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(thanks David Squires and the Politoons thread) Now comes the dawning of the New Era  (thanks Necrothatcher)  In Other News• Hornsea Project 2 becomes operational in the North Sea off Yorkshire, becoming the world's largest wind farm with 165 turbines providing 1.4 GW • Ofgem announces an 80% rise in the price cap on household energy bills, from £1,971 to £3,549 • ASLEF drivers at Chiltern, Northern, and Transpennine Express vote to strike, so does the Mail (the post one, but the Express might strike lol) • A huge recovery occurs in the number of large blue butterflies in south-west England, following a successful conservation project • Barristers in England and Wales vote overwhelmingly for an indefinite, uninterrupted strike to begin on 5 September • Inflation rises again, from 9.4% to 10.1%, driven by food and energy prices, now at the highest level since February 1982 • The Cabinet Office announces the launch of an emergency warning system to send alerts about life-threatening events to mobiles • Heatwaves, droughts, and fires will be covered, but presumably being brought down by hackers like NHS 111 was will not https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7121809671698074885 Autumn's Not That Cold UKMT Summer 2022 - The Pipes, The Pipes Are Empty UKMT Spring 2022 - Beer for Keir, Beef for Keith UKMT February 2022 - Khan pulls Dick, Patel miffed UKMT January 2022 - Whitby Cough Weekend All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) Five Feet High and Rising Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT The Last Day Of Summer Podcasting is Praxis - The official podcast of the UKMT with UKMT goons talking into microphones about things. 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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Necrothatcher posted:
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quote:Now comes the dawning of the New Era This is upsetting me because it should be from a press photo for a really cool innovative musical artist like Lingua Ignota who mashes black metal with noise and industrial and maybe a little folk and prog. And then I look again and weep
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How the gently caress is it September? I'm a month away from 40. Fuuuuck.
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Mebh posted:How the gently caress is it September? I'm a month away from 40. Fuuuuck. Honestly being over 40 is all right, there's a whole layer of societal expectation that fucks off and you can just be whoever you are I mean I know you can do that earlier, but it's easier now somehow. I should have listened to the Raggy Dolls earlier in life.
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how does society even know how old you are?
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I just turned 42 last week, not finding my 40s all that different from my 30s yet.
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Beefeater1980 posted:I just turned 42 last week, not finding my 40s all that different from my 30s yet. what inspired your username?
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HopperUK posted:Honestly being over 40 is all right, there's a whole layer of societal expectation that fucks off and you can just be whoever you are I appreciate the kind words! I'm not fussed about the age. I'm just shocked it's come around so quickly. It was barely yesterday I remember voting for the first time and then the country falling into the endless shitter of the tories.
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Trying to remember what 42 was like, but it was many years ago....
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NotJustANumber99 posted:how does society even know how old you are? People look different as they age, but honestly I think it's more that you feel it internally and people respond to that. I dunno, I really prefer being a middle-aged woman to being a young woman, that's for sure
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Trying to remember what 42 was like, but it was many years ago.... you must have an age/feeling spreadsheet? HopperUK posted:People look different as they age, but honestly I think it's more that you feel it internally and people respond to that. I dunno, I really prefer being a middle-aged woman to being a young woman, that's for sure i guess you begin to benefit from like mum energy? little boys know that mum will bollock them and you're beginning to benefit from being kind of adjacent to that.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:you must have an age/feeling spreadsheet? Funnily enough.....
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Mebh posted:How the gently caress is it September? I'm a month away from 40. Fuuuuck. I’m five days. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:you must have an age/feeling spreadsheet? I only recently started looking close to my age and I've noticed an uptick in my ability to terrify people when necessary which is pretty sweet in customer service situations. Kind of rooting for more grey hairs.
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P.S.A. Since ARE GIRLS defeated the hated enemy in a titanic battle earlier this year, thus bringing the score officially to Two World Wars and Two World Cups, as the season starts up again you can Pretend You've Always Liked It by keeping up here if you wish... https://www.live-footballontv.com/live-womens-football-on-tv.html National games always end up on FTA.
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Comrade Fakename posted:I’m five days. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. drat. I'm sure i remember you posting from before then.
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I still have a year before I’m 40, but I’m sure I’ll get everything I wanted done before then 
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forkboy84 posted:This is upsetting me because it should be from a press photo for a really cool innovative musical artist like Lingua Ignota who mashes black metal with noise and industrial and maybe a little folk and prog. And then I look again and weep I did another Truss that's less overtly scary but perhaps creepier.  also did Punished Corbyn:  Last pics I'll post for a while as I don't want to clog up the thread with endless AI art!
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Necrothatcher posted:also did Punished Corbyn: 
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HopperUK posted:I only recently started looking close to my age and I've noticed an uptick in my ability to terrify people when necessary which is pretty sweet in customer service situations. Kind of rooting for more grey hairs. I wish mine would get a move on, I've been going grey since I was a teenager but I have a lot of hair so it's still more dark than silver, want to look like an anime.
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this is pretty lol given they spent yesterday attempting a character assassination on someone to try and smear the "enough is enough" campaign by association https://twitter.com/StevenGWalker74/status/1565112871444529152?t=20dmgsb1cCIqEsHpMr6_Vw&s=19 I guess a month before they are rehabilitated to the bubble, maybe a bit quicker if keef keeps floundering and those pesky protesters keep picking up the numbers
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NotJustANumber99 posted:what inspired your username? I had a shock a few years ago when I realised it was now plausible that I might have been born in '04 and posting online and I would have to clarify.
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DesperateDan posted:this is pretty lol given they spent yesterday attempting a character assassination on someone to try and smear the "enough is enough" campaign by association OwlFancier posted:I wish mine would get a move on, I've been going grey since I was a teenager but I have a lot of hair so it's still more dark than silver, want to look like an anime. 
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DesperateDan posted:this is pretty lol given they spent yesterday attempting a character assassination on someone to try and smear the "enough is enough" campaign by association She actually says "watch Loose Change as if it is 2010". Can't believe Jeremy Corbyn did this to her and made her an antisemite
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Still love that Loose Change was on Osama bin Laden's laptop they recovered from the raid. Can't remember who posted it but it was something like him going "By Allah I have been framed this whole time!" seconds before the seals burst through the front door.
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lol, the loose change tweets are still up https://twitter.com/supertanskiii/status/1086020329372295169 
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I know this is very  but fellow Marxists - I went and got married! It was a very champagne socialist affair in all, in that the bar was free.  Thanks for all the support over the years! (I’m the one in the skirt)
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Congratulations! Bring on the diamond anniversary.
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Child assaults: ‘If the police won’t do their job, we’ll do it for them’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62722082 What does one do as a parent or a friend of a parent for a child who has been beaten up by a group of 5 kids of a similar age by kids who have written an apology but then immediately gone out and done the same thing again to another kid? Physically the child victim is ok, but mentally they are utterly hosed, life ruining, or at least child hood ruining ptsd I’m guessing. They are in therapy, but, they aren’t the same person anymore. The attackers parents don’t seem to give a poo poo. I’m very upset so I’d like the level headedness of people here to offer up any advice.
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Red Oktober posted:I know this is very Congrats!
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willie_dee posted:Child assaults: ‘If the police won’t do their job, we’ll do it for them’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62722082 Unfortunately parents who don't give a poo poo and are actually proud their kid is a bully exist. I overheard a conversation in the street between a teacher from the local comp and a parent whose kid was being bullied (and yes I did lurk nearby pretending to look at jewellery in a shop window to tune in) and the mother was 'what are the school doing about it' and the teacher said 'we've had the parents in and they said they were proud of their kid being a bully because it meant he was getting respect'! Don't know what you can do other than get the fuzz involved. As for the kiddo who was attacked, therapy is good but maybe also some self-defence classes etc? Danger is the bullied kiddo starts to bully other kids - I've seen this happen.
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willie_dee posted:Child assaults: ‘If the police won’t do their job, we’ll do it for them’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62722082 All you can do is provide as much support for the child as possible. The outcomes of trauma are best solved by providing positive reinforcement. Obviously the perpetrators going unpunished is negative and will outpace positive by exponential amounts. The way for them to heal would be for the police to take it seriously and punish the perpetrators, either by putting them in juvie, removing parental custody based on them clearly being poo poo enough to raise monsters, etc. But in the meantime all you can do is let the victim know their feelings are valid and they're not crazy for thinking what happened is hosed. Lovebombing basically.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Unfortunately parents who don't give a poo poo and are actually proud their kid is a bully exist. I overheard a conversation in the street between a teacher from the local comp and a parent whose kid was being bullied (and yes I did lurk nearby pretending to look at jewellery in a shop window to tune in) and the mother was 'what are the school doing about it' and the teacher said 'we've had the parents in and they said they were proud of their kid being a bully because it meant he was getting respect'! See now this might be my inner authoritarian talking but parents like this should be fined if not imprisoned and certainly have their custody taken away. If you're raising kids to be violent psychopaths you are a loving lunatic and shouldn't be anywhere near kids or polite society.
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Tesseraction posted:If you're raising kids to be violent psychopaths you are a loving lunatic and shouldn't be anywhere near kids or polite society. but enough about the aristocracy
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Barry Foster posted:but enough about the aristocracy Exactly! Eton Delenda Est
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Tesseraction posted:See now this might be my inner authoritarian talking but parents like this should be fined if not imprisoned and certainly have their custody taken away. If you're raising kids to be violent psychopaths you are a loving lunatic and shouldn't be anywhere near kids or polite society. As part of my manifesto to stand for town council (if I stood), my solution to the dog mess crisis (which seems to be in the top 3 concerns of the local population going by FB local group - the others being dodgy looking people driving white vans late at night and boy racers racing round town with noisy car engines), is to erect a chain of watchtowers staffed with snipers who will shoot any dog owner who doesn't clear up their dog's messes.* I could add parents who encourage their kids to be bullies to the list of undesirables. No mime artists round here though. "For the greater good." "The greater good." *several people said they'd definitely vote for me if I stood with that manifesto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm--inJtnc4 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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IMO if you're found not picking up your dogs poo poo you should have your nose rubbed in it.
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