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crispix posted:appeh jubbleh luvvehs what yiz doin fit' jubbleh weekend?!?!??!??! (Snipe edit: 4, the correct amount of fish fingers that should be in a sandwich. With HP Sauce you heathens) Drinking copious amounts of wine and staying the hell indoors, as I fly to NYC next week and knowing my luck someone will give me Covid if I roll to the pub. There's already bunting going up on the 'ladder' streets off mine, and flyers posted to lampposts for the Saturday street party. Dress Up! Fruit Punch! Wave your flags! Please move your cars off the street (which laffo, what people pay round here for parking permits ain't happening)! Comedy option: I find a wheelchair & dress up as Sir Captain Sir Tom and just roll into people to find out the limit of well off north london politeness ala Jackass.
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crispix posted:appeh jubbleh luvvehs what yiz doin fit' jubbleh weekend?!?!??!??! My partner's dad was invited to a jubee bash tomorrow by his neighbour He said 'no thanks, I'd rather shoot the old bag' Lol
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Jubbly bubbly, your artisan-crafted e-cig juice.
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oh my god/marxist leninist
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winegums posted:So I suppose I'm interested to know what you guys think The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. Fuckin' strike? Fuckin do a [redacted] with [redacted] right in the [redacted] imo, the bastards have it coming wholesale.
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I give my permission as someone who’s going on a massive drugs bender tomorrow to strike. My heart ain’t as important as workers rights! (This sounds sarcastic but isn’t) (don’t worry just going to primavera, not on some depressive thing) (no, the Spanish health service won’t be dealing with me - the high should just about keep me alive til I return, then it’s touch and go)
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Jakabite posted:I give my permission as someone who’s going on a massive drugs bender tomorrow to strike. My heart ain’t as important as workers rights! (This sounds sarcastic but isn’t) (don’t worry just going to primavera, not on some depressive thing) (no, the Spanish health service won’t be dealing with me - the high should just about keep me alive til I return, then it’s touch and go) Best of luck with your jubbly bash, stay safe and that.
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Jun 1, 2022 21:11
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I support winegums striking and in fact if the doctors don't strike I will turn up to the hospital with a new illness every day that they will have to groan and treat starting with a biologically impossibly non-stop-cavernous-fart disease
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On a fun note I’m sat outside a bar in Manchester and someone brought a queenie cutout. It’s now headless and severely battered. I love this city
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DesperateDan posted:Fuckin' strike? Fuckin do a [redacted] with [redacted] right in the [redacted] imo, the bastards have it coming wholesale. How dare you. They can go on the waiting list for it like the rest of us
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winegums posted:Hi goons, long time no see. See how the public and press react to the rail strikes that are likely to get going this month. There's obviously going to be a lot of attacks against the unions for all the old reasons they trot out but people are worried and they are financially hard pressed, there's bound to be a lot of sympathy going out to anyone actually capable of defending their pay and conditions. See what sorts of lines the RMT uses if they get attacked over supposedly already having high pay and try to adapt them to a medical setting to use. Public support should be an absolutely vital flank of your strategy though, ideally you'd get the workers directly applying pressure on the government and management through withdrawal of labour but also with sympathetic public groups willing to show up to bolster pickets and go on whatever media will have them to support your efforts. Some granny talking about how they don't mind the disruption now because the service is already in such a bad state it needs to be massively improved and that costs money including better pay for the staff they currently have is a PR battleship for your side.
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crispix posted:appeh jubbleh luvvehs what yiz doin fit' jubbleh weekend?!?!??!??! A couple of nice Turkish lads just finished clearing out the 4-foot-high brambles from my garden this afternoon so I am going to drink alcohol, gaze across the 15-foot-square wasteland of bare earth and try and figure out what the gently caress I want to put in there. ed: also strike away winegums. They're going to keep treating you all shittier and shittier unless you kick back.
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Runcible Cat posted:A couple of nice Turkish lads just finished clearing out the 4-foot-high brambles from my garden this afternoon so I am going to drink alcohol, gaze across the 15-foot-square wasteland of bare earth and try and figure out what the gently caress I want to put in there. Plant meadow flowers. Give the cats something to look photogenic in.
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Angrymog posted:Plant meadow flowers. Give the cats something to look photogenic in. I quite like the thought of herbs. And there's a market stall I know in Walthamstow that sells catnip plants, but the trouble with that is they tend to get rolled/chewed to death by every cat in the area before they get a chance to establish themselves....
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I grew a nice sunflower and then some bastard things ate it the moment I transferred it to the yard. So now I'm going to plant Dorset Nagas instead so that they can enjoy trying to eat those.
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Dug up a good portion of my backyard recently... the neighbourhood cats love to crap in it and the birds love to have dust baths in all the loose soil, life is truly wonderful. 
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Runcible Cat posted:I quite like the thought of herbs. And there's a market stall I know in Walthamstow that sells catnip plants, but the trouble with that is they tend to get rolled/chewed to death by every cat in the area before they get a chance to establish themselves.... And, of course, the cats always look photogenic. They're cats. In evidence I submit: 
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Jakabite posted:I give my permission as someone who’s going on a massive drugs bender tomorrow to strike. My heart ain’t as important as workers rights! (This sounds sarcastic but isn’t) (don’t worry just going to primavera, not on some depressive thing) (no, the Spanish health service won’t be dealing with me - the high should just about keep me alive til I return, then it’s touch and go) Enjoy your bender! Drugs are excellent (within reason, or at least mostly within so)
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My lodger is moving out because he's accepted a job offer for such spurious reasons as "career progression", "increased pay", and "proximity to family". I'm genuinely gutted, it's been so lovely having company. Ugh, why is it so difficult to make friends as an adult?
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Lady Demelza posted:My lodger is moving out because he's accepted a job offer for such spurious reasons as "career progression", "increased pay", and "proximity to family". Kurt Vonnegut posted:What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. It really is an epidemic. My partner goes to work, and knows all kinds of people, here and across the globe. I know three people irl in the town where I live, and I don't see em often - I spend 90% of my time knocking around the flat on my own. Often posting on these forums. Which is good, but otherwise it sucks. And I'm (usually) working too. I'm lucky that I'm still very tight with the friends I made when friend-making was still possible (16-25), but still. I don't know how we all inevitably get sorted into our own little boxes. It just seems to happen.
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Yeah, all my friends scattered for work, and although we chat and meet up a few times a year, we're too far apart to see each other regularly. Same with family. I see loads of people from work and at the various places I volunteer, but that doesn't translate into anything. A couple of my colleagues are happy to come over or host of an evening, but don't really like going anywhere or doing anything, and yet everyone is amazed when I toddle off to gigs or restaurants or whatever by myself, as if there was any other option. It was nice to be able to go to the pub and chat with someone. Ah well.
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Barry Foster posted:Enjoy your bender! Drugs are excellent (within reason, or at least mostly within so) Thanks! It’s a lot of mates I’ve not seen in a long time too so should be lovely.
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When I first moved back to this town about 6 years ago (I left when I went to uni in the late 70s), I have a handful of family knocking around locally as a kind of 'starter pack'. Apart from that, I got a part-time job as a cleaner in the local pub so there were people I could say hello to in the street which might seem daft but was actually helpful! After joining the local Labour Party, I met people that way, and now the covid restrictions are lifted, the quiz night down the pub which I've started going to again most weeks with some of my former comrades (all but 1 of whom have quit Starmer's party) is rebuilding those friendships. I've picked up with 1 or 2 old school friends who I haven't seen for over 40 years (but who I got on well with at school though not to the extent of staying in touch over the years) still lurking around the town and extremely coincidentally found out last week that my mum's new house is right next door to one of them! As a basically very shy person, utterly useless at small talk, I always found making friends difficult. I moved schools numerous times as my folks kept moving and they would often move mid school year so all the groups and cliques were all sorted by the time I arrived which I found incredibly difficult to break in to. Having upped sticks and moved abroad without a job or a 'gentleman companion' to hand and just the names of a few people I had met on an online country-based forum, dumped myself in a strange land. I recommend joining up with a group - whether it's church, politics, community action, darts, quizzes, slimming world or whatever just to sort of start meeting people in a non-intense way. I don't think any of the people I've become friends with in the past 5 years are bosom buddies (yet - it takes me forever to make friends) and my closest friends I've known for 40/45 years (but none of whom live remotely near me!), but if I was really stuck or in need, I am pretty confident that I could count on help in some way. Also, don't knock online friendships - I've built up some good online friendships with a handful of people who know my real name, and I know theirs. Eg when I was seriously stuck for accommodation for 3 months some years ago, I posted a moan on facebook and two people who I did know in real life but not very well messaged me offering me free accommodation, people I would never have dreamed of in a million years of asking for help. One online friend from Moldova even phoned me up during the Egyptian revolution to see if I was ok - all the way from Moldova - we'd never spoken before! This isn't all one way btw - it's not just about me getting help, but I have also helped out a couple of friends in different ways. Lady Demelza posted:Yeah, all my friends scattered for work, and although we chat and meet up a few times a year, we're too far apart to see each other regularly. Same with family. I started going to gigs on my own back in the late 80s. None of my friends *these were really Metallica under assumed name, not the modern tribute band. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Jun 2, 2022 |
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Yeah, some of my best friends are people I met through metal shows. There's some awful people in scene but there are some wonderful folk too. I deeply resent that I haven't had the same enjoyment from gigs since being attacked at Faith No More in Edinburgh over a decade ago and basically having a panic attack from the shock of it all. Major bummer. I hope that aggro oval office gets ball cancer
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Gotta be honest, I just want A Gang again. I seem to be enjoying/enduring some sort of second adolescence, since the first one (in hindsight) never felt like it really belonged to me. And also I'm not sure there's much point in taking part in modern 'adult' culture, here, in the foothills of societal collapse. I just want a bunch of other knuckleheads who're on my wavelength and around to pal around with on the weekends. But almost everyone my age has kids and careers and everyone else is young and kinda annoying (and I wouldn't know how to properly relate with them anyway) Ah well forkboy84 posted:I deeply resent that I haven't had the same enjoyment from gigs since being attacked at Faith No More in Edinburgh over a decade ago and basically having a panic attack from the shock of it all. Major bummer. I hope that aggro oval office gets ball cancer  that sucks, man. Solidarity.
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I had a nice bonding moment with a colleague when we realised we'd both picked the same location as a beautiful place to die should we ever decide to commit suicide.
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hello to the ukmt thread, I have never posted in your lands before but I have a question and don't know where else to ask it I have to travel to london for work in the next couple of weeks and I will eventually have to take a covid test to return to the us where and how can I do this in a manner that doesn't involve paying $120 at heathrow, thanks in advance
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Antrodemus posted:hello to the ukmt thread, I have never posted in your lands before but I have a question and don't know where else to ask it https://uk.usembassy.gov/covidtestingproviders/ Honestly if you were just asking for a decent test here I could be more helpful but most of my attempts to Google for your question assumed I was a Brit pretending to be American and treated me like a criminal.
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forkboy84 posted:Yeah, some of my best friends are people I met through metal shows. There's some awful people in scene but there are some wonderful folk too. Yeah bummer. A friend of mine had a battery thrown at him at a Slayer gig - I don't think it was particularly aimed at him, he was just the unlucky guy that got hit - cut him just above his eyes - had his mugshot in Kerrang. (I think, that or Metal Hammer but I think it was Kerrang). Worst damage I ever suffered was a black eye the one and only time I got right in the mosh pit. A peripheral person after that!
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Small cell batteries and pound coins are at least a little bit better than Panda Pops bottles full of piss, which in turn is a step up from anything that the big boy bikers might have been planning on chucking, from lengths of chain to actual lead acid batteries.Antrodemus posted:I have to travel to london for work in the next couple of weeks and I will eventually have to take a covid test to return to the us "The Department of State does not provide direct medical care to private U.S. citizens abroad." "If the negative viral test result is outside of the 1-day window you will need to test again." "Rapid tests are acceptable as long as they are a viral test acceptable under the Order." it unfortunately looks like you'd have to get a rapid test at Heathrow unless you can get someone within the airport to magic stamp one of the much cheaper tests from out of the rapid antigen test boxes that you should be able to pick up over the counter from any pharmacy while in London.
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"i don't want a dictator I want a queen" Is it too soon for a new thread title
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https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/06/01/stonewall-lgbtq-pride-month-study-2022/quote:
A comment under the article suggests caution in interpreting the results thus. I think I agree with them. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Jun 2, 2022 |
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thank you for the advice, internet friends
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Runcible Cat posted:And, of course, the cats always look photogenic. They're cats. In evidence I submit: Poke the tum
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Antrodemus posted:thank you for the advice, internet friends I know that US employment rights are utter dogshit, so I can probably guess the answer here , but surely if you're travelling for work then your employer should pay for essential travel expenses?
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Real Cool Catfish posted:Poke the tum Zero to BARBED WIRE GLOVE in 0.0000007 seconds. (Actually I got a little stroke of his chest patch in before he gave me The Look.)
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