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Tedsville posted:Had to spend a full 10 minutes defrosting the car this morning. If it’s not below freezing, this works well and quickly: pour warm tap water over the windows to melt the frost. Then use the wipers and screen wash - it’s got antifreeze in it.
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Dec 1, 2023 11:05
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mediaphage posted:if it’s not below freezing i can’t imagine the car is so burdened with ice that it needs so much defrosting. personally i think that’s a bad habit to get into Well, warm water or screen wash, one or the other is fine. As long as I'm not standing in the cold scraping anything. I'm cautious when it's below 0 remembering an incident - probably 30 years ago now  - where my mum, rushing to take me to school, poured water over the windscreen that froze into a sheet by the time we got round the corner.
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Dec 1, 2023 12:43
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Sprouts, broccoli, coriander, cucumber and celery are all good imo. I made braised celery recently, came out pretty nice. Celery simmered in garlic and stock. The thing that ruins food for me is cumin. Awful sweaty taste. Annoyingly I can detect minuscule quantities of cumin or cumin-like flavours.
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Dec 3, 2023 10:38
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Fatty posted:Probably been posted here before, but I just heard this on 6Music and it immediately made me think of the UKMT. They’re a very UKMT band in general. I saw them in London recently. They had one bit between songs along the lines of “gently caress the tories? Obviously. But also gently caress Keir Starmer!”
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Dec 8, 2023 18:19
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PriorMarcus posted:Once a week I visit my mum, and I dread it every week. Stop doing this. You're making yourself miserable. Change it to a weekly video chat if you feel you must contact her regularly. Sorry to hear you've had to live with this. I found the book "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" by Lindsay Gibson interesting, it gives advice for how to deal with toxic parents. Also, congratulations on your marriage!
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Dec 18, 2023 11:42
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sinky posted:stolen from the osha thread: I met this cat at the Satanic Flea Market recently in London, where it was wearing a Cyberdog (Cybercat?) jumper. It’s a good cat.
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Dec 21, 2023 12:29
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Btw, if anyone here hasn't read the sci-fi short story based off that "I identify as an attack helicopter" line, you should, it's good. There's an interesting article here about the controversy around it.
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Dec 27, 2023 16:24
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I would like to know more about the gold alligator please. Me too! I wore a gold snake print top and leggings to a social last week and someone said I looked like a gold alligator  .
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Dec 27, 2023 20:46
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/jewdas/status/1740323239891521634?s=20 The article in the tweet, about how magical and creative Jews are… isn’t that a little bit racist? Like talking about how black people are great at basketball or whatever. Stereotyping a group of people.
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Dec 28, 2023 19:50
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Tesseraction posted:Heck yeah, maybe 2024 be the year of more lurkers coming and posting with us, the UK Manga Thread. I recently got the Shonen Jump app to catch up with One Piece, so I’ve been reading a fair amount of manga. I loved One Punch Man and Akane-banashi (about a woman’s quest to be the best at traditional Japanese stand up) but they’re not finished stories either 
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Dec 31, 2023 23:21
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Give Undead Unluck a try, it starts crazy then just absolutely goes places. Thanks I will check it out! I prefer to binge One Piece when each story arc is finished. In fact I just today finished a few weeks of watching the entire Land of Wano arc. Time very well spent. Happy new year goons
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Jan 1, 2024 08:29
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Reveilled posted:Toothache Glad you're getting the tooth sorted. Has it stopped hurting? I had a big hole in a wisdom tooth a few years ago, which eventually got infected. It was excruciating. My boss sent me home (to the dentist) because I was nearly crying at work. God, it's so depressing what's happened to the NHS. Teeth are important!
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Jan 3, 2024 18:49
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HopperUK posted:
So sorry well done for making the decision, it’s so hard. She was clearly a good and adorable girl, a Good Dog
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Jan 7, 2024 18:28
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fuctifino posted:Thanks everyone. I think I've managed to nudge everything onto a comedy timeline, as I'm currently laughing at it all, and I never expected to be doing that That's really great news. I'm worried though, is your brother likely to kick off because of this? I hope you never have to see him again.
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Jan 9, 2024 18:30
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/zarahsultana/status/1747014118106673248 What a piece of poo poo. “Some people are giving a free pass to terrorists”. “What, I never specified her did I?  ”
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Jan 16, 2024 12:27
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Give Undead Unluck a try, it starts crazy then just absolutely goes places. Thank you so much for this manga recommendation. I loved Undead Unluck! I'm now up to date so I suppose I'll try to forget about it for a year or so until there's a good backlog of chapters. I even dreamed about Unluck this week.
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Jan 18, 2024 17:26
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Jan 24, 2024 12:24
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Ooh that wave knife looks fun. Make fancy chopped veg
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Jan 25, 2024 09:36
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How is this even "news"? Someone privately insulted someone else. I almost feel bad for journalists having to write this rubbish, but they chose that job so shouldn't get any sympathy
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Jan 25, 2024 16:38
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Tesseraction posted:Problem with me is I'm a relative speed reader so childrens books were read instantly but I was still A Child so you hand me the Lord of the Rings to shut me up and I get to book 2 and say "this is boring all they're doing is talking about stuff" and give up and go back to failing at Crash Bandicoot. Reading all my childrens books too quickly led me to prowling round the house hunting for new things to read. Jackpot was finding (aged ~9) a book about sex in a huge stash of books that some family friends had given to my parents. Obviously I read it, and then took it into school to try and gain social credit. Someone predictably tattled and I got in big trouble. My mum told me it wasn't about normal things, that people don't really do. Joke's on her, it's laughably vanilla iirc. There was something about a stereo and "tweeting their woofer".
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Jan 26, 2024 14:12
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Lady Demelza posted:This is the kind of thing my terminally ill mother is doing. It's an act of miserable desperation, not an admirable quality. A friend of mine is currently on day 16 of fasting. Apparently it has amazing health benefits for them, reduced fibro/chronic fatigue symptoms, reduced asthma and allergies  Kinda makes sense given how important the gut and digestion is to body regulation. Don’t think it would work for me!
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Jan 29, 2024 01:14
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NotJustANumber99 posted:They haven't eaten for 16 days? Correct
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Jan 29, 2024 01:44
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Did you offer him one?
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Jan 29, 2024 16:46
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fuctifino posted:But what made me really confused was the sponsor for the event: https://www.quantumhypno.co.uk/ a surgeon posted:I’m in aw. I’m in aw. I’m in aw
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Jan 30, 2024 17:48
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The Perfect Element posted:I don't know how to embed images any more so can't provide the photo, but my mate just sent me a pic of a smart black BMW parked on his street, with reg plate '88 HH'. This shouldn't have been allowed as a number plate  alternatively, it's a notice for everyone to key that car?
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Feb 2, 2024 12:23
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I’ve never felt so unsympathetic to someone getting a serious diagnosis. Not very loyal subject like
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Feb 6, 2024 00:57
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Apraxin posted:lol jesus christ Changing my username to "wokery nonsense" e: sorry about your mum, Aipsh
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Feb 6, 2024 16:51
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. we're a grassroots movement dedicated to restoring the vibrancy of our national democracy 
SUFFER NOT THE WOKE TO LIVE, TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY FROM THE SINISTER FORCES OF THE GLOBALIST TRANS CONSPIRACY
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Maugrim posted:UKMT Solidarity Fund Update, February 2023 Incredibly rare to be able to vote for decent people
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Feb 9, 2024 14:53
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Voting opens at midnight tonight for the UKMTSF Trustee elections! 
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smellmycheese posted:horror jesus, nms tags please
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Feb 14, 2024 21:40
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Pistol_Pete posted:Yep, I used to be the most awful, clichéd, Guardian-quoting, sensible grown-ups, lesser of two evils kind of poster; now I'm a communist craving for revolution and the overthrow of the state This is what happened to me too! 
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Feb 17, 2024 20:14
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Maphis posted:Much like happyhippy I think I'm getting made redundant first thing tomorrow after 15 years at the same place. Will you at least get a decent 15 years worth of payout?
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Feb 18, 2024 14:43
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Nenonen posted:Maybe you should put more garlic in everything. Garlic kidney pies, garlic fish and chips, garlic fudge. I see you're familiar with Soho institution Garlic and Shots
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Feb 19, 2024 12:45
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Goldskull posted:They changed their bloodshot recipe after Covid re-openings, and overloaded it with paprika for some unknown reason. Which is why we make our own at home now. I've never had a bloodshot! Sad to hear I've missed my chance to get the true experience. I'm planning on going for dinner there in a couple of weeks, me and now-husband went there for our first date so every few years we go back for our anniversary (19th this year!). I will finally try the bloodshot this time.
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Feb 19, 2024 15:56
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Starbucks posted:My friends daughter did the whole put [micro]chips in body thing One of my partners has an RFID chip in their hand. I believe it links to a YouTube video of a hippo 
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Feb 20, 2024 21:48
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fuctifino posted:e: lol at the Sun's front page I like that black lacy dress though. Would wear that to Whitby Goth Weekend.
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Feb 21, 2024 00:25
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TACD posted:Is there a set of guidelines or consensus or whatever on how to assess a job candidate’s practical skills while also respecting their time? I had an interview recently where they used a 3rd party tech test. Said it would take 1-3h. I made many mistakes, the first one being to believe them, the second being not to try to cheat as much as possible. Took me 7h, writing increasingly poor code. The final report revealed that the median time was 4.5h! Liars. Got another one coming up which I have so little chance for I'm wondering if I can be bothered. First phase is a 1h live code/pair programming test creating a CLI around API calls. Next phase is 30min discussing how to turn some pseudo-code into a full app ("scaling, testability, edge-cases and the like"). Then, 30min "designing a large-scale system". I haven't got a clue about any of this stuff. But, tbf, I bet they get some excellent candidates. The pay is extremely high.
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Feb 21, 2024 16:44
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Jakabite posted:new as of 2 months ago sausage dog Why haven’t you posted pics of this dog yet?
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Feb 22, 2024 11:59
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Tesseraction posted:I suppose this is a limitation of English in that there's want (passive) and want (active). 
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Feb 23, 2024 20:51
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Rarity posted:Best value purchase they've ever made
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Feb 29, 2024 00:20
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OwlFancier posted:My life would be under threat because I would loving inhale that naan so fast I would die. A couple of times my dog has found something especially delicious while on a walk, and eaten it so fast she's choked and almost passed out. Just falls right over. So that's you with naan? Guessing it's harder to turn you upside down and shake the food out.
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Feb 29, 2024 15:44
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