UKMT Winterval 2023/24 - Zero-Tolerance Zones in Hotpot Areas

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forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

HopperUK posted:

Chilly out innit

I almost had to think about closing my bedroom window. But it's fine, I won't

# ¿ Dec 1, 2023 02:11

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 19:31

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

TACD posted:

just remembered I still need to buy a Christmas tree, lol

Any recommendations for a small or sort of collapsible tree for a flat with not much space?

Your local forest

Can't imagine ever having a plastic tree. The only worthwhile part of the thing is that lovely pine smell. Even if it means having to do more hoovering

# ¿ Dec 1, 2023 09:58

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

mediaphage posted:

we have a plastic tree and it�s great. prelit and everything.

as an aside i�m glad melatonin works for so many of you. for me it�s always been practically homeopathy as it doesn�t absolutely nothing.

Maybe you just need to dilute it more

# ¿ Dec 1, 2023 11:10

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

NotJustANumber99 posted:

It's not petty theft. It's a direct attack on you. And that can never be forgiven.

It's true, there are zero examples in history of people being attacked and then later forgiving their attacker.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2023 00:55

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

NotJustANumber99 posted:

lol. do you think thats like my thoughts or like...

I dunno what else "can never be forgiven" means

(You said a silly hyperbolic statement and I decided to take it at face value for humours sake)

# ¿ Dec 2, 2023 01:30

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Jakabite posted:

Did they deserve it?

They complained that his Tesla on full self driving swerved directly into them

# ¿ Dec 2, 2023 02:00

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

NotJustANumber99 posted:

people in this thread have called for my death on several occasions for having the wrong car or being a landlord. But gently caress... some silly oval office on itv or wherever the gently caress he is means something

Nicking a celebrity's phone is a victimless crime OP, being a landlord or driving a car (let us be clear, there is no right car) are not. Hope that helps.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2023 02:30

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

NotJustANumber99 posted:

By the way it isnt. i'ts often a threat of violence. And if you want to debate the hierarchy of violence... then oh dear

Richard Madeley does wrongthink and therefore loses his personhood therefore robbing him is victimless. QED

# ¿ Dec 2, 2023 10:04

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

OwlFancier posted:

Cucumber is a strange and terrible thing. Pickled it is nice, but raw it is rank and worse, contaminates everything it touches with an overpowering flavour of cucumber.

The work of a malevolent creator, certainly.

"Overpowering flavour of cucumber"

Y'know, I enjoy cucumber but I'm not sure anyone in human history has ever described it as having an overpowering flavour of anything.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2023 23:31

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

FiftySeven posted:

I am so loving upset, At the next election I will basically have 3 brands of Tory and 2 brands of racists choose from (You could easily argue for adding the Torys into the racist pile too)...

Who on earth am I supposed to vote for? I want the Tories gone so badly and that means voting Labour but I honestly have no desire to put Starmer in power, especially after he unironically praised Thatcher publicly.

Look on the bright side, you've been disabused of the notion that liberal democracy has anything but false choice. As the anarchists say, if voting changed anything they wouldn't let you. You can still turn up & spoil your ballot because for most people it takes a minimum of effort to vote within the time polling stations are open (what is it, 7 or 8am until 10pm? I forget exactly when it opens) but the whole system is coopted by capital & it's worth remembering that. If you threaten the economic status quo then look what happens (see Jeremy Corbyn, biggest antisemite in human history)

# ¿ Dec 3, 2023 16:52

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

It's the Guardian, but also it's an article about crisps so is inside the thread's wheelhouse: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/dec/02/the-weird-secretive-world-of-crisp-flavours

I thought it was quite interesting

# ¿ Dec 4, 2023 14:28

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Quiet news day then

# ¿ Dec 4, 2023 22:00

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Why is some dipshit D&D mod wading into the thread to probate someone for 24 hours? That was clever.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2023 23:32

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Nuclear Spoon posted:

maybe they didn't know fuct was talking about their own mum

Bold suggestion, maybe don't wade into a thread if you can't read the pretty clear...it's not even subtext, it's just text. Also "hmmmm I think you need a break" literally as soon as he got back from a month long probation is extremely funny though presumably unintentionally so.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2023 23:46

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Diet Crack posted:

It sure is an unseen level of incompetence though

D&D mods set a high level for tbf

Like, they have one job, stay the gently caress away from using their buttons in this thread. That's it. How do you fail to achieve this?

First they come for people not sad their mam died, next they'll try to stop us and the Aussies from saying oval office.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 00:59

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Miftan posted:

You're right. It's real boring. Just like Breaking Bad which is also really boring.

I've been told both shows get good at/after season 2, but that's an unreasonable amount of time to put into something that's really bad waiting for it to get good.

Man, Breaking Bad is such overhyped nonsense. And yes, anything where "it gets better after X seasons" is something I won't bother with. I'm looking at you Seinfeld. Whoever told Jerry he should wrench 5+ minutes of the worlds least interesting observational comedy into every 20 minute episode killed it.

Show I really enjoyed lately was Avenue 5, the Iannucci sci-fi comedy. It was exceptionally stupid, but very amusing with it. We're on the maiden Voyage of a luxury space cruise ship spending 8 weeks visiting the plants only for things to go badly wrong. Sadly got cancelled after 2 seasons but I still found it very funny. I may have been one of the few though.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 12:04

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

keep punching joe posted:

Breaking bad was good but on rewatching the story meanders a lot and there is tons of filler.

Feel like this is true of a lot of US shows tbh.

Rappaport posted:

Avenue 5 was great, the main cast really nailed the straight-faced absurdity of everything.

Josh Gad in particular was absolutely phenomenal. Like the role as written is absolutely absurd, Elon Musk but somehow stupider & greedier, but he plays it just right. And Daisy May Cooper, especially in the 2nd season as the sister of the character she played in season 1..

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 12:23

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Why the gently caress is he promoting that letting agent? Disgusting behaviour.

Because it's next door to his son's CBD shop.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 12:23

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Miftan posted:

I think more often than not they just pitch 1 season and it's very noticeable.

You shouldn't be allowed to make a serialised TV show if you don't at least show you have a plan for the ending. Because then you get Lost.

Of course they would require that broadcasters are willing to get behind project for the duration, even when it doesn't take off & we know that's not happening because capitalism.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 12:59

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Dead Goon posted:

I stopped watching Breaking Bad after they met the dude who managed the restaurant, and he bought them nice beakers and pots and pans and poo poo.

Then I watched the ending of the last episode on YouTube.

I feel I understand all I need to about Breaking Bad.

I did the same with The Sopranos, they chucked the dude off the back of the boat, got bored, watched the ending on YouTube.

At least go back and watch Pine Barrens, which is generally regarded one of the finest single episodes of a TV show. It's hilarious, & fantastically directed.

Honestly don't think The Sopranos works with just watching the ending. But then I love it & never got bored of it so :shrug:

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 13:06

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

The Question IRL posted:

I didn't like Avenue 5, but I accept that it was for a pretty dumb reason.

Before I watched the show I was told "it's got an amazing twist in it."

And so when I watched it, I had that in the back of my mind.
I watched the first episode and they reveal that Captain Hugh Laurie is an actor and the real captain dies in an accident.

But to me, this happened so early and was so obvious that I convinced myself this couldn't be the twist.
So I watch the show looking for some new twist. One that is being subtly laid the foundations of in the background but explains the show.

And what I settled on (and don't ask me how I came up withi this, but this was what I thought.) was I thought all the main characters were people in a mental health facility who had started doing some innocent role-playing exercise involving a ship. But that they all became too invested in the scenario and more and more people kept getting pulled into the exercise, and the staff are themselves going mad trying to keep this daft exercise going as everyone is too invested in what was supposed to be a short project.

Sort of like a commentary on Brexit, a silly idea that has gotten wildly out of hand.

And then, when I got to the end of the first season, I realized I was wrong. I had missed the actual twist and just built a better show in my head. Kind of killed my enjoyment of it.

I'm going to be honest with you The Question IRL, I'm not sure that that is actually a better show than what we got. But yes, it's unfortunate you were told about this amazing twist because it's less about the twist, which isn't really a twist & couldn't be, because the show is more about the tension between the secret & them trying to keep it a secret. And also the grotesque absurdity of the ultrawealthy.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 13:09

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

FiftySeven posted:

I have just written a letter to my MP and I am gonna walk round to her office and hand deliver it. She is the shadow Home secretary so she's actually in a pretty good place for me to protest this bullshit to.

Apart from the fact she fully supports these rules lol. But good luck.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 15:47

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Brendan Rodgers posted:

There are combat footage videos of Hamas using guerrilla tactics to take down tanks etc that use a red triangle to show the target.

You'd think the tank would stand out enough not to need highlighted by a red triangle

# ¿ Dec 6, 2023 00:53

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FiftySeven posted:

If this happened, they couldnt possibly avoid having to call a General Election could they?

I mean they can't kick the can down the road much longer, but another unelected PM during this parliament absolutely can happen.

Dunno that I expect it to, the Tories surely cannot be that daft. The chalice is well and truly poisoned, it'd have to be a deluded idiot who wants it. I suppose they have plenty of those tho

# ¿ Dec 6, 2023 21:55

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The Perfect Element posted:

Lol this is the most Linehan update I have ever heard

He apparently had a podcast I guess about being transphobic bigots and his co-host was bemoaning that since starting this he's lost everything lol

https://twitter.com/ICanSeeForever1/status/1731987850810265974?t=DvS7drNn2jpOx0vlx7-4SA&s=19

Imagine burning up your entire life just to be Graham Linehan's lovely sidekick

# ¿ Dec 7, 2023 01:07

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Sanford posted:

When pigfucker came back recently, didn�t someone confirm a lord can be PM? If Rishi is ousted, then maybe cometh the hour, cometh the man?

Has anyone checked to see if #DaveyCambo is trending?

The British Constitution is nonsense, you could be PM if they really decided it should be so. It's one of those things where technically appointing the PM comes from the Royal Prerogative & while that could be challenged in law & the point is that hasn't happened. You'd like to hope if the monarch actually acted on this poo poo & decided to unilaterally dissolve parliament or appoint someone of their choice as PM we'd end up throwing them away very quickly afterwards but it's Britain, who the gently caress knows?

# ¿ Dec 7, 2023 14:14

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

ThomasPaine posted:

But there is evidence that things do change - we have weekends and maternity pay and the nhs and whatever. That came because the political will and power was there for it. I certainly can't see how our current politicians would ever meaningfully expand the welfare state for example

Regression is also change.

We got the welfare state because we went from World War 1 into the Great Depression right into World War 2. The USSR was there as a big loving nasty gargoyle hovering over you letting you know what could happens if you don't shape up, so capital accepted some reform in place for not having their wealth completely expropriated. Because otherwise you could end up with a whole lot of trained soldiers with battle experience who suddenly felt like they deserved more & that'd not have gone well.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2023 14:33

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

I also thought I'd be quite a good PM at one point, but unfortunately I went to a school outside of Inverness that cost my parents nothing.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2023 15:14

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/aliciakearns/status/1732812798327923169

e: Keith got accosted on the train.

https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1732847589307932829

And the protesters are at the hotel. I hope Keith faces this wherever he goes

https://twitter.com/AFrazzledScot/status/1732848567386046576

Glasgow is good :unsmith:

# ¿ Dec 8, 2023 01:20

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Pork Pie Hat posted:

The person who did will be white then.

And not Irish. Important note.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2023 00:05

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

is this a case like over here in the us where they don't offer more seatings or amenities because they're afraid the homeless will use them?

Almost certainly. They've also got in the habit of putting in benches at railway stations but every seat has a divider between them, because what if a homeless person took a nap? They also don't seem to be very kind to obese people from what I've noticed.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2023 23:24

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

https://twitter.com/Ciara87C/status/1733531986772250778?s=20

I bet Johnny will be thrilled to be called Irish

# ¿ Dec 10, 2023 04:16

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Dabir posted:

Who is Johnny Adair

A notorious Northern Irish loyalist terrorist & gangster. And former National Front & Combat 18 associate.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2023 09:45

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Priti Patel definitely seems like someone who would graciously step aside.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2023 11:38

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

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.

It's got nothing to do with Jess Philips, who is a contemptible, self-obsessed turd who reflects the spiritual & moral decay of the Labour Party. It's not her who is going to read this transphobic LOL YOU LOOK LIKE A MAN shite. Post better. There's plenty to criticise her for without going for the longest of hanging fruit.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2023 15:34

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

The Question IRL posted:

This explains Bad Blood and Elizabeth Holmes so well. The business practice of "If I just hold out for long enough, I'll become an established brand and then no-one will dare say that our product is just a box filled with tissue paper and dead wasps."

It worked for Tesla.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2023 10:49

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

They made plans for Nigel. Nigel's whole future is as good as sealed

# ¿ Dec 11, 2023 10:57

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

The Question IRL posted:

This is factually untrue.

They released the Remastered versions of the first two Tony Hawks games.
You know, going back to the old hits, but with slightly less of the licenced music.

To be fair, it had the tunes I would have chosen: Police Truck, Jerry Was a Race Car Driver, Superman (I don't even like it but it's kind of iconic), Bring The Noise, Guerilla Radio, Evil Eye, & even the terribly funny Powerman 5000 song, and added some great poo poo like A Tribe Called Quest & Skepta. The rock additions aren't really to my taste aside from Viagra Boys, and we really didn't need a Machine Gun Kelly song, but hey, it's still better than being compared to Kieth. Even if it needs like...Dragonaut by Sleep, and it's made they didn't get Ride or Die by Doomriders, would have fit well

Also I'd say they put out the Ollie Ollie games between 2014 & last year & they are pretty well received.

forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Dec 12, 2023

# ¿ Dec 12, 2023 11:51

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Tesseraction posted:

who?

both the Palestinian deth requester and the weird antisemite he's signal boosting

He's a co-writer on Borat so he must be worth listening to

# ¿ Dec 12, 2023 12:04

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 19:31

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smellmycheese posted:

Sunak should get spicy if he loses tonight and just call an election. gently caress it. His party is completely uncontrollable.

Sunak should get spicy and R Budd Dwyer it, ideally during PMQs tomorrow, regardless of how the vote goes. You may say this cruel & in reply I say :shrug:

hope he gets his brains all over the Tory backbenchers

# ¿ Dec 12, 2023 15:50

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