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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Apr 8, 2022 |
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Yeah, despite the greatest crisis of a generation the border guards still apparently have time to take part in their traditional pastimes https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1498322098242134018
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Mar 1, 2022 10:50
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More proof that he's entirely leaning on the Wes Streeting/Piss Var wing for advice. "We can't do popular things, they must be wrong, therefore unpopular dithering is right" is their bread and butter or whatever horrific unpopular thing they eat. Balls of tinfoil or something.
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ThomasPaine posted:as long as you don't throw it in the fridge and expect it to be good a week down the line.
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I want to see a reality show where Greg, passive income tomatobro, that stemlord who shat out his gut flora so that he could live on huel, and a tory MP have to share a house and budget and cook.
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Mar 1, 2022 17:14
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I do not know with which weapons WW4 will be fought, but WW3 will be fought with endless tweet-reply circlejerks.
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Mar 1, 2022 18:00
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I'd think that they kept their paperwork in Word and just printed out another pdf copy on request, unless I was already suspicious about their paper trail for some other reason.
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Mar 1, 2022 19:56
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What would you call a cross between a fajita and a Yorkshire pud anyway? Every name I can think of sounds terrible from a marketing perspective. Although I guess forkshitas would reliably end up in the reduced section.
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Mar 1, 2022 20:44
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Bollock to the face might work for meatballs in a Yorkshire pudding.
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Mar 1, 2022 20:47
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So if everyone bought yellow sticker food, like certain brainlords think, all the shops would fail, putting it up there with that lib dem peer who suggested everyone forage for berries.
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OwlFancier posted:Toad in the hole.
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mediaphage posted:this is one of my favourite examples of us/uk english divergence 
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Mar 1, 2022 23:29
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That's what happened to Dom Cummings.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:you start to think putin's in the right dont you Pelmeni is good though.
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forkboy84 posted:I dunno, it's not really worth discussing is it? Telegraph publish a nonsensical anti-union screed, sun rises in the east.
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Mar 2, 2022 01:25
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I said 'steamed ham'. That's what I call keirstarmers.
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A tiny war. An infinitesimal war. Perhaps even an atomic war.Mega Comrade posted:This is why I've actually stayed with octopus. As far as energy companies go they make an attempt to be honest and they invest in green energy heavily. They also do a nice carbon offset tier (which yes I know carbon offsets are questionable but it goes directly to a charity that helps bring energy to developing countries) Electricity from 20.306p to 27.627p per kWh and standing charge from 23.759p to 44.750p per day. Gas from 3.987p to 7.282p per kWh and standing charge from 26.112p to 27.219p per day. Very large change in the electricity standing charge. And gas about doubling but that was expected. Rerunning the numbers on making tea Guavanaut posted:It takes about 7 minutes to heat up enough water for 2 cups of tea and a bit extra on the gas hob, so say 0.3kWh or 1.2p of gas. A cup boiler takes 30s per cup and draws 3kW so 0.05kWh or 1.015p of electricity. 
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Mar 2, 2022 12:04
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For the same reason as the old "What do you call a gorilla with a machine gun?" joke, because it's a multinational, nuclear-armed, military alliance and not a child.
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Mar 2, 2022 12:22
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ThomasPaine posted:I don't think anyone is going to be sending nukes or columns of tanks into either Brussels or Moscow.
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keep punching joe posted:If you have enough ICBMs and a permanent security council seat you can say anything is anything you want.
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Mar 2, 2022 13:16
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Makes sense, all those boomers who swore that they were on the beaches at Normandy really just got drunk and tried to start a sectarian fight at the Sea Life in Bray while on holiday.
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Mar 2, 2022 13:23
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spilling warm beer and ice cream down my england shirt while screaming terrorist bastard at an octopus
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goddamnedtwisto posted:You can make the argument (and many have) that in fact the Franco-Prussian War never actually ended, it just snowballed. The effects of the aftermath were one of the main causes of WW1, the effects of the aftermath of that led to WW2, which led to the Cold War, etc. For all the "I would go back in time and kill Hitler" fanfics, which would probably solve nothing as you just get some other Nazi oval office, it'd be far more interesting to go back and get Frederick III to quit smoking.
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Mar 2, 2022 13:40
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Two years later Europe is bankrupt after he convinces Babbage and Darwin to team up and make a big clock that draws monkey pictures for some reason.
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The media is basically this at the moment https://twitter.com/Lubchansky/status/1499036555515678723 also namechange pls mods  jiggerypokery posted:American Gun Fetishism is incredibly pervasive Rustybear posted:there is exactly one war in history and it concluded in 1945 
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Mega Comrade posted:are you implying sanctions would lead to Nuclear war? Barry Foster posted:All according to keikaku
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I enjoyed reading The Mind is Flat, which I addresses a bunch of things about how a lump of electric suet keeps deceiving itself in determinable ways. It's not a self help book but that's good because those are poo poo, and it prompted a bunch of "nooo you can't just say that most historical psychotherapy is pseudoscience they're already looking for reasons to defund us" "haha electric dumpling go brr" dialog, because flat minds respond better to some kinds of thought process modulators than whatever horseshit Freud and Jung were on.Mega Comrade posted:I wouldn't fight for the UK per-se but I would fight to keep the Russians out. The UK can treat LGBT+ folk pretty poorly (especially the T) but we would suffer far greater under the Russian regime. And that's worth fighting against for me.
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Mar 2, 2022 19:47
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The war crimes of Sir Kyiv Stormer
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I once heard a Jeremey Vine phone in "debate" of "centigrade vs Fahrenheit" and let me tell you it was a treat. Someone phoned in to say "actually of course we should use Kelvin" and united the other two "experts" in rage. "It's 60 degrees out" sounds more casual than "it's 16 celsigrades" which sounds more casual than "it's 289.15K". But if the Kelvin value was just rounded to 290 then that'd be fine for most people. You'd never need to go below zero and the Express could have a lot of fun with it for a while. jiggerypokery posted:who was their "key partner"?
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Mar 3, 2022 10:35
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New idea for national service to appease the gammons without the massive inconvenience of actual national service: All school leavers spend a year acting in a national performance of It Ain't Half Allo Dad's Heroes making poo poo jokes about a fictional war that's still going on in order to Good Bye Lenin the boomers.
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Spangly A posted:I believe it will be my last thought as I die.
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"Saddam is bad because gassed children, leaving less for me to fiddle." - Rod 'Actual Nonce' Liddle "The biggest problem with Saddam is that he hasn't murdered anywhere near enough Catholics." - Julie Burchill
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I can recall a few spicy pro-Saddam takes from the time along the lines of "yes he's a tyrant but the Arab needs a strongman to stop them descending into barbarism" so I imagine all these journalists are just responding to things written by other journalists rather than engaging with the actual population.
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ThomasPaine posted:e: Yes, of course Lockerbie was bad. I've heard that take go from a fringe wingnut conspiracy theory to a "well of course everyone knows that now but they didn't in the 90s" matter suspiciously quickly after Qadhdhafi's death.
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Borrovan posted:I suspect OP does mean that, but Daesh have, in fact, rolled in Specifically some Chechen members want a go at Kadyrov's troops for what happened to them, which is understandable in isolation but nobody wants ISIS there.
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jiggerypokery posted:He has done as much as anyone to deserve a knighthood
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keep punching joe posted:If a non-native speaker lives for years of their life in London and speaks English with an almost perfect RP accent. Is that weird to people, because I suspect not?
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The emergence of distinct Antarctic accents is about the closest that we can get to studying how this works in a vacuum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHKGErnN9W8
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