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DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

thread is too early again

twenty two days and a bunch of hours and some minutes early to be inexact

this insult to the gods will bring a pox 'pon this thread, mark my word

# ¿ Sep 1, 2023 10:57

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 15:45

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

happyhippy posted:

I would say 99.999999% of uniforms only have one item thats branded.
The blazer/jumper.
So a pretty useless policy.

standard uniform is gonna be branded blazer/jumper and a school tie, rest of it generally can come from cheap places (unless your kids are autistic and have severe sensory issues which lead you to becoming an expert in shirt fit, trouser seams and arguing trainers are shoes but I digress)

where the uniform providers sting the absolute gently caress out of parents is the loving branded PE kit- shorts, t shirt, jogging bottoms, fleece top and socks, all cheaply logo'd shite tier sporting goods sold for thrice what something non poo poo would cost, and you just loving know some corruption/nepotism got the provider the contract

If uniforms must be kept then let schools issue a tie free of charge and the rest of the requirements should be sourced at parents discretion, not "well we will make it so the uniform providers can't be quite as greedy, maybe"

happyhippy posted:

But meh, Kier will u-turn it in a fortnight.

but aye, this anyway

# ¿ Sep 3, 2023 12:11

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

domhal posted:

A bit of a Daily Mail question, but what good options are there for small civic buildings (e.g. primary schools, libraries)? Brick and mortar, slate roof, and plaster ceilings? Bish bosh simple, lasts forever.

construction type is not really the problem, more the way it's going to be put up by people buying the cheapest possible materials and employing the lowest skilled labour with a strong profit motive to not meet and then easily dodge the incredibly poo poo building regulations and then these buildings are maintained by people who profit the most from performing as little actual work as they can

it's a whole complex ecosystem of grift

# ¿ Sep 5, 2023 14:28

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

tier list (roast dins but may apply elsewhere)

god-

yorkie puds
gravy

still alright-

everything else

# ¿ Sep 7, 2023 07:32

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

starter to a roast dinner is a slightly smaller roast dinner inside a plate sized yorkie pud, allowing for a swimming pools worth of gravy to be applied

# ¿ Sep 7, 2023 10:10

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

smellmycheese posted:

Doing a ballsy prison break and only making it from Wandsworth to Chiswick is laughably poor imho

he got further but had left his cigs behind and was going back for them

# ¿ Sep 9, 2023 14:36

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

never forgetti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSyrFuAydD4

# ¿ Sep 11, 2023 07:30

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

forkboy84 posted:

Should just ban dogs tbh you wouldn't own a wolf

council won't let me

not even an ocelot or a lynx

# ¿ Sep 11, 2023 09:04

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

gor' blimey whole threads gone to the dogs it has

sort it aaahhhht

# ¿ Sep 12, 2023 09:16

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Nuclear Spoon posted:

anyone got any political opinions

the [redacted] should be [redacted] by means of swift [redacted] and that might help a bit, least once everything gets hosed down a bit

# ¿ Sep 12, 2023 18:33

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

OwlFancier posted:

Is this like algebra and all the redacteds have to be the same word?

you can make it work either way if it's swift enough if I remember my physics right

# ¿ Sep 12, 2023 19:05

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Nuclear Spoon posted:

ah no i was saying "go, homo vans"

# ¿ Sep 16, 2023 16:23

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

I'm sure that the media discourse about how it was an open secret for so long and how so many people were complicit by varying degree in horrific crimes will be open and honest, exposing what went wrong- because it's not like there's a coach load of other establishment nonces hiding behind super injunctions and the old boys network, right?

Much like I'm sure the government investigation into this will be prompt and efficient in order to root out the problems in the system, certainly not deliberately and consistently delaying things for years then restarting the whole process till everyone forgets it was even a thing in the first place

oh wait I'm still in britain, gently caress

DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Sep 17, 2023

# ¿ Sep 17, 2023 09:29

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Mega Comrade posted:

I regret to inform you that this poo poo happens in every country.

oh absolutely no question of that

It's just other than the vatican and hollywood, I can't think of a larger noncestrocity in existence

# ¿ Sep 17, 2023 10:58

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Guavanaut posted:

https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1703434171715137821

I thought "why won't the city stop for my convenience" was the height of entitlement, but some of her responses...

reading stories like this is really important to balancing out my mental health-

it temporarily makes me give far less of a gently caress that everything is doomed because everything being doomed includes this bullshit being doomed

a thousandfold blessings upon everyone who hosed up her shot that day

# ¿ Sep 17, 2023 19:20

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Ash Crimson posted:

You ok there

keeping a white fiat uno from that era running would put stress on anyone tbh

# ¿ Sep 22, 2023 06:53

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

caught two seconds of that and my arsehole tried to take a bite out the floor

need some kind of warning system for that level of cringe imo

# ¿ Sep 23, 2023 21:57

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Jakabite posted:

Just had to get a locksmith out because i lost my key on a night out and the landlord’s emergency number just goes to a plumbing company. I changed the lock too, came to about £150 all in all. The LL is uncontactable due to the Jewish High Holidays until Tuesday and I’m going away for a week on Monday so didn’t have much choice but to replace the lock - what are my chances of them agreeing to reimburse?

they will probably tell you to do one if it was your fault or not

you got contents insurance?

mine has a separate little policy attached for poo poo like this

# ¿ Sep 24, 2023 18:08

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

You could probably have smashed and replaced a window for less.

my da did this on his car once, broke a tiny little window pane on a rear door thinking it was gonna be cheaper than the main panes or a locksmith

turns out it was the most expensive bit of glass to source on the whole car because it was rarely broken

# ¿ Sep 24, 2023 18:52

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Julio Cruz posted:

the last time I tried to claim on my contents insurance there was a £200 excess and it would have meant losing my no-claims so it would have cost me more money to claim than not to

I think with mine it's technically a separate policy

Like with the fridge/freezer contents things

# ¿ Sep 24, 2023 18:53

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

cops killed someone they shouldn't have, once again, under even murkier circumstances than duggan or de menezes, to the point the scuffers couldn't cover it up or control the narrative and a cop might even face very limited consequences for their actions of straight up shooting someone to death

this runs at slight odds with all the other people they shot under incredibly murky circumstances and blatantly got away with it by doing things like having the "independent" police complaints commission run a vicious and racially coded hit piece before the victim was even on the morgue slab

as a result a few other cops made noises about not being a pork banger anymore and they should be allowed to kill easier because it made them sad otherwise and the press rolled with it because no-one was arming bully xl dogs with zombie knives coated in mephedrone that day and suella deville wanted to play at politics

is that about the long and the short of it?

or just pie in the sky thinking?

# ¿ Sep 25, 2023 18:16

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Nothingtoseehere posted:

Cops kill someone, family makes a fuss and starts protests. In response, the Met invites them into watch the bodycam footage, after which they step back from their campaign. Later, the CPS charge the officer with murder. So the video contains one of two things .

A. Evidence that Chris Kaba was being aggressive enough towards the police (driving straight at an armed police officer etc) that even his family watched it and couldn't defend his actions, and agreed the officer acted in self-defence.

B. Evidence that Chris Kaba was murdered by the police, and the video showing this came with assurances from senior officers of "We're gonna charge him for murder but legal stuff takes time, please stop your protests and making this a bigger issue than it has to be"

If it's A, then the officer shouldn't have been charged by the CPS, because dragging a man to court with clear evidence of his defence available is wasting his time, the courts time, and the juries time, pushing other crimes further in the backlog.

If it's B, then the officer obviously should be charged for murder.

We won't know which it is until the trial starts, which isn't till next year, so it can be another simmering culture war issue until then.

you kinda exclude other options, like option C where the cops lay a bunch of pressure on the family to shut up lest they want to become the next lawrence family

or maybe someone would axe them a question in a pub car park one night

good job the police and cps have such an excellent record with being truthful, honest officers of the peace, eh?

# ¿ Sep 25, 2023 20:21

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

But we dont trust the met?

they loving hate competition

# ¿ Sep 25, 2023 22:16

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

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?

Look you simply have to grow up and stop this blue sky leftie thinking about "policies" or "principles" and be one of the sensible adults in the room who is pragmatic and stops playing student politics so we can get the tories out- get up, go home, I'm opposed to what you are posting

*Edit*

alright that's a lovely snipe so.... 1991 I was about six and there was the first gulf war on, nevermind came out (my sister had the poster), soviet union collapsed ending the first cold war (no poster) and cern became the first website (no posting)

DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Sep 27, 2023

# ¿ Sep 27, 2023 21:11

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

keep punching joe posted:

The perpetrator was a wee bam

\/\/ Rickman undestood trash and exactly what was required to elevate it

when I saw pictures of it felled I saw no marks where the cut had been obviously wedged or cut to fall a particular way or owt

fucker probably near murked themselves a dozen times doing it

# ¿ Sep 28, 2023 16:53

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

What is the matter with all these 'entitled' famous blokes? Just read in the Heil something about David Walliams. Admittedly, his comments on Britain's Got no Talent were not supposed to be public but they got leaked:

It's what happens when this:

OwlFancier posted:

Unfortunately that's just what a lot of people are like.

Meets a corporate machine with clear capital motives to protect them, then they live in that bubble for years being enabled to abuse without any real consequences

walliams is known for worse, as are others

# ¿ Sep 29, 2023 08:15

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

keep punching joe posted:

Bring back the days when eccies were £2 a pill and you could get a half ounce of hash for £25.

aye but that nine bar hash would sometimes have some carrier bags and other random poo poo mixed in

used to do water extraction of it back in the day and the first few washes would often look absolutely horrid

I don't think drugs are better than they used to be- but availability and choice is leaps and bounds beyond what it was

# ¿ Sep 29, 2023 09:45

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Mega Comrade posted:

Just for a day, turn on the telly and watch some broadcast news. Ignore everything you know about any party then tell me what the parties offer and which ones are good or bad by only what you've seen on telly that day.

This is how most people get their information.

Most people over 35-40 or so, aye

Under that, mainstream/establishment/whatever news has very little sway- increasingly for the younger brackets in that- mainly just second or third hand stuff from parents or other accidental exposures

every time I suffer a bit myself it comes over as more and more transparently propagandised bullshit that makes the "only britain soldiers on" broadcasts in children of men/v for vendetta look tame

I think it's a factor in the kids/yoof being alright generally tbh, that and the lack of leaded petrol fumes during key developmental years

# ¿ Sep 30, 2023 10:59

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

I mean personally I don't share my political proposals any more based on legal advice but I feel there are some excellent and rather permanent solutions available for forward thinking folks with a enthusiastic nature

# ¿ Sep 30, 2023 12:53

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

there is no middle class

hth

# ¿ Oct 1, 2023 18:21

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

History Comes Inside! posted:

I know plenty of people with degrees who are stuck in unskilled ‘working class’ jobs because they got a degree in something that turned out to be absolutely useless for getting any kind of fancy job, fwiw

no such thing as unskilled labour

hth

# ¿ Oct 1, 2023 19:07

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Lol. I can show you the results of some

sounds more like poor supervision imo

# ¿ Oct 1, 2023 19:53

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

It's the bits I've done

my point stands like a boutique employee rest area

# ¿ Oct 1, 2023 20:43

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

DreddyMatt posted:

I was coming home from London on the national express and we stopped at Birmingham bus station for 10 minutes.
In that time I saw a fight break out by the chip van outside.
Definitely a no go area

did one of them say "ahhh want mahh fookin chips" and end up in an increasingly less credible storyline that ends with them riding a tank shell home after fighting the army and forcing the closure of the M62?

# ¿ Oct 1, 2023 21:44

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

the thread is easily "trolled" but it's also very likely to tell someone to gently caress off and why without consideration as to whether the bait is ironic or not

that's a good thing, because irony doesn't exist on the internet, and there's not a single "ironic" edgy little racist fucker that's not just an edgy little racist fucker at heart

# ¿ Oct 2, 2023 08:33

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Seconding Fulton

The one my missus has (hurricane or tornado or something model) is velcro but has lasted years and years so far and still looks brand new (she used to kill a cheap one every year), my buddy who recommended the same one has had one for 7 or 8 years now, they are built to last and the velcro has never been an issue

# ¿ Oct 2, 2023 08:40

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Just Another Lurker posted:

They went downhill after Sega bought them, Medieval II: Total War was their last good game.... back in 2006 ffs.

shogun 2 was fine

# ¿ Oct 2, 2023 20:52

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Koos Group posted:

It is true that standard D&D rules do not apply and thread moderation is according to the judgement of the IK(s). I would certainly be willing to have an additional EngPol hangout thread on another part of the forums while making the one in D&D more rigorous if there were interest in this.

nah gently caress that

this thread is the last remaining part of LF, when LF was cruelly taken away the ukmt regulars promptly invaded and conquered the uk dnd thread so that the proud shitposting traditions of our forebears could be preserved for future generations

line up three IK's and keep the one who probates the most people after a week, it will be fuckin' hilarious

DesperateDan fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Oct 3, 2023

# ¿ Oct 3, 2023 07:39

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

By the time my eldest was in year 10 tacit use of smartphones in the classroom to look things up etc was encouraged because it allowed use of IT equipment that might actually work reliably

# ¿ Oct 3, 2023 14:16

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 15:45

DesperateDan: Dec 10, 2005; Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

also seen as I'm shitposting on drugs

rather than have more IK's just have a few regular posters who can take a brief poll of whether someone should gently caress off or not, and if it's a gently caress off and they don't follow, be able to probate

like having the keys to the shotgun cabinet

# ¿ Oct 3, 2023 14:21

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