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sebzilla posted:Or just go out and find a fancy looking branch https://www.upcyclist.co.uk/2017/12/natural-branch-centrepiece/ At the garden centre I used to work at we had a lot of rich idiots as customers. One who lived abroad and had a second home in the area once phoned us and asked if we could put together a rural styled Christmas centrepiece, and have it delivered urgently. After spending a while trying to work out what they actually wanted and that it wasn't something we sold, we went and grabbed some sticks from the hedgerow at the back of the property, put some little shiny bits and baubles in it, and charged them £40 with an additional £40 delivery charge. They sent us a message after saying they were delighted and they would tell all their friends about us. Can't quite believe the economic system we live in sometimes
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Dec 1, 2023 10:29
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I frequently wish for bad drivers in posh cars who cut me up to be involved in a crash that kills them and only them. That's called road rage, I don't mean it and you shouldn't listen to me when I say it. The real solution is Proportional fines would be pretty good too
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Dec 2, 2023 11:26
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Failed Imagineer posted:I just checked and my frenulum doesn't look anywhere near as happy as that You need to treat it better then!
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Dec 4, 2023 23:00
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Since this is basically the Train Thread with some slight derails, how you can drive a train wrong and damage the cables? I'm curious because it sounds like a very narrow line between "cables being stretched out of place" and "oops train fell on the ground". Scab driver leaves the station with the pantograph elevated incorrectly, notices during travel, tries to put it into the correct position while the train is in motion, pantograph goes "what the gently caress" and breaks.
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Dec 8, 2023 21:48
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While you're here, MI5, who do you think would win in a fight between James Bond and Duško Popov?
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Dec 12, 2023 16:09
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You can signal your answer in morse code at my bedroom window early tomorrow morning, ta
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Dec 12, 2023 16:10
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chestnut santabag posted:He doesn't need to call a vote for an election, he just needs to tell Charlie to prorogue parliament. Ideally by bursting in and attempting to arrest 6 MPs then getting owned by the speaker
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Dec 12, 2023 17:10
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Nuclear Spoon posted:do you think yvette cooper reads this thread do you think yvette cooper posts among us?
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Dec 13, 2023 20:31
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josh04 posted:Love Gojira, 'ate nuclear power, simple as. Don't like it, ごめんなさい
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Dec 15, 2023 12:04
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Ding ding merrily on highforkboy84 posted:the offset star is honking
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Dec 17, 2023 17:54
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Whenever I feel like I'm getting on really well with someone I've met recently, I invite them to perform the ritual and enter the covenant
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Dec 18, 2023 16:45
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happyhippy posted:No 'holding pint of beer' option. Well, that's implied, surely
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Dec 22, 2023 12:21
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Both of them are still coming for a pint though yeah?
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Dec 27, 2023 21:59
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My dad and I had a big argument about trans rights and now he's watching the Abigail Thorn video I sent him. I'm trying to counteract the poo poo he gets fed daily by his Facebook and Youtube algorithms. He backed down about an argument over the Tavistock Clinic when I showed him he'd been lied to about why it closed down. He told me he liked Douglas Murray because he was good at putting forward an argument. I told him it didn't matter, if the premises are wrong then the argument is invalid, and Douglas Murray's premises are wrong. He disagreed, apparently it doesn't matter if the premises are wrong  With a lot of things over the many years I've argued with my dad, I think he is (and a lot of others like him are) a good person submerged under a torrent of right wing poo poo from social media, and a life spent voting Tory because he decided that's what would make him the most money, to provide for us. If you internalise the first thing you hear about a topic (usually a lie) and get frustrated when you get into an argument about it, it is inevitably very difficult to come to the truth when you're dug into that position. I did have to tell him to stop sending me links about the IDF killing people in Gaza, he is completely on the side of the Palestinians and we don't argue about it much but the constant barrage of "look what new poo poo thing happened!" was getting me down!
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Dec 28, 2023 12:01
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Bobby Deluxe posted:You've all got it wrong. She left the chocolates in the street so the peasantry can fight over them. A Tory...giving something to the poor? Are you sure about that?
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Dec 29, 2023 17:24
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The Perfect Element posted:The tories don't give a solitary gently caress about immigrants, they just want to show humber going down so they can temporarily appease their voters. The rest of east Yorkshire too, I reckon.
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Jan 2, 2024 11:21
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Evolution doesn't have a logic, it doesn't decide things. Its answer to tooth pain is " better luck next generation"My answer to tooth pain is guillotine the rich and nationalise the dentists kecske posted:because it's a kluge (a word I learned today), mammals having permanent teeth is a side effect of the evolutionary path from placoderms Ihr sieht nicht kluge aus, did you mean kludge?
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Jan 4, 2024 11:42
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Failed Imagineer posted:Both spellings are acceptable apparently, since it derives from the German word, although adddmittedly the extra D (heh) helps with English pronunciation expectations Then I would like to apologise to kecske, er sieht wirklich kluge aus Over the last 24 hours all three UK threads have talked about the darts, truly we are united as a nation
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Jan 4, 2024 11:47
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Long ago we replaced clipping candles to the branches with electric tree lights, to reduce the considerable fire risk. I think this is nanny state oppression. Furthermore baubles should be explosive
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Jan 6, 2024 10:26
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Failed Imagineer posted:Apropos of nothing, but lol I am the fox, and I'll tell you true Getting plastered on a horse is bad to do When you fall, and get a brain injury The hound will slip his rope and we will brothers be
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Jan 11, 2024 21:28
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And don't get me started on Georgia, or Iberia
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Jan 14, 2024 13:06
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Maybe the people whose job involves spending a lot of time reading tabloid newspapers and talking with other people who also read tabloid newspapers* will end up with opinions not broadly representative of the general populace. *in my uninformed conception of a taxi driver's working day anyway
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Jan 18, 2024 19:23
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ThomasPaine posted:One thing I'll never understand is footage I keep seeing on social media of normal members of the public fully going out of their way to apprehend people they've caught shoplifting, informing the staff and calling the police etc. Sometimes even risking their own health by fully tackling people. Just your average people, but completely unaffiliated and maybe out for milk. There's always people cheering them on the comments as well. If I see someone stealing I just laugh to myself and think good on them. I remember when I was 18 and in my first year of uni, my then girlfriend shocked me by saying she didn't have any problem with shoplifting. I was properly unseated by this, couldn't get my head round someone thinking like that. Even at that stage in my life, with that worldview, I wouldn't have confronted a shoplifter. When you have people with a idea about morality (stealing is wrong), a lack of political consciousness (Tesco looks after my best interests), and an impulse towards outrage (and maybe wanting to be seen as a hero), I can absolutely see how they would apprehend a shoplifter, no matter how wrongheaded it is.
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Jan 19, 2024 13:18
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Tesseraction posted:the rozzers are barreling after the trolley bandit This sounds like a sentence from a tabloid from an alternate universe where tabloids have good politics
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Jan 19, 2024 14:32
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Blackpool is a place where a lot of punks (mostly old) congregate occasionally to get drunk and fight each other. Key locations include the Winter Gardens (where all the punk happens), the railway station, and a small club near the railway station where you can go when your train is cancelled. I don't think there's anything else there. Maybe a tram? idk
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Jan 22, 2024 14:13
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smellmycheese posted:UKMT Winterval: Don’t Go After the Tool UKMT Winterval: Don’t Go After the Tool, Go After The Son Of A Toolmaker
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Jan 28, 2024 14:12
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serious gaylord posted:Its just hit after hit after hit 10 grand!? Not that I'd expected them to accomplish much with their plans, but you'd sell out for 10 loving grand?
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Feb 14, 2024 19:57
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Oh my god, no, not smart devices and the internet of things! We must stop this communist UN initiative, our electronics would never spy on us under capitalism
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Feb 26, 2024 09:26
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DreddyMatt posted:Although if Edward loses his battle to smoking too much and George falls off a horse, we may be left with another king Edward, the 40 year old Nazi.
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Feb 27, 2024 15:31
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PriorMarcus posted:Yeah, what's the difference between Sharia law and the desires of most Conservatives for how the country should be run? Something to do with melanin I believe.
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Feb 28, 2024 13:48
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