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OwlFancier posted:Minimum pricing laws iirc? Not outside of Scotland afaik?
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ThomasPaine posted:If NATO did try to enforce a no fly zone over Ukraine and Russia shot down one of their planes in retaliation but didn't formally declare war or move the ground operation beyond Ukraine, would that count as a sufficient act of aggression for the necessitate full Western intervention? Ukraine is not a NATO member so the aggression would be the presumably (trying to) shoot down a Russian plane outside of NATO territory first. That's what a no fly zone is.
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Mar 1, 2022 22:09
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Despite what The Young Ones told us, vodka doesn't actually make a viable molotov - 40%abv alcohol burns cool (the water evaporating with the alcohol takes the heat away pretty effectively) and quickly, so the heat just doesn't transfer to the thing you're lobbing it at. Don't take this as license to just coat yourself with it and set light to yourself though, although I suppose Richard Pryor got a couple of good minutes of standup out of it. What about Wray and Nephew rum as readily if expensively available in East London? 
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Mar 1, 2022 22:41
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ThomasPaine posted:I know Ukraine isn't NATO, my question was if the Russians shot down a NATO plane in Ukrainian airspace after they established a no fly zone, would that would be considered an act of aggression warranting every member to declare war on Russia, or does that require an actual threat to a member state's own territory? As i say, the impetus here would be NATO acting first because a no fly zone means nothing without enforcing it, in which case the Russians are defending themselves. You can't rules lawyer this into a NATO defensive act and NATO is a defensive alliance.
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Mar 1, 2022 22:54
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Here's how that would probably play out: All of which is why no-one outside of FBPE twitter wants to try it in the first place. Russia is not Iraq.
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Mar 1, 2022 23:06
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:British coleslaw: I mean, much like here, you get both the more loose-cut stuff and the finely diced stuff (the latter especially in a supermarket or w/e). Having lived in both places there isn't really a difference. Maybe you're more likely to see mustard in the US version. US biscuits and gravy are nice, I make them at home sometimes (from scratch, not like I can pop down to Kroger and pick up a roll of Grands).
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Mar 2, 2022 11:38
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I'd mentioned I might arrange a London meet this Saturday - going to delay that a couple of weeks because of a clash with something my wife wants me to attend with her. Just so nobody's turning up on their tod expecting me there!
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Mar 3, 2022 10:21
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goddamnedtwisto posted:or even Tubby Issacs' Jellied Eels A quick Google suggests that if we have this to worry about then the French have mastered (heh) TARDIS technology.
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Mar 3, 2022 10:37
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Necrothatcher posted:He went down like a champ pulling receipts on some guy's dickhead posts. Some other guy got probed for calling the obvious Nazi posting obvious Russian propaganda 'a disgusting human being'. That, too, is apparently posting about posters.
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Mar 3, 2022 14:06
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goddamnedtwisto posted:If it comes to it there's still pockets of people speaking effectively RP all over the Commonwealth and even in isolated pockets in the US too, for the same reason. The poshest-accented person I've ever known (well, dated, anyway) was from Zimbabwe and her dad was something high up in their government, so she went to Zimbabwean Eton. Kind of charmingly old-fashioned English, too.
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Mar 4, 2022 12:52
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happyhippy posted:A work mate is 100% German, moved to Ireland at the age of 8, and has a 100% US accent to this day. I'm willing to bet an American will think she sounds 100% Irish. Funny how this works. When I first moved to the US I met an old lady who'd married a GI after WW2 and moved there from the UK. Sounded absolutely 100% American to me, no hint of an accent at all, which after ~60 years is hardly surprising. To them she still sounded British. Meanwhile when I moved back here after a decade in America everyone my first day at work thought I was from there. It dropped away after a few months, but it's definitely a thing.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:If I had to imagine there being an SA accent it woulf be Frink from the Simpsons. Come on now Comic Book Guy
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Mar 4, 2022 17:46
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:This is ignoring that there are huge parts of the UK that cannot host wind turbines, for a variety of reasons (too close to houses, too close to airfields, etc). Solar is an alternative in those areas, even if it isn’t as efficient as in other areas of the world, because the alternative in those places is nothing. I mean to add to what Twisto said - we have this thing called the National Grid, you know. You might have heard of it. We don't all need our own personal power generation apparatus, we have big wires for that
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Mar 6, 2022 16:19
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WhatEvil posted:Eh I mean 5+% of power generated is lost to transmission over the grid. That's 3m peoples' power consumption. Local generation helps to lower that, I believe. Yes but OP specifically wanted to generate it locally where it was much less efficient than that to do so....
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Mar 7, 2022 00:17
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Lady Demelza posted:Does anyone have an opinion on the thing on social media about booking AirBnBs in Ukraine? Some of my relatives refuse to donate money to charities ....ANY charity? Why?
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Mar 7, 2022 00:18
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Lady Demelza posted:All admin staff who work for charities are paid £150k a year *and* siphoning off donations. I mean, nice, but then they're surprised some rando off the street won't take a day off to drive his white van from Walsall to Kyiv with a bunch of blankets and compo rations in the back? There are people who know how to do that and do it all the time, they are called charities
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Mar 7, 2022 13:01
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This is literally across the road from the new offices for my company (which have been closed today for obvious reasons, not that I was in because we're mostly work from home still, but I was there last week).
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Mar 8, 2022 16:38
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forkboy84 posted:But all coffee is manky, espresso is best coffee because you can drink it in one & get that hit of caffeine. Probably only works because I'm not a coffee drinker regularly I like using a moka pot to make fake espresso because then it can just sit there on the stove all day and i can top some of it up with boiling water whenever i feel like it. convenient!
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Mar 9, 2022 12:02
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Convex posted:foreign person: and this is how you pronounce our capital city British person: 'it is now pronounced Kingstown/Georgetown/Elizabethtown/insert-monarch-here. also here's your new flag!'
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Mar 9, 2022 12:03
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Reveilled posted:Eh, I admit I found "nobody in this generation has faced off against the firepower of a conventional army, says former active member of a conventional army" rather amusing. Maybe he assumed everyone he was shooting at in Iraq was in their 60s. Brown people don't count, you see.
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Mar 11, 2022 12:42
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HopperUK posted:Hitler absolutely did use 'these people are really Germans and we are reasserting our natural borders' though. The Sudetenland at least, probably a lot more, I am not an expert. Sudetenland is a v good example, yes, with pretty good parallels to the Russian minority in Ukraine. On top of that the literal justification for Germany invading Poland and kicking off World War 2 was the 'liberation' of the historically-German Free City of Danzig within Poland's borders. After false-flag 'Polish' attacks much like the 'Ukrainian' attack on Russian troops like the day before Putin invaded, too.
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Mar 13, 2022 20:24
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Jedit posted:he never made out that anyone in the countries he invaded was really a German. This, in particular, is insanely incorrect.
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Mar 13, 2022 20:25
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OwlFancier posted:I think stringer is one of them like kate hoey or whatever, frothing dickheads that I would say don't belong in labour but apparently that constitutes most of the leading lights of the party. At least Hoey has self-yeeted herself, and Hodge is standing down at the next election. Trouble is I'm sure there are plenty of rising lights of the bastard wing of the party to get parachuted in to replace them.
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Mar 17, 2022 11:12
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Cookie Cutter posted:8 years of the west taking a blind eye to civilian killings by the Ukrainian side in the seperatist regions, etc. Like how do you think the US would act if there was a militia on the Mexican border shelling American civilians for 8 years? So....not American civilians, in your analogy, but rather Mexicans in Mexico? Because that already happens, there are drug wars around that area all the time, and the US hasn't sent the tanks in.
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Mar 17, 2022 11:16
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Cookie Cutter posted:No, I mean American civilians? You can't just add a "not" to my statement to make it mean something different. According to international law the people in e.g. Donetsk are Ukrainian citizens, not Russian. It's not me that's saying that, it's, well, everywhere on earth that isn't one Russia or another, and of course you apparently. You seem to be trying to say it's the Kremlin's argument not yours that this is true, but, well, here is you personally saying the quiet part out loud. Are they Russian citizens or Ukrainean? Which is it?
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Guavanaut posted:In the midlands customer facing rolls are called client side cobs. I think u mean baps
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Bobby Deluxe posted:There's inflation as dictated by the bank of England The Bank of England sets base interest rates, in an attempt to keep inflation within a certain band laid out as a target by the government. This is not the 1970s (and/or the Soviet Union), they aren't trying to explicitly set wages and prices.
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Borrovan posted:I'm not an econologist but my understanding is that, whilst fiscal policy is an effective way of managing demand-pull inflation like we had in the '70s by influencing consumer behaviour, it's pretty toothless for addressing cost-push inflation, like what we have now We've also had absolutely rock bottom interest rates for years and years now, especially since the 2008 crisis, to encourage people to go out and spend all their money and keep the economy tottering on its feet. Which has been going on long enough now that I suspect anyone under the age of about 50 isn't going to even think about putting money in their savings accounts even if the interest rates go up a little.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Hooray, I've got covid. Felt a bit rough and sweaty on Sunday but tested negative, actually feel a bit better today apart from a tickly cough. Praying I wasn't contagious on Saturday because I visited some family, although they're all jabbed up and most of them have had it anyway. Na, world+dog is catching it right now, I know several people who have. Turns out opening 'er up when Omicron is still a thing means lots of (hopefully mostly mild) cases!
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Mar 21, 2022 11:09
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Private Speech posted:All that said there's definitely the occasional story in media about politicians taking bribes. I don't think it's everyone or commonplace but there's certainly people willing to take bribes in politics. So unlike our own dear polity ;p That's a description of, like, everywhere.
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keep punching joe posted:Some serious Battle of Omdurman erasure itt. Also a lieutenant-colonel for a bit in the middle of WW1 (and at the front, not a cushy staff job). Whatever else you can say about the man, he was willing to get shot at. Which come to think about it is probably what poundshop Churchill here is trying to emulate, only I suspect without the actually getting shot at.
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Mar 22, 2022 11:25
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Guavanaut posted:Charles II should get a lot more poo poo for "everything's back to normal so Catholics can own land again" *transfers land to family members and loyal generals who happen to be Catholic, leaves everyone else starving in Connacht* Especially as by doing so he literally invented the Tories. 
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Darth Walrus posted:Yet another 'the Met is a mafia with slightly more expensive uniforms' news story: More expensive? Actual mafiosos wear like fancy Italian suits. These are bargain basement mafia.
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Spangly A posted:He sent in a black and tan unit of irregulars first, who arrived in Wales and reported that they weren't going to do poo poo. Then he called up Franco and Mussolini to help set up an explicitly fascist subdivision of the paramilitary Organisation for Maintenance of Supplies, led by avowed fascist and former Tory rotha linton-orman, since both she and Churchill considered Mosely "basically a communist". After beating AJ Cook into a hospital bed they were able to get the union leadership to stand down, starting with nottingha, and quietly accept that this would never happen again. Ummmm can we have a cite on this? Franco isn't even chief Spanish nationalist leader until like 1937. This is Churchill's wilderness years when he isn't in charge of poo poo. Which strike are you talking about here? If you want Churchill and tanks, people usually reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_George_Square though that wasn't just his idea (he was War Secretary at the time). feedmegin fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Mar 22, 2022 |
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Ms Adequate posted:I think it's a lot of genuine faithful who lived and died by said faiths, being manipulated and manuevered by a bunch of cynical overlords. Ehhhh....people tend to think this a lot, here's a good article by a historian bloke that covers it. He's talking about the Middle Ages, I know more about the mid 17th century. It's not really true, or not entirely true. Thing is it is quite possible to sincerely believe in your religion and also be a cynical bastard and also for your genuine belief in your religion to overlap with and be tempered/overridden by political concerns - and religion is a political concern here. If you say you're a Catholic in the British Isles (especially England) in the mid 17th century you are implicitly saying you are under the political influence of the Pope who is a hostile political power (you know, the guy who backed the Armada last century and in whose name Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament - it's getting pretty close to being a Muslim and saying 'I think the UK should be a Caliphate' in the modern UK). Conversely being openly Protestant in a Catholic country hints at 'and also I would like to overthrow the social order' because, well, a lot of that happened last century. Your religion is a political statement but also usually one held in earnest belief. It's just that, well, much like today, sometimes power is more important than principles, 'Paris is worth a Mass' and all, and pre-Civil War England allying with Catholic powers against the Dutch when expedient and so on and so forth. Doesn't mean those principles don't exist at all, though. So yeah, probably some people high up (and middling) didn't really believe. Most would to one extent or another though. Someone like Edward VI, I don't think anyone would claim wasn't an actual, fervent Protestant - which has Consequences, without him we probably end up going back Catholic, which in turn has geopolitical implications.
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peanut- posted:funniest part of raising the NI rate while lowering the income tax rate is it means that basically the only people that will ultimately get any benefit are pensioners What a coincidence, wonder who they vote for.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I was actually going to make a I spent a year of my childhood living under a thatched roof and within wattle and daub walls (a converted Tudor barn in a village in Herefordshire). Mum used to get very annoyed when I'd feed the mice who lived in the walls. Don't miss using the outhouse either.
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"I've never even *been* under a thatched roof" point about how thatched roofs have been banned in civilisation since 1666, then remembered that I have actually been under the only thatched roof in London (Shakespeare's Globe - and yes, they had to go through a *lot* of poo poo to get it built). The tour didn't mention anything about squirrels though, and the single thing I do know about squirrels is the ones in Green Park once mugged the CFO of a company I was working for.
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Guavanaut posted:Can't believe that the English Royal Meghan Markle invented the Royal African Company ...or that she runs the Jamaican government.
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kingturnip posted:There are already thousands of people who think that Newham is too far adrift from London Oy  (but yes our transport links aren't great. Crossrail might change that maybe? )
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Jeherrin posted:I refused to tell either the recruiter or my new employer what I was making. I tried this with my current employer. Then they told me what the usual range was for the role I was applying for and I was like 'ahaha no, I make $X in Cambridge and you're expecting me to move to London' and got an extra 5k on top of that. 
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