Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Sounds like the torc from The Anome (they also travelled around by sort of zeppelins attached to rails but I digress)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anome

and didn't Battle Royale have something similar? I can't check because I gave the book away to a charity shop last year.

Guavanaut posted:

Sprouts have recently been rebred to lose the bitter taste and taste more like broccoli and kohlrabi and other green stem vegetables, so that may be them as well as you. Cabbage has also been spliced and isolated in the opposite direction to be less soggy, and be more a brassicaceae type tasty green food plant.

e: Fried kale is also good and in the same genus.

The Perfect Element posted:

They are an awesome bird. Where I'm from there are often dozens of them in the sky at any one time, and they swoop low over the houses, and they never get any less beautiful.

DiscoWitch posted:

Applied for my GRC today. What a loving nightmare.

Prove you are a woman by sending us your paper trails!!

All in all this has cost me £410 quid. £200 each for the 2 doctors letters, £5 for the statutory declaration and another fiver for the actual application.

fuctifino posted:

I'm sorry you had lovely relatives too. <hugs>

I'm rubber-banding a lot going from wanting to walk away from it all, and wanting to go in fighting, but I don't like the person I feel I start becoming when I focus about the money and the injustice of it all. Everything about my mum and brother is toxic, and I broke away from that family to feel less toxic, so I'm really debating if it's worth challenging any of it, or even turning up at the funeral.

Most of the estate is tied up in the house, and it will be a while before that can go to market let alone be sold so I have time to decide a path without emotions steering my decisions. She only died around 10 days or so. It might even be less than that. I didn't actually make a note to remember the day as it won't be a day I'll give two shits about with each yearly cycle. I've felt no actual mourning sensations, and probably don't expect to. I think I mourned her long ago.

But one thing that's worth publicly mentioning here, I've written a few times about a certain relative who worked undercover in NI in the 90's. gently caress protecting that war-criming murdering oval office, but it's my brother. He's issued at least one death threat -"I will loving kill you!" in my last phone call with him - which is pretty direct. So if I am suddenly murdered, Pete did it. He has experience stalking and killing civilians on UK soil, and yes, he would probably consider killing me if it would secure him an extra £12,500 cut as he's killed for a lot less when working for the govt. One of the few times I saw him in recent years, he crushed my windpipe at the family dinner table because I dared to criticise his raising of his son....

Apraxin posted:

The change for skilled workers is getting the headlines, but they’re also jacking up the minimum income for family visas - i.e. what you need if you’ve married a dirty foreigner and have the temerity to think you deserve to live together - from £18.6k per year salary to £38.7k (that’s for spouse only, several thousand more per child if you have any, and it all has to be from the UK partner, none of this ‘joint income’ nonsense)

So I guess I’m extra-never coming home to look after my parents in their old age now

fuctifino posted:

Can I just say THANK YOU to everyone who spoke out for reversing the probation and for the mods/admins who reversed it. I totally understand why a passing mod would see that out of context and act, so no hard feelings, but it was just my way of mourning. I'm a stay at home cripple with no actual real life local friends or support, so coming back on SA after having all of this going on was my way of getting a load of poo poo off my chest. It's the first actual public display of grief after ~10 days of chaos.

That meme of my mum was probably going a bit too far, but it sums up how I feel about her. She has pulled the literal rug from under my feet and I now have no secure future whatsoever. I'm still coming to terms with that part...

I will tone stuff down in the future, and I know how this must look to people who come from functional families and who have/had functional mothers who acted like actual mothers, and I'm sorry if my recent rantings have triggered bad memories or feelings in any of you.

I also haven't apologised for the vid of Gaza that got me that ban just over a month ago. I posted what I did out of anger, and I'm trying to learn to walk away from the keyboard when emotions run high like that. It's all a learning process. I apologise for whatever future mistakes I do in advance, and don't expect any special favours.... but I do appreciate this one.

I love you all!

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1732166243979792395

kecske posted:

isn't that just called 'landing'

Microplastics posted:

I don't know how much my nursery pays but they must get at least the London living wage, 13.15 an hour. I can't imagine doing that kind of work for that wage. Unthinkable to me that it pays so low, when I'm getting 50k to sit on my rear end and poke a computer repeatedly until some numbers are good instead of bad

PriorMarcus posted:

Not only that, but wasn't it Boris that thought he might stand a chance of being the first person to be both PM and US President but then he accidently let his US citizenship lapse?

Pork Pie Hat posted:

No, but perhaps you’d like to reflect on how your touchy-feely, respect everyone’s feelings regardless of who they are and what they’ve done hippy bollocks has achieved absolutely nothing good in the last 13 years.

I know what you’re asking and why you’re asking it, OwlFancier, and as you’re one of the posters I actually like and don’t find utterly contemptible, that’s a fair enough request.

smellmycheese posted:

Whither the Banhammer? The Lord Owl feareth to wield it

Gonzo McFee posted:

Aye it was more a poo poo attempt to say that a fascist culture produces poo poo art

killerwhat posted:

So sorry well done for making the decision, it’s so hard. She was clearly a good and adorable girl, a Good Dog

ThomasPaine posted:

What actually is the best case scenario for the GE? As far as I can tell the almost guaranteed outcome is Starmer winning by default, talking heads crowing about how this is bad for Jeremy Corbyn and represents a complete rejection of all but the weakest socdem centre-left stuff, then we're back in 1997 baby and nothing changes for at least another two decades or so. Inspiring stuff!

Still, it'll be funny to watch the tories completely poo poo the bed and lose hundreds of seats I guess. I'd also laugh very hard if Corbyn manages to hold onto his seat as an independent. Even better if Abbott etc do too. If they do you'd think it would prompt some reflection. It won't, but it would be funny.

I'm in an SNP ultra safe seat so I'm probably just going to throw a vote at the greens or maybe the TUSC or something even if it is just symbolic. Not bothering or spoiling the ballot seems wrong somehow, idk.

I've been playing an FMV game called Not For Broadcast recently which I thoroughly recommend for politics flavoured stupidity. It's completely ridiculous and over the top but you get to be a propaganda guy for some momentum-like group as they form a government, which is a nice bit of fantasy indulgence. It really shouldn't work but while the theatre kid energy coming off the whole thing is insane the actors are genuinely extremely good for the most part and parts of it had me belly laughing to an extent I never expected, and they pepper in some actually quite touching + nuanced bits as well. 10/10.

ThomasPaine posted:

Nah they're cool

Well, for the first few episodes at least lol. I did like that you can get an ending that keeps the spirit of the party while dialling back on some of the more insane stuff

Tigey posted:

Yeah its great. I know Paul, the guy who played Jeremy the anchor. It was a right blast to film although lockdown made it very chaotic

smellmycheese posted: