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Grey Hunter posted:Come on, you put their scratching post next to it - that's an open invitation.  That's entrapment that isAlso melatonin doesn't make it easier for me to fall asleep, but it does keep me asleep real good. It also induces absolutely incredible levels of carsickness for the next 24 or so hours
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Dec 1, 2023 06:35
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ooh thanks for that info. My sleep is so completely wrecked at the moment, I was thinking of trying it after discussion ITT. I mean it might just be a thing unique to me, I know loads of Americans who swear by the stuff and have no such problems. Wouldn't want to discourage you from something that might be helpful just from my own anecdote! E; am under the electric blanket, I had to get it last year because the HRT has wreaked absolute devastation on my ability to keep warm. Used to be able to stroll around in snow in a t shirt and shorts, not these days!
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Dec 1, 2023 10:14
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:You people with sleep issues, have you tried CBD? If you have and it hasn't worked, have you tried taking more CBD? It stops me waking up at 3AM and my body thinking it's time to get up then. Over time I've built up a tolerance so I make my own oil now from isolate and MCT oil. CBD gives me an hours-long panic attack  Side sleeping is the way. I can never get comfy with a knee pillow though so I just go without.
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Dec 1, 2023 21:51
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I've committed assaults against people on a few occasions and fortunately never had to deal with the consequences. Every time you post it's an assualt  But to take it seriously; NotJustANumber99 posted:We all think the same as Madeley when we get wronged. We just don't have the opportunity to go on telly the next day and yell it, and also like get encouraged to think like even more killing them We don't all think the same as him (I've been mugged and I wouldn't have gone further than saying the guy needed a hiding) but even if we did, it doesn't matter, because societies have spent thousands of years codifying criminal laws, delineating specific limits for punishment and sentencing, establishing courts, figuring out how to ensure judges (and later, juries) are as impartial as possible, precisely because we need that to be administered by people removed from the incident and with no connections to anyone involved. This is because dealing with crime based on the outrage of victims (Or worse, the public) is a really bad idea, and doing so based on sober reflection at some remove is a less bad idea. Note that I do not argue we succeed in most of those things, and I don't think the system we have is a good one even if we did, but the mere fact we make the attempt (Or pretense if you're more cynical) rather than just arresting the bloke and asking Madeley "Where do you want the gallows set up mate?" shows we're pretty well devoted to not having it governed by vengeance.
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Dec 2, 2023 02:05
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Lt. Danger posted:I don't think we should kill people for doing crimes but I also think we can extend a little grace to people who have been victims of crimes expressing anger and upset But basically everyone has said that some degree of anger and a desire for revenge is understandable? This whole thread since then has been people relating their own experiences as victims of crime and our anger that resulted. Not many people would be bothered if Madeley had said "Wish I could give him a punch in the face" because yeah that's understandable, human, and though not productive also not grossly disproportionate. It's just that going to Death Sentence for a theft is a bit much (consider that the archetypal Ultra-Hardline Uncivilized Hellhole answer to theft is amputation of the offending hand! The exaggerated caricature of foreign barbarity falls well short of the death sentence!) and if you're a public figure you should maybe account for that and attain a little mastery over your feelings.
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Dec 2, 2023 11:02
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I'd crawl over broken glass to vote for a National Domintrix Service, phwoar
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Dec 2, 2023 13:28
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Guavanaut posted:Capital punishment for people who put wrong things in the recycle bins would lead to a lot of very confused noises from the commentariat. Wikipedia says that the largest discovered pair of sexy primes is as follows p = 11922002779 x (2^172486 - 2^86243) + 2^86245 - 5 p+6 = 11922002779 x (2^172486 - 2^86243) + 2^86245 + 1
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Dec 2, 2023 16:23
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"What was the technicality?" "He didn't eat all the food." That's... not a technicality. That's the literal challenge. That's like saying you were denied an Olympic Gold in the 100m sprint because of the 'technicality' of only running 95 meters. Also lmfao imagine being such a danger you go "I don't eat salad  " fuckin hell mate it's not a point of principle you're just bald
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Dec 2, 2023 22:43
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Failed Imagineer posted:OwlFancier is a good lad, mostly, not sure of their bald dtatus I was talking about the pub man! Owly's cool, feathered rather than behaired though. I assume. There's nothing wrong with not liking salads but going "I won't do it even for fifty quid, because I don't eat salads." isn't how someone who hates salad speaks, it's how someone who thinks they're too manly for salads speaks.
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Dec 2, 2023 22:51
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Hair are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight. The bald are the inveterate foe of Xenu and Posadas both. Microplastics posted:I'm now imagining a policy where your benefits are stopped if you don't eat a whole salad while a DWP agent watches you Actually, when you put it like that my sympathy for the bloke increases a thousandfold...
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Dec 2, 2023 23:05
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Runcible Cat posted:You wasted food and therefore money given you by the hard-working taxpayer. "There's starving children in Africa would love to have that. We know because we starved 'em."
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Dec 2, 2023 23:11
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 The idea that cucumbers have an overpowering flavour is possibly the most demented thing that has ever been posted in UKMT for the last decade plus. Everyone I know who dislikes cucumber does so precisely because they feel it has no flavour at all. And those of us who like it usually do so because we appreciate the very subtle and gentle flavour combined with a nice cronch.
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Dec 2, 2023 23:42
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Apraxin posted:inspiring stuff Now now, be fair. He does make an implicit promise that he'll machine gun the boats.
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Dec 3, 2023 05:35
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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. Well it didn't loving work did it? They need to try again. OwlFancier posted:I think honestly he could lose just about everyone as long as he's still perceived as less bad than the tories in whatever way people want to define "bad" Not with that attitude! You have to believe in yourself, and more importantly, in Sinn Fein!
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Dec 3, 2023 20:34
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Lembit convinced my grandma not to give me anything in her will, arguing that because I had changed my name from Opik I shouldn't get anything that was an Opik's. She had always been deeply, deeply opposed to me changing my name (This was the first time, before I transitioned) so this was an easy sell. I hadn't even expected to get my dad's entire share or anything, I hadn't expected anything, but I had politely asked if I could be included for a small fraction of whatever came from selling her house when she passed, on the grounds that I'm disabled and without any real prospects (And at the time I had been engaged and intending to move to America, adding plenty of expenses) so getting a few grand would make an immense difference to me whilst Lembit and my aunt would have barely missed that from their shares. Nope. Also then I wasn't even informed when she died, which was kinda lovely and I don't know whether to attribute it to simple malice or a desire to keep me away from any possibility of contesting the will. So yeah long story short big sympathy fuct, it's a poo poo situation to be placed in. NotJustANumber99 posted:I've been told it's why there's so many derelict rural run down properties in France where they've been split so many times between family that no one can agree what to do with them that they just end up blocked and left to ruin. smh they should have played Crusader Kings 3, that'd teach them why equal inheritance is a bad idea right quick
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Dec 4, 2023 00:26
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You never hear about Toyah Wilcox anymore, do you? Anneka Rice, neither.
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Dec 4, 2023 11:02
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Issuing an update on my previous post, some of you very much do hear about Toyah Wilcox anymore. Issuing an update on this post, fuckin mods Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Dec 5, 2023 |
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Dec 5, 2023 00:27
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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) loving hell it was bad enough when they set it to 18.6, at almost 39 grand that's only the top 12% or so of earners in the UK. Renders it an utterly unrealistic privilege for the great majority of the country.
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Dec 5, 2023 10:13
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Oh and Succession always looked really boring to me, also why is everyone talking about it the last day or two, I've seen more conversation about it than when it was airing
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Dec 5, 2023 10:24
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Rappaport posted:The topic of poo poo-head relatives and inheritance came up, and here we are. Sorry I should have been clearer, this is not related to the thread alone, that's the one place I see the connection but this is only one of like five different places online that have been going on about it. smellmycheese posted:I don’t know if this helps but they are all supposed to be grotesque caricatures of Murdoch and his children. They are all intended to be revolting and dislikeable in different ways. It’s not a show where you are supposed to be rooting for someone. They are all terrible people that you are encouraged to laugh at for being cunts. Honestly a nightmare for me to watch.
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Dec 5, 2023 12:39
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Lol, lmao
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Dec 7, 2023 09:13
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Miftan posted:I'm sure that was her just edging us. Didn't she do about 3 of them saying nothing where everyone was speculating on stuff like "is there a crest on the front of the podium?" before she finally did a resignation one? God I remember those, absolutely political edging. Every time it looked like she was about to announce something major like a snap election and it wasn't even like "Here is our new Numbers Fuckstein policy adjustment."
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Dec 7, 2023 11:53
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Lemurtron posted:Can anyone actually explain to me what the point of the Rwanda plan is and why the government are pushing it as seemingly the one and only Plan to end all plans? Why must it be pushed through despite all cost, decency, international law, protests and blocks by our very own courts? How is it that this alleged Plan is the only way to deal with alleged illegal immigration and processing of asylum seekers? The other answers are totally correct, but there is also an element of responding to the supposed problems/dangers of the current system. The tories and media have created a pervasive belief that asylum seekers are chancers, criminals, and either hiding behind human rights legislation or simply melting into the general population, but in any event making themselves immune to removal even when they don't get leave to remain. By shipping them to Rwanda rather than letting them stay in the country (even in custody or with limited freedom of movement) the idea is that these problems will be eliminated. They can't vanish into the population, can't commit crimes, if they abscond it's Rwanda's problem, and if their application is denied they're powerless to do anything about it like appeal or have a community that protects them from removal. Also, as official government policy, changing becomes a humiliating climbdown and a government-ending u-turn so they've dug thrir heels in as deeply as they can rather than just saying "We inherited a stupid moron's idea and we won't be doing that." (So yes, it is that loving stupid, because it's all based on lies and an excuse to be cruel and the time and money pissed up the wall on it could have been/could be used on almost anything else to better effect.)
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Dec 7, 2023 13:10
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OwlFancier posted:I mean there is that old joke about a dog walking into a bar that nobody quite understands any more. Perhaps they already found The Ideal Joke and it just doesn't make sense to us. Someone offered a new translation and it was like "A dog walks into a bar. His eyes cannot see anything, I guess he needs to crack one open!"
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Dec 8, 2023 00:24
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Endjinneer posted:Move fast and break hips. Holy poo poo lol Wes is a loving danger, not that that's news to anyone ITT. Trying to paint it as the NHS just not being innovative enough, as if there's some kind of magic way to provide healthcare on the cheap they just haven't bothered implementing. And even if demanding they do more with less worked, we've already been underfunding it for ages, any possible efficiency gains have already been made! I don't want the healthcare system to be overly worried about 'efficiency savigs'. I want them to be at the cutting edge of medical science and best practices, but that's not something that happens because a bold innovator is trying poo poo out in their private practice, that's how you get chiropractors. Actual modern advancement comes out of laboratories and university hospitals and so on. You know - expensive poo poo. The best a regular GP's office or even ordinary hospital can do is cut back on staff and pay, provide fewer services at lower quality, and try loving around with the bureaucratic side of things because they are desperate and are promised a computer or booking system that will save them time. Whereas what the great majority of healthcare requires is the application of steady, unglamorous best practices, in anything from the org charts to the oncology department. Outside of the research branch they should be using established methods, because whatever savings are to be had come from the efficiency of scale. In short Wes is a briefcase wanker and Tory Boy who needs to wind his neck in
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Dec 10, 2023 20:43
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Guavanaut posted:There is some good innovation you could do at the GP/pharmacy level in terms of outreach. Like with the idea that the public health bodies should be determining the 'what' as in what interventions work at the public level, local pharmacies and clinics may know how to communicate that to their community better than some Whitehall SPAD, so would be better at the 'how'. This is fair and I shouldn't have said I want an absolute ban on them innovating because I don't, I'm just leery if it because... yeah that second one. Imo they should use established best practices in terms of admin and bureaucracy as a baseline, and generally speaking let other sectors of society do the experimentation with new ideas (This is very weird for me to say because I am normally fully about progress, but when lives are quite literally on the line every day I'm slower to advocate for risktaking)and adopt them when they are shown to be worthwhile. But there would also need to be a recognition that there are areas unique to healthcare where they do need to be the ones doing the innovation. I don't know exactly how you set that up. But fortunately I am just some tranny online and not the shadow minister for health.
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Dec 11, 2023 00:34
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When I needed to have my bumhole examined I actually felt worse about having the chaperone come in. Obviously it's a very good idea (Nobody ever called one in for Penis Inspection though?) but it definitely felt a bit like "Not totally sure I want more people around while you're putting a finger up my rear end, doc".
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Dec 11, 2023 22:51
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OwlFancier posted:Well that's the thing they didn't ask me, just called his mate in with me there on the table. Yeah that's not on, I always understood that they were obligated to ask your permission to involve anyone else, hell even when I've gone in for not at all intimate stuff they've always said "Hey this is Doctor Looks Like A Child, he's in training and is sitting in with me today, is that alright?" and sure you get the impression you'll be seen as a oval office if you reply "No" but, like, at least they check.
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Dec 11, 2023 22:56
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Still blows my mind that we have a bloke called Drax in parliament
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Dec 12, 2023 21:57
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Promising you will be no better or different than the other team is a pretty unique strategy, at least. Normally they would at least SAY they're going to do good things and then we'd have to argue about whether they're telling the truth and whether the differences are big enough if so. Not this time baybee!
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Dec 13, 2023 00:47
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Liberals can no longer perceive the 3rd or 4th options, or even more unthinkable, the 5th option. They can only vote between two hitlers. Hardly fair, plenty of them can perceive the Lib Dems!
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Dec 13, 2023 01:31
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They were probably hoping we'd benefit a bit from the US economy doing well* on many measures * Obviously there are big caveats here but they are growing their GDP pretty fast right now so I could understand if some people were hoping we'd benefit on those same indicators, regardless of whether it makes a blind bit of difference for many of us
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Dec 13, 2023 09:38
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I find it amusing that the people who most love to bang on about the Victorians and Romans and suchlike are also the ones who seem most ignorant (wilfully or not) that to Get poo poo Done you need things like experts and big public works projects and to have at least some amount of the people you hire for stuff not be grifters. Of course it's really harkening back to imagined times when we could and did tell Johnny Foreigner to jog on, rather than a sincere appreciation of the eras or the people who lived then and their works.
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Dec 14, 2023 08:38
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It's an effective wedge issue because it feels like it makes sense, and you can twist it so you feel like it's not a contradiction to say you support trans people but this is a special area that needs special consideration. Without knowing some of the effects of things like HRT it's understandable that some people would think "Trans women have an advantage because of their bone structure/male muscles/etc" and not realize that things are far more complex than that.
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Dec 21, 2023 21:18
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Not only does Michael Phelps get a pass, but inversely female athletes have always been punished for excellence, such as the creation of female leagues allowing vastly more funds to be siphoned to male leagues, or women just being banned from competing for their own natural advantages: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/07/two-cis-black-women-banned-olympics-natural-testosterone-levels/ To say nothing of the fact a lot of women's sports got hived off after integrated sports started to result in a bunch of women beating men, and BOY is that something a bunch of men couldn't tolerate! I agree with the second paragraph as well, but their nonsense in this regard does do a particularly good job of highlighting how their 'feminism' is both misogynistic and racist as all hell.
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Dec 22, 2023 01:04
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Apparently Toyah just won "Sewing Bee" & "everyone" is slagging her off on twitter. How ironic, that I would mention her obscurity and be proven wrong within mere weeks...
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Dec 22, 2023 01:28
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Tesseraction posted:Did someone mention music and then DooM? Unicorn is SUCH a good loving album, came out just before my birthday too, unbelievably based times for me.
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Dec 22, 2023 11:15
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1738256334061965328 Absolute fuckin danger, isn't he. 'Oooh we can't do a policy, the Tories might have a go at us for it.' Well yeah, that's what happens in politics, you're supposed to have the gumption and brass to actually defend your position and try to advance it in the public's mind as a good, worthwhile idea. Also I mean that would have been a great statement on Gaza to make two months ago, not joking if he'd said that or something like it when this started we'd be giving him kudos, however grudging, and he'd probably have won an appreciable number of people over by actually taking a firm stance on something for once in his loving life. As it stands... mate you said it was okay. You're only following public opinion now, not taking any kind of stance. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Dec 23, 2023 |
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Dec 23, 2023 01:17
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KM Scorchio posted:Nobody you see on TV has your best interest at heart. Even that one that you think is still actually a decent bloke who hasn't let fame get to him. Even Toyah?!
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Was it twisto who posted about being in a documentary briefly, and lamented how he had walked Extremely loving Normally on film? He had our best interests at heart.  Rip to a great goon.
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Dec 23, 2023 03:25
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