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We stayed in an airbnb in Copenhagen when we went on hol there for a week. The apartment was the home of a sexologist (who apparently somewhat often appears on Danish TV, Radio etc.) and it was the first time they'd rented it out, so there were a LOT of books (and art etc.) about vaginas. Not quite an orgy set but quite interesting/cool. Also, the main thing that made us choose that one was that they also had 2 cats, which was great, as we didn't have our own cats at the time. I figured it was potentially alright because she was just renting out her main living space, and staying with her boyfriend but yeah, this was a while ago and I'm more politically aware now and not a fan of airbnb as a company.
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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". Meetup.com Find something you like and go meet up with people doing it. Or find something you don't already like but have wanted to do and go and do that. My wife and I have had decent results with it and gotten to know some cool people - some from a local "young professionals" social group where we used to live in the UK - yeah I know, but it was one of the only existing local groups that was specifically for younger people, so was just a way to meet people our age, and honestly everybody we met was really chill and it wasn't full of business bros or tories or anything. Actually it was mostly 25-30-ish year-old women working as stuff like a physio, a technical writer etc. We went to pub quizzes and stuff, it was good. And another one here in Canada which was a board games group. Have met some really lovely people from all ages and backgrounds at that one. My wife has also gone to a knitting one here in Ottawa and again, really lovely people, though that does seem to skew towards women in their 40s+ It's good because everybody who goes to these things is mostly looking to make friends and is really welcoming. I understand it's not necessarily easy if you're e.g. disabled or up against it financially, but a lot of the stuff on there is or can be free (like, there are often just groups who meet up and go for short walks), or you can start your own group for any activity you like (though you do have to pay a monthly fee to do this). WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jun 2, 2022 |
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Reveilled posted:During their tenure National Insurance has gone up and they're now imposing a windfall tax on energy companies. If they only thing they cared about was cutting taxes they wouldn't have done either of those things, they have other concerns that drove them to make those decisions, and if they are motivated to make similar decisions in future, it's far more likely the backbenchers who are opposed to those policies will rebel now. They want tax cuts... for the rich. National insurance is regressive and the rises avoid having to increase taxes on the rich. The "windfall tax" isn't as straightforward as that - Sunak announced at the same time that companies investing in new fossil fuel production will receive a tax break of up to 90% of the windfall tax.
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The YouGov thing is no surprise at all. I made a short twitter thread about it, but basically I used to be signed up to YouGov (they actually used to have a fairly generous payout scheme of about £1.50 for a 10 minute survey on brands and other bullshit, but they cut that waaaaay down so you need to do like a thousand bloody polls to get a £50 voucher), and filled out some polls during the election campaigns. The questions directly preceding the "important" one (e.g. "To what extent do you approve or disapprove of Jeremy Corbyn's leadershup of the Labour Party" or whatever) were usually stuff like "Some have criticised Jeremy Corbyn's handling of the recent poisoning in Salisbury, to what extent are you aware of this coverage", and other stuff that's clearly actually just them saying "You *are* aware that he's a literal terrorist, right?" before then asking what you think of him.
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smellmycheese posted:What’s the link for this AI bot plz? https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini
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Yeah it does pretty well with themes in general. I did "Starmer arrested by london bobbies cartoon" and the results where quite good. Also, e.g. this: https://twitter.com/Lucky_BunTTV/status/1534759848314912768?s=20&t=Njc0OmnnqkOol04ehuvnMA
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ThomasPaine posted:certain sections of the left should probably acknowledge that we no longer live in the 1910s and adapt accordingly I mean, yeah, some things have changed since the 1910s, but the fundamental mechanisms of capitalism haven't. You can't just say "Well those ideas are from a long time ago, we should throw them out". I started reading Tony Benn's "Arguments for socialism", written in 1979, and honestly most of it could have been written yesterday. Yes, lots has changed, but even more stuff hasn't.
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ThomasPaine posted:I don't think anyone is going to argue with you on that. Corbyn is a very nice man and would have been a good PM and has a level of sheer tenacity that took him further than most other people would have in his position, but he made some absolutely stupid strategic mistakes as leader, mostly based on him being far, far too charitable and patient. He made some mistakes but does that make you or me or anybody else wrong to have supported him? I'm certainly never going to say "I was wrong about Corbyn" because I think I had the measure of him at the time: He wasn't perfect, not as militantly left-wing or as ruthless as I'd have liked, but he was the best option available, and playing a rigged game. You could say he was naive but he made greater inroads for leftism within the mainstream political sphere than anybody else in my lifetime has. E: Arsenic Lupin posted:Question from an American: Why hasn't either of the Miliband brothers resurfaced in politics? Because neither of them has any charisma whatsoever and they're both liberals with nothing interesting to say.
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Biggus Dickus posted:I literally had my first ever filling today after a routine checkup yesterday. The Bad Tooth has been sealed a couple of times already but it eventually the plastic just wears away or falls out so I opted for the filling. Total including the checkup was £147.50. Yeah I'm pretty sure the NHS have been doing white fillings as standard since like... 1995? Earlier maybe? Brendan Rodgers posted:Are these some super weak special versions or something? I feel bad for someone suffering from pain that a dose of oral Morphine + Tramadol capsule would barely touch, and then having to take some kind of Boots own brand Codeine with 1mg per tablet instead. They're not as strong as you can get on prescription, no. I think the standard ones are Cocodamol (so codeine plus paracetamol) with 8mg of codeine and 500mg of paracetamol. They do work quite well - I've had them a few times for things like earache and they do relieve pain significantly more effectively than just paracetamol or paracetamol+ibuprofen (yes, you can mix those). They say on the packet you're not supposed to take them for more than 3 days though or you can get addicted.
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I've held off on saying anything about this because I don't want to poo poo-talk people I know... but it's just too much. The Toriest couple I know, who I was previously able to hold off on being too judgey about, have just had their first kid and called her "Maggie"... AND I've just found out that the fella who was previously working private security is now working in immigration enforcement for the home office.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Enjoying manholes is weird boring. Like someone tells you they're into photographing manholes you at least have some questions and then you find out he met his wife while helping her find her sister in a kidnapping case. Keir is regular man boring. A game of five aside and a pint of hobgoblin boring. Then you find out he got a guy sent to prison for six months for stealing a bottle of water. Like you'd also bet your arse you could hold a decent conversation with Corbyn. He's the sort of person who can take what could be very dry subjects and make them interesting. Keir is the opposite, no matter what he talks about it's always going to be dull as poo poo.
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https://twitter.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1537390644301160448?s=20&t=1MQTDGgGRAD_45Os5RH8gA This is mostly saying stuff that people in this thread already know, but it's still interesting.
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Dabir posted:So some absolute fucker created a bet365 account for me at the start of the month. They used my name, an old email address, my home address, my date of birth, what I think is an old phone number, possibly a very out of date debit card. I've got the password to it, timed it out for a month and sent them a very sternly worded email, and changed my password on that email account and added 2FA. Is there anything else I can or should do? How scared/angry should I be? What the gently caress were they up to? Well I'd let your bank know, and possibly sign up for one of those credit check identity theft protection things if you can afford it? Experian do it free for 30 days then £19.99/month which seems a bit steep. I think I used to be signed up with one of them (can't remember if it was experian or not) for more like £7/month which included some amount of free monitoring/alerts of new accounts set up etc.
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Guavanaut posted:Looks like people are forgetting the words of the classic leftist anthem: You can't post this and not the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acT_PSAZ7BQ The Coup are fantastic. I recommend their album "Kill My Landlord" which starts with the words: "Presto, read the communist manifesto". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzgj6pH0Aq0 Boots Riley, frontman of The Coup is fantastic. You should watch the film "Sorry to Bother You" which was written and directed by him and is *very* UKMT.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yes! I've had one today - "GCHQ Admin Staff - The Backbone of Our Security!" apparently. So "backbone" indeed that the salary is all of £20k rising to a max of about £25k. Yeah I've got a mate who works for the National Crime Agency. I'm not sure what pay he's on now as he's posted in Columbia looking at drug trafficking and stuff, but I know that for years before he was sent out there (he did actually volunteer for it tbf) he was always complaining about how poo poo his pay was. Barry Foster posted:lol they're just any old dickheads Yeah they are just absolute loving cretins. I think part of why liberals jizz so much about how amazingly competent everybody in charge is that their brains would explode if they realised just what an absolute fuckwit every single person in any position of power actually is. Realising this also makes you think that sortition would likely be better at producing good outcomes than picking whatever prick's Dad knows the right people to lead us (i.e. how it's done right now) WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Jun 26, 2022 |
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Yeah I would definitely recommend against trying to simply watch a let's play or highlights of DE unless you really really can't play it.
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Funny that the thread should be talking about scams and such, I just recently got stung not by a scam, but by thinking that something that (mostly) wasn't a scam was some kind of scam. I had renter's insurance on my last place I was living, before I bought the place I live in now in Canada, only it seems I forgot to cancel it and in fact completely forgot about it altogether. Then a few months ago I started getting emails from some company I hadn't heard of, saying: quote:Subject: "Account - We can help!" And that's it. No company name or logo or graphics or anything, and the address it came from was "Insurance.Support@[blah]groupservices.com". And they sent this same email weekly for like 3 months. So of course I thought "This is some kind of weird phishing scam or something, I've never heard of this company and they're trying to "help" me when I don't need any help". It was only once they sent me another email saying "IMPORTANT MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR ACCOUNT WITH [Insurance company I actually remember having an account with]" and "We have been attempting to contact you however your file is still outstanding and has been escalated for final review and decision. If we do not hear from you within 48 hours blah blah blah. We trust you understand the seriousness of this communication and potential effects of ignoring this matter" that I contacted them back. And of course it turns out it's a loving debt collection agency chasing me for $120 I apparently owe my bank because they renewed my home insurance and the only way they told me about it was to send me a physical letter, to an address I was no longer living at, despite having my email and phone number. I did contact my bank and they confirmed it. Basically just ended up having to pay it. Wankers. They could have said from the start "We are a debt collection agency" but no. I feel like they've done this on purpose so that they can catch people out and ramp up penalty charges or some bullshit, while saying "Well we've been trying to contact you for 3 months!". WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jul 4, 2022 |
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This is all quite funny, admittedly, but it won't be funny when Prime Minister Patel makes it her first act in No.10 to make it legal for her to personally go down to the channel and push asylum seekers back into the sea.
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Oh yeah I just meant directly back into the sea, not in a boat.
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The First Sword of Bravos says: https://twitter.com/miltosyerolemou/status/1544728001593614336?s=20&t=ewZgDrYAPgX7QhiiY0pXiA
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BTW while all this is going on France has just announced they're nationalising EDF Energy.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
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Re: Penny Maudant. I forgot this was her: https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1547264746579165184?s=20&t=srZdPTARVFYYdDrO8wzFvg
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Dude can't help how tall he is, I don't think we should make fun of him for it.... However this is quite funny: https://twitter.com/MickeyMarxClub/status/1545335922761277441?s=20&t=5RMgW0Q2U1i22_0RfYXrQA
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Swamp coolers may work for you or they may be a terrible idea based on what your house is like and what the atmospheric humidity is on a particular day. They work by evaporation, you can get the same effect by pointing a fan at a damp bedsheet. Your body gets rid of heat by sweating, and that sweat evaporating, which is limited by relative humidity - if the relative humidity is 100% then the air won't take any more moisture and so your sweat doesn't evaporate. So if you're cooling your room down but increasing the humidity, then yes you may feel a little cooler but also you're limiting the ability of the air to take heat away from your body by sweat evaporation. They can work really well if you live somewhere with naturally low humidity like Arizona, but with the really humid muggy heat you often get in the UK, they'll be less effective. Also if you're not careful, you can increase the humidity in your house to the point where it's unhealthy. I think anything above about 50% humidity can lead to mould.
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OwlFancier posted:Really getting the impression that I could be a political force just by being fairly tall and wide and towering over all the wee politics men and shouting policies in my outdoor voice. There's that one Tory councillor who's an absolute unit. I assume that's how he did it.
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I'm a double coronaphobe because I'm both staying home and want to abolish the monarchy.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:It's worth like a billion pounds or something. £1.35bn yeah. They reckon Euan Blair might be worth over £300m. He must be a super astute businessman. What great genetics.
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I dunno I thought they did televised debate stuff for the Labour leadership too?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:They did in 2015 for sure. I can't remember for 2020. Seems they did for at least some of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG-KalrqlUM
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I looked at the twitter thread with the architect guy saying we need to invent new spaces and whatever. Like, it seems he's coming from the right place but he should just look at places where they've made medium density housing work, like Montreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYCAVmKzX10 E: Also this channel in general is great.
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OwlFancier posted:Ideally a lot of it may be in the backup but yeah, the freezers like to kick the bucket under strain and if you don't catch it immediately the whole lot has to be binned. We had a massive storm and power cut in Ottawa back in May - there were downed power lines and power was off for us for and for huge areas (I think like 300,000 homes) about 15 hours, but for some unlucky people like 12 days. All of the supermarkets near us had to throw out the entirety of their frozen and chilled sections. I went to a hardware store next to a Walmart a couple of days later and there were just tons and tons of pizzas and tubs of ice cream piled up outside. Mental really. Anyway, hope you're doing OK, UK goons. A tip I've found to work well for cooling you down (particularly at night) is to bung a bottle of water in the freezer, get it properly frozen, then when you're feeling hot, hold it on the inside of your wrist for a bit. You have high-flow blood vessels close to the surface here, so it does a really great job of cooling your whole body down quickly. E: Lovely song OF, thanks for that. You know 10 years ago I'd never have thought I'd like folk music but it's funny how your tastes (can) change as you grow older. I'm not even that old, but still. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Jul 19, 2022 |
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I don't think that Dorries is stupid exactly, she just has Tory brain, in the same way that people like Raab do. It's a thing where you get to such a level of leadership that nobody ever questions or challenges you anymore and you can just get away with saying any old poo poo, so that's what you do all day and you never actually have to engage your brain and think about anything, so you stop doing it. And then on the rare occasion some journo or somebody actually does ask you a question and you have to engage your brain, you've forgotten how... but of course it doesn't matter ultimately anyway because 99% of the press are nodding dogs and client journalists so the only people who pay attention enough to notice and care that you've said something mind-meltingly stupid through lack of brain activation are the ones who already thought you were a humongous piece of poo poo. Truss comes across as genuinely a bit dim and completely vapid, there's a difference. I wonder if this means she'll essentially just be a... what's the word for it? Like a paper leader or something? Essentially she'll just be a ventriloquist's dummy for all of the worse people in the party, who will hold the real power, while she takes the flack.
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Umbra Dubium posted:Maybe stupidity isn't the right word, but there's this terminal lack of curiosity about the world that leads to going to google and straight-facedly demanding they stop using the algorithm, instead of either trying to understand it or at least accept input from someone who does.
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bump_fn posted:hahahhahahdhdb https://twitter.com/katimcf/status/1549492282000285699?s=20&t=9Ba37NR9wMktYWvJQCRGLA
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Worth a watch if you'd like to see Keith looking like he wants to crawl into a hole in the ground: https://twitter.com/shirleymush/status/1551594724967997441?s=20&t=ji_YePraU8MCPQizC8xsWQ
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domhal posted:Please don't cancel Tony Law Was gonna say. I saw him live maybe twice, supporting other acts, and he was quite good... but I guess if he's agreed to appear for this shite he's probably turned into/always been(?) an arsehole. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Jul 26, 2022 |
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Guavanaut posted:gently caress around and at the end of a very long sentence detailing further aspects find out. Yeah I mean that's the thing isn't it. Businesses/sectors which actually justify their own existence easily by being a public good mostly don't have to get involved in giving large amounts of money to politicians. It's the ones that are dodgy as poo poo, inherently exploitative, terrible value or bad for the population in general (so gambling, landlords, polluters, privatisers etc.) who do, and subsequently that's what's behind every bloody mainstream politician barring like 5-10 in the UK.
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Fumble posted:For the longest time, i asumed Geoff Norcott was a bit the Mash report came up with, like Barry Shitpeas or Philomena Cunk. No Geoff Norcott is what happens when somebody at the beeb realises they've accidentally let a show on the air that isn't even a little bit right wing. They bring that prick on to go "Ah, starving kids, not that bad, quite funny really". loving prick.
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