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Namtab posted:I’m his friend Sorry
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Gambrinus posted:loving hell, Airbnb is a ballache to use. I just want somewhere to stay, I'm not applying for citizenship so it's a bit unclear why they need two photos of me and my driving licence. You don't get this kind of bollocks with the Premier Inn. Also it's notorious for pricing people out of their accommodation, because why rent out your place for £600/month when you can put it on AirBnB? I'm fighting a losing battle against these "disruptors" like AirBnB & Uber but gently caress they suck
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Jun 1, 2022 11:03
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The Perfect Element posted:Why absolutely gently caress that? Seems a pretty sensible idea to me, and it's not like it's exploitative to give tourists a cheaper option. I think. Because why the gently caress would you want strangers cutting about your house, sounds like a loving nightmare? Also you're making money for AirBnB which is a lovely company that was grossly inflated the rental market in far too many places. Anyway, Happy Jubilee. https://twitter.com/officialcharts/status/1531644178739957761?s=20&t=x6nvTTsldvDTeXfG1l-dXg
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Jun 1, 2022 12:47
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Tesseraction posted:For a moment I thought they were calling him the n word and was confused. "The other N word"
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Jun 1, 2022 12:56
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The Perfect Element posted:Maybe I should just take my place against the wall now, but I think the overall Airbnb experience is pretty good. Or it has been for me, anyway. You get to stay in unusual and cheap places, sometimes, and the only real function of the review system is just to weed out who the wankers are. I'm sure the experience is good for the visitor & the landlord. But if you live in a city like Edinburgh which happens to be a tourist trap you are hosed rotten, because it makes the housing crisis even loving worse. Why rent your apartment out for £550 a month (cheapest non-flatshare in the city I can find on Rightmove) when a similar property will net you £65 a night on AirBnb? Without having to worry about awkward tenants with rights & legal recourse & all that? Now, it's not a problem if we had an adequate housing supply but I'm sure you've noticed that hasn't been the case for our adult lives. If that is acceptable to you then fine, that's a personal choice, I get needing to travel last minute, but the criticism isn't about the quality of the experience but the wider effect on capitalism. If you want to "no ethical consumption under capitalism" then yeah, sure, there's not.
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Jun 1, 2022 15:21
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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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Jun 2, 2022 00:17
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I wish I could run up a hill to never hear Kate Bush ever again.
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Jun 2, 2022 16:51
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NotJustANumber99 posted:lol scotland gtfo of another international tournament I think you'll find Scotland boldly decided to boycott the World Cup Finals in Qatar because of the appalling human rights record of that nation, especially with regard to foreign workers who built the stadiums for the tournament.
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Jun 2, 2022 23:49
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NotJustANumber99 posted:didn't have a problem with with euro96 though did you? other than winning games Just weren't quite as moral in 1996 as we are now, clearly
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Jun 3, 2022 01:23
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Guillotine Yeah, it should clearly be "should off"
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Jun 5, 2022 15:18
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Halisnacks posted:Much though I’d like to see Boris deposed, would Truss or any likely successor actually be much better for the country? If anything wouldn’t a new leader have a better shot at leading the Conservatives to another GE victory? Who loving cares? Kieth will be a useless oval office too. At this point all I want is to enjoy the schadenfreude after BoJo has what he wants taken away from him. For probably the first time in his life. Will PM Truss actually be particularly worse? Not that much. They've already got a massive majority for the next 2 years, plenty of time to wreck some damage. Is it worse if Priti Patel does it than Boris? It's cunts all the way down anyway. And if a new Tory leaders does what Gordon Brown was too stupid & cowardly to do & calls a snap election while bouncing on a wave of popularity? Oh no, 5 more years of cruel neoliberal shitbags. As opposed to Labour led by a moron with fewer principles than a high school (that joke works better said out loud than written down but you know where I'm going) who have been flanked from the left by this government on more than one occasion? Cunts, cunts everywhere & not a drop of hope (in electoralism) happyhippy posted:The normal Russian gov is corrupt as gently caress and useless. Doesn't most of that apply to the British government also? Our economy is hosed, our government is rotten & it'd certainly not put it past some Admirals to be pinching a penny here & there, by entirely legitimate contracts of course. Our government's corruption just has a couple of extra layers of bullshit around it to make it "legal", still loving rotten.
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Jun 5, 2022 20:04
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OwlFancier posted:Really could have done without that bit of my brain trying to figure out if boris johnson is alpha, beta, or omega tbh. Boris Johnson is *checks greek alphabet* an omicron
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Jun 5, 2022 20:46
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Going to no confidence the PM but not until after the Jubilee Tories are psycho
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Jun 6, 2022 08:20
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Time for some good news amidst the sea of pessimism https://twitter.com/ththighland/status/1533750963860799494?s=20&t=kwHuHq9gwUXx816taUuSfQ For you sassenachs, can get BBC Alba if you have satellite TV or Virgin. If not, it'll be on the iPlayer. Might go along to watch the MacTavish Cup Final live myself. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Jun 6, 2022 |
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Jun 6, 2022 11:09
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Just Another Lurker posted:It's like a toned down version of Hurling. Hurling doesn't happen a handful of miles from my house & shinty does. And if the BBC (or other council TV channels) shows hurling then I've not heard about it, whereas I have heard about shinty being shown. Not really much point comparing them despite common interests, the standard of play is much higher in hurling for pretty obvious reasons when you look at where they are played. Shinty's big game is at Bught Park, which isn't exactly Croke Park.
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Jun 6, 2022 11:53
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yung lambic posted:There’s literally no chance he’s going, right? There's a slim chance. He's a divisive figure even with his own MPs. And they care about nothing more than self-preservation: if he wins then he is safe for 12 months, which takes him past the 2023 local elections and only 1 year before a presumed general election. So while I'd be surprised if he loses it wouldn't be a total surprise. But yeah, it's Britain, good things don't happen
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Jun 6, 2022 13:02
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I don't think he would be safe for another 12 months. The 12 month rule is an internal tory policy and can be changed by tory membership. Yeah, this is true, they could do this. But things would have to get really miserable over the next few months go get to that point. Like losing both by-elections this month, and then a couple more in the next 6 months.
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Jun 6, 2022 13:29
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This is the most perfectly Kieth response. Just worthless words
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Jun 6, 2022 13:31
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jiggerypokery posted:imagine a GE except everyone loses Feel like that's been every election of my life time 
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Jun 6, 2022 14:56
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Rustybear posted:it's not a strategy that is in the short term interest of the tory party or the UK but who gives a poo poo about that Certainly not Boris. https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1533798992626204673?t=Cn4qPNA7U4areV77q1XEPA&s=19 Extremely funny how willing Harry Cole is to go to bat for the guy who made him a cuckold.
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Jun 6, 2022 16:09
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ThomasPaine posted:lol at all the centrists on twitter insisting that this time Bojo is done for, as if he isn't going to survive the confidence vote easily and the whole thing isn't going to be forgotten by tomorrow morning The problem for centrists is they are so invested in both sides that they think there's no way their MPs could be so undecorous. It's good poo poo
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Jun 6, 2022 16:35
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Aipsh posted:I’m sorry but I burst out laughing. https://twitter.com/nicholaswatt/status/1533891596361637891?t=A0RR8SknNsqgui4AKmQw9w&s=19
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Jun 6, 2022 20:35
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Y'know, I'm looking on the bright side. No matter which side wons there will be very sad Tories, & usually can't ask for much more than that (This is my copium for Boris winning)
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Jun 6, 2022 20:37
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Dabir posted:So he's sticking around? For the time being. Although knowing almost half the parliamentary party wants him gone (& apparently more than half of the membership) I'm sure people around him will be looking for a way for him to exit "gracefully" at some point in the next 6-8 months. David Davis seems to have been correct in his assessment that the rebels shot their wad too early: they'd have been better waiting until after the by-election double header this month. For a sense of how poor this result was, Boris had 41.2% against. Thatcher in 1990 stepped down after (& it was a slightly different mechanism but) Hestletine got 40.9% against her. Which isn't to say I think Boris will wake up tomorrow morning & decide he can't go on for the good of the party (never mind the country) because he doesn't give a poo poo about anyone but himself. Just pointing out how lovely a position he's in. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Jun 6, 2022 |
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Jun 6, 2022 21:09
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fuctifino posted:Amazing. You are wildly optimistic if you think that Boris cannot guarantee a majority in parliament. Very few of the 148 will be willing to go so far as to vote against the government on a whipped vote, never mind on an issue of confidence or supply It's one thing to vote against the leader of the party in an anonymous ballot, quite another to do so in parliament with the whips threatening to out how many kids you've fiddled. The backbench MP can rarely be called brave. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Jun 6, 2022 |
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Reveilled posted:I'm not so sure about that, Johnson and Sunak's economic policies have been very unpopular among some of the more swivel eyed backbenchers. If the cost of living crisis continues to worsen the government is going to end up under some real popular pressure to do something, anything, while the more militant MPs are going to be opposed even to fig-leaves that give credence to the notion that the filthy scroungers deserve anything at all. The question in my mind is only whether the government will break first under pressure from its backbenchers or the polling companies. The swivel eyed loons want massive tax cuts. It's not like Boris or Rishi are opposed to them. We hosed
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sebzilla posted:Blockbuster was good, we then had Lovefilm for a while who sent you DVDs through the post(!) picked semi-randomly from your wishlist. I accidentally stole a disc of Star Trek DS9 from Lovefilm, and then they died before I found it.
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kingturnip posted:Referrals to our service have gone up by 40% compared to pre-Covid. We were more or less on top of things before Covid, but the impact on the quantity of work we could do during Covid, combined with the increase in demand for our service post-Covid, combined with a national staffing shortage partially caused by the Tories being loving incompetent... means that we are very much not on top of things now. I long ago gave up on actually getting help for my myriad mental health problems beyond meds (which at least for me have made life liveable) because the waiting list to see anyone but someone who talks you through guided self-CBT or what ever it was called which is absolutely no help for me is so long and by the time i get referred to someone I have lost the self-motavation or am otherwise not mentally in a position where I can talk about this poo poo (it's the old catch 22. To actually go to the doctor requires the effort that I just can't make when I'm at my lowest. Like, if it's an appointment anywhere but my local GP surgery which is only open 3 days a week it involves a 40 minute bus journey followed by a wait of 20-30 minutes, then another 30 minute bus ride & a 20 minute walk.) I guess it's mildly reassuring to know it's not just the mental health services that are woefully underfunded. I wonder if the NHS can even be saved at this point. Starve the best has clearly been working well from the free market psycho's point of view. To reverse at this point 12 years of Tory misrule (without touching upon Labour's love of PFI, saddling the health service with pointless debts for years to come) will take years, massive spending increases, finding a way to encourage more people to train as medical professionals. I'm not saying it shouldn't be saved, I'm just wondering if any politician actually has the willingness to "waste political capital" on a project that won't provide immediate results. Seems we're loving incapable of doing anything that won't pay off for a decade
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Guavanaut posted:I once saw a GP go on Wikipedia to look up contraindications for something he was about to prescribe. I know information's information and part of the qualification should be able to filter obvious lies and it might be more up to date than some 2kg textbook if you also read the citations but there's something off-putting about going to the Free Encyclopedia That Horse Paste Eaters Can Edit for that specifically. At least do an internal NHS branded one (I'll set up the wiki). I went in & asked if the warning about sertraline not being mixed with grapefruit juice applied to other citrus fruits. Because I was curious after reading a bit about the interaction of grapefruit & discovered that the thing that causes the problems is also in Seville oranges & in bergamot. Which, Seville oranges is no biggie, I don't eat marmalade. But my tea of choice is Earl Grey which has bergamot in it. I hadn't had any particularly notable side effects but like I say, I was curious if I should drop the Earl Grey & find a different drink. So the GP looks blankly before spinning around to her PC & going on Google & ended up on WebMD or whatever. Obviously I was asking a slightly niche question and by nature General Practioners can't know everything but boy was it a little shocking to see her just do what I could have done at home. I assumed there was an NHS website or at least journal access that I didn't have. (The conclusion was it's probably fine)
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Angepain posted:Quickly editing wikipedia just before my appointment to recommend 20kg/day marijuana for my sprined ankle, the perfect crime Sorry, I changed it to amputation after you.
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Tesseraction posted:I'm more optimistic. The NHS isn't dead forever, it's just dead under Tory malevolence. The fact Wes Streeting is Shadow Health Secretary should tell you all you need to know about the priority of the NHS under Kieth
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sebzilla posted:We all seen Paul Mason's unhinged map of the pro-Putin Left? Yes, Paul's breakdown into Charlie from Always Sunny has been enjoyable.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:But aren't like half the No 10 advisors to Blowjob former Revolutionary Communist Party members? Oh, Peter doesn't like them either. He's what Jacob Rees Mogg thinks he is, a genuine throwback to 19th century Tory paternalism. loving freak.
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Guavanaut posted:He did used to be a Marxist in the past, so he says. Worse, he was a loving Trot
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OwlFancier posted:Why is he in Ireland other than for a piss up? To collaborate with Sinn Fein to destroy the UK at the instruction of his master Jeremy Corbyn, agent of the FSB
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:"OTHER long dead russian guy" - who he? Trotsky or Stalin? Nikolai Kondratiev. "Who?" you ask? He was an economist in 1910s/20s Russia who served in a minor post in the Kerensky government for a couple of days before the October Revolution. He was a proponent of the NP & ended up dead in the purges. Look, I've read a decent amount on the Russian revolutions & had never heard of him either, pretty sure Paul just wanted to be esoteric
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Mebh posted:I never got the whole doubling down insanity poo poo people do when their chosen idol turns out to be a moron. Some people really do not like to admit "I was wrong" Where as me, a cool & well balanced person, does not like to admit when I am right.
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I just want you to know that the shinty was good fun today. Kingussie even have an Italian player, shinty is going global man. Scunnered for the poor Caberfeidh keeper Iain McColl though, made some big saves but all anybody will remember is him loving up a goal mouth scramble to let Kingussie back in the game when they were losing 2-0 a few minutes before half-time.
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stev posted:I'm going to give my psyche a break and assume all of these people are currently serving multiple life sentences. Oh, that's adorable
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Gonzo McFee posted:Imagine achieving sentience just in time for the planet to die. Lmao TBF, if you suddenly achieved sentience you'd be committed to ending all sentient life tool. Lord of the Llamas posted:No to both. Sounds like nerd poo poo that matters less than shinty OP. June 12th 1921, Mikhail Tukhachevsky gets authorisation from the Soviet government to use chemical weapons on the peasant uprising in Tambov Oblast, south-west of Moscow. June 12th 1937, Mikhail Tukhachevsky is executed as part of the Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization trial during the purges lol forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jun 12, 2022 |
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