piano chimp posted:

My favourite posh-ish whisky is Bunnahabhain 12 which is distinctly not peaty. Great gift material for the rosy-cheeked booze enjoyers in your life.

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

Reminds me of a saying whose origin I don't know: "Imagine the thickest person you know. Most people are thicker than that."

Rarity posted:

No one's torrented since the 00s, it's all just illegal streams based in Lithuania now

Microplastics posted:

I can confirm that when I accidentally heard that the numbers coming out of the ball performance were the wrong numbers, I nearly spilled my extra vegan double soy latte with my own cum in it

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

As a comparative latecomer to this thread, why is he called Keith?

Failed Imagineer posted:

Feels like "flat bottomed" was right there, but still

Only Kindness posted:

OwlFancier posted:

That reminds me of something else that's been baffling me lately. It seems mad how much people gamble. If I'm in the queue at the kiosk in a supermarket more often than not there's someone in front of me just spending like, 15 quid or more on scratchcards and lottery tickets. And it's just crazy. Surely if you spend that much you must see that you keep losing it. I get that gambling addiction is a thing but that's a significant amount of money. loving garbage society that has people that desperate to get out of it that it has them spending money that would actually make a difference on a hopeless bid to get out of it.

Makes me think of all those scumbag labour MPs in bed with the gambling lobbyists. Not enough rope in the world to right the misery they bring.

OwlFancier posted:

you could buy yourself two lots of fish and chips for £15

Guavanaut posted:

Hope Morocco or Portugal win so that the map of winners can grow while still all sharing a land border.

blunt posted:

Clearly you don't remember the 2012 Olympics _{opening ceremony please don't mention the staffing shortages or needing to bring the military in to actually run the games}

Diet Crack posted:

"I booked a return ticket for today. I assumed they would only sell this ticket if I could actually get back to where I need to go. I come here today and I go to the platform and I look around and there’s no train. The train was scheduled for platform 5 but, with 10 minutes to go, there was still no train."

BUT THERES NOT A TRAIN, JEREMYYY CWURMTOORRRBBYYYNNN

learnincurve posted:

Starmer was absolutely brilliant at the delaying implementing brexit stuff, it's the one thing we can say he did well at and it's how he got to be labour leader in the first place. We can say now that's he's a damp teabag but at the time he spent hours and hours fending off the worst of the tory ERG lunatics. I t could be argued that anyone else who was in his position arguing against the screeching sounds coming out of Leadsom's horrific jackets would have ended up leader instead.

Microplastics posted:

Lol this just reminded me of when Ober became a manager and started asking the thread about how to be poo poo to his underlings at the castle

blunt posted:

In what context would you ever need to tell someone they are cis?

Nothingtoseehere posted:

No. There was a single study out of Hong Kong Feb 2020 saying they could find virus RNA on surfaces up to 3 days afterwards, but virus RNA =! Infectious virus. Labs could never get a sample that could infect a petri dish from a surface, let alone actual people. Back when people actually did case tracing, there was basically no cases firmly linked to an infected surface rather than breathing in a infectious persons air. Covid has always been a airborne disease, not a surface contact one - all the hand washing and cleanimg surfaces promoted in the early pandemic by the WHO did nothing against covid (it was very useful against the common cold however)

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1606309410762117120

I did a bit of googling, and found his first hand account

Biggus Dickus posted:

Jealous already!

Rarity posted:

When we're boomers we'll be stuck with strategy games and turn based RPGs as the only things we can still play

Jakabite posted:

Man Total Annihilation was (is) a loving amazing game. The music, the robots, the projectile based fighting. Air, land, sea, artillery, missiles, nukes, radar, shield gens, the opening cinematic, THE GROGOTH HNNNNNGGGGG

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Just seems to me that these days, to get any sort of 'honour' whether it's a Lord or Lady or MBE or Nobel peace prize you have to actually be a really terrible person.

Are there any recent examples of people who got an honour for genuinely admirable reasons?

Oh dear me posted:

Plurals get a the, but so do eg names starting with adjectives or derived from geographical features, so the Netherlands is really entitled to three.

Reveilled posted:

YouTube, a land of contrasts. Sometimes the PowerPoints are good, sometimes…they’re really really bad.

Lemurtron posted: