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Barry Foster posted:I quite enjoy the The Witcher show. It's nowhere near as good as the games and it's pretty dumb, but it's good clean dumb fantasy fun. I've been very much enjoying the Netflix Snowpiercer series. It is insanely stupid and don't ever think too hard about how a 1000-odd car train actually functions or how the characters are seemingly able to shoot back and forward between the tail and the engine multiple times an episode, but it's very fun and while they do it with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer I do enjoy the radical class consciousness it has going on, which thankfully it never gets too liberal with outside of a few weird plot points. Plus you also get to see Sean Bean absolutely chewing the scenery in the best way possible.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I genuinely don't know how I stuck with Game of Thrones until it got good, because after it ended my housemate wanted to start it, so I went back to S1 and good god in heaven it is complete and total dogshit and very starkly so compared to where it ended up. It looks and feels archaic like something out of the 90s, filmed in the most blandly uninteresting way imaginable, and every character is competing to do the worst faux-English accent they can muster like they had a bet on. I know the first season of a show can be rough, but woof. Are you loving insane, this is the exact opposite of a correct GoT take. The first few seasons were incredible and the last few shat the bed completely.
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It's obvious GoT was working with much smaller budgets in its earlier seasons but honestly I loved all of it till they stopped having a pre-written script to lift wholesale and tried to fit three books' worth of plot into like 8 episodes
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NotJustANumber99 posted:If thats a public place (is it?) surely he has as much right to be there as some camera crew and the little runt? E: beaten, and corrected!
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Joe Lycett starting off making a good point about why the parties are cutting through, and then unfortunately melting into a big pile of poo poo. The one thing we absolutely desperately need to do as a culture is to stop centrist liberals describing themselves as 'lefty' when they are in fact nothing of the sort, they just don't think gay people should be put in jail
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Omicron trip report: absolute bullshit waste of time. I'm pretty much already recovered after 4 days except for a bit of congestion. At its worst it was congestion + a bit of a cough + mild fatigue and fever. I've had worse colds. As expected if you've had your 3x vaccines I don't think there's much point getting worked into a pit of existential despair about it. Unfortunately it does seem to be lingering. LFTs are still returning strong positives, so I'm still under house arrest. Hopefully only for a few more days, though apparently after 10 you're supposedly no longer contagious regardless of whether the tests pick it up? Idk.
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Did this ever get posted here because lmao I've met some dumbasses in my time but this is pretty specialist https://twitter.com/TylerGlaiel/status/1482855814473805824?s=20&t=VbuhPBxgwRQwgrdyotqQZw e: I don't understand how Star Citizen has ended up where it has, with all that money you'd think Chris Roberts could just pay to outsource the whole gig to a competent dev team while remaining the face of everything and continuing to rake in the cash ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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So today I finish a deadline and it's friday and I want to drink, but I'm still under house arrest. First time in my life I'm going to do a supermarket shop on Deliveroo. Tbf I do need milk and bread and arse wipes as well. loving RIP my bank balance though. e: Do LFTs show stronger lines the higher the viral load or is it just 'present y/n'? I'm hoping it's a former because the line was slightly fainter today, which hopefully means only another day or two or this nonsense.
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Feb 4, 2022 13:50
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Yeah I noticed the first couple of tests I did last weekend were like that. The test says to wait 15 mins but I had a thick red line after a matter of seconds. I guess I must have been positive for a good few days before I felt noticeable symptoms. Now it takes a minute or so to appear and is a bit thinner, so hopefully moving in the right direction.
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Feb 4, 2022 13:59
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:UK has some of the oldest housing stock in Europe. Older buildings doesn't necessarily mean worse though. The nicest flat I ever lived in was built in the 1890s and it was far better than my parents' 1980s semi detached.
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Feb 4, 2022 15:18
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Bug Squash posted:The Victorian stuff is murder on the electric bill though. Can't insulate the solid walls for poo poo, and your paying for all the heat that's wafting up into the high ceilings. I found the stone walls in mine retained heat pretty well. It was an ordeal to get it comfortable from cold but once you had it there you only needed a few hours blast of the boiler every day to maintain it, even when it was cold out. It worked the other way round in summer too, it could be unbearably hot outside but the cool stone kept it nice indoors.
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Feb 4, 2022 15:39
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Interesting. I guess that's where I benefited from living in western Scotland, where sandstone rather than brick tended to be the building material of choice even for working class tenenents.
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Say what you like about Ricky Gervais but if you think the office was bad you're insane
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Feb 5, 2022 20:35
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Every public figure I have ever had a crush on is a monster, even the ones I previously thought were good or at least just neutral, lol https://twitter.com/VictoriaCoren/status/1490042865099190273?s=19
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Feb 5, 2022 22:39
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I actually really liked the way the US office adapted the original and did its own thing. It was a bit saccharine for me in parts especially towards the end, overlong, and the whole thing doesn't even try to hide the fact it's capitalist propaganda, but when it was good it really nailed it. That dinner party episode was incredible.
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Isomermaid posted:I've met Jimmy Carr a couple of times and granted I'm just some random woman on the street but you know what? He IS lovely, face to face and nothing like his stage persona which you kind of have to see him "off" to realise isn't him. I don't believe for a minute he seriously thinks it was a good thing the Nazis persecuted the Roma Yes, I honestly do think he's probably in reality a very personable guy who is, in his head, just making an silly joke. I do not believe he earnestly doesn't give a gently caress about the genocide of roma etc in the holocaust, much less thinks it was a good thing. I'd have found it hilarious as an edgy 16 year old, but he's still running with that as a 49 year old man. Now I'd ask what exactly the joke is, because you can absolutely do that kind of dark humour if you're making a point, but this isn't saying anything, it's just pure punching down. There's nothing there beyond sheer shock value, which doesn't do much for me now. In the current political context though it's less about Carr himself and more about the response. This is a media establishment that earnestly thought Corbyn pronouncing Epstein properly was some damning evidence of antisemitism. If anyone on the left said what he'd said they would (rightly) have been totally condemned for it. But because he's pals with them it's totally fine. It's just so nakedly hypocritical. At least Baddiel of all people is calling him out though, which is nice, and it's good to see some consistency from the prick, but the fact he's in the minority speaks volumes about the way power works in Britain. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Feb 6, 2022 |
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OwlFancier posted:You can have different personas, yes, but the person I am at work is still me, it's quite different from the person I want to be all the time (it would be more different if I were more committed to me job, and my unwillingness to compartmentalize too much is part of why I am not that committed, it's why I won't do sales for example) and it's different from the person I am around people I love, but I don't really think I can disclaim ownership of it. It manifestly is the person I am a lot of the time, I spend time being that person, that I don't like it does not make it somehow "not me" I don't think. It is as much me as any of the other selves I am is. And that I am sometimes forced to be someone I really don't want to be is an indictment of society for putting that on me and also, to a degree, myself for going along with it. It is as much myself as anything else though, it would be absurd for me to believe otherwise. This is pretty much on point, imo We always tailor ourselves to our audience, but that's still us, and it's hollow to say 'oh no that's not the real me'. It's always the real you. You aren't the idealised image you think you are in your brain, you are what you say and do. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Feb 6, 2022 |
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Feb 6, 2022 03:09
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Ugh, but they're so much better for cooking than electric ones.
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Feb 6, 2022 16:57
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Are induction hobs as reactive as gas? I really struggle where I'm not able to change the heat instantly, which is why I hate electric. I'm having to use them atm and it has been a ballache getting used to hobs that have 6 fixed heat settings and take ages to switch from one to the other.
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Oh man they sound great. Maybe one day when I actually have my own place and don't exist at the mercy of some landlord.
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Maplin seemed aright when I went in a few years back, I wonder how they went out of business while lovely companies like curry's are still going. Who's going to bloody curry's in 2022?
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fuctifino posted:Haha, wtf? https://twitter.com/AlPinkerton/status/1490447506613932039 The Falklands issue is a bizarre thing, the only colony that never was really a colony. As a good anti-colonial socialist type you instinctively think 'oh yeah should probably give it to the Argentinians if they want it, this is like Mexico owning the Isle of Wight', but you look into it and no, there was no indigenous populations, Europeans didn't turf anyone out or oppress a native population when they settled it, and everyone who lives there very much considers themselves British and wants to remain a British territory. So I guess really, the cool and good thing is for it to stay British. The Argentinian claim is purely based on geographical proximity, which doesn't hold much water in itself. I assume everyone involved knows that, but it's a pretty important strategic holding, and geopolitics will be geopolitics.
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Jedit posted:I thought the Argentine claim on the Falklands was based on them getting there first but leaving because there wasn't anything worth settling them for at the time. I mean Argentina didn't even exist as a country when the islands were first settled (by the French), and there was no native population. The subsequent history is mostly just your standard flip flopping between colonial powers. The Argentine claim was mostly derived from its status as the successor state to the Spanish empire in that particular corner of the Americas, but the Spaniards had only held it for a few years anyway and weren't the last governors. It's pretty complex and Argentina may have a legitimate claim depending on how you read the history, but the way they like to frame it as an illegally occupied part of the country and implicitly cast the issue as a anti-imperialist one feels pretty disingenuous.
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I'd quite like to go see the Falklands but they really do not make it easy to visit.
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Borrovan posted:Same (as amended), it just sounds kinda surreal, a rural British community on some rock on the other side of the world. Yeah I just want to share a roast with a penguin while some old fud in the corner of the bar waffles on about are Maggie socking it to the argies. Must be a nightmare for the handful of Argentines who live on the islands lol
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:What a great time to revisit this classic Every time I see this posted I audibly laugh at my screen, can't believe it's a whole decade old now. Guardian.txt quote:I stand, a lone tyrannosaurus, bellowing at a world I don’t understand.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Women were having permanent makeup tattoos all through WW2, both saving money on very scarce cosmetics and also of course saving themselves time and hassle between 12-hour factory shifts and keeping house. The fashion stayed on through the 50s and quite deep into the 60s, it was really only in the 60s that they stopped getting them, not least because it was seen as an old-lady thing to do at that point. Saved them having to choose between looking nice for the pub and having gravy on their tea too I guess
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The government are a shower of shits who should always be regarded with suspicion and their priorities are obviously going to be pretty sus, but they're not saying anything crazy here. Cases are tracking down, deaths are tracking down, hospitalisations are tracking down. Yes, cases were/are probably vastly under-reported because a lot of people with mild/no symptoms never bother getting tested, but if anything that's a positive sign. The Omicron wave has killed a tiny fraction of the number alpha or delta did, despite even the number of officially recorded cases being astronomically higher. Obviously all deaths are bad, but they're now at a level where they're comparable to deaths from other sources. This is no longer a crisis point. Covid is something we need to factor into policy decisions, but it is no longer something that we need to drop absolutely everything else for and treat like the Black Death. The knock on costs of continuing to make Covid the only thing that matters are at this point probably outweighing the benefits. I'm sure I'll get yelled at for saying it again, but we're absolutely not anywhere close to the near-state of emergency we were last time around, and it's needlessly alarmist to pretend that we are because we're so loving black pilled that our brains cannot accept good news and will twist themselves into knots trying to prove that everything is, in fact, a hundred times worse than it is. I do think getting rid of the requirement to self-isolate is a dumb move though, that should really be the rule for any potentially dangerous air transmissible disease, assuming there are systems in place to replace wages etc. (lol) E: missed the above posts- deaths are dropping, albeit slowly. They're always going to trail cases though. I'd also ask who is dying? I would stake money on it being the very same dumbass boomers who refused vaccines, and in that case, you know... ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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I don't understand NFTs and nothing in this world could convince me to do anything about that, crypto is one of the dumbest, most boring subjects on the entire planet, and I'll sit and happily watch bbc 4
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Barry Foster posted:Let's be real, when you say "we" what you mean by this is "you lot, who disagree with me" Well, yes, but it's hardly limited to this thread and I very much was just as anxious about everyone back when there was a reason to be!
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blunt posted:I don't understand how Sorry, I wasn't saying that not getting tested was good. I was saying that given the number of omicron deaths the fact that cases were probably even higher than the huge, huge number on record (because of people not being tested) is a positive sign - the number of people getting very sick or dying of omicron is a tiny, tiny fraction of the number catching it by comparison to earlier variants. I think people should always get tested if they think they may have covid, and should self isolate.
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just lol if you think Charles is going to croak from Covid, the guy will have had about twenty shots of vaccine and there's always the palace's supply of virgin maids on hand should a blood ritual be needed to keep him ticking
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I would be really interested to see a breakdown of hospital occupancy to vaccination status but I haven't found anything like that, has anyone seen anything floating around?
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This is a very good thread https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1491891791490125825?s=19
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With michelin star stuff you really have to look at it in a different way to most dinners, you're not paying for a nice meal, you're paying for an art performance involving food. I've only been somewhere that fancy twice in my life but when you get a good experience it's properly magical. It's just a shame they're so expensive they're completely out of reach for most people - they certainly are for me at the moment! I'm also very uncomfortable with the super formal being 'served' nonsense, so I wish they'd just make their amazing food in a more casual environment and slash all the prices by half, I don't need someone to put my napkin on my lap for me.
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Noxville posted:I dunno if that’s necessarily true, sometimes maybe you are paying for some artiste to express his creativity but more often you’re paying for expensive ingredients cooked in small batches by a large team of chefs, and you get to eat things you’d normally never get the chance because of it. Well yes you're right, but that's part of the artistry of it all, the dishes themselves are properly carefully designed and often use flavours/ingredients in unusual and cool ways with unique presentation that makes you appreciate the food a lot more than you usually would! Re: lunch menus, yes that's always a good idea for the price but who has room for a proper multi course meal for lunch? Early evening/pre-theatre menus are also usually a good shout.
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I can't imagine a war in Ukraine would be very popular in Russia tbh, people still remember them being united in the Soviet Union and there's so many cross border family connections etc. I guess that didn't stop them annexing crimea though E: ^ I thought Aberdeen was alright. Bit 'nondescript regional British city' but there are worse places, and the countryside around the place is gorgeous.
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OwlFancier posted:I have never actually been to aberdeen and to be honest it's probably really nice by my standards I just wanted to make the joke. You should go they have a nice spoons
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