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Barry Foster posted:Utopia está en el horizonte. Me acerco dos pasos, ella se aleja dos pasos. Camino diez pasos y el horizonte se corre diez pasos más allá. Por mucho que yo camine, nunca la alcanzaré. Para que sirve la utopia? Para eso sirve: para caminar. Thank you for that quote, it resonates to me. 
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Barry Foster posted:Speaking of, it's been more or less exactly ten years I've been posting in these threads ''Survive'' is one of the most important words these days.  Those who have passed on are not forgotten. edit: i run two computers at home, partial heating with included entertainment is fine by me. Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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OwlFancier posted:I actually have wondered about this, if you adjust your heating to compensate is running electronics not just running a space heater that also does other things? It's not an efficient alternative but it if you have them running anyway you may as well take advantage of it, though if i wanted a heater i would be running cutting edge Intel instead of AMD.  Our current mild weather currently negates this atm. I'm slightly tipsy so these posts may or may not be a coherent.  Currently dreading my next power bill in March/April, i can pay it but i don't want to give companies money unless required.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:After a whole day of wear my reusable gets a bit mucky around the nose clip, and the whole thing smells like my breath (I have to assume mouthwash and chewing gum sales have been through the roof these last two years). I just bought a ten-pack and now like any other item of clothing they get changed daily and chucked in the washing machine at the end of the week. To get rid of that horrid scent i just dig out the tonsilloliths from the back of my throat. 
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Jan 4, 2022 00:06
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That is a really nice and simple way of storing butter, i'm impressed.
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Jan 4, 2022 12:53
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stev posted:I watched that Potter reunion and her absence was delightful. I hope some of the cast agreed to be involved only on the condition that she wasn't. Sad to hear he's gone the same way. 
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Jan 5, 2022 12:43
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josh04 posted:Stealing my own post from SFWF: Thank you for the info, context matters. 
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Jan 5, 2022 12:53
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Never read the books but have the box set and have marathoned all the movies several times. Managed to get my first 30min walk of the year between rain showers.
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Jan 5, 2022 13:26
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The very definition of mixed messages is that I try and get 10k steps a day and there's a McDonalds 5k steps from my home. The very definition of a first world problem.  My feed today will consist of a small tin of sardines, gherkins, nuts & dried fruit (not a diet, just can't be arsed cooking today).
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Jedit posted:Ah, yes, the movies. Which feature a 35 year old woman in a bath with a 14 year old boy. He never had a ghost of a chance with her anyways.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:You have some weird twitter subscriptions Never had an account, twitter is filtered through SA like a good goon should.
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Once El Cid season 3, The Boys season 3 and The Expanse season 6 are all on Amazon Prime i shall subscribe for a month and watch the whole lot, mid to late 2022 by my thinking. :-)
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Trickjaw posted:And that dashing young turk's father was....? Google tells me nothing!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This thing cost £6m and the architect was paid £220k pa by Westminster City Council. A fitting burial mound for Boris, preferably while he is still alive. 
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Jan 7, 2022 14:37
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happyhippy posted:He's a programmer who co-founded a company during the dot com bubble, that was bought out just before the bubble burst. All of this to curtail his receding hairline, a lot of money and the ability to ''spin'' an idea. I really hope the space stuff works out, but a lot of the rest is iffy.
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Jan 8, 2022 18:15
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Tesco & Lidl here, decent discounts for me on the Tesco clubcard and Lidl always has items at reasonable prices. edit: as always with me nowadays; "it's even cheaper if you don't buy it" appears to be my mantra (used to be a horrid impulse buyer).
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ThomasPaine posted:Very glad I'm not the only one to get mad at this Language is like the virus, always mutating.
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winegums posted:Not convinced it's going to work if I'm honest. I think he'll just bluster through (*posh noises* well we all did what we thought was right during, uh the, ah, pandemic. As Prometheus said to Aphrodite, "sic latinus Sigmund dictus") Why are Greek gods speaking Latin?  Regarding Boris; we got the leader the UK deserved.
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Jan 10, 2022 20:35
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fuctifino posted:I'm amazed that people genuinely believe Labour is salvageable. It isn't. It's hosed. That definitely appears to be the case. Roll on with Irish reunification as it appears to be my only way out of this insanity....... (different insanities down south). We're hosed.
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Jan 12, 2022 09:53
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fuctifino posted:My cannabinoid content was already high when I caught covid in February last year. Weed didn't save me Might have kept you off a ventilator, which is apparently.... not fun. 
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Jan 12, 2022 10:38
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I watched him for a couple of minutes and still stand by my view that all sitting Tory MPs and their immediate family members should be killed and institutions such as Eton be ground into dust. I don't normally feel the need for old testament vengeance but i feel the amount of pain they have caused needs to be paid for.  That's enough of me viewing parliament for today/week, it's bad for my soul.
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Jan 12, 2022 13:31
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I wonder how long the lorry/container queue is at the ports now, it's very quiet.
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Jan 12, 2022 14:34
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OwlFancier posted:
A German gun to kill a German son (Mauser C96.. doing it old school).  edit: Barry Foster posted:How my hair look, Mother? That's a sweet callback.
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Jan 12, 2022 17:40
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OwlFancier posted:Technically I think that is a spanish copy of a german gun because the factory that made those is based in spain. A pimped out Astra Model 900 then? My knowledge is based mostly on watching C&Rsenal a lot.
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Jan 12, 2022 17:48
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OwlFancier posted:I think so yes! There is a good forgotten weapons videos on damascening if you check youtube, really impressive work. I remember footage of Churchill giving Stalin a sword (a big medieval designed one) and the Man of Iron going wtf!?! while holding it awkwardly, at the Yalta Conference possibly.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/katierazz/status/1481307310534402049?s=19 I quite liked his work... then i read his biography which was quickly followed a big no loving way! Nope! Nope! Nope! edit: basically he did his sister most of his life, the kids.... and the dog..... let the statue fall. Jaeluni Asjil posted:Was it on here someone was asking about the lorry situation? That was me, looks to be going about as well as expected then. 
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OwlFancier posted:It's not even a good statue I could make a better statue than that and it wouldn't even be a weird creepy nonce statue either. Recut the stone so as to remove the child completely, job done.
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Jan 12, 2022 21:25
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''De Chelonian Mobile!'' Never forget! 
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Jan 13, 2022 11:59
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To any eejit who tries to make believe in a flat earth i shall reply: "i choose violence" and headbutt them.
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Z the IVth posted:I did some reading about these once. The blast radius is about a mile? Launched from a recoilless rifle, range of 2km (1.25 miles). Not used due to it's inherent inaccuracy..... yeah, good luck with that.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:As a half Welsh part Irish person who lives in England I've always just assumed it was because Irish traditionally keep the body in the house so you want to get the wake and funeral sorted as quickly as possible before it starts stinking up the joint. whereas British people don't do wakes because celebration and joy in religious rites are a sign of popery, and as the body is in a funeral home or whatever you can spend more time organising a funeral on a day that's convenient for everyone without worrying about your living room smelling of Nan's corpse. Pretty much all bodies get embalmed (no stink) and bringing the body home from getting embalmed is now part of the whole funeral process (for catholics at least). It's a bloody hectic three days for the family involved and any decent funeral home here in N.I. speeds the process along in the house as smoothly as possible. From my own experience you get carried along by it all and don't really start grieving till the actual funeral and then once again when everyone else apart from family have gone. edit: I'm in Northern Ireland (ex catholic) and have never been to a wake that had booze, maybe that works where nobody has to drive.
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Failed Imagineer posted:In Ireland we differentiate between "wakes" and "removals" where you just awkwardly go and look at that body for a bit. Dunno how it works in the UK but it seems categorically incorrect to call it a wake unless you're chilling with the body in the room having a few jars Must be a big loving room lad. lol And don't get me started on carrying coffins up and down stairs. 
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Yeah a wake happens the night before a funeral. I think the original concept was that you are staying awake to protect the dead before the funeral. Yep, you don't get too many people other than the older generation sitting and chatting the night away these days. I've sat for my parents and granny but bugger doing that for every one with todays work schedules. Failed Imagineer posted:Suppose that's why people had a coffin hatch Different country, different traditions..... and bigger loving houses by the looks of it.
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kecske posted:I always assumed that it was normal that the wake was something that came after, like the wake of a boat. "In the wake of..." as something that follows something else. Wake as in waking up from sleep. Wake, funeral, food.
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Skull Servant posted:Another factor that my partner's mother, who is a funeral director in England, cites is that there's just less funeral homes and more people who need to be buried in general. This creates a bit of a backlog. Compare that to Ireland where nearly every town has a pub/funeral home combo. Most towns in Northern Ireland have two funeral homes; one for catholics, one for protestants... what a country. When i'm dead i'm fairly sure i'll be well past caring.
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Little interactive site i found on reddit regarding the lorry transport situation https://live.sixfold.com/ it gives border crossing times throughout Europe. To and from the UK we are seeing 2-20km lorry queues on the UK side with 13-45 hour crossing times. That's gonna mess poo poo up all right.
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Regarde Aduck posted:probably but chaos is all we have at this point So long as he doesn't try using Article 16 as his nuclear option here in N.I. i'm content to let him fester and decompose the Tory party from the inside. 
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Guavanaut posted:He will once the two important preconditions are met. 1) He remembers that NI exists and that he doesn't need any votes from there 2) Biden has had an old man nap and forgotten that he's deeply Irish and did the Irish peace Pretty sure he already did the first one. Help me Obi Wan Biden, you're my only hope! 
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I've always assumed that about 80% of us are plants. Fully expect to discover I've been working for GCHQ all along without realising it. If i'm a plant, then i sexually identify as a wild rose.... little bees, little bees!!!!!!  
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