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All the small boats with illegal immigrants should dress up in that poop outfit. The Tories would ignore them then.
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fuctifino posted:I try to always try to ask people who use woke as a pejorative to define the word. I find it hugely entertaining watching them fail. Sounds like something the wokearati would say...
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Sep 2, 2023 19:17
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forkboy84 posted:Sounds like something the wokearati would say... I did have an avocado last week...
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Sep 2, 2023 19:19
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But did you eat any tofu
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https://twitter.com/Dominiquetaegon/status/1697986681624793582 Interesting admission there. Daily Mail writes a racist piece trying to stoke hatred against black people and then tries to hire a black woman to be the face of it.
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Sep 2, 2023 20:30
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I'm surprised she didn't take it, that 'journalist' is vile.
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Sep 2, 2023 20:43
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There's a reason that the Mail always does that, and it's because there are a pool of people who will. Maybe they noticed some of her other opinions and assumed she'd be game too. https://twitter.com/BWhytelaw/status/1237061781631258624
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https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1697982002492801108 There are supposedly court buildings, police stations and other public buildings that are also at risk. Does anyone know if this type of concrete was also used in housing?
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Yeah but it's the first time I've ever seen it admitted so blasé. It's the kind of thing that I feel should sink a newspaper but because of how corrupt everything is it'll just go by without any real comment.
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1697982002492801108 https://wolfenstein.fandom.com/wiki/%C3%9Cber_Concrete
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not in housing i dont think, raac was almost entirely public buildings: schools, hospitals, multistorey car parks, libraries, etc. It's only good for like 30 years so it's well past its due date basically everywhere it was used that education minister guy trying to claim kids could continue sitting in a classroom full of acroprops was pretty funny, in a crack-ping way
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Weren't some of the low-rises built for the council in near enough the exact same way as the public buildings?Gonzo McFee posted:Yeah but it's the first time I've ever seen it admitted so blasé. It's the kind of thing that I feel should sink a newspaper but because of how corrupt everything is it'll just go by without any real comment. I wonder if Trevor Phillips costs too much now he's a sir.
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So apparently there are homes made with this stuff. But nobody knows how many, as there's no record of it https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/01/crumbling-concrete-threatens-hospitals-homes-schools/ quote:Property experts are concerned that RAAC concrete has been used in residential buildings – particularly council houses. .... *looks around my 1975 prefab council flat, and thinking about those fresh cracks outside*....
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Cool cool, it seems that the answer toGuavanaut posted:Weren't some of the low-rises built for the council in near enough the exact same way as the public buildings? kecske posted:crack-ping
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1697982002492801108 I'm waiting for somebody to suggest checking the university estates. I certainly remember seeing a lot of architecture that looked suspiciously like the RAAC pictures back during my university days. In particular, I wouldn't be surprised to see headlines about half the halls of residences being closed just in time for the new university term.
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so if you want a house thats anywhere close to structurally sound it needs to have been built pre- 1950? ok then
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Very similar to asbestos use then seemingly, in that for a while it was just in everything and not really documented and now we get to go round trying to find it and make sure it isn't falling apart.kecske posted:so if you want a house thats anywhere close to structurally sound it needs to have been built pre- 1950? ok then I assume "don't get one with concrete structural elements" is also an idea.
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I'm honestly surprised that the Notting Hill carnival wasn't banned years ago, considering that it takes place in an area now full of very wealthy and influential people. Perhaps now is the moment: could you see Labour defending the carnival if the Tories announced they were bringing in legislation to outlaw it?
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It's kind of amazing that we timed everything so that when Britain's infrastructure is crumbling to the point of collapse metaphorically, it's also going to be doing it very literally.
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OwlFancier posted:Very similar to asbestos use then seemingly, in that for a while it was just in everything and not really documented and now we get to go round trying to find it and make sure it isn't falling apart. I think the closest modern equivalent to asbestos is those engineered stone kitchen worktops, there's rumblings in trade magazines and people who engineer them for a living but nobody in the wider public seems to want to acknowledge it. 
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Guavanaut posted:Pretty much, except that asbestos was until recently unparalleled for fireproofing and longevity, it was just horrific for the poor sods who had to mine it or turn it into anything, whereas this is more like "we made an aero bar out of cement because it's cheap and we need mass infrastructure now, but I'm sure that the government in the 90s will understand the importance of prompt replacement." I work with that type of worktop at a safe degree of separation, and there's no way of machining it without generating a gently caress-ton of small particulates. The reputable fabricators have the proper mitigations in place, but there are plenty of shoestring operators who are pretty much a couple of guys with angle grinders. I'm honestly surprised that nobody came up with a way of introducing asbestos into RAAC (unless they did). It managed to find it's way into pretty much every other prefab building material of the time.
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Someone must have made an asbestos aero cement roof tile.Soylent Yellow posted:I work with that type of worktop at a safe degree of separation, and there's no way of machining it without generating a gently caress-ton of small particulates. The reputable fabricators have the proper mitigations in place, but there are plenty of shoestring operators who are pretty much a couple of guys with angle grinders. My mam has some stone counter tops and it's daft because she now won't actually use them for anything you would use a worktop for because she doesn't want to damage them. I'm not sure what the point of them is supposed to be. The laminated chipboard ones seem a lot more sensible and you don't mind so much if they get marked. If I was going to spend a fortune on a counter I would get it made of wood cos then you can at least fix it with a hand plane. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Sep 2, 2023 |
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I just finished this as a holiday read and I really don’t recommend it. It’s boring, procedural and doesn’t really offer any insight beyond what was in the news and leaked to hacks. It is however amusing in that, despite its endless obsequious tone, willingness to give the benefit of the doubt, and absolute acceptance of establishment thinking, it still concludes that Johnson was a hopeless, lazy, lying bullshitter from start to finish 
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So food's getting too expensive, and you're also looking for alternative ways to dispose of dead bodies. I'm pretty we know what happens here, look for an exciting new range of soylent foods from a Tory sponsoring company
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OwlFancier posted:Someone must have made an asbestos aero cement roof tile. Granite worktops are actually very durable. I'd personally choose laminate worktops, as they're cheap, durable, and low maintenance. The engineered stone worktops (usually sold as Quartz) are popular because you can do a lot of things with them you can't do with laminated chipboard, and they're also pretty much indestructible. Most of my dealings with wood worktops involve me trying to talk people out of buying them. They look impressive once newly fitted, but require constant maintenance to keep them that way. As they're porous, you also have to be very careful with spillages.
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what's left of our society is literally falling down around us and the opposition is rachael reeves listing all the things labour will not do if elected to government
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Election song is sung by Rick Astley.
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Soylent Yellow posted:Granite worktops are actually very durable. Yes, my folks got wooden kitchen surfaces installed and it's nothing but a pain. Have to oil them every 3-6 months to lessen the damage done by spills, but there's still warping & discolouration around the sink. Just more effort than you want to put in.
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Ugh.... https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1698262005558227081
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Imagine having such a massive cock-up handed to you on a plate by your opponent and responding up with the strategy "err, sorry there won't be any money (because we won't raise any) so can't really commit to anything".
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It's ok, they are going to be reducing the amount of branded school uniform items parents need to buy. It'll save HUNDREDS! #winning https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1698244440962560443
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They're just copying the Liam Byrne shite, it fits in with them trying to copy Cameron-era shite. Thats where Labour are now. The Tories lead, Labour follows.
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fuctifino posted:It's ok, they are going to be reducing the amount of branded school uniform items parents need to buy. Itys'll save HUNDREDS! #winning That's kind of nice because e.g. school socks/ties with logos are completely pointless and probably overpriced but 1) headteachers can decide their uniform policies and some have already scaled back logoed items (just jumper for us now) and 2) it's, I'm guessing, a letter that minister will write in an afternoon saying it's this way now. No money spent, no leadership shown.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=282qnqL08iY&t=100s VERY REAGANESQUE fuctifino posted:It's ok, they are going to be reducing the amount of branded school uniform items parents need to buy. It'll save HUNDREDS! #winning 
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The moment they do say they'll tax the rich and will fund anything even a sliver to the left of Thatcher it'll get pounced on, and it'll be all the media will talk about forever and ever tho right? I don't agree it's the right way to go, hope and change etc. but they've clearly decided that trying to deflate the right wing press of any ammunition whatsoever by promising literally nothing is the strategy that will work, and it's just us the "radical lefties" that it's going to stop voting. What, with us wanting good things like positive change and good policy, silly political children that we are. I think they're pitching so hard right though that even the average voter is starting to go "hey come on now..." Because at heart they ARE just as right wing as quite a lot of the tories on a lot of policies and they're just showing true to form. It's not like they're actually going to suddenly be all like "yay let's do PR labour under keir won" loving yeah right, they're going to go "the system works just fine, because we won, why change anything" just like every other time they won.
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fuctifino posted:It's ok, they are going to be reducing the amount of branded school uniform items parents need to buy. It'll save HUNDREDS! #winning domhal posted:That's kind of nice because e.g. school socks/ties with logos are completely pointless and probably overpriced but 1) headteachers can decide their uniform policies and some have already scaled back logoed items (just jumper for us now) and 2) it's, I'm guessing, a letter that minister will write in an afternoon saying it's this way now. No money spent, no leadership shown. I would say 99.999999% of uniforms only have one item thats branded. The blazer/jumper. So a pretty useless policy. But meh, Kier will u-turn it in a fortnight.
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wuguguguugh chuldruhn need unifhormd unduhpunts fuh to untstull discupline
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Guavanaut posted:"Joining the rest of Europe" is still off the table then?  Huh. Apparently our chief justice chancellor (or whatever the proper translation is) opined that it is against the Finnish constitution to regulate kids' clothing in school, outside of hate symbols and the like which are covered by hate speech laws. I learned something today, thanks! 
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