the locals, almost all of the delegates are coming from countries with lower covid rates than the UK. Also going to assume a lot of them will have more than enough natural immunity from all the weird Eyes Wide Shut parties this class all attend. e: Also G7 happened at the height of the tourist season in Cornwall - I was in Looe at the same time and it was crowded in a way I've never seen any seaside town in the UK, I mean to an extent that made Oxford Street look like the Nullarbor, so blaming the spike there on a bunch of weirdos all ensconced in the same bars and hotels is like blaming a dog pissing in a park for the state of all our rivers at the moment. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Nov 1, 2021 |
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Tesseraction posted:Man something has gone horribly wrong on the pony crags I mentioned this last month but right now, on the mainland at least, infection rates have a pretty solid inverse relationship with population density:  I still have no idea what it means, but it's definitely *not* a testing artifact - the test positivity rate is still around 3% in all of those boroughs.
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gently caress me, I hope that comes with the number for the Samaritans printed on it.
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When I went to the States it was about an extra 200 quid for "Economy Plus", which is basically business class but not quite (in fact it was less than that because I had extra baggage with all my bike gear and got two bits of carry-on so I didn't have to risk my crash helmet in the hold, but I can't remember what the charges for that were). Anyway as far as I'm concerned it was worth every bloody penny because the standard Economy seats, even on Virgin, have the same pitch as the top deck of a London bus and even my stumpy little legs are cramped there. gently caress knows how anyone can cope with that for an 8 hour flight, let alone the even less room you get on the budget carriers. I think the KLM "business class" from London City to Amsterdam used to be the funniest though, because the little planes were configured as all business class and the only difference I could see is the business class people got a copy of the FT on their seats - everything else was identical.
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OwlFancier posted:I once got a first class ticket during the breif time when the ECML was nationalized, and it was very swank, antimassacres on the seats and free sarnie, dead lush. 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.
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forkboy84 posted: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. I was the first tourist in the history of Aberdeen.
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Jedit posted:Liar. We still haven't had one. 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.
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forkboy84 posted:Didn't get to go to Codona's? I don't think I got further than a hundred yards from the station. I did take quite a lot of pictures that came out really nicely - then promptly lost them all in a hard drive crash. TBH I think the universe itself couldn't accept the concept of Aberdeen tourism and so set out to destroy all evidence of it.
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feedmegin posted:I mean the actual things are to prevent staining the seats with the hair pomade you are definitely using because it's still 1955 (or 1855) Specifically Oil of Macassar, hence the name.
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Barry Foster posted:I don't know how old timey people could bear to put a bunch of grease or whatever in their hair Old style pomade really isn't that different from modern product, the only real difference is there's a lot more petroleum in the modern stuff. The only thing that's changed is fashion, modern gum based products are just as heavy and transfer as easily as Brylcreem or other hair oils.
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Nov 2, 2021 13:27
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Camrath posted:My childhood nanny/housekeeper/adopted granny (yeah, wall etc) used to work for several full-on noble families and had many stories. The head of the household literally didn’t understand that you needed to put toothpaste on the brush to make it foam for example. Given the amount of women paid to spank the nobility it's probably not much of a claim. I suppose that she got paid at the end of the week instead of just before the act make a difference.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I have an idea, and it strikes me as an idea that would be very useful to this thread. Interestingly I was working on something like this but there's big problems with integrating it onto a browser that aren't huge potential security risks that would stop any same person from downloading it. My variant of that idea - running that as an app on a remote server that will do the screenshot etc - has some massive potential problems that I'll leave as an everybody for the reader (hint: it's effectively an anonymous way of teaching and hosting an image)
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Paper Planes posted:Hi UKMT IANAL, and my knowledge on this is a few years out of date, but on the assumption that you're a salaried employee on a fixed hours contract: - It is *not* legal for them to force you use up annual leave days on bank holidays if the company is ordinarily closed on bank holidays. - It *may* be legal for them to force you to use annual leave on non-bank holidays if the company is closed on a day you would normally be working - this depends on quite a lot of factors but generally speaking the law is on the employer's side there. - It is absolutely, 100%, *not* legal for them to have you work - even as a "volunteer" - on a day you have booked off even if you are forced to take that time off (with the exception of contractually-agreed cover shifts)
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Lady Demelza posted:It surprises me that workplaces are still doing Covid restrictions. Most of my colleagues are lucky if we get 1 day a week WFH (we have a lot of customer facing work) and quite a few people choose to wear masks, but that's up to individuals. We've booked a night out for the work Christmas do and some of us are going to a colleague's housewarming party next week. My company[1] is still basically 100% WFH for any roles that can be done from home and aren't planning on reviewing this until the spring - apparently a lot of people have gone back into the offices but everyone's clustered into the posh new ones instead of the shite old ones and the rumour is that the company's basically going to sell the shite old ones instead of bringing them up to the standards of the new ones, saving themselves >£100m in the process plus whatever they get for what is some pretty prime land. Rumours in the industry are that - with a few exceptions - almost all the big tech companies are going to move to some form of hybrid working fulltime and downscale their offices - the Hoxton artisanal coffee industry is going to be decimated. [1] Well, the jeans-and-t-shirt bit of my company - the polo-shirted don't get the option because it's a bit hard to plug cables in at a data centre from home, and the headset-wearers still get packed in like battery hens although *allegedly* the fairly aggressive internal TTI system (including full pay leave for quarantine) has kept the case rates in the call centres at least lower than the outside world.
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feedmegin posted:Dirty Des's pad I assume you mean the N&S building up by Billingsgate but just for a second I got confused and thought you were working in the old N&S Tower on the Isle of Dogs. Not because I was freaked out by goon-proximity, but because that's still *mostly* used by the porn mags and Television X and I wanted to ask if the locked dumpster was still round the side of the building and packed out with remaindered grot. Every teenage boy in east London spent the 90s planning ways into that thing like it was Fort Knox after the one day it was left unlocked and the secret of it's contents were revealed.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Lol, I dunno about all the other stuff and I literally couldnt give a poo poo about elon. GM had the Volt as a rolling concept vehicle a year before Tesla slapped some laptop batteries into a Lotus. VW's BEV programme started before Elon had even heard of Tesla. It turns out it is actually hard to get these things right, as has been demonstrated by Tesla's sub-British-Leyland build quality. It's definitely notable that none of the uniquely Tesla points that all of the owners rave about are actually even vaguely being replicated elsewhere (apart from dumb over-reliance on touchscreen input but that's a societal problem). Their driver assist stuff is barely functional compared to even the loving French manufacturers, nobody else is doing the various battery-destroying drag race modes because... they destroy the battery, there's no trick to it, and most of all not a single other manufacturer is using round cells because it's a loving *stupid* idea for a mass-produced car. Saying Tesla "forced" the BEV into existence is like saying Franz Reichelt forced the invention of the parachute. However because we live in exceptionally dumb times we somehow lionise the person who rushes an unfinished, barely-functional product to market while people who actually know what they're doing try to do things the right way.
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smellmycheese posted:Sent mine You seem overqualified.
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Barry Foster posted:If the ZOE app is anything to go by (I seem to recall some talk that it was better at predicting outbreaks than the government) poo poo is popping off at the moment It's absolutely not better at predicting anything than anyone, it's a bunch of hypochondriacs and worried well reporting every tickle in their throat as a covid symptom and the fact it's completely disinterested in the result of any subsequent test makes the "data" they collect worthless, particularly given the nasty cold that's also going around. It *may* have been able to give a couple of days advance warning of regional spread in the early days when testing was pretty much only once you were in hospital, but now every household in the country has access to instant at-home testing. Its numbers are so far out of whack with the official ones that it'd have to be a moon-landing-level government coverup (or evidence that the vaccines are wildly more succesful than anyone even dreamed) for them to be correct.
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TACD posted:Has anybody done remembrance poppy NFTs yet? (1 purchase == 1 respect) They have and I absolutely refuse to look up the tweet again to work out if it was a joke or not.
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Barry Foster posted:well that's not what they say If their numbers of active infections are correct then the combined spread of vaccines in this country are 99% effective at preventing hospitalisation and over 99.9% effective at preventing death, and that's from *symptomatic* cases which are at most 75% of total cases. That's only a rough estimate because for some reason (I'm sure not to stymie exactly this kind of comparison) they don't actually publish daily new infections as a raw dataset so it's much harder to compare against official numbers. The point is they're claiming that both outright numbers and rate of growth are substantially higher than the official numbers and yet deaths and hospitalisations are growing at a far, far slower rate, so either the government are lying about deaths (not impossible, granted), the vaccines are so effective we can hold the world doorknob-licking tournament here tomorrow with no fear, or Zoe have a fundamentally flawed methodology that it's against their commercial interests to fix because scary numbers keep them in the news and make more people sign up to have all their health data sold.
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TACD posted:What’s the latest information on the accuracy of these? I remember early on reading the accuracy was appalling and we had access to loads because the US rejected them as useless, and then later on reading that actually they’re fine? They're not particularly sensitive so will false-negative quite a bit, especially because people are reluctant to stick things deep enough into their head holes, but if you're testing semi-regularly (and get a proper test, or at least do multiple LFTs, if symptomatic) they're fine. IIRC the false-positive rate is basically zero, but the false-negative rate can be as high as 25%. They work best in the way we're still mostly using them - for testing a couple of times a week as part of your normal routine, alongside a widespread PCR testing regime. Don't forget that PCR testing lab fuckup was picked up because so many people were getting positive LFTs but negative PCRs, it would have probably taken weeks or months longer for anyone to pay attention otherwise. The Americans didn't want them because, well, look at the place - a population willing to shoot somebody for asking them to wear a mask at Costco are *not* going to be amenable to regular, self-administered testing. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Is there any kind of movement dedicated to encouraging people not to vote in an effort to delegitimise the entire political system, that feels the only thing I'd be willing to get behind right now. I'd assume any serious movement like this would be paid for directly out of the pockets of Conservative Central Office.
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Interesting data point on the Labour data breach thing - I received an email about it on the email address I use for my union stuff, but not the one I used to register with Labour when I was a member (and not the burner address I used to complain about some issues at my CLP). So I *think* the database that's been popped is affiliate members only, particularly as I literally never used that address in any of my actual dealings with the party proper. Which itself raises questions about why those details would be held in a separate, and presumably less secure, system.
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OwlFancier posted:
I know someone. PM for details. (Please for the love of God don't PM me, I can't think of anyone is want in my messages less than someone who wants a six foot plastic horse, because it's the internet and the words "anatomically correct" are never far away.)
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Almost 24 hours after the first one, I've just got an email from Labour to my party membership address, so yeah it looks like it's much bigger than affiliates. Twitter complaints seem to suggest the emails are being sent in date order which would make sense as I was an affiliate for like 10 years before joining. The tie breaker is whether or not my burner address gets one too. If not it suggests the partner that got popped was either one of the campaigns or possibly ERS themselves who run the elections, if it does then Labour have their entire contact database to a third party for some reason. Anything other than it being ERS means the party are likely to be turbo hosed, but not to the millions of pounds fine level that done are suggesting. Oh gently caress... what if it was Corbyn's leadership campaign?
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Just unprecedented levels of normality going on at Canary Wharf today - a military band playing what I *think* was Somewhere Out There while an unearthly siren blared from one of the buildings and the demolition works on the Reuters building provided a Rammstein-esque backbeat. I got video but unfortunately the wind noise completely blotted it out, but it genuinely was one of the most disorienting and disconcerting scenes I've ever walked through.
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Jedit posted:I just read from someone whose partner quit before the 2019 GE over Corbyn's handling of Brexit. They too got a notification. So it's unlikely to be the leadership campaign because they didn't support him. The leadership and NEC campaigns get access to a list of every eligible voter, IIRC. Certainly I've got an email to my union address from my pre-membership days from Corbyn asking for me to vote for him, and emails to both addresses for the chicken coup leadership election.
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Barry Foster posted:An ex-friend of mine always used to say that he found it really weird that every time someone talks or writes about Dave Grohl his name is always appended with "he's such a nice guy!" "nicest guy in rock!" etc., etc., and that the sheer consistency of it is really sus, he took that as reason enough to prophylactically despise him, and his band FWIW the post that got the woman whose name escapes me now suspended was "I loving love the Foo Fighters", posted in a Labour FB group IIRC, and the "offence" was using naughty words in an official Labour forum while an office holder. Having said that, this post should get you banned from the forums and also from ever voicing an opinion ever again. Dave Grohl is cool, the Foo Fighers are cool (apart from that HIV denialist guitarist they got rid of), and I will choke you with one of my massive collection of checked shirts if you say otherwise. (TBH I only really like the first album, flaws and all, but there's some crackers on the later stuff and I sort of admire his casual slide into dad-rock - much better that than going down the jukebox musical route that even loving Green Day have slid into)
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Jedit posted:I'm talking about after the u-turn. The original plan was to let Paterson get away with it, or as I suggested earlier, to trash him and only him an as example of the new Tory-controlled committee's honesty. But the original committee will not necessarily restrict their enquiries to things that only concern Paterson and he could take someone else down with him - and considering some of the things he's meant to have done, that probably includes at least one prominent frontbencher. I suspect, given the speed (like 2 hours max between him finding out about the u-turn and quitting), that he'd already confessed to the Tory whips all the stuff that hadn't made the papers yet and realised that it would all be used against him. e: Or possibly in the last 24 hours he'd got a couple of calls from journos suggesting they had a lot more on him.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/b_c_chapman/status/1456199808348270592?s=19 City of London Police haven't had a major role in prosecuting large-scale financial crimes since the 80s when Thatcher deregulated the banking industry. (They did still have a responsibility for specific types of fraud right up to the 90s when the Polly Peck and BCCI cases proved that moving outside the Liberties basically took you off their radar, and I'm sure that it's just coincidence this was the point when Canary Wharf switched from trying to sell office space to newspapers and technology companies to selling it to multinational banks) They do still run a couple of specialised economic crime units (for some reason they're responsible for policing cheque fraud, for example) but banks "contributing" to them is more about making sure that Certain Types get moved on much quicker than they would do normally. The Ring of Crap Bus Shelters (which is what they should be forced by law to call the vehicle checkpoints at the old city gates rather than the Ring Of Steel) is still up and still sporadically in use 25 years since the end of the IRA spectaculars campaign, and that's got a lot more to do with stopping anyone with dreadlocks getting in than it has to stop car bombs, and is part of the City trying to keep hold of banks that they're losing to Canary Wharf and its private police force.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I can't even name a foo fighter song now that I think about it. I guarantee there are at least 5 you know just from osmosis if you've consumed any media whatsoever in the last 2 decades. Also I've just remembered that I do actually hate the Foo Fighters through Pavlovian conditioning, because the DJ at London Stadium always plays "Learn To Fly" - a song I was at best ambivalent about even before this - as first song at half time when we've played like utter poo poo. I guess it's supposed to be uplifting or something, but instead it makes me want to throw poo poo at the pitch (fortunately it's the London Stadium and you'd need an arm like a howitzer to reach it).
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Total Meatlove posted:Poor blokes trying to appeal to a crowd who happily sing 'blowing bubbles' and rate Chas as a better lyricist than Lennon. I'd cut him a bit of slack. I think you'll find Chas and Dave get pretty short shrift in the claret and blue bits of London, what with them being big Spurs fans and literally recording multiple songs about how much they love Spurs. Also what the gently caress is wrong with Bubbles? A maudlin song about how reality fucks you up at every turn should be right up this thread's alley. Although it is hilarious how they have this whole pre-match psyche-up video and music thing with portentious drums and strings that lasts like 10 minutes, reaches a massive crescendo... and then the cheesy 1975 FA Cup squad cod-reggae recording of Bubbles kicks in. Not even the Cockney Rejects one, for shame. Also while searching for an example of this transition (alas I couldn't find one because it's absolutely hilarious) I *did* find this vid which was taken literally from the row in front of mine at the LS, which is really spooky.
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/FreeNorthNow/status/1456547555614003201 At this point you have to wonder what assets they actually own that he could seize if he sent the bailiffs in.
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