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Overclockers used to be run by an absolute piece of poo poo but he died so they’re probably alright now. I was under the impression the big special boy’s big special day was on Monday because my office is completely closed (which they only do for Xmas Day and Easter Sunday, not just regular bank holidays) but apparently it was yesterday and I completely missed the whole thing. No idea why we’re closed then but that’s a little win for the frontline people who’d have to work it otherwise.
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Guavanaut posted:It's weird, before Brexit/Trump/Gamergate most PC tech guys tended to be libertarian/above it all types, not authoritarian nationalists. He was a bigoted prick all the way back to the early/mid 00s, he’d post all kinds of awful racist and homophobic poo poo openly on their public discussion forums.
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May 7, 2023 17:06
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Rik Mayall did propaganda supporting our lovely FPTP system in the AV referendum and I have never been able to let it go 
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May 7, 2023 22:46
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Yeah if it goes to a referendum “keep them” would win, best to skip that bit
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May 8, 2023 11:19
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I understand why people like it but it does nothing for me, personally.
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May 9, 2023 09:08
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Wasn’t he some social media guy which overrides all political and quality concerns because everyone loves a social media guy Is this year’s field entirely tiktokers to capitalise on this newfound strategy
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May 9, 2023 18:18
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The secret leftist takeover is also apparently reliant on the Lib Dem’s getting another taste of power and not immediately loving it again like the shithouses they are, so I think there’s not much for the powers-that-be to worry about here.
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May 13, 2023 01:12
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crispix posted:they changed the bloody dog's name to Trigger for the film in 1955 ffs No they didn’t that was dubbed in later
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May 14, 2023 19:13
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I had an argument with someone I used to work with a few weeks ago where their entire point came to, almost verbatim, “don’t tell me I can’t say something when I’m reality I can say what I want, because I’m allowed to be an rear end in a top hat if I want to be an rear end in a top hat”
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May 14, 2023 19:25
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What if you just really want legal speed
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May 15, 2023 16:12
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I just met up with an old mate for a drink and two pints is £9 what the gently caress is wrong with this country
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May 16, 2023 20:11
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I’m in the south west and absolutely not at a spoons because gently caress that so I feel safe, but still absolutely rinsed
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May 16, 2023 20:54
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lol gey poope
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May 16, 2023 22:04
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Nettle Soup posted:
That’s been true forever though Cheese and coffee have always been weirdly hot options for nicking
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May 17, 2023 19:39
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I only know one person who ends their texts with an x if he’s texting his girlfriend, sometimes he does it to someone in the group chat reflexively and then we make fun of him mercilessly for a bit.
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May 18, 2023 13:42
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forkboy84 posted:
I read this and immediately went “well yeah no poo poo-“ but then stopped because quote:but that's because I've spent 25 years listening to this poo poo to point where even the difference between death metal era At The Gates and melodic death metal era of At The Gates (essentially everything before Terminal Spirit Disease and TSD onwards) is vast. And realised oh no me too I’m so loving old
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May 19, 2023 15:38
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After Superbug predicted the rona I’m concerned about the track listing for their new disaster themed album
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May 20, 2023 11:45
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Yeah New Zealand lamb has been around forever, that’s not a post-Brexit thing although maybe they’ve been louder about putting it on the packaging? Edit: wasn’t there some cricket or rugby guy as the face of a big ad campaign about it in the 90s/00s?
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May 21, 2023 11:28
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You will have the exciting new choice to pay for it or die from it
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May 21, 2023 17:47
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My GP phased out phone appointments a few years ago and switched to some online thing where you just left a chat message for a doctor with an optional picture in case you just wanted to play a game of “does this look infected” and then they’d reply at some point with “yes/no/go to hospital and don’t touch anybody along the way” and send an appropriate prescription to your nominated chemist. It was almost certainly absolutely useless dogshit if you’re not tech savvy at all but I got by. They’ve now replaced it with a much worse, shittier thing that just says no appointments try again later so even the people who can work out how to navigate the system can’t see the doctor anyway. I’m not sure what the receptionists do now because they won’t set up appointments over the phone and they won’t discuss test results or medical notes or any other topics until after 1 so 8-1 is reserved solely for answering the phone and telling people to gently caress off I guess? I’m sure they have other important surgery poo poo to do I just don’t know what it is
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May 21, 2023 22:13
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If I didn’t have to pay bills and not starve to death I would never work a single second ever again it absolutely loving sucks. I could do a 4 day week right now if I compressed my working hours but that just makes my days feel endless and it’s just not worth the hassle and having to spend an extra 2 hours a day setting high scores in spreadsheet hero.
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May 21, 2023 23:23
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I respect it but I’ll never understand it. I was unemployed for ~18 months once and spent the whole time at home doing gently caress all and it was amazing 10/10 would do it again in a heartbeat, other than not having any money. If I didn’t need the money I could do basically nothing forever, sorted.
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May 21, 2023 23:27
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I can’t think of a job that exists that I’d actually want to get up and do for 35-40 hours a week.Brendan Rodgers posted:Imagine if that was a thing. You'd try to do something on Sunday and it would be physically impossible. This is called living in a rural area with no personal transport.
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May 21, 2023 23:44
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It’s “everyone wants to go back to the office so they can spend money they don’t have on commuting and coffee” taken to the extremesebzilla posted:Being furloughed on full pay for a few months was the best time of my life. My role was too “business critical” to be furloughed and I missed out entirely, very bitter about this
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May 22, 2023 09:52
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Private Speech posted:At some point work does need to be done though. Let the freaks who want to work do it
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May 22, 2023 10:30
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I wonder what’s going to happen when they automate all the jobs and then realise nobody has any money to buy the poo poo they’re trying to sell them because all the jobs got automated
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May 22, 2023 10:31
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The Orville is the superior Modern Star Trek Experience even with Seth MacFarlane front and centre
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May 22, 2023 11:29
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I like seeing the Welsh signs whenever I go over the bridge, it’s like going on holiday except I can actually afford it more than once every few years.
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May 22, 2023 13:30
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This time will be the time it sticks!
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May 23, 2023 11:59
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May 23, 2023 13:30
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I was more surprised that he was an animal hospital
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May 23, 2023 13:37
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It’s not gonna be any of the big names of any party because they did it for free and not a 6 figure bung with a no-show ‘consulting’ contract.
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May 23, 2023 22:53
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Realistically, what is the best option to deal with some unrepentant bellend harassing people for TikTok likes or follows or whatever the clout currency is on that platform? In terms of a “this is what society should do to stop this specific person from being such a oval office to other people” solution, not on the individual “I would twat the fucker if he harassed me, simple as” level.
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May 25, 2023 20:18
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Gort posted:Isn't it just basic sentencing guidelines? Like you shoplift some earrings from Claire's Accessories, you might get a more lenient sentence if you say you learned your lesson and you'll never do it again. Next time you do it, you don't have the "first offense" excuse and you get a harsher punishment. The difference there is you’ve nicked something, which is inarguably breaking the law. Being an obnoxious oval office for social media likes in and of itself isn’t breaking the law, so there’s not really a ‘sentencing guideline’ for it.
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May 25, 2023 22:23
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Bobby Deluxe posted:What were the prosecutions about? I am lacking context, not that context could in any way make that kind of profiling excusable. Presumably the one where the computer system they bought was a piece of poo poo and they insisted no actually the system is fine we just have a lot of thieving postmasters to prosecute. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
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Tesseraction posted:I demand more loving DLC that game scratches my exact itch. They’re doing SpongeBob SquarePants next
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May 26, 2023 16:37
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crispix posted:there should be a special crime for what spacey and schofield did lol “hey hey hey c’mon, I’m a gay guy, I’m just a gay guy, nooo, and also it’s my birthday, I’m a gay birthday boy” and it somehow always worked
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May 27, 2023 00:01
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In the early 00s I got waved straight through passport control coming back into the UK from the US as soon as the guy in the little booth saw my burgundy passport come out of my pocket. I don’t know if it’s just because I was the only person who went to the British passport queue or something so they figured “we were only expecting one and this is clearly him” or if it was even lazier than that and they just didn’t give a gently caress at all.
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May 27, 2023 11:35
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:We had this teacher that used to go around saying "if you're not going to get an A it's not worth doing the O-level" (A was the top grade back in those days and O-levels were still pass/fail unlike couple of years later when there was no such thing as 'pass/fail' but everyone knew if you didn't get C (or the equivalent in other exam boards - they were all different grading systems back then) you had effectively failed. Noone gives a monkey's about your O-level (GCSE/BTEC/whatever) grades or even most of the time your degree grades once you're out in the 'real world'. On our first day of sixth form the head of year 12 told us, and this is verbatim because it’s a sentence that hosed up my entire academic career so it’s burned into my brain, “You’ve all done your GCSEs now and that’s something of an achievement, but for the last 5 years you’ve had it drilled into you that they’re the most important exams you’ll ever take and it’s time for me to tell you that that’s actually a load of bollocks and the real learning starts now.” As a hormonal and rebellious 16 year old this was a terrible way to try and get me in the mood for higher education and I just sacked the whole thing off pretty much immediately, because in my mind they’d just bullshitted me through 5 years of hoops and I wasn’t in the mood for another however many years of it. Obviously as an adult I know it’s true and not only are GCSEs bollocks but so are most degrees, given the number of people I work with who have degrees in all kinds of weird poo poo and still ended up working an office job shuffling the numbers about, but I probably could have done something more interesting than bum about for a couple of years before getting a job in a shop without that speech  crispix posted:were you doing a cockney walk and loudly singing knees up mother brown at the time No I hadn’t slept for like 20 hours so I was mostly doing an exhausted lurching shuffle with resigned expression, which is another good way of spotting one of us I guess. History Comes Inside! fucked around with this message at 15:22 on May 27, 2023 |
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crispix posted:yeah you don't shite out the same hole do you Hollywood are gonna use this pub argument as the basis for a human centipede reboot
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