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keep punching joe posted:Wanna find the parliamentarian reading all the chuck tingle books. This is the one thing that would bring me round to Starmer.
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Miftan posted:Thought this was the queen's D&D stats for a second. Constitutional Monarch does sound like a character class from a particularly obscure rule set.
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Jan 1, 2022 11:41
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I never did say Happy New Year last night, or wish you all a Merry Christmas (and won't be delivering that Christmas Number 1 effortpost I talked about because the facts have turned out to be annoyingly inconsistent with the point I wanted to make and - annoyingly - much harder to make a joke about) so as compensation for all of these sins, I give you this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_prognosticator
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Hey are you still thinking of doing your talking walks? TBH the problem is I have *too many* ideas, nowhere near enough execution, and the too many ideas end up killing whatever execution I actually try because I just hating it for not containing all of the ideas I do have. I *have* got the beginnings of an idea of how to square this particular circle but I have to test it out. Also THAT FUCKER Jago Hazzard has literally just done the exact idea I had as a test of it (a walk around the London wall); I need to work out a way to use this apparent psychic link we have to get him to hand over all his patreon money to me.
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Jan 1, 2022 18:24
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Red Oktober posted:If you’re open to suggestions then: just pick an idea, execute and iterate. The perfect really is the enemy of the good, and if you try one and it doesn’t work you at least can mark it off and see what bits you can move forward. Ideas are really plentiful, but execution is everything. Yeah, that's why the basic idea is to strip it all the way back to the original idea except using an old GoPro to film effectively a backing track for it, and just let myself talk over it rather than over-thinking the content. Even as I type that I'm already mentally planning an elaborate chest rig and steadycam setup and basically I need a mental equivalent of a rolled-up newspaper to bop myself with when I start doing that.
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Clarence posted:I've got a bicycle helmet with a mount for a 360 degree camera attached to the top. The plan was that I was going to walk down lots of London streets taking video. I wrote some code that would extract locations and directions from Google directions (say, Oxford Street to the Houses of Parliament) and the idea was to put together a bespoke playlist that would allow a user to travel between two places virtually with 360 degree video all the way. Even made and uploaded a trial video walking through the Greenwich Foot Tunnel. I went one step further and mounted my 360 camera to a monopod secured to a backpack and took a walk around the Isle of Dogs - was actually less self-conscious than I expected to be, I assume because most people just saw a bloke with a stick sticking out of a backpack. Two things scuppered it - first, the camera (Garmin Virb) is *really* unhappy with low light and the quality was shite and second, and much more importantly, it showed up just how much grey hair I have. (The actual idea was to use the 360 camera to focus on points of interest on the way past - I'd already played around with the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF30jf1KkJU so I could have got around the grey hair problem, but like I say the quality is just not quite good enough for what I had in mind)
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OwlFancier posted:You could wear a hat. I'm trying to *not* look ridiculous, I'll stick to just using Heath Robinson contraptions made out of crap laying around the house that make me look like a cyberpunk radio ham, TYVM.
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Jan 2, 2022 00:28
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Guavanaut posted:We do not talk about the orangutan! https://twitter.com/KiwiEV/status/1477390523182714881 Heard you were talking poo poo about orangutans
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Jan 2, 2022 01:30
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cyril sneeeer posted:Don't know if you've seen it but for those that haven't there was a TV programme called orangutan school. It was for orangutans that had been raised in captivity to learn how to live in the wild. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR4f5oNHnwQ If you just want something fat and hairy with only rudimentary intelligence to sit around your house while you pay for all the food I can be there tomorrow.
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kingturnip posted:If it's the "She's a big girl now" piece you're referring to, I'm pretty sure that was the Star. The Star might have perved over Charlotte Church but it was the Sun and News of the World that was for a while the largest purveyor of child pornography in the country and possibly the world. When the Sexual Offences Act changed the age of majority to appear in sexually explicit photos from 16 to 18 page3.com (which was amazingly a paid subscribtion site) had to scrub a load of pictures - and then Samantha Fox and a couple of other models pointed out shots of them at 16 and 17 were still up and they had to sheepishly admit that while they did check IDs of models, for almost all of them all they had in their records was a record that they had been checked, but no record either of the model's date of birth or the date of the shoot, and so they had to wipe the whole lot. Interestingly almost no trace of this appears *anywhere* on the internet any more despite it getting a lot of coverage in the tech press, just in case you doubted the power of Murdoch's lawyers.
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StarkingBarfish posted:Cuktig's continuing to make the same mistakes they made first, second and third time around. Interesting choice of twitter handles to copy into that statement too : Why are the first two accounts she tagged part of the TBEU? Does she think they're legit? And why does Chuka get third billing? Is he actually a Grannymugger project that got completely out of hand?
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I *think* it might be related to this tweet: https://twitter.com/DrRobertZands/status/1477714676863709188 and she thinks (possibly with some well placed DMs) that Zands et. al. are being scammed by a third party claiming to be her party? Seriously though whatever the situation is 2022 is already off to a *banger* of a start.
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Zalakwe posted:Help me out here, I'm not as online as some of you guys. Are these tweets sincere? They come across as parody. Zands and Knox (and at this point gently caress knows how many other accounts) are part of the Trevor Bastard Extended Universe (TBEU), a trolling operation that at this point definitely needs to be considered one of the greatest pieces of longform performance art in online history. Basically they're parodies of the #FBPE crowd (and the general Blairshagger commentariat), and if I'm honest not particularly subtle, but that lack of subtlety just makes it all the funnier when they *do* ensnare people.
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Jan 3, 2022 01:04
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forkboy84 posted:Robert Zands & Kelvin Knox are both characters in the Trevor Bastard Extended Universe, which is a bunch of really perfect parody accounts of the meltiest of melts. Probably his most famous work is Simon Hedges. Simon Hedges isn't actually a Grannymugger Production, he's a single account run by someone else IIRC, and predates the TBEU by quite a bit, although I'd say he definitely is part of the TBEU.
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Jan 3, 2022 01:06
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OwlFancier posted:If all the teslas in the world went on fire at once do u think that would be a net reducation in co2 emissions No, because their owners are all idiots who will instantly replace them with an even bigger waste of aluminium, lithium and unrecyclable plastic shipped all around the world to save pennies on tax and labour costs.
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Jan 3, 2022 13:02
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Lady Demelza posted:I'm beyond two weeks of a cold that I can't shake. Every Covid test I've done is negative. There's so much congestion in my chest and nose that I have to rest after climbing the stairs and time eating/drinking with the need to breathe through my mouth. The only thing that can rouse me from the 10 hours sleep I need each night is periodically waking up boiling hot and sweating buckets. Have you done a PCR test?
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Lady Demelza posted:Yep. PCR, LFT (including throat swab) and spit tests have all come back negative. I even took a photo of the LFT and zoomed in to double check there wasn't a faint line that might have been missed. Has SA bred yet another variant? (Seriously though that sucks, and I'd definitely call in sick if at all possible because even if it's "just" a cold it's not like traveling and working is going to speed your recovery, is it?)
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Concrete made with fly ash instead of sand and gravel as aggregate (e.g. breeze blocks and non-structural panels) are actually pretty close to water in density terms and so can float on their own - as demonstrated by a kid who jumped off a bridge into the docks around my way, landing on a massive concrete panel (presumably that had fallen/been blown off one of the sheds) floating a foot or so under the water. The sight of someone whose legs weren't leg-shaped any more, screaming as he floated serenely off, is one that did more to prevent kids swimming in those docks than any amount of scary Donald Pleasance-voiced videos. I've always wondered how they got the poor bastard off there without making things much worse, because presumably you couldn't actually get a boat out to him without tipping the block and maybe chucking him into the water to try and swim with legs that had a lot more bends in them than legs normally do (I, of course, just ran like hell when I saw it happen) goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Jippa posted:Concrete ship or chocolate teapot? Both actually work fine (although only for a little while in the latter case), people just don't believe it because physics is hard.
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Maugrim posted:Just had angry call and text from my landlord demanding to know why the rent for this month isn't in his account yet. I don't think he's realised today was a bank holiday. Doh, of course it is - I was sort-of stressing because I had a notification from Amex saying "Thanks for the payment" but my bank account hadn't actually seen it go out - obviously part of me was excited thinking I'd just got away with a free Christmas but the other 99% of me was thinking "Oh poo poo something's hosed and I'm going to spend hours on the phone and bailiffs are going to turn up and Priti Patel will have let them carry guns" and all the other stuff that runs through my head every time there's the slightest discrepancy in my finances (if anything it's worse when it seems like I've come out ahead, because I know there's no way the universe wouldn't let that happen). Still intrigued by that notification - I assume that because it's a direct debit the bank accepted the request from them on the 1st and went "Yeah, the money's there" to Amex but it doesn't officially get deducted from my account until tomorrow, but that seems a bit dangerous to me because *right now* it looks like I've got quite a bit more money than I thought I had and I can see that tricking people into silly decisions. Of course if I was a bank I could just show a screenshot of the empty Amex account and full current account and use that to get a loan for ten times the value of both, then get the government to pay it off for me.
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Endjinneer posted:Not quite, if I remember my mix design correctly. Fly ash is used for cement replacement in concrete because it has vaguely similar properties to portland cement, though it's not so easy to source now we've stopped burning coal in the UK. Blast furnace slag is used the same way. Neither affects the density that much. What does is aerating the concrete and you can get down to 6-800kg/m3. Leave out the large aggregate as well and that's the recipe for breeze blocks. If you cut them in half they look like an aero. Some quick wiki-ing suggests that I've confused them using fly ash in the Mulberry harbours (because it was one of the few things we had very little shortage of) and the asbestos-containing concrete they used for the temporary sheds in the docks. So add "breaking legs of unsuspecting swimmers" to the hazards of asbestos I suppose.
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OwlFancier posted:I don't wash mine as often as I should and they are hardly foul, really want to know what the gently caress people are doing to their masks where they are visibly dirty. 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. (Note: Don't absent-mindedly chuck them in with those Unstoppables scent thingies (look I like my sheets to smell nice, let me have one bourgeois comfort) unless you really fancy having a nosegay)
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Miftan posted:I only buy margerine and it doesn't taste any different to me We're just pretending this post didn't happen, right?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I wish I had a puddy tat to post pix of but we're not allowed pets here so I would have to have an indoor cat, but also the thought of a litter tray stinking out my tiny flat and the possibility of a kitty escaping through an open front door into the maze of the building doesn't bear thinking about! I have one of these automatic-cleaning litter trays, originally bought in the beforetimes to try and stop the dog eating cat turds[1] while I was at work[2] but kept on despite the relative priciness of the trays because it really does reduce the litter smell to basically nothing within about ten minutes of being used. And also because I'm a deeply lazy person and a litter tray that just needs cleaning once a month would be worth ten times that to me. [1] Labrador, nothing else really needs to be said, other than for a while I thought that she was developing a bladder problem because she was pissing on the doormat while I was at work - however I eventually realised she was eating the cat poo poo, which is of course made from the (loving expensive) special food he has to have to make him piss more because the poor little bastard almost died of a urinary blockage that was so painful it took two vials of ketamine to calm him down enough to even get him in the carrier to go to the vets. Turns out more than enough of the active ingredient was making it through his system to mean the dog's lovely warm mid-morning snack was making *her* piss more. [2] I have a cat flap, but because there's a lot of other cats around who love to just loving wander in - seriously, I left the back door open on a hot day and found one of them taking a poo poo in the spare room - I got one of those electronic ones that work off the chip in his back to only let him in. However the clicking of the mechanism traumatised him enough that he won't go near it now even though I've taken the lock mechanism out (or, more likely, because he's realised it's much more fun to just make me get up and let him out). Wait why do I have pets again?
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josh04 posted:Yeah, gravy is perfectly respectable on chips when curry sauce is not available. This is why I could never bring myself to fully support the Northern Independence Party even ironically. Like human sacrifice and cannibalism some cultural norms are completely beyond the pale.
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EmptyVessel posted:Eh. Sure you don't mean it but that's a really poor choice of phrase at the end there mate. I compared putting gravy on chips to cannibalism and human sacrifice... and you're worried I'm Doing A Spectator with the *other* half of the post? (No seriously I'm not sure what I'm being accused of here - "beyond the pale", as in "Things that are done by the savages outside the walls" *is* a perfectly cromulent turn of phrase for a post taking the comedic perspective of someone literally saying Northerners need to be kept repressed for their culinary choices)
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XMNN posted:Re decriminalisation, I was chatting to the guy I buy it off last week and he said all the people he buys off are thinking about legalisation/decrim and trying to develop their own strains or whatever to turn into a brand, which seems to me to be a. inordinately optimistic about the future of drugs policy in this country and b. even more unjustifiably optimistic about any possible legalisation not being done in such a way as to hand control of the industry directly to multinationals and existing agribusiness (e.g. GW pharm) I think they're expecting it to go something like it did in the US (and when you have a more repressive drug regime than the US... hoo boy), where this is in fact what happened, because (unlike what your mate's stoner big brother told you in the 90s) it turns out Philip Morris et. al. *weren't* sitting on plans to take over the entire industry as soon as it was legalised, and in fact everyone was pretty surprised with how quickly legalisation happened, which left the large semi-legal growers in California and (Colorado? Oregon? I can't remember the other state where medical marijuana was allowed) as the biggest fish in what was suddenly a much, much bigger pond.
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Jakabite posted:Gordon Brown was pretty normal wasn’t he? I feel like Gordon would be quite a nice man to go on a short hike then have a pub lunch with. Maybe meet up with two jags after I DON'T AGREE, HE'D GO TO LEGOLAND, BYE.
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Jakabite posted:Are you saying all Scottish people look the same??? No, just that - thanks to the Danish influence on Celtic culture, and the long history of sheep farming - Scots are predisposed to enjoying a day at Legoland Windsor and a nice lamb lunch.
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Guavanaut posted:Amazed that made it into the film. Especially with the added 'artistic' decisions of decking the bank where greedy bank goblins live in six pointed stars for the adaptation. HP defenders will say that the star in the floor just happened to be part of the existing building they used for the bank scenes, but there are apparently[1] several shots where the camera goes out of its way to show it. [1] Never read the books, never seen the films,
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Just Another Lurker posted:Never read the books but have the box set and have marathoned all the movies several times. 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.
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Loonytoad Quack posted:I see we're officially at the "too many people are testing positive, clearly the problem is we're testing too many people" phase of the Omicron non-response: Well it won't change the amount of cases at least (they already account for followup and repeated positives) and really there's not actually much reason to do a PCR after a positive LFT - the LFT is much less sensitive than a PCR test and the false-positive rate for LFTs is low enough (and the consequences of a false-positive so low) that it is gilding the lily a bit. Also you really don't want someone who has a 99.9% chance of being infected and contagious leaving the house, especially to go mix with people at a test centre who have a much lower chance of being positive (close contacts of cases and people who are about to travel or go into hospital). Now none of this is the reason they're *actually* doing this, the actual reason is PCRs are expensive and the current infection rate so high that they're having to dip into the most expensive options to keep the capacity up, but the only bad thing about this policy from a public health point of view is reducing the sample size for genomic surveillance.
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Borrovan posted:This is true again wrt film/tv. Install Plex on your TV, torrent all your poo poo on your PC, no more loving around trying to work out which platform you need to use to watch [x]. Most smart TVs can speak DLNA/uPNP and Windows has a built-in DLNA server (although it's for some reason buried away in the network options).
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Tesseraction posted:Good for them but also "Milo, Sage, Rhian, Jake" could our lads/lasses sound more British. I mean that's just the cast of every British politics podcast. Yes even PiP.
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The Perfect Element posted:So they've just announced that you no longer need a negative Covid test to enter the UK. Oh no we might import more covid into the country!
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OwlFancier posted:The front page of the sun today helpfully informed me that "we can ride the wave" which sounds lovely if you ignore that the wave is composed of human bodies. London would seem to say otherwise - the headline admissions number looks scary but, crucially, that number is people admitted with covid, not because of it. Yes I know this is the sort of thing that conspiracy theorists were shouting about a while ago but we are in a very, very different world than we were when "They're putting car crashes down as covid deaths!" was the mating call of the pink man. The number to really look at is the amount of people on ventilators and right now, a month after London's case rates went up almost 200%, the number on ventilators has gone up... 10% (and even that number is with, not of). For comparison it had *quadrupled* by this point in the Alpha wave last winter, and doubled a month after "Freedom day" at the start of the Delta wave, and those were both with far, far lower case rates. This is partly the lower severity of Omicron, but is mostly the result of vaccinations - and London is the least-vaccinated part of the country. Obviously I'm not saying there's any merit to the choices they've made - just that talking about bodies rotting in the streets just plays into the hands of the "working from home is the real hate crime" crowd because they'll be able to point at the fact that not as many people died as some predicted to write the whole thing off as a storm in a teacup, and it also distracts from the fact that the NHS is still likely to collapse in some areas just from staff shortages breaking the camel's back, which will be of course the spark for another round of privatisations.
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Guavanaut posted:There does seem to be a theme of some types of athletes avoiding getting vaccinated, but I don't know if that's any different to any other group of young highly paid and high status men. Premiership footballers are less than 50% vaccinated - and are definitely selfish and dumb as poo poo, on average. (Interestingly Italian players are almost 100% vaccinated but then the Italian government has been much more robust in pushing the vaccines and is apparently about to actually go into full "Yeah you don't leave the house if you're not vaccinated" mode)
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