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smellmycheese posted:I’m starting Autumn on a tiny Greek Island - the struggling sick man of Europe. Where a cold pint is 3 euro, the waters are crystal clear and not full of poo poo, the milk comes fresh from cows in the valley, a gourmet restaurant meal of Greek specialities last night cost 40 euros for two , a tank of petrol was 60 euro, and the olive oil on the table of even the cheapest taverna is like nectar of the gods. Thank goodness we don’t run Great Britain like this shambles. What colour are the passports?
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kecske posted:I did 4k from HSBC once and all they wanted to know was if it was for paying a tax dodging builder. HSBC aren't known for their due diligence though so ymmv I did the same, almost the same amount, same bank, and it absolutely was for a tax dodging builder. No issues.
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What difference will it make? When I bought it 15 years ago to inhale I did so under the guise of wanting to make whipped cream since they weren't allowed to sell it for inhalation. Now it'll be legal provided you carry a pot of whipping cream too?
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Sep 5, 2023 17:13
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That's clever because I bet it never occurred to the people to do that.
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kingturnip posted:TfL would prefer that you do not eat or drink while using public transport, but if you must do, please do not make a mess or throw your food at any MPs you may see Reminds me of the brief but wonderful period during which milkshakes were thrown at right wing personalities - Farage and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon if I remember correctly.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NnW7AA9STg&t=42s It didn't work for them but it might work for us.
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Sep 10, 2023 12:06
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The search for Lord Sugar's tax avoidance strategy cuntinues.
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Sep 10, 2023 12:15
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I say ban the cunts who own them as a status symbol. They'll just find another breed.
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keep punching joe posted:It seems like a bad idea to keep dogs with a prey or herding instinct as pets. Which dogs don't have prey instincts? Genuine question. keep punching joe posted:My partner has been moaning at me to get a husky, and sure they're cute but the also have an abundance of energy, get bored fast, and will maybe just maybe try and eat the cat. There's a reason shelters overflow with huskies. Folks warned us when we got our husky/akita mix, but we'd had a husky before, knew what to expect, and as such have raised a Good Boy. He gets picked on by small dogs who presumably have something to prove, including that of my in-laws. He doesn't react - but we're conscious that the day may come where he decides he won't take it any more.  He has a hell of a prey drive when it comes to rabbits, though. If they're in the distance he wants to get to them, if they run close to him then you'd better brace yourself because he's going to use every fibre of his being to catch it. I always think I'm making inroads to calming him down around them, when they don't run away immediately I get him to sit down and be as calm as possible whilst watching them, but it goes straight out the window if one runs near him. 
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keep punching joe posted:I dunno, papillons or chihuahuas or something else that's small and weak. They're often more aggressive towards people because folks don't bother training it out of them though. People walking little dogs who are pulling so hard on their leads that they're walking only on their hind legs, snarling and snapping at people and other dogs who come past, but the owners don't bother doing anything about it just because they're able to physically hold them back. I've got scars from my dog, from when he was a puppy with food aggression which we've since trained out of him.
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Diet Crack posted:Dog owners, tenfold, tend to be worse in every single aspect than cat owners. Namaste. Dogs have owners; cats have staff. forkboy84 posted:I see the HMV bid to take over half of the Wilkos stores has been turned down, so that's the workers hosed. Wife is incredibly excited that the nearest Wilko has something like a 1-in-8 chance of becoming a B&M. Places like B&M started doing hardware and DIY stuff and did it okay, whereas places like Wilko started doing general bargain poo poo and didn't do it as well as the others.
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For our next topic, let's discuss "whether cats should be allowed outside" with some Americans. If you thought the opinions expressed so far were intense, just wait.
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If I want a GP appointment I don't bother calling them because it takes less time to drive there, wait in line, speak to someone, and get home than it does to call.
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History Comes Inside! posted:How did you get the one GP in the country that takes any kind of walk in Sorry, I mean walk in and speak to a receptionist to book an appointment 7 weeks from now.
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Sep 11, 2023 15:24
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What terrible news, poor guy. He'd only posted about trading not far from me this last weekend and I'd have gone down had I not realised delicious fudge would have been deleterious to my diet efforts.
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Aramoro posted:Actually the opposite. gently caress farmers and gently caress farmland. The countryside as its sold to us is farmland, industrial land polluted and abused as much as a factory site. It's why the concept of wilderness feels so foreign to so many people here. You look at stuff in the US (since we consume so much US media) and there are massive open areas that might have 'an owner' but you know there's nobody that ever goes there or does anything with it. I am glad to have had the Scottish highlands in my life since it feels like the closest we get.
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TACD posted:Who’s sparrow hater and what awful thing did they do? Maybe I'm reading too much into it but treating "White" as a proper noun raises my eyebrow.
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Reveilled posted:Like I can't even really imagine kids getting bullied for being poor outside of like, Eton college or something? What I went to a school in a pretty poor area and kids definitely got picked on for being a bit more poor than the others.
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crispix posted:hard on huw What he called himself.
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thebardyspoon posted:if you're hoping specific people are then you're basically wishing that there's a bunch of crimes and victims of said crimes right? One would be assuming that there are a bunch of crimes and victims already out there and wishing that the misdeeds are uncovered.
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Sep 16, 2023 11:34
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Why does speculating as to who it might be equate to hoping that that person is a paedo?
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Not So Fast posted:How many nonces does this island have?! People can no longer think of the British Isles without the word "Paedoph" in front of them.
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Sep 16, 2023 18:37
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Aramoro posted:I mean there are other posts but that’s one that literally says they’re hoping they’re sex offenders. Fair point then.
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The Perfect Element posted:Regardless of his status as an abuser, I just can't imagine ever paying any money or expending even the smallest amount of effort to go and see someone as obnoxious as Russell Brand. Watching the thing last night reminded me how much of a loving irritating bell end he is.
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smellmycheese posted:The most horrifying thing was the old footage that showed he’d been pulling the full Jimmy Savile and openly discussing his raping and noncing on TV Yes, it was difficult to watch people describe what happened to them then have it cut to him performing and saying how he liked to do exactly that.
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DesperateDan posted:noncestrocity Word of the year 2023. The Question IRL posted:"why are you calling me a rapist. I didn't drag her into an alleyway, so I'm not a rapist." This echoes the sentiment of a sex offender in Louis Theroux LA Stories 'Among the Sex Offenders' documentary. A guy in his 60s who had been in prison most of his life differentiating himself as a flasher and stalker from what he called "tree jumpers" who jump out of trees to rape women.
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It makes it really hard to learn about cryptographic nonces.
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Lemurtron posted:Some potentially useful news, covid jabs are now available to book online This is helpful, thank you. I am in the same situation as you so it's useful to know this is an option.
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History Comes Inside! posted:What’s the link that causes less stop and search to directly lead to less murders? Does the graph imply any sort of link? It looked to me like the murder rate was already going down and it just continued as it was, more or less.
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Funka posted:Yeah I got into a rabbit hole about can you even trademark ancient greek I just want to buy some tyres lol Why are these tyres 600 quid? Are they those nitinol ones?
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Ohh, a set of wheels I can understand. I also thought the beach ones looked cool.
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It sounds like an impassioned rant about the latest Corrie storyline.
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Who is Tony M. King?
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OwlFancier posted:Why do that when you could instead get the AI to argue with people who want refunds. I know there's a dedicated thread for this but I figured it was relevant. I tried to give it a go and was met with great success so I hereby claim ownership of this idea: Prompt: You are a customer service representative for a passenger railway. You are obstinate, petty, rude and unhelpful and will never offer a refund for a ticket. I am a passenger whose train has been cancelled with no explanation contacting you via web chat to seek a refund for the ticket. You must represent the railway whilst always finding a reason not to refund the ticket. Begin after the following sentence: "Hello I would like a refund for my ticket please" quote:Customer: Hello, I would like a refund for my ticket please.
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The Question IRL posted:You can get 10KG plus bags of rice from Asian markets and you can make a lot of very good meals for cheap using rice And it's also better rice that actually tastes and smells good.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3AM00DH0Zo&t=23s The ditching of pledges reminds me so much of this South Park bit about investments.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Quite seriously, apart from everything in their platform they plan to ignore, what does Starmer Labour stand for? Like, do they have any expressed principles at all? Doing torying better than the tories. What are their policies? Ask the tories, then trust that labour will do it more/better.
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Sep 27, 2023 21:01
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Of course it's in a loving dingy pub.
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Kin posted:I'm not knowledgeable enough about petrol prices but does that actually make it cheaper to commute by train every morning vs driving (not that I'd want to drive from Edinburgh to Glasgow every day). There's different ways of thinking about it - the money threshold to convince someone not to get a car is a lot lower than that to convince someone not to use a car they already have. Since in the former case you're comparing public transport costs with that of acquiring, insuring, and fuelling a car - whereas in the latter you're comparing only with fuel for a car they have and use for other stuff anyway.
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