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Found it.. Old dears in 1969 complaining about the new-fangled 7-sided 50p coin (replacing the ten bob note) and how easy it is to mix up with a no-sided, round, 2 shilling (10p) or half crown. (12.5p) Vox pops from Birmingham market. I remember the news being full of it at the time. I was 9 years old. https://www.macearchive.org/films/midlands-news-21101969-new-50-pence-piece Bring back big, old brown pennies. 4 blackjacks for 1d it used to be.
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Barry Foster posted:Nobody actually does that, that's just in films and stuff erm...... I don't set off to sleep on my back usually on one side, but almost ways wake up that way.
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Jun 1, 2022 13:33
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quote:The prime minister has claimed it would be irresponsible for him to quit over the Partygate scandal, admitting it had been a “totally miserable” experience for his staff. It's not the loving parties you loving asswipe, it's the continual lying and cheating. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-resign-no-confidence-vote-latest-b2091422.html
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Jun 1, 2022 15:14
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-community-council-meeting-halted-27112772quote:A community council meeting was halted by a naked man who joined the video call in a bath. I went to Oban once.
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Jun 1, 2022 16:53
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Mumsnet - first question to Spaffer: "Why should we believe anything you say when it's been proven you're a habitual liar?" https://twitter.com/AlexofBrown/status/1531969453306654721?s=20&t=JrumDbbzsxDTEXe2-Xa5CQ
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Jun 1, 2022 17:13
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crispix posted:appeh jubbleh luvvehs what yiz doin fit' jubbleh weekend?!?!??!??! I think I've upset my mum by saying I'm not joining a family Jubilee tea party on her lawn tomorrow. Even though ever since she took me to see Dr Zhivago when I was 13 to make me not-a-commie (I had posters of Lenin on my bedroom walls) it made more of a lefty.
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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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Jun 1, 2022 23:59
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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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Jun 2, 2022 01:05
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https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/06/01/stonewall-lgbtq-pride-month-study-2022/quote:
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Jun 2, 2022 03:09
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The Question IRL posted:They are calling themselves the "Bad Law Project." Reminds me of a time back in my relative youth when, out after work in my work suit somewhere in Camden where you could get large jugs of cocktails for £5, drunk as a skunk, went to the ATM to get some cash. A black guy pushed in front of me. "Fascist pig" I shouted after him in my drunken state. "What did you call me?" he said. "Fascist pig" I replied. "Oh" he said, "That's ok".
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Jun 3, 2022 13:12
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And imagine all those horrifying displays of little kiddies' dancing and singing off tune that she has to endure with a smile.
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Jun 3, 2022 16:05
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The Princess Diamond cruise ship (that my mum was supposed to be in courtesy of my rich brother but cancelled once we realized 'something was going on') right at the start of the pandemic - a confined space - not everyone on there caught it either too. Out of 3500 people, 712 got it. COVID-19 patients on Diamond Princess Japan 2020 Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 8, 2021 A total of 712 people were infected with COVID-19 on the Diamond Princess cruise ship – 567 passengers and 145 crew members. The cruise ship, which had more than 3,500 people on board, was quarantined for around two weeks. All passengers and crew members had finally disembarked the ship by March 1, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1099517/japan-coronavirus-patients-diamond-princess/
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Jun 3, 2022 23:07
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Just read the first 40 pages of the Starmer book. What a nasty piece of work he is. I'm assuming it gets worse.
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Jun 4, 2022 09:52
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happyhippy posted:Cromwell had a cornish accent. Cornish? He was from the Cambridge area.
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Jun 4, 2022 16:05
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happyhippy posted:Aha, indeed my mistake. It's interesting to watch some of those videos of Shakespeare done in the accents that would have applied at the time. They're definitely not RP and with our modern use of RP for Shakespeare various puns and rhymes are missed. https://youtu.be/qYiYd9RcK5M
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Jun 4, 2022 16:31
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Finally, 20 points ahead: https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1533135353472815113?s=20 I note this was field work up to 22nd May. Wonder if things have got better or worse for tories since then. Unrelated: Apparently "The Palace" chose this passage for the Prime Binbag of Custard to read out: Quoting a passage from Philippians 4:8, the Prime Minister said: "Whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable … think about these things." Re the booing: "One Twitter user, John West, said in response to footage of Mr and Ms Johnson walking into St Paul's Cathedral, with a stir in the background: "Crowds of woke, Union-Jack waving, left-wing monarchists and nobility boo the Johnsons."" (Source: daily hexx) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jun 4, 2022 |
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Answers Me posted:https://twitter.com/vicderbyshire/status/1533166412486918145?s=20&t=2xrKKguCAp69AzHh-f3AzA Apparently it's real! (well not the bear obviously!) https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/04/paddington-bear-takes-tea-and-marmalade-with-queen-in-jubilee-video
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Jun 4, 2022 22:49
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Accents chat: This is an interesting video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lXv3Tt4x20 I can definitely hear my nan's accent in there reflected in the early 16th century bit. (She was from West Bromwich).
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Jun 4, 2022 23:14
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Guavanaut posted:That's the 70s bus. Northern Soul, Black Power, Yorkshire, and the National Front checks out as a theme. Did it have "The Bins (TM)" and "Labour's The Three Day Week Though Actually It Was The Tories (TM) " on it? And The Sex Pistols.
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Jun 5, 2022 17:00
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fuctifino posted:But what would happen if Boris simply ignored the rules, refused to step down, leave No.10 or call a GE? Because that's what I think he's going to do. Lead (from behind) an attack on the House as per Trump and the Jan 6th Capitol attack?
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Jun 5, 2022 19:34
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forkboy84 posted: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. 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. Didn't Brady threaten to do that to May to persuade her to stand down even though she won the VONC?
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Jun 6, 2022 13:04
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Miftan posted:Burnham winning a parliament seat in that time and then the Labour leadership seems unlikely tbh Labour would change the rules, insert Burnham into Islington North (if it still exists at the time of the next GE - not sure what the boundary changes are or when they'll kick in). I don't know whether Corbyn would stand as an independent or not.
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Jun 6, 2022 16:46
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Oh, so now it's HIS boy, he wants to change his mind. https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1533759627132796929?s=20
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Jun 6, 2022 16:54
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Just tabulating this here for ease of reference. Theresa May VONC Dec 2018: 200 to 117 survived 63%:37% resigned 7 months later DePfeffel VONC June 2022: 211 to 148 survived 58.8%:41.2%
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Jun 6, 2022 22:02
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Isomermaid posted:Yes, but he's a rampaging narcissist who gives zero fucks about the optics of clinging on by his fingernails. A week ago we were talking about the f word and it was 50/50 if he would even go if he lost a VONC. I agree! Just put the numbers there for comparison as I had to keep looking them up (age related defects  )I think the so-called 'red wall' MPs who might have voted against him will probably be quaking in their boots right now because Johnson is a vicious, vindictive git. Even if the vote was anonymous, I reckon those newbies who voted against him would crumble if asked directly.
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Tomorrow's papers today Daily Star does it again. Daily Mail trying to get the "coalition of chaos" thing going again from 2017 when they were saying there would be a Labour / SNP coalition. Even the Torygraph has a negative tone. 
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"If the kids are united They will never be divided. - Sham 69. " https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1533902348908744704?s=20
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Tesseraction posted:BUPA definitely has private GPs. They're not as easily accessible and will probably require some travelling. I used to have a subscription to a private GP service that operated on most of the London mainline stations. When I was a temp it was financially better for me to be able to get to a paid GP near work than to lose a day's pay visiting my local GP because of the system which requires you to have a GP near home rather than or as well as near work. It was also extremely useful when I started getting a dodgy heartbeat because by the time I visited my local GP it wouldn't be doing it, but it was doing it at work when I was temping one time and my boss sent me over to the private GP just a couple of minutes walk away immediately and I was strapped to the ECG and the dodgy heartbeat was picked up straight away. (Egyptian docs also picked it up because they would take my pulse for whole minute instead of 10seconds like UK ones). Friend of mine's sister aged 39 at the time had chest pain for several months, visited her GP several times, he obviously wrote her off as a 'bored neurotic housewife' and on her final visit sent her away with a couple of aspirin. She died of a massive heart attack in his carpark.
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Thinking about PFI. I can't remember how long these payments were going to go on for - my brain is telling me it was 60 years from about 25-30 years ago. I was thinking how would it be if a new govt (coz obviously the tories won't do it, without a doubt tory cronies amongst others making too many £poonds out of it) said "we're going to stop paying this out and we will make a single offer to buy out the remainder of the contract" - sort of like compulsory purchase. I'm sure there must be ways and means of doing it without getting sued.
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What bugs me is an acquaintance who is a rabid tory has a degenerative disease that is never going to improve and is rendering him year by year more and more immobile and who seems not to understand that in a privatised system ain't no insurance company going to insure him! He even ranted about actor Liz Carr (I think it was - she was Clarissa in Silent Witness) writing about lack of help to get a mobility car on the grounds that he had to pay for his own hearing aids because NHS ones weren't good enough so people needing mobility cars should pay for their own. He's now not far off needing a specially adapted mobility car himself at some extreme expense he can't possibly afford - and anyway I think they're on leases (I'm sure another friend who has one only gets to lease hers) ISTBC on that point!
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Pistol_Pete posted:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10898627/PETER-HITCHENS-Revolutionary-past-gives-lie-notion-Keir-Starmer-moderate.html But aren't like half the No 10 advisors to Blowjob former Revolutionary Communist Party members?
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team overhead smash posted:Reading The Starmer Project and it really does show what a slippery backstabbing treacherous arshehole he is who’s more than happy to ruin Labour to get into power and I’m only a third of the way through. I've a few pages to go to finish it. I keep slamming it down angrily and going "pah"
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Tesseraction posted:Oh and a reminder or new information don't forget to reply to the public consultation on that loving stupid suggestion of going back to all-imperial https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/choice-on-units-of-measurement-markings-and-sales I enjoyed that 
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Jun 10, 2022 12:39
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Communist Thoughts posted:my dad gave me his book post-capitalism ages ago and i remember thinking it was dumb even then "OTHER long dead russian guy" - who he? Trotsky or Stalin?
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Jun 10, 2022 16:46
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ThomasPaine posted:My money's on the bread guy Oh yeah I forgot about him Kropotkin I started reading his book too so I shouldn't have. It's on a device though hence not finishing it yet.
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Jun 10, 2022 16:57
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Mine too. (OK that is).
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HopperUK posted:Hm. Mobile data is fine. My ISP must be having a shitfit. Annoying Not trying to teach you to suck eggs, but have you cleared your browser cache? You can have a look here if you put your ISP in the search box see if any widespread problem. https://downdetector.co.uk/
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Latest labour ad just popped up on Facebook. (On phone so can't share). 3 bullet points. quote:A stronger economy with Labour Can't help noticing the S word repeated 3 times. Police state vibes.
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feedmegin posted:I am a little bit confused here - are you asserting in any way that the Greenham Common types were typically Tory voters? And if not, how are the wider demographics of women voters at the time relevant? If you are claiming Julie Bindel is 'archetypical' and 'moved to the Labour camp' are you asserting she voted Tory before, because whatever else I can say about her I don't think that's true. I interpreted it to mean most women voters were Tory not that the greenham common women were. I knew a lot of women who went to greenham (I didn't due to health issues at the time) and they were all very left.
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